From DC Gridlock to Rising DUI-THC Deaths, Virginia’s Volatile AG Race, Campus Extremism, and the NFL’s Halftime Misfire

Government gridlock bleeds into daily life as paychecks stall, airports slow, and families shoulder the cost. We track THC-impaired driving data, a volatile Virginia AG race, Rutgers’ “Dr. Antifa,” and the NFL’s halftime calculus—then end with a rare glimmer of Middle East diplomacy.

• why a “clean” extension failed and who blocked it
• early shutdown impacts on aviation and federal workers
• THC impairment trends, enforcement gaps, and deterrence
• responsibility versus revenue in cannabis policy
• Virginia AG rhetoric normalising political violence
• cooperation breakdowns between ICE and sanctuary cities
• social media snapshots versus full-context reality
• academic freedom versus advocacy of extremism at Rutgers
• NFL halftime audience fit and advertiser pressure
• narrow diplomatic window in Israel–Hamas talks

Keep moving, keep shooting

Chapters

• 0:00 Cold Open, Hosts Catch Up
• 3:42 Shutdown Reality Sets In
• 11:45 Travel Disruptions And Blue Flu
• 20:45 Who Takes The Political Blame
• 24:33 Driving High: Data And Danger
• 33:52 Enforcement Gaps And Policy Options
• 40:14 Virginia AG Race And Violent Rhetoric
• 48:12 Chicago, ICE, And National Guard Tensions
• 56:40 Social Media Snapshots Versus Reality
• 1:02:40 Hamas–Israel: A Flicker Of Diplomacy

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:01

It's the Alpha Crypto with Clay Note. Serving up finding news and turn it brought to you by the Alpha Crypto and Refuge Medical. And now it's time for the show.

SPEAKER_01: 0:21

Oh my goodness, the things that I put Clay through just to get on this program, just to do the thing. So Clay shows up, he's all prepared, he's ready to go, he's ready to rock and roll. And I come in like a hurricane, acting like I've been through the war. No excuses. How are you, Clay?

SPEAKER_05: 0:42

I'm good. Just ordered because there was a minor technical difficulty with Elsa's earphones, and she couldn't hear me, and she felt like it was her fault and technical things happened, but we're all good. I'm good. How are you?

SPEAKER_01: 0:55

Good. I am good. I am good. I um yeah, I mean, I leave, so I go on uh Friday uh to go see my grandbabies. So I am you know basically out of my head with excitement right now, and I I just can't wait to get there and squeeze those babies. So yeah, so I am good doing the countdown. You have got a lot of stuff going on. You are the book tour man right now, right?

SPEAKER_05: 1:20

Yeah, I uh second book uh cross the bear. Here we go. Copy it right here, right? That looks so good. Looks so good. Keep moving, keep shooting. Um, Cross the Bear came out in September, and we just announced that uh the third book, Rebellous, is uh coming out the on Veterans Day, 11th of November. And so yeah, we're in final stages right now. I just, you know, I did a bunch of stuff today. I wrote the back cover description and um some other pieces and parts that go inside the book and the covers being designed, and so we're we're in all of the final stages of book three. Yeah. And then of course, with that, you have to do all the publicity and everything else. So I'm doing other podcast, you know, appearances and and oh, by the way, I'm writing book four at the same time. So yes, I am busy and happy busy.

SPEAKER_01: 2:04

Oh my goodness. So we gotta um we have to do like we have to hearken back to the old days, the origin story, and I have to interview you about your book series. Wouldn't that be fun?

SPEAKER_05: 2:16

I anytime you're ready.

SPEAKER_01: 2:17

Right? Let's yeah, let's do it.

SPEAKER_05: 2:19

I've been banging them out, so I I want to get the problem.

SPEAKER_01: 2:22

I know, and you know, and that I I personally I love hearing the stories of how other authors, especially when it's series, like their whole process and everything, because I just love to I just love that, I love that chat. I love that conversation. So yeah, yeah, I think we're gonna do that. We'll when we're we'll we'll sidebar on that uh afterwards and talk about that. Um, but for today, we've got um Clay pulled up like seven topics for us again. He I think you just like I think you like putting the pressure on, like, can we do it? Um but we're talking big stuff, right? We've got uh let's see.

SPEAKER_05: 2:55

I think it's a sweet spot. It is done as many as nine, I think, but I think it's the comfortable amount. But yeah, busy week. Um, and uh, you know, we're we're kicking it off. We got you know, I got we I guess we got one fun one at the end, but uh you know, uh there's a lot going on, folks. It's just it's the way of the world.

SPEAKER_04: 3:14

Government is real, important drivers getting not just behind the wheel, but behind the light.

SPEAKER_01: 3:37

Mm-hmm, for sure. All right, let's see. What do we have? Oh, well, let's start right off the bat um with the government shutdown status, the status update on all of that. So Clay was a little bummed out. Why were you a little bummed out, Clay?

SPEAKER_05: 3:54

I was wrong. I said last week, if you guys remember, okay, so it's our normal recording time, Wednesday, 4 30 on the East Coast. And I said last week when we recorded that I thought that the government shutdown would be resolved by last Friday at the latest before the weekend, and it is a week later, still going on. So I, you know, my prediction was off. Um, I did not realize that uh truthfully that the the Dems would be so hard line on this. And that's and they're finding every excuse in the book to continue the shutdown.

SPEAKER_01: 4:27

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And you know, and I did my best to make Clay feel better about that because I said, Clay, you are so rarely wrong. Uh like you gotta have, you know, you gotta, it's gotta bring you down a little, it's gotta humble you. He's a very humble guy, he's not uh he's not a braggart, but he is. I mean, let's face it, Clay, you you have been right on so many things. I I wish I had that skill set and time to go through all of our things and just do the running tally of all the things that you called and were spot on. So you get a pass. You get a pass on this one.

SPEAKER_05: 4:57

I appreciate that. I really do. Uh yeah. But yes, the government shutdown continues. Um, I I think there has been since you know in the last week, I think there's been a total of six votes, I think is what I counted up. I maybe plus or minus one there, but I think it's six votes that have been denied. I think there was another one today. I think there was an additional Democrat that jumped over, which is still not enough. But now, folks, we're starting to see some of the impacts of the shutdown itself.

SPEAKER_01: 5:27

Uh 750,000 federal employees are furloughed or forced to work without pay, which is correct.

SPEAKER_05: 5:36

Just such a stress. One of those, you know, significant is the air traffic controllers. Um and so there is uh to compound things because they know that their first partial paycheck is the 14th. And they, if it goes beyond that, then they're they will have a no-pay due paycheck period on the 28th. Uh, and that's what they're anticipating. You've seen, or there has been in, I think, six cities, six, six airports, four major airports to include O'Hare, LAX, Nashville, um, and I can't remember the fourth one. Um, but there's starting to be a uh what you would refer to, and I know you're familiar with this as a cop's wife, a blue blue going on in some of these airports with the air traffic controllers.

