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A highlight from Ep379: The 5 Fs Podcasters Shouldn't Neglect - Jerry Dugan
"Be consistent with who you're speaking to, what you're posting off. Still show yourself and be a guest on other shows, especially if the show is like yours, because those listeners will also want more and more variety and they'll come to you for that. Most hosts never achieved the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. What's up, podcaster. It's your host, Adam Adams. And today I'm joined with Jerry Dugan from Beyond the Rut. And Jerry's passionate about supporting business leaders, helping them with different things like work -life balance. So one of the questions that I'm going to ask, does work -life balance even exist? Because I'll tell you it's very polarized. On one end, everybody's like, you have to balance, you have to balance. And then I read this other book that said, no, it's not balanced. It's switch tasking. You go here all the way, then you go here all the way. And then there's other people that say you have to be out of balance for a certain amount of time. So I'm really curious just to start there. Jerry Beyond the Rut supports people with a life worth living in faith, family, and career. So a lot of the listeners that you have are probably around my age and your age that are probably struggling with the work -life balance and making sure that they are putting enough to their faith and their family and their career. And I love that. I want to ask, why do you think work -life balance is real? And what have the other people said? Yes, ultimately, I think they're all saying the same thing. Like if you really break down to what, like, even the folks that say there's no such thing as work -life balance, what they're ultimately saying is like, we make life choices based on our priorities. And when I talk about work -life balance, I'm saying the same thing. One of my hope is that when you're on your deathbed, I already know you're not going to say, man, I wish I did one more launch of my program or man, I wish I was at inbox zero more days in my life. You're going to say things more like, I wish I had one more day to spend with my grandkids and my great grandchildren. I would have loved to have been there for my daughter's wedding or for my son's wedding, whatever it is. And in serving in combat and knowing some folks who worked in hospice care, that is the thing that they hear over and over again, that people wish they had more time to be with the people they love and on the flip side, when they have the people they love, they wish they succeeded more in their career. And so it's like, what if you could win in all of that? What if you could take your career as far as you can and not sacrifice your family at the same time? And so you look at what's important to you and how are your current activities impacting those areas of your life? How are you doing with your family life? You know, okay, work's taking a lot out of me. Okay. Is that a permanent thing or is this a temporary thing? If it's temporary, then you talk it over with your partner and you decide from there, like, okay, yeah, this is temporary. What's the deadline? What does success look like? And what's the bailout trigger that says, all right, we're not hitting these measures doesn't look like we will let's scrap that and go another direction. So that to me, that is why I'm a big fan of work -life balance. It's not just strictly. I spend so many hours at work, so many hours at home. It really is. How is getting out early impacting all the things? Am I going to miss my children's big school events? What's that impact if I do? And what's the message I send? Because I'll tell you from personal experience, I was a lot of kids, superheroes, because I would volunteer my kids' school for a day and their dad had to go to work and it's not the same thing against their dad, because why did the dad go to work? Because he wanted to provide for his family. And so the motivation for a good thing for the family was there, but there wasn't that balance to, I also want to communicate to my child that my child is important. I want to communicate to my partner that she's important. And so it's, how do you win at all those things? And how do you find the right company that will support you as a person while also supporting you and your career growth and getting you to perform well to help the company also succeed? It's like, there's a way to find all that. I want to hear a tip or two. And I'm thinking you and I talked a little bit about this before we first press record. You were talking about the checkbox and a lot of us, we got a checklist and we're checking off all the boxes and it's seems like we're checking off all the boxes. It feels like when we look at the checklist, it's pretty much full, but we might not feel fulfilled even at the expense of checking off lots of boxes. So if that's us, we're listening and we're trying to think of what is it that we think we've had success on paper, but we don't really feel it. We don't really feel like we're everywhere we need to do. What's one or two tips for the listener to be able to feel like they're doing the right thing right now? I think the first thing is you got to know who you are and that's the big broad umbrella piece of advice. Know who you are, what is valuable to you? Like, what do you believe in? What do you not believe in? It's if you believe in respecting the dignity of every person, then that is key. If you value time with family, then your calendar should reflect that. If you value being a supportive person for your family, does that go beyond just monetary support? And so knowing your values, I think is very huge. What is your vision, your purpose in life? I have a couple of mottos I live by. One is the Dugan crest motto. So somebody around the 1500s and it's a miracle that the Dugans are still around because apparently these guys called the Saxons came into like Ireland and almost wiped us all out, but like good Irish people, we stuck around. And so that's not important. The important thing is somebody added to the family crest. Oh man, it's by virtue and valor. So for Tute et valore, and it sounds cooler when it's Latin. I hope I said it right. So that's one thing I live by is am I living my life according to my family's crest motto, am I living by virtue? Am I living by valor being courageous to do what's right when even nobody's looking. But then from there, I had a vision that I wanted my children to live a life that was better than mine, but also be set up to be better adults than I was to have better successes than I did to know who they are and to feel comfortable pursuing their own dreams. Like that's in a written vision that I have tucked away on Evernote somewhere. So you got to have something like that. Like, what do you stand for? What is life like for you when you die? And I love talking about these things called the five Fs, your faith, your family, your fitness, your finances, and your own future growth or possibilities. Like looking at your life through those lenses, what does success look like for you? So I guess that's the second one is defining a second, Jerry. I missed an F F that I got faith. I got family. I got finances. I got fitness. And what did I miss? Emily, faith, finances, and fitness, future possibilities, future possibilities, always growing to be better today than you were yesterday. And then what's that future state of yourself you'd like to become. And so being a constant learner is that future possibilities. One reading books that are outside your usual norm, listening to podcasts that are outside your norm, being open to ideas that are not typically in your bucket or wheelhouse either a, to see how your own ideas and beliefs stack up, because sometimes like I myself had gone through life and realized, oh wow, I held onto this belief and I met three people who completely challenged that is my belief wrong or is it just not as strong as I thought it was, is there more context? I needed to add. And, and so sometimes I realized I was completely wrong about something. And other times I realized, oh, I was missing a lot of context here. I believe this, but only in this context, because I also believe this and my belief should not undermine somebody else's right to be who they are. And so it's like, oh yeah, okay. I can wrap my head around that. And I can be a decent person in my community that way. And so that, yeah, the future possibility is that a bit more unpacked, I should have put that in. Have you ever heard of, I think it's Gino Wickman and I hope I'm not wrong. And he wrote like three books. One was like, I'm going to just type in Gino Wickman. This is going to be the easy way. Then I'll sound so smart instead of dumb Gino Wick man. All right. So he wrote three books. Yes. Yes. What the heck is E O S he wrote traction and he wrote what it's not showing me the last one traction, what the heck is EOS and there's another one called rocket fuel. Okay. So these three books are interesting and it kind of is what you're talking about, but in more of a business category. And so I think this is really great to extract it and bring us to the listener in rocket fuel, what the heck is EOS and traction, ultimately what Gino Wickman talks about is your business should have a culture or have values that you all live by. And so it's interesting because when we look at all of the things that we can value, let's just pretend that I don't know the number. I'm just going to say that it's 20 values. There's 20 things that are good. And most people would agree with 18 or 19 of them. So one would be honesty, but at what expense are we going to be rude and honest? Another one might be politeness. Another one might be doing the right thing. Even when it hurts, you kind of mentioned your integrity. Even when people are not looking, am I going to be doing this with my family crest and everything? So the Gino Wickman also talks about like all of these things that we can value. And most of them are important to everyone. Honesty, of course, that sounds right, but not everybody puts that at the top of their value. Maybe they put discretion, maybe they put kindness above it, or maybe they put honesty above kindness and et cetera, et cetera, they might put doing the right thing, even when it hurts as one of the top values. And so in RocketFuel and EOS and Traction, Gino talks about how we need to build our team, our company culture around where all of us agree on these main values. Like we value making money, we value serving the client, we value X, Y, or Z. All of them are good, but which one is in the hierarchy? And so when I'm hearing you, you basically gave me two things. The first one is you got to know who you are. You got to know your culture. You got to know your values. What do you believe in? And you talked about by virtue and valor. What do you believe in? What matters to you? And then you focus on it and you bring people along. And the second one is a written vision. Like you actually write down the vision where you put in faith, family, finances, fitness, and future possibilities, and you figure out how are you doing these? How does this work for you? And you write it down because everybody's vision, like a fingerprint has to be different. Everybody's culture or their values have to be a little bit different, how they put them. And for you, you're saying a way that you can check off the boxes is to just know exactly what the heck the boxes are in the first place. Know which things matter to you and get rid of the rest. So you can really focus on those. And I thought that was really interesting because not only can we do it in our business, we can do it on our podcast. And as you've illustrated, we can do it with our family, with our own lives, our personal lives. So I thought that was really, really beautiful. I appreciate you going into that before we move on to anything, something that I missed or something else you want to share about being able to check off those boxes and feel really good about it, even that person who might be listening might feel like it looks like they're checked off, but they don't feel completely fulfilled. Yeah. Similarly to how business, they have their strategic plan that pushes them and they make big decisions off of that. Does this activity support the strategic initiative of this organization? And the answer is yes, they keep pushing forward with some adjustments. If it doesn't, they're like, well, then why are we doing that? Let's cut that out and let's restructure and reorganize. And it's cool to see that there are these business and even podcasting principles and practices that help us create a better podcast, create a better business, and we don't realize how easily we can just transfer those same skill sets into our very lives. And so it's the same thing. You know, how many people do we know who are physicians who hate being a physician? I can think of two or three or somebody who became a lawyer because the money was good and they quit being a lawyer because they realized that wasn't fulfilling for them or me, I left my corporate job because I realized I didn't want to start all over again and build something that belonged to somebody else and it was time to go after my dreams. So even my mom like kept encouraging me to become a doctor. I was a pre -med student. I'm not a doctor now because I did not do well as a pre -med student, but I realized later on it's because that was never my dream. That was my mom's dream. She wanted me to be a doctor. She wanted to be able to live vicariously through me and what she wanted success to be, and once I realized, Oh gosh, I don't want to be a doctor. What do I want to be? Of course, now it took a 10 year journey for me to realize what I did want to be, but I got there, man. That's that's important. So anyway, that was it. Yeah. You're willing to walk away from something really good stuff. I want to move into just your podcast journey now for the listener. I'll point out a couple of things that I'm seeing with your podcast. Hey, I think it, haven't you been doing it for like eight years? Yeah, this particular year, eight years. Yeah. Amazing. So with eight years, over 400 episodes and a lot of traction, not going back to Gina Wickman, a lot of traction on your podcast success, I think that we've got a couple of listeners that haven't quite been doing it for eight years, they may have been doing it for a year or two, they're new. And they would like to have the type of success that you've got with your podcast. So I'm like to get a couple of takeaways, what you've done, what you've learned, what you would do differently. First, a quick word from our sponsor, but when we get back, I really want you to focus on what made your podcast successful so that the listeners podcasts can also be successful. We'll be right back. Hey, my friend, as you know, this episode is sponsored by my company, growyourshow .com. We want you to be able to have the best tools at your disposal without costing you a whole arm and a leg. So right now you can get a free list of vetted equipment that like mics, mixers, webcams, sound treatment, editing software, everything that you need. I created the whole PDF with direct purchase links, just to save you time and money to help it be more convenient for you. So this free PDF will help you skip all the guesswork. If it's on there, it's vetted and approved by yours truly. And if it's not on there, it's probably not worth the money. So go ahead and get yours at growyourshow .com forward slash PDF. Let's get back into the show. We're back with Jerry Dugan. And we've talked a little bit about work -life balance, helping leaders with work -life balance, making sure that you're checking all the boxes and feeling fulfilled and the five F's and his family crest, which I don't even remember what it said in Latin. I think it was Latin, but it really means by virtue and valor. And I wanted to talk about now, how is his podcast so fricking well known and he's doing a great job. He's getting a lot of success through the podcast. And hopefully you'll be able to take away a couple of things that can support you in a successful podcast as well. Jerry, what do you think made your podcast? Yeah, a lot of what I'm seeing really is in the last year, year and a half, really. So I jokingly tell folks, but I'm not joking that it seems like I did year one, seven times, and then finally I had year eight happen all at once. So it's no overnight success kind of thing. I think the first thing that really helped was when there was a team of three of us. So we started off with three of us. We all agreed on one thing other than the name of the show. And that was the avatar of the show. So we have an avatar that we named AJ. He's 35 years old, married to his college sweetheart. He has two kids that they both have together. One's in elementary school. One's in middle school. AJ has a mid -level leadership career going on with a corporation in a metro area. And got the car, got the house, got the six figure income, but feels stuck in life. And so from there, we start to unravel how AJ feels stuck. There's the commute to work. There's the no real future in the job he's in. Not really making any progress. Wants to be a good family man when he gets home, but he's just drained of energy. And this cycle is putting a strain on his marriage. The kids feel like he doesn't love him, which is so far from the truth. So how does AJ live the life that he really wanted to live in his faith, in his family, in his fitness, finances, and his future? And so that's what we did when we came together to start the show. Now where we had a lot of weak spots, and I feel we did the first seven years over and over again, was that when you listened to the early episodes, we were all over the place, we didn't really stick to that mantra. Like what does AJ really need? And I hate to say it, but it wasn't until like the other two guys quit from the show that I realized, Oh, we're so far from what we wanted to do, who we wanted to help. And so how do I get there? And so year six, really going into year seven was how do I niche this down? I worked with a couple of different groups that really helped me start to niche that down. Jerry, you're helping specifically this demographic. You're helping them specifically with things like work -life balance and really having a mapped out future or a vision for their future focus on that. Okay. What kind of guests should I have? And so this kind of leads into the second one, which was that pairing down that niching down. So the first one was having that vision of who I wanted to help. The second one was really paring down and niching down. How am I going to help AJ? And once I started to see that a bunch of doors opened up and the third thing was I needed to get the word out there. So the marketing piece, I threw stuff out there for the first seven years, but really it's in this last year that I've been more intentional about it. The posts that I put out there on social media are aimed at AJ. The shows I appear on are aimed at AJ and you know, as that guest appearance on other shows, I think so far in the last 10 months, I've been on almost 70 other podcasts and to the point where now I'm starting to feel like I'm in alternate realities down. Like, how do I know Adam Adams? Oh yeah, I was on his show. All right, there we go. We talked about this, this, and this, or how do I know, Deirdre? Oh yeah, I'm here, here and here. It's just all that starting to overlap. But anyway, those would be the big three is know who you're serving. The second thing is truly niche down. Even if you have a lot of passions, interests, try to stick to one thing and just kind of lit little dose of yourself, sprinkle into your episodes. That way people know what they're getting when they come to your show. And then the third thing, I know I just said it. Marketing.
Game of Crimes
Fresh update on "two guys" discussed on Game of Crimes
"And the Colombians loved it. And of course, it's the most direct route from Colombia, the shortest route into the United States. But that put up so many obstacles to them that they started looking elsewhere. At one point, we found cocaine seizures aboard vessels on the Miami River from Haiti. The cocaine being seized from them began to spike. And so I got permission, basically to open an office in Port-au-Prince. So I spent quite a bit of time down there, established that office. Walter Brown and Juan Rodriguez ran the office there. And they did the first drug seizure probably ever in terms of undercover operations. They did. I mean, it was just a it was a real I mean, I enjoyed going there, believe it or not. And so did Murph. Didn't you have a week down there where you got the shits? Let me tell you what, if the world has a butthole, it's called Haiti. It's actually if you if you go up country, I mean, Port-au-Prince is squalor. But yeah, if you go up country, there's some beautiful parts of Haiti. And I just enjoyed going there. To me, it was a challenge. Yeah. Oh, it was a challenge. But but anyway, we had I brought an op-bac team down there to basically open the office and I asked the Coast Guard to put a ship down at the southern end of Haiti. We never we never seized anything. I guess the word had gotten out that that DEA was was there. And so the Coast Guard they had one of their H-3 helicopters stationed at Port-au-Prince and started taking it was like Disney World. I guess it'd be Disney World East taking the Haitians, police, some of them had never been up in a helicopter, had never seen our country before and took them up for basically for rides. But the word in Colombia that we got through some of our informants was that the cartels were saying, don't go to Haiti. DEA is everywhere. We had two guys there. There you go. It only takes two to do the war on drugs. Take down Pablo, take down the Cali Cartel. Hey, before we talk about something, I want to get into talking about Operation Snowcap. You brought up something I was thinking about this and all of a sudden it crystallized. Do you think because of your success on things like op-bat and other things like that, that drove that denied the shipping lanes? Because now if you look at it, it's kind of the dynamics have changed. The cartels in Mexico kind of run everything, right? So now you've got the land transport. Do you think some of that is what shifted the kind of the power base and shifted the transportation routes to coming through Mexico because of your success over there in the Caribbean? I know it did. I mean, I think you can follow the history of it and you can see that, and particularly once we shut them out of Haiti, they really had nowhere else to go in the Caribbean. So they were very reluctant, I think, to establish an alliance with the Mexicans because the Mexicans, unlike the Bahamians, can be very violent and demanding and they wanted a piece of the action. But I think because of operation op-bat and other things that were being done in the Caribbean, that the Mexicans didn't have an alternative. And of course, it's an alliance between the Colombians and Mexicans that were just plaguing us to this day. You know, and it's nowhere where there's nowhere close to what it used to be coming through the Caribbean corridor there. But you know, you talk to agents that are still on the job that work in that area and the Dominican Republic is still a pretty hot place. It's probably the hottest place within all the Caribbean islands now. But just like Charles said, Mexico, that's the main thrust of cocaine coming to the United States. They've kind of stuck it to the Colombians too, because now the only way to get through it basically is you got to go through their plazas, through their bosses, through their areas. Hey, let's talk about Operation Snowcap because we've had a couple of folks on that did their time in Operation Snowcap. I don't remember, did Zach do time on Snowcap? I don't think so. I don't remember him saying that. Yeah. So tell us, all of our players out there, tell us what Operation Snowcap was and why that was such an important operation.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
The Axis of Evil Is Getting a Facelift and It Should Worry Us All
"A dangerous world, America. We've got to be standing back to back and not in each other's face. If you have not followed Kim Jong Un's visit to Russia, you ought to have. And they, the axis of evil is getting a facelift. Putin needs ammunition from whatever Korea makes, North Korea makes. And those two guys are about the evilest people in the world. I mean, there are other evil people in the world, but they're, they're the tie. They win the tie. And we've just got to realize, and if something drives it home, it's yesterday's attack by Ukraine on Sevastopol Navy base for the Russian Navy. Now, Sevastopol belongs to Ukraine. It was seized by Russia in 2014, when President Obama did nothing. And it's long been Russia's Black Sea port. And yesterday, Ukraine used some long -range missiles and some drones to blow up a submarine or another ship in dry dock. And it's one of Russia's diesel subs. It's a big deal. And what it ought to drive home is that we are seeing a glimpse of what the next war is going to look like. It's not going to be the invasion of Afghanistan. It's not going to be the invasion of Iraq. It's what's going on in Ukraine, which is from out of nowhere comes a missile. That's the future. And it's a very dangerous world. And the bad guys are getting worse. And the good guys cannot get it together. And Americans are divided. They'd much rather be in each other's faces than have each other's back. Very unfortunate.
