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Living The American Dream with Rep. Josh Williams - Hayley Caronia (Ep.106)
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In this episode of Nightly Scroll: Inside Ohio State Representative Josh Williams American Dream story that is the antidote to DEI, Howard Stern gets the boot, Trump admin finds missing migrant children & more
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Haley Karenia
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Josh Williams
You know I'm just a regular guy from the inner city of Toledo. I was born into poverty, raised by a single mother and dropped out of high school at the age of 18 when I became homeless and you know I spent six months sleeping on park benches and friends couches and when I found out that my son Matthew was conceived, you know, I went out and I found hard Honest work, working for the railroad. And I thought I was chasing the American dream. I was making decent money, raising a young family, trying to buy a house, doing what I thought the American dream was. And at the age of 21, that came crashing down when I fell 30ft and destroyed my spine. So I spent the next six years undergoing 40 procedures on my spine, including having metal installed in my spine to stabilize it. And eventually I found myself, myself facing a decision. The government wanted me to stay on public assistance, stay on disability, and write me a check every month so they could control me during the voting cycles. And I made the choice of trying to enroll in college, and Ohio actively tried to prevent me from doing that. So we fought for over a year for us to. To be able to go to college and eventually Ohio back down. I enrolled in college at the age of 30, and at 35, I was graduating from law school and becoming a practicing attorney, a college professor where I taught constitutional law. And I thought I was living the American dream even more then. And there was just a calling to be able to give back to my community and be a shining example. And especially when I saw, you know, what happened to Donald Trump in the 2020 election, the narrative that they were trying to shape towards minorities. And we saw Joe Biden say, if you don't vote for me, you're not black. I wanted to put a different face to the narrative that the Republican beliefs that we have, the Republican principles, the conservative Christian values that I was brought up in, the idea of individual responsibility, that's what shaped me as a young man. And when the government tried to prevent my progress, that shaped my view of society and government dependency. I saw the solution as not government being more involved in my life, but government getting the hell out of the way and allowing me to chase the American dream on my own and being kind of a guidepost to point me in the right direction is the most the government should be in my life. And that's why I went into public service. And I proudly serve in the Ohio House. I'm Majority whip in House leadership here in Ohio. And now I'm the candidate, hopefully that will retire Marcy Kapler here in Ohio. Congressional knife.
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Haley Karenia
This is amazing. Your story is incredible. And you kind of, you know, you probably the Democrats off because they obsess over the victim mentality. And what did Democrats say when they see you overcome all of these obstacles and then run as a Republican? Do they give you hate for that?
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Josh Williams
Oh, yeah. They were pretty pissed in my area. They were pretty mad. I Am, you know, the Antichrist to them. Because, I mean, inner city guy that can pick up independent votes. And I can show individuals what's the path forward. You know, they want to continue to say we should just increase taxes on everybody to pay for these programs. And I literally can show you the spin cycle that tried to keep me in government dependency and try to hold back my kids, hold back my family and that progression. Now they still want ownership of that. Now that I made myself out of that cycle, I was able to dig myself out. They believe they have ownership over my story. And I've had multiple Democrats come to me and say, why can't you just be a dang Democrat? And it's because I don't believe in the principles that you guys have. My Christian views will not allow me to believe in the woke agenda that you push. And I refuse to allow my kids to look at me as a victim. And I refuse to claim this victimhood status that, you know, somebody owes me something because of the struggles that I went through. Instead, I claimed victory over my life. And I want to encourage more people to do that to, to shake free from government dependency, take ownership over your own progress, put in the hard work, the determination, the grit to progress. And there is not a single thing, not a single thing that holds you back in America. Not your race, not your gender, not the group that you're part of. There is no single status in this country that will hold you back. That one defining moment that will determine the outcome of your life is whether or not you're willing to get off the couch and put in the hard work.
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Haley Karenia
Yeah, you were a testament to that. I think what you said earlier was pretty cool. When you were talking about the American dream. You thought you were living the American dream when you were working on the railroad. Then you, you know, you wanted to just move on. And the American dream, like the goalpost moves, right, because you wanted better for yourself. So then you went and got it, and then you moved up in the world, and then you thought that you were living the American dream again, and then you wanted more for yourself, so you went out and got it. I mean, that is the American dream. So I think that is very cool and very inspiring. And contrast that with the Democrat party. Now. They do care about dei, they do care about the, you know, keeping people down and this victim mentality. And they want everything for free. So Senator, Senator Elizabeth Warren thinks that Zorin Mamdani is the future of the party. And he is attracting this progressive young faction of the Democrat Party that I think feels pretty disillusioned by even the Senator Elizabeth Warren's of the world. Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, they don't want them. They want Zoran Hamdani. Does that scare you at all?
