The Megyn Kelly Show - Leftists Spin False Ice Shooting Narrative Grown Men Crying And Conan Obrien Slams Political Comics With Jesse Kelly And Link Lauren Ep 1227

Episode Date: January 11, 2026

Megyn Kelly is joined by Jesse Kelly, host of “The Jesse Kelly Show,” to discuss the false narrative being pushed by leftists and media outlets about the ICE shooting incident in Minnesota, how li...es are radicalizing already unstable people, the gaslighting surrounding the ICE shooting incident, how CNN’s Anderson Cooper and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow refused to report the facts to protect the narrative, MSNOW pundit Philip Bump literally crying on air about the ICE shooting, the left's focus on revolution over values, new cell phone footage from the ICE officer involved in the Minnesota shooting, what the video reveals about the woman accelerating toward him, and more. Then Link Lauren host of “Spot On,” joins to discuss how hysteria over the ICE shooting in Minneapolis is being used to distract from Governor Tim Walz’s massive Somali fraud scandal, why Republicans should focus on these scandals heading into the midterms, Jimmy Kimmel’s ghoulish and politically charged commentary on the red carpet, Conan O’Brien calling out comedians for saying "F Trump" instead of being funny, a resurfaced clip of Zohran Mamdani praising his radical "tenant" director Cea Weaver's housing policy, Trump's new effort to make home ownership easier, the viral backlash over his new sweater, the decline of shame in public life, why dressing with class should matter in 2026, the alarming rise of grown men publicly crying, and more.  Subscribe to Link's show Spot On:Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spot-on-with-link-lauren/id1812663737Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2RPHR4jKTJqkruxJjn6kzn?si=954974315d3848bfYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@spotonwithlink?sub_confirmation=1 Kelly- https://www.youtube.com/@JesseKellyDC PureTalk: Cut your wireless bill to $20/month—switch to PureTalk now at https://PureTalk.com/KELLYRiverbend Ranch: Visit https://riverbendranch.com/ | Use promo code MEGYN for $20 off your first order.Birch Gold: Text MK to 989898 and get your free info kit on goldMasa Chips: Ready to give MASA a try? Get 25% off your first order by going to http://masachips.com/MK and using code MK.   Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at:https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to The Megan Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East. Hey, everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly show. Oh, my God, there's so much happening. These leftists have lost their ever-loving minds. They're woke. They're giving pronouns. They're talking about how this cop should have discerned that the tires were turned a certain way, and therefore the car wasn't going to actually run over him, even though it had hit him. Minneapolis. I mean, truly, it's insane and it's spreading. And we have so many examples of leftist madness now in response to ICE and in Portland Customs and Border Patrol. All we can do is flood the field, in my view, with more officers and really make clear to
Starting point is 00:00:57 these people that they have no right to interfere with federal law enforcement trying to clean out their neighborhoods of murderers and child molesters. Get out of the way. Thank God. We have this administration in power right now. Trump has been openly on the side of the officer under fire in Minneapolis. And J.D. Vance, like underdog, comes out to just boom, boom, boom, take on the media at the White House press briefing room. And it was a breath of fresh air and a thing of beauty. Now, of course, you're getting the, he's even worse than Trump from the dispatch people, like Tim Miller. He's worse. He's horrible. They're getting ready because they've seen the poll showing that J.D. Vance is, I think, at 53% right now amongst Republicans on who's most likely
Starting point is 00:01:50 to be the Republican nominee in 28. No one's even close. So, of course, it's never too early to lay the seeds of he's even worse. He's more of a fascist. He's Hitler on steroids. And then we will get to a shocking, disgusting video out of California involving a man, pretending to be a woman in a woman's bathroom jerking off. You can see it in the shadow down below that this wonderful woman decided she would record to prove what was going on in there. And then the confrontation happens afterward with the gym employees, the young woman who recorded it, the tranny in the stall, and the woman's boyfriend who is a hero. I'm sorry, but this is what we've been saying would happen all along. They're not in there because they're gender confused. They're in there acting out a sexual fantasy, which comes from their auto gynaphilia,
Starting point is 00:03:01 where they get off in dressing like women and then parading around in front of women, which is exactly what Leah Thomas was, in my well-informed opinion. And the women are supposed to be a part of their sexual fantasies. The video is infuriating. It is R-rated. We're only going. You don't actually see a body part, but you see the shadow. We will show you an appropriate amount so you can make up your own mind and then move on from the video.
Starting point is 00:03:29 But we'll show you the confrontation after. in just a bit. There's a lot to get to. In just a bit, we'll be joined by spot-on host, Link Lauren, but we're going to start today with fire. Jesse Kelly. He's fire. Host of the Jesse Kelly show on the Megan Kelly channel now, Sirius XM11. He's part of our MK channel lineup, which I'm totally honored to say, and he's host of I'm right. And he can find him on YouTube as well at Jesse Kelly, D.C. If your credit card balance is freaking you out after all the holiday spending, I mean, right? I have something that can save you money right now. You could cut your cell phone bill in half by switching to Pure Talks Savor Plan. Just $20 a month for unlimited talk, text, and three gigs of high-speed data on Pure Talks Super Fast Nationwide 5G Network. And as a veteran-led company that cares about giving back to those who serve, if you are active or former military or a first responder, you're going to save an additional 20% every single month. That's awesome. The easiest way to free up cash flow, is to reduce your monthly recurring bills.
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Starting point is 00:04:48 and you will save an additional 50% off your first month. Pure Talk, America's wireless company. Jesse, so good to have you here. You of all people need to be here today. The leftist madness is a bit much. There's so many places I could start. But here's, I'm going to start on this video, which I found so infuriating. Deb, did you say this is from Portland?
Starting point is 00:05:14 This one, the top, the SOT 11? It's from Oregon. We don't know if it's Portland, but obviously there's chaos in Portland from these anti-ice protesters. This is a video for the listening audience of a leftist woman in her SUV trying to box in an ice. agent who's trying to pull out of his parking spot to go chase bad guys. And she and her band of leftists make it as difficult as they humanly possibly can for this guy to go do his job. And she narrates it. Watch this. Sot 11. Let's see her blocking him in. We can play. My car's bigger than yours.
Starting point is 00:05:57 We can play. Court, get behind them if you have a car. If you have a car, please pull behind them. It's ice. Can you pull behind them? It's ice. They're trying to kidnap people. Please pull behind them. Please pull behind them and park. Please.
Starting point is 00:06:31 And somebody does it. Please park behind them. Can you put your car behind them, please? It's ice. The Ice season's trying to get out. He's backing up doing little three-point turns. Hurry! Trying to curve out of this.
Starting point is 00:06:53 He gets out, but gets blocked again. She speeds up behind him to block his... the rear of his truck. Dumb bitches, you're not going anywhere. We have them blocked in, but we need more cars. Look at these losers. Two, three, two of them in the car.
Starting point is 00:07:24 Unfortunately, we don't get to see the end of it, Jesse, which I seriously hope involves some pepper spray and some handcuffs. But this is what they're doing to our ICE agents who have families who are out there literally arresting child molesters and taking them off the streets and this woman's calling them dumb bitches and mocking them and taunting them and encouraging her fellow leftists
Starting point is 00:07:45 to prevent them from arresting the bad guys in her community. What do you make of what's happening right now? There's just so much to get into, Megan, when it comes to all this. First, we have to set something aside, and I hate to even do that, because you and I could sit and riff on this for hours, and I know it's something you talk about.
Starting point is 00:08:02 Let's set aside the paid and organized portion of this. We do have to understand what a large percentage of communist street activism in this country is paid for and organized. It's not organic. It's not always some just naive soccer mom coming out and who watches too much television. So many of these people, at least the ringleaders are paid and organized. They organize these acts of resistance online. Billionaires, foreign and domestic, pay for these things.
Starting point is 00:08:32 That's why they show up with freshly printed signs right away. So we have to kind of set that part aside. Let's deal with the people who are actually genuine. And maybe that walking ad for antidepressants is genuine. Let's just assume for a moment she is. I actually, and people are going to find this funny because I'm known to be such a jerk, I actually feel a lot of sympathy for her. And I feel sympathy for that 37-year-old street animal who just got killed by ICE.
Starting point is 00:08:58 And, of course, her wife and everything else. And the reason I feel sympathy is because so many of these people are just simply stupid or they're drug addicted or come from broken homes. Broken people generally is what you will find in these street protests. You don't find happy, well-to-do people from solid families, good two-parent homes. You know, go to church on Sunday. You don't generally find those kinds of people. If you sift through the rubble that is a communist street animal protest, it's the drags of society every time.
Starting point is 00:09:33 It's every scumbag and criminal and nut job you can find. And I actually find what Democrats in the media do to these people, to their minds. I find it to be extremely, extremely evil on par with picking on the special needs kid in high school. Everyone had some evil scumbag in their school who would do something like that. I'm not even trying to be funny. Everybody knows there was one kid who was so cruel he would do it and he would think it was funny. That's what Democrats do to their base all the time with the relentless loop of lies you see on CNN and everything else. Nazi Gestapo, Nazi Gestapo.
Starting point is 00:10:08 But then you see that stuff, Megan. Everybody watching listening right now sees that stuff. Here's that stuff. They roll their eyes. But to somebody who's broken and drug addicted and lost, they hear these things and they believe them and they get themselves spun up to the point that you'll drop your kid off at day. care and then go out and try to run over an ice agent and oh, now I'm dead and I won't ever see the age of 38. I find it to be incredibly sad and I find it to be incredibly evil. The Democrat Party is the party of evil in this country. As much as I despise Republicans most of the time, they really are
Starting point is 00:10:41 the party of Satan. The Democrats are. It drives me insane. Gosh, you're not, you're not wrong. I saw somebody saying the other day about the woman, the 37-year-old woman, Renee, who tried to run over that cop, obviously. That, you're not. she might actually not have known that ICE is arresting murderers and child molesters. She genuinely might not have known that. She might have thought that they were there as some sort of militia meant to just arrest American citizens and deport them. Because if you get your news from NPR, for example, or MS now, that's probably how
Starting point is 00:11:15 you'd walk away looking at this. I mean, just today there's an example of the New York Times headline and the Washington Post headline on this case, you know, of this woman being shot. to death, this 37-year-old. And it's, it paints it all in the most sympathetic, misleading way. It's completely misleading and a lie where they try to suggest that this is just this, you know, sweet lady, here it is, New York Times by Kenneth Vogel. A New York Times analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from, not toward a federal officer when he opened fire. And then the Washington.
Starting point is 00:11:54 Post headline. Ice agent was not in the vehicle's path when he fired at driver video shows. Oh, well, shockingly, my eyes show something very different, Jesse. But if you are one of these leftists, you relies on Wapot or New York Times for your news, you have a very different impression of what went down that day. That's what's so frustrating about what you just said, what we just talked about, Megan, is think about the Democrat in your life. Everybody watching and listening has a Democrat somewhere in their life. I always refer to them as a liberal Aunt Peggy, but who knows? Maybe your brother, maybe who knows? And think about this. Think about this. I have an Aunt Peggy, but she's not that liberal. Sorry, Peggy. But think about this. Ask or at least think about the Democrat
Starting point is 00:12:42 in your life and think if they believe that Donald Trump, just as an example, called Nazis at Charlottesville very fine people. Think about that. Think about the Democratic. in your life and think if they believe that Donald Trump told people to inject themselves with bleach. Now, the reason I brought up those two things is both of those things are available on video, what he actually said. The Democrat line, the communist line, is an outright lie. And it's not like you have to take Megan's opinion on it or my opinion on it. You can pick up your phone. Everyone's holding one right now. You're maybe listening to this show on your phone. And you can watch what he actually said. Easily verifiable on video. And yet the vast majority of Democrats
Starting point is 00:13:20 in this country because they live in a world of make-believe that is constructed for them by the communist elites in this country, they believe something that is an outright, verifiable lie, not subject to opinion whatsoever. We are dealing with people who are, by all accounts, insane. And I'm not saying that to just be insulting, although I'm totally fine to insult these animals. I'm saying that because we have to understand what we're dealing with. If I covered myself with peanut butter, yeah, they can't. If I got naked and covered myself with peanut butter and attached wings to my back and went up to the ceiling of this roof here and tried to jump off, you would call me crazy because I believe I can fly and I cannot fly. It's verifiable I can't fly, but I believe all the way I can fly.
Starting point is 00:14:09 You would look at me and you would say, this person is insane. He probably can't be reasoned with. He needs professional help. I need to keep my distance, whatever. But you would not say, I just need to have a conversation with it. Well, that has become our political discourse in this country because the people on the left reside in a world of complete lies that is reinforced day after day after day by Democrats and the communists in the media. And we're at a place where just normal people. You don't have to be some hardcore right-wing or like me.
Starting point is 00:14:39 Normal people are frustrated because you talk to these people and it's like you're talking to a rabid Wolverine or something like that. They don't even, they're not even human beings anymore and their eyes are bugged out. I don't know how we deal with it, Megan, but we have to understand that's what we're dealing with. I was just telling the audience, I think, yesterday the day before, that my therapist, God love him. He always says, stay away from crazy, which is a very funny line from a therapist. But it's true. Stay away from crazy. And like the problem for these ICE officers is they have no choice but to get right up in the face of crazy. You know, these officers didn't want to have to deal with this woman who ran over, they tried to, this officer and did hit him.
