RNC Day 2: Trump Speaks LIVE, Charlie Kirk Tribute w/ Jonathan Otto

It is day two of the midterm RNC. They're currently doing a 9/11 memorial. They had nice words to say about Charlie Kirk and I don't know if they've done the memorial for him yet, but I'm sure everyone's going to be talking a bit about it today is Charlie Kirk Day. It's all anyone's talking about. And I think it actually is very important that we do talk about it because one, he was murdered, they celebrate his death, they're calling for more death. And I think it's important to talk about what Charlie was trying to accomplish, what he did accomplish. The reason why is, well, as the RNC says, we will never forget what Charlie stood for. This is actually a Trump Jr. Post and then on Rumble. And so we'll talk about that, but we'll talk about Trump's promise of $5,000 if the Republicans win the House and the Senate. Liberals are apoplectic. They're saying it's illegal to do this. It's not, they do the exact same thing. So we will talk about that. Plus we got big news. The FBI's arrested several people for ballot harvesting schemes. They said these individuals were paying homeless individuals to commit voter fraud or other petition fraud. This of course is uncovered by several journalists, including James O'Keefe, who did incredible work on this. So we'll talk about all of that. We got a great crew hanging out as we go through the night, joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more. We have Jonathan Otto. Hi. I'm Jonathan. I am an investigative journalist. I'm currently directing the latest Make America Healthy Again documentary film with RFK Jr. I am so excited to get that. Helping people get better. I'm perplexed at what's going on in the world when it comes to cancer, autoimmune disease, and just here to put an end to that as much as I can in my life and with through my work. So thank you for having me on the show. Right on. Let me sing it out. I'm Libby Evans. I'm hanging out. Glad to be here with you guys. Thank you very much. Thank you. We'll start with the news because I know there's a lot of people that are interested in the news, but then of course, I do want to spend some time talking about Charlie, but we'll start here. We got this from PBS Trump's vow of $5,000 payments to Americans faces bipartisan criticism. Luke Riddkowski posting, raising the debt 1.5 trillion is one reason why I'm now thinking about voting Democrats. Who the hell ever thought I would say that? I wasn't going to vote, but now we might have to, so the country does not go broke. I just want to say my response to Luke was, I don't think supporting open borders and sex changes for kids is an appropriate response to overspending. But I do want to stress the Democrats are committed to substantially more spending than Republicans. So if your argument is that Republicans are bad and Democrats are worse, you're going to vote for the Democrats were worse, I don't think it really holds up. What I can just say is it's legal to do. It's actually cheaper than what Democrats are proposing, not an exaggeration. I'm not saying it's good policy, but if this is the state of politics where we have now, because it's a downward spiral, it's dividends and cash payments and communism all the way down. Yeah, I mean, look, as far as Luke's tweet, I mean, I don't know what he's thinking because if you want to do a protest vote or not vote, that is one thing. But voting for the Democrats guarantees more spending or at the very least, that's the party that will spend more. Right, I know Donald Trump has spent a boatload of money. I'm completely aware of that and I know that we're $40 trillion in debt. There's no, there's no like, I'm not looking through some kind of, you know, weird glasses or anything like. I'm fully aware of that, but that doesn't change the fact that if the Democrats get control of Congress and the White House, obviously not this fall of the White House, but if they get control of Congress and the White House, they're going to do way more spending. They're going up, they would push through Medicaid for all. They would push through all sorts of benefits for certain groups and stuff that will cost way more. Right now, our spending is, the vast majority of it is on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. And Social Security doesn't just go to people that are over 65. There are all kinds of programs that are under the Social Security banner, basically. You're talking about half the budget, right? People, there are people out there that think that we spend more money on the military than we do on any kind of social services. We have the most progressive tax system in the world. We spend half of our budget on some kind of social services and we can't, like we can't afford to spend more. So voting for Democrats because Donald Trump is going to, you know, spend more, spend money. That's not a solution. Protest the protest and talk smack about Trump for spending money all you want. It's all fake. It's all fake. It's all fake. But like the idea that Democrats are better, they all do it. I don't like it. I'm saying it's fake, like Luke, I don't believe it for a second, you're considering voting for Democrats. Let's call him right now. I barely want to vote for Republicans. I have no problem saying any of this. Well, it's a really, like the whole, the whole debate's like quite been all because like under Trump won it. The budget was about four trillion when he got in and then when he left, it was six and half trillion. No, most of that was COVID, obviously, but still this idea that like now you're making a principle standing against Trump for blowing out the budget. It's like, although you did in the first term, it's like, you haven't realized by now, this is an expensive, you know, the budget never goes down. I guess what I'm trying to get. So it doesn't matter. You know, the next president's budget, whoever it may be, Democratic Republicans, going to be higher than this budget. It's just how it works. Do we, do we believe it, though? I mean, that's the thing, like promising the five, five large to everybody, like whether you think it's a good idea or not, do we think it's going to happen? He also promised in the past couple days that the war with Iran would end after the election and the gas would be down under two dollars. I mean, today I had to use my little grocery store discount card to get 70 cents off and it was still $3.49. So, you know, what are we even talking about? Like, that's the thing that drives me nuts. Is that a lot of the stuff, Trump says, and I'm not a huge fan of the, you know, five thousand, I wasn't a big fan of Biden's COVID-2000, and I don't even remember how many two thousand he sent out. I mean, I cashed the checks, but I, you know, I didn't like it. Yeah. I thought it was a bad plan because we don't even know what the interest rate on this cash necessarily is. Like you said, it's like trillions and trillions of whatever more dollars down the road. But that's the thing that drives me nuts is like the, it turns out that the presidential promises are always fake promises, no matter who the president is. But if that's the case, then that brings up the other problem. So, if it's, if you would do it and that's bad, so then you don't want to be a part of that. But then if he doesn't do it, but he's lying just because then that's another problem. Well, is it a lie or is it, you know, something that's just not going to be able to happen? I mean, I do think Trump's done a great job, frankly, with the immigration situation, the border crossings are down to zero. There's been a lot of deportations, you know, I'm hearing sob stories on NPR and in the New York Times every morning about people who have been deported and now their lives are messed up. And it's like, well, you could have taken the money in the free flight home and then you could have had time to pack and you wouldn't be in this problem. But, but I, so I think he's done a great job with that, but you know, there's other stuff that I'm not a fan of. Again, like when are you ever really a fan of the president? Yeah. I mean, yeah, the bickering over the budget, I mean, like I said earlier, it's just kind of an all because it goes up no matter what. Yeah, but the bond market's like, the bond market is starting to indicate that people are losing faith in the dollar. It's like, it's what it's at, 30 year highs now or something like that. A lot of that is like responding to like global pressures on the dollar right now, specifically with like, Japan melting down, it's causing a lot of, a lot of strife. But I mean, you know, you're what? You're getting 5% return on a 30 year bond. That's not bad. I mean, I think a lot of people are just happy with that. I think the market is just re-correcting here. But they're trying, but the thing is that, you know, people aren't buying bonds the way they want. The government's going to buy $6 billion worth of its own bonds. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah. But they're still hitting an auction, again, like 5% yields anyway, because that's like, that's a fun conversation. What did I say on this show? You guys remember? I said, the Republicans are offering nothing. Trump should offer an Iran war dividend. He should say that due to the spoils of the war and the oil, with his whale too, throw that in. Exactly. This is what I said he should do a couple of weeks ago. He's coming out right now. And I love when he's like, due to the unprecedented economic, it's never been so good. It's not really that good at all. Yeah. He's saying it anyway. This is the point I made on my show today was that's not convincing because everyone knows the economy's doing pretty, pretty poorly right now. But he should have done his pegged it to like a seminal campaign goal that maybe isn't as popular. So he could have said, this is the mass deportations dividend, or this is the tariff dividend. Because those are two policies that absolutely need to get pushed across the finish line. But are, you know, it's tough to get Republicans to play ball on it, let alone Democrats. So if he would have pegged the five grand, put it in the American psyche, I'm getting five grand in the session, your bank statement, the mass deportation dividend. That does a lot for you. You can like curry again, like 5% support in the polls, which does matter because like polling on these issues does dictate how a lot of certainly reps vote. What about like the dividend for this is all the money we're saving on rental subsidies after we've ejected all the temporary protected statisticians from Springfield. Yeah. That would have been awesome. And that should be like a recur, they should like create, create like a Norway style like fund and any money that we save that we are spending on like migrants or whatever. We just throw it in that slush fund. Any revenue we're gaining from the tariffs at the federal level, throw it in that slush fund and just distribute it like every month to like net taxpayers. That'd be, that's just genius. That's how you like build loyalty with maybe a little bit less like leaned in tapped in voters. Instead doing like five grand to be like. because the economy's doing so well, everyone's like, what? We probably wouldn't be handing out five grand if it was like a, you know, rock star economy. So, yeah, I mean, like people are freaking out over the budget and it's like, dude, I mean, if you're just finding out now that Trump tends to spend a lot of money, I don't know what to tell you 'cause like the first term again, I remember this talking point was coming from a lot of like Neocons as like Trump is like blowing the budget out. Again, since 2016, the budget's gone up, it's nearly doubled, it's like 90%, CPI's only up like what 40% since 2016. So, I mean, yeah, it's not like we're in the era of Reagan economics anymore. I think people seem to kind of give that up. But if you're using, again, if you're someone that like doesn't really care about this issue until today, you're probably just using it as a way to have another reason to complain about Trump. - Was Reagan actually good economically or was Carter just really, really bad? - Carter was terrible. I mean, there was this thing. I remember it 'cause I got commissioned to write a play about inspired by it where he went on TV and he told everybody, "Yeah, fuel prices are high, just put on a sweater." - Yeah, terrible idea. Yes, my car runs on warmth. - Yes, that's excellent. - And good intentions. - Well, and sheep's wool, yeah. Put that through the engine. - But it's all just, it's all relative. - I think it is all relative. But there were, there were gas lines. We haven't seen gas lines. We don't have bread lines. That's what Mom Donnie will usher in. - Yeah, I mean, they love him, though. He's polling really well. - Who Jeff or Mom Donnie? - Mom Donnie. - Oh, yeah, for sure. - He's polling really. So polling is largely about, are you striking at a symbol that people feel oppresses them? So it's, you know, it's demagoguery. You go to the people and say, "What do you mad at?" And they're like, "White people." And he's like, "Yeah, you know, oh geez." And then everyone's like, "Yeah, like it." He said a thing I like. And whether or not he does something doesn't even matter. - And that would definitely, that type of thing would be interesting when you look at vaccines, like what they drop, dropping the vaccine count from 72 to 11 for those that hesitant or cautious. That was a big win for that community, which is a lot of America now. - There's been a ton of things that you can classify as big wins from Donald Trump. The problem is the midterms are in a couple months, if what is it, 55 days or whatever, something like that, and diesel in California is $10 a gallon. Like people vote on the price of gas and the cost of groceries. All the other stuff is actually pretty tertiary. People were okay or voted for deportations because they believed that it was gonna bring prices down. Not like largely because they believed that look, this is actually gonna make it easier for me to survive. People vote on kitchen table issues. No matter how much people wanna say that it's other stuff, if you feel like your streets are safe, your dollar buys you enough stuff, and your gas doesn't cost too much, you'll vote the party that's in power back into power. That's just the way people vote. They don't have these big political theories behind how they're voting. They're like, oh my God, gas costs blah, blah, blah, I'm voting for the other guy. - Yeah, I mean, and every single candidate, no matter the political party comes out and says it's time for change. And the only thing I can ever think is like, what do you wanna change to what? Like change what to what? That's always my question. But it's really just change feeling crappy. About things to feeling reasonably okay about things. - Yeah, it is, it's as much as we talk about nuanced issues or talk about whatever's happening politically and stuff, people care about their immediate family, they care about their kids, they care about their community, and when I say their community, the people that are immediately around them, even people in big cities care about, what's it like on the block that I live on? And, you know, there's the store down the street. Can I buy the stuff I need? - I remember having a wild conversation with, well, wild conversation with my city councilman in Brooklyn years ago during COVID, and there were all these reports coming in about how the Department of Sanitation had stopped collecting trash in a number of neighborhoods. And I called him and I was like, is that what's going on? And he was like, no, because of budget cuts, the Department of Sanitation has cut back on some collections and a lot of, and city councilman can use their discretionary budget to keep them collecting. And I said, yeah, 'cause I'm not seeing that in our neighborhood. And he said, yeah, I'm using my discretionary budget to have them come clear the corner baskets. And a lot of city council persons weren't doing that because they didn't think their constituency cared. And he knew that his constituency did care, and that's why he kept getting elected. Even though he was like a commie, kept the streets clean. - Yeah, I mean, good. - Oh, yeah, thanks. - But at this point that I'm talking about tethering into what you guys are talking about, what we really need is if you don't have your health, you have nothing, like the saying, if you have your health, you have a thousand dreams, if you don't have your health, you have one. And if there's something that is holding the fate of humanity and the balance, and whether our kids are sick or adults, whether we're sick or whether we're well, it's such a linchpin. And so love him or hate him. Like a lot of the community that have been feeling like in such an unfair situation, like I don't want to give all my child all these vaccines, and they've been begging for freedom on this issue, so they can have the discretion to choose, but then felt bullied into it, like restricted from what schools they could go to, whether those exemptions can be granted to them. And it's been quite hellish for a lot of people, and people have been through a lot, and then they get ghastly. No, no, this wasn't what caused the issue, this lifelong health condition that this child now has. No, it wasn't us. Oh, we don't know what causes that, we're not gonna, and then, and these companies are cooking the books, the serial felons, like the vaccine companies that were tasked with the COVID vaccine, we had over $30 billion in criminal fines. Look at it, look that up. - Really? From the COVID stuff? - Before that, like, Pfizer had the largest criminal settlement in history at 3.2 billion through the Department of Justice. - What was it for? What did they do wrong? - Well, having their products kill people, and them, sorry, having their products, well, that wasn't a vaccine, right? That was a drug. And anyway, it was, and what Moderna was because they cooked the books with the clinical trial data. So these were all different issues that were so bad, that blurred judgment and doctors' abilities to do what they did best, which was to treat their patients versus get marching orders from a pharmaceutical company and then have to push that agenda. No matter what the unique composition of that child was. - Interesting. - Yeah, I mean, the, I don't know, the frustrations with Trump, it bothers me because of all of the actual, like tangible successes that he's had, but because of the fact that, like I said, we're two months away from the midterms. You've got this, this Iran war that nobody wanted, nobody likes, and it's dragging on. It's almost six months now or what have you. It's an unpopular war. The American people were very clear. They didn't want to go to war in the Middle East, again, and they elected Trump thinking, "Hey, he's not gonna take us into war." And here we are. The granted, this is, it's not the Iraq war again. But you've still got a boatload of bombs being dropped on Iran and people are completely and totally allergic to wars in the Middle East now. So, the Republicans are in a really bad spot and I don't see them pulling out before the midterms. - I don't, it's hard to predict what's gonna happen because it seems like just nobody really cares anymore. I mean, about most things, right? So it's no secret that social media viewership has been down across the board, across all genres. And I know everyone likes to attack Ben Shapiro or they'll comment on our show or whatever because they're like, "Hi, your views are down," or whatever. But it's every genre, like the poker show, let's just do this, like you guys might watch football whatever I watch poker. The World Series got half a million viewers. - Yeah. - Two million last year. - No one's watching anything. Everyone is checked out or maybe they'll unwrap sure, I guess, I don't know. - I think people are getting pushed back into legacy streaming services and like sportses. - What did I say in 2024? That's exactly what I said the plan was. - Yeah, well, it's working. I mean, 'cause it seems like, I mean, movies, you know, like what, three years ago, everyone was eulogizing the movie theater and now they're like, like, shattering boxes of crackers. - The biggest movie ever made, ever was Spider-Man. - Yeah, this is the biggest one. - It was a great movie. - It's the highest-crushing film ever. - Over 3 billion, yeah. - It's two-something guys. - Yeah, and it's still going, it's still going. - You would go back, you know, three years ago, and the Atlantic would have pieces out like, it's gonna, when the movie theaters are gone, we're really gonna miss some guys. And then yeah, here we are and now like Hollywood's back. Legacy streaming, huge. I mean, these guys are posting up monster numbers. You can go look at the court. - Like Netflix and stuff. - Yeah, go look at their quarterly. They're crushing and then sports have never been bigger. You could attribute some of that to sports betting, but anecdotally, most of the sports is down too. - As far as I understand it, the NFL and NBA, the NBA is down a little bit, like the NFL and the MLB, the MLB is roared back, which is quite shocking. And just anecdotally speaking, most of my friends are sports guys and everyone's kind of tap back in to a lot of the storylines. This year, soccer's really growing quite quick. - Well, body camera footage and police brutality videos are guaranteed path towards making money, that's for sure. - Oh yeah, I mean, Twitter now is just only fans, fights. - No, Netflix's quarter two is disappointing. Revenue was good, it was up, but it was a mess. Versus their consensus net income did rise, but growth came from price increases I would imagine Netflix is probably the worst performing legacy streaming service at this point I would assume like probably prime and I assume prime's probably doing the best right now You know Apple TV is interesting. Yeah, cuz you have to pay for it even after you subscribe, right? Apple TV Yeah, that's what my experience was. Oh, I just had to subscribe But the the shows they have like are the only ones that make me keep coming back to you know Like I'll see an Apple TV show and I'll be like oh, I'll subscribe for another month I also see like I watched silo when I watched silo was really fun Widow's Bay was fun and these are things and brand new day also to go back to Spider-Man These are all really it's gonna go to Netflix first. Yeah, it's gonna go to Netflix for sure But like but it's all yeah, but it's all it's all very Escapist all the content that people are really gravitating towards is escapist And it's not escapist to lift like a lot of political messaging one of the great things about spider-man Brand new day was it had like zero Woke messaging. Yeah, yeah, it was just fun to watch like I went with my son and we had so much fun Yeah, I think there's like a lot of things there I mean first to I think part of the reason let like I don't know I'm just speaking for myself here, but anecdotally it seems like pretty much everyone I know is pushed back And streaming service specative sports. I think of reason why some of this isn't showing up in the numbers is I think people are More equipped than ever to like pirate content. I think that's like what's going on people like everyone knows that a pirate movies and television shows now And you can tell that this is a problem because you can't like chrome cast you can't cast to your screen anymore from like any web player They've changed it now where you can't just cast from any old web player So I think like the streaming services and everyone are quite aware that that pirates he's becoming a huge problem This is this is pretty wild Tate you're you're you're basically spot on with your analysis about streaming services Streaming services are doing really well. Yeah, everybody's down right now, but they're standing out TV had an all-time low Basically everything is down Here's it's really funny YouTube TV is actually dominating I mean we watch it. We've got it in the other room and we'll have like the multi-view Well, it'll be like Fox CNN MS now and and some sporting event It's like the only one we don't feel like you're getting totally ripped off because you get so many channels And they have like channels on there to like replaying shows like I go and watch the top gear channel like all day I've just been reading TV cable are completely dead. I've been very down on well streaming services gained 2% So they're they're beating out everybody else Yeah, you can tell cables dead because these sports these sports Leagues or whatever when they're entering their broadcasting rights negotiations It's shorts focuses or the focus is primarily on streaming like the MLS not the biggest league in the world But they were negotiating for a new cable deal an Apple TV got exclusive right? It's it's shorts. It's saying that viewership has dramatically shifted to the carousel TikTok Instagram and YouTube shorts are dominating viewership Even even viewership one for one like YouTube said they're changing the way they count views to be a single second It used to be like at least 30 seconds of view because they didn't want people gaming the system But now that every single platform is like the moment you watch for any amount of time it's a view YouTube fell in line, but YouTube shorts were always this way. So I got to tell you like I've got a handful of we didn't do shorts for a year Because it's just seemed like it doesn't it's not fruitful I do a 20-minute video in the morning coming a thousand dollars of that one 20-minute show But now that viewership and long-form is dying You still do make more money from people who watch long-form But most people are watching short form now and it's shifting over I did two shorts and I got half a million views on each of them And it took me like literally three minutes to make the short I just put a bit to the phone set some things Commented on a clip. It's a minute half as a minute half long and it made 80 bucks Yeah, so I'm like okay. I can record for 20 minutes maybe do a thousand But if I can do seven videos I'll make you know and seven shorts and just spam up you know blast them out Then it's it's comparable if want you get one banger plus a bunch of small ones So I think this is fairly obvious most people have seen this coming that it's it's the carousel's facebook It's instagram. It's tiktok even x is doing this now Yeah, this is this is what they all want. So I just got accepted to the x creators program Well, that's the very new thing. Yeah, and this is gonna be wild. Let's tell you why So I the last paycheck I got from x was $6,300 for two weeks Uh, I've got three million followers So you might think like that's actually a very small amount of money for the 300 million impressions that I'm getting on x Yeah, all it takes is looking at all it takes is looking at your troll tweets to to understand why Well, so uh the way the old system worked is that it was how many replies you got Because people were then creating this massive thread and ads would appear there So it would create more viewership in the thread and uh, so I had a couple posts over labor day that got like two million views Where I said you know if you could press a button that would kill somebody to get a million you'd get a million bucks That got like seven or eight thousand replies and quotes. The new system is based on original content. Now here's the thing Let's say there's a hundred dollars in the pool every month There's a hundred people Getting access to that pool Everybody gets a dollar That's it Right if you post ten times as much you're going to get ten dollars out of the hundred and someone's gonna get a single cent Andrew Yang would post how he's like, hey made three hundred bucks. Hey, I'm gonna give it away Here's what gets crazy Everybody Was basically in that revshare program It didn't matter what you were doing you could just quote tweet somebody or re-upload someone else's video The new rules are that don't fly anymore. Yeah, there was content theft some dude went viral because he was like I was I was rejected from the program and he was like I add insightful commentary to tons of videos And so he quote tweets other posts with commentary that's not bad, but That's not what x wants. They want video content. They want original content. We're streaming right now to x for x the x audience Now imagine this a hundred dollars to a hundred people Ben Elon comes in and says 90 of you aren't actually doing anything and you're all removed from the program Now guess what? There's a hundred dollars for ten people. So based on the estimates We don't know the exact ratio, but I got to be honest some of the people I've talked to work on social media are like They are they are exercising some 80% of people who would normally be in this monetization program That means You're gonna see a 5x increase in the amount of money you're getting if you're producing original content Well, are you or are a lot of the people who are participating on x going to drift away and go to some other platform where they can monetize this is the point I think what x realized is that Andrew Yang is not motivated by getting three hundred dollars It's pointless. What motivates people to be influencers is when they find out someone on youtube's a millionaire But nobody was being a millionaire Look I posted that I was like I got paid $10,000 in one period and I'm like let's go and the replies were anger Well, I'm gonna be wrong. It's always anger But it was critique people were saying you have You have three million followers and you got 250 million impressions. You made 10 grand not worth it Well, yeah, so there's no light at the end of the tunnel because it was effectively communism right not literally But it's it's a decentralized monetization system where if everybody can get it for the most minimal amount of work Including people in India commenting on each other's posts to just steal money from the system No one's making meaningful money So it doesn't seem like a viable platform with this move and I think the reason they did it if I if I'm getting you know A standard 1% share of the pool they eliminate 9% of people so now I'm getting a 10% share Let's just say I'm getting a 5x return $6,000 with my last check it'll be $30,000 Imagine what happens when I'm posting like oh, yeah, we do 60 to 80,000 per month posting on x Then people are gonna be like whoa X is where we want to be why Instagram pays zero YouTube shorts like I said 400,000 views 80 bucks When x comes out and says we have x money direct deposit into your x account pay through x and we pay more than everybody else I think that's Elon's plan. I think he's saying we're going to get rid of the low quality content Which is just Comments and questions. What did we see with the monetization people posting things like when you have breakfast? Do you put maple syrup or do you like high-fructose corn syrup products? They were doing stupid things like that degenerate engagement that nobody wanted to interact with It's like the early days of Facebook when there would be Facebook groups about the cold side of the pillow Indeed, so now in order to get in the new program You can't repost stuff. You need original video content. You need original content articles and we post that So I think what's going to end up happening is Everybody who runs a show is going to see a massive revenue increase. Another way to put it is We have a company here. We have staff. We have a studio It costs a lot of money. So we put a lot into research, production, gas, travel and accommodation Thank you. We are absolutely We are producing something for these platforms that is higher higher level the old monetization system Was basically telling everyone anyone can post anything and get paid. I I think the idea they had at first was this will work because people will say it's easier to get some money off X than other platforms. - Well, and also Elon Musk said you are the journalists now. - It didn't work. People were posting slop content, commenting generic things on each other's platforms, not making videos, not writing articles, and they said maybe we need higher quality content. YouTube did this too, 10 years ago, 13 years ago. I think it is going to be massive for people who post on X. I think you're going to start seeing monetization rivaling or beating YouTube. I'm excited. - That's beautiful. - Yeah. - Let's see how it goes. - I have not applied for it yet. - I did. - And the reason I didn't is because when it offered me like the tweets to suggest, it was like all clips from trials last week. - Yeah, I did. - Well, one thing we need to do Phil is, you should make your own clips from this show especially. - Yeah. - Because most of the clips are like me monologuing or responding to somebody. Y'all have your moments on this show. - That's what I do. - You should be-- - Thank you guys. - Exactly. - I did the, do you remember last week we did the Lindsay Clancy Ubleyette? - Yeah. - If I clipped that, it was like 20 seconds from us all being like yes, double Ubleyette. - Yeah. - And then Carter, double Ubleyette. - I'm like doomed because I have like, when I like hear my voice played back, I have like a panic attack. - I hate it too. - Listen, I know what you mean. I don't watch a lot of my stuff. - Yeah. - I don't know what you mean. - I'm like half of my takes just like sucks. I'm like watch a guy and I'm like, what am I talking about? (laughing) - Yeah, just don't watch it. Don't read the comments. Just keep going. - Yeah. - But thank you for thinking of everyone. I love that about you. Like you're just thinking about people succeeding, right? And that's what we want. We want everyone to succeed and you know, be able to have a good play and a good game. By the way, I just had a baby on Saturday night. - Okay, Chris. - Congratulations. - And then you know, when you're a dad, right? You just think about how, how do my children succeed in this world? Like what platforms are here for them? How do they have a great life ahead of them? And yeah, so it's awesome looking for opportunities for everyone listening. Like there's so many ways to like make a great living doing what you love and we live in that time. There's a picture. This was a lifetime there. - Oh, look at that. - Oh wow. - Oh, nice. - Wow. - It was the best thing. - Congratulations. (laughing) - You know what I was talking, right? It was on a carousel. - Yeah. - But yeah, all the emotions right there, right? - Yeah. - Yeah. - It's wild. - Yeah. - I just had my first in, he's gonna be a year old in October, so it's not an old guy for having a kid, but it's definitely like the reason we're here, man. It really is, you know? - My son just got his learner's permit. (laughing) - That's great. - He's 16. - He tolerates you now. (laughing) - You know, I would say I knocking on the wood here. I think I have a pretty good relationship with my son and his good relationship with his dad and I'm really proud of him and I think he's the greatest person in the whole world. - That's what you wanna hear. That's