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Nov. 18, 2024 - Sebastian Gorka

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Sebastian Gorka LIVE: Victorious President Trump returns to electric UFC

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	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Donald Trump.
	Thank you.
	I wish the people at your home could hear the sound in this room.
	It is so loud in here.
	It is so loud!
	It's funny, the president looked a little bit serious.
	Was he not used to that kind of adulation?
	Absolutely stunning.
	At Madison Square Garden again this weekend for the UFC fight.
	But the man next to him, Dana White, who was there with us, oh my gosh, 13 days ago?
	Is it just 13 days ago?
	At Mar-a-Lago for America's re-choosing of 45 to become 47.
	Dana White looked ecstatic.
	And what an evening it was.
	What is it?
	John Jones, one of the people who was victorious.
	Before he gave his championship belt to President Trump, he had a little message.
	He did a little jig, and you might be familiar with it.
	Cut 15.
	What do you got to think about my version of the Donald Trump?
	check it out That's what I like.
	I'm proud.
	I'm proud to be a great American champion.
	I'm proud to be a Christian American champion.
	Wow.
	Welcome back, dear friends.
	It's Monday, and we have an amazing show.
	We're going to have making movies great again in the third hour because there was just too much to talk about for our guest host on Friday.
	Thank you so much to Bob France.
	I had to go to...
	Well, we'll discuss that in a moment, but first, let's get Mr.
	Gene.
	We always like to have a sanity check at the top of the show.
	I need maybe a cold shower, but, you know, you are good at that.
	Has something changed in America?
	To have somebody at a UFC thing say, I'm proud to be an American, I'm proud to be a Christian.
	Is that just for us and our listeners and our viewers?
	And what is it?
	How many people voted for President Trump?
	76 million.
	Or was 13 days ago really bigger than just one election, Mr.
	G? The UFC, they've kind of always been like that.
	But I was surprised.
	There was multiple Trump dances during the NFL yesterday.
	I mean, there was a montage and I saw like half a dozen of different games.
	Yes, that's what I was surprised.
	So, I mean, you're a sports guy.
	Could that be significant?
	Footballers are just, you know, they're spiking it in the end zone and then they do the Trump dance and then another guy joins in and does the Trump dance with them.
	I'm a little surprised that they're doing it this amount in the open.
	I think something is changing.
	I can't believe he said that.
	That makes me even more excited.
	All right, so God bless Matt and Mercedes Schlapp because a week ago they invited me to their donor's dinner in Mar-a-Lago and there we are with Carrie Lake with my colleague Bianca della Garza by the swimming pool and I said to them, I can't come.
	I can't come.
	My wife's in New Zealand.
	On a trip with my daughter, and I'm at home.
	I've got to look after the dogs.
	And then I thought, I'm not going to...
	Oh, there we go.
	There's Bianca with my former White House colleague, Hogan Giddey, in the ballroom.
	And I said, I'm going to stay here.
	There's Mercedes Schlapp.
	Okay, stop it.
	Hold it there.
	But then I thought, I'm not going to sit at home for two weeks by myself.
	I've got a guy whose voice you may recognize.
	We call him the Liner King.
	And I invited him to America to spend some time with me.
	You'll hear from him in a moment.
	And then he landed at Dulles on Thursday night.
	And I said to my friend, who's known me since I was ten years old, we sat next to each other in Latin class and both cheated in it.
	But we still got A's.
	I will deny ever saying that again.
	Hope nobody heard me.
	And he landed at Dulles late on Thursday and I said to him, hey buddy, you've just been on a plane for 10 hours.
	You don't mind getting on one tomorrow, do you?
	And he was not a happy puppy.
	And then I told him where we were going and we went, tomorrow I'll go.
	And it was quite stunning.
	Stevie Galvin, who will be recording some fresh liners for us.
	This is what, what is it, Bondrino calls it?
	The TMI Weekend Update.
	Well, you're going to get one right now, because first time since I'd seen, first time seeing the president since the election.
	We were there.
	At the Mar-a-Lago, at the swimming pool, and he spoke, and I have not seen him that happy, smiling that much, I think in five years' time.
	Let me get verification.
	Mr.
	Stephen Galvin, are you there?
	Are you in the control room?
	Hello there.
	I am here.
	So, were you pleasantly surprised by being told you had to get back on a plane as soon as you landed at Dulles?
	Yeah, that was fun.
	I just arrived at Dallas.
	Meet my great friend Sebastian Gorka, and the next thing I know, I'm on a plane to Florida.
	How many times had you been to Florida before?
	That was my first.
	But bear in mind, I just spent eight hours on a transatlantic trip, and the first thing I hear when I come to the States, hey, want to get on a plane again?
	But was it worth it to go to Mar-a-Lago?
	It certainly was.
	And are you still pinching yourself that you're in a dream?
	It still feels like a dream.
	I can't believe, during my entire lifetime, that at one point I was about 20 feet away from the most powerful man in the world.
	That is crazy.
	It's what good friends are for, isn't it?
	It absolutely is.
	Thank you for being my friend.
	Oh my gosh, the honor is mine.
	Just don't tell anybody everything you know about me.
	And then afterwards, we had dinner in the ballroom with Matt Schlapp, Mercedes Schlapp.
	I auctioned my body off to science.
	No, one of the donors is paying $14,000 to come to the studio to see us...
	Make Radio Live and that donation will go to CPAC. So congratulations to Matt and Mercy.
	They raised half a million dollars in 90 minutes during the dinner.
	And then afterwards, because Steve was only jet-lagged to within an inch of his life, I said, let's go to the Churchill Cigar Bar in West Palm Beach.
	And we arrived literally five minutes before the big Mike, not Michelle, the Mike Tyson fight was being broadcast.
	We bumped into our buddy Ed Henry at the cigar bar.
	Steve, we watched the whole fight.
	We had a cigar or two.
	Were you impressed with that fight?
	No, not in the slightest.
	It's not just because the guy was 58 years old.
	Do you think it was staged?
	I think it was.
	I think both of those guys had a little deal beforehand.
	You do a bit of dancing, I'll do a bit of dancing.
	We'll get together at the end and have a kiss.
	And we'll get 20 million each.
	Let's bring in Mr.
	Sports.
	Mr.
	G, did you watch Mike Tyson?
	Yes, I did.
	And what was your take?
	First, are you into boxing?
	Used to be.
	What did you think of the fight?
	And what's with these two-minute rounds?
	What's going on?
	I was absolutely furious because I had to get up the next day.
	They drug it out forever.
	Once the women were over, then they're playing all these promos for the fight.
	People were already watching the fight.
	You don't have to drive people there.
	It was the worst scheduling I've ever seen in my entire life.
	And then the fight was good for about one round.
	That was it.
	So here's my take, as somebody who knows nothing about boxing, except, you know, I remember Muhammad Ali, I remember, you know, the greats, Henry Cooper, who looked, even as heavyweights, they looked like athletes.
	These guys looked like meatheads.
	What's his name, Jake?
	Is it Jake, right?
	Jake Paul.
	He looked worried coming in, and then he got a little bit of a second win.
	Then halfway, and then Tyson looked worried the whole time, and the whole biting of the glove thing, and then Jake looked worried halfway through.
	Was there some kind of deal, Jeff, that we're not going to really sock each other?
	What was it?
	Probably.
	The other problem that I had that I didn't realize until the fight started, that I was watching it because Tyson still, I think, could have knocked him out with one punch, is they had 14-ounce gloves instead of the 10 ounces, so he never would have been able to knock him out with that, too.
	And I think that was part of it, too, because they didn't want Paul to get knocked out.
	I wanted to ask you about those gloves because Tyson's gloves looked huge.
	All right, enough of that.
	Let's get back to business.
	13 days since the greatest victory in modern political history.
	And, Stevie, are you ready to record me some new liners at the end of the show?
	I certainly am, sir.
	Let's do it.
	Get riding.
	I'm Sebastian Gorka.
	This is America First, coming to you live from the ReliefFactor.com studios.
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	Buttons.
	He looked alright.
	He's been on radio before, so...
	Alright, let's do a photograph.
	Turn around, Guy.
	No, go back to your seat so I can see all of you.
	Just don't block Stevie.
	Don't block Stevie.
	There we go.
	Nice.
	That's nice.
	That's nice.
	Thank you.
	Alright, so I'm going to tee up two, but I'll tee it up after we have our guest on, and I'll do Patriot Mobile at the top.
	Yep.
	Oh, he's...oh, he's now.
	Okay.
	We'll tee up two after you get him on.
	And you can block.
	Just need titles.
	No, first I need to just get this ready.
	Okay.
	Three minutes.
	All right, I'm going to read the statement on Dennis, I'm going to read the statement on Dennis, and then I'll tee up the cut.
	Okay.
	And you'll tee up, too.
	Two and a half minutes.
	Culper007 in the Rumble chat asked if we can get Stevie to do a liner that involves the word cretin.
	Oh my gosh, totally.
	Cretin, imbecile, Stevie.
	We need liners with cretin, imbecile, and wanker.
	Because if Chris Plant can use the word wanker, so can we...
	No, you need, instead of like the TMI update, the 7-Eleven grocery store.
	Oh yeah, the 7-Eleven grocery store vet post office update.
	Yes!
	Steve, write that down.
	I'll work it out just right.
	Post office update.
	Post office update.
	The joke is how long the name is.
	Hey, Brandon Gill won his seat, Jeff.
	Oh, sorry, he's not on his seat.
	Okay.
	There's Huckabee on Fox. .
	Jeff says he's not responding.
	Oh.
	Trying to call him.
	50 seconds. 50 seconds.
	You still got the image of Dennis, right?
	Let me get it again.
	one second yep
	got it you
	Gorka, did I see the Gorka man?
	Yes, stand up, Gorka.
	Quick, get up.
	How good is he, Sebastian?
	Seb, they call him Seb.
	I call him Sebastian.
	America first.
	Thank you, Mr.
	President.
	Very kind, very kind.
	All right, we have an update concerning my good friend.
	Yes, I am a Catholic, but he is my Rabbi Dennis Prager.
	So this was released just this morning from our headquarters at Salem News.
	Our friend and Salem Radio Network host Dennis Prager continues to recover from a fall he took last week and remains off the air.
	Progress has been slow but steady.
	There is still a lot of swelling and inflammation around his neck and upper spine.
	Until that recedes, it's hard to get a good sense of where this is all headed.
	Rest assured, the overall trend is positive.
	Patience is required.
	As we all know, having patience is hard.
	His body needs time to heal.
	In the meantime, Salem will use our excellent bench of substitute hosts to carry on in the same manner we know Dennis would want and appreciate.
	Thank you for all your words of support and keep praying for Dennis' recovery.
	So, it's trending in the right direction.
