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Dec. 29, 2023 - Sebastian Gorka

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Sebastian Gorka FULL SHOW: Biden heads off for his 418th day of vacation as POTUS

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	the The second thing that's sort of amazing about it is, who is it that did the study?
	The Heritage Foundation!
	A conservative think tank exposes this, and it goes back to the last segment.
	These are the new liberals, or the people who are willing to question government motives now.
	It's not your old-school, hippie, smelly, left-wing Democrats.
	I think he was struggling for the right noun and the right adjectives there, the old smelly hippie Democrats.
	Greetings.
	Happy Friday.
	I'm Sebastian Gawker.
	This is America First.
	The last show of the year.
	Wow.
	It's Second Amendment Friday.
	It's Ask Dr. G Anything Friday.
	I really like Charlie Heard.
	Although, should grown men be called Charlie?
	Mr. G, what do you think about, shouldn't like, kids who are 10 or younger be called Charlie?
	Yeah, but then you gotta go to Chuck, right?
	No, no, Charles!
	Oh, it's alright.
	Charlie's okay.
	Eric, Charlie.
	I am personally biased in favor of anything to do with the name Charles, so I'm fine with any variation of it.
	What, are you a fan of the king?
	Are you a royalist?
	I thought you were a radical Republican.
	Oh, no, I wish.
	No, no, no.
	My grandfather's name was Charles.
	Excellent.
	Alex, Charlie, Charles.
	Thank you!
	I think we have a majority.
	Guy, do you have an opinion?
	Chuck, Charlie, or Charles?
	Yes, sir.
	I'll name my first son.
	I'll name my first son Charles.
	Charles, well there you go.
	I think for the first time we have a majority in favor of the Charles over Chuck or Charlie.
	But, you know, he's one of the... Jeff, don't you think that guy needs more exposure?
	He's one of the smartest guys on Fox, isn't he?
	It's funny when we were talking about today how we always mention the good guys still left on Fox.
	We leave him out.
	He's one of the like five or six that are still there.
	That's pretty solid.
	There's Jesse, there's Greg.
	Who else is there?
	Jesse Gray, Maria Bartiromo, yes, there's a couple others.
	It's a lot less than it used to be.
	But Charlie, you're right, we always forget Charlie.
	Charlie Heard, a good guy.
	And the point of that clip is, it's such, it's, what a bizarre world we live in.
	The Heritage Foundation, which is the monster, it is the, you know, the gargantuan, you know, we call it the conservative mothership, founded by Ed Fulner 51 years ago.
	That that entity is the one that writes this incredible report about government corruption at the CIA, you know, juicing up the the Wuhan report, giving people, analysts, just just wrap your head around this one friends, giving analysts financial rewards, your cash money, for promoting The non-lab leak theory.
	This is intelligence.
	You shouldn't be getting money for perverting intelligence analysis away from what we know, which is Fauci, NIH, funding, gain-of-function research in the only biodefense lab Level 4, run by the Chinese military, but our intel agency is giving financial incentives for people to skew the intelligence?
	And Heritage is uncovering it?
	I thought it was the conservatives who are supposed to protect the establishment, and the smelly liberal hippies are supposed to be, you know, sock it to the man.
	Everything's upside down.
	What about NIH?
	I don't know how this next clip from Francis Collins, the former director of NIH, doesn't land him in prison.
	He's left NIH and he admits Well, his culpability in what they did to America under COVID and just the just the nonchalant way he just talks about destroying the lives of Americans, former director of the National Institutes for Health, Francis Collins, cuts heaven.
	As a guy living inside the Beltway, feeling a sense of crisis, trying to decide what to do in some situation room in the White House with people who had data that was incomplete, we weren't really thinking about what that would mean to Wilk and his family in Minnesota, a thousand miles away from where the virus was hitting so hard.
	We weren't really considering the consequences in communities that were not New York City or some other big city.
	The public health people, we talked about this earlier, and this is a really important point, if you're a public health person and you're trying to make a decision, you have this very narrow view of what the right decision is, and that is something that will save a life.
	Doesn't matter what else happens.
	So you attach infinite value to stopping the disease and saving a life.
	You attach a zero value to whether this actually totally disrupts people's lives, ruins the economy, and has many kids kept out of school in a way that they never quite recover from.
	Collateral damage.
	Collateral damage.
	This is a public health mindset and I think a lot of us involved in trying to make those recommendations had that mindset and that was really unfortunate.
	That's another mistake we made.
	Okay.
	At the end and he said, it's really unfortunate.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	People died and lives were ruined.
	Businesses shuttered.
	Listen to what he said.
	Director of the National Institutes for Health.
	It was a crisis time.
	Yeah.
	We didn't have all the information.
	Yeah.
	And we didn't think of the consequences to people who were a thousand miles away or people who weren't in New York.
	That's your stinking job, Francis Collins!
	Why are you there?
	You're not there to give us decisions in a non-crisis time.
	Your job is to make sure we have the right decisions.
	And there is never a moment, even in peacetime, where you have all the data.
	Because you're not God.
	Whatever Fauci says about, I am the science, and I don't need God.
	Can't you said that?
	You are not God.
	And the idea that you're not thinking about the consequences for millions of people who aren't your buddies with their apartments in a central park on 5th Avenue?
	Or on the Common in Boston?
	In a decent society, people like you would be arrested.
	Arrested and charged with malpractice, with dereliction of duty, with being a cretin who got people killed and lives destroyed.
	It is your job to make those decisions in the best way possible.
	Not to protect your buddies in Manhattan and in Dupont Circle, but all Americans.
	Lord, I hope that clip is never deleted.
	I'm gonna post it.
	Go to my social media and repost it everywhere.
	Play it for friends on your phone at New Year's Eve when they talk to you about, oh, the deep state, that's just crazy.
	We need to trust the experts, trust the science, it's consensus.
	Just save that clip on your phone and play it again and again and again.
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	The guy I was thinking of, Jeff, when I couldn't remember.
	This lawyer.
	Or former AG.
	That guy on the right?
	Yeah, with a beard.
	I'll figure out who he is.
	Alright.
	Boyle had to switch the phone.
	Okay, well then open the lines up.
	This guy was on yesterday, he has no shoulders.
	Have you ever seen a man with more sloped shoulders?
	Goodness.
	How does he carry a satchel?
	He's imagining like, just constantly sliding.
	I have, by the way.
	Everyone that's on MSNBC looks like that.
	What, like this?
	Yeah, sloped shoulders.
	Gotta throw it over your head.
	They don't eat meat or anything, never lifted a weight in their life.
	Oh, that reminds me.
	I'll never forget.
	Who was that guy, like, a few years ago, who wrote an article, like, he went to a firing range to fire, like, an assault rifle.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I fired an assault rifle.
	It was loud, and scary, and very, very scary.
	That was literally the headline.
	Oh, scary!
	He's like, I got PTSD from it!
	Title for a gym?
	And that monologue.
	For the monologue... Shouldn't Francis Collins be arrested?
	Based.
	Alright.
	I don't think I've ever been called based by my colleague.
	Wow, I get a little gold star.
	But Jim, what's a good one for Jim?
	There's such a wide variety.
	Talk of a second Trump term usually gets eyeballs I think, like what to do.
	Oh yeah yeah.
	Day one of the second Trump term.
	My plan for day one.
	For day one of the second Trump term.
	Matt's on.
	What is wrong with the New York Post?
	They have this tweet out.
	It's a headline!
	Biden admin threatens to sue Texas if state arrests and deports migrants.
	They're not stinking migrants, they're illegals.
	I always use the word illegals.
	Mr. Boyle!
	Dr. G, what's going on, brother?
	How you doing?
	Doing good.
	We just spent two hours, a little more than two hours with President Trump last night.
	And Alex was with you, right?
	Yeah, so it was both of us.
	So we did a joint interview with them.
	Did you film it or is it just for writing?
	Just for writing.
	So he's a lot more open that way.
	So I think he's more comfortable.
	Right, like, so it allows us to kind of go in depth with them on major themes and issues and whatnot.
	So, um, yeah, it was very, very strong.
	So, a lot of stuff will be coming out.
	Where can we expect the first hit of the first drop?
	Oh!
	Oh, hang on, hang on.
	Let's make a buffer of that.
	Hang on, let me pull that out.
	Oh, hang on, hang on, let's make a buffer of that.
	Hang on, let me pull that out.
	He predicts that Biden will, and both Biden and Kamala will not be the nominees for the
	Democratic.
	That's spicy.
	Spicy!
	So he says it's going to be a free for all.
	It's going to be a free for all.
	That's his words.
	It's gonna be a free-for-all.
	I love it.
	Alright, let's talk about that.
	We've got the headline.
	Will that be chaos?
	Because the Democrats don't know how to govern themselves?
	Oh no!
	Chaos!
	We like that!
	They can't make a decision?
	A civil war in the Democrat Party?
	Yes.
	The Democrats will have to vote for President Trump so we have less chaos.
	Yes.
	A return to normal.
	The adults are back.
	The alpha males are back.
	Not coming in with anything?
	anything? Yeah, let's come in with something.
	Yeah. Okay.
	Historically and literally, um, Willie, the 14th amendment does not require a constitution.
	It does not require a conviction for insurrection in order to be disqualified. So, um, I think
	that's a good point. Um, I think that's a good point. Um, I think that's a good point.
	Um, I think that's a good point. Um, I think that's a good point. Um, I think that's a
	good point. Um, I think that's a good point. Um, I think that's a good point. Um, I think
	that's a good point. Um, I think that's a good point. Um, I think that's a good point.
	So I think that argument fails.
	It may succeed politically, but as a legal matter, I think that argument fails.
	It does it.
	The legal argument fails because what we can just randomly say people must be withdrawn from the ballot.
	Really?
	Is that how it works in America?
	Maybe if you're a left-wing lawyer on MSNBC it does.
	And by the way you should read the 14th amendment because it does say you have to be convicted and also the first paragraph lists every officeholder the amendment applies to and the one it doesn't list is...
	Oh, wait for it.
	The President!
	Isn't that interesting?
	Because he's not an officer of the state.
	He is the executive.
	Because we're a republic.
	But they're gonna try.
	After Colorado, now it's Maine.
	One lunatic woman has said he must be removed from the ballot.
	I want you to sound off.
	The calls are coming in.
	833-33 Gawker.
	That's 833-334-6752.
	But it's the end of the year, and we must check in with our good friend, a superb supporter of the show.
	He is the Washington Bureau Chief for the Conservative Force.
