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Boy, okay. Well, we've often worried that we may get world war out of all this.
Let's pray that it doesn't happen. Let's just, let us say a solemn prayer. Please, peace be upon you, peace be with you, Prince of Peace.
Let's just pray that the language of war is something that we can use to usher in peace. You know, sometimes that's the only language that people understand.
But that's what's happening right now is something that we've sort of gotten a little Twitter bird telling us in our ears that we should pay attention to.
Marco Rubio just walked out of a meeting with Sergei Labrov in the Philippines.
Marco Rubio was meeting with Russia seconds ago and it didn't go well.
It went actually bad.
And the Russians strangely are saying, we want peace.
We want to like, please, please, we'll do anything.
And Marco's pissed.
Something's going down, man.
I think it has to do with Cuba.
I think it obviously has to do with some of the nightmare that we've seen across the Mideast,
but also the bombing of our CIA station in Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
That is, of course, not something that you can do in a sophisticated manner without extreme technical capacity.
And this is something that I find particularly, like, totally amazing.
And that the Iranians have gone from effectively lobbying, you know, boulders like cavemen out of
us in the Middle East, which is what was happening, to some very sharp precision strikes that
should concern everyone.
It should concern you and me, all of us, because they're able to now hit our bases with proximity
to our soldiers and kill four of them, which they did.
And there was a dignified transfer yesterday all about it.
And so just stay locked in, ladies and gentlemen.
We're going to give you the rules of the road, what is happening right now, and hopefully
prepare you for what's going to have.
happen next. Today is Thursday, July 23rd at 2026. Iran strikes CIA facilities that were secret
with extreme precision. Are the Russians and Chinese helping them? The answer is probably yes,
honestly. So is the U.S. on the verge of war with Russia now? It's a proxy battle. We'll see.
The U.S. just gave nuclear weapons to Iran's biggest rival in the Middle East. Oh no.
Senator Tommy Tubberill joins the show.
Bruce Pearl as well, legendary basketball coach.
We're going to talk about Sophie Cunningham and the phenomenon,
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Iran strikes CIA facility
prompts questions about whether the Russians are behind all of it
this is not good
let's jump on over here
Klein I'm going to go with my window here thank you
posted at time that we went alive exactly 10 minutes ago
Israel has entered a full state of alert
anti-missile shelters have opened in central Israel
including Tel Aviv suburbs.
According to Channel 14, this comes as U.S. plans to escalate strikes on Iran in the coming hours and days.
Here we go.
Ladies and gentlemen, I think things are going to get a little more intense before they calm down again.
So now there is a red alert in Israel.
I have always long worried that this is the kind of conflict that could drag us all into a much wider war.
obviously Ukraine and Russia is already a hot war and it's getting hotter. Listen, what's going on in Russia right now needs to be examined, studied, and people need to truly assess the horrors of modern warfare.
You know, World War II and the jungle warfare and the, you know, Gulf Wars and Desert Wars, that sort of showed us the horrors of urbanized warfare. This is the first time, you know, in modern history.
history. World War I effectively was very much a front lines war. There was like battle lines drawn.
And that war never really reached the homes and industries and facilities that housed children.
It was only in World War II where these things started to really break down. And that breakdown has only accelerated in a world where everything is unmanned drone.
I cannot express enough. Please understand this. Thrones are killed.
killing 90% of the people on the front lines of Ukraine.
Drones are creating a what looks like Independence Day here in Moscow.
Look at this.
This is Moscow in the middle of the day.
This was yesterday.
This is Moscow in the middle of the day.
The sun blossed out.
The sky black.
Look at this.
Not a Michael Bay film.
Not a Roland Emmerich film.
A real photo.
Real footage.
from a large, very developed, very beautiful Russian city.
As Ukrainian drones struck a logistics center that Ukraine said was doing logistics for the Russian military, who knows?
I don't know.
Called wild berries and what wild berries is, is the Russian equivalent of Amazon.com.
Massive logistics warehouse.
and this fire is insane.
It's still burning.
72 hours later, look at this.
Black toxic smoke that is making the resident's eyes sting.
Now the Russian authorities are saying you should wear a gas mask outside.
I don't see anything like this in Russia since Chernobyl, to be honest with you.
That was actually technically in Ukraine.
So I am no simp for the Ukraine war.
I hate the Ukraine war.
If it were up to me, all of these nations would be sent to the bottom of the sea.
I don't like these foreign countries that caused me and the administration so much pain and stress.
And I would rather focus on America.
I don't give a damn about Israel.
I don't give a damn about Saudi Arabia or about Iran or about Russia or about Ukraine.
I could care less.
I'm not going to visit those places.
I'm not going to raise my kids there.
None of it matters to me.
I want peace.
And this is exactly the horrors of war in the modern era.
unmanned drones are killing 90% of the people on the front line.
They're also taking ground.
It's a remarkable era that we're living in.
Ukraine was able to take back 100 miles of frontline territory using just unmanned vehicles and aircraft.
No men.
So they sent in a bunch of robot dogs and a bunch of robot vehicles.
ALX, can you grab me that?
Or Danny, can you grab me that, that Zelensky sort of explanation of all this?
And they didn't use a single man.
And the robots took back 100 miles of territory.
Huh?
Wait, what now?
These strikes are 400 miles into Russia.
And there's no doubt in my mind.
Of course, there is no doubt in my mind.
Ukraine isn't a real place.
It's not a real place.
It's not really a real people.
It's a total proxy war.
Our CIA is running that war.
That's been well reported on.
This is us doing this to,
Russia. It's not good. I don't like it. And you know, I hate it, actually. And there was only a matter of time before Russia starts helping out our enemies. And that's where we're getting. And this is what makes war so scary. And these global wars so scary. They're always so scary. Look at this. Again, this is what it would look like if somebody hit an Amazon warehouse near your home. How many Amazon warehouses are near your home? Well, there's like 50. You drive through
Florida, it's like nothing but Amazon warehouses in every direction.
Here you go.
Here's Zelensky.
Here's Zelensky saying.
Here's Zelensky saying, just pop this in.
Hey, for the first time in a war, the enemy position was completely captured by robotic systems and drones without a single man being harmed.
What does this mean, by the way?
What does this mean when it's, when there's no human cost to the battle?
like how much more tempting will it be to launch land invasions,
boots on the ground, when the boots don't belong,
when the boots are on Terminator robots and not on men?
And you don't have to do the dignified transfer that President Trump did yesterday.
So they're not going to do this for a robot body.
They're going to do this for a human being.
But what about these human beings that are driving the robots safely
in a trailer in Nevada,
and those robots are doing a full ground invasion,
the robots took back 100 miles of Ukrainian territory
from Russia, vice versa, whatever.
That's crazy, man.
What happens?
How much more readily will there be ground invasions
and boots on the ground if it's just robot armies?
Have we really, like, probably thought through this?
Yeah, I think we have,
because this is the way that it's all heading.
The last thing that you ever want is to have these troops sent home in body bags and caskets.
And look at that.
No, they're doing that.
That'll be released.
You know what?
They're going to pay a big price.
They're getting, they're being decimated.
And look at that.
Did you see that?
Donald Trump, he always, like, he always holds back just a bit.
This is Trump's face when he, when she says,
how are the Iranians suddenly targeting barracks where our troops are living?
You know, isn't that crazy that Iran, which, again, is the equivalent of, you know, there's like, there's creatures in the Odyssey that like actually just throw, there's like giant, the Lagastonians is this exactly?
Like they just throw boulders.
They're giants who throw boulders.
That's what Iran was.
There's throwing giant rocks at us.
And then something changed.
and in the middle of like out of nowhere,
the Iranians were able to strike right here.
This is Mwafa Salty Air Base.
They were able to not just strike the airbase,
as you can see, it's in the middle of an arid desert,
in the middle of nowhere, like in the heart of Jordan,
up close to the Israeli Bayter,
they were able to strike here,
this containerized housing where our troops live
and four service members lost their loss.
because Iran was able to fire such a precision missile at that exact location, and everybody
says, what the hell is that about?
Because they've never been able to do that.
While they can hit, like, the general regions, they haven't been able to shoot missile.
And the Sentincom is describing a very different type of Iranian ballistic missile that accelerates
severely towards the earth and then changes trajectory as it's about to hit.
It makes it very hard for our bad missile systems to take them out.
And so everyone's going, well, wait a second.
Like the cavemen didn't just suddenly discover fire.
Is Russia helping the Iranians launch and target American bases?
Iranian drone attacks on CIA facilities in the Gulf have prompted U.S.
intelligence analysts to investigate whether Russia is assisted in providing targeting information.
And these people spoke of the condition of anonymity.