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Josh Williams
Absolutely not. I would love if he becomes the face of the Democratic Party because that's going to guarantee that we win elections for the next few generations. If they want to continue down this path of socialism and let's call it what it is, true communism in this country.
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Haley Karenia
Yeah.
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Josh Williams
You're going to be able to get these young college kids that have been indoctrinated on college campuses from their blue haired college professors that teach them that they're a victim because of whatever social group they're part of. If that's the movement that they want to continue to push, what they're going to lose is middle America. And we saw in 2024 in Donald Trump and J.D. vance's election that middle America is siding with the Republican Party. The blue collar worker that used to be the foundation along with minorities of the Democrat Party is shifting. We saw a huge shift in minority voters towards the Republican Party in the last election cycle. We saw a huge shift in our unions and our blue collar workers. So what we need to concentrate on is continuing to put policies in place that affects the lives of that middle America. And I think that's what the Donald Trump agenda, the America first agenda is doing. I think that's what we're doing here back in Ohio. And I think that's the path forward for Republicans for the near future.
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Haley Karenia
Very cool. I, I'm hopeful about the future. I agree with you. I think if they put up AOC or Jasmine Crockett or any of these people, any squad member or anything like that, it will really show the difference between the Republican and the Democrat Party. And I think we will gain a lot of those middle of the road independent thinkers. But we all know that these freebies don't work, right? Even when the Democrats run on these freebies like we're going to absolve student loan debt, then you know, it doesn't really work. It doesn't really happen. And it, it's happening in Chicago right now. So the Chicago mayor essentially said they are at the point of no return on their budget. They have said that the systems that people rely on, whether it's education, health care, housing, transportation, all of these things are underfunded. He had said that we're not going to raise taxes. But of course the only way to pay for these freebies because they're not really freebies, is, is raising taxes. So now the Chicago mayor is saying that he's looking at creative ways to raise taxes. Why don't Democrats understand this? Why don't they? Why do they want to give up more of their hard earned cash and give it over to the government who routinely mishandles it?
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Josh Williams
Yeah, I mean their bread and butter is always to raise taxes. But I think Chicago is very important to highlight that one of the reason they're having budget crises is because of how much money they spent on illegal immigrants in their communities. I mean, they literally shut down down schools saying they didn't have the funds to fund those schools. But then they opened them up as centers, migrant centers. And we saw the minority community in Chicago come out in arms last election cycle. We saw those videos, the individuals with the MAGA hats on red shirts, you know, at the city council meetings demanding action and promising that they were going to vote Republican. And they did. And we saw that shift that we saw in the Republican Party becoming the largest coalition, the largest group of diverse individuals, the Democrats, their bread and butter is to continue to try to offer you free stuff in order to get your vote. That's, that, that's their foundation is provide you with as many government services as they can. Because then when the election cycle comes around, they're going to tell you that the racist Republicans are going to try to take your free stuff away and hopefully that will hold you hostage voting for the Democrats. And that works for some people, some people that hold on to that victimhood mentality, hold on to that, that, that poverty stricken mentality that the government should be the one providing. I shouldn't have to put in the hard work. They're always going to be able to cater to those individuals and moving forward, the more they try to do that, the more we're going to see a contrast because there's a lot more Americans that want to chase the American dream.
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Haley Karenia
Yeah, we were talking about this just before the show, so I want to bring the audience in on this conversation. But we were talking about soda and how we don't drink soda. But you were mentioning speaking of, you know, freebies and government assistance programs. So you know, in Ohio you were all trying to vote to get soda, not involved in snap, not being included in SNAP benefits. But the governor said no. So what is happening with this?
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Josh Williams
Yeah, the governor vetoed our budget, that part of our budget. In Ohio you can do line item vetoes and he vetoed that portion of the budget. So we have to go back into session here in the fall and override our governor. He vetoed 67 items that came out of a Republican controlled legislature. Some of the things were really common sense, like making sure that you don't use SNAP benefits to purchase sugary drinks. Other things that I thought was common sense that I pushed was not only a work requirement for Medicaid, but an additional workforce requirement. And that requirement said that if you're on Medicaid for 12 consecutive months under the work requirement and you can't dig yourself out of that public assistance, that's demonstrating to us that you don't have the job, the skills, the marketable skills to demand, the waves that could help you escape the system. So we're going to require you to additionally go into one of our free workforce development training in Ohio. We invest hundreds of millions of dollars in free training, free workforce development in the state of Ohio. And we put that proposal forward too, and that got vetoed.
