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June 21, 2024 - Sebastian Gorka

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Sebastian Gorka FULL SHOW: Biden goes into hiding before Trump debate

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	Usually we try and have fun here on Fridays, and we shall.
	We have three hours.
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	But we have to address The war on America that was instigated by this administration.
	Let me start by letting you hear the way they try and justify the fact that you no longer have a country and that we no longer have borders and people who aren't citizens of America should just be let in no matter who they are Or what they do.
	This is someone called Ferdinand Amandi.
	He is allegedly a Democrat strategist.
	And this is what he wants you to believe.
	About the fact that undocumented immigrants and many of the immigrant population that currently resides in the United States, they pay billions every year into entitlement programs.
	Social Security, Medicare, not to mention every other program that they are not going to benefit one red cent from, but that the American community, the American public as a whole, American citizens of course, will benefit tremendously from.
	Historically as well, You also have to consider, Joey, real quick, we have never had a wave of immigrants in this country in our history that hasn't added and grown the country and made the country prosper despite the demonization that has been consistent from the right in a lot of times every immigration wave that has happened.
	So it's good for the economy because the illegals What pay into social security, especially when they're being paid cash and they don't even have a social security number, and they send the majority of their money back home in the form of remittances.
	Nothing, nothing that you heard in that 42 second clip on the Joy Reid show is true.
	What is true?
	Eric, put the photograph of the birthday cake, the other one up first.
	That is, or rather was, Jocelyn Nongari.
	That's her twelfth... This is just too much.
	That's her cake for her twelfth birthday.
	We have footage on CCTV camera of two Venezuelan illegals in their 20s taking her into a creek where they raped her and then they killed her.
	Oh yeah, the AP wrote a long story with this, the headline.
	Two men arrested in strangulation of 12-year-old Houston girl whose body was found in a creek.
	Do you know what is not mentioned in the whole article?
	Is the fact that they weren't two men.
	They were illegals let into this country by the Biden administration.
	Why would you not mention that?
	I love that the top of the story has this kind of donation bar and it says support independent fact-based journalism.
	We're the only fact that really matters, you whore.
	who wrote that article is that they were illegal aliens but you're a prostitute for the administration so of course it's just two men now I know we have rapists and murderers in America who were born here but you know and maybe I'm just too bloody naive But I cannot get my head around the fact that we have people who come here criminally.
	They come here illegally, and instead of keeping their heads down, they rape and murder children within weeks of getting here.
	What kind of cultures are they coming from?
	Oh, here's an interesting story.
	I was reading yesterday from David Strom at Hot Air.
	How surprising!
	They've just done the data on all the rape cases in Paris.
	And what did they find out of all the rapes in Paris last year?
	97 rapes that we know of.
	Three-fourths of them were perpetrated by... Well, as the AP would say, men.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	Not men.
	Illegals!
	What kind of person allows this to happen in America?
	I found this on Instagram.
	It's a video of a man being intercepted by, you know, investigators who thought he was about to have sex with a 14 year old.
	And the interview is happening on the street.
	It's a kind of gotcha thing for, you know, to Identify this pedophile and it happens in Portland and a white liberal woman walks by and listen to what she does during this gotcha moment.
	How's it going, man?
	So you know why I'm here, obviously, right?
	This is you, right?
	So I'm not here to hurt you.
	OK.
	I want to have a conversation with you, though.
	You think we can talk about this?
	Yeah, in a civil manner.
	Yeah, I haven't yelled at you or anything, right?
	I mean, you can ask him why he's here if you want to ask.
	Oh, I live in the neighborhood, and I do a lot of mutual aid for the houseless.
	Oh, no, he's not houseless.
	He has plenty of homes.
	I just wanted to make sure that he was not being harassed.
	Oh, am I harassing you?
	You want to tell her why you're here, or do you want her just to probably move along?
	No, no, it's OK.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Is everything okay?
	Not really, but... Do you want him to go away?
	Do you want to talk about this?
	I do want to talk about this.
	Right, so... Okay.
	I just wanted to make sure that the brown person was safe.
	Okay.
	The brown person is safe.
	Yeah, because we take care of... Have a good day.
	Have a good day.
	Have a good day.
	This is the step into Portland right here.
	What's up, man?
	Not much.
	So, what are you doing here?
	You understand why I'm here, obviously.
	I do.
	Okay.
	You're not here to fight me or anything.
	If I was here to fight you, bro, I would have put you in the river already.
	Okay.
	Right?
	You came right here to the river.
	How long do you think you've been talking to this girl?
	A few weeks.
	A few weeks.
	He thought he was going to have sex with a 14-year-old girl.
	And what does the white liberal who loves our open borders say?
	I wanted to make sure the brown person is okay.
	The brown person?
	They're so liberal.
	They're bigots!
	The brown person is okay.
	Oh, what, the person who can clean your toilet bowl?
	I don't care what the reason is.
	Whether they think they're being nice to the brown people, or whether they just want to get more votes because they're not having any of their little white babies.
	What they're doing in the end result is evil.
	Another child raped.
	Another American murdered.
	We must stop them.
	This party, the Democrat party, is destroying America and they don't care how many Joslins get raped or murdered.
	Are you doing something about it?
	Are you helping get President Trump re-elected?
	Please tell me the answer is yes.
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	And then we'll go to Spicy.
	Want me to call him up now or give it a bit?
	No, you can call him up.
	Okay.
	You know the worst part of that too is that even if she would immediately be told of what's going on there, she would still support him.
	Oh yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, totally.
	Totally, totally, totally.
	Alrighty.
	Calling him up on channel one.
	You want the mics on or off?
	Uh, you can have them on.
	Okay.
	Ringing at the far end... Oh, are you starting?
	Hello, Mr. Spicer.
	Can you hear us?
	I got you loud and clear.
	How are you?
	Doing good.
	How about yourself?
	Hanging in there.
	So, is the film available now?
	Is it up on Salem, or where is it?
	Mics are hot on Rumble.
	It's on... It is on Salem right now.
	Good.
	Excellent.
	Alright, so let's put it in the car on SalemNow.com when we talk about it.
	Front Row Joe's, right?
	Front row Joe's.
	Love it.
	Sir, is there any chance if we can move by a couple inches and lower down the camera so we'll have a matching shot with our host?
	How do I ever match with him?
	I can't match.
	That's impossible, Guy.
	He's impossible to match.
	Me chop.
	Thank you.
	There we go.
	Oh, there we go.
	Thanks.
	Okay.
	Oh, wait a second.
	There we go.
	All right.
	So you're going to tell us about debates.
	All right.
	Whatever you name it, we talk it.
	Good.
	How did, uh, oh, mic's off.
	How did that deal come up?
	I'm going to be honest with you.
	I'm not going to be a good lawyer.
	They cannot afford to make ends meet.
	Carrie?
	Yep.
	Carrie, hang on for one second.
	I've got a call from someone I've got to take.
	Just hang on.
	Okay.
	Hey, Mr. President, I'm live on TV.
	Can I call you back?
	I'll call you back, sir.
	Thank you.
	Carrie, go ahead.
	Continue on.
	Your favorite person.
	I would have given up my segment.
	I think he's commenting on your last segment.
	No, but give me the crosstabs.
	Eric, when was that?
	Was that yesterday on Steve Bannon's show?
	It was either yesterday or the day before that.
	It was very recently.
	Hey Steve, little tip.
	When President Trump calls you, you can take the call, alright?
	Just put up a buffer, run some music, but I think next time... Or just put him on speaker, alright?
	So America can hear that conversation.
	Steve, that was nicely done.
	All right, what else is nicely done?
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	All right, let's get the band back together.
	We talked about Admiral Bannon.
	Let's get somebody else from the OG team on deck.
	The one and only Sean Spicer.
	Happy Friday, my friend.
	Good to see you.
	Hold on one sec.
	in the Angel Tree banner.
	All right, let's get the band back together.
	We talked about Admiral Bannon.
	Let's get somebody else from the OG team on deck.
	The one and only Sean Spicer.
	Happy Friday, my friend.
	Good to see you.
	Hold on one sec.
	Oh, hold on.
	No, it's just my dog walker.
	I thought it was the president.
	Are you saying that Steve didn't get a call from the president?
	You rascal, you.
	I don't know how you match that.
	I know, it's hard to do.
	Don't even try.
	Alright, so we're going to talk about lots of things.
	We're going to talk about the debate next week.
	You are an expert on what should be happening on that debate stage.
	We'll talk about your new project and of course your show.
	Everybody's got to subscribe to Sean Spicer's show.
	But first, I thought that little clip would be fun because What was it like?
	Let's talk about the OG days back in the White House back in 2017.
	For me, it was mind-blowing.
	I still get shivers right now, this starting, when I think about when I went to work the Saturday after the inauguration as an immigrant, a legal immigrant, and I'm walking around the White House as a deputy assistant to the president.
	For you, it was like, oh, you know, you've been in politics for, you know, a millennia.
	Let's, let's, let's turn the clock back a bit and talk about those first months inside the Trump White House.
	I don't care.
	First of all, I, I might have, uh, I did my first campaign 30 years ago, but when you're able to, I was the White House press secretary, as you know, and everyone is probably aware that listens to you, but you open the back door to that press secretary's office and you're pretty much aiming at the Oval Office.
	Uh, there's a thrill that goes in your Mind every time that that happens, realizing that, you know, uh, it's not, I, I mean, I, I, I used to beg to get a white house tour and now here I was with the back door of my office opening adjacent to the oval office.
	And that's a thrill that never will leave you.
	Um, it was, and it was also something that was interesting that I'm sure you experienced countless times and you saw that clip of Bannon.
	It's more funny as it is, but the idea that I'd looked at on my phone and be like, yes, Mr. President.
	Put it down 20 minutes later.
	Good afternoon, Mr. President.
	The idea that the President of the United States is calling you, reaching out to you, sometimes he wanted something, sometimes he wanted an update.
	But for a guy like me, the way I grew up, the idea that you were in contact with the President of the United States still sends chills down my spine.
	The idea that that's the kind of America that we live in, where you can grow up with relatively modest means and still Ascend to one of the most prominent positions in this country's government.
	Yeah, forget that.
	Forget the fact.
	I mean, look at me.
	I'd only become an American five years previously.
	I mean, that only happens in America.
	I mean, you go to the wrong school.
	You don't have the right accent.
	You're not working in 10 Downing Street or in the Elysee.
	That doesn't happen in other countries.
	That happens here.
	What was the weirdest thing or the most unusual for you?
	I mean, the press room is this pokey little room.
	I mean, If President Trump wins, we have to do a little mar-a-la going at the White House and have a decent press room, not just the old swimming pool covered over.
	What was the thing you didn't expect from your time in the White House once you'd risen to those lofty levels?
	You know, I still think that the interaction, when Biden took over, he made a comment at one point about going up to the residence.
	And so he was doing a town hall of some sort.
	I think it was CNN.
	And they said, what surprised you?
	And he said, oh, the residents.
	And they said, you were vice president for eight years.
	And he said, I don't think I was up there more than a couple of times.
	And I thought, I think I was up there a couple of times on Inauguration Day.
	President Trump really opened the White House.
	And even when my beloved New England Patriots were there, he was in the middle of a ceremony with them.
	He was like, y'all want to come up to the residents and see the Lincoln Bedroom?
	I'm sure Mrs. Trump loved that.
	He just had a knack for not adhering to norms that I thought was so cool.
	As a military man, I've got to tell the story.
	So I'd been an external lecturer, guest lecturer for Fort Bragg for about five years before I joined the administration.
	I teach the guys who are just about to become Green Berets, the 18 alphas at the JFK school.
	And now that I was in the administration, I thought, I still want to keep in touch with these guys.
	So I called up Bragg, and I said, hey, when you guys come for your agency briefings, why don't you bring the new class to the White House?