SPEAKER_01: 6:19

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Um, I mean, what do you even say to this? Like you can't expect people to work like this under these conditions and just to keep showing up with no guarantee. But they have mortgages, they have bills, they have children, they groceries. I mean, you know, you you just simply cannot do this. So that they are being held ransom, essentially, um, you know, is just insane to me. And basically all because they can't, and correct me if I'm misunderstanding something here, but all basically because they can't get their BS added into uh into this package, basically. So, you know, the the Republicans are trying to put forward a you know one of the cleanest uh bills that that you can. I think how many pages was it's like it's you know the least amount of pages, probably in anything that's come through in years and years and years.

SPEAKER_05: 7:15

Uh very important. We we talked about this last week. They're asking for essentially an extension, no change to spending, no change to anything. Give us six weeks, give us an extension, keep the government open, keep paying people, we'll figure it out by the middle of November, right? That that is we're not taking anything away, we're not adding anything. They just want the six week six-week extension, and they can't get enough Democrats to break away from Schumer to vote, yes, just to keep the government open. They're hardlining on you know the the health care for illegal aliens, they're hardlining on all on these, you know, hands.

SPEAKER_01: 7:51

And denying and denying that. Denying. It's not. Yeah, it's not it's not for illegal aliens. I don't know what you're talking about. You're making that up. No, no, actually, not making that up. That's literally what you're doing.

SPEAKER_05: 8:03

Oh, I mean, so now you've got the military as well. Um you know, and so the air traffic controllers, you know, there's a little bit of the blue flu. Like I said, you've got um, you know, a handful of airports where many of them, uh enough of them uh are not showing up for work and calling in sick because they're not getting paid. Um, so now you've got staffing manning issues, right? And now you've got delays and you've got flight cancellations and all those other things. And that, you know, they've got the ability to do that. The military does not. Um and I and I only went through really one of these. There was one very, very early in my career which truthfully didn't last long enough to affect a paycheck. Um, but it happened right after I came on active duty in 1995. Uh, and then there was a second one just a few years ago before I retired um that under President Obama that lasted, I think it was 17 days or something like that. It lasted enough where a half to half months paycheck, which we got back. Um but but you could you could see the impact on the young soldiers with families. It's not the senior folks. They they're they're okay. Everybody's gonna be okay. But you know, the young families, you know, the E2 through E4, you know, young folks in an apartment with two or three kids that, you know, um spouses, you know, wants to work, can't work because if she's working, she's trying to pay for childcare. Or, you know, it it's that crux. I mean, we've got tons and tons of service members who are already on food stamps and now they're not getting paid. And oh, by the way, they don't get to call in sick folks. That's not a thing. They gotta go to work.

SPEAKER_01: 9:33

Yeah, yeah, it's not even an option. I I read somewhere that the White House stance is uh on refusing automatic back pay for federal workers. Um what what is up with that? Is that is that a thing? Is that being misrepresented? Have you heard anything about that?

SPEAKER_05: 9:49

I have not I have not heard. Um I I don't know. I do know that the military, because they don't have the option of going on, you know, of being furloughed, they do get back pay. I know that um key and essential personnel is what they're referred to as, so like air traffic controllers. Um they don't have an option. If they don't go to work, if they call off sick, then that's treated as any other PTO, sick day, whatever. Um, and they get paid whether or not, depending on what they have in the bank for those, you know, time off statuses. Everybody else, if you're furloughed, I I honestly don't know, especially if you're not designated as being essential personnel, whether or not you're uh you're you're getting paid. My guess is in many cases you're not.

SPEAKER_01: 10:32

Right. Well, listen, y'all. I just told you I'm going to Florida on Friday, and nothing is if I have to fly that plane.

SPEAKER_05: 10:41

Are you not y'all want that? Orlando is the other one. Are you flying to Orlando?

SPEAKER_01: 10:45

I am.

SPEAKER_05: 10:48

That is one of the the four that I think is uh on the on the uh higher end or the the concerning number of uh delays and flight cancellations. Uh Hare, LAX, Orlando, and I want to say it's it's kind of an odd one. I know Nashville's in there, but it's kind of low. But um Oklahoma City, maybe somebody like that.

SPEAKER_01: 11:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 11:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 11:11

They're bear straight in this out. You know, it's all about it's all about me. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06: 11:16

I get it.

SPEAKER_01: 11:17

You know, I get it. It's all about those grandbabies. And anybody, anybody, anybody with grandchildren understands it.

SPEAKER_05: 11:22

Everybody else maybe does not understand the you know what's a little astonishing is that it while I was watching that last night, they were interviewed, they were at airports and they were, you know, talking to people who'd either had a delay or had a flight cancellation or were there to pick somebody else up or whatever. Um, I I saw probably maybe five or six faces, different people being interviewed. And there were two. There was uh a man and a woman separately interviewed, not together, who didn't even know there was a government shutdown. They had no idea why there was a cancellation, they had no idea why. Wow. One was there uh trying to fly out, their flight got canceled, and then another person was there to pick someone up, and that flight had been delayed, and they interviewed both of them. Neither one of them had any had any idea there was a government shutdown going on. I was interesting, very interesting.

SPEAKER_01: 12:04

Well, you know, I mean, I I I think there is, and I'll I'll pull that word out of the drawer again. There is that level of fatigue that everybody feels with all of it, with the politics, with the you know, culture wars, with all of the things. And I think there probably is a very reasonable, meaning size-wise, portion of the population that is just saying, you know what? I don't care. I don't care. I don't want to hear about it. I don't, I don't care. Don't talk to me about it. I'm not gonna watch the news. I'm not gonna watch anything. I'm just gonna live my life. And, you know, I mean, I don't really knock them for it because they probably are living a much more peaceful existence than the rest of us. So, you know, I don't really knock them, and I know there's certainly an argument for knowing what's happening in the world around you, especially if you're at the airport expecting to go somewhere and you're like, what's happening? You might, you know, you might want to tune in just a tiny bit. I know what they can do, Clay. They can just watch our show and kind of get like, you know, just just get enough. It's like one hour, right? Yeah, like you can it's a one-hour show. You probably have an option. You notice you ever notice this? You have an option now, you can speed things up. Like you speed up books, you know, you can I'm sure you can speed up the videos too. You can get this all like in a in a half hour, probably. Probably. Why not? Right? Just a suggestion, just a thought, an idea. And look, we're so much more pleasant about it and cheerful about it than you know the estimate right now is 24 days.