really like the goal is to like, not just obviously you're gonna love your kids, but you want to be, you want to like your kids too. - I think that's important. Like, you wanna raise a kid that you wanna hang out with. - Yep. - And I remember when he was little, you know, 'cause kids will throw tantrums and stuff. - Oh yeah. - And I remember just thinking like, just get him laughing and I thought to myself, I can just keep him laughing, I think we'll be okay. - Yeah. - And I still, I still keep him laughing. Today though, I was working on something and I didn't, I was having trouble with it and he came in and helped me out. And he explained like, oh, I was writing a story about this horrible Kirk-aversary stuff. And I was like, Charlie, have you seen this? You know, talking about it. And yeah, he explained the whole thing to me. (laughing) - The whole morbid. - The entire thing. - Yeah. - Because he's this Gen Z person and he knows online and he has these friends and they know things. You know, I remember being a kid thinking like about my older childless aunts and stuff. And I would think like, how do you even know what's going on in the world? And now I'm their age and I'm like, yeah, I would have no idea what's going on in the world if I didn't have a kid, you know, no idea. - Yeah, I do feel like because of where I spend most of my time and who I spend most of my time with. It's kept me younger. - Yeah, but you still, I mean, I think there's, I think there's something to be said for having someone who can tell you about teen culture. - Oh, yeah. - While being a little dismissive, for sure. But-- - Well, you were-- - Not entirely. - You were talking about the Kirk-aversary before the show started. - Yeah, yeah, we were talking about the Kirk-aversary. I was talking to Jack Pasobic about it today as well. And I wrote about it. I was a little late zooming in. The audience can't see that. But I zoomed in right before the show started 'cause I was finishing up the story before I came to the studio. Yeah, so this Kirk-aversary, people are celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder. They're celebrating his death. They're doing all kinds of things about that. But they're also just completely mima-fying him, and turning him into a goofy thing, putting his face on all kinds of things that don't make any sense. They're curking each other as a joke, which is kind of like putting your finger on your friend's neck and then your friend pretends that they've just been shot. They're celebrating the accused killer who-- - I want to stress this though about the Kirk-ing their friends. If they don't understand, if it's not intended as a gloating over Charlie's death, it's just a youthful trivialization and ignorance. I'm not really mad about it. What I'm mad about is-- - I understand that. - But-- - Political individuals who are advocating for murder and death, doing it as a sign of intimidation and antagonism. Like when I see little kids running around saying stupid words or whatever, I'm not thinking like, you know, like if you go to a skate park and you hear kids dropping n-bombs left and right, and they do, I'm not sitting there being like, oh, those racist kids. I'm like, no, they're kids, man. - I think it's more. - I think it more speaks to the normalization of political violence. - The human. - Well, they've normalized it so much that kids are looking at it like a joke. - Yeah, I mean, and if you look to, there was some TikToker who was talking about how it was the inversion of the Luigi Manjioni thing. So Manjioni charged with shooting United Health Care, CEO Brian Thompson in cold blood in broad daylight in the street of New York. And media was like, oh, it's killer. And everybody was like, no, celebrate. He's a great guy. And then with Charlie Kirk, people were talking about how terrible it was that he was murdered. And then this outcry comes that they're happy about it. So I think that there's definitely, like you say, I think there's the two levels to it. I think there's the pop culture messing around thing, which actually exemplifies how normalized this kind of violence has become. And then there's the antifa accounts who are talking about, why don't I have a Kirkantine on this Kirkiversary to celebrate with me. - That's so gross. - It's pretty disgusting. - I mean, look, I understand that the kids are, kids are gonna do edgy things and stuff. I get it. And I think that obviously because we knew Charlie, it's a different thing. But yeah, it's just gross. - Yeah, people should not make anyone's death trivial, right? Even after, and this is a surreal concept, but it was James Dobson that went in and did the interview with Ted Bundy just before he was executed. And in the interview, you'll see the lights flicker because the electric chair's getting tested while the interview's happening. And then he gets executed. And then when the host was driving out, then they had like mock inflatable body of like a replica of Ted Bundy that they were dragging around and kicking around. And James Dobson, a Christian radio host, just said this was truly a sad thing to see even humans react this way, even to somebody that everyone would agree was very evil and very wicked. And you just have to think of if there is a God, which I believe there is, God would never celebrate anyone of his children dying, whether it was someone that was deemed as the wickedest or the greatest, the most righteous among us. And to me, once we can elevate to that point where we just simply would never wish death on anyone and never celebrate these things and instead just treat all life as sacred, then there would be less reason. No one would ever have a reason. Well, you didn't agree with him. I don't care if you agree with him. I don't agree with him. He's a person, he's a human being and we need to let alone people that did stand for things that matter, right? And then now we're talking about that's even worse again. Now you're opposing somebody that had something to say that was important, that had value for society. That's the most debasing thing then you've got a real elevation and celebration of depravity at that point. Yeah, I mean, but we see celebration of depravity on virtually every level of society about countless different things. I think we're going to depraved culture. We also saw the, you know, and this is something, I looked at a lot of articles today about this whole meanification of Charlie and his, you know, and his likeness. And a lot of the articles that I looked at were talking about how in the wake of Charlie's murder last year [BLANK_AUDIO] there were a lot of accounts, like conservative activist counts online trying to get people fired for having said negative things about Charlie on their social media following his killing. And I remember thinking at the time, like, this is not the greatest thing. Like, do I approve of what people are saying on social media? No, not at all. Do I think that they should be shamed perhaps? Should we be calling for them to be fired? Like people get to have jobs, you know? So I wasn't a huge fan of that. I wasn't a huge fan of people getting fired because they were not pro BLM or pro trans or because they wouldn't get the COVID shot or any of the other things. So yeah, so I do think that there was a little bit of a reaction against that, you know, movement to get people fired because they said nasty things about Charlie. We also saw it happen after President Trump was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania. There was this effort to get people fired. And I do wish that there was, I wish that we had more of a civil society, you know? And I look back and I wonder if it's just my memory is faulty or and we did have a, you know, where I think like, oh, we did have a civil society, you know, like under the war and court things seemed a lot more normal, a little more nuanced. People could understand each other. Maybe that's not as true as it, as it has seemed in my memory. But I think it would be better if we could have a civil discourse, if we could have a way that people operate in public essentially, you know, but we don't. And it's like, you know, we just have straight up depravedate just all around us. It's, it's, it's pretty intense to just watch this happen. And to what you were saying, Phil, it's different for people who knew Charlie for sure. You know, I mean, I think we were all, we were on stage with them, you know, multiple times. And it's, it's so weird to see somebody that you liked and knew professionally to see their killing be reveled in by people. Yeah. It's, yeah, I mean, the, the, the political climate in the US now, because it, this is all because of Charlie's, you know, politics, because of how effective he was, because of how great of a speaker he was. It's, it's really, really dark to see so many people. I was just looking at a clip on X today, just a little while ago of people, you know, getting basically violent in New York City over, you know, there was some kind of, I think they were trying to put up a statue or something. That was today. Yeah. We would, yeah. One of our guys was out taking video of that. I wonder if you saw some of the work. It might have been. Yeah. I don't recall which, which, what it kind of was. But yeah, I mean, the fact that, look, you don't have to like Charlie Kirk. You don't have to agree with him. But to go and assault people because they're putting up a statue of a guy. I mean, and, you know, I know, we sound like a broken record when we talk about this kind of stuff, but it's all from the left. Like there is nobody on the right that's going to go and try to assault people for putting up a statue of someone that they don't agree with. It's just people on the left. And there's so many bad statues going up these days. Do you see this terrible statue that just went up in London? Yeah, I did. It's it's hideously ugly. It seems to have absolutely no skill done like, and it's, it's comical. But none of us are going to go out there and fight over it. The, especially seeing as like looked at the way that the British, yeah, the way that the British, the way that the people in the UK treat, like the way that they've globbed on to the whole, you know, anti-racist stuff. Like they're the country that went around the world and ended slavery in all, basically, in all the colonies. Like amazing. They, they ended slavery. Yes. Like globally. Now, granted, obviously, they weren't, you know, the British colonies weren't actually the total globe. And they didn't end it everywhere. They ended it in the Middle East. Yeah. But they ended it across the whole, the British Empire. That, and that is, that is slavery in the Middle East. Yeah. And, but ending it across the British Empire was something unprecedented in human history for an entire empire to say we're stopping this. When they footed the bill to stamp it out, whenever it did exist. It did. They didn't. And, and now, and now the British are, but now they're behaving as if that like they're behaving as if they're somehow responsible for slavery. Yes, the British did engage in it, but they didn't engage in it in the way that most other countries did every culture has had slavery. Yeah. And they ended it. They're the only one that ended it. It was this Linchpin, a small group called the Clapham Sect. And they, they, they originally were, were taking people on ships and they had petitions. They'd get people to sign and say, look at how bad it is on these ships and appeal to people. But then people, the indifference to like, look, this is just the way of life. And it's, look, it sucks. But, you know, what life has to continue? My way of life has to continue. And until they, they actually kind of tricked the system and they did it through a commerce structure that ultimately stopped slavery. And it's part of the reason why a group that I'm working with with Tim Tebow is it's called the Clapham Accelerator because it's about a couple of hundred companies using AI to stop human trafficking through all different innovations in AI to, to detect where children are being trafficked to set up systems that stop it to protect children on devices through like software like harm block that stops children from receiving images and, and being able to give images through AI patent recognition. All, all different aspects of that data, data viewers led to successful rescues through AI patent recognition as to where the children, where the CSM child sexual abuse materials coming from. But yeah, these are the initiatives that really matter and, and you think about, we have to end these problems because human trafficking is growing at about 20% a year. And it's creating a world that we, we cannot live in. And then when people are so, you know, frivolous with, with human life and just joking about things that really do matter, like, we're not, they're not standing for their world. And we have to do everything to help give them something to, to stand for. And one of the reasons why I think that, like, people revel in these types of things is because I actually see it as part of something good, something that they, good, like, this is a good thing. Like, it was, it was hard, it was difficult, but it was necessary. And if you look in the Bible in John chapter 17, Jesus said that the time is coming when he that seeks to kill you will think he's doing God's service. But that's because he does not know me and he does not know the Father. And he's talking about what it, what it's like to then be so debased that you, that you, you think it's like a great thing, a religious thing, like something, a good honor to, to the, the betterment of humanity in society to end something that is abhorrent to you because you're offended. And it's also why Jesus said, "Wall into the world because of offenses." Right? What, what, what is it that we're talking about? People get offended about the things that somebody says, offended by this. And so I want you to be gotten rid of, rather than for me to change, things about my life that are getting called out that are actually things that, which would be called sin. Like, I'm actually doing wrong things. And instead of me reflecting on that, I just want to get rid of the, the check engine light. Like, there's something wrong with me. Yeah. I mean, I'm, I'm not the guy to comment on, on, on scripture, but the, the idea that, you know, people feel motivated to attack other people because they're offended is something that hasn't gone away. And again, even to Libby's point, like she was talking about how, you know, it's bad that, you know, people were going after, you know, people on the right were going after people that were mocking Charlie Kirk Steph, like that. I think that, I think that's the right, the right impulse to say, "Hey, this isn't, this isn't a good idea." But it is different, totally different than the behavior of the left. And one of the most frustrating things is there are people on the left. And it's most people on the left that will still swear up and down that, that it's, the left doesn't do that. And when they do, they're justified because, well, you know, the people that, they went after, they were bad people. So it's okay. Spiritual blindness. Yeah. It's, it's, you see what I mean? It's spiritual blindness because you, you, you are literally blind to that, which, which you, you don't understand. And, and then you can justify everything, but you cannot see it. And that's the sad part because you're talking to people that there's a pulse there, but, but there's like this part that you can get through. And it was interesting. I was just with Russell Brandt in Panama City. And he talked about his previous life as, as being blind. Like, and then, you know, having the intellect that he has, very witty, very, very, very witty, very intellectual, very smart. And so, but, but he would mock and ridicule the things that he now believes so strongly and would die for. He really is a sincere human. And, he just reflected on that state of just being blind. And there is a redemptive aspect to that, because if we, if we could, you know, have a, have a view of redemption, say, look, I see you, you're in there. And if it was your child that was on the heavy side of the left and, you know, going about things this way, you'd say, look, there's still hope, don't give up on my child, I believe in them. There's still a way, there's a way through here. And it is through love and compassion and kindness that you can break. still that hot, hot oddness in that, that, that blindness. Yeah, the slavery discourse is fascinating. Right. What are my favorite tidbits of historical record is Mauritania didn't abolish it until 1981, like actual shadow slavery. Like like the US was unloading like the world's most severe sanctions package on South Africa, like on the same continent. There was literally a country that like in 1981, they, I would love to be in that room. Yeah. They're so well as, you know, it's starting to be a, it's starting look like a, it's a kind of a bad look, I think. Maybe we should reconsider our position in 1981, like, it's unreal. We had like, I want, what was even charting in 1981? And there was a country that had literal shadow slavery illegal as like it's like a talking heads, maybe. Yeah, maybe. And then yeah, just they're, they're listening to the talking heads and they're like, you know what? Maybe yeah, I need to out all this. Just not a good look. Not a good look. That was always fascinating. I mean, it's like if you read Henry Kissinger had like this bloodthirst for like all these like basically