	And I cleared this with the front office and with the president within 30 minutes.
	And he met with all of them in the Roosevelt Room.
	And then he did exactly what you just said.
	He looked around.
	He looked around and said, you know, guys, I'm not supposed to do this.
	Come with me.
	And he took them all over to the Oval, ordered the photographer in, and said, oh, this is, no, we don't want a group photograph.
	You go, oh, stand over there, one by one, stand with me next to the resolute desk, and we'll have a private photograph.
	Don't tell anybody.
	You're, you know, you're snake eaters, but you and your family can have it.
	He wasn't much for regular SOPs, was he, Sean?
	Oh, no, that was the beautiful part about it.
	There was no PowerPoint presentations and, you know, here's how the event goes.
	He would, by the seat of his pant, he would say, okay, let's go.
	Let's do this.
	Let's, let's, you know, and I love that.
	That was so refreshing, um, to know that if you had a great idea or if you wanted to do something that you'd be like, all right, cool.
	Let's do it.
	Um, there was somebody who came to me at one point that worked in, um, on the other over in the old executive office building.
	And they said, I have this idea and dah, dah, dah, dah.
	And I said, let me just tell you something.
	If it's going to be that effective and make the government work better, just execute it or the president will appreciate it.
	I will tell you the funny story that you mentioned, the military stuff.
	The mother of all bombs got dropped in Afghanistan.
	Hang on, hang on, hold it.
	Let's do a shameless tease here.
	He's going to tell a story about the military, about President Trump.
	Stay with us.
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	We'll be back with the one and only Sean Spicer after these messages.
	Go away.
	Oh, actually, come in with, um... The cut.
	The mic drop.
	Oh, yes.
	The Hillary.
	Yes.
	We'll do the documentary in the third segment.
	Okay.
	A bit of breaking news, courtesy of one of our Rumble Chatters.
	The Nevada fake electors case, quote-unquote, against the pro-Trump electors has been dismissed by a judge.
	Wow.
	Judge Mary Kay Holthus ruled, arguing that the judge lacked jurisdiction to hear the case in Clark County.
	Wow.
	So the whole thing is dead?
	Unless they decide to refile it in, uh, one of the two counties where she says, you know, the alleged crime occurred, but yeah.
	Nice.
	I mean, this case is thrown out.
	So it's a federal judge.
	Um, district court?
	Yeah, I believe that's- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Thank you for that, uh, 6777 in the chat.
	Thank you, buddy.
	Mic's are still on.
	Mm-hmm.
	Oh, I just need a title for that, uh, fiery monologue.
	Um...
	It doesn't matter how many children get raped.
	How many teenagers get- How many- Twelve isn't even a teenager.
	Technically not, no.
	How many girls get raped.
	How- It doesn't matter how many girls get raped.
	Okay.
	And for Marlow, we need to put people in prison.
	Do you ever come back to The Swamp for business?
	Is there anything that brings you here, Sean?
	I live there.
	I live in Northern Virginia.
	I know, but you're like hanging out in your summer abode, aren't you?
	Yeah.
	I mean, we live in Rhode Island all summer.
	And I'll come back here and there for doctor's appointments and things like that.
	What's the temperature there now?
	78.
	You bastard.
	But I had to close the door because the breeze was too much.
	Rub it in.
	What is the Antarctica Service Medal?
	Have you been hunting polar bears?
	It's an interesting question.
	It's 30 days on the ice, but I was with the Air Force.
	I did a DOD project, the 50th anniversary of McMurdo Station down there.
	I helped the Navy supply guys go over.
	We got awarded.
	I mean, it's it's basically if you're there long enough, you get it.
	There's really nothing to it.
	Cool.
	But the Arctic one is a ribbon.
	The Antarctic one is a medal.
	So it's actually a big deal.
	I mean, like it's like a, you know, it's a nice.
	Conversation, but you have to you have to do 30 days.
	Technically, but so I was yes.
	And but the dirty secret is that I was with the New York Air National Guard was the controlling authority at the time and They were counting days by sorties, so they were doing two days.
	And so I was there, I think, 22 days, but they gave us credit for basically two days, because I think they wanted all the Arab National Guard guys to get credit.
	So there was like five Navy guys that were like, OK.
	Nice.
	Nice.
	Standby.
	Coming in with cut time.
	And then pillow?
	Yeah.
	OK.
	You know, it is, um, it's been a long time since I've been on a plane. I've been on a
	plane.
	So it is, uh, it's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump
	is not in charge of the law in our country.
	because you'd be in jail.
	Secretary Clinton...
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	The mic droppiest of mic drop moments in any presidential debate.
	of Mic Drop moments in any presidential debate.
	And you know that wasn't scripted, because you'd be in jail.
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	We are back with the one and only Sean Spicer, Commander Spicer, on deck.
	Sean, we saw the video of the old man stumbling from Marine One, you know, from the aircraft to Marine One.
	We saw the video.
	Oh, here we go.
	Thank you, Eric.
	We're going to play for our viewers.
	Then two days before that, we saw him take literally a lifetime to climb the one step into the armored SUV.
	So before we get to the technicalities of the debate on Thursday, I gotta ask you the obvious question.
	Is it gonna happen, Sean?
	A hundred percent.
	Count on it.
	They can't not do this.
	Too many people are invested in this.
	Everything I mean all of CNN's ratings and their their advertising is all tied into this this is There is no way this doesn't happen.
	I mean barring some kind of catastrophe, but Like, you know, any of these people who tell you that there's a secret plan, that's just, it's game on.
	And this idea, this conventional wisdom that President Trump needs to just kind of stand there, not do anything aggressive and just let Biden melt down.
	I'm not sure I buy that.
	What would be the best play for the president?
	So let me give you my take on this.
	And you've got to remember, or I try to tell people this in context.
	For a lot of us, we want him to come out and say and do certain things.
	Remember, we're already with him.
	Yeah.
	What this is about is the three, 4% of people who, for some ungodly reason, have no clue who they're voting for at this point.
	And the strongest argument for what they call the double haters, in my opinion, is Trump laying out the contrast between his record and Biden's.
	Very simple.
	Because the people who are undecided right now, they know Trump, they know Biden, they just don't know who they're going to vote for because for a lot of people they don't like either one of them, but they are going to vote.
	My argument is this.
	Everything was better under Trump.
	The economy was stronger, the border was safer, the world was a much calmer place.
	All he needs to do, and if you, because again, think about who you're attracting.
	You're not getting Sean Spicer.
	You're not trying to sway Seb Gorka.
	You're not trying to watch people who are watching this program.
	They're already there.
	They get it.
	They're smart people.
	We are trying to get people who, for whatever reason, don't get it.
	And the argument that is the most persuasive with them is to say, if you want a secure border, if you want lower taxes, if you want lower inflation, lower interest rates in a more secure and safe world, Less chaos, less Russian aggression, less Chinese aggression, less North Korean, less Hamas.
	Then the one man who delivered for you for four years is Donald J. Trump.
	So it's just the record, the record, the record?
	100%.
	Look, I think it would be entertaining.
	If he went after Hunter and said all this stuff, but you're not winning anyone over.
	Yeah.
	No one is persuaded by that.
	And so, yes, would I like it?
	Would you like it?
	Probably.
	But here's my point.
	Our goal right now is to win and win decisively.
	And the question is, what is the most persuasive argument among the folks who aren't there yet?
	And my point is that those folks need to be reminded about the contrast between the record of these two gentlemen.
	It is an unbelievable stark contrast.
	So if I were President Trump, every answer that I would give, you throw anything at me, the only thing that Biden has is abortion and democracy under attack.
	And so I would say, you know what's under attack?
	The way of life in America right now.
	We are paying more.
	We are less safe because of you, Joe.
	The border was secure.
	Less fentanyl was coming in.
	We were energy independent.
	More people were employed.
	They were making higher wages and we were less, we were more secure around the world.
	Tell me about your record on any one of those subjects and I'll respond.
	Anything else, I will not.
	And all he needs to do is keep... See, Biden doesn't want to talk about his record.
	He wants to talk about abortion and democracy.
	And so if I were Trump, I'd keep pivoting back.
	No, Joe, let's talk about your record.
	Let's talk about your record.
	Let's talk about the economy.
	You want to talk about immigration?
	You want to talk about border security?
	You want to talk about energy independence?
	You want to talk about Russia or Afghanistan and how you withdrew?
	I'll go to any of those subjects because those affect Americans a lot.
	This is really good advice.
	This guy could be a press secretary.
	It's really good.
	He was Commander Sean Spicer, author of Radical Nation, host of the Sean Spicer Show.
	I didn't even get him to finish the story about the military thing I teased.
	Bad, bad host.
	No, you can't.
	We're out of time.
	We're going to hold you over the break.
	We're going to hold you over the break.
	We're going to talk about your new movie as well.
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	We'll talk about the documentary next, but in the break, agreeing to all these terms,
	I mean, he had to, right?
	The microphone shut off and all that garbage.
	There's no real option there, right?
	No, he could have.
	Yeah?
	I think he didn't care.
	I don't think he cared.
	Was that a mistake?
	Um, no, cause he, I think, I don't know.
	I think I would have, I, here's the thing.
	I've done this before with him.
	He doesn't care.
	He's like, tell me, I mean, he's like the guy in the ring.
	Who's like, tell me who's up next.
	And you're like, well, I don't know that we want to box that guy next.
	He goes, I don't care.
	Bring them in, bring them into the ring.
	Um, do from like, from my standpoint, if I were, you know, I think he left something on the table, but I don't think he cares about things like that.
	Yeah.
	He was like, tell me what it takes, get him in the ring, let's go.
	I know from talking to folks, pretty senior at CNN, that they were sort of like, they were actually shocked how quick he accepted, and that he didn't take anything, and they just pocketed it.
	And from a strategic standpoint, I do think that was a mistake, because once he said yes, he lost the leverage to fight on anything else.
	They were like, what?
	You already said yes.
	Right.
	I think what he should have also done is say, I'll say yes to the Fox one.
	I'll even say yes to the ABC, but you got to give me a Fox.
	Yeah.
	Uh, or something, but he, he, he, he lost the leverage.
	Now, all that being said, if he comes out and kicks Joe's Joe Biden's ass next week, uh, which I think obviously he's very capable of doing, then we're all going to say, well, it's, it was frigging brilliant.
	Um, and then what did they do?
	Does Biden cancel the second one?
	Um, I, you know, it's an interesting question you're asking.
	I think they hope for the VP debate to really change everything or something.
	I don't know.
	They've, this is, this really is, they've put a lot on the line and I also think that we've got to be careful on our side not to make this guy look like a fumbling, you know, feeble dude.
	They've got him for seven days at Camp David.
	The fact that they're doing that is mind-blowing.
	Seven days.
	But they get away with it, right?
	No one's saying, oh my god, how crazy.
	The press thinks it's kind of cool.
	They're like, he's holed up getting ready.
	And I'm like, seven days of not running the world and you guys are okay with this?
	Yeah, crazy.
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	We're back with Sean Spicer.
	He is the brains behind the new movie, Front Row Joes, available at SalemNow.com.
	Before we talk about your movie, Front Row Joes, tell us the little military story, the little recollection.
	So the team in Afghanistan dropped what they called the mother of all bombs, the MOAB.
	I need more information.
	Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Joe Dunford, was in the Situation Room.
	I run down to grab him.
	And I said, Chairman, the President wants to talk to you about the Moab.
	And he looks at me, and he knew that I should have at least known Commander's Authority.
	And he said, you know that General McKenzie had the authority to do this.
	Why didn't you?
	And I said, no, no, no.
	It's not that he's upset.
	He's actually really excited.
	He wanted to know why he didn't know, because he wanted to watch it.
	And he wants to watch it again.
