We Want Our Money Back (Ep. 2489)

26:49Make the switch today. Thank you. Sincerely, Patriot Mobile. You've been good to us and our audience for a really long time. Okay. Donald Trump is pissed off about this NATO issue as well. They're quietly supported. Why are you quiet? Why are you quiet, NATO? I don't understand. Why are you quiet? We're not quiet about our defense of your countries. We're not quiet about our trillion-dollar military budget that provides a security umbrella for the entire free world of what used to be free world. Why are you quiet? Donald Trump's clearly had enough of this bullshit, too, And I'm glad he called it out yesterday in the Brady press room.

27:27Check this out. But all I want to see is I want to have a safe world. And you're not going to have a safe world. Israel will be gone. The Middle East will be gone. And then they're coming for Europe. And I have to tell you, I'm very disappointed in NATO. Very. I think that NATO, I think it's a mark on NATO that will never disappear. Never disappear in my mind. You know, they're coming to see me on Wednesday. They're gonna say oh, we'll do this. We'll do that now. They all of a sudden want to send things, you know But they said it loud and clear at the beginning when I spoke to UK of all I would have said they would have been there first because they've been They're the oldest And I say yeah, I'd love to have a little help said no sir.

28:09We'd rather wait till you win I said I don't need help after we win They have two old broken aircraft carriers barely work. I said I guess we can use them who the hell knows I called the general. He didn't even want to. He said, we don't really need him. We got we got the SS Abraham Lincoln, sir. We don't need him. You know, we have in terms of technology. We had one day, one hundred and one missiles going at two thousand seven hundred miles an hour aimed at the Abraham Lincoln. Hundred and one missiles out of one hundred and one missiles, one hundred and one missiles were shot down. unbelievable technology.

28:48Ten years ago, five years ago, I don't know if that would have been possible. But ten years ago, that wouldn't have been possible. Derry, he's tired of NATO too. Folks, if you're going to make the case to me, and listen, this is going to piss off a lot of moderate Democrats and a lot of moderate establishment Republicans too. If you were going to make the case to me, after what I just went through over the past year, that NATO is, quote, invaluable, the greatest alliance in the history of, you know, global militaries, fine, make the case. Some of the history with NATO has been incredible. After 9-11, very brave.

29:30By the way, I'm not knocking the people who serve. You serve in a military in the UK, any of our other NATO partners, God bless you. That is an amazing sacrifice. This is in no way directed at people who put boots on the ground. However, to the political leaders who are like embarrassed by what we're doing in Iran to clean up a global security threat, you are in right now with their ballistic missile capabilities over there. I'm embarrassed. You're embarrassed.

30:02We need a realistic evaluation of our global alliances, folks. Folks, I'm really sorry. We've got trillions and tens of trillions of dollars of debt. We've got obligations to folks here. I don't discount that. I get why some people may be upset seeing this is some kind of war we could have pushed off, a war of choice, which it's not. But I understand your concerns. They're not invalid that we have domestic problems, too. I understand that. So if we're going to continue to pay for tens of thousands of troops overseas on foreign soil to help protect these countries from invasion, then you damn well better step up or give us a freaking refund.

30:46You start paying for it then, paying us back. Here's Marco Rubio, the best Secretary of State I've seen in my lifetime, my opinion, but I'm pretty sure it's true. Here's Secretary of State Rubio on NATO. And again, this 80-20 issue I told you about, how we provide about 80 % of the workload, intel, law enforcement, CI, CT, military. They provide about 20, maybe 30. Be generous. So when do we get something out of this? Check this out. And I've been a big supporter of NATO. And one of the reasons why I've been a supporter of NATO is because I believe that these basing rights give us leverage and give us flexibility and operational capability all over the world.

31:37But if NATO is just about us defending Europe of their attack, but them denying us basing rights when we need them, that's not a very good arrangement. That's a hard one to stay engaged in and say this is good for the United States. So all of that is going to have to be reexamined. All of it is going to have to be reexamined. If you folks in the chat want to give Justin some moral support, he put his X account link up there. That was clever. That was good. I like that. Good comeback. Very clever. You can go in there. It'll be okay, Justin. Rubio's right. When do we get something out of this? Folks, again, I can't say this enough.

32:17You want to make the case how NATO is invaluable to us? I get the history. You're not wrong. There's been some quality moments throughout the history of the alliance where they've come through for us. This is today. Remember Remember that book, that famous book Eckhart Tolle wrote, The Power of Now? I'm not a big Eckhart Tolle, but whatever. This was a really popular book. The whole idea was, which should sound tautological but isn't to some, you live in the now. The past has already happened. You're not going to change it, so there's no sense worrying about it. The future hasn't happened yet, so there's no sense worrying excessively about tomorrow.

32:57You have to live in the series of nows. Life is a series of nows. What are they doing right now? And the answer is right now, they're like embarrassed, Nato. Embarrassed by us. Really? You are. Like I said, I'm embarrassed. You're embarrassed. I love this guy. Can we try to get him on, Peter St. Angi? We played his clips enough. It's like Scott. Scott Jennings. Oh, Peter, if you want to come on. Well, if you don't want to come on, it's fine. But if you want to come on, we'd love to have you. Here's Peter St. Angi. He does a lot of economic segments. But this is a very, very valuable, like minute plus clips, not that long, about the economics of NATO to what we do on that front.

33:38And again, like what are we getting in the now, in the now, right now, not tomorrow, not in the past. What are we getting out of it right now? Check this out. So why are we in NATO? With the exception of token forces in Afghanistan, we've gotten literally nothing from the alliance we have indeed spent trillions on. One study by the Foreign Policy Research Institute estimates roughly 25 % of our military budget is for Europe, so over$200 billion a year. RAND estimates it's closer to$300 billion, so 47 % of collective costs. Note that's just ongoing costs. It does not include the Ukrainians nor the Bosnias and Kosovo as that came before it.