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Haley Karenia
You know, this is all common sense to me, so hopefully the governor can get on board or you can get these things passed. But, you know, sounds like common sense. Speaking of, you know, Ohio and changes that need to be made. So gerrymandering is the talk of the town, especially in Texas, because Democrats are doing a lot of virtue signaling over what's going on there. And the congressional map that establishes the voting districts in Ohio has to be redrawn before the end of the year. So where do you stand on this issue of gerrymandering? How will this change the landscape in Ohio as a whole, do you think?
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Josh Williams
Yes, Ohio has to redraw our maps. The courts told us that we have to redraw our maps. I mean, we're concentrating on running in the congressional night as it's drawn. We know in the last election cycle, looking at the results of my last state house race, I would have won against Marcy Kaptor by large margins. We are overproducing voter outcomes in our elections. A lot of independents and even soft Democrats vote our way. Because of our track record of being a workhorse, we believe that the map should be redrawn and be reflective of the actual vote of the voters in our 88 counties. Not just the vote total overall for governor, but the majority of Ohio's precincts. Over 70% of Ohio's precincts vote Republican. And that's why our congressional maps need to match that as well. But the reason you're not hearing much about Ohio and you're hearing a lot about Texas is because they can't use that Same topic here in Ohio. So you get Jasmine Crockett on the TV saying that Texas is trying to whitewash black votes and they're trying to be racist and gerrymandered, blah, blah, blah. You say that in Ohio, the district that they have to look at is the Congressional ninth being redrawn. And you can't say that we're doing it to ignore black voices when there's a black Republican candidate that's going to be the one that's going to win this nomination, go against Marcy, Catherine, be the first black congressman from the Ohio Congressional night. So you can't use those talking points here in Ohio. And that's why the mainstream media is silent about Ohio's redrawing.
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Haley Karenia
Amazing. Speaking of the Ohio State House, I know you've been passing multiple pieces of legislation to ensure public safety. Then you see, for example, what happened in Cincinnati with this woman Holly, being brutally attacked in downtown. What is it going to take, do you think, to not only undo the damage of the 2020, defund the police movements, but also make Ohioans feel safe in their communities again?
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Josh Williams
Yeah. One year we're looking at tying our state funding to the outcomes, the actual police outcomes and crime statistics to our cities. What we're continuing to see is these blue areas of our state, these major metropolitan cities that are controlled by Democrats are doing this defund the police movement. They're doing this soft on crime policies. And you're seeing the results. What we saw in Cincinnati is egregious. You know, those individuals should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. But what we're seeing is we're seeing soft charges at the very minimum of what you can charge people with. And then we're seeing where they're released right back into the public on very small bond amounts. We've continued to increase penalties here. I've introduced a tremendous amount of legislation that will increase penalties and look to target violent crime. But it comes down to the local voters voting in prosecutors, voting in mayors that appoint the police chief, voting in county sheriffs that are going to be tough on crime. That's why we can't afford to have Imam Danny as the face of the Democrat Party here in Ohio, because we at least need to have Democrat candidates that are going to be in control of these cities that vote Democrat, at least being pro law enforcement and, you know, tough on crime, pro law and order candidates in order to get the safety and security, or eventually the residents of those cities are going to have to decide whether or not they want to continue to vote for Democrat candidates that continue to put their safety at risk?
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Haley Karenia
Yeah, absolutely. Another thing, huge story in Ohio. Of course, the news cycle moves very quickly, so people forget to ask about this, but that train derailment in East Palestine just a few years ago, it is still impacting the public, not just in Ohio. I interviewed a woman who lived, you know, six miles down the road in Pennsylvania. But, you know, there. There's studies that show that this vinyl chloride and other chemicals that were released in that burn are affecting, what was it, Andy, like 16 states or something like that, all the way down to Georgia. So it is obviously impacting most of Ohio, if not all of Ohio. So are any of your constituents coming to you? Are they concerned about this? What are we doing to not only hold the Biden administration accountable, but also make the changes that are needed and the support that is needed for the community?