	The Godzilla on the right, that is BrightBar.com.
	Matt Boyle, Happy New Year.
	Dr. G, always a pleasure.
	Great to be here.
	Happy New Year, brother.
	Alright, so where have you been last night?
	Yes, so last night I was at Mar-a-Lago with President Trump.
	Alex Marlow and I, Alex is our editor-in-chief at Breitbart.
	We sat down with President Trump.
	We did a little more than two hour long interview.
	With President Trump, we touched on all sorts of different topics.
	Our first story is up on Breitbart.com.
	People can go read it.
	Let me just read the headline to all of our listeners right now because it's a doozy.
	It's a multi-part interview.
	The first part is up.
	I've got it right here on my phone.
	Exclusive!
	Trump predicts neither Biden nor Kamala will be the Democrat nominee in 2024 and there will be a free-for-all to replace them.
	What?
	Is there going to be chaos on the left, Matt?
	That's what President Trump thinks.
	So President Trump thinks that Biden doesn't have it anymore, right?
	It's pretty clear.
	He was saying that he can't string two sentences together.
	The guy's got real problems.
	And he said they're going to try to give it to Kamala at first as a result of the deal that Biden made with Jim Clyburn, the Democrat congressman from South Carolina.
	To get the nomination in 2020, right?
	Like when he delivered the black vote in the South Carolina primary win to Biden in exchange for the promise that Biden would pick a black woman as his vice presidential candidate.
	But then they're going to have problems locking that down at the convention.
	And so Trump is saying then it will turn into a free-for-all where everybody is going to be gunning for it.
	He wouldn't say who.
	He doesn't know who, right?
	Like he doesn't know who will get it.
	And I think there's a lot of insight into this.
	But, by the way, for what it's worth, too, it might end up being that the Democrats are stuck with Biden.
	That's, you know, another thing that we talked about.
	No, no, but I want to ask you.
	I mean, this is fascinating.
	The president said this on the record with you.
	You are, you know, the Mr. Washington, D.C.
	for Breitbart.
	What do you think of his scenario?
	Well, look, I think it's certainly possible.
	I also think he's trying to weaken Biden, right?
	Like, so by throwing this out there as a possibility, uh, in talking about it reminds me a lot of, I remember I did an interview with Trump and Trump Tower back in, I think it was like September or October, 2015.
	And we were talking about Hillary.
	And he was saying, because of all of Hillary's problems with all the investigations she was
	under and everything, that he thought then that Joe Biden was going to come out of nowhere
	and run against her and supplant her and beat her.
	Right?
	So he's done this move before.
	So it might not actually play out that way.
	Right?
	So I'm not saying this is like a set in stone prediction from Trump.
	And if it doesn't happen, it's a political move as well.
	It's a political move.
	Right?
	And so Trump is weakening his opponent by throwing out an entirely plausible scenario
	whereby, I mean, obviously Joe Biden's weak on the Democrat side.
	Even Democrats don't like Joe Biden, right?
	Like, even rank-and-file Democrats, union members out there around the country, that's a big part of the interview that we talked a lot with President Trump about.
	We talked to him about where union workers are.
	We talked to him about the policies that Biden has put forward on everything from energy to the border.
	and so on and so forth.
	And President Trump was talking about the coalition that the Democrats have, and it's weak.
	Like, they're losing people, right?
	Like, Trump talked about this.
	He said that he thinks that African-American voters are moving his way, and union workers, right?
	Like, and it's cutting into the Democrat coalition that gives the Democrats an inherent edge
	in any national election.
	And so, things are looking up for President Trump, no doubt, But I do think that this move that he's offering,
	this EPA is a scenario.
	Right.
	Twofold. First off, it's an actually plausible scenario, right? But it's also he's trying to
	undercut Joe Biden in the eyes of all Americans, Republican, Democrat, Independent, doesn't matter
	what, Socialists, right? Like any...
	Everybody should be questioning whether Joe Biden should be the Democrat nominee because he clearly is not up to the job.
	And give us a sense, so we can't wait to read all installments of your exclusive interview with the President.
	What was his mood like?
	Because I always tell people what he's like when he's with me, but I want another source.
	How did you find Mr. Trump?
	So it's funny that you ask that, because I get asked that a lot whenever I do interviews with them, especially when it isn't on camera, right?
	I've done a lot of print interviews.
	I've done on camera with them.
	I've done on tape.
	I've done a print interview.
	The print interviews are always better, I think, because you get to kind of like You know, let your hair down a little bit.
	Be a little bit more open with each other.
	Both me and Alex can be open with him about what we think and he can be open with us about what he thinks.
	We can go on and off the record a little bit and kind of really zone in on things.
	He can kind of flesh out a point a little bit more than he could if it was on a live to TV interview or something like that.
	He's very much in the zone.
	I mean, this guy wants to win.
	He wants to save the country.
	And he understands that the stakes here, right?
	Like if Donald Trump doesn't win the election next year, if he is not the president of the United States again after this upcoming election, this country is headed to a really dark place.
	And he gets that.
	He understands that.
	But he's also very dialed in and he's very focused.
	I think he wants to win this thing.
	And I would also say that President Trump is very much more relaxed than I've seen him when he was president or even in the last year or so.
	I've done a bunch of interviews with him over the last year or so, and I think he's in his element like I haven't seen in a long time.
	Reminds me a lot of like late 2015, right?
	Like when he first was in the race for president.
	I think he is in this thing to win it.
	There's no doubt about it.
	He's very, very focused on doing that.
	Yeah.
	Well, we really appreciate you giving us an interview right after your exclusive.
	Make sure you read it.
	Brightbar.com, subscribe, bookmark it and follow this man on Truth Social at Real Matt Ball.
	And all that's left for me to do is to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, Matt.
	And thank you for all your support through the year.
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	Love it, love it, love it.
	All right, have a great one.
	Happy New Year, buddy.
	Bye-bye.
	Talk to you later.
	Happy New Year.
	Okay, bye-bye.
	I'm gonna do Angel Tree at the top, so come in with some Christmas music, Alex.
	And then I'll go to Kaws.
	Title for that, the one?
	Trump's prediction, probably?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Trump says it won't be Biden or Kamala.
	That is pretty bold.
	Spicy!
	If what Matt said is true, I mean, that could also be a really good strategy.
	He doesn't really think that.
	He's just trying to make him look weak.
	Like, that could also work.
	Yeah, I know.
	I think it's a double whammy.
	Yeah.
	I was talking with a friend the other night, and I was just like, yeah, if it weren't Biden or Kamala, like, who does it?
	He goes, he's convinced it won't be Biden or Kamala.
	He knows Kamala's terrible.
	He says, oh, Newsom's a paper tiger.
	He has absolutely no teeth.
	If anyone should be like a dark horse to watch out for, it should be Whitmer.
	Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan.
	Man, what is he basing it on?
	I mean, just look at how effectively she's run Michigan.
	Again, we talked about it.
	She, like, kicked five of her primary opponents off the ballot, and then had a sixth one jailed.
	Like, you think the deep state wouldn't love to have someone like that as president?
	Yeah, but she's got the charisma of a turd.
	So is Kamala, but I mean... I think the Democrat Party told her to kick them off, and she listened to them, and there's no way she was the brains behind that.
	I... I don't know.
	I don't know, I mean... And then having a sixth one arrested?
	Like, we already know she works for the feds, like the whole fednapping hoax.
	What about Cory Booker?
	Is John off today?
	The Fedsurrection!
	Wasn't her father a big car executive too?
	I think so.
	Let me check on that.
	She's a rich kid that pretends that.
	What about Cory Booker?
	Cory Booker?
	Well, his imaginary friend.
	T-Bone.
	It's like Cornbob. He had one of those.
	Cory Booker then?
	Is John off today?
	He is.
	He's not hiding in his cave?
	John...
	John...
	Right, how much money do I owe people?
	Bye-bye, Ohio people.
	How much is the pizza?
	We're even right now.
	Still even?
	Is this like my magic money just keeps reproducing?
	Next week, next week.
	Well, due to the pre-record I have to lose four pounds by next week.
	You do?
	Yeah.
	I'm trying to set you goals.
	Three pounds.
	I said 18.
	You said 15.
	Three pounds.
	You can do three pounds.
	Can't you?
	If it wasn't for New Year's, then a wedding Saturday night.
	Oh, you're going to a wedding as well?
	Or a New Year's Eve night, yeah.
	Are you too?
	Yeah, my Katie sister's getting married again on New Year's Eve.
	Same thing with me.
	Oh yeah?
	You're getting married again on New Year's Eve?
	No, I'm going to a wedding.
	Where?
	Just over the bridge in Maryland, like the Eastern Shore or whatever.
	Cross the bridge.
	One minute.
	Yeah, wish me luck in bloody New York.
	Kills me whenever I hear songs like Sinatra's New York, New York, and like, man, it was once like a magical place, and now it's just like... So was San Francisco.
	So was San Francisco.
	Angel tree at the top here.
	Angel tree!
	and your tree.
	Thank you.
	You are welcome.
	Bye.
	We're going to play some Christmas music, because it's still Christmas.
	Yeah, until January 6th.
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	Ron DeSantis became successful by copying President Trump, and he's still doing it.
	What was the statement yesterday?
	Do you have that, Eric?
	What did President Trump say about Nikki Haley?
	He declared after the whole Civil War gaffe that she is not ready for primetime.
	Oh, there it is!
	Right, there you go.
	I'm reading from the Make America Great Again statement from the president.
	Haley is clearly not ready for primetime.
	That was last night.
	It's so weird.
	Look at what the Florida governor just said.
	Cut eight!
	You know, I noticed that Nikki Haley has had some problems with some basic American history.
	She's asked a very simple question and responded with just a really incomprehensible word salad about this and that.
	She asked the voter, what do you want her to say about this or that?
	And then now is taking different positions in this.
	And so I just think that this shows this is not a candidate that's ready for primetime.
	Hang on, Eric.
	Eric, what did he just say?
	He said, what did he say about Haley?
	Uh, it looks like he did his homework.
	He just copied President Trump's answers the night before.
	And yeah, he just declared Nikki Haley is not ready for primetime.
	But isn't this the guy who got in trouble with Florida textbooks and slavery in the Civil War?
	Something about, yeah, his state-mandated curriculum downplayed the role of slavery before the Civil War.
	And a lot of black conservatives, uh, Congressman Byron Donalds, among others, got mad at him.
	So now, months later, uh, glass house meets stone, I guess.
	Wow.
	Flailing is the word.