	It was a very, very serious accident, but it's moving in the right direction.
	I pray for Dennis every morning and every evening.
	I would like you to do so as well.
	Thank you.
	God bless you.
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	Oh, good afternoon, Sebastian.
	You know, I'm very excited because I'm going to Mar-a-Lago on Friday.
	I was invited by the president of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Republican Club.
	And when I looked it up to see all about the cause, I see your name there, that you won the award for Champion of Freedom.
	So now...
	I'm more excited than ever to go.
	Well, I hope I'm not invited because nobody's told me, Sandra.
	I saw your name on that.
	I don't know.
	I'm just telling you, I saw your name there and I got a little excited.
	All right.
	Well, that's news to me.
	So stay on the line because I need Jeff to get verification of what the event is on Friday because I don't know about it.
	Maybe it's an organization that gave me that award previously, but I don't know.
	And I need to know because I just got back from Mar-a-Lago.
	But thank you, Sandra.
	So very, very kind.
	Let's go to David in Orlando.
	Hi, Dr.
	Gorker.
	How are you?
	Right after the Afghanistan fiasco, there was one Marine Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Schiller who spoke about the errors.
	I think that he would be a great addition to the staff in the Department of Defense under Peter Hegseth.
	Possibly, but only if he wants to, right?
	That's condition number one.
	You can send names in, but if they don't want the job, then there's no point sending the name in.
	So I remember that guy.
	I remember how outspoken he was.
	I think we had him on the show, but we'd have to know first if he's interested.
	Maybe we can reach out to him.
	Thank you, my friend.
	I appreciate that.
	Very, very kind.
	Let's go to Nancy, line four in Philadelphia.
	Greetings, Dr.
	G. Greetings.
	I wanted to make a comment or two about this Bucks County Pennsylvania commissioner, this crooked female.
	She said, first of all, that precedent doesn't matter anymore.
	Well, she said laws are broken all the time, so we're going to break them too, Nancy.
	Right.
	Well, the claim about precedent not mattering, that's because she's annoyed that she can't have abortion on demand all day, every day, because she's You know, it's a hit against the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe.
	And then she did say people violate the laws anytime they want.
	But she misspoke, Dr.
	G. She should have said Democrats violate the laws anytime they want.
	Correct.
	You're correct.
	Is that it, Nancy?
	Well, you know, I want to make a comment as an aside.
	About what I think may be going on with certain people who are still feeling negative about the fact that Trump won and trusting, you know, that he will actually be able to do what he has promised to do.
	And I think people are experiencing what folks who have been put in prison falsely and then get freed experience because they at first are overjoyed, but then they can't really believe that they're free.
	And there's an adjustment period to having your freedom back.
	And I think many people are going through an adjustment period.
	Are you talking about people who are Republicans and aren't happy about the president's victory?
	Or are you talking about leftists?
	Well, I'm in particular talking about people who are questioning, you know, who Trump wants to have in his cabinet.
	Right.
	And whether Trump knows what he's doing.
	And I think it's because people are afraid because we've been so abused for so long that they can't believe we have our freedom back.
	So do you know people like that?
	Yes, I do.
	And what's their issue?
	I mean, can't you remind them what it was like under President Trump that the incredible economy, the fact that we had a secure border, that there were no new wars?
	Do they not remember what it was like for four years?
	Well, they remember that, but they also remember the ways in which his administration was undermined, and people are afraid that he won't be able to overcome the efforts to undermine his administration again.
	Well, that's weird, because he did for the first four years.
	I mean, this is what people forget on our side, that President Trump, Nancy, achieved all of those incredible things despite We're good to
	go.
	Think about what he can achieve when he doesn't have traitors inside the building.
	It's a very simple, logical comparison between those who betrayed him, and he's still successful, and those who won't be in a position to betray him.
	He'll be even more successful.
	Thank you, Nancy.
	An interesting problem we had to face, but I think we have the answer.
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	Thank you.
	Sebastian Gorka, a man who's taken down Eastern European governments with just the sound of his voice.
	I don't think I have ADHD.
	I just think I have a little bit of an addictive character because I'm checking my DMs in the break.
	I've got to read you guys this DM.
	I told this guy, I guess, years ago to get involved in politics and stop sending me DMs.
	And he sent me this message.
	Thanks for telling me to get involved, Dr. G. I did in Bucks County where I live.
	The Republicans won down ballot, flipped a Philly state senator seat, I wouldn't have been involved if you didn't tell me.
	Thanks and MAGA. This is the way, guys.
	This is the way.
	Everybody has to celebrate the victory 13 days ago because you did it.
	What's the better way than what we did with my buddy Stevie yesterday?
	To smoke one of Dr.
	G's Liberty cigars.
	The George Washington sold out like that.
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	Now you know me, I have a little bit of a hypertension, so sometimes I get...
	A little bit aggravated.
	A little bit excited.
	A little bit angry.
	But you know what?
	It's okay.
	Because I never get as hot under the collar as this patriot who is on fire when he's sitting next to scumbags like the Lincoln Project.
	Let's listen to Vincent O'Shanna just destroy them.
	Are you talking about the shower curtain where he had the country's most sensitive secrets?
	Is that the shower curtain?
	Is that the shower curtain?
	They all take documents home.
	Hold on.
	We're in better shape now than what Trump was in?
	Are you happy with what's going on?
	You and your Lincoln project, mind you, the biggest hypocrites, you guys are going after him for Russian collusion attacks evading.
	That's what you guys were doing.
	All your people.
	You were the only one that was innocent.
	The rest of them were perverted.
	One of them was a Russian agent.
	One of them was a Russian agent.
	One of them owes $390,000 on a tax in his house.
	And the other guy went to court from American Express for not paying his $30,000 tax bill.
	You guys are the biggest hypocrites.
	The things he's talking about were committed by the person sitting next to him.
	He's a comedian, a panelist on the superb Patrick Bette-David podcast, a veteran, just a patriot.
	Vincent O'Shanna, welcome back to America First.
	Thank you so much for having me, Sebastian.
	It's an honor.
	And you know, I love, Sebastian, when you hold people's feet to the fire like that.
	He didn't know what to do, so he started playing with papers in his hand.
	Those weren't even his papers.
	Those were Patrick's papers.
	He didn't know what the hell to do.
	He looked so uncomfortable because the tax fraud, the cheating on his alimony, Rick Wilson was like, uh, uh.
	Look, I have to salute you because you do go full RPG. But you're actually sitting next to him because I couldn't have physically restrained myself.
	You're in the studio.
	I'm impressed with your self-control, Vincent.
	Was that hard?
	Sebastian, you have no idea.
	And as a Christian man, it's really, you know, every day I try to walk in the footsteps of Jesus Christ.
	I don't always, you know, I'm not him, but I try to walk in the footsteps and sometimes I stumble.
	But in those type of moments, Sebastian, they got me so fired up because it's like enough is enough.
	These guys, the rhetoric, they hate the the the the the blasphemy that comes out of these people's mouths.
	And you know what it is, Sebastian, people like me and you enough is I'm not going to let them keep doing this.
	I'm I've been finished with it a long time ago.
	And people like that, it's always the people, Sebastian, that point.
	It's always the people that point.
	And when that podcast was over, Patrick told me, he's like, go upstairs to my office.
	I don't want you down there because that's what it takes, Sebastian.
	It takes people like us to just get in their face and tell them enough is enough.
	Hang on, hang on.
	Patrick, PBD told you to go upstairs or Wilson?
	He told me to go upstairs because that guy was going to walk outside because I was waiting for him.
	Not like I was going to fight him, but I wanted to have an off-camera conversation.
	All right.
	If you haven't seen it, play it as B-roll in the background.
	Patrick Reed, no, no, the other one, because I don't have time to play because we've missed a segment with Vincent.
	Play the other one because he did an amazing interview with President Trump.
	I have to say, PBD, really.
	I mean, I think he got a new suit.
	He got a haircut.
	He looked very polished.
	I just want people to understand from this incredible interview, because, you know, Rogan, Theo Vaughn, and PBD, but nobody pointed out what was behind the president.
	I mean, you've got to play the clip, because President Trump is sitting in there, and if you look at the moment when the camera goes to President Trump, you're in the bank vault at the OG Patrick Bat-David, and there's President Trump's signature over his right shoulder.
	What is the signature over his left shoulder, Eric?
	Are you right?
	I think it's Sebastian Gorka, if I'm not mistaken.
	It's like I said, I think this may be a really good bank vault to sign.
	And then you put President Trump between the two signatures.
	Tell us everything about what's happening at the PBD broadcast, your celebrations with the business doctor himself, November the 5th.
	You've got new studios, right, Vincent?
	Yes, sir.
	I mean, think about it, Sebastian.
	It's always a good thing when your team wins.
	You know what I mean?
	And Sebastian, you have been in this game for how long?
	And you have been one of the front-running, longest-running Trump supporters.
	You know the movement.
	You know what the man is about.
	I've been there with you since 2016.
	I was in Los Angeles in this fight when it wasn't cool, Sebastian.
	When it wasn't cool, when wearing a red hat got me punched in the back of the head in Los Angeles.
	I've been there this entire time, and now all of a sudden, clean sweep, popular vote.
	Now everybody loves him.
	Everybody's doing the Trump dance.
	It's like, hey guys, he's been the same guy since 2016.
	Now everybody's waking up, Sebastian, and just with PBD and Valuetainment as a whole, the movement for America, Sebastian.
	Tom, Patrick, Vincent, all of you, amazing success.
	I'm not going to ask you about what happened to the guy who punched you because the body has yet to be found.
	Follow Vincent at Vincent O'Shanna.
	We'll get you back.
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	Say hi to Tom.
	Say hi to Patrick.
	Keep crushing it, guys.
	I will.
	God bless you, Sebastian.
	I hope I see you soon.
	All right.
	See you, buddy.
	Bye-bye.
	Bye-bye.
	Okay, now we're connected to Solomon's team.
	He's not there yet.
	Yeah, he'll be here in a moment.
	He had issues with Skype.
	Yeah.
	Two minutes.
	John was signed out of his Skype.
	So I logged in with the JTN video Skype.
	Because I know he's on a really tight schedule.
	He'll be here in just a minute.
	Come in with 13.
	13.
	No, no.
	Solomon.
	Solomon Audio first.
	The Solomon pillow.
	My pillow, yeah.
	And then you'll tee up 13?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Okay. Okay.
	Okay.
	Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.
	Okay.
	Well, let's have a look at John's ex.
	I have to go on the broadcast.
	Killing me.
	There he is.
	Hey, guys.
	What's going on, John?
	Are you having a bad morning?
	No, I'm doing fine.
	I need ten more minutes on the clock.
	That's all.
	Good to see you.