Simply Bitcoin
Fresh update on "two guys" discussed on Simply Bitcoin
"That was beautiful. That was inspirational guys. Check out the simply Bitcoin sub stack you could find the article there also check out simply Bitcoin so Graham group and We'll be dropping that stuff in there. Anyways, it's time to review some memes Monday's episode hot fire so far. Let's keep it going The daily meme review Alright guys, you know the deal this is the meme review where you guys give us memes tag me on twitter at simply Bitcoin TV or my personal account at optimus fields or Drop them in our telegram group t dot me simply Bitcoin TV Tweet to the bullets meme to the utility as you can tell we are in an information war and and before I go on Shouts out to Matthew J in the chat before the show. He was saying he wants to contribute to Bitcoin any way possible and I think today's episode is a great example of contributing to Bitcoin just means making memes It just means writing article. It just means Having these conversations with your friends and families also shouts out the Roman He said he was orange-pilling people at his kid's birthday party or friend's birthday party Like this is how you can contribute to Bitcoin. You don't necessarily need to be in Bitcoin But hey, it is rewarding work working within Bitcoin. So there's a lot of ways that you can contribute your skills to Bitcoin Figure out what you are good at and then get paid in Bitcoin or even just talking about Bitcoin guys as you can tell We are in an information war and it's upon us as individuals. There's no PR. There's no marketing team It is us as individuals self-interested Lee if that is the word it probably isn't spreading Bitcoin and getting more people on the safety net the safety boat that is Bitcoin because the Fiat system is rigged against the average person and the only way to Protect yourself is by literally protecting yourself using Bitcoin. Anyways, I'll get off my soapbox. Let's get to the memes First meme is by the accountant aka at Cdcm 99 on Twitter and We got a picture here of a Barbie doll with like crazy Look and it goes when they say they know Bitcoin, but they invest in create. Oh and crypto you forgot the p-bra I didn't even notice that. Yeah, that's the look I say all the time I think we're constantly actually let's do plan Marcus is here because Unfortunately, most are this way each time I hear someone say they love Bitcoin I get excited only to hear the next sentence out of their mouth about crypto blockchain and NFTs Most are here to get rich quick and feel smart, but miss the corruption in parts of society guys. It's the money stupid it's always been about the money and if you Allow them to maintain the control of the money by partaking in the Fiat system. They will continue to abuse you I don't know about you, but I have chosen Bitcoin over slavery All right this next one before I give you guys the meme I gotta give you there as the context I I really like this meme because I I don't know if I'm gonna claim this but I Swear, I'm the first one to use the Hungry Hippo meme here the Hungry Hippo gift and Sailors been literally eating all the Bitcoin all the sats out there Anyways, we got BTC Gandalf and he goes Bitcoin dips and Bitcoiners playing Hungry Hippo guys You are playing Hungry Hippo for sats get as many sats as humanly possible under your control. This is the game It's the game of accumulation It's not about the fiat price. The only number that matters is the sats under your control play Hungry Hippo and Then I had a you know, Sophie did a video at Austin bit block boom and she asked me what my favorite Bitcoin meme was and I said banana bread kind of trolling This morning I realized that my favorite Bitcoin meme is Literally the bell curve any bell curve meme in regards to Bitcoin is my favorite I don't know why I love the bell curve meme Anyways, we got a maxi club here and she goes 5 5 30 bit curve and we got a little Opti over here Literally, it's literally me Oh my god little Opti here on the left side of the bell curve and it goes stack sats and hold and then we got laser eyes right side of the bell curve Bitcoiners go stat sats and hodl and Then we got the shit corner mid-weight in the middle crying because they got rug pulled by a shit coin and Or they're not holding Bitcoin in the sitting on the sideline this one. I think it was comfy comfy com come I think it's comfy in our telegram group And it goes dad Why do you work for one sat poor week? Changing diapers at the old folks home and the dad goes back in the day people told me to buy Bitcoin biting But I ignored them and said what if the power went out and then the Sun goes put me up for adoption, please Savage okay. This next one is by our boy at psychedelic Bart at psychedelic El Barto and he goes This is a classic Simpson means here and we got Bart here and it goes 80 million dollar fighter jet and it's it's Bart with You know blind glasses on in the blind stick thing and then it goes Hashtag stacking sats and it is them looking at everything you are doing the hypocrisy All right, this next one is by our boys over at the having party MF and he goes do we really need a Bitcoin ETF though and we got the classic meme where the you know, the buff short bald guy is yelling at the pretty blonde girl and The big one is why Bitcoin needs an ETF and Bitcoin is just like bro like do we need it? I Don't know man pump our bags. I guess this last one. Shouts out to my boy wanna kiss behind the Bitcoin kindergarten Twitter and and simply Bitcoin. Yeah a little bit of nepotism in the meme review today This is great. I even asked him. I'm like, did you make this look you can see me? Cuz wine goes shout out to the artists who made this and I thought it was him and the artists with the spider-man meme It wasn't him and then shouts out the Carson. He's Eric case on he goes gonna make this into a shirt to wear to parent Teachers night. Anyways, we got a little heart here and he's smiling He goes I bring a certain the government hates us and is trying to kill us vibe to social interactions that most people who are blindly following the narrative don't really like hashtag me to The other side of Nico and we will cover your meme if you score live Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second Guys check out the simply Bitcoin merch This is a simply Bitcoin shirt guy has simply Bitcoin on the back Look at that check it out and look at the attention to detail. 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Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from Guest Host Carl Jackson On Our Two-Tiered Justice System In America
"We get it. You're busy. You don't have time to waste on the mainstream media. That's why Salem News Channel is here. We have hosts worth watching, actually discussing the topics that matter. Andrew Wilkow, Dinesh D 'Souza, Brandon Tatum, and more. Open debate and free speech you won't find anywhere else. We're not like the other guys. We're Salem News Channel. Watch any time on any screen for free 24 -7 at snc .tv and on local now channel 525. The Mike Gallagher Show. I built hundreds of miles of wall. If we didn't have it, it would be hard to believe it could be any worse. They're just letting people flow into our country. A country has to have borders. Some of the wall was up there and it would be laying on the ground rusted rotten steel, rusted rotten wood, and what the radical left crazy Democrats did. If there's a piece of wood laying down, they consider that a wall. I built because this is the game. They're a party of disinformation. In the ReliefFactor .com studios, here's Mike. Welcome back to the ReliefFactor .com studio. I'm your guest host Carl Jackson sitting in with the great Mike Gallagher and Joe in Kentucky, Louisville. I'll be going to you in just a second here. If you want to call into the program 1 -800 -655 -MIKE. 1 -800 -655 -MIKE. I just want to comment on that video, the last video that you saw on SalemNewsChannel .com with former President Donald Trump in that CNN town hall that he did with the lady that just got taken to school even though she tried to take him to school. That was so annoying. I could barely take that interview. Do you realize the Biden administration, a lot of that new material that we purchased, they've literally sold a lot of it off. They've sold it off. Even to try to rebuild and keep in mind when Trump says rebuild, a lot of the wall was being fortified. He didn't literally build hundreds of miles worth of wall, unfortunately. I wish he had the left and unfortunately some rhinos did everything they could to slow the border issue down. That's something that has to be started all over virtually again with the exception of the 40 plus miles that were added because the Biden administration literally are continuing to sell off some of the material. Some of the some of the material is just setting still not doing anything but they're selling it off. They did they did the same thing as a matter of fact with material from the Keystone XL pipeline. Just so you know how evil and disgusting and despicable the Biden administration and his leading up to this and this show. I'm going to show you how and thank you Tracy for reminding me the the woman was Robin from Hawaii from the state of Hawaii. I don't recall what island and and Derek you're right. I think more more people need to read the left so we understand what the left is doing so that we're not fighting so harshly against each other because I really do believe and I understand you want Trump to win. I got it. Fight for him like heck and you should and you should but there's a mistake I believe in sabotaging Adron DeSantis. I think there's a mistake in in in in saying nobody else should compete in the race and I'm not going to lie with you lie to you. I I don't want a lot of those people on the stage. The only people frankly that I care about and I know I'm going to offend some people out there are Trump DeSantis and Larry Elder and I'll tell you why and and I want to bring I want to bring I'll tie all this together. I promise you and Joe I promise you I'll get to Joe and Louisville, Kentucky. I'll be coming to you because you got an important call here that I that I want to take on but there's a reason why I I say Trump DeSantis and Larry Elder and I'm okay with those three. I'm okay with those three hashing it out. Now I do live in Realville you know Rush Limbaugh was the mayor of Realville. If I'm looking at the polls even though I I know that the polls are skewed I know that the polls are wrong I still know that Trump has a humongous lead over everyone. That is clear even in state polling that is very clear so it is more than likely that Trump will be the GOP nominee unless there's fewer people. I'm a selfish person. I like we the people. I realize that Trump if he gets in he gets four years and I'm sitting there thinking okay we need to win 2024, 2028, 2032, 2036, 2040. How do we do all this? How do how do we do all this? If if you think that it's going to be a four -year plan we're going to somehow turn America around in four years you're sadly mistaken. You're just you're you're sadly mistaken. The DOJ issue is the biggest issue in my opinion out there. The way that the DOJ the FBI how they've been utterly corrupted is the biggest issue but there's something I got to share with you. Unfortunately the DOJ and the FBI being corrupted just shows us that we're too late to the party so it is the biggest issue out there but unfortunately all of the other issues that preceded that in order to create a corrupt DOJ a corrupt FBI we're late to the party. I believe that Trump is better when it comes to that stuff right DOJ stuff and all that man he just I think he'll go in and just wreck shop. I love that. I think I think Trump is better instinctively with foreign policy. He's just honestly he changed my views on some foreign policy stuff and that I absolutely love and adore adore him for. I love his sheer tenacity force of will but I'll be straight with you when it comes to the stuff leading up to DOJ and Ron DeSantis is better and I don't care if you like that or not he's got an instinct for that. You don't have to you can whine like little girls on the left you can lie about it you can deny it you can do what some conservative columnists and and and influencers have been done uh doing that all of a sudden DeSantis is the worst but no I'm sorry he's our second best guy and I don't think it's even close and I think you're playing a seriously dumb game if you try to sabotage them. I think you're an idiot. I think you're a fake MAGA person and I don't think you're out for the country. I think you're out for yourself if you're trying to sabotage our second best guy. I just opinion for the betterment of America. You're an idiot. I want to make it completely and emphatically clear because this is not a one election game. We've come to the party way too late. Ron DeSantis' instincts on cultural Marxism and what led up to the DOJ corruption I'm sorry he's been better than Trump on that. When it comes to the issue of COVID I'm sorry I see all of the naysayers oh well Ron DeSantis is lying he did this he did these are the the whiners these these are the guys in the MAGA movement that need testosterone uh oh Ron DeSantis he's lying about you know he was he he was what are they saying oh he he locked down Florida and guys I live in Florida yes he followed orders just like everybody else but you had what's what's her name Kristi uh and I'm missing someone the lady in Iowa that were very strong on COVID but once DeSantis backed out of COVID he was better than anybody else by far by far it wasn't even close it showed me that he was instinctually getting stuff and he was strong enough to say whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa wait a minute here's what's going on now and he wasn't falling to the pressure so that's why I want to see Trump on stage because as much as I love Trump and we've got a video here saying don't comply with COVID well I'm sorry I love Trump I love Trump but I'm we the people first I want Trump to tell me what he learned so that he does about COVID uh and and the deep state so he never gets duped again when he's in office that's what I want to know I deserve that as a voter you may not want that that's up to you but I'm a we the people person I want that because you know what I don't have the resources to fight against the deep state I don't have them if they lock me up I'm gone away forever you're never going to hear me again so I'm pretty selfish I want to stay out of prison I don't want to be the proud boys guy that I'm gonna that I'm going to talk about uh later Larry Elder the reason why I want him is simple in my opinion Larry Elder is a better communicator than DeSantis he's a better communicator uh than than Trump and I think he can communicate those ideas better than them and even to minority voters I think he can communicate our ideas better to minority voters than DeSantis and Trump can so I figure let them fight it out I think Trump is going to win but let them fight it out because you know why with those three I think we the people win and the left is an isolated on Donald Trump where they can just aim all right so take everybody out of the race let let's take everybody out of the race and let's just let the DOJ the FBI the the mainstream media big tech every look at everything that has been unleashed on Trump now let's get everybody out of the way so they can just completely focus on him you know what Ron DeSantis is do you know what Larry Elder and I pray to God Larry Elder gets on the stage larryelder .com do you know what they are they are an insurance policy I'm sorry I love Tim Scott I love Tim Scott I think Larry Elder is a better candidate than Tim Scott so I hope to God that he gets on the stage all right because I want to hear them debate but they're an insurance policy you know why the left is scared to get rid of Biden those that are Kamala Harris I had somebody messaged me yesterday uh Carl I love you on the show but I disagree with you on this part the impeachment thing because Kamala Harris the left has no problem throwing black people under the bus even a black woman they will throw her under the bus quick fast and in a hurry she's an insurance policy for Biden you know who's an insurance policy because I read them all the time I'm just telling you the truth you don't have to believe it you don't have to agree with it I don't necessarily agree with it but when I read the left when I read the radical left the person who they fear the most is DeSantis whether you like it or not doesn't mean that it's true that is their perception because they believe that DeSantis is Trump not charismatic but will get crap done when he came in the office that's true I don't believe DeSantis at this point I mean unless he gets a one -on -one and there's a miracle that he's going to win the primary but I tell you the left yes they fear Trump but they also fear DeSantis why would you take the guy the second guy that they fear out and try to sabotage them the those of you that are doing that and and I'll say it maybe I'm sabotaging my career today you're complete and utter idiots and I don't believe you're MAGA I believe you're just you're I believe you're just what what's the word I just believe you're grifters I believe you just want to follow the crowd I don't believe you're for the betterment of America I don't believe you're for the empowerment of we the people I think you're full of crap to be frank with you this is Carl Jackson and for Mike Gallagher we'll be back unveil evil in nefarious the modern screw tape letters praised by Pastor Jack Hibbs my pillow is having their biggest sheet sale of the year you've helped my pillow become one of the most extraordinary success stories in America today well now Mike Lindell wants to give back exclusively to you a Mike Gallagher listener the percale and Giza dream bed sheet sets are available in a variety of colors and sizes and 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is just one -sided BS for lack of a better word what I will say is right now the senate is the most privileged nursing home in the country but to every COVID tyrant who wants to take away our freedom hear these words we will not comply so don't even think about it and now sitting in for Mike today in the relief factor .com studios here's Carl Jackson all right welcome back to the Mike Gallagher show coming to you live from the relief factor .com studio I am your guest host Carl Jackson sitting in for Mike Gallagher the number to call in 1 -800 -655 -Mike 1 -800 -655 -6453 thank you Tracy uh callers if you want to call back the lines are good apparently uh the uh callers were in some areas where the phones just weren't okay all right they're rebooting the phones right now so 1 -800 -655 -Mike 1 -800 -655 -6453 let me let me let me play an audio clip for you I think this is uh this is very interesting to me I'm actually surprised to to hear this but that's Derek Klingle being on it I want to go to Tucker Tucker says I agree and I quote I agree 100 after guest says uh Trump and Biden are too old to be president here's audio clip number two I'm actually kind of surprised to hear this but let's roll it uh I think both Trump and Biden are too old I think there should I don't think you should be able to be that old and be president uh but I think Trump trying to be a hundred percent more aware I I think Biden has got some serious dementia issues I'm I'm actually surprised to hear that I I can't uh I did not know he said listen I I do believe that there should be an age limitation that we we talked about this yesterday I do think that there should be some type of cognitive test obviously if you look at uh Trump he's he's I think he's 77 or 78 years old the guy acts like he's probably 60 I mean it's it's absolutely insane and then you look at Biden and it's simply not the same but I I do believe there needs to be some cognitive test and perhaps there does need to be an age limit at some point uh but I'm wishy -washy on that I'll admit I'm not a term limit guy I know a lot of people want term limits listen I just think evil people do evil things they'll just figure out how to do evil things even more quickly I think we need to leave a move a lot of these people out of Washington D .C.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from The "My Guy" Fantasy Football Draft With Danny Heifetz, Craig Horlbeck, and Danny Kelly. Plus, a Cleveland Sports Check-in With Garrett Bush.
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We're also brought to you by The Ringer Podcast Network, where you can find new rewatchables we put up on Monday night. Me, Chris Ryan, and my dad, we did The Equalizer, one of my dad's favorite movies ever. Stealth Boston movie, by the way, so you can check that out. You can also check out a new Spotify podcast that we announced on Tuesday, Strike Force 5. Oh, yeah, all the late night hosts, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert. They got together. They had been doing Zooms during the writer's strike, and then they decided, you know what, maybe this should just be a podcast, and we'll give all the money to our staff, and that's just what we're going to do. All of a sudden, it seemed like a great idea. I remember talking to Jimmy about it and thinking, this is a great idea. This will never actually happen. They'll never actually do this. Well, they did it, and you can follow it on Spotify, Strike Force 5. You can get it wherever you get your podcasts. Can't wait to listen to this. Super excited. Those five guys all on a Zoom together, just cracking jokes. I'm ready. So there you go. On this podcast, it's the second annual My Guy Fantasy Draft. Craig Horlbeck, Danny Kelly, Danny Heifetz from The Ringer Fantasy Show. We're going to come on, and we're going to talk about all of our guys that we like, dislike, that we're afraid of in the fantasy football season, and then went to Cleveland to find Garrett Bush, who is kind of a big guy there. I got to say, he's kind of a guy. He's going to tell us what to expect from the Browns, who are the most confusing 2023 team. A lot of that has to do with Deshaun Watson, which Deshaun Watson, are we going to get? How do we feel about Deshaun Watson in 2023, just in general? And where is Cleveland Sports going? What's happened to them this century? All the good, all the bad. And he's going to lay all of it out for us. So this is a really good podcast. Can't wait. First, our friends from Pro Chip. All right, it's the second annual My Guy Fantasy Draft. Our Ringer Fantasy Show guys are here. Danny Kelly, Danny Heifetz, Craig Horlbeck, my rewatchables producer, always nice when he pops on the BS. So we did this last year. We didn't win any awards, but sometimes you don't need to win awards. Sometimes when something's great, when it works, you just kind of know it, and we're going to run it back. Heifetz, you want to explain what this gimmick is? Yeah, it's you text us a bunch of ridiculous categories and then we kind of build an entire show, right? No, it's fun, though. It's just like it's a draft, but it's not a draft. And then it's it's vibes. It's a vibes episode. Yeah, we can agree on this. The concept is like you go into a fantasy draft. We all have the same kind of guides, same kind of rankings, but it doesn't capture the love. It doesn't capture the irrational. I just believe in this guy. It doesn't capture Craig thinking that that Pickens is going to end up being Justin Jefferson this year. There's just some things he already is or fear PTSD from bad draft picks from the past. I actually listened to a lot of the pod we did last year, and it was pretty funny hearing some of the guys we were like completely enamored by that ended up being bust. And then there were some other ones that I was surprised by the accuracy of it. Danny Kelly, can you ever be right in a fantasy draft? Can you ever go perfect? One in a million. It's like picking stocks, you know, if you get one good one, then you're set. Last year, mine was Romandre. I listened to our show last year, too. Feel like I nailed that one. Didn't get some other ones right. So that's, you know, we don't have to re litigate those. But Romandre, I'm calling that one. The take I was proudest of last year was fearing Cooper Cup after the year that he had just not liking the scent of something. This is veteran experience. I've been doing fantasy, I think since like 1989, 1990, something like that. All right. So I'm going to rip through the categories here. And then we're going to go at them one at a time. This is not, it's a draft, but it's not a draft because if we all have the same guy for a category of two of us have it, it's fine. We're okay. Um, the categories are my one true love, the guy that we just liked the most, my crazy pills guy. Do you want to explain the crazy pills thing, Craig? Uh, I think it could go either way, right? It's either you feel like you're taking crazy pills because nobody else likes the guy you like, or it's the other way around where you feel like you're taking crazy pills because everybody likes this guy and you don't understand it at all. So there's a little variance on that one. You can go either way. There's the my I absolutely hate myself for doing this guy, which seems to happen over and over again in fantasy where you go in there, drive like, well, I'm not going to end up with Russell Wilson. Uh, that was the example I used last year. It could be the example you use again this year. I'm not even gonna spend a dollar for Russell Wilson. Then it gets to the 17th round. If you're in a booger eater draft or, you know, you have $5 left for five guys and it's like, ah, Russell Wilson, Sean Payton, and all of a sudden you have Russell Wilson and you have no idea how he ended up on your team. So that is the, my absolutely hate myself for doing this guy. Uh, there's the, I'm going to add this category. It's a little sub category. The I'm staying away from that whole team team. There's teams where you're just like, I'm out, I'm just blind out. I don't want one person from that team. I'll see, we'll see if we agree on that team. Then we have the, my shameless Homer pick guy. That's going to be really, I mean, Craig, you don't even have to go. Uh, although there could be their tickets like plus 500, but I think we know pick is going to be there. There's the, my, I wouldn't take him even if he was free guy. So you're putting them on your D and D do not draft list. I had McCaffrey as my guy for this last year, which looked brilliant for about six weeks. Then he got traded a machine of an offense. We have the, my, that 2022 booty call isn't happening again guy, which is a new category for this year. This is the, you stumbled into somebody in the free agent auction, maybe in November, you wrote them for a couple of weeks, some fond memories, but you know, as a one night stand or, you know, as a three week stand and you're not going back, then we have the, this is a classic one. The somebody's got to get points on that team guy. We just look at all the teams and like, well, I don't know. Everybody scores 300 someone's catching passes on that team. Someone's rushing for 970 yards. There is the, my sorry, I'm sorry. That's too rich for my blood guy where you look at the draft guide and you see some of the salaries next to the guys. Then you go wait at $47. So Najee Harris was my guy for this last year. And I was proud of that one. There's the, my $1 QB guy. You're not, he's not going to make it break a draft, but you're also kind of secretly stashing away in your head. And we all have our $1 QB. There is the, my I'd be afraid to look on Tuesday and see the red flag guy, which I've added this year. I didn't even tell you about this category. You take the guy and it's going great. Eloy Jimenez is the ultimate baseball example of this. It's going great. You're feeling awesome. And then you go on there on a Tuesday and there's the red flag with the yellow box that there's news. And you're just like, Oh no. Oh God, what happened? And there's certain guys who just, it happens every year. A cousin of that, the, my, I know there's a 99 % chance he's getting hurt again, but God damn, I can't resist this guy guy. Then we have the, my Cooper cup. It's a year after the year guy. So I named this category after Cooper cup. So who is it this year? They had their year last year. Don't do it again. Don't get sucked in five more. The my, I just want everyone on that offense. I don't care guy. The my it's a year too early, but fuck it guy. The my missionary position. We've all had him guy. The my, I fell for the preseason hype guy. And then finally the, my I'd never root for an injury, but he is one injury away. That guy. All right. So we're going to start with my one true love. We're going to go and we're going to go on one, two, three, four on the zoom. And then for the second round, then the second guy will go, Danny Kelly, you're up. All right. My one true love. Who is it? I got to go with Tony Pollard for the Cowboys. I'm irrationally in love with this guy. I've been saying it. I think there's nothing you can say. It convinced me that he's not the best player in the NFL. Like, like just pound for pound, the best player in the NFL. Um, you know, last year he finished as the RV seven this year. He's going to be playing, I think more snaps, getting way more opportunities. If he can get up to like the same level of opportunities as Ekeler and CMC, you know, cause he's in that style of runner. I think this guy could finish as a top three running back in the NFL. And so I am, I'm just like full as a gentleman said, full bloom in love with Tony Pollard. I just can't, I can't help it. So in the ringer fantasy guide, he's 13th right now and he's gone for $42 in auction. So you think that's low? Yeah, I would, I would, I actually had Pollard too. Wow. We all have Pollard. Wait, did you too, Krik? I'm scared now. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's, well, that's, that's, this is a sign that, yeah, this is a terrible sign, but I just, I mean, just to pile on to DK stats here, Zeke had 12 touchdowns last year and Nick and Tony Pollard was a top 10 running back. Like what else do you need to hear? Like every time Tony Pollard was on the field, he was the best running back in the league. And now Zeke's gone. Like I rest my case. This is the pregame show where they all pick the same team to win a football and then that team loses. So you should probably stay away from Tony Pollard. Wait. So all three of you had Tony Pollard for this? Yeah, I can give you some. We did not discuss this before coming on. I didn't expect that. Oh, my God. Talk about groups and Jesus. You know, it's, you know, what sucks about this is that means when I have my big auction draft in a week and all my friends are going to be listening to this. And when Tony Pollard comes up, I'm not going to get them because they're all going to bid them up for $57 if I want to get them. Well, Bill's like, oh my God. Well, here's the argument. Rich Rebar, who works for Warren Sharpe, he's at Sharpe Football Analysis and he is a really good comp, which is basically Melvin Gordon was playing ahead of Austin Eckler for years. And everyone's begging for Austin Eckler to get the job. And then Austin Eckler finally got the job and the charges got rid of Melvin Gordon. And then Austin Eckler still wasn't really a first round pick. And we talked ourselves out of it. We hemmed it on. This is Tony Pollard again. It's like Zeke is finally after five years out of Dallas. And we're like, yeah, any point you get Tony Pollard, that's actually crazy. Like, honestly, you could get him for forty five bucks. Austin Eckler is going to go for 60. Tony Pollard would probably just be better than Austin Eckler this year. I kind of genuinely mean this. Tony Pollard should maybe be the first pick in fantasy football. Right? You can convince me. Kind of genuinely. Well, he does have a great offensive line. There are going to be a couple of games against bad teams where he, you know, you have him on Thanksgiving or something and he puts up the four touchdown hundred and eighty yard game. I can see it. So I guess I'm up then because you guys all agreed. You can have anybody you want. My one true love this year, Jalen Hurts of the Philadelphia Eagles, who I also like for MVP. So. Last year, he missed two games and they also blew out what what was a D .K. like seven, eight team, seven, eight games where they just like in the fourth quarter, they didn't even really have to play offense. They're just kind of running out of the string. Yeah, I don't think their defense is going to be as good this year. Sheila Kapadia on the on the NFL show has been talking about this. I think it's to be better than he thinks, but it won't be as good on it. And their schedule is tougher. But, you know, is it possible that he's like a four thousand one thousand guy with some sort of combination of 40 to D like everyone agrees they have the best offensive line in the league. Everyone agrees the one to A .J. Brown, Devonta Smith punch is way up there. And I'm saying like Schrager on TV this week was saying Devonta Smith, this is the year he jumps up to the chase class. So we have that with Dallas Goddard, who everybody thinks is the best all around tight end in the league, the guy who actually blocks and plays three downs, running backs, whatever. Put anyone behind there and they'll gain 80 yards. And then he's going to get a lot of the goal line carries. I think he's my top QB this year. I think I would take him before everybody else. So I don't even think it's that controversial. What do you think of that one? He is, I think you're right. I think the key point you have there is that he barely played in the fourth quarter last year. That's the key thing. He was already in a per game basis. He was the best quarterback in fantasy last year and he barely played the fourth quarter. Yeah. So you could argue he hasn't even reached the ceiling yet. He's our number one guy on the guide right now, I believe. Shameless plug for fantasyfootball .300 .com. He's our 21st player. We have like all our rankings there. And yeah, he has the highest floor and the highest ceiling. My favorite stat about Jalen Hurts, other than 18 rushing touchdowns in 18 games last year, Jalen Hurts had more games over 30 points than under 20. That's everything you want in a quarterback. Well, so he's number one in our guide, but I still feel like in a draft, Mahomes is going over him because of the Mahomes. It's just the most fun to have Mahomes. The R. And I actually think that's a little nuts this year. DK, Hurts is I think either 12 to 1 or 11 to 1 on FanDuel for MVP. And I think those odds are the most out of whack of all the MVP odds, because that's, if you're going to say the MVP is going to come from an awesome team, they're probably one of the five teams that has a chance to go 13 and 4, 14 and 3, something like that. He, they have the most talent on offense, I think, of any team that's going to be in the MVP conversation and we've seen him get better every year. So why is he 11 to 1, 12 to 1? Shouldn't he be like 6 to 1, 7 to 1? Shouldn't it be where Josh Allen is? I don't, is it just because of the previous like impressions that he was a, what was he a third round pick or second round pick and maybe hold on to that for too long? Or maybe it's just because he's surrounded by such a good team. I don't know. But yeah, like you said, he's improved pretty much every season he's been playing, even going back to college. You know, from everything that we've heard, he is maniacal about like working and leadership and just all the things, all the intangibles. And then, of course, you know, if he takes a jump as a passer this year, you know, that's going to be huge for him because he's already like one of the best running quarterbacks. He's double digit rushing touchdowns in the last two years. You know, everything about him screams just, you know, like the face of the franchise season. He's everything they want. And so I could see it like from a narrative point of view, for sure. It reminds me of what you used to have with Russell Wilson when he was alive.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 112: Part 2: More Mexican Mafia with Ramon Mundo Mendoza
"Hey, Mundo, real quick right there before we get into it, just because I'm curious, how did you set it up to where they were caught? In other words, how did you set it up to deflect as much suspicion away from yourself? Was it a setup? Was it like, were they tailing one of the guys and that's what led them to it? How did they set it up to where these guys got interdicted at the robbery? I gave the task force the information about them looking to do a takeover bank robbery and that I had given them the game and I had told them how to do it. In fact, I'm the one that suggested, rather than rob a teller, that they take over the bank. They were going to put surveillance on every player, on every member, and I advised them not to do that. I advised them to surveil Stoney's house. Stoney was one of the guys. He said, surveil his house because that's going to be the staging area in San Pedro. So if you surveil everybody, what's going to happen is you increase the probability of getting made, your tails. So just surveil Stoney's house and you'll see that that will be the staging area and you will know when the time is there. And sure enough, like a script being written for them, they later told me when they saw the cars arrive, a couple of cars arrived with some of the players, and when they arrived, their whole demeanor was complete, you know, instead of being laughing and joking, whatever, they had their game faces on. They were very serious and they entered, they said, oh, oh, keep an eye, let's keep a close eye. So they enter the house and when they exited, they all come out and you could tell they've got, what do you call it, duffel bags. They have, their clothing is buttoned up and they're up to something. So now they've got, I think it was a helicopter and they have some of the units doing parallel surveillance. And then when they saw where they ended up, ultimately they activated, well, robbery homicide took over and that's how they kept in touch. And later they told me after it happened. And so the shootout ensued with two of the suspects engaged in a shootout. One was killed, the other one was wounded and two of them surrendered. So that's how it happened. That's how I... What did the police use, though, as their reason for why they were there? I mean, were they following up? I mean, how did they explain it away? Because you just don't show up. Was it part of a standard surveillance thing? What I'm saying is what was the police, what was the police story to keep suspicion away from you? I don't remember, but I know that it did deflect for me and they didn't know me. They didn't know that the information they received was from the task force. The task force guys had their robbery homicide contact and said, look, we're following these guys. You know, this is going to take place here. The guys on the actual operation had no... That's what I'm saying. The task force was the cut out. They had no idea you even existed. All it was, they were operating on a tip. No, yes, yes, you're absolutely right. And so and the task force guys didn't even want to be part of the takedown because they wanted to keep themselves clandestine. You know, in other words, the information I would give them, they would feed to the locals. The locals would do the, you know, the arrest, the enforcement, and then they would just be back, you know. It's that's referred to as the Chinese wall where you're protecting your source where the information originally started. Yeah. So it's nothing, but it's just what we call it. OK, so here's the day. The day that I get out and I'm suspecting I got two guys, I got a 45 and a 9 millimeter, you know, one on each side of me, like that's going to make a difference. If I'm going to get whacked, I'm going to get whacked. OK, it doesn't matter how many guns I have. But it made me feel comfortable like a teddy bear. And so when I and as I'm arriving at Joe Morgan's sister's house, I'm thinking, wait a minute, if these guys are going to whack me, they're not going to whack me at Joe's sister's house. You know, so what do you what are you concerned about? Just drive up park, act natural like you always do and and let's see where this is going to go. And so I went, I get off, I knock on the door, his sister answers. She tells me, go to the back, go to the back, knock. His wife, Jody, answers the door, gives me a hug. I come in. He's watching TV. We're talking, talking business. And then that's when he produced the photograph of our Bill Bonds woman's husband. He's Bob Mrazek. He was a dope dealer. And and he was the husband of our Bill Bonds woman who was going through a divorce, so she wanted him killed so she could inherit everything.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from The Lefts James OKeefe Persecution Complex
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Join the ACLJ in the fight to keep America free. or college chapter today and also consider becoming a member it's members .charleykirk .com at members .charleykirk .com you get content with no ads you also get exclusive ways to contact me and so much more that is happening including exclusive interviews of Tucker Carlson Steve Bannon and more members .charleykirk .com as always you can email me directly freedom at .com charleykirk that is freedom at charleykirk .com subscribe to our podcast buckle up everybody here we go charlie what you've done is incredible here maybe charlie kirk is on the college campus i want you to know we are lucky to have charlie kirk charlie kirk's running the white house folks i want to thank charlie he's an incredible guy his spirit his love of this country he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created turning point usa we will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries destroyed lives and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country that's why we are here brought to you by the loan experts i trust andrew and todd at sierra pacific mortgage at andrewandtodd .com i'm going to read this article here by the way we have significantly moved the overton window new york magazine writes today lock them up is now the republican party's highest goal it's no longer about policy or even culture war but prosecutorial revenge we are in the second sentence the second sentence of this article in new york magazine donald trump supporters as you might expect have not taken his latest indictment in stride charlie kirk writing the federalist proposes a list of democrat or liberal groups to be charged and goes on and on this program you all of us together have significantly moved the overton window i know it's not enough i know you're gonna say oh charlie where's the action before action you must build narrative consensus and that's what we have done this week i know i know i know you don't want to hear it charlie wears the handcuffs the perp walks i hear it i feel it i see it i harmonize i agree with it but something good has happened this week this program along with bannon along with many other people jack pasobek we have and are moving the overton window and the media is starting to take notice new york magazine by the way just how dishonest this is locking up our political opponents is our biggest priority now that's you guys you're the ones that are about to sentence steve bannon you're the ones that just indicted 16 michigan electors most of which are senior citizens drawing on social security just to survive you're the ones that and mark meadows you're the we're simply responding this is james lindsay dr james lindsay one of my favorite people beautiful trouble .org he isolated beautiful trouble is kind of the playbook of the left he said the reaction of the right is always the action of the left and at first it didn't really make a lot of sense you guys can go to beautiful trouble .org it's a left -wing social justice warrior training camp for all these left -wingers and their react the they provoke you and then they say here's a great way to here's a great example and and blake you know there's like an internet meme that shows this they'll slap you and then you punch them back and then they'll say see they punched me they punched me they punched me they punched me that's the best example better example if anyone has watched the nfl or ncaa football it is always what who the second guy that gets the flag always it's the guy that pushes back always it's like the iron law of football now referees have gotten better at this they have but it was like an old running joke that you know some cornerback will push a running back and then the running back will throw him down and the guy that throws him down gets the 15 yard penalty and maybe even kicked out of the game they're getting better at forcing that the left is the one that provokes you they're the ones that push you and then you dare punch back and the media says what are you doing the right there are a bunch of fascists that want to put people in jail meanwhile literally half our movement is under indictment like i'm not exaggerating douglas mackie and i'm gonna get to james o 'keefe in a second douglas mackie steve eight to ten years ago on a campaign finance thing that was so ridiculous the left breaks those rules all the time and they're not stopping so we have called repeatedly for local action action action because now the new prerequisite is local das local das can become national attorney general attorneys general they could do whatever they want again our side is standing still doing nothing doing nothing doing nothing we just bend over and we take it in the latest news this is breaking news this morning shouldn't surprise any of you one of our all -stars one of the top five most important people in the conservative movement who actually drives results and gets stuff done is now under criminal investigation by the westchester county district attorney in new york so if you're to say charlie who are the top five most important people in the conservative movement obviously donald trump tucker carlson and you could debate about the others but james o 'keefe is top five no doubt all -star team 10 out of 10.
Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
A highlight from Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
"Welcome to Gospel and Life. This may sound strange at first, but in many ways, Jesus is an upside down Savior. He came not in strength, but in weakness. He came not to gain power, but to give away power. As a teacher then, He spoke in a way that turned people's expectations on their heads, calling people to lose their lives to gain them, to die to themselves so they can truly live. Some of His teachings can be difficult to understand or accept. Today, Tim Keller is teaching through one of the hard sayings of Jesus, showing us that while Christ's teachings aren't always easy, they provide the answers to having a meaningful life and a relationship with Him. After you listen, please take a few seconds to rate and review our podcast. Your review can help others to discover our podcast and experience the hope of the gospel. Now here's today's teaching from Dr. Keller. I'm going to read to you from Luke chapter 9 verses 57 to 62. We're in the middle of a, or actually near the end of a series we're doing here, morning and evening sermons on the hard sayings of Jesus, the difficult teachings of Jesus. Luke 9, 57 to 62, and as they were walking by the way, one man said to him, I will follow you wherever you go. Jesus replied, foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the son of man has no place to lay his head. He said to another man, follow me. But the man replied, Lord, first let me go and bury my father. Jesus said to him, let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God. Still another said, I will follow you Lord, but first let me go back and say goodbye to my family. Jesus replied, no one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God. This is God's word. There's a sense in which Jesus, it doesn't seem to me if Jesus was a pastor that his church would have grown very fast. Jesus acts in a completely different way than most church leaders do. People come and say, I want to join up and Jesus says, get back, think, he's harsh. He sets them back on their heels. He's so different than, well, not just church leaders, but any leader of an institution, any leader of a movement very much wants to inspire people to come and make commitments. Leaders of movements want people to be attracted. They want to make it easy for them to enter. They want to make it attractive for them to sign up and to buy, buy in. Jesus is very different. In fact, if you really read the scripture, you will see that Jesus is altogether different than anything the human race has ever produced. He's continually surprising you. When you think he's going to be harsh, when you think he's going to be stormy, he's sunny. And when you think he's going to be sunny, he's stormy. When he comes up to the prostitutes and the pimps, he sits down and eats with them. When he sees the lepers, when he sees the woman caught in adultery, with so many of these people, there's exquisite tenderness. But then when he comes up, not only with the religious leaders, but people who come up and say to him, I'm sold out for you, I want to live for you, I want to be with you, he's harsh. He's cold. He almost seems to be wanting to repel them. Now the reason that Jesus does this in this case, in these cases of these three men, is clearly because they do not understand what they are asking for. They don't understand what it means to follow Christ. And therefore, if we take a look at what Jesus answers, how he answers these three men, we're going to learn a great deal about what it means to follow Jesus. This is a very basic text, it's a very basic sermon. What does it mean to be a follower of Jesus? What does it mean? Let's look. First thing, we're taught by the text, is Jesus is showing them that to follow Jesus, to follow Christ, is to enter the kingdom. To follow Christ is to enter the kingdom. Excuse me. See, in every case, the men are talking about following, I want to follow you, and in each case, Jesus keeps talking about the kingdom. They're talking about following Christ and he's talking about, he's making them see following Christ in terms of entering, serving, proclaiming the kingdom. Why? Jesus is pointing out, something that we often point out here, but let's look at it from this perspective again, that being a Christian is not simply a matter of ethical and doctrinal improvement. But rather, Jesus is saying, to become a Christian, to follow me, is not just a quantitative thing, it's a qualitative thing. It's not simply a matter of improvement, but it's a change in status and nature. Put it this way, becoming a Christian means to cross a border. If you're in Texas and you want to go to Canada, how do you do it? You get in a car, let's say, or you get in an airplane, and you go for a long, long way. You may spend a great deal of time getting to the border. And yet, you may have spent, I don't know, now see, I don't know much about the dimensions, I don't know how many hundreds of miles or even how many thousands of miles it is from the bottom of Texas to the border of Canada, but you can go thousands of miles and you could be standing right at the border. However, the fact is, all of that improvement of your location, all of that change, and it's been a massive change, all of that exertion and all of that cost has not gotten you into the kingdom at all. The fact is, before, you were 100 % outside of the Kingdom of Canada, and now you're still 100 % outside of the Kingdom of Canada with all that improvement. What gets you from one kingdom into another kingdom is not tons of improvement, but one step. And Jesus, by continually telling people to follow me means that you're entering the kingdom. What he means is that becoming a Christian is not just a matter of doctrinal or ethical change and improvement, but it's a translation from one realm into another realm. I read recently where somebody, I was reading about a woman who was a scholar who had been a liberal Democrat and it said now she's converted into a neo -conservative Republican, and he used the word convert. Well, you see, I guess that's a conversion, that's a massive change, but that's not what Jesus is talking about. Most people tend to think that that's what Christianity is, that it means changing your ethics, changing your lifestyle, changing your doctrine, and of course all that is entailed. But it's something much more radical and revolutionary than that. Following Christ means you're translated from one kingdom into another kingdom. The Kingdom of God, let's remind ourselves, because a couple weeks ago we talked about this when we looked at the term, we looked at the teaching where Jesus says the Kingdom of God suffereth violence and the violent bear it away. What Jesus is teaching, not necessarily right here, but throughout the New Testament, the Kingdom of God is the power of the outside world, the heavenly world, come into this world to heal it of all of its hurts. And the teaching of the New Testament, which is so radical, is that when you believe in it, comes down into your life immediately. It's like an acorn that's planted that eventually will grow and take over. The Bible tells us, Jesus tells us that the Kingdom of God is here now through Christ so that when you make him your savior and your king, you cross a line. And there is an immediate change. And the power of that kingdom comes in. Now it's partial. It's only spiritual. And at this point, we are not at a place where the Kingdom of God is here in its fullness. And yet, you see, what it means to be a Christian is to say that the Kingdom of God is at hand. It's here and yet it's coming. It's already and yet it's not yet. And we said a couple weeks ago, there's a certain sense in which when old Maggie Smith, you know, in the Steven Spielberg movie, when old Wendy talks to Peter Pan, who's grown up and has forgotten where he came from. And she says, Peter, the stories are true. That's the gospel. What is the gospel? The gospel is that the Kingdom of God is real. See, Peter, there is. It's true. We are going to live forever in a castle. That's what a Christian believes. We are going to fly someday. We are going to wear crowns and live in a place where there's no more decay or death. There is a Camelot. That's what a Christian believes. There is a Never Never Land, you see. There are all these things and there is a kingdom coming, which is even greater than all the fairy tales can even convey. The minute I step over the boundary from being my own savior and king to having Jesus be my savior and king, the power of that future age comes into my life now and begins to change me, begins to renovate me. It's partial, but it's real. It's come, it's here, and yet it's on its way. And Jesus says, therefore, do not think that following Christ is simply a matter of, okay, teach me what are the new beliefs I've got to teach, I've got to believe. What are the new doctrines I have to believe? What are the new ethics I have to do? It's not just that. There is a moment. There is a spot at which you take one step and you cross from one realm into a brand new realm. These men didn't understand that. They still saw following Christ as really pretty much like converting from being a Democrat to Republican or Republican to Democrat. They said, I've left my own party. I'm going to follow you. Jesus says, you have no idea yet the radical nature of what it means to follow me. To follow Christ means to come into a whole new realm. It means to enter the kingdom. Secondly, now, once you understand, say, the doctrine of the kingdom of God, the kingdom of God is something that happens to you immediately as you make Christ your savior and king instead of yourself. And we've said the doctrine of the kingdom is that it's the power of the future age. Come into our lives now, partially, but not fully. That's the doctrine. And you really can't follow Christ unless you understand that. So that's the first thing is to follow Christ is to enter the kingdom. But secondly and thirdly, Jesus is dealing here, the first man and the last two, the first man and the second and third represent two different kinds of misunderstandings of the that kingdom Jesus is heading off at the past. And he's saying to them, you can't follow me until you understand the kingdom properly. The first man doesn't understand the hardness of the kingdom. And the second and third men don't understand the greatness of the kingdom. The first man is precipitous. The second and third men are hesitant. The first man is an idealist. The second and third men are pragmatists. Neither kind of person can enter the kingdom because they misunderstand it. The one kind misunderstands the fact that the kingdom is here only partially. And when the kingdom of God comes into your life, it brings you into conflict with the world and therefore many of the things that you want, like health and status and popularity and wealth may never come to you, nor does it have to because the kingdom of God doesn't consist of those things. Idealists need to be brought down to see the hardness of the kingdom. On the other hand, the realists, the people who say, well, you know, everything is good in moderation, religion, you can't go overboard with religion, you can't, there's got to be qualifications to religion, those people don't understand the greatness of the kingdom. And those people do not understand, as Jesus points out, you must not have any conditions on your obedience or you haven't taken a step into my realm. Now I just gave you a summary, let's look at those two. First of all, you can't be a Christian if you're really an idealist. Idealistic people are not for the kingdom. They don't understand the kingdom. See this man comes to Jesus and he says, I will follow you wherever you go. This is completely different than the last two guys.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Focusing on the Bitcoin Mission with Alex Stanczyk, Eric Yakes, Jimmy Song, and Alex Svetski - August 15th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right. Good morning, everybody. We are starting today off with a very solemn topic, very serious topic. There's a doctored version of a marketing video for a gold fund that I managed, which has been used to spin a pretty nasty narrative. With some pretty nasty allegations. Over a decade ago, I trusted and worked for two guys. Who years later went on to defraud and steal the investments of a number of people. I worked for these guys for several years before leaving to start. Two regulated gold funds. With no idea at the time that they were bad actors. The marketing video that this person doctored was for one of these regulated gold funds. It was not for these two guys as the video this person has published insinuates. Oh, some time ago, these guys sent a letter to their retail gold investors telling them basically that the gold was all gone. Then they went dark. Nobody's ever seen or heard from these guys again. So, I feel terrible for anyone who lost their money to these people to clear the decks because there's a lot of nonsense going on in regards to this. There's a lot of speculation. There's a lot of assumptions. I just want to clear the air here. I'm in contact with some of these investors. Some of them are friends. I have given assistance that I could to help them try to recover assets. I have reached out to others and offered to do the same. By the way, some people are saying that they've tried to reach out to me and that I haven't helped them. I'm not that hard to find. I'm a pretty public person. I will continue to do anything I can to help these people. That said, the allegations made against myself in this video and the accompanying tweet are very serious. The allegations are that one, the original video that was posted is a fake and done with a green screen in a studio versus being in an actual Swiss vault. Two, that our gold fund never had any gold. And three, that this video was somehow used to recruit retail investors for the aforementioned scammers. All that is completely false. So I'm going to pause here if Brady or Nico maybe has anything to add, and then I will continue to talk about the video itself. Yeah. Hey, guys. Brady here. Yeah, so the video posted yesterday, I mean, these people who post disingenuous videos like this, they start with some kind of hook, like some kind of a quote unquote evidence to make you think that the person in the video is lying. And in this case, Mars posted quote unquote evidence in the form of these glitches in the video, like these sort of pixels that flash on and off as being evidence that Alex is standing in front of a green screen and is lying about being in Switzerland in a vault looking at gold. And talking about the gold that's in the custody of this accredited, regulated fund for accredited investors called PFG, not AFE, which the video also says that it was made for AFE. Which Alex just spoke about the two, those two guys that ended up rugging, they that the video was made, it's clear like right, right underneath the text where it says where Mars is saying this video was made for AFE, it has a logo of the PFG, the fund that it's the accredited fund that Alex is making the video for. So he's also lying about that. And it's hilarious because it's like right on top of it's obvious it's right on top of that. The glitches are just some video compression thing. They appear on top of the gold bars themselves in the close up. It's obviously not a part of the green screen, like the entire, you know, video is filled with a gold bar and you can still see those glitches going. Alex was in the green screen. What's that? I said the alleged green screen. Yeah, you said it's not a part of the green screen, but it's an alleged green screen. Yeah, it's obviously, well, yeah, exactly the alleged green screen and it's obvious it's not, it's some kind of video compression thing. There's no chroma key, no green, faint green outline that you might see around somebody when when there's a green screen, he's pointing to these glitches. It's complete bullshit. But they use that to establish the fact that, you know, oh, you start doubting that Alex might be lying about all this. Maybe he's not really in Switzerland. Maybe he's not really, you know, you know, showing gold that belongs to this fund or something like that. And that it's all a cover up for this, you know, very unfortunate thing to happen that Alex had no part in. And I'll let him continue talking about that. But the video itself is completely disingenuous and a sham and really, like, poorly done one at that.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from The TRUTH about Sam Altman and WorldCoin