SPEAKER_05: 13:33

Yeah, I I saw that just before I saw uh the the guesses. I don't know why, but the estimate is this is gonna last 24 days. Um and uh I yeah, I I don't know what the significance of 24 days is. Yeah, but that's that's the guess right now. I I will tell you that uh this one will be long remembered. Uh it will be long remembered when it comes around election time for the very few elections that are going on here in November, but definitely next year 2026. Uh you know, both sides will bring this up and point fingers at each other. So take notes, people remember who's responsible. Uh, because uh, you know, as Speaker of the House Johnson brought up just the other day, he said, Hey, Chuck Schumer's been in office since I was nine. Yeah, that's what he said. He's like, we've got career politicians here that are that are part of the problem. Yeah, and he said Chuck Schumer's been office since I was nine years old. So don't look at me, look at him. So yeah, um, and I think what do you think we'll take the bigger hit on this?

SPEAKER_01: 14:33

Republicans or Democrats? I mean, my opinion is Democrats. Democrats will, yeah, right. Yeah, I think so.

SPEAKER_06: 14:38

Yep.

SPEAKER_01: 14:39

I mean, I I I guess if you're uh a Democrat um bystander, you probably will blame Republicans no matter what. But if anybody's being objective and really looking at the totality of the entire thing, yeah, I think it's probably pretty clear for anybody paying attention. But we shall see. We'll see the spin. I'm sure the spin is happening, and and I was a bad girl.

SPEAKER_05: 15:00

I haven't even really watched what what they're there's there's scarecrow, you know, put fingers going both ways, everybody's pointing the opposite direction at the other side.

SPEAKER_06: 15:09

Right.

SPEAKER_05: 15:09

Um, and they're and they're blaming all of this, you know. Everybody is getting blamed. Um, you know, President Trump's fault. And they're trying to blame all kinds of things on on the government shutdown that have nothing to do with the government shutdown. It's it's ridiculous. But yeah, it'll all come out in the wash and and it'll impact folks. Hopefully, it won't be forgotten before the next election.

SPEAKER_01: 15:28

Yeah, yeah, no kidding. Uh, let's see, what do we got next? Oh, driving while high. Listen, can I go on a can I go on a rant? Go on, my little, can I go on a rant? I am so sick and tired of walking down the street, walking into a restaurant, uh business, driving on the bleeping highway, and having waves of that nasty, disgusting skunk smell invade my personal space. Like I listen, if that's what you want to do, knock yourself out. Put yourself into, you know, catatonic state for all I care. Um, I don't need to smell it. And here's here's and I know all the people are gonna pipe it, and they're like, it's medicinal, and there's nothing bad about it, and it's not a demo. I don't care. I don't care. I don't make it my problem. I was flying back when I was in high school, no problem then. Good times, whatever. I'm a grown ass adult. I do not need to walk into every lane and aspect of public life and have that smell invade my nostrils. Chew a gummy, eat a brownie, take a lollipop. I don't care how you do it, but I don't understand for the life of me why they have to smoke it so that we can all smell it on them. I like it's making my throat close up. I'm so repulsed.

SPEAKER_05: 16:55

I actually didn't do it last night. I I I went to go see a um, there's a a very famous former radio personality in Chicago. Uh his name was Kevin Matthews. I grew up listening to him in high school radio. And but he is uh, you know, he went through the gambit of the 90s, right? You know, a lot of you know, he he partied, he had a good, you know, all of those things. And now he's he's uh he's found God. It's called Broken Mary. Um I recommend folks go see it. It's the the um it's in limited theaters, it's a great story. Um, but uh it's the the film itself is about an hour long, but then actually they you can stay afterwards and pray the rosary if you're Catholic with Kevin Matthews on the screen. Um very cool kind of thing. The story's great, regardless. As I'm walking into the movie theater last night, just like just as soon as I got out of my car all the way to the door of the theater, just hot smell everywhere. Just and it was, you know, it's not like I don't know what I'm smelling, you know.

SPEAKER_01: 17:51

Yeah, right, exactly. So you know, listen, and we'll get into the the real meat of of this topic, what the headline is there, but uh you know, just it's just another way to usher in societal decay. Like I get people, I get the whole medicinal aspect of it. But Joe Schmoe driving down the highway, which is we're getting to this part of this now, and walking into a restaurant, uh any business, whatever the case is, um come on now. It's not they're not using it medicinally, they're not using it for their cataracts or their cancer or their migraines or whatever, you know, or their backache. Like everything now needs marijuana to make them feel better, right? Like highly coincidental that everybody suddenly needs it to, you know. So give me a break with all of that. And now let's talk about this very serious, legitimate. I just mentioned it like three times, driving down the highway, and I'm not exaggerating. My windows aren't even open, like I have to shut my vent off from that smell coming out of the car in front of me or beside me. You this is driving while impaired. And I don't care if you think you are more brilliant or creative or any of this nonsense when you're high, you are a danger. And this was not well thought out. I don't think it was thought out at all, right? I mean, how they they have no way of addressing this in the way that you can for drunk driving. There's no breathalyzer test, right? Like it's it's more involved.

SPEAKER_05: 19:25

Yes. So there, you know, they did a study. This is based on uh, I think it's out of Ohio. They took six years worth of data. So this is not just like a smattering, just a small piece. Six years worth of data, and what they've seen is an increase, 40%, I think it's 42% actually, of fatalities, auto fatalities, um have been caused by uh, or at least the people that have been tested in the fatality have had a toxic level of THC in their bloodstream. In other words, not a, you know, because we we all know it's not, you know, it's not a joke, it's not a lie. The stuff stays in your system for 30 days at a minimum, um, depending on how strong it is. Now, um, this is toxic levels in the sense of immediate or use immediately before or even during operation of the vehicle. So like the levels were that high in the bloodstream that they they could tell that the person was impaired post-mortem, literally post-mortem. Um, so you know, it the evidence is there and and the concern, you know, is exactly what you said, which is there is no breathalyzer test, right? There's no, it's not like you know, when you get pulled over, cops smell alcohol. They can smell pot, but they can't, there's no test for you immediately other than a field sobriety type test, right? Right. And, you know, THC marijuana affects you differently than alcohol does, so the tests aren't necessarily the same or are they reliable? But what there isn't is a breathalyzer test on the spot to check your blood alcohol content uh in a similar fashion for marijuana. So um, you know, that's where the crux is. People think, well, I can smoke. There, you know, even if I if I smoke in my house, you know, very much like, you know, and alcohol, drink before you drive, smoke before you drive, but then there's no trace of it, right? And because there's no breathalyzer for it, people figure they get pulled over, they're not gonna get caught. Well, the problem is that they are impaired, like you said. And say the number of auto-related fatalities while impaired on THC slash marijuana is skyrocketing, and it's in a direct relationship with the legalization of marijuana, the availability of marijuana to the general public. Um, and and people are, of course, as people do, abusing it. And that's where we sit right now.

