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Sebastian Gorka FULL SHOW: First-ever Republican expelled from Congress

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	So I was talking to a fella who had made the move from California to Florida, and he was telling me that Florida is much better governed, safer, better budget, lower taxes, all this stuff, and he's really happy with the quality of life.
	And then he paused and he said, you know, by the way, I'm Gavin Newsom's father-in-law.
	So we do count Gavin's in-laws as some of the people that have fled California and come to the state of Florida.
	And why are we getting people to come?
	We have a 50-year low in the crime rate.
	You don't see, in the last 10 years, we've had a 45% decline in homelessness.
	California's had a 45% increase in homelessness.
	We back the blue.
	I was walking the streets of San Francisco a couple months ago, and I had some of the cops in San Francisco do a beeline to come over to me, and I didn't know what they were going to say.
	And they're like, we want to thank you for standing for law enforcement, because we don't get that support.
	In the state of California.
	So people understand quality of life matters.
	They understand that Florida's doing it right.
	And I can tell you the numbers speak for themselves.
	One of the few zingers that the governor of Florida landed last night.
	I'm sorry, I feel so bad.
	I think I went to bed early.
	I woke up at 2 a.m.
	for some reason.
	I knocked my phone off the bed and it clattered on the floor.
	And then I checked my text messages and Mr. G said, did you watch it?
	Did you watch it?
	No, I completely, completely did not watch it.
	Caught the best of.
	Eric, is it true that you joined me in going to sleep early and you didn't watch the debate?
	That is indeed true.
	I had better things to do than watch that debate, namely going to sleep.
	Alex, did you watch it?
	No, sir.
	Oh my gosh.
	Guy, did you watch the big debate last night?
	I even never heard of this debate.
	Is this a new show?
	Okay, Mr. G, I know you've got me clipped today.
	Did you watch it?
	Of all the people here, I'm not going to ask John because he always avoids me.
	Did you watch the debate?
	Of course I watched it.
	Okay, so here's the thing that I saw.
	In the response at 2am, because of course, you know me, I stayed awake for the next two hours on social media.
	People on our side kept saying, but, but, but, but, but he lied!
	He lied!
	He lied!
	It's like, Jeff, did we not expect Newsom, I mean this is Pelosi's nephew, did we not expect him to lie?
	He lies every time he speaks, every time he does an interview.
	You knew he was going to lie, so call him out for the lies.
	That's why it's a debate.
	And did he call him out, or did he go by talking points?
	A little bit, but when it was called out, it was a talking point, it was something rehearsed.
	There was nothing, nothing off the cuff by Ron.
	All right, so near the end, here is the most rehearsed thing that Ron said, and it's a doozy!
	I'll give him credit, because it's true, okay?
	It's true.
	And this is the poop map clip.
	Let's go to cut seven.
	This is a map of San Francisco.
	There's a lot of plots on that.
	You may be asking, what is that plotting?
	Well, this is an app where they plot the human feces that are found on the streets of San Francisco.
	And you see how almost the whole thing is covered, because that is what has happened in one of the previous greatest cities this country's ever had.
	Human feces is now a fact of life, except When a communist dictator comes to town, then they cleaned up the streets.
	They lined the streets with Chinese flags.
	They didn't put American flags there.
	They cleaned everything up.
	So they're willing to do it for a communist dictator, but they're not willing to do it for their own capital.
	Nicely done, and nicely done, Ron.
	But here's the really important question.
	Why?
	Why would you debate the governor of California?
	Because the bottom line is the following.
	It's weird that Gavin actually admitted this.
	Cut.
	Uh, six.
	You in particular, Ron, are on a banning binge, a cultural purge, intimidating and humiliating people you disagree with.
	You and President Trump are really trying to light democracy on fire.
	So, Sean, there are profound differences tonight, and I look forward to engaging them.
	But there's one thing, in closing, that we have in common, is neither of us will be the nominee for our party in 2024.
	Ouch!
	So why are you debating him, Gavin?
	Jeff, it doesn't make sense for him to debate him unless he's the backup candidate or he's plotting against Biden.
	What do you think?
	It might be a little bit of both.
	Otherwise, why would you?
	That's the only reason you would ever do this.
	And it does make sense that if something happens with Biden, then he wants to make sure that he's the number two guy.
	He's got the visibility because four years from now, nobody's going to remember this debate.
	So I think we know what you're doing, Gavin.
	OK, let's talk about something much, much, much, much, much more important.
	There was a session of the Senate Judiciary Committee two days ago where they were ramming through radical left-wing federal judges.
	Dick Durbin, the man who tried to get me, um, what's the word?
	Deported when I worked for President Trump because he didn't like me being an immigrant working for the Trump administration.
	He didn't want to let the senators ask questions of these radicals.
	And it's really quite shocking.
	It's basically the death of how we pick judges in America.
	Listen to what the Democrats have done to the most powerful committee of the Senate, Cut 11.
	Before moving to the subpoena authorization, we'll consider the nominees.
	First is Judge Mustafa Khashoggi, nominated to the U.S.
	District Court for the District of Oregon.
	The clerk will call the roll.
	Mr. Chairman, are we going to have an opportunity to speak on the nominees?
	Yes, we're going to.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	We've already done that at great length.
	Well, I think this deserves some commentary, given the nature of the nominee, and I'd like to ask to speak on the nomination.
	Senator, we've debated these two nominees twice.
	Mr. Chairman, I would also like to speak on the nomination.
	I understand what you'd like to do, but I'm saying that, in fairness, we have debated these nominees twice, and I ask the clerk to call the roll.
	Mr. Chairman, you're denying us an opportunity to speak on a nominee?
	Third time, no.
	Okay, do this.
	Just do it.
	We don't have a right to speak under the rules?
	Under the third time, I'd say no.
	So you're just going to make it up?
	Yeah.
	There's going to be a lot of consequences coming here.
	You're going to have a lot of consequences coming if you go down this road.
	I've cautioned a lot of you.
	Listen to me.
	I've cautioned a lot of you.
	Mr. Chairman.
	Mr. Chairman, don't we get the opportunity to speak?
	We're in a roll call.
	So you're telling us to shut up?
	You want us to shut up?
	Is that what you're saying?
	A lot of people didn't speak on the two nominees before.
	Would you raise your hand if you did not speak?
	I did not have a chance to speak.
	Senator Cornyn didn't have a chance to speak.
	Senator Blackburn had a chance to speak.
	We've got several folks, Mr. Chairman, who didn't have a chance to speak.
	We want to tell you again why these nominees are awful.
	Or in Senator Cornyn's case, tell you for the first time, you're just going to sit there and ignore us?
	Senator Blackburn, have you spoken on these nominees?
	I've not had the opportunity to speak.
	I would like very much to speak on Mr. Kassemai.
	Mr. Chairman, I urge you to let Senator Blackburn speak.
	Riding roughshod over the senators before the vote on the judges.
	The voice you're hearing shouting in the back is the staffer who's holding the roll call.
	Finally, John Cornyn, no MAGA senator, tells the truth about what he just witnessed.
	Cut 12.
	Who has not been allowed to speak on that matter?
	Mr. Chairman, you just destroyed one of the most important committees in the United States Senate.
	And you set a precedent.
	And what are we going to do about it?
	repeated every time one party or the other takes advantage and takes the low
	road. It sets a precedent that will then become the norm.
	Congratulations on destroying the United States Senate Judiciary.
	And what are we gonna do about it? What are Republicans gonna do about it? Anything at all?
	I bet you missed that story.
	It's probably more important than anything else in the newspapers or on the websites.
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	Okay, okay.
	I'm seeing it tonight.
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	Oh, really?
	But how come they were doing political stuff?
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	Filming a movie?
	I think it's an adaptation of his novel, of his first novel.
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	Hello.
	How are you?
	Good.
	Are you going to educate us on the truth about EVs and mandates and what it's doing to the industry?
	What sound are you using?
	It's not good.
	What are we using for a mic?
	Oh, you know, that's better.
	Yeah, I'm using my earpiece.
	Oh, that's better.
	Oh, yeah.
	All right.
	So what a little squirrely there for a second.
	Okay.
	Do we have her?
	You have a website, right?
	Yes, CarCoachReports.com, or you can find me on all forms of social media, Rumble, YouTube, you name it.
	Can you make a CarCoachReports buffer, Eric?
	Buffer?
	Okay.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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	Okay, you're hearing a lot about problems with electric vehicle mandates, the trouble at local manufacturers over here, the pressure from the Biden administration.
	What's the truth?
	Let's ask the lady who knows, the one who helps me with my 66 Mustang when I'm finding it difficult to find the right parts, Lauren Fix, the car coach.
	Welcome back to America First.
	Thanks for having me back.
	All right, before you break down for us what's really happening, how detrimental all of this insanity coming out of the White House is, we've got a lovely, lovely clip that I'm sure you've seen, but maybe some of our listeners haven't.
	This is one of Biden's nominees to the EPA being asked some questions by Congressman Auguste Fluger.
	Important questions about how Americans get around.
	Cut 13.
	How much electricity does the United States demand each year?
	I don't know that number off the top of my head.
	Okay, it's four terawatts annually.
	So the Secretary of Energy didn't know it.
	The EPA doesn't know it.
	FERC probably doesn't know it.
	Who else doesn't know it in this country, and we're mandating electric vehicles?
	You guys have no idea how much demand is going to be there.
	Where is that electricity going to come from?
	It'll come from a diverse grid.
	It's 110 degrees in my hometown today.
	The wind is not blowing, the sun is shining, and after four hours of darkness, there will be no batteries on this planet that can produce a reliable source of baseload, dispatchable power.
	We have no plan for this.
	But what about all the Teslas?
	What about all the Rivians?
	Lauren, give us an update.
	What's the truth?
	Oh, come on.
	This all has to do with government subsidies and who's getting greased, let's be honest.
	Car manufacturers are building these cars because they don't have a choice.
	It's billions of dollars in fines or millions of dollars in losses.
	And you saw that when I was at Ford and GM.
	Hang on, hang on.
	They get fined if they don't do this insanity?
	That's true.
	Yes, the EPA will fine them for not complying with the government regulation and all these Green New Deal things.
	So the billions of dollars in fines come from multiple different three and four letter agencies.
	If you don't comply, you will not be in business.
	So what do you think they're going to do?