	And he wants to know if there's more.
	And I said, he's actually really excited.
	He wants the action replay, right?
	Right.
	General Dunford was like, I'm sorry.
	He's like, I thought I was in trouble.
	And I'm like, no, no, no.
	He's thrilled.
	He thinks this was amazing.
	You guys are doing awesome work.
	And he just wants to make sure if there's another that he gets a heads up.
	And it was funny.
	Normally he was like, oh.
	I remember Dunford.
	I remember Dunford, the Marine Corps.
	I briefed him when he was a commandant.
	All right, Sean, talk to us about your new project.
	You've got your show, the Sean Spicer Show, and now you've got this crazy documentary, Front Row Joes, that people can watch right now at SalemNow.com.
	I saw the teaser.
	So what is this about?
	Who are the Front Row Joes?
	Yeah, first of all, on the show tonight, President Trump will be on the show tonight at 6 o'clock, YouTube Rumble, if you go to my channel there and watch it.
	That interview that you're looking at right now, We're playing it and it's in entirety tonight.
	The documentary's been two years in the making.
	I had this conversation with folks from the 2016 campaign and said, you know, I've been in politics for a lot longer than I care to admit.
	These folks that make up the backbone of the MAGA movement, the front row Joes, the people who go to rally after rally, event after event, are always there to support President Trump.
	I've never seen anything like it.
	Just like the guys, the hundreds and thousands who do that for Biden, right?
	The guy.
	And the guy who does that for Biden is paid by his campaign.
	That's called the campaign staff.
	And I said, wait, if we don't document this, the media is never going to cover it.
	They don't acknowledge who these folks are in the first place.
	And so I was like, what if we made a documentary about it?
	And we followed them around.
	We talked to President Trump.
	We talked to different people on the campaign.
	We had a long conversation with Steve Bannon and we put it together.
	And then had a conversation with the folks at Salem and said, we got this great idea.
	They saw it.
	They loved it.
	They said, let's get it out there before the convention, before the debates.
	So if you go to SalemNow.com, you can watch this tonight.
	It is available right now.
	And like I said, we followed these front row Joes around.
	And why do they do that?
	Is there a common denominator?
	What is the thing that makes him do it again and again and again?
	Because like my buddy Brick Suit, who has the suit made to look like the wall, he goes to every stinking rally and he pays for it himself.
	Well, you know, it's funny, I asked people in the documentary, both the Front Row Joes, I asked President Trump this, I asked Steve Bannon this, and it's funny, President Trump says it's like people go see the Mona Lisa or go see a band and they want to... And you think about it, if you have a particular band that you like and you go see them over and over again, the song list or the set list is the same.
	But the experience is always a little different.
	And I think for these guys, it's a family.
	They've all met going to rallies.
	They go to each other's houses.
	They go three or four days before the rally.
	They end up having dinner together and getting to know each other and talking about life.
	And it's an amazing group of people.
	And you get to meet them and know them.
	And the question that you're asking is the right one.
	Like, why?
	And we ask them that.
	And they tell us stories about how their family thinks they're nuts or, you know, I mean, one of these guys is spending between $500 and $1,500 per rally.
	You know, he gets a hotel room, he has to get his car and all this kind of stuff.
	You start doing the math and it's like well over $50,000 a year to follow President Trump from event to event.
	Now, we worked for him, we're conservatives, we're MAGA, but I've got to ask you the question.
	You've been doing this for 30 years.
	There's nothing quite like this phenomena, is there?
	I mean, to have 100,000 people in New Jersey or 30,000 in the Bronx, there's something happening in America, isn't there, Sean?
	Exactly.
	And frankly, if I didn't document this with this Front Row Joe's movie, I don't think anyone would acknowledge it.
	The media looks at this like zoo animals that need to be petted and observed from a distance.
	And I'm being serious.
	Think about it.
	Look at all those people that show up and they will get scant attention.
	And my point was that if we don't document it, go to these rallies and start talking to these folks.
	Why are they coming over and over again?
	Why are they coming three, four days before?
	Nobody is going to do it.
	And this is an opportunity if you've never been to a Trump rally, if you've never met some of these folks.
	You can go watch this Front Row Jokes on salemnow.com and get a sense of what I'm dealing with because they're amazing people and we answer those questions.
	Why are you doing this?
	What drives you?
	What do you love about Trump?
	There's some unbelievable heart warming and tear jerking stories in each of these, in some of these cases for why people are doing this.
	But I loved making the movie and it was great.
	And like I said, we sat down with President Trump.
	We'll play that interview tonight on my show at six o'clock.
	If you want to go to YouTube or rumble and watch it and and it was I was asking him What did it feel like when did you know it was different?
	And and it was just great to get his perspective as well What what did he know that he had stumbled upon something really great and historic?
	All right, we're gonna keep him over for one more segment The movie is front row Joe's watch it Salem now comm and what is it tonight six o'clock?
	Is that right?
	Six o'clock, President Trump.
	Six o'clock.
	You're going to have a long-form interview with my former boss and his former boss, and God willing, if we do our part, the 47th as well as the 45th President of the United States.
	We're talking to Sean Spicer, SeanSpicer.com, YouTube, Rumble, you name it.
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	We'll push the movie and the interview again, but I'm going to ask you one question about
	the lawfare being used against President Trump's former employees.
	Bye.
	Awesome.
	So who was filming them for years?
	So I had a film crew that I worked with and met.
	You know, it's funny.
	When I came up with the idea, I started talking to people that I knew had done some documentaries and said, here, I got this idea.
	And there's a crew that I've met that has been doing a lot of work on our side, looking at different, all sorts of random, different things.
	And they were really into the idea.
	And then the Fart Road Joes- But were they funded for several years or did they just have stuff in the archive that you put together or what?
	No, we, this has been somewhat of a shoestring operation.
	And we've gotten a little bit of funding here and there from different things.
	But was this a conscious decision years ago to start doing this?
	Or was it like, we need to do this.
	Do you have footage?
	No, no, no, no.
	Two years ago, I came up with the idea.
	And to be completely honest, we started doing it as a rally.
	My thought was the rallies themselves were the story.
	And so we started going to rallies and filming the rallies.
	And then we would talk to the Front Row Joes.
	I don't know, six, four, six months into it, we started realizing they're the story, not the rally.
	Right.
	And so, I mean, that's, yeah, it was all about them and the stories they told and why they did it, etc.
	So it kind of became more about now.
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	We are back with the former White House Press Secretary, the man behind the new documentary Front Row Joes.
	You can watch it today, SalemNow.com, and check out his interview tonight on Rumble on YouTube with President Trump, 6 p.m.
	Eastern.
	Sean, we should get you back for another hour just to talk about this.
	I've got to get your reaction because you are like the quintessential happy warrior.
	I've never seen you.
	I've never seen you really down, but I look at the last three years, I look at the last eight years, and I look at the fact that not only is, you know, our colleague Peter Navarro in prison, Steve Bannon's going to have to report soon, and worse than that, they go after people like that junior naval veteran, Walt Nauta, because he's the president's butler.
	Give me your reaction in the last two minutes we have with you for what's happened to America.
	Well, look, I think we are going after our political, and we not, but they are.
	It truly is lawfare.
	It is the weaponization of the judicial system.
	I mean, just think today alone, we saw Alvin Bragg let all those people off who everybody was outraged about a couple days ago on what they were doing on college campuses.
	And yet we're digging up an offense, an internal ledger offense, a bookkeeping offense from President Trump from seven years ago, well past the statute of limitations.
	But in an effort to get Trump, we're going to combine that with an undetermined, unstated, additional crime that no one knows about, and then make him go to jail, potentially, because we want to stop him.
	I told people this the other day, Seb.
	You think about this.
	You had the Steele dossier in 2016, the suppression of Laptop in 2020, and this time they've tried to throw him off the ballot.
	They've gone after him.
	They will stop at nothing.
	And that's what's, the irony is what they didn't anticipate was, I get asked this all the time, why do you think his numbers are going up?
	And I think because they thought the American people were very stupid and they thought they'd buy into their stupid, stupid attacks and bumper stickers.
	How dare you vote for a convicted felon?
	And at the end of the day, the American people, no matter how much there might be against Trump or might have been six months ago, They're watching this happen and saying, I can't, I can't put up with it.
	Something's wrong.
	If they're this worried about this guy, maybe he's doing something right.
	Are you confident?
	Are you confident?
	Um, I, I, I'm scared to be blunt because I feel like if you look at the polls, if you look at the record, this should be a no brainer.
	And yet I know that the other side, look at what you just enumerated.
	They know that they have something to fear and they will stop at nothing.
	And so I am worried because I don't think that they're just going to roll over and let this happen.
	It's always great to talk to you.
	God bless you.
	Follow him at Sean Spicer.
	Six o'clock tonight with the President.
	SeanSpicer.com and SalemNow.com for his new movie Front Row Joe's.
	stay with us here on America First.
	Dude, whenever you want to come on, whenever you want, we'll get you back to talk about the film again.
	You just text me, all right?
	Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
	I'm free Thursday too.
	Friday works again and the next Monday.
	All right.
	Friday, I'm going to be on my cruise, but we'll be sure.
	Thanks, buddy.
	Awesome.
	Thanks, buddy.
	Bye.
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	you you
	Here's Dr. Sebastian Gorka.
	We always like to have fun on Fridays, because it's Friday!
	But we have to keep abreast of the news, and I had a rather serious monologue in the first hour of the show.
	But, you know, breaking news is breaking news.
	Eric, whilst we were talking to our buddy Sean Spicer, what did you hear out of Nevada?
	The courtesy of one of our commenters, our Rumble Chat, who brought this to my attention.
	6777 in the chat, thank you for that.
	This is from the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
	A district court judge on Friday dismissed the fake electors case against pro-Trump electors in Nevada.
	Ruling the case against them had been filed in the wrong county.
	Oh my gosh, wow.
	That is pretty, pretty, pretty silly of them.
	Good news for the president and his team.
	Okay, we have to check in with the president's team.
	Who better than his attorney, the senior advisor to the Trump 2024 campaign, and most important of all, my cigar buddy and my former colleague in the White House.
	We just call him the Baron, Boris Epstein.
	Welcome back to America First.
	Thank you so much for having me.
	It's an honor.
	It's a pleasure to be with you and excited to cover all the important points.
	All right, so we're a couple of days away from the debate.
	Biden has run away.
	He's hiding for a whole week for debate prep.
	I don't know how long it takes to learn the words.
	Not a joke!
	And malarkey, but he's got a week to do it.
	Let's get some rather amusing analysis from one of the smartest guys out there, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, on what should happen on Thursday for the debate.
	Let me offer you a totally contrarian view.
	Unless Biden can hit a knockout punch against Trump, he loses the debate by definition.
	Because the next morning, everybody goes back to a grocery store, and they look at the prices, and they remember who the president is.
	The following day, they watch the local news, and they see an illegal immigrant rape or murder an American citizen.
	And they remember that Biden has an open border.
	And the day after that, They see Biden stumbling around confused with somebody helping him off of a stage or onto a stage.
	The problem Biden has is he has this brief 90-minute moment.
	To try to get people to believe that that's the real deal.
	Trump's job, which I'm not sure he fully understands, is very different.
	All Trump has to do is laugh, relax.
	Look, if I were coaching Trump, I would say, why don't you ask Joe, you really think your uncle was eaten by cannibals?
	Did you really think... Wait a minute, you're speaking ill of...
	Poor Uncle Bozy.
	He was eaten by cannibals and here you are speculating that that may not be true.
	There's something really wrong with that.
	So Barron, can we smuggle that into the President's talking points to ask about poor Uncle Bozy being eaten by the cannibals next week?
	The cannibals are definitely a key issue.
	But I will tell you what, the Biden crime family has been cannibalizing America and selling America down the river for decades and decades and decades.