	Flailing is the word.
	Let's talk about the ballot news.
	Now it's Maine, one lunatic woman, the Secretary of State removing President Trump from the primary ballots.
	Let's go to Brooklyn.
	Alex, greetings.
	Hey, good afternoon, Sebastian.
	Greetings.
	Yeah, I just, I have a question for you about this court decision.
	But I agree with President Trump, it's not going to be Joe Biden or Gavin.
	Oh, really?
	You think it's not going to be Kamala or Biden?
	Why the hell would they put any of these dumbasses up?
	I mean, Joe Biden, 70% of Democrats said they don't want him to be the nominee.
	It's the biggest risk.
	Why would they put him up?
	And who I think it's going to be, I think it's very possibly going to be Gavin Newsom.
	Yeah, well that's what he thinks is going to happen.
	Clearly Gavin Newsom does.
	But you had a question or another comment about the ballots?
	Yeah, my question is, isn't it so clear that the Supreme Court is going to overturn the rulings by the Colorado Court and the Maine Secretary of State because it's totally unconstitutional to take them off the ballot for really no evidence of them in signing an insurrection?
	And therefore, my question is, what Are the Democrats trying to accomplish by taking them off the ballot for a short while, when really all it seems to be doing, just like all these indictments, it's just going to help them in the polls.
	It's really going to help President Trump in the primary.
	So what are they trying to do here?
	Alex, Alex, I've warned you before, everybody listening to the show, stop being illogical.
	Are you driven by hatred, Alex?
	Yeah, well then you won't be able to understand.
	These people are driven by hatred.
	I think it's the mantra I've said the most on this show.
	Our fuel is love.
	There's this hatred, utter hatred, hatred of self that is used to project onto others.
	Our fuel, and that is why we will always ultimately win, is love.
	Love of family, love of God, and love of nation.
	So, why are they doing this?
	You can't answer that question with logic, because they have no logic.
	These are people who called a man whose grandchildren is Jewish, whose daughter converted to Judaism, an anti-Semite.
	The man who moved our embassy to Jerusalem after 23 years of presidents betraying Israel.
	The man who recognized that city as the capital of the eternal state of Israel.
	They called him the bigot, him the anti-Semite.
	They call him the Nazi and the dictator when they're using the FBI to take down their political opponents.
	So, Alex, don't try to understand them logically.
	Understand them as hate-filled bags of pus.
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	I think Christie's going to stay in because he's right.
	He is the one telling the truth.
	He's doing it aggressively.
	And he occupies a unique lane that there's, frankly, many of us who at least are in the party or used to be in the party need to hear from.
	And frankly, people that are brainwashed need to hear from.
	What?
	Eric, why is he saying people in the party?
	He's not in the party.
	Adam Kinzinger isn't.
	He's on the CNN.
	I mean, what's it with people like us in the party?
	Which party?
	He must still be reminiscing on the days when he was a Republican.
	Jeff, I know I ask you this question again and again and again, but I see these clips you get for me, and they're great clips.
	When he says that Chris Christie has to stay in to help all the brainwashed Trump supporters, does he believe stuff like that?
	No, because that's all he has to do now, this cush job on CNN.
	Just go on there, say the things that people love, and then the audience is, look, even Republicans think this.
	You're so right.
	He's just picking up.
	It's the talking points to pick up his paycheck from CNN, who, by the way, let me just repeat for you, on a good night in primetime, Have 500,000 viewers.
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	If you add them all up, it's 4.3 million followers for one guy.
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	We have to thank those who have remained loyal to President Trump.
	Individuals like Stephen Miller, who was the architect of the immigration plan.
	I think we'll have to discuss this great cut from him.
	With our buddy, the Baron, in the next hour.
	But before that, we have to talk about the breaking news.
	There's somebody nobody's ever heard of called Sheena Bellow, who is the Secretary of State of Maine, and she has made a unilateral decision.
	One woman, one woman, on behalf of the whole state, to make it impossible for the people of that state to choose their nominee for the presidency.
	Cut one.
	It's a very detailed decision.
	We lay out why, under Maine law, the Secretary of State has the authority, indeed the obligation, I'm duty-bound to make this determination.
	We also, I rather, laid out that the record demonstrates that, in fact, the events of January 6, 2021, which were unprecedented and tragic, were insurrection in the meaning of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
	And finally, in reviewing the facts presented, the evidence, the law, the history, we determined under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment that Mr. Trump engaged in insurrection and therefore was disqualified.
	We determined?
	Who's the we?
	Is it a court of law?
	Is it the state house in Maine?
	Was it a jury and a judge?
	Who's the royal we?
	Are you the Queen of England using the third person?
	No, you determine it by yourself.
	That's fascistic.
	One person can't decide whether millions of Americans can choose their own representative.
	Oh, and by the way, here's some photographs of that woman, Sheena Bellow.
	The first one is mugging it out.
	Massive excrement eating grin with none other than Joe Biden.
	And who's the next?
	Oh, look, there she is with Obama before he went all gray.
	Yeah, we know why you're doing it.
	I do like that.
	What is that Chiron you've written for her there?
	Read that to those on the radio, Eric.
	One psychotic Secretary of State removes Trump from main ballot.
	Yeah, I think that's a very good description.
	But to our previous caller, don't try and channel these people.
	Don't ask the question why they're doing it, because you're being logical.
	There's nothing logical about it.
	It's rank hatred, mixed in with a fair dollop of desperation.
	Look at Biden, look at the polling figures, look at the fact that every single time they bring another indictment against President Trump, he goes up in the polls, he raises more money.
	Every time they try and take him down, what happens?
	He gets more powerful, like Ben Kenobi!
	And so, what's the only option left for them?
	To make it impossible for you to even choose him.
	Look at what Colorado did until their Secretary of State came to her sense and said, sorry, they wanted to ban you even being allowed to write his name on the ballot.
	That's straight out of Kafka.
	That's straight out of Orwell.
	That, my friends, is a mark of utter desperation.
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	Are we slipping just because it's the last show in the year?
	Mr. Alex, say it isn't so.
	Gotta have a quick hit before we go to our calls.
	Jeff, who's Anand Giridharadas?
	He's a big-time leftist that goes on MSNBC a lot.
	Is he Bill Mitchell's brother?
	He might be.
	They've got the same hair.
	40 years apart, but... Let's play this clip before we go to our buddy Brent Katu.
	In terms of regular people and voters who don't want Trump to become a permanent American dictator, don't want him to win in 2024, People are getting way too excited about this.
	This is trying to win a sports game by praying for rain and hoping for injuries, right?
	Those things may happen.
	And if they do happen, great.
	But they are not a substitute for building a bigger, better movement than his movement and defeating him in the marketplace of ideas.
	A leftist on MSNBC saying removing from the ballot is a bad idea.
	What?
	Are pigs flying past the window?
	Brent in Los Angeles.
	Happy New Year.
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	Beautifully put.
	Nothing more to add.
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	Here, we're going to talk about the ballot moves and talk about... You're not blocked about talking about anything concerning the ballots, are you?
	No, totally good.
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	Excellent.
	All right.
	Okay, 50 seconds.
	Which cut did you say you wanted to use here?
	I'm going to use Ari Fleischer, and before that I'm probably going to use John Dean, cut 2.
	2 and then 5, all right.
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	senior advisor to the Trump 2024 campaign and my good buddy, the Baron Boris Epstein.
	Happy New Year!
	Happy New Year, my friend.
	To you, your family, your audience, it's an honor to be with you.
	Can I ask you a very obvious question?
	Yes.
	If you're not afraid of a political opponent, you don't try to pull him off the ballots.
	Is that right?
	No, no, no.
	Not in the Democrat world, you see, Sebastian.
	No, no, no.
	That works.
	Democrats are so eager and excited to go up against President Trump, who's crushing them in all the polls, by the way.
	They're so eager and just so relaxed about it that they are literally setting fire to our Constitution, left and right, in order to take him off the ballot and prevent him from running through persecutions and hoaxes and witch hunts.
	Yeah, that's how it works in the liberal mind.
	Yeah.
	He wasn't a White House colleague of ours, but he has something to say about people like this lunatic Sheena Bellow, the main Secretary of State who unilaterally removed President Trump from the ballots in that state.
	Following the Colorado Supreme Court example.
	But Ari Fleischer, former press secretary for President Bush, who I consider a personal friend and a good guy, man, he nailed it.
	Cut five.
	Let's listen to Ari.
	What are the Democrats so afraid of?
	Are they afraid of democracy?
	They don't want to have somebody on the ballot because they don't think they can beat him fair and square so they knock him off the ballot?
	Look, Trace, this is so anti-democratic.
	I hope the Supreme Court strikes this down.
	But this is the violation of the norms.
	And you can't complain that Trump violates the norms when the Democrats go out and do the exact same thing, even worse in this instance, themselves.
	So we had a caller in the last hour, Boris, who asked a kind of reasonable question.
	If we're pretty sure that this is unconstitutional, we have a majority in the Supreme Court, they're originalists, they're going to slap this down, they're going to slap down every other state that tries this, why are the Democrats doing this if they know it's going to be jettisoned?
	And my response was, and I'd like to hear yours, You can't be logical about these people.
	You can't channel insanity.
	And when they are driven by hatred, we can't replicate their mode of thought.
	Your response?
	That's totally right.
	I mean, why did the deranged Jack Smith and his persecutors try to go and run to the Supreme Court to expedite that witch hunt in D.C.
	even though they knew that it was a long shot at death?
	And then they got shut down nine to nothing.
	Why did they try that?
	Because they are so desperate, they're looking at the polling, they're seeing President Trump crushing the field in the primary and the general, that they'll try anything at this point.
	So they are, the desperation is sky high, the lunacy is sky high, the reasonableness and rationale are at a zero, and hence you have today's liberal radical.
	Yeah.
	We had an exclusive interview precede for us last night.
	It was Matt Boyle and Alex Marlow, the editor-in-chief of Breitbart.
	We're at Mar-a-Lago.
	They've dropped the first article already on Breitbart where President Trump said he doesn't think it's going to be either Biden or Kamala and there's going to be an absolute pandemonium and chaos at the Democrat convention.
	I think it's in August next year.
	If the president proves to be right and his predictions They invariably come out to be correct, you know, from, you know, they wiretapped me to everything else.
	If they have real, now they keep talking about the chaos in our White House, if they have real chaos in the DNC and at the convention, you have a really good historic sense, also of presidential history.
	Is it going to be the slide in from oily, greasy Newsom?
