The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - FCC's Brendan Carr Responds, Sen. Rand Paul & Turning Point's Alex Clark Joins Us

Episode Date: September 18, 2025

Dana reacts to the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel and explains why this wasn’t government censorship of free speech but a business decision from a private company. The media and Democrats react to Kimmel’s suspension, calling it “cancel culture” and a Constitutional crisis. Mark Zuckerberg's AI glasses demo was an absolute train wreck. President Trump pays tribute to Charlie Kirk while visiting the UK for a State Dinner. Dana explains what the FCC actually does and what it means to have an FCC license. Barack Obama claims he never went after his political opponents in the wake of tragedy. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr joins us to respond to reports that he personally ordered Jimmy Kimmel to be suspended, the truth as to why it happened, addresses calls from House Democrats to RESIGN and much more. Sen. Rand Paul joins us to break down the Congressional hearing with the CDC on the truth about vaccine information, Big Pharma’s current influence, his efforts to truly balance the budget and more. Alex Clark from Turning Point USA joins us to react to Erika Kirk being named the new CEO of Turning Point USA, the changes she’s had to make since the tragedy, “Culture Apothecary” and more.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…Boll & Branchhttps://BollandBranch.com/danashow Level up your sleep with Boll&Branch. Get 15% off your first set plus FREE shipping. PreBornhttps://PreBorn.com/DANA Or DIAL #250 Say the keyword BABY. That’s #250, BABY. Together, we can save lives — one mom and one baby at a time.Relief Factorhttps://ReliefFactor.com OR CALL 1-800-4-RELIEFTurn the clock back on pain with Relief Factor. Get their 3-week Relief Factor Quick Start for only $19.95 today! Byrnahttps://Byrna.com/danaGet your hands on the new compact Byrna CL. Visit Byrna.com/Dana receive 10% off. Patriot Mobilehttps://PatriotMobile.com/DanaDana’s personal cell phone provider is Patriot Mobile. Get a FREE MONTH of service code DANA.HumanNhttps://HumanN.comSupport your cholesterol health with SuperBerine and the #1 bestselling SuperBeets Heart Chews—both on sale for $5 off at Sam’s Club. Boost your metabolic health and save!Keltechttps://KelTecWeapons.comSee the third generation of the iconic SUB2000 and the NEW PS57 - Keltec Innovation & Performance at its best.All Family Pharmacyhttps://AllFamilyPharmacy.com/Dana Start today and take your health back with All Family Pharmacy. Use code DANA10 for savings and enjoy your health, your choice, no more waiting, no more “no’s.”

And on a separate issue, free speech, your Vice President Vance said that free speech is under attack in the UK. Do you agree with him? And Prime Minister, we saw the dismissal of a very well-known chat show host in America last night, Mr. Kimmel. Is free speech more under attack in Britain or America? Well, Jimmy Kimmel was fired because he had bad ratings more than anything else. and he said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk, and Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented person. He had very bad ratings, and they should have fired him a long time ago.

So, you know, you can call that free speech or not. He was fired for lack of talent. I, God love Trump for saying that. Seriously, because we all, I heard that question. This was, I think this was after we were off air, and I remember, you know, we heard that question. and I thought that's it's not even remotely the same. They're not the same thing at all.

We're going to talk a lot about that today because they think a lot of people don't understand what free speech is and by a lot of people, I mean the left. And I don't think that they understand the First Amendment and I don't think that they understand the consequences as it pertains to speech when you're working for someone and they have like a clause in their contract where they're like, yeah, you can't really just say whatever you want to say. without there being any kind of consequences to it. That's not a free speech issue. We're going to dive into that because, look, I'm a free speech purist, but that's when it's an argument of free speech, but this is not an argument of free speech. It's not at all.

So that's, we're going to, like I said, we're going to dive into it. We'll dive into it. So, but that was POTUS who was speaking. He had a great visit, right? right yeah visit with the UK he was met there when they arrived and I think this is huge by the prince and princess of Wales and then he met the king and the queen over there and they had this big state dinner and then they they played the anthem and they I mean it was just really nice all around Trump was like super nice in his remarks I watched those he mentioned you know from the

UK we got the Magna Carta and he you know it was a really nice address and it looked like everything was decorated to his tastes. Got to say, a lot of gold over there. Could you, I was trying to get over the length of that table. My gosh, it was like my family at Christmas or Thanksgiving. It was a long table. But it was incredibly significant in that they had never, so the fly pass that they did, I think I mentioned this yesterday.

Well, it was expected and it was correct that they had U.S. and U.K. jets that flew together. The reception that he got was unlike anything other than any other, any other leader. has gotten. I don't mean just like any other American leader. So that's hugely important because one of the big things that he met about with Kirstarmer today was how the UK needs to stop buying Russian oil and gas because you're funding the thing that you're criticizing. And he was talking about oil prices

here. If these oil prices go down, which they're going to, et cetera, so they're making energy deals. I thought that was great. That's exactly what I wanted to happen over there. Exactly the conversation that I wanted to happen. So that is, you know, a silver streak in this abysmal fecal storm that we've had for the last

two weeks. So let's hit Jimmy Kimmel here. Jimmy Kimmel, if you, I don't, I've not watched, I have not watched a late night show in golly. I, I actually don't know. Kane, when's the last time you watched a late night show? It wasn't this year.

It was, I don't even think it was last year. I'm trying to think who was hosting that we watched, if I remember. Of the three, I think Jimmy Fallon was my favorite. And I think the last full show I've seen was a Jimmy Fallon show. But I'm thinking two years ago. Yeah, I think, yeah.

My point being is that it's a dying genre. And I think that's why a lot of, and I bring that up, not, you know, I bring it up because I think that's why a lot of people don't know the stuff that Jimmy Kimmel says because nobody watches it. Nobody watches it. That's one of the reasons why Jim, oh, the other Jimmy. Geez, they all have the same name.

They can't even get people with. different names. That's why Jimmy Fallon always did these like short digital bits. So anyway, I wrote about this. It's in the, it's in headlines. There's a couple of pieces up. The situation with Kimmel, so after he said what he said, and I don't know if you guys are familiar with what he said, we had played it. And he went out, well, we played it when it happened. I, he went out and he acute, well he said that the killer for the Kirk, the Kirk assassination, he said that the killer was Maga, it was some right wing maga kid, is what he said.

I mean, he's 22 years old, not a kid, but whatever. Said that he was some right wing maga kid and that basically blaming the right for the death of Kirk. Okay. So that's what he was going with. And he said, I mean, these are his words. It's nobody else's words.

They're his words. And he, he said other things as well. I'm going to, look, I will say this. He had also said, blah, blah, blah, that it was awful, et cetera, in a separate soundbite. However, he also said, went out and said, yes, this was a right wing, it was a right wing, maga guy that did it. And that was the line that was crossed because he had been, he said some pretty horrible things before. And everyone's like, golly, that's just awful. But going out there.

Look, this is the left that did this. So don't sit here and tell me, well, the right needs to not be like the left. I don't think you guys realize that we haven't yet suspended the rules of the old regime yet. Are you paying less taxes? Oh, you're not. Okay, then. Do you have the Epstein files? Oh, you don't?

Okay, then. So we're not exactly operating under a full regime change yet because you have to weed out all the little bastards at all these little agencies. So that's where we are. So these are their rules. They wanted to follow these rules. In fact, they wanted you to follow these rules so much. They don't want to follow these rules for themselves. So they said that after what he had said,

NextStar, which is a communications company and owns a lot of these networks, they said they are not, they're not going to air his program. They're not going to air his program. And then after Next Star, Sinclair, here's Next Star statement that Juan is showing you. If you're watching us do the radio show, Channel 347 DirecTV, or the chat at Rumble or on X or Facebook. You can see it there. So this was the first statement that came out.

And they said that we are not going to air in light of his comments, et cetera. Now, they did not say, notice what you did not see in that statement. You did not see the FCC told us. The Trump administration told us. Brendan Carr told us. You didn't see any of that. And so. After Next Star, Sinclair released a statement.

Here I have it now. Which is very similar saying the same thing. You know, in light of his comments, et cetera, et cetera, you know, blah, blah, blah. And then ABC sees this. And ABC goes, oh, my gosh, we can't, we can't have this. So they pulled him. Now, he's not fired. He's suspended, what is it, indefinitely, I think.

He is suspended indefinitely. And this was after, again, Kimmel said that the Maga gang was trying to score points and they took out their own guy. That's literally what he was saying. He said that they were, quote, trying to characterize the kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them. And he went off on it for about five, ten minutes. Now, if he would have just, you know, been his usual despicable self, that would be one thing. But ABC, Next Star and Sinclair, who the last I checked are not government agencies, they decided that it. it was too much for them and they didn't want, they didn't want to have, they didn't want to be

associated with it. They didn't want to be associated. So this was a private business decision that I see it. That's how I look at it. It was a private business decision. Now, I am trying to wrap my mind around the people who are insisting that this is somehow a First Amendment censorship issue. keep in mind that these people, and my friend made this point, they're more upset over Jimmy Kimmel getting suspended than they are Charlie Kurt getting shot in the neck. Clearly, with the left, they don't understand employment agreements. The entire reaction that they're having right now rests on the assumption that the FCC and the administration behaved the same that Democrats did with tech companies when they came down and threatened and pushed and. threatened and bullied. There are receipts. So please, dear heavens, don't be the drive by that, denies it because there are receipts out there. And by receipts, I mean literal emails where

FCC commissioners, FCC department, FCC staffers are emailing with various members of Congress and extorting them to put pressure on platforms like the Apple store with parlor or Twitter with conservative accounts that are simply questioning the COVID narrative or questioning the efficacy of the latest injection. They want to. Facebook to put pressure on political associations that have Facebook pages and different individual accounts that they said spread COVID. What's the magic word? Misinformation. They assume that the FCC behaved as Democrats did with the IRS and T parties. Going after T party groups, preventing them from assembling lawfully so that they could try to go

and get them with a violation of federal elections campaign financing laws after. they assume their entire reaction assumes that that that these that the current administration is doing exactly what the Biden administration did in suing reporters in persecuting reporters in wiretapping reporters or laundering disinformation from actual Kremlin spies through reporters and then getting a FISA warrant without any substance or legal bearing at all whatsoever to go and spy on people because of their politics. So the left's entire reaction assumes that Democrats are, that this administration is doing exactly what Democrats did. Absent, unlike those examples, there is no evidence of any of that here.