"Set summer in motion with the most adventurous Honda vehicles yet, like the Passport and Pilot Trail Sport and the Ridgeline, built for better off -road performance and engineered for more adventure. Summer is here. For a limited time, well -qualified buyers can get a 3 .9 % APR on a 2023 Honda Pilot, a 2 .9 % APR on a 2023 Passport and a 0 .9 % APR on a 2023 Ridgeline. Buy online, reserved from select dealers, or visit your local Honda dealer today. See dealer for financing details. My worst fears are that we cause significant. We, the field, the technology, the industry, cause significant harm to the world. I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. Artificial generalized intelligence. If you haven't heard of that before, well, I'll bet you probably have even heard of or used Chat GBT, midjourney or any one of the dozens of AI tools that have been taking the world by storm this year. In this video, we're going to be taking a closer look at the man behind the curtain, the mysterious wizard of Silicon Valley, Sam Altman, and we're going to be getting to the truth about him, his companies, what they're building, and, most importantly, what it all means for you and the future of humanity. This might be the most important topic in the world right now, so we want to make sure to bring the BitSquad up to speed. Let's get it! Welcome to BitBoy Crypto! My name has been today. We're doing a deep dive on the king of AI, Sam Altman, finding out what this awkward -looking startup junkie is really all about. Samuel Harris Altman grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He got his first computer at the age of eight. This was back in the 90s when computers were still using dial -up and Pets .com. In 2005, young Samuel dropped out of Stanford after one year studying computer science, co -founded LÜT, location -based social networking mobile application. Go ahead and smash that like button and turn on the channel notifications, which puts you in the BitSquad. Make sure you stay up to speed with the latest crypto news so you don't drop out of all the best gains in the next bull run. But as the CEO of LÜT, LÜT Altman raised over $30 million in venture capital at the business -savvy age of just 19 years old. Imagine being so rich, you think it's a good idea to give $30 million to a 19 -year -old. Anyways, LÜT failed to gain traction, but Sam was still able to sell it in March 2012 to the Green Dot Corporation for $43 .4 million. Not bad for a first -time failed startup. Just one month later, the dropout failed. The founder co -founded another company, Hydrazine Capital, with his brother Jack. And in February 2014, Sammy's startup was named president of Y Combinator. In 2014, Sam claimed that the total valuation of Y Combinator companies has amassed 65 billion. Their catalog is much more impressive than Sam's resume and includes Airbnb, Dropbox, Coinbase, Instacart, OpenSea and Stripe, among countless others. Altman set a target for Y Combinator to fund 1 ,000 new companies per year, which is so many it makes it seem like Sam is just slinging more and more bad ideas at the wall to see what sticks. In 2015, Altman donated $10 million to start Y Combinator Research, a nonprofit research lab that Sammy funded to research basic income, the future of computing, education and building new cities. All these topics seem related, almost like they're part of a larger plan. Sam co -founded OpenAI with Elon Musk in 2015 and in 2019 announced that he would be stepping back at Y Combinator to focus on being CEO of OpenAI. OpenAI has several products including Doll -E, a generative text -to -image AI tool, Whisper, an AI -driven speech -to -text tool and Codex. But the most famous AI tool that OpenAI built is called ChatGPT. A generative AI tool that returns text, images or videos in response to user input prompts. Now, you input your like and subscribe to the channel to get the latest in crypto news. About 27 % of y 'all aren't subscribed. I don't get it. Now, I don't have time to get into exactly how all this AI stuff works, but just from some basic understanding, generative AI is a broad term for any AI system that primarily creates content. Large language models or LLMs are a type of AI system that works with language and draws from a large set of data and computational power. These can create a foundational model which is a term for AI systems that can be applied to a range of purposes. So ChatGPT is a foundational generative AI model that's based on a large language model. Okay, so sorry if that was confusing. I think this stuff is pretty cool, and it's important to understand what all these geeks are talking about with this stuff. I got to research it. I guess they know it intuitively. Moving on. ChatGPT was so popular that it reached 100 million users just two months after launching in 2022, which set an all -time record for user adoption. In response to this unprecedented user demand, Microsoft, a longtime investor in OpenAI, decided to increase their investment and extend their partnership, announcing in January 2023 that they would be investing an additional $10 billion into OpenAI. By now, you might be wondering, Ben, that's all great, but what does Sami have to do with crypto? Back in 2019, when he stepped away from Y Combinator to run OpenAI, Altcoin Altman also co -founded Tools for Humanity, the company building a global IRIS -based biometric cryptocurrency system called Worldcoin. What is Worldcoin? Well, according to Sam, Worldcoin was conceived as a prototype for universal basic income, which Sam sees as inevitable due to the rise of the technology that Sam keeps building himself. Also, it seems like if he would stop building all these things, then we won't have to depend on him to protect us from them. So weird. Sam tried to keep this project quiet at first, probably because it sounds so evil, but the idea simply is this. Users get paid in Worldcoin in a wallet they can use in the Ethereum ecosystem and runs on Optimism's tech stack. WLD tokens will be claimed by people and to verify your identity and unique personhood, Worldcoin wants to scan your IRIS using a super evil -looking silver camera called The Orb. I swear you can't make this stuff up. Worldcoin has a kiosk in Barcelona, offering free french fries in exchange for scanning your IRISes. Good thing I only eat freedom fries. Some offer a $10 rebate on purchases. Some offer a chance to win a new car. Where's Bob Barker when you need him? But whatever paltry bribe Sam Altman and his Worldcoin henchmen are offering, I guarantee you that it's not worth it. Details on this project are still deliberately being kept under wraps, but basic human intuition should tell you whatever they're up to, it's dystopian at best and an evil conspiracy to control the world at worst. My friends at Altcoin Daily said it well. Your eyes will be scanned. You will give up your biometrics data. You will accept your UBI and WLD coin. Sounds like exactly what the World Economic Forum has been planning for years. The scariest part? It's working. Hundreds of thousands of users are being quietly onboarded to Worldcoin in exchange for one of Sam's silly little bribes. According to Nansen, Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution, Optimism Arbitrum surpassed in daily transactions for the first time since January. The spike in activity began on July 24. The same day Worldcoin token went live on the Optimism mainnet. Although Worldcoin is careful to try and hide this information, they definitely do not advertise what's really going on. If you look close at the privacy deep dive section of their website, you'll see they say they're collecting a lot more than just users' irises. They need lots of data to make sure that the orbs are trained to recognize eyes regardless of who had scans. Initial scans targeted mostly children in developing countries like Chile, Indonesia and Sudan. I'm all in favor of decentralized digital identity, but there are a ton of great projects that are working on solutions for that. And none of them have relied on this creepy system of bribing poor children in third world countries so they can harvest their biometric data. There has to be a better way. Now, if you're like me, this kind of behavior by one centralized company, especially a company run by Sam Altman, the man trying to build the world's first AGI, it should worry you. Apparently, it worries European regulators too. Last week, French privacy watchdog group said the legality of this collection seems questionable as to the conditions for storing biometric data. They're coordinating their ongoing investigation with German authorities as well. Britain's information commissioner's office also confirmed that it was making inquiries. Even Ethereum co -founder Vitalik Buterin warned Worldcoin has major issues and pointed out that iris scans could inadvertently expose a person's sex, ethnicity and maybe even their medical conditions. Talk about a privacy risk. How many of you incels living in your mom's basement want people to know that you never even had sex? Oh, that's not what they're talking about? Despite what seems to be nearly universal concerns about Worldcoin's operations, Altman says they're going strong and onboarding one new verified person every eight seconds. That's a bull run. A bull ride. Crazy to think about, but at that rate, it would take them five years to get to 20 million users. So Altman's plans to 5X Worldcoin's onboarding capacity, well, it's going to be done by the end of the year. And now we get to the most interesting part of the story to meet anyways, and that's Altman's ongoing and highly public feud with the Dogefather himself, Elon Musk. A short version of how this conflict started is in 2018, Elon approached the other founders of OpenAI and expressed concern that the company had fallen hopelessly behind Google in the quest for AGI. Musk proposed that he take over OpenAI in order to catch up. The other founders rejected his bid. Musk eventually left the company and withdrew his funding. Altman eventually took over, and the two have been in competition and even some conflict ever since. When Chat GBT launched in November of 2022, OpenAI instantly became the hottest name in tech. Musk was reportedly furious. In December 2022, Musk pulled OpenAI's access to Twitter's data, ending a contract sign before Musk acquired Twitter. February 17, Elon tweeted, OpenAI was created as an open source, which is why I named it OpenAI, non -profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source maximum profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft. On March 15, he tweeted, I'm still confused as to how a non -profit to which I donated about $100 million somehow became a $30 billion market cap for profit. If this is legal, why doesn't everyone do it? That's Bill Gates. He does it. Altman finally fired back in an interview saying about Elon, I mean, he's a jerk, whatever else you want to say about him, but I think he does really care, and he is feeling very stressed about what the future is going to look like for humanity, which is very interesting because a lot of this sounds exactly like conversations I had with Sam Bankman -Fried around the time of the FTX collapse. Things he said about me to me and to other people was he knew that I really cared about the stuff that I was talking about, but I just was going about it the wrong way. Very eerie similarities there. The reason for their dispute though seems to come down to both men wanting to prove themselves. Elon wants to be the man who took down Google and Twitter, and Altman seems to just want to make up for the fact that his first startup would fail. He tweeted in February, I failed pretty hard in my first startup. It sucked! And I'm doing pretty well in my second. The thing I wish someone told me during the first one is that no one else thinks about your failures as much as you do and that as long as you don't psych yourself out, you can try again. It's crazy the two guys with such big brains can be still so small -minded. So we talked a lot about Sam Altman, but what's the takeaway here? What's really at stake in this story? Well, I think it goes back to where we started. Fear. Altman is a prepper. He said in 2016, I have guns, gold, potassium, iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force and a big patch of land and big shore I can fly to. What is he prepping for? Well, he doesn't say. But the key is the answer to that question was asked in Congress on May 16, 2023. What's his biggest fear? My worst fears are that we cause significant. We, the field, the technology, the industry cause significant harm to the world. I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. So it's clear that Sam is consciously aware of the risks of what he's doing, but he's doing it anyway. He's taking an attitude of technological determinism, the idea that anything can be done will be done. So why not do it first? Why not create the tools for a dystopian nightmare future and then have all the power you need to avoid it right there in your hand? There's just one problem with that. If you believe in technological determinism, you also believe that the path of technology is the same for everyone, which means that anyone else could go down the same path and beat you to the prize at the finish line. And what's that prize? Well, if you ask Sam, artificial general intelligence, AGI, which means a piece of software that combines solutions to new unfamiliar tasks, basically code that can actually think. It's likely that the creation of such a piece of technology would lead to what's known to sci -fi nerds as the technological singularity, got in a box. The singularity refers to a point at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to humanity and civilization. OpenAI published a paper in April concluding that the latest OpenAI model exhibits many traits of intelligence, including abstraction, comprehension, vision, coding and understanding of human motives and emotions. In June, The New York Times published an article alleging that many leaders of Silicon Valley are becoming concerned that the singularity may already be here, and we just haven't realized it yet. Altman himself stated during his recent appearance on Lex Freeman podcast that he believes that multiple teams will create AGI while working on different projects in different parts of the world at roughly the same time. In other words, Sam isn't just worried that he won't get to the singularity first. He's worried that even if he does, his creation still won't be enough to save him from itself. And that's Sam Altman's worst fear. Sam once tweeted, AI is the tech the world has always wanted, but we don't want it if it means we have to let him scan our eyes and unleash something on mankind that has the power to take over every aspect of our lives before we even realize we've lost control. Let me know down below in the comments what you think about Sam Altman and his plans to control the future of civilization. And let me know what you think about AI and which projects are using it in creative ways that might give them an edge in the next bull run. And most importantly, Sam Altman vs Sam Bankman -Fried in a cage match, who wins? That's all I got. Be blessed. BitBoy out.
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from Matt left something behind. Learn how to wash your car for free. Rich announces a phone line for caffeinated customers which is a toll-free number. Remember we have coffee and Better A$$ Episode #411 August 11th. 2023
"Hello all divine people, small Saturday is again with us, 4 .11 is the number of the show August 11, we are matching the numbers, from this mic Rich, and from this mic Matt, I didn't say Matt, I did say that, no he did not, oh you mean like, from this mic Rich, and from this mic Matt, this should be a happy sound because it's a small Saturday, small Saturday officially starts at lunch time on Friday, according to your father, according to my father, so here we are, recording again at night, because we like to be here at night, because it's dark, yesterday was national lazy day, sounds like your dad was starting to get lazy, yeah my dad, he teaches now all world, he's not here anymore, but we're pushing that idea on a small Saturday, yeah I like it, you're leaving a legacy, absolutely, he left one, yeah, I mean if you're on this planet you have to leave something behind you, you do, otherwise you wasted time, let me tell you something, we're leaving behind, did you read the notes for the show yesterday, no, why don't I read them for you, why don't you do that, because every day we post a podcast, a thumbnail, it's called a thumbnail, yeah and it just gives you a little, yapping here for 30 minutes or so, we give you a little rundown on the writing somehow, we try to be creative to entice you, to entice you to listen to the podcast, and we don't have that much space, so we just put some kind of mix mix, yeah a little jiggle, so what is actually in that show, a little teaser, so yesterday's show, which was show 410, the title of the show is following, I mean it's a couple sentences so just stick with me, it's following, Rich got his Christmas present when Matt held his bread for three minutes, Rich is now certified installer, $500 waiting for you, you just have to click somewhere and print something, Matt had notes on the napkin and disposed them responsibly after use, that's the episode 410, now show notes are even more colorful, yeah, you want to hear them, sure, why not, I don't think I have a choice in the matter, no, not right now, okay, Matt and Rich have soft spot in their heart, Rich gives away tips on how to save money on electric bill, if you are a couple in love, learn a perfect tip on what you do with a washing machine in the evening, Matt has a snitch machine in his pocket and on his behind, so they can monitor his carbon monoxide discharge, oh yeah, they're starting early, yeah, yeah, Matt and Rich will tell you the worst paying jobs in Naples, podcasting made the top of the list because they work for free, advice for free, I mean if you read something like that, you just have to, yeah, I love it, yeah, you do, you just, I mean there's no way, what are these two fools talking about, yeah, that was yesterday's show, let's see what we do today, we'll see, we are raw, we don't prepare, we just have a couple notes here, so we don't forget because you know, we're aging day by day, yeah, day by day and we're just off the cuff, we're just flying, just soaring, there used to be one guy with magnifying glasses, now it's two guys with magnifying glasses, I had to start wearing them too, yeah, you got yourself a set of coke bottle glasses there, coke as thick as a coke bottle, now it's now, that's yours, so just let's go to officials, Julian Bruce, Terra Kitarra, Pachuli Music, thank you very much for all the tunes and the intro song, we always gonna be grateful and we're looking forward to seeing you here soon, our sponsor, do you know who's our sponsor, yeah, who is it, it's Beach SOS, that's correct, BeachSOS .com, weekend's coming, you're probably gonna be laying and trying to get that lard burned out on the sun, because it's gonna, it's gonna get the, you know, some kind of good job, because it's very hot, so if you're missing something on the beach, let us know BeachSOS .com, we will bring you to in stylish mini fire truck with lights on, now coupons, you know, as I said that before $500, you can just print them easy, $500 savings in several different businesses around and that is divineapals .com forward slash discount slash, no, discount dash coupon, that's what it is, there you go, yeah, and well next month, we just have to remind you, our divine spy is in operation and we are actually very, doing very well, we have a lot of customers, this weekend is fully booked, so that is awesome, yeah, if you're thinking to hide in front of the sun and get something, you know, relaxing moment or couples massage, we are here for you, just look for divine spa Naples or go to website mydivinespa .com, that's great, so official is done, now let's go to unofficial business, yeah, what do you got for the weather today, I've been in the weather, I mean, this is, you want to talk about it, no, it's just hot, hot, but it did rain today, on and off, yeah, yeah, it's always like that, yeah, I got some hints, there's a gentleman who is friend of mine, I told you about the Mexican, which is catching the tan, yeah, being deeper Mexican, yeah, you know what I'm saying, yeah, it's like, I don't know what comes, you know, like turning the toaster from lighter to darker, it can't be darker Mexican, he called me and he was in Lely, he says, oh, I gotta go, it's raining and so I knew I was supposed to prepare, it took five minutes and we had to rain here too, yeah, so, you know, it's all, you know, I was, I started at one end today, this afternoon and it was, I was down by Pine Ridge and Logan and it was raining like cats and dogs, we have to liquid up what that means, I have no idea, but it was, let's just say it was raining a lot and then, you know, I drive two or three miles and then all of a sudden the sun's breaking out again, no rain, you know what it's called, the rain, cats and dogs, no, I have no idea what it means, Jewish car wash, oh yeah, yeah, why is that, because you get the car wash from the dust and you don't have to pay for it, oh, okay, it's cheap, yeah, all right, some that's true, yeah, it just comes out and they get the sponge, unfortunately, there's so much dirt and oil and grime on the car, my car is always a lot dirtier, I mean, if you're riding toaster, that's what's gonna happen, you know, there's just gonna have some grime because that's when you're toasting and toasting, it doesn't matter what car I was driving, it's whenever I'm driving in the streets, it's a mess, yeah, that's what happens in Florida, it's a mess, yeah, that's why we have rain, to clean it up, I tell you what, today, there was a lady, she came up and she started coming here today, today was the official day, yesterday was tryout and she said she took our coffee yesterday and she was up until three o 'clock in the morning, oh my gosh, I said why you didn't call us, we have this special phone line, you know, 1 -800 number, divine divine 9, that's the, you know, and she looked at me and said are you serious, I said yeah, we used to have a sex line but we didn't get that busy, so now we have the old days of the 900 numbers and I'll be helping people and, you know, they consume our coffee, yeah, they're so jacked up and high on the coffee, so she got a rocket fuel and she said, you know what, intervention line, this is my coffee shop for everyday now, I used to go to Badass and I said to her, you know, but that's perfect because we have a coffee and then I turned around and I said and better ass, how did you, yeah, she was laughing and she ordered something, she ordered something and she said I want that sandwich, I said what is it, the one I had yesterday, I said what is it, she said chicken clucker, oh the chicken, it's not the mother clucker, no it's chicken clucker, chicken clucker, I said why are you saying chicken is mother clucker and then she started laughing, she just made a new name, chicken clucker, chicken clucker, it's basically chicken chicken, yeah, chicken chicken, chicken clucker, yeah, yeah and after, usually chickens cluck, that's what I'm saying, yeah, so you didn't catch the drift, no because I'm stupid sometimes, well I'm sorry, I'm looking at your face, I'm having to stare at this thing across, I used to be better looking when I was three and then after three years old it just went downhill, that's all right, you're all right, you'll be all right, you'll get over it, so after that we had people from Holland and they are hooked to our podcast now, so we're going international, oh good, well we were doing that anyway because the website divinenapels .com is international anyway, yeah, it's actually the largest hub for everything you need to know about Naples, that's correct, and I don't, what is it, almost 30 websites connected, 23 websites, 23 and 18, how many languages, 18, 18, I see, I remember that number, 18 different languages and that's what we're doing here, that means you know that's stupid then, yeah, I thought you were, no I'm always stupid, half as stupid as I look, but we're all right, yeah, we're doing good, so that's, we're doing good, that was quick, let's get past that, yeah, so I've been browsing through some news and what's going on here, hey why don't you share with us some news, yeah I will share that with you right now because it's Friday and people need to kind of have a weekend to think about it, right, so number one, there are some changes in the, in a lot of the like school buses routes and everything else and they install secret cameras on the buses, oh really, yeah, so if you're gonna be thinking you're gonna pass the bus, you know, monster before, yeah, I call them yellow monsters, yeah, when you see the yellow monster, you want to pass it, pass it, then be careful because they have a, they have a cameras and they read also license plate, so once you get through it, they will send you tickets, yeah, that's not gonna be pretty, yeah, well we need to be safe with kids, right, right, just slow down, so get up and take off to work or wherever you got to go a little early, yeah, but another thing is also they're changing the speed in the school zones, used to be 20 miles an hour, now it's 15, which I'm grateful for because, you know, it's, it's, as he's saying, it's important to, you know, people crossing the streets with kids.