34:19Now,$300 billion is more than Somali leering centers. In fact, it's enough to cancel the income tax for everybody up to$100 ,000 per year. Put differently,$300 billion is enough to cancel all tax on business, which would steal every large company and job from Europe. If you tally it up over the 80 years of NATO, it comes to roughly$10 trillion in today's terms. You are welcome, Europe. Yes, you are welcome, Europe. so forgive me but I'm really tired about the lectures about our American culture thank God for our American culture you know I um I don't know if you all remember this this is probably for p1s who've been listening forever but about three years ago I was at the iron bowl in Auburn and we had lost.

35:19Was that three years ago? The Milrow miracle I was at the game. I'm an Auburn fan, so for you Alabama fans, it was a great moment for you, a terrible moment for me, especially sitting there at the 50-yard line watching it. My daughter was devastated. Throws a touchdown, wins the game with no time on the clock. Ugh. However, I go home really disappointed. And we had, outside of Auburn losing the game to Alabama, This is the American heartland right here. The hard work in South. Alabama. I walked out of that stadium and despite everybody being a little upset, people were coming up and I must add 100 people say the nicest things about the show.

36:05They've been with me forever, all this stuff. I wake up the next morning in the hotel. I forget where I was staying. It was somewhere in Opelika, I think. And I get up really early. And I type out this Facebook post about the South and how amazing the people down there are. It feels like the South, I'm a Yankee, man. I'm a New York kid. I live in Florida, which is like not really the South, you know, the joke about Florida. The more South you go, the more North you get. The further you are South in Florida, the more Northern you are. It's the opposite. it. So Florida is not really the South, at least South Florida, but just the love and the sense of community.

36:50The South feels like one big, enormous family. It's like the biggest family you'll ever have. And I basically wrote in the Facebook post, like, can you guys just like adopt me? Like, I feel like I missed out on this. I really do. Sometimes I'll listen to like a Morgan Wallen song about the TN or something like that. I'm like, that's special. I'd love New York growing up there, but that's really special. You want to talk about culture? European NATO partners? That's culture. Try it sometime. Go check that post out if you ever get the time. I meant every word of it. Folks, these constant anti-anti-communist attacks where you can't really determine what side the Democrats are really on anymore, except for the side that's against America.

37:44Like whatever side is against America they ally themselves with instantly, they're having a real problem with this because there are still a lot of Democrats left in the South, not a ton, but a lot. And I'm telling you, they don't buy this bullshit either. I want to show you this clip on CNN. Harry Enten, who's a pollster over there, who seems to be pretty fairly honest guy when there's bad news about Democrats. He puts it out there. Good news, he puts it out there. I want you to pay very close attention to this poll in case you think this anti-Americanism, this pro, you know, men in women's room bullshit that they're still going with, this boondoggle$100 billion, you know, super train in California nonsense, this momdami we're going to send social workers out there instead of cops.

38:28This stuff is not working. I say that because we got a midterm election coming up and I just can't take doomers. The doomers, we're going to lose. Everything sucks. Trump's the worst. You got that moron over there on his show talking about, ah, it's 25th Amendment and all this. These people are complete imbeciles that should be disregarded immediately. The Democrats are in a world of pain and they want to see us lose the midterm. Facts matter. Receipts matter. Here's a CNN pollster. We cover a lot. Talking about the Democrats' favorability. You think this is really high? The Democrats are riding this wave right now?

39:07Numbers matter. They're not doing so great. Check this out. Party ahead at this point. Midterm of years with the GOP president. In 2018, Dems were up by 12. In 2006, on net favorability. Which party like more? Dems were ahead by 18. Republicans are actually ahead on net favorability at this point by five points. So Democrats are just simply put running behind their previous benchmarks, and they need to be running well ahead of them if they want to take back the United States Senate, given that math. Thanks, Andy. Sorry, I had to fix my iPad there. Yeah, you okay? I saw Randy was going to make it there.

39:41He almost fell in the head. I'm being a little dramatic. He kicked it. I saw him, though. He balanced himself instantly like a cat. You ever notice how a cat falls from a bunch of... The cat always winds up on its feet. You ever see them twist in the air? It's amazing. Folks, why is this a problem for the Democrats? Their favorability being very low. Because you live, and I'll address this with Scott Jennings later, by the way, as well. You live in the era of AI. You live in the era of instant information exchange where bullshit the Democrats used to shove down your throat in the past is no longer good and valid.

40:21Because people can just check instantly. They go to Grok. They go to an AI generator. And they say, is this in fact true? Here's what I mean This is why the Democrats are getting annihilated right now Yesterday I mentioned natural experiments You know what natural experiments are? They're experiments where you can't manipulate a variable Because it would be unethical So you just look for that variable in nature I.e. you have two towns next to each other One raises the minimum wage and one doesn't Because they're next to each other It is a natural experiment You can see the effects of minimum wage Natural experiments are everywhere So I put this in Google Gemini, so you can't accuse me of like some right-wing bias.

41:00It's obviously a left-wing company, right? Here's Google Gemini's definition of natural experiments. There's my, that's a screenshot of my phone. What is a natural experiment? It's an observational study where researchers exploit naturally occurring unplanned events or policy changes that divide a population into treatment and control groups without direct research or manipulation. Okay. I bring that up because the Democrats suck and their favorability is really low because we have natural experiments out there right now, like tax rates in California versus tax rates in Florida. I may be a researcher.

41:34I didn't change the tax rates. I'm a whatever. I'm just a professor at some college, but I can study that. So I went to TurboTax and I just said, hey, give me the state tax rates. And here's what we got. For the 2025 tax year, states with the highest income tax rates include California, Hawaii, and New York. Tax-free living, they know it's from other states, Florida, Alaska, and Texas. Why do I bring this up? Because, folks, the reason the Democrats suck so bad and why she shouldn't be dooming and glooming about the midterms is when you conduct a natural experiment of people who live in California with high taxes versus Florida with no income tax.

42:13People leave California to go to Florida and Texas. They don't go the other way like ever. You can't run from that anymore. You can't hide from it. Maybe you could in the Walter Cronkite era before Google Gemini and Grok and the instant availability of Twitter and the internet. it's going to be really, really expensive to be a liberal Democrat moving forward. Here's a perfect example. Here's this goofball mayor up in New York, Mamdami. He's got people fleeing the state to the point where the governor of New York is begging people from Palm Beach, Florida, who left New York to come back. Please come back.

