Outrage After Footage from Inside Zohran Mamdani's City Hall Meeting Goes Viral

25:22We have to trust the administration that he's right, that he says, He says, we know where most of them are. Now, the problem is you don't need that many people to do horrible things. That's why when I, you know, many times over the Biden years, when, okay, so about 20 million people came in. Let's say 10 million, no, let's say 10 % of 20 million people are just not great people. That leaves us with 2 million people, right? And let's say 10 % of those not great people are pretty bad people. That's 200 ,000 people. And let's say 10 % of those pretty bad people are really bad people. That's 20 ,000 people.

25:59And let's say 10 % of those are psycho lunatic jihadists. That's 2 ,000 people. And let's say 10 % of those are the worst of the worst of the worst of the worst. That's 200 people. And if 10 % of those are freaking Skeletor, Megatron, Sauron, Dooku, Who, Killer Croc, two more.

26:30Joker, Scarecrow, Green Goblin combined, 10 % of 200. That's 20 people. And 20 people can do an awful lot of damage, okay? He took 21 hijackers, or how many hijackers was it, for 9-11. And I wanna, it just made me think, you know, when Trump says, we know where these people are, and again, I believe that we have shut down the border. I believe that his intelligence services are doing the right thing, and we will see what happened. But do you remember this video from 2024? I mean, this, this is chills up your spine. Go.

27:14That was a random guy walking through. Soon you're going to know who I am. And he had no problem saying it. Did we ever find out who he was? We don't think so. So that guy's likely wandering around somewhere in America. You think he's up to no good? You think he's working at Chick-fil-A? You think he's just, he was just like, I just want to work for Chick-fil-A. Love that special sauce. Want to move as much of that as possible, right? It's crazy. There were some commenters at one point on X that were saying that they saw him in New York City. Like we just simply do not know. Anyway, let's get you a more, now that we scared the crap out of everybody, let's get you a more sort of granular update on where the war is at.

27:48Here is Trump talking about the military gains that we've got to and where we could potentially go. Very good shape. The main thing is we have to win this. They win it quickly, but win it. And there are many people, I'm just watching some of the news. Most people say it's already been won. It's just a question of when. When do we stop? We don't want to let it regrow. And ideally, we'd like to see somebody in there that knows what they're doing. In other words, they can build a country. Now, one other thing. We can hit sections of Tehran and other places that if you do it, it'll be almost impossible for them to rebuild their country.

28:29And we don't want that. But we can hit electric... We could take apart their electric capacity within one hour and it would take them 25 years to rebuild it. So ideally, we're not going to be doing that. Isn't it fascinating what Trump is saying right there? He's saying we've taken out the military, that in essence, this thing is a military win. If nothing else, in terms of if our goal was to destroy the ballistic missile system, degrade the nuclear system, make sure that they can't, you know, that the leadership has so largely been taken out that they won't be able to coordinate exporting terrorism and all of those things, then we've in essence done it.

29:07And what he's saying is soon enough, we're gonna have to get to a point where there will have to be some sort of settlement, hopefully not with the mullahs, right? Like they'll be gone and the actual Iranian people have taken them out. Otherwise, it could get to the point where we're gonna have to go after their electric infrastructure and everything else. And he's exactly saying, and sometimes he's saying just what Fetterman said. Fetterman said, we don't go after people, right? We don't go after the, no one's trying to kill the average Iranian citizen at all. There's just no evidence of it, no matter what your broken brain YouTube commentator is saying right now, there's just no evidence.

29:37And what Trump is saying there is we don't want to take out their infrastructure. We don't want to take out their electricity and everything else. We could do all of that. And this is what negotiations and leverage is all about. Now, the other thing that's super interesting about all of this is everyone thinks this is just about Iran. But as I've been pointing out for weeks now, this is in some sense much more about China, about the energy that China gets from Iran, about the Trump-Monroe doctrine. We're going to take care of our hemisphere and we're going to exert American influence again and that we are going to have peace through strength and that maybe China will not be allowed to take Taiwan because they're making all sorts of superconductors there that are going to be extremely important in the AI race.