There are four sources that said the U.S. intelligence officials are,
are trying to reach a firm conclusion as possible Russian involvement in the attacks on CIA facilities.
They said of the strikes effectiveness and precision as well as Russia's broader technical support for Iran possible evidence.
It has been reported that Russia is actually giving Iran targeting technology and shipping them technology for their missiles.
Reuters and other media have reported U.S. officials have acknowledged that Russia provided targeting and other support for Iran and it strikes on U.S. targets in the Gulf of,
region generally, but the intelligence community's investigation of possible Russian involvement
supporting the CIA facility attacks have not been disclosed. Two CIA sites were struck in Riyadh and
then in Iraq. This makes for a very, very awkward meeting this morning between Sergei Lavrov
and Marco Rubio, which just wrapped and it wasn't great. I mean, listen, this is supposed to be some type of
really important bilateral meeting between these two. And it kind of ended, it kind of ended,
well, with them both saying very different things. And then also it ended in like 30 minutes.
So no one's quite sure what went on. So Lavrov says we want to return to the Anchorage
agreements. These are the agreements, of course, that would end the Ukraine war. And Rubio is saying
the Anchorage talks failed.
The sides need to look for new ideas to resolve this conflict.
Do you think that we solve the war in 30 minutes over a conversation in Asia?
That's not how it works.
Uh-oh.
Secretary Rubio talking about Donald Trump's policy, which is not eye for an eye.
It is a head for an eye.
The other day say, or something about their policy is an eye for an eye.
The president's policy is a head for an eye.
I mean, honestly, that's what it's going to be.
I mean, they will pay a very heavy price for the things that,
They're already paying a very heavy price.
You guys don't know it because you don't cover it.
You're not in Iran.
You're not in the street.
They don't have a free media.
But they're going to continue to pay a very heavy price.
Their industrial base has been decimated.
Their defense industrial base has been decimated.
They're losing launchers.
They're losing radars every single night.
They are suffering billions of dollars in damage and their economy is a disaster.
But despite all that, these people who are calling us every day, begging, let's do a deal.
They send us messages through other countries, third countries.
I mean, they're running out of countries to send.
Even I had countries here coming up to me.
Oh, I have.
I just spoke to the Iranians.
They want to do a deal.
The problem is, every time these people do a deal, they either break it or after they make it,
they want to change the deal.
So they're probably not ready to do a deal yet, but they will be soon because the price
they're paying is very high, despite their tough talk and their flowery language and their
stupid Lego videos they put out.
I've never seen them.
They put these things out on social media.
Despite all that bravado, they are suffering tremendously, and they're going to suffer
more until they come to their senses.
They're not there yet, unfortunately.
All right, ladies and gentlemen.
I just want to let you know what's going on.
Another man who talks very tough,
but he actually can back it up,
is the great to coach Tommy Tupperville.
The coach is a big time,
we're big time fans of the coach.
He's going to be the next governor of the great state of Alabama,
a state that actually makes a lot of these ballistic.
Something I didn't know is that Alabama's so sharp
when it comes to the creation of ballistics,
uh, technology that runs NASA.
It's awesome.
And Coach Tuberville, somebody who's a huge supporter of all of that development,
will lead it through into the future and will be the nexus for whatever the next battle is.
And the coach joins us live right now from the Senate.
Here we go.
Senator, we're so thrilled to have a senator on.
We're so thrilled to know where you are.
We know that it's a tradition in the Senate to just disappear for months on end and never give an update.
So it's awesome to have you here.
I mean, it's amazing.
We found a senator, which is cool for us.
Yeah, yeah, this is a different place.
This place gets weirder every week up here, Benny.
Of course, we're being run by several rhinos and the socialist Democrats.
That's who's controlling the Senate right now.
There's 49 of us, about 48 of us,
that really want to get something done on the Republican side.
But we can't get leadership to do anything.
I mean, we're basically, you know, treading water.
And we'll be going home this afternoon.
We'll finish up the work week on Thursday as we normally do, and then we'll come back next week, and our wills wills will spin again.
But, you know, we live in a dangerous world.
As you just talked about what's going on over in the Middle East and with Russia and China, I'm sure Russia and China are both behind this missile that was targeted and killed our soldiers a few days ago.
And it's just unfortunate.
You know, they know, Benny, that the clock is running on President Trump.
They know that we're getting close to a election time.
And they're making things as difficult as they possibly can.
And our adversaries are all behind it.
Don't think it's just Iran.
It's all these people that are behind this nonsense to try to keep us tied up to where they turn our people against all the American people against President Trump in this administration.
But they are doing an outstanding job.
Yeah, we saw that in the documents that were released, that all the BLM and Antifa operate,
Those are all run out of Cuba, China, Iran, Russia, all of that stuff.
Like, if I saw somebody who posts, if you post as a black square, you're a Russian agent, as far as I'm concerned.
If you post a black square, you're like an agent of the Chikoms.
Because you fell for the actual op.
We now see it.
We can see it now in the documents.
That's what they were fomenting.
They were fomenting us hating each other.
Well, there's a lot of things out there that you can look at that you can kind of put together to make ends meet with it.
this, but there's a lot of people involved.
Again, there's people in our country involved with this.
And again, you've got the Democrats and the socialist communist party now that would give
up everything that we possibly have in terms of intelligence to put this president under.
Heck, they've tried to kill him three times.
So why not just bring the whole country down while we're doing it?
And it's scary.
It's really scary to see the people up here that hate this country so much they want to change
it to a globalist communist country.
But President Trump's not going to allow him to do it.
Marco Rubio, Pete Hicks, says, Scott Bessett.
we've got a great administration now that are doing an excellent job, and they're going to push forward with this,
and they're going to make sure that the American people have what they voted for, and that's for a free constitutional republic country.
So, yeah, tell me about Mondami. I've been really, like, bewildered by all this.
Why isn't he denaturalized, deported, and maybe even sent to Gitmo?
The reason I ask that is because you can see last week he tried to meet with the Iranians while they're killing American service.
members. This week he is attempting to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu. He's like a mayor of an American
city. He's not some type of warlord Muslim dictator. Okay. I know that's like normal where he comes
from, but it's not like normal in this country. And then he lied on his immigration form,
like his naturalization form. Like the American law says you can't naturalize communists. Like it's like
very clear about that kind of stuff.
Yeah, the guy's a thug.
And, you know, he came here eight years ago.
That's when I started running for this position.
It's amazing to me.
We allow a guy to come in this country just a few years ago,
lie about everything about on his papers to get into this country.
And for some reason,
we have enough people in New York that would vote for this guy
to run the largest and the most popular city in the world.
Just goes to show you how close we are
to lose in our country.
And he will, sooner or later,
he will do something more stupid than what he's done
to where we'll finally say, enough's enough,
go putting handcuffs on him, get him the hell out of here,
and send him to get him over.
Because the guy hates this country,
he wants to change it, and it's not going to happen.
It is not going to happen.
We're not going to allow him just because he's mayor of New York
to be able to change our Constitution and everything that we believe in,
that my dad died on active duty.
this country and I tell you what, we owe it to the people that have lost their lives,
they're given their lives or limbs to put this country where it's at. And we're not going to
allow a thug like this to change it and take us another direction. Yeah, I mean, like I remember
what they did to General Flynn with the Logan Act. So they're like, oh, you're talking to,
you know, he's the incoming international security advisor. So of course he should be talking with
everyone. But they got him for the Logan Act, you know, and and ruined his life. And, and
But we have reports that the State Department has to stop Mandami from meeting with the Iranians.
And I'm wondering, like, why shouldn't it apply both ways?
Yeah, we had a lot of people that were railroaded back in President Trump's earliest first term.
And General Flynn was one of those.
I've talked to him many times.
It was all a set up.
Again, we've got people that have infiltrated the CIA, the FBI, all our agencies, all these bureaucrats,
all these young people that have been indoctrinated into these socialism, communism,
syndrome. And it's just absolutely amazing to me that that we're allowing this to happen. But
President Trump's hands are tied to a certain point. But as I said earlier, these people will
screw up and hopefully we will lock them up and throw away the key because they do not deserve
to be in this country, even on trial in this country. Send them to Guantanamo and have the trial
down there, get them out of our country. So you, if you don't mind, a little bit of friendly fire here.
You're a coach.
It's very important that your team is strong,
that you run your team hard
and make sure that they're tough and ready for battle.
And Republicans are just not ready for battle.
You say that there's 48 or 49 senators
that are ready to do the right thing,
abolish the filibuster you've talked about regularly,
and then get the SAVE Act passed.
But there's like two or three senators
that refuse to do that.