	Especially like the state of California, additional fines and fees.
	Don't comply, don't worry about it, we'll bury your company.
	So they make product that they take a loss on.
	There is not one car manufacturer, not even Tesla, who makes money on electric vehicles.
	Tesla makes money by selling carbon credits to manufacturers like Mazda and Subaru who haven't come up with enough product that's electric in order to sell in some of these states, because 17 states comply With the carb rules that come from California.
	Hang on, you just slid over something really interesting there.
	So Tesla's business model, because the cars are too expensive to sell at market rate, is offloading the carbon credits on those companies that don't make enough EVs.
	Did I translate that correctly?
	You are spot on.
	And that's how he's made money to begin with.
	Remember, Elon Musk, whatever you think of him, is a very smart man.
	He knows how to manipulate the government to his advantage.
	He was first to the market to produce the cars in the state of California.
	They gave him all these credits.
	Then when they tried to unionize him, he said, oh, we're out.
	And he moved to Austin, Texas, where he's got a huge battery plant and a manufacturing facility because they, of course, want his business.
	But now let's look here.
	They got the UAW coming after him now.
	He's like, if the UAW comes after us, he goes, We'll just pay our people more.
	That's it.
	BS guy.
	So yeah, he's a genius.
	He knows how to work the system.
	But help me out.
	Give me the ground truth.
	Because my son says, Dad, buy an electric car because they're cool.
	I'm a petrol head.
	I'm a gasoline head.
	I love my V8s.
	I love my 66 Mustang.
	What is the future?
	Give us a look in the crystal ball 10, 20, 30 years from now.
	Is the truth about EVs Going to collapse and we'll be back to, you know, petrol heads as we say in the UK?
	Or is this insanity of the subsidy and the bilking and the regulations?
	Can this go on forever, Lauren?
	This can't go on forever.
	So I'll read my crystal ball for you, and I'm pretty good at reading these because I've been doing this a long time.
	OK, first thing is car manufacturers will continue to comply until the next administration comes in.
	If President Trump takes back the White House, I'll promise you all these EV mandates will disappear.
	And that is a good thing for you because you should have the choices of electric, of gas, of hybrid, of diesel, whatever you want.
	We also have synthetic fuels coming in, which are really interesting technologies.
	But They're not subsidized.
	Neither is nuclear.
	So that's why they're pushing wind and solar, because it's subsidized.
	Now, let's talk about the cars themselves.
	Let me give you an idea of the demand for electric cars.
	We've got a minute.
	Give us the summary.
	What's the demand?
	The demand is huge.
	Demon 170, it's a thousand horsepower car.
	They can't get them fast enough.
	They're selling them $150,000 over sticker.
	Ford's still selling the Mustang and all brands like BMW and all the rest are saying, you know what?
	We're not going all electric.
	We're going to offer a mix.
	And you're watching every brand follow what Toyota said they were going to do, which is we're not going all electric.
	Smartest move ever.
	You got to give them a lot of credit.
	I think you said something there about... You gave me an idea.
	Nuclear.
	I'm waiting for the nuclear-powered Mustang.
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	There we go.
	Yep.
	I haven't heard about these synthetic fuels.
	Where's that coming out of?
	It originally started with Porsche, and they've already got it in place in Chile.
	They're opening up a plant in Houston that'll open after the first of the year.
	Also, you've got Aramco and Dutch Royal, and there's one other that just flew an airplane.
	This flew a Virgin Airlines airplane across the ocean, all in synthetic.
	Fascinating.
	Would you text me any story or something that I can bone up on that?
	Sure.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, I'll send you some stuff.
	That was great.
	Absolutely.
	Merry Christmas.
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	Thank you.
	Merry Christmas to you as well.
	Bye-bye.
	Take care.
	Bye.
	Thanks.
	She's good.
	She knows her stuff.
	Ceasefire.
	Should we talk Ceasefire?
	There's so much BS around it.
	What's important?
	I saw that thing you sent out about Turboville.
	That was interesting.
	Yeah.
	What are you working on?
	Mostly, we've got this anti-Semitism task force we're standing up.
	Oh yeah, Kate reminded me about that thing she did for you guys way back when.
	Right, yeah.
	It's finally kind of grown.
	You saw the email I sent Kevin.
	Yes, I did.
	You think he'd buy it?
	Because those guys need a little bit more love.
	Those whistleblowers.
	I don't know.
	I cc'd the legal guys and the chief of staff and stuff.
	Because you ask Kevin something, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	He's just getting handed off to them.
	Is there somebody that works those issues, like weaponization for you guys?
	Malcolm Shop, John Malcolm.
	Malcolm?
	He's the VP for the judicial.
	What's the last name?
	Malcolm.
	John?
	No, John.
	John Malcolm, yeah.
	Oh, I know that name.
	I know that name.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, he does our legal stuff.
	Yeah, yeah.
	The other thing, what's his name, Steve?
	Which Steve?
	The guy that's been working the FBI stuff.
	Bradbury.
	Heritage?
	Yeah.
	He's the guy that wrote our FBI reform plan.
	Oh, okay.
	We should get him on.
	No, he's good.
	Former Trump administration guy.
	Super solid.
	Usual email address?
	Yeah, probably steve or steven.bradbury.heritage.com.
	Jeff, will you go to the Heritage site and reach out to Steven Bradbury on FBI?
	It should be like steve.bradbury.heritage.com.
	It'll be on the website.
	The problem with the website is you don't go directly to the person.
	It goes into like a bin.
	But doesn't it mention their email on their bio?
	It doesn't give you their email.
	I thought it did.
	It says you can email them, but then it dumps into a system, and then who knows if they're ever actually going to get the email, or when they get it.
	You're not a big bureaucracy, are you, Jim?
	No.
	Oh, yeah, we are.
	Okay, what have we got?
	We just crossed 100 million.
	Oh, yeah?
	That's good.
	I remember when you were just 80 million.
	Okay, we got my pillow.
	Uh...
	Okay.
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	All right, let me spoil your mood.
	Sure.
	Let's listen to Joe Scarborough giving his geopolitical analysis of the Middle East.
	I love this one.
	This is a keeper.
	Israel needs U.S.
	funding.
	We need to know what we're funding.
	Are we funding Benjamin Netanyahu?
	Are we funding his designs to stay in power?
	Are we funding an operation where we have to look and guess, okay, well is this in the best interest of the Israeli people?
	Or is this in the best interest of a prime minister who deliberately focused on the West Bank?
	I love the way he says Netanyahu.
	How wrong can you get this?
	Well, that wrong.
	Funding Netanyahu?
	Right.
	It used to be that politics ended at the water's edge, especially on the really big important stuff like peace and security in the Middle East.
	War.
	And this has completely fallen apart.
	And on the left, you know, particularly on MSNBC, which is the kind of bellwether of this, Israel's become a controversial issue.
	And so here we're basically arguing that they're politicizing the war and the security of it.
	So 1,400 people got killed.
	The country was attacked.
	They're in the middle of this vicious fight for their survival.
	And he's trying to say, oh, it's all about Netanyahu trying to stay in power.
	I mean, this is crap.
	This would be like complaining about Winston Churchill in 1943.
	This is just Churchill.
	Forget about the Nazis.
	This is just Churchill's thing to hold onto.
	It's completely inappropriate, and it's wrong.
	And it's like, what are we giving them money for?
	As if there's a secret here.
	We're giving them money so they can protect their population.
	So we're actually sending aid, humanitarian aid, But he's making... I mean, I used to deal with the FMF issue, you know, a long time ago.
	This is foreign military funding that is used to buy U.S.
	products or U.S.
	services.
	This commentator is making it sound as if we sent money into Netanyahu's campaign coffers.
	Or some black hole or something.
	You know, it's actually very similar to, you know, people complain about Ukraine aid and they say, well, what's this money?
	Well, the overwhelming bulk of the money is going to military aid.
	Actually, most of that money is actually spent in the United States to build this stuff and then send it over there.
	So I'm all for accountability.
	I'm all for oversight.
	I'm all for transparency and everything else.
	But the military aid, it's hard to make a case that there's some kind of political shenanigans there.
	And to suggest that with the aid to Israel is equally specious.
	Beyond that, the coverage of the mainstream media of the quote-unquote ceasefire, the idea that there's some kind of equivalency between the two sides, hostages and prisoners, the same kind of thing, Jim?
	Yeah, and what's missed in this whole thing is, how did we get here?
	Yes.
	This was an intentional strategy on the part of Hamas to take hostages, and for what purpose?
	And the answer is, that's an off-ramp, so if there's not a second front, if things aren't going well, if the international community doesn't, you know, and we don't abandon the Israelis, they have something to end the war with, and that's to trade hostages for that.
	This is a practice as old as, you know, in the Middle East in those days, this was standard practice.
	taken hostage.
	Right, you shook, and you, because you traded them for peace, you traded them for money.
	King Richard was famously held hostage, right, and we had a, you know, King John had to pay
	to get him back.
	This practice never ends in this part of the world.
	How difficult is it to make military operations for Israel?
	This constant delay, this lengthening of the ceasefires.
	I have to be honest, I would presume that at the start of the war, the Israelis knew
	that this was a likely outcome, and therefore they kind of planned their operations around
	But again, to create some kind of moral equivalency, basically Hamas is doing a practice that from the Middle Ages, I mean, would you be okay with You know, burning witches at the stake, because that's essentially the kind of behavior you have here, and you tolerate that and create some kind of moral equivalency with Israeli.
	So we're just trying to really defend their own people.
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	Um, hang on.
	Like, Tuesday maybe?
	Yeah, we had it earlier this week, hang on.
	Yep, yep.
	Yeah, I got it.
	Good.
	All right.
	Come in with it or tee it up?
	It's 55 seconds long.
	No, I'll tee it up.
	I'll tee it up.
	I'll do PhD, then I'll tee it up for Jim.
	PhD.
	I've got a title in mind for Fix.
	for fix um the truth about Elon and uh Tesla EVs
	Uh huh.
	All right.
	What are you doing next, folks?
	Yeah.
	Israel?
	Yeah.
	Which show is it?
	Evening Edit?
	Biz.
	She's great.
	She's good.
	She's a pro.
	So good.
	But isn't she out in New York?
	Or are you doing it remote?
	Yeah, it's out in New York.
	I think all the Biz stuff is out in New York, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, Varney's out of New York.