Absent any evidence of that. I assume that ABC Next Star and Sinclair, who are all their own companies and not government agencies, once again just to clarify, that they made the decision to do this themselves. Now, the left is apoplectic. They are so upset over this. So upset. And some are saying that this is the end of free speech in America. I thought the end of free speech was when they were shutting down thousands of voices over the Hunter Biden laptop.

I thought the end of free speech was when they were firing people for asking questions about the jab. I thought the end of free speech was refusing medical service to people. people who were voicing dissent with having to get the injection before they receive said medical services. I mean, I could sit here and go on and on and on. So I guess what I'm saying is that I just don't take very seriously these cries of protestation. We're going to talk about this more and get into the weeds with it a little bit. Also, Turning Point USA announced that Erica Kirk is now the new CEO and chair of the board after being unanimously elected. They said in their statement, And prior discussions, this is what Charlie had expressed as to what he wanted in the event of his death.

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You really do think that they're going to do that? They should be more aggressive. I'm getting real like Charlie Brown and Lucy vibes here, man. Yeah. And rightfully so. But they should be way more aggressive than this. We've been saying this for like six months now. So when are they actually going to be so? I mean, we're like, oh, well, we're there. I think we might do.

We might approve a quarter point cut. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We might approve a cut. Okay, well, like, when? I just turned into Charlie from always sending Philadelphia. Because I feel this way, though. I'm like, gosh. Let's see, the FBI arrested a man after a car crash into a field office gate in Pittsburgh.

I'm sure it was totally completely by accident. Totally, like, not, just saying. They, a driver ramed into the entrance of the car. compound draped an American flag on the gate before fleeing. They made an arrest after hours long search. They were able to take him into custody. He's of a suburb of Pittsburgh, and they didn't provide any other details. They think it was a targeted act.

You think the guy literally ran, he had to turn down one road to get to the FBI facility off of another road, and then just ran his car full speed at the only gate that's on the road, and you think it may have been a targeted attack? Golly. Wow. So great. also the sun is waking up I hope it burns us to death

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This is a red line that has been crossed for our industry, for the First Amendment, for the right of people to speak. there was nothing hateful about what was said. And even hateful speech is protected. This is not acceptable. If you are going to run a media organization that's called a news organization, you have to stand up to government bullying anywhere in the world and certainly in the United States. Well, how do they, I'm just trying to figure out, and that's Van Jones, what he's talking about with like government bullying?

Because I didn't, I mean, did you guys see any kind of government bullying? I didn't see any government bullying. I didn't see anything from the FCC. I didn't see anything like that. I didn't see Brendan Carr trying to put pressure on Joe Biden, or Trump. I didn't, or Trump trying to put pressure on ABC. He would say, oh, I hear Jimmy Kimmel's next or something like that. But let's be honest about it.

Do you guys know what Jimmy Kimmel's ratings were? Okay, so his ratings, his ratings were actually worse than Colbert. Deadline Hollywood had talked about his tough ratings like some weeks ago. There are several that, and he's apparently livid over all of this, but at the same time, he had a major drop in viewers. And I'm looking at a couple of different, these are like actual industry reports on this that come from ratings and viewership, etc. So according to Nielsen, he, cold.

Colbert was beating Kimmel. That's... Wow. He was... I mean... Actually, Colbert was beating... Yeah, Colbert was beating Kimmel. That's insane because Colbert's ratings were really bad.

They were really bad. And this was even... Let's see. Even before Colbert left, he was actually dominating Kimmel. Okay, so... This also... seems kind of like it's sort of like how Colbert was very upset and how people, you know,

Colbert was let go because he ultimately was not bringing in the eyeballs to sustain their ad rates. I mean, I got to tell you, it kind of seems like Jimmy Kimmel's the same here. Am I wrong? No, Dana, you're not wrong. You're totally right, Dana. You're totally correct. It just seems like that's kind of exactly what happened to. That's what Colbert did.

Colbert wasn't getting the eyeballs in. I'm looking at this. There's a couple of things. Jimmy Kimmel's, his show, slipped. So Colbert actually almost had a million more viewers. This tracks into the most recent key 18 to 49 demographic with Nielsen Data in quarter two. This is while Colbert was still in air. I mean, he was dominating.

He was beating Kimmel. And he and Fallon would kind of go back and forth. So Jimmy Kimmel's ratings were lower than that of Stephen Colbert, who already had bad ratings. I think that Disney and ABC were looking to offload him and that they're just using this as an excuse, honestly. I mean, because that is, that is, you know, that is bad. His ratings. What I'm going to do is I'm going to put this piece in your prep email for you subscribers so that you can, I mean, it gets into the numbers of it. You're probably going to find it boring.

it's still rather enlightening considering, you know. I mean, it's very enlightening. So that he can get as mad as he wants to, but it doesn't seem like the problem is Trump and the FCC or this administration. All Trump did was say, Great News for America. The ratings challenge to Jimmy Kimmel show is canceled. Congrats for ABC, blah, blah, blah. Kimmel has zero talent, et cetera, et cetera. That doesn't mean that he got involved and put pressure on it. That just means he's gloating about it after. He's gloating about the business decision after. Look, if there was evidence that you had this administration in any way even remotely getting near to what the Biden administration did, that's one thing. But there's that there is no evidence to that. And frankly, I don't want to hear

people like Van Jones and all of these other folks say this is a red line that's been crossed for our industry. Did you guys say that with Gino Carano? Did you guys say that with Roseanne? Did you guys say that with Matthew Marsden? I mean, do you want to run down the list of all of the celebrities that have been blacklisted because of their political beliefs? I mean, just look at what they did to Sidney Sweeney over a denim ad. Do you honestly believe that these people give a rat's backside about it? You know, the line's been crossed. The line was already crossed. By you. You crossed it. Eric Swalwell. Oh, wait, here's, we played Chuck Schumer throwing a fit, didn't we? We played that already. Correct. Is that what we played?

No, audio somebody 14. This is him having a tantrum. Go ahead and he's so livid over this. Senator Schumer, your reaction to this. It is outrageous. It's a page right out of Shee's playbook. Wow. This is just despicable.

Disgusting. Real quick. I'm so sorry, Juan. Juan's going to hate me right now. I'm really sorry. Okay, so he's invoking Xi Jinping. You mean the Xi Jinping that you guys literally rolled out, literally rolled out the red carpet for in California,

and you threw all the homeless people out into the woods, and you went and cleaned up the streets just for the brief moment. that Xi Jinping was in town. And then he literally flew the communist sickle of the CCP flag right next to the Stars and Stripes when he came because you were so busy kissing his big old CCP butt. Really? That, okay, go ahead. Sorry.

Senator Schumer, your reaction to this. It is outrageous. It's a page right out of Xi's playbook. This is just despicable, disgusting, and against democratic values. Trump and his allies seem to want to shut down speech that they don't like to hear. that is not what democracies do. That is what autocracies do. And it doesn't matter whether you agree with Kimmel or not.

He has the right to free speech. And so it is just outrageous. It is indicative of autocracy. And I am just outraged by it. Again, this is what dictators do. This is what she would do. This is what Putin would do. We are not that country.

So like, what did he do? Does he think that ABC and Nexstar and Sinclair are a government agent? does he think that that's part of the Trump administration? You guys know ABC is so conservative, right? Oh my gosh, so conservative. Come on, people. Come on. This is so ridiculous.

It's not, like I said, that's why I don't view it as a free speech issue. I don't view it as that because it's not. Now, again, show me where the FCC put pressure. But this is the line that the media, this is all they want to push. some bite 15. Tater, I mean, Brian Stelter, he says this as well. He's been, he pushes this narrative. They are not learning. They're not learning. Listen to this. And then we're talking about comedy. This is so serious, Aaron. America is a less free place if late night comedians cannot do and say what they want.

Of course, they can be tuned out. People can change the channel. That's how we vote. That's how we have our say in America. But this really does have a chilling effect across the American media. And it's not just me saying that we've heard from the group fire in the past few minutes, the free speech group fire saying, quote, the government pressured ABC and ABC caved. Quote, we cannot be a country where late night talk show hosts serve at the pleasure of the president, but until institutions grow a backbone and learn to resist government pressure, that is the country we are. And just one more note, Aaron, I've heard from running. Wait, so he's like insisting that there was government pressure. But where was the government pressure? I'm curious as to whether or not they all had this

same sentiment. This is flashback audio, which cut is this? Because there's a million. This is when Kimmel was laughing about Tucker Carlson being fired. This was pretty crazy. You guys remember this? Audio sound by eight. Listen, this is from 2023. Fox News has severed bow ties with Tucker Carlson. After all these years, they are parting ways, which means he was fired. I mean, that's really what parting ways means. Tucker couldn't be reached for comment. He's already on a plane to Moscow to meet with his manager. But what a shock.