	Do what the president does.
	Just don't sleep.
	I know.
	He texted me at like 2.45 on Saturday morning.
	2.45 in the morning!
	So, are you coming in to the administration?
	Is that what we can celebrate?
	It's a kind of young.
	No one, we're mystified.
	You might have a little arthritis.
	I saw one of Mike's ads.
	I went and got a pillow.
	Two days later, I woke up without a crick for the first time in maybe a year, and I've been crick-free in my neck.
	And I told this recently to the MyPillow folks.
	It really changed my life, literally.
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	All right, we've got an unbelievable story about President Trump deportations.
	I just sent it to my guys.
	We'll talk about that in a second.
	But you are such a seasoned observer of this stinking city in which we work.
	I have to get your take, at least on your expectations, on a putative showdown or whether it's just the strutting of the branches of government.
	Here we have Senator Mark Wayne Mullen not kind of understanding that the House doesn't work for the Senate.
	Cut 13.
	Well, and speaking of digging into his background, the House Ethics Committee was about to release the findings of its investigation into allegations of misconduct by former Congressman Gates.
	Of course, he abruptly resigned before that could happen.
	A number of your colleagues, including members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, have said they would like to see that report.
	Should the House Ethics Committee release that report, Senator?
	Absolutely.
	And I believe the Senate should have access to that.
	Now, should it be released to the public or not, I guess that will be part of the negotiation.
	So, is this...
	Somebody explained it to me vastly over the weekend.
	This is just the Senate just like, oh, we're important too.
	But, I mean, we've got two million more votes.
	President Trump set the incumbency record in 2020, and he just broke his own.
	He broke it.
	He just broke his own incumbency record by two million.
	And it's still going up.
	And it's still counting.
	So, you know how this cesspit works.
	Is this kind of throat clearing and posturing?
	Or are we going to see a real showdown after the 20th of January?
	Listen, I think the report will leak long before January 20th.
	I think there are enough people who know what's in it, have seen it, read it, been questioned about it, that the report's going to come out because there are no secrets in Washington.
	And I think the Trump administration will be prepared to answer it head on.
	Matt Gaetz is a guy that answers questions with facts, right?
	That's why he was so good as an inquisitor on the Hill at the FBI. There are some tough facts from my reporting that I've learned.
	That he'll have to address.
	But if he addresses those, I think we'll be fine.
	But we live in an era where somebody is going to leak that report way before January 20th.
	And by January 20th, it's going to be old news.
	And hopefully, President Trump will have the team that he wants in place.
	So the broader question of the standoff between the Senate and the President, you think he's not going to have...
	Because it's pretty clear he's going to go to recess appointments if he has to.
	But you think the Senate is going to play ball, play nice?
	No, they'll have certain nominations as they do all the time.
	No matter who's president, what party's in control, there are certain nominations that get more scrutiny than the others.
	I think Matt Gaetz is going to be one of those for a variety of reasons.
	That said, I think that there are some important answers that can be made early.
	What the Trump campaign has shown and the Trump transition has shown and the early Trump presidency has shown, get in front of things.
	Remember when they put the transcript of the Zelensky call out?
	They're going to get in front of this.
	They're going to outplay the backroom maneuvers, and it probably will be irrelevant by January 20th.
	It's funny.
	When the transcript was released, my former engineer and I, we actually role-played it.
	We read it live on air.
	I played President Trump.
	I remember that.
	And it's like, okay, well, full disclosure.
	The president released it.
	We're going to read it live on air.
	Why are they afraid of this guy?
	Because of this.
	This is going viral.
	This is Matt Gaetz talking to the head of cyber affairs in the FBI. Cut 17.
	I want to know where Hunter Biden's laptop is.
	Where is it?
	Sir, I don't know that answer.
	I'm holding the receipt.
	Now, you're telling me right here is that as the assistant director of FBI Cyber, you don't know where this is after it was turned over to you three years ago.
	Yes, sir.
	That's an accurate statement.
	I seek unanimous consent to enter into the record of this committee the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop, which I'm in possession of.
	Boom, mic drop.
	You, the FBI, don't know where the laptop is that you took two years ago.
	Well, I've got a copy of the hard drive and I'm entering it into the record.
	That's why they want to stop Matt Gaetz.
	All right, I have to ask you, I was going through your feed as we were prepping for the show.
	This story, will you talk to us, John Solomon, about this story?
	Trump confirms plans to use military for mass deportations because this is big.
	Yeah, it is.
	Listen, we activate our military when there's a disaster for the hurricane or for a tornado or something.
	When a tragedy strikes, the border crisis may be the largest disaster in American history.
	And so turning to the military to speed the exit of dangerous criminals from this country It makes a lot of sense to everyday Americans.
	President Trump is going to do it.
	He'll probably invoke a two-century-old law called the Alien Enemies Act to get some additional emergency powers.
	And he'll do it because he promised the American people to do it.
	Remember what he said on election night in that very gracious acceptance speech?
	My motto will be promises made, promises kept.
	This is the way President Trump intends to keep this promise on the border.
	Let's get all of the dangerous illegal aliens out of here quickly.
	He promised that.
	He's already got a plan.
	There are two things going on.
	They're planning to invoke these powers and to activate the Guard and other military assets to get bad people out of here quickly.
	They're also ramping up places where they can do detentions quickly to get the bad people out of the country first so they stop committing crimes and we feel more secure in our home neighborhoods.
	That is a common sense approach, and I think something most Americans will rally behind.
	Trust me, though, the military and the left are going to go nuts with this.
	I've got 10 seconds left in the next two years, four years.
	Are we going to see all disclosure, the truth about Hunter Biden-Russia collusion, because you've been the tip of the spear.
	Are we finally going to get it from official sources, John?
	We are.
	I may have something on that in the next few days, too, so stay tuned.
	He always does that to me.
	It's like, I've got six seconds left, and he drops the hammer again.
	All right, we will be pushing it on my social media accounts everywhere.
	In the meantime, JSolomon reports, justthenews.com.
	He always brings it.
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	Yes, President Trump will use military to deport illegals.
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	Let's go to Phil in Philly, line three.
	Hey, Dr.
	G, thanks for taking the call.
	Yes.
	How about, we know what's happened with Biden and Harris and with those ballistic missiles.
	How about President Trump get Putin's lips on the freeway and work out a 70-day cheese fire?
	He's not allowed, you mean now?
	Right now.
	No, that's illegal.
	That's how they got Mike Flynn.
	It's called the Logan Act.
	All right, what about the border?
	Send in the Marines.
	We're the president's own.
	They will take control.
	Shut down that border.
	Well, yeah, there's something called the Posse Comitatus Act.
	Okay.
	But thank you, Phil.
	We appreciate your commitment.
	But, you know, Tom Homan is in charge.
	He will get it done with CBP. If we need to activate the National Guard, that will happen as well.
	But I won't say who I was talking to.
	But, you know, the Logan Act will be used against us.
	So we have to dot the I's and cross the T's.
	But thank you kindly.
	Let's go to Brent in Los Angeles.
	Hello, great Gorka.
	For something different, Lady Antoinette and I wrote a song for Kilmala that she ordered me to share with you.
	She calls it Kilmala.
	No, no, I'm not doing that.
	You can't use the phrase kill with regards to the Vice President, Brent.
	You can't cross that line here, okay?
	Oh.
	Okay, you can't do that.
	Okay, I'm sorry.
	There are certain things you just don't do because then you've stooped to their level.
	Okay, so go back to the drawing board and call us back tomorrow.
	But there are things we don't do because we are not evil like they are.
	So thank you, Brent.
	But you've got to maintain the standards that we represent.
	This is the difference between us and them.
	We don't stoop to their levels.
	We don't threaten violence.
	We don't use language that is just inflammatory and threatening in a physical fashion.
	That's what Chuck Schumer does on the steps of the Supreme Court.
	That's what Maxine Waters does when she's talking about members of the Trump cabinet, about harassing them.
	That's what his former wingman, the Attorney General Eric Holler, did when they go low, we kick them.
	We're better than that, Brent.
	That's the whole point.
	That's what separates us from them.
	They don't care what tools they use.
	The ends justify their means.
	Whether it's calling President Trump Hitler until somebody takes a rifle and shoots him.
	That's the left.
	It's not who we are.
	Caution, my friend.
	Caution. Caution. Caution. Caution. Caution. Caution.
	Thank you.
	to this, and that that's all going to be detailed in this report.
	And let's be clear, it was in its final stages.
	Maybe there was one last spell check that needed to be done.
	But it was on the brink of coming out.
	Jeff, I'm curious, what was that?
	That was Joe Scarborough and somebody from MSM saying there were witnesses to the sex Matt had?
	Yes.
	So that's weird, isn't it?
	Yeah, and they decided until after the election that they were not going to release that.
	Yeah, because it would have been more effective if they'd done it before, right?
	Yeah, but the Democrats are very honorable, so they wouldn't do that.
	But didn't Adam Schiff say that he'd seen the evidence of Russian collusion?
	Adam said a lot of things, yes.
	But he's still saying it, isn't he?
	Of course.
	They're just scum.
	Here he is, Adam Schiff.
	When was Russia collusion, Jeff?
	Did that start immediately?
	It did, right?
	Yeah.
	It's been nine years of Russia collusion, right?
	Exactly.
	All about it because Trump went at a hotel in Moscow.
	That's what it was all about, right?
	Do you think Adam left the evidence in one of those cardboard boxes in Joe's garage?
	Well, according to him, it was in plain sight always, remember?
	So he didn't even have to do that.
	All right.
	But after nine years, you think you could, like, show us, right?
	You would think.
	I mean, nine years is a long time, isn't it?
	It is an awful long time, yeah.
	He's still doing it, guys.
	Absolutely incredible.
	Welcome back, dear friends.
	Cut 7, the biggest liar.
	And this takes up doing the biggest liar in politics, Adam Schiff.
	You were censured in the House last year for, in their view, holding positions of power during the Trump presidency as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and according to them, quote, abusing this trust by saying there was evidence of collusion between Trump's campaign and Russia.
	And I wonder if you are feeling at all, introspective at all, about That was, according to the Mueller report and according to your Republican colleagues, an overstatement.
	And I wonder if you think in any way you helped set the table for these disruptors.
	First of all, it wasn't an overstatement.
	There is evidence of collusion.
	The Trump campaign manager was meeting with Russian intelligence and giving them internal polling data.
	Just to give you one example.
	Jeff, I don't believe you.
	That's a clip from eight years ago.
	You're just trying to pull a fast one.
	I took a day off and you're angry at me.
	That's not a new clip.
	Nope, that was this weekend.
	He just pulled the, they showed polling data to a Russian.
	Nine years later, the best thing he's got is Manafort showed some unclassified polling data to a Russian.