30:15We can do this all day long. Here's China's foreign ministry spokesman saying that China condemns the actions, but note he doesn't say they're going to do anything about it. China does not agree with the attacks on Gulf states and condemns all indiscriminate attacks on civilians and non-military targets. The urgent task is to immediately cease military operations and prevent further expansion of the conflict. The solution lies in returning to dialogue and negotiation as soon as possible and striving to restore peace. The fundamental solution is to jointly return to the right track of abiding by international law and the basic norms of international relations.

30:53OK, so that's kind of standard, you know, government spokesperson speak. Stop doing it, America, or wherewithra. But they're not doing anything. And isn't that interesting? So when you think about who will lead the world, we for the last, the United States for the last however many years, certainly all of the Biden years, maybe you could make some argument around the first Trump four years. You absolutely can make an argument about it for the eight Obama years. We have been seeding our position in the world, right? And someone is going to step into that vacuum. That's just how it is. Someone will lead the world.

31:30Someone will set the table. And if it's not us, it's going to be China. So now, as we are right now taking out all of the military and terrorist structures that exist in Iran, China, they're saying some things, don't do it, don't do it, but note they're not doing anything. And that may show you what American power is all about and that they might be a little more worried about Taiwan right now and figuring out how they are going to be the world's hegemonic power. Here's Bill O 'Reilly, who I think we have on next week, talking about how most Americans feel about the situation right now. The country wants the United States to break Iran.

32:14Some Americans don't want to pay the price for that. I think that's an accurate assessment. They don't want to pay more for gas. They don't want to see any casualties. They don't want to pay attention to it. Okay. But I think most Americans understand that the campaign is noble, that Trump is doing the right thing, but the right thing isn't always the easiest thing. Most of the time it isn't. But from my experience, across the board, most loyal Americans want the United States to break Iran. You only see the fanatical progressive left rooting for Iran. All right. As much as I agree with Bill, I would add one thing to the end right there, which is, yes, the fanatical progressive left, so the Bernies and the AOC and the Hamas caucus, yes, they are rooting for us to lose for sure.

33:10If you really think about it, do you think Bernie wants us to win this war? The answer obviously is no. He doesn't like American influence. He doesn't like American power. Do you think Rashida Tlaib and AOC and Ilhan Omar, do you think they want America to win the war against radical jihad? Of course they don't. They are part and parcel of it, right? They're trying to import it here. Do you think that Mamdami wants us to win this thing? Of course not. So that's one part. But I would add to Bill, there is a portion on the right that no longer likes American power and influence. And this is what I would say is that Tucker portion.

33:47And they want us to lose, obviously. If this thing goes cleanly and the Iranians rise up and get their country back and those 13 Arab Muslim nations who have been attacked by Iran, you know, if more peace deals are signed with Israel. How ridiculous did Tucker and some of these people look? So they need, in essence, right? Tucker back in May, thermonuclear World War III, oh, it turned out to be a 12-day war. In some sense, they need America to fail here. That's just, sorry, that's just reality. It just is. Let's talk about balance of nature for just a second, and then we will have more on Lobstergate.

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35:27The Democrats who will waste money on everything. If you ask a Democrat to build a public toilet, they will literally buy an American standard toilet for$4.6 million. dollars, but they are very upset that occasionally our troops who are fighting to defend our freedoms, who are much better people than all the rest of us, occasionally they're getting some ribeye and they're getting some lobster. Let me show you a couple of misleading headlines here on what's going on here. Pete Hegseth goes on$93 billion Pentagon spending spree for lobster, fruit baskets, and Japanese flute. Pete Hegseth blew billions on fruit baskets, stands, chairs, and crab.

36:01And there's TMZ with AI Pete holding a crab and what is that, a mango? What is that thing in his other hand? A crab and a mango? Does mango go with crab? I'm not even sure what's happening there. Now we should clean up some of this. The Pentagon spent$20 million on food for our soldiers in September of 2025. This accounts for 0.002 % of military spending, 0.002 % of military spending. I should also note that this isn't unusual because spending in September is huge every year because the government's fiscal year ends on September 30th. And if they don't spend all the money they've been allocated, it doesn't roll over.

36:44Now you might say that that's a ridiculous way for any, no company could operate that way, right? That you just have to spend all of the money you have or you're not going to get more. They have, the good way the government works is they just get more money because they keep taking more taxes from the rest of us. I can't just budget out what this show is and then every year be like, spend all the money we've got. I don't know what money I'm going to bring in next year. That's a separate thing. But the point is there's nothing unusual about any of this. So then we're going to CNN and this guy, Paul Begala, he seems to think that Pete himself ate$6.9 million of lobster.