	Charles is out of New York.
	Bartiromo's out of New York.
	Trish was out of New York.
	Cudlow?
	Cudlow... Cudlow... Cudlow's here.
	Isn't he here?
	I think Cudlow's here.
	Yeah.
	He's on biz, though, right?
	Yeah, he's on biz.
	Yeah, because he goes right before her.
	Yeah.
	I get confused.
	And didn't Varney?
	Did they move?
	No, no.
	Varney's... I don't... No, I don't catch it.
	I know, I know.
	Players cut four.
	Cut four.
	Oh, hang on, I gotta go way back.
	Since Hamas decided to cancel the ceasefire by not releasing women and children, we have been instructed to engage.
	Before we conducted any sort of activities, Hamas had already fired rockets from southern Gaza before 6 a.m.
	this morning here in Israel.
	They had been firing and they have been firing throughout the day at Israel.
	So yes, we are engaging.
	We are seeking out Hamas wherever they are.
	Alright, teeing up my Orcas after PhD.
	I found the Brendan Herrera announcements.
	It's like 30 seconds.
	Is it good?
	It's decent, yeah.
	Yeah, good.
	Let's use it.
	Is it funny?
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	Congressman George Santos, his nameplate has just been taken down.
	I guess they don't waste much time.
	Only the sixth member of Congress to be expelled from the body.
	And I think only, what is it, Eric?
	Only the second ever Republican or third Republican?
	He's actually the first Republican in history to be expelled.
	First Republican.
	Oh, all Democrats.
	Five Democrats and the first Republican.
	What does it all mean?
	Well, we'll get to that later, but we've got our special in-studio Friday guest with us.
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	Jim, it's a recurring theme for the last three years with you.
	We're always asking the question, why, why, why, why are we the only nation that doesn't have a secure border?
	Well, this week they said the quiet part out loud in an interview.
	The man who's supposed to keep us safe, the Secretary of Homeland Security, fessed up.
	Let's listen to Alejandro Mayorkas.
	Dealing with undocumented immigrants who are already here in the nation.
	And I know it's been a political football as they're trying to figure out the best way to address that.
	But I'm going to ask you, what is the best way to address that from your perspective?
	The answer is quite clear and quite straightforward and we've been waiting for it for about 30 years and that is to fix a system that everyone agrees is fundamentally broken and we need congressional action both for the lawful pathways that really need to be more robust in statute and for the 12 million people Who are here in the United States who have been contributing so fundamentally to our country's well-being.
	They're our neighbors, our friends, our fellow congregants.
	They provide our frontline workers.
	We need to do something and I am hopeful and remain hopeful that Congress will do it.
	It's about the lawful path.
	It's been broken for 30 years, Jim.
	And now we just have to amnesty everybody.
	Well, it's broken because Biden broke it.
	I mean, their plan was, you know, they've tried for 20 plus years to get amnesty.
	The reason why it failed?
	It's because nobody wants it.
	Not Republicans, not Democrats, because it's damaging to this country.
	And amnesties just bring more illegal immigration.
	So their plan was basically very, very simple.
	This is their off-ramp.
	They're going to bring in so many illegal people that even if they're voted out of office, what the Democrats will do is they'll walk in and say, oh, well, you can't just deport all these people.
	Therefore, we have to give them amnesty and we'll give a clean slate and we'll secure the border.
	These are all lies.
	And the answer is very simple.
	One, you can deport them.
	Two, the law is clearly on your side that they should be deported.
	Three, they will all be illegal because giving them all temporary amnesty, which Biden did,
	is not sustainable because none of them actually qualify for amnesty.
	So here's the real trick question, because what they've done here, it's a shell game.
	They've pre-cleared them as asylee seekers.
	Claims.
	Claims.
	Which they know won't stand up.
	But every single one will have to be judicially examined by an immigration judge, correct?
	Right, but there are lots of ways you can smooth that pathway and make that faster.
	And look, you have to do this, because there are billions of people who want to come to the United States, and if you don't secure the border, then you will lose your country, and you will see, like what you're seeing in France and England and other places, it will happen.
	It doesn't matter if there's 330 million people here, because that will be overwhelmed by the billion of people that will walk in the door.
	Trust me, this is going to happen.
	And securing the border also requires you taking a bunch of people here who are illegally and sending them home because that is the deterrent effect.
	The reason why everybody doesn't murder their wife is because people are executed for murdering their wife.
	Not that everybody wants to murder their wife.
	That would be a bad idea.
	But you get the point.
	It's the same thing with crime.
	You don't enforce crime.
	You don't punish people for crime.
	What do you get?
	You get more crime.
	So you can't just secure the border.
	You have to deport people and you have to deport them in large numbers because they're here illegally.
	This is a policy question, not a politics question.
	Do you think what we've witnessed in literally the last six weeks, you know, mayors of big cities like New York, Chicago saying, oh my gosh, we can't do it, we can't do it.
	Do you think that will have an impact on the administration's open border policy?
	Because he's a Democrat.
	No, because it's just a Ponzi scheme.
	When the Democratic mayor says, oh my God, I can't handle this.
	All they want Washington to say is, here's a trillion dollars to pay for it.
	That's all they want.
	That's just extorting the feds.
	That's right.
	Or us.
	They don't want Biden voted out of office.
	They don't want a secure border.
	They just want to be paid for their part in this thing.
	But here, this is the most egregious thing that every American has to realize.
	The unsecure border, the millions brought here illegally, the half a trillion dollars that it cost, they're not contributing to our communities, the half a trillion dollars it's costing us, the billions of dollars that mayors want, Who's paying for the world's largest human trafficking network?
	I'm looking at him.
	We are.
	Seb Gorka is.
	Taxpayers are paying every cent of everything that's being done to us.
	We are funding our own destruction.
	Funding our own destruction.
	That, I think, is the title for the segment.
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	Waiting very patiently, Dale in Detroit.
	Happy Friday, Dale.
	Happy Friday to you.
	Hey, I was wondering, I got a question about your book, one of your books.
	Thank you.
	Your Defeating Jihad was released in 2016 and before Trump, and I was wondering if you had considered updating it.
	Well, it's an interesting question.
	about what's happened since the first four years of Trump and the Biden administration
	with the fall of Afghanistan and Israel and Hamas.
	Well, it's an interesting question.
	So I wrote two more books after that if you want a more general overview of national security,
	why we fight was the second one.
	If you don't have that, stay on the line.
	An update of Defeating Jihad is interesting, but everything stands, really, because it's an explication of what the terrorists want to do.
	And that hasn't changed.
	And the trouble is, their loyal supporters are now inside the wire.
	But stay on the line, Dale.
	Let's give Dale a copy of why we fight.
	Let's go to Robert, Line 1, Brooklyn.
	Hi, thank you for taking my phone call.
	Just a few points.
	Number one, Mark Rubio and J.D.
	Vance in the Senate, they sent a letter to Biden, or I should call him O'Biden, talking about that we need to restrict travel from communist China to here.
	Who knows what's going on with that pneumonia?
	That's number one.
	Number two is, Bannon talked about the United Arab Emirates, who's struggling with both the United States and Israel, even they are wanting to go off the dollars.
	That's number two.
	So with a president like Biden, he's doing everything basically to destroy this country, which leads to my last point, my third point, the Olympic treatment of Blinken with Israel.
	Does this president really want to have, like, the summer ball fields?
	Is he trying to have, like, you know, All right, Robert.
	Too much, too long.
	Nobody's allowed to come on this show with three points.
	I told you before, Robert, no.
	No, no.
	One point, maximum two points.
	Okay?
	And coming off the dollar, no.
	Don't worry.
	Nobody is going to come off the dollar because nobody wants to be tied to an unstable currency.
	Really?
	You're going to tie it to Brazilian currency or Chinese currency?
	Never happening.
	But thank you, Robert.
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	Since Hamas decided to cancel the ceasefire by not releasing women and children, we have been instructed to engage.
	Before we conducted any sort of activities, Hamas had already fired rockets from southern Gaza before 6 a.m.
	this morning here in Israel.
	They had been firing and they have been firing throughout the day at Israel.
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	But now it's time to check in with the man who is trusted implicitly by my former boss, President Trump.
	He is senior advisor to the Trump 2024 campaign, attorney to President Trump.
	We just call him the Baron.
	Boris, welcome back to America First.
	Thank you so much.
	Honor to be with you.
	Honor to be with the audience.
	Always great to talk about the vital facts with Dr. Gorka.
	You sent me a photograph of the cigar you had recently, but there was no band on the cigar.
	I didn't know what it was.
	Well, it's a private blend that may or may not be coming to our friends Very, very soon.
	Something we're working on that I've been keeping you in the loop on.
	Something I'm very, very, very excited about.
	Alright, enough said.
	Enough said.
	The rest of that is classified.
	We'll release that information once that private blend is available to mere mortals.
	So excited to hear about that.
	We shall discuss that offline, Baron.
	In the meantime, we've been talking a little bit, not much, because I didn't even watch it, but it made a little bit of news, especially this 13-second clip from some event on Fox News last night.
	Cut 5, play cut.
	You're trolling folks and trying to find migrants to play political games, trying to get some news and attention so you can out-Trump Trump.
	And by the way, how's that going for you, Ron?
	You're down 41 points in your own home state.
	You're down 41 points.
	I've got to ask you, we've been trying to work it out all afternoon, Boris.
	Why did that debate happen?
	What was in it for either governor?
	Unless, unless they know they have to get rid of sleepy creepy Beijing Biden and this is Gavin's stealth approach to become the nominee.
	What's your take?
	I am actually somewhat puzzled as well.
	He had these two guys up there.
	Desainty Motors just has no idea where he is, what he's doing.
	He's kind of flippity-floppity around.
	He did not look comfortable.
	No, and always back down.
	They're a pathetic group that's just been stealing money left and right from America's donors.
	Just lost their CEO and chairman in one week.
	CEO last week, chairman this week.
	It's a total disaster.
	They're a complete dumpster fire.
	But hang on, I'm getting a bit confused.
	I thought the name of the pack was Never Back Down, and it sounds like they're all backing down, Boris.
	Well, see, Never Back Down, that was a joke.
	Really, it's Always Back Down.
	They were just trying to be sarcastic.
	Always back down.