	That's the best he's got!
	That's it.
	And he's not giving up on it, still.
	I just...
	What do we do with these people?
	Oh, by the way, I have to ask you, Mr.
	G, have you ever heard of Lisa McClain?
	I have not.
	She's on with that chap Cavuto right now.
	Allegedly, she's a Republican.
	Eric, you follow politics pretty closely.
	Have you heard of Congresswoman Lisa McClain?
	She's a Congresswoman?
	No.
	Yes!
	A Republican!
	I've never heard of her.
	From Michigan!
	Never.
	Guys, do you know this is a political show?
	Jeff, Eric, how do you not know about the Michigan Republican House member Lisa McClain?
	I mean, what are you, pikers?
	I just need to memorize the other, what, 437, however many...
	But Cavuto's got her on the show!
	It's got to be important.
	That's the problem right there.
	She's on Cavuto's show.
	And the Chiron, I love this, Jeff.
	I need your reaction.
	Do you know what the Chiron was 60 seconds ago?
	What's that?
	McLean, ah, colon, quote, some of President Trump's picks are unconventional.
	Deep, right?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Deep, deep are unconventional.
	So here's my take.
	President Trump has just received the Electoral College in a sweep, including all seven of the battleground states.
	He's received remarkable proportion of not only the Hispanic vote, crushing, crushing proportions, but also the black vote, especially the male vote.
	Oh, and white women as well.
	Huh, weird how we were told for eight years suburban white women hate President Trump.
	Mean tweets, mean tweets.
	Hmm, not so much.
	And...
	The popular vote, despite the fact that in the last 72 hours, the mainstream legacy media has already begun the gaslighting on the popular...
	Oh, it's not that much of a...
	No.
	Oh, it's a little bit less...
	Oh, it's not 51...
	It's less...
	It's not so big...
	They're still doing it.
	Thirteen days after the crushing defeat of the woman we were told would have a clean sweep.
	Incredible result for the president.
	Oh, and by the way, I think Jeff said this in our production meeting today.
	What did you say, Jeff?
	You said, know what, he never has to have anybody vote for him again.
	What did you say?
	How did you put it?
	I said he'll never have to face a voter again.
	He'll never ever have to face a voter.
	I'm going to miss the rallies.
	Are you going to miss the rallies, Jeff?
	He'll still have rallies.
	Eric, we need rallies, don't we?
	Can we have like a monthly rally after he's president?
	Maybe once a month, yeah, because he's got to focus on getting the work done.
	This is true.
	Fair point, fair point.
	So...
	Here's the math of it.
	Take away all the distractions.
	Take the meat off the bone and look at the superstructure.
	President Trump never needs to be elected again.
	He can't run for the presidency.
	This is it.
	He has signaled, according to unnamed sources, I cannot confirm that, that he's more than willing to use recess appointments He can recess the Senate, Congress, it's his power as a sitting president, and say, well, okay, you're in recess, so I'm just going to appoint my cabinet members, and in two years' time, then you can vote on it.
	But for two years, until the midterms, that's handy, they're going to be the department heads, the secretaries, the agency directors.
	And I don't expect a need for any kind of compromise.
	If you're going to compromise, if you're going to play footsie under the table with the Rhinos, with the Thunes of the Worlds, with the Murkowskis, you don't pick Pete Hegseth.
	Great choice.
	You don't pick Matt Gaetz.
	You just don't because you play it safe.
	You make everybody somebody who can get, you know, 51 votes or a tiebreaker with JD. He didn't do that.
	And who better?
	Just think of those two choices.
	You know, RFK is a different case, you know, Tarsi is a different case.
	Let's just focus on those two.
	You need to listen.
	I bought his book at the weekend.
	I think it's War on the Warriors is the title.
	Pete Hexeth, his diagnosis is so on the money.
	Our warriors have been betrayed.
	It's not just that we haven't won a war since 1991 as the biggest military force in the world.
	With the use of our military as the final petri dish of social engineering, an entity that had to obey the orders of Obama, of Biden, They have infected our military with wokeism, but not in the kind of cutesy wokeism, but in the kind that gets people killed.
	The fact that the fitness standards have been thrown out of the window, the fact that Green Berets come back from teaching small unit tactics to the Baltic nations who are on the cusp of potentially getting invaded by Russia, and they're put in Fort Bragg.
	Fort Bragg!
	Thank you very much.
	Into mandatory pronoun training after they arrive back from actually doing, you know, war-y, snake-y to staff.
	And he gets the threat of China, as does Marco Rubio.
	You don't have to like Marco Rubio, but man is he a hawk on the number one strategic threat to America, and that's Xi Jinping and the CCP. And with DOJ, wow, DOJ, no one better than Matt Gaetz, 20 months investigated for a fake sex trafficking thing that just magically disappears.
	Yeah.
	God bless Molly Hemingway.
	This is what she said at the weekend.
	Cut 18.
	Right.
	Matt Gaetz was nominated for this position because we have a problem at the Department of Justice.
	For the last eight years, they have run roughshod over rule of law in this country.
	They have prosecuted political opponents.
	They ran the Russia collusion hoax.
	And too many people in Washington, D.C. did not stand up against what was happening there.
	And many Americans are upset about it.
	Matt Gaetz is one of the most effective people at fighting that Russia collusion hoax and other information operations.
	Whether it was the Brett Kavanaugh information operation, the Donald Trump Russia collusion hoax information operation, or the one that is referenced here, which is something that the FBI and Department of Justice, which hate Matt Gaetz looked into and cleared him of any wrongdoing.
	The idea that we're The issue is corruption.
	It's the Department of Justice's corruption.
	And people are sick and tired of people in Washington, D.C. doing nothing as these people tried to destroy the country and getting upset at someone who actually might root out the corruption there.
	We don't have a Department of Justice.
	We have a Department of Injustice.
	And that's why you get Matt Gaetz as a nominee.
	Who better to clean out the stables than the person who's been victimized by that entity for years?
	Go Matt Gaetz!
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	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, we've got Corcoran.
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	- You know, I got so many cuts, we're good.
	Yeah.
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	It's Storming the Ivory Tower, how a Florida college became ground zero in the struggle to take back our campuses.
	Richard Corcoran, welcome to America First.
	Thanks.
	It's an honor to be on your show, Sebastian.
	So tell us what the story in the book is about.
	Everybody needs to read it and then how it applies to the next 2, 4, 10, 20 years in America.
	Yeah, well, basically, I would just say it's a continuing conversation.
	This isn't a new conversation.
	You had William F. Buckley in the early 50s write Godman in Yale.
	You had Closing the American Mind in the late 80s.
	And then now this is another version of it, another 30 years later.
	And I think what we wrote here with the folks is we basically said, this is how you fight.
	Indoctrination has been taking place on university campuses for, you know, 50-plus years.
	What do we do about it?
	And here's what we did at arguably the most liberal public liberal arts school in the country and how we changed it dramatically in 15 months.
	And that's really—it's a book about fighting, putting the thoughts and the frustrations into a strategy that ends up in victory.
	Everybody should read the story because it really is an exemplar, a model for other states and other schools.
	But in a nutshell, what is the story of this college and what happened there?
	Well, really, you know, it started in 1960.
	It was a public liberal arts school, private, then public.
	And basically it became one of the most liberal college campuses in the country.
	Other people who came in and did studies and evaluated, they were saying, hey, you know, it's all liberal students.
	It's heavily LGBTQ. Students come in, identify as a very strong liberal Democrat, and they left after a semester.
	We led the state university system and kids who left, and they left because they were canceled.
	They weren't liberal enough.
	And so the governor basically said, enough is enough.
	This is a public institution.
	Paid for by taxpayers.
	What we want is a great liberal arts institution, a great balanced approach where we teach kids how to think but not what to think.
	And he reconstituted the whole board.
	That board chose me, and we systematically went to work.
	We eliminated DEI. We eliminated gender studies as a discipline.
	We cleaned house with a lot of the staff.
	An exodus of faculty, an exodus of students, replaced by the greatest And largest classes in the school's history, two years back to back, 40 plus new faculty members.
	We really have crossed the Rubicon in showing that you can do it.
	And this is the way you want to educate people.
	You want them to have that great, balanced approach and understand those and wrestle with those great questions of time.
	What was the key that made it possible there that maybe was missing elsewhere?
	Was it involvement of parents?
	Was it faculty members who saw what needed to be done?
	Would you say there was some magic ingredient that made it possible there?
	Yeah, and a word.
	At the last chapter, I talked about the nine things that really have changed education at New College.
	And number one is leadership.
	I mean, we had a governor who said, I'll step in and appoint a whole new board.
	He appoints a whole new board, Christopher Ruffo, Matthew Spaulding, all these great academics and doctors and lawyers.
	And then those folks chose me to be the president, and we systematically went in there.
	Every day is a fight.
	The progressive left never takes a break.
	They sued us.
	They had auditors.
	They had SACS accreditors.
	They had everything under the sun against us.
	We had to fight every single day.
	This school had never had a faculty grievance.
	We're on faculty grievance number 14 in 18 months.
	I mean, it's just a constant onslaught, but you have to fight.
	And it's basically the leadership from the governor to the trustees, to the boots on the ground.
	Personnel, you know, it's policy.
	You know that.
	And so we bought in all new personnel in the key leadership positions.
	All of those things were just game changer.
	And you have to do them all, and you have to fight every single day.
	And what about COVID? Can you talk to us about how COVID, without COVID, we may not have seen this flourishing of homeschooling and the parents going to the school boards and saying, hang on, there are children.
	How important was the COVID wake up, Richard?
	Oh, I say the two silver linings to two catastrophic events.
	One is the fact that we had to endure basically a government shutdown of a free society under COVID. The silver lining, if we can point to it, is the entire world, soccer moms, parents, started hearing what was being taught and said in their kids' classroom, and it caused an absolute parental right revolt, which we've never seen before and is still ongoing.
	And then the second one was October 7th, when we saw the reaction of these universities that we think are giving a balanced Wonderful, world-class education to our students.
	And you weren't even safe on campuses if you were a certain faith or from a certain culture.
	And when everyone saw that, it was like, Katie, bar the door.
	We need to take back our universities, too.
	Both were significant factors in the revolution in education from pre-K all the way through the universities.
	I'm going to ask an odd question.
	We're talking to Richard Corcoran, former commissioner of education in Florida.
	He's now president of the new college in Florida, Storming the Ivory Tower.
	I have kids who went to very woke colleges and they survived.
	What do you say to the children who are in these institutions before they're reformed?
	What do you say to them?
	I think you have to fight for the future students, the current students, and And even the students that have gone through that process, it's shocking when you took—I have six children, Sebastian, and three are in public institutions and university, and three are currently in public institutions in the K-12 realm.