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from Matt left something behind. Learn how to wash your car for free. Rich announces a phone line for caffeinated customers which is a toll-free number. Remember we have coffee and Better A$$ Episode #411 August 11th. 2023
"Hello all divine people, small Saturday is again with us, 4 .11 is the number of the show August 11, we are matching the numbers, from this mic Rich, and from this mic Matt, I didn't say Matt, I did say that, no he did not, oh you mean like, from this mic Rich, and from this mic Matt, this should be a happy sound because it's a small Saturday, small Saturday officially starts at lunch time on Friday, according to your father, according to my father, so here we are, recording again at night, because we like to be here at night, because it's dark, yesterday was national lazy day, sounds like your dad was starting to get lazy, yeah my dad, he teaches now all world, he's not here anymore, but we're pushing that idea on a small Saturday, yeah I like it, you're leaving a legacy, absolutely, he left one, yeah, I mean if you're on this planet you have to leave something behind you, you do, otherwise you wasted time, let me tell you something, we're leaving behind, did you read the notes for the show yesterday, no, why don't I read them for you, why don't you do that, because every day we post a podcast, a thumbnail, it's called a thumbnail, yeah and it just gives you a little, yapping here for 30 minutes or so, we give you a little rundown on the writing somehow, we try to be creative to entice you, to entice you to listen to the podcast, and we don't have that much space, so we just put some kind of mix mix, yeah a little jiggle, so what is actually in that show, a little teaser, so yesterday's show, which was show 410, the title of the show is following, I mean it's a couple sentences so just stick with me, it's following, Rich got his Christmas present when Matt held his bread for three minutes, Rich is now certified installer, $500 waiting for you, you just have to click somewhere and print something, Matt had notes on the napkin and disposed them responsibly after use, that's the episode 410, now show notes are even more colorful, yeah, you want to hear them, sure, why not, I don't think I have a choice in the matter, no, not right now, okay, Matt and Rich have soft spot in their heart, Rich gives away tips on how to save money on electric bill, if you are a couple in love, learn a perfect tip on what you do with a washing machine in the evening, Matt has a snitch machine in his pocket and on his behind, so they can monitor his carbon monoxide discharge, oh yeah, they're starting early, yeah, yeah, Matt and Rich will tell you the worst paying jobs in Naples, podcasting made the top of the list because they work for free, advice for free, I mean if you read something like that, you just have to, yeah, I love it, yeah, you do, you just, I mean there's no way, what are these two fools talking about, yeah, that was yesterday's show, let's see what we do today, we'll see, we are raw, we don't prepare, we just have a couple notes here, so we don't forget because you know, we're aging day by day, yeah, day by day and we're just off the cuff, we're just flying, just soaring, there used to be one guy with magnifying glasses, now it's two guys with magnifying glasses, I had to start wearing them too, yeah, you got yourself a set of coke bottle glasses there, coke as thick as a coke bottle, now it's now, that's yours, so just let's go to officials, Julian Bruce, Terra Kitarra, Pachuli Music, thank you very much for all the tunes and the intro song, we always gonna be grateful and we're looking forward to seeing you here soon, our sponsor, do you know who's our sponsor, yeah, who is it, it's Beach SOS, that's correct, BeachSOS .com, weekend's coming, you're probably gonna be laying and trying to get that lard burned out on the sun, because it's gonna, it's gonna get the, you know, some kind of good job, because it's very hot, so if you're missing something on the beach, let us know BeachSOS .com, we will bring you to in stylish mini fire truck with lights on, now coupons, you know, as I said that before $500, you can just print them easy, $500 savings in several different businesses around and that is divineapals .com forward slash discount slash, no, discount dash coupon, that's what it is, there you go, yeah, and well next month, we just have to remind you, our divine spy is in operation and we are actually very, doing very well, we have a lot of customers, this weekend is fully booked, so that is awesome, yeah, if you're thinking to hide in front of the sun and get something, you know, relaxing moment or couples massage, we are here for you, just look for divine spa Naples or go to website mydivinespa .com, that's great, so official is done, now let's go to unofficial business, yeah, what do you got for the weather today, I've been in the weather, I mean, this is, you want to talk about it, no, it's just hot, hot, but it did rain today, on and off, yeah, yeah, it's always like that, yeah, I got some hints, there's a gentleman who is friend of mine, I told you about the Mexican, which is catching the tan, yeah, being deeper Mexican, yeah, you know what I'm saying, yeah, it's like, I don't know what comes, you know, like turning the toaster from lighter to darker, it can't be darker Mexican, he called me and he was in Lely, he says, oh, I gotta go, it's raining and so I knew I was supposed to prepare, it took five minutes and we had to rain here too, yeah, so, you know, it's all, you know, I was, I started at one end today, this afternoon and it was, I was down by Pine Ridge and Logan and it was raining like cats and dogs, we have to liquid up what that means, I have no idea, but it was, let's just say it was raining a lot and then, you know, I drive two or three miles and then all of a sudden the sun's breaking out again, no rain, you know what it's called, the rain, cats and dogs, no, I have no idea what it means, Jewish car wash, oh yeah, yeah, why is that, because you get the car wash from the dust and you don't have to pay for it, oh, okay, it's cheap, yeah, all right, some that's true, yeah, it just comes out and they get the sponge, unfortunately, there's so much dirt and oil and grime on the car, my car is always a lot dirtier, I mean, if you're riding toaster, that's what's gonna happen, you know, there's just gonna have some grime because that's when you're toasting and toasting, it doesn't matter what car I was driving, it's whenever I'm driving in the streets, it's a mess, yeah, that's what happens in Florida, it's a mess, yeah, that's why we have rain, to clean it up, I tell you what, today, there was a lady, she came up and she started coming here today, today was the official day, yesterday was tryout and she said she took our coffee yesterday and she was up until three o 'clock in the morning, oh my gosh, I said why you didn't call us, we have this special phone line, you know, 1 -800 number, divine divine 9, that's the, you know, and she looked at me and said are you serious, I said yeah, we used to have a sex line but we didn't get that busy, so now we have the old days of the 900 numbers and I'll be helping people and, you know, they consume our coffee, yeah, they're so jacked up and high on the coffee, so she got a rocket fuel and she said, you know what, intervention line, this is my coffee shop for everyday now, I used to go to Badass and I said to her, you know, but that's perfect because we have a coffee and then I turned around and I said and better ass, how did you, yeah, she was laughing and she ordered something, she ordered something and she said I want that sandwich, I said what is it, the one I had yesterday, I said what is it, she said chicken clucker, oh the chicken, it's not the mother clucker, no it's chicken clucker, chicken clucker, I said why are you saying chicken is mother clucker and then she started laughing, she just made a new name, chicken clucker, chicken clucker, it's basically chicken chicken, yeah, chicken chicken, chicken clucker, yeah, yeah and after, usually chickens cluck, that's what I'm saying, yeah, so you didn't catch the drift, no because I'm stupid sometimes, well I'm sorry, I'm looking at your face, I'm having to stare at this thing across, I used to be better looking when I was three and then after three years old it just went downhill, that's all right, you're all right, you'll be all right, you'll get over it, so after that we had people from Holland and they are hooked to our podcast now, so we're going international, oh good, well we were doing that anyway because the website divinenapels .com is international anyway, yeah, it's actually the largest hub for everything you need to know about Naples, that's correct, and I don't, what is it, almost 30 websites connected, 23 websites, 23 and 18, how many languages, 18, 18, I see, I remember that number, 18 different languages and that's what we're doing here, that means you know that's stupid then, yeah, I thought you were, no I'm always stupid, half as stupid as I look, but we're all right, yeah, we're doing good, so that's, we're doing good, that was quick, let's get past that, yeah, so I've been browsing through some news and what's going on here, hey why don't you share with us some news, yeah I will share that with you right now because it's Friday and people need to kind of have a weekend to think about it, right, so number one, there are some changes in the, in a lot of the like school buses routes and everything else and they install secret cameras on the buses, oh really, yeah, so if you're gonna be thinking you're gonna pass the bus, you know, monster before, yeah, I call them yellow monsters, yeah, when you see the yellow monster, you want to pass it, pass it, then be careful because they have a, they have a cameras and they read also license plate, so once you get through it, they will send you tickets, yeah, that's not gonna be pretty, yeah, well we need to be safe with kids, right, right, just slow down, so get up and take off to work or wherever you got to go a little early, yeah, but another thing is also they're changing the speed in the school zones, used to be 20 miles an hour, now it's 15, which I'm grateful for because, you know, it's, it's, as he's saying, it's important to, you know, people crossing the streets with kids.
The Dan Bongino Show
Dan Bongino: There Are Three Lanes in Presidential Elections
"A good grasp around election dynamics in presidential elections and if you have a beef with this Jim stop me tell me if I'm oversimplifying there are generally three lanes right there's the front runner lane in this case let's just call it the Trump lane because Trump is the front runner by far I I would say the front runner lane if Trump was only up by like four or five points but Trump is so far ahead right right now you have Trump with a lane entirely to himself so I'm called the front runner the Trump lane then you have the runner -up lane the runner -up lane is typically the guy who runs next time you know the Mitt Romney's the Rick Santorum's um guys who finished number two in that race who typically run the time next Ted Cruz didn't do it this time which was strange when the first times you haven't seen that in a long time right say the front runner Lane you have the second place guy who becomes like the next big thing guy right and then you typically have the third lane the third lane is the guy who comes out of it with like a Fox show News or a Newsmax show I'm serious it's like that I'm not knocking these guys I don't I'm pleased I'm not saying this to be insulting I haven't run for president I wouldn't insult anyone who does but it's like the Mike Huckabee lane you you know I'm saying the guy who runs a credible enough campaign at a likable enough campaign but really he doesn't have much of a chance of winning towards but they stay in for a little bit they get a Fox News show and really I don't mean as an insult so you have these three lanes and those are kind of the three lanes people want to dominate someone wants to take that lane over the front runner lane wants to be the front runner the number two guy wants to be known as runner a runner -up and the guy in the third lane wants to get rid of everyone else because he wants all the earned media
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from How to Save Your Children from Sex-Change Predators with Prisha Mosley and Dave Rubin
"Hey everybody today on the Charlie Kirk show a fun conversation with Dave Rubin who is pro DeSantis and Obviously, I've endorsed Donald Trump is good friend of mine I think it's a lively conversation that you will really enjoy and then a an unbelievably powerful Conversation with a D transitioner. This will make your blood boil. What we are doing to our children is evil. It's Reprehensible we need to talk about it. Email me your thoughts is always freedom at Charlie Kirk comm Subscribe to our podcast open up your podcast app and type in Charlie Kirk show get involved with turning point USA at TP USA comm that is TP USA comm starting high school or college chapter today at TP USA comm that is TP USA comm Become a member of the Charlie Kirk show at members dot Charlie Kirk comm Hundreds of you are signing up join today I want to thank you guys that are becoming members. 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He was killed the next afternoon And he gave this speech and he had just been like cheating with a bunch of different women. Okay. Yeah He had a tendency. Oh my gosh. No, he was like a ridiculous out of control But he gave this speech in which he clearly predicted his own death Like there's no doubt if you listen to this that God is speaking through Martin Luther King and I and I get I don't like Martin Luther King's program. I don't like his behaviors a lot of You know worshipping Martin Luther King is absurd to me, but I gotta say if you listen to that speech God is speaking through Martin Luther King. There's no other explanation for that and you're like, well, that's kind of consistent with what we know We're all flawed the people in charge tend to be more flawed But it doesn't mean that they're not capable of greatness So let's just be honest about it The second you have to feel the need to pretend that you're perfect you become a liar and you become paradoxically even less perfect Become a member members dot Charlie Kirk calm buckle up everybody here we go Charlie what you've done is incredible here Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk Charlie Kirk's run in the White House folks. I Want to thank Charlie's an incredible guy his spirit his love of this country He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created Turning Point USA Embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries destroyed lives and we are gonna fight for freedom on campuses across the country That's why we are here Brought to you by the loan experts. I trust Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific mortgage at Andrew and Todd come One of the things I don't like is how these this primary is Ruining some people's friendships. I'm not gonna let that happen people know where my loyalties personally lie and I Got to tell you there's there's some really great people that are advocating in different camps We need to keep those bonds strong for those buying strong for just no other reasons and it's the right thing to do Great American and one of the sharpest minds in the movement Dave Rubin joins us Dave. Welcome to the program Dave How's this primary treating you? I'm sure that it's it's been uplifting fun You know, and I'm sure you just want it to go on for another two years Well first off early I want to say that no matter what happens in this crazy circus that we are all endlessly sucked into and cannot get out of the orbit of You and I were friends before all of this and I will be friends after this even if temporarily We're on I don't even want to say opposite side It seems that we're both I would say in different camps or but we're on Team America Dave We're just wearing different jerseys in the primary Is that fair to say that is fair to say and that's also why and I think you were kind of getting to this in That intro there. That's why it's been so disappointing to see the level of Craziness, I would say coming far more out of one side than another which is defending itself for the most part Because I've really really been trying it and for the people for your listeners and viewers that watch my show I have really been trying to stay above the fray to the best of my ability I am not perfect at it. Just like you are not perfect at it and and often politics brings out the worst in all of us But I think the best we can do right now is fight for the things we believe in and the people that you think And accomplish those things at a political and cultural level. That's what I'm doing that's what you're doing and and that's what many other people are doing and and hopefully if you do it with a Degree of honesty and integrity. I think you'll survive either way and I think a lot of people are kind of putting that aside And Dave we've done a lot of fun stuff together and we're gonna keep on doing it I mean we went to UC Berkeley together and you had your briefcase robbed from you in the early days of San Francisco Well, you didn't tell me I couldn't leave a bag in a car outside of Morton's That's right. It was in it was in a security car outside Morton's near the Transamerica building and Dave lost everything So Dave, I want to actually give our audience a fair opportunity here and this is not a gotcha in any way Just make the case for Governor DeSantis is policy agenda how you think the campaign is going Obviously, we've been you know voicing my personal opinions on President Trump's agenda what he's doing I want our audience to be able to hear all sides of it. You know, you're a very articulate I could say spokesperson for I don't not officially but obviously advocate Kind of make the case especially to our conservative audience. And then secondly, how do you think his campaign is currently going? Well, first off just to be clear I'm not a spokesperson I am not paid for you know By the campaign or anything like that. I would not even if they offered me money. I wouldn't I'm doing what I think is Right. I tell people what I think for a living and my life Literally my life and the life of my family and my employees who are in this room and them who work remotely But many of them who live in Florida and the two companies that I moved to Florida is all enriched by the things that Ron DeSantis has done here in the great state of Florida. I left I don't know that anyone in the entire country left California fled California more publicly than I did about a year and a half ago to move to the free state of Florida I would say and I'd love to hear your thoughts on this if you are a I would say right leaning person meaning you are Let's say a disaffected liberal or you're a traditional You know religious conservative or you're a libertarian something in that or you're just I said disaffected liberal But you're just sort of an old -school liberal who's a little confused about what time it is say like an RFK type You in essence should be loving every single thing that Ron DeSantis has done. I don't know one thing that Ron DeSantis Has not done that we would have wanted him to do Florida is safe. Its economy is absolutely booming We fund the police here. We're getting ESG out of our institutions We've done that which that's actually perhaps the biggest issue that people don't talk about that often because it's kind of in the weeds on How corporations are putting wokeness on all of us? I know you talk about it, but the average person doesn't and they certainly don't in corporate America. He has fought Disney He has fought the endless racialization of our children by getting rid of this AP African American Studies course That was in essence going to teach gender theory. We've gotten some of these books that are sexualizing our children out of schools He has done Literally everything that anyone right -leaning could believe in or could possibly want to happen I would say he's done one or two things that are a little bit more like right -leaning then then I will they're perfect for me Dave I got to say I love that stuff No, absolutely. So for example, Charlie, I'll give you one that you agree with DeSantis more than I do Which is the abortion one for me, Florida had Florida had 15 week Abortion ban and I've been to every Republican event in the year and a half since I've been here and I never heard anyone complaining About it DeSantis often said that he personally was pro -life And by the way, it's it's completely within his jurisdiction as the chief executive of the state especially when you win by a freaking crazy 1 .6 million vote landslide 20 % to do what you think is right and he has the Supermajority in the state Senate to make that happen. So he switched it six now I think it's possible that will hurt him in the in the general election I think at the primary it probably a little bit works to his favor But but I know he did what he thought was right and that's what he believes At he should use his power to do as the governor So I have a disagree with disagreement with him on that, but I think that's fine But I would ask you what is there anything that Ron DeSantis you're you're at least apart Oh, he's America's greatest governor. I've said that and I and by the way, I just I've said that repeatedly and some people say oh You're anti -de Santis. I said I'm not anti -de Santis. I've said he's America's greatest governor, but let me ask you Dave Is there anything can you what would what would you say would be your biggest my biggest complaint is the last six months? He's allowing consultants and Chamber of Commerce folks to run his campaign. He doesn't sound like the Ron DeSantis of last year I'll just be very honest. So so give so we can talk about the Ukraine give me like a specific example The Ukraine language, right? So the Ukraine language he was kind of dilly -dallying and flip -flopping on that at first. He was great His instinct was territorial dispute. Then he's talking about, you know more weapons for Zelensky and all that But honestly, it's also just kind of a vibe and a tone Dave where you know, the base for example I'll give you another example his miss handling of the Trump indictment I said that Ron DeSantis should have went down to Miami done a press conference showed that hey, this is my state Hey Vivek Ramaswami did it he ascended in the polls and now Vivek and DeSantis Vivek is working with Trump and everyone knows hold on a second But you're not gonna win the primary unless you understand Trump has a bait, you know has a built -in 50 to 60 percent But but hold on but if you listen to what DeSantis his words were related to the indictment He said he would not on the first indictment He said he would not extradite him and he's gone out of his way saying he's gonna destroy the very agencies I think has been more that's fair. No his policy fine But let me tell you how the base heard it Dave the base heard this and it might not even be fair I'm just telling you how the base heard it right because remember the base is like a lover scorned They hear one thing from a politician like Paul Ryan or Boehner and Lindsey Graham So they have a heightened sense of distrust and they love Trump and that's not going to change They heard Ron DeSantis go out of his way the first time to say well I don't know really what goes into payoffs to You know play boy. I'm not even saying that's fair That was just a joke and Trump makes silly jokes and sex jokes about everything like that The laws of Trump don't apply to everyone else Dave, you know that we're in this it's a different primary, right? The laws the guy is levitates. He's a once in a 200 -year, you know He says I'm gonna shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and he goes up in the polls. He attacks He's not a politician at this point. He's something beyond a politician, which I also think there's a certain demagoguery That's somewhat dangerous related to that. But oh, by the way, again, you know, I you know, I voted for Trump I like no, I know No, and I just so that was another thing and then finally I know that I'm a little biased when very biased when Ron DeSantis Didn't show up at our event that bothered me, right? It wasn't some sort of gotcha or trap I think he would have done very well I don't think he would have gotten booed or anything But here's what I would like to see out of DeSantis, you know When we go to a college campus you say hey if you disagree go to the front of the line I want to say I want to see somebody get in the arena and say hey I'm willing to throw out the script. I'm willing to just take any question. I'm willing to kind of just fight It's more kind of total and attitudinal Dave your reaction sure So look if in essence and we'll pick it up after the break if in essence your your point is oh I agree with Virtually all of the policies and nobody has accomplished more than this guy and done everything I want to do But but there's a little bit of a marketing issue here All right, I'll go with you on that and I think that can be dealt with but we'll pick it up on the other side Well, look, I will say this the base the base is very smart and they're constantly Looking in a way of who's gonna betray me next This is the advice I'd get I gave the DeSantis privately and publicly and right now the Rubicon has been crossed where they think DeSantis is gonna betray. I'm not even saying that's fair, but but I'm not saying it's fair. It's honest I mean Trump Trump has done far more to betray the truth and and in a certain way the Respect of the base every time he lies about dissent, right? So when he lies about kovat in Florida who was the best governor for kovat in Florida kovat in the country DeSantis 100 % But who has more who has more in who has done more work and more praise for Paul Ryan Is it Ron DeSantis or Donald Trump for Paul Ryan? I can't I can't either way but at the same time we could talk about getting after the break I can't speak either way. I mean I could show you plenty of videos of I'm gonna tell you this this line of what you're getting at is not persuasive to the base and I'll explain why after the break Because I'm telling you the truth. I'm not trying to persuade anybody Okay, but no lecturing the base is not how you win a primary That's that what you're doing is why he's losing because they want to hear well Not necessarily the little things Trump got wrong. 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Yeah No, it's all good at Charlie really like this is we would do this over drinks I want people to understand that like there is something that transcends politics here Well, let me ask you something because one thing that I've been confused sort of going off what you said right before the break Was that he's sort of that DeSantis has like handed this off to that glass of people or something Do you is it your position that that Ron DeSantis has anything to do with Karl Rove or Paul Ryan? Oh, no I because Donald Trump does that I don't think he does does that repeatedly and that's what all the people but Dave I'll be honest He's acting like he does He's acting like he might as well because he's acting and talking like Karl Rove is running his campaign. No, no, no No, hold on Hold on you do you have any evidence or any reason to believe that Karl Rove or Paul Ryan have anything? No, except for the fact that Fox has been very favorable to DeSantis and Paul Ryan sits on the board But that seems like a reach and and so what I'm not gonna do Dave is I'm not gonna go through every Truth social and go through all that with you know Trump saying But sure we don't have to go through all of that except but it is important I think to some degree because I agree with what you're saying about The base in that in their passion for Donald Trump and why it's important and shouldn't be ignored and by the way When I'm frustrated with some of the the surrogates let's say or some of Trump's behavior lying about Florida and kovat that sort of thing That's that's a direct frustration. It's not a frustration with the people that support him But for example, I mean I have the exact quote right here from DeSantis about a month ago I actually did a little research before I joined you today. This is a direct quote from DeSantis I have not spoken to Paul Ryan since I was elected governor and I've met Karl Rove won I really think it's important that your viewers who are the base understand that because if you listen to any of the surrogates and Donald Trump himself They're implying that he's somehow working with these people and that they are in charge of his campaign and everything else and it's simply not Okay, and I think that that's important. That's important to know but know that that's that's fair. I'm glad I'm glad we cleared that up DeSantis has gotten favorable treatment on Fox and Paul Ryan as a board member there, but let me let me put that aside Let me just say though the type of campaign Trump was on with Brett Baer what two weeks ago? Fair enough. I would say though That was a that was a mostly peaceful interview as we would say But let me let me just put it with the type of campaign I want DeSantis to run is like the vague which is there needs to be a sign of respect towards Trump But I don't feel with this from DeSantis. I'll be very honest DeSantis is a governor Thanks to Donald Trump that primary was not going well for him, right? So he's challenging the alpha beast, right? He's challenging the guy that did kind of Anoint him to win the primary and eventually the general the vague is smart The vague is reading the room that these indictments the amount of criminalization of Trump really Increases people's fervor of the injustice towards him. So DeSantis has a choice Do you run kind of a policy technocratic campaign? which is what he's running and I don't think it's going very well or do you read the room and you realize the base has an attachment to Trump and I'm going to respect that it seems as if it's in some kind of murky middle. I guess my question is Dave How do you think the campaign is going? Right. Well, I would say that first off just quickly on the Vivek things I don't want to spend too much time on that I mean It's fairly obvious to anyone paying attention that that Trump and Vivek are coordinating right Vivek is doing all Endless attacks on DeSantis no attacks on Trump and all of the Trump surrogates online, you know who they are They're always pumping up Vivek because Vivek is going after DeSantis Also, if I was to believe any of the polls and national polls, by the way mean absolutely nothing We're also seven months away from the first primary I mean really think about that like the first primary isn't until January of next year and Everyone's going crazy as if oh my god on any given day. Like the whole world is gonna spin out of control The you would never you would never if you were so confident of your lead you would never spend all day Attacking the number two guys. So that's just a little insider political jockeying However, I will agree with you that in terms of some of the strategy of the rollout They probably should have been more aggressive. I do see that changing. Look DeSantis just went on Russell Brand last week He just went on CNN for the first time last week I think he's doing Megyn Kelly this week if I'm not mistaken and she's been very very critical of him Russell's a lefty. I mean he certainly isn't you know, no one that you would call a traditional conservative by any stretch I would love to see him go on the view sit directly with those women and call out their endless lies about Florida, you know Anna Navarro who lives in Miami who rails against Florida every day He should sit right next to her and call her out so if you want if your question is really do you want to take some of the Anger that the base has because of the way Trump being treated and he's being treated horribly And I completely agree with righteous. I agree. I agree There's probably some way to do that But I would also say to some extent if you just want to view this if you just want to view this in the political lens Maybe this is why Trump should stop lying about DeSantis every which way and you know, he is Everything he says about DeSantis is a lie. Everything he says Dave. I'll be honest It's also a lie when DeSantis goes after Trump and says he was pro Fauci and all that. That's just not true But but and it is what it gave Fauci an award on the way out. We're out of time Dave Rubin. Thanks so much All right, you've probably heard me it's actually now 25 pounds that I have lost and I'm sure some of you say Oh Charlie. I've tried everything. That was me You know my first zoom call with my PhD weight loss. I was kind of skeptical. I was like, come on guys All right. 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And I sent out this tweet both of you by the way, by the way, welcome to the program I said this tweet up Preisha Mosley is a 25 year old North Carolina woman who is suing the doctors who aided her sex change According to Preisha these doctors approved cross -sex hormones and a double mastectomy after consultation as brief as two minutes They also told her taking testosterone shots would allow her to quote grow a penis in Reality Preisha was just a 15 year old batter battling depression anxiety anorexia Her parents fought against her transition, but were steamrolled by enablers posing as medical professionals Preisha and Josh. Welcome to the program I understand there's some legal sensitivities around all this and so Preisha tell us in your own words your story and Why you're pursuing a lawsuit? Um, so my story is that I was a very troubled teenage girl I had a very sudden hard and strong puberty and Basically, my body grew faster than my brain. I Started receiving attention from boys and men who just wanted to touch me And Then at 14, I actually experienced a sexual assault which led to a miscarriage and totally divorced me from womanhood and then at 15, I was online in the pro Anna community and that's a self -harm community where people have anorexia and enable each other and Transgender adults came into the community and started telling us that we couldn't eat because we were born in the wrong body and we were boys and Eventually, you know after hearing an onslaught of this for so long and proof, you know I I ended up believing it and I was desperate for a cure. I was suicidal and had attempted And I just wanted to feel better. So I Was met by medical professionals who said the same exact thing You know you you have a disease you were born in the wrong body, you know you and so on and so forth Um, and I'm bringing a legal case because I've come to realize that I am not a boy I wasn't born in the wrong body. I I was mentally ill I needed therapy I I needed someone to care for me. Um But that's what happened it's a very powerful and by the way courageous testimony that you have Josh You're the attorney for Preisha Josh. Can you fill us in on who Preisha is suing and what is the complaint? basically detailed That's right, Charlie as we allege in the complaint Preisha is seeking justice because she feels that she was deceived and misled into a Medicalized gender transition being placed on what they call cross -sex hormone therapy which in actuality is injecting large amounts of testosterone the male hormone into her female body and also having her healthy breasts removed by a plastic surgeon at age 18 after she was put on the testosterone at age 17 and Doctors and the counselors who were involved in leading her down this path and the the tragedy of it is that It happened and Preisha was left with her mental health issues unresolved Contrary to the promises that were made that these medical interventions would in fact cure her mental health Problems and issues and that they were a treatment for those mental health Issues but as alleged in the complaint that did not happen Preisha was left with her mental health still untreated and unresolved and with additional significant mental and emotional injuries and of course the physical injuries That were brought about by her being on testosterone for years and without her body parts So I just need to editorialize for a second There are thousands if not tens of thousands of other young people that are now walking into the same circumstances that Preisha Was nine years ago.