	Remember there was a guy named Steve Cortez, he used to be kind of around... Yes, I used to like Steve and then he went completely descent.
	Was he one of the first to jump ship?
	Yeah, he quit. And then as the spokesman, so he quit the sanctimonious. Then next thing you know,
	you're the CEO quit. And then just today, Adam Lack salt, who was running around screaming about
	how much you appreciated the president's endorsement when he was running for Senate.
	Now, you know, he then tried to be the chairman of the pack for Ron sanctimonious,
	and now he quit to show sad. What a dumpster fire, complete disaster and all why? Because
	the sanctimonious has no political talent, and he has no loyalty to the American people see right
	through it. And then Gavin Newsom, he's obviously just seen himself up for 2028. That's what he's
	trying to do. And at the end, they said, Hey, one thing's weird, one thing's clear, neither of us
	will be the candidate of our party for president in 2024.
	So That seems to be the political calculus overall.
	I don't know why Fox hosted it.
	I don't know what the upside was.
	And it was just one of those circus side shows, and that's exactly what it came out to be.
	Super pathetic, though.
	Super pathetic.
	Look, I want people to understand, we are talking to the President's attorney, and let me, I can assure you, because I was with the President last Monday, he's a big fan of this guy, alright?
	So this is all one big team, but this isn't just about, you know, Team Trump.
	These are the latest figures, okay?
	This is from interactive polls, absolutely stunning at Harris Polling.
	On a head-to-head, Biden-Trump.
	The President, President Trump, is up four points.
	This is 11 months before the election, 52 to 48.
	And then if you look at the GOP, this is incredible.
	I don't think, has it ever been this high?
	President Trump is at 68%, and DeSantis is at nine, Haley's at seven, Ramaswamy's at four.
	You always bring the historic perspective.
	I can't remember the last time, 11 months before an election, where one of the candidates is 60 points ahead of anyone else.
	Sebastian, this is a higher spread than an incumbent election.
	And you don't have to far to find out, President Trump leads the St.
	Timonese, Burbank, and the others by more than crooked Joe Biden leads the Democrat primary.
	And they're not even letting him have a Democrat primary.
	Yeah.
	And by the way, when you add RFK Jr.
	and Cornel West, the president, up by seven.
	Yeah.
	Quick question, because I've got to play you a clip before we finish, but I think RFK is the real threat to Biden, not Cornel West.
	You've got some disagreement here on the America First team.
	catching on the look at Argentina look at the Netherlands is Donald J Trump. President Trump
	is the only one who could save America and the world. Quick question because I've got to play
	you a clip before we finish but I think RFK is the real threat to Biden not Cornel West. You've
	got some disagreement here on the America first team. What's your take Baron? I think they're all
	a threat Sebastian.
	Why?
	Because Crooked Joe has been so terrible for every segment of the population.
	What you're seeing is that there's huge movement to President Trump.
	And then, yeah, there are going to be a couple of people here and there who say, well, maybe not him.
	We'll go somewhere else.
	They could look at RFK, Junior Cornel West, or even Dean Phillips.
	But the movement overall is to President Trump from all angles, all backgrounds, all ethnicities.
	Everyone is going to President Trump.
	All right, let's have some fun.
	Do you remember Fredo Cuomo, Randy Andy's brother?
	Yeah, of course.
	Okay, so he was on our buddy Patrick Bet-David's very successful podcast, and he said something that I hope you're sitting down, Baron, because it's rather quite surprising.
	This is Chris Cuomo, Cut Ten.
	For people who are now going to attack me and say, what are you talking about?
	Trump is like this crazy man.
	Well, look, you know, as Patrick says, the data is the data.
	Nobody was trying to kill us when Trump was president in a way that they're not now.
	If anything, there's more hostility and you can have reasons for that any way you want.
	I'm just saying existentially, I'm not afraid of a Trump presidency.
	Fredo Cuomo is saying we were safe under Trump.
	What is happening?
	Are frogs falling from the sky?
	Are pigs flying past the window?
	What's going on, Baron?
	It seems like it's a religious experience.
	Everyone's seen the light.
	You've got a leader of Black Lives Matter saying he's seen, you know, he's seen the light.
	He's with Trump right in the house.
	You've got Cuomo saying he's with Trump.
	What is happening is that this country, the world, are in such terrible shape.
	The war in Eastern Europe, the disaster in the Middle East with Israel and the terrorists in Hamas.
	Everything you've got in the economy, which is just in a dumpster.
	Our national energy situation, we're from being energy dominant to now energy subservient.
	Crooked Joe Biden and the Democrats have done everything they can to ruin our country, and now everybody's realizing that President Trump is the only one who can bring it back.
	Stunning.
	Who is it going to be next?
	As you said, we've got the former BLM leaders.
	We've got Rogan.
	We've got Fredo.
	Who next?
	Kamala?
	Maybe Kamala is going to vote for President Trump.
	You never know.
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	The Fredo thing is kind of funny.
	Yeah.
	Now Cuomo is going to vote for Trump?
	Fredo Cuomo.
	Car 15.
	Yes.
	Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
	Are you, is this an important story, the one you wrote about the suicide rates?
	I don't really think so.
	I mean, plenty of reports like that have been coming out for a while now, and it's all saying the same thing.
	Obviously, post-COVID, there's been a spike.
	I'm kind of surprised to see a new report on it, but yeah.
	I was going to make you famous there, but okay.
	I appreciate that.
	I'm having one.
	okay so
	two minutes so
	terracy to construct the so
	Judy hasn't called in a while.
	No!
	Oh my gosh.
	It's been a few weeks, actually.
	I know!
	Uh-oh.
	Something's not right in Brooklyn.
	Also, ow.
	What about Al?
	What?
	The caller Al, who always has three points.
	Oh yeah.
	Three things, Dr. G. No, you're not allowed to have three things.
	I'm just saying something, Jeff.
	I don't know how easy it is for you to cut it.
	You might want to take two.
	Okay.
	It's the first time I've ever heard someone say President Biden.
	Jay Caledonia in the rumble chat says Cuomo was having his Saul to Paul moment when he fell to the ground.
	Just get ready with the dumb button.
	Oh boy.
	Alrighty, 30 seconds.
	You got that Alex?
	Keep it out of the dump button.
	You You
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	I'm not familiar with that name.
	Alex, you must know Peter Zahan.
	I don't.
	Should I?
	I thought we had this conversation.
	He's the guy who tries to paint himself as the modern Kissinger.
	This, you know, geopolitical strategist.
	No?
	I just want to tell people, if you are fans of him, I warned you on social media.
	He's a fraud.
	And he just blew up on Twitter yesterday.
	And he's leaving.
	Why?
	Because Elon Musk, he's a racist!
	And he likes Trump!
	And he left Twitter.
	Bye bye, Peter.
	You're a fraud.
	We all, those who followed you closely knew who you were.
	The rest of you, wake up.
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	Let's go to one on line two.
	Tom, Philadelphia.
	Hey, how you doing today?
	Good.
	Um, now that we know Benjamin Netanyahu know about this terrorist attack for a year now... So how do we know that, Tom?
	Because you read it on the internet?
	No.
	We already, we have the paperwork, we have... Oh, what's the paperwork?
	Where did you see it?
	In Politico?
	No, it wasn't in Politico.
	So where was the paperwork, Tom?
	In Jerusalem.
	Really?
	What kind of paperwork?
	Describe it to me.
	Was it on some toilet paper?
	Seb, just because you don't want to face facts, we know now... Tom, you're a dickhead, okay?
	What proof do you have that they knew about it for a year?
	Because you read something on the internet and because you hate Jews?
	Is that why, Tom?
	No, I don't hate Jews at all.
	So what is this proof you have that they knew about it for a year?
	Because you read it in some left-wing anti-Semitic rag?
	No, you just don't want to believe the facts.
	See, you can't answer the question.
	I'll ask you one more time, Tom, and this is your last chance to be a mensch, to act like a man who has a pair of testicles.
	What is the proof of what you say?
	They have the email.
	Goodbye, thank you.
	Let's go to Derek Cleveland.
	You're great, Dr. G.
	This is the art of intelligence.
	You can get lots of information, but the question is, what do you do with it?
	It's not science.
	It's not math.
	Do you take it seriously?
	They had some report, but they didn't take it seriously.
	I don't know.
	It was on the whiteboard.
	I saw it.
	Right.
	This is the art of intelligence.
	You can get lots of information, but the question is, what do you do with it?
	It's not science.
	It's not math.
	Do you take it seriously?
	But to say they knew it was going to happen, it's garbage.
	Yeah.
	Like, they allowed it.
	No, I think, the article just said that they didn't think Hamas was capable of it, but anyways.
	And what does that even mean?
	A year ago?
	So what, they waited for a year?
	It makes no sense.
	What's your original point, Derek?
	Yes, but thank you.
	So, with the anti-Israel protesters, you know, claiming that October 7th was, you know, they're claiming it didn't happen or it was exaggerated, it wasn't as severe as we know it was.
	Well, at the same time, Joe Biden this week was talking about the release of the hostages, right?
	Even mentioning specifically a four-year-old girl who was released.
	So it's amazing how, you know, did it happen or didn't.
	Oh yeah, that's a really good point.
	If they didn't take hostages, then how are they releasing hostages?
	That's a great point, Derek.
	But, um, yes, sir.
	But I had a question for you, and if you'll allow me, I just had a quick comparison to World War II and Imperial Japan and the Kamikazes.
	But my question for you is, so, and the protesters, they're also, you know, what their drum beating is about, they're chanting about civilians.
	The Gazan civilians, okay.
	My question is, how are you able to differentiate between civilians if the terrorists are just in there?
	Hang on, hang on, this is a really important point.
	Not only that, how can you distinguish between Gazan civilians and Hamas, Derek, when Hamas doesn't wear uniforms?
	That's what I'm saying.
	Are there Hamas jerseys and team uniforms?
	You know, like, give me a break.
	Okay, those ones aren't shooting at us, so they're not the terrorists.
	How could you differentiate?
	All right, genius.
	All right, good, good, good, good, good.
	And your final comparison with World War II?
	Thank you.
	So, kamikazes.
	I would look at the kamikazes of Imperial Japan As the modern day suicide bombers.
	I mean, they believe they're martyrs.
	And then how many of the people, they believe they're martyrs themselves.
	So they think they're furthering Allah's cause.