	And the issue is, how do you change it?
	And one of the ideas in the back of the book, as I agree with President Trump on this, is you have to blow up, you have to gut, you have to demolish the Department of Education.
	But I would not abolish it.
	That's different.
	I think you need to send a SEAL team in there that looks at everything and says, wait a second, we are in control of billions of dollars.
	You, Gavin Newsom and Governor Hochul and you guys, Whitmire, you want to say you're not going to comply?
	That's fine.
	We're not sending you tens of billions of dollars.
	And we will break them with the power of the purse.
	That's what we did in Florida under COVID. We basically said to our liberal counties, nope, You can't mask kids.
	You can't force mask kids.
	You can't close your doors.
	You have to open.
	You have to educate.
	You can't indoctrinate.
	We did it all with the power of the purse.
	And we have to do that at the federal level.
	There is more damage being done by the teachers union at the local and state level than at the federal level.
	We're talking to Richard Corcoran.
	Follow him right now at Richard Corcoran, president of the New College of Florida.
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	And so when anyone tests them, they get frightened because they're Their reputation, I guess, they're trying so hard to protect it.
	But Americans see the truth about CNN. They are an anti-Trump institution, no doubt about it.
	And by censoring me and cutting off my microphone, they actually proved our campaign's point, that President Trump is walking into a three-on-one debate on Thursday night.
	Caroline Levitt, the National Press Secretary spokesperson for the Trump campaign, was announced.
	I think we were still in Mar-a-Lago.
	Yeah, we were leaving West Palm Beach Saturday morning, and she has been announced as the White House Press Secretary.
	Congratulations, Caroline.
	Oh my gosh, she did an incredible job during the campaign, and she's going to be superb.
	At the podium and with the rest of her team taking it to the fake news industrial complex, which this has to be one of the most embarrassing things that they've ever decided to do, which is hard because every morning they embarrass themselves.
	Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
	Who used to pal around with President Trump, were desperate to get him on their show, and then have just smeared him for the last eight years.
	What did they do?
	They just got back on bended knee and said, Please, sir, please, can we go to Mar-a-Lago?
	Can we interview you again?
	No, if you don't believe me, listen to them.
	Cut nine!
	Over the past week, Joe and I have heard from so many people, from political leaders to regular citizens, deeply dismayed by several of President-elect Trump's cabinet selections.
	And they are scared.
	Last Thursday, we expressed our own concerns on this broadcast and even said we would appreciate the opportunity to speak with the president-elect himself.
	On Friday, we were given the opportunity to do just that.
	Joe and I went to Mar-a-Lago to meet personally with president-elect Trump.
	It was the first time we have seen him in seven years.
	Now, we talked about a lot of issues, including abortion, mass deportation, threats of political retribution against political opponents, and media outlets.
	We talked about that a good bit.
	And it's going to come as no surprise to anybody who watches this show, has watched it over the past year or over the past decade, that we didn't see eye to eye on a lot of issues, and we told him so.
	Oh no, really?
	You mean the man you've called Hitler and a white supremacist and a misogynist and a criminal for the last seven years?
	You didn't see eye to eye with him?
	Jeff, if I'd known that they were at Mar-a-Lago when we were at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, would that have been fun to just walk in on Meeker and Joe?
	That would have been great, yeah.
	So what do we think?
	Because I didn't know they were there.
	I was there for a party and then hid the president.
	I thought it's interesting because I watch the show all the time.
	They're off prompter all the time.
	They just did that with a teleprompter.
	They couldn't just say what happened.
	Hang on, hang on.
	That clip was teleprompter?
	Watch Joe's eyes and you can tell by the way he's talking.
	Why do they have to script that for them?
	Which is interesting.
	You can tell by the way he brings up the topics and everything.
	It's off teleprompter.
	Let me watch his eyes while you play that.
	He's staring.
	He's reading something.
	He's getting ready to talk.
	You know what I did?
	I made a big mistake, Jeff.
	So after the party at Mar-a-Lago, I checked into our hotel with Stevie and...
	I switched on MSNBC and CNN. I actually watched it for once.
	It is shocking.
	I don't know how you do it, Jeff.
	It is utterly shocking.
	They just say stuff.
	They just say, like, Matt Gaetz, yeah, pedophile, yeah, Russian evidence of collusion, yeah, President Trump, Putin.
	They just say it for an hour.
	I've actually enjoyed MSNBC more than ever since the election.
	Why?
	Well, the first week we could have, now they're kind of back into attack mode onto the cabinet picks.
	But for the first week, just in shock, just the complaining, just not believing it.
	It was very enjoyable to watch.
	But what do you think happened inside that interview?
	Do you think it was like Romney at Bedminster?
	Like, please, please, will you be friends with me again?
	What do you think it was like with Meeker in the Yeah, but he said he read in the teleprompter that we talked about many things.
	What do you think the tape's going to be like when they drop it?
	What do you think they really talked about?
	I bet you Joe and Miko were nice, is what I think.
	Oh, no, I bet they were grovelly nice.
	Yes, exactly.
	Oh, totally.
	Yes, exactly.
	They wouldn't say anything to his face, because they need him, right?
	They need him for the next four years.
	Exactly, with their ratings.
	Right, because they're in the tank.
	Oh, my gosh, I wish.
	We were probably right there, right there, outside by the swimming pool, and they're inside with the president playing with them like a cat plays with a dying mouse.
	Oh, I wish I'd known.
	I wish I'd known.
	I'm Sebastian Gorka.
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	I don't need a script.
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	I can tell you about Relief Factor.
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	I think I can do that.
	I look away from the camera.
	I know my bosses at Salem love me to look into the camera, but I can tell you...
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	I took relief factor because of a lower back pain issue that plagued me for almost a decade for nine years.
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	And keep the hat on.
	Keep the hat on.
	Don't you shake your head at me.
	How dare you shake your head at me.
	All right, just for a minute, you're going to talk about Relief Factor, right, Stevie?
	Oh, get the top cut.
	I sure am.
	The microphone isn't in the box.
	The microphone is in the boom.
	Get the top cut.
	Okay.
	I have the Genova cut.
	Oh, good.
	Let me hear it when you're ready.
	Oh, yeah, one second.
	It should be the very top one.
	There's a couple of them, but...
	No, I didn't have seven.
	Did you also want to send that to Casio?
	Shouldn't we?
	Yeah, I would.
	Okay.
	This clip is new.
	It's not from seven years ago.
	Unbelievable.
	It's not from eight years ago.
	Unbelievable.
	I've got to convert the cut.
	It was an audio cut, so I'm covering it to a video cut so I can play it on my end.
	Okay.
	Apparently that's gone away now, but I guess the Fox Chiron says the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court ruled again.
	I saw that.
	Another ruling?
	They had to, I guess, in response to the freaks and bucks count.
	Otherwise Fox wouldn't run that as like, oh, breaking news.
	And the ruling was they can't count undated ballots.
	How do you need a Supreme Court to rule that?
	Yeah, I know.
	They had to make a ruling again because I think the first ruling was November 1st or something right before the election What have we got at the top here, Sweden Sweegars.
	Okay, real quick, I have the audio now.
	I think almost more important than Matt Gaetz is firing Christopher Wray right away or allowing him to leave quickly along with Paul Abate, his chief deputy.
	They are the architects of the great assault on civil rights and civil liberties of middle America against school boards and attendees.
	How long is it?
	33 seconds.
	33?
	Okay, coming with 16.
	16.
	And I'll do cigars and then I'll tee that up.
	Yep.
	Alrighty.
	I'm calling a cut 19.
	Mm-hmm.
	Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm.
	We'll be right back.
	The reason that Matt Gaetz is such an exciting pick to so many people is because he will go in and reform the Department of Justice.
	It desperately needs it.
	Look, he and I sat on the Judiciary Committee together for almost seven years before I became Speaker of the House, and we heard the evidence.
	We saw the evidence of lawfare.
	We saw how the Department of Justice had been used for political purposes, how they targeted Catholics in some examples and parents at school boards and pro-life Americans.
	This is not what our system of justice was built to do.
	And Matt Gaetz will go in there and shake it up.
	And I think most of the American people understand that's an important function.
	Speaker Johnson doing his part.
	He's got Matt Gaetz's back.
	And what does President Trump have to do on January the 20th with his team at the FBI, at the DOJ? I got a text from one of our listeners this morning saying at 7 a.m., your buddy, Joe DeGeneva, he's on WMAL with Larry O'Connor and he's on fire.
	Let's have a little listen.
	I think almost more important than Matt Gaetz is firing Christopher Wray right away or allowing him to leave quickly along with Paul Abate, his chief deputy.
	They are the architects of the great assault on civil rights and civil liberties of middle America.
	Against school board attendees, against Catholics, you name it.
	Christopher Wray has presided over the worst, most disgraceful tenure, other than the end of the Comey administration.
	The whole, whole audio will be posted.
	Make sure you're following us on all social media.
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	However, I wish to expand upon what I said in the last segment concerning...
	Concerning some testimonials about one of our greatest advertisers, from the man who gives us the best liners in the universe, Stephen Galvin, are you still with us?
	I am indeed.
	How many new liners have you written for us in the last two hours?
	Quite a few, as it turns out.
	That's not a numerical amount.
	How many?
	God, you're so precise.
	I have 15 ready to go for you, maybe even more than that.
	How many did I tell you you must write by the end of the show today?
	Well, as you're such a hard taskmaster, I believe it was around 30, was it not?
	Eric, am I a hard taskmaster?
	Oh, I was going to say that 30 was indeed the amount requested.
	Say yes, Eric.
	He's known me for 44 years, so he knows how he'd treat me.
	Stephen, you said something to friends of ours who were visiting yesterday about Relief Factor.
	We like to have people outside of the host celebrate these amazing products that make the show possible, because this isn't NPR. We actually work for a living.
	So tell us your quite unique experience, because I was trying to reach you one day, and you were basically like...
	Flat out.
	What had happened to you?
	Well, I was due to board a flight to come to see you.
	Before I'd even left the house, I got out of bed and I had a crippling muscle spasm in my lower back.
	Just literally could not move.
	I took some relief factor, just one packet, and within a couple of hours I was mobile again.
	I was up running around dancing a jig.
	Well, you are Irish and Welsh, so relief factor for you.
	You are absolutely a fan, correct?
	Most definitely.
	It does work.
	All right.
	You heard it here first from the United Kingdom, Steve Galvin, with his testimonial.
	Oh, by the way, Stevie, are the Brits following what's been happening here in America for the last 13 days?
	Oh, yes, for sure.
	And what do you think of some of the picks in people like Matt Gaetz and Hexeth?
