Sean reacts to Kansas City's Super Bowl win and the violent response to Philly's loss. Plus, the NFL did have a good focus on patriotism... there were some good stories!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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| You know, often Super Bowl games themselves end up being just so disappointing. | |
| This was the exact opposite. | |
| I wanted Kansas City to win. | |
| No offense to our friends in Philly. | |
| Um, I just am a Mahomes fan. | |
| Um I I love the tight end Kelsey, who's Linda can't stand, but uh she lives in Pennsylvania, so clearly she did not have a good night last night. | |
| Even though you don't even know what crossing the plane means, but I'm sure um you were disappointed with the loss. | |
| Um I don't care what anybody says, there were two holds on that last play. | |
| I think the ref made the right call. | |
| I was surprised that and I thought the game was uh called, you know, pretty in a pretty tough manner on both sides of the ball, but um I thought I saw two holds, and here's the problem. | |
| That play is a speed play. | |
| With Patrick Mahomes laid that ball in the end zone exactly where the receiver was supposed to be. | |
| If if the if the cornerback is not holding the the receiver, and the receiver gets any sprinting momentum, these athletes are so fast, he likely would have been to that spot and caught that ball, or it would have been very, very close. | |
| So um, anyway, that's that's football. | |
| It's the way the ball bounces, as I say. | |
| I'm gonna tell you right now, we were watching this game. | |
| I'm gonna tell you, I was riveted from start to finish, you know. | |
| The kids loved it, I loved it, you know, and it was one of those things where you're sitting there and you were on your I mean, I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. | |
| I was like, oh my god, oh my god. | |
| I mean, they really were giving it everything they got, both sides. | |
| And even though I'm an Eagles fan and I'm from Philly and all the things, you know, the Chiefs play a great game, you know, and they really put their heart and soul into it. | |
| And I think what we saw last night, you know, right from the start with, you know, just patriotism, people being there with their kids, you know, just there to do something positive. | |
| You know, the world is on fire. | |
| You know, people need to break the city. | |
| Well, can you explain being being from Philly originally? | |
| What the hell was going on at the end of the game and it's disgusting. | |
| You know, people chanting F the Chiefs and you know, climbing poles and throwing over cars. | |
| What the hell is that all about? | |
| I don't I tr I'm telling you right now, I really we were sitting here and I was like, you know, it would be so nice if the people that are out there that look for any and every opportunity to destroy and take things down because they're just negative, nasty people who can't just be in a moment, say, okay, maybe next time. | |
| They're everybody's just out for them, and there's no accountability. | |
| And we've got Krasner in charge here in Philly, and he just loves some drama. | |
| He loves the chaos, he does not support our police. | |
| And let me tell you, the the criminals, they know, and they're out there And they're just waiting. | |
| So whether we won or we lost, they were ready to turn the city inside out to get what they wanted and go home and loot some stuff and then sell it online. | |
| They don't care. | |
| They're just animals. | |
| People look for excuses for anything. | |
| I will say this. | |
| And this year was different to me. | |
| I felt I felt a lot of patriotism was brought back to the Super Bowl. | |
| Maybe it was just what I perceived, but I felt it and I saw it and I liked it. | |
| Watching the Eagles coach and others actually tear up and cry during the national anthem. | |
| Patrick Mahomes going into an end zone, taking a knee, but actually saying a prayer. | |
| Of course, the tribute to Buffalo Bills Hamlin was was beyond emotional for everybody and inviting on all the medical first responders that helped save his life that day. | |
| For me, I think that the. | |
| I like the Ben Afflack, Jennifer Lopez ad. | |
| That was one of the best ones where you had Affleck, you know, served being apparently a big Duncan Donuts guy. | |
| He clearly has not ever had crispy cream. | |
| Um but anyway, so he's serving at the drive-thru window and up pulls Jennifer Lopez. | |
| I thought it was pretty funny. | |
| Uh you always do you always do have your controversies. | |
| AOC saying that she did not believe Jesus would support Super Bowl commercials that she claims make fascism look benign. | |
| Now the Christian group, he gets us. | |
| They spent 20 million dollars on two Super Bowl ads that shows Jesus as someone with empathy for immigrants and the poor who is also tired of the division of politics. | |
| Something, quote, something tells me Jesus would not spend millions of dollars on Super Bowl ads to make fascism look beyond benign. | |
| I mean, you always get the the idiots and the dumb people that make dumb comments all the time, and and clearly this was this is what politicians should just watch the game, eat some chicken wings, eat some, you know, spinach dip or whatever people eat during the Super Bowl. | |
| I did not have either one of those, by the way. | |
| Um didn't? | |
| Nope. | |
| How come? | |
| Because I didn't feel like making chicken wings. | |
| It's a simple point. | |
| You're not cooking it, you're not eating it. | |
| I had a BLT lettuce wrap, if you want to know what I had. | |
| It sounds invigorating. | |
| It was. | |
| It was great. | |
| Alabama Democrats want to ban employers from forcing workers to get microchipped. | |
| Can you believe that? | |
| It would make it illegal for the public and private employers in the state to force their employees to get microchipped. | |
| Did I miss this was happening? | |
| Because I I don't think there's anybody on any side of the political aisle that wants that to happen to anybody. | |
| Um, unless, of course, it was something for some medical purpose. | |
| There was a lot going on with this in Europe, actually, during the start of COVID. | |
| That's crazy. | |
| And New York City teachers who refused COVID vaccines, we now find out that their fingerprints was sent to the FBI and the New York Criminal Justice Services. | |
| And according to an analysis of the AP in 21 states in DC, they can't find find two hundred and thirty thousand students that were in the nation's public school system. | |
| They have now completely disappeared. | |
| They can't find them in any homeschool program, private education program, or any of the public schools that they used to go to. | |
| You know, students. | |
| I mean, that's insane. | |
| Twenty how do you lose in 21 states, 230 students? | |
| Sorry, we're out. | |
| They just disappeared. | |
| Where'd they go? | |
| Pretty unbelievable. | |
| Um anyway, we'll get to all that. | |
| I thought that uh Biden was gutless, he wouldn't sit down with Brett Bear or you know, any of the Fox reporters to do a 10-minute interview, which was mostly fun on the Super Bowl anyway. | |
| Um look, I know a lot is on everybody's mind as it relates to what the hell is going on. | |
| Um, and the silence of the Biden administration is deafening here. | |
| Um at some point, we've got to get answers on these mysterious flying objects that keep coming into our airspace that our military is having to shoot down. | |
| You know, watching the House Intel chairman Mike Term uh Turner say particularly annoying is that the Biden administration is briefing Congress through our television sets. | |
| They're not bringing Congress into the process. | |
| We have the U.S. on heightened alert, increasing scrutiny of airspace after downing unidentified object over late URN. | |
| Um both objects shot down over Alaska and Canada were believed to be balloons. | |
| We don't know for sure. | |
| And then you get this genius over at Norrad is not ruling out that aliens might be responsible with these unidentified you know flying objects. | |
| So are we really supposed to consider the reality that we could be invaded by aliens? | |
| Or is it more likely that the communist Chinese are trying to penetrate all of our defense systems, accumulate as much data and information and intel as as possible, and Biden pretty much for the most part is not doing a single thing to stop it, although now he's finally gotten into the habit of shooting it down after the amount of criticism he got when he didn't shoot it down the f shoot down the first one in the appropriate period of time. | |
| Um anyway, New York Times article on Sunday contained this paragraph. | |
| The incursions seem to become so common that Biden administration officials have found themselves issuing private assurances that there's no evidence that they involve extraterrestrial activity, but officials also acknowledge privately that the longer they're unable to provide a public explanation for the province of the objects, the more speculation grows. | |
| Anyway, so the Air Force General Ed Norrad said he's they have not ruled out the possibility that objects have been spotted and shot down are extraterrestrial in our origin. | |
| So when you hear that, Linda, what do you think? | |
| Because I'm thinking, uh oh, are you telling us that you know something that we don't know? | |
| So I I don't think they're ever telling us that they know something we don't know. | |
| I don't think they know what day it is. | |
| Um I do think that there's something really strange going on, but I do believe there's a little bit of look over here. | |
| Don't look over there, because what's happening in other parts of the country to me and our country are much more important than any of this crap. | |
| This is my humble opinion. | |
| Um, by the way, later remind me to tell everybody about so I I've had this cold bronchitis thing going on now for a week and a half, and it's been nothing but a pain in my neck. | |
| And my doctor sent me to an ear, nose, and throat guy on Friday. | |
| It's the coolest thing. | |
| They actually, and it doesn't hurt at all. | |
| They take this scope, they put it in your nose, down your throat, into your vocal cords, and then you make certain sounds and they videotape it. | |
| And thank God, you know, I've no polyps, no nodules, nothing to worry about. | |
| Um the bottom line is it's sort of like I got a convergence of a flu slash cold. | |
| No, it's not COVID, because I've had eight COVID tests in the last week. | |
| I have one more swab shoved up my nose. | |
| I'm gonna lose my mind. | |
| I can't stand it. | |
| Um, but uh every everything was clean. | |
| But the big I'll tell you later the whole story, but the biggest shock of the doctor, you want to know what it was, Linda? | |
| Well, was it? | |
| He goes, How long have you worked in radio? | |
| I said, Well, I started in 1987. | |
| My first professional gig was 1990. | |
| I goes, really? | |
| And how long you been on Fox? | |
| I've seen you at TV show. | |
| And this guy does all like the top opera singers, you know, in New York and around the around the world, actually. | |
| And some of the every pop star you'd ever want to know. | |
| I mean, this guy's a who's who of ear, nose, and throat doctors. | |
| So my doctor sends me to this guy, and he goes, And you've never ever had your vocal cords looked at? | |
| And I said, No. | |
| And he goes, Why not? | |
| I said, 'cause I'm stunat. | |
| I said, because I don't really want to get bad news. | |
| And the night before, you know, Dr. Google is the don't ever go to Dr. Google the day before you're about to have an exam. | |
| Now it turned out perfectly. | |
| He said, now yours is you're probably gonna have what is what a lot of people are now showing is a long drawn out bronchial infection post-nasal drip thingy, um, because he's seeing this, you know, lasting longer than he said he's ever seen in his professional life. | |
| And so he said there's nothing to worry about. | |
| And he gave me this stuff to can you believe he gave me something to gargle and swallow. | |
| Oh that's actually pretty foul. | |
| Yeah, it's actually it's not horrible. | |
| Medical stuff doesn't bother me. | |
| Like the guy goes, All right, you're gonna be okay when I put this up your nose and down your throat. | |
| I said, Yeah, go ahead. | |
| Not a big deal. | |
| And you didn't you didn't have to take deep breath or anything? | |
| You were fine. | |
| You're just like, yeah, no, what whatever. | |
| I just I just breathe through my mouth. | |
| He was saying breathe through your nose, And I just breathe through my mouth and did what I wanted. | |
| Did they show you the video as they were doing it? | |
| Like we're able to watch? | |
| No, I was able to watch it back later, and we went over it because you're making sounds. | |
| By the way, what is it's like an instrument. | |
| It's an amazing thing. | |
| You have vocal cords, and you go, oh, or you know, whatever the sound is you make, and you see the vibration that creates the sound. | |
| I mean, it's something we all take for granted, our ability to speak. | |
| But anyway, it's just a bronchial congestion, cold off cold off a fever is what it was. | |
| I've had a a flu first, then I had the cold second, and then the congestion and the bronchial issues third. | |
| Well, we're glad you're okay. | |
| That's good news. | |
| Well, it sounds the liberals aren't, but that's okay. | |
| Yeah, they would. | |
| Annity's out. | |
| He's done. | |
| No, no voice. | |
| Oh, what to think the thought of it. | |
| Uh he said you can go on the air, no problem. | |
| There's no damage risk at all whatsoever. | |
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| What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi. | |
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| Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies. | |
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| Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm. | |
| And I'm Carol Markowitz. | |
| We've been in political media for a long time. | |
| Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane. | |
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| What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi. | |
| Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why? | |
| Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies. | |
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| Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy? | |
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| So you gotta ask yourself a question. | |
| With all of these, you know, the all the shooting down that is going on with these unidentified flying objects. | |
| Lawmakers rightly are mad as hell that the most transparent administration is not telling them anything. | |
| Mike Turner even saying we're learning uh a Biden briefing is through our television set. | |
| And the U.S. is now on heightened alert, increasing scrutiny of airspace. | |
| Remember, General Kellogg admitted they were it it took civilian um uh observation to first identify you know this first balloon that was flying. | |
| They they did not know that it was flying over U.S. airspace until an American spotted it. | |
| You know, then the balloon flies over Alaska Airspace, down the west coast of Canada, into Idaho, into Montana, over on missile silos, you know, down to Kansas and Missouri and and up to Kentucky and out through the Carolinas. | |
| And now we have a NORAD commander, doesn't it rule out it could be an unidentified alien spaceship of of some kind? | |
| You know, where's the accountability? | |
| Where is the knowledge? | |
| Is our airspace, our air defenses that weak that we can't spot balloons ahead of time, and that we don't even know what it is that we're shooting down, and we don't know where they came from. | |
| I mean, these unidentified objects that the U.S. shot down over Canada and Alaska. | |
| You know, we've got four instances now where this happened. | |
| You have Chinese satellite beaming green lasers over Hawaii, according to astronomers. | |
| You know, NORAD commander doesn't rule out aliens. | |
| All right. | |
| Are you acknowledging that that there might be life on other planets, you know, that are visiting our our beautiful world here? | |
| Then you have this idiot Chuck Schumer claiming, well, letting the first balloon travel across the country was a good thing. | |
| He said, We got enormous intelligence information from surveilling the Chinese spy balloon as it went over the U.S. Then he got the question that the did the didn't uh the Chinese get enormous intelligence as well. | |
| Well, they they could have been getting it anyway. | |
| I mean, is he really that stupid? | |
| What is going on up here? | |
| What is actually happening here? | |
| We're gonna check in later with uh Congressman uh Danes of the great state of Montana and ask him, I'm a senator uh Steve Danes and find out what the hell this is about. | |
| But this is insanity. | |
| You know, we should have the most sophisticated ability to know what is flying over American airspace. | |
| We should have the ability to see anything on its way to American airspace. | |
| The fact that it's going undetected is should scare the hell out of everybody. | |
| And the fact that they've learned to shoot it down faster, that's only because of all the criticism they rightly received information download. | |
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| By the way, uh, is this a coincidence in light of you know this this Chinese balloon attack against the United States that we now have U.S. customs and border protection now is apprehended over 800 uh percent more illegal immigrants from China at our southern border? | |
| We already know that the majority of fentanyl is produced in China that comes across the southern border. | |
| Uh why? | |
| I mean, there's a lot of questions and are not getting answered here. | |
| Why are we allowing the communist Chinese to buy American farmland and American ranch land and land near American military institutions? | |
| Why are we allowing that to happen? | |
| Why are we allowing them to get away with what the these balloons that they are are clearly purposely flying over the U.S.? | |
| I'll give you Biden's response to this in a second. | |
| We now have four U.S. four instances where U.S. jets now have had to down four objects in eight days. | |
| This is after the first incident where Joe Biden did nothing and allowed, you know, this big beautiful balloon to fly over Alaska Airspace, Canadian Airspace, Idaho Airspace, all across, you know, the middle of the country, right over our Cybiam silo um ICBM missile sites in Montana, and we'll check in with Senator Steve Daynes on this, uh, you know, down through Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, you know, before we finally shoot it down off the coast of the Carolinas. | |
| You got to be kidding me. | |
| And then this is what really scares me, beyond the NORAD guy saying that this could be, you know, some type of extra cr extraterrestrial whatever. | |
| Biden said it was a wise decision to wait to shoot down the Chinese surveillance balloon over water. | |
| I said I wanted it shot down as soon as possible. | |
| Well, then why are you shooting it down over land now, but you didn't the first time. | |
| Because I believe the first time you lied when you said you were waiting for it to get over water. | |
| And the criticism was such that if you let it happen again, you would have, you know, been making a political calculation that would have infuriated the American people, rightly so. | |
| Senator Tim Kane of Virginia actually had a great comment. | |
| He said the most disturbing news this week is China didn't pick up the phone when our defense secretary, Austin, called the communist Chinese. | |
| You know, China, by the way, internally, they're mocking Biden for knocking down balloons with fighter jets. | |
| Quote, they're calling it hysterical. | |
| They're laughing, and they say it's juvenile on the U.S. part. | |
| China's scrambling jets to shoot down, quote, unidentified objects in their airspace. | |
| Uh, I bet every dollar I had that they launched them themselves, and they're saying, see, the U.S. is doing the same thing for propaganda purposes. | |
| Um, one really weird article I read is you know, the pilots that shot down the object over Alaska say it interfered with their sensors. | |
| I don't know how to interpret that. | |
| You have a Congressman Stewart to say an officials don't know if the balloon got sensitive information despite their claims that it didn't. | |
| I made that point last week because they kept saying, oh no, they didn't get it. | |
| We were able to block any ability of them to spy on us. | |
| I don't believe you. | |
| Because we don't have any clue what technology was in the the three bus size balloon that was, you know, hovering over pretty much the entire country. | |
| Anyway, they're saying, you know, the Epic Times reported that the spy balloon carried technology to monitor uh communication signals. | |
| I mean, what are the Chinese up to here? | |
| Clearly, they don't have a fear at all of what America's response is going to be. | |
| That that should be transparent to everybody. | |
| Um, if you look at the BBC, they had an update. | |
| They say a high altitude object shot down over Alaska. | |
| This is the Alaska shoot down this weekend. | |
| Um John Kirby said the object was the size of a small car over a sparsely populated area at the time. | |
| But wait a minute. | |
| That's the opposite of what the excuse was when they didn't shoot down the first balloon. | |
| New York Times put out an update on the Alaska balloon. | |
| The Pentagon downed unidentified object over Alaska. | |
| Anyway, Kirby is saying they confirmed the shoot down. | |
| U.S. officials said it was not confirmed if it was a balloon, but it was traveling at an altitude that made it a potential threat to civilian aircraft. | |
| Well, the initial balloon was about 60, 65,000 feet in the air, so not really sure. | |
| Montana and Alaska senators are blasting Biden for delaying the spy balloon shoot down. | |
| And by the way, who cannot who can blame him? | |
| We'll check in with Senator Danes in a minute. | |
| But Biden's excuses for allowing the China spy balloon to complete its mission. | |
| You got you gotta love the mob in the media. | |
| They sit there and soak up, you know, the excuse making and the idiotic moronic excuses the Biden administration is is handing off to them as to why they didn't shoot down the balloon until it sells across the entire country, gathering up reams of top secret intelligence. | |
| You know, God only knows what. | |
| Anyway, Steve Daines and and John Tester are furious with the Biden administration. | |
| They said they couldn't shoot it down over Are you kidding me? | |
| There's plenty of I the square foot for you know population in Montana is not particularly high. | |
| Um Biden says China's spy balloon surveillance of U.S. facilities is not a major breach. | |
| Is this what is wrong with this president? | |
| And this is why we need to know how much money the Biden family has gone into deals with the communist Chinese. | |
| The reports are a one billion becoming a 1.5 billion dollar deal with the Bank of China. | |
| The reports are a five million dollar interest-free forgivable loan. | |
| The reports are 100,000 shopping spree for Hunter Biden, his family and and maybe others. | |
| How much money is how much money in deals did the Biden family do with Russia and Ukraine and Kazakhstan and every other country out there? | |
| Because for Joe Biden as the president to say that this was not a major breach, what do you consider a major breach? | |
| You have our number one geopolitical foe is gathering intelligence above the continental U.S. and you're not doing a thing. | |
| Now, Taiwan has been reporting dozens of these Chinese spy balloon incursions in recent years. | |
| Nobody seemed to pay attention to what was happening to them. | |
| Marco Rubio, by the way, rightly leading a bipartisan push to ban TikTok because apparently that's that's now been described by many tech experts as a com uh communist Chinese communist spying operation. | |
| The U.S. Seventh Fleet is now conducting military exercises in the South China Sea. | |
| Don't take more out of that than they want you to take. | |
| Acting like they're being they're not doing anything except what they normally do. | |
| Anyway, Ford is teaming up with China in an electronic vehicle battery push, another U.S. corporation collaborating with the communist Chinese to push America towards green energy. | |
| Um not exactly sure why they would want to do that. | |
| When you I thought the goal was for America to be dependent on production inside of the U.S., especially when it comes to the chips that we were in so desperate need of the last three years, and why is border patrol apprehensions of the Chinese nationals at the southern border up 800%? | |
| That's a lot of percentage points up. | |
| I mean, all these questions, no answers. | |
| It's pretty disturbing. | |
| Um other thing on the national security front that I think is important here, and that is nobody's really paying attention to Russia Right now because Americans, the U.S. State Department today ordered all U.S. citizens in Russia to leave immediately. | |
| They're claiming because the war is ramping up with Ukraine and concerns over arbitrary detentions are mounting, and U.S. citizens residing or traveling in Russia should depart immediately, according to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. | |
| Exercise increased caution due to the risk of raw wrongful detentions. | |
| Do not travel to Russia. | |
| Okay. | |
| Is there something about Russia that you're probably not telling us telling us about? | |
| Um because that would be something that we need to know. | |
| We have watched a major ratcheting up of military hardware and troops on the Ukrainian border and inside of Ukraine. | |
| 500,000 new soldiers, 1,800 more tanks, uh, 4,000 more armored vehicles, 2,700 more, you know, tons of of artillery and rocket launchers and fighter jets and helicopters. | |
| But Joe Biden is preventing Western Europe from even providing a fighter jet so the Ukrainians could defend themselves, which means in the end that they're going to end up losing. | |
| Because that's where it's headed. | |
| Um other thing that I want to bring to your attention here. | |
| Um I had never heard of East Palestine in Ohio. | |
| I guess it's around I'm not really sure. | |
| It's in the northeast part of Ohio, is it, Linda? | |
| Yeah, it's actually right next to Pennsylvania. | |
| Okay, so it's near Pennsylvania. | |
| So you have this train derailment, and all these chemicals now have been released into the air. | |
| And I'm looking at the Epic Times that says animals falling sick dying near hellish Ohio train derailment site. | |
| We basically nuked a town with chemicals. | |
| That's from the Epic Times. | |
| You have Greg Price putting out there that Buddha judge made no mention of the Ohio train derailment. | |
| I thought he was the head of the Department of Transportation. | |
| You got Ohio train derailment releasing all these toxic chemicals. | |