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Josh Williams
Yeah, I still talk to constituents to this day that are concerned about that. It's outside of my district, and I kind of. We make sure that we. We abide by our rules when it comes to talking to the representative that actually represented that district during the incident. After the incident, we were monthly updates from the EPA on the progression of what we're seeing there and their cleanup there. But we even tried to pass rules that would affect the railroad industry here in the state of Ohio when it came to our rail side detectors and putting in requirements that the actual operators of these rail units would have to respond to the actual information they're getting from the sensors. That was one of the causes of the derailment was that there was actual sensors that produced information that should have been responded to, and the company just didn't respond quick enough. We tried to do additional things, but we were superseded by federal law. And that was one of the reasons I decided to run is because, you know, in the news cycle, in the moment, oh, there was great momentum about, you know, more safety when it comes to railways. I have a lot of railways that come through my district and through my hometown of Toledo, who was built on the idea of draining the swamp and building rail stations. But at the federal level, there was no progress that was made, and it just faded off into oblivion. And we need to have representatives that are going to continue to highlight that issue and say there are ways that you can continue to make rail safety a priority. You know, I. I was a railroad worker. I worked around trains on a daily basis. I know how dangerous that can be. I mean, I even was hurt by falling off the side of a rail car when I was a rail loader, and that's how I got injured. I know the issue very, very well, and I know how easy it is for mistakes to happen when you have businesses. Especially now, we're seeing one of the biggest mergers being proposed of rail lines here in the United States. And we need to make sure that safety is going to be the main priority moving forward for our railroad workers and the actual communities that they travel through on a daily basis. We tried to just make it where they have to inform us what chemicals are going to be on the trains that are going through our community so our first responders can be ready. And they fought against that, just informing the state of Ohio what was going to be in the rail cars going through the community that we can be prepared. So we are proposing legislation to get money for training for our first responders to be properly trained. We're working with a couple of our companies, Norfolk Southern and another rail yard from Canada that comes down about the training that they have available for free. And we need to just pay for the overtime for our first responders to be able to go and do that. Three days of training and we're still working on that now to try to get them to funding.
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Haley Karenia
Well, it certainly sounds like you're moving in the right direction, which is wonderful. Speaking of moving in the right direction, I want to quickly ask you about the future of the Republican Party as a whole. So President Trump was asked recently about who is next in line to carry the MAGA torch. And he had said Vice President J.D. vance, of course, Secretary Marco Rubio. But you know, Vice President J.D. vance. He's got ties to Ohio. Vivek Ramaswamy. These are all names of people who have ties to Ohio who have either run for president or they're running for other office. So where do you think the future of the GOP lies? Who can we trust? Who should we rally behind?
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Josh Williams
Well, I think we definitely can trust our Vice President J.D. vance. That's a Buckeye himself. Marco Rubio is doing great things. I mean, I'm watching him on an international stage conduct himself very, very eloquently with tough, tough foreign, foreign policy. We have a great group of Republicans here in Ohio. You see Vivek Ramaswamy as our future governor. Here. You see our Senate President, Rob McCully, who is a great candidate moving forward. There's more young Republicans like myself coming from Ohio and across the. I think the future of the Republican Party is very bright. The future of the MAGA movement is very bright. So long as we stay on topic, stay on message and continue to push our agenda moving forward. So I'm actually excited about the future of the Republican Party. That's why I ran. I could have just stayed here and state politics. You know, I'm only in my second term. I have two more terms. I could have served in the House. And I decided to run for Congress and go to D.C. to make sure we continue this movement towards young Republicans, MAGA aligned America first. Republicans being in control here in the United States and in each one of our state legislatures is what's important and that there's good cohesion between the federal and state governments so we can see those policies find their way down to the state level faster so we can be more responsive to the actual agenda that's coming out of the White House. And that's what I've been trying to do here in Ohio. I mean, we introduced 46 bills out of my office in the last five months since I got sworn in for my second term. We have another 37 that are ready to be introduced. Trying to carry that MAGA movement back down here to the Buckeye State. And I look forward to working on that agenda, not only with our future governor of a bank, Ramaswamy, but also at the national level with my colleagues, hopefully in Congress.
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Haley Karenia
Yeah. So hopefully that we Ohioans can send you to the swamp. So where can people find out about your congressional campaign and also where can they follow you to find out more?
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Josh Williams
Yeah, they can get to our website, joshwilliamsforohio.com they can donate on our website there. They can follow us on social media. I'm pretty active on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, especially our Twitter feed. You know, I love to tweet nowadays and stay on topic. And anytime anyone wants to reach out, I'm pretty accessible. If they private message me on any of those platforms, it's me that's responding. So, you know, if you got questions or concerns you want to bring to our campaign, just bring it forward right there on Twitter. Instant message us on accent and I will respond.