	And so, you know, and also with dropping the nuclear bomb, you know, I, you know, growing up, like, oh, why was that?
	That was such a, you know, such a, you know, why do we do that?
	Why do we have to go that far?
	But what would a land invasion of Japan have been?
	From what I learned, Right, and the death toll would have been far, far greater than those who died in Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
	Great call, Derek.
	Stay on the line.
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	I know.
	So I forgot Angel Tree, right?
	All right, so I did Car at the top.
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	No my Pillow, and then I'll go to Calls.
	What's the rest of Call 4, Line 4, Jeff?
	Oh, took over lab.
	Good point. Good point.
	You You
	Bye.
	Did you get that email of the book?
	That you wanted to print off?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I was gonna print it off after the show.
	Yeah, that's fine.
	Yeah.
	Jeff, can you reach out to Gates's office?
	.
	Yeah.
	Thanks 90
	Oh Oh
	Oh, and Mike Waltz as well.
	He says the UN has been helping hide hostages for Hamas.
	Okay.
	The UN?
	Yeah, the UN agency in Palestine.
	Oh boy.
	Do you believe it?
	Well, Waltz isn't, you know, he doesn't make stuff.
	Yeah.
	Boy Boy
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	Shalom, Sebastian.
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	I own a car, CW9.
	Good, good.
	You always talk about being a car owner, but I don't recall you saying which model you own.
	CM9.
	Very close to yours.
	But I also have the 10 millimeter 1911 they make, which is the most accurate gun I have.
	I've got a full size steel car as well.
	So, but I carry the CM9.
	And if I understand correctly, the M is for metal frame?
	I think that's how the nomenclature works, but you'd have to ask Justin Moon, but it's exactly the same as yours in overall envelope.
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	Let's go to Nancy in Philadelphia.
	Hi, Dr. Gorka.
	Yes.
	I'm really convinced that Biden cares about four-year-old little girls like his granddaughter Navy.
	You mean the one he doesn't recognize?
	Yeah, totally.
	But I was shocked because I turned on the radio and I think you made one of the most brilliant comments I ever heard you make, and I'm not sure you realize it.
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	Hi, Dr. Gorka.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	Listen, I don't want to take you long here, so I'll get to the point as quickly as a long-winded lawyer can.
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	Do you make humidors, Brad?
	Yes, I do.
	It's kind of just for the fun after when I'm not working.
	I presume they're cedar lined, but what is the exterior made of?
	Well, I can do, I have plenty of cherry, I have plenty of black walnut.
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	We're going to do something a little bit different this time because Jeff and I have had it with politicians who are career politicians.
	We need more people like this, this Hirsute individual.
	I found his campaign ad online.
	Not a career politician, but a guy who is a citizen first.
	Let's listen to a clip from this man's campaign.
	I announced I am going to be running for Congress.
	That's why I'm running for Congress.
	I will be challenging the establishment Republican Tony Gonzalez for the District 23 congressional seat in the Republican primary for 2024.
	What I guess inspired this is that a large number of the politicians that liberty-loving Americans have turned to to defend these ideals have failed.
	It's like once they win their first election, they feel untouchable in the primaries.
	We have to remind them that if they fail to uphold their oath to defend the Constitution, we will primary them, we will campaign against them, and we will win.
	You can moan about the establishment but we have a secret weapon and it's not really cool gun videos on YouTube.
	Well that's that's that's rather useful as well.
	It is the primary tool and we're going to talk to the man who was in that ad.
	Very high quality expensive video filmed I think in a hotel room.
	Brandon Herrera!
	Welcome back to America First!
	How's it going, Seb?
	It's always good to talk to you.
	Good, good.
	Will you share with our millions of listeners across the nation what you said to me at the break?
	Because we get you on here because you're the AK guy.
	You have maybe the best YouTube channel out there when it comes to guns.
	At least guns designed by a certain sergeant in the Russian Red Army.
	When I said, how's the campaign going?
	And what was your response, Brandon?
	Uh, frighteningly well, and I might accidentally have a job.
	A real job, not a fun job.
	So, um, just walk us through the last couple of months because you came to me saying, I've got this crazy idea.
	Some people want me to run for Congress.
	And I said, okay, I'll connect you to a few people to tell you that you're insane.
	Then you decided to do it.
	What's your life been like for the last couple of months, Brandon?
	It's definitely been different.
	It's an unconventional campaign because, you know, we're not going through the normal DC routes and the RNC routes.
	We've been running this almost entirely grassroots.
	It's been especially unconventional in the way that we're using the internet profile and the folks who followed us, who know what I'm about, who know that I'm a Liberty First kind of guy, who know that I'm a super heavy Pro 2A guy, and using that to just bring momentum into a primary and To be honest, it's going a lot better than I ever expected.
	Tell us about the swamp creature that you're going up against.
	We need to know who Brandon needs to get out of the way.
	Sure.
	So I'm going up against, I'm primarying the establishment Republican Tony Gonzalez, who has voted for Biden's post-Uvalde gun control.
	He's voted against sensible border policy that's actually going to secure the border.
	And most recently, he's voted to secure DOD-funded drag shows.
	And has voted as part of the Swamp 25 against Jim Jordan.
	Hang on, hang on.
	This is in Texas?
	How does this guy get away with that stuff in Texas?
	You would think that Texas would have better Republicans, but unfortunately people just see an R in front of the name and then they go along with it.
	So they can get a lot, they can get away with a lot of stuff because people don't do their digging on politicians.
	I know I didn't.
	The reason why I'm running is because I looked into some of the things that my elected representative was doing and I was horrified.
	And I thought, you know what, I think it's time to change that.
	Well listen, he's got my full support.
	The website is BrandonHerreraForCongress.com.
	It's the 23rd Congressional District of Texas.
	Go right now to BrandonHerreraForCongress.com even if you're not in the district.
	Check this man out.
	Support this guy.
	Follow him at The AK Guy.
	And now let's talk about something really important.
	Let's talk about guns.
	I saw you've got some amazing videos up on your site.
	The effect on the human body of an RPG-7.
	I haven't seen that one yet.
	Not a real human body, but a simulated one.
	Relax, guys.
	AK grenade launchers, all kinds of fun stuff.
	But you reminded me of this Separating wound in the Second Amendment, this attempt to turn 30 million Americans into felons.
	Can you give us an update on these devilishly dangerous devices made out of plastic, the AK and AR pistol brace?
	Are we seeing a glimmer of hope, Brandon?
	You know, we're seeing a glimmer of hope where we normally see a glimmer of hope when it comes to gun legislation, which is in the judicial branch.
	So you have judges that are striking down these ridiculously just blatant attacks on the Second Amendment done by the ATF, who's acting as a legislative body for whatever reason.
	You know, an organization that was founded to just be a tax collection service is now, you know, basically enforcing their own gun legislation that they are writing.
	This little piece of plastic here is something that could put you in prison for up to 10 years with a quarter million dollar fine, according to the ATF.
	But thankfully, a lot of that's coming back.
	I was just at Sons of Liberty Gunworks yesterday, and I saw one of the gentlemen walking through, holding a brace, like, look at what we can put back on guns again, ladies and gentlemen.
	So what happened in a nutshell?
	So the ATF that said these things are okay, they're invented for injured veterans, they retroactively, like a decade later, said, no, no, no, no, no, that turns it into a short-barreled rifle.
	If you don't register it or destroy it, you're a felon.
	What happened recently and how solid is that decision?
	For sure.
	So, well, unfortunately, just like anything with the ATF, nothing's ever really solid.
	When these things were first invented and put into the market, there was a question on whether or not they would be, you know, considered SBR, short-barreled rifles, or at least converting pistols into those.
	And so they submitted them to the ATF to ask permission, say, hey, you know, is this an SBR?
	The ATF says, no, that should be perfectly fine.
	So now after millions and millions of these things have entered circulation, the ATF retroactively goes back and redefines what an SBR is.
	To include this brace.
	And unfortunately that had the repercussion of potentially turning millions of Americans into felons overnight.
	Luckily, it seems like the courts are stepping in and saying, hey, that's absolutely ridiculous.
	You do not have the authority to do this.
	And we're seeing some good progress now, which is great.
	Thanks to the help of a lot of pro-gun groups.
	The Firearm Policy Coalition, National Association for Gun Rights, Gun Owners of America.
	Really, really good actual approach.
	Alright, we're out of time, but let's just mention those again.
	Firearms Policy Coalition, Gun Owners of America.
	What's the third one?
	National Association for Gun Rights.
	There's some good people there that are fighting for us.
	National Association for Gun Rights.
	Okay, guys, we are winning!
	Never give up, never give in.
	It's the American way.
	And that's why you need to support this guy.
	BrandonHerreraForCongress.com.
	And I'll see you in Vegas for SHOT Show.
	Follow this man, the AK guy.
	I'm Sebastian Gorka.
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	Arizona Rick, line 5. Hi there Dr. Gorka, thanks for making this a fantastic Friday with your show.
	Thank you buddy, we like to have a little bit of fun. I started off a little bit serious but
	I think we we got to have a little bit of fun and we're going to make movies great again. Yes,
	yes you bet. I have one point on the lighter side and then one point on Biden's broken border. All
	right hit hit me with the uh the border first.
	Let's do bad news and then good news.
	You've got two minutes.
	Here's the bad news.
	Did you see your colleague Seth Leibson's report on the terrible situation at the Lukeville, Arizona port of entry?
	No.
	Where there are hundreds and hundreds of illegal aliens waiting to come in, being processed to come in, and they are not.
	From Mexico, Central or South America.
	They are from East Africa.
	Did Seth do this on radio or is this a video report?
	He did it on radio.
	I haven't seen it.
	I'm going to text him as soon as I leave the studio.
	Thank you for bringing that to my attention.
	God bless Seth.
	Cheer us up a little bit.
	What's the good news, Rick?
	The good news is I think I have a solution for the federal government's debt fiasco.
	And that is for you to bring Ashley Lucas to Washington D.C.
	and put Congress on a financial diet.
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	I saw photographs of her and my coach and Katie's coach, Rachel, at the Mar-a-Lago premiere for Dinesh D'Souza's new movie, Police State.
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	But imagine, just...
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	Our advertisers, the people who stick with us.
	Maybe she can do something about Congress.
	I'm not sure.
	But it's a great idea.
	Stay on the line, my friend, and we will reward you.