42:57I know our state sucks, but come back. Here's Mamdami. He's saying, please stop leaving. I will offer you higher taxes if you return. Maybe not his exact words, but pretty much what he's saying. Check this out. Amidst being in the wealthiest city and the wealthiest country in the history of the world, we already see an exodus of working and middle-class New Yorkers. So I don't have a hesitation in asking those who make the most amount of money in this city or the most profits in this city to pay a little bit more so that everyone can actually stay in this city. Please stop leaving. Come back and we will kick you right in the nuts with some new and even higher taxes.

43:38Welcome back. Like Kata. Some of you get that. I may have aged myself. Justin has no idea what I'm talking about. All you have to do is look this stuff up. So yesterday I played a series of videos. If you missed the show, please check it out. a series of videos of media reports about this high-speed rail boondoggle in California that basically is running into the hundreds of billions of dollars at this point. They could have basically rebuilt probably every school in California three times over for the cost of a train station and high-speed rail that's still not finished. Now, you can just look that up, folks.

44:23There's a natural experiment for you there, too. high-speed rail what does it cost when government does it versus private sector it is a boondoggle of course here's AOC who may be a presidential candidate in 2028 god forbid but it may happen here she is of course on video because we can just look this up instantly telling you how great high-speed rail which is destroying California's budget still isn't finished and absolutely sucks here she is defending it check this out connects our communities it's equitable it's so much less expensive and what's so important is that it's also just we need to be loud we need to be numerous we need to make some noise and we need to make sure that your member of congress knows that this is important to you that you want high-speed rail in your state and in your community and so make sure you go to funhighspeedrail.org you can just look that up bro really they're doing such a great job with it ladies and gentlemen artificial intelligence and computing power is going to make it listen to me really expensive to be a liberal democrat moving forward i they're asking for donations at that web that's the i hope not because that would be like imagine stealing all the taxpayers and still asking for donations?

45:50Folks, when I say expensive, I mean it's going to cost you a lot of political capital moving forward. It used to be easier to hide this stuff with Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings with three news networks at night and no Fox News or Newsmax or Twitter or anything like that. You can't hide it anymore. Here's a perfect example of what I mean. I told you Joy Reid would be in the show. Here's Joy Reid. You can instantly fact check this now. Here she is making a completely ridiculous, absurd statement that I promised you 30 years ago, liberal media chuckleheads would have been like, yeah, man, Joy's right.

46:26We had no taxes before the 20th century. Nothing. Really? Because it's pretty easy to just go and like put that in a search engine. Here's Joy Reid. Check this out. If you go back before the 20th century, there were no income taxes. There were no regulations on business. You could earn as much money as you want, leave 100 percent of it to your children with no taxes. That's the world they want back. And to get it back, they need society to change. They need people to be less modern. They need people to want fewer things. Why are the Democrats at a very low favorability rating, despite the constant media hysteria and doom and gloom about how awful the Republican Party is?

47:06Because when Democrats do Democrat stuff, people hate it. And you can't hide it anymore and blame it on Republicans. All I did was go to Google Gemini again, because, again, I don't want it to be assumed like if I use, you know, Grok, which is more down the middle. I went to Google for a reason. And I just put in this, again, a screenshot on my phone. List for me federal government taxes prior to the 20th century. Oh, look, tariffs, imports, excises on goods like tobacco and alcohol, temporary income taxes to fund the Civil War.

47:41so you mean she's just making it up no honestly joy's probably just dumb but it is going to get really expensive moving forward to do this because there's instant fact checking people are good people go into this go into twitter all the time x grok is what this tweet's saying true all the time fact check this being on the side of facts and reason is going to help us. Can you put up that Greg Price tweet about Abigail Spanberger? Here's what I mean, too. The Democrats used to be able to hide, hide the limitations of their ridiculous policies, high taxes, you know, endless funding of public schools, no school choice, all that stuff.

48:24Now you get Democrats in office, right? Like Spanberger. She runs, she wins the governorship of Virginia. She's a Democrat. She runs as a moderate. I use air quotes here because no one actually believe that at the time. Gets an office in Virginia. She's taking people's guns. They're gerrymandering the state, even by gerrymandering standards in a ridiculous way. Yeah, exactly. Joe Biden moderates, as Justin just said. But here's Greg. Abigail Spanberger has the worst favorability rating after 80 days in office of any Virginia governor of the 21st century because they can't hide this stuff anymore.

49:00You don't have this problem with good Republicans. You do have this problem with weak Republicans who go in there and don't do conservative stuff. But you've seen throughout history when Republicans go in, even in liberal states and clean up the mess, Giuliani's New York, Reagan after the Carter era. You see people are happy and elated because conservatism works. This stuff doesn't work, folks. And you can't hide it anymore. She's getting crushed right now. She's only been in office 80 days. It hasn't even been six months. Not even close. AI is also going to make not only liberal progressivism, collectivism, socialism, really politically expensive going forward, as you're made a fool of in live time.

49:52It's going to make ridiculous policy positions you stake out even more absurd, like this men and women's sports. Liberals, I know you're not going to change. I'm not trying to teach you how to be better liberals. You guys want to stick to these dead policy positions like men and women's sports? Please, you're welcome. Go right ahead. I'm just telling you, like, people can look this stuff up. They see how absurd you are and how ridiculous you sound. Megan Rapinoe is back. I hate playing clips of this absolute numbskull. However, here she is trying to make the case that, yeah, there's no real evidence, like, men and women's sports and all this.

50:30Really? Okay, I'll show you some evidence coming up next that you might have some direct experience with. Check this out. We already know that biology, as much as we want it to be just nice and clean and tight and perfectly in one category or another, it's not. We know that. So now what we're doing is subjecting everybody, all women and all people who are identifying as women, to this really invasive testing. that only to me just says like, oh, so we're just trying to whittle it down to a certain type of woman. Is that what we're doing? Like, that's really the whole game here. Like, there's been, you know, they sort of like lost the battle on gay marriage and lost the battle on all these things.