37:25He has spent$15 million in one month for ribeye steak,$6.9 million for lobster tail,$225 million for furniture. He spent more in the month of September than most countries on earth spend in their defense. All for himself? Lobster tails? While our troops are eating MREs? Lobster tails? Do you believe the Secretary of Defense is personally eating all the lobster? Wait, he can't eat 60? Oh really, the troops are getting lobster? Frequently in theater, troops who are going to work in Great Meal, you know that. They're getting lobster, you are so full of it. I'm gonna get killed over this. You're gonna get killed over this.

38:00Internet, do something. Oh really, the troops are getting lobster? They're not getting lobster. Connor, do we have video of them getting lobster? Brother's defect has steak and lobster. How's it steak and lobster? All right. Damn, you're decent. How's it? I'm ready for war. We're going to war.

38:25That is finger from the rooted to the tutored. Yeah, that's good stuff. Okay. And they like it. And you know, it is true that when we send our guys out to war, we often give them a really great meal. And you know what? I got to tell you, I'm a low tax guy. I am more than happy with the government wasting a lot of my tax dollars so that our soldiers can eat well and not just the day before they're going out to war. But I mean, Bagala, what kind of moron are you? That yes, Pete's eating this. It's not the soldiers that are eating it. There you go. We got to do a Curb Your Enthusiasm version of that.

38:54There's not eating any lobster and then show them eating lobster with the curb song. Like we'll get to, we'll put that up for tomorrow or something. Anyway, the Democrats have just lost their mind. So it's like just anything that they can grab onto. My God, we've spent money on lobster. Just anything because they want to just keep the eye off the ball. And what I mean by that is they don't want you to think the war is going well, so they have to tell you it's going horribly and we're trying to kill innocent people. They don't want us to have safe and secure elections, so they have to tell you that black people don't know how to use printers and women who are married won't be able to vote.

39:25But it's not just the Democrats. This is wild. This is Alaska Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski being asked why she is not supporting the SAVE Act. Take a look. Where do you stand on the SAVE America Act? Do you support getting this legislation passed to protect elections? I'm not as it is drafted now. Why not? The implementation in a rural state like Alaska is going to disenfranchise an extraordinary majority. And while I support citizenship voting and voting ID, I want to make sure that it's implementable. With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats? What she said was, if the SAVE Act passes, meaning if we just ensure that citizens are voting in our elections, it will disenfranchise a majority of people in Alaska.

40:18Are you saying a majority of people in Alaska don't have the proper identification to vote, don't know if they were born in the country, et cetera? What are you talking about? And again, as I keep saying, if you believe that, then wouldn't you put together a little government program that even in Alaska? and I watched the last season of that show on HBO with the lesbian Jodie Foster. Come on, Matthew McConaughey was in it. The crime, true crime. Is it called true crime? True crime. True detective. So I know, I get it. It's cold out in Alaska. That's what I learned in the show. It's extremely cold, particularly at night.

40:51It's dark. Maybe people lost their ID. It could be in this ice, whatever it might be. But let's help people get IDs if you really think that. So I don't know what's going on, But that woman is a Republican, not a Democrat. Now, interestingly, we'll show you this. This is recent polling. This is that Harry Enten guy. This guy's hopped up on. He's just a little. He loves numbers, this guy. And here he is explaining that everybody, everybody is for voter ID. What's the racial breakdown on this? Right. Because I think a lot of people make the argument that people of color, non-white Americans have a harder time procuring a photo ID to vote.

41:26But even here, take a look here. favorite photo ID to vote. 85 % of white people favorite. 82 % of Latino, 76 % of black Americans favorite. So the bottom line is this voter ID is not controversial in this country. A photo ID to vote is not controversial in this country. It is not controversial by party and it is not controversial by race. The vast majority of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj that in fact, you should have a photo ID to be able. I mean, there's something about the way that guy talks. It's just hilarious. But yeah, it's true. Contrary to what Democrats tell you, black people can get IDs.