SPEAKER_01: 21:50

Right. Yes, because you know, my husband said this many years ago, and we repeated it in so and unfortunately I've had reason to repeat this in so many different circumstances that you know the problem of the world is people, because people ruin everything. Yeah, everything. And this is another example of that, you know. And uh, you know, for probably the third time, I'll say I understand the value of in certain circumstances, the benefits that they have shown with the use of marijuana for legitimate medical reasons. So we're not talking about that, we're talking quite literally about impaired driving, operating of machinery, like all of these things putting the public at risk, um, you know, for simple recreational use. And that's, you know, again, it just anybody who's paying attention, I mean, anybody with half a brain, quite honestly, saw this coming a mile down the road, that this is exactly where this would lead to. And, you know, it's just another, and I blame you, betcha. I'm gonna blame those Democrats again. And I'm sure there's plenty, there were plenty. I'll just I'll be fair and say I'm sure there's plenty of Republicans too that, you know, cross that line and green lighted that because you know, money speaks louder than anything else, right? And they saw some dollar signs and they said, Hey, well, we can make some money off this. I mean, people are doing it anyway. Let's make some money off it for our states and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And, you know, oh, don't worry about that pesky cultural societal decline and the you know, further dumbing down of society and you know, making them numb and incapable of making, you know, sound decisions and choices in life and motivation to succeed and do anything. Like, listen, I'm not saying all marijuana users are derelicts and can't function in society. There's a frightening number that can and do. Um, that's more frightening to me, you know, and you don't you don't know unless you smell it on them. Uh, you don't know if your doctor is high while operating on you. You don't know if your Uber driver is high driving you anywhere. Like when you apply it to all these situations where your safety and well-being, or let's go even more important, your children's safety and well-being, are unknowingly at risk. Uh, you know, and and I guess we have to go into like, okay, we're talking about the problem so much, and now we got to talk about, well, what can you do? What are the solutions? I mean, uh, can you, you know, now that the uh horse is out of the stable, are what are the odds of this getting reversed? Yeah, what do you think is could even possibly happen from this point?

SPEAKER_05: 24:36

Yeah, I I I think it's really, really difficult. I think what it will take is a major um because everything else requires a lobby. It's gonna take a major lobby or a major um donor uh to be opposed to this to have any impact. And I say that in the sense of, you know, businesses as an example. So think of a business that operates a fleet of vehicles.

SPEAKER_06: 24:58

Okay.

SPEAKER_05: 24:59

So they, you know, I I worked for a brief period of time, a few years after I retired, for a corporation that had that. You know, we had vehicles, we had licensed operators, and so I watched while I worked there as these laws were passed to legalize. We would tell when I first started working there, we would test people, right? There was always a drug test, right? Um, and then there was random tests afterwards, and then it got to the point where it was like, well, it was legalized. So even if we tested them, we couldn't fire them because it stays in your bloodstream for so long. You know, a guy could be like, Well, I smoked on Saturday and I'm here, you know, on Tuesday taking a urinalysis, and I'm perfectly fine, right? So now you you you're putting businesses at risk. Um businesses are putting are being put at risk um by by these laws. Now, I think the simple solution is, you know, don't you know flip flip it back over and don't legalize it. But the tax dollars associated with it already uh are are gonna you know stop that from happening. No, no, no state level government um is ever going to like, oh yeah, we're just gonna stop collecting taxes on that. That's never happening. Right now, keep in mind the federal government still has not legalized marijuana. Federally, it is still now, it's been in consideration. I know it's been talked to President Trump has been talked to about this, um, about changing the classification of marijuana as a drug, but only at the state level is it, you know, is it legal and it's from state to state, which again, states' rights, these are the things that we like as conservatives. However, in this case, I think this one is a little bit risky. Look, folks, I I'm not even criticizing people who do do it recreationally. If you want to do it, you know, and it's legal where you're at, you're a grown adult, I got it.

SPEAKER_06: 26:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 26:48

The the shocking thing is after all the years and years and years and years of DUI, drunk driving, you know, all the things that we went through as teenagers, right? Mad, you know, mothers against drunk driving, students against drunk driving. You know, we had all of this impact on our lives where just, oh, we just got beat over the head with, you know, designated driver. You know, and I think it became very, very normalized. To see this and to see it on the rise to an extent of 42% in these studies of people impaired by THC marijuana causing fate fatal crashes is crazy to me. Like, how did we lose the bubble on being responsible operators of motor vehicles? And what it tells me is that the breathalyzer is the deterrent. Right. It's not people of good conscience, it's not people doing the right thing, it's people making sure they can't get caught. Right. Right. So when you can't get caught with the marijuana, then people just do it and they just say the hell with it. Um, so I think we've got a it's a it's an ethical problem, moral ethical problem. And I think you're right. I think the the decay and the the status of where we at is gonna make it almost impossible to flip this back over and turn it back the way that it should be. Um so the only answer is, you know, we we we gotta go old school, and I think I think to stop it is to to ban it completely. That's the only way you're gonna stop the the autofatalities.

SPEAKER_01: 28:10

Yeah, you know, I mean, unless they can come up with um, you know, a a test, obviously, you know, along the lines of um the breathalyzer test, you know, some version of that, something that's non-invasive. Because like right now, I think it's only like a blood test, right? Or urine, I mean urine or blood test, right?

SPEAKER_05: 28:29

Yeah, but but again, it it takes a while for that test to go, right? And then come back. I mean, it's the same thing. We still do um blood alcohol content. They can draw blood, right? Police departments can do that as a as opposed to a breathalyzer. But there's nothing on the spot, there's nothing on the roadside, there's no like uh there's nothing like that available, and and that's where that is where the problem lies.

SPEAKER_01: 28:49

So until they come back, I feel like this is an obvious question, but uh uh like the field sobriety test, like they they do, they obviously would be doing that type of testing. But again, it's like prove it. I could just walk slow because they talk slow just because I talk slow. My eyes are wearing because I'm wearing contacts and my eyes are tired. Yeah, I maybe never use that excuse as being. Yeah. Uh, I don't know. I just the whole thing is just so predictable, and and because it's so predictable, it is that much more frustrating and annoying and slightly infuriating when you think about well, not slightly very infuriating when you think about the the vitalities and you know all of that stuff. It's like, come on, you greedy idiots. I mean, like that's all it comes down to. Greedy idiots who just have no regard. And I'm talking about the lawmakers when I say that. And you know, uh first and foremost, uh, because as we know, people are people. If you tell them they can, you know, drink themselves, you're free to drink yourself into a stupor. You are free to smoke until your lungs turn black and turn into. Dust, you're free to smoke pot until you can't see straight. People will do it just because they can.

SPEAKER_06: 30:07

Yep.

SPEAKER_01: 30:08

Uh all right. That makes me exhausted. Let's move on to the next one. I'm already so aggravated. So aggravated. Oh, what are we talking about? Oh, uh the Virginia Attorney General. So what the heck, Clay? Come on. This is just crazy. This Jay, what's his name? Jay Jones. Are you even kidding me right now? I mean, and I say that, and I don't even really mean that. I'm not surprised. This, this, none of this is surprising to me whatsoever. Uh, this guy I don't, I thought I had the quote in front of me, but said some pretty crazy stuff.