	What are you expecting in August next year?
	They may be crying at the Democrat convention like they did in 72 in Miami, or rioting like they did at 68 in Chicago.
	It's going to be a complete and total disaster, and make no mistake about it, whoever they
	put up, be it Crooked Joe, be it pathetic Kamala Harris, or the governor of California,
	lying Gavin Newsom, whoever it is, will get absolutely annihilated by President Trump,
	because the contrast between the strength, security, and absolute leadership of America
	under President Trump, and the despondent state we find ourselves in now, couldn't be
	starker.
	The contrast is so clear.
	That's why the American people want President Trump back in office as soon as possible.
	And if any further chaos among the Democrats, we're only going to continue to prove that
	point.
	All right, so here's the big historic question, because we have to think about the nation.
	First, we have to get President Trump re-elected.
	We have to have safety, prosperity, a secured border.
	Our enemies have to be given, you know, put on their warning orders.
	But we also want to have a nation that comes back to some semblance of sanity.
	What do you think, given your amateur historian perspective that you've shared with us so many times on this show, What is it gonna take?
	For this party of bigots, anti-Semites, America haters, extremists, people who think a man can be a woman, a woman can be a man.
	Is there any scenario, Boris, where you think they could come back?
	If we defeat them, if President Trump comes back, if we stabilize the country, would that shattering of the party allow maybe some sane people to come back, or is it done?
	Yeah.
	and then they're just gonna continue to marginalize themselves.
	No.
	Yeah.
	Because what you've seen, you and I have been talking about this for a long time, and I
	fully believe that Joe Biden did not get 81 million votes in 2020, that the election was
	rigged and stolen.
	And so if you look at what's been happening to the Democrat Party, they've been going
	away from the American mainstream now for over a decade.
	The whole trans business and the Green News scam.
	It's a disaster.
	It's a complete mess of a movement that's lost its way, lost its sight.
	I mean, go back to, this isn't the party of Bill Clinton, and this definitely isn't the party of JFK.
	It's a party of some weird mishmash Frankenstein hyperbole.
	It is.
	And nobody's on board with that, and that's why they're doing so badly in the polls.
	Could that be a rise of a third party, an alternative party?
	I think there could be a rise in a replacement party, potentially, for the Democrats or, you know, enough Democrats, as we've seen, right?
	You've already had President Trump completely rewrite the map.
	Florida and Ohio are not traditional red states.
	They're Trump-red states.
	So Florida and Ohio are coming over to the president.
	You've got Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania all in play.
	What's happening now is you see more and more and more of the country realize that they do not want the craziness of the left.
	They don't want the woke radicals running them because they see what's happening to San Francisco, they see what's happening to New York, and they don't want the same fate.
	So I think instead of a third party replacement party, most likely, you're just going to have a continued dominance of the Republican Party, which is going to continue to stand for core American values.
	But an America first MAGA Republican Party because 2016 changed everything.
	Wait, no rhinos.
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	Which clip do you want to use?
	The Charlie Hurt one again.
	Oh yeah, ten.
	I had three passports at one time.
	I had my regular, my official from the DoD and my diplomatic from the White House.
	Is it brown today or black today or blue today?
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	And also, our expectations for the year with the man who has been a reliable pillar of
	this show for so many years and a dear close friend.
	Jim Carafano, did you have a good Christmas?
	So you guys do the tradition, right?
	You celebrate till January 6th, till Epiphany, right?
	The tree's still up!
	Yes, very cool.
	Very cool.
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	It's a spirit that counts.
	Okay, can I play a cut from you?
	Before we get to the big topics, the serious topics, well maybe a little bit of review of the year.
	I love Charlie Hurt.
	He's one of the smartest guys on Fox, and he said something really cool on Greg Gutfeld's show about the Heritage Foundation, a kind of ironic weird living in a bizarro world, about a recent project that you, or a breaking story that Heritage published.
	Let's play this cut from Charlie again.
	The CIA is more powerful than it's ever been, and they have the ability to go to these social media companies and these publishers and actually shut down stories, and they openly comply with it.
	It's amazing what the New York Times and the Washington Post did in absolute compliance of what the CIA wanted them to do in covering up this story about the lab leak.
	The second thing that's sort of amazing about it is that who is it that did the study?
	Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, does the, exposes this, and it goes
	back to the last segment, this is, these are the new liberals, or the new sort of, the
	people who are willing to question government motives now, it's not, you know, your old
	school hippie, smelly, left-wing Democrats.
	So this is the great story you guys released, that you were finding the CIA was giving people
	money to pervert an intel analysis and suppress the lab league theory.
	And it wasn't, you know, Daniel Ellsberg and some hippies.
	It's the conservative mothership!
	What kind of world are we in, Jim?
	Are you the cool kids now?
	Yeah, well, first of all, Charlie's a great film.
	But let me tell you about why Heritage is doing this.
	Because if you look at Heritage Day, which is a decades old think tank in Washington.
	51 years, thank you.
	You look at the kind of things we're doing, research and investigation, suing the U.S.
	government.
	We have a sister organization that lobbies in like 20 different states.
	Heritage Action.
	We're all over the world.
	We have partnerships all over the world.
	We're really almost the global center of the global conservative movement.
	I think you have passport stamps to prove that.
	We were talking during the break that I ran out of pages of my passport.
	I have to get a new passport.
	These are all things that if conservatives were actually fighting for their country like they should, that we would be doing.
	We would be in the media lane.
	We would be in the litigation lane.
	The culture lane.
	That's right.
	We would be dead set in the culture wars.
	We would be all over the world talking to our friends and explaining America.
	We'd be doing all these things, and we are under our current president, Kevin Roberts, for one simple reason.
	Because you look at, and this is nothing against all our friends in the conservative movement, but let's be honest, if everybody in the movement that is in all those lanes were doing all the things that we're supposed to, we wouldn't be where we are today in this country.
	No, but you're being very diplomatic and I get it, but let's cut to the chase here.
	Kevin came in and I think day one he dropped a lawsuit against Biden on the vaccine mandates, and God bless him.
	Why isn't everybody following your lead?
	I know you're the mothership and you've got millions of dollars and huge membership, but what is wrong with the conservative movement that we just took it for granted?
	You know, I still, to be honest, I still think people are, you know, everybody does their thing and they'd rather do the same thing.
	Again and again.
	Then pick a space where we need help and then jump in the foxhole and start doing it.
	And again, it's nothing.
	I love my friends.
	Everybody wants to be a mini, you know, a mini me, right?
	Everybody wants to be here.
	We do policy.
	We do congressional briefing.
	It's like, guys, there's a million things that need to be done.
	Let's just do them.
	And this, I think, what we've decided is, look, if people are going to do this stuff, we're going to do this stuff.
	And if people want to jump on board and do it, and you don't have to agree with Heritage on everything.
	This is the one thing I think is particularly true in our foreign policy, the defining notion of good foreign policy is America's interests.
	You cannot determine America's interests but without arguing and competing and debating on it, right?
	So the definition of good conservative foreign policy is conservatives are arguing about what is good conservative foreign policy.
	So give us a peek behind the curtains, because you were vice president, now you're senior counsel, so you've seen all of this.
	What's it been, like maybe two years Kevin's been there?
	What did it take for you to kind of rejig the tiller of this aircraft carrier and say, okay, not just policy papers and congressional briefings, we're going to have cases against the state.
	Was it just the leadership?
	Well, you would understand this as a guy you know, who's come from military schools and is schooled
	in strategy or anything else.
	And it's not that other heritage's previous iterations were bad.
	The question is, is the only organization that makes sense, is the organization that's
	right for the time that it's in.
	So you do a strategic assessment, and you say, what needs to be done?
	And then you do those things, because if you don't do those things, you're not moving the ball.
	So if phone companies were still making rotary phones, they're not.
	It's like Kodak, where Kodak is like, digital cameras are coming.
	Right.
	And so we've just decided that what's more important?
	The future of the country, human flourishing, freedom and prosperity for Americans, or staying in my comfort zone.
	I love it.
	Well, we're super excited.
	The only bloody downside, and you can tell him directly my complaint, it's so bloody hard to get that chap Kevin in studio now, because he's busy.
	But we'll do something about it.
	We'll get him back.
	We'll get him back.
	I'm Sebastian Gorka.
	This is America First.
	Follow him on Twitter at JJCaravan.
	We haven't even talked now.
	Security!
	That's why we always keep him for at least another segment.
	And please join the Conservative mothership that is fighting For all Americans.
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	sebastiangorka.substack.com but I could, I mean there's no...
	Is it coalition stuff?
	Yeah, yeah.
	There's no way I could have done all that and done the day job.
	So I'm super, super, super busy.
	So I'm going to ask you the most important national security lesson to draw from the last year and then what you expect for next year.
	Yeah, that's easy.
	Okay, good.
	What were we talking about?
	We talked about Mike and Katie and what else were we talking about?
	Oh no, we were talking about the production company.
	Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
	So let's assume that it sells.
	Then it's 20 years of the show.
	It's like we've got conspiracies.
	We've got material for years and years.
	And look, it's like you say, we want to influence not just in this and national security and books.
	We want to be doing TV shows and movies.
	And there's so many people on our side, because of Hollywood, who don't get patronage and don't get platforms.
	And we want to use those people and help them out.
	Yeah.
	And Katie's very happy, you know, riding at home and looking after.
	Yeah, I mean, you certainly hit the sweet spot.
	I mean, we see so much of this between what's, what the, you know, those, those guys are going great.
	The Freedom guys, the production company.
	I forget what they're called.
	Angel Studios?
	Yeah, Angel Studios, they're going strong.
	A24s, I mean, I mean, they're not conservative, but I mean, they're doing amazing things.
	I mean, it's a wide-open content.
	Oh, yeah.
	Content's king.
	When we talked, so I had a meeting with Paramount, not meeting, I had a phone call with the head of Paramount Streaming.
	You know what she said to me?
	Because I sent her the seven-minute thing, and she said, oh, this is really interesting.
	I'm going to show it to my team.
	And then she said, how much do you have?
	I said, well, we filmed a whole season, 12 episodes.
	And she goes, oh, well, that's a little bit low volume.
	What, like I'm supposed to drop like 36 episodes or what?
	I know people like to binge, but how about you buy the first season?
	You know?
	Well, you know, the other thing too is...
	If you don't rate ratings, you're gone, right?
	How many of these shows on Netflix do two seasons and they're out of there?
	But everybody in the industry we've shown the first episode to says, I want to watch this show!
	Yeah, that's good.