And they're now running the entire Senate,
which confuses me,
because when it comes to leadership
and you have a leadership background,
isn't that the point of leadership
to be able to whip the,
metaphorically,
whip the people that are on board
and, like, get them on board?
Isn't that the goal?
Like, shouldn't we be able,
if we can't decide,
if Republicans can't do something
that 90% of Republican support,
then who's actually running Congress?
Well, the way I look at it is a little bit different
than what some of these traditional
traditionalists look at. They've been up here for a long time. The thing that I see here is people
believe in tradition. And I do too. I'm a traditionalist. But sooner or later, you have common sense
of looking at these 12 or 15 states across this country, Benny, that are not going to have fair
elections. It's been proven. They're going to have sanctuary cities. And what's the sanctuary city for?
It's not to take care of people. It's to make sure that they go vote for them when time comes to
have an election, that they have enough votes to overcome.
some candidates. So you have to adjust. It's like a football game. You have to make adjustments
as you go along. This country needs to make an adjustment right now. Needs to make an adjustment
in the Senate. Now the Senate would be easy because this is not a constitutional law. This is just a
rule of the Senate. We can break the rules of the Senate. All we have to do is get it voted out by the
rules and by the leader, but there's been there's been no appetite for that. And it should,
at least be talked about.
And we have these people that still come to our caucus meetings.
They still are chairman of some of the biggest committees in this country.
And surely to goodness, there can be some pressure put on these people that will not vote,
you know, for the Save America Act and say, listen, if you don't want to vote for this,
that's fine.
You're going to go to the end of the line.
You're not going to be chairman anymore.
You can run.
You can get elected again.
But we have to have people that run this country that believe in this country.
Again, it all goes back to one thing, getting reelected.
And that should not be the number one goal.
The number one goal should not be the whole majority.
The number one goal is when you have majority, you take advantage of it and you make the country better.
We have not made the country better other than the big, beautiful bill.
And hell, that came from President Trump in the White House.
We didn't do that.
It came from the...
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Quiet house.
I want to put up something from your colleague here that I find so disreputable.
and hard to read.
It's from Lisa Murkowski.
I'm not trying to create drama,
but I just couldn't believe this article.
Lisa Murkowski says,
I do support voter ID,
and I believe that only U.S. citizens should vote.
And I guess she expects people to clap for her
for saying that.
She's a Republican.
What the hell?
But then she's like,
but I'm against the SAVE Act,
because it creates,
it disenfranchises Americans.
What the hell is going on there?
She dislikes.
Trump. Let me interpret that for you. She does not like President Trump and she's not going
vote for it because he wants it. People in Alaska want voter ID. They have voter ID in Alaska.
And so the people that are voted against the Save America Act do not like the President of the
United States. Bottom line, game set and match. That's what it is. And so we got to understand that.
And so we have a majority here.
And those people that are that are holding that against the American people in this country should be brought into the leaders office.
And it should be talked about and in a very stern way.
Y'all want to change the rules?
We'll change them.
But we're going to pass this, the Save America Act.
We can't get anything done.
I mean, look, the Senate or the House passed it yesterday.
They put it in reconciliation and Save America Act.
Well, what's going to happen?
This Democrat parliamentarian is going to kick it out very much.
first thing. It's not going to be in there. I mean, we can play games all we want, but we have to,
we have to get this done because 15, 12, 15 states that are blue will never win them again
unless we make the elections fair. And President Trump knows that. He, he's been through it.
He's been sued, shot at, threatened, tried to be bankrupt, and it's all because he will stand
up to the Democrats and the communist country and the rhinos, by the way. Yes. Yeah, you're exactly
right, wouldn't leadership be? If you have a like problem player, isn't leadership like bringing them into your office and whipping them a bit? Like isn't, you know, isn't that the point? Like, isn't that the point, like, the point is to put some pressure on. And to fix, like, to find resolution. It's, it's just crazy to me. So they're just, so this is just vindictiveness against President Trump. Oh, there's no doubt. And, you know, I coach for a long time. And, you know, you work your butt off to win games. And you have to keep 100, 100 young men going to.
in the same direction to be successful every week.
And you're getting ready to play a big game.
And then you start running back, he goes out and gets in a fight and gets drunk
in a bar during the week of a game.
And you bring him in and what do you do?
You're going to let him play?
Well, heck, no, you're not going to let him play.
Because if you let him play, it ruins the future for the rest of those players on the team.
Same thing here.
You have people that are making decisions against, so 49 of us are wrong.
Four of them are right and 49 of us are wrong.
That is how this is going up here, and it's not right, and it goes back to leadership.
And again, we have four or five people that are in leadership.
They need to sit down and work this out one way or the other.
Just tell us, are you going to do anything,
or are we just going to sit here and let this country crumble?
Because that's what's going on.
Yeah.
Real quickly here, Coach, you always impart such wisdom to us on the show.
You do so with your Southern drawl.
People love you for that.
I saw obviously that in full measure at Auburn when we were at like a big stadium event for turning point.
It's great.
But you're a man in the South and you're beloved in the South.
And I have a clip here of, well, maybe the future leader for the Democrats in the Senate.
Who knows?
It's AOC.
And she happens to be trying out her own version of a Southern drawl.
I'd love to get your reaction to this.
We cannot afford to leave Tennessee behind.
We cannot afford to leave Kentucky behind, Alabama behind, Mississippi behind, Georgia behind, South Carolina behind.
What was that accent exactly?
Would that pass in Auburn?
No, she's just making fun of us.
You know, she's a bartender from New York that has built a reputation off of social media.
she's going to run for president and she'll have a bunch of people that will vote for just for simple fact that she goes out and she does things like this, makes fun of us.
She can make fun of the South all she wants.
But you know who's controlling this country right now?
The South is controlling it.
Most of the people in the military, Benny, are from the South.
Most of the people that believe in the Constitution and the future of this country are from the South.
We have some good people in other states.
but you put as she just brought up Tennessee Alabama Georgia Mississippi
Texas Louisiana Florida I mean you look at our base that's where our base is at
and most of our Christian values come from and are still there in those states
she's making fun of them she makes fun of everything that we do she came to Alabama
talking about this redistricting nonsense and she had maybe three people come out to her
little so-called rally okay she's not she she she she
couldn't get to first base running for dog catcher in the south. So I hope she runs for president.
I know we got to go here. We got to wrap. Real quick, as governor, are you going to, I think there's
one more pesky district in Alabama. Is that correct? There's one more gerrymander district for
Democrats. Is that correct in Alabama? Do I have my maps right? Yeah, we're, we're six in one state now,
and hopefully we can win that one seat back. And then we have another seat and we'll look at it.
when we get in the governor's seat and see what we can do because we are a,
we believe in the Constitution. We believe in God, family, and Constitution.
And if you're going to side with these communists, you don't need to be representing anybody in our state.
So you are committing right now as governor to making sure that you don't have a gerrymandered congressional ghetto in Alabama.
Yeah.
That's just handed over to the Democrats.
Represent your people.
That's what this is about.
If you want to get to Gerrymandering,
go look at what they've done in the Northeast.
My God, we don't have any representation up there.
But we're going to represent the people.
And representation of people in our state,
believe in God, family, and country.
And I think we can work on that and make it happen.
All right.
Okay.
Well, Godspeed.
Senator, thank you so much for your time this morning.
Everybody follow.
Senator, soon to be governor,
Tommy Tuberville.
an absolute American hero.
Thank you, Patriot.
Thank you, many.
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gentlemen, I want to talk about just really quickly what's going on and how much victory that
we've had in the culture wars. It's incredible. So Sophie Cunningham is a WMBA player who's famous
for the point. Do we have the point? Alex, we don't have the point. I'm going to literally
stand here and wait for the point. We're going to stand here and wait. Oh, there it is. Okay,
there's the point. There it is. Oh, yeah. Hey, oh, what up, Soph? So this has been memed 100
million times. Can we please grab the, can we grab like the greatest memes of all this?
It's free for all Friday, so let's do it. So Sophie Cunningham, uh, famous for her pointing,
also famous for protecting Caitlin Clark, it's a national hero, former Iowa Hawkeye, like me.
And she just gave an interview to ESPN, where she said the thing that we have all been waiting
for a female athlete to say are like for the last 10 years of a fever dream, where these poor
female athletes have had to be like, have had to shut up and sit down because men are there to beat them up.