European and European descended countries and like any of them step that align in any way, shape or form, massive sanctions package, the full breadth of the American State Department. But then you had, you had countries like Mara Tania, where like literally had like ancient child slavery like sanctioned by the state. I was like, nothing's wrong here. Just, it's just the 20th century is just absolutely bizarre. Yeah, it's a good song, amazing grace, right? Amazing grace. How sweet the sound saved a wretch like me. I once was blind, but I once was lost, but now I found it was blind. But now I see he was, he was, he was, it was a, it was a song about a slave owner and it didn't get to Mara Tania until 1981. All accounts and charted there and they're like, oh, every time do a ball. Amazing grace. Part of make it over there until the 80th. Well, it's a good song. All right. You know what? Maybe now, maybe now is the time to get rid of slavery. Because of amazing grace. And it's a funny, funny short video I watched where I was asking people when did slavery end? And you know, you know what's funny about these men in the street interviews is that when you see these videos where people answer the questions like they're stupid, this is not real. Because imagine trying to do honest and legitimate videos and you find that when you go to Times Square, 99% of people will give you either a good answer or I'm sorry, I just don't know. Answer. So when you see these videos where people are really dumb, they're hunting for dumb people. But they ask people, the sky asks people when did slavery end? And what it is, it is at it. So who knows what people said to him, but the people he shows, they say, do you mean in America? And he's like, the question is when did slavery end? And every single person goes slavery never ended. It's still happening right now, all over the world. Yeah, people know this, you know, it's not a secret. Even the dumb people know indeed. Yeah, I mean, that's, that goes to kind of the idea that the things that offend people on the left, they're not actually offended by it's just a way to exercise power. You know, the whole like, you've offended me or you did this, you broke this, the social taboo, you said this wrong thing. It doesn't matter that what you said, it's just that there's a means for them to exert power over you because you're, you know, you have, you have the wrong opinions or whatever it is. We had like a couple decades of people on the left saying that it was time to destroy a lot of the norms, whether it was, you know, nuclear families or, you know, a heteronormative blah, blah, blah, or whatever it was. And now that all the norms have been destroyed, they get mad that norms that they liked are still are destroyed. They get mad that the norms they like are still destroyed. And so they complain about all of that stuff too. But once you start really, once you pick away at the wall, the wall is going to crumple and you don't get to decide where the pieces fall. Yeah, it's, uh, excuse me. Yeah, the, the, the structures that hold up society, they are a lot more fragile than, than people kind of realize that I, you know, I give this a lot of thought because I agree with you and they are more fragile. Like society is fragile. There's this old movie from what is that the 70s called little murders and it was written by Jules Feiffer, uh, who was this, who was this playwright. And he went up on Broadway. Elliot Gould was really into the movie and he was into the show. He was on in Broadway with that show and then he was in the movie as well. But, um, there's, uh, it's really a terrific movie for looking at how society can just fall apart. And it talks about society just falling apart. And there's a moment where one of the characters says to all the hippie kids, destroy, destroy, destroy, what are you going to find time to build? And that's the thing you can work really hard to destroy society. But once it's gone, it takes way longer to build it back than it did to knock it down. And you're not going to like where all the pieces fall. You're not going to like not having clean water or cheap gas or, you know, food that you can trust in the grocery store, you're not going to like those things. Yeah. People, people put a lot of a lot of emphasis or the left puts a lot of a lot of emphasis on, you know, we have to destroy the system and, and et cetera. And they have this idea that the new system or a better system will just arise from the ashes, you know, uh, a pure, more utopian system. Oh, yeah, yeah, right. And it's, it's, it's like this, it's like it's as if they believe that like there's all of these bad things that are, are like constraining the good system. And if we just tear down enough of the bad things, the, the, the good system will become self-evident. But that, that's not how anything works, right? Like, I mean, they just have no idea how they're going to, going to produce the results that they swear up and down that they're going to produce. And you see it, you know, happened in society, in different societies throughout history. And it doesn't matter what the race of the society is. It doesn't matter about the, the makeup of the society at all. These things don't work in any society. You look at societies that generally do work and, and, and their, their societies where, you know, the families, the family unit is the primary unit, right? Like that's the foundation of your society is if you have a society that makes sure that families are taken care of, that by extension takes care of the individuals in the family, right? We've sort of replaced that in the United States with the foundational relationship is not in the family unit, but it's between the individual and government. And government is so, you know, fickle and constantly changing and based on a drive for power, not actually values or anything moral. That that's a very dangerous relationship to, to basis society on. Yeah. And also these leftists are the same ones who think like, who think that the colonists disrupted these perfectly peaceful Indian civilization. Noble savage, you know. And it's like, no, these were warring tribes that practiced child sacrifice. The myth of, the myth of the, the myth of the noble savage is one of the most pernicious ideas that permeates modern society. The people that believe, oh, you know, and Rousseau was guilty of it. Like Rousseau, and from the, the, during the French Revolution, he believed that man was, was constrained by society. And, and we should, we should be, we should return to being, you know, savages or, you know, savages in cities or whatever. But like, it, it just doesn't work that way. You can't have people that are not restrained by law living among other people. Yeah, that was the sentiment of the, the French Revolution, which was to disenfranchise religion and the belief in God into institute atheism by law. And the, the, the seven day week was shifted to a 10 day week. It actually did cause insanity as well. And that was a mathematician that observed the mental asylum doubling in number and this, this balance because the seven day week is actually a remembrance of God. Yeah, yeah. So this is the creation that I have rest. And so it directly conflicted with, with that. And, and then it was to worship the God of God as of reason and it was a prostitute that was then, you know, it honored us the, the God of reason. And, hence why, you know, people look at like the Statue of Liberty, being a gift from France, being a reminiscent of that God of reason and that ideology also being here and some of the yin and yang that is going on with this leaning into, to that, that there was so much bloodshed through this. And, and, and France historians talked about the streets flowing with blood. 40,000 people were killed by the Jacobins, you know, in the French Revolution. That's the, I can't, I can't comprehend how people would think that that was better. And then they had 75 years of not figuring out how to organize a proper government after the French Revolution. You know, they had, they had Napoleon and, and all of, all of his misadventures and, and, you know, just revolution after revolution because it was just a, basically, it was a shit show. Well, let's screw it up the pitch on the 10-day week because they were like, okay, we have a new plan and everyone's like, okay, well, we'll, we'll hear you out. You know, we just did this whole revolution. It's kind of an exciting time. And they said, we're going to do a 10-day week and everyone's like, okay, that's, that's interesting. You know, maybe explain yourself and they say, well, Sunday, you know, your day or rest, we're moving that to the 10th day. And then you have nine days of work and terrible pitch. I was dead in the water. Everybody said, hey, we're doing three rest days. It might have had some legs. I landed five. Yeah, like now, you know, now we're talking five rest days or five day, five day week, right? So these are all kind of atheistic war on God concepts, which you, you know, if you understand that the, the wars of the 19th, 20th century have been religious was in, under atheism and with people like Charles Darwin spearheading the ideologies and, and, and these, you know, like Hitler was, was a hardcore Darwinist. And so they're interesting, you know, crossovers between a alleged science and, and, and how they did create this debased nature or help instill that within people to, to justify things that weren't good and had bad impacts in society. It just shows the thing that the left fears the most is the weekend. Yeah, I know that's when we get up to some things, as we start scheming a little bit. I kind of, I kind of miss blue laws, you know? Okay, you know about blue laws. National, National Sunday law. Yeah. You can't buy cars in Virginia on Sunday. In Massachusetts, I think you still, maybe you changed it, but it used to be, when I was a kid, you'd go into the, you know, the Cumberland Farms film, those I'm talking about. Oh, yeah. And the, no, there'd be like a sheet over the booze. You know, you couldn't even go down the pack and pick anything. You see, here's the thing though. That's fascism, right? It is. That's what the left calls fascism. I think it is traditional moral structures. They would call fascism, but they don't mean fascism as in traditional moral structures. They mean it as in you're a bad guy doing a bad thing. Yeah. Yeah. I, I liked, I like it because everybody has to just calm down. Like stores are closed. You can't go do stuff. Just chill out. And then, you know, you go to church and then get left alone for the rest of the day. You never, you didn't have to get dragged out to some dumb store to go look at linens or something stupid. But I think we should go further. I think we should have Saturday and Sunday. We should just have Shabbat and, you know, the Christian Sunday and just close everything on the weekends. Just shut it down. You know, I shut it down. I wouldn't have agreed a while ago, but I do agree. And it's funny because I've been invited to various Shabbat dinners. And I remember the first time I got invited. I think I was like 29 and I didn't know what Shabbat meant. And so a friend of mine was like, do you want to come to Shabbat with us? And then I was like, sure, what's that? It's like, it's like a dinner. I thought it was like a special once a year thing. Oh no, it's never yet. So we go to this house and they have basically a buffet setup. Like it's, it's a house. It's not like a buffet, but like they put all the food out so you can walk up with your plate and grab whatever you want. And there were like, everyone's got to leave your phone at the door. And it was hosted by a Jewish guy, but everybody there was, it wasn't. And everybody just hung out and talked. And I was like, oh, so like, how can you guys do this? And they're like every week. And I was like, what? Like every Saturday. And I was like, oh, this is a holiday. Yeah. They're like, no, we just do like, well, I mean, there used to be, there used to be the Christian tradition of Sunday dinner. That's right. I could go with Shabbat and Sunday dinner every day and weekend. And I would be happy about it. That sounds great. It's funny. I remember the first time I got invited to a Passover. I was like, oh, this is amazing. Yeah. Every time I get invited to a Shabbat or a Passover, which is not as often as I'd like. I go, Christianity has the Sabbath too. And people need to, isn't that a commandment to hold the Sabbath? Yes, it is. People need to do that. Remember the Sabbath. Yeah. I'm in a hundred percent agreement. So are you going to say? I was going to say, like, I was talking to my wife about exactly this. I think it came up because, you know, Ben Shapiro was unavailable from Friday evening until Saturday evening. Harley Kirk used to be unavailable. Yep. And it's not about, uh, it's, it's Christians should be doing this. And I think generally everyone should be doing it because it's family time. Yeah. And what I mentioned, like, I'm talking to my wife about it. Like, you know, so like on the weekends, we should, we should do this. We should, and she's like, oh, yeah. And I'm like, I don't even use their phones. She's like, oh, really? Yeah. Are you your phone down, Tim? Are you Hoffman? Who's one of my favorite people at the Post millennial? I've been working with him for a couple of years. He's unavailable Friday until Saturday. And it's, it's, it's great for him. And like, that's just his schedule. He's off Friday and Saturday. But, uh, think, think about what that does to the institutionalized learning facility when the teachers are trying to indoctrinate your kids, but every Sunday, the phones are off. And you are all together. Yeah. No, it, the Sabbath is one of the most amazing things. And it's Austin that Charlie talked about it. And, and it, it has been a staple through society. It's been one of the most beautiful times that everyone looks forward to. And, um, like, all the days of our week are named after planet gods. Monday, Monday to Woden, Wednesday, Thor, Thursday, frig, and Saturn, Saturday, Sunday. And, so that's the Chitonean Roman gods. But before it was actually just days towards the Sabbath. Like, so it was seven days and it was days towards Shabbat. And it was so important that that's just what people love to do. Because then you could just rest and enjoy your family, enjoy connection with God. And it was, and it was a beautiful thing. And it's in the Ten Commandments, the Fourth Commandment, remember the Sabbath to keep it holy at Six Days Shall You Labor, but the Seventh Day, the Sabbath of the Lord, your God, and it you shall do no work. And it was the one thing that stopped people from going insane. It's, well, it stopped me from going insane. I've kept that my whole life. And it's been a, and it's been a blessing. It's been hard at times. Because it's like, dude, I've got this great opportunity. And I want to talk business right now. I want to close this deal. But it's like, no, it's a blessing. And I don't need this. And it only ever opened up great things and, and wonderful things. Now, here's, and now I'll, I'll say the other side of this. If this is instituted as a law, it's the worst thing ever. Here's why. It impedes the free will. You, it's, it's awesome that you could check that out, Tim, and experience that, enjoy that, and then have the choice to say, you know what? I might do this. And if it comes out of the free will of your own choice, it's a beautiful thing. But if you're forced to do that, it doesn't seem like a dark thing. But I'll show you where it, where even in, in 1895, it was passed as a law. It was called the Blair Bill. And then immediately rest started to happen in this country for people that weren't doing it. And, and you'd say, okay, maybe, maybe that's a good thing. But it was, and it, and it was 80 Jones who was a barrister, a lawyer that single-handedly took down the Blair Bill, off the premise that free will, Sabbath is only good because you have free will so that you can do good, you can worship God, you can make these choices. But once you get forced, then now your ability to do good and is, is impeded. Well, I don't think that I think it's okay to say businesses can't be open on, I'm, I'm just thinking this through now. And I kind of think it's okay to say, you know, we're going to close stuff down. Now I need to break my commandment because I, because I keep the 7th day Sabbath. And now if I'm impeded from work on Sunday, the 10th month says 6th day shall you labor and do all of your work. Right. So I have to work on Sunday, because as in when I say I have to, I mean, for me to be restricted, and now I'm adhering to mental or breaking the commandment for myself. Do you see what I'm saying? I remember when I was a, when I was a kid, my dad worked, he's, he's an attorney and he had, he worked at a law firm where the partners who were Jewish would always make sure to show up on Christmas and Easter. Like Almas just says, a revolt to do it. You can pick Saturday or Sunday. I don't care which day it is. That if I, yeah, yeah, you know, just don't, you know what? This is why I'm saying just take Saturday and Sunday takes Saturday and Sunday and Home Depot is closed and Walmart is closed and everybody can like, you know, work the other days of the week. Oh, those are my dad. He worked in an environment that required labor on holidays. And he said they would just schedule all the atheists and Jewish people on. Well, you know, Chinese food restaurants on Christmas. That's the Jewish tradition. Yeah, it's. I have