	What was the other one?
	Do, do, do, do, do.
	All right, just all kinds of B-roll here, maybe, if you get ready for Israel, Russia.
	Car 15.
	Oh, yeah, and Car 15 at the top here.
	Israel, Russia.
	All right.
	All right.
	And maybe Afghanistan, if you have.
	All right.
	Bye.
	Yeah, I was talking to a guy from Afghanistan yesterday.
	There's no future there.
	As it was, just warlords competing with each other in Pakistan, screwing it all up.
	They're mellowing out a bit.
	They're letting women have small businesses, but they can't go to school.
	They can leave the country and go to school.
	That's smart.
	But they can't go to school in Afghanistan.
	It's a recipe.
	It's going to be a giant.
	There's a generation that wants this.
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	We've had somebody waiting on the line for, I don't know, half an hour.
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	We've still got Jim in the studio.
	We've got a Second Amendment Friday guest, but he's got a gun question.
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	All right, tough question!
	You got five minutes!
	Big lesson learned of a year from Afghanistan, surrender, war in Ukraine, October 7th, and then your expectations for 24.
	Okay, well this is actually incredibly easy.
	No, no, if you add all these things together, here's why this administration has struggled.
	And you know me, not Republican, not Democrat, not a partisan bone, it's just objective analysis, which is they came into office and literally every bad guy in the world had the playbook.
	It's like walking into the game and the other side, and the reason for that is simple.
	They watched it for eight years under Obama.
	It's all exactly the same people in the president, so they know exactly what to expect, so they know exactly how to play this.
	And they've been right all along.
	Even Putin, right, who's bogged down in a protracted war, but Putin was right.
	If he could have conquered Ukraine and the capital had fallen in a couple of days, Biden would have done nothing.
	Nothing, right?
	So even Putin was right.
	So that's the lesson.
	The lesson is that the enemies exploit weak Americans.
	Well, I mean, when the enemy knows what you're going to do, they're going to take advantage
	of that.
	So here's the thing is, people go, oh my God, it's World War III, because you hear this
	all the time.
	And we're going to have endless wars.
	I don't think we are.
	And here's why, right?
	Because our enemies aren't stupid.
	Russia, China, Iran, the one thing, they don't mind wars and they don't mind killing people,
	even their own citizens, but they really don't want a war directly with the United States,
	right?
	You know, the old adage, you want to win without fighting, right?
	So you don't want to have a catastrophic frontal war with your enemy where you're going to
	suffer as much as they do, right?
	So what they have in Joe Biden is literally the world's worst poker player.
	Now if the world's worst poker player shows up at a casino in Vegas, what do they do?
	They have one rule.
	Keep him playing, right?
	Because as long as he's playing, he's losing and we're winning.
	So get him a sandwich, get him a drink, give him a hotel room, get him a hooker, whatever keeps him at the table, right?
	And I think that's the plan for Biden.
	They will be happy to suck up any incremental gains they can.
	Russia can hope that they'll exhaust Western resolve in Europe.
	Iran can continue to humiliate the United States in the Middle East and hope everybody
	else just gives up on us.
	China can push people around and they'll just take whatever they can get and they'll
	bank it, right?
	And then what happens?
	If they lose the election, I mean if Democrats lose the election, well, then they'll deal
	They dealt with Trump before, they'll figure it out.
	If he wins, they'll go, oh, four more years to make money!
	You heard it here first, Jim Carrafano's prediction for next year, more hookers for Joe Biden or Hunter Biden.
	Now, both, I'm not sure.
	If, however, Republicans win, how much of this is reversible and how quickly?
	I mean, the geopolitical situation, can it be stabilized relatively quickly, Jim?
	I think so.
	Personally, I think we're actually in pretty good shape in Europe.
	Look, I think the war in Ukraine is a stalemate.
	People can argue about this all day long.
	They can have all their opinions.
	You guys, go away.
	It's a stalemate.
	It's not going to change.
	Europe has achieved a lot of energy security, so the big threats to Europe have really been managed.
	In China, look, I think in fairness, America gets that China is a challenge and we're moving to deal with that.
	I feel pretty good about that.
	The Middle East is a basket case.
	So an administration is going to have to come in and they're going to have to do a hard turn on Iran policy because Iran is the root of all evil.
	They've got to figure that out.
	We've got to worry about Latin America because there's a war between the leftists and conservative regimes in Latin America.
	And Malay is not enough.
	And we're back on the wrong side.
	20 seconds.
	Not politics, but movement question.
	You know better than anyone.
	Are you buoyed by the rise of conservative values globally?
	Is it going, is it tending in the right direction?
	What do you think?
	Well, I would say we're in very strong shape in Europe.
	We're back in the game in Latin America.
	There's a fight in Latin America.
	Asia is a different...
	It's not conservative, it's pro-Americans what we want.
	I think we're in good shape there.
	And then we're just in a basket case in Africa.
	And I know people don't care, but you gotta.
	The reason for this is there's going to be half a billion more people in Africa.
	First, first.
	If we don't get it right, it's going to be a big problem for us.
	Like a round-robin around the world first week of next year?
	Sure, absolutely.
	Let's break that question down.
	I love it.
	I'm getting excited.
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	What's the sword?
	What's the sword?
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	It's a Canadian company, makes really historically accurate swords.
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	Nah, man.
	Matter of fact, I'm just getting over COVID.
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	Eric, have you got the photographs I sent?
	Yes.
	All right, I'm going to do the bayonet, the spade first, then the photograph, and then the actual gun.
	Okay, wait, the knife first, then the shovel.
	The knife, the spade, the shovel.
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	Happy New Year and Merry Christmas.
	Happy New Year and Merry Christmas to you too, my friend.
	And what is the right, what is the only handgun calibre?
	10mm is the only millimetre.
	Okay, thank you.
	And what is the only battle rifle calibre?
	308 and it would be chambered in an FAL.
	You pass.
	You pass.
	You have passed.
	I wanted to get you on the show today because I've been so busy with the only guys working in radio or TV this week.
	Everybody else has recorded shows and guests.
	We're the only nutcases in the studio.
	So I've been missing some of the important news, such as the history of a certain bayonet.
	Let's put it up on the screen, which had a strange plastic case for it.
	That was also invented and produced by the same person who made this shovel, or technically an entrenching tool.
	His name is Gaston Glock.
	You may have heard of this last name, and he passed this week at the ripe old age of 94 after changing the firearms industry indubitably with this weapon, the Glock 9mm.
	And I thought, who can we get on the show who knows a thing or two about guns to either say it was a big deal or it wasn't?
	Here is my love-hate relationship with this gun.
	I hate every Glock when it comes out of the box.
	I have no standard Glocks.
	I have Robars.
	I have, you know, really tricked out ones that have been, you know, made for me to fit my hand because they feel like a brick.
	However, I love the 10mm, the Model 29, can't wait for the Version 5.
	But did it or did it not, this guy who started my baking plastic sheathed bayonets and shovels for the Austrian army, then said, I've got four months to prepare for the Austrian handgun trials, said, ooh, I'll throw something together.
	Didn't this gun, is the Glock a big deal 40, 50 years later or not, Tom, Tim?
	It absolutely is.
	The Glock—one of the things I always tell my viewers is the Glock is an amazing pistol, not because it really changed anything.
	HK did polymer-framed pistols before Glock.
	HK did double-stack 9mm pistols before Glock.
	Striker-fired pistols.
	But what they did is they took all the best features from Browning's work and from HK and all these other companies, and then brought them together into a package that was affordable, They actually had to raise the price because people made fun of how cheaply it was, you know, how affordable it was.
	You can't call it cheap, it's affordable.
	And then it just dominated the marketplace globally.
	And it can be attributed to both features of the gun, qualities of the gun, but also the genius in the marketing that Gaston employed in getting a weapon in the hands of law enforcement globally, which then trickled down into civilian sales, which then made it the most popular handgun in the world.
	Yeah, and let's be honest here, if you want a story that's beyond fiction, the story of Glock and what happened to his company and the strip clubs and family members and bent CEOs, it's quite a story.
	Just the story of Glock, so check it out.
	But also the marketing genius.
	He actually sold those guns at a loss to police departments at the beginning to make sure so many of them were seeded across the nation that people started to know about them.
	So, what's your favorite Glock?
	What do you like?
	I think probably the one I've carried the most over the years would be the Glock 19, but I became a very big fan of the Glock 43X as well, which is their very compact It's a relatively new product within the last few years, the 43X, but I like both the 19 and that 43X quite a bit.
	All right, so guys, it's a good place to start, the 17 or the 19.
	They're on what, Gen 5 right now?
	They're bringing out their brand new Gen 5 10 millimeter, which I can't wait to try out.
	I've got their super long slide one as well, which is super cool and tricked out as well.
	So we have done our piece.
	Rest in peace, Gaston Glock, a man who... The only really big innovation in firearms technology since, you know, the metallic cartridge, really.
	Talk to us about what you're doing at the Military Arms Channel.
	I'm loving your shorts.
	For some reason, the algorithm hasn't crushed you.
	Every time I get home after the show, I open up YouTube and up pops your shorts.
	Tell us about what you're doing with your channel.
	Give a little bit of a hint to others out there who are into guns and who might want to, you know, produce content.
	Well, so first of all, we're getting ready to go into January, which will bring in SHOT Show season.
	So we're going to head down to SHOT Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, and we're going to have quite a bit of coverage about what's going on down there.
	Hopefully we have some really cool new and interesting products.
	But yeah, if you're interested in getting started in social media, Just jump in.
	I mean, there's no time like the present.
	It's not going to get any easier down the road, but it's certainly quite rewarding and a lot of fun to do.
	And you have any fears or qualms about the future?
	Do you have to have a backup on Rumble?
	What's your expectations in the new year for YouTube throttling of 2A content?
	So YouTube is a challenge.
	We've been very successful in maintaining our presence on YouTube.
	How long that'll last, it's anybody's guess.
	So yeah, absolutely.
	You always have to diversify, so Rumble is the next best choice.
	And there's other platforms that people will use, like Locals and things like that.
	X has become one of my favorite places to hang out.
	Elon Musk purchased Twitter.
	Renamed it X, and then has just opened the floodgates on freedom of speech.
	We can post deals to firearms.
	We find a special out there.
	We can post it.
	We won't get in trouble for it.
	We can share content, videos, posts.
	And so far, we haven't been harassed.
	It's been quite exhilarating and liberating.
	All right.
	What do we need to give a shout out to in addition to the Military Arms Channel?