That's what we've just lived through. So let men domestically abuse you and your daughters,
your wives, your kids on the court, win Olympic gold medals, and you're not allowed to say anything
about it. And that's what happened. And the women were like cold into silence. It's totally
and completely beautiful. I love that. Totally and completely evil. And now, Sophie Cuttingham,
who's at, by the way, the height of her fame right now, says, I got a lot of negative feedback when
asked about the trans issue by ESPN. And I'm like, hmm, don't care. I think that I'm here to extend
love, but I also think that love is truth and being honest. And I want to protect young girls in
a locker room, young girls in a sport who shouldn't have to go against a biological man. Now, why is
that important that Sophie Cunningham just said that. And she doubled down on it actually when asked
about it in an interview here. The reason why it's important that she said that is because,
one, it's the breaking of the fever dream that men and women are the same and that mentally ill men
should be allowed to go out and beat up women or to change with them in a locker room. Obviously,
that's just pure perversion. It's a crime. It's actually crime, right? So not only is it a criminal offense,
but also from a cultural perspective,
not just criminal perspective,
from a cultural perspective,
to have the most famous WNBA player saying this
and being able to base it on truth.
Notice how she says it here.
Love is truth.
So what is truth exactly?
Truth is the first book of Genesis.
God maketh you man and woman.
That's what he says.
God makes man and woman.
He makes them distinct.
He makes them with different roles.
He makes them different, and that's, by the way, biological reality.
Certainly, there are some very strong women, very fast women.
But the reality is that men, on average, are much stronger, much faster, much taller, much bigger, have faster twitch muscles, have very different muscle growth capacities.
Women have other, by the way, advantages biologically.
Women have higher endurance levels.
The way that oxygen, the way they can reoxygenate is faster than not.
men. There are biological advantages, disadvantages, whatever you want to call them, we're just
different. And that's just the reality. And we're different down to our very bones and down to our very
cellular structure. Like, it doesn't matter what you put into you, but it doesn't matter how
many times you're cast as Achilles, right? Like, when an archaeologist digs up your bones,
they'll look at the chromosomes and say, up, X, X, X, or X, Y. You were a woman or a man.
And he ain't going to be able to change that.
So that's like, it's so wonderful to see somebody with such fame.
Say this.
Here's Sophie Cunningham.
I can't wait to talk with legendary Auburn basketball coach, Bruce Pearl about this.
Here she is.
But same vein in that story with ESPN, you talked about wanting to protect young girls who shouldn't have to go against biological men.
Just can you expand your viewpoint on that?
I mean, I think I said what I said.
I think it's kind of common sense.
And I think I'll always believe in that.
I think it's really important to protect children.
And that's little girls who are also involved in that category.
And so I stand on what I said and I always believe that.
Do you see your advocacy on that like taking any form going forward?
You know, I don't know.
I didn't, I'm not a very political person, but I do have beliefs.
I have morals and I'll always stand on those and be true to who I am.
And I think people are going to take it how they want to take it,
but I've never even really said anything about that.
And so when it comes just to protecting young girls in sport and women,
in sport. I feel very strongly about that. I think that's why you have Title IX. That's why
you have some of the grades in women's sports. This is us winning the culture war. A man who's been
winning and continues to win for 11 seasons as the Auburn Tigers men's basketball coach,
now currently at America First Policy Institute, working on the American Dream, faith, and family.
Bruce Pearl, ladies and gentlemen.
It joins us live now.
What up, coach?
What's up, Benny?
How strong is Sophie?
That's winning right there, man.
Incredibly strong.
I can't wait to get your take on this.
So the floor is yours, coach.
I mean, this is, I think that's being very understated,
how powerful it is at the single most popular female athlete and meme on the internet
making this stance for common sense,
a stance that, by the way,
would have gotten you deplat if she had said that a couple years ago you would have been
deplatformed and now it's mainstream and libs have no answer to that well benny thanks to you and many others
this is what the silent majority looks like okay this is how most americans feel we just don't
talk about it as much as the other side does uh good for sophy um what would you do to protect your
wife what would you do to protect your daughters like like like anything and that's how every man
in this country should feel about our young girls and their ability to participate in sports right now.
Benny, back in the day when you grew up in Iowa, they were playing basketball differently than
five on five. It was still the old three on three and this group played on offense.
There was something. That's all changed now. But women should be able to play in women's sports
and be great and be champions and get treated the same way that the men are treated.
But they've got to be separate. Otherwise, it is not safe for our.
girls and our women to be able to be able to compete. And so good for our country that we've finally
got in a place where we can have this discussion. I'm proud of our universities. I'm proud of
Title IX as the basketball coached at Iowa at one time in Tennessee and Auburn, different place
like that. We recognized that we were filling up our stadiums and we were making some revenue
and a lot of that money went to fund the non-revenue sports, the Olympic sports. And yes, the women's
sports. It was the right thing to do then. It's the right thing to do now. And good for Sophie
Cunningham for standing up and saying what we all think. Please, what is your, you know,
you've, of course, been around college sports for three decades, correct? And so you've seen
athletes come and go. What does it say to have an athlete like Sophie Cunningham out here saying this?
Well, I think it gives others courage and hope to be able to continue to say that. You know,
Benny, when I was at Auburn, we said that we were sort of an everything school. To whom much is
given, much is expected. I was always going.
to other sports, getting my teams to go to those other sports and supporting them.
And I'm old enough to remember at a time when, you know, where the women were not treated
fairly and their ability for opportunities for scholarship, their ability to be able to
be able to beat.
The money just wasn't there.
And it's there now.
And it takes great players like Caitlin Clark to be able to go into the WNBA and in two years
become one of the best players, one of the best female players on the planet.
it and knowing that, you know, where is, where does she stand? It's all about her faith.
It's all about her work ethic. It's all about her being grateful that this country gave her
and other women the opportunity to be able to participate. So I think this is fantastic.
I'm happy for my daughters and I'm happy for my grandchildren.
Seth of Kettingham is now becoming quite a rock star and a role model, actually.
Well, she is. And there's a bit of sadness to that.
You know, sometimes you get thanked for simply just doing the right thing or being a good person or trying to the things that do that God would have you do.
You're not doing them for the thanks.
You know, you do them for God's glory, so and so forth.
But it is a shame, many when simple conduct, simple statements like that, we actually need to take time and praise it because it's so rare nowadays.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
Just a final question about this.
Like, what would you, what would you say to Sophie Cunningham as a coach?
coach. Because some coaches would be like, stay away from that. Don't touch that issue. You're going to get bad
headlines. Obviously, you're going to get a ton of hate. You get death threats, right? This very
violent contingent of society. Well, Benny, I think they say don't talk about religion and politics.
Okay. You know, the greatest way you could hurt somebody's feelings is to ignore them. So if we don't
talk about God, if we don't worship God, if we don't pray, if we don't have conversations about how we believe
about the Lord, we're ignoring him. And that hurts his feelings.
more than anything else because he wants to be in that relationship.
We should be able to talk about politics.
And we should be able to talk about it in such a way where there are some things that we can agree to disagree.
But we need to be able to have these conversations.
We need to be to have them peacefully.
And we need to be able to have them civilly.
And there's no other country in the world.
Well, there are a few others, but not many where those freedoms exist.
So you'd be proud of Sophie if she was your player right now.
A hundred percent.
And, and, Benny, you've got to be intentional.
You have to be intentional.
If you come to the Auburn basketball camp as a young boy,
you're telling me that someday you might want to be on the floor and play for Auburn basketball.
So you know what we do the very first day at camp?
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My players are lined up. And we sing the
Star-Spangled banner. We sing God bless America.
Why do we do that? Because that's what my
players do before every single game with our right hand over our heart with our left hand behind our
back if you want to come to play for auburn you're going to honor the flag before the game if you want to
come this basketball camp this is what we're going to do and these are the things we're going to
teach when my team was banging down threes and dunking so and so forth we didn't have a lot of geriatrics
we did this this was calling god when my guys were banging the three they were calling god i was getting
emails benny from eight-year-old parents of
eight-year-old girls going, coach, I watched my daughter, she was in a game, she knocked out a
three and she calling God. Again, these things, this was intentional. This was intentional. She was
calling it out. And I think that's something we all should do. So the state of sports in the country
has really broken quite a fever dream. The sports were the tip of the spear in order to, I think,
drive wokeness deep into the heart of society, starting with, of course, Kaepernick taking a
knee for the national anthem that expanded to basketball in quite a significant way.
So, Tweet in my timeline this morning, I was actually looking for it right now, that they stopped
all NBA 2K players from playing just so that you could, on a digital format, like make the players
like kneel for BLM. It was insane. Like, if you didn't live through the woke era, it'd be hard to
really describe it to people.
But it seems to be a reversal there.
You didn't see any of that at the World Cup.
You didn't see any that you saw a lot of love for Team America.
You saw nothing but an outpouring of pure patriotism.
You saw no real politicking on the team either, which is wonderful.
Like, I don't need all the players to be wearing MAGA hats.
