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	Enough of that.
	Let's get to our guests because these are two gentlemen that look.
	There's some people that are on cable news, and I cover media for the hill, and obviously I'm a Fox News contributor.
	So I talk about this stuff a lot.
	And I watch everybody, and uh sometimes I I I'm not so impressed with some folks.
	I think they're putting on a show.
	I think that's some of its you know, infotainment or or it's it's theater, you know, just to get clicks just to go viral.
	These two guys, I'm so glad Linda, our great producer, booked them because you are getting the real deal.
	It is coming from the head and the heart, and these guys are authentic, and the best part is they're credible because they've been on the front lines, in this case the front lines being the U.S. Southern border.
	So let's bring in with that introduction, Mark Morgan, the former acting CBP commissioner and heritage visiting fellow, and Tom Homan, a Fox News contributor like myself, and former acting ICE Director and Heritage Visiting Fellow.
	Gentlemen, thanks for joining me today on this Friday.
	Really appreciate it.
	Thanks for having us.
	Oh, of course.
	So thanks for having us.
	You got it.
	All right, so let's let's uh so no no one's offended.
	We're gonna go in alphabetical order.
	All right, so Holman, Tom Homan gets the first question.
	Tom, I I can't get my head around the fact that the leading cause of death for those between 18 and 49, something like more than 100,000 people in this country last year died because of fentanyl.
	What's fentanyl?
	It's produced in China, it goes through Mexico, over our border, and then into communities across the country, and particularly teenagers now are dying of opioid fentanyl overdoses when they think they're taking one drug, like say oxycodone, and it's laced with fentanyl, they don't even know it, and then parents are walking into their kids' rooms thinking that they're studying and and and they're dead.
	And and I I just don't understand that how we have a president whose own son battled his own drug addictions where he's not addressing this problem at the border as a national security issue, given the number of people that are dying.
	I mean, is it just incompetence or is there something more to this?
	Because usually in Washington, when in doubt between choosing between conspiracy and incompetence, always choose incompetence, Charles Crowdhammer once said.
	Is this a combination of both?
	Or what's your overall feeling of why two million people are allowed to enter this country illegally as they did last year?
	Well, look, you know, I think we all agree that he's incompetent, and so isn't the Secretary of Missouri, I'm my artists.
	But this is by design.
	Look, Joe Biden ran on open borders.
	And when he became president, he signed over 90 executive orders, abolishing everything.
	Me and Mark worked with the President Trump on to give us the most secure border in our lifetime.
	And the reason there's so much fentanyl, because look, when you open the border up to illegal migration that ties 70 to 80% of border agents are off the line.
	Now they're not doing the national security duty.
	They're in processing centers, making baby farmers, changing diapers, processing families, taking them to the airport, which means you're not online.
	DEA says 95% of fentanyl comes across the Southwest border.
	Why?
	Because 70 to 80% of board police aren't there to catch it.
	So Joe Biden likes to say his policies are much more humane than President Trump's, and I've been arguing negative.
	They're not.
	Why?
	Because more migrants have died on U.S. soil on their first year of Joe Biden than any year of my 35-year career on the border.
	And second of all, we are over 100,000 overdose deaths in America because of fentanyl is coming across the border because the border is not secure.
	So people to say why about President Trump.
	His policies are inhumane, wrong.
	When illegal migration was down to a 35-year low, 83% decline in illegal immigration, how many people weren't dying of fentanyl overdoses?
	How many women weren't being raped?
	How many migrants didn't die in U.S. soil?
	President Trump's policies save lives, and Joe Biden's policies are killing people, to include over 100,000 Americans.
	I I I hope that if uh Republican president does come in in 2024, uh whether it's Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis or whoever uh wins uh the presidency uh that year, I hope that they make Uce Director again, Tom, because you you've clearly you you got you nailed it right there.
	That's exactly why this is so important.
	And Mark Morgan, I I'm I'm just curious.
	If you're polling in the low 20s as this president is on immigration in the border, then wouldn't you change course just just for your own political survival?
	For forget about doing the right thing and and preventing all these deaths and rapes that Tom was just describing.
	Don't you say, oh boy, I'm at 21% approval on my handling of the border and immigration.
	Maybe I change course.