51:12So it's just like, we're going to have this whole campaign for all these years to just hate trans people, which is such a small percentage of the population. It's actually like on a single hand when we're talking about sports and just like thread the absolute tightest needle thread that you possibly could. This committee is framing it as based in science, which it's not. And this will ultimately just prevent people from competing within the women's category that they feel like have an unfair advantage. It's just really hateful. So it's not an unfair advantage to put men in women's sports? By the way, we don't need the qualifier, biological men.

51:56Can we just stop doing that? They're men. They're men. Okay? There's no evidence? Put up that CBS Sports article. This is fascinating. Talk about natural experiments, right, fellas? Natural? Natural experiments. I didn't conduct it. Wasn't meant to be a research study. Kind of interesting, though. CBS Sports. FC Dallas under 15-year-old boys, their squad beat the U.S. women's national team in a scrimmage? Wow. Wow. Was that the year the women won the Worlds, too? And they lost to a bunch of teenagers? By the way, I'm sure they're very talented women, but I thought they're... What was this, like, not the miracle on ice, but the miracle on grass?

52:51Did I miss something? Because this looks to me like a pretty natural experiment. You know, why do we have weight classes in boxing, by the way? Anybody know? Because, you know, force equals mass times acceleration, more mass, more force, kind of how math works. So if you're larger and have more muscle mass or miss mass in general, you can probably create more force. So in order to make boxing matches and UFC matches more equitable, they have weight classes. You don't want, you know, Brock Lesnar fighting Mighty Mouse, okay? But Megan Rapinoe, who is indicative of this larger keep telling each other lies, sweet little lies movement on the left, really wants you to believe that men who are biologically endowed with greater muscle mass than women, a scientific fact, have no advantage out there, despite the U.S.

53:48Women's National Team losing to a bunch of teenagers in Dallas.

53:54And if this were the case, and the, forget Murpino, the liberal progressives in general, really believe this, that men have no advantage in women's sports, then fellas, Andrew, why do no women compete in men's sports? Did you notice that? Why don't you see that? Why? Can anybody answer that? Like, why are there no women competing in, like, men's boxing matches? Why aren't there women, like, linebackers in the NFL? Why not? I thought there were no differences. I thought Megan Rapinoe was like, oh, biology, really not that simple. No, it's pretty simple. Pretty simple biology.

54:36Right. Good point, Justin. Why are there no women's world records in sports like the marathon, the 400? Why are there no women that beat men? I'm just curious. You just told us there's no difference. It's a spectrum. It's a spectrum. No, it's a binary. Folks, I'm telling you, going forward, it is going to get really freaking expensive to be a liberal lunatic. I'm not telling you Republicans are going to provide the answers to all of our problems. I'm just telling you Democrats are going to have a really, really hard time defending their insanity. Here's another one I saw yesterday. Liz Warren, Elizabeth Warren, a liberal Democratic senator, put out another tweet about the wealth tax.

55:25This is going to be a staple policy position moving forward, either a wealth tax or a universal basic income for the Democrats. It's going to be a staple position moving forward. And it sounds good in tweets. It sounds amazing. Like, oh my gosh, Jeff Bezos. I don't know Jeff Bezos. I never met this guy in my life. Of course, runs Amazon. You know the deal, Washington Post. She knows Jeff Bezos has$222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America. She goes into all these things, free lunch, blah, blah, blah. And Bezos would still have$215 billion to spare. Now you see that, and you're a dopey lib, and you're like, oh, yeah, that makes sense to me.

56:06And then you ask simple questions. You go to AI or you ask someone or you just put it in the internet in a search engine. Well, what's happened when we've done this before? Because surely there's a natural experiment about this, and there is. You had wealth taxes in Maryland, wealth taxes in France. You had a proposed wealth tax that's moving through right now in the state of Washington. and what happened in said natural experiment. Fellas, this is so weird. The craziest thing, man. They institute this wealth tax and people leave to not pay it. And then when they're forced to pay it, if they have to, they have to liquidate assets because Liz Warren, who by the way is not stupid.

56:53AOC, I'm not sure. Ted Lieu, I'm really not sure. I promise you Liz Warren is not dumb. Liz Warren knows full well that Jeff Bezos, does not have$222 billion sitting in a freaking bank account. Jeff Bezos has these items in assets, many of which are not immediately liquid. So if Jeff Bezos is forced to pay, I don't even know Jeff Bezos, don't know him. I should say I don't know, I don't care about him. If Jeff Bezos is forced to come up with$7 billion plus, dollars, he's going to have to cash out a number of assets. And if everyone in the U.S. economy worth a billion or more had to do the same thing, the stock market would be wiped out tomorrow in a mass liquidation event.

57:46Of course, you can look that up, dumbass libs, but you won't because you don't want the answer because you want to continue to tell each other sweet little lies and ignore the natural experiments going on all over the world right now. Facts and data are your enemies if you're on the left. I know you are allergic to them. I know it. But that's why we got a guy like Scott Jennings coming up a little bit who uses facts, and that's why he always wins his debates on CNN. I got him coming up in a few minutes. I do want to show you how facts and data matter to me, too, on an entirely different time. You got my Eric Squatts?

58:27Hey, listen, I try to cover, I told you this show, we're going to cover a lot of material today. I'm looking out for your health. You know, I absolutely love and adore life hacks. Anything you can do to suck a few extra minutes of quality out of your life, you should take them. So I got the whole show staff doing these 10 air squats once every 45 minutes to an hour. I see this yesterday on X. Here we go. Dan Bongino vindication moment. This is at AUS Wellness, Zib Atkins. 10 air squats every 45 minutes equals 10 ,000 steps. Talked about this amazing study from the University of Texas that they can control.

59:11Blood sugar better than going for a full 30-minute walk. When you sit all day, your blood sugar spikes, go through all this stuff. But 10 air squats wakes up everything instantly. I'm actually doing 15 now. I love it. I'm just looking out for you. You know I love you guys trying to bring you some really interesting health hacks. This, however, is one of my favorites. And one of the nice side effects, your legs will be like rocks. They're like stone after a year of this. Even me with my bad knee. You shouldn't do it with a bad knee or bad back or whatever. Even me with my bad knee. Your legs are going to be like this wooden table, like rocks.