	I think, personally, Matt Gaetz is a great pick, but there are people on the left, especially in Britain, and the now socialist government of Keir Starmer, who absolutely detests it, and even more the media.
	So, I guess you won't agree with this person, who's a never-Trumper, a pathetic man called Tom Nichols, who definitely needs PhD weight loss, on MSNBC talking about my buddy Pete Hexeth, cut 11.
	I think the most dangerous of these nominations is actually Hexeth.
	And I'm kind of startled that we're not sitting here talking more about taking a morning Fox host and sticking him in the nuclear chain of command.
	To lead one of the largest bureaucracies in the United States and in the world, including the person that's supposed to look after the most powerful fighting force on the planet.
	Of which he was a member.
	Eric, why is putting a two-times Bronze Star recipient, veteran of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, who also served at Guantanamo Bay, why is that so very dangerous to put him in charge of the military?
	Clearly, he's not experienced enough.
	He needs to have worked at a major defense contractor for 30 years, like Raytheon, so then he can, you know, make a crack of a little deal with his buddies once he's in the position, obviously.
	Oh, I get it.
	And then what was...
	Oh, yeah, this is even better.
	So that was just...
	Tom Nichols is just risible.
	He's a clown.
	But this, this clip, attacking my buddy Kash Patel...
	I don't know where they find these people.
	It's truly stunning.
	Where is this card?
	Oh yeah, Daniel Brunner.
	Who is, Jeff, who is Daniel Brunner?
	What are his qualifications?
	Ex-CIA guy?
	Ex-FBI guy?
	Is that right?
	Yeah, his qualifications are that he's ex-FBI and he'll say what they want him to say about Kash Patel.
	Oh, probably reading the teleprompter as well.
	So, Kash Patel, who I'll talk about his buy in a second, because if you're a regular listener, you know, but maybe you forgot.
	This is CNN, ex-FBI agent, his take on Kash Patel.
	Putting someone like Kash Patel in the position of director of the FBI is, I believe, extremely, extremely dangerous.
	Because you just alluded to that his resume isn't his traditional.
	There is nothing on his resume other than three years as a line U.S. attorney at the DOJ. He has no experience leading an organization, no less a Cub Scout pack.
	No experience leading an organization, let alone a Cub Scout Pack.
	So, Kash Patel was a counter-terrorism prosecutor at the Department of Justice, chief investigator for the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and what else did he do after that?
	Oh, yes!
	Acting Deputy Director of National Intelligence for the United States.
	Overseeing 17 intelligence agencies.
	Can I add one more thing he did for the Trump administration?
	Chief of Staff of the Defense Department.
	Not like one little bit of it.
	Like, oh, I don't know, the Defense Intelligence Agency or, you know...
	Foreign aid to military allies.
	No.
	The whole shebang.
	The Pentagon.
	Chief of Staff of the Pentagon.
	The biggest entity out there.
	But no, I'm on CNN, and I'm being paid as a bureaucrat, former Fed.
	Pathetic.
	These people really think you're stupid.
	Well, at least the viewers of that show.
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	Mike, son.
	That guy has 600 followers on Twitter.
	Are you joking?
	It's a real account.
	Hang on, hang on.
	How old is his account?
	Since October 23.
	He was retweeted once last week.
	Let me see here.
	My favorite thing, too, about that clip from MSNBC when they were complaining about it.
	And he's active, too.
	That's the funniest thing.
	It's not like one of these people never uses it.
	How can you tell?
	I'm just looking through his feed.
	He tweets...
	Sorry, Eric.
	The Hegseth clip.
	As they're talking about, oh, he's a danger, he's a dangerous pick.
	They're showing pictures of him in a cowboy hat and with the Fox sunglasses on.
	They're making him look cool.
	Like, they don't really, they don't get it.
	That's not cool.
	If you're a Democrat, cowboy hats?
	The tuxedo and cowboy hat combo is something I never thought would look good, but he actually makes it look pretty good.
	Steve, tuxedos with cowboy hats?
	Definitely.
	Alright.
	Alright, have you done 30?
	Sure, yeah.
	You've got 5 minutes and 50 seconds.
	You know that, right?
	Yeah, I'll do 30 for you.
	Get your ass in gear.
	Yeah.
	It's a nice day, right?
	It's such a lying piece of crap.
	You really are.
	You lie straight to my face for 44 years.
	You're so far away right now.
	You've been lying to my face for 44 years and you think it's funny, don't you?
	It is funny.
	I guess you don't want to eat tonight.
	Yeah, I'll do 33.
	Yeah, after you've left.
	Come in with 12.
	I can't wait to...
	I didn't...
	I want to believe Elon when he said this.
	And I texted him a few weeks before the election and told him, you know, I hadn't believed you when you said this at first.
	But I think it's because psychologically I don't want to believe that.
	I don't want to believe that the country is so far gone that you have to leave the country or something.
	But then it was the sense in which I felt that he was correct was that if...
	If Trump, with what I think much better substance, much better on so many things, could not win in 2024 against the machine, the machine would always win.
	And if the machine always wins, you no longer have a democracy.
	Quite a statement.
	That's Peter Thiel, one of the first billionaires...
	Silicon Valley tech giants, Palantir and everything else, who came out in support of President Trump the first time around.
	What did he say?
	I didn't want to believe what Elon said.
	If the machine wins...
	13 days ago, in 2024, if it wins, it'll win forever.
	That's it.
	So expect to see some people from Peter Thiel's team.
	We had them in the National Security Council when I was in the administration, so I'm sure that there will be a repeat of some of those or new faces from the team that is doing amazing things in the private sector.
	I've got to share this brick suit just recently.
	Bricksuit, the guy who's at every Trump rally, has just shared this on Twitter.
	It's a video from the meeting, the global summit in Rio de Janeiro with heads of state.
	Joe Biden, and he's got the video here from C-SPAN, Joe Biden just missed the heads of state photograph at the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
	He was literally just a few yards away.
	Nobody noticed he was missing and they took the photograph without him.
	What's going to happen?
	What is it?
	We've got 61 days left, right?
	62 days left, 61 days left until the inauguration.
	What is that guy going to do in the next 60 days?
	It's frightening.
	Can they just put him in the old people's home now, please?
	Please, send Kamala back to California.
	Let's celebrate with that moment that maybe won it for the president.
	So many things did, from Butler to the mugshot.
	But the garbage comment.
	We've put it on our latest America First piece of gear.
	President Trump in the garbage truck, driving up to the White House with the label, he's back.
	I dearly wish, I'm going to tell the team, I'm going to tell them, can we do that after the inauguration?
	Just, you know, he does the usual walk with Melania, and then for the last 100 yards.
	Can you get back in the dump truck and drive it and say, we're taking out the trash?
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	See things you people wouldn't believe.
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	We, the undersigned, Our men without a country.
	Outlaws in our own land and homeless outcasts in any other.
	Desperate men we go to seek a desperate fortune.
	Therefore we do here and now band ourselves into a brotherhood of buccaneers...
	...to practice the trade of piracy on the high seas.
	We, the hunted, will now hunt.
	The Brotherhood of Buccaneers, the seminal speech from the movie Captain Blood.
	We're going back in time to the beginning, really, of the talky swashbuckler.
	And this time we are expanding the aperture.
	Not just Mr.
	Reagan, Chris Gold's Making Movies Great Again with us, but the man who chose it from Zenga News, the one and only Rich Miniter.
	Gentlemen, welcome back to Making Movies Great Again.
	It's always great, Seb.
	Always great.
	So, Rich, why is this an important movie?
	Well, this is an important movie for three very brief reasons.
	One, it influences so much that comes after, and I'm sure we're going to talk a lot about that, but everything from Pirates of the Caribbean to Princess Bride and a million other movies.
	Secondly, I think it relates very closely to our time.
	The movie begins with a doctor who becomes Dr.
	Blood, later becomes Captain Blood of the movie title, in which he treats men who have been injured in a political civil war.
	He's not taking sides.
	He's trying to save lives and do the right thing.
	But he's rounded up with the rest of them, put through a show trial in which his cries of innocence and begs for decency are not heard by a corrupt court.
	And he's punished by being put into slavery, which is actually something that happened in the 1600s and 1700s in England at that time, and sent to the Caribbean to be sold as a slave and to suffer and die in the fields.
	He changes his fate, which is another important theme of this movie, not just people being swept into politics and punished for no reason, although I think people can relate to that today, but also the other thing people can relate to today is you can still change your fate.
	Like an ancient Greek hero, through wit, intelligence, cleverness, seeing opportunities, he's able to free himself and many of his former shipmates and become a pirate and ultimately a kind of prince and gets the girl.
	So it's still possible to change your fate.
	It's also an interesting movie that cannot be made today, not because of the action sequences, but because of the nature of the relationship between men and women.
	Right.
	We'll get to the relationship between the slaveholder and the slave and the fact that he gets the girl in the end.
	But before we jump into the story itself, would you say a few words about this fascinating context historically, the 1600s, the Monmouth Rebellion, and why this isn't all fiction.
	I mean, this author, Sabatini, did a lot of research for this story.
	Well, first of all, Raphael Sabatini is writing a lot in the 1920s, 1930s.
	is very much worth reading, not because he's a great scholar, because he just writes these fantastic stories of which Captain Blood is just one of them.
	Several of his other books were also made into movies, which are classics as well.
	He's just a great adventure yarn.
	But for the politics of this, The English Civil War was a brutal battle, and it should sound familiar to us, right?
	It was really a battle between the population of the cities and the population of the countryside.
	The countryside was more traditional.
	It followed a version of Anglicanism that was very close to Roman Catholicism after Henry VIII split from the Church of Rome.
	And the cities were part of a younger demographic of middle-income people who wore round hats.
	They were called the round heads.
	They wore caps, kind of like ski caps today.
	We're baseball caps today.
	And they wanted to blow up all ideas of traditional society.
	And some of them were free love.
	Some of them were imposed to any hierarchies at all, not just the church, but with business, with government.
	Most of them were anti-king, anti-tradition, and that was the battle between these two.
	And there were times in which the pro-royalty forces won, but in the end they lost the war.
	And that's the historical background here.
	Chris, this is suffused with that historic context.
	But even if you know nothing about the Monmouth Rebellion, this is a rip-roaring story anybody could enjoy, no?
	Oh, absolutely.
	You know, whilst I was watching this, I couldn't help but to think this is such a pure adventure story.
	And we just don't get that anymore in Hollywood.
	You will occasionally get a film like this, like, you know, like the Fast and Furious films are, I guess, kind of an equivalent today where it's just like a popcorn movie.
	You don't have to think too much about it.
	But this also, of course, does have that layer of history to it.