SPEAKER_05: 30:41

I mean, basically for the political violence that we've been talking about, you know, he's been advocating or has said in a number of uh social media posts, whether it's tweets on X or whatever, about um shooting Republicans, about, you know, um, what was it? Who was it? Pol Pot and somebody else. And like, you know, it was basically like, I would I I would rather kill an American Republican than two of the worst human beings on the planet, you know, uh kind of thing. And and so this guy is the attorney running for the attorney general for the state of Virginia. Um, and and you know, so it hits social media. We all expect the, you know, hey, I'm sorry, uh, I'm gonna back out, you know, this is not appropriate behavior, blah, blah, blah. No, guy doubles down, and by the way, he's getting tons and tons of support at the national level from um national level congressional leaders, House of Representatives, senators, etc. Um, the amazing thing is that Virginia is one of the states that has an election this year. Yeah. So you've got the lieutenant governor, uh Earl Sears, who's awesome.

SPEAKER_01: 31:52

I love her.

SPEAKER_05: 31:53

Folks, if if the name's not ringing your bell, I promise you you know she is. She's African American, uh, she's a former military officer, she's the lieutenant governor of Virginia, she's running for governor of Virginia, and she's the conservative candidate, and she's a badass. She's awesome. Well, she's running against um a lady named Spanberger, yeah. Um, who we all thought that when Jay Jones was like, I'm not getting out of the race, that guilt by association, that at least she would say, Hey man, you're killing us. Like you're killing you, you're killing me. Like, if you stay in, neither of us are gonna get elected. And no effect. He stayed in. Yeah, she's she's still in good shape in the gubernatorial election. Like, what is going on in the state of Virginia?

SPEAKER_01: 32:40

It's so crazy. Now, um, when some Earl here Shea put out a pretty intense ad, and we do have it, I'm gonna play it for you guys.

SPEAKER_00: 32:51

A lot of people are saying it's the Democratic rhetoric that has led to these attacks. Charlie Kirk got killed while speaking at a developer.

SPEAKER_01: 33:45

Yeah, great, great ad. And boy oh boy, folks, pay attention, man. Pay attention. This is what they are all about. This is what they uh represent and what they call for. They make no secret of it. Violence is the answer if you are on the left. This is the message that they're sending. Violence is not just okay, it's good. And if this is, you know, Virginia, pay attention, man. And this affects everybody. This this has, you know, this isn't just Virginia that this affects, much like you know, mom Donnie doesn't just affect New York, uh, you know, if he gets in. I that this is man, oh man, it's so crazy. But uh I do love it.

SPEAKER_05: 34:35

I guess we should with all the school board issues, uh, you know, Loudoun County and all that, like this this shouldn't surprise us, but it but it continues to, right? What I actually what doesn't, what what surprises me is the lack of reaction. It's not that they think like this, it's not even that they talk like this in public, right? It is the lack of reaction from the public to say that's not okay, you don't represent me, I don't want you in office. The fact that these people continue to be competitive in these elections is baffling, yeah. Just absolutely baffling. Um, it shouldn't surprise me, but it continues to, and maybe that's my fault.

SPEAKER_01: 35:19

Yeah, I know, but I'm with you. I and I think most of us are. I think it is so hard when you are a civilized human being to see the lack of, I mean, lack of civility, what a mild way to phrase that, right? To see the you know, blatant uh call for anarchy and violence and craziness, uh, and for that to be the the norm is just for them.

SPEAKER_05: 35:45

Um and think about this, folks. That is the potential governor setting let your saying let your rage, right? You know, act on your rage. Right. If an attorney general who is endorsing, advocating, talking about violence, right? Yeah, and they are not run out on their behinds, is just but but the two of them together, if they both get elected, the potential for excusable violence, political violence in the state of Virginia goes through the roof. Yeah. Because you've got a governor who advocates for it, and you've got an attorney general who's gonna protect those that they choose to protect and prosecute or defend those that they choose to prosecute or defend. Right? That, you know, if there's even an offset, even if you've got an attorney general that gets elected who is an idiot and a governor who's not, or vice versa, then there's an balance. But if they both get elected, folks, Virginia is I would drive around that state. I would avoid all travel, anything associated with yeah, I wouldn't near that joint.

SPEAKER_01: 36:49

Absolutely, absolutely. So obviously, we're gonna keep watching that one, and and you know, whenever there's updates on it, we will we will we will update you, man. But I hope it's good news from there because oof. Uh listen, I I skipped right over this one. I think it was out of like because I kind of felt bad for you because Chicago, Chicago again. Surprise. Yeah, go ahead, Clay.

SPEAKER_05: 37:14

So the the National Guard, the National Guard is here. The National Guard from Texas has landed. Um, I hate to say this. There's some bad photo ops out there right now already. Texas getting off the trucks yesterday. There's some uh chubby overweight folks that probably are not Secretary Hags', you know, uh mock uh fighting force uh coming up from the state of Texas. However, um they are they are here. The intent for the National Guard to help ICE in Chicago specifically, by the way, over a thousand arrests by ICE in the last two weeks in the city of Chicago. Um, so the the intent is for them to provide facility security, right? That's the right now the role for the National Guard. They're on a 60-day uh mobilization, so they will come here. They're the ones that are gonna, you know, provide the security in and around the ICE facilities to facilitate and allow the ICE agents to do their jobs, right? Of course, you've got Governor Pritzker, mayor of Chicago, have both said, and we've got evidence of this, um, that they, you know, Illinois and specifically Chicago police departments, law enforcement agencies are not allowed to uh support, protect, um, assist ICE federal law enforcement in any way, shape, or form. Uh, in fact, when there was a conflict last week, uh, CPD tried to respond uh at the control level and uh were told to not. Uh they were called off by their chain of command and told them, hey, ICE is doing their thing. Um and and so you've got that, but you've also got the state uh suing the federal government about utilization of the National Guard. The same thing is going on in Portland, folks. Um we we talked about it last week. Their governor really had his he really had his crap together because they had a lawsuit uh uh you know submitted in under 12 hours from those things. So they they don't, as far as I know, I don't think there's National Guard in Portland at this point. Um they got ahead of the ahead of the ball game, uh, but there's a lawsuit there too. And again, ICE is under attack on a daily basis as they operate in around Portland. Uh I am an advocate. We talked about this before, that you know, we're none of us want to see an American city fall uh into complete disarray. I think Portland is primed for it. Uh I think that they continue to live under this, like um, like they're happily effed up. Like they they like it that way. And I think I think truthfully, for the sake of everybody outside of Portland, I think pulling all federal government, all federal law enforcement, and all federal money out of Portland uh is a viable option, even to the point where somebody I I said this on social media and somebody said, so that means then they shouldn't pay federal taxes. I'm okay with that. Fine. Yeah, give everybody who lives in Portland a buy. I I don't care. It's not gonna fix it. It doesn't matter. I think we should get everybody out and just let Portland, you know, burn in whatever way that happens.

SPEAKER_01: 40:08

Yeah, let them have it. And can we ship more there? Can we ship them from other places? Like, can we just give them, you know, I know it's not an island, guys, don't worry, but can we just call it the island of Portland and ship them all all there? You can have your your merry little island of misfits, island non-island of misfits and um degenerates and you know, go go crazy, go crazy, have fun. And that's it, but you stay there. That's your own place. I I personally love that idea. You know, there's been this long-standing conversation since all of this has been going on. Um that why don't we just, you know, why don't we just split up the states, right? We'll we'll all the conservatives and Republicans can just take all the we'll take the southern states, thank you. Can we like the sunshine? So we'll take that, right? And like I the more tired, fatigued I get from all this, the more I'm like, oh, what a wonderful idea. And I and I know, you know, so many people will jump in and be like, come on, now you can't, that's not the way to handle it, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But I don't know. I mean, maybe it is because we are so profoundly divided in what uh what our values and ethics and beliefs and every single thing. We are so incredibly divided on that. Like it almost feels like the best solution here. I, you know, I don't know, somebody's gonna get mad when I said that, but whatever.

SPEAKER_05: 41:34

It's all being clouded by social media. You know, there's a lot of single-shot snapshots of this happening, and then and then a story forms around it. True or untrue. You know, there's a uh uh a head pastor from a Chicago area Presbyterian church. There's a snapshot of him being uh pepper sprayed uh by you know uh some law enforcement agent. One, we don't know if it's AI. Two, yeah. Everybody assumes because he's clergy that he was peaceful, that he wasn't doing anything wrong, that you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay. Assuming is bad. We all know the you know the anecdote, right? Um, but you can't convince people of that because of their own internal bias. And social media is doing this entire thing for both sides a disservice. Um but what's really the disservice is the fact that people can't look at those things and say, you know, I don't know what's going on there. It looks bad, but I don't know what happened. So I'm gonna wait and see, like we always talk about, right? Wait and see what happens. People react in the craziest ways, and it's not helping.

SPEAKER_01: 42:39

No, no, it's really not. And you know, and it's such a good point, Clay, for you know, for all of us and and myself, ourselves included, to, you know, to take that step back, to take a deep breath and to say, you know, this isn't everybody. This isn't representative of the majority. These are just the most vocal portions of each group of people. And, you know, and those are the ones that make the most noise. You know, it's a the whole squeaky wheel thing that you hear about. Well, of course, that's gonna get the most attention. Of course, these are the things that are getting the most attention. In huge portions across America, um, people are just living their lives and getting along and coexisting, uh, and and having differences of opinions and beliefs and still, you know, functioning without trying to hurt each other. So, you know, that is the actual norm. That is the actual reality, you know, and it's it's good to remember that. It's good to take that pause and go, hang on, hang on, let's go touch grass, right? That's actually been my favorite saying of late. And I know it's you know, it's one of the ones that's gonna get overused and we'll get tired of it. Maybe people are already tired of it. I'm not, I am very fond of saying, go touch grass, breathe air, touch grass. It's it's all okay. That was my reminder to myself, guys. You didn't need it. I needed it right then. Oh, what are you gonna? Oh, now I gotta bring us right back down again, guys. Right back down again. Uh yeah, so a lot of talk going on right now. Uh of course, that Hamas is um talking or listening to potential peace talks and all those things. You know, the question always is though, like, do they need it? Because history has shown not so much.

SPEAKER_05: 44:32

Yeah, the the latest, I guess, is is you know, an offer from you know, negotiated by President Trump through um, you know, Bibi, uh, and then forwarded to Hamas, waiting for their response about, you know, it's it's a peace deal. It's contingent upon the release of you know the Israeli hostages, the hostages from two years ago, literally two years ago, um. Um and and it's it's in it, the ball is in Hamas's court right now. And and the latest that I saw right before we went into recording is they basically said no. And so as hopeful as I think all of us were, um, you know, this is uh this is not something that uh we should ever assume is going to be successful. We all know peace in the Middle East is this very fleeting, you know. We we were very close to grasping it four years ago, to be beaten. Uh, but but you know, right now there is an offer on the table. Like I said, the last thing I heard was Hamas and no. Um and and we'll have to see what happens. But uh, you know, the fact that we got Netanyahu to even agree to a deal didn't involve bulldozing, you know, Gaza Strip and starting over again. Right is is promising. Uh, because listen, folks, as much as I support Israel, and I and I, you know, and I clearly will never support a terrorist organization, uh, you know, specifically Hamas in this case, um, you know, President Netanyahu's in a in a tough spot. I mean, when you live next door to your prime enemy who's trying to kill you on a daily basis, being gracious and being forgiving is is a difficult thing. Um and the fact that we got him to agree to any deal whatsoever under any terms is is pretty miraculous. And then if I and then of course Hamas turns around and takes this opportunity to say, and and they're not gonna do it. So we'll have to see what happens, but but I progress is being made. I am still hopeful uh for for everybody in that region that they can at least stop killing each other for a while. Will there ever be pure peace? Probably not, but take a break from the killing for a little bit and and you know, eat some falafel and just everybody just chill for a little bit.

SPEAKER_01: 46:44

I love some falafel, yeah. Come on, guys. Just I feel like food solves everything. Just I mean, it really does. I mean, food food solves so many problems in the world. Uh so remember the it's so unrelated, but it just made me think of it, guys. I'm sorry, but it just made me think of the old Snickers commercials with uh Betty White, you know, eat a Snickers. You're not you when you're yourself when you're hungry. Yes, I love those. I just love it. It's so true. Everybody just have a falafel. I like that. That's gonna be our thing. Right? Yeah, all right, guys. Obviously, we're gonna keep you updated. Uh next up, see, we're plowing for those last ones because we're getting close. This, oh my gosh. So, you know, here, I mean, here I know this guy before I gave you this topic. No, no, I listen, I have to I've I have thrown myself on the sword here so many times that I'll do it again. I only pay attention to what I have to, like what I absolutely have to. So a lot of times, like an embarrassing a lot of times when Clay puts out subjects, I'm like, new to me. Let me go find out what's happening here. Uh this this was one of those. I was like, Dr. Antifa, what? And then you know, I had I had like a bunch of consecutive what. Uh, you know, the second one being that at Rutgers University, like, what? Why am I so again? Here we are with the why am I surprised? Why would that have surprised me? And yet it did. It did.

SPEAKER_05: 48:18

So the latest is that this guy is uh he's in this, I can't remember the title, right? When you get to college, you get is all the teachers' positions are titled, right? So it's a professor, an assistant professor, an associate professor, and advising professor. I don't know. He's got one of those lower titles, right? Um, and his name is Mark Bray. Um, and he teaches, he teaches a course on I couldn't get I couldn't find the course title, but it is about terrorism. Uh, I think the concept of terrorism, um, which in the scheme of things, I'll be honest with you, I have taken courses professionally about you know studying terrorism in military education, in you know, uh personal curiosity classes, like terrorism is a viable subject at any university, and it's not something we should shy away from. Right. So the fact that this guy was teaching a course about terrorism is not all that shocking. The fact that he has written three specific books on anti-fascism, specifically Antifa, including the Antifa Bible, came from this guy. Yeah, right. So he is a, and that's why they call him Dr. Antifa on on Rutgers, the New Jersey, the State College of New Jersey, as I call it. Um he is uh he's a professor on campus. He teaches a course there. Uh, he's written three books very pro-Antifa. Um, and and now is under uh he's taken some he's taken some death threats. He has taken some uh he's been doxxed, I think, once or twice. And so the chapter of Turning Point USA at Rutgers University has come out with a petition and they want him off of campus. They want the guy gone. Um they're not asking to cancel the course, they're not asking for any of that stuff. They want this particular guy, because of his relationship with Antifa, gone. Um, and so they've got a number of now they have also come out and said, hey, listen, we do not endorse the death threats, we do not endorse the doxing or any of the rest of that stuff. We just want the guy gone. Um, and so they're they're pushing for that. But what does this guy do? He's like, I I I'm not living like this. Um, I'm gonna make all of my the entire course is gonna be online and I'm my family to Europe.

SPEAKER_01: 50:33

Yeah, yeah. He ran away like the little chicken coward that he is, that they all actually are. They are all flat out cowards, pure cowards. They can't, they just they can they can't they can dish it out, but they can't take it for the time and again, over and over again. What is Ruther's saying this is okay? Yeah, I listen. We're we are at the point, and we've been at this point for a while now, let's face it, that if you are, and and I mean this as kindly as I can say it, if you are still sending your impressionable young humans to these universities, shame on you. Shame on you. You are putting this on all of us. This is what you are producing by sending your and I know, calm down, everybody. I know it's not every student that goes into uh these universities and these colleges come out like this, but way too many of them are, and they are the ones causing all of the problems in our world right now.

SPEAKER_05: 51:41

So um I've got kids in college, and and I, you know, and I get I get back briefs from them a couple of times a week. Course content on you know, instructors that they have, anything a little crazy dicey, right? There's a big, you know, um, depending on the college campus, you know, um some big response to Charlie Kirk, some not at all. Um, you know, but I but I'm always listening and paying attention to course content and um you know what's coming from the instructor themselves. So it's not every campus, folks. We're not saying that. And it's certainly not every student because you can send great kids to college and they still come back great kids. But there are places and there are people who this Dr. Antifa guy, this Mark Beret, is a prime example, right? He he is a guy that I don't want my kids sitting in the classroom with for a semester. Yeah, just my life. Goodness, no. It may exist on college campuses everywhere.

SPEAKER_01: 52:36

Yeah, yeah. It's you know, at the very least, listen, I know you gotta put your kids through college. I get it, they gotta go if they want to do certain things. I I get that, of course. And but boy, oh boy, pay attention. Your kid starts acting any differently, you know, and not in obviously you want them to mature and grow as human beings. That's that's a good difference. Uh pay attention, guys. Just pay attention and and cut that off, man.

SPEAKER_05: 53:01

Be active involved parents. And that's you know, I I this is a discussion that I've had. It's listen, you know, you you're a grown-up, you're an adult. I understand that. But I'm paying for this. So I need a vote, you know, like yeah, and active involved parenting does not stop at the end of high school. If you're sending your kids to college unless they're paying for it on their own, even if they're not paying, even if even if they are paying for it, they're still your kid.

SPEAKER_06: 53:28

They're still your kid, yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 53:29

Actively involved in what's going on in their lives. But these are the things that you've got to listen for and look for when you've got college-age kids nowadays, just a fact of any college campus.

SPEAKER_01: 53:38

Yeah, yeah. It's such uh it's such a shame. It's so crazy. I'll say one more time. Pay attention, parents. Um, also pay attention, folks, to the kind of music your kids are listening to, for heck's sake. Um, listen, you know, I had a conversation with my daughter about this guy. Um, I don't, honestly, I don't, I couldn't tell you anything that he's doing, so I don't know anything about him. I don't frankly care. I don't care about the Super Bowl. I don't care about football. I don't care about the NFL. Don't care because they knocked the care right out of me. They just pumped it right out of my system. But it's a thing that's happening, that's coming up. Um so why do we care? Um well bad bunny. He uh I guess his music has a lot of anti-ice or his public, I don't know about his music, I shouldn't say that. Uh I know his public stance is anti-ice. Um his clothing choice, his persona, all of the things are a little eyebrow raising. Again, do you? Ooh, do you? I hate that phrase that I said it anyway. Um I don't know. I mean, what do you is it a big deal, Clay? What do you think?

SPEAKER_05: 54:52

I you know, there's no there's never been a shortage of controversial performances. I mean, let's just, you know, if Justin Timberlake, Jan Jackson. I mean, it starts there and it goes on.

SPEAKER_06: 55:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 55:04

I I didn't know, I don't listen to modern music at all. Um, I didn't know who Bad Bunny was. Um, my assumption was it was the DJ.

SPEAKER_01: 55:13

Um yeah, I would have thought that, sure.

SPEAKER_05: 55:15

And and so I had to ask the question, uh, like you did. And it was like, oh, well, it's you know, it's modern dance music, okay, fine. Um, and then you know, you started to see the pictures. And okay, listen, Bad Bunny dresses like a woman. He is a male, dresses and dresses often, which for the younger generation is less of a concern, right? Than most of the older generation, although we've talked about how the pendulum is swinging. Uh but two things one is Bad Bunny was on Saturday Night Live this past weekend, which is another show that I don't watch anymore because the content sucks. Nope.

SPEAKER_01: 55:51

People, I gotta tell you, guys, stop asking me if I've seen uh Maya Rudolph, uh, her invitation or impersonation of Connolly Harris. I have actually never seen it because I don't watch it. I don't watch the show. So stop asking me. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_05: 56:06

So he Bad Bunny was on Saturday Night Live. He is uh port of Puerto Rican descent, uh native Spanish speaker. Most of his music, my understanding, is in Spanish, uh, if not all. And he came out and said blatantly, hey America, you have four months to learn Spanish if you want to listen to my halftime Super Bowl show because you know, because it's not gonna be in English. Now, I okay. Okay, you know, you're putting yourself out there. Yeah. Here's the question, though, and this goes back to Anheuser Busch, this goes back to Cracker Barrel, this goes back to all of these other. What is what is the NFL thinking? Yeah, the NFL audience like is the bulk of the NFL audience, even the casual NFL watcher, somebody who one wants to listen to and or see Bad Bunny perform, right? Also in Spanish, which we all know the vast majority of America, there are plenty of Americans who do speak Spanish, sure. Right? Or, you know, but many don't, you know, and and a lot of the NFL watching, you know, audience doesn't speak Spanish. And for him to have this attitude of, well, that's a you problem, that's not a me problem, um, like that that is it's an NFL problem.