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"He is In the name of the second guy man, Jack Smith, a special council member, late in the season, January events we have with us now as promised Julie Kelly who has an excellent sub stack that you should check out and subscribe to Declassified also the author of the book January 6th has a longer title but just look up Julie Kelly January 6th it'll all come up there for you should get a copy of it Julie thank you for being with us can we just remind everybody this was you In of August last year play it so Julie just to clear be you are still as confident as you even before the Mar -a -Lago raid came on came on this show and a lot of people now remember this and wow before the raid of Mar -a -Lago you believe that there was going to be a high likelihood of a prosecution of Donald Trump you still believe that I absolutely do I think I was like 99 % now I'm like a hundred and five percent you said 99 % which is pretty like I'm not even 99 % sure that I'm gonna wake up tomorrow so I'm pretty that's a pretty high likelihood you're 99 % sure or they're gonna prosecute Donald Trump or they're gonna bring some kind of criminal charge now she's a hundred and five going yeah go going on to onto the next level so Julie first of all well played you saw it coming you were right so we wanted to give you that moment here with everyone listening we have the York New indictment already we have the South Florida indictment already imminent j6 indictment what are you expecting to be in this and just tell us what you're seeing here well of first all thanks you guys for having me on for over a year and covering my work and reporting on january 6 and the indictment pending against Donald Trump look as we've talked about this January 6th indictment poses the greatest legal jeopardy for the president not just because of the felonies that I'm sure Jack Smith is pursuing obstruction of an official proceeding possibly seditious conspiracy but because these proceedings will continue to go forward in Washington DC and as you guys know I've covered these January 6th proceedings the trials the hearings for more than two two years I know what this DOJ is capable of doing and furthermore I see what the DC judges let DOJ get away with time and time again and he will those to trial face a jury made up of DC voters in a city that voted 93 percent for Joe Biden and has a 100 percent level of contempt for Donald Trump his associates and of course his voters Julie you've been covering these January 6th political trials for like you said a couple of years has every defendant that has gone to trial trial in Washington DC for January 6th related charges been convicted so far if I know some may have beaten some aspect of charges but has anyone been found not guilty and and walked out a free man or woman from these courts I believe there are for a small handful and literally a handful less than five who have been exonerated either been been found not guilty by a judge or by a jury but the conviction rate is close to 100 % somewhere in the neighborhood of 99 % now you have defendants who were found not guilty on various charges but they were convicted of others so and these are serious convictions these are case precedent setting convictions for obstruction official of an proceeding seditious conspiracy for example for members of the proud boys and we talked about this after the verdicts were announced in that trial in may four members of the proud boys convicted by a dc jury of seditious conspiracy a charge rare civil war era charge never before has american been convicted of seditious conspiracy but four men were convicted by a dc jury and that poses that is that whole trial was tied to donald trump so when those guilty verdicts came down i wrote and i think we talked about it uh... that this will now give leverage for jack smith the special prosecutor to speak a similar uh felony count indictment against donald trump for that charge and that's very dangerous for the president not just because of potential prison time but because dc judges have uh... ordered pretrial detention for defendant who just are accused of seditious conspiracy and obstruction that means denying their relief and i put nothing nothing past jack smith his prosecutors and his dc district court that they will seek could seek pretrial detention for donald trump and a dc judge very well could sign off on it well this this brings us to our next question and i i have two things to ask you julie one is is because you've covered this so closely for years as we've been discussing is there a judge who if by some stroke of luck trump dot in in a dc j6 case would be even a little bit fair to him that's one part of the question and then the other part of it is uh... clay numbers talking about this is found guilty then it would probably be next year right based on the timelines that we're looking at right now if trump was found guilty do you think a federal judge would order him to actually go to federal prison uh... if he if was found guilty uh... yes i do and you know it if he'd if pretrial detention uh... if he is convicted based on whatever his convictions are the government has moved in many times to then place that defendant in immediate custody which Jack Smith could do if he was convicted at a trial which he very well you know there's that ninety nine percent chance that he will be i will say it will be difficult to bring this seditious conspiracy obstruction official of an proceeding other conspiracy charges tampering with evidence witnesses this is what i'm expecting from Jack Smith very hard to put that trial on before the election typically those trials are delayed sometimes up to two years in the case of the proud boys so they'd be really rushing that trial to try to put that on before november right well the proud boys aren't i mean you know timeline here so if the fix is in maybe they go all the way is there a judge though julie that you've covered that you say at least that judge tried to be somewhat fair toward any of the j six defendants because i you would no know the judge the judge who justified
Live From Studio 6B
FBI Tipped Off Biden Team About Plan to Interview Hunter
"We find out that a former FBI agent has now confirmed under testimony, I believe given, key portions of the original whistleblower's shapely testimony in the Hunter Biden probe. And that's just out this evening. The House Committee on Over, like I said, I saw the tweet not too long ago. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Accountability announced that committee staff conducted a transcribed interview with a former FBI supervisory special agent assigned to the FBI's Wilmington office. That would be Wilmington, of course, Delaware, where all investigations in the Bidens go to die, but maybe not. And the Biden criminal investigation earlier today, and that the witnesses had confirmed key portions of the IRS whistleblower's testimony in the matter. As seen in the transcripts of committee staff interviews with the two IRS whistleblowers who apparently worked with this former FBI supervisory special agent, witnesses are advised that giving false testimony to committee staff is a crime prior to the commencement of the interview, which of course he was. And then Comer says today, this is a quote from his press release tonight, a former FBI supervisory special agent assigned to the FBI's Wilmington office and the Biden criminal investigation confirmed key portions of the IRS whistleblower's testimony. The night before the interview of Hunter Biden, both secret service headquarters and the Biden transition team were tipped off about the planned interview. So here we go again. On the day of the Hunter Biden interview, federal agents were told to stand by and could not approach Hunter Biden. They had to wait for his call. Now, and this is what we heard from Shapley that they couldn't go into the storage unit. And when he was out, I believe in California, and they were trying to interview him and they figured we'll just get them there. They tipped them off that they were coming there as well. So they never did that. As a result of the change in plans, IRS and FBI criminal investigators never got to interview Hunter Biden as part of the investigation. The justice department efforts to cover up for the Bidens reveals a two tiered system of justice that sickens the American people. The oversight committee, along with the judiciary committee and Ways and Means Committee will continue to seek answers, transparency and accountability that the American people deserve and demand. So that from Comey. Now, key points of the witness testimony according to the committee. Number one, as part of the criminal investigation, there were multiple witnesses interviews that were planned for December 8th of 2020. IRS supervisory special agent, Gary Shapley and the former FBI supervisory special agent who they interviewed today were assigned to interview Hunter Biden. So both guys who have testified now were the two guys who were supposed to interview
"That's Why You're Single"
Heroic or Foolish? Son Protects Mother During Fight at Pizza Shop
"Know you guys seen on the news or on TikTok or on Facebook, whatever social media platform you're on, the situation where there was a lady that she was arguing with a guy in a pizza restaurant and he started beating her up and her son came in and took care of business. Now, on the last podcast, I had two guys up here and they were basically blaming the mother, saying it was bad parenting to have her son, put her son in that situation. What do you guys think? Was there any wrong doing? I think that young man deserves a medal of honor for what he did. He was bred to do what he did. Had it been the other way around, would it still have been the same situation? No, it would have been not. He did what he was supposed to do. He protected his mother. My thing would be, what would we be saying if that man punched her in the right spot of her head and knocked her out cold blood dead? It was self -defense. Okay. I wish I could give him a job. I got a couple of people I want him to shoot, but you know, that's neither here nor there, but I think he did what he was supposed to do. That's how sons are supposed to be built. Well, I do agree to a certain extent and to play devil's advocate. The other podcast, the guys were saying, you know, what if the guy, you had a gun and shot the son and the son ended up getting killed, you know, but that's why you don't bring a knife to a fist fight. That man knew what he was doing. Yeah. Violating women all his life. Did you see what, like my thing was let's just start off by saying, he told her, you say another word. I'm not, well, I'm alone just from
The Dan Bongino Show
A Reminder of The Prisoner's Dilemma
"Does go in cycles. Just look at the history of humankind. Now, the only, I said this to my wife the other day, is who political, but not nearly as political as me, she can't believe how in trans the agenda has gotten now, where there's actual discussions in California, Jim shaking his head yet, like nodding yes and he can't believe it. Like how in California's discussions are like making decisions about your kids to change your sex without the parents. What do you create? This is so nuts. It's like no sane person with triple a -digit IQ thinks this is normal, okay? No one. It's a vocal minority crazies, of literal and like everyone's afraid of them, so no one wants to say anything. But sooner or later what happens is you get that dancing effect. You know the one we talked about in the show, the dancing video guy, the one guy gets up and dances, everybody laughs at him. Then a second guy gets up and joins him, and then a third, and then the whole party's dancing. Well, the same thing happens when you've got this dictator in charge ruling through fear like the activists left, and a guy just stands up and you know, says, you know what, I'm not kneeling today. And everybody's looking around with the side -eye like, know you what, get down, get down on your knees, they're gonna come for you. And then another guy gets up and goes, you know what, he's right, I'm not kneeling in front of you today either. And then the guards come and crack these guys with a nightstick or whatever, and a third guy gets up and goes, you're gonna hit them, you gotta hit me too. And then a fifth, and then a tenth, and then there's only 20 guards there. And then you realize all of a sudden, gosh, this isn't working out that great for the other guys. If we come together, up we can win! It's got a name in economics called the prisoner's dilemma. You can look it up. How is it that 10 ,000 prisoners can be detained by 20 guards? It doesn't even make physical sense. The answer is because they have a tough time coordinating
The Dan Bongino Show
Kyle Seraphin: FBI Investigation Into Trump Lacked Evidence
"Kyle you will remember the FBI So although you weren't an active member of this Trump investigative team you understand the process is better than the average guy and even better than other federal agents because every entity Secret Service DEA whatever has their own processes Now one of the things I found deeply disturbing about this is they move to a full investigation on Donald Trump and his team despite John dorm acknowledging in the report that quote they never possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings Any Kyle they don't say a little bit it was on the margin they had no evidence So how is it in the FBI that this didn't even go to a preliminary investigation but a full investigation with no evidence isn't there some documentation have to produce It's funny So the way that that works is that somebody agrees to sign off on it And when the deputy director which was Andy mccabe at the time goes and tells his buddy Peter strzok who was the deputy assistant director of counterintelligence to go open this case and do it as a full investigation then that's who signs off on It's the number two guy in the FBI signed off on it I'm using this got me blocked by Peter struck today I've been waiting for this for kind of a while actually But he finally blocked me because he does this whole thing and he goes you know the Clinton foundations they opened a preliminary investigation how dare them And it's like yeah Pete That's actually how the book works The policy says when you have some allegation but it's unsubstantiated you do a preliminary investigation tops You don't start with a full investigation This is a cell phone that you always did But end of the day the guy doesn't care about policy or law or his marriage vows You know he's just a dirtbag And amusingly he still out there being listened to by the left because they can't help but celebrate these guys who are heroes to them but violated federal law violated FBI policies and really made a clown show of that organization that used to have some respect in this country now half the country is looking at them like they're the enemy
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Dinesh Considers the Expulsion of Two Dems by the Tennessee GOP
"Coming back to Tennessee, the Republican legislature decides that since three prominent Democrats were leading the charge to occupy the capitol. Think of the echoes to January 6th. All right, let's expel them. But instead of expelling all three of them, the Republican legislature gets together and they expel too, and they don't expel one. They don't expel the woman and they expelled to men. They expel Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, but they don't expel Gloria Johnson. Now this starts to look bad from the outset. Why? Because Gloria Johnson is white and the two men are black. Now, again, this is not Republicans are. They're like, well, there's some important distinctions to be made, the white woman did not participate as actively as the other two guys and moreover, she expressed some regrets and apologies for what she had done, but the left is going to say this just shows how racist the Republican legislature is and not to mention the woman who was retained. By the way, retained by one vote, goes on TV, and she's asked, well, why were you retained while the other two guys were kicked out and she goes, well, obviously, it had to do with skin color, my skin color is white, so this is what you get Republicans when you try to make these nuances and say that we're not going to go all the way and kick them off. You should have gone all the way and thrown them all out. Now they're left, of course, would be in a major uproar and they go, this is horrible. This is an attack on democracy. How exactly is it an attack on democracy? Let's start with. Aren't isn't the Tennessee legislature or democratically elected in a red state. They've got a majority. In fact, I believe they have a super majority. And so they are democratically deciding that this behavior is out of line.
Two Guys to the Dark Tower Came: A Podcast about Stephen King and His Books
"two guys" Discussed on Two Guys to the Dark Tower Came: A Podcast about Stephen King and His Books
"I'll watch it just for that I'm a mcconnell. Hey fan to some extent. I'm not sure if the man in black is the part. He was born to play but he looks like he's going to be eating up some scenery here. I did say when we read the gunslinger that the one thing i liked about the the man in black characterization is he seems to be some sort of trickster and and to that extent makaay fits that seeing it screen though i. It's always hard to play a a jokey bad guy. I in this little bit of the trailer. It's hard to tell if that's gonna work or not. Yeah he doesn't seem to have any humor or mirth to his toes facial expressions. He seems to be ominous in menacing and angry in the trailer that might that might expand to a more nuanced portrayal in the the larger movie. But in this it just seems like a bad guy and you're gonna have to deal with me. It's like okay. That's not really the trickster tittering you know manipulator the man in black is and there's also that that's short scene of them like just battling it out like you know just having a an all out brawl shootout using magic against each other and stuff like that like when the ellen seen. They never actually physically confronted each other in the book. Now like so. This seems like a really big departure. And i don't know if that's good or that just supposedly makes for better movies. You know. It's a visual medium. So let's give you something visual to enjoy. But i like the fact that rolin spent an entire book chasing this character and when he finally catches him. It's not a knock down drag out confrontation. It's a all right. Let's talk because that's what this is really about. It's about you know you caught me. You earned that. So i'll share my information. And then they could have been had a knock-out drag-out thing but that wasn't the way it's supposed to go now I will say. I was a little disappointed. Not to see any sign of edi or odeta data susannah here at all We do look like we get a little bit of the roland fish out of water in new york city. There's a sort of a spinning time square shot of idris. Elba looking overwhelmed by the city but A little bit of the cliche but then again it is in new york. So it's like darrell. Hanan splash look at hubby's luck it's craziness the other sort of you. I think one thing that people were concerned about is this balance between. How do we introduce a beloved series to a bunch of readers. Who may have heard of stephen king but have no concept of the dark tower but then also how do we please the fans of the dark tower who are very knowledgeable. Well read bunch who've committed years to this series right and you know whether or not they'll be happy or not. I did see that. In an attempt to sort of maybe a little bit of fan servicing. There is early reference to the shining. it looks like in the psychiatrist office. There seems to be a picture of the hotel. And then luck. Yeah and then later on there's a reference to it with the penny wise. It looks like a rundown like an amusement park. Widening says pennywise pennywise in. There's a clowns hands of merging from the ground. Ominously like a like a zombie digging itself out of a grave or like jerry holding a bunch of balloons. Yeah or like. Carry coming out of the grave. Yeah exactly yeah. Hopefully this won't be hey. They're walking around new york city. And there is a fifty seven plymouth. Fury water driving by jake has a dog. a big saint bernard that he loves So we'll see we'll see how this goes. I mean what else do you want to say about it. I think you know. I had not watched there had been previously released trailer late in two thousand sixteen that i think had a bunch of unfinished special effects and the overall impression that i had heard from people who watched it was. Oh my god. This looks horrible. I did watch and it was. Oh my god horrible in thinking back on it. I think they were. There was the scene when jake is looking at the wall of drawings. There's the scene his in the psychiatrist's office and seen when jake was looking through one of those magic portals. That appear okay. Those are the only things that had anything in common with what was in the real trailer ochre and there was obviously none of the finnish special effects. None of the music and you could barely hear any of the dialogue. That was in the seat so it definitely gave the movie a bad you know. Look and feel that. Not just because it was unfinished. But because it just didn't make any sense just like random images which was probably just cobbled together by some bootlegger or group of bootleggers. That right now found some footage here and there and just jammed it together in two minutes and said hey look. It's the trailer enjoy. Well i will say that this you know so. I had this bar sort of set low for me. I mean i'm going to go see this opening weekend. It looks decent enough to me. It does look like perhaps maybe this was that this looks like a somewhat typical hollywood action movie with almost the dark tower skin lead over it as opposed to a dark tower movie but i will give it the benefit of the doubt and try to read through book five by the time. The movie opens so if they're are already spoilers in it i'm somewhat caught up. Yeah i mean we try not to spend too much time comparing the dark tower. To game of thrones series. But i think one of the things that's great about a song of ice and fire. Books is that dr martin turns genre in convention on its head often and regularly and it makes you come to that that content with fresh eyes forces you to do that and i think king did that too. Large extent is well he took genres and blended them in ways. That guide never seen before. I'd never encountered before and i think that that's true for most of the fans of the series is that we we haven't really seen western plus sifi plus fantasy horror role in one bunch of books and king mix it work very well so i would hope that the movie would carry some of that ford and be a typical. You know sort of surprise us in how it handles convention how it handles genre and how it handles cliche and unfortunately the trailer makes it look like it kind of skews more towards the the every day and then i'd like and i understand the movie distribution company has tickets to sell so they've gotta make it as appealing as possible to the white amount of audience. So i mean it is sony pictures. They'll probably just rebooted every two years like they did with spider man until marvel takes over. Oh zemi there we go all right. Well we would love to hear back from our listeners to hear what they think of the trailer and the movie feel free to email us. Tweet us get to us on facebook because You know we're excited here from others. So i think that that is all for this episode of two guys to the dark tower came. Thanks jay. thank you links. To all of our contact information is available in the show notes will also have a link to the trailer. Somehow you've made it all the way through this without actually watching it. You can make email us at two guys. Dark tower at gmail.com you can also find us on facebook at facebook dot slash two guys dark tower and our twitter handle is act two guys dark tower. If you like the show please rate us on itunes. Or as it's known now apple podcasts. So for j rousseau. I'm sean mccur. Thanks for listening..
Two Guys to the Dark Tower Came: A Podcast about Stephen King and His Books
"two guys" Discussed on Two Guys to the Dark Tower Came: A Podcast about Stephen King and His Books
"You can also email us at two guys dark tower at gmail.com in this bonus episode. We'll discuss the dark tower trailer. Let's start the show after months of waiting here. It is j. the new dark tower trailer. This will be a movie coming out. August fourth two thousand. Seventeen starring idris elba as rolling gunslinger. Matthew mcconaughey as the man. In black. And tom taylor as jake chambers and you and i have just watched the trailer that was released and we're going to give a little bit of thought on it in this special bonus episode. I was excited to see right at the very beginning a trailer for the trailer that we are just about to see as they showed about fifteen seconds of. Hey here comes the trailer for the dark tower trailer that you're just about to watch in fifteen seconds so that was how we started off this trailer. But that's not where our thoughts end on this. It would have been nice to see a teaser. i guess. If you're gonna put a teaser. Trailer maybe i dunno a month ago. Two months ago six months ago getting it fifteen seconds before we watch the actual trailer. I guess that will have to do it. Built up excitement it. Guess it worked a little bit. The sony. marketing machine inaction all right. So i'm gonna give sort of my overall initial thoughts on the trailer and then jay. You're more than welcome to chime in and give yours My first thoughts were loud. This looks like a movie of some sort that may be related to the dark tower in some way but having only read the first two books. There's a lot in there that is yet to be familiar to me. And maybe it'll be revealed in later books but they seem to be packing a lot in this first initial two hour movie. Yeah Because you haven't read beyond the beginning of books three. You definitely wouldn't recognize some of the things that are alluded to in the trailer. But anybody who's read all the way through the entire dark tower series would only recognize a few settings in a few characters in maybe a few types of things that are going on. So i would say it looks to me at a glance that there's a lot of content obviously from the first book in the series the gunslinger. But i see a lot of book three in a lot of book. Five going okay in the trailer that means that for our our constant listeners who are going along at the pace of our show and they and they don't know what comes beyond book three at this point because that's where we are with our podcast in some ways. This movie might be a spoiler for the rest of the series then again it might be just drawing some inspiration from it and maybe it won't kind of grew in the story. We'll have to see how that goes but this is an interesting approach. It's not an adaptation of one book in the series and say let's come back for the sequels. Continue the story. This feels like let's draw elements from an entire series of books into a single movie. Yes and there is still talk even this week of the potential for dark tower television show. That would eventually come somewhere after this movie. So i'm not sure what sony's long-term plans are. The route is released a movie than go to the tv show or fits released the movie. Have a supplementary tv show and more movies. I think a lot of it depends on. Probably the success of of this movie obviously But it'll be interesting to see what what direction they want to go in if this is a success so the other thing. There's i think nikolai ourselves. Who's director had said previously that this tier point not only is this an adaptation of pieces of the book but even more of a continuation of the series itself. So that's may be like some entirely new story lines and characters who knows Now they're also seems to be some pieces in the trailer that even with my knowledge of the books thus far seemed to be different the fact that we seem it the beginning of this trailer to focus mostly on jake in the seems to be jake's journey from our world into rowlands world and his discovery of the gunslinger. I know for my reading of book. One that's really not the case on there also seems to be some earthquakes happening in his world. Her causing some strange things happening on those two pieces seemed a little out of place to me. Yeah they seem to be a little bit. Seems like the movie is taking the more conventional approach of making jake the audience surrogate and letting him guide us to and help us understand roland. Enrolls world and that makes sense but it's definitely not the way gunslinger was constructed. And so that that does make it feel like a major departure in how these books function and who the real main characters are jacob. Certainly an important character in the beginning of the story but he's also not in the story by the end of book one bright so i wouldn't call him about important of a character at least towards the beginning of of the the dark tower series so as far as like the earthquakes. Yeah it seems like whatever might over bad. Things might be happening to the tower that we see in some in the trailer. Those bad things are what is causing these earthquakes and in the books. The tower is starting to have problems in. That's what role this opening to fight back against a but the repercussions of the tower. And what might be happening to. It are more subtle and they caused things like roles role to move on. And it warps the passage of time in the passage of distance and compass directions as we talked about it great length episodes but it doesn't like causing immediate earthquake like that. It's not so obvious. And they're certainly not that they're those impacts don't seem to be so apparent in jake's world our world if that is the same place so i think again they're going for more visual thing like instead of like describing some sort of like been place that you can pass from one world to the next. It's like let's just make the whole city shake and scare everybody. It's a metaphor man. Yeah it's kind of ham-fisted metaphor. It's the typical we have to raise the stakes in every hollywood movie so that the destruction of earth is always the case if the bad guys not defeated so yeah Overall though there are some things that i did like i thought Idris elba is rolling. The gunslinger looks depart. Seems pretty cool him. Reciting the gunslingers creed there at the end and as he takes that wild shot was was pretty. Cool nifty He reloaded his guns in three different ways with some cgi cgi helped by throwing the bullets in the air and pulled his gun through. Itty rides is gun along the belt to loaded and then just sort of pours the bulletin at a third time so yeah as nonsensical as all of those things are. I still thought they were cooling. Still if that's what's.