Starting point is 00:15:19 notwithstanding what you read in the Washington Post in the New York Times, they didn't want to deal with her, but she came into this area. She parked her car perpendicular to the oncoming traffic of the road, and then it is their job to remove her so that others are safe and so that they can do their job, which is to pass. That's how this confrontation unfolded. And while others kept telling us that that's not true, she was just there as a legal observer, which is a lie. she's a freaking, she was a wannabe poet, and I'm sorry, but not a good one. She was a legal observer. She was there as a paid agitator, or not paid. She might have been paid for all I know, but she was there as an agitator to be the lead,
Starting point is 00:16:03 we were told by an eyewitness, in antagonizing ICE. And now we know that because on CNN last night, they dropped a video of the preceding moments before the tape that we've all now seen where she accelerates into the officer and he shoots her. Now we've seen what she did in the moments before. First, I'm going to, I'm going to describe, I'm going to let you hear how Anderson Cooper describes it. And it's truly like, gee, who knows? Who knows what we're seeing? No, we know exactly what we're seeing because we can see it with our eyes. And we all have seen now the eyewitness accounts that she was parked perpendicular to oncoming traffic, Anderson.
Starting point is 00:16:35 This is the video proof of it unfolding before your eyes. Just tell the audience the truth. Here he is. CNN has obtained some new video. Again, it's grainy and distant, but it shows first. full minutes leading up to the shooting. It shows Renee Good's maroon Honda pilot entering from the right there. Then 20 seconds later, someone gets out on the passenger side. We don't know who or why this person leaves the car. We then see her turn and pull perpendicular across the street seeming to block the way. But as you see here, leaving room for vehicles to pass by her on either side. Finally, there is this new angle of the federal officer.
Starting point is 00:17:17 who shot her. He arrives. Another federal SUV pulls up. As the ICE officer briefly goes back to his car, then he returns. And with another agent grabbing at her door, she starts to move forward. Again, it's hard to see that may reveal. It says nothing about why Renee Good was where she was or what she was doing there. What? Says nothing. Isn't it so brilliant what they do, though, Megan? Because when it's all on video, like these these scumbag liars like Anderson, Anderson Cooper. It's brilliant, isn't it? Because it's all on video. And even your liberal Aunt Peggy, as she's done, you know, sniffing her antidepressants, even she can watch video, right? So he can't come out and say she wasn't there. He can't come
Starting point is 00:18:03 out and say she was just cruising along, a nice pulled up beside her and gunned her down. That doesn't work, right? So what do you have to do if you're in the media? If you're a communist and you're trying to protect the narrative at all times, protect the revolution, You just have to give people a little bit of an off ramp. So instead of coming on the news and saying exactly what she was doing, of course, well, I mean, we're really not sure. We don't know who's getting out. But she might have been trying to parallel park.
Starting point is 00:18:27 She is a woman after all. They have to act completely lost. Of course, if this was you, if this was me, if this was anybody else listening who's a normal human being, they would have all the facts. They'd be crucifying you for every hour on the hour on CNN. They would drill down on everything. but of course because it's an apparatchik who got caught doing horrible things like they always do. It always said, well, I mean, we're confused. The facts are still coming in.
Starting point is 00:18:52 The video was grainy. That's exactly what they did. It's really, it's evil. Who could know? There's no way. It says nothing about Renee Good, where she was or what she planned to do, except for the fact that she was perpendicular to oncoming traffic. But he points out, cars could go around the front of the back. I guess she needed a bigger truck is what Anderson is pointing. Her SUV wasn't quite big enough to block both lanes of oncoming traffic, but she sure did try. This is such gaslighting, and here's more of it. Rachel Maddow, Sot three. I mean, the key is nonviolent protest.
Starting point is 00:19:32 And this woman who got shot in Minneapolis, this mom, you know, she was not doing anything violent. Had she been trying to drive into those federal agents, she would have steered. toward them, not away from them. Thank goodness we have a video of what happened because otherwise might have gone on questioned. Oh my God, Jesse. Just a wife and a poet, Megan. Just a wife and a poet on her way to softball practice.
Starting point is 00:19:59 She must have slipped on the ice. It's terrible what they do. And you know what's really horrible about that is Rachel Maddow with her rhetoric. Look, her and Jimmy Kimball, they're the exact type of elite communists we talked about at the beginning of this show, they will lie to their audiences every single night without end until that person, that broken person at home, whoever they are, finally gets up and decides to go do something about it. And that person will go off and lose their lives. And Rachel Maddow and Jimmy Kimmel, when they do it, won't lose a minute of sleep over the fact that they're the ones who drive that
Starting point is 00:20:37 stuff. I am so careful with my audience as I know you are to implore them never to do anything to get yourself arrested, get yourself hurt, get yourself killed because I dread the day. I pray the day never comes, Megan, where I get some email of my husband heard you say this and he went out and got killed or arrested. I think I would retire that day. I would be devastated if I thought the words I spoke hurt a normal person out there. But these people don't, they don't have any hesitation at all. No remorse, no nothing, no sorrow for the six-year-old boy who now has one of his mother's gone, nothing at all. They don't feel anything, just soulless. It's incredible to me that they don't, that they'll just lie right to their audience's faces and
Starting point is 00:21:23 gin up their anger with absolutely no care for who gets hurt, whether it's their audience or a federal law enforcement officer. And now the new narrative has turned into kind of what you heard Rachel Maddowell say there, which is she had turned her wheels, Jesse. You see, she backed up. They were telling her, get out of the car, get out of the car right now. And she wasn't. She wasn't complying. She was resisting. And then she tried to flee. She backed up. And then she turned her car and hit a cop. She did hit him. And by the way, his father has now confirmed that on the record with the Daily Mail, the officer's father. He was hit. And now the new narrative has been, well, she backed up. But then when she pulled forward,
Starting point is 00:22:04 you can see that the wheels of her car for a split second were turned to the left, and the cop was more to the right. You see, so she wasn't intending to run him down, which, by the way, she would have had he not shot her. He was hit. We see it on camera. But that's the new line. And yesterday on this program, we showed the audience video. It's disturbing, but we're going to show it again of a cop in Baltimore who chased this bad guy into a cul-de-sac in Baltimore,
Starting point is 00:22:34 Maryland and told him to get out of the car. He pretended he was getting out of the car. She thought she had him. And he killed her. He ran over her with his car. Forgive me, this is the videotape. I'm showing it to you for a reason. As the Jeep continued to advance, Officer Caprio got off one shot. WJZ won't show the rest, but a somber jury saw and heard Amy Caprio dying from massive crushing injuries. Now, I want the listing audience to know. This cop was on the side of the car, same as the officer involved in the conflict in Minneapolis. She was on, like, the front side headlight of it. He's coming at her from the side.
Starting point is 00:23:16 He backs up and he rams her. It happens in a second, a second. He goes from stopped to she's dead with, as you heard them describe, massive injuries. She got one shot off, and she died. She died, Jessie. And now it was Will Chamberlain, I think, of the article. Three Project Online, who was saying to the people like Rachel Maddow, who were focused on the direction of this Renee Goods front tires, pointing to this video saying, you know, maybe she didn't
Starting point is 00:23:50 get a look at the tire. I mean, she should have looked at those tires before she, you know, made her decision. She would have seen them pointed at her instead. Like the absurdity of these leftists, fucking Rachel Maddow, who makes $30 million a year, for doing one hour a week in her multi-million dollar mansions that we've shown because she puts them on the air. She wants us to see what a luxurious life she lives is going to sit there and second guess this ICE officer who lives we now know on the outskirts of Minneapolis in a working class neighborhood. He's married. He's got kids of his own. He's working as a cop,
Starting point is 00:24:26 Jesse. He doesn't make $30 million a year for one damn hour. And she's going to mislead them about he should have seen the way the tires were in between her backing up to random him and hitting him. Yeah, that's what they do. I mean, it's a vehicle. It's the people say, well, she didn't have a weapon. She had the deadliest weapon of any of them. He had a deadlier weapon than anybody in law enforcement had there. She had a 4,000-pound car.
Starting point is 00:24:53 As you mentioned, it happens in an instant. And everybody with even the slightest bit of legal knowledge or law enforcement knowledge knows that you cannot take chances when it's a car. This is exactly why cops will oftentimes do seemingly very dangerous things to get one of these speeding cars trying to get away from the cops off the road. They're not doing that because they watched Dukes of Hazard too much when they were kids. They're doing that because that 4,000 pound car coming down the highway can kill anybody, lots of people in an instant. I know maybe they didn't educate their communist street animals that that's a deadly weapon because they want them to go out and do terrible things. But it is a deadly weapon.
Starting point is 00:25:34 And when you're told to stop, stop. And when you're told to get out, get out. And you don't get to hide behind. I was panicking. I turn my tires a different way. If you don't comply, you are going to die. That is how it works. That's how it's always worked. And for the safety of everybody, including the civilians, that's how it has to work in a society. But of course, the Rachel Maddowls know that. Stephen Colbert disagrees with you entirely. This is how he would spin the message you just offered. Listen here. So the message from this administration is clear.
Starting point is 00:26:08 Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city, obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn't obey. Okay. It's a little out of context. It's all on camera. You know what, there's something that's funny. I mean, like, I guess it's not funny.
Starting point is 00:26:27 But it's in a way funny to me is how many years, how many years, Megan, did you hear the left talk about, well, we want everything recorded. We want body cameras. We want this. This was a big activism thing on the left. Because, of course, once the cameras come out, once everyone gets a cell phone camera and everyone has a body camera, then, of course, that's going to prove that these cops are a bunch of violent nutballs. And racist, of course, we always have to throw in racist. Very, very racist. They do a lot of very racist things. And since we've had everyone with a cell phone camera and body cameras, what we've discovered is no, actually, we have a bunch of very violent, horrible people in this country who do horrible things, and cops are now routinely put in an impossible situation. And in a blue hellhole like Minneapolis, thank God this guy was a federal officer doing federal things because you and I both know in a place like Minnesota, he would be spending most of the rest of his life in prison, just like Derek Chauvin is. Oh, they would Derek Chauvin him in 60 seconds. Yes, 100%. So the recklessness of these people, right?
Starting point is 00:27:27 right, like this, they truly are painting this Renee Good like she was a saint. It's, I listened to NPR up first this morning. It, I can't, it, normally I cut sots and I play the audience what this crazy leftist podcast does just because it's entertaining and it's an example of a lot. I couldn't even do it. I couldn't go back over it. Literally everything they said was misleading. They didn't even offer the fact that she rammed the officer.
Starting point is 00:27:52 It was completely like, oh, this wonderful woman. They literally told us what was on. Her Pinterest page, Jesse. They were getting into what's on her Pinterest page. Nothing about how she had parked perpendicular. She was blocking the traffic. She resisted arrest. She accelerated into an officer.
Starting point is 00:28:09 Nothing. Okay. But knowing that this woman, because this is the one thing the left knows, this woman who was killed, Renee Good, has a six-year-old child. She has three children. She has one of the youngest of whom is six. And she left him that day to go do this. And the left would like you to believe this is just,
Starting point is 00:28:27 sweet mama who left her boy at the daycare to just go about her business, omitting the agitation entirely. But at least the left does know that this woman had a six-year-old child and that that child's been left an orphan because the father is no longer in the picture. I think the father died a couple years ago. What does this woman do? I think this is Minneapolis, but I'm not sure. We haven't been able to totally confirm that. This woman decides to tell this lady to hold her beer and brings, brings her six-year-old to an ICE arrest and leaves him in a car, which we know is dangerous based on what we saw just this week, never mind the 100 rammings we've seen, usually illegals who are getting arrested by ICE try to unleash on them.
Starting point is 00:29:15 In this case, it was a Karen. But look at this, Sot 11B. Back up. I'm far enough away. I'm not influenced anything. I don't. No. I need you to get near.
Starting point is 00:29:26 No, I won't. Ma'am, I need you to leave. It's my right to be here. Back up out of the way. I will not. One of our cars is, well, you were too close right now. You were interfering. I'm right here.
Starting point is 00:29:34 You're gonna get out of my face. I'm a public citizen. No, I won't. Tell me why I'm far and up away from your investigation. You need to be. Don't touch me, please. Where's your cars? Right here.
Starting point is 00:29:44 Where's your cars? You need to go all the way. That's great. That's great. Sure. Beyond your cars, 20 feet, right? I have a six-year-old right here. I have a six-year-old right here.
Starting point is 00:29:54 You're an idiot. Oh, I sure did. Child and danger. Get your child off of the scene. This is an active police scene. This is all on camera right now too. Right here. Yes, I'm wonderful.
Starting point is 00:30:04 I'm very glad for it. Get your child out of here. I can be right here. I'm happy right here. Hey, I'm happy right here. I do. Thank you, sir. You listen to me right now.
