Producer Dan and "The Best (Worst?) of the Internet"

0:00We're burning through this show producer Dan pop that top. Yeah, I know it's not a beer. It's a soda water early for a beer. You know what? Even this weekend, I went to a bunch of different things. I just I'm just I'm not interested in drinks and I feel like there's so much bad stuff happening that I kind of need to stay grounded. You know, last year during the campaign, I stopped drinking completely. I mean, not even a glass of wine at events because I just thought I have to not be overly emotional. I have to be stoic and thoughtful. And you know, even though I'm not a candidate right now, I still feel like there's so much baloney that's happening all around me. That kind of indulgence just doesn't feel right these days. So here's my thought on all of that. Here's to Monday. I'll have some soda water. Yeah, there you go. What do you do? We have a drink drink over

1:01over by my station here that I try to try to drink while I'm off off camera, but I forgot to bring you bring it to my station this morning from my refrigerator, which is only about five feet away. You mean water? It's a sprite zero, I think. Sprites. Usually when you say a drink, people assume they don't get a confusing. I usually have a drink. People say, oh, you don't drink. I say, of course, I drink. I drink water. I drink calorie free soda. All right. What do we got the best in the worst of the internet today? And for you, people should know at three o'clock in the morning, when I cannot sleep, and this has been a horrible thing since the election, I just can't sleep. I've got too much on my mind. I'm worried about everything. I'm money and politics and the rest of it. And I got to get over it. Alonzo keeps telling me, you know, I've never had a gummy. Are you familiar with these? Melatoning gummy or, well, I don't know what CBD is really accepted. Cannabis, you know,

2:07I don't like. I don't. I'm not a colleague at WRVA, a germ. Yeah, he would know all about that, I think. Well, apparently, supposedly it makes you sleep, but I don't want to sleep that way. I want to sleep because I have peace of mind, not because some substance has put me under, but I have to admit, I'm not sleeping well. There's, I'm worried about a lot of stuff. And so I guess my point telling you that is that I'm texting stuff to producer day at three o'clock in the morning. Do you hear that? I was up this, I was up this the last night at three a.m. in the morning. Yeah, I saw you see the stuff. I was sending. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Okay. No, I was, I was, I had an odd sleep schedule this weekend and did not realize until I think hours before Sunday morning technically that this weekend was spring forward weekend. You can change your clocks. You must have because you signed on. Yeah. Well, you know, now almost every clock in the house is digital.

3:08These are just on its own. Yeah. The one over the stove and the microwave. But yeah, I sent you my stuff. What did you pick? Well, I, I remind everybody that we've been following. We've been on punch watch, you know, for a while. And we have, here's John with punch. I think that's a key picture, but these jerk women, there are a couple, there are two or three jerk, real jerks out there who think this is a horrible picture. I think it's cute. It's obviously AI. Maybe you don't, I did not fly it. It's possible that I would have gotten crazy and flown to Japan to meet punch the monkey that is not inconceivable, but this is an AI picture. I think it's really cute, but some of these women do not. Yeah, it's great. And well, speaking of ASE, I'd love to say that this is real. We know it's pretty not. What is this? We're not. But punch, punch has had enough. He's, he's, he's taken enough. And now he's just, he's gonna tell these monkeys, these other monkeys whose balls he's using him. He's pushing back.

4:09He's pushing back. What do you guys? What punch? This is what punch had to do. You know the audience with sheer at the suit and punched the monkey, started doing this to these awful monkeys that have treated him so badly. But seriously, that's hilarious. But people, I can't tell the difference. I mean, it's slowed down and it's silly so you know with the music that it's fake. But if you just looked at it, you might think that's real. You might think, I mean, it looks real. Yeah. Yeah. It's not an animated thing. It looks real. What, what, what computers are capable of doing and this AI technology can, can accomplish these days is just remarkable on the one hand and probably a bit scary on the other. But, but yeah, at least in this context, it's, it's pretty, well, in this context, it's funny. But I'll tell you, I do, especially at three o'clock in the morning, I find myself questioning everything