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	Impressive.
	Most impressive.
	See things you people wouldn't believe.
	See things you people wouldn't believe.
	Want to talk to a guy?
	Oh, my God.
	Let's go see him together.
	Are you ill or maybe frightened?
	I've been having some stomach problems.
	Your papers are not in order.
	They're in order.
	Look at them again.
	No.
	They are not in order.
	Your papers are not in order.
	Not the Third Reich this time, not some evil villain from an Indiana Jones movie, but one of Clint Eastwood's directed and starring films, an epic of the Cold War.
	It's Firefox!
	And he's undercover in Moscow and the KGB is on his trail.
	We're making movies great again today with, as far as I'm concerned, a forgotten gem of the Cold War.
	And we're going to analyze it with our good buddy, the co-host of Making Movies Great Again, Chris Coles.
	He of the Alpha Critic and Mr. Reagan channels on YouTube.
	Saluting you, sir.
	I'm not going to do what I usually do here because I'm actually Afraid of the answer.
	I'll ask you later whether you actually liked the movie.
	But let me start elsewhere.
	I love this film and I think a lot of it has to do not just with the tech, the plane, the hero Clint Eastwood, but really I can't peel this skin off myself.
	I am a child of the Cold War.
	From the opening scene that A Vietnam flashback as they go to collect him from his cabin somewhere in Alaska, all the way through to fighting behind the Iron Curtain to steal this wonder weapon.
	You're younger than me.
	You're like a decade younger than me.
	What does the Cold War mean to you, Chris?
	Well, you know, the Cold War was still going on when I was when I was a little kid.
	You know, I grew up with that as reality.
	And so, yeah, Russia was the enemy.
	The USSR was the enemy.
	And it was a little bit of a scary, you know, opposing force, although I think that we had enough pride in America to think that at the end of the day, we will be safe.
	America is greater than the USSR and it turned out that our our faith
	was well placed.
	America did win the Cold War and you know it didn't last long enough for me to be
	you know to get too worried about it to think too much about the politics of it.
	We had Reagan as president when I was a kid.
	And so, yeah, the 1980s, if you're growing up and you're a little kid in the 1980s, you really were, at least to some degree, a bit carefree.
	I mean, you did have the bullies at school to deal with.
	You know, maybe I got in fights every week.
	But, you know, a lot of my life was like the Goonies.
	You know, I was riding bikes around the forest looking for pirate treasure and stuff like that.
	So the 80s were pretty great for me.
	And were you aware of this movie before I picked it last week?
	No, I had never heard of it.
	And listen, you do not have to worry about this at all.
	Honestly, this is, I think you're right.
	This is a forgotten gem.
	This is an absolutely brilliant film.
	I think maybe it gets overshadowed because, you know, four years later you had Top Gun, which was probably the best fighter pilot Movie ever in the history of the world. It was just so well
	done It was so slick and this movie maybe is not as slick as Top
	Gun It's got a little bit of elements of maybe like Star Wars
	in it Even with the you know going through the ravine and stuff
	like that, but it's this is really an epic film It's a fantastic movie and I think more people should be aware of it.
	And not only, it's interesting you mentioned that the Star Wars connection with the fighter pilot chase at the end between the two Firefoxes.
	Of course the guy who's behind, for the time I think, and still many hold up, the special effects was John Dykstra, seminal to the establishment of Industrial Light and Magic, the people that made Star Wars possible.
	So it's no surprise that there are connections.
	But also, this isn't I think that we've got to put it in the right category here.
	This isn't, you know, competing just with Top Gun because there's, you know, fighter pilots involved or fighter jets.
	This is a little bit of a combination.
	It's like Top Gun meets The Hunt for Red October, isn't it?
	I mean, this is a Cold War thid, a Cold War thriller.
	Yeah.
	OK, so I've been walking around the streets of Poland for about a month now, and I got to say there were sort of, it is a like kind of a haunting place.
	The cities of Poland are kind of haunting places.
	There are a lot of remnants of, you know, the time that the Soviets were here.
	There's remnants from obviously from before that.
	But there is this sort of dark, ominous, brooding sensation that you get walking through the streets of Krakow.
	And you get the same sense in this film.
	Sometimes in the middle of the night, when I'm walking through the streets, I do feel like an American spy, even though that's nothing to do with me.
	But you do kind of get that sense from the 80s movies.
	And this has that.
	And you know what's funny?
	It's like the beginning of this film is really is like a, or I don't know if I'd say the beginning, but a lot of the first part of it is a lot like a spy Thriller James Bond film.
	And that's really what I love the most about this film.
	I like movies that are journeys.
	Right.
	I like novels like that as well, where you start in one place, you end in another place.
	Then maybe the hero has to get back home.
	But the story of the journey to me is one of my And this movie has just so many different aspects to it.
	You never get bored.
	You know, like you said, they meet him at his cabin in Alaska, and then they convince him he's got to go on this mission.
	Then he goes to Russia, and it becomes a spy movie.
	Then, you know, he ends up—he's able to steal the jet, and then it's this dogfight.
	In just different things, completely different movies.
	It's like a bunch of different movies put together, but they work seamlessly.
	And it's this beautiful journey, and it works really well.
	And I had no idea until the final credits that it was directed by Clint Eastwood.
	So well done, Clint Eastwood.
	Yeah, so the background to this story, a Welsh author, I think he was a high school teacher, called Craig Thomas, writes the original book, Firefox, which is about this amazing new fighter jet.
	It's interesting because this is Stealth technology before they're stealth technology and not only does he talk about this this fighter that can evade Western Cold War and NATO radar systems but the added importance of it is this thought control mechanism that the pilot can actually fly the plane can arm the weapons can fire the weapons simply by thinking of course
	In Russian.
	To do so.
	And it happens.
	That was written in 1977.
	Clint, I guess, picked it up somewhere in an airport, read the novel, loved it, optioned it, and then his production company decided to make it in 1982.
	I don't know why it fell by the wayside.
	An amazing cast.
	Let's just mention some of the names.
	We've got Freddie Jones, who is the MI6 boffin, who briefs Mitchell Gant at the beginning.
	He's from Dune.
	He's one of the Mentats from Dune.
	He's in Kral.
	He's in The Elephant Man.
	We have Nigel Hawthorne.
	I think we have the photograph of the two gentlemen in suits.
	This is from Nigel Hawthorne's most famous role since then, is a Yes Minister.
	He played the permanent secretary to the minister and the prime minister
	in that long running British comedy series.
	But a great cast, and of course we have at the top of it, we have Clint Eastwood.
	What for you is, how does this fit into the canon of the rest of Clint Eastwood movies?
	Because we see him as Dirty Harry.
	We see him as the man with no name.
	Is this just Dirty Harry pretending to be a Russian fighter pilot?
	How did this leave you thinking?
	No, this is a weird movie for Clint Eastwood in my mind.
	Because almost every Clint Eastwood film I've ever seen, he doesn't really speak You know, Clint Eastwood, when he speaks, it's very seldom.
	He's a man of few words, but there's a sort of gravitas behind it.
	It's very rare that you see Clint Eastwood have a lot of dialogue.
	And in this film, he kind of had to talk a lot, and he had to act really vulnerable, because he's a veteran that's suffering from PTSD, right?
	Correct.
	I don't remember what they call it in the film, something else.
	But they each got shell-shocked back in World War II, right?
	So he was suffering from shell shock, he was suffering from PTSD because he fought in Vietnam, and he can't really get it together all the time.
	And so you've got these moments where he's struggling, right?
	You can see him struggling.
	So there's a lot of acting here, a lot more acting than you would normally get from a Clint Eastwood performance, just because he's got that stoic persona that you love so much.
	But you know what?
	It works.
	He really is a good actor, Clint Eastwood.
	It's nice to see him doing something a little bit different here.
	No, I think that's a very, very good description.
	This allows us to see more of Clint Eastwood's range, not just as a director, but as an actor.
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	Free man.
	Let's do three.
	Actually.
	Yeah, Hangar.
	Music The iconic moment where we see the legendary, the fictive
	MiG-31, the stealth Firefox.
	I'm I'm just going to geek out a little bit here.
	I'm just blown away by the design here.
	Stealth before stealth.
	Before we saw, you know, the stealth bomber here, the F-117, we saw this on the movie screens.
	People have written that this model actually influenced the design of Stealth Aircraft after the movie came out.
	A lot of the effects here are done in-camera.
	They're real.
	No computer graphics, at least not in the way we understand them today.
	And just that scene of the original Firefox, they built multiple full-sized versions.
	They couldn't fly.
	They could taxi it up to 30, 40 miles an hour.
	But they built a 70-foot-long Firefox Built on a chassis that was a radio antenna for a radio station.
	I'm again a little bit leery of asking this question, but how does all the special effects stand up, do you think, in terms of the fighter jet and also the dogfight scenes, Chris?
	You know what?
	That full-size model Hang on, you froze for a second.
	All right.
	Say, start from that full size bottle.
	Hang on, you froze for a second.
	All right, start from that full-size model.
	All right.
	You know what, that full-size model, the full-size model was phenomenal.
	It blew me away.
	It was very impressive.
	The first time I saw it on screen, I thought, is that like a real jet?
	Like, what are they doing?
	And also the design, the design was so, like you said, it was so precisely, it was so similar to what you would expect an actual stealth jet to be.
	I thought, Was that based on what they were currently speculating stealth would look like, or how- I didn't understand how they figured that out, because it looked so much like what you would imagine a stealth jet would look like at the time, even though they didn't have stealth, like you said.
	And the whole thing was just super impressive to me.
	Now, by modern standards, I don't think it holds up.
	So if you were like a, if you're like a 14 year old, really cynical punk kid, you know, watching this movie, you might go, oh, that looks like a fake model.
	Right.
	But it really doesn't.
	When you first look at it, I mean, especially from the making.
	That is basically perfect.
	Like again, like I wasn't 100% sure if it was a real jet or what they were doing because it looked so dang good.
	The optical effects, you know, that kind of looked like Superman flying in the sky and stuff like that.
	Again, probably doesn't hold up to modern standards, but it I mean, for some of those shots, especially for some of the early ones, I wasn't sure what was going on.
	I wasn't sure how they did the effect because it was so clean.
	It was done so well.
	So, yeah, it's a little bit inconsistent.