	MilitaryArmsChannel.com, Mac underscore Arms on Twitter.
	I know you're a big fan of primary arms, as am I, for their scopes, for their red dots.
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	Copper Custom?
	We do have a store in Valparaiso, Indiana called Copper Custom, and yeah, you can check them out online or swing by if you're in the area.
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	He thinks, I mean, Colt would take, you know, 14 years to do a gun.
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	Titles for Jim and Tim Um...
	Gaston, uh, the crazy story of Gaston Glock.
	Crazy story of Gaston Glock.
	Crazy true story?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Crazy true story of Gaston Glock.
	And Jim.
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	Well, I've got a couple of those.
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	I doubt it's the MP7 because it's such a limited run of weapons and that unusual caliber makes it difficult logistically.
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	One of the most endearing moments in a wonderful movie, A White Christmas, Danny Kaye and Bing Crosby.
	For us, until the 6th of January, because we're good Christian lads here, it remains the Christmas season, so we'll be making movies Great again with our buddies celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior.
	And to analyze and celebrate this great film, my co-host Chris Coles.
	Are you still in the Christmas spirit, my friend?
	Well, it's not a very white Christmas for me as I am in Hawaii.
	But yeah, no, absolutely.
	The Christmas, sometimes I think I wish it was Christmas like all year.
	You know, every once in a while you're sitting there in summer and you're thinking, oh, gosh, you know, I need a little bit of that Christmas spirit because there is something magical about Christmas.
	And it's not just necessarily the religious aspect.
	It's not necessarily just the cultural aspect.
	There is something magical Where people sometimes sometimes some people in some places decide to get into the spirit of Christmas and they're just a little nicer to each other.
	Some people are a little bit meaner to each other, but I think there's quite a few people.
	And when you meet those people and you interact with those people, you think, you know, this is what Christmas is all about.
	This kind of.
	This kind of positivity and this love that people share with each other.
	And this movie really embodies all of that.
	No, it totally does.
	It totally does.
	Before we break down this incredible story, 1954 Michael Curtiz's movie, which is built around a song, White Christmas, from an earlier film.
	The whole film was based upon the popularity of that song and with just maybe a a dozen songs from Irving Berlin, the very, very famous
	composer. Let's do something we failed to do last time. I got a slap on the
	wrist from my team here. We didn't give a score to It's a Wonderful Life,
	Chris, and I just quickly said, well of course you don't need to give a score because
	it's a hundred out So Chris, let's finish the business of our first Christmas movie review.
	It's a Wonderful Life.
	For a modern audience, what would you rate it out of ten, um, what shall we give?
	Bells ringing!
	Bells ringing, yes!
	Ten little bells ringing!
	Oh, it's gotta be a 10 out of 10.
	I mean, this is one of the great classics of... It's kind of a weird film, though, because it's so specific, right?
	It's a Christmas movie, which is not... It's like a little bit apples and oranges to regular films, but at the end of the day, it's a 10 out of 10.
	It's one of the great classics in movie history.
	Confirmed.
	I collude with that result, and in the pantheon of great movies, we give it a 10 out of 10 as well.
	Okay, let's, uh, for those who aren't familiar with this movie, where have you been?
	Have you been living under a rock for 29 years, like my associate producer Eric, who hasn't seen this movie?
	He must have been living under a rock.
	How old are you?
	How young are you?
	Uh, 29.
	29.
	29 years living under a rock.
	That is quite stunning.
	It is the story of a Major and a Private, played by Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, who are just very grateful to their General in World War II, General Waverly.
	I think we have a clip from the very beginning of the movie.
	They are in battle in Europe somewhere.
	It is Christmas time and the General is just being the General.
	Let's play the clip.
	This division is now under the command of General Harold G. Carlton.
	I don't want you to forget it.
	Not that he'll let you.
	He's tough, just what this sloppy outfit needs.
	He'll have you standing inspection night and day.
	You may even learn how to march.
	And if you don't give him everything you've got, I may come back and fight for the enemy.
	Merry Christmas.
	Merry Christmas!
	Well, I guess all I can say is how much I What a fine outfit.
	It's an unusual film, Chris, isn't it?
	Because it's a fun movie.
	It's a war movie.
	It's a joyous, love-filled movie.
	But it opens in wartime.
	This little, you know, Christmas cabaret in the midst of, you know, one of the darkest periods of Western civilization.
	And also, the plot line is really about man's love for his fellow man.
	The song that is played at the beginning, the song that is the surprise song at the end, and we'll talk about the plot in the beginning, is what?
	We love the old man, General Waverly.
	They actually use, you know, guys in uniform during the war, then You know, 11 years later, in this Vermont inn, back in uniform, and they sing a song about the L-word.
	Love for a man.
	A man who is... Really, I don't wanna... You're the guy who brings all the meta-analysis, but for me, this film isn't about the girls, the two girls and two boys.
	This is about the love for a father figure, isn't it?
	Oh, yeah, absolutely.
	And you know what?
	I think with some films, the reason why the meta analysis is a little bit interesting is because it's subtle.
	It's kind of hidden within the film.
	They're not hiding it here.
	This is a film in which that's sort of the point, right?
	They want everybody to.
	And I believe that this is really smart.
	I think sometimes we watch films like this that are on TV every single year.
	You know, us growing up, we've seen the film a million times.
	And I felt that way watching this again and really paying attention because, you know, I had to kind of study it for this review.
	And so I'm watching it very carefully.
	And I don't think when you're just turning on the TV and just catching it every year that you really pay attention to how good the quality of this production is, the acting, the scripting.
	The songs are obviously amazing.
	Everything is really perfect.
	It's really a very high quality production.
	And one of the aspects to that is just the intelligence of looking at the society at the time and saying, what are people nostalgic for?
	What do people love?
	What's a moment or an aspect of our culture that we can look at and we can shine a spotlight on?
	And I think people were actually a little bit nostalgic for the wartime.
	And it wasn't necessarily because they wanted to be, you know, in this violent war.
	Obviously not.
	But there is something about the brotherhood that that war, I guess, facilitated that no longer existed anymore.
	You know, people look back at their generals.
	They look back at their fellow soldiers that they fought in war with.
	And, you know, they probably missed them to some degree.
	And, you know, probably not everybody was doing super well.
	And you would want to help out your fellow soldier.
	You would want to help out somebody that you knew from back then.
	And so this film kind of was a bit of fantasy fulfillment.
	It gave people the opportunity to experience that idea, even though maybe they couldn't help out, maybe they weren't doing as well as they wanted.
	This, you know, is sort of like a wonderful life, showing how everybody can come together to just make one man happy who may be a bit down on his luck.
	luck. And that this is repeated you're so right again and again and again because
	the whole plot device that the story is you know sewn around is a favor for an
	old army buddy for a sergeant whose sisters need a little hand and they get
	a break they're protected their help will talk about the whole plot line then
	of course they get romantically involved.
	There's a drastic misunderstanding, like a Shakespearean comedy of errors.
	But the phrase that comes back and back and back is, a buddy in the army.
	You're always helping a buddy in the army.
	So it's the nostalgia of that brotherhood.
	Yes, it was the worst of times.
	It was World War II.
	But it was the best of times as well, to quote Dickens.
	How many classic literary references can we get into one movie analysis?
	We're gonna pack it full!
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	Lord, help the mister who comes between me and my sister.
	And Lord, help the sister who comes between me and my man.
	How about those big brown eyes?
	No, they're blue.
	Brown.
	Ah, blue.
	Oh, yeah.
	Deep Blue.
	So, Danny Kaye has shamed Bing Crosby into making his single solo act into a double act
	after the war.
	They're very very successful of course they are and then they meet these two lovely ladies who are in trouble because allegedly they burnt a hole in the carpet of their rental apartment and their landlord wants to arrest them so the two young men, well the The two gentlemen have to step up to the plate.
	Let's talk about these two couples, the chemistry.
	I'm a big fan.
	Bing Crosby can do no wrong for me, just that voice alone.
	When he starts singing, the world stops and you listen.
	Likewise, I'm a huge fan of Danny Kaye.
	Danny Kaye's standalone movies, The Inspector and all of the comedies of the era, absolutely fabulous.
	But these ladies, too, they bring their own charm to the table.
	We have Judy, played by Vera Ellen.
	The only thing that annoys me about this film is that that woman, I mean, if she turns sideways, you can't see her.
	She's so thin.
	She's frightening, but quite, quite a dancer.
	She sadly was dubbed in the movie because she didn't have a singing voice, unlike Betty, who is none other than Rosemary Clooney, an incredible singer, who is... Eric, do you have the image I sent you?
	Still working on it.
	Okay, when you have that image we will reveal who Rosemary Clooney is.
	Talk to us about the chemistry because originally this was meant to be a Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire movie and Fred Astaire wasn't interested so last minute they pulled in Danny Kaye.
	Yeah, you know, I think people kind of forget what a big star Bing Crosby was.
	I mean, this guy was one of the biggest stars in the history of cinema.
	It wasn't just that he was big at the time.
	He was big Compared to just about anybody in history, I think a lot of people look back and they think about Sinatra as the greatest crooner of all time.
	They think about Bing Crosby, and because of the success of White Christmas in particular, they think of Bing Crosby as a Christmas singer.
	But Bing Crosby was really just the most successful, I don't know, what do you call it, actor, singer?
	Entertainer.
	He was, yeah, the biggest guy at the time.
	Yeah, and he had made a film called, what was it called?
	Holiday Inn.
	Yes.
	Holiday Inn, in which this song, White Christmas, originally debuted.
	And this is kind of similar to Holiday Inn in many ways.
	I think they were trying to, you know, reproduce the success of that film, but in color, right?
	Because Holiday Inn was a black and white film.
	I love the film Holiday Inn.
	I think it's actually an amazing classic in its own right.
	And I think everybody should watch that as well.
	But they brought this out.
	This was, you know, full of color.
	I mean, the costumes at the very end were absolutely brilliant.
	I mean, the way this thing looks.
	And also the first ever film made in VistaVision, which had these huge curved wraparound screens.
	So it was a new technology at the time.
	The IMAX of the 50s.
	Yeah, totally.
	Yeah, exactly.
	A real spectacle.
	And, you know, look, again, I think people just kind of, especially back in the 80s when I was growing up and you saw everything on this square screen and, you know, probably, it probably was a bit out of focus.
	It wasn't quite right.
	You really don't get to appreciate the quality of this project.
	If you're just watching it year to year when it comes on, I think that just to sit down and actually watch it, you really get to appreciate it.