	And so if you do want to think a little bit about the history or about the politics, and Rich makes such a good point that it's so relatable today, especially with, say, like, I don't know, the January 6th prisoners where you've got these people who are completely unjustly prosecuted, unjustly imprisoned. the January 6th prisoners where you've got these people who And hopefully that will all be rectified very soon.
	You always bring it up to the present.
	That usually takes you about 30 minutes.
	We're like seven minutes into this and you've already contextualized it for today.
	So congratulations.
	That's the fastest you've ever done.
	Nevertheless, let's get back to the story itself.
	This Film, 1935.
	Chris, you're an actor.
	You're a screenwriter.
	How many movies do you think were birthed or copied this 1930s movie?
	Oh my god, yeah.
	I mean, countless, countless.
	Because I don't think people really realize how many pirate films were made in the early years of cinema.
	I mean, it was just pirate film after pirate film.
	And I think a lot of it was inspired by this, by Captain Blood.
	And there was a lot of other adventure films as well that came after this, like Robin Hood.
	Obviously, there was a lot of stuff that Errol Flynn did, and these kinds of films became super, super popular.
	And this, of course, laid the groundwork for a lot of the adventure films, a lot of the action films that we see even today.
	It's kind of a timeless story.
	People love pirates.
	People love this idea of the rogue.
	People love this idea of somebody even within the context of a group of scoundrels Having some sense of decency.
	I feel a little bit that way now where I am currently in Indonesia.
	I do find myself on an island full of, you know, sort of scandalous characters.
	And I do, you know, relate very much.
	Are you carrying a saber between your teeth?
	Are you swinging through the rigging as we speak, Chris?
	Well, that's a secret, Sebastian Gorka.
	You're going to have to come to Bali to find out.
	All right.
	Rich, this is perhaps the birth of the swashbuckler.
	I mean, as a talkie, right?
	Absolutely.
	It had been made before, silent movies, but with Errol Flynn, with Curtis, who would give us Robin Hood, who would give us Casablanca.
	In and of itself, it's an epoch-making movie because this is the first real big swashbuckler.
	That's right.
	And after this, Hollywood says, oh, it works.
	Let's do 500 copies of this, right?
	Which is how Hollywood still works today.
	But, you know, the history, which seems somewhat obscure to us, bear in mind that public education was far better when this movie came out.
	And Monmouth County, New Jersey, is named after the Monmouth Rebellion, right?
	And the people who settled in Monmouth County, New Jersey, were the pro-monarchy rebels initially.
	So this was not obscure history To Americans of the 1920s, 30s, they knew this.
	We often forget this, that the audience back then didn't need stuff explained to them, didn't need lots of text scroll of this is why you're watching this story.
	They were educated.
	That's right.
	The screenwriters could count on an iceberg, right, where most of it floats beneath the surface.
	That's what the public already understood.
	So they just needed to remind them of the tops of the iceberg, and the rest would come to life.
	So they knew this history.
	They knew the backstory.
	And the audience also knew something else, that when you give anyone, no matter what their ideology, unlimited power, they will abuse it.
	And this movie is not just really a pirate movie, but it's about decent and right, triumphing over arrogant power.
	In this case, both the representatives of the government, but also some crooked private actors, too.
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	What would you like done with it, Miss Bishop?
	Why, I... I don't know.
	You're extremely foolish.
	It might have cost you your life.
	It was fortunate for you that I was here to save you.
	I hardly consider it fortunate to be bought by anyone by the name of Bishop.
	You could learn a lesson in gratitude.
	I could thank you for not interfering.
	As it happens, you are hardly in a position to have anything to say about it.
	You may join the others belonging to my uncle, and henceforth you may take your orders from him.
	You're a very humble slave, Miss Bishop.
	Rich, look, for someone like me who grows up seeing Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone in Robin Hood swinging through the chandeliers, this movie is a little bit jarring because you see Errol Flynn as a slave.
	And this isn't Charlton Heston in a Roman galley.
	This is just 300 years ago.
	Will you talk to us about why this is such an important part of the story?
	Well...
	It was well known to the audience in the 1930s when this came out.
	By the way, this movie was made about three, four years before Robin Hood, right?
	Yes, yes.
	This is the first real success for Errol Flynn.
	Yes, I think so.
	So slavery was a better understood topic at the time, and there was a shockingly large amount of white slaves, of English people born in England, of the white race, who were sent as slaves to the Caribbean, to Australia, to South Africa, and other places.
	And so this movie references that.
	Some of them were called indentured servants, but some of them were just Isn't it important that on several occasions Errol Flynn's character says that, you know, he's Irish, right?
	Because of the indentured servitude thing, that, you know, I'm Irish, I'm Irish, I'm Irish.
	This is part of the historic context.
	That's right.
	And Irish is, if you know a lot of history here, is a little confusing, because does he mean Irish Protestant or Irish Catholic, right?
	And those two groups of people were both Irish, but both treated very differently at the time.
	Chris, let's look at this other moment for me that is where I really stopped being distracted and I paid attention.
	And it's when Dr.
	Blood is in the court with scores of other people who are on the wrong side of politics.
	They're all pleading guilty.
	He says no.
	And as a medical professional, he speaks up and he says this to the judge.
	If these other traitors are as stubborn as you, I may sit here till the next assizes.
	Very well, then.
	Faith, it's a witness I'll give you that you can't deny.
	Yourself, sir.
	For if I'm not a physician, how is it I know that you're a dying man?
	The death to which you're dooming hundreds of poor men daily, in a frantic effort to send their souls to perdition before your own, is a light pleasantry compared to the bleeding death in the lungs to which the is a light pleasantry compared to the bleeding death in the lungs to which the Now, fellow, we'll be done with witnesses.
	And I will convict you out of your own rascally mouth.
	Chris, you know how to write.
	You know how to act.
	This scene for me, hey, that judge is horrifically terrifying.
	And then this moment where he just pierces through all the politics and he says...
	I can see you're dying of lung cancer.
	This is real drama, is it not?
	Absolutely.
	And look, it's a little bit different than what you would expect in a film today.
	I think a lot of modern viewers would look at this acting, you know, as a bit theatrical, you know, because it was a little bit stylized for the time.
	But if you can get past that, if you can actually get into the film a little bit, it's actually quite a powerful scene.
	And the way the judge expresses himself is, as you say, quite scary.
	And you kind of buy him as the judge...
	This kind of authority figure that has way too much power, clearly, and is very petty and personal.
	And Errol Flynn does seem passionate, and he does care about justice and goodness and all of these things.
	It creates this dynamic that you, I think, believe throughout the rest of the film, which is that Errol Flynn is the good guy and he's up against the great machine of evil that is oftentimes the government out to take down the little guy.
	And that's a theme that exists throughout the film up until the end, of course.
	And you really root for him, even though he's the bad guy in a way.
	He's a pirate.
	He's stealing.
	He's murdering.
	He's doing all these bad things throughout the film.
	But you love him, and you side with him, and you kind of relate to him.
	And I think they do a really great job of that in this film.
	And from beginning to end, it's really, I would say, a clear and simple story told very, very well So much so that the audience, I think, can, you know, it's like a fairy tale, right?
	You can follow along with it and you have fun like a roller coaster.
	You know, to me, this is like a perfect movie.
	And it makes total sense that this was such a big hit and this inspired so many other films and so many other great films.
	A lot of really great films were inspired by this.
	And I think that's a real testament to how amazing this picture really is.
	And, Rich, these aren't just, you know, former theater actors truing up the scenery for the sake of melodrama.
	I mean, this period of history was melodramatic.
	Absolutely.
	And that's how those people acted, right?
	But two things here.
	One is, a watchable character is someone who does larger-than-life, unexpected things.
	And what you expect Daryl Flynn to say in this scene is, Hang on, Your Honor.
	I'm a medical doctor.
	I have a moral duty to treat the wounded who present themselves literally knocking on my front door in the first scene of this movie.
	He doesn't say that.
	Instead, he challenges the judge's authority by showing his own medical authority.
	That's a larger-than-life character.
	That's inherently worth watching, because the audience immediately looks to the judge and says, what are you going to say back to that?
	And the second thing is, The judge is dying from lung cancer.
	And at the time, the audience would have assumed that personal maladies were the cause of moral maladies, that he was morally deformed, and therefore he had a health problem.
	And that is something that the audience would immediately get.
	That's an iceberg kind of thing, that this judge is both morally and physically unwell.
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	Alright, let's get into the cinematography along with the drama.
	Here we have the moment of Dr.
	Blood about to be arrested.
	This image here, this is classic Curtis of the use of the shadow.
	He's helping a man in come the bad guys who don't care who you are.
	They're going to arrest you and here they go.
	I'm Captain Hobart of Colonel Kirk's Dragoons.
	What rebels do you harbor?
	No rebels.
	This wounded gentleman...
	No need to ask how he came by his wounds.
	A rebel.
	Out with him.
	This man can't be moved without peril to his life.
	On who the devil may you be?
	Peter Blood, medicinae baccalaureus.
	Don't fling your French at me!
	Latin, my dull friend.
	It means I'm a doctor.
	Or a liar!
	If your wit were as big as your voice, my dear, it's the great man you'd be by this.
	You may find me great enough to hang you.
	Faith, yes, I don't doubt it.
	You've the looks and manners of a hangman.
	Take him away, and the others too.
	If your wit were as great as your voice...
	Chris, this is not a modern film.
	It's made almost a hundred years...
	That's crazy.
	Almost a hundred years ago.
	Wow.
	Nine years short of a century.
	But...
	Does the emotion work?
	Talk to us about...
	Because drama is about conflict, and there's a lot of conflict in this movie, Chris.
	Yeah, I mean, like I said, for a modern audience, they'll think it's theatrical.
	But yeah, if you pay attention to the media back then, you know, a little bit, if you listen to the radio shows, you can get used to it pretty quickly.
	It's sort of like reading Shakespeare...
	Sometimes it's a little bit difficult to understand what you're reading until you read a few pages in and then you start to get the hang of it and then it starts to flow nicely.
	If you can get used to the dialogue here, the acting is actually really superb.
	I would actually say the production value from beginning to end in this film...
	In all aspects is pretty dang good.
	There's some moments like we're showing on screen right now of, you know, if you think about it a little bit, you can tell, okay, these are models being blown up, you know, model ships, model forts, and these sorts of things.
	And there was a split second when I started to think that and I said, you know what?
	No, I'm not going to allow my brain to see it as a model.
	I'm going to think of it as what it is, right?
	I think we know a little bit too much about filmmaking these days, so it's very easy to pick out some special effects, practical effects and things like that now.
	But if you try to think about it just for a moment… As a real ship, as a real port, as a real village, as a real fort, yeah, you can trick your brain pretty easily into believing it because they did such a dang good job.
	And yeah, like I said, I can't speak highly enough of this film.
	I just loved it from beginning to end.
