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Nov. 22, 2024 - Sebastian Gorka

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Sebastian Gorka LIVE: Massive win for President Trump, Judge Merchan caves

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	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	And, you know, they go and dredge up false years-old allegations of the most salacious and clickbait-y flavor possible.
	And in this case, those allegations were coming from sources that Merrick Garland's DOJ had already deemed not credible.
	Like, if the things that the House ethics report were true, I would be under indictment and probably in a prison cell.
	But of course, they're false.
	That was just a few hours ago.
	I do believe that's the first interview former Congressman Matt Gaetz has given since he withdrew himself just yesterday from being the nominee for Attorney General for the second Trump administration, appearing on our buddy, my colleague Charlie Kirk Show, making a very sound observation.
	If anything that has been leaked, anything in that so-called ethics report from the House is true, well, he'd be in prison right now and he'd at least be charged with those felony crimes.
	Instead...
	If you look into any of those accusations, what do we find?
	Well, the person who was extorting his family, including his father, for millions of dollars making these accusations years ago, is currently in prison himself for his extortion attempts against the Gates family.
	So what are we talking about?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	As Matt explained, it is the smear campaign.
	It is pure Alinsky.
	Triangulate, isolate, and destroy.
	That's what we are witnessing.
	Why?
	Because he's a threat.
	He's a threat to all those people who persecuted him for 20 months and more and persecuted President Trump, Peter Navarro, General Flynn, Steve Bannon, innocent January 6th defendants who did nothing except walk through the halls of Congress like that 72-year-old grandmother who prayed, peacefully prayed, inside the people's house.
	Jeff, it happened after the show, right, that we got our replacement for Matt Gaetz?
	Yes, about an hour after it.
	Wow, things are moving so incredibly quickly.
	President Trump didn't skip a beat.
	He has his new nominee, a guest frequently on our show, and somebody who I'm usually paneled with on Rob Schmidt's show on Newsmax every evening, the former Attorney General of Florida.
	And it's a wonderful pick.
	Why...
	Because the establishment media, well, they hate her for different reasons, but they hate her just as much as they hate Matt Gaetz.
	Here is Jason Johnson, one of the lunatics on MSNBC. Cut to.
	Pam Bondi is exactly what I was saying in the last segment that we should all fear because she's competent.
	We may not agree with her ideologically, but she actually knows how to do this job.
	So if anyone on the Democratic side or anyone who cared about liberty or justice was thinking, well, maybe Matt Gaetz will screw this up and that'll give us some time.
	No, Pam Bondi knows what she's doing.
	She knows what she's doing about immigration.
	Remember, Florida is one of those states that's been very aggressive about migrants and deportation and moving people to different states and everything else like that.
	Florida has enacted all sorts of rules and laws to curtail students and what they can do on campuses and finding legal justifications for manipulating education money.
	She is a dangerous and effective pick, and that's frankly worse than what we would have got with Matt Gaetz.
	So, I'm a little bit confused.
	The cabinet picks are amateurs, they're TV personalities, or they're too competent?
	Jeff, that's a kind of weird thing to say out loud, isn't it?
	To say that the person President Trump has picked is going to be too good at their job?
	And why is that a problem for Democrats if she's competent?
	Right.
	Unless the Democrats have been doing a lot of illegal things lately.
	Yeah, it's only if you've got something to hide.
	If you committed crimes, that would be a problem, wouldn't it?
	I would have loved if Biden had a competent AG that was normal.
	I mean, the fact that she has been a homicide prosecutor for 18 years probably means she's good at locating and putting criminals in prison, don't you think?
	And that's a good thing.
	You'd think it's a good thing, right?
	Yes, exactly.
	As opposed to, oh my gosh.
	When this appeared, I think I received it...
	Early this morning from a friend of mine.
	What does MSNBC really think?
	When I saw this headline, I didn't want to believe it, but I knew deep down that it's true.
	This is from one of their legal analysts, and we're going to put it up on the screen, and I'm just going to read it to all of you, our dear listeners.
	So, with regards to the trial and the sentencing earlier this week of Jose Ibarra, The Venezuelan illegal who was let into this country by Kamala Harris and then flown from New York on your taxpayer dime to Atlanta to stalk,
	rape, and then murder 22-year-old Laken Riley and who will now serve life without the possibility of parole.
	This is the headline from MSNBC. Lakin Riley's killer never stood a chance.
	Subheading, for all the political controversy surrounding Hosea Ibarra, the outcome of this trial was never in doubt.
	I repeat, Hosea Ibarra never had a chance is the headline.
	It's a kind of meme phrase on social media.
	But in this case, and so often as is the case, you don't hate the media enough.
	And I mean that.
	It may sound unchristian, but Jesus Christ didn't come as a hippie to earth.
	Just ask the moneylenders and the moneychangers in the temple.
	Ask the Pharisees.
	Ask the Sadducees.
	Jose Ibarra didn't have a chance.
	What did Lake and Riley have?
	What did Jocelyn Nungere, that 12-year-old girl, raped and murdered by two Venezuelan illegals?
	And what is it about Venezuelans?
	Why are so many of these sexual, deviant, murdering filth Why are they from Venezuela?
	I'd be very curious to hear from somebody who has traveled there and can maybe give us some cultural input on why Venezuelan men think it's okay to come to America illegally and hunt down and rape and murder innocent women.
	Is that a cultural thing from Venezuela?
	Because it seems to be a pattern.
	Jose Barra didn't stand a chance.
	Did Lake and Riley stand a chance?
	Not really.
	Not after Kamala Harris let 20 million illegals into this country.
	Oh, and the latest headline is the Biden administration has a new app which will make it even easier for illegals to stay in America so they can remotely register and skip their appointments with Customs and Border Protection and those immigration judges.
	You don't hate the mainstream media enough.
	And you don't hate the Democrats enough.
	They have 60 days left.
	And who are they helping?
	Not you.
	Not the Trump supporters suffering as a result of Hurricane Helene or Milton.
	No, if you had a Trump sign in your yard, FEMA said, don't go in there.
	Don't help those American taxpayers.
	There are people who deserve all the calumny and the hatred because they are targeting you and making you and your family unsafe.
	All right, we're trying to have some fun today.
	It is Friday.
	Thanksgiving is almost upon us.
	We have Making Movies Great Again with an incredible film we'll be celebrating with the great Chris Coles.
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	What happened?
	I screwed it up.
	Who should we ask then?
	Herrera?
	Yeah.
	I'll text Herrera.
	I'll text Herrera.
	I'll text Herrera.
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	All right.
	Yep, I need to catch it.
	- I think I'm gonna get my camera. - Gorka, did I see the did I see the Gorka man?
	Yes, stand up Gorka, quick, get up!
	How good, how good is he, Sebastian?
	Seb, they call him Seb, I call him Sebastian.
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	Then, 1201, it begins under the auspices of the new Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, the man who wrote President Trump's immigration policy, now Deputy Chief of Counsel, and a real broadcaster Border czar.
	Good friend of the show, Tom Homan.
	You know he's gonna deport every illegal he gets his hands on.
	But what's the other side of this?
	What is the Darien Gap?
	And what's the true toll of suffering?
	Not just the victims of illegals here in America, like Lake and Riley, but those who are being smuggled, the girls, the women.
	Just listen to this shocking clip from one of our Friends shows.
	For our law and border team, each of the multiple journeys across the Darien Gap brought more evidence of how inhumane the open border invite from the Democrats truly is.
	And if it weren't for the tireless efforts of the Panamanian Senate front warriors, more innocent victims would be raped, more migrants would be killed, more children would be harvested and kidnapped along the trails of the deadly and dangerous Darien Gap.
	It's just, it's never ending.
	It's never ending.
	Kamala Harris wants you to think that her so-called response to this border crisis, or lack thereof, is somehow a humanitarian effort.
	But it's not.
	Make no mistake, her border invasion is a money-making industry and it's born straight from the fiery pits of hell.
	This could get violent in a heartbeat, man.
	It's human misery on an unimaginable scale, and the only ones cashing in are the leaders of the cartels and the Democrats who are inviting, enticing, and funding this human trafficking industry with your tax dollars.
	He's the founder of Frontline America, host of Law& Border.
	He's a brave man, and we're delighted to have him on the show right now.
	Ben Berquam, welcome back to America First.
	Honored to be with you, Seb.
	It's been too long, brother.
	It has, it has.
	Although we keep bumping into each other at very cool Patriot gatherings, whether it's Mar-a-Lago or elsewhere.
	Hey, Eric, what do you think?
	I like that t-shirt.
	Don't you think we need a Trump 1 t-shirt on our website?
	Yeah, baby.
	All right, we need that.
	Okay, Ben, we don't rehearse our interview, so this may come out left field, and hopefully you can stay on for another segment because I've got so many questions to ask you.
	What you do is so crucial because you go to see what is happening in the Darien Gap, in the Triangle, telling the toll on the illegals themselves.
	Have we conservatives on this side of the border Have we failed to talk about that enough?
	Because we talk about national sovereignty, fentanyl, the victims like Lake and Riley, Jocelyn and Rachel.
	But shouldn't we discuss the whole package of just the diabolicalness, the diabolical nature of what is being done to those who are being trafficked as well, Ben?
	Well, I think it's a critical arrow in our quiver in this fight that we're fighting.
	But, you know, this is this is the death by a million cuts.
	It's the Chinese water torture, what we've seen by the left.
	It's coming from so many different angles.
	And I would equate it to what Tom Homan and President Trump on what this the ICE and Border Patrol are going to have to deal with going forward.
	We deal with the low hanging fruit first.
	And so a lot of that is, you know, terrorists first.
	I mean, if you if you prioritize who we're going to go after, it's terrorists, it's gang members, it's murderers, it's rapists and threathes.
	But within all of that, you're absolutely right.
	What we have to be ready for is when we start deporting this mass deportation, when this operation begins, the mainstream media is going to come at you with the most lies.
	They're going to come at you with the same lies about kids in cages and separating families.
	It's inhumane.
	And we have to be ready to be able to say...
	Based on the evidence, based on what we've shown for the last four years, that what they've done is actually inhumane.
	What they've invited, the suffering through the Darien Gap, the suffering within our own communities, the amount of child sex trafficking that's going on right now, the amount of modern day slavery that's happening right now is a direct result of their policy.
	So I don't think it's either or, I think it's and.