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Haley Karenia
That is very, very cool. Representative Williams, thank you so much for joining Nightly Scroll.
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Josh Williams
Thank you, Robert Meal.
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Haley Karenia
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Andy
You said it best. They've already paid him like to get him to go. There was an astronomical amount of money and it was a game changer, right? He was set the trend to go into all this like subscription based stuff and like. But he's not getting that return anymore.
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Haley Karenia
Not at all.
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Andy
Not at all.
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Haley Karenia
He signed, I think he signed with Syria Sirius in 2004. He's been on the air for 20 years and you know, he had a five year deal worth $500 million. So they, he's gonna want an upgrade and they just can't. I don't know, maybe sources are saying that they can't sustain these high payments, but Sirius XM signed Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper to $100 million deal. So I think it's. And she's a total lib too, but I think she's younger. I think she brings like a fresh perspective. Whether or not you agree with her or not, or you like her content or not. I think she's kind of the future of podcasting and radio. Whereas Howard Stern was kind of. He had his moment and that was a long moment. But I think we're moving on. You know, I think they have the money, they just don't want to spend it on Howard Stern because he's losing steam. He had a totally iconic career. But it took a very strange turn during COVID where I think if you had asked me five years ago, tell me about Howard Stern, I would say iconic radio host, great interviewer, interesting interviewer. Gets interesting topics out of his guests, makes them feel comfortable, makes them divulge things. Right after Covid, it's like, oh, he's just another one of these Covid obsessed Trump hatred. Like the same thing with Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert. Like they just couldn't shake the Trump thing. Completely different person, like before and after Covid BC But I saw a. Go ahead, Andy.
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Andy
No, see, whether you liked Howard Stern or not, whether you thought he was a shock jock or initially just like, whoa, I cannot. You're in a New York taxi cab and you're like, I cannot believe what he's talking about. He was outside of the machine, he was anti machine. And the one person that you wouldn't think whether you liked him or not after Covid to just fall in line with the machine, it was Howard Stern race.
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Haley Karenia
Everyone in the chat is saying he made the news fun, but a lot of people are saying Stern is played out. I never listened to him at all. He's a creepy. This is what people are saying. People are out on Howard Stern. But I read an opinion piece by this guy Ben six Smith, earlier today. This was one of the. This encapsulated my views on Howard Stern and his fall from grace. So this is called Howard Stern canceled himself, which you. You all know I'm obsessed with cancel culture. So when I saw this headline, I immediately clicked on it, and I wanted to read a little bit of it to you because it's so interesting, his perspective. And it was. I totally agreed with everything he said. So he said the radio veteran might not have been canceled in the literal or metaphorical sense, but to an extent, he canceled himself. So he's saying that maybe some of this had to do with the political climate, and maybe it was the COVID stuff and the anti Trump stuff. But this guy Ben thinks that Howard Stern declined because he stopped trying to entertain his audience. So he was talking about how during COVID Howard Stern, he no longer went into the New York studios. He was just doing it from his house, which honestly, most people did during COVID Right. A lot of people had or already had home studios, and they didn't go into the office. But Covid definitely sent a lot of people home, and Howard Stern was one of them. He wasn't going back into the office or the studios. He was doing everything from what he called his bunker. And I thought it was funny because this guy said, because of his fear of COVID a potentially rational concern that spiraled into something that was at best paranoid and at worst, an excuse to indulge agoraphobia. The pandemic ended, but Stern barely returned from the home bunker. And basically, he was saying that a lot of fans thought that based on, you know, back to what Andy was saying, that he was a shock jock. You didn't know what he was going to say next. He's unpredictable. He was, you know, setting trends right now. He thought because of the COVID stuff, because of the anti Trump stuff, Howard Stern went from being this shot shock doc to being predictable. He was tired, older, in therapy, learning the guitar. Basically, he said listening to Stern felt a lot less like being part of a cultural phenomenon and a lot more like listening to an old uncle who had given up on life, which I thought was a very interesting way to put it, because, yes, it had to do with the COVID thing. Yes, it had to do with Trump, But I do think he gave up on entertaining. There's Something to be said for going into an office, being around people, not being completely sheltered in your own house. And I think it changed the momentum and the vibe of his show completely. And plus, he became very negative with all the COVID stuff and anti Trump stuff. People don't like negativity. They wanted the interesting and shocking version of Howard Stern, not the old curmudgeon Howard Stern. Like, that's not fun. He is not even remotely the same radio host that he was in 2016 and even 2020. And when he did make that Covid, anti Trump shift, I think he turned a lot of people off, because before COVID before Trump, I wouldn't say that Howard Stern, you know, alienated conservatives by any means. I know a lot of people who are conservative that liked Howard Stern back in the day. So he cut viewership by a ton. Therefore, Howard Stern is not worth what they were once paying him. And certainly when he goes in and asks for more money when this contract is up, he's not worth that. So this is a classic go woke, go broke mixed with. He really changed a lot. And his audience didn't change with him. You have to grow with your audience. He did not do that. He alienated the audience. So this is kind of like an I told you so moment where, you know, you see all these people, they go woke, they go broke. I mean, Jimmy Kimmel's got to be next, right?