5:16I see. Like, is that I don't want to be emotionally manipulated into anger or sadness or a political movement based on garbage that is, you know, completely fabricated and that's, that's a problem. All right. What else do we have? So in, in the wake of what has happened in Venezuela and Iran, respectively, we had a, we had another AI video emerge this past week. I thought was sort of sort of interesting and this is it here. Trump disappearing act. It's like a magic show. What was that Madura and, uh, yeah, you've got all of the conservative leaders, Mila international. Yeah. Yeah. And, um, and that ground. Okay. That's clever. And then

6:22clever. Well, this was one you, you sent me and it's, it's amusing. I'll just let it speak for itself. Uh, the title is black MAGA, black MAGA. Black MAGA, black MAGA, black MAGA, black MAGA, black MAGA, Donald Trump. Yeah, that's my president. Donald Trump, the first black president ever seen a black patriot. Yeah, we exist. The Democrats use my color to stay rich. And that my president, you might as well in 92. Tell me your uncle, really, what a bum. There you go. The Democrats, that worries them because they think that they own, uh, certain demographics of the voting population that they can manipulate people into constantly voting Democrat, whether they deliver for them or not. And Trump is one of the people who has managed to break some of that up. I mean, not, not 100% because they're people who

7:24just will not move politically. But we should take that music. And then whenever we have a, I don't know, black issue, we'll just, that'll be our thing. It's like our update music, like russians to have. Right. Well, I have many questions about that video, but my big, my big question is, yeah. Why is, why is Bill Cower in there? What's going on with this guy? Yeah, that's why, like, uh, which this? Well, hold on, I got a good. He's had a great time. So the white maggot guy in there. So yeah, with a mustache, but it's just like Bill Cower, the old Steelers coached. Would now, but anyway, what is going on? Okay. Yeah. So those are my, the joke is lost on me videos of the day. They're like, wow, what is going on there? But yeah, so I'll always, always interesting to see what's floating around on the internet. Well, you saw the IED being thrown into York. Yeah. Yeah. A near Gracie mansion. And I think this is important.

8:28This is how dishonest reporters can spin something. This is, this is, this is the textbook example of spin. Okay. You've got a right-winger. I don't know this Jake Languy. I think once I, once I looked him up, I recognized him from some videos. I mean, he's very provocative. But, you know, being provocative in the United States is only wrong, I guess, if you're a conservative, right? If you're a, if you're a lefty, you're applauded for being provocative. But this Jake Languy goes and he's, he's anti-Islam, you know, really kind of aggressively in your face. Look, you know, if one side's going to do it, then I think that it's probably legitimate. But we're reaching a place where I think Jake Lang is raising a alarm that people should pay attention to. Even if you don't subscribe to the way he does this, there's an important issue that's being discussed here. So he's having an event over near Gracie mansion, which is the home of the mayor of

9:29New York. A group of, I don't know if they're radical or not, but their Muslim supporters throw real IEDs in provides explosive devices at Jake Lang's group. And they wind up arrested. They're screaming, I'll knock bar, you know, this, it's, you know, it's textbook. And the coverage of it that night and the next day is all about a threat to Mamdani and Gracie mansion. Not the fact that the IEDs were thrown at a conservative protest group. And, you know, whether I agree or not, the left gets to protest and so does the right in society. I mean, you may not like either side. And personally, I would much rather have an intellectual discussion in the context of a podcast or a radio program or a television program or a university debate or real debate.