I want them to just love America.
I want them to be wearing the flag, right?
Can you talk about the greater state of the like sports landscape and where it's moving?
Well, I agree with you.
And I'm grateful that we are beginning to move in our direction.
You know, some people say they don't want to have, you know, any politics and sports.
That's just not realistic.
We recognize what our job to do in sports and entertainment.
That's what our focus is, is winning championships and training,
the accountability and the discipline, so and so forth.
But at the same time, if you're going to wear the Auburn jersey
and you're going to represent your university and the alumni and the people there,
you've got to understand what that means.
A lot of things that are happening with our young people, Benny,
I don't blame these kids.
I don't blame the student athletes regarding NIL and all these transfers.
I don't blame sometimes when kids do and say things that I'm embarrassed by,
that anger me tremendously.
Part of it is because we've not taught them.
So what have we taught at universities?
What have we taught in high schools that we're not allowed to honor the flag,
that we're not allowed to sing God bless America?
God's not allowed to be in our school.
What message does that say?
And then as they get older, how do they act?
You're a young black student athlete.
You've been racially profiled.
You've been driving by black.
You felt, you know, you felt racism.
It's just a fact.
The question then becomes, do you want to use dishonoring our flag as an opportunity to protest?
Or how about this?
Let's honor our flag.
And then let's raise money so that students that are qualified who maybe look like me,
have an opportunity to come to school with me.
How about doing something positive like that?
My team's always stood for the flat.
At the same time, I always recognize some of the challenges that my black student athletes,
90% of the kids that I coached were African-American men.
And what I had to do many is make sure they understood, yeah,
they're going to be obstacles to your success, but there aren't Roblox, not in this country.
These can all be navigated.
But we're not going to dishonor our country in order to bring out protest that things aren't perfect
as we try to become a better nation.
Yeah, like, people are allowed to believe whatever they believe,
whether it's completely fake, which most of it is,
uh, or,
or whether it's completely put upon or sci-opt or the data has been
completely and totally broken, bent and manipulated in order to make people think
that they're oppressed, they're not.
Uh, but don't bring that to the sports field.
Like, again, like, I don't, like, the, the goal, like, the way that you,
the way that you stop like a Dylan Milvaney Bud Light situation is to not put
Dylan Mulvaney on the can, not to put like Donald Trump on the can, you know, and like a MAGA,
like a MAGA version of it. Like the point is to just do the thing you're supposed to do.
Play sports, right? If you want to run for politics, you should run for politics. You should go run for
office, right? If you want to be a politician and go be a political activist, but don't bring that into
the sports arena, whether it's left or right, as far as I'm concerned. And don't bring in movies,
Hollywood, entertainment, you know. But when you wear the USA, when you wear that uniform, you are
representing your country. And so therefore, I do think there's a level of responsibility to
act accordingly. And then, you know what? When you're off the court, okay, for me as a coach,
I never bought my political beliefs to the court. I coach my team. But when I was off the court,
as you well know from follow me on social media, you're going to know how I feel politically,
about faith and about family. And isn't it beautiful that we can do both?
in this country. Totally. I just like again like there should there should be arenas for both.
Right. And like I think that with us so much that we've lost in the country. That's why I asked
this question is so like profoundly important. We're having like there's like a big debate raging
about the Odyssey right now because this Hollywood director took this timeless classic written,
you know, before the time of Christ and and and and butchered it and made it into something like
modern and woke. And, you know, do you have the right to do that? And what does that say about
modern society? And, you know, I think people just want to be entertained and not lectured to.
And there needs to be pressure release valves in society. And sports is one of those pressure
release valves. And if you go to a sporting event to like chill out and you get nothing
but messaging, nothing but like political propaganda, you like get rid of that time for all of us
to be together and root for Team USA. And I think that's, you know, it's critical to have those things.
And wouldn't it be awesome if we could bottle the energy around just go hawks or War Eagle or Roll Tide or the passion of our states and our universities around athletic competition?
If we could take that same passion and translate it into faith, family, and country, we continue to be heading in the right direction.
And I think we're getting there.
I really, truly do.
We just got to make that transition.
You can follow Bruce.
He shouted himself out on social media.
I mean, you can follow the guy, but I got to put up a social media post for you.
Just get your reaction here, Coach.
This is remarkable.
I don't know if you're, I don't know if you are sub-tweeting for the White House right now or not.
Klein, yeah, the wrong post up.
There you go, bud.
I don't know if this is like you running the White House account.
I don't know.
It says MAGA.
And it says the caption is, POTUS knows ball, elite ball knowledge.
what do you think were you advising the white house to post this and it's Donald Trump of course
shooting threes with paper towels no I don't work for the white house I don't I don't work for anybody
uh I love my country and I what I love what president Trump uh is doing uh you know as a basketball
coach Benny um and I did I entered the arena of politics while I was coaching again with my social
media account. And I came out in support of President Trump, strongly in support of President
Trump. There were articles written in USA Today and on CNN that said, why would an African-American
ever play college basketball for Bruce Pearl? Why? Because I felt like Kamala Harris was not
qualified to lead our country. I didn't like her policies. I didn't like the way she treated
I didn't like her foreign policy. As an American Jew, I didn't like the way she treated
Prime Minister Netanyahu. And I didn't trust that she would stand with Israel against terrorists.
And so I made those feelings no off the court.
And I got blasted, okay, for supporting President Trump.
You understand what that feels like.
And I did so at risk to my own career.
But guess what?
There were plenty of players that still wanted to play for me.
We won five SEC championships in eight years.
We went to two final fours.
And so if somebody didn't want to play for me because of my political views
or because I was a proud Jewish American, that's fine.
there were other players that they that did and uh i wish the i wish the other ones i wish them
good luck well you had a great run of good luck and you're doing incredible work right now at
afpi everybody should support that work and follow bruce pearl uh here's the coach of social
media perhaps you already follow him i don't know ladies and gentlemen he's got 200 000
subscribers here on x he's a man who's just a spitting knowledge elite elite ball knowledge just like
uh donald trump shooting threes with the paper towels
I love that. I love that. I know the guy who runs that account. And I was like,
Alex and I were texting. I'm like, this is elite content. It's elite content. Well done.
All right. Thank you, Bruce. Godspeed. Come back soon.
Thank you, Betty. Advantage gold. Come on, man. Come on. Golden era.
Ten years ago, a dozen eggs would cost like 50 cents.
Dollar. I've seen eggs below a dollar. I've seen dozens of eggs below a dollar. Have you?
I've seen gas below a dollar.
I've seen things.
Okay?
I've seen McDonald's dollar menu.
Are you ever seen one of those?
Were you ever gifted?
Were you blessed enough to see the McDonald's dollar menu?
Hey, Alex, grab the McDonald's dollar menu.
Can you?
Like, were you, were you blessed enough to see it?
Ooh.
It was a different America.
It really was.
I watched my country change overnight.
It was bad.
It's bad.
It's like we went to war.
We did go to war and it destroyed everything.
It's very sad, actually.
You don't have to run your currency into worthlessness.
That's normally, though, what happens with world currencies.
It all gets destroyed.
It all collapses.
It all goes down to its basic element.
Oh, there it is.
Oh, man.
That's painful.
That's painful.
You can pop it up.
Boy, look at the country that we had.
Not too long ago, either.
What are we talking here?
Like the year 2000?
Look at what you could get.
You could walk in with a $5 bill and get like a $3.
recourse meal at McDonald's. I'm not sure it was healthy for you exactly, but the
McDouble was actually incredibly healthy. McDubble was, they did studies that the McDowell
had actually the most protein per cost, like per penny spent of any food on the market.
So well done. But those days are done. So I encourage you to invest in something that actually
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Golden era.
Lock and load.
We asked Brandon Gill or Jim Banks if they could pop on the show.
I know Brandon was already on this week.
They introduced brand new legislation for ending birthright citizenship.
The children of illegal aliens, which is awesome.
And I'm a huge fan of this.
And so we haven't booked for next week.
We've also some really exciting announcements for next week.
We have some huge guests, and it's going to be an exciting week.
So get ready to lock in.
The Citizenship Act would exclude all illegal invaders from birthright citizenship.
This is exactly what we need.
The Supreme Court has failed us.
But don't you worry, we will keep fighting on.
And we're, frankly, better than we've been in a very long time.
Things are looking up.
I really do believe that.
I really sincerely believe it.
I have a lot of faith.
We're going to be heading up east.
We've got some meetings in Washington, D.C. on Monday.
and traveling with my kids, show them some original 13 colonies Americana this weekend.
I had some, you know, had like some nostalgia during July 4th.
And I was like, okay, well, we should start telling our kids are old enough.