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Andy
Well, the numbers would say so. And he doesn't stop. Like this stuff that he had talked about in 16. The same with the.
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Josh Williams
With.
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Andy
With Stern, 16 through 20. We're finding out now, a lot of this stuff, the receipts are laying there.
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Haley Karenia
Yeah.
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Andy
And it's not aging well. And these guys, there's not. There's not a chance. There's not a snowballs chance that they circle back and say, look, you know, all right, we talked out of line. We talked out of turn. There's no chance. So it's not going to age well. He's sort of not going back to what he was. Howard Stern, you wouldn't pay him. You know, if you own the company, you wouldn't pay him. The same with Kimmel. You're not paying these guys to rehash the same tired stuff when we now know the truth.
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Haley Karenia
And what are they going to do after Trump once Trump is out of office? They're going to have to be funny all of a sudden again or be entertaining all of a sudden again.
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Andy
Start a podcast.
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Haley Karenia
Yeah. I mean, Howard Stern, I'm sure if he started a podcast, people would Listen to it. His die hard fans. But he could, he has enough money and a lot of these people have enough money to just never work another day in their lives. Like go retire. Seriously, just go retire. And they should have retired before they did these anti Trump rants. Cause it's just lame. But anyway, speaking of Trump, President Trump and his administration have found 13,000 of the 500,000 missing migrant kids during the Biden administration. So here's the headline here. Biden lost 500,000 migrant children. President Trump and his administration, they are returning them home. I can't get over this number. 500,000 minors. And the Democrats are the ones screaming about kids in cages and stuff. Meanwhile, the Democrats are the ones facilitating essentially human trafficking by the hands of the Mexican drug cartels that, you know, these parents are giving their kids over to the Mexican drug cartel and then trafficking them across the human, the southern border. Insane. But 500,000 minors arrived at the southern border with no parent or legal guardian under the Biden administration. Then the Biden administration lost track of those children, which we know is horrific crime against humanity. The Trump administration has now located 13,000 of them. And the Office of Refugee Resettlement is a part of Health and Human Services, that department. So they are working to, I mean they found these children, they're working to find their families in their home countries and then reunite them. So like I said, so much for the Democrats narratives about President Trump separating families. Because what DHS and the HHS are doing is reuniting these migrant children with their respective guardians, which they never should have left. And before the big beautiful bill passed, HHS could only repatriate children from Mexico and Canada. Now that the one big beautiful bill has been signed into law, HHS can now repatriate these migrant children with their families. If they are in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador. They don't need to be Mexico or Canada. So that opens this up for a lot more opportunity to reunite these children with their families. And under this, an unaccompanied migrant child can remain in the United States if they claim asylum. But otherwise they will be reunited with their rightful guardians. So again, this is something that I don't understand. I don't know how a migrant child, like who are they living with if.
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Andy
Not with their parents, that's a relative that may or may not be a relative that they can't prove as a relative that they were told was a relative.
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Haley Karenia
But that's what I'm saying, like how scary is that? 100 are children living in this country who Their parents or family members in their home country sent them off, likely with the cartels. They were trafficked across the southern border, or they were sent with people. I mean, how disgusting. And then who has them now? I mean, maybe these children are in school, maybe they're not. Maybe they met up with family members or friends of family. I don't know. But that, that is even more scary to me, the thought that there are children in this country who are. They were sold to who or given.
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Andy
To who, or maybe even scary to think that they're no longer even in.