I mean, what an absolutely delightful shock this is. Now Tucker can spend more time at home tanning his testicles and touching himself to that sexy green M&M. Sadly, he's probably not done poisoning old people's brains. The question now is, where will he do it next? Will he go to OAN? Will he go to Newsmax? Will he crawl back up Satan's fiery beehole from,

Once he came, we don't know. One of the most despicable Mother Tucker's ever to appear on American television. I'm curious, do they find, where were, where was everybody at that moment when they were taught? Where were the Van Joneses and the Brian Stelters when they were saying that, oh, my gosh, a line has been crossed? Where was that? Where, I mean, I'm just curious. Yeah, that's right. I didn't hear anything from any of them then.

By the way, more Kimmel audio soundbite 9. Speaking of cancel culture, this is about the most canceling of cancel culture I can imagine. Listen. Hospitals get any more overcrowded. They're going to have to make some very tough choices about who gets an ICU. But that choice doesn't seem so tough to me. Vaccinated person having a heart attack? Yes, come right on him.

We'll take care of you. Unvaccinated guy who gobbled horse goo. Rest in peace, wheezy. Oh, line has been crossed, blah, blah, blah. These people, they don't really believe this. The only reason they're saying these things is because they think you, because they know you believe this. And they're hoping that you're stupid enough to think that these are the same things. But they're not, though.

They're not the same thing. The guy sucked in his time slot. He was not performing well for his employer. I think that because his ratings were worse than that of Colbert's, I think that Disney and ABC were trying to offload him. I think they were looking for a way out. There was a lot of rumors about it for the last couple of years. And this even predates Trump's second election, right? he's been struggling for a long time. Keep in mind that Jimmy Kimmel was never the funny one.

When he got started in comedy, he was always the second banana. That's like an actual, he was like the Ed McMahon to Johnny Carson except. Ed McMahon was funny and had some talent. Jimmy Kimmel's just an oaf who put women on trampolines and yucked it up over everything Adam Carolla said. He'd never, nobody like you, if Jimmy Kimmel wasn't on the man show, you had no idea. nobody and nobody watches clearly as evidenced by the ratings nobody watches his show now but the only reason that all of these people on the left are saying these things is because they know you value free speech they themselves don't and they think that they get a pass because remember when you can call everything a Nazi when you can call everything fascist then you can justify using whatever power you have as a way to disadvantage your opponent See, this is all linked into their rhetoric. And now you have the media amping up the rhetoric again. They're acting like the First Amendment is under attack. They are acting like this is an assault on free speech. Oh, my gosh, it's a constitutional crisis, except for the fact that it was literally three businesses that chose to make the decision independent of the government. And unlike, once again, the Biden administration and the tech company,

and the IRS and the Tea Party and the COVID purposeful disinformation campaign that they were trying to launch and say that people asking questions were traitors. Despite all of the evidence and emails and paperwork

that proved that, there is nothing that in any way, even remotely proves their argument that this was from the Trump administration. If it was, I'd be one of the first people to call it out.

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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States. Um... Boss, WhatsApp video call. There we go. Uh-oh. Let's see what happened. That's too bad. I don't know what happened.

Um... Maybe... Nerd glasses don't work. All right. Well, I got a missed video call. Okay, there's the actual video call. All right. I'm just going to pick that up with my neural band.

It's not working. This is, uh... It's what happens to be your lizard. It happens. Yeah, let's, uh, what do you think? Let's just go ahead and... I would give up at this point, bro. Uh...

Let's go for a fourth. Oh no, really? Just... Just, what are, what are you have? All right. Try it again. I keep on messing this up. Wow.

Wow. This is not inspiring confidence in the nerve glasses. Okay. So basically, I love the, I guess you wear the glasses. That's his perspective and the glasses and you can answer, like, your phone and all that. Who would want to do that? I don't want to answer my phone now. Here's a new way to get annoyed by people who want to talk to you on the,

this damned device. No, no thanks. No thank you. I just, I don't know. I guess I thought that it would be a little bit more like Robert Downey Jr. and Iron Man when he was like able to go presto change, like right in the middle of the room and, you know, you had screens floating around everywhere. I guess I just thought it would be more like that. But I don't like the glasses. Guys, you can have all of these, you can do all of these things, but you have to wear these god awful glasses on your head. Cane wears blue light glasses already. If they came in blue light, would you wear them? You would look at you. Why would I? No. I don't want RF radiation around my head. There it is. Remember, Kane answers the phone by putting it down, touching the button, putting it on speaker, and then running all the way across the room to shout at the phone.

I don't run. I just walk. And then he shouts at the phone. He won't hold it near his person. You make it fun of me. It's not going to change how I do. theoretical though because you just carried around when you're not on the phone like you're still getting stuff and signals and all that with it that's true yeah i'm saying it's unavoidable oh my gosh those nerd glasses are not gonna that's not at least they're better than the giant goggles where everybody looked like they were getting ready to go ski but only on their heads like they had to wear those giant i mean it looks nerdy if we have a bunch of people that start walking around and all of that make bullying great again come on all right so coming up the latest we're going to get into some of the FCC stuff because a lot of people apparently don't understand the authority that Brendan Carr has. Also, do you guys remember when Deke Barrett had to leave? He announced Jimmy Kimmel's show for 20 years and he was forced out because he wouldn't get the injection. You know, cancel culture. Cancel, but it's cancel culture, Dana.

It's ABC fired our Messiah. It's cancel culture. It's not, though. It really isn't. I think this is what they call the FO of the FAAFO stage. We got a lot more on the way. Second hour coming up. Stick with us.

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pharmacy.com slash dana code dana 10. Just last week a great American Charlie Kirk was heinously assassinated for speaking his mind. He was a great young man. Incredible future. Some people said he might be president someday. I told him, I said, Charlie, I think you have a good shot someday at being president. And he just wanted to take care of youth. He loved youth. I've never seen anybody relate to youth like Charlie. And they related to him.

And they're devastated. But I appreciate the many British citizens who have offered their condolences. And again, Charlie was a great person. We'll be going out to a service on Sunday. I'll be leaving with some of the people in this room just to celebrate Charlie and all that he's done. So incredible. Never seen anything like it.

I love that he brought that up while he was at the state dinner, and that was Potus, who was there at Windsor Castle last night for their big state banquet, which they really rolled out the red carpet for Potus as a way to underscore the close relationship between our countries. Welcome back to the program. I'm Dana Lash. We're at the top of this second hour. Coming up, I know we're going to have Senator Rand Paul. and after playing Jenga with time, I think we're going to have FCC commission, correct? Yeah, that's happening now. Okay, so he just became, he's, so he's going to be on at the bottom of this hour. We're going to talk to him about some of the Kimmel's stuff.

But I, and by the way, the chat's at Rumble, and you can also watch us do radio on Channel 347, direct TV, as well as X. I mean, we're up at X and Facebook, too. So I love that he said that, and I love that he brought this up here because it also highlighted the problem that the UK is having with free speech, because they arrest people. if you hurt their feels. That's actually something that's happening. Remember the video, I thought one of the most egregious ones, well, they arrested a comedian for making a joke on X. That actually happened just a couple of weeks ago.

But then remember the little girl who was like, how old was she? She was not even 13. She was not a teenager yet. And she apparently was on the spectrum, which only matters in that. Her mother said that she just says what she thinks that's her with no filter. and she wasn't being mean to the female police officer that showed up because she had said apparently out somewhere that that officer looked like a lesbian because she had real short hair.

Well, her grandmother apparently is a lesbian and has very short hair. And that's all she was doing was saying that the lady looks like my grandma, basically. And so they were going to come and arrest this kid. I'm not kidding. You guys saw the video we played it. My whole point is that the UK has a major problem with speech. And so I love that he brought that up to show that's the eventual path of censorship and speech suppression.

And I just find it the audacity of the left to bitch and moan about Jimmy Kimmel getting himself fired because he's bad at his job and calling out a free speech Armageddon, but not literally a guy who got shot and killed for his free speech. That's not Armageddon. That is why we are not the same. You cannot unify with people who think that losing your life for free speech is completely inconsequential, but losing your job because you're bad at it and it's your employer's right is apparently a free speech rubicon that mustn't be crossed.

It is the, these people are flipping insane. Think about that for a minute. Ben Stiller even tweeted about it and said like, this is bad. Did he say that ever before? Did he say that with Tucker Carlson? Did he say it with Gina Carrano? Did he say it with Matthew Marsden? Has he, did he say it with Sidney Sweeney?

I mean, we could do this all day. Did he say it with Charlie Kirk? No. Because it doesn't matter to them. You weren't one of them. It only counts if you were one of them. They think that Jimmy Kimmel losing his job is worse than someone dying over their speech. These people don't care about free speech.

They would be up in arms over Charlie Kirk losing his life for his. But think about that. They value this progressive chonks. television show more than they do someone's life. If it saves just one life, we need common sense Democrat rhetoric control. I mean, it's the same formula. It's the exact same formula. It's just, it's stunning. I want to caution conservatives too. I've seen some people tried to do this, but not, you know, everybody, thankfully. But I've seen, for instance, some say, well, you know, he used a hell diver's code.

So he used a game. I mean, gaming, we're not going to do the stupid brain rot argument that progressives use. I play hell divers. I'm not very good right now because I just started. But, you know, it's an enjoyable game. You're not going to go off and be a psycho. Just like all psychos, all murderers, drink water. Does that mean if you drink water, you're going to be a murderer?

I mean, let's stop with this. That's the logic that gun controllers use. Oh, well, you know, it's the gun. that's the one that does the evil. No, I think that some people are just evil and they do certain activities that other people do and that doesn't mean the activity is evil. As it relates to the FCC, so we got Brendan Carr who's going to be joining us. And you realize, too, that I don't think that the left understands what the FCC does. Now, I personally don't think we need one, but that's me. No offense. But, I mean, I would love it a lot more, Brennan Carr.

went out and said, I want to abolish my job. I told you guys, I was a very limited government. However, you know, he never called for any of this. He never did. But I think that some people don't realize, particularly the left, which is weird to me because they're the ones that really pushed for all these laws, right? They were the ones who pushed for campaign finance reform. They are the ones who, well, yes, I know, McCain-Feingold. But they were the ones who pushed for all of that. They were the ones who pushed for, they've been wanting to use communications decency act as a way to further regulate tech because they're worried about the effect that free speech with tech has in their ability to control the narrative. But the FCC, they, I mean, they have a

role where there is, they are allowed regulatory authority. That's one of the reasons why I want them, I don't really like the agency. But it is what it is, right? I can't really say that. I got a free pass with them. So, but they grant licenses to people. So, for instance, we can say whatever we want on Channel 347, and we can say whatever we want on stream. But we're in hundreds of, we're on hundreds of different stations around the country. That's considered public airwaves, so that's considered regulated by the FCC.

So they have to grant licenses to all of these stations, right? And they have that regulatory authority. and they have the litmus test. You know, you have to serve public convenience and interest and necessity. You also have to meet other specific requirements for it. But, I mean, you know, make up a word statutorily, they do have the regulatory authority for this. And I think that's something that the left apparently is not, I don't think that they realize this, apparently. But they have that.

So, for instance, if I said what Jimmy Kimmel see. said, and my employers who air this show on these stations around the country, if they were to have a, they would be well within their right to have a issue with it. And if they decided to drop me, that's not the government censoring you. That's these individual stations, not wanting to associate with you. Now, if the FCC pressured them and said, well, we're going to, we're going to pull your licenses if, well, then that would be censorship. But there's no evidence at all whatsoever that that happened here. There is evidence that it happened tons with the Biden administration, but these sudden free speech purists were MIA over that, which makes me call their current concern to question.

Now, that's, I mean, it is what it is. Just tells you everything what they value, does it not? It tells you everything when they are more upset over that than anything else. I've got a couple of other things to play. Audio sound by six. Let's play this because, ooh, boy, this was a lie. It's former President Obama. Listen.

When I was president in the aftermath of tragedies, when Dylan Roof went into a black church, and based on his own words, shot a group of folks who were engaged in Bible study and who had invited him in, And according to him, it was for racist reasons. As President of the United States, my response was not, who may have influenced this troubled young man

to engage in that kind of violence and now let me go after my political opponents and use that. You called us teabaggers. You guys know what that is, right? I once had to explain it to Bill Maher. to Bill Maher. And I think he got mad. That's why he made up that goofy story about me and pushed it to the Daily Mail. Yeah. He called us tea baggers. He said we cling to our guns and our Bibles. He called us all racists and bigots. Dylan Roof, by the way, that church in the Carolinas,

Dylan Roof was technically a prohibited possessor, but James Comey actually had to come out with the FBI and admit that it was the FBI's own paperwork error. Well, actually, enforcement's paperwork error because of the confusing way the system was set up in that state. If you're simply charged with a felony, you're considered a prohibited possessor until that time you are adjudicated innocent or guilty. And so technically at that point, he should not have been allowed to purchase a firearm. However, there was an error because apparently there's a town in the county with the same name and someone messed it up. And the FBI actually had to come out and say that it was a paperwork error. Yeah. You know, that system that's supposed to work

a thousand percent of the time. There's always room for error whenever humans are involved. That, he was one of the most combative presidents that we had. He was the guy who said, if they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun verbatim. He's responsible for how far the tenor has ascended. So he really doesn't get to pretend to be, you know, this kumbaya piece. We have more on the way, including the FCC Commissioner. Brennan Carr is going to be joining us here shortly as we move, our partners that help bring you the program. The folks over at Superbeats, we've told you about the Superbeat Chews, and now you are

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stories from this website called study finds because they always say fact checked, verified. What's fact checked and verified? They go, fatty foods can scramble your memory just days later, but what they don't tell you is that there's a difference between good fats and bad fats. There's unhealthy fats and there's

healthy fats, and the article does not actually differentiate between this, and so it's not fact checked and not verified. I'm just tired of these stupid clickbait websites. Did you guys hear about this? I think there's more drama in this than there was necessary. So a plane it did not nearly crash. This is this Daily Star headline is absolute BS, stupid press hyperbole.

Because they said that, oh gosh, Air Force One almost literally crashed into another plane, a Spirit Airlines plane. That's not what happened. The air traffic control, and this is before when POTUS left for the UK, air traffic control noticed that there was another plane eight miles away that if it remained on current course would cross the trajectory of Air Force One. So while that plane was still eight, literally eight miles away, air traffic control had them alter their course. There was no almost crash. I think, like, Daily Star, you are literally the turd and the punchbowl of like general, like intelligent discourse. Why would you, why would you inflame like that? It would actually was over eight miles away.

And other people who work in air traffic control and who are pilots are like, that's, that happens actually quite frequently. that's not anything to be over dramatic about. Probably isn't the first time that this has happened with Air Force One, because there have been instances where they can change trajectory because of weather, et cetera, and air traffic control has to then, for any plane that might run across that flight path, they have to alter.

So it's not, I don't understand, the drama is ridiculous, but anything for a click, right? Gosh, I hate the society. We're smod, please. Cracker Barrel CEO insists the restaurant chain is back on track after there's $700 million

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that I could see that would give advice just like that speaking to Sepaku Japan sets a record of nearly 100,000 people aged over 100. Their population is aging to where there are more older people than younger people. They also have the world's longest life expectancy. And it's the fastest aging society.

Residents have a low birth rate, but they have a healthier diet. And a lot of some of the oldest people in the world are Japanese. It's very interesting. But they said that they have changed more than any other G7 country, remarkably since the 60s in terms of the age of their population, their birth rate, et cetera. And they said that they have, I mean, heart disease, cancers, I mean, different types of cancers. They have such a higher life expectancy because they have fewer deaths from those. So it's very interesting.

But aging population as well. Washington State has the highest gas prices in the country surpassing even that of California. Washington State is first in something. They're holding the highest gas price in the country, $4.66. Geez. $4.66. They've overtaken California, who's always number one. But I mean, barely.

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wanted to play really quick before we bring on the FCC commissioner. In fact, actually, I'll probably bring him on now. Everybody knows FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr. He was kind of like the lone voice of reason during the Biden administration. He was there when the Biden administration was weaponizing government agencies and putting pressure on tech companies and doing all of this. Now Carr's being accused, I mean, quite literally, of getting Jimmy Kimmel fired. Like he personally did it. And I wanted to play this audio came. We just pulled this. What network is this from? ABC. ABC. Yeah, ABC. I wanted to play this for Carr and have him. respond to this. This was just a little bit ago. Listen.

A spokesperson for the network saying Jimmy Kimmel live will be preempted indefinitely. President Trump now calling Carr's decision to cancel Kimmel, quote, great news for America, turning his attention to late night host Jimmy Fallon and Seth Myers on NBC. The president writing, that leaves Jimmy and Seth, adding, do it NBC. An immediate response from leading Democrats, from Senator Chuck Schumer to California Governor Gavin Newsom. So they were saying that Carr himself did it. The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, now joins us via video. Mr. Chairman, it's good to see you. I just wanted to get your response to this. So apparently you called up ABC and Neckstar in Sinclair and you personally put pressure on them to get Jimmy Kimmel fired. Is that true? No, not at all, but it does, I guess, tell a better story for partisans on the left. I think it's ironic. I mean, some of these very same people are engaged and I think we can only be explained as projection. These are the same officials that literally were doing exactly that.

What's happening here is we're undergoing a very fundamental shift in the dynamics in the media ecosystem. Most people don't get this, right, but you've got national programmers. That's Disney ABC, that's Comcast NBC. They don't have FCC licenses, and they therefore don't have a federal obligation to operate in the public interest. But they produce most of the primetime TV shows that you do see on broadcast TV, whether it's 60 minutes or NFL. football or late night shows. Now, local broadcast TV stations, like your local Channel 7, wherever you are, they are licensed by the FCC, and they've been given a unique opportunity to use public spectrum, this public resource. And because of that, they have a public interest

obligation. So the way this is supposed to work is Disney and Comcast can come up with whatever programming they want, and individual TV stations are supposed to decide, should we run this or should we not? Now, that's what Congress intended. But the last 10, 15, 20 years, that hasn't happened because Comcast and Disney and the programmers amassed so much power that they could effectively force local TV stations in Utah, in Pennsylvania, to run this progressive foie gras coming out of New York and Hollywood. What we saw yesterday was really a pivot point because it was the local TV stations that said, I've got to look out for the needs of my local community. I don't want to run this Kimball stuff and we're going to preempt it. And that's a really important moment of

local TV stations standing up for their viewers and pushing back against Comcast and Disney. So it's a market correction that's really necessary. But it's people don't want to grapple with that, right? They want to, you know, try to point fingers or try to find boogeymen. But that's really what's going on here. Yeah, I think you bring up an interesting point. We're talking to the chairman of the FCC, Brendan Carr, if you're just joining us. Because Sinclair, I think a lot of people forget, that Sinclair, I wouldn't say they're hardcore conservative, but they're definitely not left-leaning. So it didn't surprise me to see Sinclair, you know, review the content and say, well, we don't really like a guy going on late-night television, telling everyone making up false, maliciously false. And already at that point, disproven claims about the nature of the killer, that seems, you know, kind of completely ridiculous and unnecessary.

And they responded to that. So that sounds like a Kimmel problem, not a Brendan Carr problem. Yeah, I think that's exactly right. I mean, to some extent, I do think this goes back to President Trump, because when President Trump won the election, he sort of smashed the facade that we just have to accept what New York and Hollywood say is appropriate, is funny, and it's effectively an emperor has no clothes type of a moment, and what it comes down to now is ratings. How popular is Kimmel in these local markets? I've seen these bar charts recently, and it's just like an absolute nose dive in terms of ratings.

We know from Colbert that Paramount indicated that he's losing them, was losing them, $50 million a year. So why were they running it at these local stations? And I think it's because they felt like they couldn't exercise their right to respond to the needs of their local community. And again, late-night shows have undergone a pretty serious transformation over the last 10 years or so. It used to be that you would go for laugh lines. And now they're going for applause lines. They've gone from these court gestures that make fun of everybody. Like, go for it.

Make fun of Republicans and Democrats. It's, you know, that's part of what makes for democracy. Right. But instead of doing that, they became court clerics enforcing a very narrow ideology. The ratings are telling them it's not working. So you can blame other people. But ultimately, it's, you know, it's the scoreboard. I wanted to ask you, too.

Apparently now you have Democrat leadership that are, uh, their, demanding that you're stepping, that you should step down. Well, what are your thoughts? Because I mean, if we're going to have a question of censor, a discussion of censorship, that seems pretty sensory. If you have Democrat leaders that are now they're looking at the FCC. I mean, I got to say, I would thought their attention would go to the FCC back when they were pressuring tech companies to de-platform conservatives for questioning the laptop or the efficacy of an injection. But now they apparently want you to step down because of what private companies have done. Yeah, my team tells me I need to stop responding with

so many memes, but I can't help but get out of my head. You know, the I'm not going anywhere line. You know, we've got an important job to do here. And what I've said from day one is we are re-envigorating the public interest standard. And if you want to have a podcast, if you want a cable show, if you don't want that public interest obligation, have at it, right? Total free market. You can say whatever disgusting thing you want. But if you're going to be on broadcast TV, that's simply different. You have to comply. with the public interest obligations and so we're doing that but again we're running other agendas as well we have a build america agenda here we're trying to get

infrastructure going again i mean people can famously remember when biden and harris were in charge of this 42 billion internet infrastructure program they couldn't get a single shovels with a dirt turn we're turning that program around frankly thanks to secretary lutnik and the work that he's doing over there so we're doing a lot but yeah we're we're reinvigorating the public interest i i just wonder i want to read you this you may not might not have seen it it's from axios because it just came out just a little bit ago, but they said it's signed by the House Minority Whip, Catherine Clark.

You have the Democrat caucus chair, Pete Aguilar, Ted Liu, a couple Colorado Democrats, one out of Washington. And they said that, quote, Brendan Carr, the so-called chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, is engaged in the corrupt abuse of power. He's disgraced the office he holds by bullying ABC, the employer of Jimmy Kimmel,

enforcing the company to bend the need to the Trump administration, FCC chair, Brendan Carr, should resign immediately. My question is, first off, what would you tell them? Secondly, I know that you're not going anywhere. But this seems, I mean, they're really coming for you now. Well, look, I don't know what I'm so-called FCC chair. That sounds kind of like insurrectionary to me. Like, you know, President Trump won.

President Trump designated me as chair. I'm the chairman. I mean, you can call whatever names you want. I really don't care. But, you know, we're here and we're going to carry out the agenda that we think serves the best interests of the American people. And frankly, we have been long overdue for a course correction. The trust in national media, again, these legacy national media broadcasters, is at an absolute all-time low.

But again, it's just piece of a broader story. We look at Washington Post with what Jeff Bezos has been trying to do over there in terms of reorienting the direction of that paper. It's across the entire media ecosystem that you're seeing change. So I think it's a good direction. But there's more to come, right? This is not the end of the dynamics and the fallout from the changes we're seeing. And clearly, there is a difference, too, between somebody making maybe a distasteful joke or saying something or making a joke about that someone doesn't agree with and maybe going out on air and claiming that this particular killer is, you know, one of you, MAGA and making these false statements.

I mean, you know, I realize that that might come down to opinion for some as well. but there seems to be a clear difference. And companies have the right to react to that. That's not a First Amendment issue. Your thoughts? Yeah, exactly right. Again, there's many ways to slice this. You can, again, look at the national programmers,

look at the local TV stations, including Next Star, which is one of the first to push back on it and their own journalists that they have. But this is a decision by NextStar that owns local TV stations to tell Comcast, you know, we don't want to, or in this case, Disney, We don't want to run that type of programming. So this is about, you know, Next Star and Sinclair versus Disney. And that's, you know, ultimately a business decision.

And these are market forces. Again, we have rules on our books at the FCC that says local stations have to have the right. Right. You have the regulatory authority to do that. And so you've never called ABC. I don't even think you can legally. You never called ABC. You never called Sinclair.

You never called Next Star. You never said you've got to get rid of Jimmy Kimmel or the FCC. going to come down on you and look at your licenses, Sinclair, or look at your licenses Next Star. That never happened. We never told anybody that they had to get rid of Kimmel. Frankly, I was surprised to see that Disney took that step. I was pleased when I saw Next Star do it, when Sinclair did it, when I saw the news of Kimmel getting suspended by Disney. At first, I thought maybe people were just misreporting on the Next Star piece of it.

And so we'll see where it goes from here. Yeah, we'll see where it goes from here shortly. And I feel like this, you know, this argument's going to rage more. One last quick thing because you were there at the FCC and you saw the tech companies. You saw the suppression with the laptop. Where was there a concern for free speech then? Did you ever have any of these Democrats reach out to you and ask what was going on and why was the Biden administration suppressing conservatives? No, it was quite the opposite.

I mean, look, yeah, Democrats in Congress, probably including some of their outrage right now. They wrote to cable companies like Comcast and Charter and said, effectively, why are you not dropping? Fox News and OAN and Newsmax. You had an FCC under Biden's leadership that took a local Fox broadcast, not Fox News, Fox broadcast channel, and hung them out there with their license renewal for over 18 months all the way through the election. Nobody said a peep. The FCC operates by case law, by common law, by precedent, and we're just going to continue to apply the precedent that's been set over the last couple of years. There we go. FCC chairman, Commissioner Brendan Carr, always appreciate your time. for clarifying all of these, all of this fake news for us.

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Tell them that Dana sent you. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida man. Worst dad ever, guys, a Florida man. Of course he's got a ponytail. No, like a top knot, not a ponytail. Like a man can wear a ponytail, but a top knot, no. He's accused of hurling his fence, sorry,

hurling his kids over the fence after he wrecked his car. Oh. Wow, dad of the year here. So according to, this is in Lee County, Florida, a man was arrested on child neglect charges after being accused of crashing his car with his three kids inside. And then he tried to hide them by literally,

literally physically throwing them over a fence. He literally threw them over a six-foot-tall fence to hide. And then he tried jumping the fence himself. And a neighbor reported that the kids were crying. Again, Top-Nod. Does it surprise you? Not at all. Mr. Top-Knot would do this? No. Not at all.

So he was arrested on three charges. of child neglect and cruelty. They have not disclosed his relationship to the kids. So I mean, are they his? Unk, what are you doing? Like, are they his kids? Like, what's happening? I don't know. So that's, um, those poor children. They were given to, uh, taken into custody of family. So thank heavens. Uh, we talked about the sea turtle guy, but I do want to talk about this Jeep driver. Okay, so the Jeep drivers, they have a whole culture. I had a Jeep, so I know those. Um, and I didn't realize until because people bizarrely wave at you. and you're like, why are you, why are you waving?

I just immediately am suspicious when people are kind. Is that horrible? And I'm like, why are you waving? And then they leave ducks on your jeeps. What do they call it, Kane? You get, like they give you the duck on the Jeep. They duck you or something. Yeah.

People buy these bags of these things. Anyway, so the reason I say all this is because they seem like nice, friendly people, right? Like they got their Jeep wave. That's a whole culture. Well, one Jeep driver, chased down and shot his childhood friend after he saw him on a motorcycle and then he texted him, texted him, wins a good time to come over. Oh, this dude is crazy eyes. Oh, completely. Look, look at his eyes. Those are crazy eyes. Just like a chick can, so can dudes.

Florida man, he saw his childhood friend test driving a motorcycle and decided to chase after him, fired a gun at the guy, tried to run him off the road with his Jeep. Oh, he had a Jeep Cherokee, so it's technically not like the Wrangler sort. He then texted the victim after and said, when's a good time to come over? 23-year-old Isaiah McDonald, charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, discharging a weapon into an occupied vehicle, discharging a firearm from a vehicle, and drug possession after they found heroin and all kinds of stuff inside his Jeep following the incident. It wound up being the victim's mother who tracked him down after the event happened. She decided to go look for the vehicle where she knows he lives. And then she called

the cops. So Lake County Sheriff said they responded to the call and they noticed, he noticed that the guy was, his friend was staying on his tail and being very aggressive. What kind of psycho does that? what in the world? So yeah, this guy's going to Jay. He looks crazy, though. I mean, when you see his crazy eyes, you're like, oh. It's always in the eyes. Yeah, it completely is always in the eyes.

Absolutely. I have to, can I touch on, by the way, the Florida, very Florida discussion we had with Lieutenant Governor J. Collins yesterday because we put a clip out where we asked, does every person in Florida have a machete? you guys I literally like laugh I actually did laugh

it wasn't I didn't lie about LOLing oh my gosh your comments were hysterical someone's like three machetes and then I think I have a couple more that I lost somewhere on my property that's what Jeff says he goes when you drive into Florida as a newcomer they give you a machete

at the agricultural products inspection station on I-75 and I-95 someone said I have two machetes by the bed. I use them to hide the guns between them. That's hysterical. Someone said, have you seen the palmetto bugs? Everybody was like, yeah, I've got one or two machetes. I'm a woman. I have a machete. Oh my gosh. It's hysterical. And they, I mean, literally everybody. Everybody, everybody. Someone said, I got a smaller one when I moved to the villages.

There you go. It's a villager. I'm saying. Someone said, said, yes, I have one and I need to get a new one. I mean, they are everywhere. And then they talk about what they use them for. Well, we use them to cut weeds. We use them for, we use them to hack down weeds. What do you chop a dead banana tree with? How do you kill a water moccasin? I don't get close enough to a water moccasin to death with a machete, though. That is, that's a new level of Florida badass right there. You people are just like America's Australians. God love you. But yeah, I was cracking up at the comments on this. They, whether it was on Insta or Facebook or X, and then some of you were emailing where you get your machetes from in Florida. Apparently there's like some play. I just thought, you know, get a machete. No, no, no. Some are better than others and some stores are better than others. They're very particular cane about the machetes.

I did not realize that was such a thing. Hundreds of comments on this. And everyone's like, oh, yeah, we have them. Stay with us. We have third hour on the way. Does the COVID vaccine prevent transmission? The COVID vaccine can reduce viral. load in individuals who are pre-

Does it prevent transmission? When you have reduced viral load, you will have reduced transmission. But in other words, it doesn't prevent transmission. You can still transmit the virus if you've had the vaccine. In fact, there's been reduced ability to interfere with transmission over time. And what we've found is the most recent one since Omicron is down around 16% reduction, if there is a reduction.

Wow. this was from the hearing that took place with the former director of the CDC, Susan Monteros. And it was so satisfying to hear them finally confirm that because they've alluded to that in so many different interviews in the years prior. Oh, yes, it didn't actually prevent the transmission of the virus. We're still finding out just how deep this betrayal goes. Joining us right now on video is the great Senator Rand Paul from the wonderful state of Kentucky. It's good to see you, Senator. Thanks for having me.

Of course, I was not surprised by her answer. However, it was the smugness with which she delivered it, as though that was just enough and that should satisfy the scientific requirements of being able to say that it reduces transmission. Yeah, her next response was even worse, delivered with this smarmy smile. And I said, does the vaccine reduce hospitalization for children?

And her response was, it can. that's not even a response. It's either does or doesn't. We've done the studies. And what we found is that so few children were going to the hospital that they couldn't find anything that reduced hospitalization because hospitalization was already close to zero. It's the same with deaths, but even harder.

There were so few deaths under 18. Most of those kids were seriously sick with other diseases. They could not prove that the vaccine lowered the death rate because the death rate was already 0.0002%. It was so tiny they couldn't prove anything reduced it. But when she says, oh, it can reduce the death rate, she's being dishonest. And she knew she was being dishonest in the moment. But it gets to the whole point of why Secretary Kennedy asked her to fire people.

He asked her to fire people that were resisting, looking at the evidence for whether your child needs a COVID vaccine at six months. This wasn't a debate over whether all vaccines are good or all vaccines are bad. it was about specific recommendations for the COVID vaccine and also for the hepatitis B vaccine. That was the other question I asked her. Is there a medical reason to give a newborn a hepatitis B vaccine if the mom doesn't have hepatitis? The answer is no. Unequivocally no. There is no reason.

The reason they give your kid a hep B vaccine in the hospital is they've got a hold of you and they think they can get you more easily to submit because you've gone through the emotions of childbirth. You like your doctor. Your doctors help you with the delivery. And you're like, oh, whatever, whatever doctor, and you do it. It's about submission and it's about compliance, but it's never been about science. And that's absolutely terrifying because we saw how not having those answers. I mean, we had, you know, this worldwide pandemic and the whole globe went crazy.

And it irrevocably changed everything, you know, all these years since. We're talking to Senator Rand Paul, who was grilling the former CDC director. What was the most shocking thing to you? because I overall, and I was watching what I could on C-SPAN and I was watching certain clips. But the big question that I kept walking away with was now that we have this clarification and we have this insight, how is that going to change the next pandemic or the next big thing? Well, I don't think we're really penetrating the consciousness of the Democrat side. The Democrat side came forward as if they were at a religious revival for vaccines.

And they said, do you believe? I believe. They all believe in vaccines. And it's like, well, that's not a scientific discussion. Let's discuss what are the risks and benefits. See, this is the thing with the COVID vaccine. Four children that can't prove a reduction in hospitalization or death because it was so infrequent as to be almost zero. But then there is another half to that. Are there any risks to the vaccine? Now, I admit, and I'm not trying to promote that the risks are enormous, but the risks are about between six and eight out of 10,000 get a significant inflammation of the heart, which can lead to profound medical problems. You present the emergency room with chest pain and elevated cardiac

enzymes like a heart attack. It's not a heart attack, but you actually present as a child like a heart attack. That happens six to eight times out of 10,000. So you have to compare that to how many, what is your chance of your child going to the hospital? It's way less than that. it may be one in a million, it might be zero of going to the hospital or dying, particularly of dying, because death was very rare when the virus was very strong in 2020, 2021. Since then, the virus has mutated to be less strong and our immunity has increased as we've gotten COVID several times. So right now, we really should be restudying all these. It shouldn't be, oh, the COVID vaccine was good in 2020. It has to be restudiation.

now because people have had a couple of vaccines, have had COVID a couple of times, and the virus is less virulent. It's less deadly. So you would have to ask the same question now. If you're elderly, does it reduce hospitalization or death now? Not whether it did it in 2020. That's why all vaccines need to be continuously examined for their efficacy. But the other side, once you just believe in it, believe in it, but it also increases profits for big corporations, the first pharmaceutical companies, someone needs to be acknowledging that this is not, you know, they're not given this stuff away. They receive billions of dollars and it's promoted by the government, putting it in the childhood vaccine schedule, which then you can't go to school, so it essentially

becomes mandatory and pharmaceutical companies get rich. We should ask, does it really work? Does it work still this year before we enrich the pharmaceutical companies? That's the million dollar question. And I loved your line of questioning, by the way, during this hearing. We're talking with Senator Rand Paul. You also tweeted, Senator, that you, and this was yesterday, you introduced the only real plan to balance the budget. Five months ago, you said they claimed spending would be $6 trillion. Now it's already blown past $6.6 trillion. Republicans are charging ahead with a new spending bill, and we were telling everybody our funding bill the last time that this happened. We're going to be dealing with this again in fall, and then we'll be dealing

with it again after Christmas. Talk to us a little bit about this because, I mean, I thought we were supposed to be reducing government spending and draining the swamp? And are we being completely honest about what we're doing here with that? There's probably nothing worse in politics than hypocrisy. During the election, the last presidential election, we heard about Biden inflation, Bidenomics, and Biden deficit spending. They were all true. In December of last year, when the Democrats were still in charge, all the Republicans voted no. They said we're against the Biden's spending levels. So three months later, in March, Republicans are in charge of the legislature and the White House. The spending levels were kept the same. What does that mean? That means Republicans were

reaffirming and voting for Biden's spending levels. They're voting for Bidenomics. They're voting for Biden inflation. We're now six months later. It's at the end of the fiscal year, and they're saying, well, the best we can do is just continue the same spending levels. Well, what spending levels of those? The Biden spending. levels and what do they lead to? A $2 trillion deficit this year, which ends in about a week, they'll add up all the numbers. How much came in, how much went out, and the deficit will be about $2 trillion. Well, if you continue at this rate, what are the projections for next year? 2.1 trillion. So this is the frustrating thing, and people are at home are pulling their hair

out saying, what is the difference? Republicans talk a good game and then they get in power and the deficits continue unabated. So someone has to, you know, say it like it is and declare it. The emperor has no clothes. The deficit and the debt is now owned by Republicans, and they're equally as complicit as the Democrats. We have to do something better, but we're losing even the remnant of the conservatives we once had

who would vote against spending bills. They're all lining up, patting each other in the back and they're all going to vote for the same spending levels they all condemned when they were under Biden. Completely. And we're going to have to deal with us going into a 2028 election when a lot of those tax cuts expire. And then there's going to be, it's going to be harder for Republicans to push back against Democrats' claims that they have to increase taxes in order to pay off what Republicans didn't want to cut in spending. Yeah.

And the way I've looked at it all along is the best way to balance your budget is to cut a little bit of everything. Don't just pick out the program that the liberals like. Don't just pick out the program that what conservatives like. Just go across the board and do a little bit of everything. And I've tried this message out many time. on people who come to me and they want something from government. And the example I use a lot of times is the families for Alzheimer's research. We have Alzheimer's in my family, my wife's family, almost every family you know has some of it.

And they want research money. And I look at them and I say, well, we're $2 trillion short, but we're a rich country. We can afford some Alzheimer's research. You got $100 million last year. Could you guys get $94 million? And to a person, these people are emotionally in charge. They looked at this and they say, well, of course we go. good. If it's good for the country, we could have a little bit less research money than we had last

year. If you just told everybody that, I think people actually would go along with it. That's a great response that I haven't heard it put that way, and that makes all the sense in the world. It really does. Senator Rampal, I so appreciate your fight. I appreciate your, I appreciate your transparency and all of this. We'd love to have you back as well as the spending as the funding bill progresses because you seem to be kind of a lone voice in the wilderness on this at times. It's good to see you. Thank you. Thank you. We have more to come, folks, because we have headlines on the way. And we're also going to have all of the latest with the story that we've been talking about for a week and a half now, the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

And then, of course, we have the free speech issue with Jimmy Kimmel. We're also going to get into, as we were just talking about with Senator Paul, that spending budget that they're fighting about right now in Congress. We also have to get into, well, a few other things, too. We've got some culture, we've got some immigration, a lot of stuff to do. A lot of stuff to touch on. And then coming up at the bottom of this hour, my friend Alex Clark, who I don't know if she's ever been on the show before. I don't think she's been on the show before.

I've been friends with her for a long time. I've known of her for a long time. When she first got started, she worked with TPP USA. She knew Charlie really well. Charlie recruited her to do like a political, kind of like podcast, but it was very short. And she just did them weekly. And it was on Instagram as well. and now she's doing the culture apothecary.

And she's going to join us to talk about her beginnings, getting started and working with Charlie and TP USA. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. I need this year to not be doing this to us right now. I need it to not be doing this. Dolly Parton sparks health concerns after canceling an appearance. I need it to not just stop it right now.

fate or whatever. She said she's been dealing just dealing with some health stuff, but she had to cancel a couple of appearances according to I think this was Daily Mail. They haven't heard back from her reps yet, but they, we'll keep an eye

on it, but she's not like, you know, she's just like she's doing videos and all that the other day. The new South Park episode was supposed to be out last night, but Matt Stunner and Trey Parker said that they couldn't because of a time crunch, which I don't ever remember that happening. People were like, oh, there always procrastinators. I've watched South Park since its inception. This has never happened.

So I was, I'm hoping that it's not because they pulled an episode because they were getting ready to mock so they could or they were getting ready to mock the death of Kirk. Although Kirk liked the satire that they did, he did a video laughing about it and then he used it literally as his avatar on socials. So he thought it was funny. But I'm just wondering why. They've never done this. So I'm, you know, we'll watch out for that one. Let's see. People are, I don't know, a circle K clerk was having a bad day, so he killed an off-duty officer buying a hot dog. Wow. The Circle K clerk, Eduardo Machado confessed to shooting and killing off-duty Edgewater police officer David Jewell just Monday of this week. Machado said he was having a bad day.

That's all. You were having a bad day. Guess whose day got worse? The off-duty officer that you killed. He said that Machado, who's 24, told police he had previously seen 45-year-old Joel in the store with a firearm and he was afraid of him. He didn't state if he knew that Jewel was a well-known police officer or not, but authorities said that family members confirmed that Machado was diagnosed with a mental health disorder in the past, and he had indicated that he was hearing voices. So there you go. Just awful. Just awfulness. But yeah, he killed, he apparently got, when he got his firearm illegally, apparently he did that with the sole purpose in mind of killing Joel, according to investigators.

Let's see, AT&T's neutral uses AI to screen calls and block spammers. So that means they're listening to you. You might think, oh, that's great that they do that. That means they're listening to you all the time without you ever knowing. imagine everything that you say recorded and used in a data but put in a database somewhere simply because your phone was by you and overheard you.

Why are you saying a 04? I'd rather not get into it. Oh, pretty much everything I say privately is publicly. The only thing is the editing of certain phrases to not get us in trouble with the FCC. That's it. You know, because they're just apparently such big fascist, according to the left. Let's see.

What is this article? isn't everything when deciding if a child is ready to be home alone. Well, it's actually a big part of it. And a number of states, it's actually a law. I think in Missouri you have to be 12 years and up. I don't know what it is in Texas, but now there's a handful of states that have set age minimums. So in Maryland, it's a crime to leave a child younger than eight years alone unattended. Well, yeah, duh. But they, I can't believe people have to be told, consider maturity in age. You're not parenting if you don't know all of these things. Sorry, but this is, it's kind of ridiculous. Coming up, host of culture apothecary.

Alex Clark. She's also with TPUSA. She joins us next. Keep your finger on the pulse with a Dana Show podcast, delivering timely news with insightful analysis. Whenever you want, straight to you on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. I thought that Tori Amos's cornflake girl was the perfect bumper track for coming into this segment. Welcome back to your Gen X little dissatisfied Darya.

Dana Lash. You can listen, Coast to Coast to Coast. terrestrially. You can also stream us channel three, watch us do radio, channel 347 direct TV, we're at X, we're at Rumble, all this good stuff. My next guest is someone who I started, when did I I, I can't remember, I was actually asking

my husband, I'm like, when was the first time I sent you one of her videos? We were actually going back like way back in our texts. Like she was brand new and she started with TPSA and she did a podcast about really

like culture and humor and it tied politics into it, but it wasn't overly politically driven. But she was hysterical. I thought she had like the comedic timing of Joan Rivers. And you guys know that Joan Rivers is a goddess. And she was my favorite female comedian to ever grace this rock. God rest her soul. So I thought she's hysterical.

Her timing is like very Joan Rivers-esque. I'm like, I've never seen that in anybody who's, you know, if she's a comedian, a commentator. I haven't seen that in any other female. That's like really something. And her stuff was just hysterical. And then she's since grown. She speaks all over the country. She does all of this amazing stuff.

She's, you know, got started with Charlie Kirk and TPSA. And now she has culture apothecary as well. You can follow her on X on Facebook, Instagram. She's a host of culture apothecary. Alex Clark also at TPSA. Alex, God love you. You always look amazing. And I just want to say, we have been praying for you.

And with everybody at TPSA, Erica, their kids, Charlie's family. this is like your generation's JFK moment, I think. It's kind of like how Andrew Breitbart was ours, but this is so much more severe, so much different. And we've just been lifting you up because it's not easy being young and being in the public and having to navigate this stuff all at the same time, and you've been doing it gracefully.

So God bless you. I just wanted to tell you that. Thank you, Dana. It means so much. And I just absolutely love you and Chris and Kane. And, you know, I'm the longest fan of yours. When I first got hired at Turning Point USA, Charlie and Tyler Boyer, our C.O. at the time asked me, they said, Alex, who are the women that you look up to in the movement? And you were the first name that I said.

So it's just surreal to be on your show right now talking about what we're talking about. Exactly. And I saw the notice just earlier today, actually right when we got started, that the board over at TPSA, they voted Erica Kirk as the news. CEO and chair of the board and they said that that's that's what charlie had had intended i have only met her briefly a couple of times i met her the longest actually just this last time in dallas when i saw you and her and charlie came out the young women's leadership summit and they spoke and she was just so sweet and so friendly but what i really liked about her uh in addition to her joyfulness was she was very assured of herself and confident in what she believed in and her faith and that when you're married to somebody like

Charlie to be able to go out and share that presence is a tough thing. So when I saw that this announcement came, it didn't surprise me at all. You know her, though. You've, you know, you kind of grew up with them. What do you think about all of it? Oh, well, it's just there couldn't be a better choice than Erica. And, you know, she didn't want this. She didn't plan for this. This was never her goal to be CEO of Turning Point USA, right? That was always supposed to be Charlie. She loves being a stay-at-home mom. She loves her two children. You know, they even. kept their pregnancies a secret so that she could just really, really soak up that time. And I really feel like looking back, that was totally intentional that they did everything that way.

God knew that that was going to be the right thing for them to just enjoy each other in those moments with the small amount of time that she was going to have with Charlie. And now she's ready to step in the role because it makes sense that the only person that could possibly take over and run this place in the best honor to Charlie Kirk would be his wife, who knew him better than anybody else, you know, knew his intentions, knew his ultimate goals, his secrets. And so I can't wait to see what she does.

I know that being a mother matters more to her than anything else, though. So I don't anticipate that she's going to be in the office every single day, you know, one-on-moment employees. I think it's probably going to be like more like bigger picture meetings and things like that. And then we have, you know, tons of directors,

other C-level employees and managers that will probably do the more day-to-day stuff. Yeah, that makes total sense. and because they were very family first. You got to see their whole courtship and everything from the beginning. And I was watching a video. Well, I heard them talking about it at the event as well. I love the dynamic that they have.

And I feel like younger generations are starting to go back and recognize the importance of having that helpmate and the importance of strong families and the stuff that you talk about as well in your show, culture apothecary. And you know, you and TPSA and everybody, I think, get a lot of credit for fomenting that. And there weren't a lot of examples, you know, as your generation was growing up, because you guys were so young, you're just, you know, graduate in college or getting out of high school. And this was kind of like the first, it was like the first big couple for that generation. So everybody knew who they were. Everybody in this movement knew who they were. Talk about the impact that that, that you've seen that have because you see all of these young women and all of these young men all across the country. You travel more than I do. Tell me what you've seen. Okay, well, first I want to say something interesting, which is that Turning Point USA actually has more female directors in our departments than male. So you have a lot of high-level women working at Turning Point USA, a conservative company. And when Charlie met Erica, I mean, obviously, believing in family and supporting the idea of a nuclear family was always top of mind for Charlie.

But until he had his own, I don't think that he really even grasped that, you know, totally. and once he married Erica and having his own children, I just think that his heart even softened more towards the women in this company. And right before he died, Dana, like a couple days before his death, it was announced that he was giving the women at Turning Point USA six months paid maternity leave. I don't even know a progressive company that gives that to their female employees. And Charlie Kirk was going to be doing that for us. Wow.

And without the government forcing, we're forcing him to do it because he just wanted to. I mean, that's what it's all about. Are you, because I know you do a lot of events and you speak a lot, are you worried now about safety? Are you worried about your well-being when you go to do your next event? Oh, yeah. Next time I'm coming to Texas and I've got some time to spare, I'm linking up with you and I need you to teach me my whole way around a firearm because, yeah, it was, that was one of the first immediate thoughts of mine.

And now my new normal is that every single time I, speak, I have to have to arm security with me, driving me to and from, and everywhere I go. And I said, is this temporary or is this the new normal? And I was told it is the new normal. And that is because, as Don Jr. so perfectly said, the bullets are only going one way. It's one way. And I don't know leftist organizations that are having to go through all of these hoops or, you know, dealing with this like conservative organizations are. And it's just absolutely terrifying and it's sad, but it just motivates us that that shows how much work really has to be done here. That is, and that makes me so angry for you because you, that should not have to be new normal.

It should not have to be the new normal for anyone. I was talking to a friend who, I mean, we actually just turned something down because it was outside. And I was talking to another friend, a young woman also who works in the industry. And she was saying that she's, she's like, well, what can I do when I go, when I have to travel the states that, you know, like Illinois, that are gun control states. And the fact that now everyone has to rewire their brains and think about that, it enrages me because I don't want it to be a chilling effect. Do you, from the people that you talk to, do you think that they feel as though their speech will have to be chilled now as a result? What do you mean by chilled? Like they're like, we just won't be able to speak.

Yeah. Like do you are like your fans and the people who watch everything that you do, do you get the sense that they're kind of reacting to this and thinking, wow, I'm not going to be able to speak as loudly as before. Maybe I don't speak up on this issue. Or maybe I wanted to go and be like the next Alex Clark and now I'm rethinking it. Are you getting that from the folks that you're interacting with? Hell no. No.

The complete opposite. Like Charlie Kirk, every single time. And boy, did I get myself in so much trouble? I mean, not trouble by him, but like controversial things that I would say, you know, my audience would react or the internet would react. And it would be like, you know, he would get so many angry emails like, Charlie Kirk, you to do something about your employee. She said this, this or this.

And he was always the first person to message me and be like, great work. Keep going. Keep them talking. Like, he was like, whatever you believe. He didn't say necessarily, you know, I agree or disagree. But he just be like, whatever you think, whatever you believe, say it. Like, and I know that there's all this drama about this Hampton's trip that he was on right before he died.

If you're on X and you live online like Dana and I do, then you're familiar with this stuff. And, you know, when he was on this Hampton's trip, trip discussing Israel and all of this. I had done a Q&A on my Instagram stories and somebody asked me like, Alex, how are you feeling about the Middle East? What's your opinions on all the Israel stuff? And I said, because my personal opinion is, I said, I'm so sick of talking about Israel. I said, I do not care. I do not want the, I don't want the United States of America involved in any country, period. So I just am done with all that. I don't want us involved anywhere. That was what I said. And Charlie sent a message to me and he said, he said, he said,

Keep up the good work. Whatever you believe, I support you. Keep speaking your mind. I mean, and this is in the midst of, you know, he's allegedly like being threatened to be quiet and all this. Like, so that just wasn't the case. And he was, he was the great coalition builder. I mean, Charlie Kirk, if you look at any single lineup that he's had at any of our events,

from young women's to our student action summit to America Fest, every, you know, gold star event, the turning point you would say is put on. for the last six years, you had different types of people within the Republican Party, within the conservative movement, with all sorts of different ideologies, you know, within that realm. Like you and all different types of religion. So yes, you had Jews, you had Protestants, you had Catholics, you had atheists, agnostics. I mean, everybody was represented at our events. And Charlie never spoke poorly about any speaker.

It was always about elevating different voices, giving students that were involved in Turning Point USA and attendees to our events, you know, exposure to different ideas so that they could think for themselves. That was always what it was about. It was always to continue people, you know, encourage critical thinking. That's, that's, I mean, I can't, when I first heard the story that you were talking about the Hamptons thing, I thought, well, that, I feel like people were sort of underhandedly accused him of being duplicitous, which he never was. He was always exact, from what I've known of Charlie, we knew him since, I mean, obviously not every day like you did, but when he first started as a teen, it, everything that he was privately, he was publicly. And that's why that, that story kind of took me off guard because that sounded very

uncharacteristic of the Charlie Kirk that I knew. I mean, if he felt it, then he would tell it. He'd say it. He wasn't a guy that would get intimidated. And he was open to hearing new information and definitely changing his mind on different things. I mean, I think you saw that throughout the years on different stances with like immigration, for example. Like, there's just like some things like that that I think he did kind of shift or evolve on. He was. wasn't against that, but if he did, he would tell you. I mean, he, every single speech he ever did, every single podcast he ever did, every radio show. Like, he shared his views up until, you know, the day that he died, he was talking about what he thought about religion and the Middle East

and foreign relations. It was never like a big secret where he was like, I'm going to say one thing on air because I'm terrified and then behind the scenes, I'm saying something else. Now, if he would have had longer to live, Dana, if Charlie Kirk would have been on this earth another 10 years, another 20 years, another 30, 40. He very well could have changed his mind on things like Israel or Protestantism. I don't know. We'll never know. But that was taken from him.

And so all we have is what he did share while he was on this earth. And until the day he died, I mean, I believe he was clear about all of his views. Yeah. I completely agree with you. And just like you're, you are crystal clear with all of yours. Alex Clark, you can find her. I love your name, by the way. Your name on X.

It's yo Alex Raps with a Z. You can find her on ex-Facebook and Instagram. Real Alex Clark Culture, Apothecary, as well as TPSA. And everybody, don't forget, Fight for Charlie.com as well. That's where people can go. And you can get the live stream to the memorial and everything this Sunday. Alex, God love you. You are just such a bright light in this dark world right now.

And I appreciate your consistency and your talent and your fight. And you are one of the young women, I think, to watch out for. God love you. I'm so happy that you're so successful. in what you do. Appreciate you. I love you so much, Dana. I love you very much and your whole family. Thank you. You're welcome. We love you too.

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and all this stuff. I'm not doing any of that. Welcome back to the program. Two things. So Sinclair had tweeted that they said that the suspension wasn't enough and they wanted the FCC to take additional action. For all of the people who are cautioning

and saying that, well, they pressured or if there's evidence that comes out that the FCC pressured and I just had Brendan Carr on and I just asked him to his face, did you call ABC? Did you call Next Star? Did you call Sinclair? Did you pressure them?

He did not, he says. If evidence comes out to show he's a liar, then that's when we'll have that conversation. I'm not like a non-free speech purist. I am a purist. But so far, all we have are Sinclair demanding that he be suspended. Next Star demanding that he be suspended. And ABC agreeing with them and suspending him. None of those entities are the FCC.

They're different letters. all together. So I think that everybody needs to slow their role and stop saying, oh, the right got him canceled. The right. I mean, that's just like all this stuff that we just saw with them saying about Charlie Kirk's killer. I mean, at some point, can these people take a beat? Good night. I mean, like I said, if evidence comes out to that point, then there you go. But that's, I mean, I just asked him. You can go find our interview with Brennan Card's going to be up on YouTube and some of it's also up on X. Today and stupidity came. All right. It's Democrat. I guess politician will just call him. Jamie Raskin is cut, I think 16, because there's two 16s on the list here for some reason. But Jamie Raskin here is describing the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

Listen on stupid this is. Oh. It's not going to. Congressman Jamie Raskin, thank you so much. Talk show hosts who are like modern Tom Paines. Congressman Jamie Raskin, thank you so much. He's saying that the late night hosts are like modern day Tom Paines. And it's like, okay, you're giving these guys way too much credit.

Their ratings were in the floor. so they weren't actually moving anybody in the masses. Sorry. There you go. The left is lying about what happened to Kimmel, so let's not help them in that. Folks, God bless you. Substack, make sure you go subscribe.

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