We should start telling them the story of America.
So that's what we're going to do this weekend.
What are you going to do this weekend?
We haven't done a Benny in the chat for a long time.
And I keep saying that this is what we got to do more of.
Well, stupid me, why aren't we doing more of it?
So let's do it right now.
Let's go for a couple minutes.
We should do this like every single show.
And I'm upset.
I should like stop.
I should be like one guest to show and the whole rest of the show is in the chat.
And we can just like talk about what you want to talk about.
So ALX.
I want.
Yeah.
I want to let's just do like 10 minutes.
I'll just take comment.
We'll just do comments for 10 minutes.
So let's rock and roll.
Here we go.
What's up?
What up, chat?
Okay, here we go.
We do get a lot of chats.
So give me just like, give me a second.
We'll start with the starred.
Long live Marcus Rubius, first of his name from Avalos.
Yep.
Correct.
I think that Marco would make a great president.
I'm a big time a team JD fan.
ALX, do we have any other good like Marco Rubio clips?
ALX got like a ton of Marco Rubio clips.
We were only able to get like three of them up.
And we were only able to play one of them.
Alex, we got on any other good Marker Rubio clips from today.
Marker Rubio, of course, meeting with the Russians today.
United States should not be sending, no, no, no, well, I know you have clips.
Tell me, is there like a really, is there like a good one, you know, that's like consistent with what we've been talking about?
Let me know.
And if it is, then pop it up.
United States should not be sending
See, this is a you directed show
Like as we always say
And I appreciate
I appreciate everybody like taking it easy on us
As we move studios
As we rebuild
As I want to spend a little bit of time this summer
With my kids
So we don't do a show on Friday this summer
Letting us kind of like
Letting me kind of like have like a little breather
From going live
I love it
And like get us like
Rested and relaxed and locked in
okay for what's about to happen because what's about to happen is about to be gangbusters
gangbusters marco rubio goes off on a reporter okay because you asked the marco rubio question
here we go we have a marco rubio clip for you this is a this is a chat driven show this is a chat
driven show and believe me through the 28 election this will be the show where you are part
of the show okay so here we go marco rubio
targeting those troops?
Well, who says that they are?
Are they not?
Who says they are?
Peg said the knowledge that Russia was enabling in some ways, Russia and China.
Yeah, but that's a different question for what you just asked me.
Who said that they're doing that?
Reporting in the media?
Yeah.
Oh, then it must be true.
It's in the media.
It's a leaker.
I'm not going to, let me say, let's imagine that we're true.
I certainly wouldn't discuss it in the press.
I've already told you guys yesterday something and I was very clear about it.
Nothing that Iran is doing, nothing that anyone's doing to help Iran is in any way increasing
their ability to target Americans.
What you need to all understand, because we've explained this repeatedly, is Iran has spent the better part of 20 years, not just sponsoring terrorism, but building long-range rockets, short-range missiles and drones.
And they were intending to build them a lot more.
They were intending to double their stockpile.
The stuff you're seeing them use now, they were going to double that.
And they were going to use that and hide behind that to say, we're untouchable.
We can now do a nuclear weapon, and you guys can't touch us so we're overwhelmed your air defenses.
So Marco Rubio is saying, like putting down the rumor that Russia has.
is helping Iran. Now, we know as a matter of fact, it was reported by a ton of credible outlets,
including Fox News, that Russia has sent Iran technology to help in the targeting of these missiles,
the firing these missiles. Is Russia actually launching the missiles, right, or assisting in that
direct targeting? Rubio seems to slap that down and then slap around the reporter a little bit,
which is awesome. Mark was doing great, man. Marco's doing amazing. What do you think,
Marco or JD?
I love asking this question.
What do you think, chat?
Are you the Marco team?
Are you team JD?
I got to be honest with you.
I'm team JD.
I really like JD vans.
I really like Marco Rubio.
To be perfectly frank with you,
I kind of hope that they run as a ticket.
And I know this is not a novel idea.
Donald Trump talks about this a lot.
But we've got to know JD.
We've got to know his team.
And this is not anything against Marco Rubio.
Marker Rubio has been a guest on our show,
multiple times. He's joined us live.
One time I think from the gym, as he was like wearing a backwards baseball hat.
And whatever, we have nothing but love, but Marco Rubio.
I view J.D. Vance is the most valuable player for President Trump.
And that's like without question.
That's without question.
I view Marco Rubio is the most improved player.
I am shocked at how good he is at Secretary of State.
He is no doubt our best Secretary of State we've ever had in my lifetime, for sure, right?
in my lifetime. He just runs circles around everybody else. Awesome. So I love them.
Maybe as a ticket. Here we go. Senators, Congress, unable to think of anything. Tell them all,
detain them and all in Gitmo. I love that. That Gitmo line is going to fly from Tuberville.
That Gitmo line is going to fly. And we just want to say thank you for the gift of membership,
remember for 15 months. Wow. Thank you, Ron, the Don Smith.
Best show in America, the Benny show.
Let's go, baby.
Let's do some live comments.
It's kind of hard because they roll in really quickly.
Maybe my producers.
Can my producers jump in and help me out a little bit here?
I am not for Darling Graham.
She's going to be a female version of Lindsay.
I mean, she's literally a female version of Lindsay.
I don't like birthright senatorship.
Can I just say that?
that's what this is.
This is birthright senatorship.
I don't like it.
I don't like the whole like,
we'll just replace the...
This happens all the time in politics, by the way.
This is not some new thing with Linda Graham.
The guy died, so we'll replace him with his wife, right?
Or his mistress, you know, takes the seat.
No, that's not the way it should be.
And I don't think that...
But that's more like English nobility,
like Houses of Lords kind of thing,
like the title travels through the family.
That's not this country.
Thankfully,
the people of South Carolina will be able to vote what they think.
But I don't really like,
frankly, I don't like that.
South Carolina is a dark red state.
We've already seen a rhino problem, of course, in South Carolina.
I don't speak ill of the dead.
I'm certainly not going to be some type of like,
like some guy that crashes out on Lindsey Graham or anything like that.
You saw, like, I certainly disagreed with him.
He's an extremely talented politician.
And I knew the guy.
Like, I'd worked with him before.
It's a nice guy.
Okay?
It's a nice guy.
But I don't believe in birthright senatorship.
That's what this is.
Oh, it's my right by birth because it was my brother.
I don't think so.
I don't like that system.
I don't like it when it's the wife or the mistress or the maid, okay?
Which I think we're all well aware who's pulling the strings with Mitch McConnell right now.
I'm not wrong.
Right.
Thank you for the honest.
truth, says Joanne Frazier.
Well, thank you, Joanne.
This is, we have a blast doing this.
No more female replacements, please.
I mean, honestly, guys, like Amy Coney-Barrott's been a problem.
Here's crazy today.
Amy Coney-Barris, been a problem.
That's just a fact.
Been a problem.
There's like a, there's a different appeal.
There's a different sensibility.
We talked about the differences between men and women on the show.
God designed women differently. They knit together differently. And you can appeal to
emotionality, children, emotional arguments that aren't grounded in fact, that aren't grounded in,
you know, choosing the better, harder, more brutal choice, but for the common good,
that kind of stuff can really get muddled when you're pandering with emotional language
and arguments.
And that kind of stuff,
like science proves it
appeals more to women, obviously.
This is why there's something called femcoded.
And soap operas are fem coded,
daytime television are fem coded.
The view is fem coded.
And the arguments in our politics
then become suddenly fem coded
and you can manipulate based on that.
And so, yeah,
there you go.
People are saying that she's no good.
Scrolling with Haley.
I am Haley, Karen.
Mia, I scroll with the homies here in the live chat because there's a lot to scroll through
on X, on Instagram, on TikTok.
Cutting through the clutter, one hot take at a time.
Love seeing you all in the chat before the show.
I tried to jump in just a few minutes before to say hello.
I love the chat interaction.
Thank you for helping.
But I do it to get all of the videos and all of the content that you won't find anywhere else.
Scrolling with Haley.
Just search that up and I will be there.
Follow and listen on your favorite platform.
Uh, oh man.
we go. Everyone is so angry at the way that I pronounce nuclear.
Nuclear. Am I saying it right now? ALX.
Nuclear. Nuclear. Okay. Nuclear.
I think I say it right, but everyone gets very angry at me and says you're saying it all wrong.
Look at this. Great comment here from Rumble. And the last comment was from Rumble too.
Pence just wanted to get along and be nice to Democrats, and then the election was stolen.
Correct.
This gets you nowhere.
It gets you nowhere.
People who are trying to do this whole, like, you know, people who are trying to do this whole, like, kumbaya thing, right?