42:03They can use printers. They know what computers are. We showed you a black man yesterday, a congressman who is apparently flying on planes all the time. How about we just do what's right and we look to fix the system where it is broken, right? Instead of ensuring that our broken system continues. Could you guys work on that a little bit? You know, the other thing that's going on right now is that because of the fight over the SAVE Act, we have a partial shutdown of Department of Homeland Security, Department of Homeland Security, which not only runs our TSA. So yesterday we covered the hours worth of delays that are happening at airports all over the country.

42:38300 TSA members have just outright walked away. The TSA people who are working right now are not being paid. They likely will be paid. You know, they're being furloughed basically. So you get the pay at the end, but it's not fun for these guys to have to work. Ironically, the politicians, when they do a government shutdown, they always get paid. But there have been some issues now around FEMA because of some tornadoes. Listen to this from CBS. Tornado outbreak in Illinois and Indiana raises concerns about FEMA disaster assistance. On Wednesday, Congresswoman Robin Kelly, Democrat from Illinois who represents Kankakee, said she is going to fight for FEMA money for victims of Tuesday's severe storms.

43:16People have died. People's homes have been torn apart. Businesses have been torn apart. We should not look at Democrat or Republican. These are people that live here and they need to release the money and there should not be any retaliatory efforts. That would be absolutely ridiculous, Kelly said. So these tornadoes have devastated this area. Ken Kaki, this is a survivor of one of the tornadoes. Take a look. I said, Annabelle, there's a tornado coming.

43:47And she said, what should we do? And I said, hold on a second. I think it's turning to go the other way. And I said, no, it's coming at us. That's hard to watch. That guy's an American. That's an American town. And should we not, at the very least, be able to fund the disaster agencies that will help people like that? They're often inefficient. In many cases, it's your local church or local organizations that are going to do better work on the ground. But those people need to be helped. And the Democrats are hanging up some of the money and the systems we have in place because they want to stop the funding of ICE, which is funded through 2029.

44:32Here's Fetterman. He's like a co-host for me on this thing. Here's Fetterman, the one sane Democrat. You know, but we could all have to acknowledge that this shutdown had no impact, zero impact on ICE. All of the funding was already in place there from the big, beautiful bill that I did not vote for. I did not vote for that. So why should I punish all of those people that work under the DHS that keep our nation more secure? Why they shouldn't be paid? You know, I'm at the airport every week of the year, and I asked all of them in Pittsburgh, hey, do you guys like getting paid for your job? And I've never met one that says, nah, you know, the paycheck's not really a big deal.

45:09Everyone and I believe we should be paid for the work that you've done. Why punish all those TSA agents and all the other people under the DHS umbrella? Just because the base demands that we just shut it down, knowing, absolutely knowing that would have no impact on ICE. Isn't that wild? There you have the one sane Democrat who admits he didn't even vote for the big, beautiful bill which funded ICE through 2029. And he's saying he doesn't want to needlessly punish people, which is what the Democrats are doing. When you are at the airport right now and spring breaks a coming and the delays are there or you miss your flight or a flight get canceled or whatever it might, you miss your connection and you get late to the resort or whatever, that's on the Democrats.

45:52When your town is hit by a tornado and funds get there much more slowly, if ever, right now that's on Democrats. It is 100%, not 99%, it is 100 % performative because ICE is funded. By the way, I'm not paying you guys this week. you're just doing it for the love of the game. Okay. Thanks. Um, let's shift a little bit here because one thing that's, uh,

46:17one thing that's sort of interesting right now is, you know, I've been talking about, uh, you know, Piers Morgan titled his book, woke is dead. And when I had him in here, I said, you know, I don't know about that because it seems to me it's just morphing. And we're seeing maybe the final version, the end boss of woke, which is now the Islamization of takeover of the progressive movement and the left and all of those things. One of the places that has pushed wokeism throughout our corporate structure for years and years and years has been BlackRock. And BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, who we've shown on the show a couple of times over the years, he is now admitting he sat down with Brett Baer and he is now admitting they pushed way too far.

46:54Do you believe the woke era, a failed experiment, the ESG, the DEI, the kind of push for that? When you talk about things now, you talk in a practical sense, what we can do, what we can get done. Looking back at that, how do you see it? Society moves. The pendulum moves all the time. In BlackRock's cases, we are responsible for managing money for everybody. Do I believe the pendulum five years ago was too far? Yes. Do I believe we're more pragmatic? I'm personally more pragmatic, too. And I believe. Do you think BlackRock pushed some companies a little bit further left than you thought? It was never our intention because our job is to be I got to be a fiduciary to everybody who gives us money.