59:51Guys get yours in today? You do? See, even Andy's good. It's good. Keeps health care costs. It's good for the business. Everything. See? I'm a capitalist, too. All right. I'm going to take a quick break, and then we're going to get to our guest, Scott Jennings. You're really going to like this interview. I've been following him for a long time. I'm just going to tell you in advance, it is really, really hard to be on live TV and be a guest on a show, on a debate show. It's easy to be the host because you know where you're going because you're the host. When you're the guest, man These are You got boomerangs coming at you from everywhere So you got to be prepared for everything Quick break and we'll get right to Scott Hey, I think censorship's coming back You've seen it You've seen it over in Europe You've seen the Democrats talking about it now Talking about how when they get back in power They're going to start going after corporations Folks, I worry about these guys And so should you I see it happening just about everywhere Many platforms are controlling narratives again deciding what they want to see, not what you want to see, what they want out there.

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1:02:14folks rarely do i get excited about interviews uh these days but i am uh really stoked about this one you probably already know him from my show because we play his clips all the time from cnn electric debates uh scott jennings welcome to the show what an honor to have you on dan thanks for having me and if i might say i think this is the first time we're actually meeting. And I just want to take the opportunity to tell you I'm a huge fan. I've been a fan for a long time. And I'm really grateful that you went into the government. It's not easy to go in and do what you did and serve the government and give up what you gave up.

1:02:45So thanks for your service. And thanks for the invitation to be here today. Oh, that means a lot. I really appreciate that. And it was an honor, you know, and ask to step up, you step up and do it. So it's you don't want to tell everyone else to do it. And then when it comes to you, I met everyone but me. Like, that's not an answer. So it was a great year. We had a good time. It was an honor to work for him. So you're over at CNN. Your clips are just everybody in the conservative movement. Your name ID is probably through the roof. They've seen you on social media just battling back and forth.

1:03:12You know, we were kind of chatting a bit before and I said to you, listen, I got to give CNN begrudgingly a little bit of credit for continuing to have you on. I joke on my show all the time that, you know, I probably would have fired you a long time ago because you're always there making such unbelievable points. It's like, sometimes I can see the hosts battling a little bit to keep up, but what's it like being over there being just ideologically overwhelmed all the time? Typically you against like four or five. Well, my first answer to that is it's an honor and it's a privilege because there aren't too many debating spaces in American media right now.

1:03:47You don't get debates too much over at Fox. You get a little bit, I guess, on the five and they really don't do any debating at all on MS. Most media is ideologically siloed. And so CNN decides we're going to actually have some debates. And, you know, they have a history of that. And then they went away from a little bit. But now we do it every night at 10. But other shows do it as well. The four o 'clock show with Casey Hunt. They always include me or people like me. And I think these debates are very valuable. So, you know, you always know you're going to be somewhat outnumbered at the table.

1:04:16And you always know that, you know, you're basically the odd man out. But for conservatives, I think that is a valuable thing to have, where we can probably bring to an audience that doesn't hear much from our side, facts and rational thinking and logical thinking to these debates. I think it's incredibly valuable. So I have to really credit CNN, our CEO, Mark Thompson, thought of this 10 o 'clock debating show back during the presidential election. And I think they thought it was going to be a short term thing just for the election. But it was so popular and people liked it so much that they've left it on the air and it's become one of their best shows.

1:04:54And I think it's because it's drawing in audiences that they might not have otherwise gotten, not just for the live show. But as you pointed out, the clips, these clips live on, you know, days and weeks after. And I think there's a lot of people consuming CNN debating content that would have never, ever watched CNN content before. So for a lot of reasons, it's a privilege. And I think it's an extremely valuable thing. Yeah. I mean, you just exploded onto the scene. I mean, I had known about you from being in these circles, but my gosh, I started doing the show and it was just every video is getting hundreds of thousands and millions of views.

1:05:30because, you know, you become, I've been a commentator for about 10 years now. And when you were on the air, I used to debate, you know, Geraldo, these things where media had us like the top, but they're influential. We were like 45, like me and Geraldo duking it out. But what I found from the emails I get, and you probably receive in legions of them now, is you become like the people's voice. Not everyone has the opportunity to go on CNN or MS or Fox and debate. Obviously they just don't. There's one seat and your butt's in it. So you better damn well produce. And if you lose the debates and get your ass handed to you, you're pretty much done.

1:06:05So it's a lot of pressure. But do you get those emails, too? Like, thank you for saying that. I've been thinking that for the longest time. Yes, I get emails. People walk up to me on the street everywhere I go, airports, just whether I'm in New York or D.C. or back home in Kentucky. A lot of people walk up to me and just say, thank you for saying what I wanted to say. And there's a lot of people out there consuming news. And for mainstream media, they feel like there's very few people in there that actually see the world the way they see it or have the values that they have. And so for a guy from middle America who's a conservative guy who's got some political experience.

1:06:42But, you know, I'm not a career government person or anything. I think they're just find it. They find the value in having a voice that basically sees the world that they the way they see it and they can articulate these things. I think they also look at a lot of political media and they say, this is garbage. Like this analysis is garbage. You know, this, you know, these views are garbage. You know, these things could be punctured with just a couple of key questions and really who's going to ask them. If someone like me isn't sitting there, I find that that's often the best tactic in these debates, Dan, ask a simple question.

1:07:16How? Why? You know, why do you believe that? Are you aware of this fact? And so just simply being around to throw those things in often turn these debates into something that our conservative audiences can really rally around. So it's hard. And as you pointed out, you have to be prepared because you get four or five people banging on you, you know, for a long period of time. But as long as you're prepared and as long as you're confident in what you're saying, and as long as you've, you know, prepared for what the left is going to throw at you, you can usually have a good night with these guys.