10:30Not just, yeah, by the way, people love the conversation that we had at the end of last week on the Friday show. Yeah, sure. Out of discussion. We were about to sign off and end up going on for about 25, 30 minutes. We need to find a, a, a nutcase leftist who's willing to come on and engage in that conversation. Just, I mean, it would be interesting, right? But anyway, the, but you, you get my point about this is the way the news covers things. The story wasn't a threat to Gracie mansion. The, the, the, the radical islamist, we're not trying to bomb Gracie mansion. Yeah, yeah. They weren't threatening Mamdani. So why are we acting like that's the threat that that was the issue? No, these people were trying to observe conservatives. Yeah. And I think it is completely under reported that Mamdani's wife, supposedly, was clicking like on pages that were applauding the slaughter of Jews on October 7th. Now, again, in, in the interest of fairness,

11:35having seen a lot of people who will lie to get what they want to get and to do damage, we need to verify whether that's true or not. But this is, tell me another situation. Let's just say, um, Melania Trump, another first lady, the, the national first lady had she been clicking like on, um, I don't know, attacks on blacks or attacks on Muslims or it's, I think it would be a problem. And I don't think that story would be kind of a second tier story. Is she the elected official? No, she's not the elected official. But there's something, there's, there's something wrong here where we're giving a pass to people for behavior that you know would not be acceptable if it was occurring on the right. But because it's on the left, uh, it doesn't get extensive coverage. And it actually reveals what I think is true. And I think we're going to get an ugly awakening. There are, there are a group of radical Islamist leaders who were working their

12:38way into the American political system. And they are going to help implement Sharia law. They are going to help implement leftist, uh, theology, um, uh, related to Islam and other groups to try to take down the West. And you know, if you're not paying close attention, of course you go, oh, that's crazy. That's not true. It is true. And this is one of those moments where you realize, no, wait a minute. If I had seen a video talking about slaughtering Jews, is there any situation where I would click like on that? Tell me, I don't, I can't imagine that I would ever do. No. And and that goes for me too. Yeah. So if someone is doing that and you know, we're going to go through and we're going to monitor everybody's social media behavior, then do it fairly and recognize that people reveal in new ways today how they really feel about issues. And they should be held accountable

13:42for that, especially if it's something like that where you're talking about murdering people. You're talking about slaughtering people. Um, innocent civilians, no less. I mean, it's not even like she, I mean, I guess you could say you don't like Israel. Okay. I mean, you know, I said at the radio station, if you don't like Israel as a government, that is different than saying I want to slaughter Jewish people. That is different. But so many of the people here try to pretend that they dislike Israel. And what they're really saying is I want to stomp on Jews. And we need to be sophisticated enough to recognize when that is being revealed to us. And I think that mom Donnie, I never had any question about who he was. He's a radical islamist. Why else would you be picking somebody's 34 years old? He's never done anything. Never, never let anything, never done anything, never achieved anything to be the mayor of the biggest city in America.

14:46Because the radical islamists are funding him and they're pushing him. Same thing with Gazala Hashmi. Does it make any sense for some stupid poetry teacher from some school enrichment to be in the state senate and to be running for lieutenant governors? Does that make, does somebody explain to me how that makes any sense? It doesn't make any sense. She's being funded by the same people who pushed mom Donnie. So don't be surprised when she is very callous about the abuse of Americans and the abuse of Christians and the abuse of Jews because her core fundamental beliefs, which no one ever bothers to ask her about in a very direct way are not aligned with the beliefs of this society. I mean, I don't know what it's going to take for you to wake up to that. And by the time you wake up to it, it may be too late. You're going to have major conflicts in this society that are going to hurt you and your family. It's dangerous for me to be the person to bring it up.

15:48I wish I wasn't the only one who would do it. I wish that I had backup. Apparently everybody else is too weak and pathetic to talk about it. So I have a choice. Do I disappear and not talk about it or do I bring it up and it's uncomfortable? It's uncomfortable. But I mean, what else do you have to see? IEDs being thrown in front of Gracie Mansion at conservatives and what you don't give a damn about it. Gazala Hashmi walking past a reporter talking about a young woman being murdered by an illegal immigrant and rolling her eyes and her security guy pushing the reporter out of the way. I mean, what it's I mean, is anybody going to be held accountable at all? You're going to ask any questions at all? Are you just going to continue to watch this happen right in front of your face and then pretend that everything's okay? Something is seriously wrong here and there's an attitude that is on display that indicates that these people are not on your side and they are