47:46And so to me, more importantly today, I think society has moved into a better position of having more pragmatism. And what you're hearing from me is the I'm echoing what we're hearing from our clients. Larry, it's fascinating. Thanks. I mean, that what you have right there, ladies and gentlemen, is just like an epic BS artist. I understand he has to have the fiduciary responsibility of all of the companies that they represent. But BlackRock was one of the main pushers of getting DEI into so many companies. We know that. Here's a little bit more from Will Hild. He's the executive director of a nonprofit called Consumers Research on Fink and those comments.

48:26Larry's comment that the pendulum simply swung too far to the left is telling because he's the one who pushed it there. He's now only more pragmatic because he and the woke cabal got caught and now they're feeling the heat of antitrust investigations, lawsuits, etc. For over a decade, BlackRock and Fink have been at the epicenter of the woke movement, quietly working behind the scenes using their over$10 trillion in assets under management to push corporate America and adopt every single woke agenda item they could conceive of. From ESG to DEI and everything in between, they've used the money that was entrusted to them by their customers to push Fink's far left political agenda.

49:02A guilty conscience needs no accuser and Fink is no different. Notice how he's rambling about fiduciary duty. That's because for years he completely abandoned his fiduciary duty to push woke at the behest of a small subset of their clients like New York City who demanded he use all client money to push ESG. So look, I suppose, I suppose it is good. It is a win in the culture war and in the war for reality that Fink, who controls BlackRock, which controls$10 trillion of assets, that they are gonna step away. But this is sort of like, you know, it's like Zuckerberg after Facebook, you know, silenced and censored the Hunter Biden laptop.

49:41He then goes on Rogan and he's like, you know, we're not gonna do that anymore. And it's like, I'm not saying we have to throw you guys all in jail, but like, it's not, that's not a mea culpa. Like a mea culpa is truly personally taking responsibility and saying, I really miss the mark here. Or what he might say, although it actually could end with him in hot water, is say, I really did miss the fiduciary responsibility. Because if you think that most of the companies that he was working with, $10 trillion, wanted this woke stuff put in, companies exist to make profit. And woke was the anti-profit thing.

50:15You know, it's funny, I went to Target yesterday. And even in Florida, at the height of wokeism, Target was pushing. You'd walk in and they were literally pushing underwear for trans kids, like tuck it underwear, whatever they called it. It was right in the front when you walked into Target. And there was never anyone in that section, right? There was never anyone there. But they pushed that crap on us, literally and figured it. I mean, like they pushed the ideology and it was just crap products, right? Nobody wants to buy these products. And then it's like, was that good for the fiduciary responsibility of Target?

50:47I don't know if Target is directly associated with BlackRock. I assume it is, but you get the point at the corporate structure. They all start doing things. When Target started or any store started, it starts, I'm going to sell the best TVs possible. I'm going to sell the best pants possible at the best price. And we're going to compete. Or you're going to have ideology baked in, which will ultimately destroy your system. You get the point. Let's end with this because Trump got back out on the campaign rally yesterday. And that obviously is always where he is at his best. And if you're paying attention to the YouTube chattering class, it's like, oh, the base is abandoning him.

51:20And he He showed up in Kentucky and people were driving from five and eight hours to get there. And he was joined on stage by YouTuber and boxer Jake Paul. Not really my thing, but he's hugely influential with young people. And I thought this was a nice way to end the show a little bit about what Trump taught him. Yeah, what Mr. Trump has taught me is courage. We never back down from a fight, even if they're much bigger than you, much, much bigger than you. And I feel all the local Kentuckians feel the same way. You guys have that fight. You guys have that swag. There's a lot of young kids in here.

51:56The future of America. I grew up just a few hours away from here, and my dad taught me to fight. And all of our voices matter in America. And I'm never afraid to speak the truth, and I know you guys aren't. We are here representing the United States, and it's just a blessing. Thank you, Mr. Trump. We need more factories like this thriving. all over the country. And I know he's going to be the one to bring that here to us. I know God is with us. I know he wants us on the right side of history. And everyone here has to do their part. And God's got us. Trump's got us. God bless. Love you, Kentucky.