SPEAKER_01: 57:25

It's an NFL problem. And you know, listen, the NFL cannot get out of their own stupid way. I mean, they really can't. It it's like a it's like a contest to see how many Americans they can put off. And, you know, and of course the response is going to be, well, that's because they're racist. You're all racist and this and that, you know. And no, it's because you are not reading the room at all of what your target audience is, you know, as in the people who buy the tickets and fill the stadiums and buy the NFL package to watch all of that stuff, you know, the ones who were super excited when guns, I don't know, did Guns N' Roses headline one time? I don't know why I just wanted to say Guns N' Roses, but I could be right, I could be wrong, I have an idea. But the demographic, the majority of the demographic that is watching and more importantly, buying, purchasing, is not the people that you are catering to. And I can tell you that with a pretty good dose of confidence. And what this really is, is because they are partnered NFL and Rock Nation, which is Jay-Z's company corporation, they are partnered. So Jay-Z and his ilk are basically influencing all of this. So if that's what y'all want, knock yourselves out. Everybody who enjoys that, you go ahead and enjoy it. But I can tell you right now, you are turning off more people than you are bringing in, and your numbers will show it.

SPEAKER_05: 59:01

Yep.

SPEAKER_01: 59:02

Simple as that.

SPEAKER_05: 59:03

So there's already uh discussions of alternate halftime shows by people like Rock and Jason Aldean and some others. Yes, yes. I'll bet you a dime on a dollar, it's Fox. And uh Brilliant, by the way. Brilliant. Time time out, you know, time it to where it is a an alternate halftime concert. Um, and and that will be the metric, folks. Um I don't even know what network has this Super Bowl anymore. Um but you will they will see it. They will see the drop, they'll see the drop in viewership for the halftime show. Um whether it's people just changing the channel specifically to watch an alternate um concert or just to turn it off. Right. Um, but you will they they will feel it. Um we all know the money that is spent by advertisers during the Super Bowl, it's astronomically high. Um, they are the ones who will, you know. Fix this for the future. But I think, you know, we're down the road of, you know, I don't think anybody's going to budge on this one. Oh, by the way, you remember when I said I thought it was going to be Taylor Swift, it was going to be the halftime show? Yes. Yeah. Well, here's the thing. The rumor is she was offered the halftime show, but she did she mandated three things. And I don't know if this is true, folks, but I've heard it on a couple of different spaces in a couple of different places. Um, enough to make me believe there's some truth behind it. Um, she made three demands. One, that she got to uh do the set list, right? She got to pick the songs, no influence from the NFL on which song she was gonna sing. Two, that um she got total control over the show itself, um, you know, and and the NFL couldn't tell her yes or no about costume changes or fireworks or whatever. But the last one was that she demanded that President Trump not be allowed to go to the Super Bowl.

SPEAKER_01: 1:00:52

Oh, I did hear that.

SPEAKER_05: 1:00:54

We can't do that. Like that's not even a thing. But again, folks, I wasn't in discussion between Taylor Swift and the NFL. I have no idea if that's true, but there's enough traction on that out there uh where it it at least is something to be considered. But anyway, that's how we ended up with Bad Bunny is the word on the street.

SPEAKER_01: 1:01:12

Very sad, very sad. And again, listen, I am not, I have I've never been a person to uh call for boycotts of any of anything, really. I I fully believe in letting everybody make their own choices and and um you know their own decisions. I just I'm just not into the whole like we must boycott. I simply choose not to watch. And um and I and I think I'm safe to say that I might be speaking for a whole bunch of people. I'm curious to see how many. I'd love to know, actually, guys, if you don't mind, let us know in the comments if you're gonna be watching the NFL or or not or the Super Bowl or not. And by the way, no judgment if you watch it. Uh if that if you want to watch it, watch it. If you like Bad Bunny, enjoy the show. I'm sure it'll be exactly what you anticipate it to be. And that's great for you. Just uh simply not for me, not my thing, not my style. Uh, I I don't really want to support anybody who is, you know, vocally anti-ICE and uh all of that, and anti-America, really. So they can suck it as far as I'm concerned. Y'all do what you want to do. Hey, I wanna I wanna end I you know, I I forgot to throw this in there um when we were messaging before. Um, but I just want to say you mentioned a movie you saw, and I want to mention a movie I saw too. And I actually I enjoyed it. I haven't been to the movie theater since the Elvis movie, the last Elvis movie that came out, which yeah, so that was the last one I went to. And this one, um, my husband and daughter wanted to go see it. And I used to be a fan of The Rock, Dwayne Johnson. I'm not so much a fan anymore. But his uh new movie is out. It's called The Smashing Machine. It's the Mark Kerr story.

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I haven't seen it, but I've seen the previews.

SPEAKER_01: 1:02:48

It looks like very good, very different, very different. I mean, you know, his acting, his performance, that's I'll talk about that in a second. Um, but the movie style, the way that it was done, very different. If you are I call them quiet movies because they're just stories, like it's you know, there's no crashing cars and crazy things. There's of course fight scene scenes um, you know, that you watch in the ring and all that stuff, uh, which are pretty dynamic and really good. But overall, it's just a story, and I love that. Um now Dwayne Jots, uh, listen, I in his world, in his Hollywood world, um, I feel like that was a Academy Award um performance. It was actually that good, in my opinion. So if you're gonna see it, if you care, I would be curious, or if you have seen it, I'd be curious what your thoughts are. But yeah, I actually, if that is your type of movie, I I would actually recommend going to see it. So yeah.

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I as a writer, I'm all for good storytelling. I miss good storytelling. Um, but he also did hit a key component to winning an Oscar, which is go ugly.

SPEAKER_06: 1:03:51

Right?

SPEAKER_05: 1:03:52

I always say go ugly um to win an Oscar. And uh I've seen the makeup work that they did on him, which is amazing.

SPEAKER_01: 1:03:59

Fascinating. His even the way um, even the set of his eyes, there's you know, a certain I don't know how to describe it, you'll know what I'm talking about when you see it, but even the set of his eyes, um, that was acting like it was really good. I was very impressed, very impressed. So good on him. Um again, yeah, add it to the list. I I would say worth seeing. So yeah, so that's it. That's all I got, guys. Uh Clay, you want to close him out with anything? Any message you want to give them?

SPEAKER_05: 1:04:27

Yeah, folks. Um, uh as always, we we appreciate you uh tuning in, listening on whatever uh platform you're listening or watching on. Elsa and I are uh, you know, we love that we've got huge fans in you guys, but we're huge fans of you guys, and uh we appreciate all the support. And uh we will be back next week. And until then, keep moving, keep shooting.

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Take care, guys.

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