	And there's nothing that—Nukid, which is totally right, the speaker's right.
	Crooked Joe has nothing to offer the American people.
	He's a complete and total disaster.
	He hasn't been honest with the American people on anything from the border to the economy
	to energy.
	He was a complete mess, embarrassing us on the international stage.
	President Trump stands for strength, authenticity, power, and American exceptionalism.
	And that's what we're going to have when he's back in office after Jan 20th of 2025.
	Alright, I wanted to get serious and talk about this pathetic individual Ty Cobb, but before we get to that...
	I know, who?
	But before we get to that, let's have some fun.
	To your point, I want people to understand what it's like to work for this man.
	You don't get a lot of sleep, but the energy you get from him when he's just indefatigable and just has a spirit that cannot be crushed.
	So he went on, Eric, what is this?
	It's like a business podcast.
	David Sacks is some super rich business guy.
	It's a big deal.
	Okay, big deal.
	Business podcast.
	It's called The All In.
	When President Trump sits down at the beginning, it's like, it's just so funny.
	It's so natural.
	Play the cut.
	Cut to.
	Here we go.
	Hello, everybody.
	Hello, Mr. President.
	I love that house he has.
	I love David's house.
	What a house.
	That made the biggest impression, huh?
	Thank you, sir.
	I heard you have a pretty nice house, too.
	Yeah, I have a deal.
	We're in a nice house.
	It's only worth $18 million, right?
	I know.
	The judge said $18 million.
	People said Palm Beach has gone down a long way.
	They're just cracking jokes about Judge Murchad.
	I mean, how do we explain this to mortals who haven't worked for President Trump, Barron?
	Judge Murchad, Judge Ngoron, who got the valuation wrong.
	The president is always crushing these radicals.
	Here's the reality, you know, and I've had the honor of working in various roles and for various individuals.
	It has been the honor of a lifetime, and it is every day the honor of a lifetime to work for President Trump, to be a small part of his team.
	He is the best boss I've ever had, or frankly could imagine having.
	He is smart, tough, on point, supportive, unbelievably funny, and also so, so deeply kind to all those who are around him.
	It's a true honor.
	And thoughtful.
	I mean, just thoughtful in ways that people would not believe.
	I mean, truly, truly.
	Absolutely, no doubt about it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, and the wisecracking.
	But, all right, I haven't even rehearsed this question with you because I don't rehearse questions with anyone.
	We don't do that.
	President Trump's coming on the show next week and, you know, he'll just come on the show and we'll start talking.
	But I want to ask you, What's your theory?
	Because look, you and me, we're connected.
	We also have the Alina Haber that has the same excuse.
	You were born in the Soviet Union.
	You get it.
	My father was liberated from a communist prison.
	He was a political prisoner.
	Alina's parents suffered under Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
	So we understand the stakes involved.
	That's why, that's my excuse, that's why I fight.
	I think it's why you fight, why Alina fights.
	President Trump doesn't have any of that baggage in his family.
	So what's his excuse?
	Why is he even more committed to saving America?
	Do you even have a theory about that, Baron?
	Well, the President loves America more than anybody I know.
	We all adore our country.
	The President is an absolute champion for America.
	And also, here's what's vital.
	He's a student of history.
	He knows the history of this country.
	He knows the good times and the bad times.
	And he also knows the history of the world.
	So when he compares this country to the Soviet Union in the 1930s or Germany in the 1930s, he knows the facts.
	He knows what he's talking about.
	He knows the dangers we're facing.
	From the weaponization of law enforcement, from the ruining and militarization of our justice system that the radical Democrats are doing.
	So that is where he's coming from, and that's why we're all fighting under his leadership so hard to bring America back and make America great again, which is, as we've talked about, that's not a slogan, it's an action item.
	It's not a slogan, it's an action item.
	Of course, you corrected me because you are that good.
	It was Engron that gave that absurd $18 million.
	It wasn't a correction, by the way.
	No, no, it was just, we're talking about all these... Yeah, yeah.
	No, no, I appreciate it.
	Some of these radical judges...
	And they're all jumping over one of themselves to try and interfere in the election, but they're all losing, and that's what the polling is showing.
	I've got to get your reaction.
	We've only got two minutes left.
	Here's Ty Cobb, that reprobate, slurring a real decent judge, Judge Cannon out of Florida, cut five.
	But the other thing that's more fascinating about Tamara is, you know, she's not just listening to the parties tomorrow.
	She's opened this hearing, you know, to outsiders.
	People not even participating in the litigation are going to have a chance to say their piece.
	You know, the worst thing that could happen to her is that she actually does rule for Trump on this because that would go to the 11th Circuit and then I think this, you know, petty partisan prima donna would be put in her place and they would remove her.
	Petty partisan prima donna.
	As far as I'm concerned, Judge Eileen Cannon is one of the few decent judges in the public limelight, Boris.
	The attack against the judges, the attack against Judge Kenneth has been disgusting.
	It's been misogynist.
	It's disrespectful.
	And it's obvious that these liberals, these radicals, that Ty Cobb is just an old idiot drunk.
	They don't know what they're talking about.
	And they're so deranged that the TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome, is so off the charts that they'll attack anybody who's fair.
	And that's all that President Trump, our team, that's all anybody asks for is fair and honest
	and not biased, not conflicted judges.
	And when that happens, the right side wins and that's when these deranged people can
	take it.
	All right.
	Good news.
	Good news out of Nevada.
	And of course, the president keeps on trucking with his amazing team, including the Baron
	Follow him, BorisEP.com on social media, BorisEP and Boris underscore Epstein.
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	I have not had this verified, but it comes from our buddy Nick Sorter on Twitter who has, fascinating, just in, President Trump will be holding a large campaign event in Virginia after the debate next week as his support in the state continues to grow.
	A little editorial comment from Nick.
	Biden should be terrified.
	Virginia in play.
	So exciting.
	Why does it have to happen when I'm on my cruise with my listeners?
	Can't be everywhere at the same time.
	All right, next up.
	Somebody texted me and I said, that's interesting.
	We need to get him on the show.
	Why?
	Because he tweeted the following.
	And it's not usual that an Attorney General gets two and a half million views on a tweet.
	Why?
	Well, because it's the following.
	The Attorney General of Missouri, Andrew Bailey, breaking, I will be filing suit against the state of New York for their direct attack on our democratic process through unconstitutional lawfare against President Trump.
	It's time to restore the rule of law.
	And we have him on the show right now.
	Attorney General Bailey, are you surprised by the reaction to that tweet?
	Well, you know, I think there are still people in the United States of America who love this country and recognize that this is a dark day in the history of the republic when one state and a rogue prosecutor can essentially interfere with an election cycle by unlawfully taking a presidential candidate off the campaign trail, isolating them and potentially imprisoning them.
	I mean, look, from the charging documents, lack of sufficient notification under the Due Process Clause, to the lack of jury instructions during deliberations, the conviction of President Donald Trump in Manhattan is an illicit witch hunt prosecution, and it is not legally valid.
	But it has harmed Missourians and freedom-loving Americans across this country by depriving us of access to a presidential candidate in the heat of a campaign during one of the most consequential presidential elections In this nation's history, it's un-American, it's illegal.
	Article 3, Section 2 of the United States Constitution allows for disputes between states to be resolved in the United States Supreme Court, and Missouri has a problem with New York.
	We will see them in court, and we're going to fight to end this lawfare and restore the integrity of the democratic process and our access to a presidential candidate, President Donald Trump.
	All right, well I love this.
	I've been, you know, asking for years now why local actors, local sheriffs, attorneys general can't step up and, you know, fight the corruption that's happening federally.
	I think you kind of answered it, but I want you so people understand the mechanics of this.
	How you as the Attorney General of Missouri are doing this with regards to a court in New York.
	The standing in this case is what?
	The standing is that this is a candidate for a presidential campaign, therefore the state of Missouri is affected.
	Is that the argument?
	Absolutely.
	It's a in parent's patriae argument and essentially Missouri has a sovereign interest as a co-equal state with New York and ensuring that the people of the state of Missouri have access to a presidential candidate.
	Would anyone have tolerated in 1860 if a rogue prosecutor in the South had prosecuted Abraham Lincoln for speaking out against slavery and thus taken him No, they would not have.
	And yet, that's exactly what's going on here.
	That's why it's important for red states to fight back, to end the lawfare.
	The typical appeal process from a criminal conviction can take 18 to 24 months on a hastened timeline.
	Well, that's too late.
	The election will be over, long over by then.
	So we've got to take steps now to protect our access to a presidential candidate.
	So, what happens next?
	Where is this herd?
	How quickly?
	What is the venue?
	Break down the best case scenario.
	Well, venue is appropriate in the United States Supreme Court.
	This is one of the rare instances where the United States Supreme Court has original jurisdiction over the matter.
	And so we're working on drafting our pleadings now and should have those on file in the coming days.
	And we'll be excited to announce that when it happens.
	But the legal theory here is simple.
	And that is that a rogue prosecutor in New York and the judiciary have conspired to eliminate a presidential candidate that Missourians have chosen through a caucus process.
	And that violates our rights.
	We'll be in the United States Supreme Court in Missouri v. New York.
	Are there any other attorneys, general, lieutenant governors or governors who can join you in this venture?
	Certainly, we would invite all red states to join.
	All freedom-loving states can and should join us in this effort.
	We're happy to be leading it, to be the tip of the spear.
	Because I think you're right in the sense that for far too long, conservatives have watched the left destroy our government.
	Our legal structure and our way of life and our freedoms.
	And we've got to fight back.
	We can no longer sit idly by and bemoan things like lawfare against President Trump.
	We've got to take action.
	Get on board now.
	Get behind this suit.
	Let's go fight and win to eliminate the lawfare, restore the rule of law and the credibility of this election process.
	We're half an hour away from five o'clock here in the swamp in Washington, D.C.
	We expect potentially a decision from the Supreme Court today on the presidential immunity case.
	If this is a unique jurisdiction that you can go straight to the Supreme Court because it's an interstate issue, can this be heard in an expedited process?
	What are the chances?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Look, we're going to get the pleadings drafted and filed.
	We hope to form a coalition, but if not, we'll go it alone and we'll get it all in front of the Supreme Court and they will have time to review the matter and hopefully be able to rule quickly because again, the election's at stake and there's nothing short of the outcome of what's going to happen in November hanging in the balance.
	We are waiting the presidential immunity case to come down.
	But again, that's limited to President Trump's immunity from federal prosecution for federal offenses.
	That does not protect him from state-level prosecutions.
	And so that's why things like Missouri v. New York are so important to get case law precedent on this issue as to whether or not states have a sovereign interest in protecting their access to their chosen presidential candidates.
	Follow this man's account, go to his website, AG Andrew Bailey on Twitter, ago.mo.gov.
	He's the Attorney General for the state of Missouri.
	We want to see more actions like this from Republicans who believe in the rule of law and the Constitution.
	Thank you, Attorney General Bailey.
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	Yeah, I've got to do a couple of stories.
	Um...
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	Godfell's probably the best one we haven't used yet.
	Yeah, it's just a little long.
	I'm going to tee up Yellen, actually, and then I'm going to do a story.
	All right.
	Oh, title for the Attorney General.
	My state is suing New York for persecuting President Trump.
	Can't believe he's coming to Virginia.
	That's so cool.
	I can see it.
	I personally am with Charlie Kirk's theory, though.
	Like, it's nice to, like, force them to spend more money on states.
	They wouldn't have to, but at the end of the day, you just need 270.
	Like, there's no need to go for 500 electoral votes.
	folks we just need the minimum as reagan said after nineteen eighty four minnesota would've
	been nice uh...
	uh...
	Thank you.
	Oh, pillow at the top here?
	No, Relentless Patriot, I think.