	It's everything.
	But it's timing on all this because the left, they're not stopping.
	Sebastian, you know this.
	You saw this in the first four years.
	We saw this under Obama.
	We saw this before.
	Now they're just honest about their treachery.
	Now we have the ability to be able to say, we have the evidence.
	We have the receipt.
	You guys are not just Terrible people, you're traitors to your country, but you're demons, you're evil.
	What you've done to these women and children, the people that you claim to want to protect, it is pure demonic.
	And the battle that we're in right now is absolutely good versus evil.
	And thank God Trump won, so we have a chance to right this wrong.
	Indeed, indeed.
	It is a blessing from the Almighty.
	FrontlineAmerica.com on RAV. Follow our friend Ben Burkwam.
	We're going to keep you over for another segment, but we've got like 90 seconds left here.
	When I went down to the border with Sheriff Lamb, the thing that kind of was the gut punch...
	Was all the abortion, all the things that clearly the young girls and women were taking to prevent them getting pregnant from being raped by the traffickers.
	What is one thing that the average American probably doesn't know about what you witnessed, Ben?
	Give us one thing that will shock.
	Well, I'm actually going to hold that thing until after the break because I'm going to go grab it.
	You talk about evidence.
	What we found.
	This is a cliffhanger for the audience, so stay tuned for that.
	I'll just tell you the worst story I was told before I show you after the break.
	I had a mother come to me.
	We caught her coming across illegally, bringing her children, and she said the entire trip up here, as she came up through the jungle, as she came up through Mexico, being carried by the cartels, every night she would lay on top of her daughter.
	She would take them into the bushes away from the group and lay on top of them so that they didn't hear the other girls being raped.
	That mother with tears in her eyes, that was the story she told us trying to protect her children from being raped, and that's what the Democrats are inviting into our country.
	It is the work of the dark one, there is no question.
	He's going to keep us in tenterhooks until the next segment.
	In the meantime, make sure you're following him.
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	With that piece of evidence from Ben after these messages.
	MUSIC Yeah.
	How much of the year are you on the road away from your family?
	Oh, man.
	The last two years is about 80% of the time.
	I've got all daughters.
	I've got a 14-year-old, 7-year-old, and a 10-month-old.
	So, yeah, it's been rough.
	And do they have anybody nearby?
	Do they have in-laws and stuff that can help them out?
	Well, we moved to Arkansas three years ago.
	My wife's a stay-at-home mom, homeschooler.
	So she's there with her 24-7.
	Wow.
	And then we've got some friends in the area, but my wife is a saint.
	She's incredible.
	Clearly, clearly.
	But, you know, it was all, you know, everything you do, everything I do, everything Steve did, it was all to get President Trump in there, and it was all worth it.
	Yeah, can't wait for what Tom does on the 20th.
	Oh, praise the Lord.
	Praise the freaking Lord.
	I messaged him right afterwards.
	I'm like, hey, If you need help whooping any ass, let me know.
	I'm down.
	After everything I've seen, I'm happy to help.
	Alright, come in with the report about Bragg's assistant getting robbed by the illegal.
	Come in with three.
	I'll do my pillow and then Ben will show us his piece of evidence.
	Who is there out there that I'm going to ask you this on air that you want to thank?
	Because you had those people, what was it?
	The center front warriors.
	But if there's somebody who's funding you or some partners you're working with, I think it'd be great if you recognize them as well.
	Give them a shout out.
	But I'll do that when we're back on radio.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Stand by.
	Two minutes.
	Yeah, it's incredible.
	I mean, you think about that just off the record.
	I mean, I can say this on there, but Centerfront, the Panamanian government has invited us to come and show what we're doing, because we're the only network that's actually doing it.
	We're the only guys telling the truth.
	They had MSNBC and CNN coming down there to tell lies, and they've invited us.
	They've actually given us Centerfront, that's their Special Forces Border Patrol, while at the same time, the U.S. Border Patrol was cut off from us because of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
	I mean, talk about irony.
	Unbelievable.
	How did you begin in this?
	What was the trigger originally?
	Meeting Angel Moms.
	I met Agnes Giboney and Angie Morphine and Marianne Mendoza.
	I was just like, this can't be happening in America.
	Right.
	I know Agnes well.
	Yep.
	Yep, please.
	Thank you.
	Police say at about 2 a.m.
	Sunday, he robbed a 38-year-old woman in the hallway of her Hell's Kitchen apartment building.
	He allegedly grabbed her purse, cell phone and bank cards and also performed a lewd act.
	The victim is a Manhattan assistant DA. She was not injured.
	Police traced her stolen cell phone to a hotel on West 45th Street, which led them to believe the suspect is a migrant and they were able to track him down.
	Samosa was arrested just last night.
	Police say he was using drugs on the street and had stolen items with him.
	Police believe he is part of Trente Aragua.
	That's the Venezuelan gang that has preyed on people in Times Square and Central Park.
	Well, well, well, what is that phrase, chickens coming home to roost?
	Alvin Bragg's deputy being assaulted and mocked by a member of Trendy Aragua, the Venezuelan gang in New York.
	And he, the expression on his face, he knows that he's in a special class in America as an illegal.
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	Ben Burquam, you've got something in your hand?
	What is it?
	Yeah, Sebastian, this is what we affectionately call a rape kit.
	This was, we gathered this, actually we got video of it down when we were in the Coakley, Columbia.
	The United Nations and another group, OIM, with another group called CARE, was handing these out to women and children.
	And what they actually had in them, we have a video on my social media, you can go back and watch, it actually has it listed.
	Birth control, morning after pills, condoms, and a whistle.
	So that way, if you were being raped, you could ask your rapist to put a condom on, and if that didn't work, at least you could blow your whistle when you're going through the dairy.
	Hang on, hang on.
	This is when you realize that the left, you know, they work for the devil.
	So these left-wing humanitarian organizations are handing out kits because they know the girls and the women are being raped.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	100%.
	They absolutely know it.
	And instead of saying, don't go, you're going to be raped.
	And by the way, across the Darien Gap, we're the only journalist, myself and Oscar Blue Ramirez, the only journalist to do the trip four times.
	We went with the flow one time, three times against the flow.
	We're in a shootout, and the rest of it, you can see.
	This, you find used condoms all over the place.
	Those are the guys that are willing to put the condoms on.
	Most of the time, they don't even use them.
	So it's a trail of tears.
	And it's being sponsored by the United Nations, OIM, and groups like Catholic Charities and these other NGOs that claim to be compassionate.
	Horrific, horrific, horrific.
	Look, you are a very brave man.
	We salute you, all of your team at Law& Border for what you do.
	But I'd like to give you an opportunity because there are some people who help you along the way, who provide security or who fund you.
	Is there anybody you want to give a shout out to who's helping you get the truth out, Ben?
	Well, to the Panamanian government who gave us their center front, they've invited us while Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were refusing access to Border Patrol in America.
	They opened their arms to say, come tell the truth that the mainstream media wasn't telling.
	Huge thank you to them.
	To all of law enforcement across America that's having to deal with this.
	Sheriff Lamb, he's been with us from the beginning.
	We've got police chief down in La Jolla, Texas.
	Lieutenant Casas, he's been with us from the beginning.
	And all law enforcement across America And President Trump, he's obviously going to be doing it.
	Tom Holman, I can't wait to work with him.
	But the best, I mean, really, it's got to go back to our owner, Rob Sig, Real America's Voice News.
	He's the one who allows us to tell the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell.
	So it's an absolute honor.
	If you want to support our work, frontlineamerica.com, you can support directly and then watch everything on all my social media and on all americasvoice.news everywhere else.
	God bless Rob Sieg.
	FrontlineAmerica.com.
	We've got 40 seconds left.
	Dumb question.
	Why are these rapist murderers, whether it's Jocelyn Nungere, whether it's Lake and Riley, why are they almost always from Venezuela?
	What the heck is going on in Venezuela?
	Well, Tren de Aragua is, you know, you talk about notorious gangs.
	These guys are the worst of the worst.
	And we've invited, we've just invited more of them than anywhere else.
	So while Maduro was getting rid of everybody, they all just came up.
	It's just a matter of numbers.
	Yeah, it's just a matter of numbers.
	And of course, things are much better in Venezuela because the criminals have come to America.
	God bless you, Ben Bergquam, host of Law& Border, Real America's Voice, Frontline.
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	That's B-E-R-G-Q-U-A-M. Stay safe, my friend.
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	send you the link where we actually filmed where they were handing them out.
	Yeah, perfect.
	What is OIM? Who's that?
	That's the immigration part of United Nations.
	So there's OIM and there's UNHCR. That's directly from the United Nations.
	Yeah, directly from the United Nations.
	Scum, scum.
	All right, buddy.
	Have a great Thanksgiving.
	You too.
	Thank you, sir.
	Appreciate you.
	I'm gonna do sat phone at the top here.
	Okay.
	Preferences, Jeff?
	Okay.
	Okay.
	They know they're getting raped.
	90 seconds. 90 seconds.
	90 seconds.
	90 seconds. 90 seconds. 90 seconds. 90 seconds. 90 seconds. 90 seconds. 90 seconds. 90 seconds. 90 seconds. 90 seconds.
	Thank you.
	Making sense out of today's news, here's Dr. Sebastian Gorka.
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	John on the topic of illegal immigration.
	Okay, Sebastian, on Monday, Holman finally mentioned 8 U.S. Code 1324, but he missed two very important things.
	One is it provides asset forfeiture, which means if you're renting a house to an illegal alien, the government can seize your house.
	You start doing this en masse, And you will end up getting almost all of the illegal aliens evicted.
	Is that in the same part of the code that he quoted?
	I don't know.
	I'm not sure what all he quoted.
	But there's also...
	I mean, the asset forfeiture is there.
	And secondly, it's not just harboring illegals.
	It's encouraging them to come.
	So any state government...
	Oh, that's good.
	That's good.
	Who has decided that they are...
	That they've committed a crime.
	I get it.
	That is so important.
	All right.
	I'm going to reach out to Tom.
	I'm going to get him to verify that and send me the part of the code because we need to blow that up.
	We need everybody to know if you're housing illegals, you go to prison.
	And if you're encouraging them to come here...
	Like a mayor of a sanctuary city, you go to prison as well.
	I love it.
	John, stay on the line.
	Let's give John one of our...