	I'm not a big fan of musicals.
	In fact, I would say I really dislike musicals for the most part, but there are a few exceptions.
	And this is one of them.
	And those girls are spectacular.
	You know, I can't I can't criticize her for being so thin because, you know, I would say 99% of my exes kind of look like that, so.
	But what about the chemistry?
	What about the chemistry between Danny and Bing and the chemistry between the two ladies?
	Oh, it's, you know, not only is the chemistry fantastic, but the dynamic is just great.
	Like, it's scripted so well that, I mean, you would really have to work hard to mess that up.
	The fact that they, you know, how they fall in love and how, at one point, the jokes really land, which you don't expect.
	From a film from that old, there's like a point when Bing and Rosemary are together and they're kind of flirting a little bit.
	And the two others are sitting there and they said something like, oh, she's a pretty slow mover.
	And Danny K turns to her and he goes, oh, she's in there with the champ right now.
	Yes!
	And I literally laughed out loud.
	I thought that was such a great line.
	And there's all these great lines like that, all these little moments that work really well.
	And although there's a little bit of artifice, right?
	The sets are not intended to appear realistic.
	Let me stop here.
	I actually like that.
	Because they're not trying.
	I mean, it's not simulacra, right?
	It's not what Ridley Scott says is the most important thing in cinema, which is verisimilitude.
	This is theatre.
	Theatre done as cinema.
	Even the sets in World War II.
	You know it's a fake set, but it doesn't take you out of it, does it?
	No, no, no.
	And in fact, there's a little bit of magic associated with that.
	I think I look at Broadway today or I look at films today that are musicals and they kind of try to do something similar.
	And you just there's no soul to them.
	There's this the artifice Looks like it's it's just so stylized.
	It's something ugly about it.
	And I can't help but to feel that the people that are producing these projects today, they are kind of nasty people.
	They have sort of like an ugly soul.
	They don't want to bring joy to the world.
	They want to just be these amazing artists or something.
	They think of themselves very highly.
	Back then, these people were the top tier at their craft.
	They knew exactly what they were doing.
	They were paid very highly.
	But you can see that they really cared about their audience and they cared to show this sort of positivity.
	And I think it reflects the era and how there was this appreciation of God and faith and goodness and duty to your country and duty to your fellow man.
	Absolutely.
	And it really shines through with this project.
	And so you actually love that artifice.
	It comes across as magical as opposed to phony.
	That's what I think.
	Totally, totally.
	Well, we'll talk about the modern interpretations of this movie which are going to shock you.
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	Things that you would not do at home come naturally on the floor.
	for dancing soon becomes romancing when you hold a girl in your arms that you've never held before
	that scene at the beginning of the movie when Danny Kaye is clearly
	you know falling in love with one of the girls There's a lot of people who are doing it.
	The whole set is artifice.
	I mean, it looks like it was, you know, made for a theatre.
	But it doesn't matter.
	It doesn't take you out of it at all.
	Chris, are you a fan of Danny Kaye's, I gotta ask?
	Yeah, he's in Singing in the Rain, correct?
	No, no, no.
	That was Gene Kelly.
	He was in The Inspector General, Hans Christian Andersen, White Christmas, The Court Jester.
	My favorite as a kid was him playing Hans Christian Andersen.
	What do you think of Danny in White Christmas?
	I'll be honest, I don't think I've seen any of his other pictures.
	What?!
	It's been such a long time.
	Yeah, I don't think so.
	So I can't really comment on that.
	I thought he was the friend in uh singing in the rain but it's been like no the friend singing in the rain i know who you mean was meant was offered the part of danny k after fred astaire said no he couldn't do it and danny k stepped in at the last moment he they they have very similar faces dude that is very similar they do all right they do they do they do okay so i'm not completely crazy i'm not completely you're not completely crazy but uh
	Carry on.
	No, he's fantastic.
	There is such a good chemistry between him and Bing.
	That back and forth is just really good.
	You know, because Bing actually isn't the most, he's not the most sort of like physical comedy guy.
	No.
	Maybe he would have been a little bit more when he was younger, able to do some of that stuff.
	But he's kind of the straight man in this.
	And you need somebody who's a little bit, Danny Kaye comes across as a lot younger and with a lot more energy.
	I think Bing's getting up in the years here in this film.
	He does seem that he's relatively young, young enough to get, you know, to get a girl and to have a little bit of romance and you buy it.
	But certainly there is that dynamic and Danny Kaye has got much more energy.
	He's much less responsible.
	He's a sort of younger brother type character.
	And yeah, it really works really well.
	Even though they're not actually supposed to be brothers in the film, they seem kind of like brothers, you know?
	All right.
	I'm so going to back you up here.
	The guy you're talking about that you thought it was from Singin' in the Rain is Donald O'Connor.
	And he actually looks like Danny Kaye's younger brother.
	I mean, he totally looks like Danny Kaye's younger brother.
	But Danny Kaye was much, much more famous and successful.
	Actor and singer and dancer, which he proves in this case.
	And I want to bring up, I sent a photograph to Eric of an individual you will recognize from our last movie that is a weird kind of confluence that I kind of forgot until I watched it again.
	Who are they doing a favor for?
	They're doing a favor.
	Oh, the little rascals.
	Yeah.
	For Sergeant Benny Haynes, who they show a photograph of in the movie, who's actually Karl Schwitzer, the famous alfalfa from our gang, who was the guy back in It's a Wonderful Life who was jealous of Jimmy Stewart and opened the swimming pool during the prom that everybody fell into.
	So this alfalfa guy, he gets around.
	He is everywhere.
	All right, so the girls are in trouble.
	They gotta get out of town.
	Daddy K gives them their tickets to Vermont, and they follow them to where?
	To their General Waverly's Inn in Vermont, and they are down on their luck.
	It's been a very hard season because there's no snow.
	That's why the movie is called, of course, White Christmas, and so the plot It thickens as the two men decide to stay there, help out their general with a secret plot to do what?
	Get the old crew back together.
	Get all their buddies from the war to Vermont and bring the show, their show, the Wallace and Davis show, to this inn in Vermont to make money for their general.
	A certain phone call is misheard, and as a result, there is a faché, there is tension, there is a misunderstanding between Rosemary Clooney playing Betty.
	Of course, who is Rosemary Clooney?
	You may recognize that last name.
	The mother of the one and only George Clooney!
	You can see the resemblance there.
	So the acting vibe was in the family.
	I don't know if George can sing, but maybe he can.
	And as such... Not being Crosby's son as far as we're... Not being Crosby's son as far as we are aware.
	But Rosemary Clooney, a big name in her time and her son is George Clooney.
	And then we're going to continue with the plot in a second.
	We are making movies great again with our good buddy Chris Coles coming to you from the reliefactor.com studios.
	When I'm worried and I can't sleep I count my blessings instead of sheep.
	I fall asleep counting my blessings.
	When my bankroll is getting small, I think of when I had none at all.
	I fall asleep Counting my blessings
	Not a classic beauty, not a pin-up, but there's a warmth, there's a wholesomeness to Clooney's character.
	And I think the way she sells it, these things, yes, it's a two-hour movie, but it's all very believable.
	Even the fact that Danny Kaye is going to fake getting engaged to his sister to try and, you know, nudge her along into a relationship with Bing Crosby.
	But then the phone call is misheard.
	She thinks that Bing is just setting up the General to exploit his sob story instead of what he's actually doing, which is helping him save his inn.
	And then we have the end and the preparations for this amazing, amazing concert.
	My only issue... I have two issues with the movie.
	Let's get these out of the way.
	Number one, That's a stinking large barn in Vermont.
	That looks like the biggest stage in New York's, you know, you know, theater district.
	So it's a little bit, if that's supposed to be a ski barn in Vermont, then I've got a bridge to sell you in Connecticut.
	And then there are two songs, I know a lot of songs are being reused from, you know, other purposes that you know had been written and hadn't been used yet there are two songs that make this movie a little long the one the one where everybody's in a french beret or something and then there's the abraham dancing scene just remove them extraneous to the plot we've got 10 songs is it this one this is what is this what is this song and dance doing in a musical about christmas
	I think, you know, I think it was supposed to be like a joke a little bit.
	Yeah, I get it.
	You're a writer, you're an actor.
	Everything must drive the story, right?
	Sometimes you can have a little bit of an aside, a little bit of a joke, a little bit of something.
	This goes on a little bit too long and it is totally superfluous.
	It's possible that at the time, this was very, very funny.
	That's the only thing that I can think of.
	You know what I mean?
	Because you know what this is doing?
	You know, this is lampooning.
	It's lampooning the person you mentioned, Gene Kelly.
	Gene Kelly's movies were full of this stuff.
	I mean, very avant-garde dance.
	And I think they're making fun of Gene Kelly.
	Well, that's the thing.
	Some of this stuff is very cultural.
	I actually spent a year, this is kind of a weird thing, I actually spent a year listening to radio shows from the 40s.
	I would just listen to radio shows while I was writing the movies and stuff, screenplays.
	Radio shows or radio dramas?
	Like radio dramas from the 40s?
	There is a full day's broadcast that you can find online.
	I'll send it to you.
	It's amazing.
	And there's all kinds of shows.
	So there's game shows, and there's music, and there's radio dramas.
	There's all kinds of stuff.
	But I was trying to sort of get into the head of the people of the era, right?
	This was recorded in Washington, D.C.
	You had people calling in, talking about they're trying to sell their rowboat and weird stuff like that.
	Just ordinary people, as well as showbiz people, And I was trying to get into the head of people at the time.
	And when you do that, if you were able to do that to any degree, you start to get jokes that you wouldn't ordinarily get from films like this.
	But even so, this is not something I understand.
	But there is a cultural divide, very strong cultural divide, between people today and people back then.
	And you used a great word before.
	You said that Rosemary Clooney's character seemed very wholesome.
	And I think this whole film just seemed very wholesome.
	And this was an era in which, like I said, I think the culture often drove the entertainment.
	Maybe you had some seedy people in Hollywood like you do today, but there was a limit to what these people were able to do to put onto the big screen there in films, because there was a limit to what the American people would accept.
	Because they were wholesome, church-going, God-fearing, you know, duty-bound people, which is kind of what we're trying to make America again.
	When we say, make America great again, you know, the left will come in and they'll say, oh, you mean you want to make it racist again?
	Well, no, we want to make it wholesome again.
	That's what we're trying to do.
	And this film sort of, in many ways, epitomizes that.
	And that's one of the great things about this and why people should come back and watch this again.
