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America First LIVE: The fight for Pete Hegseth continues!

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	Some labor unions are already fighting back.
	They've already signed contracts to try and get this, that they could be able to work from home, things like that.
	Your reaction to that?
	Well, there was a report that came out today.
	I don't know if you all have seen it, but someone did a little survey of how many federal employees are actually working in the office.
	By one estimate, it may be about 1%, if you don't count the security personnel that are covering these buildings.
	That is absurd.
	And it's not something the American people will stand for.
	And so one of the first things that I think you'll see is a demand from the new administration and from all of us in Congress that federal workers return to their desks and get back to the work that they're supposed to be doing.
	I think that is common sense.
	Did I hear that correctly?
	I've just heard that.
	Jeff, I just need to double check that.
	What did Speaker Johnson just say?
	I thought he said 1%.
	Because I've been reading the figures, and I was told this a year ago, 6%—oh, greetings, dear friends.
	It's Friday.
	You're listening to America First with me, Sebastian Gorka.
	That after COVID and all the remote work, yeah, right, 6% of federal employees are regularly going into their departments in D.C. to work.
	And what did Speaker Johnson just say?
	He said that when you get rid of the security, it's less than 1%.
	Now, John, you were saying something interesting before we started our live show across the nation.
	Remind me of this thing you used to see, especially around the Pentagon, lots of people lining up outside the building.
	What was that and what has happened to that?
	Yeah, there's a thing in D.C. in this area called slugging or slug lines where basically...
	People will wait at certain spots, and people will basically just drive up, pick you up, and that way all of you can get on the HOV lanes, the high-occupancy vehicle lanes, and make your commute easier.
	And people will basically just get on, they drop people off at certain locations, and it was really popular around this area, and it is basically all but vanished since COVID. You said there was a website?
	I think there was a website.
	What did the website say, John?
	It was archived like two years ago.
	It was like, we're not going to be posting any more updates because nobody's slugging anymore.
	So, Jeff, do we even need Doge?
	I mean, can we just tell the 94% of federal employees, if you didn't come to work for the last three years, don't bother on January the 20th?
	I would like to have that happen.
	Because, I mean, what is the point?
	And also, it's good for your commute, right?
	It's very good for my commute.
	What happens to this building?
	I mean, a little bit inside the beltway.
	We're in an office building, many floors of which, stories of which, are rented by the federal government.
	Tell our listeners, what happens at about 10.30 on a Friday to the parking garage of this building?
	10.30 a.m.
	Sorry, yes, 10.30 a.m.
	It's basically like a government shutdown.
	That's basically what happens.
	And Monday's pretty empty as well.
	Would we miss it if we just, like, half of government just get rid of it?
	Just say, don't need you!
	What would the American people think, Jeff?
	A little higher.
	Maybe 65%.
	I mean, seriously, when you have a government shutdown, do you really notice anything?
	I never have.
	I never noticed.
	Less traffic.
	That's the only thing that's ever happened.
	It's good.
	We like it.
	Yes.
	Okay, let's continue this topic.
	Stephen Miller, who is coming in as the head of the, I think it's, oh, Deputy Chief of Staff, Domestic Policy, the genius behind the president's original immigration policies.
	He had something to say about this regarding President Trump's inauguration on January the 20th.
	Cut five.
	When Donald Trump is inaugurated on January 20th and that new golden age of America begins, he's going to tell the federal workers of this country who are paid for by your viewers to get back into the office and do their jobs or find another line of work.
	We are not paying.
	Billions and billions of dollars for people to sit at home all day as federal workers streaming their favorite shows on Netflix, lounging around in bubble baths and doing God knows what else, but definitely not working for the American people.
	What is it Reagan said?
	A time for choosing.
	Make a decision.
	If you work for the federal government, you need to understand something very, very clearly.
	The Constitution is crystal on this.
	In fact, it's so crystal, the formal title of the President includes the Chief Executive The Supreme Court has been very explicit that the person elected to be the chief executive, to be the president, to be the commander-in-chief, is the actual embodiment of the executive.
	He is the executive.
	We have Congress, we have the Supreme Court, and we have the executive.
	At 12 o'clock...
	On January the 20th, six weeks from today, President Trump will once again be the executive.
	And just in case...
	Some of my former government colleagues are a little bit confused.
	Remember, I spent five and a half years in the Defense Department as Associate Professor Dean of Irregular Warfare at Fort McNair.
	I am a former civil servant in the Defense Department.
	My job was to teach counterterrorism and irregular warfare.
	And then I worked in the White House as a politically commissioned officer of the 45th President of the United States, and I have been nominated to be a Deputy Assistant to the President, Senior Director for Counterterrorism, back in the White House, as of 12 o'clock, when President Trump takes his oath of office for the second time in front of Congress with his hand on the Bible.
	Every single one of my former colleagues, every single person who picks up a government paycheck, oh, and the contractors, this burgeoning, obscene number of contractors who work for the government, not just the Defense Department, but all over.
	I mean, from the intelligence community to the Department of Education, just horrific numbers, and based upon the canard, the lie.
	That a private sector contractor from Booz Allen or from the Boston Consulting Group is cheaper than an FTE, a full-time employee.
	Garbage!
	You add up everything, the ancillaries, the project costs, multiples of a government employee who by themselves are expensive enough.
	Every single one of you We'll be working for the President of the United States as chosen by 77 million Americans.
	If you don't like his policies, if you think you get to work by sitting at home in the jacuzzi, binging on Netflix...
	Don't bother coming into work because you won't have a job.
	Let me be really explicit.
	I'll only be one person inside the administration.
	I won't be working for Elon Musk.
	Oh, who, by the way, fired more than 70% of the people at Twitter when he bought it for $44 billion.
	And after he fired them, it was more efficient than before he fired them.
	I guarantee you, whether it's the president, whether it's one of his cabinet secretaries, whether it's Elon, whether it's Vivek, they won't be needing your services.
	If you don't agree with the mandate provided to the president through the Electoral College and the popular vote, and if you don't agree with his policies, it's a time for choosing.
	Knuckle under, recognize the writ of the American people, execute the policies of the president and his team, or go and learn to code.
	Is that the right thing, Alex?
	Is that what the hip kids say?
	Learn to code?
	Did I get that right?
	Programming, right?
	Programming.
	Yeah, but it's learn to code.
	Come on, John, did I get that right?
	Help me out.
	He's a little bit too different.
	Is it learn to code?
	Learn to code, yeah.
	Learn to code.
	Hey guys, learn to code.
	I'm Sebastian Gorka.
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	We love all the Green Berets, but this is one of our favorites.
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	and more Christmas music to boot.
	They're but they don't know which count It seems like they're deadlocked.
	Oh, on something specific?
	On the lesser one.
	OK.
	Show me the B-roll.
	How did it come out, John?
	Sure.
	Go ahead and take it.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Good.
	I'm going to use that with Sean.
	Okay.
	And this is what I have first.
	Kyron, CEO and co-founder of Federalist.
	CEO. Yeah, I think he's updated that to just CEO, but we'll ask him.
	Okay.
	I think that's straight off his Twitter.
	Oh, it is?
	Okay, good.
	And then...
	Yeah.
	I'll do 12th.
	I'll do the B-roll.
	Okay, good.
	All right.
	And Angel Tree at the top.
	I'll tee up the audio from Mark pretty quickly.
	All right, he's connected.
	Do you want mics on or off?
	You can leave the mics on.
	He'll behave himself.
	We'll see.
	Well, we'll see.
	He got the memo.
	He got the memo.
	Color coordinated, dude.
	It's deer season, my friend.
	Got to be ready to go pop a buck out.
	Just in case somebody's going to shoot you in your living room.
	Exactly.
	Okay, good to know.
	Good to know.
	All right.
	We've got to talk about the confirmation hearings.
	What would you like to speak to millions of Americans about?
	Oh, anything you're good with, I'm good with.
	Good, good, good.
	What was I going to...
	Oh, is that good or have you changed it?
	CEO and co-founder?
	Yep, that's good.
	Okay, good, good, good.
	What are your plans?
	Staying home for Christmas?
	I mean, His Supreme Excellency, that would work too.
	The Caliph of the known universe?
	Is that good?
	Yes.
	I mean, yeah, of the mostly known universe.
	Of the mostly known.
	What are your Christmas plans?
	Hopefully doing a whole lot of nothing and not traveling.
	What about you?
	Same thing.
	For once, we're just going to stay home.
	The kids are going to come home, so it's going to be great.
	It's going to be great.
	How many kids?
	Two, 25 and 27. Son in medical school in Richmond and my daughter in San Francisco.
	Nice.
	That's exciting.
	Yeah.
	She just finished her graduate school at Pepperdine.
	She's going to be a family therapist.
	So, yeah.
	Awesome.
	None of them want to be involved in politics or national security.
	There's a surprise.
	Although my son, because he used to come with me when I did the Green Beret lectures, my son, by the age of 15, he could actually give my lecture on jihadi ideology.
	He's like, okay, dad, I've seen it enough.
	Let me try.
	Who did the delivery better?
	You or him?
	He's even taller than me.
	He's like six foot six.
	He's a former D1 athlete.
	Looks like a Greek god.
	So, you know, he relates to the Green Berets because they're all pretty fine specimens.
	Love it.
	Yeah, it's like that moment.
	I don't know, you know, I think I was 17. I came home one day late, and my dad, who was six foot tall, really, I mean, he's a former Olympic-level rower, he looked up at me and he said, stronger, smarter, taller as it should be.
	That's when you realize, okay, I'm good.
	Thanks, Dad.
	Stand by.
	You said we're teeing up, so I'm not coming to anything right now.
	No, I'll tell you.
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	The Trans-Siberian Orchestra to a little bit of classic Christmas fare.
