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I mean, is there anything lower than that? Leo had some thoughts on it, all right, this guy's an audience favorite, probably our number one guest. We had an on-demand feature like Conservative Netflix or something.

Everyone would click on the Leo Terrell autobiography because they love him so much. Welcoming back to the show, The great Leo Terrell, Leo, thanks for spending some time with us, man. Appreciate it.

First, but Leo, you're an actual civil rights attorney, like a guy who's got the bona fides and the CV and the track record of going to war for people's civil rights. So I'm going to play when we're done with this interview, yet another, and I say, yet another, because it's sad, it happens all the time.

Another cut of Joe Biden just yesterday in a largely Black church in South Carolina, again falsely claiming to have been some big civil rights advocate. Now, Leo, if that was actually true, I have no problem with him running for office and saying that would be a nice thing to know. Well, wow, that's great, that's impressive. The problem, Leo, is, Joe Biden was not, in fact, a civil rights activist.

This has been debunked seven different ways from Sunday. And he continues to say, And one final point before I get your thought on it. Outside of military stolen valor, Leo, given our country's history with race, I find nothing more morally repugnant than civil rights stolen valor. And falsely claiming you were a civil rights activist, when, in fact, you did absolutely nothing for the movement.

That's racist, that is a racist statement. This is a guy whose mentor was a Klan member. But for the call of your question, this guy goes to the Black Church, plays the race card, lies in church. About his association with the civil rights movement, when he had absolutely nothing to do with it. And there was a tape yesterday I was watching where he even admitted he had no involvement.

But because he is Joe Biden, because 95 percent of the media protects him. He's a liar, he gets away with lying every day, and it's insulting. And he's pandering to an old group of Black men headed by Jim Kleinberg, thinking that Black Americans today are going to drink that kool-aid, they're not.

And that's why they have left, and they're leaving the Democratic Party.

Well, Dan, that means 80 percent are well, folks, you got to understand when. 85 to 90 percent of Black voters in the past have voted Democrat. And now a 10 percent of them are saying no, no, I'm not voting for this guy. Maybe it's RFK, maybe it's Trump, folks. There are a lot of Black voters in the country, especially in Philadelphia, in swing states like Georgia, where Atlanta has a large Black population.

Leo These are game changing numbers. If Donald Trump gets 18, 19 percent, granted, that's a big number. I understand that these are absolutely game changing mathematical numbers that make the Electoral College for Joe Biden almost impossible.

You know why? Because these Black Americans are going to Donald Trump, the so-called racist Trump. No, they don't drink the kool-aid, they don't believe that the Democratic Party is to savor a Black American. The Democratic Party has enslaved Black Americans.

And I'll tell you, right now, I am a happier person, a happier American. By leaving the Democratic Party, they have destroyed the Black community. One final point, look at the Black citizens in Chicago in a total uprising over a sanctuary city, Chicago. And a communist mayor who just has disregarded the Black citizen and doing the dirty work of the white liberals.

It's immoral, it's stupid, it's surface-level thinking. The people who say, Oh, they're not going to vote for Donald Trump, he's a Republican. There were a lot of people out there and I got a whisper of this a while ago.

I've told this story before, so forgive me for repeating it, but a friend of mine is a tech investor. He's a pretty wealthy guy, but he goes to a lot of events and in those events he's around a lot of very wealthy Black people. Lawyers, entertainers, sports figures, business people, the entire cornucopia. Leo, he said to me, This is a couple of years ago, Leo, he's like, Dan, you are going to be shocked.

How many people in this next election are going to vote for Donald Trump? He goes, I sit there sometimes, he goes. I pretend not to be shocked because he's a Trump supporter. He's like, they are all in it for Donald Trump, he goes. One of them came up to me and says, I call him Uncle Trump.

I said, you call him whatever you want, I don't care as long as you vote for him. But I think this election you're going to see some big numbers.

They have moved on past this great society mentality, they want independent jobs, they want to work for themselves, they want ownership and control. And the Democratic Party is still spelling out, Oh, you need the government.

No, we don't, we need government out of our lives and they just don't get it and they won't accept it. You go outside of the Beltway. You understand that Black Americans, regardless of color, are looking for everything that you articulate liberty, freedom, independence, school choice. God values freedom.

They don't see it, Dan, they just don't see it.

And then you're going to see one or two elections where it's just going to be. There's going to be a seismic, you know, punctuated, equal equilibrium like event where things just change, it's going to happen. I mean, it's happened before. And you just can't take advantage of a voting demographic like the Democrats have taken advantage of the Black and Hispanic vote like this and do nothing for these communities forever. Eventually, people catch on, even with the media, even with the media covering for them.

And I think there's going to be a. He's got four solid years to really make America great again, like he did before. And you got a calling, Dan, I hear your program, I listen to your program.

You got a calling, I got a calling, people who are loyal to making this country great. You talk about freedom and liberty. If you get that call from the Washington, you're going to put down that mic and you're going to Washington, D.C. Because I'm telling you right now, Dan, I listen to your program.

You're going to have to help Trump, you know? For a fact, the first time around, he was around some rhinos he knows who are loyal to him and to this country. Dan Bongino, You're loyal to this country. If you get that call, you got to go, Leo.

I only mention it because you're so, you know, you're such a loyal friend to me and you always have been, and I deeply appreciate it. But I know you care about the country. You're not just saying that because you and I are buddies.

You're saying that because you care about the country, and you know, I do too, and I deeply appreciate it. I really do. But just the other day someone sent me this video like, here, look at you and Leo arguing back in the day.

It was a YouTube clip and it was even then. You and I were like, so passionate, so I love you brother. I appreciate that, and you know, it's, it's, it's always.

It's a lot to think about. I want to get your thoughts on this one final topic. We're talking to the great Leo Terrell, So Leo, the opening of my show.

Today, I was discussing this Washington Times article about political violence, something I obviously fully abhor and condemn completely, resolutely, dispositively. Once we go down that path, there's absolutely no coming back. However, what worries me, Leo, is the left doesn't feel the same way. When violence happens on the right. We condemn it, the left can say we don't all they want.

But you and I know we do, we're like that. That's totally inappropriate, potentially illegal. Prosecute him. We shouldn't be doing that.

We don't, we don't do that. The Tea Party rallies were largely were largely patriotic and peaceful. You know, January 6th, a lot of that stuff shouldn't happen. Conservatives spoke out against it, but a lot of people got entrapped in that entire thing, too.

However, the left doesn't feel the same way. We had these BLM antifa riots, you had people out there, largely peaceful, as cities were burning down. So what concerns me and I want to get your thoughts on, is if Donald Trump wins and he's likely to do so in November, we're going to have this two and a half month period until his inauguration. Leo, nobody knows the left better than you.

I am genuinely afraid, and I mean that that all of the guardrails are going to be off and that they are going to lose their minds. And we are going to see something in America we haven't seen in a long time. And I got to tell you, sir, it scares the hell out of me.

You got you remember Maxine Waters? All these individuals who just basically go out in public and threaten Republicans, threaten Donald Trump over and over again, and there's no condemnation whatsoever. And so they're basically signaling a green light. And I pray for President Trump's safety. And I'm telling you right now, from November 2024, when he gets elected, up until the time he takes office, we have to pray and protect this man. Because I'm telling you, the Democrats are sending signals, signals of basically we'll look the other way, do whatever you want.

You know, it's Trump, we don't care, we have to care, and I pray for President Trump's safety.

And then when I respond to them, Do you understand what I did for a living before I came here? I don't throw that stuff around cavalierly. I would, I would, I mean, I don't want to say who, but Leo, you know me a long time. Like when I put that out there, that's a very serious thing.

There are people contacting me who are very concerned about what you just said. Nothing you just said is some kind of crazy, out of left field conspiracy theory. There are security experts in my former space who are genuinely concerned that people are getting riled up. To such a degree that if he wins, they see is the only way out, you know, yeah.

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Take a listen, Yeah, man, I'm not. I'm not really. I'm not really feeling like a cutesy time guy today. I'm just not. So. I just as a personal courtesy to you out there in the wonderful, awesome radio listening audience.

I did the Hunter Biden thing. I'm just. Today's show is not going to be cute, so if there's young kids listening, I strongly recommend you know that you tune out. The good news is, Jim, it's a Wednesday. It is in the year 2024 where various exceptions were carved out in a new regulatory scheme.

I was just made aware of via email. Apparently the FCC has waived all obligations on this show today, so that's, that's at least good to know. I get it. No, no, you were on the email, it's on it.

It's on it, that was it, that was another phishing scheme.

That was another phishing scheme, that was that was a Nigerian scam for about the oil prints or something like, I didn't know that. Who's the WBAP board up? What's his name? Sean? You better have Sean's, our official liaison to the FCC.

You better tell him to get on that, dude.

Listen, I'm serious, I I one. I feel great. Today. I'm back to a hundred percent for those of you who've been sending me messages about. It was just a little cold, but now I'm a hundred percent.

My voice is still a little shaky. But uh, and you know what a weird thing is when you, when you have kind of a nasty cold and you get over it, you feel like, today, you right, you feel like extra, but you feel like you have, like superman, like powers. I woke up this morning, I slept great and I'm like, Holy Moses. I don't feel bad, and it's not that you don't feel bad.

You feel amazing. So I was really in the mood for the show. But I'm not in a mood for cutesy time with this Hunter Biden thing, I'm sorry. So again, if you're looking for a cutesy time show, today ain't for you because the guy's a scumbag, okay?

His dad is a kid sniffing, daughter showering, sociopathic, lying, plagiarizing, grifting, bribe taking, deal cutting, CCP next to office holding, a woman feeling plagiarizing. Nightmare of a human being with a son who's a disgrace to humankind. Who? During a time where there's a war in the Middle East going on, there's an increasingly hot threat from China. We have a perilous economic situation going on. As labor force participation and productivity numbers tank. We've got a Iowa caucus a week away.

In one of the hottest political races of the year, this scum, this scumbag of a son. Hunter Biden decides he's going to show up at a deposition to look like some kind of conquering hero. And then walk right out when he's forced to ask an actual question, I'm tired of this family, I'm tired of this piece of garbage, I'm tired of his piece of garbage, dad.

I'm tired of the piece of garbage, brother, I'm tired of it, folks, you know, it's just I'm tired of being tired of it. It's just interesting that everything we were told Donald Trump was correct.

They lack a decorum. Donald Trump disgraced the presidency. It's funny, we haven't found any coke in the White House. we haven't found any coke in the White House.

It's so interesting and we haven't said we haven't seen any CCP business deals. Oh, no, no, no, no. Foreigners stayed at hotels. Donald Trump.

Oh, they did because Donald Trump was in the hotel business. Oh, really. oh so did if I if, if, if it, if. It's shocking. So, if a Chinese Communist Party member buys Joe Biden's book, does that mean Joe Biden was influenced by?

Oh, you stupid a-holes on the left, you are the dumbest. This is why I hate you people. And if I ever run for the presidency, which I'm going to, one day, it is only going to be. It's not going to be to win.

Make no mistake, it is only going to be to use what is going to be a well-financed microphone to expose to the world how stupid you people are. So it's OK for Bill Clinton to get offered five hundred thousand dollars from a speech from a Russian company connected to an international business deal. His wife was over, that's OK.

The wife is overseas, but if a foreigner stays at a hotel, who Donald Trump, who's in the hotel business stays at? Donald Trump is definitely doing what Joe Biden did, taking money from his son, who's taken money from the Chinese Communist Party. For a business nobody can describe, it's not hotels, it's what is the business.

Plumbing, HVAC, air conditioning, sheetrock. What are they doing?

I'm sorry, Jim, I can't, I'm, I'm folks, I'm. I'm just tired of it.

How much more of a disgrace to this country do we need? You got a guy yesterday who does coke in his White House. He can't find his way off Marine or Air Force one, his dog bites. Everyone they see. The sun is literally on tape, smoke in the smoke and crack.

While engaged in the Nasty with a bunch of women of the night. Not a joke I've got, obviously, I've got people calling me left and right, like, Oh, brother, you don't know the half a bit about the Biden family?

And we got to continue. It's like this great country, it's like the beatings will continue until morale improves. What is it going to take for this guy to resign?

Look at this filth, this human garbage. Hunter Biden.

His brother dies and he's hooking up with the wife.

Can I tell you something? Listen, I don't like to share personal conversations with President Trump because it's, but I'm reasonably confident he'd be OK with this. Actually, I'm 100 percent confident, I wouldn't say.

One is because I don't like to name drop, because it's ridiculous. Look at me, I talked to who cares, everybody talks to Trump.

He's got a lot of friends, OK, but that's.

But one time I was up in the White House, I was chatting with him. And this is before Biden had jumped in the race. Which is like, just obviously a couple of years in to his to the last term.

My wife was right Paula, if you're listening to radio show, come up here, because she was right there. If you're listening, come up so you can vouch. I never asked her to come on the radio, but she's like a couple of rooms away.

She was right next to me when this happened. Hey Paula, I want to, I want to, I want to vouch for me on this. He comes up to me. Trump as we're leaving.

And he's like, Who do you think is going to run? And keep in mind, this is like a year and a half and nobody's officially announced it. On their side. I said, I'll probably Beto. I said, You know, he had a good run against Ted Cruz. I said, embarrassingly, I was like I could be a little bit of trouble.

That turned out to be a laugher. But I said, Kamala is probably going to run, and I said, Joe Biden. But I said, I don't know, man, and I said, This guy's just a walking disaster.

You know, so many people tell me so many bad stories about Biden. He looks me in the face and he goes, Can you imagine? He goes? The guy's kid? He goes shacking up with the wife after the brother died from brain cancer.

He looks me in the face, he goes, Man, I know some messed up people, but I don't know anyone who would do that. Paula Please, I get, I'm going to text her.

She's got to come up here and vouch for me, I do no, I want her to come here, come up here, I'm going to come up here.

I mean, if she comes, if she does, I mean, she was right there when it happened. He couldn't believe it. Coke in the White House, The Sun on videotapes, smoking the Chrysal, smoking Crack Bongs.

Oh, here she is, the white, oh yeah, the boobies flashing in the White House lawn. Hey, I need a favor.

I never asked you to do this, but can you just attest to the audience that this happened? Come here, come here, you don't have to talk. Yet we're.

I know you're in. No, no, no, it's not about so. We were in the White House with Trump, remember, and we're leaving the White House, and the topic of Biden comes up, right?

And what is Trump? Did he not say to us about? Remember the kid was like knocking boots with the with the Dead brothers, and what did he say? Do you remember what he said?

I remember exactly what he said, He said this, tell me, he said. He goes. I know a lot of like, bad people, but I don't know anybody who would do anything like that, right?

That's right, you see it. Just say yes, please say yes, it happened.

I suppose.

Oh, you got Paul on the show. Yes, if you're watching on Rumble, you actually saw Paul on the stream. that's yes. That's exactly what happened.

He's like, I know a lot of people do some bad stuff, they wouldn't do anything like that. I'm sick of this guy.

Jim, queue up for me, cut one. Here's some audio. What happened? He decides to show up at this deposition the last minute.

For me, I guess, a media op. I don't know, I don't know. I mean, the guy's scum, he's human garbage.

Who the hell knows what he was doing? He shows up at the last second and instead of showing up with some dignity, and actually, you know, pre planning it. And answering questions to the American people about this outward threat to the national security operations of the United States by selling out our country, i...e. Through his dad, No. He walks in for a second for a photo op to again screw up the whole country.

And then he walks out like a coward, like a chump, like a dog. Check this out Chair recognizes Ms. Greene from Georgia for 5 minutes.

Oh, I like to reclaim my time, Mr. Chairman.

Wow.

That's too bad.

I think it's clear and obvious for everyone watching this hearing today that Hunter Biden is terrified of strong conservative Republican women. Because he can't even face my words as I was about to speak to him, What a coward.

So many valiant, brave men, women sacrificed and died for, and this is what we're stuck with. A disgusting, kid-sniffing, woman-feeling, plagiarizing liar in the White House who tells people he was a civil rights activist and one of the sickest acts of stolen civil rights valor I've ever seen. This is what we're stuck with who's in the midst of a massive cognitive dementia episode.

I mean, it's just disgusting. With a crack-smoking, sex-addicted son knee-deep in an international influence peddling scheme, this is the best we can do.

I mean, when is enough, enough, enough.

He was the best part of the whole thing, the only part that even mattered. Cue up cut two for me. Jim Hunter's out in the hallway, and a reporter asks the only question that really matters at this point Hey Hunter, what's your favorite kind of crack? Check this out.

I've given a lot for this.

It's just everybody, you know, we just got back from overseas and everybody wants to come here, even from the world's richest countries, and this is the best we can do. I mean, I could make a strong database case to you. That of the 330 million people qualified to lead the United States as the commander in chief and president. This great country of 300 plus million people. That Joe Biden would be in the bottom. 0 0, 0, 0 0, 0 1 of people you would pick. If you had a checklist of this human piece of flaming garbage, his attributes, you wouldn't pick him to lead your kid's little league team.

Matter of fact, you'd have them arrested before he did. Sniffs kids Feels up. Women documented plagiarizer, serial liar, fake civil rights activist, liar Son does Crack, Son is on tape, having relations with women of the night. And suspect overseas countries suspected of international bribery and blackmail schemes, international influence, peddling. And never had a real job since his thirties. You're telling me you'd pick that kid to coach your son's little league team.

The guy's filth, he's absolute garbage, and I'm tired of him and his disgusting garbage family.

The only way we're ever going to get the back of these people is the political way, because justice is dead. If you're under any illusions that the Justice Department is going to do a damn thing about this charade today, you are out of your freaking mind. It ain't going to happen.

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Check this out, all right, another audience favorite whenever something breaks on the January 6th insurrection.

It was an insurrection. Folks, we almost lost everything, everything. I don't know about you. But that day I was in a doctor friend of mine's office. He's a friend, so I had a little ear thing going.

I thought I had like an ear infection, I had had some surgery for some stuff. And I don't know about you, Jim. But I was sitting there in the office, I had them lock the doors, I barred the doors.

We were all sitting there with shotguns and we were like, it's over, guys. The doctor's name is Steve, and he was checking my ear for an infection. I'm like, give me that scalpel.

And I was sitting there at the door, like, It's over, it's an insurrection, man, it's over.

Jim Jim was in the bunker, he was calling Mike for reinforcements. Maybe we should get a little commune going because it's the end of times. It was over, folks, the country was finished.

What was I actually doing? I was sitting in his office, watching on TV, going, Ah, that's pretty stupid, probably shouldn't be doing that. And then I left and went home and had dinner and told my wife, That's a pretty big mistake.

Julie Kelly, author of an amazing book, The Definitive Account of January 6th. You know what the book is called? Folks, take a guess, Jim, you know what it's called? It's called January 6th.

Yeah, it's a good guess, it's a good book, you should read it. Julie, thanks for spending some time with us. I appreciate it.

But I mean, Julie, when you hear them, if you were a space alien, Julie and knew nothing about human civilization. And came here, just, say, a few weeks ago and were to put in a search engine completely naive on the topic. January 6th. I mean, candidly, you would believe that that's what actually happened. I mean, hyperbole has no meaning to the left.

You know, Dan, January 6th was supposed to be the end of Trump, it was supposed to be the end of the MAGA movement. They expected to see mass defections out of the Republican Party. They didn't expect that. Three years later, their carefully crafted narrative would be disintegrating and people would be mocking it like we are today.

I mean, it's re-Eps, saying things no one disputes, he said. We're going in to the Capitol. I mean, everybody's seen it over and over. And I wanted to ask you this question, because, again, I don't know anybody who knows more about it than you.

How is it that these two stories the left has told us can exist at the same time? That this was the this massive insurrection? The country was in danger. We were about to lose everything, but we were just openly mocking. But that the only guy you know actually caught on tape and no one, no one disputes.

It's him claiming that we should go into the Capitol, we're going into the over and over the night before and the next day. How is it that the only guy we actually have on tape got the lightest sentence of anyone involved in the entire thing? If this was the debacle, they say it was January 6th. I mean, it just doesn't make sense.

He's at the first breach point. When Ryan Samsel, the man he whispered to in his ear, knocked down the bike racks, knocked over a police officer, went up the stairs. He's at the second breach point, as we're told, this is what is called breach point. He remained on restricted grounds for over two hours.

He interfered with police officers. He put his hands on a metal sign that the DOJ says was used as a battering ram against police. I could easily name six or seven serious charges he should be charged with. So the question is, why wasn't he? and why has the DOJ and corporate media covered for him and now depict him as this sympathetic figure?

Everyone else they consider a domestic terrorist except Ray Epps, none of it adds up.

Playoff, playoffs. I'm only playing what you said, it's you on you, it's not me on you.

I don't know you. I've never met Ray Epps in my life. I have no idea who Ray Epps was working for, dealing with, communicating with. I have no idea what I learned, I learned about in court cases, just like you did.

I don't know the guy, but it's kind of hilarious, like this guy in his legal team. Oh man, we're going to start like suing some people over what, playing your video?

If they thought that was going to scare anyone like me, you're out of your mind, like, Sue away, man. The discovery is going to be fantastic. Like you're on tape, a digital video telling people to go to the Capitol, and you know, it's incredible.

The left has made a martyr out of this guy.

Joe Biden has called all of these people collectively insurrectionists and domestic terrorists. So has Chris Ray, the F.BI director, Merrick Garland, go down the list. It doesn't matter if you assaulted a police officer or you stood in Capitol grounds. You are all, you know, with the same broad brush by the most powerful government officials and media interests in the world.

And somehow, Ray Epps is now a victim. And that's what really is infuriating this week, seeing how they're helping his defamation lawsuit against Fox.

You're never going, but you want to be Ecuador, you be Ecuador on your own. I'm sorry. And there were a lot of things on January 6th.

To say I was uncomfortable with is, to put it mildly, I was a cop. I can't look at that and say, yeah, that's cool, because it's not. But there are a lot of really, really suspicious things that happen. That you don't have to be a conservative MAGA guy to say, Hey, wait, you know the EPPs thing. A bunch of these people who seem to be there, and you know, some were prosecuted, some weren't. Reporters getting prosecuted. It seemed like it became more of a cover up than anything.

And if it's just a story of a rally that turned into a riot, then fine, let's have the let's, let's talk about it. I'm happy to condemn any kind of political violence, but to get to my point, what I think bothers the left about EPPs is people like you. And I were like, OK, we're condemning it. There's a guy on video actually calling to go into the Capitol when we knew we shouldn't have been doing that.

He's right there. We pointed it out to you and then it's like, all of a sudden we're the bad guys. I think it bothers them because people like you and I did the right thing and we're like, Hey, that's not cool.

Like, that guy shouldn't have done that and our people called him out the night before. They were like, Fed, fed. And I think that's what bothers them because it doesn't fit into their narrative. Like you and I are crazies that wanted this to happen.

I orchestrated it, I will tell you. Less inflammatory than that. Have been used as incriminating evidence to throw people in jail for years, charge them with obstruction, conspiracy, seditious conspiracy. Enrique Tarrio was in Baltimore. Baltimore wasn't even in D..C. He was charged with seditious conspiracy, convicted and sentenced to 22 years in prison.

I mean, Ray Epps was far more involved than Enrique Tarrio. So you're right, that's the discrepancy there, and this was a curveball the media never expected. No, instead of being like, Yeah, you're right.

They're like, Oh no, poor Ray Epps Tucker's making fun of him on Fox News.

And the left was like, you can't do that, that would be the right thing to do. And we're trying to pay you guys, the scumbags. That's what happened. That's exactly where they got confused.

I think got about a minute left. We're talking to Julie Kelly, her book is January 6th. It's fantastic. One last thing, Julie, you and I covered in the movie Police State.

You were gracious enough to be a part of. The F.BI is just expecting us to trust their story here. That's absurd. I mean, after Spygate, the chop zone in Seattle, the lack of prosecutions with Antifa, you expect us just to take your word on anything on January 6th.

Julie, I wish I had more time with you. The book January 6th by the great Julie Kelly, one of the best journalists out there. Go pick it up today wherever you get your books. Julie, thanks for your time. There's no better person on the topic than you.

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It's our best offer yet and it won't last long. Listen, Woke Sports, it is what it is. I'm kind of done with it, but there's hope out there. I'll explain here. Check this out.

And although today's show has been some kind of bad news, some kind of middle of the road news, I like to throw in and sprinkle in some good news stories once in a while. Listen, the current sports environment. To me, it's upsetting. And I say that because I address this on the podcast here, and I'll bring it up here again. Today, I follow a select few people on Twitter.

I mean, really follow like people. I read their stuff and this guy Mike Cernovich on Twitter, he's really he's got some pretty insightful stuff, and I'll read his stuff when I'm on social media.

And one of the few areas I have a minor disagreement with him on is he calls it sports ball. He doesn't like when people basically waste a lot of their time on sports. And I think his take, I don't mean to mischaracterize it is, and he's not wrong, by the way, is that, you know, these people genuinely don't care about you, so why waste so much time with them? And he's not inaccurate.

But the thing about sports that always mattered to me growing up, when I was a kid, maybe it was a little bit of hero worship. Like, I love Don Mattingly, the first baseman for the Yankees. And then, as you get older, as Pearl Jam once said, you trade magic for fact. You realize like these guys are just a bunch of self-centered athletes, like everyone else.

But you still enjoy the collective experience. You know, when I go to an Auburn basketball game and I'm going to a few this year, I hope to see you there or a football game. It's about, you know, me and my kids enjoying an experience with some talented people who may not, may or may not be the best people. And I don't know, I don't know them, but they're good at what they do.

And that's OK, I'm a meritocratic guy. They do something a lot better than I ever could, and I enjoy watching it, you know, I hopefully do a good radio show.

It's why you enjoy listening to. It doesn't mean I should operate on your spleen.

So with sports, it's the collective experience that matters. And I bring that up because one of the great disappointments of my life in the land. And I mean it. It may sound overstated, but I assure you, it isn't. Is. I absolutely love football, I love football, I love it, I was a quarterback.

I was not a very good one, but I know the game and I genuinely enjoyed it, the physicality of it, the big mental component of it. You know, there's a reason in football that you can get a five tool guy out there. Put him on the field with every single metric for success and stick him in a quarterback position. And he sucks because it's just so infinitely complicated.

What has to go through your brain watching these receivers on the field? Why am I bringing any of this up? Because when the NFL went woke, it really ripped the heart out of me. I was a big Oakland Raiders fan. L...A.

Raiders fan They're now the Vegas, Raiders been all over the place, the Raiders have been back and forth, L..A. and Oakland. But I could tell you who their offensive linemen were, who had all their records and all that stuff.

And when they went woke with the Kaepernick stuff, I felt like part of me died, and then Major League Baseball got woke, and then basketball got woke. I'm not going to tell you I still don't enjoy a game, I go to college games a lot, you know, my daughter and all.

But I really did feel like a part of me kind of died, and it wasn't that. I idolize these people for who they are, I enjoyed watching them for what they can do.

It's really that simple, they can do something special. If it wasn't special, people wouldn't pay hundreds of millions of dollars for that skill.

So it was upsetting to me when these sports went woke. So when I get a good news story, you know, I understand these guys are imperfect human beings like everyone else. But when I get a good news story about an NFL athlete who just goes on TV and is the most humble?

Candid, just seemingly nice, pleasant guy. I think to myself, why can't the NFL just get its head out of its ass and start promoting guys like this who really seem to care? Here's what I mean, Jim, if you would cut six. We're on in Houston now, thankfully, we'd love to be on that market. While we're on in a better, a better time slot than we were before, which is really fantastic.

But your quarterback, C.

J. Stroud is not only an amazing quarterback. Did I hear correctly that he's closing in or pass for 5000 yards this season? I think I heard that correctly. You know how incredible that is.

That's insane. Like this guy is an amazing quarterback, and yet every single time they interview this guy postgame, he never has anything good to say about himself. It's always about his team, about Jesus, about God, I get it.

They're athletes, I understand, maybe they care about us, maybe they don't, but my point is if the NFL.

If they just could get their heads out of their asses and say, you know what? There's no future in this woke stuff. These are not the people who consume our product. How about we don't alienate our people? And they're doing fine. Most of the live broadcasts that set records are still N.F.L. games, not suggesting they're hurting.

But I am suggesting that there are a bunch of people out there who still have a really hard time watching it. Because they know they embrace this anti-American, anti-cop garbage. Maybe start promoting guys like this, it's really listen to this guy, he's just an amazing guy.

Every time, Jim, you know, you're in Texas, I mean, you're in the Dallas market, but which is obviously separate from Houston. But this guy's just an incredible guy. Listen to what he had to say after the game this weekend. Check this out.

Welcome to the playoffs.

I'm sorry, I put a lot of work in my team that has everybody count us out from the start. So, man, it's just special to see the city of Houston just want to come up again. And I'm just blessed enough to be the vessel that Christ picked to lead this great franchise. So I can do nothing but just thank the Lord.

I don't know his family, I don't know his cousins, I just know that. When you get a microphone, like I have and he has, and politicians have, he's a, he's a sports athlete, I'm a radio host. Politicians have a microphone because of their position.

I think you have a responsibility to evangelize, I just think you do. You may not agree, but I think you do. I feel like God gave me this job for a reason, and you don't have to shove it down anyone's throat. But I'm never going to lie to you.

You know, Jesus is means the exact same thing to me as he does to him. But, you know, the unfortunate thing about the society we live in today is that's not like the quote cool thing. Oh, it's a Jesus thing about Jesus. Who wants to hear about, they want to hear about you? And you know, you know what kind of bling you got. And you know, I'm rolling in my bentley after the game and all this stuff.

They want you to do like the Neon Deon routine or whatever it is. Tell you what, man, you get more guys like that. Maybe people like me will start watching on a regular basis again. What an amazing guy. And that's not the only piece of good news that happened this weekend. It's a Monday.

It's a little gloomy, by the way. In Florida, Florida's a sunshine state. For the last three days we've seen no sun at all. It's like the weirdest thing. So I'm feeling pretty good about these stories.

And I need a little uplift. The U.S junior hockey team, they won the gold medal in the world Championships this weekend, and unlike the U.S.

Women's soccer team, which disgraced the entire planet in the United States by kneeling for our national anthem. These garbage people remember them, the Megan Rapinoe class. You don't have to play for the United States, go take your ass to another team and play for Cuba. Nobody gives up, OK, goodbye now.

Don't let the door hit you in the ass. They chose to play for the U.S team. And what did they do? They use their platform and their microphone to take a dump all over this country than the people who work here.

And you know what, I'm going to tell you something. I don't care if it's a controversial. Take even a little bit, because if I did, I wouldn't say it. I don't care.

If they lose, great, the U.S women's soccer team lost. I didn't give a damn matter of fact. when they lost, I was like, good.

Maybe if you focused on soccer instead of taking a leak all over the American flag, maybe you would have won the damn game and had a bunch of people behind you with some positive mojo.

So it's kind of refreshing when this u.

S junior, junior to national team, wins the gold medal in this world championship and the national anthem plays. And you see and hear this and the rockies red glare, the bombs bursting in air. They proved through the night that our flag was still there.

Now I think you'll all agree with me that, although those guys may be a little off key. Yeah, goosebumps. You're damn right that that's the most glorious sound you've heard all day. You don't got to be Whitney Houston to sing the national anthem. You just got to look at those stars and stripes and say, you know, that means something to me. That ain't a tablecloth, man.

That's not just a piece of fabric. That's an idea, an idea that matters to me, and it mattered to them. Doesn't matter if they were on key or off key, they're not singers.

They're excellent hockey players. You got to watch the video of that. They all got their arms around each other, the USA emblazoned across their chest.

You know, that's why sports still has a special place in my heart and moments like that. That sometimes you can only enjoy collectively, and that experience with people around, and they matter that much more. I shouldn't say you can only enjoy collectively, but when you know everyone else is living it with you. Sports is a unique place in our lives, we don't want to feel like we're alone in the world. And it would be nice if these sports leagues again would get their heads out of their rectums and just realize that. The people patronizing your sport, paying these salaries and showing up with the tickets that are exorbitantly priced now are people who love this country.

And I just want to say to C.J. Stroud and to the hockey team members that for whatever it's worth for me. I don't know if, whatever you may, you may say, Hey, who cares what that guy thinks? And fair enough, I don't know you, you don't know me, but you have my utmost respect. And it's guys like you that are going to save professional and amateur sports.

I get it, this country's got its problems, everybody understands that we're a country of human beings. I totally get it, everyone gets it.

No sane person thinks otherwise. But there's absolutely no reason for someone playing for the United States playing to choosing voluntary to play for one of our teams. To go and embarrass us in front of the entire world, given everything we've done for humankind? I lost an uncle in Vietnam, fighting for a country he'd never seen in his entire life, to try to prevent the world from collapsing into communism.

I've got a grandfather who fought in the battle of the bulge and never talked about it. I got a proud family, they fought for this stuff. It matters. Just wish some of these ungrateful people would take a lesson from these two groups. And that young man quarterback in the Houston Texans.

I'm going to tell you something, you're making a Houston Texans fans out of me. I haven't bought an NFL jersey in a long time. I haven't bought an N.FL jersey since Bo Jackson. I may buy that guys.

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