Two Guys to the Dark Tower Came: A Podcast about Stephen King and His Books
"two guys" Discussed on Two Guys to the Dark Tower Came: A Podcast about Stephen King and His Books
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"Two guys on the outside two or three guys on the outside of the whole and About four hours. We just played volleyball with bullets and started to get surrounded. We called in for air support at the time. We couldn't accept anything, uh greater than a 40.1% collateral damage. We were told to fight out. Started to get overrun surrounded words on the columns and overhead shot. It was a few 100 dies on ground. Um, this element that was supposed to come in, and I guess support us a little bit, or as they were pinned down in their own little engagement. Really close engagement and we had to fight our way out of that little position. Uh, Benjamin cop guy who have tattoo tomorrow arm Man, I really hate this story. I don't hate it, but, uh Tough one to talk about, you know? Yeah. Pass the buck for one sec. Sure. Yeah, You said you were cocky. Yet every time you went out, you You. You were scared to healthy respect for the enemy. Oh, yeah. Big time it was after. I think the Chechen is when I got that healthy respect, but, uh If the one for Ben cop, you know, he came in and took care of that saved saved our team. Five minutes after that. Watch them Take two rounds to the femoral artery and this little ravine. We were in chest deep. I water and Could hear the bullets snap are popping next to my ear. And I thought someone was shooting a gun next to my head and looked over to the side. And I saw that you know, bullets impacting on the little embankment behind me. And I saw that's one like a 15 ft. Arterial spray come out of his leg and Just been ambushed about 15 25 ft from us guys popped out of the ground was like old Vietnam type stuff. They had underground little fighting positions and stuff like that. Ambushed US and Fought from there for a little bit to watch the medic Doc Melvin, he tried to put like two tourniquets on Um That was pretty tough turned to talk to our P l to get to.
Two Guys to the Dark Tower Came: A Podcast about Stephen King and His Books
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"Are twenty second bonus. Episode of two guys to the dark tower. came is live for all of our patrons. What follows is a short excerpt of our discussion of the nineteen eighty-seven movie the running man based on the nineteen eighty two richard bachman novel j. A movie a movie from our youth coming back in our middle aged for up for discussion. I can't tell you how many times i was to watch this. In eighty seven eighty eight eighty nine. Ninety by brothers and i watched is a ton. Same here this is a massive nostalgia. Bob which is why. I can say that this is not a good movie. Had bad writing bad acting bad plot bad directing. But i enjoyed the hell out of this movie. I was laughing out loud. I was like getting excited for the action scenes. The one liners come in hot and heavy. All great stuff grates. Good old spin only courson. He's He's he's been around the block mostly riding schwarzenegger's coattails nice work if he can get it absolutely now one. We did not see j. But i recognized her work. Anywhere is paula abdul. You sensed her presence. I did censor presence. What i saw a bunch of scantily clad women dancing around prior to the running man kicking off like ooh. There's so much dancing here. There's no way that can be anyone other than paula. abdul jay. This movie even going through the catholic could tell this is silly but fun and we had a lot of fun with it to get the whole episode and support our show.
Two Guys to the Dark Tower Came: A Podcast about Stephen King and His Books
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"We recently got some listener feedback on facebook. Oh that's good. I love it when our listeners respond to the simplicity conversations. That you have i do to. This is from stephen s and he wrote us a review on our facebook page. Said a must podcast for any stephen king or dark tower fan. These guys are the best great short but loads of fun. Podcast that always leave me smiling. And laughing as they palaver about our favorite love. Everything they do. Do yourself a favor in join and listen. You won't be sorry. thank you size. Keep it up. Thank you stephen s. Yeah i appreciate that that. That is fantastic. All right fun stuff. He got what do i have indeed the laundromat. That oz is a manager at is the blue ribbon laundry which is also the laundromat. That stephen king worked in and along the lines of that. There is a reference to a piece of machinery in the bowels of the laundromat called the main angler by its users and we have short story called the wrangler that we covered a recent bonus episode so king was not doing like a hugely great job of hiding his tracks of being bachman here. Somebody wanted if somebody wanted to do the detective work while there was a reference to working in an industrial laundry in the long walk to. That's true yeah so king was really writing what he knew when he needs to give somebody at industrial job. That was dangerous scary. I don't know. I get the feeling that he had that job for. A while in there was a machine that scared the living crap out of him. I have a feeling that's definitely the truth. That's a good one. See the first one. I have for fun stuff is. There's a line exxon. The gas company of exxon sounded like the name of a warlord from the planet. Your rear end to that. I say Is that right next to the orbit of the planet uranus. Yes stephen us loves our podcast at certain jokes. It's not my fault. That stephen king called this planet your ear. It is a novel. The first energy crisis accent has got to be mentioned here somewheres yeah but it would have been so much. Cooler had been citgo sitting. Go your mind. Went the the jokes again. But i was thinking dark tower. Fini's well as long as we're in the juvenile humor. I thought it was funny. When ause called the mob. Guy a dork. When he calls them that magloire he says you know what i think. You're straight dork. Was yesterday monday mr. You're lucky you didn't call me a dork on monday. And i'm going to have to remember that whatever it would call me a name. I don't like. I feel like you're lucky. Go on monday. That's a tough guy replied at anything. You look at it and do that on monday but today all right now let it. Pass one thing that caught my eye. I always get a little bit of a kick out of when i can kinda see through how king comes up with the names of characters places in things. In the stories end dawes lives on a street called crest all in st or probably pronounced crystalline. And you put one letter back into that word. It would be crestfallen. Street and man is dazs crestfallen character. Absolutely dig it Another fun stuff item. I had was a a connection to the story. The ledge which was another bonus episode that we did recently you listeners. Really do need to become patrons 'cause you're missing out on a lot of great stuff anyway in the ledge it involves a bet and the main characters corrected. No no not a bit more sophisticated than that. It's a wager and almost the same line happens in this story. Where does is telling his boss how..
Two Guys to the Dark Tower Came: A Podcast about Stephen King and His Books
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"Mulan. I found one thing that i thought i'd mentioned here when dawes is shopping for the guns and the gun shop owner tells him about this massively powerful rifle he says. This is the four sixty wetherby he goes on to say. This baby will spread his insides of twenty feet. Who yeah and i thought that was pretty gross. So a little of a stretch because the line itself is not that yucky. When he's talking to order and order realizes that he screwed the pooch dazs has he's as my god. Do you want to end up carrying your ass home to marry in a basket and that line by itself is not bad. Like he's just saying you're gonna have to open your wife and face the consequences but it reminded me of this imagery that king has gone back to again and again of a basket to carry a dead person home in which is how supposedly when king was like four. One of his friends got hit by a train. And that's how they ended up carrying that dead boy. Home was his pieces in a basket has come up in a couple of other stories so as soon as i saw that even though it's just a metaphorical ass being carried home. I immediately thought of the actual grossness of a dead human being carried in basket a metaphorical ass in a metaphorical basket. Yes exactly so. Are you going to just every time we see basket mentioned in a story called it out as a finian. Only if it's used to describe carrying home human body parts like an end to be fair. You didn't just call thin. This is your yukking it up. Yes and i should say that one of the times. We talked about body parts. Being carried in a basket was in the short story. The lawnmower man which is recently covered on a bonus episode. And how do you get those bonus episodes. Jay y you become a patron. Of course i end it any patron level. You can listen to our bonus episodes including the lawnmower man. That's right so become a patron and get access to all that bonus material you'll love it it just a reminder you can do that by visiting patriot dot com slash two guys dark tower to learn how to become a patron sean..
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"A bad three. Jamie sheridan's how about you jae for a whole bunch of different reasons. I'm also giving it three so for the first time we are giving it the singing number of dame sheridan's wow to justify that a little bit. I still think it was if artificially but still successful in some of the things i did and the production values really good The acting is good for what the actors have been given to work with. I think every single one of these actors has risen above elevated the material that they were given even skarsgard when he howls worship. Me i think he delivered it well but he never should have been told to say it. That's why i ended up at three. I think there's just enough good offset the bad there. I am kinda right in the middle speaking of rising above and high rankings. We did actually see randall. Flagg rise above and levitated and show his butt. So i mean that's another reason that we're going three. Gb shirt speak for yourself but okay. I know you're more of a fan of the dancing. I get it so in lieu of doing a full series. wrap up. jj. We're just going to give it a rating. I think maybe we should just give it a rating my overall rating for the entire series looking back on all the episodes. And i'm gonna give it to jamie sheridan's i'm going to give it one. Jamey sheridan and one alexander skarsgard and together to does not equal to. But since you don't let me have partial gradings. I'll give it to because there were so much promise here and i do think that it might be helped by somebody releasing a chronological order cut and maybe there are out takes that they cut like the whole tom in stu scenes and some other stuff. I'm confident that there's material out there. That would make this better that. I hope that they filmed and just didn't choice. For whatever reason you think they actually filmed hours and hours of show and just didn't maybe not ours. But i think if there's a hours were there might be one hour worth of content that's floating around out there that if they put into director's cut and then put it chronologically that maybe this be somewhat worth watching. Maybe that's me being hopeful leaving a hopeful note but yeah this is no higher than two stars for me. However you wanna put it to jamie sheridan's you mean day. We have now spent probably nine hours talking about this. A we've spent far more than nine our friend. We're we're giving our listeners about nine hours worth of content on this series and we are moving on and like the dark tower movie. We're not talking about this again. So that's gonna be all for this episode of two guys to the dark tower came. Thanks jay thank you links to. All of our social media is available in the show notes. If you like to show please rate us on apple podcasts to support the show visit patriot. Dot com slash. Two guys dark tower episode. Join us as we get back to covering books.
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"Two guys dark tower in this episode. We'll cover the cbs all access series. The stand now the circle closes. Let's start the show. Franny has a baby girl named abigail and mourns the loss of stu and the other walkers but stu returns having been saved by tom. Franklin stu decide the leave boulder and head back to maine to friday's hometown in nebraska. While stu is looking for supplies franny falls into a well and badly injures yourself in order to save herself and baby abigail. She must make her own. Stand against randall. Flagg day we had a change in episode title again. Yeah again from one week to the next. But let's start off with some listener feedback so we got a bunch of really great from a few folks One of those emails from our good friend. Liz h. and liz thought that episode nine was a pallet cleanser from episode eight. She also couldn't believe that king himself had nothing but raised for the miniseries. that is until she learned. That king's own son was involved in its creation was thought it was nice to have abigail back in nebraska and she finally healed from injuries like in the book. There's also mr the thomas do homecoming tail but the unforgivable sins through this whole series her is that flag is just not scary in the least it just comes across as petty cruel narcissistic and a bad tempered guy Liz you might have missed it but we did get thomas deuce homecoming tail. Yeah stu said com saved my life for any there you go. What more did you want. I mean is that not enough syllables. He had a whole sentence about it. We joke. Liz will be complaining about that in a little bit. We also got an email from sam g. Sam said. I went in with so much hope and excitement and left so disappointed. That's not to say. There were glimmers of hope throughout the series but none of it really amounted to much when taken a whole. Yep wait till we get to our jamey sheridan. Sam sam was also mind boggled when student. Tom magically appeared back in boulder with a simple. Tom save me live to explain their return. Wow it seems like we got a theme here. Yeah to not positive note. I'm glad they went with the russell faraday ending as in the novel. I would be interested to hear what people who haven't read the book. Thought of it though and sam concludes with the final rating of the series of to jamie sheridan's because he to refuses to cut the poor man in half jay. You've got a lot of people convinced on that. Yeah you can't cut jamey sheridan half. I will do so at my wish if i so desire at my leisure at my leisure was going to say that. We also got a brilliantly written summary of some ideas thoughts and analysis from my friend. Tony l. and i'll do my best to summarize some of the key things that tony said one of key points was. I acknowledged that the stand as a novel is a work of great pop cultural importance. However i do wonder if due to its influencing a great many other books films and shows in. Its wake if it isn't perhaps futile to adapt today and given the current circumstances. Whether it's a worthwhile story to adapt a retail this modern retailing fails to speak to this moment. We're living in. Which is something that most adaptations at least make some effort toward because otherwise. What's the point. That's a very good question. Tony i think that that is a problem with a lot of influential works. Is that so much comes after them that build upon it and take things in a new and interesting direction and as a culture. We're always learning more and more that when we go back to other works it can be hard to understand why that work was important or how it was groundbreaking or how. It hasn't changed in this book. Is you know forty some years old. Now and there have been a glut of post-apocalyptic stories in the ensuing decades and in fact. It's become a huge john. Laura in and of itself. yeah so when. Tony mentioned that it's influenced so many things. It's hard to adapt because people certain expectations or have seen things before. I think of aliens a work that i love but like there are literally hundreds of science fiction movies that i've seen since then that are like alien right and we've seen that so many times that when you shows alien people like i've seen this before and i've seen it done better near like no. You haven't alien did it first. And some of that's like that with the stand. And to tony's point if you're gonna adapt it it's hard to adapt it in the way it was because the culture has moved on and a lot of what was known have worked on so people including us probably are questioning in a different way so if a writer or producer rector dozen adds something to it and to his point. Speak to the moment. Then are you doing a disservice. Or you're just making a period piece at that point or you saying something more so tony makes a good point there. Yeah i think something that tony speaking to with this point is all stories are response to the time that they're created end often an exploration or analysis of a certain idea. The original book was of its time in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight and it explored ideas. That king was curious about at that time and it worked because of that. It's the subtext dip that i'm talking about here When somebody else adapts that work into a new form if they don't bother with the subtext and they just adopt the text then it feels disconnected from anything and therefore hollow and meaningless. Unfortunately i mean the stand has somewhat awkward position in this point too because king updated two different times and it became disconnected from. Its own subtext because of those adaptations because of the updates. He made so. It's a little bit harder to fault. The tv miniseries or losing track of that subtexts but they could have invented their own. Make a show that is about the text of the book but adapted to today's struggles and concerns make the subtext instill tell the story of the stand. That would have been a far more engaging and interesting. Tv show a lot and it doesn't help that. This show is made in two thousand nineteen and is already dated because of the events of twenty twenty. Yeah i think tony makes great point in his email and it's something i wish we could all see and read and jade. I felt inadequate in some respects. Because we're reacting to a tv show. You know what usually less than eight hours after. we've just watched it and scrambling to put together notes. That put together an episode. And i really appreciate tony having this sort of telescoping out and looking at it from a gestalt standpoint and putting together a lot of great thoughts on it. Yeah and regarding tony's reaction to our podcast itself he said keep up the excellent podcast work. You guys have put together an enjoyable and surprisingly chill show. It had me thinking that if npr had stephen king appreciation show it would sound like two guys to the dark tower came. Thank you for that tony. Your praise means a lot..
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"That's fine. I'd say that's about right. I was leaning towards one jamey sheridan myself and rightfully so. But i think that couple of things one the special effects in the visuals of this episode. Just like all the others. I think was enough to redeem at least part of jamey sheridan and i really did get a couple of really great laughs from the things. I mentioned fun stuff so put all that together and the fact that i adamantly refused to cut jamey sheridan into pieces. I'm gonna give it to jamie sheridan's and i think that maintains our track record of me always giving better rating than you. I think so but this is also my lowest rated episode of the season. I don't think there's any doubt that this is the lowest rated episode quite. Got one more to go. We do have one more to go with that. That's be all for this episode of two guys to the dark tower came. thanks jay. thank you links to all of our social media's available the show notes if you like the show. please rate us on apple podcasts. To support the show visit patriotic dot com slash. Two guys dark tower next episode. Join us as we mercifully conclude our.
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"We? Oh shoot. Was that really loud noise in my ear or on the air? There was this Okay, we're talking to Ross Tucker, former NFL offensive lineman now with the Ross Tucker football podcast, and also in West 11, another TV broadcast or you can get your NFL and I heard this loud, like rumbling in my ear, and I didn't know if that was me or if that was him, But maybe the storm the blizzard that he just shoveled through. Is causing him some issues. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence here on CBS Sports Radio, I don't know that I'm still so sure that the Niners are going to change quarterbacks, and I really don't think I believe that the Falcons are moving on from that, Ryan, But I could be totally wrong because I wasn't so sure that the Rams we're going to jump at getting Matt Stafford either. But as Ross points out these these two guys now atomic Bay and Stafford have a match. They feel like they can capitalize on Ross. I feel like or Lena just got you back. Is that the name of the that the name of the storm the storm? 14? I don't know. I don't know. Maybe a tower went out or something anyway. Hmm. Look, I really do think. Amy that There's going to be a lot of quarterback movement. You know, Adam Schefter. I had a fun bet on Fridays. Ross Tucker podcast. He took over 18 new starting quarterback 18. Yeah, I took under and sit with him just saying that makes me think. That there's gonna have to be some movement where you're thinking Probably not. And the fact that the Niners were in on Matthew Stafford. We all know Kyle Shanahan has a real affinity. Format. Ryan, the Patriots have to get somebody and I'm not sure who really would want to go there other than maybe Jimmy G. So I do think you know, I don't think it's over 50%, but I do think there's a decent percentage chance. That Matt Ryan's in San Francisco and Jimmy G's back in New England. That's interesting. What about the Shawn Watson? Yes or no? Would you trade him if you were the Texans? I think they're gonna have to. Yeah, it's just been so much negativity. And the thing is, I'm not even sure it's the Texans choice. In the sense that he seems pretty dug in. And A lot of these guys. They've got chips on their shoulder. Amy, that's how they got where they are. And I just don't think to Shawn Watson wants to back down from this Now, you know, it's almost like he's gone too far with social media and the trade request. I think it would be very hard for him to come back from that. Now. I think you kind of feel like you coming back. With his tail between his legs, and so I don't think you're going to do it. I think the Texans probably trade him sometime between free agency and the sort of the draft Except how long is he willing to play hardball? They own his rights for a long time, even if let's say for the sake of argument, he decides he's going to retire in the prime of his career. Yeah, He's not going to retire. But once he skipping training, can I only They'll even let it get to this. Okay? I think they'll try everything they can. Between now and March, 13th started the new league year to talk with him. T tell them their side of the story to try to change his mind. I don't think this organization with all of the negativity that they've had, I don't know. They want to get to the point where he's not showing up for training camp. They're finding him. I don't see the purpose. It serves to make this thing get even uglier. Ross Tucker with us here after hours, CBS Sports Radio. So let me tell you what I hear when people talk about Super Bowl 55. That that won't won't want. Tom Brady won't won't won't WOn't want Patrick Mahomes. What won't won't want goat won't won't want baby goat. It feels like it's all about the quarterbacks, which is wearing me out. Ross, Please tell me that there's going to be something more to this game, then just coverage of Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes. Well, I can't promise you that that there will be more than that at a lot of places. But I can tell you I will break down a lot of other things. I find interesting about the game, one of which, you know, I'll go to my area of expertise, right? The chief's lost Eric Fisher. You know their left tackle. So now they've got Mike Remmers and Andrew Wiley at the offensive tackle spots, and I said this before the Packers played the Bucks. But that's a big time mismatch. For the Bucks favor. I mean, and then guess what happening. It's the Packers Shack, Barrett and Jpp combined for five. Sex five sex. So when people say, Well, can the Bucks win? That's how they can win Check. Barrett and Jpp have to dominate those offense. Attack was again get a lot of pressure on my homes without the bucks having to blitz. I think that's their recipe for victory like it was against Green Bay. Oh, thank heavens. There are actually going to be other players on the field. And this is not just going to be a foot race or something. Because I don't know with the old man. The old man dog. Is that what Robert solid called it? For Patrick Mahomes. And then Tom Brady, who has cinder blocks her feet. That would not be very exciting. You know what, though? It is funny because you know, Tom and I were teammates. I don't think anyone will ever come close to what he's accomplished. The strange thing is that the only human being I'm aware of that I can see coming close to what Tom Brady's done. He's touching my homes. I mean, he's already in his second Super Bowl in his third year, he already three for three with conference championship games. So I guess there's a chance 100 years from now People are saying who was the best quarterback ever? Patrick Mom's of Tom Brady. So what do your players this week? It's kind of a weird Super Bowl week. Yeah, I'm just staying home. I'm doing a bunch of radio hits doing all my normal shows like.