Starting point is 00:30:13 I'm going to listen. But we have someone that's being detained right here. Okay. You have a child. Tell me where you need me to go. I need you to stay. Yeah, I will. No car seat.
Starting point is 00:30:21 Okay. Give me a favor. You can video tape all you like, but you have to stay. You cannot come past that drive, Perfect. I'll be right back. Thank you. Thank you. Stay at your car, though, okay? Thank you.
Starting point is 00:30:29 More than welcome to videotape. Thank you, son. Do me a favor. My state law, we're policemen, too. That child is supposed to be in a booster seat. He's not of age. So make sure you put him in a booster seat because I'd hate to give you a ticket.
Starting point is 00:30:39 You can give me a ticket. I'd love it. Like, how do you help that person? Megan, I was reading a book some years ago about East Germany, when East Germany, obviously communist East Germany. And I knew a bit about it before I started reading the book, but just kind of like highlights. One of the things that blew me away about East Germany,
Starting point is 00:31:03 and it turns out this same thing took place in the Soviet Union and China and everywhere else, was that husbands would turn in their wives routinely. Wives would turn in their husbands. Children would turn in their parents. Parents would turn in their children. Moms would walk into the Stasi. Hey, I heard my daughter, she's criticizing the government.
Starting point is 00:31:25 which is what I thought you guys should know about it. Stasi shows up, takes daughter away in the middle of the night. And I remember thinking because, I mean, my boys, I have two sons. I would die for them a thousand times over. I'd kill for them a million times over. I would. I'd do anything for my boys. I couldn't relate.
Starting point is 00:31:41 I still can't understand it. But the truth is there is something about that sikdemonic religion of communism that it supersedes family immediately for these people. It's not just that that woman would bring her six-year-old to a potential. violent encounter. She doesn't even know who they're arresting. It could be a serial killer, a rapist, somebody who could come screaming out of that house and hop in her car and take her car away. But none of that would even occur to her. And know what's weird? None of that would even bother her because she's there. She's now the true mother of the revolution. The child,
Starting point is 00:32:13 the child just needs to be a tool of the revolution. That's probably why she brought a bone. He's a nice shield. He'll help the revolution. And I can't understand that way of thinking, Megan, I know how much you love, love your kid. I know you probably can't understand that. I don't want to understand it, but I know that's how it is. For these people, the revolution is there everything. And everything else, including their children, is secondary. Just a tool for the revolution. This is such a good point. You really brought that home. You're right. Like, who that's got a six-year-old, not in his proper car seat, by the way, that sees law enforcement arresting someone who obviously is potentially a bad guy. You don't know
Starting point is 00:32:55 what this is. You don't know why ICE is there. What did he do? Does he have a machine gun? You know, is he going to open fire? You have no idea. Is he going to ram somebody? Maybe your vehicle, too. Pulls over to the scene with their child in the car. I'll tell you, one time, the past two years, we were walking in the Miami airport, my family, on the way home from someplace. And an arrest went down. They were arresting somebody outside of, like, the bathroom facility and, you know, just in the airport as you walk like to your gate. And it was a big to do. And of course, everybody, including my kids, was like, whoa, what's happening there? What's happening? And immediately, I was like, let's go, move, let's get out of here. Any sane parent recognizes when you've got a criminal and the police,
Starting point is 00:33:42 you have a dangerous situation and at a minimum, get your kids the hell away from it. This woman sought it out, then left her child alone in the car and was gleeful about it, gleeful. But this same cabal will tell you they're the ones who care about humanity, children, the innocence. And I'm sorry to bring this to you because every day here on the Megan Kelly show, we have yet another leftist crying. All right? We've shown the new CBS News anchor, Tony Doakable, bawling about the fact he didn't get to grow up in Miami where he wanted to because his family moved away. Then we had Cia, what's her name, the new tenant czar for Mayor Zora Mamdani crying because the Daily Mail decided to ask her questions,
Starting point is 00:34:29 C. O'Weaver. And now we have Philip Bump, who is a Washington Post columnist, who was on the air on MS Now yesterday. I'm just going to play the clip for you. SOT 6. I mean, I think all this can be very personal. Oh, God. What you did to me, Chris. I have a six-year-old. Life to be great. Really emotional for me. And, you know, I take away from this, great.
Starting point is 00:35:08 You know, what I take away from this is, for me, that's the thing that stands out, that this was a family that could have been like mine. And there are a lot of situations, a lot of incidents that have involved, ICE have involved the government over the course of the past 13 months, in which there is residence for other families in similar ways. and for me it's hard to think about that family being affected in this way. Okay, I have a serious question for you. This sounds flippant, but it's not.
Starting point is 00:35:36 Is it the plastics that we're all taking in? Is it like too much sunscreen? Why are all the men becoming effeminate and more female-like in their emotions? I see a man crying on TV unless their immediate family member has just passed or a dear, dear friend of theirs, or it's a situation like we had, God rest him with Charlie, where you're watching something horrific. That I excuse, but I'm sorry, Jesse.
Starting point is 00:36:04 All this, he doesn't know her. He knows that she was an agitator, and he literally can't control his emotions. Is it an environmental thing, like with the frogs, that's making these guys more female? I know that we've lost 50% of our testosterone in 50 years, and that they say, according to studies, that we're losing 1% a year. From what I understand, and there's a million different things on this, the main culprit,
Starting point is 00:36:32 believe it or not, is the estrogen, the elevated amounts of estrogen that's in women's birth control that is somehow making its way into the water. Somehow they're not treating it out of the water supply. Well, you don't have it? My husband, Doug, doesn't have it. Like, why are you guys still men? That's because I don't drink water, Megan, I stick with whiskey. And so I'm going to be just fine in the end.
Starting point is 00:36:52 But no, look, I don't know whether it's the water supply. I don't know exactly what maybe Philip is actually on birth control, given how the left thinks about things these days. He could be worried about getting pregnant. This is how these people think. I have no earthly idea. What I do know is that as a man to work up some crocodile tears on television, even if it's fake, and it probably was fake,
Starting point is 00:37:16 even if it's fake, is so inherently embarrassing that there's no cause that I would do that for in the world. And if I was asked to, if my boss has told me in no uncertain terms to, I would quit on that day because there's just no way you're going to get me to work that up on camera. And the lack of shame sometimes, and if this probably sounds weird, Megan, you can yell at me if you want. Sometimes I admire it. When you look at the ridiculous things these people do without an ounce of shame whatsoever,
Starting point is 00:37:44 they just tell a blatant eye right to your face, they'll just cry on camera. No shame. They'll do these stupid dances, all the dumb dances and the chants in the streets. Every time I look, I always think, I always picture my dad and what my dad would say to me, God rest his soul. If he ever caught me doing something like that, and he would just slaughter me. He would slaughter me. I don't know what it is, Megan, but I don't have it.
Starting point is 00:38:09 I'm sorry, like, this is the kind of man who would cry during sex. Instant ruination. Like, this is ridiculous. doesn't know this person. He knows that she went out there and asked for a confrontation. And still, he's like, this is, he's leaning into it the same way that Tony Docapul was enjoying the fact that he worked up tears over his lost childhood in Miami because they think this is like how to connect with, you know, today's young women. You're not even discussing something particularly by the way, you're in news. Philip Bump used to write for the Washington Post. Now he's an MS now
Starting point is 00:38:50 contributor. You're in news. You're supposed to develop a little bit of a thick skin, especially as a man, but no matter male or female, this is crazy town what they're doing. All right, I want to keep going because there's much more insanity to bring to you. Over in Philadelphia, they have views on what has happened in Minnesota, both the crazy-ass-woke, Sorrow-sponsored DA, Krasner, Larry, and his police chief. Oh, and they're talking real tough, Jesse, against the Trump administration and ICE with warnings about what's going to go down if Trump sends ice there, which is absolutely his right. I will start with Krasner.
Starting point is 00:39:31 Let's watch it. Sot 2. If any law enforcement agent, any ICE agent is going to come to Philly to commit crimes, then you can get the F out of here. Because if you do that here, I will charge you with those crimes. All right, tough guy. You will be arrested. You will stand trial.
Starting point is 00:39:59 You will be convicted, whether it's in state or federal court, it's my office prosecuting it. That's how the law works. No, it, no, it isn't. You will do your time because Donald Trump cannot pardon you for a state court conviction. Do you hear me? I hear that you don't have jurisdiction. Do you hear me, National Guard? Do you hear me military?
Starting point is 00:40:24 You're going to jail. if you commit crimes in the city of Philadelphia, you will be accountable. The law applies to all of you. Okay, good luck with that. I just, I've got to show you the police chief and then get your reaction. Her name is Rochelle Bilal, and she's the Philadelphia sheriff. I'm Rochelle Belal, the sheriff for the city and county of Philadelphia. And I say her name, Renee Good.
Starting point is 00:40:52 Oh, Lord. Renee Good. Renee Good. We nay good. This should not have happened, but we're here today. Let know that law enforcement professionals, real ones, not the fate made up ice, probably trumps a new army to attack citizens of the United States. Did you hear what I said?
Starting point is 00:41:17 No law enforcement professional wears a mask. None. None. None. Those that come into our communities wearing a mask to commit crime, I thank God for our district attorney Larry Krasner, who say he's going to lock him up. And I'm saying now, we are not going to whisk you away for them to hide your identity because when you do it there, you get arrested there. Law enforcement professionals do not shoot at moving vehicles. Not saying fleeing because she wasn't fleeing. She was getting out of the way.
Starting point is 00:42:00 Oh. Law enforcement professionals do not stand in front of moving vehicles in voting an action that is illegal. No, we don't. Tell it to the officer in Baltimore, Maryland. Not too far from Philadelphia, really. on the train route. Tell it to her. We do not stand in front of a vehicle and we do not fire at a moving vehicle, no matter whether it's about to run you over and take their parent from their child. A couple things make it. And both of these things are completely somber. And I'm sorry,
Starting point is 00:42:36 I don't mean to sound like I'm black peeling. I swear I'm not. But first of all, with all the DEI madness that's been going on in this country for a solid decade now, if not two decades. It's been common for most people. I know I've done this a lot to think that, yeah, there's a lot of that. Yeah, they're just hiring this person because she's gay, because she's a black or a woman or Lord willing, you get the trifecta and you get all three. And you're just trying to hire this and that. And we always think that, well, okay, they're going to hire someone for the mailroom, maybe a street cop. Sure, an assistant manager somewhere. We've convinced ourselves that this stuff will at least be held at a manageable level. Surely this stuff won't rise to the highest,
Starting point is 00:43:18 most important levels of society, but that's simply not how it worked at all. The truth is, the head of police departments and sheriff's departments and corporations and government agencies and all kinds of things. We have the most low IQ loser scumbags now running critical institutions in this country, and it's frightening when you think about how high this stuff goes. That's one, two, I know you're much more of a student of history than probably I am, Megan. I certainly know your wonderful husband, Doug, is, but I have not been able to find a historical example of where we are now as a country. And where we are now as a country is we have hostile foreign city states inside of our border. And I'm not sure how a country deals with
Starting point is 00:44:08 that, any country, because I've never seen an example of it. Maybe the best example would be some city in the Roman Empire or the Persians or some city that rebelled inside of its border. Maybe that's the best example I can find historically, only it's all over the United States of America, New York City, L.A., Minneapolis, Chicago, over and over and over. Seattle, Portland, you can go down the line. Some of our biggest, most important cities, it's not just that they're a little left, It's not just that they see things differently. That's always been the case. They are openly hostile, and the leadership of those cities has declared that the deportation
Starting point is 00:44:48 force of the United States of America is illegal, subject to arrest, and that they will send their law enforcement out to fight them. That is civil war-ish. I hate to even use a turn. Tim Walts threatened to do that. He threatened to do that just the other night. He said, if ICE keeps this up, he's going to send the National Guard out to fight ICE. Good luck with that.
Starting point is 00:45:08 You're so right, and on your first point about, like, the DEI hires and you're kind of banking on maybe traffic cop at the best. No, that's not what's happening. This is the police commissioner for Minneapolis, for Hennepin County, Minnesota, where this thing went down. Her name is Irene Fernando. You don't have to listen to much. It happened this morning to figure out what's going on with this lady. Watch. I'm Hanepin County Commissioner Irene Fernando, but you can call me commish.
Starting point is 00:45:40 I use your pronouns and I'm a very, very proud child of immigrants. I'm the youngest woman to ever serve on the Hennepin County Board. I'm the first Filipino American elected in the state. And I'm Hennepin's first board chair of color in our 100. Oh my God. United States due process means that justice is pursued through legal action, credible investigation, and courts, not through guns, murder, and violence on our streets. Jazzy.
Starting point is 00:46:14 Everything. Every box. It's at the highest levels, Megan, that's what's scary. It's it, and you know what? It's even more frightening when you talk about it like this. It's in law schools, as you well know. It's in medical schools. Everyone's seen the video, or at least if you haven't,
Starting point is 00:46:31 I highly recommend you go look it up at Columbia. during medical school graduation. We're talking elite. This Columbia, the kids are reading some communist apparatchik about how I am going to, when I do medicine, I'm going to take into account
Starting point is 00:46:46 the historically disadvantaged. I mean, the biggest bunch of Kami Gobly Gook you've ever heard in your life, we lied to ourselves that this stuff is so insane and would be so damaging that, yes, they'll let the animals have some fun with this role or that rule, but surely they'll never rise up
Starting point is 00:47:03 into the most critical positions, but that's just not true. And again, in blue areas, in blue states and most definitely blue cities, they control everything. As you know, Megan, they are the judges, they are the DAs, they are the cops, at least the top cops, the street cops may be okay, but they're completely handcuffed, pardon the pun on that. They're the mayors. They run the city parks department. How do you deal with hostile communist foreign city states inside your border. I don't know, but I know we have to. We can't go like this. You have to do what Trump is doing. You have to, and you have to double down. You have to send more troops when they behave like this. I just can't imagine being in her position, which you're supposed to be kind of a badass person, right?
Starting point is 00:47:46 Your police commissioner and like talking about myself like that. Like I'm, I'm a woman. I'm now over 40, so I'm, you know, AARP eligible. I'm Irish, so I come from a people who were oppressed when they first immigrated to the United States. There's some Polish in my background. We were invaded by the Nazis. I have one breast that's slightly larger than the other. How much are we going to learn about you, madam? It's insane.
Starting point is 00:48:17 These people, they're not well. That's why your first response was totally valid in a couple of these soundbites, which was, I heard you giggling. That's what comes to mind. They're laughable. what else can you do when you're faced with this kind of insanity it's not like you can I mean we talked about it in the beginning of the show Megan it's not like you can tackle it or reason with it any human being who introduces themselves with their pronouns and then as you
Starting point is 00:48:45 just mentioned goes down the list of their never end here are my victim accomplishments before I go through this there's no there's no talking to that person we've always wanted to believe, those of us, at least me, on the right, we've always wanted to believe, because we believe in the goodness of our fellow man and the sanctity of every individual, that maybe our political opponents, okay, they're a little lost, all right, they're a little life, naive, they just don't understand. If I could just have a pizza in a beer, give me a couple hours, I'll show them, I've got facts, I've got facts here on this paper, I'll show them some facts, I'll show them some video, and they'll come around. That's not true. They're insane. No, it's just insane. It's an, it's
Starting point is 00:49:25 No, I would love for that woman to meet you and say those pronouns and you say, I'm Jesse Kelly, he, him, white, straight. It's awesome. Okay, stand by. We have got more with Jesse on the back end of this break. Don't go away. I've been talking a lot about River Bend Ranch because I love their steaks. They have some spectacular beef bundles that are wonderful gifts to friends and family. Their prime rib roast and other bundles are only available while supplies last and they are going fast. For the last 35 years, River Bend Ranch has been creating an elite Angus herd by using ultrasound technology to identify genetically superior cattle with a focus on flavor and tenderness. They only use the top one or two percent of the entire Angus population as their breeding stock,
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Starting point is 00:50:42 Jesse Kelly host of I'm right. Find it on YouTube at Jesse Kelly DC. He's also host of the Jesse Kelly Show, which airs on the Megan Kelly channel, among other places, every weeknight at 6 p.m. which we love. That's Sirius XM Channel 111. So check them out every evening, Monday, the Friday at 6 p.m. All right. So here's where we're going. My team, because they love to torture me, heard our discussion about NPRs up first this morning and went back and cut the bit about Renee Good's Pinterest. Would you listen to this? Well, a reporter from the Minnesota Star Tribune
Starting point is 00:51:24 spoke with Good's mother. She described her as. the kindest person she's ever known, said she was not involved in any kind of anti-government activity. Good was the mother of three kids. The youngest is about six years old. We know she had a home repair business with her wife in Kansas City. We also found what appears to be her Pinterest page. And, you know, that page, to put it simply, is filled with the things of a normal human life. Ideas for recipes and haircuts, plans for a garden and tips on parenting. Like, how to sue the child's anxiety and fun things to do with them in the summer. Jesse, that's it. That's it. And listen, listen, the New York Post has an explosive report out today that talks about how
Starting point is 00:52:11 this woman good was an anti-ice warrior who was part of a group of activists who worked to document and resist the ISIS crackdown in Minnesota. She moved to the city last year. She linked up with the anti-ice activist through her six-year-old son's woke charter school, which boasts that it puts social justice first and involves kids in political and social activism. She was a warrior. She died doing what was right. A mother named Lisa, whose child attends the same school told the post. They say that she was trained against ICE agents, what to do, what not to do. It's a very thorough training, says Lisa. Is it to listen to commands, know your rights, whistle when you see the ICE agents and so on, she was doing everything right.
Starting point is 00:52:57 Last but at least, these goods, Renee and her wife, had no love loss for President Trump, leaving their Kansas City, Missouri neighborhood to move to Canada after the 2024 election with plans to leave the country for good. They lived there for a few months before settling into Minneapolis, said a former neighbor. So this woman who's just, she's just about the recipes, Jess, that's it, just loves her recipes, was a freaking ice-trained agitator. Can you imagine how disgusting her recipes must have been. There's no way that woman was a good cook.
Starting point is 00:53:29 There's no way that's one. Two, I think normal people would be shocked to discover the level of professionalism, these communist warriors. And I'll use their term because that's how they see themselves. Normal people, even politically active people who go vote and primary elections and get involved in elections, do not really realize the level of organization and. sophistication of the communists in the United States of America. And it's always been this way. And let's remember, we have elected officials like Karen Bass, mayor of Los Angeles, America's second biggest city, traveled routinely to Cuba for communist training. Tim Walls, governor of
Starting point is 00:54:11 Minnesota, traveled to China about 8,000 times. Nothing shady going on there. If you talk to any former communist street animal in this country, and I've talked to many, they will discuss classes, courses. They have retreats. We don't do this kind of stuff on the right. If anything, and I ran for Congress twice and lost twice, but you gather people up for five minutes on a Saturday and say, here's your list and please be polite and here's some bumper stickers to hand out and go knock on some doors and have a good time. Everybody, God bless, gather around for a prayer. That's the extent of our training on the right. Communists don't do this. They have whiteboards. This is what you're allowed to do. This is how you can impede if you do this. And beyond that, Megan, I know you know about
Starting point is 00:54:53 this because I know you've talked about this. They have phone numbers you can call. If you do take things too far and get yourself in handcuffs where you can call a number and somebody will post bail on your behalf. It is a level of, it's an army. It's a guerrilla army operating inside of our borders. It doesn't want you to know that. So whenever one of them takes it too far and gets shot, you have to talk about her Pinterest page on NPR or just a loving mother and poet who made a lovely kale salad, but in reality, that woman was trained and most likely paid. Honestly, like, I am sorry that Renee Good is no longer with us. I genuinely am. I'm sorry for her, for her family, for her children, but it is because of her own choices. That's just the
Starting point is 00:55:37 harsh reality. She made really, really terrible decisions. And now this just in, Jesse, we'd been asking yesterday, along with many others, where is the videotape from the cop? Because, I'm not going to name the cop right now. His name is out there, but I don't want him doxed. It's not important right now what his name is. By the way, he's an Iraq war veteran. He has a family of his own. And again, he was dragged just last June by an illegal while he was trying to arrest him in ICE, a child molester, to save people like Renee Goods children.
Starting point is 00:56:10 So he had reason to fear these cars. So he took out his cell phone and he was videotaping this whole encounter. And we asked ourselves in our audience yesterday, where's that tape? Well, guess what? Alpha News just got it. And they're amazing. They're in Minneapolis and in Minnesota. They've done great reporting on the whole Derek Chauvin case. And here it is. We're going to play it for you. This is the vantage point from the cop leading up to the moments of the confrontation. He's getting out of his car. You can see him approaching the maroon SUV. She's behind the wheel. It's okay. We don't change our place. It's her talking. I'm not mad. Just so you know, it'll be the same plate when you come talk to us later. That's fine. U.S. citizen, former fucking friends.
Starting point is 00:57:09 You want to come at us? This is the wife. Get yourself some lunch, big boy. Go ahead. Out of the car. Get out of the fucking car. She's getting in. Here it goes.
Starting point is 00:57:26 Let's re-rack that. Let's re-rack the very last part and we'll play it again. But, Jesse, what we see there is her wife antagonizing ICE. This was obviously part of an op. She's filming them. She's trying to upset them. And I didn't realize the wife was trying to get into the car at the time Renee Good steps on the accelerator and hits the cop. Let's watch it again.
Starting point is 00:57:54 We're the same plate when you come talk to us later. That's fine. You have citizen, former fucking guys. You want to come at us? I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy. Go ahead. Out of the car. Get out of the fucking car.
Starting point is 00:58:08 I mean, you can hear the collision. You can hear her hit him. And by the way, Jesse, if you slow it down and you look at the screen grab of Renee Good's face, you can see she saw him. She's looking right at him. I mean, we have it here. You'd have to zoom in, but I did it on my phone. She clearly saw the officer and accelerated. I don't know that she wanted to run him over.
Starting point is 00:58:38 I don't know what she intended. but it doesn't matter. What he saw was a dangerous instrumentality about to kill him. And that is why he opened fire. Your thoughts on it. Now she's dead. I think it's so sad. But these are the, look, this is a, you start doing drugs.
Starting point is 00:58:56 Please don't start doing drugs. Megan, not that I'm concerned for you, but you start doing drugs, heroin. It's something terrible like that. You make choices, bad choices. They lead to other bad choices, which leads to other bad choices. and one day those choices get you killed. I've made a bunch of terrible choices in my life, many of which could have gotten me killed,
Starting point is 00:59:16 and by the grace of God, I'm still here. But that's a woman who knows the whole background of how she got involved in communist politics, all the meetings, all the training, all the this or that, her and her wife. And they led her to Minnesota one day, and now she's gone. She'll never see the age of 38.
Starting point is 00:59:36 And the terrible tragedy, as we talked about in the first hour, is the communist leadership that encourages these people, organizes these people, pays these people, billionaires, people in the media, Democrat politicians. They won't change their ways today, Megan. There's no humanity in it for them. They're not sorry at all. They'll send a bunch of other poor idiot dregs out to die again today and tomorrow and the next day. They'll kill the whole world if it means money and power for themselves.
Starting point is 01:00:04 Like six or eight months ago, remember they said more people need to die. We need to cause more chaos and more people need to. die to get attention to our issues. Well, Renee Good was sacrificed in that battle. Here's a closer image of her face while driving the car into the officer. I mean, it's clear she's looking at the camera. She obviously saw him and put her foot on the gas and pressed. It doesn't matter what her motivation was. I don't care whether she was trying to run him over or trying to escape. All that matters was the perspective of the officer and a reasonable officer in the same position. would they reasonably fear for their safety or the safety of others? And by the way, the other cop's arm was in the car. She was trying to take off. And the answer is obviously yes. All right, listen, I know you got a hard outcome, but I've got to ask you about this story. It happened in May, but it just made the news over the weekend because the video, for some reason, just caught on. It is in a Planet Fitness in California. And a woman named Grace Hudson, who goes to Planet Fitness, walked into the women's
Starting point is 01:01:08 locker room. And what she says is she used the facilities. She walked out of the stall, I guess, to wash her hands. The shower inside the women's locker room stops and, quote, this dude comes out, quote, literally straight up dude, tall and masculine. He's naked and wrapped in a towel, she says. And the next thing she knows, he goes into one of the bathroom stalls. Forgive me. Viewer warning here. You're not going to see any body parts, but you're going to see shadows of the body parts. And it's really clear what he was doing. Bro, I let me saw your shadow, bro. Like, she confronts him.
Starting point is 01:02:11 And now, all right. And now employees are there. Don't act. Don't act innocent. bro i saw the fucking video i was on face time watching you bro you're in the fucking females locker room beating your dick doesn't matter who you are that's inappropriate to be doing with females around it doesn't matter that you're in the stall it is inappropriate do that shit at home you're in the women's bathroom i'm allowed to be in here doesn't matter if you're allowed to be in here
Starting point is 01:02:41 you're not allowed to fucking jerk off in here bro what were you doing I was just drying off. I'm sorry, for the listening audience, what you can see is like if you were standing outside of a bathroom stall, you can see maybe people's feet, and you can potentially see a shadow of the person, and you can see the guy's clearly jerking off. It's very obvious. And then they confront him. He's dressed in hot pink. He's half out of the stall because he's, I guess, embarrassed he got caught, and claiming he has a right to be there, which sadly under California law, he does. He does. The planet fitness, people stand around. They have no idea how to handle it. That's obvious. They don't help. The boyfriend comes in there and does the right thing. Calls out the guy, gets into his face rhetorically. And this guy has the rights and the law on his side in the People's Republic of California, Jesse Kelly.
Starting point is 01:03:38 You know, Megan, we look across the ocean at various Islamist-type countries where women are treated like cattle. Afghanistan right now, young girls aren't allowed to go to school and women are beaten and abused. And we're mortified by it, correctly so, by the way, we're mortified by it, that there's a place where women are just abused repeatedly. And you know what we do, though? We look down our noses at those places and we think, oh, well, I could never hear. Well, that's every blue state now in the United States of America. That's just the reality of it. The reality of it is because we've allowed this demonic feel
Starting point is 01:04:14 to fill up certain parts of our country that young girls are abused, sexual abuse, physically abused, certainly on the sports field routinely. And we still look across the pond at a place like Afghanistan, and we talk about what backwards barbarians they are. But every decent society and the history of mankind would have handled that problem immediately,
Starting point is 01:04:37 and I mean legally, illegally. Immediately that person would have been apprehended, face some sort of punishment. Who knows what kind of punishment that would be? It would depend on what time period. But it would have just simply been understood the women deserve to be protected in society. But if you choose to be a Democrat and live in a Democrat place, that protection is now gone. You are way, you're not even second fiddle. I don't know if there's a third or fourth fiddle, but that's where you are compared to all this tranny demonic nonsense that goes on.
Starting point is 01:05:08 And it sickens me that's where we are, that young girls, that women of any age would be subjected to that. But that's what happens when you vote Democrat. Yeah. And now, like, that you're, I have a 14-year-old daughter. Like, we have to walk into Planet Fitness. And if she has to use a facility, she has to be next to that. Or what about after this guy leaves? I've got to go use that stall or my fellow women have to go use that stall that some guy was just jerking off in.
Starting point is 01:05:30 How did it end? It's disgusting. I know. And Gavin Newsom, who wants to be the president, allows this. He willingly allows it. It's disgusting. And they say, Jesse, oh, you know, it's about being kind and being empathetic and people are different and we have to let them use the facility that aligns with their gender identity. The vast majority of these men pretending to be women are auto-gynafiles. They get off on being in women's spaces, dressing like women,
Starting point is 01:06:02 and if they can jerk off around women in those circumstances, so much the better. we are not safe with these perverts exploiting these laws. And I don't know what it's going to say. I know you got to go. I'll let you get a quick last word. But I don't know what it's going to take to bring this home for people like Gavin Newsom who are still in power and want even more of it. It's going to take people, even normal people, maybe even people who lean a little left
Starting point is 01:06:28 waking up and realizing there's only one party that enables this. It's not me sitting here waving pom-poms for the useless Republicans. but the truth is the Democrat Party, they are the party of evil now. They promote it. They will protect it. And as long as you keep voting Democrat, I know your daddy Bob JFK,
Starting point is 01:06:46 but as long as she keep voting Democrat, this is what you're going to get more of. There's no way around it. Jesse Kelly, thank you for everything you do. Appreciate you, Meg. Okay, I just want to play one soundbite. Jesse had to go, but I want to play the soundbite of the young woman
Starting point is 01:07:01 who was the witness to this. Her name is Grace Hudson, as I said. and she updated her video by commenting on it on TikTok this past Sunday. Listen. I go out to wash my hands. The shower stops and this dude comes out. A hall and just masculine everything. He's naked and wrapped in a towel.
Starting point is 01:07:26 I go to dry my hands. I turn back around and I see that shadow. So I go back out into the gym and about 10. 15 minutes later, I come back into the bathroom and he's still doing that. I called my boyfriend and showed him. I go and tell the workers at the front desk, they just didn't really seem like they knew what to do. Eventually, they follow me into the restroom. He kept trying to say, oh, he's transgender.
Starting point is 01:07:58 He was drying off. I do have regrets. Like, I should have done more. I should have called the cops. I thought about it, but I was like, there's no way anything is going to come of this. Like, people are just going to say I'm transphobic. Okay, that makes me so sad. This young woman should never have had to deal with that.
Starting point is 01:08:21 It is a failure of all the rest of us. She's young. She didn't make the laws. She grew up probably in the area. It's a failure of all of ours in not stopping this. working harder to stop this. You know, I, I don't know what to say. I wish I had always been on the right side of this issue, like so many millions of Americans. I thought it was empathetic to be kind to, you know, trans people, so-called trans people who, I never advocated for their use of
Starting point is 01:08:51 bathrooms and locker rooms, but I'm just saying, like, the empathy thing worked on me until I started to see it explode. And so it's my fault, and it's the fault of so many, but it's really the fault of the people who are still pushing it. There is no excuse for still pushing it in 2026 America. There is no excuse for Gavin Newsom and the lawmakers of California like Scott Weiner, the disgusting, foul, perverted in my view, Scott Weiner, to allow this shit. Why does she have to deal with this? When she goes in just to work out and use the facilities.
Starting point is 01:09:30 Shame on you. Shame on you, Gavin Newsom. And I'm telling you right now, if this guy runs for president and there is a debate and somebody doesn't ask him about this, I will shame you daily. I will call my other big swing in podcast friends and make sure you get shamed by name for not asking him about this, about how he could allow this to happen to poor Grace Hudson. It's not her fault. She's feeling bad. She feels guilty that she didn't do more. Grace, there's nothing more you could do. The California law is against you.
Starting point is 01:10:03 It allows this pervert to jerk off an inch away from you in the bathroom stall when you are just trying to get fit and better your life. It's disgusting. It's immoral. It's derelict. It's evil. There's been no response from Planet Fitness. Why not? Do you give two shits about your clients?
Starting point is 01:10:28 Do you care at all? I wonder what Grace is paying a month. Probably 70 bucks for her members. Do you care at all about the women there? I'm just curious, like, who goes in there and cleans up the mess that that disgusting Tranny Fool made? Yeah? They're like, do you think he's the kind who cleans up carefully after himself?
Starting point is 01:10:44 Or do the women now need to sit on male semen when they try to use the stall? That's okay with you, Planet Fitness, just checking, asking for our friend. And you might want to talk to your front desk staff. If you're going to impose these laws on Californians and then you Planet Fitness are just going to go along with them instead of creating some single-sex stall where they can go, you might want to give some thought to the front desk staff. You know, like maybe they need to come in there with their rubber gloves and their chlorox and their mops and their rags after every one of these so-called trans people uses our facilities. Okay? Because none of us wants to sit on that bathroom stall. None of us wants to
Starting point is 01:11:23 deal with that. Okay? And unlike men, we actually do have to sit most of the time and our legs burn and it's tough, and sometimes you're dealing with feminine business that makes it even tougher to be standing, hovering for five minutes over the seat. So fucking clean up your act. Make it clean, make it safe. And honestly, if you can't stop this from happening, close up your doors and hang up your shingle. Get out. Get out of the health business, because that's not what this is. This is Times Square in 1977. That's what this is. They're one step away from carving a little hole in between the stalls so somebody can suck that guy off. I'm sorry, I'm getting disgusting, but it happens. This is so disgusting. And what they tell us is it's trans rights, our human rights. That's it.
Starting point is 01:12:10 That's the tweet. No, this is about women's rights. This is about this young girl, Grace's right to be safe and feel safe when she tries to relieve herself while working out. Fuck you, Planet Fitness. Fuck you, Gavin Newsome. And you too, Scott Weiner. We'll be right back. A new year means new financial goals, like making sure your savings are secure and diversified. Will this be the year you decide to talk to someone from Birch Gold Group? They use an educational approach with a deep understanding of macroeconomics. There are forces pushing the dollar lower and gold higher, which is why they believe every American should own physical gold. So until January 30th, if you're a first time gold buyer, Birch Gold is offering a rebate of up to $10,000.
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Starting point is 01:13:53 Great to see you. Okay. So we've been talking about Minneapolis and Portland all afternoon. And one thing I didn't get to was now that Renee Good has died, the protesters who have been harassing ICE for days are treating it like she's George Floyd. I mean, like, this is just a clear example in their view of police brutality. And, you know, every sane, passionate or compassionate person would see her as the obvious victim who didn't ask for this. And you get this from one of the protesters, this is via the defense. Daily Wires, Breka Stole, Sot 12.
Starting point is 01:14:33 I got to, I was like, I don't know if it's the right thing to do. It feels kind of wrong. Being here in some way, I don't know why. Why do you think, yeah. I don't know. I don't know, like, where that stems from. Like, I don't, I mean, part of it is being, like, a white woman that I'm privileged, and I have a lot of privilege.
Starting point is 01:14:57 Oh, my Lord. So I feel like white tears are not. not always something that's helpful or necessary when black and brown people have been experiencing this for a long time. This isn't new for them. And so I don't know if that makes any sense in that way. I'm here and I'm crying, but I feel guilty about my tears because I'm white. And this doesn't even involve anybody who's black at all or Hispanic. It's all whites. The shooter, the cop who shot her is white. The woman who died is white. Her wife was white. This is every White and white, but a white woman's not allowed to shed white tears, period, link,
Starting point is 01:15:36 because black and brown people have gone through this more times than white people have. No, they're definitely trying to make Renee the next George Floyd. You can see that with Tim Walls. And I think it's perfect for Tim Walls because he allowed businesses to be burnt to the ground during George Floyd. In fact, I think his wife talked about how they could smell tires burning outside. And it really, you know, coaxed them to sleep. We can smell tires burning outside. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:15:58 She said she used to put down her windows or lift up her windows so she could. can smell it. Right. And then you have Jacob Frye who is kneeling at George Floyd's casket. So they're trying to do this. But what people can't forget, and I've been trying to raise this on social media, this is a gift to Tim Walz. He won't admit this publicly, but in my opinion, this is a big gift for Tim Walz. And he's probably happy that this happened because it's moving the news cycle off of his massive Somali fraud scandal. Look how quickly the new cycle moved on to Renee. So I think Tim Walz is probably happy about this. But we're going to have to get back to the fraud scandal. So one thing I also say is this, if you're driving and someone tells you to stop their car, right?
Starting point is 01:16:35 If a federal agent tries to stop and talk to you, do not try to ram into them with your Honda pilot, right? For me, I follow the rules. But what we've seen with these Democrats for years is they're so used to being let off the hook by leftist liberal judges. They're used to having no consequences. There'll be, you know, pallets of bricks left out for them at these protests, just willy-nilly. And so they're not ever used to having consequences. And unfortunately, in this situation, she had consequences. Nobody wanted to see her get shot.
Starting point is 01:17:00 Nobody wanted to see her die. But when you're using your car as a weapon, things are going to happen, right? You stock this guy, you rammed him, and it went down. And yet the media continues to look at this and say, what we're seeing here is she was in the right. That's what this shows. You know, we saw that with Jimmy Kimmel last night. Thank God. You know, thank God there's a video that shows us as Rachel Maddow.
Starting point is 01:17:21 Like, obviously the video shows that the cop was in the wrong. And then thank goodness for Vice President J.D. Vance, who went to the White House press briefing room yesterday, got up in front of the lectern, and let them have it. Here's SOT 9. When I was actually walking out here, somebody sent me a photo of a CNN headline about what happened in Minneapolis. And this is the headline. I'm just going to read it.
Starting point is 01:17:50 Outrage after ICE officer kills U.S. citizen in Minneapolis. Well, that's one way to put it. and that is the way that many people in the corporate media have put this attack over the last 24 hours. And I say attack very, very intentionally because this was an attack on federal law enforcement. This was an attack on law and order. This was an attack on the American people. The way that the media, by and large, has reported this story, has been an absolute disgrace. And it puts our law enforcement officers at risk every single day.
Starting point is 01:18:22 What that headline leaves out is the fact that that very ICE officer, nearly had his life ended, dragged by a car, six months ago, 33 stitches in his legs. So you think maybe he's a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile? What that headline leaves out is that that woman was there to interfere with a legitimate law enforcement operation in the United States of America. What that headline leaves out is that that woman is part of a broader left-wing network to attack, to docs, to assault, and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job. cue all the media saying he made that up. None of that is verifiable. She wasn't part of a network. See her mother, her mom, who says she was really great and wasn't part of a network. Well, I've got reporting from the New York Post quoting people at her woke school who say she was.
Starting point is 01:19:16 No, what's so funny, watching that clip, what comes to mind for me is it's so nice having a president, a vice president, a secretary of state, an entire administration that can form coherent sentences because for the last four years, could you imagine Kamala even getting up there to do a presser and take questions that aren't vetted? Could you imagine Joe Biden getting up to take questions? They would give him note cards with people's pictures and names and biographies and the questions written out for him. So when I saw J.D. Bance at the podium, we can talk about the content of what he said next.
Starting point is 01:19:45 I was just so happy to see a vice president who wasn't three sheets to the wind by 12 in the afternoon and could actually talk informed coherent sentences. So that was great. I'll also say this. Stop vilifying and demonizing law. enforcement, but this is the whole narrative on the left, right? They always have this victim mentality. They vilify men and women in uniform, vilify people who serve our country. You see that with Jimmy Kimmel. Maybe we can talk about him in a second, but it's this constant vilification
Starting point is 01:20:08 of people who are out there enforcing laws. I'm sorry, Democrats. Let me break it to you how the country works. I haven't been on earth that long, but I can break it down for you. Elections have consequences. If you guys don't like the deportations, if you don't like what ICE is doing, take it to the ballot box. You know what I'm saying? Kamala Harris. lost every single swing state, the House, the Senate, the popular vote, electoral college, the list goes on. So when the Democrats are crying and whining about this, this is what we voted for. President Trump for 10 years has run on mass deportations. We're going to do the wall. We're going to get criminals out of the country. We're going to be tough about it and we're going to
Starting point is 01:20:44 move fast and get things done. So when the election came around and he won overwhelmingly, you guys are going, oh, we can't believe he's out there doing it. Take it to the ballot box. Stop using your cars as weapons. Stop stalking law enforcement. Stop docking. them, this poor man who was in an unfortunate situation and did what he thought he had to do in self-defense. They've already found his name where he lives, his family. God bless all of them. But these leftists will continue to vilify law enforcement, unfortunately, I think, from here on out until 2028. You're totally right. And by the way, it was a very good point you made about Tim Walz because, look, he may be dodging responsibility or at least the limelight right now
Starting point is 01:21:19 because all eyes are focused on ice. But this is coming back. This is definitely coming back. ICE did not back off one bit. Their officers are all still there investigating the fraud and arresting illegals. And just yesterday, I've got an announcement from Secretary Besson saying, if you are on public assistance, you can no longer wire money out of the United States, which is clearly aimed directly at these Somalis in Minneapolis, who, per reporting from City Journal and County Highway and others, have been. wiring money overseas, in part it is believed, has fund the al-Shabaab terrorist network. And Secretary Besson just put the kibosh on that. And Tim Walz is not going to escape responsibility for this. No, Tim Walz wants to obfuscade, hide the truth.
Starting point is 01:22:10 He does not want to address this Somali scandal. And I'm almost thinking, you know, I'm the least conspiratorial person you will ever find, Megan. But when I look at the last election, right, Kamala Harris chose Tim Walls out of the blue. She needed Pennsylvania. She didn't choose the guy from Pennsylvania. chose this clown, Mr. Jazz Hands from Minnesota. So she chooses him, right, and all of their vetting, you're telling me the DNC's vetting, Kamala Harris's vetting, PR, all of that, private investigators. You guys didn't know about any of this fraud, even though people in Minnesota
Starting point is 01:22:39 said they've known about it for years. There have been rumors for years, and I can tell you, Megan, I have friends all across the political spectrum, left, right, center, libertarian, whatever. This is bringing people together. I mean, I had a transgender classmate from NYU who lives in California, text me paragraphs about how pissed she was about the Somali fraud scandal in Minnesota because we work hard, we pay our taxes, we get up and work, we sit here and sell our Masa chips every day in cowboy colostrum and work. We don't want our tax dollars going to Somalians who are funding terrorism. Call me crazy. And it's clear we're paying way too much in taxes if $8, 10, $12 billion by some of these estimates is going to terrorist organizations and Somalians and daycares with no
Starting point is 01:23:21 children. So this is going to bring people together. I think fraud, if Republicans get their act together in the midterms, they can run on this fraud. I mean, there's something here for everybody here. Healthcare fraud, SNAP program has a lot of fraud. They didn't want to turn over their scrolls either. You've got Somalian fraud. You've got people rigging things. I think Republicans can run on this. Run on most favored nations. Run on getting health care costs down. Run on securing the border and ram this fraud narrative home because if Republicans lose in the midterms, you don't think there's going to be even worse fraud. You don't think there's going to be even worse fraud. You don't think there's going to be worse fraud.
Starting point is 01:23:52 I think it's great that the DOJ now has a new like fraud ambassador, fraud czar who's going to be looking at this. But that person also needs to look into disability fraud because I've covered so many cases where people, they claim disability. It's bullshit. They retire with something like, I don't know, three quarters of their salary. And it's all made up. Then you see them running a marathon. You see them doing like a triathlon. It's ridiculous.
Starting point is 01:24:13 And that's another fertile area to figure out who's defrauding us out of our hard earned dollars. If anyone has flown southwest, in the comments, you have seen this first and foremost. They have 20 wheelchairs. And, you know, Southwest is first come first served. So it's like the hunger games. They've got to 20 wheelchairs because people got to get on first and get those good seats. You get off in Miami, people strutting off the plane, sashaying off the plane. So we do need to look into all of this. We have all seen that. One word on J.D. Vance, who was just stellar yesterday. Tim Miller of the dispatch tweets out, J.D. Vance is the most appalling person in public life since segregation. This is a truly
Starting point is 01:24:50 despicable performance. And then you've got John Favreau of the Pod Save guys. Can't believe I'm saying this, but I think he's worse than Trump. Certainly more despicable. Two people. That's just two,
Starting point is 01:25:03 but there were plenty of others, calling him despicable. That's the word for J.D. Vance. He's despicable. He's even worse than Trump, Link. They see what we see, which is 48. Well, it's interesting.
Starting point is 01:25:14 Tim Miller, these guys from Pod Save America, they're about as politically relevant as like a hymroid. like nobody cares about what they have to say whatsoever. Like I don't think anyone is looking at Tim Miller for some political expertise. This guy doesn't even know where he stands. He'll say anything to get on MSNBC each night. So he has no principles.
Starting point is 01:25:31 And where were these folks the last four years? When they are carrying water for Biden, when Kareen-John-Pier and these Democrat operatives were saying he's sharp and quick and doing cartwheels, you have no trust. You have no trust outside of your very far-left base. So how are you going to win in 26? How are you going to win in 2028? And I will say there's not much competition on the left, right? Gavin Newsom, he's supposed to be their stellar star. Gavin Newsom in every single interview. You press him. He starts shaking. He starts sweating. His eyes are bloodshot. He comes unglued very quickly, Gavin Newsom. So I don't even think he'll do well in debate. So J.D. Vance, Comcoal collected. Marker Rubio, funny, com cool collected as well. I mean, we have a great bench. And I think there are some names that we're not even discussing yet. So we'll see. Here's what I want to hear the next time Gavin Newsom goes anywhere.
Starting point is 01:26:17 Grace Hudson, Grace Hudson, Grace Hudson, Planet Fitness, Planet Fitness, Planet Fitness. Every journalist who fails to do that is derelict in his or her duty. What was interesting is one time when I was in the press poll, I asked President Trump about the fight Gavin Newsom was having with the DOJ to keep men and women's sports. And we've talked about A.B. Hernandez. And Gavin Newsom has flip-flopped on this trans issue a lot.
Starting point is 01:26:41 Now he's decided he wants more trans kids and he loves trans. So clearly the special interest and entrenched interests. medical lobby has gotten to him. But I remember asking President Trump, I said, does Gavin Newsom hate women? Does he hate women? Like, how can you as a father, right, as a father of a young woman, want men in the women's locker rooms, men in the women's bathrooms, and President Trump laugh. He's like, I certainly don't think Gavin Newsom hates women. But if Gavin Newsom doesn't come down on the right side of history on this issue, he doesn't have a prayer. They say this is 80-20. Go out there and talk to people at the supermarket. Go out there and talk to forgotten men and women of this country.
Starting point is 01:27:14 They will tell you. This is not an 80-20 issue. And I'm sorry. so happy if Kamala Harris had won, we could have been de-platformed for having this conversation. Look at what happened during COVID. If you said anything they didn't like, it was like George Orwell, 1980. No, no, no. He'd imposed that readily. And by the way, no, he doesn't hate women, but he just, just our rights. That's all, just our rights. I want to keep going. You mentioned Jimmy Kimmel. I'm glad you raised that because I've been trying to get to this all week. His show won the Critics Choice Awards, and he had the nerve to say this backstage. SOT 17. It was almost a near-death experience for me, and, you know, of course, not literally, but I did feel a little bit like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn watching their own funeral.
Starting point is 01:28:01 All this stuff happened, and to be here and to see that people reacted to it in a, not just a positive way, but in almost a desperate way, we're like, oh, boy, when they come after the comedians, this is when we draw the line, and, you know, we're very grateful that they, through the line at us. Link, a near-death experience? I mean, how dare he use that term? How dare he use that term? This multi-millionaire privileged asshole sitting out there in Beverly Hills because the show was off the air
Starting point is 01:28:34 for five days, five days. That's it. And he wants to use that term. And also just one other point to talk about how, oh, you know, when they come for the comedians, where was he when comedians were being canceled left and right in 2020 because of woke excesses.
Starting point is 01:28:54 I'll just play you one, just one. Ryan Long came on our show in May of 2021. We didn't even have video. We were just an audio podcast back then and talked about this and what he'd been through. He's a brilliant comedian. So quick soundbip, listen to this, SOT 19. I mean, when I was doing stuff at CBC,
Starting point is 01:29:13 which is the Canadian Broadcast Corporation, I was part of, you know, traditional media. and I had probably the biggest views out of any show. And my digital series, the two or three other ones would be turned in television shows and mine wouldn't. And I was in a million conversations, you know, in closed doors and on conference calls where it was like, listen, like they're not doing a show with a white male. Like that's just what the situation is.
Starting point is 01:29:37 If you want to, you know, potentially we could be partnering with someone that isn't white or whatever it is, right? Like the amount of these conversations I have and I go, yeah, okay. So option one. is I can, you know, stay there and complain. Option two is I sort of moved to America and tried to build my own thing. So, of course, that sucks.
Starting point is 01:29:55 And, you know, Tim Allen's getting his show kicked off the air because for no reason when it was a hit. And I've seen this time and time again. I don't remember Jimmy Kimmel standing up for anyone other than himself, Link. For Jimmy Kimmel to say him being put on pause for a couple of days was a near-death experience. It made my skin crawl a couple days ago.
Starting point is 01:30:17 when I saw it because what a slap in the face to men and women who serve this country? What about people who are going through chemotherapy right now? What about people who are in the hospital about to die? What about those people? And so when I see Jimmy Kimmel going out there and saying he had a near-death experience because his show was off the air for a few days, what, what, what is slap in the face to people actually going through things? Number two, Jimmy Kimmel is not funny, right? Jimmy Kimmel has never had a funny joke. He's not a real comedian. He's a partisan hack, sort of like Stephen Colbert, right? He's running what, a $40 million deficit at his show? If you think he was a conservative. What do they keep him on the air? Absolutely not. But Jimmy Kimmel gets a
Starting point is 01:30:51 pass because it's ABC. It's Disney. All the special interests love Jimmy Kimmel. They'll push any pharmaceutical product and do what they have to do on air every single day. But Jimmy Kimmel, it's interesting. You can tell he's lived a charmed life, a pretty easy life because this is the worst thing that's ever happened to him getting a three or four day vacation, you know. Then he made a comment on stage in which he ripped on Trump. I don't even totally get it. He call them Donald Jennifer Trump? Like, what's, what even is that? Is you trying to, like, say Trump is trans? Like, is, are you allowed to make fun of trans people when you're- Yeah, that's their new go-tale? Right? I mean, I'm not sure that's allowed. And then there's the
Starting point is 01:31:30 voice of reason, Conan O'Brien, who was part of a discussion at the Oxford Union and said this the other day, Sot 20. I think some comics go the route of, I'm going to just say F Trump every all the time, or that's their comedy. And I think, well, now a little bit you're being co-opted because you're so angry. You've been lulled. It's like a siren leading you into the rocks. You've been lulled into just saying F-Trump, F-Trump, F-Trump, screw this guy. And I think you've now put down your best weapon, which is being funny, and you've exchanged it for anger.
Starting point is 01:32:16 It's pretty amazing. He's clearly taking aim in particular at the three late night hosts. Fallon less so, but definitely Colbert and Kimmel and the loser, Seth Myers, 100%, not to mention John Oliver, all of whom do exactly that and only that. Well, John Oliver, I can't stand. In about every three or four weeks, John Oliver will put a picture of me up on screen and make fun of me and my liberal friends will text me and say, John Oliver just called you this and John Oliver called you that. I said, why is his staff so concerned with what I have going on? on. Maybe you guys should go and write some jokes and some good material. Maybe he likes you, Link. Maybe there's someone in that writer's room who does because they're looking good. You're looking good. You're looking very handsome. Your new wardrobe. Your hair's looking good. You're very famous now. Well, thank you. But we're working on the lighting. Okay,
Starting point is 01:33:06 I'm not that ghostly in person. We're going from maybe 4,500 Kelvin down to 30. We're working on it, people. So when it comes, when it comes to comedians, Conan O'Brien is a real one. Conan O'Brien follows me on Instagram. I would love to have him on the podcast to discuss this very issue. All the great comics are going into conservative areas and touring red states now because they go and play these liberal crowds in Los Angeles. You go to like the comedy store, nobody will laugh. Nobody will laugh.
Starting point is 01:33:31 You have to take everything so seriously. It's like we used to have Joan Rivers back in the day and people who could really push the boundaries and push the envelopes. And that's what comedy was supposed to be. Late night comedians weren't supposed to be partisan hacks who are pushing political agendas. They were supposed to call out both sides and be funny and boisterous and all of the above. But Jimmy Kimmel, I don't think he'll be on air much longer either. Stephen Colbert, I think he's already been canned.
Starting point is 01:33:54 And the others, does anyone watch? Does anyone care? Yeah. I mean, of course, this all turn into like one big Trump bashing session out in Hollywood. We know that. But it's not just on camera. It's behind the camera when people are auditioning for their roles. They have to make clear they hate Trump if they want to get cast in anything major in Hollywood.
Starting point is 01:34:12 Rob Schneider, who's amazing, and also a comedian who used to be on Saturday Night Live, knows of what he speaks. And he talked about this just the other day. Take a listen here, SOT 30. Show business, wrong or right, they don't want any controversy. You know, they don't want you being mouthy or anything. And that makes sense. But I do think that at a certain point, if we're going to have a society and if we're going to have continue to have a free society. It's going to require people to step up and be courageous. And, you know, this country still allows that. It is our First Amendment right. Does it make you free of consequences? No.
Starting point is 01:34:56 You just, you know, you're going to ask Jimmy Kimmel, who was temporarily fired. It's going to cost you. And I think today's blacklisting of conservatives is the same thing. I think it's, at its core, it is adding to it. destruction. And I think you, we are seeing Hollywood completely dismantle itself. That's an interview with the Epic Times. Right on, Rob Schneider, Link. Rob Schneider has always been a real one. Rob Schneider, Mike Binder, I don't know if you know him. He's a great comedian as well. On the Kennedy campaign, we put on this big comedy show fundraiser in downtown Los Angeles. Rob Schneider came. He performed. He couldn't have been nicer. I was backstage getting
Starting point is 01:35:40 people drinks. I think the comedians were mad. We had like, water and Gatorade. They're like, where are the real drinks backstage? We're like, this is a campaign event. So no, they were like, where are the real drinks? But Rob Schneider, he's always been a real one, and he's not afraid to call out both sides. And that's what comedians are supposed to do. But it's interesting in these writers' rooms, the reason Hollywood is going so downhill, the reason you can't find anything good to watch on Netflix is they're capitulating to the small but vocal minority, right? Most people, they're kind of in the middle. They want to pay their bills. They want a country that works for them. They're not crazy, far left deranged
Starting point is 01:36:14 people. But when you turn on Netflix, they'll ruin every show by throwing in a bunch of characters that don't fit together, just a checkbox. It's like, for me, right, I'm gay, obviously. I don't need to see a gay character in every single show. I'll be watching, like, a historical film, and they'll, like, throw in a gay character, saw shaying in with a scarf. And I'm like, this has nothing to do with the film that's going on. So, no, we don't need to check every single box. And even I was having this conversation with some black friends of mine, and they're in entertainment. and I spoke about this on my podcast, they're like, we don't need to see ourselves in every single film. It's okay to see different stories. But if Hollywood doesn't start recognizing these states
Starting point is 01:36:48 they like to fly over between Los Angeles and New York, they fly over and look down on Middle America, if they don't prioritize those folks and realize they have checkbooks and wallets too and they're willing to go to the theater if you tell a good story, they're going to get left behind. And I think that's why Hillbilly Elegie really resonated and Sound of Freedom resonated because they spoke to audience that don't see themselves represented on Netflix or some of these streamers or in movie theaters. Yeah. And made JD-A-Ns a star. A huge star. Go ahead. Absolutely. One thing I'll say about Amazon Prime and Jeff Bezos is, I love that they're putting out the First Lady Melania Trump's film. They're open to having pretty much anything on Amazon Prime now.
Starting point is 01:37:24 And so I love to see that shift and how things are going. So shout out to Prime. I will say that. I can always find something on there. Hopefully they're turning over a new leaf because they banned Eli and Shelby Steele's documentary what killed Michael Brown a few years back, which was disgusting. But perhaps we've turned over a new leaf now that we're trying to cozy up to Donald Trump. Whatever. We'll take the fairness however we can get it.
Starting point is 01:37:45 All right, Link, standby, because I'm going to keep you, if you don't mind. We're going to keep this rolling. There's a lot more to get to, and we just just don't enough time. But Link stays with us, and we will be right back with him right after this break. Look, 2026 does not mean reinventing the wheel.
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Starting point is 01:39:34 Link Lauren, host of Spot On on the MK Media Podcast Network is back with me now. Go and subscribe on YouTube and all podcast platforms now. Okay. So, Link, this is the tale of two parties here. You've got Donald Trump with a very big announcement saying that he is calling for a ban on large institutional investors buying single family homes. This is revolutionary because we've seen these big, huge corporate banks. buying huge swaths of homes and making it a lot tougher in some instances for regular Joe's to be able to afford them. He truthed out on Wednesday.
Starting point is 01:40:17 For a very long time, buying an owning a home was considered the pinnacle of the American dream. It was the reward for working hard doing the right thing. But now because of record high inflation caused by Joe Biden and the Dems, the American dream is increasingly out of reach for far too many, especially younger Americans. For that reason and much more, I'm immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes. and I will be calling on Congress to codify it. People live in homes, not corporations. I will discuss this topic, including further housing and affordability proposals and more at my speech in Davos in two weeks. So he's worried about homeownership and people not being able to afford them. And he is cracking down in just the right place on these corporate huge banks that try to corner the market pricing individuals out.
Starting point is 01:41:02 Now, let's take a look over at one of the most expensive cities in the work. world, New York City, where we have a new head of tenant housing named Sia Weaver. And Sia says her goal is to make housing worth less, not cost less. She's not interested in helping homeowners get homeownership, which she thinks is white supremacy. She's made that clear. The quote was, it is important to impoverish the white middle class. That's her goal. Quoting directly, it is important to impoverish. It is important to impoverish. the white middle class. And home ownership is racist. You see, she doesn't like Donald Trump's plan. She doesn't want to make it easier for people to afford a home. What she wants is for the government
Starting point is 01:41:46 to own all the homes and then they will decide where you live and where I live and where everybody else lives. And this can be hung around the neck of Mayor Mamdani like an albatross because he's made clear, Sia speaks for him in a newly unearthed clip. Take a listen here. This is from 2021. Sautil. 27. I would, first of all, you need to expand rent controls to cover smaller buildings. And they need to be rent controlled. And the reason why they need to be rent controlled is not because like rent control is inherently socialist, but because rent control limits the speculative value of the land. Like our goal is to have the housing actually be worthless to some degree, right? Like, we don't want this to be an investment vehicle. We want it to be like long-term stable homes. We don't need
Starting point is 01:42:38 people to become millionaires off their homes. I get most of my knowledge on housing from Cia. So if you get it from me, it's just not coming from the source. That's not good. Your thoughts on Cia Weaver and her media tour this week. Many thoughts. First off, thank you President Trump, right? When people want to be panikins in the GOP right now and say there's a bunch of infighting and this and that, President Trump, this is an issue Republicans can win in the midterms. It's something Democrats have wanted for years, independence, and folks on the right. We have to stop institutional investors from coming in and buying homes. If you do that and you couple it with mass deportations, maybe young people will be able to have the American dream. So I'm so happy
Starting point is 01:43:19 to see President Trump tackling this because I've said for years, I've shouted it from the rooftops, the thought of owning a home is a distant fantasy from my generation. But it's not just Gen Z, Gen Alpha, and younger folks. I hear from senior citizens. I hear from baby boomers and older who say, we're having to be perpetual renters because we can't afford to have homes. And these are people who've served, been in America, their entire lives paid their dues and paid their taxes. So I'm happy we're going to stop private equity from coming and buying homes. Second, I don't want to hear from Zorn Mamdani or any of his DEI picks on housing. Okay. Reverse racism is still racism. Okay, excluding white people on the basis of their skin color or
Starting point is 01:43:57 their background, that is still racism. And I don't know what folks are still doing in New York City. Unless you have to live in New York City, why are you still there? We just saw Zora and Mammatani and Kathy Hokel. They lit up all these buildings green for Muslim Pride Month and Muslim Heritage Month. They had the World Trade Center lit up green for Muslim Heritage Month. I'll let you fill in the irony there. We're only 25 years on from 9-11. What happened to never forget?
Starting point is 01:44:22 Now we're lighting the World Trade Center up for Muslim Pride Month. So I'm not Islamophobic. I'm calling it like I see it. If you're still in New York City, if you're still in New York State, I don't know what you are doing. Okay, but if you're going to come, if you're going to come to our red states, don't bring your voting record. Okay, if you're fleeing because of CEO Weaver and Mondani, don't come and vote blue in Texas and Florida and all these other states. Just stay there.
Starting point is 01:44:44 Islamophobia is not a thing. You are allowed to object to the tenets of Islam. It's a part religion, part political doctrine, and we are perfectly entitled to comment on it favorably or negatively without being called essentially a bigot. Sorry, that's just the way it is. Okay. Well, let me keep going because I really want to get your thoughts on Megan. Markle's new cookbook. In the same week, we heard that her 11th publicist in five years quit, allegedly over the debacle that happened at the Chris Jenner birthday party, where they
Starting point is 01:45:15 harassed the Kardashians to take down all the photos of Harry and Megan because there was one of Harry leering at Chris Jenner's breasts. That's my speculation. I'm sure that was part of the reason. And Megan didn't look good in the photos. So they, we never consented. We want them down. Anyway, this publicist said, I am out of here. I'm not dealing with these two. Then we hear that Megan is releasing her first solo cookbook link in early 2026. It's going to tie her lifestyle brand as ever into, I guess, her cooking. And Daily Mail reports that the book may include recipes for her single skillet spaghetti, which, by the way, and rainbow-themed fruit salad, Maureen Callahan and I made both of those
Starting point is 01:45:57 only to find out that the single skillet spaghetti was stolen from. Martha Stewart. It's not even her own recipe. It's exactly the same. There might be like one tiny difference. So I wonder whether she's going to get sued for a copyright infringement if she actually tries to pawn that off in a cookbook as her own. Thoughts? Oh, I have many thoughts. I think the 11th publicist leaving tells us there's real trouble in paradise. I think the publicist would rather work for like Katie Porter than Megan Markle. I think Katie Porter might be a cakewalk as opposed to Megan Markle. So I'm not shocked to see the staff leaving. Yeah. And I also think maybe they don't pay the staff that well. I think also they hire a bunch of people to feel important, right?
Starting point is 01:46:37 If we have staff, if we have an entourage, we're really important. And then the staff realizes there's not much happening day to day. These aren't people getting up and just hustling from like eight to six every day. There's nothing happening really at the compound. There are days where they don't do much. And so I'm not shocked to see the people leaving. The second thing I'll say is, I don't need a cook book from Megan Markle. She can barely cook. Okay, it's like taking driver's ed from Stevie Wonder or Ray Charles. Like, you just don't want to take cooking advice from Megan Markle. And then all she can do is she moves pretzels from one bag into another.
Starting point is 01:47:06 Okay, that's not skill. Is that a recipe? Can we count that as a recipe? Exactly, exactly. So she can only move pretzels from one bag into another. She makes rainbow fruit platters. Let me also say this. I heard from so many women and mothers who are like, we don't have time when we're
Starting point is 01:47:22 getting our kids ready for school to do rainbow color-coordinated fruit platters, right? We're trying to get the kids out the door. Is the homework done? Do you have the slip you need for class? Because Megan has staff and rich celebrities in Montecito, Los Angeles have full-time staffs and nannies, they can get up and leisurely make a rainbow fruit platter. If I came downstairs as a kid and my mom was making a rainbow fruit platter before school, I would say, who died?
Starting point is 01:47:45 Are you on speed? What's going on? I would think something bad had happened if I came down and my mom was whipping up a rainbow fruit platter color coordinated in the morning. I'm like, has she turned into monk? What's going on? So Megan Markle, I think this cookbook is a final grift. Like she's really reaching, I'm sure she'll get a big advance.
Starting point is 01:48:03 And it'll be great. So happy for her. Oh, I mean, Maureen and I, we did the fruit platter. And we had somebody do the shopping. And it took hours. We're going to drop a clip in here for the podcast listeners. All right. So this is just what I do.
Starting point is 01:48:17 I just whip this up in the morning. You could do this with one small row for your kids for breakfast. Ideally, in your white cashmere, it's just fruit. It's just presented in a different way. An early rise might really help like three or four. It's a real delight in being able to be a present parent. With the nanny. Right, right, of course, of course.
Starting point is 01:48:36 You've got to be able to just, like, go with the flow when you're a working mom. They'll have to work. We all have a lot of stuff to do. If you literally have seven hours to devote to your breakfast charcutory, you're going to wow them. This is gorgeous. It's so sweet. Nailed it.
Starting point is 01:48:54 Nailed it. It took hours, and we made the spaghetti. The whole thing's a joke. I mean, if she makes money off of that and actually does get a big advance, it will truly underscore how absurd the publishing industry has become. All right. Last but not least, a clip came to our attention, Link, Lauren, a clip from your show. And it was about your New Year's resolutions.
Starting point is 01:49:18 And we want to show this to the audience in SOT 32. If you're feeling bad about not reinventing yourself this year, don't worry. Megan Markle will debut an entirely new personality, company, or life story by February, so she's got us all covered. Really, you're doing fine. And you know, there's always that one friend, okay? There is always that one friend who says, I'm going to be kinder this year. I'm going to show up. I've changed my ways, sweetie.
Starting point is 01:49:44 You downloaded one Mel Robbins podcast, cut the crap, okay? You bought one self-help book. There's always that one friend who thinks that this is there, eat, pray, love year. This is the year they're really going to transform and be kinder and be better. And then they're back being a miserable troll in about five days. Okay, so listen, I'm not judging. It takes a village. But if you've been a bitch the last 20 years, why change now?
Starting point is 01:50:08 Okay. I love it. All very good advice. But later in the show, you asked the audience to weigh in the sweater. And I would like to officially do that and say, I'm against it. It does the feel of somebody reaching for like your boob in the sweater. the movie theater, you know, like it, for the listening audience, it's got like what looks like a hand across a sweater that is definitely green and black, and then like a white hand reaching
Starting point is 01:50:33 across, reaching for like a boob or the shoulder. And therefore I'm against it because it reminds me of middle school. So the sweater is not going to be brought back out unless it's a recurring character like the wickless candle. Okay, I keep, I keep Megan Markle's wickless candle on my desk because it's a recurring character. I'm glad it doesn't have a sad card. It might start charging me. But no, the sweater is going to stay in the closet. And I don't care about looking ridiculous. I thought, okay, this is so terrible. I'm going to wear it. And let me just ask them how much they hate it. Like a few weeks ago, I wore this insane purple shirt. And it ended up being one of our biggest episodes. I think we got like four or five thousand comments on the episode.
Starting point is 01:51:14 Half of them were like, we like the shirt, we don't like the shirt. And I bought the shirt myself. It's not like anyone sent it to me. I didn't even say the brand of it. But no, that sweater was a Christmas gift. And you know on Christmas morning, everybody has related to this, okay, on Hanukkah, Kwanza, whatever you celebrate, you open a gift and you hate it, but you have to go like, oh my God, thank you. You turn into an Academy Award-winning actor on Christmas morning. Thank you so much for this sweater. I thought, I don't care if I look ridiculous. I know they're going to have heated opinions over this sweater. Here's what you need to say when somebody gives you a gift like that. And it's, I love this line because it's true, but it's also somewhat subversive, okay?
Starting point is 01:51:52 And it's not insulting. I could not love this anymore. That is what you say when you get the terrible gift. I could not love it anymore. I, like, it is honestly, I couldn't. Trust me, I could not. Now, one of the reasons I raised this with you is because we had our own sweater gate here at the MK show. It wasn't, didn't play out on the air or with the audience, but it's about to.
Starting point is 01:52:18 So every day before we go on, I sit down in the chair and I can see my executive producer, Steve Krakauer, and my executive producer for news, Debbie Murphy, on my little Zoom camera, which is right underneath my real camera. Sometimes the audience will see me looking, not into camera, but looking down, because on the screen below the camera, we play the sound bites, and I can see him better because it's a big, big camera. And I can see Steve and Debbie there. And so that's helpful for the anchor to just figure out the traffic of the show and what's happening. And sometimes they're talking to me in my ear. Anyway, I see them sitting there, and I sat down mid-December getting ready to do a show, and Steve Krakauer, he's been my EP from the beginning of the show,
Starting point is 01:52:59 and we've been friends forever since forever, is wearing what to me from this distance, I'm about maybe, I don't know, 15 feet away from the camera, looked like a strapless shirt. It looks, he's a heterosexual man, he's very happily married with kids. Look at this. And I took a picture of this link with my camera. Does it not look like he is naked from the shoulder up in this little screen grab? I don't know. Absolutely. And there's Canadian Debbie laughing at him on screen right. Let's run through a few of the screen grabs if we have him. Yeah, there's another one. And I'm like, Steve, what are you wearing? What are you? No idea. And we were going to have a staff meeting that day. Here's me taking a picture. You can see me in it. Oh, my God. So we were going to have a staff meeting that day. And I'm going to tell you a link, that he actually put on a jacket before the strap meeting
Starting point is 01:53:47 because we so shamed him out of this ridiculous sweater because it was like, for the listening audience, like peach, I think peach, Steve, I'm sorry, and then a stripe of blue and then peach and then blue. And the peach looked naked like Steve Crackauer went strapless for the Megan Kelly show that day. Does that sweater stay or does it go? That goes in the same bin as my sweater.
Starting point is 01:54:11 No, it's got to go. I will say when I stand up, The sweater is not as terrible. I think there's this big fashion account that breaks down like Melania's outfits and Princess Catharines and we use their stuff all the time. And he did a full thing on like where the sweater was from and the full picture. And I said, I feel like I've kind of made it now because this account is talking about this horrific sweater.
Starting point is 01:54:31 But no, it is not coming back out except as like a gag, you know, like the candle. Wait, Steve, what happened to the sweater? Asking now. It's retired, he says. It's a shame. Okay, good. Just took a little good old-fashioned shaming. You know, like the world has to do what it's going to do.
Starting point is 01:54:48 This is why I'm in favor of shaming. This is why I don't like principles screening somebody's valedictorian speech. Like if they say something stupid, they have to be subjected to the wrath of the masses out there that teach them the old-fashioned way what to say, what not to say, what the bounds of society will allow. And so that's laws of natural consequences, which is why, yeah, there should be feedback on sweaters and the like. And we shouldn't be shy about it. It's like a, it's our duty as friends. Absolutely. No, we need to bring back shame in 2026. I think the girls were getting a little too shameless in 2025, all these thoughts out here and people the way they were behaving. So we need to bring back a little bit of shame. Like I was at a restaurant the other night and we didn't go out on New
Starting point is 01:55:32 years, but we did like a nice date night fancy restaurant, I think on like the second or the third. Some of the outfits walking into the restaurant and it is cold. These girls are wearing nothing. These girls are wearing nothing. And I said, do you remember before it was socially acceptable to come to a restaurant with your vagina out? Like, how are you in here with this outfit? So we need to bring back a little shame. I don't want to eat next to exposed vaj. That is not.
Starting point is 01:55:55 Well, what I said was for any of us. I said, I know we're at a Japanese restaurant. I don't need to see your California role. Like, it was, there was a lot going on. So I didn't need to see that, actually. It was confirmation of I'm gay. By the way, we also should, like, we got to crack down on the crying men. Have you ever seen so many crying men?
Starting point is 01:56:11 crying men in the news? Like a lot of crying by newsmen. Just this week alone, Link, what do you make of that? It's interesting because on the one hand, it's like, okay, nice that a guy can cry every once in a while, but I'm old school. I don't need to see grown men crying all the time. I think Kelly Katrown, this publicist in New York, used to have this phrase, if you have to cry, go outside. You know, all these cry babies in the workplace, and there are Jin Zs who are bringing their parents to job interviews, like they're 24 years old, bringing their parents in job interviews. Everyone needs to grow up, okay? And man up too. Okay, we need more alphas in this world. Like, I want Delta Force looking guys. I want those guys who went and snatched up Maduro. I don't want
Starting point is 01:56:50 cry babies who are, you know, I think a lot of these men, and I hate to say women might get mad at this, but I was having conversation with a friend. I think it's social media. Is it the hormones and the chicken? I think men these days, like have a period also. Like men, it's like, I see so many guys and now it's like, even my girlfriends will be like, I think he's on his like man period because they're just emotional and angry is up and down. It's got to change. I just asked Jesse about this. Jesse Kelly. I'm like, is it the microplastics? Is it like, what is it? The water, like the chemicals on the water, the sunscreen. Because I do miss real men. I want real men. I agree with you. Like Delta Force, that'd be great. But just not crying all the time on camera
Starting point is 01:57:26 as a male anchor. I would take that too. We talked about Tony Docapul yesterday. We're crying in a clip that he put out. He put out. He wanted us to see him cry. That's what's so weird. It's even worse than the Philip Bump thing we just showed because at least he was live on the air. Tony Docapul was in a taped interview with somebody and, like, started to tear up about the fact that he didn't get to grow up in Miami. It wasn't like, I said like the whole family died in a house fire. Not that. No, it was I didn't get to live there. Repeatedly wiping the eye and then the other eye and then back to the first eye and back to the other eye and like choking up in the throat and couldn't get the words out.
Starting point is 01:58:00 It was embarrassing. But I will tell you, I did get a little insight on what he's doing last. Last night, all right, we played this clip yesterday, so it was from the day before. Then last night, he went out and tried to do a little summary of what's happening in Minneapolis. I guess this is going to be his thing. And I realized something about his thing that put the crying in perspective. Watch what he did last night. Okay.
Starting point is 01:58:27 But our job now is maybe the most American thing of all. It's to find a way to live with people who are genuinely different from us, to try to be fair to them and in doing so to make things better and keep things decent. Because in America, no one else is going to do it for us. It's not my job to tell you what to think about what happened here yesterday, but I can tell you we owe our children a nation that is better than the one we live in today. And I can say that because we all know it's true. Okay.
Starting point is 01:59:00 So what's happening here, Link, is he's trying to be Oprah. that now it all makes sense. He's trying to offer fake profundities that move no one and are actually not original or meaningful at all and peppering in some like self-help talk, you know, kumbaya hugging type stuff in between his crying fits because he's telegraphing Oprah. He's toper. That's what he's trying to do with the CBS Evening News. And like Oprah's show now the days, it will fail.
Starting point is 01:59:35 Like, this is no way to appeal, I think you want, American women. Because we all like the Delta Force thing. Only far left liberal women like a crying topra, right? And men certainly don't like that. But I figured out the formula. And this is apparently the new bet on the future of CBS News. Thoughts on that? Well, it's interesting.
Starting point is 01:59:57 I think it's a generational thing because I don't really know who a lot of these people are. I mean, when I see these palace intrigue stories about all of these networks now, I'm like, I actually don't know who these people are. I wish you guys well, but I just have never heard of some of these anchors. And even my friends, like, we don't know who this is either. So, you know, shout out to everyone over there. I wish them well. But a friend of mine gave me advice years ago. She said, if you want to be taken seriously in politics, you cannot cry on camera. Like, if you lose an election, especially as a woman, you can't cry at your concession speech. Hillary, Kala. Okay, Doug Imha. So it's like, if you ever want to be taken seriously,
Starting point is 02:00:28 that you cannot cry on camera. I don't need to see grown men crying, you know, maybe after sex with a cigarette, but no, I don't want to see you on camera crying. No, I'm just kidding. Now, nowhere around sex should a man ever cry. No, no, absolutely no. I have to call my mom afterward.
Starting point is 02:00:42 No, I'm just kidding. But yeah, no, I don't need to see grown men cry. And I really don't see a ton of women crying either. We have to run it again. Can we run the crying video? Just like, I need to see it just before we go to weekend. You said this is your favorite place in the world. Why? Why South Florida and Miami?
Starting point is 02:01:02 What? It makes me emotional. It's so funny. I didn't mean anything I didn't think it would catch you. You know, because you only have one childhood, right? Right. Let me get a second here. No, you're okay. I can relate. This is home. The wiping, the wiping. People will, to help people understand why I have such a reaction.
Starting point is 02:01:29 Yeah, help us. More wiping and more wiping. Florida is where I grew up. up. Oh. We didn't get a lot of sleep. No, it's okay. My grandmother's here.
Starting point is 02:01:45 My father, my mother, my aunts and uncles, cousins. And it's where I would have spent all of my childhood, but we left. Cancer? What? I got in trouble with business. It's like, we laugh about it now,
Starting point is 02:01:59 but he was a drug dealer. But the reason it's so emotional for me is criminal. Is because I feel like I was robbed at the full Miami experience. So when I come back, I was like, he was robbed of the full of Miami experience, Link. That is like you and me going down there
Starting point is 02:02:22 and forgetting to have a cocktail poolside in the 24 hours we have on business. That's a conversation. We didn't get the full Miami experience, but he's crying about it 40 years later and then tweeting out the clip because he wants us to see how Topra he is. Yeah, no, all I can say is,
Starting point is 02:02:40 I don't think you guys will ever see me crying on camera, even if I discuss something serious or sad, there's a high probability that I hold it together, and I don't need to see grown men crying on the news either. I think these networks should just focus on reporting the news, right? Focus on telling us what's going on. We actually don't need all the ancillary information and anecdotes, right? I used to watch the news, and I didn't know anything about their personal lives. Just tell me what's happening in the country. What if Megan Markle and Prince Harry get accepted back into the royal family and somehow he becomes king. I think you shed a tear. I would. First off, I think the British people would revolt. Number two, Prince Harry is lazy. So we went last but two days.
Starting point is 02:03:20 I don't think that'll ever, ever happen. But maybe I would shed a tear then. If he was left, if he becomes royal again before me, because apparently there is some open vacancy, like, you know, some of the members are dropping. They're losing their title. So if he becomes royal again before I do, I'm going to be real upset. I've paid my dues. I've done. There could be a debate about whether if you wear that sweater again, tears will be shed at some place on the internet. But we'll wait and see. We will tune in to Spot On with Link Lauren and wait for the day. Thank you, my friend.
Starting point is 02:03:49 Thank you so much. Thank you. Great to see you. Okay. Go and get Links great content by subscribing. Go to Spot On Withlink.com and find it on YouTube and all podcast platforms. Have a great weekend, everyone. Thanks for listening to The Megan Kelly Show.
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