16:48not traditionalists. This is not just, oh, how wonderful that we've enabled different types of people. It's not just white men anymore who are in leadership. We have all different types of people who will protect and preserve our constitution and our society. No, they're not. They are not protecting and preserving your constitution and society. They are deliberately attempting to denigrate it and bring it down. And I hate to be the one to tell you that and I know it's unpopular. I'm so sorry, but that is the truth. And you need to wake up to it now while you can still fix the situation. And I'm going to I'm not just going to tell you that's the truth. I'm going to show you situations where this is revealed and hope that you're smart enough to recognize it and then do something. Yeah, it is. We're on the verge. We're on the verge of a big problem. I don't think that we want to become the next great Britain. Well, yeah, great Britain's got a big big issue here

17:52and you know, the one of the problems they've got in great Britain. And I'm kind of worried about going back over there. I um, is that if you dare say anything that is hostile, right to this what you see right in front of your face, you become the enemy. Even if you, even if you don't speak anymore, if no freedom of speech, and especially if you're a Brit who's been around for, you know, your family's been there for 500 years, you're a target. I mean, they don't want you to say, no, wait a minute, what's happening in my own country? You're not allowed to say it's my own country. You know, you're not allowed to say, no, wait a minute, you're one generation in here and you think you're going to change everything. Wait a second. Um, I'm not on board with that. And and that is that is a real problem. There are more people who are in the Congress who are standing up about this domestically in the United States. And there certainly is a growing movement in great Britain of people who are singing, uh, college professors and ministers and normal folks

18:56be locked up for what they believe who were saying, wait a minute, this is wrong. This isn't the society that I grew up in and I'm not interested in becoming a theocracy, especially when it's run from the left or from an Islamic perspective. There are more people who are standing up, but I'm afraid that it may be a little too late. So we need to prevent that from happening in the United States. And I think we're well on our way towards that occurring and we just can't, can't tolerate it. Well, that was a point made, uh, our guest from last week, Andy Bernstein in his new essay, Capitalism Magazine about this, said that this, this, this unholy alliance, if you will, between the Marxists and the Muslims and Denise. I don't know if you saw what she just wrote in and I put up on the screen, uh, the Sharia free caucus in, in Congress has now grown to 22 states, including 46 congressional members. I did not know that Denise. So thanks for sharing that. Well, it's important. And if you've not been paying attention, you've got to pay attention. What does that mean? That means that the courts in the United States, the courts and let's just say

20:00Henrico County, where I live, could say we will allow a Sharia court to adjudicate this domestic issue. We will allow a Sharia court to adjudicate this business decision. You have a contract, but we're not going to touch it. We will allow the Sharia courts because you are involved in this society to make decisions based on a different, um, um, set of laws than the ones that everybody else lives under. And that's a problem. You know, we do it to a certain extent, I guess, with the Amish, but the Amish are very exclusive and they keep to themselves, right? I mean, am I, is that safe for me to say? I've not lived, I mean, there's one little place in Virginia that I counted during the campaign where the Amish lived in Virginia. And I've certainly been in Pennsylvania where there are Amish communities, but their whole point is that they are very resistant to engagement with the rest of the society. I mean, that's a problem on some level, but at least

21:08they are people who stay to themselves. That's not the situation with the rising Muslim influence in society. And I have to say again, because I know people will say, oh, look at this white guy who is just beating up on Muslims. That's not what I'm doing. That's not what I'm doing. And I remind you, I lived in the Middle East. And as a gay man in the Middle East, I had a lot of friends of people who were trying to get out of the Middle East or had one foot in and one foot out because they couldn't live their authentic selves in the Middle East, given the hostility towards gay men and women in the Middle East. I'm very familiar with this. And I would assert that I'm much more familiar with it than most of you. Right. So I'm not I'm not trashing people because of their Muslim faith. I am pointing out that we don't have a good track record around the world of the traditional Western philosophy about freedom coexisting with the most radical vision of