	Let's give the Kamala your fired t-shirt, okay?
	That is such an amazing point.
	It's one of our latest America First pieces of merchandise.
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	Let's say on this topic, let's go to Brian in Kansas.
	Hey, Dr. Gorka, thanks for taking my call.
	I wanted to go over how worthless the UN is, and your last guest, Ben, kind of amplified that with those rape kits.
	But, you know, with all of these people coming in claiming asylum, you know, from political persecution, why, you know, the UN is worthless because they're not sticking their nose into those countries' business, whether it's Venezuela or the Haitians.
	Wherever, like they do with Israel, they stick their nose all the time into Israel.
	So I would like to see that highlighted a lot is how worthless the UN is.
	Well, we know that, but they wouldn't do that anyway because they know it's a lie.
	These people aren't coming here because they're politically persecuted.
	They're coming here because Kamala opened the door and rang the dinner bell.
	These are economic migrants.
	But yes, I completely concur.
	The UN should be pushed into the Hudson River.
	Let's stay on the topic of what this is doing to our nation.
	Dale in California.
	Seb, thank you for taking my call.
	This morning I was making breakfast for my girls before sending them off to school and we were listening to Christmas music.
	And my thoughts drifted back to the impact statement that Lake and Riley's dad read during the trial where he read from her journal to her future husband.
	Dale?
	I lost you there for a second.
	Carry on.
	I'm sorry.
	That statement just destroyed me.
	And right there in that purpose, I'm going to take a day off this holiday season and I'm going to pray and fast for Lake and Riley's dad because he won't be able to do that with his girl, listen to Christmas music.
	And so then I got to thinking...
	I'll call Seb and I'll ask all the men in our country to take a day off during the holiday seasons and to pray and fast for Lake and Riley's dad.
	Yeah, we played other parts of the impact statement.
	We didn't play that, Dale.
	And I like your idea.
	It focuses the mind.
	Prayer is important.
	And I want everyone today to pray for Dennis Prager as well, to wish him a speedy recovery and for fortitude for his family.
	But you're right, Dale.
	We didn't play it here on the show.
	Explain what Riley's father read, what that letter was, what she wrote.
	She had written a letter to her future husband.
	Yeah.
	And this isn't her boyfriend or fiancé.
	It was just a letter to the man she wants to marry and what a Christian wife she would be.
	And it was just heartbreaking, Dale.
	Seb, I have you on the phone.
	I have a larger ask.
	That you would speak to the president, Mr. Donald Trump.
	And perhaps he would put the call out for prayer and fasting for all of these victims from this open border fiasco that's going on.
	You know, I tend to be a violent person by nature, and the Lord is helping me deal with that.
	And I want to fight, Seb.
	I really, truly want to fight, but I think I'm going to fight on my knees.
	And I want to see the Lord win the victory.
	And I want to see him bring justice to Lakin Riley's murderer.
	Well, I think, you know, interesting things happen in prison, especially with pedophiles and rapists, but we're not going to encourage violence, but these things happen, and I wish you every luck with, it sounds like you have been struggling with anger issues yourself, but yes, take it to the feet of our Lord.
	All of these things, when we struggle, when we see injustice, when we crave justice for ourselves, And for others, especially the defenseless, the innocent, women, children, girls, let's make that ask from Dale.
	I'd like you to fast.
	I'd like you to pray for all the victims of what Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have done to this country.
	Thank you, Dale.
	Thank you.
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	Hey!
	Hey!
	I was calling about, I thought it was about the movie thing.
	I wanted so badly to tell you about a movie.
	Well, be quick, because you've got lots of callers waiting.
	Okay, I'm sorry.
	It's 12 Angry Men.
	A classic!
	Sidney Lumet, a classic indeed.
	Why do you want us to review that?
	I just think it's wonderful how you go into the thing thinking the guy's guilty.
	Don't give it away!
	Don't give it away, Ron!
	I know you gotta let me go.
	I can't believe it.
	This is great.
	I'm talking to you.
	This is fantastic.
	Well, thank you for the suggestion.
	I do believe it's actually on the list of suggested titles.
	So it's a classic.
	Sidney Lumet even directed one of my absolute all-time favorites, Murder on the Orient Express.
	So it's on the list, Ron.
	It is on the list.
	Yes, yes.
	Twilight Zone, The Obsolete Man with Burgess Meredith.
	Oh, that's the best episode.
	We don't do TV shows, but The Twilight Zone is my colleague Chris Coles' favorite show, so maybe it'll slip in there.
	Thank you, buddy.
	Antoinette, California.
	It's not Thursday, Antoinette!
	Dr. G, I'm sorry for kind of sneaking in, but here's the deal.
	I was in shock on the local television station last night, and then I saw the newsreel cross underneath the people that were talking about the news.
	Gavin Newsom wants to come here in California in the next couple days to the different counties that voted for Trump.
	So if I'm able to get in front of the person What's the question would you like me to ask the...
	Oh, I'm the wrong person to ask because I don't give a flying fig what Gavin Newsom thinks.
	I'm sure Mr. G has something saucy.
	Mr. G, what should Antoinette ask of Gavin, Gruesome, Newsom?
	Let me think.
	What would be a good one?
	When's the last time you went to the French Laundry and what's his favorite bottle of red wine?
	Nah, I get a little bit...
	A little bit more personal?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Goodbye.
	What?
	The border?
	The border?
	No, he won't tell you anything.
	You need to embarrass him, don't we, Jeff?
	Yes.
	I do, too.
	Yes.
	What's his favorite hair dye?
	How about that?
	Eric claims he has something.
	Okay, Eric.
	Go on.
	Tell Antoinette what she should ask.
	Gavin, Grusome, Newsome.
	Will he endorse Kamala for governor of California in 2026?
	Ooh, that's a good one.
	Oh, you wouldn't say that.
	Yes.
	Ask him whether he's a misogynist or whether he's going to endorse Kamala.
	Okay.
	Love it.
	All right.
	Have fun out there.
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	And make sure that you celebrate the victory from almost three weeks ago.
	We've got President Trump, thanks to our caller, pulling up to the White House in that beautiful garbage truck, taking out the trash at the White House.
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	She's not a woman.
	It's a man.
	She was born a man.
	She's a man.
	She's biologically a male.
	That is science.
	You guys on the left and the mainstream media want to say, follow the science.
	Let's follow the science, okay?
	He is a man.
	He can wear a dress.
	He can call himself.
	His pronouns can be she or her.
	But he doesn't belong in a women's restroom, period.
	Even Nancy Mace was a little bit confused there.
	She's a man.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	By the end of it, she got it right.
	He's a man.
	Jeff, the face of that person interviewing her is like, I will not express anything.
	I don't want to get it wrong.
	The pronouns are confusing.
	What was that?
	That is that she doesn't believe it either, but she knows that she has to say and play the role.
	I shared something with you when we were watching that about an hour ago, that there are people concerned who are saying, why is Nancy Mace wasting time on this topic?
	What was your response?
	No, keep doing it.
	Who cares?
	No, no, you said something else.
	What else should she be doing, right?
	Exactly.
	What else is she doing?
	No, but that news, people like that need to get to.
	Because I know that face all the time in sports.
	That's where the sports people have to have these political opinions that they don't believe and they just kind of roll through it.
	That woman does not believe it at all.
	Hilarious.
	We need to post that.
	Okay, somebody else who's got an interesting concept about genders in politics...
	He doesn't look good.
	Is Bill Clinton on CBS? Let's just listen to old Bubba cut for.
	Do you think part of the issue is that America is just not ready for a female president?
	Maybe.
	I think in some ways we've moved to the right as a reaction to all the turmoil.
	I think if Hillary had been nominated in 2008, she would have walked in just like Obama did.
	Has the country changed?
	Well, I think all these...
	Cultural battles we're fighting make it harder in some ways for a woman to win.
	So you think it has more to do with party than gender?
	No.
	Although I think it would probably be easier for a conservative Republican woman to win.
	Wow.
	Is Bill a conservative now?
	Is he saying only conservative women can win?
	Well, I know who won two and a half weeks ago.
	My former boss.
	And is it possible we're going to be talking to his attorney, my former White House colleague?
	Is the Baron available?
	Boris!
	The Baron's here.
	Are you there?
	I am.
	I'm here.
	The Baron's here.
	It's an honor to be talking to you.
	So how are you functioning?
	Because I presume you haven't slept for the last couple of months.
	See, Sebastian, sleep is something that's completely and deeply overrated.
	It's not about the sleep.
	What it's all about is making sure that the president has everything he needs as he makes America great again.
	All right.
	So, God bless you.
	We're doing this show three hours a day.
	And for the last couple of months, I just see you live on TV, getting off Trump Force One.
	Soon it'll be Air Force One.
	Give us an update.
	How's the president doing?
	And what's the mood now at the Trump headquarters after this incredible decision from New York that Juan Merchan, the judge in that Completely specious case has accepted the motion or the submission of requests to dismiss the charges.
	How is the mood at the Trump headquarters, Baron?
	It's another win for President Trump, another win for America, another win for combating weaponization and lawfare.
	Judge Marchand today canceling the ridiculous sentencing that was previously scheduled for this coming Tuesday, November 26th, and directing President Trump and his team to file a motion to dismiss that lawless case.
	There was never a case to begin with.
	Nothing was ever done wrong.
	It was a joke.
	It was a ridiculous and complete witch hunt.
	And now it's well on its way to being completely and totally killed.
	It's already dying, just like all the other witch hunts, the one in Georgia.
	That's absolute nonsense.
	And, of course, the ones brought by deranged Jack Smith.
	That's where we are.
	We will continue to fight on, continue to be strong.
	President Trump is fully focused on making America great again, which is not a slogan.
	It's an action item.
	It clearly is, because you and I worked in the first Trump administration White House, and I used that phrase, moving at the speed of Trump.
	With the appointments, the nominations, the announcements, I don't know.
	I mean, you're close to the fire there.
	It looks like the president is even faster, moving at a rate of knots that is even more accelerated than it was eight years ago.
	There's no time to wait.
	And President Trump, again, is concentrated and moving ahead with his plan.
	Everything he's doing from RFK Jr. at HHS to Tulsi Gabbard at DNI to Kristi Noem at DHS. Super strength all across the agencies.
	Howard Lutnick, of course, Commerce Secretary in USTR, and Linda McMahon in education, and so many more.