had, I have had many a Chinese food restaurant meal on Christmas and it's fun. Because they're open. Yeah. Well, and because, you know, my stepfather was Jewish and so we'd go and be fun. Cool. Because I remember I don't know if someone else tell me and we'd have good dumplings. They like scheduled a Jewish coworker on Christmas and then he was like throwing a fit. He was like, it's Christmas when I'm working and he's like, isn't that your whole thing? They don't actually care. Christmas, for example, is this celebration of Tamil? Is this Sun God after Nimrod who took his own Mother Samaramus as he's like? No, it's not. That's great. No, it's not. That's what it is. No, it isn't. Where did it come from? The celebration of Jesus' birth. Okay, 25th of December. Christmas is the celebration of. It's the celebration of of of Jesus' birth. No, I, I, I dispute your pagan garbage. Oh, okay. Sorry. No, no, no, I, I, but just that's the distinction. Christian view is not in alignment with your view and you're not going to convince a Christian. No, otherwise. No, no, no, no, no, no. What I'm saying is the, is the Christian view. This is the Christian view, because Christian view is, is that we're celebrating the Sun God? No, that's what that's what. Okay, the pagan it's, it's a constant constant. The Roman emperor that, that, that instituted and switched over the, the, the, the Roman and Greek gods so that those days that were the pagan days of worship then got instituted. And so that was, that was, that was it's tar. That would know. No, no. It's true. Oh, you're telling guys, guys, you have two different religions. I agree to disagree. Okay. All right. He's, he's, there's, well, there's two schools of thought, which he's referencing, like, a really. I'm not trying to tell somebody like what their religion is. He's trying to tell me what my religion is. That's not saying you're religion. No, I'm saying that that's what those days, that's the history of them. And so it's not like I'm saying that you're bad. I actually, I'll just put it like I enjoy it. There are, there is a liberal who is a fervent violent antifa born on the same day as me. Now, if someone said March night celebrates Tim Poole, independent, right leading individual, they'd be like, what are you talking about? This lib was born on March night. This just because, you know, you know, you see what I'm saying? I understand the point that you're making. And the people will dispute the origin of the days. But I'm just going to say this, your belief on the history of these days is completely divergent from the Christian belief on these days. And you're not going to commit to Christian. The, the, [BLANK_AUDIO] - Modern historical view. - Yeah, that's it, the modern Christian. - Well, the modern historical view is that Christ was conceived on the same day that he was crucified. This is what all the early Christians believed he can go through. It's even like an economic and medical councils, they referenced this. So the feast of annunciation was March 25th. You add nine months onto that. That's December 25th. That's how they calculated it. Later on, people said, "Oh, or really?" And he had the like soul and victus and like the fertility day or whatever on December 25th. But it's too simplistic to just say, well, they just, the Romans, once they became Christian, they just wanted to absorb all of the pagan holidays. It's like kind of convinced people to come along into Christianity. - Can I just start interrupting? Can I just talk about how awesome it was that September, October, November and December made so much sense? And they were like, "Now we need two more." - Julius and Augustine. - Yeah, that's all right, continue. - Yeah, no, yeah. So it's like there's the theory that it's the Roman winter festival. But if you look at, again, there's two schools of thought and there probably is some Roman, some indication that the Romans did choose December 25th, maybe like Lure and some pagans. But early Christians had already accepted March 25th as the day of anunciation. And then they had nine months on to that, nine months of pregnancy. And then Christ being born on December 25th, that's typically the kind of modern historical view on why we landed on this. - I also want to stress too, that part of me is concerned about communist attempts at erasing Christian history for the purpose of erasing Christianity. They clearly, many of these activists, they have no problem with Islam, but they have tremendous problems with Christianity. As exemplified by Stephen Crowder, when he did that campaign like 10 years ago, he had a bunch of fake gay guys, including himself, go to Muslim bakeries to get gay wedding cakes made and they wouldn't make 'em. But there was no leftist outrage, no liberal outrage. It was only the Christians. So I will say, I've heard a lot from liberals and atheists about why Christian history is fake or incorrect or why you shouldn't believe these things. And I'm kinda like, yeah, but you guys lied about a bunch of that stuff. So I'm not saying it's all wrong. I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm saying I'm skeptical. Because there's a very good reason to tell Christians that their Lord and Savior was not born on December 25th, and their holiday was actually fake because it's to attack their faith. - Underminds it. - Well, yeah. - In Solan Victor's, it is like, it is a fascinating topic to approach because it is an example of the Romans saying, look, we have this working relationship with Christians now, we need to accommodate for them. Therefore, the sun returning, I think that's what is the sun coming back to celebrate the winter festival. We'll make that December 25th. But there is a lot of evidence that the early Christians were already making that calculation of nine months after the Feast of Inunciation to say this is when Christ was born. But to be fair, to concede to you in some degree, is what we know to be Christmas, a lot of the traditions, et cetera, some of that did come out of early European paganism, but not the date itself, more like the actual aesthetics and what not, you know, you think about the Eulog and many of the aesthetics that we associate with Christmas. That is true. At least I personally believe it's true. - And some people lose faith over these things because they think, oh, it's all not real, but I'm saying it's all very real. And that's why I'm all for the freedom for people to do as their conscience dictates. Like if this is the date and that's meaningful and that's important, then I respect it and honor it. And honor you in that. I'm talking about a historical shift that happened. If you look at what happened after Christ, it was crucified, you saw like over 200 years of bloodshed where Christians were hunted and they were put into the Roman Coliseums and all of these things happened. And it was such a harsh persecution for them when Constantine the Emperor in 321 said, you know what, we'll do a deal. And then they inked the First National Sunday law, which then resulted in the genocide of all these different people that would not adhere to it, especially those that wanted to keep the Seventh Day Sabbath. There was this, they moved over a lot of the times that then accommodated and created the Roman Empire. And I'm just against the force aspect of it. That's what I get concerned about. - Well, why should there be any laws at all that force people to do anything? Why should there be speed limit laws or built laws? Why should there be taxation laws? Why should there be, you know? The civil laws that protect humans from hurting and harming each other, religious laws are the darkest of all law, of all restrictions and things to force on people because it impedes on the conscience. - But don't you then have a situation where people have to work because they have to participate in society and then they have to go against their religion because they're scheduled to work on a day that is holy for them. I mean, that's, isn't that a violence against that person to, you know, and the establishment of their religious, right? - It is, it is. And so I would, for me, like I have quite a few staff that work for me, I would honor any day that they choose us the day is like, I would never tell somebody, no, that's not what you should do. Like my commitment to people and their autonomy and their free will and their ability to choose how they worship is so important to me that I would never do that to somebody and as I would never want someone to do that to me. And so I'm saying things that need to be individual and personal. - But why should there be any laws at all? - Because people's, people's freedom, people's safety needs to be protected. That's why, you know, no people cannot murder. And I think there's a reason why, if you look at the Ten Commandment Law, people believe that their four was put on one. That, you know, do not take the name of the Law of God, that they got in vain, have no other gods before me. Don't take the name of the Law of God in honor to Sabbath. Those four commandments and then the six commandments, which begin with honor your mother and father and then that should not murder, where they were the ones that could be instituted. You would have laws around, you know, protecting the safety of people, but the religious law is like, in the same way that I could then govern, okay, you took the name of the Law in vain, you should be executed. - You can't make a law about not coveting. - The fruit of it where that would result in stealing, yes, on that, that case. - That's a different thing. Coventing and stealing are two different things. - No, they're not. - Yes they are. - Coventing is the seed of what causes the thevery. - Right, but you can have a seed and never grow it. - So, but in principle, what I'm saying is-- - So why aren't there laws against coveting? - There are. - 'Cause that would be thought crime. - Right. - And that's what I'm saying. - Steffical crime is what-- - Right. - Any religious law is called-- - You brought that in with the other six, saying that there could be laws against them. - Because the on flow of what that means in the effect of the actions of those things, but not the mind. - I gotta pause you real quick. So we're about 15 minutes from Trump speaking. And we've got this from a member, user Z, a member for seven B-9 months, Tim Kast, shout out, brothers, that I'm behind the convention stage right now, waiting for Trump to go on. Will appear behind him with a large group of young Republicans and other organizations. I've been a member longer than Raymond G. Stanley. - Do. (laughing) - That's some seriously. - Oh, we're excited to see you, brother. - Oh man. - A trouble being up there about 14 minutes from now in the meantime. - You're gonna watch it. - Sorry to interrupt. - I'm gonna watch it live. - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I haven't pulled it right now right now. Trump, Jr. speaking. And as I watch this, I'm just thinking, dude, it's got a really thick beard and really dark hair. - Yep. - And I say that not because Myron has beard, but because Trump doesn't, Trump doesn't have a deep, thick beard and his hair is very light. - Have we ever seen Trump with a beard? Does he, I don't know? - No, but the main image is look pretty good. - Yeah, I mean. - Like it would help his neck, you know what I mean? - Yeah. (laughing) - You know. - Don Jr.'s mom also was very fair. - Yeah. Well, it's what you do. Well, you know, dominant James, right? James, this is what you do when you get old and you get a flabby neck. You got a grow facial hair to cover it up. - We'll pull your tongue. - Pull your tongue. - Yeah, you say. - It's a thing, yeah. - Pull your tongue. - I've seen that on Instagram. - Yeah, because it's your tongue. (laughing) - Ah, what? - Avanna's naturally coming from Brown. - Oh, you're really? - You have a flat twist. - Okay. - Flat twist. - Yeah. - He looks like his parents. - Shracking. - Look, I was thinking that too 'cause I was like, she's blonde, but I looked she's not. - She's not. - She's not. - She's a naturally dark brown. - The checks, they're slippery. - If my tongue is against my mouth, Tim, look. It's gonna make it like a thing. Like, it's gonna look, you know, whatever. Good. I do it like this. - Pull your tongue? - Yeah, pulling your tongue, strengthening your tongue. - Grabbing your tongue and pulling. - Yeah, 'cause it's sitting back. Like this, Tim, like this. - Like a tape. - It's weird. - Yeah, like this. - You believe me? - Am I looking back to you? - That's looks maxing, yes. - It looks maxing? - And then against the roof of your mouth. And then pushing it back. Why? - 'Cause you gotta strengthen the tongue muscle. - Why? - And you gotta strengthen the tongue muscle. It's like, it's way more important than strengthening your biceps because that's, if you're a mouthbreed, it's 'cause you're a tongue. - I do feel the muscle is sitting at the bottom. - There's an adult joke I was going to make, but I'm not going to. - I was thinking it was. (laughing) - You guys gotta pull your tongue, 'cause I feel better. - I feel good. - Yeah, it feels good, right? - Yeah. - You know who really is to pull their tongue? The figurative sense, Ian. - You probably would be on board for sure. - You probably does. - No, I'm saying in the figurative sense. - You're probably a tongue bowler. (laughing) - I bet he is. - He's a tongue bowler. - And then you sleep on your side. - To be honest, see the kind of problem. - Not on your back. - He's been doing it. - You sleep on your side, not on your back, so your tongue doesn't, so you don't mouthbreed. - Yeah, well, I don't, I don't like sleeping on my back. It's like, it doesn't, yeah. I sleep on my side. - I sleep on my back. - Yeah, well that's good for you. - Do you really? - Oh yeah, that's pretty bad. - Yeah, that's crazy. - From the fetal position. - Yeah, he's back in my mind. - I'm actually just like a hole in the middle 'cause that's where I wear it down. - With his thumb and his mouth. - Yeah, I don't know what happened. ginger. It's like I have a lot of problems. A lot of weird things going on. It's like Scottish. Is that a problem? It depends on your ask. Really? Yes, Thomas. Or if you have to Jefferson. Yes, the English. Yes, the English. Yeah. Yeah. Would you guys founded Canada, basically? True. Yeah, we're proud of that. And Scotland. Yeah, proud of Canada. Well, until about 30 years ago. It was good until it was going good. It had good fur trappers back in the day. It was going good until, well, that's in bay company. Yeah. Which is crazy. They're still around. Like the actual like LLC is still there. And they just sell like stores. Yeah, they sell jackets and stuff. It's awesome. That'd be so cool if we had like some of these old. You cool if they still were like if they were just still looking for the North West passage. Yeah, like if they get back to their roots, they're just slinging jackets around. Just more organ trail. Yeah, just see this thing where a Chinese cargo ship was actually traversing the Arctic to get to England. Really? Yeah. Trump was right. It worked. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, good for them. That's the Chinese. That's part of the reason. There you go. Like Trump's whole thing about like protect the Arctic. Give me green land. That's part of the reason why that's part of the reason why there's debate about who owns the jet, the islands north of the mainland of Japan. Those islands basically it's a fight between it's a fight between Russia and Japan. But I think there's also Chinese ports in there because China's China is teamed up with Russia on using the ports that Russia has to get over the Arctic. Yeah. Yeah, but I mean China has the the ports that are in the South China Sea, but there's the Strait of Malacca, there's you know, there's India. So everything for China when it comes to getting out of China through over seaborn roots is problematic. So they're they're actually fighting for as much control over those those trade roots as they can have indigenous people up there up in like a hawk idol and and though it's the cute curial islands. Yeah, I you know, they're bizarre looking. They're really cool. They're just like Japanese people, but with beards like it's like. Oh, like like on junior beards. Yeah, like it's so it's like the biggest like most uncanny thing you've ever seen your life. It's like it's a Japanese guy, but he's got like the most insane beard you've ever seen your life. That's kind of cool. That's awesome. I'm jealous. I can't I'm half Asian, Malaysian. I can't grow a beard with the Malaysian sensations. I guess they do. Now I'll go with that. Yeah, Malaysian. It will be tonight. Can you grow beard? Not really. No. I can grow on but it takes a long time. It's the sea section. Yeah, yeah. I thought it was the ginger. I thought that's the problem. Yeah. Well, I looked like Prince Harry, so I shaved a big problem. Yeah. Well, I thought that Prince Harry was like a handsome man. It was. Was. Okay. Many of the subtle. I need to what central for the make it hard. It makes it hard to watch suits. It makes it hard to watch since. Oh, I think it's a wear suits of the beard. I was like, no, no, the show suits. It's great, but she's. I hear they're going. They're going. They're going back to the UK. I hear. Yeah, they're back. They're back. Oh, they are back. Yeah, they're back. Yeah, they changed their mind, didn't they? Oh, I think development like a day ago, they changed your mind. They're staying. They're getting ready for Trump. They're seeing it. Well, for now, we're not going to play copyrighted music. Nothing's going to stop us now. Is that what it is? No, it was built to free music. Yeah. Yeah. From the YouTube. Start screaming. Yeah, that'd be good. Prince Harry's book. I remember I was like as a joke. I was on a on a plan. They had like, you know, the free audio books or whatever. And there was Prince. And I was soap. I didn't download anything. I forgot to. So I get on there and I play it. And I just skipped to a random part and he's talking about his toger. His toger? Toger. What's a toger? It's a British slang for your your whole situation. Yeah, your Mr. Winkles. For your guard. What do you call it? For your junk? I call it C section. British slang for your junk. It was Dr. Brian Hoke with the Children's Health Defense. He was stacking the studies showing like C section, not breastfed vaccines, like that stack, bro. If you got the whole stack, you're done. Basically, you're bioengineered already. Yeah. You're like a sidewalk. Yeah. I know. So I'm doing obviously the opposite with my kid. But we had three miscarriages before this. Yeah, thank you. This this baby said like, yeah, we had two boys, seven, five year old, and then and then three miscarriages. The lawyer's 42 of my wife. So like, we had to work it out. Red light changed the game for us with with the baby, like that baby. So healthy, right? And nine pounds soup, like the longest envelope of code my midwife had seen. It was it was it was like, wow, this stuff works, right? And yeah, I just think about how our situation would have been if we didn't find solutions. Never thought of measuring the umbilical cord because what do they do with it? Like they put it on like a hose reel and the other times you've delivered babies, you just haven't bothered to mesh. I can't watch that stuff. It's scary. Yeah. And then yeah, it's beautiful. You got to say it. I mean, no, be beautiful when it's mine, but everyone else is terrifying. I mean, I found it terrifying. And I had a baby and I thought it was very scary. Yeah. You know what the thing that struck you about the most? What is it? It was significantly more firm than I expected. Really? Yeah. Yeah. It is. It's like a rubber cord. Yeah. Swing on that day. No, it's like probably like scientifically accurate. It's way crazier than I mean, it is exactly what I expected. There's like a situation. The mom could like drag the baby from the umbilical cord like dragon. Didn't you hear that? That's probably suboptible. But yeah, that that wouldn't be like great. But it would hurt. But it sounds like, well, yeah, look at look at look at that, man. Are you showing an umbilical cord? Yeah, I think I'm going to see. That's terrifying. That's hilarious. I don't want to see an umbilical cord. Why would I? Why would I? We're really hard on you guys. You're you're you're you're you're you're a mother. YouTube. All right. Dance. All vans is speaking. Hello, Dallas. Well, great. Vance. Trump's come on next. I do like JD Vance. He's just a better better at this than Trump is, I think the delivery of the like Rubio, too. What do you think? Rubio's fantastic. I like Rubio. I think JD Vance. I like both these guys. Yeah, he can articulate for Trump better than Trump. It's pretty cool to hear a crowd that is this fired up. Chat your name. So go ahead and do it again. There's some Tim cast a member in there somewhere. I had to I had to start ladies and gentlemen with a note of gratitude to each and every single person in this room and each and every single person who's watching whether you're in the conviction hall with us or watching from home on TV. You are here tonight because you love this country and we're not going to let it go backwards. Two years ago, we have to remember our nation, ladies and gentlemen, was tired. We were tired of seeing our factories close. We were tired of our neighbors, dying of joke overdoses. We were tired of not being able to afford anything. We were tired of seeing the cartels and the criminals given free reign over our great country. And we were tired of being called racist for noticing that our country was becoming dirtier and poorer and less safe and less prosperous. By the end of 2024, you were tired. We were tired as a country, but you were not defeated. The radicals in Washington, they could take much from us, but they couldn't take our will to fight back. And so all of us came together on November 5th and we sent the toughest SOB and American politics back to the White House. And we made Donald J. Trump the 47th president of the United- Now, ladies and gentlemen, this is a, this is a joyful occasion for me. I see the great state of Ohio right here in the front row. But I got to be honest, it's also a somber occasion for me personally and I know for so many of you out there because the last time that I addressed as a convention of my fellow Republicans, remember just two years ago, I had just become the Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States. I was, I was a brand new senator. I'd been in politics for all of a year and a half. I guess the president likes outsiders. I was nervous. Think about it. I was speaking on the biggest stage of my life and I had been in politics for barely a year and a half. But I will never forget that as I made that speech, as I addressed the country on the biggest stage of my life in the front. row right about there. My dear friend, Charlie Kirk, was smiling and cheering me and reminding me that I had a good friend right here in the convention hall. And of course, after I was elected Vice President of the United States, one year ago today, on September the 10th of last year, that good friend was taken from us when Charlie was assassinated. Now, Charlie left behind two children, two little kids, they were too young to fully understand. And a wife, the amazing Erica, who is carried on his mission with more courage and resolve than most of us will ever be asked to show. We love you, Erica. But to those sweet kids, I don't imagine they're watching tonight, they're still very young, but I hope that one day, they will watch and they will know, and they will understand what I'm trying to say to them tonight. Though they may not appreciate it today, history will record that your father was a great man. So those of us who loved your dad, we know him as something even better than a great man, he was a good man. And I want you to know what your dad knew. Scripture says that God is a father to the fatherless, that every one of us is adopted into his family. And as the Apostle Paul told us, as he wrote to the Romans, if we are his children, then we are also his heirs, we have inherited, we are entitled to inherit something straight from God the Father. Now we live, of course, in an imperfect world of fallen men, we live in the city of man, not the city of God. But I believe that our founders built this nation on a promise that echoes our Creator. That every American child is born and heir, is born with a birthright, born with the right to inherit the blessings of the greatest country on earth, not because of who their parents are, not because of what they look like or where they come from, but because they are Americans, and this is our country. And that birthright, ladies and gentlemen, is what this November is all about. Now, Charlie spoke to young men in particular, he was a young man himself and he understood where they were coming from. He understood that there was no greater calling for a young man and he would tell people this than falling in love, starting a family and becoming a father. He would tell young men around the country that ultimately you wouldn't care what your job was or where you went to school, but you would care about your family. And of course, I thought a lot about those words, a lot of those words in the last year, but particularly a lot about those words of the last six weeks, because as many of you know, in July, my beautiful Usha gave birth to a baby boy, little Alec, just six weeks ago. >> [APPLAUSE] >> Baby, where is she there? >> And I will say that you should have been there when the organizers of the midterm RNC asked my wife, who had a two-week-old baby and three other kids that are very young, if she would come to Dallas, Texas to introduce her husband and she said, hell no, I got four kids to take care of. [APPLAUSE] But she sends her love and I know she's watching at home. And I thought a lot, ladies and gentlemen, about what is the birthright of this newest of Americans? My little boy, he is now our fellow citizen, though he doesn't know it. And I think about what the Democrats have said about our shared birthright as Americans, or frankly, the lack thereof. In Michigan, one Democrat in particular, one candidate has said, and I quote, "F the nuclear family." What are you even talking about? These hateful words come not from a love of country. They come not from a desire to serve you or our fellow Americans, but they come from a very deep emptiness in the soul. It is the nuclear family. It is inside of that nuclear family where I watch my four-year-old little girl, little Mira, beg to feed a bottle to her new baby brother. It is inside of the nuclear family where Alex older siblings just a couple of weeks ago witnessed the wonder of a new baby's very first smile. It is inside of that family where I have seen Usha show in almost divine patience with those four kids. And so, to the radicals who wish to abolish my family and the thousands and millions of other families all across our country, we have a simple message for them. Stay the hell away from our kids. Now, because we got a new kid around, I can't help but look at the future of this country through the eyes of the future of my son. And I can't help but think about what it is that we're fighting for and what it is that we want for all of our children. Now I, of course, I want my son to grow up healthy and strong. I want him to have access to clean water and real food. I want him to live in a country where you don't need a PhD in chemistry to understand the ingredient list in the grocery store. I want to live in a country where my son's doctors answer to parents and to the hypocritic oath not to a bunch of far left bureaucrats. I want him to get a real education. He's going to grow up and go to school. I want him to go to a school that teaches him to read, to write, that reaches him a arithmetic, that teaches him to love his country and his fellow citizens. And what about for my family, I want for your family too. That's my job. My job is to fight for every single person in this room, every person watching at home as if they were my own family as if they were my own kin. And so I don't just want these things for my kids. I want them for your kids too. I want our daughters to compete on a fair field where no politician where no politician tells a little girl she's got a surrender, her trophy, her scholarship or her locker room to a man. I want our sons to have a fair shot at a good job and I want that for our daughters too. I want whether they work in tech or manufacturing American businesses to hire American workers, to rely on American people and to ensure that we build the next generation of great American products with American hands. I want our children to be safe ladies and gentlemen. I want them to be safe on their streets, safe in their schools, living peacefully in neighborhoods where the law protects the innocent and throws the violent criminals in prison where they belong. I want them to be free to worship to the dictates of their own conscience. And I want our children to grow up in a country that doesn't roll its eyes at people who pray but remembers that this country itself wasn't answered a prayer two hundred and fifty years ago. And I think like most parents, I want my kids to do the most important thing. I want them to fall in love. I want them to find somebody who's worth building a life with. And I want them to be able to afford a home where they can raise their children in peace and prosperity and comfort. It's all old people there, so nobody's really all that moved by that. I want them to know the pride of saving up for something, of buying something big and real that they're proud of without being outbid by Wall Street tycoons. I want them to keep what they've earned when they work hard. And that is the birthright that I'm talking about. That is the country that Donald J Trump is fighting every single day to defend and to build upon. And while the President works every day to build upon that great nation, every single day the far left is working right now to make sure that your children never see that birthright. A mix of booze and USA chance. Yeah, that's wild. People are confused with me. So what the people at home missed is that we just had a protester interrupting us and waving the Mexicans flag. So my friend, if you love Mexico so much, get your ass over there, I'll buy the plane ticket. Yeah, I mean, that is the proper response. Oh, back to Mexico, I'm sure they'll have to have us in Alice, but we're back. The water is pretty nice too. I like Mexico. It's wild to me that they're like, it's terrible. What? It's not as great. Mexico City is fantastic. No, racist. I don't want them to know the deal with us. I mean, we're about to get engaged. Yeah. Mexico is significantly better. We should go back. I had ladies in gentlemen. I had a whole speech written. But I think I got to change it because we just discovered the symbol of the far left and idiot waving an American flag or a Mexican flag at a protest when he should be waving the flag of the United States of America. That would have been a great little clip if you had fun with it. Yeah. We made up fourth, and there you go. Now, we all know, of course, that as much as that person might wave around a four flag, he'd much rather live in Dallas or in Cincinnati or in any one of our great cities than Mexico. But while we wave the American flag and fight for the American dream, we have to remind ourselves tonight that the good life that is the foundation of this country's promise is not guaranteed. We have to remember that it's safe home, a good school, a happy family, a future that is better than the past. Every generation of Americans has had to fight for these things when it's our turn. And this fall, the Democrats are running candidates who will tell your children what they're allowed to say, how they're allowed to live, and importantly, who they ought to hate. Because that's what the Democrat Party is about in 2026. It's not about you. It's about foreign fraudsters, and it's about who they hate, and we got to send their asses packing in November. We got to send a message to this November that the country does not belong to the radicals. It does not belong to the bureaucrats. It does not belong to the highest bidder. This country was handed down to us by our parents and their parents before them. We receive this national birthright, and we are going to fight for it by electing Republicans this November. This will do real close to the Mike. If you ever feel down about our country, ladies and gentlemen, just take a look at the beautiful ladies right behind me. Ladies, I'd like to know what you had to drink, because I'll take two of them when I'm done. We've got to take stock, my friends, and we've got to take stock of what we've accomplished. When we came into office, when we came into office, when we came into office, when we came into office just 18 months ago, so many of our fellow Americans sensed that they'd been robbed of their chance to build a good life. They'd never be able to afford a home, a family, or a real stake in the country that all of us love. Consider how life changed for Americans coming of age during those terrible Biden years. Workers' wages fell by three grand. That's not exaggeration. Prices rose 20 percent across the board, the worst inflation in a generation. I always love when we said this, the President and I would go during the campaign, we'd say, you know, inflation is as high as it's been in 100 years. And the fake news would say, no, no, no, it's as high as it's been in 68 years. That ain't good, ladies and gentlemen. In just four short years, the cost of a home under Joe Biden doubled. And Americans who are finishing school suddenly found themselves competing, not against their fellow Americans for jobs, but against 25 million new illegal immigrants, not just for jobs, but for homes as well. Our nation became a place where you had to be rich to enjoy what used to be the birthright of every ordinary middle-class life. It became a country where violent crime exploded unless, of course, you could afford private security. And it wasn't just that things became more expensive. It's that our country was stolen from us and then handed out to strangers. Think just one case, one of the fraud cases that we charged last May were two women, one of them born in Somalia, defrauded Medicaid of $46 million. How do they do it? They did it by creating fake autism clinics and then having their friends sign up and pretend to have kids on the spectrum. And that's millions of dollars that ordinary American parents needed to help their special needs children, but instead went to foreign kickbacks and spending sprees for fraudsters. And what did the Democrats do when the fraud they turned a blind eye to reach these catastrophic levels? We found $250 billion of fraud just since the President made me the frauds are. When Medicaid programs, for homeless or expecting mothers in states like Minnesota and Wisconsin, they began to fall apart because the money that you had paid to