22:12Islam. And unfortunately, it doesn't take a large group of people who buy into the radical vision of oppression from Islam to overwhelm everybody else. And we just need to be honest about that. That's a problem. That's not some sort of a racial prejudice. Islam Islam is not a race. Islam is a philosophy. It's an ideology. That's a choice that people make to follow these these radical ideas. That is that is that is a chosen thing. And it's no different from choosing to be a communist or a socialist or at least in terms of the nature of just this is what I believe in the something to choose to believe in. It is not saying you are anti-Arab or anti-Persian or anything else. We've been conditioned to believe because hypothetically at least I think this is questionable in the modern era. Everyone is, you know, they they malve the words freedom of religion while they bash evangelical Christians. You know, freedom of religion, they really don't believe that. Here's

23:15the problem. I can promise you right now. If anywhere in Virginia there were evangelical Christians who were overtly taking bricks and smashing the heads of gay men and women or interracial couples, right? There are people who send ugly emails about things like that. But if they were committing crime or threatening to commit crime against two protected minority classes, the entire society would be in an uproar about it because they wouldn't accept it from evangelical Christians. And they'll be honest with you. There are a lot of people who are really they're watching very closely to see whether the evangelicals behave that way. May I suggest to you that if you were that concerned about evangelical Christians, you need to be at least that concerned if not more about radical Islam. And if you have a large Islamic population in your community does not mean you treat anybody badly,

24:20doesn't mean that you harass anyone, doesn't mean that you dump on anybody, you discriminate against them, but you need to be alert that there is a movement within that culture that hates the things that you believe are important and true. And it manifests itself in a violent way. And I'm not making that up. That is exhibited across around the world. And I don't want to, as somebody who would become the victim of it, I'm not going to sit here and be silent and then just wait till I'm the guy who gets bashed in the middle of the night. And then suddenly everybody pays attention. Hell no, I'm not tolerating that. And I'm going to lay the marker down that I will not tolerate that from anybody from any religion. And we need people who are going to be tough about this. And right now they're not. They're scared to talk about. Well, as some of our loyal followers have mentioned on the chat, we don't need to be concerned about

25:22the amish as a people causing problems. They're not bombing anybody or blowing things up or threatening to do so. There's one group of people basically doing that. It's not the Christians, it's not the Jews. It's not. It's not true. The Buddhists. It's not the people who want to get a nice to be a religion. It's one group of people. And we need to be honest enough to say it. And I'm sorry about that. I wish that wasn't the case. And if you're a good person who is not violent, I'm very sorry that you are stuck with this is a reality that you've got to deal with. But then it's incumbent upon you. I mean, I looked up this weekend, the Islamic reform movement hadn't been around very long. And it hadn't been very successful to be honest with you. And that didn't mean that everybody's got to change their opinion. But there's got to be a decision that we're not going to tolerate this type of violent behavior to get your way that has been on display

26:30for an extended period of time. Not just our era, but for centuries. And this belief that it is acceptable to murder and abuse and enslave people who won't embrace your religion. And you know, Americans have been fed a lie. And it's a nice lie. It's a pretty lie that everybody's the same wherever you go. And this, I'm just telling you, 116 countries over the last 40 years of my life, that's not true. It's just not true. People are not the same wherever you go when their belief system and their value system is not the same wherever you go. And you really do need to be discerning and wise about how you navigate that. You go, if you're traveling around the world, you know, I would love to go visit Syria or quite frankly, I would have loved to have gone to Iran and seen the amazing glass palaces in Iran from an architectural standpoint, from a historical