| I'm seeing all of these pictures of dead fish and dead animals. | |
| I'll read from one article, the New York Post pointing out animals are falling sick and dying near the site of this hellish Ohio train derailment last Friday that released apparently toxic chemicals into the air. | |
| Um one dairy farm just outside the evacuation zone uh said several foxes that he keeps on the property. | |
| They've become all of them have become mortally ill. | |
| Out of nowhere, they they just started coughing real hard, shut down, and other animals are dying. | |
| It is prompted now water utility to take precautions, you think. | |
| Residents are water wondering whether it's safe to even return after the toxic train derailment. | |
| They find all I mean, the chemicals that they found are really seriously dangerous. | |
| I can't even pronounce all their names, but you know, one that can cause serious or permanent injury, uh others with serious side effects, one considered uh a car a carcinogen in California, negative impact in experiments with other animals. | |
| The derailment has caused fire forces, village evacuation. | |
| You got a train derailed near Ohio. | |
| I mean, it's just bad all the way across the board. | |
| Um what's your government going to do about it? | |
| By the way, you know what else, Linda, if you thought about this, we should get Joe Bastardi. | |
| How far can these chemicals travel if it's you know it's at the western tip of Pennsylvania that's headed right into where you live? | |
| It's 40 miles away from Pittsburgh. | |
| It's right by Youngstown. | |
| It's in this, you know, little town in Ohio. | |
| The problem is is that it's in the air. | |
| So once this, you know, I've been reading about this all day because I'm obsessed with it. | |
| But I think the bigger problem is is that whenever the person at fault, you know, the the the railroad company, and then we're looking at the EPM, we're looking at our government, and they're all saying everything is fine. | |
| Once you hear everything is fine, you know that it is so much worse and horrible than fine. | |
| You can't even wrap your head around it. | |
| So we've got vinyl chloride, which literally turns to boiling gas within eight seconds, and goes into the air, becomes high hydr hydroxychloric acid, which can float for hundreds of miles. | |
| So this is gonna be all over the northeast. | |
| This is a really scary thing. | |
| And what's what is what did you know Corinne Jean-Pierre say about it today? | |
| Oh, absolutely nothing. | |
| I have to said I have to run into the White House, I'll see you later. | |
| She was I'll refer you, I'll refer you. | |
| She's gonna refer us to somebody for sure. | |
| By the way, we got an update on China and their military planes and warships have now entered the Taiwan Strait. | |
| Two dozen Chinese military planes, warships detected in the Taiwan Strait, and 11 of Beijing's aircraft cross the median line. | |
| You know what I'm telling you what's happening here? | |
| Is neither China nor Russia nor any of these countries, North Korea that's been, you know, little rocket man's back firing all his rockets, the Iranian mullahs, all of the world's worst actors have no fear of Joe Biden and his ability to fight back or make a decision. | |
| So they feel empowered, they feel emboldened, and it would not shock me if the balloon trial was a test of Biden in a lead up to maybe their quote reunification with Taiwan, which I'm pretty certain is coming, if not sooner, at some point later, because it's saying that it's going to happen. | |
| And it will happen when Biden is president. | |
| Trust me. | |
| They're not going to wait for a conservative or a Republican that would be in office that would have a much more fierce response. | |
| Um, also, this breaking with the Epic Times, the U.S. military shooting down the shooting down of the lake um Huron balloon or object, whatever it happens to be. | |
| Um, anyway, so they're saying one lawmaker from Michigan revealed it was an octagonal structure. | |
| I've been in contact with the DOD across the Great Lakes region. | |
| Congressman Jack Bergman wrote on Twitter just as this show got started about 20 minutes ago. | |
| And anyway, he said, I appreciate the decisive action of our fighter pilots. | |
| The thing is, where did it come from? | |
| And how could anyone get any confidence when NORAD is actually claiming that it potentially could be um an extraterrestrial? | |
| I'm sure every American's happy to hear that. | |
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