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Haley Karenia
This country, because that's another thing. When you pass these children off to the drug cartels in Mexico to then get them into this country, who knows if they even made it into this country, because apparently 500,000 of them made it to the southern border under Biden. But the Trump administration so far has only found 13,000. That's a lot of missing children still. And the Trump administration is obviously working to find these missing children, but they might be long gone. I hate to say it. They might be in a shipping container somewhere. They, they might be trafficked to, you know, third world countries somewhere. Who knows what is happening to these children? I pray for them. But basically, the Trump administration is saying that these children who are here can claim asylum, but only if they have a valid claim. A lot of these children, if they're, you know, in their late teens, they are now here for financial reasons. They are here for a better life, not because they had genuine asylum claims. So their parents likely sent them over here to have a better life. But that's not a reason to leave your home country if you don't have a actual asylum claim. So I actually feel sorry for these children, the ones that are being repatriated, because they're being sent back to family members who sent them off. They were willing to put them into harm's way to get here. So it's like, I feel for them because I feel like these kids aren't safe no matter where they are. They're, if they're with their family members here, if they're even are their family, who knows? So that's dangerous. And then if they get sent back to their family members in Honduras or Guatemala or wherever they were, the people that sent them over here in the first place. So the whole thing is just really, really horrible. And I do feel better knowing that the Trump administration is in office finding, you know, 13, 13,000. Think about how many people that is, how many children that is. And there's a lot more to go. So hopefully they are on this case. I know that they are on this case, but I just feel for these kids because I don't know if going back home is better for them. I almost feel like these people that sent them on their way alone or with dangerous people, we'll just do it again, right? But maybe at this point, they won't. They'll get to the southern border and they'll just be sent back right then and there. Okay, let's get into this New York Times story. Is this my last thing before scrolling time? Yeah. Good timing. This is the craziest thing. I saw this. I was scrolling on Instagram yesterday and this New York Times Magazine headline came up. Someone you know these advice columns people write in for advice about relationships and things like that. Well, this woman wrote into the New York Times Magazine about her husband who she thinks is bisexual. So let's pull up this headline. I have always wondered if my husband is bisexual. Is it okay to ask him? This is insane. So. But again, I mean, these are the people writing into the New York Times for help with their lives. So of course they're insane. But this woman has been married to her husband since 1992. It's a long time. They've been married a long time. She writes in that she has this suspicion that her husband is gay or at least bisexual. She's asking a New York Times Magazine columnist if she is in a lavender marriage. If you don't know what lavender marriage means, it's a term for when a gay man and a straight woman, or vice versa, are in a relationship that is mutually beneficial to them. It's a platonic relationship that maybe benefits them financially or socially, but not romantically. They might have love for each other in the way that I love my friends, but it's not a romantic love. So they're just in this relationship, kind of like a common law marriage where they get the tax write off, they get to live together, you know, two incomes, one household kind of thing. But they're not in love with each other. So she's asking, am I in a lavender marriage? Wouldn't you have to ask yourself that? Did you enter into a lavender marriage? Why are you asking someone in the New York Times who doesn't know you from Adam? I just don't understand that. So she's now thinking, like, I've been in this marriage for 30 years. Is it possible that it's a lavender marriage? She says that they're not intimate, her and her husband, anymore. They've just decided that this isn't good for them, so they don't do it. And I think if you have to question your husband's sexuality, you should have had this conversation way before he was your husband. It is too late. It is too late. If this relationship isn't working for you anymore, leave. But the fact that you have been married to this person for over 30 years, and now you have to ask the New York Times, like, hey, I think my husband's gay. Can I ask him that? First of all, what'd you say?
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Andy
I was just telling guy, like, she didn't ask the neighbor. She wrote the dang New York Times.
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Haley Karenia
I know.
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Andy
I mean, it's fine.
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Haley Karenia
This is like, peak liberalism is a disease type behavior. But, you know, if it's just insane. First of all, they've been married for 30 years. You don't just become gay all of a sudden. So she's probably had this suspicion for some time. And if you have any sneaking suspicion that your husband is gay, I don't think that you should marry him if you're a straight woman, unless you're totally okay with it being a lavender marriage. But this term, lavender marriage is more new. It's like a newer label for something. Not that this is new, that people have these kinds of weird connections or relationships, but people have just started to call it that. So maybe she hears this term and she's like, okay, I think this is kind of something like, I have. But the biggest red flag for me is that she's asking the New York Times, can I ask my husband this question? If you can't ask your husband a question, you should not be married if you don't feel comfortable. Like, yes, this is a really awkward question. But if you feel like you can't ask your husband this question again, this is not the right relationship for you.
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Andy
Well, play it out for a second. Like, what could she do to stereotype this thing out to see if she could deduce?
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Haley Karenia
How do you even have this conversation with someone who knows?
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Andy
I mean, 30 years, you don't. You don't have an idea. Years yet.