1:07:45Cause I find their, their arguments don't really, uh, they're not used to being challenged and they dissolve somewhat, uh, like a paper straw, you know, it's just a little bit of, a little bit of testing. Having been on both sides of it, having again, done CNN and MS commentary and being over at Fox when I had my own show on Fox and the show I have now this is why I just I have so much respect for what you do when you're the host you know this you host your own show the Scott Jennings show you know what's coming next it's it's it's like you know when you it's hard to run at someone else's pace even when you're running a pace you can handle because you're afraid you don't know if he's going to speed up or slow down but the guy running in the lead he has no problem it's the same way on in commentary but when you're on the receiving end if it is a guest in a guest chair, you have no idea where they're going to go with this.

1:08:33So like you just said, you have to do extra homework. And that kind of leads me to my next question, how with these debate segments that you're just an expert at on CNN, this explosion in AI is going to make these debate sessions going forward for liberals who don't bedrock themselves in ideas, but in emotion and faith in this ideology. AI and the interwebs is going to make this really, really difficult going forward. I heard you say in a debate, internet, do your thing recently. And of course you were right. Yeah. Well, I think you're exactly right. And one word you use there that I think is so true is emotion.

1:09:11What I find in our debates is that they're ruled by emotion. They're ruled by vibes. And then that leads them to say things that they want to be true, but aren't true at all. It sounds true or it should be true, but is it true? And you can get yourself in trouble in debates going down those emotional rabbit holes. But the thing is, they want to drag you into that. They want you to be emotionally outraged all the time. They want you to forget that as conservatives, we tend to be ruled by logic and facts and analysis. That's how we sort of process the world. But they want you to throw all that aside and get into the emotional mud pit and roll around in there with them.

1:09:52And that's their best venue. And so my job is to keep it above that. On the AI piece, I tend to agree with you. And that segment you're referring to was against Paul Begala. He was talking about the Pete Hegseth lobster, the great lobster hoax of 2026. 26, you know, and he was literally like talking about, you know, Pete Hegg said, ate all the lobster himself. And I finally just said, you're going to get killed on the internet for this. And but that's happened a few times where I've heard somebody say something and I know immediately, oh, my gosh, within five seconds, somebody is going to have posted a compilation of debunking of this.

1:10:30And, you know, it never fails. And so I'm with you that they're going to have to watch themselves because they're going to embarrass themselves repeatedly because you got a whole army of people out there on the internet who are more than willing and ready to fact check them and embarrass them. We're talking to Scott Jennings for those listening on Apple and Spotify, host of the Scott Jennings show, spectacular show. Check it out. Just look them up. You're going to find them everywhere on socials. Follow them. You will not be disappointed if you don't know them already, which is hard to believe.

1:10:59Earlier in the show, I addressed exactly this point. I played a clip of Joy Reid. And, you know, Joy Reid, who's not known for being, you know, bedrocked, a staple of truth or anything. And she made some ridiculous point how there were basically no taxes before the 20th century. So I did a really simple thing, Scott. I went to Google Gemini. So you can't accuse me of using like Grok, like an actual sensible right-wing AI. It's left way. I use it for a reason. And I said, were there any taxes before the 20th century? And of course, it listed them out. But that's what I'm talking about, how going forward, guys like you who stick to just facts and don't get emotionally embedded in arguments are going to look like rock stars on TV.

1:11:38But it is difficult debating liberals. I've been doing it for a long time, not nearly as well as you. And I mean that I'm not playing humble. You're just really, really good at it. But it's hard to debate the modern liberal because their principles are like, you know, they're like these, you just lick their finger and they see where the wind is blowing. You were debating a Maryland representative who I know from my time in Maryland politics, like Johnny Olaszewski. And he's debating you about Trump raising taxes. And I'm thinking as I'm watching this, wait, I thought the Democrats liked raising taxes.

1:12:12What am I debating again? Because if I'm the conservative, I'm like, I don't like high taxes. I like growth-inducing low tax rates. Like, what is your principle? Like, I know what I believe in. What the hell do you believe? It makes it really hard to debate. Yeah, that debate was interesting on two levels. One, he seemed to be saying he wanted low taxes, but at the same time, he was arguing that Trump had somehow raised taxes when you and I both know he cut taxes. And it was the Democrats who block voted against the big, beautiful bill last summer, which included the tax cuts for working people.

1:12:46And it prevented the tax rates from going up from the 2017 tax cuts. Democrats block voted on that. And so it was strange because he was taking a position that was somewhat unorthodox for his party, but at the same time steeped in a completely untrue statement. And so, you know, you're dealing with you're dealing with two strange things. I find that happening all the time. I was doing a debate the other night about gas prices. Everybody wants to talk about gas prices because of the Iran war. And I hear all these Democrats out here, you know, going crazy about gas prices. And I finally said to one the other night, wait a minute, it was just five minutes ago that you guys wanted higher gas prices because climate change.

1:13:24You wanted to bring about the end of the internal combustion engine. That was your position, that gas should be more expensive so people would stop driving. Now you're worried about gas prices. What you'll find, I think, is that they just make arguments that they think sound good in the moment. You know, oh, this is going to be a good tactical item. But it's not really moored to any values or to anything they said two months ago, six months ago, last year. The other thing that drives me crazy about these debates is they all seem to think that all of American or human history started when Donald Trump popped onto the scene.

1:13:53They can't seem to recall or remember anything that ever happened before Trump. Last night, we were debating some of the language and rhetoric around the Iran war. And, of course, Pete Hegseth and others, the president has invoked God and prayed to God to protect our troops and so on. And they're like, wow, you know, no one's ever invoked God, you know, this way for military operations. And Lydia actually was on with me and she said, does no one remember George Washington kneeling in the snow at Valley Forge? I mean, they can't remember a time before Trump. But of course, that's because they want to say everything he does is unprecedented.

1:14:32It's never happened before. You know, this is outrageous. But if you just go back a little bit in history or you do a quick Google search, you'll find that, no, you know, Trump often is doing things that many other presidents have done or, you know, and but they don't. It's like that's all washed away for them. And I don't know. I think it makes for weak debating points when you can't seem to remember any American history at all. Yeah, it does. And the thing about, you know, the Trump, I call the Democrat, like show your ass theory, how they just have to like one up themselves with anger and rage to prove to the base they hate Trump even more.