Chip Roy was on yesterday.
I don't know if you saw the show yesterday.
Chip Roy was on, and he's like, Abigail Spamberger, you know, she's like the, like, evil witch communist who's
charge of Virginia now. And it's done everything to just destroy Virginia and to do disenfranchise
Republicans and to run with a guy that wants to kill Republican children. And she's an evil
monster. She's a monster. And Chip Roy was like, but we wrote legislation together. Shut up,
Chip Roy. Love Chip Roy. But like, shut up, dude. You should be disavowing her, you know?
Like, you should be disavowal. Like, this is, this humiliation, like what she's doing right now, how
she's governing that state. And what? Like you, like you, okay, so she wrote some legislation to ban stock
trading from you. But then look at what happens, uh, when she's actually allowed to be her true self.
Nuclear. Nuclear. Nuclear. You can pronounce it any way you want, says fangor. Thank you. Fangar.
I'm not saying that dismissively. It looks like you're an incredible scuba diver. And also, thank you.
Yes. Look at this, Marco. People want Marco, although they spell it wrong. Is everyone going to jump on, is everyone going to jump on Debbie Machinas, 1682? Everyone to jump on her because he said, I can say nuclear any way I want, nuclear. My production team is no help. They're no good. They're no help. I'm asking for a pronunciation. I think it sounds right in my ear. I come from Iowa. It's supposed to be a place with non-regional diction. Iowa, Iowa,
is where they send broadcasters to learn how to talk as boring as possible and to say words
correctly. So I'm pretty proud of that, that I think I have some, like, I think I have a pretty
good tempamberance of like, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, you just like talk like a Midwesterner,
right? Everyone can sort of, you know, roll with it. And, uh, man, apparently that's the one.
Everyone, like, is, everyone's very, everyone's, everyone rips me whenever I say the word nuclear.
Never go full return.
Never go full nuclear.
Nuclear.
Nuclear.
All right.
Okay, here we go.
How about we in renew patriotism, says Ed Brown.
Yep, agree.
Okay.
I have a bunch of old school games to still play.
This is from Old Fart.
Well, thank you, Old Fart from Rumble.
What was your favorite video game?
What's your favorite old school video game?
There was an old school.
So when I would go to the original Red Hut, Pizza Hut, I'm sure you had one in your hometown.
I had one in my hometown of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
I'm actually from a small suburb of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the middle of truly nowhere called Shoeville, Iowa, if you are familiar.
So that's where I was raised.
Shoeville, Iowa had one gas station that was also the video rental shop.
That was also the pizza place.
So all of those things.
And the donut shop.
That's all in one gas station.
Anyway, exciting times.
And when we would go into the big city, which was Cedar Rapids, there was a pizza hut.
And we would go to that Pizza Hut.
And there was an X-Men game.
And that's what we would play.
It was awesome.
And it was a huge treat when I'd get a quarter to go play the X-Men game.
You know, the old school, like maybe you can find the VIII.
video, like the old school X-Men that were, like, walking across the screen. It's like 2D, you know.
What is the original X-Men arcade game? Friking awesome. Do Wolverine sweet Cyclops? So cool.
Ah, I don't know what games you would play. Do you have a favorite old arcade game? Are you from the
Pac-Man era, right? What era are you from? You know, are you from like the Jurassic Park
Jungle Hunt era? Yeah, this was it. Yep, this was it.
This was it.
This is my old school game.
This was like, this was the thing.
Man, if you got, you got some, you got some stuffed crust pizza,
stuffed crust pepperoni pizza, and you just played this all day.
You played this all night.
Folks, we are winning.
I want Adam Schiff in prison.
Pac-Man.
Here we go.
Now we're going to do gamer stuff.
Okay, let's go.
Bring it.
Camer stuff, let's go.
And I want to, like, begin by saying I'm not a gamer, all right?
So if you're going to talk to me about some console or some system or some Fortnite thing, not that.
I can't.
I don't.
I don't.
I do this all day.
I don't have time to do that.
I have kids.
No hate.
This is not a hate thing.
But I don't have time to that.
Pac-Man is my favorite old school video game.
Benny Johnson says Patricia Holman Holly.
It's pretty cool, right?
Thank you.
Thank you for backing me up.
And then still, thank you.
Lori, Burgess, for backing me up.
I can't believe anyone cares how you.
I say it with three syllables.
Nuclear are.
Nuclear.
Nuclear.
Okay.
Here we go.
Caterpillar.
Missy Miller says caterpillar.
Lucy says asteroids.
Liz P. says Gallagher.
Nice.
These are some good ones.
Ah, here we go.
They love Charlie.
What up?
I haven't talked to Jay Love Charlie in a one.
Well, I will reveal the old X-Men didn't come out until I was 10.
Well, wait a second.
When you're 10, they love Charlie.
That's exactly when you should be playing X-Men.
I don't think you should be playing it before then.
It's somewhat violent.
Make arcade games great again.
That's exactly right.
Wow.
Gallagher, nice.
Wow, nerd.
Tony says, no.
Tony calls us a nerd.
There we go.
J.D. Marco, 2028.
Okay.
Space Invaders and Centipede.
There you go.
Oh, come on.
Look at this.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, that's right.
The old arcade, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, so awesome.
Yes, so awesome.
Shoeville is a real place.
People are like, no, Shoeville sounds fake.
Leanne Shoeh.
How many Shoehys are in Shoeville?
Okay.
Klein, get it for me on a map.
Klein just pulled up.
Shoeville has a population of 700 people.
at the time of the 2020 census.
Okay, cool.
I'm from a town of 700 people.
Asteroids, ah, nice. Donkey Kong.
How could you forget Donkey Kong?
Polly Mouth, 9630.
Here we go.
There it is.
When I say the middle of nowhere, I mean nowhere.
It's like, that's where I'm from.
Where are you from?
You're from somewhere or you from nowhere?
Most people in America are from nowhere?
Shueville, baby.
It's now on PS5, old Marvel games, cool.
Oh, Pong era is Naplesan.
Pong, come on, man, Pong's awesome.
Greetings from Mount Vernon, Iowa.
That's not too far away.
The Japanese fighter games were fun for two players.
Japanese fighter games.
Joust?
I'm seeing lots of Pac-Man here from Clyde.
Pac-Man Machine at the Pizza Hut.
I get a photo of what that used to look like.
You guys remember like that?
It was like so greasy because it was like a low game.
It's not exactly what we wanted to like talk about today, but why not?
I remember the first Space Invaders game says Rasa illusion.
When it arrived at the bowling alley, did you have the high score, Rasa?
Did you have the high score?
I went here. Love you, Benny. Love you back. Love Street. Love you back. Got some Gallagher here from Daysboy. Days Boy says Gallagher. Lady Liberty says Pac-Man. Did you ever get the high score? Pac-Man? Were you able to get to like the arch level that's like almost impossible to beat? Come on. Paperboy. I remember that. The gold game boy game. Paperboy. Yo. If you're for real, you remember that. And get
Galaga, Christine Michelle,
remembers that. Pinball, there we go.
Toledo. Toledo Jess says pinball,
those pinball machines are tons of fun.
Do you ever see a pinball machine?
It's kind of hard to find them out in the wild these days.
Dude, pinball machines are tons of fun.
Look at that.
Look at that.
I have never seen the actual Pizza Hut Pac-Man hybrid baby.
Pizza Hut and Pac-Man went on a
tasty vacation to Cabo San Lucas.
And they had an all-inclusive.
And they went Marlon hunting, romantic nights on the beach,
and they came back with a baby.
And here's the baby that they made together.
Look at the...
I've never actually seen the hybrid version of that.
That's not a pizza hut?
That's an impressive pizza hut.
That's an impressive pizza hut.
Very impressive pizza hut.
There we go.
Asteroids.
Pac-Man asteroids.
Yep.
A quarter is five bucks today.
It did.
It cost a quarter, though.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Arcade game was the
She
right dude James Compton
Teen Teen Teen Teen Teen Teen Teen Teen Turtles
arcade game wasn't incredible
Mortal Kombat was awesome too
I just don't know
I don't know
It's like impossible for me
Again I dust
I don't have
I don't
I don't oh that's so cool
Like pop that up
In case we're feeling
nostalgic here
Producer Danny has an incredible
has an incredible little bit of news for us.
It is a news show after all.
Pizza Hut.
Hundreds of Pizza Hut locations will be bringing back retro Pizza Hut.
Red roofs, actual huts, red cups, nostalgic dining experiences.
Show me those dining experiences, please.
Oh yeah, baby.
Yes, give me the lamps.
Look at all those places.
Are you near one of those?
Look at all those in Iowa.
Nice.
Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri.