	This is a back-up of CIA. This is a powerful, powerhouse administration, and it's going to continue to get stronger under President Trump's leadership.
	Now, I know you came from the president.
	You need to get back to him.
	So I'll just ask you one more question.
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	Should expect differently at 12.01?
	Is it going to be a flurry, a full-court press?
	What will the first day of the administration be like in terms of the expectations of the Trump voters, Boris?
	Well, it's a great question.
	I don't want to get ahead of the president, but here's what I will say.
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	It's a rebirth of America, and it's President Trump coming in and truly making America and the world great again.
	God bless.
	Get back to work, Boris Epstein, Senior Advisor Trump 2024. Say hi to the boss.
	And of course, no names, no pack drill.
	Right now I can tell you the presidential appointment team has been interviewing hundreds of people for the sub-cabinet level all week.
	And we still have some very senior positions left, one of them being Director of the FBI. It is a 10-year term for the director, although I don't expect Christopher Wray to be in that position much after 12 o'clock on January 20th.
	Who should we have in that position?
	Well, no better.
	No better endorsement or anti-endorsement than that crooked disgrace.
	Andy McCabe at the center of the Trump collusion hoax.
	This is what he just said about our friend Kash Patel.
	No part of the FBI's mission is safe with Kash Patel in any position of leadership in the FBI, and certainly not in the deputy director's job.
	If you enter into that position with nothing more than a desire to disrupt and destroy the organization, there is a lot of damage someone like Kash Patel could do in a position like deputy director at the FBI. Can you believe he said that, Jeff?
	Well, as some people were talking about, I think he just described what he did.
	Right.
	But to actually say that, if the president sees that clip, right?
	Yes.
	If anybody else running against Cash sees that clip, they're going to say, uh, okay, I'm toast.
	It's Cash's.
	And then the next one, this blows my mind.
	So one of the names being floated is Mike Rogers, and Andy McCabe says this.
	Kaelin, I think Mike Rogers is a totally reasonable, logical selection for FBI director.
	In fact, that's the decision President-elect Trump makes.
	I had many interactions with then-representative Rogers, during his time as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
	So he's, as you mentioned, someone with history with the FBI. He understands the organization.
	He served as an FBI agent for several years before he went off on his political career.
	In his capacity in the House, I think the strongest...
	Qualification on my own opinion about Mr. Rogers is the respect and awareness and knowledge that he has for the intelligence community.
	So, you know what this leads me to think, Jeff?
	People like him, they're not very clever.
	You've got stroke.
	What was it?
	How many texts was it, Eric, that he did to that woman he was having an affair with on his government phone?
	What was it?
	Lisa Page.
	Hundreds, I think.
	No, no.
	It's thousands.
	Like 50,000 texts.
	And then you're so stupid you use your government phone.
	And then, Jeff, you endorse the swampy person on television proving that they're a swampy person.
	I don't think these people are very clever, Jeff.
	Well, I think I know where you're going with this, right?
	Well, you tell me.
	Well, I think that it got back to Mar-a-Lago, those clips.
	Did you see Dan Scavino?
	Oh, I haven't.
	No, what's Dan done?
	He just tweeted, I've spoken to President Trump regarding Mike Rogers going to the FBI. It's not happening.
	In his words, I've never even given it a thought.
	It's not happening.
	Jeff, did you send that clip to Dan?
	Jeff?
	I think Andy doesn't like Mike.
	Jeff?
	Fess up.
	No.
	No?
	I wish I would have.
	Coulda.
	Cannot confirm or deny.
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	Guys, please keep an eye on the news because apparently some announcements may be coming out of Mar-a-Lago imminently.
	So let's keep an eye on that and break that news.
	But we've got Pam Bondy for Attorney General.
	And they're trying to take down our buddy Pete Hegseth, double Bronze Star recipient, served in Afghanistan, served in Iraq, and also at Guantanamo Bay.
	But none of that counts because Adam Kinzinger thinks this about him.
	Cut nine.
	Yeah, I mean, I think it's going to be, like, way more intense, because if you think about it, again, yes, Hegseth was not charged with that.
	He also wasn't exonerated, as you mentioned.
	But the military's had an issue with sexual assault that they've been trying to address for a number of years, and now you're putting a guy that's potentially guilty of that in charge of the Pentagon.
	And so I think the hearings are going to be pretty brutal for him.
	Not exonerated?
	What institution exonerates you?
	Potentially guilty?
	We don't do that in America.
	So what kind of a pick is Pete?
	Let's ask our buddy, senior counsel to the president of the Heritage Foundation, a man who served in uniform with honor and distinction for...
	Several years.
	Graduate of West Point, Jim Carafano, welcome back.
	Well, hey, it is great to be here.
	You know Pete, right?
	Oh, absolutely.
	I've known Pete for a really, really long time.
	First of all, let's take the sexual harassment thing head on.
	This is literally the Brent Kavanaugh treatment.
	This is try to destroy a man's reputation.
	So, first of all, not only is your point is like prove a negative...
	Prove to me that he didn't do this, right?
	That's nonsense.
	But the thing is, if you want somebody who loves the men and women in uniform and would literally cut his wrists for them and do anything, and who would be the absolute last guy to tolerate the mistreatment of any person in uniform or their family member or their children, the words you would use are Pete Hegseth.
	So talk to us about the mechanics of this or just also the way it looks.
	I mean, he's straight out of central casting.
	He looks like a warrior.
	If he gets confirmed and he's SecDef, Major SecDef, then how does the GEO Flag Officer Corps look at this Major?
	Well, first of all, he is literally the second in command of the U.S. military behind the president.
	He is the senior civilian who basically fills in for the president's commander-in-chief.
	And if there is an officer or enlisted person in the United States Army who doesn't respect the integrity of that position, then they're in the wrong job.
	Because we have civilian control of the military.
	Right.
	And also civilian control of the civilians in the military, right?
	So there are two things about the job, which I think are the issue that's going to get discussed.
	I think the sexual harassment thing, I think it's already a deadline.
	There was more controversy about the tattoo on his chest, right?
	The cross.
	Right.
	And that somehow he's a white supremacist because he has a Christian cross tattooed on his chest.
	So I think that's a dead letter issue.
	I don't think it goes anywhere in the hearings.
	I think what they're going to go after is, well, he hasn't done the things that necessarily a SecDef does, and there's two of those.
	One is...
	Be a Beltway Bandit consultant at Raytheon.
	That's a low blow.
	No, it is working with the Hill because the Secretary of Defense, you have to work the Hill to get what you want done.
	By the way, nobody was worse at this than Lloyd Austin or Jim Mattis.
	They were both pathetic at this, right?
	So that you have to pick somebody who's good at this.
	Well, the Democrats have never picked somebody that was good at this, so we'll put that aside.
	The other one is you have to know how to run the building.
	A rather large building.
	Which is a big, complex operation.
	Now, the reality is a secretary of defense doesn't do any of those things on their own.
	They have to know that they're supremely important, and they have to know that those jobs have to get done.
	And they have to have a team.
	And they have to pick people who will do that, and they have to know how to supervise that.
	Pete Hegseth knows all that.
	As an infantry officer, you have to know how to delegate and supervise.
	And you have to know how you can delegate authority, but not responsibility.
	And you have to know the difference, right?
	And you know Pete.
	He is smart, dedicated.
	He's actually a very well-read, smart guy.
	And he knows how to run things, too.
	I have no doubt that Pete can do that.
	So I think that none of that criticism, I think, is going to hold up under scrutiny in a hearing.
	So what happens then?
	Because we had Matt replaced by Pam Bondi.
	Great choice.
	Is this going to be tough for Pete on Capitol Hill?
	You know Capitol Hill.
	I think he'll do okay.
	Because here's the one thing that I think the reason why this is not an appointment...
	This is a hill to die on, I think, for conservatives.
	Because what does Pete have that literally...
	Nobody has had in my recent memory, which is Physically, mentally, morally, emotionally, he is the epitome of exactly what we want the American military to be—patriotic, a selfless servant, strong, dedicated, committed, zealous, and— This is a thing that isn't well appreciated.
	Imagine him as SecDef at a NATO ministerial.
	No, no, no.
	Imagine Pete Hegseth in an American high school standing in front of a bunch of students and say, let me tell you why.
	Service to your nation is the most valuable thing you could do.
	Not because you're going to get a college education.
	Not because you're going to get instructed in the genders.
	Not because...
	Because this is a noble thing.
	And when Pete Hegseth talks about nobility...
	The children, the parents of Americans are going to listen.
	And when Pete Hexas goes around the world and he talks about, I believe in peace through strength and this president and defending America's interests, people are going to look at him and they're going to tremble in fear if they hate America.
	And they're going to say, oh my God, I love this guy.
	That's what I think.
	And we can find good assistant secretaries and deputies that will help run the machine.
	Not only can we find them, as you well know, that effort is already ongoing.
	And when I look at the people that they're looking at, I am sleeping very comfortable at night.
	It's not just about, you know, the perception.
	It's about the message that is sent by this choice.
	I'm so glad Jim made these points because it's part and parcel of the peace through strength.
	A very, very special and different message is sent to the world, to our allies, to our partners, and to our enemies when you have somebody who loves you.
	This nation, as much as Pete does, who's bled for it, become the head of the most powerful military the world has ever seen.
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	Thank you.
	It's a mistake to look at individual appointments in the cabinet and say, what does this tell me about?
	Because the purpose of the cabinet is to reflect the diversity of the conservative movement and to demonstrate that everybody that helped put him there and everybody's voice got a place at the table.
	And, you know, so you got to figure that out.
	It's the difference between the Biden thing, which is, I need a black.
	I need a woman.
	I want a DEI calendar and somebody says, I want the voices of the American people that help me and understand the world.
	I want them all at the table.
	And so you want a Rubio, you want a Pete Hegseth, you want a Pam Bondi.
	And when you do that, everybody doesn't get necessarily the job they want.
	No, that's why you get, like Matt Whitaker, going off to Brussels.
	Who's great, right?
	I'll tell you, the other thing that's going to be really excited is the first president I've ever seen who started out at the front end kind of tossing ambassadorial appointments out.
	A real recognition of how really important those are.
	and to see like Pete Hoekstra in Canada and well, obviously.
	Thank you.
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	Governor Huckabee, how cool is that going to Israel?
	We discussed ambassadors in the break.