support those expected mothers was going to fraudsters. Democrats did, they refused to prosecute the crime, and by the way, they called everybody who noticed their fraud, racist for noticing that there were people stealing from our children and our new and expected mothers. The Democrat legacy of the last few years was that they bankrupted our country and left us poor. They left our country weaker. They left our border wide open and our communities less safe. Their record, my friend, speaks for itself, and rather than admit error and change course of course, they are doubling down on the crazy. In primary after primary, we have watched the few reasonable Democrats lose to extremists who openly hate our nation. Our flag-waving friend over there is actually the new congressional delegate for New York 14. But you got to ask if it's not love a country, what is it that drives this new generation of radical Democrats? It's not new policies. They'll say the same stuff to fund the police, abolish the border, the green new scam. We've heard all this stuff before, but I think that what's new about them is what motivates them is a new type of hardcore hatred. Now, I'll take my word for it, listen to what these people have actually said in their own words. In Manhattan this November, you have Democrat candidates who declare their life goal is, and I quote, "the total eradication of Western civilization." A few years ago, they cheered on the most horrific slaughter of innocent civilian Jews that we have seen in a generation. In Lansing, you have Democrats who call for "destroying the American way of life." And in Texas, you have Democrats, grown men, who seem to be pretty obsessed with trans children. I got to say the president's very good at nicknames, but Tala Freco, maybe, tops the list. Yeah. That was good. Did he come up with it? Tala Freco. Yeah, it's wrong. Blosset night. But, this Tala Rico guy, he will not shut up about how there are six genders. He will not shut up about how, quote, "God is non-binary." I don't know what the hell that even means, my friend. He won't shut up about having traditional Christian values makes you a bigot. And I got to say, a guy, that age who was so obsessed and focused on transgender children, I don't know about you, but I never want to see that guy's web browser history. Whoa. He's trying to call you the Peter. That's, yeah. Really. That's. Round of applause, isn't it? Yeah, I've been pretty clear. Yeah. And Denver, Colorado, you have Democrats who say that 9/11 was inevitable, who offered justifications for terrorists who murdered 3,000 of our fellow citizens. And in Michigan, it's even worse. They're campaigning with radicals who explicitly say that America deserved the 9/11 attacks. Hassan Piker is a gift. He really is. They too, when they're not calling to repeal the Second Amendment, they will attack you as a literal white supremacist if you dare to criticize Shereeal Law. And the great state of New York, congressional Democrats, tell us that the July 4th celebration is really a brat, the liberation of Palestine and Puerto Rico. I can't even say that without laughing. Can you just imagine? Thomas Jefferson, right away, all about the liberation of Palestine and Puerto Rico. And these aren't media personalities. These aren't weirdos on social media. These are the candidates that congressional Democrats have put forth for you to vote for in November. They asked my friends for a one-way ticket to Washington to legislate and regulate and wield power over your lives. Instead, in my opinion, they need a one-way ticket to a mental hospital. Let's talk about mental hospitals. Now, we're all having a good time as fellow Republicans celebrating what we've achieved and looking forward to accomplishing a lot more. But I know there are a lot of people who are watching on TV who aren't always sold, and I would speak directly to them, not to the faithful, but to the people who are still making up their minds. The people on the margins. The people who are still a little unsure who they're going to vote for. Some people who love some of our policies, but maybe don't agree with others. Young men, many of whom felt inspired by Charlie Kirk, but are unhappy with some of what has happened in the wake of his death. And I want to speak directly to that group because I think Charlie is a great example of how to disagree but still participate in the work of saving this country. Charlie -- Charlie, ladies and gentlemen, was dedicated to this movement in this country. He loved -- and I do mean love the President of the United States. But in the eight months or so that we were in office before Charlie died, I talked to him a lot almost every day. And Charlie was still a free thinker with his own principles and views. He did not always agree with us. Let me just give you one example. Charlie hated war. What was Europe, or Africa, the Middle East -- he didn't care. He just hated war. That was his view. Now of course, there are people who love what we've done and people who don't. So I'm not here to litigate the disagreements between Charlie and some of the people that he disagreed with. But what I'm asking you to do is do what Charlie did. Do not throw the baby out with the bath water. Don't -- don't give the country over to a bunch of crazy people because you happen to disagree with us on a policy issue here there. Look, I'm not asking anybody to agree with me on every single issue. I'm not asking anybody to agree on every single policy, the administration. What I am asking you to do is to recognize the contrast with the radicals and recognize the achievements of the last 18 months. We have done a lot, my friends, and we can do a lot more if we fight together. You know, Donald Trump's administration, it's not just the first government in the last 80 years to actually stop a border invasion. It's the first in the last 80 years to reverse the border invasion. Under Donald Trump's leadership, we have seen the foreign-born share of a population dropped by 3 million people. That's illegal aliens that we sent back home. Under Donald Trump's leadership, we've created 1 million new jobs. And unlike the last administration, where most of the job growth went to illegal aliens, 100 percent of the job growth in the United States of America is going to American citizens which is exactly where it belongs. For my entire life, I saw corporations ship jobs overseas and be rewarded by Washington. Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime to crack down on people shipping our jobs overseas and fight for American businesses and American workers for a change. We've seen the largest drop of violent crime in the history of the United States of America because we back the police and throw the bad guys in prison, it's not rocket science. We've ended taxes on social security, we've ended taxes on chips, and we've ended taxes on overtime. We have been corporate tycoons from buying up our housing stock because we hold the simple belief that American homes ought to go to the American people. And this is my favorite under the leadership of the President and Bobby Kennedy. We did what generations of Democrat politicians promised but failed to do. We actually took on Big Pharma and lowered drug costs for all of our citizens. I'm obviously biased, but I think that's a great record of achievement, but compare it to the Democrats who want to allow open borders. Allow pharma companies to experiment on your kids. They want to raise your taxes, and they want to abolish their family in their own words. We just want common sense, and we want you to have a better life. The contrast in this election, ladies and gentlemen, it's not about this or that policy. It's about the party of common sense, beating the party of the crazies. Let's send these lunatics back in and govern our country for the future. A few weeks back, I got to visit the steel mill. I love you all. A few weeks back, I got to tell you, a very personal and important thing to me is a few weeks back one of the most amazing honors I've had as vice president, is I got to visit the steel mill where my grandfather worked for 40 years in my hometown of Middletown, Ohio. And standing on that floor, I thought about my papal, that's what I called him, and the 40 years he spent there as a union welder. I thought about what he wanted out of this country, out of his government. He wanted happy, healthy families, he wanted low taxes, he wanted a government that would look out for him and make sure his people had good jobs so long as they were willing to work hard and play by the rules. Simple stuff, easy stuff, common sense, good government stuff. And despite everything that's changed since he died, the things he wanted are the things that I want, and I think the things that every American patriot wants for our country. We want it for ourselves, we want it for our families, we want it for our children, we want it for our fellow Americans. But right after that visit, something interesting happened. The man the Democrats are running for Senate in the great state of Michigan. His name is Abdul El Saed. He saw me describing what a decent man, and my papal was genuinely a decent and good man. He saw me talking about my papal and his work and his history and what he loved and what he cared about, and you know what old Abdul did? He asked mockingly whether I'd be willing to bring Usha back in time to meet papal. This is what he thinks of my grandfather. A man I loved and who loved his family unconditionally. That Abdul looks at him, sees the color of his skin, sees his background and decides that he could never have loved my wife. Now the shocking thing is that Abdul himself was raised by his own white step grandparents. He knows exactly that kind of bond and what it looks like in a family. And he chose anyway to say that a man like my grandfather couldn't have loved from the bottom of his heart someone who looks like Usha. Well, thanks be to God that my papal was a better man than Abdul El Saed. Because I guarantee you people of my family every bit as much. But look out, I'm not just here to defend the honor of my papal. I'm here to tell you this is who the Democrats are now, my friends. They're not just the party of little hire taxes, maybe some dumb regulations. They're not the party of FDR or JFK hell. They're not even the party of Bill Clinton anymore. The Democrats are the party of hatred. They're the party that despises America and the people who built it. They're the party that can find sympathy for the terrorists who perpetrated 9/11. But they say that people with names like James Vance are incapable of loving people with names like Usha and they couldn't be more wrong. Ladies and gentlemen, because the Democrats have become such a nightmare, we will never let them win. We're going to beat them back in November. So I'm asking you, my fellow Republicans, to remember that this November is so much more than red team, it's so much more than having good politicians in Washington. It's about sending a message to the Democratic Party that if you send your crazies, we're going to send you a pack-in. It's about fighting for our fellow citizens for their dreams and for the inheritance of a great nation that all of us are going to leave behind. So I've got to ask, my fellow Republicans, are we ready to do what we need to do in November? Every American, whether they've been here for 10 years or 10 minutes, deserves the sacred inheritance of the United States of America. Ladies and gentlemen, this November, let's give it to them. Let's fight for our people. Let's send the Democrats back in and let's never forget that America belongs to those who love it, not those who hate it. God bless you. And thank you for having me. He said Trump was scheduled at 9.30, but I guess now we'll see. He promised us like five minutes yesterday, at least. I like the line of America belongs to those who love it now. Yeah, that was too. I like that too. Yeah. I don't have to remind me of the thing Timoiz says about free speech for those who uphold free speech and not for those who hate it. Right. Yeah. This is really interesting that people like him so much. I mean, he articulates. He's very good. Yeah. He does. It's promising. I think Trump Jr. does his work. I've got to introduce the man who's going to introduce the greatest president. Here we go. And he's going to introduce the man who's going to introduce-- Right. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming the great Lee Greenwood and the president of the United States. Oh, yeah. You got to have the theme song. Yes. Hello, Peter. Hello, the job that you're going to write one song, you've got to write these songs. I mean, look, man, when you get a big hit, you've got to write that, Betty, that baby. It happens to be like America's theme song, yeah. Better. And I can't take that away, and I'm proud to be an American. Where at least I know I'm great, but I don't forget the men who died, who gave them right to me, and I gladly stand up next to you, and they've been cursed out today. But there is no doubt I love this land, God blessed are you as a. Please welcome the 45th and the 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. There's a Simpson's joke, but I'm going to make it true. I think Trump is a Tennessee. I'm going to be an American, where at least I know I'm great, but I don't forget the men who died, who gave them right to me, and I gladly stand up next to you, and they've been cursed out today. Where at least I know I'm great, but I don't forget the men who died, who gave them right ♪ And I'm free and I won't forget them ♪ ♪ And who died gave that bright to me ♪ ♪ And I'm glad he stand up ♪ ♪ Next to you and he can curse you today ♪ ♪ 'Cause there we go down, I love his land ♪ ♪ God bless you, God bless you with me ♪ [ Laughter ] He said that guy. That's what's behind Trump. Yeah. Thank you for bringing everybody in. He's up there. He's watching. Okay. I want to thank our great vice president. What a job he did tonight. You know, the Democrats are getting nervous. They said if we did a midterm convention, nobody would show up. This place is packed, it was packed last night. [ Cheers and applause ] But even more important is the spirit. The spirit I'm watching from backstage, and I'm seeing spirit like we haven't seen in this country for a long time. Long time. But it came back about a year and a half ago. We went through four years of embarrassment, hurt, harm, sickness, filth. It was bad, but now it's good, and it's going to soon be greater than ever before, better than ever before. It's going to be something very special. And I'm going to be a little bit brief, because last night I spoke for two hours. [ Laughter ] And I don't feel like going over the same material again. [ Cheers and applause ] The set. What I'm going to do tonight is a little bit different. We all love music, right? We're going to get a little music. I'm going to stand on the stage at the end with our great opera star, Christopher Macchio. And he's going to sing America the Beautiful, Ness Adorama. And all I ask of you from the Phantom of the Opera, and we're going to have a good time listening to music and get a little bit tired of politics now. [ Laughter ] I'm bored with words. So I'll be brief. Is it Friday yet? I'll be brief. I don't know of you. Should I be brief? Should I be brief? Should I not be brief? Go! [ Cheers and applause ] They've won, Joe. Right. They literally won, Joe. Yeah, yeah. It's the biggest gig. No, I look forward to it. I did a three-and-a-half-out podcast together, right? Yeah. Yeah. I'm not complaining. You need me talking about it. To be fair, when Trump was speaking, got a two-hour break, yeah. Right, yeah. Thank you very much. What a great country. What a great country we have. I just want to thank everybody. This has been so amazing. You know, maybe this is going to be happening at midterms again and maybe not we're going to find out. Based on this, I would say we're going to be doing it a lot. Perhaps I'll be here. I'll be standing with you one of these days. But you are a very special group. So I look forward to the performance and these considered, as you know, really one of the most brilliant since a very good friend of mine, the late great Luciano Poverotti. So we're going to have a lot of fun. But less than two years ago, the American people gave us a mandate to save America. And in 19 months, I've delivered on every single promise I made. And I think I delivered-- That's not true. Yeah. You know, community notes on this speech here. Joe Biden. No, I didn't wish for it with the fact checkers. It was a good question. Some promises like, I don't know, war. They gave us white open borders with 12. But he told you he said no news. He said it around the nuclear weapon. He has maintained that. They turned our cities into scenes of death and misery, murder poverty and destruction, and made America laughing stock. We were laughing stock all over the world. But we took that dark age of America and turned it into the Golden Age. We delivered the largest tax cuts in American history, the largest regulation cuts in American history, the largest investment in our military, in the history of our country, and made America the energy and military superpower of the world with the superpower of the world. (Applause.) I built almost 2,000 miles of wall and created the strongest, most secure border that America has ever seen. (Applause.) And it was just announced, you saw that, that we achieved the lowest level of violent crime in 125 years since the year 1900. (Applause.) We gave you