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Haley Karenia
30 years. I don't know why people are so insistent on getting married when they know deep down it is not the right match for them. Like, I understand the societal pressures to get married, but I don't understand being miserable with the wrong person. Like, you know, being single can't be more crippling than being being married to a gay man. Like, that has to be worse.
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Andy
Being married for a gay man for three decades.
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Haley Karenia
Three decades. People in the chat are funny. Someone said he's cheating, probably with a dude.
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Andy
I just think about that meme. You might. I don't think you played it on the show, but it's. Remember the African guy questioning the African guy, and he's, why are you gay?
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Haley Karenia
Oh, yeah, exactly. Yeah. Someone says, sounds like a Democrat. This is peak Democrat. A Republican would not be writing into the New York Times, hey, is my husband gay? Am I in a lavender marriage? That doesn't come out of the mouth of a conservative woman. So, yes, I would say pretty safe to say that these are libs and they're writing into the New York Times magazine for advice. So, again, I have a conspiracy theory about this because I read this column.
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Andy
From the New York Times.
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Haley Karenia
Every once in a while I have my tinfoil hat on.
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Andy
Yeah, maybe send it over to me. But I've thought about it. They usually have these nonsense questions that.
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Haley Karenia
Allegedly viewers submitted to them. And I don't know anybody in my life would ever submit something like that to. So they're making it up.
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Andy
You think so I was like, yeah, you know, they're not doing so well. Maybe they just manufacture those.
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Haley Karenia
I could see that. I could totally see that. Yeah. Honestly, they probably do. But as you know, I love to put my tinfoil hat on, and I love to believe all conspiracy theories, so I'll believe it. All right, let's get into some scrolling time. Someone said, look up Spencer Pratt. That would be a good segment. I've covered Spencer Pratt on this show many a time. We did the whole fire aid segment about how he's fighting Gavin Newsome at every turn. Now he's. He was just on Capitol Hill this week. He's. He's making moves to fight for the people of the ca. The Palisades. So, yes, I have covered Spencer Pratt. I would love to get Spencer Pratt on. He just probably wouldn't do it because I'm a nobody, but that would be cool. All right, this first video is a rapper. Her name is Lotto, and she has no idea what's going on. She's in a jewelry store, and the jeweler says, if you can answer this question, I'll give you $2,000 off of your bill. And he asks her a political question. Watch this.
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Josh Williams
Hold on.
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Haley Karenia
These might need some. Hold on. I got your phone. So $2,000 off if you can give me right answer. Cool. Okay. The 45th President of USA and the 47th President of USA, they both have the same parents. How is that possible? Above that, the same parents.
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Josh Williams
The 45th President of the USA and.
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Andy
The 47th President got the same parents?
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Haley Karenia
Yes. How do the 45th President and the 47th President got the same parents? It's a mystery.
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Josh Williams
They got the same parents because God made us all.
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Haley Karenia
And we all got the same par.
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Josh Williams
Because we not on this. We not on this 47th president yet. That's why it is.
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Haley Karenia
You want to know the answer. So the 45th president was Donald Trump, and the 47th president is also Donald Trump.
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Josh Williams
Too bad.
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Haley Karenia
I just want to say I aspire to be this wealthy. Where you can be in the jewelry store. She is buying an f load of jewelry because if she answered this question, very easy question, by the way, correctly, he would have given her $2,000 off. So she's like, yeah, sure, I'll put my glasses on. Let's see if I could do it. But you know that she's got the money to do it. She is so wealthy. She doesn't need to know what's going on in the world. She doesn't know who the president is, and it does not affect her life. So, honestly, I aspire to be this wealthy. And she is doing fine in life. She is not worried. She is not worried one bit. She's like the kind of people who are like, I don't watch the news because it's depressing. She's so rich. She's doing so well. She doesn't need to know. But it is crazy to not know that we have the 47th President in office right now.
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Andy
It's just the scope of what else she doesn't know. Like.
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Haley Karenia
Also, how do you get rich? The 45th and the 47th. Like, let's think about what presidents have been president twice recently.
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Andy
She probably doesn't know where 45 or 47 are on the lineage of, you know, presidential. I mean, like, one was George Washington. Maybe she would know. And then she doesn't know if it's the 100 president or 150th president.
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Haley Karenia
She's got no clue. She said, we're not at 47 yet. Crazy. But here, I mean, he asked her a question. The 45th and the 47th president have the same parents. How is that possible? The only way that could be true is if they're siblings or the same person. So let's think about it. