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Governor Mike Huckaby - March 20th, Hour 2
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Joe Concha in for Sean Hannity on this lovely Monday as we are approaching spring.
Is today the first day of spring or is it tomorrow?
Probably it's always the 21st, right?
Jeez, I'm going to Disney next week.
That'll be a thrill.
You have no idea, people, by the way, how much Disney goes for these days.
I mean, when you see me bartending at the Regal Beagle on weekends, all right, this'll be the reason why.
As the uh one of the younger folks uh who works on the Sean Hannity show is looking at me.
What's the Regal Beagle?
It's a it's from the show three's company, all right?
It was the bar that they uh Jack and Chrissy and Janet went to.
Anyway, the point is, I mean, kids are so expensive.
We're gonna bring in Mike Huckabee for a second, but I want to get his reaction to this little screen I'm about to go on.
So I got a seven-year-old and a nine-year-old.
My nine-year-old particularly is a soccer star.
Her team, all right.
Now, again, nine years old is ranked 10th in the country.
How they rank in the country, like who who does this, I'm not quite sure, but they're they're basically unbeatable.
And she's one of the top scorers on that team.
Uh so what's happening is that we can't seem to find too many teams around our area to play because they dominate them so much.
So now, uh, you know, I get a couple of emails over the last couple of weeks that we're going to play another team in San Diego.
I gotta fly 3,000 miles, and God knows what this thing's gonna cost me to do a five-day tournament in San Diego.
So there goes the Jersey Short Trip, I guess, over the summer, because the money's gonna come from somewhere.
And then just got one in during the commercial break that May 27th, 28th, and 29th, that is Memorial Day weekend.
We're going to somewhere in the middle of Pennsylvania for not a one, not a two, a three-day tournament over a holiday weekend.
Ah, I'll be staying at Hampton Inn.
Look, I'm I'm a pretty down-to-earth guy, but I need at least a Hilton.
Give me something to work with here.
Rooftop deck, mini bar, none of this will probably be part of my weekend.
It's insane.
And now there's even talk going back and forth on our little little team chat thing that uh the the uh team manager says, Oh, we may be playing in England next year.
I said, Oh, New England?
No, old England!
I gotta fly out of the country now to find teams to play.
So again, if anybody knows of any good bartending jobs that I could take on the weekend, that is the only way I'll be able to survive, particularly with inflation where it is right now.
Anyway, let's bring in former presidential candidate, the great governor Mike Huckabee is here.
He hosts Huckabee on TBN Saturdays, 8 p.m. Eastern time, also rears at 11 p.m.
Sunday, 9 p.m. Eastern time.
Governor, talk me down off this ledge, please.
You know, Joe, I'm listening to you and I'm thinking, wow, that sounds like my political life.
Oh.
Nobody wanted to compete with me.
Always ran unopposed.
Uh had anybody that wanted to play me.
Like your daughter.
She runs for governor, you know, first time in.
Uh is she even 40 years old?
She's 40 at this point, right?
So that would make her probably one of the youngest, if not the youngest governor in the country.
And she wins in a landslide.
I mean, it wasn't even close.
Uh, So that's the Huckabee way, I guess.
You're like the uh uh Alabama football of politician families, I guess, right?
Well, it was it was not really true about me.
It is true about her.
She won with like 64% of the vote.
Wow.
Uh she's getting her legislation passed, basically 80 to 20.
Wow.
Uh she's on a roll, and she uh, you know, is just on fire.
I'm really proud of her.
That that was the way my world worked.
But I can tell you this uh a bartender job isn't gonna be enough to cover the expenses you just outlined, flying all over the country and world to follow these tournaments.
Yeah, you're you're you are right, you know, and I I write for the hill.
I'm writing a new book.
I obviously work at Fox with you as a contributor.
Uh so you'd think free jobs would be enough than filling here on it for for Sean.
But yeah, I'm gonna have to go maybe the modeling career I I gotta revive again.
You think you think that could work?
Uh really I don't, Joe.
That's why we bring you on for your candor.
So I I want your candor on what may be happening to the 45th president tomorrow as far as being arrested, fingerprinted, uh an indictment that obviously is a political hit job based on every sane and sober legal analyst that you speak to.
Why are Democrats going down this road when they know this will only be, and I use the analogy before, like Obi-Wan says to Darth Vader, strike me down and I will be stronger than I've ever been.
That's not the exact quote, but they do this.
It's gonna have a boomerang effect that only makes Trump stronger in the end.
Am I wrong on that?
No, you're not wrong.
It'll make him stronger and make him invincible.
Uh I don't understand this.
I mean, other than you've got a very ambitious uh low-level DA in New York who has decided that everyone above him, the feds, the previous DA, the attorney general of New York, all who looked at trying to go after Trump on criminal charges, all of whom walked away from it because they realized that it would have been a fool's errand and made them look like idiots.
This guy doesn't mind looking like an idiot, and he's gonna be one.
And I fully imagine that even a New York judge will ultimately look at this case, throw it out on the street, and this guy will uh look like the doofus that he is.
Here's what I do hope happens.
I hope that Trump supporters will not take the bait of going out to the streets and getting angry and confrontational.
I think the smart play here is for all of us who uh support Donald Trump to simply uh let it play out.
Be vocal, uh, be expressive in saying this is ridiculous and it's unfair, but don't take it to a level of uh some type of street protest, because that's simply going to give uh the opposition an opportunity to come out and try to create some type of violent reaction, and the results of that would be devastating, and take attention away from what ought to be focusing on, and that is just how ridiculous this whole thing is.
You got genuine crimes in New York that need to be investigated and prosecuted, and this guy is going after a former president, and if he should, which I don't think he will, but if he were to succeed, he's created a new rule book, and the Democrats will rue the day when they have established a new game plan which says that if you can't beat people, either legislatively or politically at the ballot box, go after them in criminal prosecution.
And one day, Republicans will be completely in charge and they will say, hmm, you guys wrote the rules, we'll play by them.
And we're talking to former presidential candidate, Governor Mike Huckabee.
And yeah, you're right about not taking the bait.
I mean, I'm looking at CNN right now.
We have several screens in the studio, and uh, of course, the headline isn't any sort of headline that has to deal with how ridiculous this particular political hit job is.
But uh the Chiron instead, that's the headline at the bottom of the screen.
New York police step up security ahead of possible Trump indictment.
It's almost as if they want something to happen.
So that becomes the story instead of this.
And uh, something else, by the way, that suddenly isn't being talked about is the fact that Joe Biden and his family, it appears, were given hundreds of thousands of dollars and then over several payments, millions of dollars.
And we're talking about Hunter Biden, Jim Biden, who is the president's brother.
We're talking about Hallie Biden, who's a guidance counselor at a school in in Delaware, and she's getting handed $35,000 for business deals that were done with a Chinese electric company, and we don't even know what the services rendered were, and then there was 80,000 that went to an unknown Biden.
Gee, I wonder who that is.
That is a monster story because you could have now a sitting president who's compromised by the Chinese communist party, and all we're doing is talking about Trump, as far as I can see on all the screens that I'm looking at, and not about the sitting president who they're smoking guns here.
This isn't like remember Trump the the that era, Mike, as far as governor, as far as uh unnamed sources close to the president, anonymous sources, close to the president.
You know, it was always based on he said she said hearsaying rumor, we have actual bank records here, emails that have been confirmed, and no one cares to talk about this story because they're all focused on Trump.
If journalism was still alive in this country, there would be reporters who would be elbowing each other to try to get to those records and and get to the story.
They know that there's a Pulitzer Prize out there somewhere for this.
Yeah.
But they're so intent on protecting uh Joe Biden and keeping the public from really understanding what this guy's been up to and his family.
Uh they're just going to go ahead and pretend nothing to see here, let's move along.
But I think the real story is not about Hunter.
I mean, Hunter is is simply the bagman.
The real story is Joe Biden continuing to say, as he did in the debate with Donald Trump, I don't know anything about my son's business dealings.
I know nothing about it whatsoever.
Well, that's an outright lie.
And we know it's a lie.
Repeatedly a lie.
And when he says to reporters on the South Long trying to get on the helicopter, and he says to them, uh, no, that's not true.
Well, Joe, it is true.
And as you said, Joe, he's we we we now have the bank records.
This is not something that uh has been reported by Breitbart.
Uh, you know, and I love Breitbart, but then people would just dismiss it and say, well, it's a right leaning news source.
No, this is the these are the bank records themselves, and somebody ought to start paying attention to it.
Precisely.
I'm looking at a promo right now, CNN.
Uh, they're going with this in prime time tomorrow night inside the Trump investigations.
How about investigating the sitting president, CNN?
You're supposed to be the most trusted name in news.
Maybe speak truth to power with the guy who's currently in the Oval Office.
Anyway, we're talking to Governor Mike Huckabee.
What do you think about this meeting today, Governor, as far as President Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin meeting in Moscow?
This looks like an axis of evil on steroids.
I mean, you you have Russia and China joining forces along with Iran and North Korea, and this is all because obviously of of what uh is happening in Ukraine as far as this insidious invasion by Russia into Ukraine is the problem now that no one is talking about any sort of solution.
We're just throwing money at the problem, and what's happening, obviously, as we're seeing, particularly in the East in Ukraine.
This is a stalemate, right?
You have Russian soldiers dying by the thousands.
Vladimir Putin doesn't care because there are no Vietnam protests back at home in Moscow, because they'd all be squashed if if that did happen, so there's no real public pressure on him.
So he'll just keep throwing bodies at the problem.
Ukraine will continue to defend its territory, but not push Russia out per se.
We could be I could be interviewing you five years from now, and we'll be talking about the stalemate in Ukraine, and no one seems to be talking about any sort of solution.
It's just dig in and just keep throwing money at the problem.
Joe, I think the biggest danger we face right now is a complete realignment of world partners.
Uh when Trump was in office, we saw historic uh solutions being given in the Middle East with the Abraham Accords.
It was incredible.
Now, most of the mainstream media ignored it because they just could not give Donald Trump and his team credit for what was an extraordinary breakthrough.
Yeah.
But what we see now is the realignment.
You've got Iran and Saudi Arabia talking.
They're sworn enemies because they're Sunni versus Shia uh uh Muslims.
Right.
And they've been uh anything but allies, but they're trying to find a way.
Now you've got Russia and China.
These are realignments that bring serious danger to the world order.
And the reason they're happening is because Joe Biden has signaled that the United States has decided it's gonna be weak.
Afghanistan was the first big clue, the pull out that was so disastrous, and our response, feckless, really uncertain.
Uh There's really not a strategy.
It's give it all, no, don't give it.
Maybe we will, maybe we won't.
Uh, what that's showing is that uh countries are saying we can't trust the U.S. anymore.
Now you can say anything you want to about Donald Trump, but he went and looked eyeball to eyeball to European leaders and said, You guys are a bunch of deadbeats.
Start paying up your NATO dues.
Everybody thought Trump was going to kill NATO.
Truth is he saved it.
But what we're seeing now is a very dangerous realignment.
And the result is an unstable world, and everyone is at risk.
And we're talking to Governor Mike Huckabee, and that that is 100% correct, uh, particularly Russia and China.
Uh that that was something I don't think our leaders saw coming because they thought maybe Russia could bankrupt itself, right?
Because it doesn't have the greatest economy in the world and our sanctions were gonna really have a uh profound impact.
But if China is backing Russia in this fight, then it's it's it's it's even and again, I just don't see anything changing uh anytime soon in Ukraine.
Uh Governor, before we let you go, I'm curious when when you're when when Sarah uh Sanders gave the um rebuttal to the State of the Union, she talked about a new generation of Republicans leading the party.
Was she speaking more about governors like herself who's 40 years old or a Ron DeSantis, who's I believe is 44, 45 years old, uh a Kemp in in Georgia, uh Tim Scott.
Is that what she was talking about?
That maybe it's time for those folks to step up and be the new face of the Republican Party.
And was it directed at Donald Trump in any way, you think, or you think that's just something that uh I'm reading into too much?
Uh I would say you're reading into to any reference to Donald Trump.
She loves President Trump.
She wouldn't be where she is had he not given her the kind of opportunities that he did.
Sure.
Certainly no slam against him.
She is very loyal and committed.
I had her on my show recently.
She spoke in loving terms.
So that's not it.
I think she's talking about that the real policy changes in this country are going to happen from more the bottom-up rather than the top down.
And Washington is so dysfunctional and in such gridlock that we're not going to see a lot of real significant policy changes.
But what you are seeing at the state level, and she's proving it here in Arkansas, is that you can make big differences in education, health care, transportation, and really turn the corner.
Uh that can be done, and that's the new generation of leadership she's talking about.
That's why I'm glad I had you on.
I got my clarification.
We're all good to go.
Governor, thank you so much.
We'll see you on Fox soon, and congratulations on everything.
You're having a good nice little run lately in the Sanders household, so great job.
Thank you very much.
And for that bartending job, I hope big, big tip so you can afford to go to California.
That's right.
Thank you.
Tip your waitresses, your waiters, your bartenders.
That is that is my mantra.
Anyway, Joe Concha in for Sean Hannity, back with more in just a moment, including the great Jimmy Phaelow of Fox News.
What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
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We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started normally a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
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When 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.
It's almost a dirty word.
One that connotes conspiracy theory.
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Nayfock from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yeah, that's right.
Locker up.
Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
I'm Ben Ferguson.
And I'm Ted Cruz.
Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
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David Bowie.
That song was released April 14, 1983.
Do the math on that one.
Also, 40 years old.
Congratulations, everybody.
I want to take a quick call before we get to Jimmy Phail of Frank in Georgia, because I promised him before the break that we would go to him, and I uh simply ran out of time.
So Frankie, what do you got?
Hey, sir.
I just wanted to comment and hope that everybody that's in New York with the Trump indictment tonight or tomorrow remain totally calm.
Okay.
Yeah.
We can't we cannot afford another January 6.
And I'm afraid that there will be hired instigators that are sent up there to infiltrate Trump supporters to try to make this thing riotous.
That's what that's what this is all about.
They want it to be a riot so they can just put more pressure on what's going on.
And they can say, see, the same thing happened that, you know, just like this happened January 6th, you know.
So I I just hope everybody can remain calm, and if any instigators show up, then I hope nobody, you know, tries to follow them to the you know, the trouble areas.
So you're right, Frank, and thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
And Frank's exactly right, by the way.
Cooler heads need to prevail here, and there will be instigators that are probably going to be sent into these crowds.
What do you think Antifa exists for?
So for moments like these, right?
And remember those those wonderful folks over at the Lincoln Project, principal conservatives.
And they sent some folks to a Glenn Youncan rally.
This is Before Yuncan won the governorship in Virginia, state that Joe Biden won by double digits, and they sent some guys to dress up as white supremacists to to uh go to one of his speeches to make it look like that that that's who he had the support of.
So, yeah, there are a lot of bad actors out there who have a vested interest in trying to create some sort of unrest of a riot, so CNN can play it on a loop for the next six months uh on their network instead of investigating the current president and Joe Biden who has some serious, serious issues as far as these bank records that James Comer has unveiled as far as millions of dollars being paid to not just Hunter Biden, but to James Biden, the president's brother, to Halle Biden, a high school guidance counselor in Delaware.
What's she getting tens of thousands of dollars for from a Chinese electric company?
What exactly is on the old LinkedIn page?
What's on the resume that says that any services that Hunter Biden or his associates could provide to a Chinese energy company outside of I don't know, influence peddling of their father, who was vice president at the time.
And oh, by the way, there's also in this latest payment, which was about a million dollars, $80,000 to an unknown Biden.
We don't know which one.
Are there any more left besides I don't know, maybe Joe?
And again, that's what news organizations should be focused on right now, the current president instead.
It's I I've I've I have several screens in here as I've talked about in the studio, and one unfortunately is on CNN, and for the first 37 minutes of this hour, that's all they've talked about is Trump and nothing on Biden, nothing on the border.
You see the numbers that came out today, I'm happy to repeat them.
182 people now have been apprehended at the U.S. Southern border, encountered, and they are all on the FBI terror watch list.
Wow.
Wow.
So if we have a major attack and it turns out that it came through the border, I don't want to hear one peep of like, oh, how did we not see this coming?
I you see it coming right now.
And our stupid media won't talk about it.
Anyway, Jimmy Fella, I'm I'm gonna have mood right now.
Maybe it's the Red Bull, maybe it's the Pixie Sticks.
I'm not quite sure.
Maybe it's because I have to go to a dinner tonight, and I never go out on Mondays.
It's a charity thing, and what are you gonna do?
You know how it is, man.
I love how so Jimmy Phael in the house.
I love how you pawned this off on everything but your NCAA bracket.
Can I tell you?
It's destroyed.
I got no final four teams left.
I mean, who does, by the way?
Who's picking Farrell Dickinson where my dad went to school?
Or Princeton, where my son will go to school?
No!
I mean, it's just anarchy.
How about you?
Uh by the way, this is Jimmy Phael.
He's the host of Fox Across America with Jimmy Phael on Fox News Radio.
And Fox Nation weekdays 12 to 3 and a ubiquitous presence, much like me on the Fox News Network.
All right, there's the introduction.
How's your bracket going?
There it is.
Well, my no, my bracket is we we rolled it up and smoked a cigarillo out of it.
Who did you have winning?
We bought some tobacco Friday morning, and it's uh it's all over.
You know what?
I should have known when I picked friggin' Arizona to win this, and they got knocked out in the first round.
Uh when I picked them, uh, you know, I should have looked to see.
I wonder who Joe Biden picked to win it all.
Arizona.
I would have done the opposite there.
But of course I didn't do my homework, and that was the end of that.
But uh, yeah, it it it is it's more disastrous this year, it feels like the NCAA tournament than than usual, but we could talk about that all day.
What I want to talk about is this impending Trump arrest that the president, the the ex-president said will be happening.
What's your take on all this?
Because you always look at things from a unique angle that not many people else do for whatever reason.
Well, first and for foremost, I would echo the sentiments of your previous caller who said obviously you can't riot.
And the only thing I would add to that though is if somebody showed up and destroyed the city tomorrow, how would we even know the difference?
That's a great point.
It's like, and TV is gonna show up and be like, damn, somebody beat us to it.
Uh yeah, you know, I mean, I've you've lived in New York for a very long time.
You used to be uh a cab driver here, obviously.
I mean, it really is for for those because this is across like six hundred and twenty-five stations across the country.
So people know it really is a different city now, isn't it, Jimmy?
Yeah, no.
My family, just to give people an understanding who live around the country.
My family, uh, you know, my wife's family's from Ohio.
They're from Wapacanetta, Ohio.
Home and Neil Armstrong.
First man to Walking.
Oh, well.
Yeah, you go.
And uh my family from WAPOC was going to come visit New York this summer, but they decided to go someplace safer like Kiev over in New York.
You know, Kiev in the summer, you get some sunsets there that are unmatched.
Is it Kiev or Kyiv, by the way.
It is so bad.
I I burnt this yesterday.
I was hosting the big Sunday show.
Yes.
I said, like New York really does right now look like uh Gotham City before Batman comes, except Batman's not coming because he's not vaccinated.
That's true.
The bat is anti-vaxxed.
And why not?
And the funny thing is, like, if you listen to Dr. Anthony Fauci, it very easily could have come from a bat, right?
So that's kind of ironic on some level.
He doesn't want to get back.
Second of all, he was blamed for the pandemic.
Good luck getting Batman.
You better like you better call Shazam or somebody else.
Yeah, I saw the show yesterday, and boy, what what a cast.
You know?
I mean, with any time you're on set with with unleashed Julie Banderas, right?
Now single Julian Banderas, uh, Sparks will fly, no question.
So it's a great show if for people who don't watch.
It's on Saturdays and Sundays at five o'clock Eastern on the Fox News channel.
And it's like the five, but with four, and it's just great conversation.
And uh it's it's I'm I'm happy to be part of the rotation.
You are obviously as well.
You were very well dressed, by the way, yesterday.
Uh not as eclectic as usual.
You know what I do, Contra, during the day.
So this is the rule between me and the wardrobe department.
Yes.
But between the hours of, say, you and I doing Fox and Friends, any any window of TV between four a.m. and eight PM, I am dressed like a guy who's on his way to court hoping to win over a jury.
You know, shirt tie, clean shaven, clean cut.
Your honor, my client would never punch somebody in the face on the Long Island Railroad after a rain game.
You know what I mean?
I don't know, I don't know what's going on here.
So I'm trying to like sway a jury with my appearance.
After eight, I dip into my overweight figure skater collection.
Start wearing the sequins and the cowboy shirts and everything in between.
So there is a method to the madness contract.
But what's funny is people who only watch me in prime time, where obviously I could be seen every night.
Hey girl, I'm just being silly.
But people who only watch me in prime time who don't see me during the day, when they finally do, I get like a freaked out reaction.
It's like Bob Dylan went electric.
They're like, What do you mean, dude?
I thought you were like a you know, an acoustic folk guy.
People get upset when they see me in normal clothes, but I wear them on TV like three times a day.
But most people all, you know, know you from the prime time and that's what it is.
Yeah.
You're you're except Rogan when he wears a suit.
You're like, that's there's something just off about that for whatever reason.
But anyway, we're we're talking to Jimmy Phaela.
Uh what comedy shows do we have coming up around the the the country that we should know about, Jimmy?
Okay, so really quick.
If you are, if you are out in Boise, Idaho, I'm gonna be in Bend, Oregon, Friday night, April the 7th.
Bend in and that is yeah, Bend, Oregon.
That's the Tower Theater.
It's gonna be a banger, Bend, Oregon, not far from where they filmed Animal House.
In fact, the Dexter Lake Club's still in business.
That's where Otis Day and the Nights.
Otis, my man?
Yeah, Otis loves us.
Wait till he sees us.
Absolutely.
I'm going to go out there and see if someone asks if I mind if they dance with my dates.
That is tremendous.
So how do you get I mean, when you go across the country now, are the crowds bigger as a result of your presence on Fox?
Because you're on, you know, Gutfeld, I I think even guest hosted recently, uh and obviously the shows that we just described.
Did you is business better as a result of being on the network so much?
I am living in a drinking story.
Last week I was in Seattle where the Symphony Orchestra plays and we sold it out.
The next night I was in the Crest Theater in Sacramento, we sold it out.
Understand, like, because I'm a former New York City cab driver who's done comedy a long time.
Like, I'm used to big shows.
I'm not used to big shows being there to see me.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
So this is all new, Conscious.
This is like in the last year, I'm now selling out everywhere.
Like Boise, Idaho, April 7th sold out.
Um the night before is one legitimately one ticket left to the Tower Theater.
But then I come back to the East Coast.
I'm doing bananas in East Rutherford.
It's Rutherford, yeah.
I know that place.
21st, 22nd.
Um, you know, uh when you get into showbiz and you talk about the hot towns, it's it's LA Vegas.
I think he's Rotherford is obviously a top three for anybody.
Um, but I do.
I like bananas a lot.
Um and then we go on tour.
Uh I'm going on tour with Kennedy.
We're gonna be in Reading, Pennsylvania, May the 6th, then we're gonna be in Clearwater, Florida, May the 20th.
Then we're going to Davenport, Iowa, with all the presidential candidates, June the third.
Wow.
Yeah, Mesa, Arizona, June the 10th.
Then we're at the Lexington Opera House in Kentucky, uh Rand Paul territory.
He's gonna be on my radio show tomorrow, June the twenty-fourth.
Um, and then if wait, if wait, there's more uh July the eighth at the Holland Civic Center.
So it's gonna be we're on the go concert.
We're making moves, and I should shout out Sean, even though he's not on the air.
Every time I see Hannity, uh, and I'm on his show tonight with Judge Jeanine guest hosting.
But every time I see the Sean Hannity, like it's it's almost awkward for him because I can't stop profusely thanking him because when people come up to you at shows, they tell you where they watch you.
Yeah.