52:38And maybe tomorrow we'll show you a little bit more from the rally itself. But it was, you know, again, it was Trump at his best. Prompter, off-prompter, jokes, fun, huge applause. and look, I don't particularly care about the boxing stuff and the MMA stuff and all that, but this guy's hugely popular. He's up there with Trump talking about being brave and fighting for what you believe in and that this guy deserves some of our trust, which is exactly what I've said. He's having a bit of a, might I recommend that maybe he should get some deodorant. I would just, that would just be a sidebar. There's got to be an antiperspirant that can deal with that.

53:10I said the show is over, but we've actually got a locals community Q &A. I offer a correction. We're almost there. But let me throw in a couple of questions here for you. And if you wanna get anything on the fly, Joseph is right there with a computer machine. Ham Handed says, given the unpopularity of the war in Iran, how do you think it benefits the country to keep fighting it when the most likely result is to totally lose the midterms, possibly leading up to impeachment with Trump and a conviction in the Senate? Well, I'm not totally sure I agree with the premise of the question. I mean, we just checked some numbers.

53:42So 91 % of MAGA approve, according to a CNN poll, of Trump and Iran. So that's one thing. 41 % overall, according to CNN Agree, which is a little bit less than voted for him. And NBC says 46 % of America votes. So I don't know that the country is not supportive of him. However, I would say if it does not go well, right? So right now it's going well. So let's try to paint it two ways. Let's say it doesn't go well. Let's say, you know, it's two weeks from now. We've bombed the high hell out of them. The Iranian people aren't able to rise up. And the best we get to walk away with is, well, we degraded all of their military systems, but now it's chaos there.

54:23That's a win in some sense, right? They can't export rockets, let's say, and mayhem across the Middle East. And some of our allies will be happy with us. The Gulf states that are getting hit right now will be thrilled and all that. But it's not like a massive win that Trump can be like, you know, we did it, we did it, right? Let's try it the other way. We continue to do well here. We continue to degrade their systems. The Iranian people are able to rise up, whatever that means. And they start constituting a country and the rockets stop and Trump gets some peace deals now because of how the figurative map has changed, right?

54:57That's a massive win for Trump. And Trump gets to roll that into July 4th, our 250th anniversary that maybe gets us through the summer towards the midterms. So a lot of this, I think just a lot of this depends on where it all shakes out. Like, I think Trump did what he thinks is right. I don't think he pays that much attention to what Tucker Carlson or Dave Rubin or anyone else is saying. I think Trump has been wildly consistent with his position on Iran this entire time. And he does what he thinks is right. And we have competent people that are doing it, but we have to see where it lands. Like, nobody knows, even Trump does not know what the outcome is.

55:31So that's the part that we're gonna have to see. Elizabeth says, do the boys have a favorite snack? Izzy has been really into raw vegetables lately. You know, I am very proud to say that as I have largely been on the carnivore diet myself, these kids are eating grass-fed meat virtually every single day. Virtually every single day. One way or another, just chopped up, sometimes right off a tomahawk bone. Like, you ever watch a kid just take a bone? Like, there's something so human and natural about it to just, like, chew on that bone. Like it's just such a great fun thing to see. And it's so healthy for them and all of those things.

56:08Yeah, we're doing healthy stuff. A lot of cottage cheese, a lot of cheese, a lot of meat. That's basically what's going on over here pretty much all the time. Mark Jev says, while I know you pick up the odd story from Canada, do you think the average American has any idea how screwed up their Northern neighbor really is? Some examples, we're approaching 100 ,000 Canadians killed by government assisted suicide. transgender ideology still fully entrenched$750 ,000 fine recently imposed on a school board trustee for saying boys are boys and girls are girls, cozying up to China and trade in other ways, inviting foreigners to join our military, passing censorship laws that mirror those in the UK and don't protect freedom of religion and so much more.

56:50You know, we've addressed a lot of that. I don't quite think people realize how wacky it's gotten. You just laid out some of the specifics on there. you know I have many I have many people in my life that are from Canada or lived in Canada or whatever I mean just talking to Gad Satt over the last couple days like Canada really has fallen there are jihadists all over the place the gender stuff is out of control what I would say is from an American perspective you know we America is the center of the world right so everyone cares about America America actually doesn't like culturally right like Americans don't watch a a lot of movies from other countries.