	It's not perfect.
	You know, it is a movie from the 1982 and it does have that sort of 70s look a lot of it.
	Right.
	I think there were other movies at that time that were more slick, that looked a little bit cooler, a little bit more sort of precise in terms of production value.
	And so maybe that's part of the reason why this film hasn't been remembered as this great classic.
	But you know what?
	The special effects were dang good, and you understood what was going on.
	A lot of what special effects is, is the ability to create the effect and tell the story with that effect.
	And I knew exactly what was going on the whole time.
	They did a beautiful job, those guys.
	And so, you know, I...
	I got a hand to it.
	You know, anytime you watch a movie, you got to think about it in the context of the era
	in which it was produced.
	And I think you can do that with this film pretty easily.
	And I think you can really enjoy this film, even with like imperfect special effects
	from today's standards, you know.
	Yeah, they even invented a brand new technology or John Dykstra did.
	It's called the reverse blue screen because it's very difficult to hide the matte lines
	of a dark vehicle in a bright, bright background.
	And of course there's a point at which, sorry, spoilers, he steals the plane
	and has to land it on an ice flow to get it refueled by the US.
	Navy submarine that comes and acts as its gas station.
	And landing on ice or flying against a white sky, very difficult to do with traditional blue screen.
	You often see the mat lines.
	So they invented a whole new system.
	And of course the footage, because this isn't computer generated, the footage of the pilots
	chasing each other was filmed from a Learjet.
	They had some remote controlled Firefoxes.
	Man alive.
	What would I give for one of those remote controlled Firefoxes today?
	There's also an interesting story of the cockpit of the helicopters that are used to chase
	him were reused.
	It was actually the mock-up of the Blue Thunder helicopter.
	That's a movie we have to review as well.
	So they're recycling special effects and props from other movies.
	But as far as I'm concerned, I'm impressed.
	What about the fact, I saw people complain about this online.
	I don't get it, because we've seen this in the Death of Stalin and other movies, that
	you have Russians sometimes talking Russian, but the rest of the time they're British actors
	with British accents or with a little bit of a Russian tinge.
	Does that, as an actor or as a consumer of the movie product, does that take you out of the story, Chris?
	To have Brits playing Russians?
	Oh no, that's a modern day thing.
	That's a modern day thing.
	So it used to be, back in the old days, whenever they wanted anyone from basically any part of Europe, they would almost always hire British actors.
	This is a fairly common thing.
	People got to understand that back in the 1980s, the world was a lot bigger place, right?
	The world has shrunk significantly.
	With the internet, with just the cheap travel that we have, you can basically go anywhere in the world, either digitally or in reality, and you can get a sense of different cultures and stuff like that.
	Today, in a movie set in Italy, they probably would use Italian actors or get actors to put on an Italian accent.
	In the 80s, they would just bring in a bunch of British actors and have them speak with British accents, and you'd think, oh, they're foreign, right?
	They're from Europe, you know.
	That's how movies just were, you know, the 60s, 70s, 80s.
	And we all accepted it, and it was fine, and it worked, you know what I mean?
	So it's just a product of its time, and at some point, there came a point when somebody made the comment, oh, why do they always cast British actors as like every other European?
	And then this became like a trend, so people complain about it now.
	Because it was something that was consciously identified, like, you know, comedically, and everybody talks about it.
	But no, I don't think it's a big deal.
	Look, this movie, when I'm watching this movie, I'm seeing the influence of this movie on other movies while I'm watching it.
	Right?
	Right.
	So at the very beginning of the newer Star Wars movies, the J.J.
	Star Wars movies. I think that one of the earlier ones, I think they got to pick up,
	you know, they got a Captain Kirk, you know, this kid Captain Kirk. Yes, the first one.
	I feel like that and there was a new Star Trek TV show where they did this
	and the and the captain had like this beard and he's riding a horse and stuff
	and and you know then this starship comes in to come see him.
	I think this idea of having the hero sort of start out in, you know, the country, and then the helicopter comes and gets him, I think that's something we've seen progressively in other films since this film.
	I've never seen it earlier than this, but I think this film started a trend of doing that.
	It's a cool idea.
	I actually really like this idea.
	I think maybe I'll write into the script one day, because it's such a cool thing.
	And then also the whole film, I feel like Top Gun Maverick kind of copied this film a little bit in terms of the story, the idea that, you know, you got to go across enemy lines to do a mission, and then you got to steal a plane and then get back.
	And I feel like somebody watched this who was, you know, commissioned to do Top Gun Maverick, and they watch this film and they go, oh, I'm going to take a bunch of stuff from this film.
	So I think this film was actually more You know, a lot more influential than people probably think, because nobody knows about this movie.
	Yeah, we find this, don't we find this again and again and again with the movies we review, Chris, that they have such an impact.
	We are watching a new TV show, or movie, the creator, some sci-fi movie, and we're watching the futurescape, and my wife just looks at me and she says, But you know, how many movies would not be able to be made if it weren't for Ridley Scott and Blade Runner?
	Every stinking modern, you know, any dirty future of skyscrapers is just ripped from Blade Runner.
	So, you know, if you make a good movie, it will have massive, massive influences.
	As will my friend, if you listen to him and watch him.
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	Four missiles launched.
	We can skype out of here.
	We got two of them.
	Why is this a machine?
	now.
	Boy, this is a machine.
	We can excuse his slightly accented Russian there.
	That is Clint Eastwood as the fighter pilot Mitchell Gant, stealing the Firefox from under the nose of the Russians.
	What a great... Could you imagine if they made a Firefox toy today?
	That would be my Christmas gift I would buy for myself.
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	It's that connection and that realization that I belong.
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	All right, you're out there in Europe right now, Mr. Reagan.
	You are enjoying the culture of Central Europe.
	You're in a country that used to be on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain.
	One of the criticisms of Firefox is the pace, especially before he gets to the military base and steals the plane and has to escape, has to get it refueled and then make sure he escapes from the other Firefox tracking him.
	What do you think about the pace?
	Because for me, You know, it's a Cold War thriller.
	Cold War thrillers, this isn't a Schwarzenegger movie.
	This isn't Fast and Furious.
	When he's going around Moscow, or rather, Vienna, made to look like Moscow, the dread is creeping.
	The dread, you know, builds and builds and builds.
	Do you agree that it's a little bit slow at the beginning?
	No, I do not.
	This is what we call a thriller.
	This is not...
	You know, it's a suspense thriller.
	This is not an action film.
	There are actiony moments.
	I think that if you, if you go in thinking it's an action film, then maybe, yeah, you're going to think that it's a little slow.
	But I love stuff like this.
	I love suspense thrillers.
	I love to wonder what's going to happen next.
	And I don't, I don't think it's slow at all.
	There, you know, there is this, this sense of foreboding, no matter what's going on in this movie.
	Like even at the beginning, when he's running from the helicopter, you don't know why that helicopter's there.
	Uh, and that it's revealed.
	You know, there's a lot of stuff like that in this movie where, oh my god, there's this amazing moment at the beginning.
	Well, I don't know if it's the beginning, but like the first third of the movie where he's got to meet up with some, you know, underground sort of Russian defectors.
	They're the resistance.
	All right, hold that because you actually just read my mind.
	I wanted to ask you about the impact of the scene I think you're about to discuss.
	We're going to save that momentarily because we just We just had a Vulcan mind meld.
	We were talking about Star Trek and we just, across 8,000 miles, we just had that Vulcan
	mind meld.
	Alright, I'm not going to steal your thunder.
	We're going to talk about that next.
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	Okay, come in with... Think, no, I'll tee up Freeman and come in with Thinkin' Russian.
	What about this dot control weapon system?
	Ah, yes.
	No, you don't even need to press a button.
	Your thoughts are transmitted through the sensors of your helmet into a computer.
	The rest is automatic.
	Now, Firefox is equipped with missiles which drop from under the fuselage.
	There are two cannon in... from under the cockpit.
	And there's the real defense pod, which fires explosives backwards, which could knock out a potential missile.
	But this is very important, Mr. Gant.
	You must think in Russian.
	You cannot think in English and transpose.
	You must think in Russian.
	Nigel Havers playing one of the Russian dissidents, Baranovich, the scientist who helped build Firefox, one of the Jewish dissidents that is risking everything and will lose his life to help the West steal this vehicle.
	There is a moment in the movie, I think you're going to maybe talk about this, that is hard for... I remember as a child, because I've been watching this since it came out, There's a moment where this movie suddenly kind of shocks you and wakes you out of your slow thriller beat, and you go, man alive, that's tough.
	Walk us through what this movie does to its viewers, which is not just a run-of-the-mill thriller.
	No, no.
	You know, it's very suspenseful.
	And like I said, you don't know what's going to happen.
	There's all these dark moments.
	There's these, you know, dark corridors.
	There's these dark streets.
	And as soon as Clint Eastwood gets to Russia, gets to Moscow, he's being followed by KGB, which is I think probably was actually probably standard for any American coming into Russia during the Cold War.
	So he'd be followed by KGB.
	Sometimes there'd be one guy, sometimes there'd be three, sometimes there'd be a car with him.
	But he's walking through Moscow, I think at like three in the morning.
	So KGB, of course, is following him.
	And he meets up with these dissidents, these freedom fighter guys.
	You know, they oppose the Russian government.
	And they obviously have some kind of connection with the American government, and they're supposed to basically take care of Clint Eastwood and, you know, help him to get his mission accomplished.
	So they bring this other guy with him, who I think may actually be the guy that he's... Is the guy that they brought with him supposed to be the actual guy Clint Eastwood is pretending to be?
	Yeah, so he's the quote-unquote American businessman Sprague who's been smuggling cocaine into Russia and blazing a trail unwittingly for Clint Eastwood to impersonate him and then take his place so he can move around Russia.
	But they surprise him, don't they?
	Yeah, so Clint Eastwood comes along.
	That wasn't clear to me at first, that he was meeting the guy that he was impersonating.
	That wasn't actually clear to me at first.
	Eventually you figure that out.
	So they bring this guy along, and then in order to fool the Moscow police, the KGB, whoever's following Clint Eastwood, with a baton, they beat this American businessman, heroin dealer, they beat him to death by basically smashing his face in right in front of Clint Eastwood.
	Now, Clint Eastwood is a hardened War veteran from Vietnam, of course he has PTSD, but this is not a PTSD moment.