	It's not too early.
	We are in the season.
	It is Yuletide.
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	I'm going to have a quiet Christmas at home.
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	It continues the Farrago on Capitol Hill with Pete Hegseth, combat veteran, multiple decorations, a perfect man to reform the five-sided playpen.
	Just last night, my soon-to-be immediate boss, a Green Beret, a legend, the incoming National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, was asked about Pete Hegseth.
	Cut 12. And President Trump's standing by Pete, right?
	He absolutely is.
	He absolutely is.
	Pete is there and was put there to reform a place that badly needs reform.
	That's why President Trump nominated him.
	I can tell you what I'm hearing from the soldiers, what I'm hearing from the troops.
	It's a sigh of relief and cheering Pete on.
	And let me tell you what, Jesse, this is a building that failed an audit not once, not twice, but seven times of over $800 billion.
	And by the way, they had seven years to get ready for the audit.
	So that's 14 years in and of itself.
	Recruiting is in crisis.
	Readiness is down.
	He's the man to fix it.
	He literally wrote a book, The War on Our Warriors.
	Is he gonna make it?
	Let's talk to a warrior himself who is wearing, as it is the season, the correct shade of blaze orange to go after those white tails.
	He is the CEO, the co-founder of that superlative website, The Federalist, Sean Davis.
	Merry Christmas.
	Merry Christmas.
	We can say that again.
	We can.
	We can.
	President Trump said we can say it again.
	Although, what is it?
	Kamala, she said, how dare you say Merry Christmas?
	Well, yeah.
	Goodbye, Kamala.
	So long.
	Bye-bye.
	Sean, you're a very keen observer of the swamp.
	I don't want to really put you on the spot, but if you had to, what is your gut saying right now?
	Because the president's doubling down.
	National Security Advisor Waltz is backing the nominee, Pete Hegseth.
	Pete Hegseth doesn't seem to be backing down.
	Are the rhinos on Capitol Hill going to create problems, or are they going to stand down?
	I think Pete Hegseth is going to be confirmed.
	When it comes down to it, I don't think it's going to be particularly close.
	I think a lot of people are learning some new lessons this time around, having seen the firepower that's been aimed at Joni Ernst, that the old days of promising to do one thing in your election and then immediately doing the other thing and facing no consequences, Those days are over.
	I mean, you look at what Donald Trump did in Iowa.
	I think he won by 13 or 14 points.
	It wasn't particularly close.
	He is extremely popular and beloved there.
	And then you look and you see that Joni Ernst, who thus far appears to have been leading the charge against Hegseth, though, in the end, I don't think she will vote against him.
	She's up for reelection in two years in a state that Trump overwhelmingly won.
	And There's games you can play in this business and get away with it, and generally you need to not play those games when you're in cycle.
	So we look at the voting figures from almost all Republicans, whether it's the current incumbent Secretary of Defense that disgraced Lloyd Austin, whether it's Merrick Garland, who was the meat puppet who facilitated the weaponization of the DOJ. I'm going to ask the naive question, Sean.
	Why do Republicans always confirm the scumbags the Democrats nominate and then they have problems with the people our president nominates?
	Yeah, there are big structural problems in Washington, where, unless you have a spine of steel, you go in there, and suddenly, the entire workings of all the infrastructure there, all the gears and all the cogs are designed to do one thing, and that thing is break you, make you understand that you have to do what the machine wants, you have to do what the unit party wants.
	And because of all the money and all the staff and all the attention and all the press, it's actually pretty easy to go and bully a bunch of weak people into doing whatever you want them to do.
	And like I said earlier, the politics of that are changing.
	You know, The New York Times doesn't control the agenda anymore.
	The Washington Post doesn't control the agenda.
	The people do.
	And it's making a big difference, because although we don't have an army of stiff-spine politicians there just yet, we do have a lot of people who have something of an instinct for self-preservation, and they're beginning to see that if you go crosswise with the people a bit too much, they're going to take you out.
	Right.
	This is really, really fascinating.
	Because the rhinos are still there.
	The institutions are still riven through with all kinds of individuals who think they get to decide the direction of the country.
	But maybe the greatest success, and I just want to double down to reiterate it.
	We're going to keep you on for another segment.
	We've got a minute left.
	But it's really the agenda setting, the power of the Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN. I think you've just given me some clarity.
	They don't have a stranglehold on the agenda setting anymore, do they, Sean?
	No, they don't.
	And Elon Musk was a huge part of that.
	There's a reason that the machine wanted to take Twitter over.
	There's a reason they dropped the censorship hammer at Facebook and Meta and Instagram and Twitter.
	And it's because they felt their grip loosening on control of that agenda.
	And then Elon came in and bought Twitter and freed it up.
	And suddenly, you know what?
	We're not locked inside the asylum with them.
	They're locked in there with us.
	And they don't like it.
	Yeah, or maybe we've escaped the asylum and they're stuck inside without food, without electricity, without water.
	It's thefederalist.com.
	His Twitter game is pretty superb.
	Sean M. Dav, the CEO of The Federalist.
	We're going to continue in a moment.
	In fact, we'll chat through the break on Rumble.
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	Really fascinating, Sean, because the way you said it kind of hit me there.
	We have so much more to do, so much corruption everywhere, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	But the agenda setting, President Trump, you, Elon, you know, they just simply don't control the agenda, do they?
	No, and I like military metaphors.
	So in the modern era, the way you prep the battle space is you have to own the air.
	So you own the air, then you can go bomb the crap out of everything, you have your artillery prep it, and then everything's cleaned up and you can go in.
	When you have air superiority, you're basically impossible to defeat in a conventional sense.
	For decades, they had air superiority, and they don't have it anymore.
	And so they can't just nuke our people on the ground with impunity like they used to be able to.
	Suddenly, we can do it to them.
	Is there a center of gravity in that break of their dominance, what Chris Plante calls the information dominance?
	Was it Elon and Twitter, or was it a more gradual, Breitbart, Federalist?
	How do you see the mechanics of breaking the monopoly?
	Well, it's all of them because they were using the censorship to throttle those of us, like The Federalist and Breitbart and all the different publications on the right.
	They knew Twitter was a big outlet for us, especially after they nuked us at Google and they nuked us at Facebook and made us invisible.
	The only place where we were having a big impact in the news cycle day in and day out was Twitter, and so they had to end that.
	So let me ask you the scary question.
	What happens after 2028, and is Elon enough?
	Yeah, so the interesting thing there is I think we're living in kind of the dusk of the television age.
	Yeah.
	So the broadcast networks, cable news, you look at the demographics of the audience.
	They've got five years left, tops.
	Yeah.
	And then so you're going to get into the OTT over the top stuff, the apps, the pocket.
	That's the future.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And then in terms of controlling the Overton window after 28, do you feel confident?
	No, I'm not confident in anything that far in the future.
	The left, they're such energetic little fascists and little Bolsheviks, they never stop.
	Well, they live it.
	We're not obsessed with politics.
	That's the trouble.
	Yep.
	All right.
	I'm going to tee up Sean's favorite politician.
	Oh, and add this stuff to the post, so keep the brakes in.
	We're going to do Barack Obama next.
	Cut 15?
	Yeah.
	The second one, yeah, cut 15. You said we're going to come in with that?
	No, no, no.
	I'll tee it up because we've got to do my pillow at the top.
	Actually, come in with three.
	That's funny.
	Come in with Fetterman because it's nice and short.
	Then I'll do my pillow and then I'll tee up Obama.
	Cut 12. Or Obama.
	Cut 15. Do
	you see yourself ultimately working with folks like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy?
	Yeah, again, I admire Mr. Musk.
	He's been involved in very important parts of American society, AI, SpaceX, and other kinds of things.
	Yes, he's on a different team, but that doesn't make me an enemy.
	Wow, I really don't.
	That Fetterman chap, a little bit confusing, hard to categorize.
	The taxonomy of a Fetterman is beyond me right now.
	He's a big fan of Elon Musk just because he's on the other team.
	Wow, that's shocking.
	He'll be kicked out of the Democrat Party very, very soon.
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	Secret code, G-O-R-K-A. We're back with the CEO of the superb Federalist website, co-founder Sean Davis.
	Sean, I know he's one of your favorite politicians.
	Barack Obama, I need you to tell me, is he so stupid Or is this like the epic troll?
	Because I'm not sure which it is, and of course he's stumbling because there is no teleprompter.
	The senator from Illinois cut 15. There are going to be times, potentially, when one side tries to stack the deck and lock in a permanent grip on power.
	Either by actively suppressing votes, or politicizing the armed forces, or using the judiciary, the criminal justice system to go after opponents.
	And in those circumstances, pluralism does not call for us to just stand back and say, well, I'm not sure.
	That's okay.
	In those circumstances, a line has been crossed, and we have to stand firm.
	Sean, there are times where a political party will use law enforcement and try and create a permanent bureaucracy.
	Is he MAGA now?
	What's going on?
	No, he's just as disingenuous as he's ever been.
	It reminded me of the meme we see from the Tim Robertson show of the guy in the hot dog suit saying, we're all trying to figure out the guy who did this.
	Yeah, Barack, it's a real mystery who politicized the criminal justice system and politicized the military.
	Yeah, we may never figure out who is responsible for that, you clown.
	All right, big picture question because you're a strategic thinker.
	And I've been debating this with my buddy Alex Marlowe at Breitbart.
	They're doubling down.
	They're quadrupling down.
	Apart from the Commie Van Jones and the Crypt Keeper, I always forget his name, Carville, every other Democrat is saying, you know what?
	We were in the right.
	Black men are just misogynists.
	They wouldn't vote for Kamala.
	Hispanics are stupid.
	That's the only reason they voted for Trump.
	So none of them have drawn the requisite conclusions.
	So what does that mean?
	Does that mean they dig a deeper hole for themselves two years from now?
	Or...
	Do they get even more dangerous in their radicalism?
	And it's like Antifa on steroids.
	What are you expecting in the next two to four years?
	It's hard because the stages of grief for Democrats who just lost an election, they don't move through them in the same way that normal people do.
	And the first stage, which is denial, you know, that's a normal one.
	The second one, though, is where instead of taking responsibility for their actions, what they do is they just blame the voters.
	Oh, it's the stupid voters.
	They didn't know how good they had it with us.
	They'll move through that stage, and then that's when the real decision point comes, which is, do we need to just lie harder and be even more dishonest and disingenuous, or do we need to change our tack just enough to where we can pretend to be different but not actually make any substantive changes?
	I don't think they've actually reached that stage yet.
	They probably won't get there for another...
	Four to six months.
	But you left out one scenario where they read the tea leaves and they reform themselves.
	I presume you left it out because it's absolutely beyond any human expectation.
	Yeah, I don't live in the realm of fantasy and fiction, so obviously that scenario never even came to mind of them taking responsibility and changing their ways.
	All right, don't buy him the box set of Game of Thrones because Sean Davis does not live in fantasy land.
	He lives in the real world, and that's why we love him so much.
	Say hi to everybody.
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	The president doesn't get sworn in for another six weeks, and the left doesn't give up, and they have a...
	Pernicious plot to explode even worse your health care costs.
	And we want to fight them with an amazing initiative that, well, is called the pharmawindfall.com website.
	And to have it explained to us, we have none other than former Congressman Ryan Costello.
	Mr. Costello, welcome to America First.
	Dr. Broker, thanks for having me on.
	Thanks for all your good work.
	That's too kind, too kind.
	So, explain to us.
	Let's start at the beginning, because as somebody who lived in Europe where things are very, very different, let's start with the obvious question.
	Why are prescription drugs in America so inordinately expensive by comparison to other nations?
	Well, because drug manufacturers in the United States of America are able to charge you whatever they want to charge you.
	So, they Pick prices very, very high, and unless there's other market forces that drive down the cost of drugs, drug manufacturers have unilateral power to charge a consumer whatever they want.
	Why can't we have, if this is the exemplar, the zenith of the free market as a nation, why do we not have a free market when it comes to the provision of the most important thing, which is our health?
	It's a good question.
	So we do, in the form of pharmacy benefits managers who get employers and create networks and take their pricing power, their bargaining power, and they go to drug manufacturers and say, We have hundreds of thousands of people under these health insurance plans, families, employees, and we want lower prices.
	And as a consequence of having such strength in their bargaining power, they're able to get preferred lower drug prices from drug manufacturers.
	That's how it's worked so far.
	And on average, the typical American consumer saves over $1,000 every year due to pharmacy benefits managers doing just that.
	But the problem right now, Dr. Gorka, you just mentioned 32 days ago, and looking forward, We have an absolutely unbelievable, I get chills, unbelievable chance to turn the country around and bring down prices, food, and in this case, drugs, pharmaceutical drugs, if we have all of our oars rowing in the same direction.
	But right now you have big pharma.
	And Bernie Sanders and Democrats looking to jam through a bill which will actually bring another $32 billion in profits to Big Pharma.
	So explain, this monstrosity, this $32 billion bill is based upon this thing called de-linking.
	What are these people, what is Big Pharma proposing and how does it affect the average person?
	That's a good question.
	So de-linking is basically pharmacy benefits managers They work with employers and they set up contracts so that the pharmacy benefits managers negotiate for savings from drug manufacturers.
	Drug manufacturers want to say, you pharmacy benefits managers and employers, you're not allowed to enter into certain contracts and get these savings and be compensated and pass those savings on to employees.
	The way you want.
	You have to do it the way we want, Big Pharma, and the way government tells you to do that.
	The problem is that results in less savings.
	So right now, pharmacy benefits managers are passing around 98% of their savings down to employers.
	Big Pharma wants to say, well, you can't do it that way.
	You can only do it on a dollar basis or per claim.
	And what What ends up happening is it reduces the ability of pharmacy benefits managers to negotiate for lower drug prices from pharmaceutical companies.
	So if people want to stop this insanity, what do they do?
	Where do they go?
	You're talking to about three and a half million people now.
	Give them some advice.
	Yeah, so first thing you want to do is go to pharmawindfall.com.
	The second thing that you want to do is you want to call your member of Congress and say, do not bail out Big Pharma.
	Do not allow for delinking to be included in a year-end spending package.
	Don't jam up President Trump and the Republican House and the Republican Senate next year.
	This is going to result in higher drug prices.
	The last thing we need are Joe Biden and Senate Democratic policies getting stuffed into a year-end bill Right.
	Right.
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	This is absolutely crucial.
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	You want to come in with anything?
	Come in with six.
	And Jeff can tell us who that is.
	Harry Littman, copy that.
	I love you.
	Here, I think there's no other inference, but the owner of the L.A. Times has decided to curry favor with Trump, to move in that direction, but the owner of the L.A. Times has decided to curry favor with Trump, to move in that direction, And I just think this is not a time for balance when you have someone who's not telling the truth on the other side.
	Jeff, who is that?
	I kind of recognize the name, but it's like, who is that?
	Is that anybody important?
	He's a columnist for the LA Times.
	He's kind of popular to the left.
	He's on those shows a lot.
	And what's he saying?
	What's his problem?
	He's talking about why he quit the LA Times.
	Because the LA Times was being too fair and balanced, Jeff?
	No, they wanted to be fair and balanced.
	Isn't that like what all journalism is?
	Isn't that Fox's thing, fair and balanced?
	Yeah, but isn't that basically what journalism is supposed to be?
	And he's saying, I have to leave because they want to be fair and balanced.
	Yes.
	Maybe he should start a newspaper with one reader.
	It could be...
	I wonder, has everybody forgotten about Tim Walz, the guy with the weird leg movement?
	Do you remember Tim Walz...
	Maybe he could be the reader of the new newspaper.
	This is the former vice presidential candidate for Kamala Harris, cut 17. Poor old Timmy Tim Walz.
	I think we're going to have to understand what type of leadership do they want.
	We were pledging to be inclusive.
	We were pledging to bring people in.
	Donald Trump has said that that isn't what he wants.
	And so if that's what America's leaning towards, I guess for me, it's to understand and learn more about America, because I thought that they were going to probably move towards a more positive message.
	So Jeff, they lost because President Trump said, we don't want to be inclusive.
	And Walt says, I need to know Americans better.
	What party were Bobby Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard and Elon Musk from?
	Democrats.
	So remind me, where was it that President Trump said, we don't want to be inclusive and nobody's allowed into our party?
	I don't remember that one.
	What about, what is it, Stark County in Texas, 93% Hispanic, not white, if you're a Democrat and you're trying to follow along.
	Who did they vote for, Jeff?
	That was Trump.
	Hang on, they're Hispanic.
	They're misogynist, remember?
	No, no, no.
	It's the black men who are misogynists.
	Gotta get it right.
	Hispanics are just stupid, according to the Democrats.
	I can't remember all the groups that they have.
	Keep digging, guys.
	It's delicious.
	Just keep, keep digging.
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	election proved that democracy is pretty far down on people's priority list.
	Pluralism is not about holding hands and singing kumbaya.
	It is not about abandoning your convictions.
	It is about recognizing that in a democracy, power comes from forging alliances and building coalitions and making room in those coalitions, not only for the woke, but also for the waking.
	It feels kind of sacrilegious to have that beautiful Christmas music and then to have Obama come in, but my oh my, what did he say at the top there?
	He said, as we learned in this election, democracy is not near the top of the list of Americans.
	Wow, that's incredible.
	So, you're saying that 77 million Americans must be undemocratic, anti-democratic, not interested in democracy because they didn't vote for Kamala Harris?
	You know what the language of that ilk actually means?
	It means you have utter and complete disdain and contempt for the people who don't agree with you.
	You are undemocratic.
	You are anti-democratic.
	I dearly look forward to the day when Obama will be irrelevant, as irrelevant as Kamala Harris's Joe Biden after 12 o'clock on January the 20th.
	What an utter, complete disgrace.
	But maybe not as embarrassing as the man who lasted ten days in the White House, that arisable little clown, Anthony Scaramucci, who thinks he knows what's happening inside the Trump transition team and who's next in line.
	Really?
	Tony, you don't know anything.
	Because you're a nobody and you have been for the last eight years.
	But let's remind people just how utterly clownish and laughable you are.
	Cut for.
	The mother went after the guy, and they had the mother in, like, a hostage crisis on Fox News backing out of what she said about her own son.
	And trust me, the thing that blew him up with Donald Trump is what the mother said about him.
	Because I know Trump, and I know exactly how he thinks about this stuff.
	And so he's upset.
	He doesn't want to be the guy to pull the string on him.
	But right now, Pete Hegsack said, I'm done.
	Donald Trump would be relieved by that.
	He's got another person waiting in the wings that's qualified.
	You know who's waiting in the wings?
	Really?
	I don't think so.
	Hey Jeff, if Anthony Scaramucci, quote, knows exactly how Trump thinks, why was he fired after 10 days?
	Maybe that's what he's basing on, that whole 10 days he spent with him.
	Oh, what a clown show.
	Let's get back to real people.
	People who have been strangers to the show for far too long, who heard me this morning on Bright Butt Sirius XM and said, Hey buddy, I heard you on the radio.
	And I said, That's nice.
	Why have you been such a stranger for so long?
	Well, he better have a bloody good excuse.
	He probably does.
	He makes money by having fun recreating similar events from the coolest movies and shooting guns.
	He used to be a Green Beret.
	I guess you're always a Green Beret.
	Terry Shappert, welcome back to America First.
	By the way, thanks for putting up with my tech incompetence.
	I actually pulled in You know, I'm working, Seb, you're quite aware of this.
	I just got down today to work at Robin Sage, which for your listeners and viewers who don't know, that's the final unconventional warfare.
	It's a big game that every future Green Beret has to go through where you're pretending to be in a foreign land, helping insurgents or countering insurgents.
	What is your role?
	Are you one of the G Chiefs?
	Are you playing one of the local guerrillas?
	Who are you?
	No, I don't rate that high.
	I'm a retired team sergeant.
	All the G chiefs, the guerrilla chiefs, are actually retired sergeant majors, sergeants majors.
	So I actually, on my lane, I am the leader of the underground.
	So I know you know what that is.
	So I meet with the guys, and I end up doing all sorts.
	I'm like the facilitator.
	Like when a team decides, hey, we need some guns in country, I go, I know who I can link you up with.
	Or you need medical assets, or you need to talk to someone who works at a university To set up your propaganda network.
	These are all things that the students have been taught to do, and it doesn't really go that way when you go into a country all the time.
	But yeah, that's a really good course, and it's the final couple weeks.
	I mean, these cats have been in the pipeline for a couple of years, minimum.
	And so this is the deal, because you were part of our community for so long.
	If they graduate, if they get through Robin Sage, then the next step is they get their Green Beret.
	Then they go to language school if they don't have a language and they go to whatever group they're going to be working in in the world.
	So yeah, I just got here.
	And so I don't know what the heck is up with my Skype.
	So you don't get to see my pretty unshaven face.
	Or those white Cuban heel boots that shock the world every time you wear them on Fox.
	You've been absent.
	You've been AWOL, absent without leave for several years from our show.
	And you've sent me a text with kind of crappy excuses like you were...
	Excavating a B-24 bomber off the shores of Portugal that went down in 1943. Well, stop making stories up, okay?
	Terry, what have you been doing?
	How are you doing?
	And how happy have you been for the last 32 days?
	Oh, dude, I don't know, man.
	Well, I'd rather hear your take on this because no one's happier.
	First of all, let me just say this.
	For all the people who listen and watch you, I can't speak for my whole community because, as you know, we're not monolithic, but I'm telling you, man, all the dudes I've been in contact with, whether they're special ops guys or infantry dudes, People are really, really hopeful.
	Having you get in there, having Walls get in there.
	I hope Hegseth, I hope they don't back down.
	I hope he pushed Pete through, Cash Patel.
	Like, honestly, and the guys who are on the front lines, who've been on the front lines for GWAT, fighting the wars, losing their friends, getting hurt.
	You guys are the dudes we need in here right now.
	So I really, I mean, like, we almost don't want to believe if this is happening because I just feel like I'm afraid of getting let down, you know, like having, like, someone crush me.
	But everybody's really psyched.
	I have been, let's see, man, I've had a lot of family stuff, you know.
	I've been taking care of my mom.
	I still teach diving for Task Force Dagger, which is the foundation I work for.
	We rehab guys by...
	Getting them into all sorts of stuff, not just medical help, but we teach them and their families how to dive.
	And some of the guys who go through have become instructors like us, and we also do...
	I've talked to you before about this, the remains recovery operation we have in partnership with East Carolina and also the government.
	Like, we've been in Saipan for quite a few years working on a Hellcat wreck that we found to bring the pilot back.
	And then, yeah, this September we were just...
	We were just in Portugal down off the coast of Faro.
	And a B-24 went down in 1943. It wasn't on a bombing run.
	It actually was coming from Morocco.
	It was on a sub patrol.
	And yeah, everything went wrong.
	Kama went down.
	They were running out of gas.
	It was like everything was wrong.
	They had to ditch it.
	Six guys survived.
	They were rescued by Portuguese fishermen.
	Five guys never got out, so we started the excavation there.
	It was much deeper, darker, and colder than it was in Saipan, but it's a labor of love.
	How deep?
	How far down is the bomber?
	It's not that far.
	I mean, in terms of diving, it's 70 feet, which is, you know, Saipan was 30 feet in crystal clear, warm, no current water, but 70 feet in the Atlantic.
	It was definitely cold.
	And the visibility was really bad.
	And so you just have to, there's some other, you know, obviously if you, you know, there's Other considerations with diving, but it was, I mean, all the guys were great.
	We actually got to meet at the end of all of it.
	The Portuguese government came out and thanked us.
	The family, the relatives of the Portuguese fishermen from the 40s who saved these guys, the six guys, they were all hugging us and meeting us, and we had the grandson of the pilot who survived.
	You met the families of the fishermen who saved our airmen?
	Yes.
	Yes.
	That's incredible.
	Yeah, and then we also had some guys from the Portuguese military who actually dove with us a couple days, and they said something really interesting.
	You'll dig this.
	They said, you know, you guys doing this kind of stuff in sponsor with your government and also your private, you know, organizations going out and getting your, you know, your guys who never came back, the guys who died.
	Because in Portugal, our country doesn't even, they just don't even care.
	They've forgotten about that.
	And, you know, Portugal lost people in different wars.
	So, Anyway, it was definitely a good trip.
	And kind of, yeah, that's it, man.
	I'm just getting ready to go out and live in the woods for a couple weeks.
	All right, well, say hi to all the future Green Berets and tell the cadre, especially Mr. Brown, if he's there, that...
	If they want a visit from somebody in the National Security Council in a few weeks time, they got my number.
	They know where to find me.
	He's the host of Hollywood Weapons.
	Follow him at Terry Shappert.
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	Breaking news, the Daniel Penny case in New York.
	The jury has said, nope, we can't agree that he committed manslaughter.
	The judge has now dismissed the manslaughter charges against former Marine Daniel Penny and instructed the jury to go back and consider the lesser charges.
	So at least some good news for that Marine who stepped up the plate to protect all those traveling on that subway.
	On that metro when a lunatic threatened to kill those in the carriage.
	We'll give you more details soon as we have them.
	But now let's go north of the border.
	This is the fresh news from the public safety minister of America's hat, as my friend Chris Plant calls it.
	Canada, well, kind of predictable under Trudeau.
	Cut 18. Today, the government is adding a further 324 unique makes and models of assault-style firearms to the list of prohibited firearms in Canada.
	This prohibition takes effect immediately.
	This means these firearms can no longer be legally used, sold or imported in Canada, I remember when, not too long ago, during World War II and after, Canada had a very martial reputation, some of the best soldiers in the world.
	Now, it's a castrated nation, sadly, after that decision, because if your citizens are unarmed, they aren't citizens, they're subjects.
	Let's discuss all of that and so much more with a friend of the show, Eric Pratt, Senior Vice President of Gun Owners of America, gunowners.org.
	Eric, Merry Christmas.
	And Merry Christmas to you.
	Great to be with you, Seb.
	So let's get your reaction to that shocking news out of Canada first.
	Well, you know, this is the same type of thing that we're fighting here.
	I mean, it's very sad what they're facing up there.
	You know, here in our country, of course, we have our own battle against so-called assault weapons bans, things like You know, when they talk about that, of course, they want to ban things like AR-15s and 9mm.
	You know, AR-15s, that is like America's rifle.
	And interestingly enough, the New York Times says that on an average year, there are only 17 murders with an AR-15.
	So that means you're more likely to be struck by lightning and killed.
	You are more likely to be knifed to death or beaten to death with fists or...
	Clubbed with a hammer.
	All those items kill far more often...
	Hey, Eric, don't give them ideas.
	They're going to register hammers.
	They're going to ban hammers next.
	Don't give them any ideas.
	That's what comes next.
	Let's talk about this thing because I have more AR-15s than I can shake a stick at.
	How important is it?
	I think, and you're the expert, isn't there something in the Supreme Court or certain rulings where they've just said...
	There's so many of these guns that they fall into the category of in common use.
	Why is that so really central to the future of our ability to keep weapons like that?
	Well, if they're in common use, then they're clearly covered by the Second Amendment and they are protected firearms.
	So when you read, the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
	I mean, that says it right there.
	These are our guns that are, you know, are not only important for self-defense, but ultimately they are a defense against threatened tyranny.
	So it's really important That Americans be able to hang on to these types of firearms.
	Right, let's talk about what happened 32 days ago.
	Let's have a little clip from the incoming commander-in-chief, the chief executive, God willing, my future boss, President-elect Donald J. Trump.
	Hello, gun owners of America.
	I'm so proud of your work defending our constitutional rights, especially our always under siege Second Amendment.
	That's what it is.
	It's an under siege Second Amendment, but we're going to keep it strong.
	Quite a shout-out you got there, Eric.
	Quite a shout-out from the president.
	Talk to us about what you're expecting, what you would like to say to the president if he's listening, and he might be, and also what he said about having concealed carry reciprocity across the nation.
	Absolutely.
	That is hugely important.
	That's obviously something Congress will have to send to him.
	Something that he can do in the first week, and he's talked about this, is repealing Biden's gun control executive action.
	So we're talking about the restrictions on privately made guns.
	The ban on pistol braced firearms, the rule imposing universal registration on virtually every gun sale.
	We're actually challenging all these in court, but that last one, the universal registration, we got a nationwide injunction for GOA members.
	So the ATF cannot enforce it against any GOA member.
	I tell you what, membership has its privileges.
	We also have 25 states That are supporting our case in this.
	This is a hugely important case, but we would love it, even though we're doing well in the courts on all three of these executive actions that Biden imposed, we would love for the president to order the ATF to repeal all three of those As if they had never existed.
	Message sent, message received loud and clear.
	We've got 30 seconds left.
	Everybody needs to go to gunowners.org and join because the NRA has really failed us for too long.
	30 seconds left, Eric.
	How would universal reciprocity work?
	Because isn't that under the mandate of the states?
	Well, it is, but it would be like driver's licenses and marriage licenses where if you are entitled in one state to carry, then every other state has to recognize it.
	It's that simple.
	Wow.
	I didn't even think of that.
	So the analog to state issued would mean that, you know, I have a D.C. concealed carry permit.
	If I've got it, then my carry permit for the District of Columbia should be recognized anywhere in America.
	Yeah, I mean, you can drive with your license in any one of the 50 states.
	It's not that way with your DC carry permit, and it should be because your right to carry does not end at the border of your locality.
	Love it, love it.
	Well, look, we salute you, Eric, the whole team.
	You are really doing the Lord's work.
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	He's clearly a highly organized person, probably pretty smart, likely highly educated, really very determined to reach this goal, this deadly goal.
	That's really creepy.
	Why is a former disgraced FBI manager so lording the assassin of the healthcare CEO, so educated, so determined?
	Hey, McCabe, that's really, really creepy.
	He isn't so clever and intelligent because you don't hang out in Starbucks in front of the camera for a few hours before you try and murder somebody or leave shell casings with writing on them.
	I think that's more of a fringe individual.
	We'll talk about fringe in a moment.
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	Every Friday, Senior Counsel to the Heritage Foundation's President Jim Carrafano.
	Jim, you said something very interesting in the break.
	We're going to unpack it in a moment.
	But first, I want to play a clip to you from one of the original patient zeros of Trump derangement syndrome, if he's still teaching at the Naval War College, it's an embarrassment to that service.
	This is Tom Nichols, Cut 9, talking about combat veterans.
	I think Pete Hegseth has many more bronze stars than you do, Professor Nichols.
	I mean, I've known, and as you say, taught hundreds and hundreds of military officers, most of them more senior than Pete Hegseth.
	And I think most of them would find these views appalling, un-American, dangerous.
	You know, they are not there to be culture warriors on behalf of some holy, righteous crusade.
	They are there to serve and defend.
	I don't think Tom Nichols has ever worn a uniform.
	He's saying the military officers that are more senior than Pete, who he has taught, would find Pete Hexthest's views un-American and dangerous, Jim?
	Well, then they're in the wrong military.
	I mean, look, what Pete believes in...
	I was in the military for 25 years.
	Yeah.
	As you know, I'm a military historian.
	West Point Grand.
	Yeah, and I've taught a lot of places, including Tom's.
	Tom and I had our run-ins, but we won't go into that.
	Why not?
	No, it's all right.
	But the fundamental heart of that is a couple of things.
	One is the notion of selfless service, that you're in the military for just one thing, because you believe that That God has told you that it's noble to put your life on the line for your fellow Americans.
	And you feel enriched by that.
	Nobody wants to die, right?
	But this is a calling.
	And sure...
	People go because they want to go to college and they want to get away from the gangs.
	But the reality is the ones that stay unserved, they serve because of that notion.
	And they believe in the cause that they are fighting for and the country that they are fighting for.
	This is the essence of Hegseth.
	And not only that, beyond that, which is very laudable in terms of philosophy and dedication, I've read his book.
	He is concerned about one thing, combat effectiveness.
	Right.
	That's right.
	He is going to take the military back to where it needs to be.
	And not to disagree with really learned scholars, who obviously spend their life on Twitter, right?
	But...
	But if you look at the survey of the most respected institutions in America, there's a reason why the U.S. military went from one of the least respected to one of the most respected.
	And it maintained that list for a very long time.
	And it fell off that list under the leadership of Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
	And as soon as people heard that people like Donald Trump and Pete Hexas were coming back to command the military.
	We already saw that start to turn around and rise again.
	My vision of a great day is a high school auditorium talking to a bunch of high school kids and their parents saying, let me tell you why this is This is the noble cause.
	It should be.
	And Pete can deliver that lecture.
	His book, War on Warriors, is superb.
	I highly recommend it.
	Don't go anywhere, Jim.
	Follow him at jjcarrafanoheritage.org.
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	It's important to point out that even if Pete Hegseth had lived an exemplary life, his lack of experience and these completely fringe ideas would be an instant disqualification.
	Lack of experience.
	The clown who is Tom Nichols, he shouldn't be anywhere near the military.
	Lack of experience.
	I guess multiple bronze stars are lack of experience.
	Combat veteran in Afghanistan in Iraq serving after 9-11.
	He gets He gets a scholarship to, I think, Yale or Princeton, and Pete Hegg says, no, I'm going to join the U.S. military and serve at Guantanamo Bay before he goes into combat.
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	I really, you know, I'm a Christian.
	Yeah.
	I'm a failed Christian, but I'm also superstitious.
	I don't want to jinx anything, but you said something that comports to my analysis of the last 36 hours, that things aren't looking too bad for Pete Hegseth.
	What are you seeing?
	Yeah, first of all, We need a secretary that has real experience like Lloyd Austin, who, after decades of military service, managed the biggest debacle in modern military history since the failure in the Philippines.
	Come on!
	We have jumped sharks over oceans of sharks, first of all.
	So here's what I think.
	Look, I don't think there are three...
	For whatever, votes to stop Pete Hexas, and I'll tell you why, which is we have two things going on here.
	One is the kind of the destruction, the Brett Kavanaugh thing, destroy his character.
	Yes, Kavanauring him.
	That is, I think, the more there is of that, the more people get the joke that this is a shtick.
	So I think we can already push that aside, that that is, and any Republican that would vote on any of that, on...
	Anonymous reporting from leftist media that are out to...
	So it's his lack of qualifications as a combat veteran with bronze stars.
	Right.
	And I think that here you have a guy with a lot of international experience, a lot of experience working in veterans.
	He is a combat veteran.
	We have had many secretaries of defense who haven't had...
	In my mind, the finest secretary of defense we ever had was Mel Laird, who sat between Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon and said, you guys, back down.
	And Mel had no military experience.
	You've written about him.
	So I think this is, and what Pete brings to the job, and we talked about this, is the most important thing, the spirit, the honor, and the passion.
	That's what this job has lacked for a long time, and Pete brings it.
	But why do you feel that things have turned?
	Is it stuff you're reading, stuff you're hearing?
	Well, I think there's a couple of things.
	One is the enormous pushback from everyday Americans on this.
	The other is the really powerful statement from the president and vice president of the United States.
	The other one is the list of senators that are really starting to line up behind this.
	And now what you're down to is a very...
	Look, you read this stuff on Twitter.
	I don't believe that people are out to get him.
	They want his job.
	I don't think it's that petty.
	But it's gotten to the point where...
	Are you going to be the person that denies the president's choice?
	And on what basis are you going to do that after every person in the Senate voted for Lloyd Austin?
	Which is kind of outrageous that we always, you know, the Republican senators, don't create problems for Democrat nominees.
	And then one of our presidential nominees as a conservative is attacked or questioned.
	And they will vote to a person against...
	Against Pete Hegseth without a hearing.
	So here's what I think.
	I think the public trial and execution of Pete Hegseth has already failed.
	So now the only question is, what happens in the hearing?
	If Pete does good hearings...
	And he's a good communicator.
	And this is one of the things that's going to make him a great secretary, is Pete can go before any audience anywhere in the world, and he can look you in the eye and tell you, this is what's going to happen, my friend.
	And you're going to have a hard time not seeing that as credible.
	So I'm very, I think we're there.
	We're talking to Jim Carrafano, JJ Carrafano, heritage.org.
	If you had to rank, I mean, look, it's the biggest department.
	What is going to be the heaviest lift for Secretary of Defense, Hexeth?
	Is it the combat effectiveness?
	Is it a certain theater threat?
	Well, I think the number one thing is getting the spirit of the service back.
	And it's both the hardest and the easiest, because I absolutely believe that the men and women of the uniform, they want this to be a real military and not the Canadian military.
	I would say that technically the hardest job...
	It's going to be shipbuilding, right?
	Having a navy that is...
	Because we've got like three yards left.
	An undisputable deterrent to the Chinese maritime power, that is the near-term job.
	And it's a very, very difficult job to master.
	Can you make serious inroads into that within four years?
	Well, you have to.
	Because if you want to actually bend the curve and convince the Chinese that they're never going to get there, you've got to do that in the next four years.
	And you have to do it now when the Chinese are least prepared for this.
	Their economy is struggling.
	Does it help, for example, to have people like Elon and Vivek in the sphere of the president when you're talking about, you know, the private sector capacities to build stuff?
	Yeah, I think it does.
	One, because, first of all, Elon has proven he can build stuff for the military and do it much more efficiently.
	The other thing is, I don't agree with Bernie Sanders.
	I don't think we're going to cut $600 billion from an $800 billion budget.
	But what we can do is we can repurpose many tens of billions of dollars.
	Into real efficiency and capability.
	Just getting rid of all the nonsense from the Biden administration is going to free up so much money.
	So I don't think we're going to have a massive fight over the defense budget.
	But I think what Elon and Vivek can bring, which typically senators and congressmen don't experience, because everybody has a fishbowl they've got to protect, is an enormous amount of public pressure about why are we doing this.
	And if they focus that on the right projects, then I think they're going to generate some real—because in the end, the Senate and the Congress have to do this.
	If you actually look at the mission of Doge, you would say, wait, isn't the Congress— Are they supposed to do that?
	Isn't that exactly what Congress is supposed to do?
	I think it's oversight.
	Right.
	And so it's...
	I think in the end what Doge is going to be is...
	Forcing, helping put pressure for force of Congress to do its job.
	To do their job.
	I love it.
	Absolutely right.
	That's the way to think about it.
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	excuse me?
	We currently have Republican senators who are holding up Trump's nomination.
	Most notably, of course, is Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense.
	How many Democrat senators voted against Biden's picks in 2021?
	Oh, zero.
	Literally not one.
	Bernie Sanders, who was registered as an independent because he is too far to the left of the Democrats, voted against one single nominee.
	Besides that, zero.
	Zero.
	And these holdouts from Republicans are driving the betting market.
	And now, Pete's odds on trading platforms like Kalshi have dropped so much he's tied with Ron DeSantis.
	All because of Republicans.
	And we're gonna primary every last one of them.
	God bless our friend Erin Wexler.
	Her latest video from earlier this morning where she raises a really good question.
	How is it that the Republican senators, all of them, voted for the Democrat cabinet members like Merrick Garland, like the then Secretary of Defense, but now we have putative Republicans?
	Who have an issue voting for the Republican president's nominees?
	If there's a definition of the swamp, I think we just found it.
	Keep the pressure on, as we have been giving you every single day, every single segment, the numbers of the recalcitrant fake conservative Republicans.
	Call up their offices.
	Leave a message.
	Email them.
	Let your voice be heard.
	We've just put Lisa Murkowski's number up.
	202. 224-6665.
	That's 202-224-6665.
	Even if you're not in Lindsey Graham or Mitch McConnell or Thunes or Murkowski's district or state, it doesn't matter.
	You're one of the 77 million who voted for President Trump.
	Let your voice be heard.
	These are his picks, and we need Pete.
	We need all of them, cash, every single one of these Senate-confirmed individuals in their positions come January 20th at 12.01.
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	It's the third hour.
	It's our good buddy Chris Coles celebrating the best ever James Bond movie.
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	Impressive.
	Most impressive.
	See the people wouldn't believe.
	We want to talk to God.
	Let's go see him again. - Siamese fighting fish.
	Fascinating creatures.
	Brave but of the whole stupid.
	Yes, they're stupid.
	Except for the occasional one such as we have here who lets the other two fight.
	And he waits.
	Waits until the survivor is so exhausted that he cannot defend himself.
	And then, like Spectre, he strikes.
	Number one of Spectre from Russia with Love, 1963. The second in, is it probably the longest movie franchise in history?
	The James Bond franchise going strong until recently for more than six decades.
	It is the choice of my friend and co-host here in making movies great again.
	Before we started, Chris Coles...
	You said it's a good clip with which to open the review.
	Why are the fighting fish a good clip?
	Well, let me just say, first of all, this film really is a masterpiece.
	It is difficult.
	It's rare that I would say that you need to extend a film.
	Most films tend to run a little long, I would say.
	But this film, I felt like, after I finished it, I thought, man, this could be a four-hour film.
	There's just so much plot crammed into this film.
	It's almost a little bit difficult to follow, I would say.
	To really understand the film, I think you have to watch it more than once.
	But this fighting fish analogy is absolutely critical to understanding what's going on in the film.
	And I think you kind of maybe, I think most people probably missed the analogy, really.
	But the idea is that this organization, Spectre, is that third fish waiting for the other two to get done fighting.
	And who are the other two fish?
	Well, it's the West and Russia, basically.
	The USSR versus Russia.
	They want to create some kind of conflict between them so that those two great regions of the world fight so much that they are exhausted.
	One wins and one's exhausted, and then Spectre swoops in and takes over, I suppose, for world domination.
	Interestingly, there was no Spectre in the original novel.
	I started reading the novel the other day, which is why I picked the film, and yeah, I got through a fair bit of it.
	And yeah, I'm like, I was surprised to see, oh no, Spectre, it's Smirsh in the novel, but Ian Fleming eventually changed that to Spectre because he was afraid the Cold War would end and then his antagonists in the films wouldn't really make sense.
	So he changed it to Spectre in the books.
	Eventually, in later books.
	And then the filmmakers thought it was a good idea, so they changed it to Spectre in the films as well.
	And this analogy of the fighting fish really helps.
	I think, if you can get it, you'll understand, yeah, that's really what's going on here.
	So the plot, for those who've forgotten it, it really is one of the more true-to-life...
	Probably, I think, the most true-to-life Bond plots out there.
	Even the first movie, Doctor No, was a little bit out there and the supervillain was rather cartoonish.
	But here you have this agent of chaos, Spectre, that is playing east and west off each other with this defector, Colonel Klebb, played by the very famous Lottie Lenya of Brecht fame.
	Nobody knows she's defected.
	It's an embarrassment to the Soviet Union.
	And she is the key player in trying to engineer a trap for British intelligence in the personage of 007 and a Soviet cipher clerk, Tatyana How much for you, Chris, does this...
	If we get, you know, up to the, what is it?
	The Pierce Brosnan windsurfing on tsunamis, James Bond.
	This is a very, very different, you know, there is the dagger in the boot and all that kind of stuff.
	But this is a thriller that is based in the real world, isn't it?
	Oh, absolutely.
	Look, this has always been by far my favorite Bond film ever.
	I suppose GoldenEye is always a close second because that was the film that came out when I was a teenager and I always loved that film.
	But yeah, you know, the Bond films will occasionally do a film that seems very true to life or at least very believable, somewhat believable.
	It doesn't have too many gadgets and all that.
	In fact, this film was the first film in which they introduced The Q gadgets, which I'm sure we'll talk about a little bit later.
	But it was very tame with the gadgets, you know?
	It was a briefcase.
	It was the kind of gadgets a spy might actually have.
	Right, a dagger, a string of gold coins, real stuff.
	Yeah, some basically like bullets hidden in a compartment in his briefcase.
	And yeah, a few other things in different compartments in the briefcase.
	And fantastic.
	The briefcase saves his life, actually.
	And it's really...
	I would say possibly the unsung hero of the film really is that briefcase.
	But yeah, it is true to life.
	It really is a kind of a film that's timeless.
	It seems like it could be shown a hundred years from now, and I think people would still absolutely love this film.
	It almost seems like a period piece.
	It's so well done, so well shot.
	But yeah, it's believable.
	And it's well done.
	They really took their time to make it the kind of film that you can watch and, you know, get invested in.
	And you don't really have to suspend disbelief too much, even though it's a pretty big action film.
	And even, you know, the set pieces, you know, in Istanbul, in the underground cistern, which is real, in the Hagio Sofia Mosque.
	I've been to these places, and that also, you know, exacerbates or strengthens the very same Very similitude.
	Very similitude.
	I did learn Latin a long time ago.
	Let's have a look at Q. I don't think he's called Q yet.
	In the first movie he was Major Boothroyd, but we do have Desmond Llewellyn, a very young Desmond Llewellyn, bring in the briefcase and brief James Bond on his first piece of high spy tech gear.
	The cube branch has put together a smart-looking piece of luggage for us.
	We're issuing this to all 00 personnel.
	An ordinary black leather case with 20 rounds of ammunition here and here.
	Now, if you take the top off, you'll find the ammunition inside.
	And the side here, flat throwing knife.
	Press that button there, and out she comes.
	Inside the case, you'll find an AR-7 folding snipers rifle,.25 caliber, with an infrared telescopic sight.
	Then, if you pull out these straps, inside are 50 gold sovereigns, 25 in either side.
	Fact check for all the gun geeks out there.
	Relax, as an owner of several AR7s, I do know that they are.22 caliber, not.25 caliber.
	There is no such thing as a.25 caliber AR7, so relax, relax, relax.
	However, to your point, Chris, this is tech gear that is plausible, is realistic, and when it comes to this really quite solid fight scene near the end of the movie, With the Spectre killer, saves Connery's life with the dagger he pulls out of the briefcase.
	I'd have to say, 1963, that's a pretty hardcore fight scene, don't you think, for a 60s movie?
	Oh, absolutely.
	In fact, at the time, from the interviews that I saw about this film, it was actually considered too violent.
	People were thinking that the That the consumer would be put off by how extreme this scene is.
	By our modern standards, it seems very tame.
	But yeah, it was quite an exciting scene because I really like the sequence.
	There is something charming about it in the sense that it does feel like two guys that maybe are not choreographed in the same way they are today.
	Of course, they were choreographed for the film, but it seemed like it was choreographed the way that made it seem.
	Exactly.
	It seemed sort of like they were desperate.
	They were desperate to survive, each of them, and desperate to take the other one out.
	It works very well.
	I would like to say, since you will be in the White House soon, do you think you could get Elon Musk to try to reproduce this briefcase?
	Because I think we would all like to have one.
	You would like this to be available on the Doge website as one of the items for sale?
	Yeah, with the actual 50 gold sovereigns, I think we need this in the world again.
	Bitcoin!
	Hang on!
	It's got to be Bitcoin, no?
	Of course.
	Doge.
	Dogecoin.
	Dogecoin.
	All right.
	Having too much fun.
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	I see you train for the ballet.
	But I grew an inch over the regulation height, and so?
	And then you have had three lovers.
	What is the purpose of such an infinite question?
	You are not here to ask questions!
	You forget to whom you're speaking!
	I was in love.
	And if you were not in love?
	I suppose that would depend on the man.
	Sensible answer.
	This man, for instance, I cannot tell.
	Perhaps if he was kind and cool tourney.
	Corporal, I have selected you for a most important assignment.
	Its purpose is to give false information to the enemy.
	If you complete it successfully, you will be promoted.
	From now on, you will do anything he says.
	And if I refuse?
	Then you will not leave this room alive.
	A credible threat from the Lottie Lenya portrayal of Colonel Klebb of the Soviet Union, speaking to the cypher clerk, played by Daniela Bianchi, runner-up in the Miss Universe contest of 1960. It is, of course, a similar scene from the beginning of James Bond from Russia with Love.
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	Chris, they doubled the budget from Dr. No.
	They went from $1 million to $2 million.
	They gave Sean Connery a hefty, hefty fee as well.
	But still, they ended up running out of money.
	The opening scene of the assassination of the fake bond actually happened at the mansion at Pinewood Studios, a place I visited a few times before.
	And then they couldn't do...
	Several of the scenes in Turkey as they wish to.
	One of them is the gypsy fight.
	I think it's my favorite part of this movie.
	This was done back in old snowy and rainy and cold England, but it's rather joyous nevertheless.
	Let's play the gypsy fight scene, please.
	Let's play the gypsy fight scene, please.
	Thank you.
	I'd like to ask him a favor.
	Could you stop the girl fight?
	He says your heart is too soft to be a real gypsy, but he lets you decide the matter.
	As if I didn't have enough problems.
	I just love...
	We've seen this before enough of the movies, Chris, how they just make up fake languages.
	They're just jibber-jabber, jibber-jabber, and it's supposed to be a Romany dialect or something.
	And who doesn't like a good catfight, Chris?
	Yeah, and they really went at it.
	I don't know how they got these girls to seem to hate each other so much, but I bought it.
	And I bought the language as well.
	It was great.
	Unfortunately, this actor...
	He ended up dying pretty close to the end of his playing this part here.
	Sean Connery's, James Bond's contact here in Turkey.
	But he did a fantastic job because he was sick while he was doing the film.
	He had very serious cancer.
	This is another obvious piece of casting.
	The Turkish head of station for MI6 is played by a famous Mexican actor, Pedro Armandiares, who was riddled with cancer, who convinced Broccoli and Saltzman to hire him for this part.
	If you listen to some of the documentaries, he was taking some very heavy narcotics during the filming, and he just wanted to get the paycheck.
	To set up his family after he died.
	And sadly, he actually took his own life, shot himself in the hospital room as the filming was wrapping up.
	But I don't know about you, Chris, but maybe it has something to do with my father or something.
	This guy, this Mexican playing a Turk, he is so charismatic.
	Isn't he Karimbe?
	No.
	Absolutely.
	That's what I'm trying to say.
	This guy was dying of cancer, very sick, while he was shooting this film, and yet he seemed to pull off this performance masterfully.
	You enjoy whenever he's on screen.
	You believe that James Bond is actually friends with the man.
	You believe that they're on the same side together.
	Yeah, he just has this kind of effortless coolness to him, despite the fact that he's not Quite so handsome or young or charming as Sean Connery.
	He's still great on screen.
	And yeah, everything about these gypsies is a lot of fun.
	And very sexy.
	The women are very sexy.
	And of course this was a time in which you didn't have ubiquitous pornography all over the internet.
	And so this was extremely tantalizing.
	I imagine at the time people would go to the movie theaters and this would be pretty risque.
	Pretty risque stuff.
	And, you know, we look back at it now, and it seems, again, sort of like the fight scene I mentioned earlier, a little bit tame, but really well done.
	It wasn't tacky.
	You know, they did everything very high quality.
	So that we look back now, and we say, you know, this is charming.
	This is entertaining.
	This is maybe even something that would happen in real life.
	They seem to really care to get the details right and to make it Something that people are going to want to watch and appreciate.
	I mean, it's really art, this film.
	I don't know if you caught it, Chris, but there is a moment in the middle of the catfight when things are getting a little bit saucy.
	And in the corner, you can see Sean Connery's face.
	And I don't think he was faking the pleasure.
	I think he was enjoying what he was watching.
	Did you catch that, Chris?
	Oh, I absolutely did.
	And in fact, I thought, I'm surprised they left that in because usually they have Sean Connery being, you know, super cool.
	But in this case, he was just like, oh, yes.
	He was grinning like a Cheshire cat and there was no acting.
	And let's be honest, the late, great Sean Connery, he did have a bit of a reputation.
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	You said it's a little bit hard to follow.
	Sometimes, I don't know about you, because...
	Almost all of these movies, except for something called Uncle Buck, I'd seen before, were favorites of mine.
	And I try not to do what is so prevalent nowadays, where people put a show on or put a movie on while they're doing something else or they get on the phone.
	This is my father's favorite movie.
	James Bond movie.
	He was a huge fan of James Bond.
	So I sat down and I paid attention.
	And it really benefits.
	You need to pay attention to these movies because it's not one fluff scene or one car chase after another.
	This isn't Fast and Furious.
	This is when, as a writer, you appreciate there's an actual story here.
	There's character development.
	There are arcs to this Bond movie.
	Oh, absolutely.
	And if you do that, if you go on X or whatever it is that you're – that's my sort of guilty pleasure.
	I'm always on X. It's kind of part of the job.
	It's also something you have to do.
	I do find myself on there often when I'm watching a TV show or a film.
	And I think with a film like this because it's an older film, it's something you probably saw on TV a couple of times when you were growing up as a kid.
	And there is that temptation to do it.
	But yeah, when you have the audio set up right and you're watching the film and you start to pay attention to this, it does...
	You know, capture the attention.
	It is actually, you know, if you get the original version of this film and you watch all the way through, it does capture attention.
	You don't want to look away.
	At least I didn't want to be distracted by it.
	So it's sort of easy to do, but it is absolutely something you have to do.
	You have to pay attention to the details.
	Because if you miss one little thing, you miss a lot of the plot.
	I think that was my problem growing up, is that it was just sort of playing on TV sometimes in the background.
	And you would get captivated, but because maybe you missed a scene or something like that, you didn't quite know what was going on all the time.
	I've seen this film several times since I was a kid, so I definitely know the plot at this point.
	But yeah, sitting down and watching it again, even now I'm catching things that I did not catch.
	When I was younger or in subsequent viewings, because there's just so much to it.
	It's just so rich.
	Every scene is important.
	In every scene, there's something interesting or something important going on that you really need to catch.
	And of course, there's those clever lines that Sean Connery speaks.
	She should have kept her mouth shut.
	These kinds of things that are quite a bit of fun.
	And this character, the villain that they've got, what a fascinating...
	What a fascinating guy.
	He's sort of like the antithesis of James Bond.
	Now in the novel, they actually go through, the very first chapter of the novel really goes through and details how nasty this guy is.
	This guy grew up in England.
	He started killing birds.
	Then he started killing dogs.
	Then he started killing people.
	And he's essentially a murderer who likes to kill people, joins the Russians because he thinks they probably need hitmen.
	Turns out that they do.
	They like him.
	And he's this ruthless, terrifying killer.
	They might have even been able to ramp that up had they made this film a little bit longer.
	But what was interesting in this film, I'm watching the film and I'm realizing, again, because it's something I kind of forgot about, he saves James Bond's life in the film.
	He actually protects him throughout the film and kind of helps him along because he's trying to get the lector for Spectre.
	And then finally toward the end, they have that final fight, that final showdown.
	You can see that he's stalking James Bond.
	And actually, Bond is kind of tricked a lot during this film.
	Most of the film, Spectre's actually winning.
	Everything you think James Bond's very confidently doing is falling right into their trap.
	And it's really not until the trick with the briefcase and the smoke bomb...
	That James Bond is able to get the upper hand.
	And so, yeah, that's why I'm saying that briefcase is the unsung hero of the film.
	But yeah, everything set up in this film is done very, very well.
	And I love this villain.
	And I love the showdown.
	I love everything about it.
	I love the train.
	There's so much here that's James Bond.
	And if you haven't seen this film in a while...
	You should give it a watch again, I think.
	I would love to do, maybe in another life, just a whole episode on the actor Robert Shaw, because he died incredibly young.
	I think he was 51 years old.
	Of course, he's immortalized as Quinn from the Jaws movie.
	He was the star of a black and white TV show originally called The Buccaneer.
	He was in The Sting as well.
	But a playwright, an author, an actor, and this guy, oh my gosh, what a A villain.
	Red Grant in this movie is believable as a deadly, deadly agent of chaos working for Spectre.
	This is, well, I think he is one of the reasons this is just such an amazing movie.
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	Colonel Klebb worried that she is about to be executed, but no, it's Kronstein, the chess master we see at the beginning of the movie, flanked by somebody who will return as the head of the KGB in later movies, including The Spy Who Loved Me.
	There are certain character actors that recur over time in the James Bond movies.
	One thing we haven't discussed, in addition to the...
	The cinematography, the great writing, the good casting, the visuals.
	I'm thinking the beginning, the chess tournament, after we have the fake assassination of the faux James Bond and the training exercise, we go to quote-unquote Venice.
	And yes, it's a set, but that chess tournament with the giant chess board and the audience and the vaulted ceilings...
	No CGI, Chris.
	And I don't know about you, but it just hits.
	Oh, absolutely.
	And I believe that the ceiling is a matte painting because it's in a studio.
	And so in studios, you know, they don't have ceilings, right?
	Because that's where the lights are and everything like that.
	So they create this matte painting over the top of it.
	And it looks spectacular.
	You know, I read that scene in the book.
	You know, space.
	So much grander when you see it.
	And it makes more sense, actually, to be this big, grand tournament.
	Because this guy's supposed to be, I believe he's supposed to be the best chess player in all of Russia.
	And, of course, he works for, in the book Smirsch, and in the film Spectre.
	And, yeah, this idea that they have this grandmaster chess player as the chief strategist for Spectre.
	I think it's just so much fun.
	I don't know if those two things really do translate in real life.
	A great chess player and a great military strategist.
	But it's something that the public can believe.
	You think it takes a lot of strategy to play chess.
	You have to think 20 moves ahead or whatever it might be.
	And maybe the same thing is also true with military strategy.
	So...
	So perhaps somebody who's great at chess could also be great at something like that.
	And I think it's a lot of fun.
	And you're absolutely right about the set.
	It looks beautiful.
	It looks correct.
	It's how you would imagine it should be in that time period and how it probably was in that time period, at least close to something like that.
	Probably a little bit more ornate, right?
	Because it's a movie.
	But yeah, absolutely beautiful.
	And so much of this film was shot on location in real places that were absolutely stunning and beautiful.
	And really created a variety of locations that you can, you know, it's like a feast for the eyes.
	It's really fantastic.
	Except for the helicopter chase and the boat chase because they ran out of money.
	They tried to film it in the Bosworth.
	They tried to film it in Turkey, yes, and they went to Scotland.
	It's not bad.
	I mean, you can tell it's kind of like, could be Scotland, but it could be Anatolia, could be Turkey as well.
	And one of the first uses of very effective model work, the helicopter, in many cases, especially when it explodes at the end, is actually a remote-controlled helicopter.
	And of course, how can you take down a helicopter with a, quote, 25-caliber rifle?
	Because you shoot the guy with the hand grenade who drops it inside the cockpit.
	So that's a genius solution.
	We're going to run out of time.
	Soon we've only got one more segment left where we usually rate movies and pick the next one.
	So we need to spend a few minutes on the sad story, Chris, of what Broccoli's daughter and her husband Michael have done to this franchise.
	This franchise brought joy to hundreds of millions of men and women, probably billions over the last 60 years.
	Say a little bit about James Bond today and what they did to this incredible creation of Commander Ian Fleming.
	Yeah, you know, there's this great meme going around now on X, you'll probably come upon it, where they've got a shot of Pierce Brosnan on a motorcycle with this Chinese woman on the back.
	And then there's a juxtaposition of a screenshot from a more recent Bond film, I think it's the most recent Bond film, where Daniel Craig is on the back of a Vespa or some kind of scooter And the new Black Moneypenny, I think it is, is in the front driving him around.
	And it just was, it just is like, just emasculating.
	It's just the most, and it says, you know, James Bond in the 1990s, James Bond today.
	And it's like quintessentially what the left wants the world to be.
	It's so disappointing and sad.
	When you watch this film, There is not a woman alive.
	I don't believe there's a woman alive who would say they wouldn't want to be Tatiana in this film.
	Or there shouldn't be.
	If they're honest to themselves.
	That's right.
	Because women don't necessarily want to go beat people up.
	You know, women want to be rescued by a poor guy.
	You know what?
	Hang on a second.
	Hang on.
	I know you're a young whippersnapper.
	I'm 54 years old.
	I have never met...
	Never met a woman in 54 years who wants to be a physical, macho, superhero beating other human beings.
	I've met a lot of people, Chris, not one woman.
	No, I mean, look, there is some fantasy fulfillment with a film like Wonder Woman or something like this.
	I think there's room for these films in the world for sure.
	But you don't have every single film be like this.
	I mean, it's absurd.
	Women love the idea of a man protecting them, taking care of them, going and shooting the bad guys.
	And this character of Tatiana is very—she has her own agency.
	She's very sexy.
	She's very cool.
	She's very smart.
	She's very charming.
	She's the kind of woman that a lot of women would want to be like, that kind of elegance and grace and charm.
	And she's with this amazing guy, James Bond.
	Who's going around and saving her life, essentially, even though he knows that she's scamming him.
	There's a point where she tells him she loves him.
	She's all drugged up.
	She tells him she loves him over and over again and finally goes, yes, of course you do, and then walks off to go do more of his business because he knows that she's just been assigned to pretend to fall in love with him.
	But she actually does fall in love with him.
	At least that's how it seems in the film.
	And saves his life at the end of the movie.
	And so you think, okay, you know what?
	James Bond is such a cool guy that this girl who, you know, her duty was to go seduce him as the honeypot, he's been able to turn her.
	And, you know, it's a fantastic moment in the film, and it's the kind of thing people want to see.
	There's no reason to flip the script, this gender-bending nonsense that they've been doing for years.
	Just tell us great stories that make sense.
	And people will love movies again.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So utterly unnecessary.
	However, I will say it is sad that she had to be dubbed.
	Her Italian accent didn't quite work out, so Bianchi, Daniela Bianchi, was dubbed through the whole movie.
	A little bit for the nerds, the final scene with the explosions on the boat chase was done.
	With the cameras not running.
	Somebody forgot to actually start the cameras.
	So the first time they filmed this, they lost all of it and had to reset the whole thing and bring some more boats in to destroy.
	Pretty good stunt work.
	Pretty, pretty impressive.
	I'm going to ask a naive question, Chris, because you're right.
	This is gender bending, insane role reversal.
	Why would you do this?
	Not only kill Bond off, your father's greatest accomplishment, Cubby Broccoli's greatest accomplishment to take Ian Fleming's literary character and translate it into more than half a century of movie making, and then Barbara kills him off in this woke travesty.
	Isn't society moving in the opposite direction?
	You know these people better than most.
	Does Hollywood just not see what the world is accepting and rejecting, Chris?
	Yeah, I do think so.
	You know, it's what Elon Musk calls the woke mind virus.
	And there really are people.
	And, you know, I ask this question often.
	Is this person bought in or are they corrupted?
	Are they beholden to the deep state or something?
	Who knows?
	And by the way, Spectre, by the way, really reminds me of the deep state in this film.
	Because you've got these people sort of behind the scenes puppeteering what's going on.
	They're getting sex tapes that they think are going to potentially be...
	Agents of chaos, yeah.
	So I'm sitting there, I'm thinking, wow, this has really got a great metaphor for today.
	But yeah, look, there are people who really buy into the feminist nonsense that we do have to – the concept of – they have this idea, right, of – this idea that the straight white men constructed all these ideas about gender and race in order to control everyone.
	This is the idea that a lot of leftists have.
	And it's their duty to fight against it.
	And women only play with dolls because white men told them to.
	And men only play with trucks because white men told them to.
	Well, this obviously isn't true.
	There is something called human nature.
	And women are women because that's their nature.
	And men are men because it's their nature.
	It's nothing to do with some...
	You know, dictate from these shadow people that have decided over thousands of years that this is how we're going to be.
	The social construct.
	The social construct.
	And look, it's the myth of the social construct, let's call it.
	Let's just let people be people and kind of accept people for how they are.
	And I think most Americans and most folks around the world, they do accept people for how they are and who they are and It's okay to write stories about that and not have to fight against it all the time, but I really do think that it's the woke mind virus, and I really do think people buy into it and destroy characters and commit this kind of cultural arson.
	Wow.
	Cultural arson.
	Absolutely, absolutely.
	And if you look into Elon's reason for acting against the woke mind virus, it's very personal for him after what his ex-wife did to his son.
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	Let's have our last clip from Rhett from the killer for Spectre.
	Gloating over James Bond.
	Red wine with fish.
	Now that should have told me something.
	You may know the right wines.
	The other one on your knees.
	How does it feel, old man?
	Old man?
	Is that what you chaps and Smurfs call each other?
	Slash?
	Of course, Spectre.
	And it wasn't the Russian show at all.
	You've been playing us off against each other, haven't you?
	And it was Spectre who killed the Russian agent in the mosque.
	You?
	Uh-huh.
	Cameron, the other man?
	Uh-huh.
	And Nash?
	Oh, I don't mind talking.
	I got a kick out of watching the Greg James board and find out what a bloody fool he's been making of himself.
	Believable.
	Psychotic, dangerous, the great, late Robert Shaw as Red Grant.
	All right, all that is left to be done.
	I think I owe you a second movie choice, so we'll give you that option as well.
	But in the meantime, I think we have to rate this.
	What do you think, Chris?
	Is it in Gold Sovereigns out of ten?
	Yeah, Gold Sovereigns, it has to be.
	I think it has to be in that 007 briefcase.
	So you do it for a modern audience, this movie from 1963. I do it for the universe of all great movies.
	What do you think?
	It is a period piece.
	How will modern audiences enjoy this out of 10 Gold Sovereigns?
	You know, first, let me just say this scene is such a great scene because what you just played, the bit where he says, I don't mind talking.
	Yeah.
	You know, because I like to watch the great James Bond squirm or whatever or realize what a fool he's been.
	I think that that's, like you say, like true to life.
	It's, you know, it's Similar to a lot of the stuff that is in this film, they definitely took the time to try to make it believable.
	And that line alone makes you think, okay, yes, he would hold the gun on him and he would sit there and watch him realize that they've been tricking him the whole time and talk through it with him to see him do this.
	I believe that.
	I believe that this scene was how it might go in real life.
	Everybody's going to love this film.
	It's got to be a 10 out of 10. All right.
	Are we going to do it again?
	I think we might.
	Did we do 20 out of 20 last time?
	Come on, guys.
	It's the best.
	Goldfinger, most famous, most fun.
	The purest Bond movie has to be from Russia with love, so I will give it 10. Two imperial gold sovereigns out of ten.
	The ones with Queen Elizabeth's face on them.
	All right, Chris, I had two in a row, or at least we had Rich Mineta recommend one of the two.
	Do you have a choice for our next movie?
	Well, you kind of caught me off guard, so I'm just going to have to pick the first one to come to mind, which is...
	I don't know if you're going to like it or not, but I'm going to go for it.
	Rambo 2. Yeah, oh gosh, it's Sequel Man.
	Sequel Man strikes again.
	I love it, love it, love it.
	Big fan of the Rambo movies.
	Very different.
	A change in mood from First Blood.
	So, good pick, my friend.
	Not exactly Christmassy, but a good choice.
	Oh wait, hold on.
	Is this a Christmas?
	Is this our closest Christmas?
	No, no, no, no, no.
	No, no.
	We got one more.
	We got one.
	Relax.
	Relax.
	I'm just having fun.
	Just having fun.
	Rambo 2 is the next movie.
	Love it, love it, love it.
	I don't need an excuse to watch that movie.
	It's one of the ones that's downloaded on my phone.
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