the largest drop in prescription drug prices ever recorded. And I wish the news would report it. I wish the fake media would report it, but they just don't want to do that. With discounts of 60, 70, 80, and even 90 percent in many cases, we have cuts. You remember what I announced? It was the only one in 28 years that cut drug prices in my first term. One eighth of 1 percent, I was so proud of it, because nobody's ever done it from January to December. And now we're cutting your prices by 50, 60, 70, 80, and a couple cases, 90 percent. (Applause.) We went from the highest prescription drug prices by far anywhere in the world to the lowest prescription drug prices anywhere in the world. And that alone should get us a big victory in our midterms that are coming up. Get out and vote, please. Get out and vote. The stock market has set 80 all-time record highs -- think of it in a short period of time -- 80, 80 days we sit records and more. Americans are working today than ever before. Your 401(k)s, by the way, are up $44,000 on average, $44,000. And most of you much higher than that. (Applause.) We terminated all diversity, equity, and inclusion mandates all across the federal government. (Applause.) We banned transgender ideology and critical race theory in our schools. (Applause.) And ended the transgender immunization. (Laughter.) It's an official third album. It's a real world. And as you know, we had big court victories in this. We will not have men playing in women sports. (Applause.) Praise me, we got to say that. And if the radical Democrats and Communists win this election, they're promising to confiscate your wealth, legalization, your right, on social security, abolish -- -- and 90 more is not in touch with the word "mutilization." No tax on overtime. They're going to defund the police, giving voting rights and welfare to 25 million illegal aliens, destroy Texas oil and gas, thereby doubling and tripling your taxes, have men playing in women sports, transgender for everybody, immunization of your children. (Laughter.) And set loose criminals to -- This is out there alike, okay. Rape and kill, like we had just two years ago, what we went through -- we went through hell. (Applause.) If we win the midterms, we will, on the other hand, provide a -- let's call it Trump dividend -- $5,000 for every adult citizen in our country. (Applause.) And we can do that because our country has never done better. We're taking in trillions -- trillions of dollars. There's never been any country not even close that's come anywhere near. So it's five -- we win $5,000 for every adult. We love our adults. It's about time we take care of our adults. (Applause.) And we will make all Trump tax cuts. We're going to take those beautiful tax cuts. We're going to make them permanent because the Democrats want to end all those tax cuts. They want you to pay much higher taxes. I never got it. All my life, I've watched politicians say we will cut you -- even if they didn't mean it to be honest with you. We will cut your taxes. We will cut -- this is the only group I've ever seen. They say we are going to give you a major tax hike. But we will end all payments to big health insurance companies and give you the money directly so that you can buy your own health care and have money left over for yourself. (applause) And we will make our very incredible -- they tried getting it. Some presidents -- most presidents didn't try, because they never had a shot. Most favored nation, prescription drug discounts, we're going to make it permanent in law. (applause) We will pass the no-invasion of our country act. We don't want any more invasions of our country. (applause) And with JD and everybody else, we will win the war on front. You know, we've got billions and billions of dollars already in our coffers of money that we caught on fraud. It's going to be -- I would bet it will be over $1 trillion by the time we're finished -- over $1 trillion. (applause) And we will end, and it started with this, and we're going to end it. No cash bail -- how about the no-cash bail? Somebody killed somebody, and they're out of the streets. Two hours later, no cash bail. We're going to end it, and we will pass the Save America Act mandating voter ID and proof of citizenship. (applause) You know, we have a great speaker at the house. My Johnson up there -- (applause) Get it done, Mike. Get it done. So when I'm on the ticket, everybody comes to vote. We have -- you know, we won Texas three times the highest vote in the history of Texas for any race. (applause) And by the way, you've got to elect Ken Paxton. You've got to do it. (applause) And I said something yesterday, and I don't know. I've never talked to me again, perhaps you will. But I said it, and my people said, "Please don't say that." So I won't say it, but I'll tell you what I was thinking about saying. (laughter) I said, "I don't like the way, Ken." Gresses. (laughter) Anyway. Although I also said he looked really sharp in that suit yesterday, I thought -- spiffy, sharp -- and then I said, "I don't really like the way Ken talks." (laughter) And then I said something that they really hated. "Please, sir, don't say it, sir." So I'm not going to say it, but I'll tell you what I was thinking about saying. (laughter) I said, "I don't really like the way he looks. I don't like it." I don't like it. But you know what I do like? He was the greatest attorney general in the history of a hundred million. He helped us so much with the walls, with illegal immigration, with everything. He's hilarious. He's the greatest attorney general, and he's getting fond of it, too. To go to the United States Senate. I don't like the way he looks, I don't like the way he dresses. I don't know if he's going to ever speak to me again, but you know, I don't care as long as he wins. I really don't care. I don't have to. I don't have to speak to him. He's going to vote the way we would vote, so I don't have to speak to him. I don't care. You've got to vote for him. So they're going to vote for me, but when I don't -- I'm not going to take it. You've got to pretend -- I'm not on the ticket. You've got to do me a big -- the biggest favor you've ever done me. You've got to do this for me. You've got to pretend I'm on the ticket. I'm on the ticket. I'm on the ticket. He's on the ticket. Pretend I'm on the ticket. Because this is going to turn out to be one of the most important elections. It's a midterm. It's going to be one of the most important elections. You know, you can tell just by this. Somebody said, "You have a midterm convention. It's going to be a disaster." No, but look at it. The highest rafter. No empty seats. The fake news. They -- they searched the arena. There are thousands of people outside. They searched the arena for a seat. That's why last night I said, "Please don't get up and go to the bathroom. Just sit." Because the fake people -- they have fake horrible, horrible human beings. Not all. Not all. You have some fine journalists. Not too many, to be honest with you. But they searched when somebody gets up yesterday, a couple got up. Two people. That's a disaster. And you immediately see cameras running to take pictures of those two. You know, we were packed last night, we had thousands of people outside, and they said there was some seats that weren't for -- there were no seats at all. In fact, look, even the boxes, the rich people boxes, they usually have a block as people. Look at them. Every box is loaded up. Every box. Every corner. (Applause.) Look at that. Look at those boxes up there. I don't know if they're richer, they're poor, but they're there. We got a lot of people in this world. Look at the upper ring. Look, everything is taken. And tomorrow you'll say, you'll read -- you don't happen to have huge -- they get angry. Tomorrow you're going to read -- there were some empty seats, headline, empty seats. First of all, if we had one-fifth of this crowd, it would be a success. But we have a packed arena with thousands of people outside, and I just wanted to know it. (Applause.) Tom Belable, Bob. Mark was asking me earlier, do you think would he be able to get a -- an after-show in? And I said, well, Trump's going to speak, and then we both laughed. I told him I couldn't post, and I was like -- he was going to be short, and then we both laughed again. I did. I got to do a little bit. Ten minutes made, tops. He can't help himself. Come on. This is what he lives for. Yeah. This is why he's president. Right. So we can do this. We can do rallies. Look at this arena. That big arena. This is the arena where we had Luca playing just a little while ago. What the hell happened? But this is -- this is a beautiful place. But look at it. So I say this only because they're dishonest, they're fake. You know what? Honestly, to have a really great country, you have to have an honest press. We really have a very largely dishonest place. But that is impressive. Look, every single box -- I don't know how to -- you know, the rich people have those things locked off. I don't know how old you people got into those boxes. But if the Democrats get in, they'll destroy everything that we built. They'll ruin our country, so on election day, November 3rd, you've got to do me a favor. You've got to get out and vote, and you're going to pretend I'm on the ballot. Because in a way, I am on the ballot. Because if they get in, they're going to take away all of the things that we got. And we can't let that happen. In many cases, look, they don't want to give you voter ID. Why? Because they want to cheat. They don't want to give you proof of citizenship. Why? They say, well, it's a very complicated process. They have more lines as to what -- we want voter ID, we want proof of citizenship. We want honesty in our elections. We want honesty in our country. So, please raise your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. Wow. No, this is a bad idea. I have to admit, my God. It was a bad idea. That's a car. That I will go out with my family, my friends. I'll do it any moment. Oh, my God. Everyone raised your right hand and pledged a little bit. Remember, he didn't put his hand on the ballot. That was a little weird. That was a good idea. He didn't put his hand on the ballot. I don't know why. I am going to go out. I'm going to get a birthday party. switch. Now what you do is if you're at a rally, this is where you're like, Joe, so you're ready? That way in a hundred years and they look back and they're like, remember, Trump is looking. They should joke. I'm not trying to pledge the candidates. He could have said you got to make it. I don't know how to hell they do it. They are beautiful. Last time you have a headline tomorrow. Ready to finish the pledge. So we swear that on November 3rd, we are going to go out and vote. And you know what? If you want, you can vote Democrat, but I don't think there's one person in this room. So completely different things. I mean, it's Trump. I don't want to waste the words vote Republican. Just go long. If you vote, you vote. Okay. So help me. Definitely not on the table. Oh, well, I'd say just about everybody was, you know what happens if you don't vote. You go to hell. You know. You go to hell. I don't want that to happen. I mean, you don't want to. I bought the Trump by literally says, if you don't vote for Trump, you burn. Because together we will defeat the guy. We will reject. That's holding it. It's going to happen. Oh my god. What if this is what does it? Like the next up, like in three days, they're like the polls. Trump's up five points. Republicans are up five. We will defeat the communists. We will reject. And that's what they are. Wow. They're not socialists. They're not Democrats. I love the chat. I love the people saying, I will. We will reject. He's radical left lunatics. Yeah. We will demolish the extremists, fanatics, lunatics and criminals who want to destroy our country. They want to destroy the country. There's something. Honestly, there's something wrong with them. Remember at the State of the Union, they wouldn't clap for people. The 104-year-old man got the Congressional Medal of Honor, the great helicopter pilot who's phenomenal. He was phenomenal. And I will tell you, he took that chopper down and we took out Maduro with a fort loaded up with soldiers. We took 25 minutes and we took over the oil of Venezuela, 65 billion barrels of oil. He says it like that, but the truth is we took our stuff back. He wants it to be more like we got to talk about the pilot, that handsome guy, he stood up bravely, stood up, he had a hard time with a leg. And now he's got a really hard, he's still suffering greatly with that leg. Very greatly was shot. But it didn't stop him. He landed that chopper perfectly exactly in the spot. If he didn't, we would have had a big problem. And as you probably heard, he lost the leg. That beautiful guy lost his leg. And the Democrats wouldn't applaud. They're sick. There's something wrong with them. They wouldn't applaud. We gave him that day. We gave him the Congressional Medal of Honor and they wouldn't applaud. But my one thing, when I started this whole beautiful journey, it's a journey and we did it together. I didn't do it. You did it. You were just waiting for somebody to say the words because it's common sense. You could call it lots of, we want strong borders, we want great education, we want to tremendous. We built the strongest military in the world. We had to use it a little more than I thought, but we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon and they will never have a nuclear weapon. And they're folding all over the place. And by the way, we can throw the Trump straight. We can throw the Trump straight. But I started out with a very simple thing. Little theme. I came up with this little few words. Make America great again. This is what I want. This is all I want. And we are making America far greater than anybody in this room thought would be part. Think of it. $22 trillion coming into this country. When a record was $3 trillion many years ago by a totally different country, $22 trillion, it's never happened before. So I just want to say we will make America great again. We will make it greater than ever before. And now, and now, that's enough of politics. I've been doing this now for seven days straight. I want a little music if you don't mind enough with the politics. So ladies and gentlemen, I think this is the greatest talent for the greatest of opera singers anywhere in the world. And I see the actual phantom song. Nobody was great to let you know what I see no difference. And I asked Christopher. I said Christopher. I'm not so sure that I'm not all that great. You know, I would be the greatest thing I would see. I'm much better than you. Yeah, I had to do that. If I were Christopher. I was Christopher. Christopher, can I ask you a question? You can do it. It was a great friend of mine. He was a great guy. He was a diva like no woman believed me. He was no diva. He was the all-time diva screaming those fools. He was great. But he was a diva. But I said to Christopher. So Christopher, let me ask you this question. Are you as good as Pavarotti? You know what he told me? No, no, sir. He is the maestro. He's the greatest of them all. I would never have said that. If if if I were him and that question were asked, I would sit sir. I'm far better than Pavarotti. I would have said Pavarotti is nothing compared to me. But I'll tell you what. Luciano was a friend of mine for a long time and he was great. And I see very little difference. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Christopher Makio, have a good time. We love you all. Go out and vote. Go out and vote. Trump's an entertainer, JD Vance, the politician. Yeah. All right. I think that about I'd be like one of the most. If you guys want to continue watching, Don Jr. is streaming the convention. Listen to the music. Not for us. Not for us. It's just about a little too late to try and get an after show in. So I do apologize, but I think we should probably just wind down. And you know, that was fun. I'll just say it. JD Vance nailed it. Yeah. He nailed the sales pitch and all of the legitimate forms. And Trump nails it in all the in the gravitas. Yeah. What I mean by that is JD Vance is coming. He's giving. He's giving you tangibles. Donald Trump is giving you vibes. I'm not saying vibes are bad. He's boosting morale while JD Vance is giving you substance. So I respect it. Not that Trump was. You said I have complete. I've fulfilled every promise. Yeah. Okay. There have been a lot of promises that haven't come true. That's what it is. It's fine. It's fine. I mean, I don't vote for people because I think they're going to be perfect in every single way. You know, I vote for what I can try and win on. So I'll take it. So smash the like button, share the show, follow me on there next on Instagram @TimCast. Jonathan, you want to shout anything out? Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Follow me on Instagram. On johnno.org, J-O-N-O, dot O-T-T-O. And if you want to check out red light therapy, it's at redlightnow.com. We're doing some of the best work in red light therapy for the top clinics around the world and at home devices that can really help you. Yes. I would like to shout out the sponsor of my podcast, which is awesome. They are a sound money. Sound money is bringing gold to the American people. It's an America first platform dedicated to the democratization of gold. You can open up a free account and buy gold and silver for as little as one dollar. 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