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"It. How about having an emotional moment instead. I dunno yeah herald continues to occupy space in their relationship. Rent-free right like the guy is gone. Now he did a terrible thing. That should be enough to just stop focusing on him but yet there he is. I will say that just to put some positive on this conversation. The acting across the board has been good to great in the show and the great stuff awesome. I really liked the scene with fran. And stu went when they were having that goodbye in the house the discussion that they had. I thought the acting was great but what they were talking about and the way that they were responding to each other. It just didn't feel like it was appropriate for the moment. I was disappointed in that. So that's like for me. That's a writing miss. They were acting the hell out of a scene. That was like if franny and stu wor worker acquaintances and it was stews last day on the job like oh well. Why don't we take you out for one final lunch stew and you can tell us about what your new job is so we agree that in this show. The best done relationships are the glennon stewart relationship and mother abigail the candle. I was gonna say the herald zach. One was very strong as well. No wasn't no. Yeah that's right. It wasn't ever my. I will say like i don't wanna get too down on this episode. Because they do what they needed to do with this episode. And i thought it was. Well done it just wasn't spectacularly done. Just knowing what could have been built up to this episode would have made it so much better. Yeah sean did you find any dark tower. Denise maybe maybe he says question mark so did may deans in the desert. And you can't say that flags romantic because he's got these rose pedals leading up to what looks to be a portal adore in the desert almost like a door that she walks through. It ends up someplace else like maybe possibly like a door that role and walks through in the drawing of the three allow it because not only was it a portal but it also had rose pedals. They weren't red rose petals but they're rose petals all. Yeah okay. i thought it was kind of funny. Those pedals seem to lead up to his face. You know like the pedals start on the desert sand. And then they go onto the carpeting and then in the hotel and then they go down the hotel hallway and then into flag sweet across the floor and then they go up onto the desk sitting behind and then end at his lower shoulders neck area where he has a rose in his pocket. If this is sort of a path that needing supposed to follow it's basically flags face right up the place. This is where. I want you honey right in my face like you said. He's a romantic. Did you have any dark tower thing. Jay maybe question mark. I'm calling this athenee. I'm really grasping at straws. Here but flag is using a glamour to hide knee. Deans true condition and appearance from herself. Just like the glamorous that are all over in the dark tower story and flag himself as apparently using glamour to hide his true appearance and he's only extending the glamour to nadine right. She's blissfully looking into her reflection in the glass and she still looks like the same nadine we've known and then as soon as we get a different perspective changes we see her true appearance. And it's as you said earlier. Cadaverous and i thought that was like athenee. Yeah i thought that that was a nice little twist there. Yeah especially after. They showed her so glamorous in the in the car ride out of the desert. Oh this is a different way of looking at it. But okay i'll go with it but that when they did that twist i liked it. Yeah all right. I think we have a couple of yukking. It up moments jay. Yeah couple good. Yukking it up moments during the really. Cool walking montage Camera kind of pans across a field and we see a rotting corpse and then the camera zooms into the corpse's face and then zooms into the socket and then zooms in to the remains of the brain matter and then the brain structure kind of morphs into cracks in the sidewalk. And then we're back into the on taj but that was some really gross stuff that we were zooming. Yeah call me obvious. But mine is going to be herald getting impaled and then spitting up blood. Like i thought that was a pretty good special effects. The he dislike tumbled through the air his helmet immediately coming off and then just like poof. The stick right through his chest and spit in a blood. I thought that was well done. Yeah and i think the best part of that effect was that the stick was fixed and when he moved when he was reaching in his pockets or yelling up to nadine his body was wriggling around but the sticks babe fixed in place. I thought that was an awesome detail. Because it was the dick wouldn't move relative to the rest of the branch it stuck in that one position whereas his squishy body with now with extra holes in it would move around the pointy stick and as you know from our coverage of the salems lot book. I'm not a fan of impalement. So you don't like empowerment. And i don't like dismemberment. What are we doing reading horror store. All right we gotta stay away from these king books. My last yakking it up is related to that when we encounter herold's body much later after he's died we spend an inordinate amount of time very close to his vulture picked corpse and it is a rendez to look at. I mean probably realistic but still it made me think that might. Is it. Realistic that his body would get eaten up right away. And i'm like yeah because his hair was still there. It was just all the soft parks that were gone. And that's what the volcker was would get through. They were waiting for him to die before you ever put the gun in his mouth. Exactly so yeah they. They got right on that all right. Well this is the time of the episode when we thank our patrons for supporting the show. Reminding those of you who do not support the show that you could get access to exclusive patriae content such as bonus podcast episodes by becoming a patriot. In fact our episode on the stephen king short story gray matter will be going live to our patrons so if you'd like to hear that and learn even more visit patriots dot com slash. Two guys dark tower. I think it might be time for some fun stuff. Indeed fun stuff. It is much kick us off shot. This is maybe a little bit of a stretch but when they get franny to take the picture of the walkers right before they set off they give her a polaroid camera and say hey. Here's a picture. The way that glenn was standing with his e cigarette pipe in his mouth. It just struck me as like this is like the photo that they take in the untouchables when the touchable have their first raid of et. Al capone bootlegging place. And they're all sitting around in a restaurant and one of the press guys wants to take a picture in its four untouchables. At one of them's got a.
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"Two guys dark tower in this episode. We'll cover the cbs. All access series episode. Seven the walk. Let's start the show. Trashcan man finds a nuclear warhead heralded nadine leave boulder but herald doesn't make it to vegas nadine and flag finally meet mother. Abigail sent stu. Larry rain glenn out west before dying. Along the way. Stu falls that has left behind the other. Three are picked up by lloyd and brought to new vegas where they are greeted by very pregnant nadine j. I found this episode to be very much by the numbers. If you've read the book this seemed to be at episode that followed and hued fairly closely to the events that you would expect to see in this episode. I would agree almost to the point that it kind of made the episode less interesting. Because i knew exactly what was going to happen and i don't know that i can fault the show directly for that like oh. They were too loyal to the source material. How dare they right. So i definitely shouldn't complain. That they're an autistic. Following the setup that king left them agreed. I think that this was an episode. That didn't have any problems because huge pretty closely but it also wasn't overly exciting. Although there were few tiny changes along the way that i did think added some interesting. They will get a chance to talk about those but before that we got a lot of listener feedback over the last week day. Awesome and i am excited to talk about it with you. Yeah right after we recorded last week. Ryan flint tweeted us pointing out a great city that we missed from episode six. And that is that. The song in the court of the crimson king by king crimson is playing when flagged the sense in the elevator covered in blood. And that's just a fantastic musical cue. I totally missed. Because i was so focused on flag squirrel. Streaking boots in the blood. But but that's great because they're so references to the dark tower to crimson king king crimson. Like just fantastic so thanks for pointing that out. That's one thing that i'll say about. The show is that they haven't haven't been too heavy handed with dark tower connections as much as i love. Gerald game is really great adaptation and just a good movie. Gerald says offing served the beam. It's completely out of left field right. I prefer to have the nice subtle references that this show is doing. They're not being us over the head with a they're not laying them out in every scene in every episode so when they do something really subtle like a song with the word crimson king in it by a band with the words crimson king in it and then just letting it play as perfectly good music choice for the moment it all works so good job show. Yeah and nice job ryan pointing that out. Thanks yeah we are also tweeted at by openly. Black wonder woman her thoughts on new vegas which were simply. I hated it. Lloyd wasn't a buffoon they didn't party have orgies all over the place. There wasn't even anything stronger to drink. Beer they were terrified. In vegas and i agree like they just didn't get that right. They tried to do that a little bit. Better in this current episode. I thought he saw the crucifixions. You saw people getting beat up on the street and people who weren't working hard Seem to get beat a little bit but that first impression of new vegas has really sort of put me and a lot of our viewers off of that presentation. Yeah i totally agree with openly. Black wonder woman on this one and a big part of my problem with vegas is to the extent that everybody in vegas was afraid of flag. They were truly afraid to let their guard down. They couldn't relax with something. more inebriated. An occasional beer right but even deeper than that. This representation of vegas makes no sense. We've talked about it in previous episodes where flag is so oppressive or the society. That he has fostered here is so oppressive. No-one would come and anybody who did would immediately leave. Who's gonna stick around for having to carve flags face into the statue of caesar in front of caesar's palace and if they don't work fast enough or if they stop to wipe their brow. Somebody beats them with a stick. I'd be out of there on the first day. This ridiculous right we do. Have somebody named the walking dude who we've heard from before who liked episode six actually loved this episode. The walking dude said but at this point my standard is much lower and only watching for the herald storyline in tom. I couldn't really care less about vegas flag abigail or any of the other characters honestly. Yeah so maybe you might have loved this episode but it doesn't sound like you really did walking dude and we'll we'll talk a little bit. More about those relationships will be later on in this episode. I think he says he likes it. But that's like grading on a curve. Yeah definitely a jamey. Sheridan curve a mullet curved. If you will. I was just gonna say jamey. Sheridan doesn't have curves but you reminded me of the mullet exactly. We heard from our constant listener. Liz two different times via twitter. I she just said they're killing me man and a little bit later. She said as a possible. Finney that tom leaving vegas in a pile of corpses is the same way rolling left jericho hill but then she kind of reminds herself that that might only be something from the graphic novel adaptation. And i think that's correct liz. There is no coverage of jericho hill in the dark tower books. We only hear of it after the fact yet. I don't think roland mentions how he escapes in the books. I know that piece of knowledge. Don't remember where i know it from. I have a feeling it's probably from the graphic novels but yeah definitely a nice dinner there for sure. Another frequent listener is public defender seven sixteen. Who tweeted if the last episode is a coda. It doesn't seem like there's enough time left to get things done properly. Guess we'll see. I think that that's something jan. I noticed last week as well that we're really running out of time here but to be fair. This episode was very focused and got everyone where they need to be. I think trash came has a nuke. Our characters who are going to vegas are in vegas stews waiting on kojak to help him. So we've got the players where they need to be so maybe everything will happen. Just going to be slimmed down. The show has established how rapidly it can move through the story. I'm not worried that they'll get to the end in time. What worries me is how they're going to skip so much to get there. We got another e mail from sergio. Eat brought us to say that. Harold is the mvp of the series. And he doesn't know if they will keep his fate as happened in the book or changes to where he is in new vegas with everyone. Counting the new last chapter an episode and a half without harold will make this series top to watch. I can't disagree with what you're saying. There sergio the writer seemed to have decided to make heralded nadine affectively the stars of the story and the episode. That we just watched tells us the answer to your ponderings that harold does not make it to vegas. It does largely happened like in the book which means that episode eight. An episode nine are going to have no harold and even though you said that nato was flushed out as we see her at the end of this episode. she's actually very not flushed..
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"All right fun stuff is the best. You want to kick us off jay. Both you and i noticed this. But when nadine takes joe back to the school she has a small crisis of conscience right. She doesn't want the children to be killed. The bomb blast at the vigil and so she ensures that they're all back at the school watching tv. Unfortunately what she puts on the tv is time bandits yet. Now that i'm talking about which is cool right like i watched high bed. It's a ton. When i was a kid and the way it's shot you could see time bandits in the background and there's an explosion happening in the bad guys talking about being evil innate names in the foreground so in addition to be it it being really cool the time bandits playing. It's also pretty cool the way the director is set that up to actually foreshadow. What's going to happen shortly and also indicate that nadine is evil or is he a coming evil right. I'm also thinking right now that she must have taken a dvd or video cassette and put it on the tv for them to watch that which seems a little bit odd to me. Now that i think about because they don't have like a a actual television station or cable running no the end of the world so she she thought hey this would be the best thing for a bunch of kids to watch instead of going to a vigil for mother abigail. Let me throw in time bandits. A movie that's forty years old for these seven year olds. Watch it all comes together at the end with sean connery. Yes it does out here. We go again one of the things. I wanted to call out fun stuff. That apparently bobby terry has a lot of blood. Who wow. that's a lot of blood. It is like pouring down the glass walls of the elevator as if the props department had set up some sort of circulation to being something to make that happen but there's a lot of blood and there's so much blood on the elevator and yet they're still enough. That went flag walks at squishing his boots. Well considering how much blood there was he probably had blood in his boots. Yes you gave you. If you step in river a blood some blood pregnant get inside the boots and then it's squish squish. Because you've got you know soggy socks unless you're wearing like really tight galoshes to the flags were it's the aforementioned bobby terry's another westworld along That's what i noticed Him from right away. I'm like this guy looks familiar. This guy looks familiar. I'm like oh yeah. He hangs out with our good friend. Stu redmayne on a island with a bunch of hosts and killing human so indeed. My last fun stuff is said. I think i realized that the in this episode that my favorite character on the show is flags smiley button. He does a lot of range. Yeah it's it's one of the better actors on the show now now. We think we've said it before the after doing a pretty good job working with. I'm being being sarcastic. When i say that but the that button has a lot of range as you say it. Sometimes it's happy sometimes. It was winking sometimes. It's angry and sometimes it's just evil and that's where it was today in this episode. It was a full-on evil. It was flags expression for flak. In a way i mean scarves guards and awesome actor and some of the stuff he's doing in this is great but when he was chasing down or i guess maybe just following. Bobby terry's hotel. It was a little bit low energy. I wasn't feeling it. i didn't feel the menace. I didn't really feel the dread. Even even just watching the whole. Like bobby terry trying to get the elevator to open sooner in and go faster and all that stuff. And there's no suspense here and scars. Guard was just like whole home but that button that button was acting. It's ass off in that moment. That's one of those direct to'real choices where the directors tells the director of photography. Just point the camera at the button. We'll take care of it and post or men. We did not get any good shots. Scars guard in the scene. Fix it with the button. Fixes the button so jay. Where did this episode of the stand land on our scale of sheridan's. Oh i'd say they were. They were enough good moments in good scenes that i'll give it three jamie sheridan's very good. I know you don't approve of this. But i'm giving it two and a half jamie shirt and get can't split a jamey sheridan that there is to gb. Sheriff dammit. I always round down. I will always round down jay. I'm just saying if you cut jamey sheridan in half to new jimmy sheridan's do not grow from those pieces. Are we sure about that. I am not sure about. Let's not test shared. it is a treasure. Protect him at all costs. That's all for this episode of two guys to the dark tower came. thanks jay. thank you links to. All of our social media is available in the show notes. If you like the show. Please rate us on apple podcasts. To support the show visit patriot. Dot com slash. Two guys dark tower next episode. Join us as we cover the.
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"Self off. We gotta short scene with nick in this episode. We got a little bit of ray getting upset when mother abigail leaves but we haven't seen their relationship other than a couple times early on and the one time she met with the committee like it's just been very scaled back and what we did see that first time when larry comes to boulder. There's like this encampment around her house. And that seems gone now and dino as she standing up to flag at the end of this episode he says like oh the witches powers are on the wane and dana stands up and makes this impassioned defense of mother abigail. And i'm like his ain't even seen mother abigail or met her or know anything about her or know her powers are and why is flag so afraid of this woman who we haven't actually seen avenue powers or do anything all she's done is occasionally open people's dreams and say come to hemming for at home and she was pretty convinced he was going to die when she was in having at home like. Oh this is it for me. I'm gonna live for another day like it's just yeah. I is to our listeners. Like it feels like our entire coverage of this episode in. The show has just been complaining. But i i. I just wish the show was better. Yeah don't worry. Fun stuffing around the corner. We'll we'll brighten up in a moment but one more comment on the no depth of characters. And that's the larry and nadine thing for a show that has over used flashbacks to the point. Where that has been my main point of contention and seems pretty universal that just about everybody watching the show as had a problem with that. I'm really sick of seeing this. show now. switch to this brief. Oh by the way. Fill in flashback thing that they're doing the when right before nadine throws herself larry awkwardly and in like unappealing way the cut to this twenty second. Long flashback of them making out and then right back to nadine throwing herself. At larry in the present moment so that we understand that they they once tried to make this work that they were attracted to each other or are still attracted to each other and that for some reason they didn't but that flashback wasn't long enough to show us anything about that relationship or why it didn't work or to indicate that there actually are interested in having a relationship with each other at all. It's like if someone's telling you an anecdote and they realize you're anecdote won't make sense unless they give you one more detail. Oh by the way you got to know this other things so you get the point. That's what the show feels like. You know when they were writing the script for this. They knew they were going to have that scene. At some point before the cameras rolled they could have put that. Flashback moment at a different episode or something not immediately before or during the same scene this just sloppy and give more glenn. We love glenn and nick. We barely get nick and kojak. Kojak come on just put kojak onscreen and my rating will appoint just seeing a dog enough with the bad writing. Here i guess the thing that's frustrating. Jay is to know that we can see the money on the screen. Yeah we see that. These people are good actors. We know the people associated with the show or good and for it to be failing. This is what's disappointing. Because who are you. And i were just two guys and we've come up with ways that the show could have been better on the fly two hours after we've watched the episode and you would think they'd have time in the writing room to fix this but it's just not happening. Yeah all right. J. dark tower. 'this once again i did not catch anything. He's yeah this one's not great but when we first get look at the gladiator pit the gladiators wearing a number on his back. And it's six six seven and at first i'm like all. They had an opportunity to go six six and be like. Oh this guy's a bad ass. But then i realized six plus six plus seven equals nineteen. That's ran everybody. Can we say it. Nineteen the number of the day. That is a pretty fantastic thinning. I love it all right there. We go. That's all i had. I was watching for him was the confer things like hotel. Room numbers are which floor of the hotel was the penthouse or something. None of those jumped out at me. But you and i did find a couple of yukking it up. Moments didn't we. We did start off. I'm going to go a little differ- route on this one. J what. I found that made me sick in this episode was the awkward. Dinner that franken herald had like. I'm not a big fan of uncomfortable situations and that was a very uncomfortable situation. That made me sick and therefore yakking it up. I think my fucking it. Up is of a similar vein. The thing that i noticed here was that flag drinks milk on ice. Oh you don't put ice cubes. In a glass of milk nobody does that in lesser the embodiment of pure evil at sta keeps milk. I don't care if it's good for the bones Well we wanna take a moment to thank our patrons for supporting the show as we've said before it is a little bit more extra work in time and energy for us to get this show done on a weekly basis while we're covering the stand and we appreciate each and every one of our patrons for helping us to keep the show on the internet's and not only do we thank them on this episode but we also give them bonus podcast episodes one per month. And if you're a certain level you can even help choose which of those bonus episodes. We'll be working on if you are learn more visit patriot. Dot com slash. Two guys tower. Sean is a time to talk some fun stuff. Yeah let's clear the palette with fun stuff all right. I will have a little bit of lemon sorbet and and get into my fun stuff. I'll start us off. I absolutely got a kick out of the fact that lloyd wears eddie. Murphy's outfit from the yes. That was a good choice. For loyd agreed. I wanna call out the fact that don't fear the reapers played over the closing credits and i think that that is a callback to the original. Stand which used that right at the beginning of the first episode. I think is still going south quickly across america when the plague hit and i thought that was a cool little callback to the stand and this was an episode. That was filled with musical cues because of the vegas setting but that's the one that stood out for me this is just kind of like a really big nitpick thing but when mother abigail leaves she writes a note on a post it and sticks to her front door and whoever in the props department wrote that note misspelled abigail. Yes so the way. It was spelled in the note. Is i think the more common spelling correct the way it's spelled in the book and in most of the promotional material i've seen it spelled like in the book so basically we're led to believe that mother abigail who has lived for one hundred eighty ears and knows how to write our name spelled her name wrong on a note where she said goodbye. I'm going to go die. Maybe if unless god wills at i live well. That was the other thing unless he wills it and he was not capitalized. D i g never would have put that as a lower case h.
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"It all right. He yukking it up moment. Stay in fact The yukking it up moment that i wanted to call out is from that scene. When the eldest call them the email towards the end of the confrontation when one of the women a grabs at pipe to to try to attack him he turns on her shoots a right through the face and her head you know basically explodes and then dana grabs the pipe a moment later and then smashes his head in and and keeps beating him until his head is basically just a a wet meet bag and then then proceeds to start kicking him so there was a a lot of smashing going on there. It's pretty yucky. Yeah that was my moment to the blood splatter everywhere. If there is more blood in teddy's dying seeing may be able to give it to him. But we're gonna go with dana splattering guys head. Yeah all right will as always we'd like to thank our patrons for supporting our show In getting access to exclusive patriot content such as bonus podcast episodes are bonus podcast episode for january's a fun. Little short story called gray matter. We just recorded and it'll be up for our patrons later on this month and if you would like to listen that become a patron by visiting. He dot com slash. Two guys dark tower. Yeah we had a lot of fun talking about gray matter and we've got seventeen bonus episodes that you'll also get access to all right. I think it's time for some fun stuff. J. a write a love fun stuff and there is a lot of fun stuff in this episode. Yeah there's also a fun stuff about the show itself jay. We're going to go meta here. We actually forgot to rate episode three at the end of last episode we did not do our ranking of episode. Three so jay. How many jamie sheridan's did you get up three. I will give episode three the previous sued. Three jamey sheridan. It's i liked it more than episode. Two and not quite as much as i liked episode one so three. Jimmy sheridan's it is. Yeah gave it two and a half jamie sheridan's same sort of thing. I'm starting to not remember all my actual jamie sheridan's for every one of the shows. I'm trying to be consistent. As i can and i think two and a half is where i lay. That's fair all right so back to the fun stuff for this episode episode four. What you got one is a moment during that planning seen. When stu says i don't have an accent and larry is just a little bit. Yeah he does. Have i love the fact that you know. The new yorkers telling the texan you got an great just because we're we liked so much the common nick stuff. I love their. When tom finds out nicknames. He's like nick andros and he's trying to like the knicks ter- like that's a cute little may that That he's given their just about everything almost every minute. Tom's on onscreen has been a joy for me. So really enjoying it. Couple of Food related fun stuff items. That i had is that fran is drinking some kind of fruit colored drink which i have to assume is zara just like in the book course. Which is the the juice concentrate. Only she seems to like in the book herald has a scene where he breaks out a payday in starts non on it through the scene when he's really nervous and i thought that was pretty. Great is a nice callback. It wasn't you have to know what a payday looks like. They didn't show the label or the rapper. But paydays are pretty distinct because they are not coated in chocolate. Although the ones in the book were so. I don't know but anyway held a payday in france. Drink some ex. Yeah good i. I missed that one. What one other. One i adding. Why here is that. In addition to the huntingford home advertisement. There's an advertisement. I salt on the other side of that and and i just thought it was really weird. It's an advertisement for table. Salt is not something that you'd normally see advertisements for it. I was trying to figure out why that could have been. And i have no idea why Salt is like the seasoning. It sells itself. Exactly you don't need to advertise all right so my my last fun stuff. Jay is wise. Why is this episode. Called house of the dead. It beats me. I must have missed something. Because i don't think that that phrase connects to anything that happened in the show it was. It was a little bit odd to me. Like i sort of like. Maybe this is where either the. I don't wanna get into spoilers. But i thought maybe it was referring to something that was going to happen or not happen and neither one of those things like okay. This preference doesn't make a whole lot of sense especially since there is no flag in this episode j. Yeah they could have made like the fake title to that rock movie. The house of the dead. That would have been awesome. I think that rock movie was a real movie. Though it was it was skyscraper or skyscraper. One of the two. He is a scrapper. Can we add one more fun stuff before we go sure. They're leaning into. Larry telling people that he's some sort of rockstar which is different from the book and is sort fun when it leads to scenes like leary treading on america. The beautiful For the whole town on ana on what are those things called. Scissor lifts He sort of love above everyone and he's just waylon away on. His guitar was a cool little moment. It was a little bit shocking to me because nobody knows he's a rock star in the book once they once the world ends but cranny makes mention of it earlier as well. I thought you were going to say it was shocking. Because he's up on this lift in the rain playing electric guitar. I don't have any other fun stuff items. But i think we should give this episode ratings. What did you think. I'm still not on board with this with this show. I'm a little bit higher on this episode than i have been previous ones and i'm gonna give it three j. shirt right at. That's better than the rating. You gave the episode three. Yep i'm just gonna go all out and give this five out of five jamie sheridan's yeah. This show. This episode was. It wasn't a perfect episode of tv. It still had a few problems but this was by far by a long ways the best episode of the show so far i'm going to give it to the full score. Five out of five jamie sheridan's. Wow all right well we are now four episodes into what is a nine episode series. But if you remember only the first eight episodes contain the story from the book i episode nine is going to be a epilogue written by king himself. So we're like halfway through the series basically jay and i think The the ninth episode is just a recipe on exericse. Oh i'm going to make sure. I have my notepad out for that so i can take some notes. Spoilers rock the rock stirring pitcher of like light red liquid. It'll be fantastic. I mean who wouldn't watch that. I'll i'd spend forty five minutes. Joie watching the rock makes rx eating. Paydays yeah you could. He could stir those rx with the payday. Great all right. Well that's all for this episode of two guys to the dark tower came. thanks jay. thank you links to. All of our social media is available in the show notes if you like the show. Please rain us on apple podcasts. To support the show visit patriot. Dot com slash. Two guys dark tower next.