	Relentless, okay.
	No, hang on, where are we?
	Yes, it's Relentless.
	C. Yeah, it's Relentless.
	Okay.
	Oh, and another car read as well, or are you gonna do that in E?
	No, that's D and E. D and E. Okay.
	Did Herrera get back to you?
	Yeah, I got his Skype.
	Okay.
	I should probably plug it in right now.
	Okay.
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	and I'll see you next time.
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	OK, we're still waiting for the Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity, but Julie Kelly just posted this from one of the earlier pronouncements yesterday that's going to get the DOJ in big trouble.
	Let me read this to you from the Supreme Court.
	The state had adopted a novel sentencing enhancement that purported to allow a judge to impose an even longer term of imprisonment This is, of course, with regards to January the 6th, the so-called terror enhancements.
	The statutory judge ordered the defendant to serve 12 years in prison in this instance.
	This court, the Supreme Court, has found the sentence unconstitutional!
	And did so for a by now familiar reason.
	Only a jury may find, quote, facts that increase the prescribed range of penalties to which a criminal defendant is exposed.
	Not the judge!
	Not the Department of Justice!
	So we are on the way of getting some, some recompense, some justice for the abused of January the 6th.
	However, it will not help the likes of Matthew Perner, who committed suicide.
	After that, a terror enhancement was added to his charges.
	One of the martyrs of January the 6th.
	Additionally, When it comes to President Trump and New York in another decision from the Supreme Court, I'm reading again, they're underlying what?
	Something that Judge Murchan may have forgotten.
	Inherent in the guarantee of justice is an assurance that any guilty verdict will issue only from a UNANIMOUS JURY.
	This safeguards Criminal defendants with a well-established common law protection including, quote, I love this, the ancient rule that the government must prove to a jury every one of its charges beyond a reasonable doubt.
	No cherry-picking, Judge Merchant.
	No, oh, four of you jurors agree on this and four of you agree on that.
	That's fine.
	That's just dandy.
	God bless the Supreme Court justices.
	Well, especially the three that President Trump put on the court.
	Clarence Thomas and Alito as well.
	All right, Janet Yellen.
	Why is this woman in control of anything?
	She is attacking President Trump and, of course, because of that, defending Joe Biden and lying through her teeth, but doing it really slowly.
	Is this person's brain functioning or is he just another Joe Biden?
	Cut eight.
	The proposal that I've heard about that President Trump has proposed would be very broad-based tariffs and possibly at very high levels where they would result in very substantial increase increases in the cost of living and also disadvantage firms
	that need to import goods in order to produce their own outputs.
	And so I think those would have a significant stagflationary effect.
	So weird they didn't when we were in the White House.
	We had tariffs, massive tariffs on China, and we didn't have any inflation, the likes of which you're talking about.
	Eric, why do people in the Trump cabinet have to talk like that?
	She sounds like she's in a mental home, and she just has to talk slowly.
	What is that?
	Between the weird, like, random bobbing of the head, and yeah, those just awkward, like, you know, completely pointless pauses between every other word, it sounds and looks like a really bad AI video, taken from a still image of her, To then, like, you know, fake movement and fake voicing, as if it's her.
	But that's actually her!
	That's a real clip!
	Would you trust that woman?
	You've got a very nice jeep.
	Would you trust her to park your car, Eric?
	Absolutely not!
	Not in a million years.
	That's the Secretary of the Treasury!
	The Secretary of the Treasury!
	These are the kinds of people that are the best and the brightest.
	The adults back in the... Oh, the adults!
	I wouldn't let Biden walk my dogs!
	I wouldn't let that woman park my car!
	Unbelievable.
	That's a cabinet secretary?
	Where do they find... She's like a washerwoman.
	She's like some charlady from 50 years ago.
	Incredible.
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	We are going to have with us momentarily somebody who made quite a bit of a splash moving from the Second Amendment community, where he's one of the most popular What is the phrase?
	Content providers out there.
	Because of his sense of humor and because he's also crazy.
	So crazy that he built a .50 caliber Kalashnikov and then decided to do something even more insane.
	Run for Congress.
	I'm delighted to call him a friend.
	Brandon Herrera, welcome back to America First!
	How's it going, Seb?
	How are you?
	I am very, very well.
	I heard you came within a gnat's behind of beating that rhino in the primary.
	There were reports of demands of a recount.
	I know you're never going to give up.
	You're never going to stand down.
	You'll try again if you have to.
	Where are we at right now with your run in Texas for that seat?
	Well, so really what I think it is, is it's a, it was a very low turnout election.
	And it just kind of goes to show, I mean, we were within about 400 votes of being able to flip the seat, which is insane.
	400 votes for a, for a first time challenger against an entrenched Republican.
	I remember you talking about this.
	We were at SHOT Show.
	How long was your whole campaign?
	Cause you're not a politician.
	Where, where did you start campaigning?
	So I announced that I was doing this in August of last year.
	And how much did you raise, and how much did this rhino raise?
	Altogether, we were outspent by a margin close to 10 to 1.
	So he spent about $10 million altogether trying to beat a YouTuber.
	And he only had 400 votes more than you?
	Yes, sir.
	OK, dude, you've got to run again.
	You know that, right?
	We're uh what I keep telling everyone and and it's it's a real answer is uh you know what I do in the next year or so completely depends on Tony and uh we'll just we'll see if he's learned his lesson or not good well we've got your back because he is an invertebrate rhino anti-gun guy and and just did disgusting things during the primary so Brandon Herrera we have your back all right let's get back to the thing that pays the rent You've been teasing us for eight stinking years about creating a 50 caliber Kalashnikov and finally here it is.
	I'm just playing a little bit of the b-roll from the movie.
	The YouTube thing you just put up, which already has like 48 million views or something ridiculous, I'm jealous.
	It looks a lot like the two Barrett 50s I have.
	The magazine looks very familiar to me.
	I have one real problem with this video.
	Everybody needs to go to the AK guy, needs to watch this.
	There's a moment in the beginning where you talk about all the ingredients that went into this, like your editor's girlfriend did the music and some guy did something else and then you said the biggest part of this were the audience, the best audience out there.
	I would say, I would say we have the best audience, and the only way we can come to peace here, Mr. Herrera, is if we agree that all of my viewers watch all of your program, and therefore... I was just gonna say, I think that's why it works, is because there's so much audience overlap, we can both say it with confidence.
	Alright, I gotta ask you, because we've been following, this is a saga, this is like the Odyssey, this is Homeric.
	Did you ever think you were gonna get to the end of this saga?
	Oh, we knew we were going to get to the end one way or the other, kicking or screaming.
	I just wanted to make sure I didn't, uh, die or was, uh... But you didn't have to put a thumb in your jugular, right?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	There was, there was also that.
	There were some scary moments there, but you know, luckily with projects like this, When they fail, they tend to fail in very boring ways, at least if you build it right.
	I'm curious, I've seen the pre-roll, I haven't even watched the video because it's been so insane lately.
	What was the ultimate Problem.
	What was the toughest part of the 50?
	Was it the locking mechanism, the recall regulation, the feeding?
	Because it looks like a Barrett mag.
	So what, what was the thing that like had you banging your head against the wall?
	For sure.
	We always went with a Barrett magazine because you know, that's, it's one thing to design a weapon, designing a magazine and a weapon at the same time.
	It's like, yeah, it's, it's difficult.
	Barrett mags are, they're good.
	They work well.
	And they're relatively cheap.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, I mean, relatively not too bad.
	But, uh, yeah, there were so many issues we came up into.
	I mean, I really didn't know much about firearm design when we started.
	And, you know, it's, uh, it hits a, it's a huge learning curve.
	Really one of the biggest issues we ran into, cause you know, design stuff you can change and, you know, uh, and adapt and evolve if you have issues.
	Um, the biggest issue we ran into truly was, uh, third parties and people, uh, that were, uh, that we would have shops that would OEM stuff for us and make stuff, the stuff that we couldn't make in-house.
	And just other shops not being able to hold the spec or to hold tolerance.
	Well, I think we can blame that on the Biden regime.
	And isn't that a part of Bidenomics?
	Yeah, taking away manufacturing from the United States and giving it to our enemies.
	It seems to be a really, really big pillar of Bidenomics.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	So we've got a minute left.
	What's the plan for the AK-50?
	Is it just going to be this thing that hangs on your wall behind you or something more than that?
	Well, you know, I think we've got a lot more content planned with it.
	As for, you know, whether or not we make a couple more of them or what the plan is from there, all I can tell you for now is we're looking into a few things and I've got a, for better or worse, a lot more free time next year.
	So we're gonna see what we can cook up.
	Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
	If you're into guns, it's a great thing.
	If you want to save America, not so much.
	But I don't think he's out of the picture.
	We're going to be seeing him at various locales.
	I've got to see him at the range because he's built a 6.5 Creedmoor for my Saiga.
	He's converted my AK into a 6.5.
	I haven't even fired it yet.
	Gawker, get to the range.
	What is all this politics stuff?
	Follow this man, the AK guy.
	He's going to save Texas sooner or later.
	But first, he needs to build some more 50 Cal AKs.
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	Yeah, it's been a long time.
	A long time coming, and man, it's been a pain.
	Wow.
	We finally got there.
	You've got to put it on the wall behind you.
	Oh, it's going at some point.
	We just need to find hooks that are duty enough to hold it.
	You need to come shoot it next time you're down.
	We'll bring you out to one of the big range days or something.
	Is there anything cool happening in the community that where you're going we could meet up?
	Is there anything cool?
	Are you going to GOA?
	To that thing in September?
	I think I am actually.
	I think they've got me coming out for that.
	Kyle asked me if I could make it out.
	I think it's like a skeet shooting dinner and whatnot.
	Something like that.
	Keep me posted of that stuff because we don't see enough of each other.
	No, not at all.
	And we'll have to invite you to the next big range day we do, the big creator days that we do down in San Antonio.
	You got time?
	Totally.
	Just give me a heads up.
	God bless, guy.
	Keep on trucking.
	400 votes.
	That's epic.
	Epic.
	Wild, man.
	But I appreciate it, man.
	We'll have a good show.
	Next time.
	Bye-bye.
	Bye bye.
	Appreciate it, brother.
	Righty.
	Bye bye.
	Bye bye.
	That Kurt Schlichter guy, he's a bit naughty.
	He put a poll on Twitter a few hours ago.
	What drugs is Joe Biden going to be on for the debate?
	First choice, amphetamines.
	Second choice, coke.
	Parentheses, thanks Hunter.
	Third, Imodium or all of the above.
	Who's winning?
	With 77% of the vote, All of the above.
	Amphetamines, coke and Imodium.
	Colonel K, he's unique.
	Somebody else who's a lot of fun is Craig Gutfeld.
	But he was a little bit angry.
	Why?
	Cause there is a threat to democracy.
	And it's Sleepy Creepy Beijing Biden.
	U.S.
	Supreme Court has said that these college loan forgiveness attempts are illegal and they do not come under the statute.
	Because it's not forgiveness.
	Who's doing the forgiving?
	No one's forgiving the debt.
	It's still being paid just by someone else.
	Someone you'll never meet.
	It's stolen.
	And how much was this, by the way?
	You look at how much over the year.
	$7.7 billion.
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	His debt, his actual loan was like eight grand.
	It came to something like a hundred bucks, 50 bucks a month.
	And his dirt bag can't pay that.
	What a lazy fat slime ball.
	Everybody, I mean, come on.
	I'm sure his phone bill costs four times that.
	I'm sure that he's got Netflix.
	I'm sure he buys a ton of Twinkies.
	He couldn't pay that off.
	He couldn't pay it off himself.
	He had to get somebody else to pay that.
	Don't call it forgiveness.
	Don't call it cancelling.
	You call it theft.
	And it's election bribery right before your eyes.
	Theft and election bribery.
	So what was that, Eric?
	Some Dem staffer did a post about it?
	Some fat Dem staffer?
	Yeah, a video of his went viral where he's celebrating that his student loan debt has been cancelled.
	You know, cancelled.
	Forgiven.
	Cancelled, yeah.
	By me.
	By stealing from me and every taxpayer out there.
	It is voter rigging.
	Just another form of voter rigging.
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	Next up, today as we speak there is a memorial service being held For a great American, a patriot, one of our real unsung actors, one of the good guys from Hollywood, Tony Lo Bianco, who just passed a week ago and, in honor of his memory, left us a tad too early, we're going to review one of the movies that made him famous, The French Connection, with our good buddy Chris Coles.
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	When was the last time you picked your feet, huh?
	What's he talking about?
	I've got a man in Poughkeepsie who wants to talk to you.
	Have you ever been to Poughkeepsie?
	Huh?
	Have you ever been to Poughkeepsie?
	Hey, man, come on, give me a break.
	I don't know what you're talking about, man.
	Let me hear you say it.
	Come on.
	Have you ever been to Poughkeepsie?
	You've been to Poughkeepsie, haven't you?
	I wanna hear it!
	Come on!
	Yes!
	Yes, I've... You've been there, right?
	Yeah.
	You sat on the edge of the bed, didn't you?
	You took off your shoes, put your finger between your toes and picked your feet, didn't you?
	That's it!
	Yes!
	All right!
	You wanna shield my partner, you know what that means?
	All right, you wanna shield my partner, you know what that means?
	All right, you wanna shield my partner, you Just to look on Roy Scheider's face.
	I think he's corpsing.
	I think he's cracking up.
	I just love this part of the week.
	I drive to work and I'm thinking, I'm going to celebrate amazing movies with my buddy and we're going to talk about what the hell are people doing picking their feet in Poughkeepsie.
	It's making movies great again with me!
	Mr. Reagan, aka Chris Coles, the host of the Alpha Critic and Mr. Reagan channels.
	Chris, I don't know about you, this, my wife watched this movie with me two days ago, and she said, I don't know if I've seen this movie before.
	And she said, how do you, because I could tell her every beat, what's going to happen next, the, you know, the rocker panels and everything.
	I said, how do you know so much about this movie?
	Because I haven't seen it in, 30 years.
	I said, well, because about every 10 months on the BBC, it would be a rerun.
	It was like my childhood.
	We'd see the French Connection every year, at least a couple of times.
	Was this a movie that was part of your childhood?
	Are you familiar with it?
	Have you seen it before?
	Talk to us about Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider.
	You know, that's one good thing about going to film school.
	It may not have been a particularly valuable A degree to have gotten.
	But they did suggest some amazing films.
	And one film they suggested was French Connection.
	And I didn't see it for quite a long time, actually, until after college.
	But a buddy of mine, my buddy Kurt, had suggested, you've got to watch this, it's actually a very good movie.
	And I do have to say, I kind of forgot how good it was, but I didn't forget the grittiness.
	There is something truly gritty about this.
	I would say like, you know, a lot of films today try to be gritty.
	Tarantino films, stuff like this.
	But there's always something theatrical to them.
	Yeah.
	This film, you really feel like you're on the streets dealing with criminals in the 1970s in New York.
	You really, you can almost smell New York in this film.
	I've lived in New York.
	I lived in New York for a year and around 2003.
	And, you know, I was not even alive in the 1970s.
	Yeah, rub it in.
	You loved it.
	Every couple of episodes, he just has to stick the shiv in like that guy does to Roy Scheider and say, yeah, yeah, you're an old man, Gawker.
	I'm much younger than you.
	We get it.
	We get it.
	Well, it's not quite true because I was born in 1979.
	But I have to say, I did live through, you know, the early 80s and a lot.
	You know, we didn't have a lot of money.
	So a lot of the stuff we owned was from the 70s or even the 60s.
	You know, so I do have a little bit of a sense of what the 1970s smell smelled like, what it And you put those two things together and it's almost like I'm living in that world because they captured it so well.
	It really feels like you're there.
	Yeah, the way they talk about this is that it's basically done like a documentary.
	The camera doesn't know what's going to happen next and the camera has to catch up with the action.
	The guy who made the film, William Friedkin, famous of course for The Exorcist, I love this film.
	This is not just a normal film.
	And he kind of stole the style from there.
	This super gritty, not theatrical, not epic style.
	And I think the word for it is absolutely gritty.
	Are you a fan of that?
	I want to just get it out there.
	Do you like this movie?
	I love this film.
	This is not just a normal film.
	This is an experience.
	Anybody who has not seen the French Connection needs to see the French Connection.
	And I will say, I actually think that the sequel, an underrated classic as well.
	The sequel is good.
	I would say the sequel is even heavier if you think about what happens to Gene Hackman in the sequel.
	I want to jump in straight away with one of the big take-homes for me after watching this again for the first time in decades, as I said.
	One of the remarkable things about this movie ...is if you look at it on the page as a script or a treatment, the characterization is incredibly thin.
	But despite that very thin characterization, within seconds, you know, the Poughkeepsie line, the drug baron giving the gift to his squeeze, these characters, they kind of are birthed, fully formed.
	You know who Popeye Doyle is.
	You understand who his partner is.
	You understand who the French villain is.
	It's painting with the deftest touch, with seemingly the least amount of verbiage, but somehow the acting... I mean, Hackman and Roy Scheider, is there a better cop duo out there, you know, apart from, you know, Danny Glover and Mel Gibson?
	Okay, listen, listen, listen.
	I really wanted to get to this because I really love this film.
	I really love these characters.
	And these are real people.
	Yes.
	You know, this was a real event that really took place.
	His name was not Popeye Doyle.
	I believe it was Eddie something.
	Eddie Egan and Sammy Grosso.
	They're the original guys that broke the French connection drug smuggling ring from France to America.
	And Eddie Egan's actually in the film playing a different cop.
	He's the boss.
	He's the captain, right?
	He plays the captain.
	That is the guy.
	Eddie Egan plays the captain.
	And we've got Grosso as well.
	Let's put Grosso up on the screen.
	Eddie's partner in real life.
	Grosso plays one of the feds.
	Right.
	So if you watch, if you go ahead and watch the film, and you keep that in mind, you'll spot the guy that Gene Hackman's playing, which is really bizarre, but true.
	Pretty fantastic.
	He's going to work with him.
	There's so many things in this film that are real, like the way that they, they tail the suspects, right?
	I, you know, I've watched a little bit about spy techniques and stuff, how they do it in the CIA, the FBI, and how they tail these guys is You're like geeking me out there.
	You're absolutely right.
	You have a four-man box.
	You have people in front of the target, people behind the target.
	If one of them gets burned, the one in front takes it.
	Dude, I'm impressed.
	You did some homework this time.
	Well, I used to watch a show on the BBC called Spy, and they had, uh, Real Spy.
	I think, guys, one of the guys actually has been on your show.
	We can talk about that, like, uh, you know, in the break, but, um, you know, and you learn about all this different stuff.
	It was a great, it was a great show, actually.
	Totally underrated, uh, on the BBC.
	But anyway, um, The thing that I love about this, and the thing I love about these characters, is that they're essentially dirty cops.
	They're not dirty cops in the sense that they're taking bribes and things like that.
	Did they do that?
	Yeah, maybe, who knows.
	But they're dirty cops in the sense that they don't mind using a bit of violence to get what they need.
	They don't mind bending a few laws, you know, maybe surveilling people that maybe is illegal to surveil.
	But the thing is, It's so the opposite of what's going on today.
	Meaning?
	Meaning that you've got a couple of cops that are using their instincts And sort of, you know, going, you know, bending the rules, going over certain lines, crossing certain lines, because they're going after real criminals and trying to bust them, you know, for doing, committing actual crimes.
	Now what you've got is you've got a weaponized DOJ, a weaponized FBI, going after innocent people for political reasons.
	And they're actually doing things, quote unquote, legally.
	At one point early in the film, they say, oh, we can't go after these guys because, you know, you're going to get in trouble for entrapment.
	You know, in the case, we'll just go away anyway.
	Right.
	Well, there was just recently a case where this guy was just arrested by the FBI for, you know, he wanted to start a race war, apparently.
	Right.
	Right.
	Well, it was just exposed that the FBI set that whole thing up for him.
	And he went along with a couple of things, and now they're presenting it in the New York Times as if it was this guy's idea.
	It was exactly the Whitmer case all over again, right?
	These corrupt cops are setting up this innocent man because they want to say, look, look how great we are.
	We're amazing.
	We did this amazing thing.
	We stopped it.
	They're manufacturing crimes so they can look good.
	This guy's not manufacturing crimes.
	The reason he's bending the law and stepping across the line occasionally is to stop real criminals.
	This is the kind of passionate police officer or FBI agent that we need in America, not these corrupt guys that want to manufacture crimes and get credit for it.
	I think more and more the films we pick seem so incredibly apposite and relevant to things that we are watching and seeing happen in real life today as it was last week with the incredible To Kill a Mockingbird.
	This week it's the French Connection, the uncensored one.
	We'll talk about that in a moment.
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	Chris, what about...
	The beginning of the movie.
	I know the movie so well, but I'd forgotten the... Ta-da!
	French Connection start with the white letters on the black screen.
	The music just kind of punches you in the gut.
	Not super subtle.
	And then they have this kind of turning it on its head with Popeye Doyle dressed up as Santa chasing down, you know, the drug dealer.
	They did things differently back then, didn't they?
	Well, you know, it's interesting.
	It's like we just did Dirty Harry a few weeks back.
	And I can say, like, when I saw that opening shot, I thought, that's such a beautiful opening shot, you know?
	And then we saw To Kill a Mockingbird, and they had these opening credits sequence.
	With the trinket box.
	Really.
	Yeah.
	With the trinket box, so artistically done.
	And then you've got this one.
	And it's almost jarring.
	It's almost off putting it's, you know, it's abrasive.
	It's also discordant the music, you know, it's like the cello just there's one note from the cello.
	And then again, I mean, it's just so amazing.
	But you know, that's the word actually discordant is actually the word because a lot of the the the score Yeah.
	these discordant notes. Yeah. And it's it's yeah it's it's abrasive it's jarring
	it's it's not what you necessarily would expect to hear in a film but I think it
	works really well with the feeling of the film there is this sort of 70s thing
	about it that again like the way they shot this is so crazy like
	Like you really feel like you're in the cold.
	You know, it's really cold winter.
	And they took care to show, you know, Popeye Doyle It's so funny you say that.
	When they come out, they've been doing the illegal surveillance or whatever, and Roy Scheider comes out of the diner or the Gross, and he gives Popeye L. Doyle a coffee and a donut, and it's freezing.
	It's not just the exhalation.
	I mean, Gene Hackman looks freezing.
	Yeah, you feel what they feel, almost.
	There's something very... I don't know how they really did this, because it's really hard to do this in film.
	Like, film doesn't necessarily come across as natural-looking.
	Things do tend to come across as a little bit artificial.
	But you really feel there's something, I don't know, tactile about this whole movie.
	You really feel like you're there.
	I'm really not sure how they did it.
	I'll tell you how they did it.
	I mean, I'll give you my explanation of how they did it.
	If you read about how it was made, because it wasn't a very expensive movie.
	I think it was just a couple of million dollars that they spent on it.
	At least half, yeah, two million dollars.
	At least half of the footage was filmed illegally.
	They didn't have the permits.
	They didn't have the money.
	Guerrilla shooting.
	Even the car chase, turns out, half of the cross streets, they didn't have permission to blow through the lights.
	But because they had so many cops working on the film, I mean, the transit cop who gets shot at the end is an actual transit cop.
	The guy driving the train, the actors didn't show up, so the guy driving the train is the actual train driver.
	So, You know, when you're doing Guerrilla, when you're doing Gonzo filmmaking, it's going to have to feel real.
	Why, Chris?
	Because it bloody well is real!
	Well, you did bring up one thing.
	The only criticism I have of this film, it's the only criticism I have.
	You're not going to like it, probably, because it's something that's really emblematic of the 1970s.
	But I'm here to talk about how a modern audience would perceive this film.
	You're here to ruin my childhood.
	I know, because I'm an old man.
	I get it.
	Carry on, you young whippersnapper.
	Listen, because in the 80s, I do think that they kind of more or less perfected blood splatter.
	We were discussing this with Eric.
	Okay.
	Give us your take on the squibs.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Exactly.
	And okay.
	Yeah.
	In the 80s, certainly the squib technique maybe wasn't exactly perfected, but at least the blood was pretty good.
	Like if blood splattered against somebody's face, it looked like blood.
	But in the 70s, I don't know what they were thinking.
	They were using, like, orange-y red paint.
	It looks like it came out of a paint canister.
	Exactly.
	Exactly it.
	And this film is so... That's the weird thing.
	Like, if you get a more tacky film, like, I don't know, like Flash Gordon.
	No offense, Flash Gordon.
	I love Flash Gordon!
	I know you do.
	But if you get something that's a little bit artificial from beginning to end, there's a sort of a charm to it, right?
	There's you can watch it and everything's a little fakie.
	Everything's a little artificial.
	Everything's a little bit over the top.
	And you can kind of like the blood splatter doesn't really Stand out.
	But something like this, where you really feel like you're there, like if you want to know what it felt like to be in New York City in the 1970s, you've got to watch this movie.
	You know, I've been, you know, when I lived in New York, I would go to these like areas where he's driving, and I would go up and down these, you know, these staircases to the train, right, to the subway train.
	And so I've been to this place, you know, and it is exactly what it is.
	You know, it's still there.
	Exactly the same.
	But if you want to know what it's like, you watch this movie, you will feel like you're there.
	But whilst you're watching this film, you will be taken out from time to time by the blood splatter.
	And it's just one of those things where it's You know, it's just a product of the time, but in a film like this where everything is so perfect and everything seems so naturalistic and realistic, and much to the credit of the performances, I mean, these performances are just perfection, uh, yeah, that blood splatter doesn't, uh, it really stands out.
	What is the first thing you said to me, Eric, after you watched the movie?
	I said, I don't know what it is about the blood they used in 70s movies like this and Godfather.
	I like it.
	It does look fake.
	It doesn't look anything like real blood, but it almost looks a bit more thick and less liquidy, like paint, like you said, like it coagulates in an instant.
	I just kind of like that because it is so visceral, it stands out more and maybe makes the blood more shocking to viewers in that sense.
	I have a theory, and I'd have to go back chronologically.
	You're right.
	Godfather's the same.
	It's like, you know, paint everywhere.
	I think this stuff originated with the Spaghetti Westerns.
	Don't you think, Chris?
	Maybe.
	I don't know.
	I think the Sam Peckinpah and the Spaghetti Westerns, that's where they overdid it originally.
	I guess it just kind of stuck around for the other movies.
	Yeah, because I think in the 60s, they didn't tend to show blood.
	Right.
	Somebody would get shot and go, gah!
	You know, and they'd cover it up.
	And so it was only until the 70s when they decided to start showing blood, and they hadn't really worked out how to make blood look right yet.
	It wasn't until the 80s where they started to get that, I think.
	And it is what it is.
	I do think that it's one of those things where it's just... I think that a younger generation, somebody like Eric, would watch this and think, OK, this is a product of its time and its It's just part of what it is to watch a 70s film with a little bit of blood in it.
	But because I grew up in the 1980s and films were actually relatively similar.
	Hold on.
	Films were actually relatively similar in the 70s and the 80s.
	But one stark difference was that blood texture.
	When I was growing up watching and I'd see something like that, I'd be like, Oh, what are they doing?
	This is ridiculous.
	You know, I was like hypercritical, maybe.
	He's only mentioned it twice already since the show began.
	I would like to remind you that Chris Coles grew up in the 80s, not the 70s.
	I'm still an old man.
	He's of a certain vintage, not the best vintage, but he is clearly younger than I am.
	So if you missed it, he grew up in the 80s, not the 70s.
	Chris Coles, who grew up in the 80s, not the 70s.
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	You're just mad because Kurt said that you look like you could be my father even though we're only about 10 years apart.
	I don't know who that person is.
	I deny any knowledge of him and he does not exist.
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	All right, um... Come in with, uh... Sal Boca.
	Our friend's name is Boca.
	Salvatore Boca.
	B-O-C-A.
	They call him Sal.
	He's a sweetheart.
	He was picked up on suspicion of armed robbery.
	Now, get this.
	Three years ago, he tries to hold up Tiffany's on Fifth Avenue in broad daylight.
	He could have got two and a half to five, but Tiffany's wouldn't prosecute.
	Also, downtown, they're pretty sure he pulled off a contract on a guy named DeMarco.
	What about his old lady?
	Her name's Angie.
	She's a fast filly.
	She was suspended for shoplifting a year ago.
	She's only a kid.
	19, according to the marriage license.
	19 going on 50.
	19 going on 50.
	Why are we reviewing this movie?
	Why did I steal Chris's choice from him this week?
	Because a friend of ours, a friend of Katie and mine, the actor who played Sal Boker, has been lost to us.
	We saw him a few weeks ago and he just passed.
	Tony Lo Bianco from the French Connection who played that character, labelled a natural born heavy, lost far too soon from Star Wars, The Honeymoon Killers.
	Richard Gere played with him, Demi Moore starred with him, a man who was also in Jesus of Nazareth.
	The original, as one of Pontius Pilate's advisors.
	Tony, we salute you.
	You gave us so much emotional entertainment over the years.
	And you're of a breed that, along with Donald Sutherland, who we lost yesterday, will be missed.
	Let's talk about the cast.
	Let's talk about the central characters, Chris.
	I don't know about you, although you were born later than me.
	Roy Scheider.
	There's something.
	I love Gene Hackman.
	Gene Hackman is one of the greatest actors alive today.
	And I don't know if it's just about Jaws, but I wanted to be Roy Scheider as a kid.
	I mean, this guy is just effortless cool, but he's not a superhero.
	He's not a Clint Eastwood.
	In Jaws, he was a flawed man, a frightened man, frightened of the water.
	But that moment when, at the end, he says, smile, you, and then fires the rifle.
	What is it about this generation of actors, Chris?
	You know, and it's not just the generation of actors, it's like the way that they film this, especially like toward the end when they, you know, they have that showdown with the villains, you know, the criminals.
	And they're walking through this, you know, busted up warehouse, broken down warehouse, the ruins of like an old factory or something.
	And they got their guns out, and Shiner's just hiding behind these metal doors.
	And he'll scurry from one metal door to the next metal door.
	And this is just a shootout.
	In almost every other film you'll see that's produced today, the hero would just run through
	it like it's nothing.
	He would never care about being shot.
	That's kind of like the cool hero character.
	But in real life, a cop would be scared of getting shot, because we're just human beings.
	And so the way that he performs this is accurate to reality.
	You've got a drone above my house or you've got some kind of bug in my bedroom.
	That blows my mind.
	I was thinking as I watched that, what is with Roy Scheider?
	He looks like he's afraid.
	He looks klutzy.
	He's slipping.
	He's hiding behind these little doors because he's afraid.
	You never see that in a movie today, Chris.
	I'm so glad you said that.
	It's just so true to life.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, you need to see that in order to really understand the stakes, right?
	Because movies are all about stakes.
	Stories are all about stakes.
	What are the stakes?
	Well, the stakes are life and death.
	You know, if you see something like the Fast and Furious films, which I love those movies, by the way, it's just a ridiculous bit of fun.
	You know, it's just like these guys can't die.
	You know, they defy the laws of physics.
	None of that.
	It's just a sort of a silly, you know, ridiculous popcorn movie.
	This is not a silly, ridiculous popcorn movie.
	The suspense you feel is the suspense that you should feel for a man that has to go hunt down a criminal and could potentially get shot in the process.
	Just magnificent acting.
	Magnificent choice to leave in shots in which Scheider slips.
	You know, there is that moment where he slips and it does look a little silly, you know, but it's good that they left that in because that's real.
	It's so real.
	You know, and your guy, Lo Bianco, by the way, I'm watching for him, right?
	Because you told me that he's a buddy of yours and you wanted to watch this film because of him.
	Not only was he very obviously the most handsome man in the movie... Katie saw him and I said at the beginning, I said, that's Tony!
	He's in the back in the restaurant!
	And about a minute later she said, he was cute.
	He's obviously a handsome guy.
	But he delivers all of his lines in such a way that you really, truly believe what he's saying.
	There's a moment, especially, there's a moment where he's debating with the guy that he's working with about whether to go through with this deal.
	And he keeps insisting, if the supplier does not make this deal now, he's going to walk You know, and this guy saying, No, no, no, we got to take our time.
	And you can feel the desperation.
	You really can feel the desperation.
	He needs to make this deal now.
	He's getting so frustrated.
	You can feel that frustration that this performance is epic.
	And it's, I mean, it's not just him.
	It's like everybody in this movie.
	But but because he's your friend, I paid special attention to him.
	And I'm so glad he was good.
	Because, you know, I had to figure out something good to say about him.
	You know, thank God he's a great actor because he really was.
	He really was the right choice for this character.
	You believe it.
	You believe this is the bag man.
	You believe this is the guy who now wants to take it up to the big leagues.
	And not only that, it's that scene, you know, because we're here in the swamp where he goes to meet, you know, Mr. French Connection in Washington, D.C.
	And he has to pitch this thing that, you know, he has to cover for the fact that his backer doesn't want to do the deal yet.
	He wants to delay it.
	And you can just tell he's nervous.
	He doesn't want to screw it up.
	This is a guy who's going to make him literally millions and millions of dollars, and he doesn't want to lose the deal.
	And you're there saying, oh my gosh, what do I do?
	What do I say?
	Tony Lo Bianco, you are missed.
	When people ask You actually sold it and you believed them.
	Alright, we're talking the French collection, the first one.
	The second one is good too.
	Gene Hackman and of course Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, the William Friedkin movie from 1971!
	When I was already alive, yes.
	Not the other guy, Chris.
	He hadn't been born yet for another eight years, but I was around.
	I was around.
	I was zero years old.
	I was ten months old, but I was around.
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	It is the Making Movies Great Again time of the week, and I'm your host, your co-host, Dr. G Mark II.
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	All right, Popeye's here!
	Get your hands on your heads!
	Get off the bar and get on the wall!
	C'mon, move!
	Move!
	C'mon, sweetheart, move!
	C'mon, move out!
	All right, c'mon!
	Face the window!
	Move!
	Face the wall!
	Turn around there!
	Turn around!
	Move!
	C'mon, move!
	Hands out of your pocket!
	Turn around!
	Turn around!
	C'mon!
	C'mon!
	Turn around, big man!
	C'mon, turn around!
	Get on the wall!
	Get on the wall!
	Turn around!
	Hey!
	You dropped that!
	Pick it up!
	Hold those hands up!
	Pick it up!
	C'mon, move!
	What are you looking at?
	All right, bring it here.
	Get your hands out of your pockets.
	What's my name?
	Doyle.
	What?
	Mr. Doyle.
	Come here.
	You pick your feet.
	Do you?
	Get over there.
	Get your hands on your head.
	Do you pick your feet and you do it in Poughkeepsie?
	Where does that even come from?
	Chris is right.
	This was what they did.
	The stars of the original real story, Eddie Egan and Sammy Grosso.
	The typical good cop, bad cop.