I'm saying it's like, yeah, we we got these tickets because we saw you on Hannity.
Like I owe Sean so much money.
He's got enough money.
He's he's now he's opening up several, I think fifteen Cobra Cye gyms in the area.
Okay.
So he's the next John Creese as far as like the whole karate thing is concerned, and then obviously the Radio Show TVs, he's doing okay.
He's doing okay.
Hey, I I'm curious.
As far as comedy is concerned, and we're talking to Jimmy Phael and a host of Fox Across America with Jimmy Fail on Fox News Radio, Fox Nation weekdays, 12 to 3 PM, has political c incorrectness won in comedy, and here's what I mean by this.
You got Dave Chappelle, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, uh, Sebastian Manascalco.
These are guys who don't give uh a damn about what anybody thinks as far as their comedy is concerned.
They didn't go woke, they're not afraid of offending their audiences.
And and those guys are the ones that in the end, at least with Chappelle anyway.
I remember when uh them when woke and and and social media tried to cancel him.
Uh, he's stronger than ever, right?
Joe Rogan is stronger than ever.
So it seems that things have changed.
That that whole uh backlash against comedians simply for making jokes about the wrong people.
Uh that that's lost out now, I think.
I think that now you guys have the wind at your back as far as just saying whatever the hell you want and not caring.
Yeah.
You want to know why that is actually true, because we finally figured out that this was like a tyranny of the minority.
Meaning most people don't get offended at jokes.
They either laugh or don't laugh.
And even the people acting offended, you know, over the course of the last few years weren't necessarily offended so much as they wanted the currency from being offended.
Right.
Hey, I want this person fired.
Hey, I want a promotion at my job.
In the case of Netflix, you know, hey, I want some type of political leverage out of being outraged.
And I think we were just encouraging the worst people amongst us in society.
And now that we finally figured out there wasn't that many of them.
And the people who showed us there weren't that many of them, to be clear.
Chappelle gets a lot of credit.
And I give a lot of credit to DeSantis for taking the fight to Disney to stood his ground and kind of expose the fact that Disney didn't have a leg to stand on.
And I'm not talking about their tax privileges.
I'm talking about the fact that he quickly exposed the flaw in Disney's logic in that all of the parents supported DeSantis.
They don't want little kids reading these dirty books, you know.
And so Disney's bottom line took a hit because the truth is you can't lecture us about inclusion if you're gonna charge 150 bucks to get in.
Right, exactly.
I remember Bernie Sanders recently.
He was talking about the dangers of capitalism.
And then it was something like $200 per ticket to go see him.
I mean, it it it's madness.
Uh, I want you to react to something real quick, by the way, because you brought up the vaccine before, so I thought this would be a good time to play this sound bite.
Let's play Cut Five guys.
This is Dr. Anthony Fauci in some new video that's emerged of him going around a neighborhood in Washington, D.C., uh begging people to get vaccinated.
And let's see if you can find the flaw in his in this argument, Jimmy, uh, as we uh play this clip.
Go, what are we gonna do about the outside of States?
Oh my god.
They're gonna keep the uh uh outbreak smoldering in the country.
It's so crazy.
I mean, they're not doing it because they say they don't want to do it.
They're republicans, they don't like to be told what to do.
Right.
And we gotta break that, you know, unpack that.
So he talks about Jimmy, and we only have about 30 seconds, uh smoldering of COVID going throughout the country because people won't get vaccinated.
But I thought that if you got vaccinated, you could still transmit the virus, right?
Yeah, not only transmitted, but plenty of vaccinated people died in the month of August.
They made up the majority of the COVID deaths.
That's right.
Vaccinated.
Bottom line, you never tell your neighbor to put on a winter coat so you don't get frostbite.
Vaccine work.
You don't care what your neighbor's doing.
So that was the scam.
Fauci is making money on stocks.
I don't doubt it for a second.
Yeah.
And I just timed it, 29 seconds.
Well done, Jimmy.
That is why you are a professional.
And thanks for joining us again.
I know you had to switch around some time, so appreciate it.
I will see you on set probably with Hannity very, very soon.
Thank you, my friend.
He's the best concerts.
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