57:27We don't watch a lot of TV shows or get things from other countries in that sense. But everyone watches American made movies, American made culture, music, et cetera, et cetera. I think what people have realized with Canada, I think is partly what Trump was doing with Greenland, which basically was like, if Canada's gonna be kind of weak, which it will be under Carney, that seems pretty obvious, right? Like he's just like a slightly more heterosexual version of Trudeau, that we have to take Greenland because we don't want Russia and Iran encroaching on our part of the world and Greenland is the buffer zone there.

58:01So I think that's the signal to most people here that Canada's kind of weak. And I would also say that down here in Florida, all the Canadian snowbirds, I keep telling you, I meet Canadians quite literally every day because the snowbirds don't go up. They don't go back. They usually come down here for the winter, right? They have their little condos down here in South Florida and right around now, around March, it's starting to warm up so they would normally head back but they're staying down here. I don't know how long they're allowed to stay or anything else. And if they are staying illegally, there is a guy named Ron DeSantis who's probably going to catch him.

58:32But Glenn says, how's it possible that JD Vance does not separate himself from Tucker? I used to be such a fan of JD. You know, I don't know exactly, right? Like I, I, I like JD. I have always liked JD. I've interviewed him many times. I, um, you know, maybe we can grab that picture on inauguration night. Can we throw that up real quick? Uh, when I was at the, literally on inauguration night at the party and I got to say hi to him and you can see his reaction. We've always had a nice relationship. You know, I think he's trying to, my guess, this is just my guess, is he's really trying to pick and choose what his fights are.

59:06So even let's look at Iran for a second. Like he obviously is a little bit more on the, he's not an isolationist, I don't say, but he's a little less hawkish, let's say, than Trump on Iran or on foreign policy. But he is standing by his president. Now, is there an issue that Tucker, who JD seems to be quite associated with, is now the most anti-Trump figure on the right in America? And maybe the most anti-Trump figure, doesn't matter right or left or anything else. I mean, he is radically anti-Trump. He is radically anti-this war. I would argue he's radically anti-American at this point and everything else.

59:44And he's associated with JD. Is there some issue there? Yeah, optically there is. should JD be going out there every day and being like, well, Tucker said something stupid, so I have to attack him or Candace said something stupid, so I have to go after her. I think he's just trying to manage those things. And you have to judge that accordingly. I do think it's possible that some of the reason you're seeing so much momentum behind Marco is that he has been just out there more communicating America's position more. So he's getting some of the accolades there, but it's not even worth getting into the fight part of that, of like who will come after Trump yet.

1:00:20It's so freaking early. Here's the image from inauguration night. So he had literally just been sworn in and we got big smiles and big hugs. So again, I like him. I thought the debate, one of the most important moments during the campaign was that vice presidential debate. And when he kept looking at the camera, like Jim from the office and just completely dismantled Tim Walz. I've also, I've been to a lot of events where he's spoken and Trump's great at bumper sticker stuff and JD's really good at the granular stuff. So they're going to have to work that out. But at some point, yeah, it does optically become something.

1:00:53The fact that, you know, Tucker's son works in JD's office, like whether, whether there's anything nefarious there or not, there's something that feels weird there. So I, I would leave it at that. Tappy Chef says, will David publish a hard copy of his cookbook? If you guys have not been to theonly.com yet is David's cooking site. Sorry, theonlyfood.com. We tried to get theonly.com. It was like four gajillion dollars. Theonlyfood.com. And that's where David puts up all his recipes. These are the things that we're eating every night. There's a section for kids. What you're obviously seeing his bolognese there, chicken parm.

1:01:28That's an awesome roasted chicken. Those are non-fried wings. That is the best Caesar salad dressing you will ever have. I think those are Greek meatballs, if I'm not mistaken. Then we've got the, that looks like a ribeye right there and another kind of sauce. And he's a spectacular, spectacular chef. and we host a lot and have people over to share in that goodness, eating good food is one of the true joys in life. So he handles the cooking, I handle the tequila. And yes, so we are working on, here's a little bit more on the kids side of things, how to eat things, how to make things for the kids.

1:02:03There's so many ways to do things without using real sugar, without using preservatives and dye. You can use like pea powder to color things instead of using the dyes that have become just ubiquitous and everything. There's so many interesting things that you can do and eat the right way and still enjoy good food. So yes, we're working on a hardcover version of that, but for now it's online, it's theonlyfood.com. Larry says, hey Dave, I know I keep asking, any updates that you can share from Jordan Peterson's recovery? Unfortunately, there's nothing I can share that Michaela, his daughter, has not shared publicly.