	This is just, what the hell did you just do?
	You know, watching a man get beaten to death with a stick.
	And then taking Clint's fake ID and putting it on the dead man as they throw him into the Moscow River to put the KGB off his scent.
	Yeah, and not even with any sort of difficulty.
	This is almost like the Godfather, where this murder is done so cold and calculating, and it really shakes Clint Eastwood, as it would, I think, most people who've never seen somebody beaten to death in front of them.
	And so he, of course, then has to take on a new identity immediately, and then try to fool the KGB just moments later.
	And actually he faces another guy, another KGB agent, that's trying to I think trying to extort money from him or maybe take him to jail.
	It's not clear what this KGB officer's up to in the bathroom moments later.
	But then Clint Eastwood has to kill somebody himself.
	So he goes through quite a lot in quite a short amount of time there.
	So it goes very quickly from being a suspense thriller to being quite an action-packed movie there in just a moment.
	But it works, doesn't it?
	It does work, doesn't it?
	Oh, absolutely.
	Look, the pacing of this film may not seem to be as consistent as people are used to in modern films, but I like that.
	I like the fact that, like you said, it wakes you up suddenly, and it goes from this slower-paced suspense thriller to really quite a lot of action and an intense movie real quick.
	I love that.
	I love the pacing of this film.
	And why is there such intensity?
	Well, this may be a fictional story, but one of the dissidents who's helping Mitchell Gant explains why he's willing to risk his life and the life of his family.
	Here's probably the most important moment, morally and politically, from the movie.
	Supposing I get the lift off and everything works well.
	What happens to you?
	It doesn't matter.
	What do you mean it doesn't matter?
	I don't understand why you're all so willing to die.
	I don't expect you to understand.
	Don't you resent those people in London ordering your deaths like this?
	Mr. Gant, you're an American.
	You're a free man.
	I'm not.
	There is a difference.
	If I resent the men in London who are ordering And it is a small thing when compared with my resentment of the KGB.
	The difference is you are a free man, I am not.
	That's what it was all about, wasn't it, Chris, during the Cold War?
	Yeah, you know, the Cold War was real and there were people really suffering under that regime.
	I do feel a little bit, this may sound a little bit Saccharin or something, but I do feel like we're kind of getting there.
	Today, here in America, I feel like our freedoms are very quickly being stripped from us.
	Not saccharine at all.
	I was hoping you would take us there.
	I mean, the breaking news of two days ago that somebody who's a special prosecutor, like godlike powers, independent of the Department of Justice, requested a warrant for any American who liked or retweeted one of the former presidents Social media postings and demanded their name and their address.
	We may not have labor camps in a KGB, but when you, you can have your personal information just released to somebody by fiat, I'm glad you mentioned it.
	We are close to living in that police state if we aren't already there.
	The salutary lessons of a Cold War classic The movie is Firefox by Clint Eastwood.
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	All right, coming with Gant and the Secretary General.
	Aren't you gonna threaten me or something?
	I will do so if that is what you wish.
	But first I will merely ask you to return what does not belong to you.
	And then you'll forget the whole thing, right?
	I do not think that you would believe that, Mr. Gant.
	Would you?
	Of course not.
	All I will say is that you will live if you return immediately.
	It is calculated that no more than four minutes flying time would be required before we could cite you back over Bilyarsk.
	And the alternative?
	You will not be allowed to hand over the MiG-31 to the security services of your country.
	You're not allowed that to happen.
	I understand.
	I'm sorry, sir, but I can't do that.
	I see.
	You will not, of course, make it to wherever you are going.
	Goodbye, Mr. Gant.
	Slightly stretching the bounds of credulity, but I like that discussion between the US fighter pilot who's stolen the Firefox and the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
	You will not survive.
	Good stuff, good stuff.
	Alright, final thoughts on this movie.
	Any weaknesses?
	Anything you'd like to add?
	They were supposed to make a sequel.
	In fact, Craig Thomas, the author of the original novel, wrote A sequel that was supposed to be turned into a movie.
	Sadly, it never happened.
	Your take on this movie?
	You know, I think there's a lot of Clint Eastwood films that are kind of forgotten.
	He made so many movies.
	There's a film I watched a while back, we've mentioned on the show before I think, called The Eiger Sanction.
	I used to like rock climbing in college, so I really loved watching Eiger Sanction.
	Because it's about him, it's about Clint Eastwood climbing a mountain.
	It's a thriller, but it's about the Eiger Mountain.
	Yeah, and that's a really great film.
	There's a lot of thrillers in the 70s that was kind of like a big genre back then.
	They've kind of fallen out of fashion, I think.
	I mean, the Bourne films kind of brought them back a little bit.
	But, yeah, I don't know.
	Again, yeah, it's a good point, actually.
	It's kind of a forgotten genre.
	I love the suspense thriller.
	I wish there were more of them today, even.
	It's just a great genre.
	They just don't do it anymore so much.
	But yeah, Clint Eastwood made some really great films that people forgot about.
	This is one of them.
	Like I said before, I think maybe it's not as slick, not as slick produced as a lot of the films in the early 1980s.
	You know, you had so many big films in 1982.
	We've talked about many of them on this show, like Ghostbusters.
	So people were watching these big, big movies.
	And I think this one's kind of, forgive the pun, slipped under the radar.
	And the film was a bit stealth in the box office, I feel like.
	But no, you know, Clint Eastwood was really great here.
	The film is one of those films, you know, it doesn't feel like an 80s film to me.
	It feels like a late 70s film.
	So if you love films of the late 70s and you don't remember this one or you haven't seen this one, you've got to watch this movie.
	It really is quite an excellent film, I would say.
	No, you're absolutely right.
	It definitely, and maybe because, you know, John Dykstra was the special effects guy for the biggest movie of the 70s, which was Star Wars from 1977.
	It definitely has the taste, the smell, the look of a 70s movie, but a highly underrated one.
	All right, last little background, making of stuff.
	So the music was Maurice Jarre, a legend in movie music.
	He of Lawrence of Arabia and Zhivago fame.
	If you think the submarine footage looks familiar of it breaking through the ice pack before it refuels Mitchell Gantz Firefox, that's because it is.
	It was stolen from Ice Station Zebra, or rather they paid for it and they They reused the Rock Hudson Cold War Thriller Ice Station Zebra for that footage.
	It was filmed in Austria and Greenland.
	The ice pack was in Greenland.
	And there is a very, very strong connection to numerous classics of the 80s.
	Empire Strikes Back and Raiders.
	With guest appearances by the likes of Ronald Lacey, who played the evil Nazi henchman from Raiders.
	That's Ronald Lacey.
	He plays one of the Russian dissident scientists who's killed in the movie.
	And, of course, we have Wolf Kahler, one of the uniformed Nazis from Raiders, who is also in the movie as one of the Soviet officials.
	And lastly, we have a guest on this show.
	We have John Ratzenberger, one of the Navy officers on the submarine from Empire Strikes Back from Cheers.
	He makes a guest appearance as well.
	All right.
	Budget $21 million to make.
	That's it.
	Not too shabby.
	47 million.
	Not a huge success but made back more than a hundred percent.
	All that is left to do is for all of our viewers to go and watch Firefox to read the novel and then for us to rate it and then pick our Christmas movie.
	So Chris, it's going to be a tough one for you this time because you rate it for a modern audience.
	We say this is definitely a movie stuck at the trail end of the 70s, the early 80s.
	So out, what shall we do?
	Out of voice activated missiles, out of 10 voice activated missiles, what rating do you give Firefox for a modern audience?
	Well, this is a tough one for me because I really did love this movie.
	Like to me, It's hard to kind of explain sometimes why I like a film, because sometimes a film, you just like it.
	Yeah.
	Right?
	So for me, this is like a 10 out of 10 for me.
	You know what I mean?
	It was like when I first watched Day of the Jackal.
	Day of the Jackal was like a revelatory film.
	I was like an 11.
	We haven't reviewed that, have we, Chris?
	No, we haven't.
	I love Day of the Jackal.
	I love Day of the Jackal.
	It's a very slow paced film.
	Probably a lot of people won't love Day of the Jackal, but I, I mean, to me, that's one of my favorite of all time movies.
	Uh, and so when I, so this movie to me was similar.
	It was like a revelatory film again, like maybe the special effects weren't perfect because you know, we're used to like computer generated everything now and everything looks amazing.
	But it's just a great movie.
	It's really a great movie.
	But I think for a modern audience, I do think people are going to love it.
	I mean, it's the right kind of person, they will love this film.
	So I'm not going to give it too low of a rating.
	I'll give it an 8.
	I'll give it an 8.
	Wow!
	Wow!
	Yeah, I think it's that good.
	I think even for a modern audience, it's really a great movie.
	It's one of my favorites.
	Wow, you're putting me in a tough position.
	In the panoply of all movies, I'm going to give it an eight and a half.
	Good for you.
	I'm really, you've, you finally, you have completely redeemed yourself in my eyes.
	I will say that you do have a good taste in movies.
	If you like Firefox, you do have, I will, Uncle Buck, we will not mention again, but you now have a good taste in movies.
	All right.
	I think you've got like one more episode before Christmas.
	It's your choice.
	So what is our Christmas choice of movie review going to be, Mr. Chris Coles?
	Yeah, I was, you know, I was talking to somebody and I said, hey, why don't you pick the movie this this time for us?
	You know, a friend of mine.
	And so he picked the movie and I was like, OK, we'll go with that.
	And then you texted me.
	You're like, oh, we have to Christmas now.
	And I'm like, oh, yeah, Christmas, of course.
	So you texted me a few options.
	And I think, you know, it's a movie that I love.
	It's a movie probably most people have seen.
	It's not an 80s film.
	It goes back a lot further than that.
	But it's something that I watched in the 80s I wouldn't say every year, but many years, because it's just on TV all the time.
	But I think it's a classic.
	It needs to be covered.
	I think we should watch It's a Wonderful Life.
	I was so hoping you'd say yes.
	So hoping.
	A movie which is, I'm sorry, up there, with Casablanca, is one of the greatest movies ever made, which, and I'm going to steal my own thunder now from next week, was not a success when it came out.
	Not a success.
	Was panned and was not successful.
	And today, one of the greatest movies by Jimmy Stewart and one of the greatest movies ever made.
	Alright, get busy guys.
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