	Why won't you do that?
	Yeah, Joe, right?
	I think about that.
	It seems and appears like common sense, but really quickly, first of all, everything Tom said and you've said is absolutely spot on.
	Just on the drugs alone.
	Again, recap.
	A hundred thousand Americans, two years in a row, died from a drug overdose.
	The leading cause of death of adults 18 to 45 is fentanyl.
	And we know from DEA reporting that 95% of the fentanyl comes from our southwest border.
	How is that not an American thing?
	How did that become a right or left thing?
	Well, here's one reason why it did is they have individuals like Secretary Myorkis, who's the chief architect of the open border policies, he's an ideologue.
	Joe, the the the reality is he does not care.
	He doesn't give a darn about the second third order effects of their open border policies.
	He only cares about the pursuit of his personal ideology.
	And so even though the polls and common sense and Americans are dying, they clearly do not care.
	It's about the pursuit of their personal ideology.
	And we're talking to Mark Morgan and Tom Holman.
	I I'm curious, Tom.
	You know, talk radio is is famous for uh and cable news to a certain extent, right?
	Is famous for the complaining, right?
	We're great at saying how much this sucks or why this person is bad.
	I'm more of a solutions guy personally.
	So uh if you were running things right now, and Mark you you could chime in as well uh on this.
	What would you do day one if you had the authority to say, okay, this is what we're gonna do with the border?
	Give me like a three-step or even five-step, ten-step, I don't care, solution at this point.
	Well, like me and Mark and both was stopped this.
	Mark, first thing I would do is put the remaining Mexico program back in.
	It's a game changer.
	We wouldn't do it like the Biden administration was ordered by the courts to do it.
	So uh, and they're not doing it as the court ordered them to do it.
	Me and Mark were actually part of that lawsuit.
	So I would put the remaining metro program the same way we did on Donald Trump as a game changer.
	That that would be my first step.
	Mark, I'll give you step two.
	Yeah.
	So step two is uh as I would uh in Congress, they need to go to the a coalition letter that we just author.
	Tom was uh was a a leading played a leading role in this along with myself and 10 other former Trump officials from the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of State, as well as about 16 other conservative organizations.
	And Joe, what we did was is we outlined specific legislative action that Congress needs to take.
	And if they do, it's gonna secure the border, stem the flow of illegal immigration, and save American lives.
	And it goes through two important things.
	It's not just resources.
	We used to say we need it all including the wall.
	So we need the wall as part of that multi-layer strategy, including resources and personnel.
	Absolutely technology.
	We need that.
	But just as important is we need policies that's going to stem the flow of illegal immigration that's going to apply effective consequences.
	Remane in Mexico is just one of those programs that we need to codify.
	The asylum cooperative agreements that this administration ended that really acted as a safe third country.
	Meaning, if you really have a legitimate claim and you're fleeing persecution, shouldn't you get relief in the first safe third country that you come to?
	Absolutely, you need to do.
	So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to make sure that Congress passes legislation that's in that coalition letter.
	And if not, Joe, we need to hold them accountable because Republicans are part of this issue as well.
	And so me and Mark are back in power.
	That means Congress is back in the power of the Republicans, which means on day one.
	Day one, they uh impeach uh Secretary Majorcus for violating the oath he took to secure this nation.
	His actions, he has failed for 16 months straight.
	We have record illegal immigration, record drug overdoses.
	This man needs to be impeached because he's made our homeland less secure and and and he violated his also.
	So that needs to be day one when we take that tires.
	Yeah, so if I say jump in on that, I mean the Secretary of Homeland Security has actually said that it's it's not enough to be here illegally to be deported.
	This secretary has said that to have a final order removal from an immigration judge is not enough to remove you.
	This is the same guy that kind of in this arrogant way that he does during congressional testimony after being read what the legal definition of operational control was, he said in fact they have operational control, which we know is a blatant lie.
	That man's gotta go.
	The credibility of Alejandro Majorcus, who was also tapped to run the Ministry of Truth.
	Uh that that's information you give that guy more responsibility.
	We're talking to Mark Morgan and Tom Holman.
	Uh, you know, I I'm curious if you guys know, because you probably talked to border agents still and talk to folks down there all the time.