	Can I have a sanity check with all this garbage about Russia and intercontinental ballistic missiles, please?
	No, not really.
	I want to talk about the fun stuff.
	No, you can't.
	We've got time.
	There's so much fake news out there.
	It's annoying.
	Thank you for asking about all that.
	I've been talking about this and when I talk about it, people look at me like I just parried and shoot it in from Mars and they've never heard this before.
	I'll start with the Atakums thing, which is our long range conventional missile.
	Something that I actually had played a small role in the development of two systems.
	Because you're an artillery officer.
	I was.
	But in my career, I played a small role in the fielding of both Atacums and HIMARS. I'm very proud of that.
	So what's interesting about the Atacums thing is what changed on the battlefield that changed President Biden's mind?
	And the answer is nothing.
	It was purely a political decision.
	He didn't want to do it before the election.
	With what kind of logic?
	Because it was about domestic politics.
	He didn't want to do it before the election because he was afraid it might somehow blow back on him, right?
	And it wasn't necessarily about Republicans calling for the end of the world.
	It was Putin might do something, and that might embarrass him, and it might hurt Harris's trances.
	So this is pathetic, that rather than going through the lens of America's interest, he went through the lens of what's good domestic politics.
	That's pathetic.
	People should be really angry about that.
	A lot of people say, oh, this is starting World War III, which I actually don't believe, because we're not seeing escalation in the war.
	But I actually think that if I were Trump, I would be okay with this, because Donald Trump wants Ukraine to be in as strong a position as possible.
	So when he walks in the door and says it needs to stop, he's got a stronger bargaining position.
	So the notion...
	Fall January 21st.
	20th.
	Right, because when Trump walks in the door and says playtime is over, they each want to be able to say, well, I'm in a stronger position.
	That's what's going on with both sides.
	The ballistic missile thing is, by the way, first of all, this is cute because who pulled out of the—these are really intermediate-range ballistic missiles, so they're not the kind that fly around the world.
	They do do a ballistic trajectory, which means they fly into space— And they come back down, which also means that they're different to shoot down than a cruise missile or some of the other things that we're seeing, and why that's a little more challenging for the Ukrainians.
	By the way, Trump pulled out of INF because the Russians were cheating.
	And oh my God, because if the Russians were actually following the letter of the treaty, they actually wouldn't have this weapon.
	So where did that come from?
	It came because the Russians were cheating.
	So good on Trump there.
	They actually don't have that many of them.
	They're relatively experimental.
	They do carry a large conventional warhead, which means at the end of the day, when it hits the ground, it's no different than anything else.
	So somehow that this is leading World War III is just nonsense.
	Is this like a kind of trying to show we're tough move?
	Putin is doing everything possible he can to look tough.
	And look like he's winning and intimidate the West.
	So, to be honest to my friends, who I love dearly, and this is the thing, all of us who disagree on this, we all agree that we want the fighting to stop and that we trust Trump to do that.
	So, you know, it may sound like I'm disagreeing with all our friends, but I'm really not.
	But I'm just saying, if you're saying this is leading to World War III, that's...
	It's a negotiations ploy.
	All right, we've got 50 seconds left.
	We both know Matt Whitaker.
	What is your advice to the forthcoming NATO ambassador?
	Is it to avoid the Belgian chocolate because he'll put on 20 pounds, or what is it?
	Look, I think I think you go into NATO with a very constructive attitude because we're actually leading from a position of strength.
	This is not the NATO of 2016. Trump is walking into the door having won the argument.
	NATO is actually more defensible today than it was back then.
	There's more strategic today.
	There's a thousand miles more front with a very powerful military.
	You have the Ukrainian military.
	It's irrelevant if Ukraine is in NATO. This is a total non-issue because it's a Ukrainian military that the Russians cannot ignore.
	So we get all the benefit of Ukraine actually defending us.
	Without being in NATO. So it's stupid to debate NATO membership because we know it's not going to happen.
	Somebody should write that article, Jim Carofano.
	Not me, I'm right.
	And it's a stupid thing to trade away because the Russians know it's meaningless, right?
	And then you've got the Polish and the Romanians.
	So the frontier is actually quite defensible.
	We're in a really good position.
	We don't have to abandon Europe and pivot to Asia.
	We're in a good place.
	We can build on that.
	An ambassador can be really powerful.
	And we picked exactly the right guy to do this, I'm telling you.
	I think we have to have dinner at the Monocle with Matt.
	Follow him at JJ Carrafano.
	We'll give him the briefing.
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	As the nominations come in so fast every single day, we've got a couple of doozies left.
	Kash Patel for FBI would be superb.
	Come on, Kash.
	But what about that other organization that everyone cares about because it needs to be abolished?
	It's the Bureau of Chips and Beer.
	No, sorry, I left it out.
	Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms.
	Maybe our next guest could shed some light on who should be the new director.
	He is the producer of amazing content on the AKGuy YouTube channel.
	Brandon Herrera, happy Friday!
	Happy Friday, Seb.
	How you doing, man?
	I'm good, but what's happening with that beard?
	You are going mountain, man.
	What is happening?
	Grizzly Adams or what?
	Just when I thought I was out of politics for a little while, I figured I could pull something like this off, and then all of a sudden this ATF directorship comes in and brings me back in.
	All right, so we might have to get you to the barbers later today, a big cigar barbershop, and we'll get you sorted out.
	So let's talk about this interesting movement amongst the fans of Bobby Kennedy and your fans.
	So There is a website.
	This is Bobby Kennedy's Maha.
	Welcome to the Nominees of the People website where you can nominate people and then you can vote for people to serve in the Trump administration.
	And I was watching your recent video.
	Dude, you've got to do some more product.
	I need to see more videos from you.
	I think this is the last video I've seen.
	And you talk about this, that right there, along with Ken Paxton, And Dan Bongino, right now at the top of the list is some chap called Brandon Herrera.
	Mr. Herrera, if asked, would you serve at the ATF? And what would be your timeline for dismantling that organization?
	I would absolutely love.
	I am ready, willing, and able to serve in that position.
	Only if the administration is in the same position We're good to go.
	We dismantle it right.
	We played the clip, I think, two days.
	I can't keep track if things are moving so fast.
	Two days ago, Vivek gave an interview where you're talking about Doge, this incredible entity.
	And he said, yeah, quote, we're going to be deleting whole agencies.
	So you are a creator of weapons, a manufacturer of beautiful guns that have happy giggle triggers, if you know what I mean.
	But you're not just a maker and a content provider.
	You also have a lot of firearms experts and lawyers who you say could advise you in this exciting position, should it be bestowed upon you.
	And you mentioned some interesting standing legislation or regulations.
	What kind of things have your friends of a legal background been telling you you could do with ATF?
	Now, we have the common usage clause that is so important to the Supreme Court.
	But give us a tease if President Trump should ever tap you for this position, Brandon.
	Well, you see, there's a lot of things on my wish list that I'd love to get rid of.
	But it really helps to have attorneys from, let's say, Firearms Policy Coalition, National Association for Gun Rights, Gun Owners of America, to really be able to come together and basically talk to me about how we could legally proceed in dismantling the parts of the organization we want to see gone.
	Things like different import things.
	Like you just saw that new import restriction on the Beretta 1301, I believe.
	Hang on, that amazing shotgun.
	What have they done with that?
	It's a new import restriction.
	The ATF has just now made a ruling in the last few days that now is...
	It's not made in Russia.
	It's not fully automatic.
	What are they babbling about?
	It's the same thing they've been doing since the 90s, and it's one of the reasons this organization needs to be dismantled.
	In my opinion, I think I can do it in about 100 days effectively to where we can roll in with the approval of the president and Congress, make the agency completely irrelevant by rolling the task force stuff into the FBI, the revenue portion, like tax stamps and things, into the Department of the Treasury, where it originally started and where it should have stayed.
	And then basically make the point of the agency moot so that none of those decisions can ever be overturned.
	And then talk about the stuff that excites you and me, the closed market in fully automatic weapons, and then the stupid $200 tax stamp on short-barreled rifles and short-barreled shotguns.
	What would we do with that?
	So that would have to be, because that is law, that would have to be something that is passed by Congress, And then approved on the desk of President Trump.
	But man, I don't think I've ever seen, you know, that's always been a pipe dream.
	We've never been able to accomplish that.
	We've never been able to even make that close to feasible.
	But if it was ever going to happen, it would happen during this administration and during this Congress.
	This next two years, I think, is the first and best time we've had.
	Now, we're having fun here, and you're a friend of mine.
	We've smoked cigars together.
	We haven't shot together yet.
	We have to do that.
	And the video on, you know, the AK guy is super fun.
	You've actually built a rifle for me.
	God bless your team.
	Beautiful, beautiful.
	6.5 Creedmoor AK. Yeah, guys, 6.5.
	We'll talk about that another time.
	That's actually, that's going to be my next video coming out, and I mention, and I show a photo of your gun in that video.
	Wow.
	One of my guns is going to be famous.
	I'm excited.
	But this is fun.
	The video everybody needs to watch about Bran Herrera for director of ATF is a giggle.
	But last question.
	Would you do it?
	So I'll go ahead and say that I wasn't the one who put my name on that petition.
	I know, I know.
	That's why I have to ask you.
	It's too important to turn down.
	And if we were able to come together with the administration...
	And that 100-day wish list was actually a possibility, I would accept.
	And it would be fun to see you there, your first day as director of the ATF, maybe having a A cup of coffee or a cup of tea with, oh, I don't know, Don Jr. and maybe Eric Trump.
	I'm sure they've got some ideas as well.
	I wonder if they do.
	I think they do.
	God bless you, Brandon Herrera.
	Follow him right now on YouTube at Brandon Herrera and the AK guy on Twitter.
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	TrumpReliefFactor.com Eric, very briefly, and I talked to Don Jr. last SHOT Show, I think, when we went to the Trump I talked to him very...
	We were all burnt out by that point.
	It was like day three of SHOT Show.
	Right, right, right.
	Nobody was listening to anybody.
	Eric's a big gun guy.
	He builds his own long-range stuff.
	Yeah, I heard he reloads in his garage.
	It's not a garage.
	It is a lab.
	It is like an OR. It is like something out of a spaceship.
	Well, if you'd like, by the way, I actually didn't put that together.
	We'd never shot together.
	We're doing our big creator range day on the 12th.