Are you near one of these?
Are you in Montana or North Carolina, Ohio?
Quite a few in Oklahoma there.
South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas.
Look at all those in Texas.
Come on, baby.
Oh, yeah, here we go.
You can play some space evader.
Bring back the old arcade games, is what I'm saying.
Bring back the old arcade games.
Your worthless is telling me, Benny, it's on PS5.
now, okay. Look at these, the hybrid Pizza Hut arcade game. That is so awesome. Man.
Till my 40s kick the balls hard. It says Kibbs else. Is that a game? Hmm.
Okay. Centipede, Donkey Kong. Fighter Ace. I was ranked 46 in the world. Whoa. That's pretty
impressive, honestly. Playing against the autists of the world. That is very important.
impressive for anger.
Bring back giant console games.
Yes.
Bring it back.
What was your high score on Centipede?
They love Charlie.
Did you do it?
Gen X remembers Pong.
That's right.
Too old for arcades.
All right.
Well, was it a pinball?
Red Ron?
Was it pinball for you?
FJB.
Red Ron?
Dragonslayer was the ultimate.
I'm not familiar with Dragonslayer.
Does that make me a loser?
I don't know.
I'm not familiar with that one.
It was not available in the C.
Rapids, Pizza Hut.
Okay.
All right.
Personal pan pizza.
That's exactly right, Joshua.
That's exactly right.
Ooh, okay.
We'll end it with this.
I wanted to just like,
I wanted to just like maybe,
maybe have a little, like, chill out
with the chat.
Street Fighter 2 was awesome.
Two things I want.
I love what you just sent, okay?
But I want to show the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle gameplay.
Does anybody,
Does anybody understand, like, exactly how elite?
The X-Men, X-Men was what I had at my Pizza Hut.
But Elite was being able to find a Teenage Mutant and Turtle arcade game.
And can you show the gameplay for that?
If you want to talk nostalgia, man, is, like, my favorite.
Some Street Fighter, some Atari.
Oh, come on, dude.
Come on.
What is happening?
Is it Shredder?
Look at that.
The foot soldiers, the foot.
Yo.
I thought it was a turtle.
I thought it was a turtle.
I went back and forth between Donatello and Raphael.
Those were my favorites.
And I thought it was a turtle.
And what's amazing is that my parents,
while it was cute,
but I thought that,
my parents never once bought me a terrarium to live in, right?
And got surgically attached a shell to my back.
Isn't that neat that kids could just sort of live
in innocence and imagination with other parents mutilating them.
Cool.
That's kind of like what being a kid is.
And then those kids grow up and they get, because they are stable human beings and they
learned eventually reality that I'm not a turtle, now I can provide childhoods for my
children and not mutilate them.
Also, it's a wonderful cycle that we get into.
Uh-oh.
Bebop.
Rock's Eddie.
Oh, boy.
Are they going to win?
We don't know.
It's tough.
It's tough out there.
Mean streets.
It's actually what it looks like in Mondami's New York.
This is actually...
I had no idea this was set in 2020,
Mondevi.
Okay.
Can you believe it only cost a quarter?
Sherry Ann, you remember that.
I bet you do.
I bet you do remember that it's costing a quarter.
Combat asteroid.
Man, people saying Pac-Man at Pizza Hut, was it?
Mortal Kombat.
I made a character named Shalomnally.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
Well, I didn't realize that there were so many, like,
I didn't realize that this had such a rock paper scissors.
I didn't realize that I'd touch on something here.
Yeah.
I didn't realize that people would have such great opinions on this.
Okay.
Awesome.
I'm sorry if this wasn't.
your thing. I know that it is a, I know that it is a, like, I'm obviously showing my age here maybe.
I don't know. But there was a America that was much better country and a much better place,
and we can go have it back. We can have our homeland back again, by God. And this was part of it.
Being able to hear's what Sputnik says. Back in school, we would take the girls out on a date,
go to a movie, Pizza Hut. You could buy a beer back then at 18. Big pan pizza.
Pick pitcher of beer, good times.
And what did it cost Spudnik?
I bet it costs you.
It's like 10, 20 bucks maybe for the whole night.
What it cost you?
Now, that's the Pac-Man game that I remember.
The one with the big, greasy, like, glass top.
Sit there with the joystick, bang, dang, dang.
What did it cost you?
It cost you?
It cost you 20 bucks, maybe less.
Movie, pizza, beer, and you bought the whole thing?
Yeah.
So, like, the point is that this is elite,
culture. This is elite culture. The good old days says days boy. Yeah, that's exactly right.
And we should, that's right. That's right. Lori Lewis, everybody had a quarter. Even poor kids had a
quarter. Yes, that's right. Even poor kids, like the minimum wage was like five bucks.
And so your mom could give you like a dollar and you could play four video games on that.
We should get that back. We should get that back. President Trump wants to get it back. President
Trump was in a pizza hut commercial.
here we go
I think this is the right thing for us to be doing Yvonne
What will people think?
Let them talk
Dono, Anna, Ivana, Ivana, Ivana
It's wrong, isn't it?
But it feels so right
Then it's a deal?
Yes, we eat our pizza the wrong way
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I have the last slice
Actually, you're only entitled to have
Large is $999.99.
$9.99.
Large pepperoni stuffed crust pizza.
It's like probably $20 right now for one of those.
I don't know.
Is there pizzaflation?
I'm not sure.
Can we get the Trump McDonald's ad with Grimmis?
That's just my all-time favorite.
And then we'll close it all down.
Then we'll close it all down.
Sorry, guys.
You're just having too much fun.
I want to, like, I just love the chat.
And because we talked about the dollar menu.
We put the dollar menu up.
We talked about the dollar menu.
We're talking about Pizza Hut nostalgia.
Pizza Hut maximalist.
Dollar menu maximalists.
Here we go.
Our president's seen it all.
He's been literally a part of it.
Here we go.
I don't know how you do it.
I put together some really impressive deals.
But this thing you've pulled off.
It's amazing.
A big and tasty for just a dollar?
How do you do it?
What's your secret?
Got a bird.
Rock, you're in luck, because you can get a delicious, beefy, big, and tasty, a mchicken sandwich,
and lots of your other favorites on McDonald's dollar menu.
Together, Grimmis, we could own this town.
Now, actually, that's, go to the last frame of that, go to the last frame of that.
That's what it would have looked like if President Trump had run with Chris Christie.
That's what the ticket would have looked like.
this is what it looks like if this is what it looks like before Donald Trump threw Chris
Chrissy out of the window metaphorically this is what this is fun this is this is what this is
this would have been the ticket there's a lot of talk about that there's a lot of talking Chris
Chrissy was still relatively popular there's a lot of talk about that so this is this is this is
what that ticket would it would look like yeah yeah too bad now now this is what it's
going to look like when Donald
Trump
sends Latisha James to jail.
This is what
is got
he's got.
He hated donut.
On the David
Letterman show.
What are you doing from?
Real problems there.
Real problems.
I ran into Chris Christi the other day at the
Amtrak station in D.C.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's not a great advertisement for OZemPEC is all I will say.
What is a, this is an advertisement for term limits.
Mitch McConnell, will he step down from the Senate?
There's our poll, ladies and gentlemen of the day.
It was at 83% on July 7th.
83% since it's now collapsed.
Mitch McConnell keeps posting these proof of life photos.
Everybody keeps saying that they're AI.
ALX says they're not AI.
I don't know.
I'm split.
Once a day I send ALX like a Mitch McConnell,
AI like proof of life photo and say, is it real?
Is it real?
Help me.
Still, though, it's at 40% that he will resign before his term.
Ladies and gentlemen, we resign ourselves to the glory of the Lord.
And that will keep us strong from Proverbs 198, our verse of the day.
The one who gets wisdom loves life.
The one who cherishes understanding will soon prosper.
every morning I get on my knees.
It's the first thing I do, and I pray for wisdom.
I pray for strength.
I pray for wisdom.
And those are the things that I ask God for.
And I think that's what you need in life, especially if you are trying to fight for your kids and trying to fight for your country.
And so that's what we're praying for, ladies and gentlemen.
And that's our prayer for you.
and that you will cherish understanding and prosper,
and that you'll march with us on to victory.
A reminder, ladies and gentlemen,
that we don't have a show on Friday.
We're just going to do that for the summer,
just to have a little bit of a decompression time with the kids.
My kids are young and little,
and we want to enjoy that time.
And so we say blessings to you
and have an incredible weekend
in this, the greatest country on earth.
Godspeed.
Remember we're going to win Patriots
and we'll do so
by bringing back
the original pizza and those
archaided games that I didn't realize
our audience loved so much.
A great weekend.
See you.
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