	Yeah, and it's not just, you know, people who are decent or less perverse than Hollywood is today.
	These movies, all the greats, were made by immigrants.
	This is Michael Curtiz, who's actually Kertész Mihaly from Hungary, right?
	The man who gave us Casablanca.
	These guys loved America and understood what America gave them.
	You know, a very different set of what we call today content providers.
	Nevertheless, we might find it wholesome, but we mustn't ignore, well, we will, the idiot liberals of today.
	So, here is feminist film theorist.
	After everything we've just said for the last half an hour about this movie, I've got to read you two quotes.
	Linda Mizuchowski has written the following.
	White Christmas invoked nostalgia for minstrel shows and homoerotic buddy films, obviously.
	And Monica Hess, who is from the Washington Post, their official first-ever gender columnist, writing 64 years after the movie came out, said the following about White Christmas.
	It has an enduring popularity, Chris, due to its unabashed depictions of contemporary racism and sexism.
	You know, I'm shocked that they don't just call it racist because it's the title is White Christmas.
	I'm surprised they don't.
	I'm surprised they don't call it Colonizer Christmas.
	Oh, yeah, sure.
	Of course they love it.
	It's Colonizer Christmas.
	Yeah, look, I mean, leftists are going to left, aren't they?
	They're just they got to ruin everything.
	I had a professor once who went through he was it was like a black black people in cinema class.
	I don't know why they had this when I was in school, but I whatever I took it for one of my things.
	And this guy absolutely hated me because I had the audacity to challenge his interpretations of films.
	This is an older gay black man.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Ridiculous, right?
	How dare I have another opinion?
	It's an older gay black man and he literally took every single film in which there were two men that were friends and he said that it was homoerotic every single time.
	And I would try to present to him the case that, well, maybe it's just this sort of brotherhood that is common among men generally today and throughout history.
	And at one point, he was so frustrated with me, and the rest of the class started challenging him as well, which was fantastic.
	And at one point, a girl challenged him on something.
	He threw a piece of chalk at her and hit her in the face.
	He got so frustrated he threw chalk at somebody in the class.
	This was in college.
	He had tenure so he couldn't be fired.
	I was amazing.
	It was amazing.
	What happened?
	Did he just get away with assaulting that woman with his rank misogyny and his homo-misogynist tendencies?
	At one point somebody told me I was a little late for class, and the day before I had gone to an opera, and I was with a girl of course, and I was told after class that before I had gotten there, he spent the entire time before I got to class complaining that one, I had gone to the opera, which I shouldn't be allowed to do because I don't have the sort of cultural sophistication.
	And two, the girl I was with was far too beautiful for me because he hated me so much he didn't think I should be able to date a woman that beautiful.
	It was hilarious.
	The guy had become obsessed.
	The left becomes obsessed with us because we tell the truth, I think.
	And to go back to your latest video, which everybody has to watch, about why liberals promote sickness and mental instability.
	Success.
	They hate success.
	They hate success.
	They hate success, they hate excellence, they hate quality.
	How dare you go to the opera with a beautiful woman?
	You must not be allowed to do so, Chris Coles, because I'm a sad, frustrated, bile-filled irrelevance in my tenured position.
	Alright, we're breaking down all the cultural analysis possible with one great movie.
	It's A White Christmas.
	We're making movies great again with our buddy Chris Coles.
	I'm coming to you from the reliefactor.com studios.
	I'll get around to that one of these days.
	My dear partner, when what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting whatever it is you've got left.
	I'll figure out what that means.
	I'll come up with a crushing reply.
	What's back all this anyway?
	Nothing.
	Nothing.
	Only your happiness.
	My happiness?
	Yeah.
	You know, when you get an idea that's for my soul and ultimate happiness, there's always lurking behind it somewhere a little angle for you.
	Now, what is it?
	You really want to know?
	Yes, I really want to know.
	All right, I'll really tell you.
	Well, then lay it on me, will you?
	Ever since the day we became producers, you were a changed man.
	You've gone absolutely berserk with work.
	And the strange thing is, you liked it.
	You liked being Rodgers and Hammerstein.
	Well, it was your idea, you know.
	Well, sure it was my idea, but I didn't think I was going to create a Frankenstein.
	From that day on, I haven't had one minute I could call my own.
	What do you want me to do about it?
	I want you to get married.
	It's not quite Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, but it's getting there and I've got a soft spot for Danny Kaye.
	The writing in this movie, you're right Chris, is superb and you don't get lines like this in musicals or any films today.
	Here's a little political commentary from our friends in A White Christmas.
	Play cut.
	I don't know.
	Should be something unusual, some kind of a novelty that, uh... Well, tell me, Braxton, what do you think would be a novelty up here in Vermont?
	Who knows?
	Maybe we can dig up a Democrat.
	That's dumb, Eric.
	Maybe we can pick up a Democrat.
	That would be a novelty in Vermont.
	Yeah, not in today's Vermont.
	I've been there.
	It's full of Froot Loops.
	Okay, a little bit of trivia before we rate this and final thoughts on the movie.
	Cost a whopping two million to make.
	Two million.
	Highest grossing movie of 1954.
	Thirty million dollars made.
	Danny Kaye, get this, who came in late, Received a salary of $200,000.
	Just, you know, multiply that by, you know, 15 or 20 to get it to today's cost.
	Plus, 10% of the gross, 10% of the gross, and 50% of the gross was split between Irving Berlin and Bing Crosby.
	Those are the deals of yesteryear, right Chris?
	Yeah.
	These became very, very rich men.
	Can I just say quickly, like, listening to those lines, I think people may think that it sounds a little bit like, you know, more like the theater, right?
	It's sort of like the banter that you would get in a stage play.
	And I think that's true.
	But what's really interesting is, like, I've seen a lot of stage plays growing up, you know, I was, you know, obviously I did Hollywood stuff and whatnot.
	And you do get that kind of dialogue today in screenplays and, you know, stage plays and whatnot.
	But the weird thing about this movie and films of this time that had this stage play element is that the actors played it off so well.
	It's like there is this bizarre middle ground.
	Yeah.
	the stylized nature of the dialogue and the acting and the natural relationship
	that they had. It seems a little stylized but it also seems natural and I don't
	really know how they get that balance so well in this film but they get it
	perfect and there's some other films of the era like that but this is just it's
	just brilliant how they do it in this movie. And it's doubly brilliant Chris
	because as you know stage acting and movie acting is diametrically opposed.
	In stage acting, you have got to be big.
	You've got to be projecting to the back of the audience.
	You know, in movies, you've got a camera with a close-up of your face, and you've got to be subtle.
	Here, they're kind of walking the line between the two because it's theatrical.
	But it's not caricatured.
	It's not melodrama.
	It's chemistry that works despite being on celluloid.
	So, you know, we salute the great... I mean, this is why we do Making Movies Great Again, because to salute great, great performances in movies like this one.
	All right.
	Final thoughts, or just straight to the ratings.
	We've got to rate it out of... What should we rate it out of?
	We'll rate it out of Vermont pines.
	Vermont pine trees, I think.
	Vermont pines, I love it.
	Any final thoughts before we grade?
	My final thought is simply that I do think that people should watch this film again.
	Sit down and watch it.
	If they have a moment, sit down and actually watch it and appreciate it, not just flip it on because it happens to be on the TV playing in the background.
	It really is a great film and it's a really touching story and I wish they told stories like this more today.
	The story of the love of their general who's on, you know, who's having a bit of a hard time and they want to help him out.
	It's and it's a love story as well.
	And there's that, of course, that frustrating moment where there's a miscommunication and the girl runs off.
	But then she realizes her mistake and she comes back.
	This sort of thing that was established with it happened one night with Capra and all that.
	But it really is a great heartwarming film.
	And I think everybody should should should watch it again.
	If I'm going to rate it, a modern audience watching this.
	Not everybody's going to love it.
	Not everybody's going to love this film.
	But I loved it.
	And I loved watching it again.
	And I mean, just look at it.
	Look how beautiful these women look.
	It's such a charming movie.
	It's got to be at least, for a modern audience, going back and watching it, got to be at least an 8 out of 10 Vermont Pines.
	I love it.
	For the panoply of great movies, I'm gonna give it an eight and a half.
	An eight and a half out of Vermont Pines out of ten.
	I think it deserves it.
	And as you say, you know, you need to give it its due and you need to watch it.
	Watch it once, you know, in one sitting.
	Put the phone down and just enjoy this because it's just such a wonderful movie and pure Americana as well.
	Okay, what are we going to do next before we end on, we're going to close the show with the White Christmas song that ends the movie.
	What have you chosen for us for the new year, Mr. Coles?
	You know, I had a lot of trouble with this last night.
	I was going through and we've done so many great films on this show.
	How many?
	How many have we done, Eric?
	How many films have we done?
	I think this is number 40.
	40, all right.
	Wow.
	That's 40 films, primarily of the 1980s, so it's going to be difficult to find something else great.
	And let me just say, the Sebastian Gorka audience is one of the best-informed, most intelligent audiences in the world.
	I feel like we have to produce something of a relatively high quality every time, because I do.
	I watch other news programs, and I think, man, even the most conservative news programs don't always get it right, but Seb Gorka, anybody who watches your show, You know, your fans are the best fans, so... You're starting to make me worried here.
	You're starting to make me worried.
	It's like the punk callers who always say, you're so great, Gawker, before they try and punk you.
	What's your choice, Mr. Coles?
	No, no, no, this is legitimate.
	This is just what my thoughts were when I was compiling the list.
	I have different films that are like sequels that I thought might be good.
	I have other kind of films that I wanted to do, maybe from other eras.
	But I thought, let's keep it in the 80s, early 90s.
	You know, go back to our core stuff, what we're typically doing on this show.
	We'll do what I think is one of the last films, the last great films of that sort of era.
	Something I don't know if you're going to like as much as I did when I was a kid.
	Jurassic Park.
	Oh.
	Are you like screaming, Eric?
	Are you like screaming for joy?
	Are you jumping up and down?
	Eric, are you excited?
	I was starting to get that sense when he said one of the last great movies of the late 80s, early 90s.
	I knew he had to be.
	Look, Jeff Goldblum and Sam O'Neill.
	I love Sam O'Neill, one of the most underrated actors in history.
	And Jeff Goldblum is always fun.
	So, nice choice, Chris Coles.
	Next time, it's Jurassic Park.
	Have a blessed Christmas.
	All of you have a happy new year.
	And let's close out.
	With the song of the film.
	Merry Christmas!

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