	12th of?
	December.
	December.
	Shoot me some details.
	Yeah, I'll shoot you.
	We got like an invite poster.
	Don't share it because it's the literal invite, but I'll text it over to you.
	Good.
	And it's close to you, near where you are?
	Yeah, it's up in Bernie, Texas.
	So right outside of San Antonio.
	Same with the details, dude.
	It's just a bunch of celebrities, a bunch of UFC fighters, YouTubers, stuff like that.
	So I'm sure you'd have a field day.
	Free machine guns.
	It's everything you could ever want to shoot.
	Love it, love it, love it.
	All right, buddy.
	That was super fun.
	Thanks for having me on, man.
	Thanks, dude.
	Bye.
	Appreciate it.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	I expect that it will be mass deportation.
	It will be millions of people in camps managed by the US military.
	I expect it will be military raids in civilian areas to try to take on this extreme anti-immigrant agenda, which I think he means every word of.
	I think that it's the end of American participation in NATO in any meaningful sense.
	I think it's Really, really bad news for Ukraine.
	I think ultimately it's bad news for Taiwan.
	I think that it is a big, big leap toward the multipolar world that Vladimir Putin has been dreaming of and preaching for a long time.
	And I think internally in the United States, they will start arresting their enemies and bringing bogus prosecutions and Justice Department civil lawsuits against everybody who disagrees with them.
	I think all of that's going to happen.
	Jeff.
	The DOJ bringing bogus cases for political reasons?
	Almost everything you said could have been said four years ago about Biden.
	Bad news for Taiwan.
	It's not good for Ukraine.
	They're going to start arresting their enemies.
	Literally, it's everything that's happened the last four years.
	We've been told for a decade now that she's the smartest person in media.
	Either she's the stupidest or Rachel Maddow doesn't believe anything of that, Jeff.
	Well, she's the smartest negotiator because she gets paid a lot for one day a week.
	I know that.
	Well, yeah, that is true.
	Oh my gosh.
	Okay, let's have some fun.
	Let's end the second hour with a little bit of fun.
	I've never heard, we mentioned Don Jr. I never heard him do an impression of his dad.
	It's pretty good.
	Talking about picking J.D. Vance and getting him to be the nominee for vice president.
	Cut 12. You know, it was after the debate, you know, my phone's blowing up in my pocket.
	I figured it was press or I'm doing the spin room for like two hours after the debate and, you know, doing all this.
	My phone, I'm just like turning off my phone, turning off my phone.
	And it was like I had like 12 missed calls from my dad.
	I'm like, oh boy, you know, that's usually not great.
	And he just gets on the phone.
	He goes, you know, Don, You know, I did that for you, Don, but that was a 10. A huge win in Trump world is like a 6. And so when he was like, that was a 10. That's as close to a 10 as you're going to get.
	I was like, okay, we got it.
	But, you know, he was watching him.
	Even that first week, as the narrative, they were trying to crush this guy.
	And they would have tried to crush anyone.
	I understand that.
	But, you know, they were trying to crush him.
	And I just watched him on the Sunday shows do three in a row.
	Just absolutely dismantle the narrative.
	Because our problem on our side is like...
	Everyone's so...
	They want to be loved by these people who literally hate their guts.
	Oh, yeah.
	You know, we joke about the gulags, but they would gladly put any one of us in if they could just snap their fingers and make it happen.
	And, you know, it was watching that where J.D. didn't just take their, you know, January 6th was an insurrection.
	Okay, it was an insurrection, but, you know, it wasn't like...
	It's like, no, this is ridiculous.
	Like, what are you talking about?
	And just absolutely crush these people.
	And it's because...
	No one's ever pushed back.
	It's not that they're smart.
	It's like people want to get invited back on the show so they concede so much ground.
	So, you know, you're starting a negotiation with already less than you're even hoping to get.
	And it's like, well, like, why would you do that?
	Yeah, JD understood what I understood.
	Seven years ago in the White House, they hate you and you never want to compromise with them.
	Next up, making movies great again with the one and only Chris Coles.
	and it's a doozy.
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	Let's go see him together.
	You have my sword.
	And you have my bow.
	And my axe.
	Carry the face of us all, little one.
	If this is indeed the will of the council, then Gondor will see it done.
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	You shall be the Fellowship of the Ring.
	And thus is The Fellowship Born and I think the revitalization of modern cinema thanks to Peter Jackson and the revivification of a book that maybe reinvented Western literature and created a whole new genre of fantasy, but really which was based on On a far, far older story.
	I believe it may be, since it is from 2001, the most modern movie we have ever celebrated here, making movies great again.
	Let us talk about it and its significance with our good friend and co-host of the Mr. Reagan Channel, Chris Coles.
	Did you enjoy watching the first installment of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings?
	You know what's funny?
	I did enjoy it.
	But I actually don't like this movie.
	Well, this is going to be a very short episode because we're going to fire Chris Coles and I will be talking to myself for the next hour.
	Well, I really don't know what to do with that, because we don't rehearse any of these things.
	We just get a gut punch 180 seconds into the episode, and I'm just gonna drink my caffeinated drink and hand this over to Chris, who will be responsible for our ratings for the next week.
	Yeah.
	Look, look, this is a great film.
	This is a classic, a modern classic, obviously, and really brilliantly put together on so many levels.
	And I am going to talk about that and all of the, you know, how this is in fact a masterpiece.
	But I don't really like it.
	I've never liked it.
	When it first came out, I didn't like it.
	And let me explain just a little bit why I don't like it personally.
	When I was a little boy, I read The Hobbit, right?
	And The Hobbit to me was a magical book.
	It was amazing.
	A little bit later on, I read, I would say maybe the first few chapters of Lord of the Rings.
	I didn't really get into the Lord of the Rings books, you know, Fellowship of the Ring.
	But they do have a very specific feel to them.
	And I never felt like the film really captured that.
	And I think the primary essence that the film lacked, in my view, was a certain Britishness of Everything in this film is very theatrical.
	They're very emotional throughout this film.
	There's a lot of crying going on.
	You know, that sort of thing.
	There are these very sort of, I would say, Hollywood cinematic type shots.
	And British people really aren't like that.
	I suppose when I was reading The Hobbit and then later on The Fellowship of the Ring...
	I felt like Bilbo and then Frodo as well were both a bit like Winnie the Pooh.
	You know, they had this kind of innocence to them.
	They liked honey and didn't know how to wear their trousers or what?
	Well, it was just that they were very innocent-type characters who were a little bit hapless and didn't quite understand what was going on all the time.
	But they had a kind of courage.
	And this innocence matched with courage somehow allowed them to succeed.
	I mean, they're not Winnie the Pooh in the sense that they're essentially sort of like bumbling idiots.
	But there is that innocence matched with courage that I think was really charming in the books that I do feel is kind of a little bit lost in the films.
	Like I say, everything's very theatrical in the movies.
	Now, there are a lot of things they do so amazingly well in the films.
	I do think that it was brought to life on the big screen in a way that obviously brought this story to millions of people.
	And so millions of people now love the story and have read the books.
	And everything because of these films.
	So, right, we have to give these credit.
	In fact, the girl that I'm currently dating, which today, before I watched the film, said to me, you know, one of my favorite films is the Lord of the Rings films.
	She's like, when I was growing up, I loved them more than Harry Potter.
	I loved them more than just about anything.
	She loved Star Wars and Lord of the Rings.
	Yeah.
	Which is pretty crazy.
	So I was like, alright, fantastic.
	You can come watch it with me today.
	I think I'm in PTSD. I think I'm in shell shock.
	I'm still trying to recover from your comment.
	But expand on that.
	The Winnie the Pooh or the lacking Britishness.
	Explain more of...
	Alright, do it like this.
	What is missing for you in this Australian, New Zealand, Antipodean rendering?
	Well, like I say, a Britishness.
	Tolkien was an old-fashioned guy.
	And he was an old-fashioned guy in the first half of the 20th century.
	So that's already, like, from today's standards, we're already talking about a long time ago, historically.
	And then you're talking about an old-fashioned guy from that era.
	So you don't really get more sort of old-school British than Tolkien.
	You know, the man smoking a pipe, the guy's wearing tweed jackets...
	And he has a kind of solemnness where I just don't think that the emotion that the characters have is reflective of who they were in the books.
	I think in the books there was this—I want to call it seriousness, but there was a kind of simple, straightforward attitude that the characters have in the books that— In the films, they're kind of all over the place.
	They kind of have these larger-than-life personalities.
	You know, it's very theatrical.
	It's almost borderline musical theater, the way some of the characters act and react and stuff like that.
	It works really well for the films, I think.
	It just didn't capture the essence of the British nature of the books for me.
	But that's because I am fixated on the books, obviously.
	Even though I didn't read through the books, just having read through The Hobbit and part of the first book...
	I just had this certain vision in my head of what the films would be, and it didn't match it.
	And again, it's not to say they are not amazing films.
	They really are.
	It's just that they never really matched what I thought was the essence of Tolkien's world.
	But why?
	Again, I don't want to sound like a broken record.
	It's lacking a stiff upper lip.
	It's too melodramatic.
	Be specific.
	Yeah, I think that in these novels and in other novels of the time, in the C.S. Lewis, in the Narnia novels, which I read when I was a little boy, there is this, there is a kind of British cottage-like feel to, you know, some of the stuff that goes on, some of the locations, some of the attitudes of some of the characters.
	You know, I don't know.
	know i feel like there was a humanity there wrapped within these sort of social confines of you know having to be a certain way and propriety which you kind of almost didn't have there was almost like a a tom sawyer huck finn type attitude and maybe that's because you know elijah wood did play i think he played huck finn in a previous uh film that i that i saw uh before this one
	but uh you know there is this kind of uh fun aspect to these movies whereas in in the book you know in the books i i just felt like it was a little bit more uh more serious and british And there is something very charming about that.
	But it's, I don't know, it's different in the films.
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	It began with the forging of the great rings.
	Three were given to the elves, seven to the dwarf lords, and nine.
	Nine rings were gifted to the race of men, for within these rings was bound the strength and will to govern each race.
	But they were all of them deceived.
	For another ring was made.
	In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret a master ring to control all others.
	And into this ring he poured his cruelty, his malice, and his will to dominate all life.
	One ring to rule them all.
	That is the opening narration.
	Exposition quite like none other.