	How is that investigation going in into Border Patrol uh allegedly whipping Haitian migrants?
	Uh that happened old enough to remember it, I think, uh something like nine months ago, and we never got resolution on that, did we?
	I'll let you take this time.
	I was Mark, you take it, sorry, go ahead.
	Or whoever's not talking to you.
	I was I was actually with Representative Crenshaw last night out in Houston.
	I brought that up because you know, I wasn't a border patrol.
	I started my career in Border Patrol way back in 1984.
	I know the rules of engagement.
	We've all seen the video.
	These officers did nothing wrong.
	It's plain.
	Well, you had the Secretary of Homeland Security, the President of the United States, and the vice president all slandered them on national TV from the White House podium.
	Now these men have been put on light duty, they haven't been back doing the job they're supposed to be doing.
	They're not they're not performing the oath they took because they've been uh slandered by this administration.
	Their wives have been bullied in church, their kids have been bullied in schools.
	This investigation is over.
	But they're not going to release the results of investigation because they found these agents did nothing wrong.
	We all can see the video, but they're not going to announce the investigation that they did nothing wrong because they don't want to embarrass the White House.
	They don't want to embarrass the secretary of the president.
	And these guys have one ounce of integrity, one ounce of integrity.
	They would give these guys your honor back.
	Mark would tell you that the the model of the border patrol is honor first.
	Well, the president of the United States stole their honor at the White House podium.
	He needs to give their honor back and announce his best case is over.
	But they won't do it because they have no integrity.
	And I'll go a step further.
	Again, what Tom said completely agree with uh is look, here's another individual.
	Where is the chief of the border patrol, chief Raul Ortiz?
	You know, these are Tom and I've discussed this, Joe.
	These are moments that define leaders.
	As the chief United States Border Patrol, I've been there.
	I was a former chief of the United States Border Patrol before I was commissioner.
	And I'm telling you right now, I would have put my badge on the table, Joe.
	I'm telling, and I know Tom would have done the same thing.
	And I would have gone out there on national TV and defended these men and women and defended these agents to make it clear that they did nothing wrong.
	In fact, what a lot of people don't know.
	Chief Raul, he actually directed the horse patrol to be there at that time to help with the invasion of the Haitians.
	Yet he has not gone out publicly to defend them.
	And it did again, this is a defining moment.
	Look, and look, where the the president, where where are these agents beer summit, right?
	He should use the same bully pulpit the president that he used to bilify them and ruin the reputations and career.
	He should use that same bully pulpit to bring them back and let the entire American public know that they absolutely did nothing wrong and they were absolutely on the wrong side of this from day one.
	That would mean the president admitting he made a mistake, and that's just not in the DNA.
	Mark Morgan, I I'll give the final question to you if the time went by so fast.
	But you know, you worked under the Obama administration, I guess you call it the Obama Biden administration, uh when you were uh chief of border patrol.
	And I'm just curious, would did at least that president, we'll take Biden out of it as vice president.
	Did at least it seem like he let you do your job more than the current one is now?
	Like what was it like under Obama?
	Because I think there were more deportations under Obama than there was under Trump, correct?
	Yeah, that's correct.
	So I was that's a great point.
	I was chief of the border patrol under the Obama administration.
	And more importantly was who the Secretary of Homeland Security was, is Jay Johnson.
	Now look, the reality is I did not agree with all of Jay Johnson's policies, but but he dealt in the realm of reality, right?
	Like for example, he said, you know, and Tom and I both worked for him, and we know.
	He used to say all the time, Joe, a thousand apprehensions a day was a bad day.
	And we knew that because when we had a thousand, believe me, working for him, we all were having a bad day.
	And we agreed with that.
	I mean, we're we're almost 9,000 a day.
	Think about that.
	Under Take Johnson, a thousand a day was was a bad day.
	It was a crisis then.
	Um, and so what what I so although I didn't agree with all the policies, again, they lived in reality.
	And here's what was very, very important too is I never saw Jay Johnson lie.
	And Tom can come Tom can correct me if he feels otherwise.
	I never never felt that Jay Johnson was being distruthful and dishonest to American people.
	And that's exactly the opposite of this current secretary in this current administration.
	I I agree with that, guys, because I met Jay Johnson and had a fairly extensive conversation once in a green room.
	And you just hear his statements in your ear and speaker like, wow, this is a person that is actually credible.
	You know, that out of the entire Obama administration, I would say he was probably the most.
	But anyway, guys, we gotta leave it there, unfortunately.
	So I'll I'll say please enjoy your weekend and thanks so much.
	I think that was an education, and you're really passionate about this as you should be being on the front lines, and hopefully you'll be back on those front lines again.
	Thank you, Tom.
	Thank you, Mark.
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	We talked earlier how murders were at a 25-year high last year, and 16 cities set homicide records in this country.
	And more and more police officers, because they're the ones being vilified by some of the media, many in the media.
	Uh, as the bad guys, guilty until proven innocent whenever there's any sort of controversial situation where no one has the facts in yet.
	Well, we're running into situations now that even if you start refunding the police instead of defunding them, we're seeing that more and more, right?
	That even when you arrest people for doing very bad things, it's like a revolving door.
	They they don't serve time and they go back out and could commit crimes again.
	And your prime example of this California teen convicted of plowing a car into a mother and her eight-month-old son will spend just five months in a what's called a diversionary program.
	And that's of course, thanks to the Los Angeles district attorney, George Gascon.
	I mean, isn't that amazing?
	You run a car into an eight-month-old and a mom, and all you're gonna do is serve just a couple of months and not even a prison or a juvie or something.
	Diversionary program?
	What the hell is that?
	I mean, I tell you, man, you look at things differently when you're a dad, but this is driving me nuts, and it has to stop.
	One thing to have more police officers on the street, you need people to enforce the laws in district attorney offices.
	We don't have those in Los Angeles, New York, and many liberal cities in between the uncovers the real truth about the politics of DC.
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	Let's go to our phone call, shall we?
	Do we still have waiting very patiently?
	Dawn in New York.
	Dawn, you there.
	Yes, I'm here.
	What part of New York?
	Are you in the city or upstate?
	I'm in Rochester, upstate.
	Ah.
	Technically technically Western New York.
	Sure, of course.
	A nice little airport up there.
	But uh but let me let me talk about or at least let's talk about because obviously if you're a teacher, I have a feeling you're you're calling about you know the school shooting obviously in Uvalde and in general solutions around it.
	What what are your thoughts on the red flag proposal that that's being uh brought about I have to be honest, I feel two ways about it.
	Um, you know, when it comes to kids, they they can struggle because they're they're growing, they're learning, they haven't established their their ways, their thoughts, you know, they're immature people, they need guidance, and you know, if we find that they're struggling or having troubles, and we need to report that so we can keep others around them safe.
	I'm I'm all for that.
	Um and we could talk more about how unfortunately there are very liberal influences in the schools that seem to prevent that from being effective.
	But I think the other way I feel about the red flag laws is that I would worry that individuals could use that kind of power given to all of us to um inappropriately accuse somebody and then you know they would end up being deprived of their rights to own guns safely and legally.
	So I I think that's a tricky business to try and sort out.
	I agree.
	And and I I wonder, Dawn, as as a teacher, and we we we heard before from John Solomon uh about Ohio teachers or the Senate there anyway in that state where teachers will be able to carry guns if they so choose.
	Would you do that if given the option to protect yourself, your students?
	I personally would, yes.
	I must say I would want all of the the uh necessary training, of course, because I obviously, you know, we have to put the guns in the hands of people who are very properly trained, very skilled, very devoted.
	And I I think if that were me, it would take perhaps years to get to that point.
	But if there are others who can prove themselves qualified, I I don't see it as a horrible idea.
	I gotta tell you though, it's just so it's so odd.
	It's so scary to think that we would want to have teachers in a school building carrying guns.
	Because, you know, we we devote our lives to caring for and loving kids, and that just feels like a dangerous thing to bring into a building full of kids.
	So again, it's a I think it's a tricky situation.
	But I would, yes.
	Ultimately, I would.
	I would want to be able to protect and help the kids and the people in my building.
	I hear you.
	The one solution that I put in a column not too long ago, I just want to get your thoughts on it before you go, Is one entrance in and out.
	I get that some schools have hundreds of students, so you have to stagger the school day based on grade, right?
	Like maybe every 15 minutes a new grade goes in, starts their day, and then obviously at the end of the day you reverse it as far as every 15 minutes out.
	This way you don't have you know hundreds of people trying to get out one entrance and one uh exit.
	Uh but then from there you just have uh a trained military, ex-military, ex-police, current police doing their desk duty uh there uh behind bulletproof glass, and you have to get by uh this particular person if you want to enter the school.
	Uh I I would think that while that doesn't prevent every school shooting, uh it would reduce them greatly.
	Uh could you see that being a doable thing?
	I would.
	I would love to see that in our building.
	In fact, the school where I work is making changes to our main entrance this at this moment, so that next school year we will have one main point of entry.
	The terrible thing is there are so few security people in our building that we can't keep an eye on all of the doors.
	And I regularly witness students letting other people into our building.
	Other kids, grown-ups that might be parents.
	We don't know who they are.
	And in fact, in my school, unfortunately, there are kids in the halls and in The bathrooms and everywhere doing nefarious things.
	It's really kind of crazy.
	I just don't understand why schools won't pay for plenty of security personnel.
	They don't have to be ex-police or ex-military.
	They just have to be people who will have eyes on every end of every hallway and every door.
	That would make sense.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And we need to keep kids where they should be, in their classrooms, you know, in the cafeterias and gymnasiums, and um not allow them to roam freely.
	Because, you know, see, unfortunately, most of the kids in the school are doing the right thing.
	It's really the 10% that are wrecking it for the rest of them.
	And among those 10% are the crazies who are going to cause serious harm.
	And sadly, I think in the last 10 years, I've seen the number of those crazies increase dramatically.
	I I've been teaching for for 28 years, and every once in a while I would come across a kid who was a little troubled.
	But in the past 10 years, I've been able to find one or two or three just on my roster that I worry would actually harm us, like we just saw in Uvalde.
	I think I know what the common thread is there, by the way, Linda.
	I think that social media and just access to bad things on the internet in general.
	Uh that that's gotta be it, right?
	Because boy, iPads and iPhones, they really weren't around uh more than 12, 14 years ago.
	And now suddenly I think we're starting to see the effects of that.
	I could tell you my six and eight-year-old during COVID, I got them both iPads.
	You know, it was supposed to be for learning purposes.
	Uh, and they they could wander very quickly onto some bad stuff on YouTube in a hurry, right?
	And uh I I think that that is a common thing so now that that's one hour uh per weekend that'll get their iPad, and I have to be or my wife has to be in the room with me to make sure that nothing bad's going on.
	But they learn a lot.
	They they go to Mr. DeMayo, you probably know, and uh that they know more about the solar system than I think I have ever knew before.
	So go figure.
	But anyway, Linda's yeah, go ahead.
	That's a very appropriate use of that technology, but sadly it's it's that technology and the overuse of it and the lack of oversight by the parents.
	Um, I have plenty of kids in my classroom who are intelligent kids, working hard.
	They they probably use their technology a bit too much for some people's likings.
	But the fact is they're still doing all the right good things they can be at this moment.
	But when parents are have abdicated their role in supervising all aspects of young children's lives, that's when the technology, you know, becomes a real harm.
	And I can tell you, I can tell you, particularly during the the hungover times, that it's so easy just to give your kid an iPad and then you could kind of go off and do your own little thing for a while.
	Uh but that's that's obviously the lazy way out.
	And you know, what do I know?
	I barely drink at this point.
	I've been scared straight by the uh the early wake up uh from my kids.
	But Linda, uh, thanks so much.
	That was a great call, right?
	That was almost like an interview.
	You're like our poorest guest instead of a phone call.
	So I appreciate that.
	Uh, I want to go to Betty in Alabama because Betty, I have a feeling uh is gonna be able to answer my question from before, and I think this is the most important question of the day.
	All right, if you're driving, put two hands in the wheel because this is serious stuff here.
	Again, how does Tom Cruise, 36 years after the first Top Gun, almost look exactly identical than he did when he was playing that role in his 20s?
	I I gotta know he's gonna be 60, I believe, this year.
	How does that work?
	I mean, Johnny Depp, you see him in this in this trial, right?
	He kind of looks like a creepier old man.
	Not cruise, no changes whatsoever.
	So Betty, what's the secret?
	Okay, Joe.
	The secret is first you have to have a great skincare routine.
	Doesn't matter what brand you use.
	I was asked not to mention brands, but you know, pick your favorite line, one that you really like, and use it morning and night.
	And then, of course, you have to have a really good makeup artist.
	The Botox is great too.
	You can't discount that at all because I swear he's had like a billion face webs.
	You can kind of see that, right?
	There's this this can't just be natural.
	Uh there's definitely uh the B-word there, no, no question about it, Betty.
	Thank you so much for the call.
	Roll tide.
	Always love any anybody calling from Alabama.
	I want to bring in Linda, our producer, uh, because you know what?
	We we seen Linda 160 million dollars at the box office last weekend for Top Gun Maverick.
	I mean, almost never is the sequel better than the original.
	I can count on one hand, probably.
	Godfather 2, better than Godfather One, Empire Strikes Back better than Star Wars, Dark Knight better than the original Batman Begins, but most of the time the sequel is bad, and never have we seen a sequel come out 36 friggin' years later with the same character in the same role looking basically the same.
	I guess my question is, Linda, is this half it's a great movie and half, you know what?
	It's an all-American movie.
	It celebrates all those things that we've cheered in the first one, and this is a big F you to the woke crowd.
	I mean, it definitely has a a lot of the positive aspects of you know, it's okay for guys to be guys, it's okay to be pro-military, it's okay to love America, it's okay to love all the things that make us love this great country and and give us the freedoms that we have that we take for granted every single day.
	So yeah, I mean, I think a lot of people were looking to see something, particularly in the entertainment field, that for once was not bashing everything about America, because that seems to be all it is anymore.
	Have you seen the movie?
	I I know you're you're more of a uh 50 shade.
	I haven't.
	I'll tell you, Jason on our show is our mo movie officianado.
	I can't tell you the last time I saw a movie.
	I actually went to see oh gosh, the um James Bond movie with Daniel Craig, the last one.
	Yeah.
	I actually went to see that and I actually left uh because it was so long, I was like, I can't, I who has this much time.
	We're totally onto something there.
	Movies now, I don't know what this prerequisite or where it came from, as far as they have to be over two hours.
	You know, it's some are three.
	It's too much Titanic, I could withstand it because it was a good movie, but three hours, it's too long to be sitting in a seat.
	I'm sorry.
	I even saw what I see recently.
	Sonic 2, all right, with the boy 6.
	My son just saw that, yeah.
	It's actually pretty good, you know.
	Jim Carrey is the guy who's mentally doesn't age.
	I'll tell you the funny thing about that is I did not see that yet.
	And I just said to my son today, I said, Do you want to do pizza nights and I will do some movie time?
	And I said, You want to see Sonic 2?
	He actually went to the theater to see it, but he wants to see it again, and it's you can watch it online.
	Yeah, now it's now it's streaming, right?
	But even that was more than two hours.
	Like, d is the ri is the plot so complex that that movie has to go on for two hours.
	I mean, it was amazing.
	Uh, but before that, yeah, you're right.
	I mean, I never get to the movies anymore.
	Plus everything comes out so quickly on streaming.
	I I I find an excuse on a big TV just to watch it at home.
	But yeah, Moonstruck.
	I think that was the last movie that I saw in the movie theaters.
	So they made a movie out of Moonstruck, the show?
	No, Moonstruck's a movie, right?
	Oh, oh, oh, it's a good one.
	You're thinking of moonlighting, I think.
	I'm thinking of moonlighting.
	Moonlighting with the greatest.
	No, I love Moonstruck.
	Oh my gosh, no.
	Well, that was 87.
	I think so.
	Between Sonic 2, you gotta go back to 87, basically when the first time came out.
	That's the last time we've been to a movie.
	I was gonna say it's the last time you had f five minutes to yourself and you weren't on TV yourself.
	That's what you're doing.
	That's right.
	Fox has me on every other minute.
	Oh, you could turn in tonight on Fox Business.
	I'll be on evening edit with Elizabeth McDonald.
	And then later I'll be on Hannity without Hannity.
	Uh well, we'll be going with uh Pete Hegsgeth uh tonight, who's the Fox and Friends weekend host uh and always has wearing socks on.
	So that that'll be a good one.
	He always does very, very good socks.
	Great hair, too, you know.
	I gotta find out what product he's in.
	Can you believe it's a good one?
	It's probably working with Tom Cruise.
	What's that?
	He's working with Tom Cruise, he's got the probably is.
	Yeah.
	I mean, can you believe this now?
	I mean, Sean, I hope he's not listening.
	I mean, probably turning over uh in in whatever he's in, uh, just just as far as we we've turned the show into we're talking about skincare, all right, hair care.
	I mean, am I gonna be allowed back?
	Listen, we already went through it once this week talking about the Depp Heard trial.
	I thought he was gonna murder me that day.
	So I was like, listen, I'm sorry.
	It was the biggest story of the day.
	I mean, whether we liked it or not, it was still the biggest story of the day.
	So we had the cover and our audience was going banana.
	Uh uh, Linda, as far as oh, yeah.
	They do, right?
	I mean, I'm sorry.
	That's fake news.
	And yeah, you you may have now written, you know, the editor wrote that very, very long diatribe following, you know, this this uh editorial that they let her put in there.
	And I'm just like, I just uh, you know, Sean and I talk about this a lot, and and you probably understand this too is as a writer as an author, you know, when you cite something and you quote it, like you have how many sources before you write it in an article?
	I mean, honestly, as a writer, you should four or five.
	Yeah, I mean, it at least never rely on just one or else because my problem right now, and this is what we were talking about the other day is people are allowed to write these things, whether it's about a political figure or in your personal life, and they're just allowed to put it out there and make these accusations with zero accountability, zero evidence, and they're just making the it's all it's liable.
	And I'm like, you can't just defame somebody because you don't like them anymore, you're mad at them, you didn't like what they said to you.
	Whatever it is, there has to be some kind of proof, you know.
	Her saying all the things that she said, and just zero evidence to back it up.
	And then the one piece of evidence that did came out was incriminated her.
	Yeah, precisely.
	The the best is well, you know, she didn't name him specifically in the op-bat.
	Who the hell else do you think she was talking about?
	Give me a brain.
	Yeah, she was talking about it.
	I'm so over the lack of common sense.
	I'm like, come on, guys.
	You know, we can all infer here, and you can say, oh, well, we can't do that.
	We can't make assumptions.
	That's that's subjective.
	Do me.
	I can't.
	This is the thing I can't stand about modern media.
	Is that yeah, it's subjective when it fits your narrative.
	But if it was the other way around, you would say, oh, but that's definitely what happened.
	Well, that's definitely we're gonna blame that, you know, depth for it.
	And it was just a feta complete until all the evidence came out.
	And then it was like, oh, wait, there actually might be more to this story.
	And I don't, I don't know if WAPO or CNN or any of these outlets.
	I mean, their inability to retract, source, say we were wrong.
	I think it is the biggest shortcoming in media today, and it's why the American people don't trust it anymore.
	Not in the DNA.
	And and look, Nicholas Sandman, I don't think people understand what kind of precedent that set because defamation is so hard to win.
	But he sued the Washington Post and CNN for something like 275 million dollars each, and they both settled.
	It seems like since then, more and more defamation uh cases that you think no way dep wins, he wins, right?
	So uh either way, and we'll leave it here because we gotta get into a break.
	I'm gonna be hearing these three words over and over, Linda, in my head.
	I gotta be honest.
	Human people matter.
	I mean, that's the minute you get out of that relationship.
	And I I see that on my side of the bed.
	I'll say, honey, keep the house.
	I'll stay at a hotel six.
	I am not going anywhere near that.
	And she played the dog.
	And as a dog owner, I could tell you in terms of size, in terms of texture, in terms of scent, there's a big difference between the human version and the dog version.
	Boy, this show's gone sideways.
	Maybe we should go.
	Yes, it did.
	Or no, turd?
	Is that what you said?
	Oh, it took a turd.
	Yes.
	Oh, man.
	I that was a layup.
	That was a layout.
	I am so not being invited back to the show.
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