1:15:04you're like you know trump's a racist no he's a super racist no he's like a grand wizard in the kkk he's like a hitler nazi who's also in he's like he's co-joined both movements and it's like it gets to the point where you're like guys i mean is this even real listen i get it he speaks discursively he he you know he uses language that hasn't been used for i i really don't care i don't apologize for anybody he doesn't need it i'm a queen's kid just like he is i grew up around this stuff. But the commentary that, you know, what annoys me the most is the fascist and the no kings nonsense. Scott, if this guy's a king or a wannabe monarch, he's certainly the worst monarch we've ever seen.

1:15:45There's a, you know, an immigration issue in Minnesota. He sends Tom Homan in. The situation's diffused. They agree to some, a template moving forward. The Supreme Court makes a bunch of rulings. Yes, he complains a little bit. I don't blame him. He has an alternate position, but he follows the Supreme Court. I mean, if this guy's a racist and a fascist too, he's really shitty at that too. I mean, he got the historic number of black votes for a Republican. I mean, all of this stuff, like we said before, is just based on an emotional response to Trump. None of it's really fact-based. He has always followed court rulings.

1:16:19I mean, look, even on the tariffs, you know, he imposed tariffs, the Supreme Court tossed out most of the the tariff regime, but what did he do? He accepted that. And then he pivoted to another statutory authority. It's not made up. You know, there are laws to which he attaches his policy views. And when the courts rule in favor, fine, against, fine, you pivot to something else, but it's all very normal. And it's all very attached to the way things normally work. Look, even on, you know, department of justice stuff, you know, there have been grand juries that haven't gone along with the department of justice when it comes to indicting certain people.

1:16:51If he were a king, if he were a fascist, if he were an authoritarian, we wouldn't even be talking about grand juries. But we have a system. The system works. And then you you move on to the next. I was on TV the other day with a congressman from northern Virginia, and it was the morning after the No Kings Day. And he said, oh, I went to six No Kings rallies yesterday. And I said, well, that's a lot of free speech for a country with a king. It wouldn't allow you to go out and protest so much. That's a great point. But it's – that's how silly sort of this no kings branding really is. Trump is actually, I think, yes, he has, like a lot of presidents, tested or pushed the boundaries of executive authority.

1:17:29But when it comes right down to it, he's followed the law and he's followed the court rulings. And I don't really think that is in dispute. But in their sort of alternate reality, in their narrative, all of that is happening. And I think that's really one of the hardest things about the debating space is I find that the left lives in such a tight ideological bubble right now. They only know what they know and they only know what they told each other. And they have constructed this alternate reality where a bunch of stuff is happening that's not actually happening. But in their mind, it is that, you know, they have a reality and then you and I have the reality.

1:18:07And so when those worlds collide, it often makes for sort of strange interactions in these debates. You know, it does. And just speaking quickly about the the emotional left rather than the policy based, fact based left. You know, you see in Virginia, you see Spanberger. She gets elected. She runs as a moderate. She's obviously the governor right now. You know, they're all term limited to one term. So she gets in. She runs as a moderate Democrat or pretends to be. Gets into office immediately. She's going after the guns, a ridiculous gerrymander. Listen, everybody gerrymanders. I get it. I'm not telling you Republicans.

1:18:41This is an absurd gerrymander, even by the worst standards, right? Yeah, it's insane. Once they wipe out the Republican Party in like a 5149 state. So she gets into office. So I covered earlier how her approval rating is now the lowest we've seen of any governor in modern times in Virginia. She's been in office, Scott. She hasn't even been in office half a year yet, not even close. And this just goes to show you, like when Republicans get into office and do Republican things, Rudy Giuliani in New York, you know, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, they don't go away. You see more of them. You saw Reagan, Reagan, Bush, right?

1:19:17When Democrats get into office and do Democrat, hardcore Democrat stuff, they're immediately unpopular and they're wiped out of office in one term like Joe Biden. I mean, they don't have anything to run on other than, like you said, superlatives and fancy language. Yeah. Rush, I think, used to say that Democrats could never tell you exactly what they're going to do in campaigns because they would never get elected. So they're forced to come up with these narratives for their electoral themes. In the case of Spanberger, it wasn't just her. You know, the entire media pushed this theory that she was like some moderate, you know, deal making, you know, bring everybody together.

1:19:52They did the same thing on Biden in 2020. Oh, he's a return to moderate politics and bring everyone again. That was baloney. He wins the election and immediately he outsources the entire domestic agenda to the Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party. Same thing for Spanberger in Virginia. I'm a moderate. I'm a moderate and takes over. And within three months, it's every extreme partisan left liberal thing you could imagine. Taxes, social issues, guns won't cooperate with ICE to get violent, illegal aliens out of Virginia. And now this redistricting debacle. I mean, they're trying to take Virginia to a 10 to 1 map, 10 to 1 in a state that has a heck of a lot of Republicans in it after complaining about redistricting herself before.

1:20:36And as you pointed out, her approval ratings have cratered. People of Virginia have noticed they've been duped. There is no moderate. And that's a good lesson for what Democrats will, I'm sure, going to argue in the fall. Whatever they tell you they're going to do in the fall, whatever moderate they claim to be in the fall in these purple districts around the country, don't buy it. This party is extremely partisan. It's extremely left. It's extremely progressive. It's extremely radical. and nobody that comes along and says, oh, I'm going to be the moderate voice. They have no power and they have no ability to change this tide.

1:21:07Yeah, I'll change direction a bit. Last question for you. I really do appreciate your time. What a great interview. You did not disappoint at all, Scott. When you really blew up years ago, and I just saw your clips everywhere, we kind of addressed it earlier. I'm an investor in the space, not just a content creator. I love platforms, free speech platforms specifically. I love giving platforms to people who even hate my guts because I think it's a good exchange of ideas. And we saw what censorship does. So you explode onto the scene. I'm not kidding when I tell you I must have received, I don't know, 10, 15 calls from radio station owners, syndicators, sales agents, book people.