	And Eddie Egan would just say jarring things to the suspect that made no sense.
	Keep shouting at them until they'd want to talk to his partner and spill the beans.
	I don't think... I think...
	For decades, I didn't know what was going on here, but it's so classic, and I think this has to be the first time ever in a movie.
	How many times have they copied this, Chris?
	Where, you know, the cop takes the informant away to rough them up, and then when they're behind closed doors, says, okay, what have you got for me?
	I think this has to be the first instance that was then, you know, repeated and copied a hundred times.
	Oh yeah.
	And the first time I watched this, I was thrilled because what a brilliant, brilliant twist.
	I mean, it's just like, it's such a great moment.
	You don't expect it to happen.
	You don't quite understand what's going on when he throws him into the bathroom.
	And then they're just laughing together, having a good time.
	Look, you gotta hand it to Hackman.
	I don't know who found Hackman or decided he needs to play Popeye Doyle, but dang, he does a good job.
	You believe That when he's yelling at these guys, that they're going to listen to him.
	Somehow they found an actor that had that gravitas.
	You know, Hackman's not a police officer.
	He's just an actor.
	You know what I mean?
	I don't know how he's... Is there something about his voice?
	I mean, you know about this, right?
	You walk into a room, you give a speech on a stage, people listen to you.
	You've got that voice, right?
	Hackman, kind of the same.
	He's got this great voice.
	That is just it just commands respect.
	And I think that that really helps him out.
	But he's got this attitude, this personality where he can just be charming.
	And he just he just commands respect no matter what tone of voice he's using, whether it be charming or loud or angry or whatever it is.
	And he does a great he knows how to control the tone of his voice, the sound of his voice.
	He does a great job.
	But let me just say real quick, this is this was a time in America, which is very unique time, I feel like.
	This 1970s, where you could use the N-word, and people did not naturally just assume you're a racist.
	It's this weird time, and at the beginning of the film, there's a moment where Roy Scheider gets sliced by a knife.
	And a little bit while after that, they're done dealing with the suspect or whatever, and Hackman's character, Popeye Doyle, goes, never trust a Negro, right?
	He doesn't use the word Negro.
	He uses a different word, obviously.
	Uh, but Roy Scheider turns up to him and he goes, Well, it could have been anybody.
	And he goes, I'll never trust anybody.
	And I think it's the only use of that word in the film.
	It is, but it's not the only racial slur that was used in the film, because I think cops and normal people did that back then, and nobody got too excited.
	Unlike today, where we've got the news story here.
	In certain streaming versions of the movie, the scene has been magically deleted, and nobody knows when it was deleted or who deleted it, because, Chris, that's what you do with classic movies.
	Oh, it's terrible.
	It's absolutely disgusting.
	Because, you know, I watched this little documentary with the director, where he was presenting all the deleted scenes and stuff, and he says, he says, you know, I spent a lot of time with this guy, Egan.
	Yeah, I spent a lot of time with him learning about the character, you know, so I could properly showcase him in this film.
	And he goes, I actually didn't get the sense that he was racist at all.
	You know, he'd say racist things, use racist words, and he, you know, he kind of acted like a little bit of a racist.
	But I got the sense that he was just kind of basically playing a game.
	You know, like he was in New York, he was dealing with these different races and he was just, you know, that's just how you acted with each other in those places at that time.
	And he was friends with some of these guys, you know, like the guy he shoves into the bathroom.
	It wasn't actually somebody who was trying to arrest.
	It was his informant and they're joking around and they're having a great time.
	And you watch this film in the seventies.
	I don't think you assume this guy's a racist.
	You watch this film today.
	You, you, you will assume he's a racist, which I think is a terrible thing.
	I have a good friend who's half Japanese.
	I used to call him the Chinaman.
	Why did I call him the Chinaman?
	Because he was half Japanese.
	And I thought it was funny, right?
	And he thought it was funny and we had a good laugh, right?
	Am I racist against Chinese people or Japanese?
	Of course not.
	Do I hate my friend?
	No, of course not.
	You know what I mean?
	This is the kind of crap that people give each other sometimes.
	And in the 70s, I think that this was a known thing, right?
	And so that's just how it was.
	That's that's how it was in real life.
	And that's how they depicted in the films.
	And it's something we just don't understand today.
	And it's something I honestly, I think it's a little bit sad that we've lost this ability to joke around with each other, be a little bit mean to each other.
	And you know, words are We're far more delicate today, which I think is a little bit sad.
	Well, and all for the wrong reasons.
	That's the sad thing.
	I'm very envious of your friend because I watch your amazing streaming, your Toxic Masculinity streaming sessions with Jason and Kurt.
	And because he's, you know, I don't know if he's half Asian or whatever, he just uses all these slurs and it's hilarious because nobody can touch him.
	I'm like so jealous.
	I mean, that's why I did a DNA test recently.
	And I found out I'm 6% Jewish and 6% Scottish, so I guess I could wear a yarmulke and a kilt at the same time.
	We're talking the French connection with our buddy Chris Coles.
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	Alright this is the movie where everyone on the planet finally got to know what a
	rocker panel or a rocker cover is.
	Where are the drugs?
	What was the weight of the car when you got it, Irv?
	have. 4795 pounds. Sure.
	I'm going to go get a drink.
	That's what it was.
	4,795 pounds when it came into the shop.
	Well, his manual says 4,675.
	That's 120 pounds overweight.
	And when it was booked into Marseille, it was 4,795.
	That's still 120 pounds overweight.
	120 pounds overweight.
	And when it was booked into Marseilles, it was 4795.
	That's still 120 pounds overweight. Jimmy's gotta be right.
	Listen, I ripped everything out of there, except the rocker panels.
	Come on, Herb!
	What the hell is that?
	The rocker panels.
	What is a rocker panel?
	Well, it's the thing underneath the door, you know, where you have the symbol of the vehicle.
	So this actually happened.
	The French Connection was a real, real scheme through which heroin was smuggled from Indochina through Turkey to France and then to the United States and Canada, but not in some American Cadillac or Lincoln, in one of my favorite cars, one of the most beautiful cars ever made.
	The classic Citroën DS.
	General Charles de Gaulle's favorite vehicle that just looks like a shark and amazing.
	If I was going to smuggle drugs, I wouldn't do it in the most ostentatious, unusual car possible.
	I'd put it like in a Ford Pinto, but hey, I guess that's why they got caught.
	All right, final thoughts, Chris, on this movie.
	What have we got in terms of trivia or other... What have we left out?
	Anything that we've left out as far as you're concerned?
	Oh, Akira Kurosawa, he of the Seven Samurai, called this one of his favorite movies, and some have actually said it is the greatest American movie.
	Yeah, I actually think that that's a totally reasonable assessment.
	I wouldn't, I probably wouldn't categorize it that way, but I think primarily because, I don't want to say it's forgotten, but not a lot of people talk about The French Connection as a great classic of cinema, but it really is a, you know, it's just different.
	Like I said at the top of the show, it's not just a movie, it's an experience.
	If you want to experience New York in the 1970s, watch this film.
	If you want to experience a real investigation, a real drug bust, you know, how cops were in the 1970s, watch this film.
	It's so naturalistic.
	You really feel like you're there.
	It really is just a different kind of experience.
	It is.
	It's based on the real story that was written up in the book by Robert Moore, who, by the way, also was the author of the book The Green Berets, that was also turned into a movie with John Wayne.
	The book came out in 61.
	This is William Freakin's Neonoir version of the true story.
	It does have the original two cops from the NYPD in it, Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso.
	The original plot involved the smuggling of 246 pounds of heroin into the United States.
	What else do we need?
	Oh my gosh, let's just, you know, the facts.
	I mentioned it was two million dollars to make.
	Netted 75 million.
	Wow.
	Quite the investment.
	And beyond that, it actually won five Oscars.
	Best picture, best actor for Hackman, best director for Friedkin, best film editing.
	I don't know, did we show the car chase yet?
	And best adapted screenplay.
	Who else could have played Popeye Doyle?
	Well, Paul Newman was considered, but they couldn't afford Paul Newman.
	Jackie Gleason, excuse me, what?
	And then Peter Boyle, and they almost started filming.
	With Rod Taylor of HG Wells' The Time Machine.
	I love Rod Taylor, but no, this is Gene Hackman's seminal, seminal part.
	Okay, what are we going to grade it out of?
	Are we going to grade it out of pork pie hats?
	Popeye Doyle's classic hat?
	What unit of measure should we use?
	Or switchblades?
	Or switchblades?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, all kinds.
	What's the kind of gun that he uses?
	He's got this little... A little 38.
	He's got a little... Oh, I didn't... Oh my gosh, guns.
	I forgot.
	The killer, the contract killer, uses a very unusual weapon.
	I just purchased one about three weeks ago.
	Very unusual Colt 1911 Gold Cup.
	It's the target model.
	Amazing gun.
	Not exactly what a contract killer should use.
	Do we have the scene at the end where he shoots that guy?
	Because that became the poster of the movie.
	A little bit of controversy because... Oh my gosh!
	They shot him in the back!
	Yeah, I think after he gunned down a woman and killed the transit cop and the driver, I think the cop would have done what he had to do in this movie.
	Alright, so what's our unit?
	Let's do a...
	Little snub-nosed 38 Smith & Wessons.
	So how many, what score out of 10 snub-nosed 38 Smith & Wessons are you gonna give The French Connection for a modern audience today?
	Well, I have to say that, like you say, it deserved all the awards it got.
	This film probably suffers from the same thing a lot of the films we talk about that are transformational for cinema.
	You know, so many films kind of copy this style now that people might watch this film and think, OK, this, you know, I've seen this a million times, but really there's no beating the original.
	This was such an original film.
	This is so sui genuine, genuine, sui generous, as you often like to say.
	If you watch films from the 60s and then you see this.
	Wow.
	What a different.
	I mean, this film just was revolutionary.
	So for me, I actually think people will love this film.
	I really do think people will find this to be a 10 out of 10 film.
	I think we're gonna have to do it again.
	10 from Modern Audience.
	10 in the canon of all movies.
	20 out of 20 for William Freekin's The French Connection.
	I mean, look, for cop movies, there is no better cop movie than this one.
	And the documentary style, the acting, as you said, the grittiness, and also the kind of cinema vérité aspect of it.
	It's not pretentious, but the verisimilitude is 100% there.
	All right, Chris.
	You throw out the film terms here.
	What?
	You're throwing out a lot of film terms here.
	Well, you know, you went to film school.
	I'm trying to catch up.
	I don't have the diploma, but I'm trying to catch up.
	OK, so you have the next two choices because I bumped in front of you.
	What are we going to review?
	What movie are we going to make great again next week, Chris?
	Well, some people may think I'm wasting one of my one of my two movies here.
	You may think that as well.
	But, you know, I felt like we should.
	We've done two films that were actually extremely serious pictures.
	Yes.
	And so I thought, well, let's let's make it light.
	Maybe this is a little too light.
	I don't know.
	But I kind of want to see.
	And this is really just because I just want to watch it.
	Ghostbusters 2.
	Ghostbusters 2, a much maligned movie.
	And I think unfairly maligned.
	So let's have a little bit of fun, something a little bit light-hearted.
	And what is it?
	Who's the villain?
	It's that German wrestler.
	Oh, and it's got Peter, what's the guy's name, who's the artist in it?
	Oh, and one of my favourite lines, you're such a poor poor, what is it, you're such a drain on your poor poor mother when he's talking to the little baby who is in fact the What's her name?
	Dana's Child.
	Dana's Child, yes indeed.
	Good choice.
	We're going to have fun, we're going to relax, and we're going to go making movies great again with Ghostbusters 2, the sequel.
	There are no more Ghostbusters movies.
	Again, it's so weird.
	They just ended on number two.
	I don't know why they did that.
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