27:32standpoint, the history of the world is a lot of history in Iran. But I'm smart enough to recognize that would be a problem for me. You know, I'd love to go visit North Korea. So I could report back to you in a firsthand way what the situation is on the ground in North Korea. But I'm smart enough to understand that that is dangerous for me. And I, and it's not just because the government says so, it's, it's a practical issue. And I think we're living in a fantasy world where we've been fed this very pretty nice lie. And Americans don't want to face the much more ugly reality that we're not all the same. And there's danger when we need to be aware of maybe a rabbit hole to go down another day. But the the Muslim community doesn't exactly have China's one child policy either. So they are, they are trying to overwhelm the world population through, you know, the people who

28:33will hear you say that, producer Dan, and they will be very angry and assume that you're spreading some sort of hostility. Please spend a little bit of time. Don't just trust producer Dan or me. Spend some time. This is being said openly and proudly and loudly. And I do think, you know, I find it odd. The great replacement theory, which is not a theory. You know, if you bring that up, suddenly you're a racist, well, no, who's the racist? Me acknowledging what's happening demographically or you for promoting it. I mean, I hear more and more people saying how wonderful it's going to be when whites are in the minority. You think so? Do you think that's going to be wonderful? I don't think that's going to be wonderful because I look at the way people are behaving today around the world towards whites and Christians and others. And I think, now wait a minute, what should I expect when I am in the demographic minority to be treated nicely?

29:35To be treated fairly doesn't seem, doesn't seem like that's working out real well. In other parts of the world, and I am a realist, I recognize that people who are in the majority, it takes a certain type of discipline not to abuse others. I think I've demonstrated that discipline and that commitment to my values, I don't think other people have demonstrated that in their lives or their cultures around the world and we should be very aware of it and not be celebrating it, be kind of alarmed that things are going to change. And then once it happens, you can't undo it. Once you're in the minority and you start to become abused, I hate to say this is only one way out and that is violence. And that's not good for anybody. We've got to get something to piggyback on what Dr. Shires was talking about a few minutes ago. Yeah. Criticize the founders if you so choose. But what I'm about to say is absolutely

30:36indisputable. To a man, they were trying to make the world a freer, more just place than it had ever been. And that distinguishes them from just about everybody in office today who was trying to make the world a less free, less just place than it previously was here. They were great men and they were good men. In perfect, perhaps, but yeah, I think the motivation was just and you've got a second gas in question what the motivation is from a lot of the leaders that we have today. If you're pushing socialism and in some cases, you're pushing flat-out communism, your hypothesis at this stage doesn't count because we have a century of exhibited failure for these philosophies and we should push back on it. Anything that even smells like it, we should push back on

31:38it. And we have a thousand years of bad results when it comes to Islamic leadership. And I'm sorry about that. That's, God, I wish that wasn't the case, but that's the case. And I'm singing nothing right now that makes me have confidence that this new generation of leaders is going to behave much differently than previous generations. And until I see something different, you're not going to have me sit silently and be abused or taken over. America is the greatest country in the history of the world. And at a minimum, it is the first moral country in the history of the world. And we should be very, very proud of it and we should be very protective of her. On that note, let us take a break and we will come back tomorrow. And who do we have tomorrow, producer name? Oh, let's see here. I think we are still building the show out, but we should have, let's see, I know that we have a guest on at 1045 Christine. Oh, I, I'm going to blow the

32:46pronunciation of this name. Senator, Senator, Senator Eski, is that sounds? Christine Sinoeski, president and CEO of media, and she's going to talk about something that we've been talking about a bit, a bit today, the bias and legacy media, but in particular covering the attack on Iran. Okay. Yeah. All right. Well, one guest. I'll look forward to talking for these out tomorrow. Yeah. All right. That's good. Listen, producer Dan, I always appreciate your work and the chance to talk to you. And like Wooden Creek, now tomorrow, can I tell you something we're going to do tomorrow? If you would like to be supportive of this podcast, we're going to give you the opportunity to sign up to be supportive financially of the podcast, because you know, you, you may have noticed that producer Dan is here and I am here and it's kind of a two person show and we're trying to grow this audience and it would be very, very helpful if both of us could afford our mortgage and, and pay some of the bills that go along with this

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