	Required because of the backstory of the ring.
	The one ring that binds them all.
	We're making movies great again with our good friend Chris Coles.
	Alright, I'm going to avoid the subject of this movie for the next eight minutes.
	And let's talk about the books.
	And I love...
	If you read the correspondence...
	Of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, who were the members of the Inklings when they were in college, or other professors.
	The genesis of The Hobbit, the genesis of The Lord of the Rings, the genesis of the Narnia books is fascinating, because these are men of letters.
	These are historians, professors of literature.
	And they said to each other, and this could go for today as well, There's nothing in the current literature that moves them or that they would wish to read.
	So therefore, Chris, they said, well, we are going to write the stories we would read.
	And did they change our world for the better or what, Chris?
	Oh, absolutely.
	You know, I did the same thing when I was younger.
	I think I was about 13, and I was introduced to the Twilight Zone TV show.
	I started watching this show called The Twilight Zone.
	And I remember thinking, this is so good that if I could write as well as the writers of this show were writing in the 1960s, I would be the best writer alive today.
	And that was like, I believe, 1993. And I made it my mission To teach myself how to write epic stories, novel ideas, and these sort of twist endings that I was watching on that show.
	And I was able to do it.
	And I do believe that I started to produce some writing that I thought was sort of on the same level as that stuff.
	But when I first read writing, I was really inspired by Lord of the Rings, the Narnia books, these things.
	And yeah, these guys were, I think, at the time, geniuses.
	It wasn't just that they were writing stories that were popular for kids.
	They were writing stuff that would go on to be some of the greatest literature in Western civilization, I think.
	And not only that, it creates a whole genre.
	We don't have fantasy.
	We don't have the sword in the stone, the Shannara and everything else if we don't have J.R.R. Tolkien, correct?
	Yeah, I think the entirety of the Dungeons& Dragons game essentially comes from Tolkien.
	And what's really funny is...
	Now, I've never played Dungeons& Dragons, right?
	But I know...
	I know that this is, you know, it's kind of legendary for inspiring other fantasy stories.
	So in the game, you have to tell stories in order to get through the game.
	That's like how the game is played.
	And I've heard many people talk about how they started playing this Dungeons& Dragons game, and it evoked this idea of, oh, this would be a cool story.
	And then they've written novels and stories out of playing that game, and that all comes from Tolkien.
	So yeah, he really inspired generations of storytellers.
	If we go beyond the fact that you say this is missing a quintessential Britishness in the conversion from the book to the trilogy, what about...
	The way it was made in terms of the storytelling, the acting, the visuals.
	I'll talk about my trip to New Zealand with my Santa to visit all those locations.
	But if we look at just the filmic industrial aspects of this, how do you rate the trilogy?
	Well, let's talk about just the first one.
	Yeah, yeah.
	No, it's absolutely top tier.
	I mean, you know, as I was watching this, there was one thing that kept...
	Coming back into my head, which was the casting of Ian McKellen.
	The casting of Ian McKellen is so central to selling this whole thing.
	You could really recast anyone else.
	I mean, Orlando Bloom is absolutely perfect as well.
	But really, there's a lot of the characters could have been swapped out for other actors, and I think it would have probably worked out okay.
	John Rhys-Davis is Gimli is maybe non-negotiable.
	I mean, he is absolutely brilliant, is he not?
	Yeah.
	But this Ian McKellen performance, he really is Gandalf.
	I mean, he is Gandalf.
	And even having read the books and saying not everything is exactly perfect to what it was in my head, I think Ian McKellen might be better than what I had in my head.
	He's so unbelievably perfect.
	You know, the you shall not pass thing.
	I mean, he sells everything so brilliantly.
	To me, the entirety of the action, it all revolves around this one character and this performance.
	And he is just absolute perfection.
	But yeah, everything else, the score is the other thing.
	I think if you've got Ian McKellen and you've got this score, and of course New Zealand is a huge part of it, but if you have those sort of like three elements, then I think that it was bound to be good.
	Now, you know, Peter Jackson had a vision.
	There's obviously so many visual effects that go into this that are just...
	Perfection as well.
	That, yeah, all in all, I don't know if anybody else could have made this film quite as well as Peter Jackson did.
	Obviously, it was one of the highest grossing films of all time.
	So, you know, the guy did an excellent job.
	If it wasn't perfectly true to the books, to me, it's irrelevant.
	Because these are...
	these films are perfection, really.
	All right, we're going to talk about the books and why the books were so important and what the books are really about next here on Making Movies Great.
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	Perhaps the moment of the movie, the line, even though the director's cut of the first movie is three hours and 40 minutes long, Chris, you said the film is a disappointment by comparison to the book, which I can understand.
	The book for my son was absolutely seminal.
	I think his value system as a young man in part comes from going to a very good Catholic school, but because my wife primarily read Lord of the Rings to him every night before bedtime, he loves the book, loves the movies.
	What is the book really about for you, Chris?
	Because you know this book intimately and you love it.
	And why...
	Why is Gandalf the real hero and the real central character?
	Who is Gandalf, really?
	I don't know who Gandalf is supposed to be in terms of metaphor in real life.
	But in my view, to me, this is the quintessential hero's journey.
	This is a regular person, a person who is not necessarily equipped to do something that is great.
	Having greatness thrust upon them, having been forced to do something that is difficult and triumphing in the end.
	And to me, this is also a perfect metaphor of just good versus evil.
	And you see this crop up so many other times and so many other kinds of projects.
	I feel like...
	Star Wars took from this as well.
	This idea of, you know, this sort of creeping, dark side of the Force.
	To me, I always thought that the prequel trilogy, after the first three Star Wars films, I thought the prequel trilogy would be this ever-creeping...
	Dark side of the Force engulfing planets, engulfing part of the galaxy, something that the Jedi didn't know was back in the galaxy and, you know, taking over.
	They didn't really explore that in the first three, you know, in the prequel trilogy.
	But that's what you get here, right?
	That's what you get with this film.
	You get this, you know, he's back.
	You know, the evil is back.
	Sauron is back.
	And we see this darkness spreading across Mordor, you know, potentially into the rest of Middle Earth.
	And I love that.
	I love that.
	And I feel like we're kind of in that situation today.
	And I actually think I did a video about this a while ago where I do feel like we are today in the Lord of the Rings, and there's a few people that are sort of doing battle to try to fight back evil.
	You get people on a sort of practical level in politics doing it, but also on a cultural level just trying to bring back some semblance of Christian values in Western civilization, which I think is...
	You know, very quickly being lost.
	And I think in the first half of the 20th century, probably Tolkien felt that way as well.
	And I think this is probably a metaphor for, you know, Western civilization degenerating a little bit.
	Well, he said he didn't know, and he stumbled right into it.
	He talked about Christianity.
	Who is Gandalf?
	Well, Peter helps us out.
	You shall not pass!
	And he stretches his arms wide like a cross.
	And then he dies for his fellow man or his fellow hobbits.
	And then he goes to hell.
	He falls into the pit of hell.
	And then he is resurrected in a flashing white light.
	It's not Gandalf the gray, but Gandalf the white.
	He is Jesus Christ.
	So this whole story about...
	The hero's journey about fellowship and brotherhood is really about Jesus Christ.
	We shall continue!
	Before you came along, we Bagginses were very well thought of.
	Indeed.
	Never had any adventures or did anything unexpected.
	If you're referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved.
	All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door.
	Whatever you did, you've been officially labeled a disturber of the peace.
	A disturber of the peace who likes his Shire pipe weed as well.
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	SebGorkaStore.com That's S-E-B-G-O-R-K-A SebGorkaStore.com Chris, you're a writer, you're a performer, you're an actor, content provider.
	I hate that term.
	Let's talk about the handling of...
	Of moods in this movie.
	There you had the Christ-like figure of the wizard Gandalf, you know, playing, making light, amusement.
	And then we have the comic duo, a little bit like Laurel and Hardy, of Merry and Pippin, a term that will forever live in our family, the question of second breakfasts.
	Gentlemen, we do not stop till nightfall.
	What about breakfast?
	I've already had it.
	We've had one, yes.
	What about second breakfast?
	Don't think he knows about second breakfast, Pip.
	What about elevensies?
	Luncheon?
	Afternoon tea?
	Dinner?
	Supper?
	He knows about them, doesn't he?
	I wouldn't count on it.
	How do they manage tone here?
	Because it's a heavy movie.
	It's scary.
	For me, the Nazgul, the ring rates are absolutely bloody petrifying.
	And then you've got this comic duo cracking jokes throughout.
	Is the tone managed well?
	Oh, very, very well.
	Yeah, I often talk about this on the show, how if you have an action film or you have a very serious type drama...
	It's always good to pepper it with comedy.
	They do this here seamlessly.
	Pippin is actually a friend of a friend of mine.
	Apparently he used to be an avid surfer, and my friend had never seen Lord of the Rings.
	And he's like, yeah, I'm in this movie, Lord of the Rings.
	You should see it.
	I'll get it for you.
	And he bought him, like, the box set, and he still never watched it.
	What?
	That's actually a very good impression, sir.
	You should be a thespian.
	That was very good.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	The Scottish accent's a fun one.
	You know, these guys are fantastic throughout the film.
	They were cast really well, I feel like, as well.
	Because they do bring that light.
	They do bring that fun.
	And, yeah, to me, I always thought it was a little too heavy.
	You know, the Frodo and the Sam parts.
	People love Frodo and Sam, of course, because it's this brotherhood.
	It's this...
	Friendship that lasts throughout the entire three films, and these two guys rely on each other, and they're essentially brothers.
	And that's something that I think most men need in their lives.
	But yeah, I always thought when I was watching this when I was younger, I always thought that the Frodo-Same relationship was a little too emotional.
	It was a little bit too...
	They cry too much, I always felt like.
	But yeah, these...
	These other two characters, they bring about a much more sort of fun sense to the film, which I think is much needed after all the crying.
	Too much emotion, which goes back to your original point, right, about the movie, that it's lacking that stiff upper lip attitude, that British-English attitude.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, no, I always felt like that, but...
	You know, look, I don't know if that would have translated to film exactly as well as this did.
	You know, whatever was in Peter Jackson's head to create this film, he did it.
	Obviously, he did it correctly.
	And there's a lot of stuff in here.
	You know, it's interesting that you mentioned the thing about Gandalf being Christ.
	I'm sure I've probably heard that before.
	Well, because I don't even think people know that in some of the legends it's perceived or believed that...
	Christ, after dying on the cross, went to hell.
	I think that's in the Apocrypha.
	Right, right.
	So that's where you get that falling into the fires with the Balrog.
	That's why anybody who questions it, really, it's an asinine thing.
	Gandalf in all the representations, coming back from the dead, sacrificing himself for the other.
	I think, Chris, it's undeniable.
	Well, I had perceived that, actually, watching this previously and watching that this time, but I never had looked it up.
	I never thought, is that what they're trying to do here?
	Because he does come back.
	Yeah, and then in a blaze of glory, right?
	Like the illumination of a Christ resurrected.
	Yeah, exactly, yeah.
	All right.
	Look, Peter...
	I think Peter Jackson did capture that correctly, and I do think that there is a very obvious strong Christian element, you know, obviously in the books for sure, but even in this film, this was a time when you didn't have to cast, you know, things in a way that was DEI approved.
	You didn't have to strip, you know, the Christianity out of everything.
	Obviously, when Tolkien wrote this, he wasn't writing it, you know, in the sort of...
	Direct reference to Christianity that we know in our world, but there was this sort of illusion to it in Middle Earth.
	And really, I mean, if you read the correspondence at the time, it's very much about the hobbits of the Shire.
	People misread when it was written.
	It was actually written after their experiences in World War I. And it's a testament to the fighting spirit of the men who fought in the trenches.
	So the hobbits aren't meant to just be cute.
	The Shire isn't just meant to be something idyllic.
	It is the country culture of the simple British citizen who went to fight for his country in the Great War of 1914. So that was the primary, primary motivation for J.R.R. Tolkien when he first put pen to paper.
	We're talking the first of the trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, and coming to you from therelieffactor.com studios.
	Sildur, hurry!
	I led Isildur into the heart of Mount Doom.
	Where the ring was forged, the one place it could be destroyed.
	Cast it into the fire!
	Destroy it!
	Now.
	Isildur!
	It should have ended that day, but evil was allowed to endure.
	Isildur kept the ring.
	The line of kings is broken.
	There's no strength left in the world of men.
	Isildur takes the ring.
	And of course, Hugo Weaving, who plays Elrond after his spin in The Matrix, tells the story to Gandalf of what happened to the ring.
	Chris, you are a writer as well as an actor and a content provider.
	They say you've got to be really careful with exposition, that exposition can really kill a script.
	Here, because Tolkien's writing literally millennia of history in the Middle-earth stories, we get exposition almost every half an hour.
	And at least for me, it works.
	It doesn't bog down the movie experience.
	Am I wrong?
	Or how does he handle it here in such a way?
	And Jackson, that it actually works.
	Yeah, I think it is helped by the fact that they do speak in this kind of medievally stylized way.
	But it also obviously helps that they are incredible actors.
	You're getting these guys who can basically read the phone book and people want to listen to them.
	You know, really, really, truly magnificent actors.
	You know, one film that we've reviewed on this channel, and you're going to find this annoying probably, but I felt like...
	If you compare this movie to Uncle Buck...
	You're walking off thin ice, Chris Coles.
	No, no, no.
	There's a film called Willow.
	And Willow was really an excellent picture back in the 1980s.
	I think it's a little bit forgotten.
	They tried to do a revamped feminist series of it fairly recently that bombed big time, which was really sad because that was one of my favorite films when I was a little boy, Willow.
	And Willow was essentially a hobbit.
	I mean, the film Willow was an attempt to kind of recreate the book The Hobbit.
	And add some elements from Fellowship of the Ring, Lord of the Rings.
	And they did such a good job with that film.
	In fact, I thought the character of Willow was more like Bilbo Baggins than the Bilbo Baggins in this film.
	I think they kind of did Bilbo dirty in this movie.
	They kind of made him into a bit of a bumbling idiot.
	And also a weak person who just gives into the ring too much, right?
	Yeah, and I just didn't feel like that was true to the book so much.
	They kind of created this as maybe some foreshadowing for the rest of the film to show Frodo's struggle and what he could potentially become.
	Which I understand why they did that, you know, from a narrative position.
	But, you know, I just felt like it was it was a little bit sad to see that character go that way in the films.
	I thought with the film, Willow did a much better job of creating a hobbit like character and a hobbit like village, which to me was actually more true to the books than what we saw here.
	But yeah, you know, this film does everything.
	In such a grand scale, like something you couldn't have created in the 1980s because of the computer-generated effects that you get today.
	And this does, in many ways, create the world of Tolkien so well.
	And I think Tolkien had within him a kind of purity of a vision to create, like you said, the kind of story that he would want to read, the kind of epic tale that we hadn't gotten maybe in 100 years or something like that.
	And he really delivered.
	And obviously, like you say, the impact is felt to this day massively.
	I think that's what happens when you have this sort of purity of thought, purity of intention.
	And, you know, you have the kind of skill that he had and intelligence.
	No, absolutely.
	The purity of intention.
	My son called this.
	I asked him to, as such an expert, to just describe this movie in two sentences.
	He says, I'll do it in one.
	The perfect story of good versus evil.
	Yeah, I agree.
	You know, Willow is underrated.
	Warwick Davis, the star of Willow, of course, played Wicket from The Return of the Jedi.
	He played the Ewok.
	From Return of the Jedi.
	Final thoughts on this movie.
	First things first, my wife and my daughter have just literally got back from New Zealand yesterday.
	I traveled there when my son was working in Australia.
	I said, I'll fly out to you and before you come back home, we'll go to New Zealand and we'll go to Australia.
	All the sights from the incredible movie.
	That's my son standing in front of Rohan, the riders of Rohan in New Zealand.
	We went to every set, every scene we could find.
	And in fact, I think we have, do we have the water?
	Where Arwen washes away, that's actually the location where Arwen washes away the Nazgul, the Ringwraith.
	So if you could bear the 14-hour flight across the planet, that's us on top of Fox Glacier.
	You need to fly to the top of Fox Glacier as well.
	Highly, highly recommend it.
	But start in Wellington at the Weta Workshop.
	If you go to Wellington, that's my son, in the Weta Workshop.
	These are the people that made all the special effects.
	The guys there, that's me with one of the Uruk-hai at the Weta Workshop.
	Highly, highly recommend it.
	And of course, a couple of Hobbit feet as well.
	Alright, so the movie trilogy cost $281 million.
	And netted $3 billion.
	Not too shabby.
	All that is left for us.
	Yeah, not too bad.
	$3 billion.
	Final thoughts?
	And then we have to grade it.
	Chris, as ever, has to grade it out of the viewpoint of a modern audience and eye out of the canon of great movies.
	So, final thoughts.
	Oh, what is our unit of measure?
	What would you like?
	Some lambda bread?
	What would you like?
	A sword?
	An elvish sword?
	You choose the unit of measure, Chris.
	Oh, jeez.
	You know, I'm not that much of a Tolkien geek that I can get some kind of, like, specific thing.
	So, yeah, whatever you like.
	All right.
	Well, what is Sting?
	Let's do it in the units of Bilbo's Magical Short Sword.
	How many Sting swords out of ten for a modern audience, Chris?
	The reality is, this is a pretty modern picture.
	There's not many people who are going to find a flaw in this.
	I think even people who were huge fans of the books really loved these films.
	I'm kind of an odd man out here because I have this kind of...
	I don't know.
	I guess I grew up with this kind of sense of Britishness that I didn't feel was captured in the film properly.
	But...
	It is a modern classic.
	Everyone loves these films.
	I don't know anybody who doesn't.
	I mean, these are 10 out of 10 films for sure.
	Eric, have we ever done this?
	What happens if I give it a 10 out of 10?
	Have we ever done this?
	I think we have one.
	I think...
	Maybe Casablanca or Star Wars or something?
	There was at least one that was two 10s.
	I don't remember if it was Blade Runner.
	I mean, I know you gave it a 10. I don't think Chris did.
	No, I don't think you did.
	There was one other 20 out of 20.
	Well, we've done it again.
	10 out of 10 in the Universal canon.
	That's a straight shot.
	20 out of 20.
	And it's only the first in the trilogy.
	Go and watch it again and go and watch the director's cut.
	All right.
	Eric, as we were doing the last Captain Blood review, tried to tell me in my ear, it's Chris's choice.
	You don't get to choose the next movie.
	So I think the next two are yours, Chris.
	What should we watch next week after Thanksgiving?
	Well, I actually had an idea for a picture, but this was a very good choice.
	I mean, this is obviously going to be a popular film with a lot of people.
	I don't know if you want to do this one, because the film that I was going to choose, I was going to run it by you first.
	No, no, no.
	Go ahead.
	But it's almost a repeat, which you might find annoying, because I don't know if we've ever actually done...
	This specific film.
	We did all the Bond films, but I thought it might be fun to go back and watch my actually all-time favorite Bond film, which we've not gone and done a full hour on, which is I believe the quintessential Bond film From Russia With Love.
	Hang on, hang on, hang on.
	How did he put that up on the screen before you started saying it?
	Are you plotting?
	Are you plotting with my team from 10,000 miles away?
	I asked Eric if we had done From Russia With Love specifically because I wasn't sure...
	Because I know we did the full canon.
	We started right at the beginning.
	We just did a kind of Bond over you.
	Dude, I do not need an...
	I will review any Bond movie with you except for the Daniel Craig one.
	So don't give me an excuse.
	We can do the next 21 reviews can be Bond.
	So yes, yes, yes.
	One of my absolute favorites from Russia with love.
	Let's do it.
	Oh, and one more thing.
	If you haven't seen it...
	I've got this.
	I'm reading the book.
	Oh, the original...
	I'm currently reading the book.
	Wow.
	Yeah, yeah.
	All right.
	Well, for once, he'll do some homework before we do a review.
	I appreciate that.
	Let's put up this movie, which was kind of seminal for me before Peter Jackson came around, and that's the original cartoon version of Lord of the Rings.
	Okay?
	So, guys, if you haven't seen it...
	Go and watch the animated version, which has rotoscoping as well.
	Very scary rotoscoping of the battle scene.
	So I warmly recommend that as well if you don't have four hours to watch just one first part of the trilogy.
	All right, next week it is From Russia With Love with the one and only Sean Connery.
	I'm Sebastian Gorka.
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