1:21:46I have a book publisher. How do we get Scott? How do we get Scott? I said, I don't know. Call Scott Jennings. Like, I'm not his agent. No, you surely you know him. I said, I know of him, but I'm not his agent. Everybody loved Scott Jennings. The reason I bring it up is you now have your own show, The Scott Jennings Show. You have radio. You're on TV. You're on every clip I've seen. The value of live content going forward is going to explode geometrically. With this AI slop out there, going forward in the very near future, it's going to be hard to discriminate real Scott Jennings from fake Scott Jennings.

1:22:24Your opponents are going to put stuff out there. The AI slop is going to be ridiculous. So live content is going to be amazing. So for you with the Scott Jennings show, these chat rooms and all this stuff, just your thoughts on the political commentary ecosystem going forward, how important it's going to be to be live so they actually know it's you. I totally agree with you. That's why this live debating show that we're doing, I think, is working because it's live. You know, I don't have a teleprompter. I don't have a script. But it is a live, authentic, in-the-moment reaction to, you know, what's going on out there at the table.

1:22:56But it's me and it's happening in real time. We don't tape that in advance. That is a live, you know, reaction to what's happening. And I think audiences love it. And the authenticity piece of it cannot be understated. This is why you're so successful and why people love you. You're one of the most authentic political commentators. You speak from the heart. You don't need a script to do it. And that's and so when people are able to perform and do that live and in the moment, I think audiences attach themselves to that. And so I think both in politics and in media, the era of kind of the scripted puppet is over and the people who can actually do it live, do it authentically.

1:23:34Those are the people who are going to succeed. If you've learned any lesson from Donald Trump in the last 10 years, it's that we now live in the era of authentic communications. and the people in politics who can do it, the people in media who can do it, those are going to be the ones that are successful, not just as they post up against the inauthentic, as Trump did defeating Kamala Harris. That was the ultimate authenticity versus inauthentic kind of tilt, but also as we post up against, as you pointed out, all of this AI-generated crap. And so my advice is follow the people who are authentic, follow the people who can do it without a net, and follow the people who show up prepared.

1:24:13I think as conservatives, that's how we're going to succeed. And I'll just throw in one final note. Do it with a full heart and a little bit of a smile. I think we're at our best when we're happy warriors. That's a lesson of Ronald Reagan. And because the left is so, I mean, they're enraged. They're full of rage. They hate the country we live in right now. They're all too happy to tell you what a terrible country this is and what a terrible origins we have. They're just so full of rage and anger. And as conservatives, if we're true and if we're happy and we're those happy warriors, I think more Americans are going to gravitate towards our arguments if that's our attitude.

1:24:53But again, it all goes back to this live, live, authentic ability to talk to people in the moment. It can make you very successful. And as you have well learned, given all your success. oh it's so true i always use that walter williams quote when uh well excuse me milton friedman quote when he told walter williams you know when you talk about liberty you talk about it with a smile i bring that up all the time we live in the greatest country on earth at the greatest time to live in said country uh with the most amount of freedom and prosperity we have an unbelievably powerful military insulated by two oceans like honestly my grandfather fought in the battle of bulge my uncle was shot in the back in vietnam saving his friend's life he's on that wall like what are we complaining about the flat screen doesn't work one night like i'm sorry like our forefathers and grandfathers handed us down this beautiful diamond of a country and i that's why i get sick of the doom and gloom i get it there are problems to fix we need to talk about them openly and honestly uh but but this this constant doom and gloom everything sucks all the time it's like man let me tell you something you should travel the world brother i've been to something like 40 countries there's nothing nothing like this zero you will never see anything like it so it's incredibly well said.

1:26:04Scott, where can the audience find the show and you on social? I know they're going to want to track you down. Absolutely. So on X, I'm at Scott Jennings KY, and I use that handle for Instagram and the other social media sites. So at Scott Jennings KY, the KY is for Kentucky, which is where I live and where I'm from. My radio show airs live every day from one to three Eastern on Salem radio terrestrial. We're on, I think almost 400 radio stations around the country. It also goes up as a podcast every day, the Scott Jennings show. So you You can get that on Apple or Spotify. I did write a book that did fairly well called A Revolution of Common Sense, which was about President Trump's first hundred days back in office for Trump 2.0.

1:26:42That's still out there on Amazon. And and if you haven't read it, I encourage you to pick it up. But those are the principal ways. And even if you're not a regular CNN viewer, I try to get those clips up on social media the next day as soon as I can so people can see some of these debates we're having. because you won't believe, honestly, if you've not seen some of this, you won't believe some of the arguments that the left is making and some of what I have to deal with on a nightly basis. It's highly entertaining, but highly illuminating about where they want to take the country. Folks, check this Patriot out.

1:27:11It is really difficult to go on live television not knowing what's coming at you next every night and be consistently right. This guy's batting average is like 1 ,000. It's amazing. Scott Jennings, thanks so much for your time. Don't be a stranger. I really enjoyed this interview a lot. So thanks for your time, buddy. Thank you, Dan. Thanks for the conversation. And thanks for everything you've done for our country. And as I said, I'm a huge fan. It was an honor to be here. And I hope to see you soon. Thank you, sir. Talk to you soon. That was Scott Jennings, folks. Man, that may be one of my favorite.

1:27:41Even Jasmine's in there like, yeah, man, he was good. Certainly didn't disappoint one. Go support, at all. Go support him. Pick up his book. Follow his show. Thank you so much for tuning in. I hope you enjoyed the show today. Yesterday was kind of a lighter news day. So we have the two-hour block. We don't always go the entire two hours. I'm just not going to talk for the sake of talking. Some days like today, show goes a little longer. But again, if we have stuff we feel really passionately about, we're going to talk about it. I don't talk about things I'm not passionate about. Fellas, who puts the show together?

1:28:11Justin. Who? Yes. What is two thumbs? This guy. I have great producers. These are the best tech guys in the business. But the reason I put my show together is because I have to talk about stuff I really care about. It's really passionate to me. I'm not just going to throw slop in there just to keep talking, okay? So great show today. Appreciate you being here. Make sure you check out Haley at noon, rumble.com slash Haley. And then Vince every day at 8 a.m. Eastern time. Vince calling Ace, rumble.com slash Vince. And please download the Rumble app. Follow the Dan Bongino show. It is free, free.

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1:29:23Thank you.