1:02:42It's just not my place to do that, obviously. I did try to go, or I did go to Phoenix about two weeks ago, and I was gonna try to link up with Jordan, and unfortunately, it wasn't able to happen. But I'm praying for him, and if you are someone who prays, like, pray for this guy. We desperately need him. The world needs him. And I know it might sound corny or something, but if you believe in, you know, if you believe, if you're a believer, you would believe that prophets are there. And I think Jordan was a modern prophet. I really believe that. He so fundamentally altered the world by speaking the truth.

1:03:17And we just need more of that, right? Like if there's one thing that we're suffering from right now, it's a lack of that, right? Like we're only, it was, we're six months and what, two days since the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Like we could use a lot more of that. So yeah, throw in a prayer for Jordan if you can. A different view says, Dave, following up on last Thursday's Ask Dave Anything where you offered to promote my candidacy. I'm very excited for this. My name is Benjamin Francis Cole running in Millican, Colorado, Board of Trustees in the April 7th, 2026 election. Millican is a statuary city, so the board oversees zoning, development, judges, and ordinances within limits set by Colorado law.

1:03:53My goal is to work responsibly and conservatively within those laws to serve the town. I was also inspired by your message about civic involvement to run. I'm doing this in part because my seven-year-old daughter is growing up here and I care about Milliken's future. Also today's my 50th, oh, also my 50th birthday was March 10th. Well, happy birthday. You got a couple months on me. June 26th, I will be the big five-oh. I'm so thrilled to hear that. And that if I had anything to do in any way of nudging you towards getting involved and that sounds, you know, I'm not that familiar with Milliken, Colorado, obviously can people, I mean, I'm more than happy to donate a little bit to the campaign if that's even something from out of state that people are allowed to do.

1:04:33I'm not even sure how that works, but we'll check on that. But hopefully, if you live in the Colorado area, sorry, what was his name again? Can we go back so I can just give him a second shout out? His name is Benjamin Francis Cole, K-O-L-E, and sounds like a good guy who would help govern, help be part of a state that perhaps would be fiscally sound. And that wouldn't be so crazy, would it? Good luck to you. Eurasian says, hey, Dave, I'm gonna be in Budapest at the end of the month. If I only have a day or two, what do you recommend I see or do there? Well, I will actually be in Budapest next week.

1:05:02We're going for a couple of days. We're going for CPAC, which I went to for last year. I think I'm sitting down with Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has done an unbelievable job, as you know, of writing that country and pushing back against such the EU nonsense, particularly as it pertains to immigration. And then we'll do a few other things there. I may just miss you if you're going at the end of the month. What would I recommend? I mean, just walk around Budapest. I mean, walk around and you will see a clean, lovely, safe place. And the architecture is spectacular. And, you know, they've been attacked by the communists and the Nazis.

1:05:41And they have an incredible, everyone that you talk to in Hungary, at least in my experience, like they know what their country is about. They know the history of their country. Walk by the Danube River. I mean, that bisects all of Budapest, actually. I'm trying to think, was there like a great, you know, we ate at some great restaurants. There's nothing that's like really popping out at me. You got something that really, Felix, did we eat it? Yeah, that place is great. I think we had a place called Felix that was pretty spectacular. And then Sir Roger Scruton Cafe. Oh, and then yes, go to the Sir Roger Scruton Cafe.

1:06:14There's several of them. It's a chain and it's in honor of the late great philosopher from England, actually, Sir Roger Scruton. And we shot a couple of our shows there. They have some of his old books. We actually shot our shows. If you remember last year, we shot our shows quite literally at his writing desk, which they have there. And they let me, they normally don't let people touch it, but they let me sit there and do that. And you get a great cup of coffee and great sandwiches and that kind of thing. You're gonna really enjoy it. It's just safe and lovely and enjoy it, enjoy it. All right, all right.

1:06:41That is our show for today. We do have a post-game show coming up in 30 seconds at rubinreport.locals.com. Later today, I will be shooting actual friends with special guest Roseanne Barr this week, and I'll find some other things to stay busy. And once again, none of you are being paid, so thank you for your work today. Ta-ta.