	And they clearly cared about the final product.
	And you can really tell if you think about it.
	And if you watch other films from the period, you can tell that this was just a notch above most pictures.
	Although there are moments that are taken from another movie, Rich, that were spliced in.
	Of course, there are some models.
	A lot of this stuff is pretty impressive.
	And apparently, Curtiz and Flynn ended up having a bad relationship because he just constantly put Flynn in these very dangerous scenes and Harold didn't appreciate it.
	So pretty good stunt work.
	Yes, very good start work.
	I mean, Curtiz, though, is used to Hungarian actors in the 20s, where people would take chances, given the high inflation of that period in Hungary.
	But look at the use of shadows.
	You have the crowd running, but you also have the shadows against the building, which are two or three times the size of humans, to emphasize the drama.
	Your eye has many places to look in these scenes.
	But there's always a through line that Curtiz is putting on the screen to guide you and tell you what the action is and how you should feel about it.
	It's really a masterclass in filmmaking.
	Guys, I hadn't seen this in I don't know how long, maybe from my childhood, maybe 40 years ago.
	If you haven't seen Captain Blood, you will understand why this is a seminal movie which has been so copied, repeated, homage is paid to it.
	So if you haven't seen it in a while or if you've never seen it, Captain Blood 1935 is a must-see.
	Let's look at the squeeze, the heroine, the love interest, the slave owner to become the girlfriend.
	Let's have a look at Olivia de Havilland and their first...
	It's not quite a tryst.
	It doesn't go so well.
	Miss Bishop, it's difficult for an Irishman to apologise, but I hope you can forgive me for having thought badly of you.
	I will if you tell me how you think of me now.
	How I think of you now.
	I think of you...
	I think of you as the woman who owns me.
	A slave.
	But I think the man is lucky who can count you his friend.
	I think you know you can.
	Your slave is grateful for all marks of favor.
	When you forget your slavery and go so far...
	Now there, you're mistaken.
	However far this slave may go, he won't forget.
	It's a characteristic we Irish have in common with the elephants.
	Rich, you said at the beginning this movie could not be made today.
	Why not?
	Oh, 1,000 reasons.
	One, the treatment of slavery.
	But the complex dynamics between men and women, especially between Errol Flynn and Haviland, in this scene especially, would be impossible.
	If you watch, there are three or four zigzags of emotion.
	And at some point, she clearly wants to be kissed by him.
	And he delays that moment, and then when he does it, he does it a bit too late, and she slaps him as a test.
	The idea that women test men, and that it's normal and useful for women to do so, and for men to respond with strength, both of these ideas are missing from modern life.
	Right, right.
	This was the film that made her famous, but she went on to be in 49 different films, including Gone with the Wind.
	Talk to us about the chemistry between Flynn and de Havilland.
	Yeah, you know, the dialogue is just right.
	The chemistry is perfect.
	And I actually think there's something here that I don't know if I've seen in almost any other film...
	They really delay the romantic connection for a really long time in this film.
	You can tell that they like each other, that there's something there, especially at the beginning with Olivia de Havilland's character looking at Errol Flynn.
	She actually buys him because she doesn't want him to go into the mines.
	She clearly has an interest in him.
	He's a little bit more put off by the whole situation, put off by her...
	But then there's a moment when he starts to think, you know what?
	She's alright, actually.
	And you keep thinking that something's going to happen between the two of them, but it never really does, really until the very end of the film.
	And there's so many moments that you think, okay, this is when they're going to get together, and then they don't.
	And even as a guy who, you know, the romantic, the love interest part isn't usually the part that guys care so much about, It does get frustrating after a while.
	You're like, well, get together already for crying out loud.
	You guys just keep missing each other.
	Well, what's the problem?
	One of the problems is, and it's not what we're used to seeing him as or I as a child later, Sherlock Holmes.
	It's the Latino villain.
	Let's play Basil Rathbone with Errol Flynn.
	Play cut.
	Wait!
	You'll not take her while I live.
	Then I'll take her when you're dead.
	What the heck, Captain?
	It has been honorably settled.
	It has not been settled for me.
	What is a girl, more or less?
	Do not be a fool, Captain.
	C'est mon affaire!
	C'est mon affaire!
	If the two breaches are now articles committed by you, you should be marooned.
	That's what I intended for you in the end.
	But since you prefer it this way, you muckrake, faith I'll be humoring you!
	I love Basil Rathbone, especially Sherlock Holmes, but he was pretty good, wasn't he?
	As the villain for once.
	He doesn't get enough screen time, but he's fantastic in this.
	But look at those lines.
	Then I'll take her when you're dead.
	And the guy pleading with the Basil Rathbone character.
	What's another girl, more or less?
	And pretty good sword fighting, right?
	Yeah, very good sword fighting.
	I think only bested when we get to Robin Hood, which I think we may have to review as well.
	But let's remind everyone why this is such a seminal film from one of my favorite slightly more modern movies, Playcut.
	And then he spoke of a girl of surpassing beauty and faithfulness.
	I can only assume he meant you.
	You should bless me for destroying him before he found out what you really are.
	And what am I? Faithfulness he talked of, madam.
	Your enduring faithfulness.
	Now tell me truly, when you found out he was gone, did you get engaged to your prince that same hour, or did you wait a whole week out of respect for the dead?
	You mocked me once!
	Never do it again!
	I died that day!
	You can die too, for all I care!
	As you wish!
	Oh, my sweet Wesley!
	What have I done?
	This movie, Princess Bride, is almost a one-to-one ripoff, right?
	The Dread Pirate Roberts.
	Shameless copy of Captain Blood, right?
	Absolutely.
	But notice how less sophisticated it is, right?
	And played for laughs.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Oh, absolutely.
	It's the only way that Princess Bride, which, by the way, is a fantastic film.
	It's a great movie, but it's not Captain Blood.
	It's not Captain Blood.
	But notice there's only one or two emotional changes in that scene before he tumbles down the hill.
	And she is saying what is expected.
	She's Olivia de Havilland in that movie.
	But she's saying more or less what's expected.
	I died that day.
	Instead of saying something larger than life.
	Or having more of the ups and downs.
	I mean, you said in that 50-second clip from Captain Blood, we had like four or five emotional drops and reversals.
	Absolutely, yeah.
	Why does that not happen anymore?
	Is it just script writing, or is it the original books?
	I think the script writers, producers, Hollywood in general, thinks the audience is dumber than they thought it was in the 1930s.
	And I think they're wrong.
	I think the fact that these movies, old movies, endure means there is an audience that has no problem following them.
	And I don't think anybody in your audience would have any trouble following Captain Blood, for example.
	But maybe studio executives have become dimmer.
	And maybe they're the ones who don't get it.
	Yeah, maybe it's the management.
	But people like Tom Cruise know how it's done.
	Wokeness is in trouble in Hollywood.
	We're celebrating 1934's Captain Blood.
	I've met all these people in real life, and there is no one, and I mean no one, who commands the attention and respect of a crowd of people like Sebastian Gorka.
	When Gorka speaks, everyone sits up and listens.
	Even rabbits and deer and chipmunks, they sit up at attention like in a Disney film.
	I'm going to have to try that.
	The rabbits and the chipmunks thing.
	Why did I insert that there?
	Because my good friend Chris dropped that video on Thursday about me maybe working in the Trump administration for a second time.
	And since he always injects politics, I thought I would too.
	I want to thank you, Chris, for doing that.
	I'm Bidden.
	That's very kind.
	It is on my Twitter feed.
	It's at MrReaganUSA as well.
	Alright, so final thoughts, gentlemen, on Captain Blood, and then Chris will rate it for a modern audience, and then I'll rate it for the canon of movies of all time.
	It was an expensive movie.
	It cost about $1.4 million.
	And ended up grossing more than twice that, over $3 million.
	Great, great success at the time.
	And of course, launched to Haviland, really launched Errol Flynn, and a whole slew of swashbuckling movies, right up to Pirates of the Caribbean.
	Rich, final thoughts on the significance of Captain Blood?
	I think we should bring back swashbucklers.
	I mean, this is what the first and the second Star Wars were.
	Totally.
	When they swing across the chasm in the Death Star, I'm sorry, that could have been Errol Flynn.
	Absolutely.
	Chris, final thoughts for you and then we'll rate it.
	You know, everything that's been said here today, I completely agree with, but I would like to add something to the reason why they would never do this romance today.
	And it's that at the time they made this film...
	Yes.
	If you watch that, you know, The Princess Bride, you know, they had to give Buttercup a little bit more agency.
	They had to give her a little bit more masculinity.
	In this film, they could make the woman utterly feminine.
	It's actually phenomenal.
	I'm out here.
	You know, I'm kind of involved with a lot of people who I think are, you know, maybe not always the most honorable characters in the world.
	There's like a massive hookup culture where I live.
	And I was talking to this Russian girl and talking about how I think feminism has sort of destroyed women in Western Europe in particular, but also in America to some degree.
	And she said, you know, that's the great thing about Russian women.
	We were never infected with feminism, so we're kind of a little bit more old-fashioned that way.
	And I totally agree with that, actually.
	And when you watch a film like this, you see, I think, oftentimes how women were for thousands of years, you know— Things kind of have changed in maybe the last 20, 30 years in the West, and I don't think in a good direction.
	I think we've masculinized women, we've feminized men, and it's really confused people and made life a lot more miserable and difficult.
	And sometimes I think that you can just depict in media...
	A man as a man and a woman as a woman.
	And this film does that very, very well.
	What a crazy idea.
	A man as a man and a woman as a woman.
	Alright, there is no option here.
	The unit of measurement must be the buccaneer's saber.
	Chris, how do you rate Captain Blood out of 10 buccaneer sabers for a modern audience?
	Look, for me, it's a 10 out of 10.
	But the reality is, I know it's difficult for some people to watch through these older films.
	So I will, just for that reason and that reason alone, because this is one of the best, I think, I'll give it an 8 out of 10.
	8 out of 10.
	In the canon of all movies, it's not quite Robin Hood.
	So I will give it...
	Nine and a half cutlasses.
	Is that fair?
	Nine and a half cutlasses, gentlemen?
	Okay, good.
	Only thing that's left, I feel like doing another Errol Flynn movie, but no, let's bring it a bit more up to date.
	Eric, help me out here for next week.
	I think it's my choice.
	Have we done any of the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings?
	We have not done Lord of the Rings yet.
	That is an absolute outrage.
	So next week, Chris, we're going to do Peter Jackson, a little bit of Tolkien, and Lord of the Rings.
	Are you good with that?
	I think that is absolutely perfect.
	That's going to be, I think, the most modern film we've done.
	I think you're right.
	I think you're right.
	In the meantime, everyone out there, watch Captain Blood.
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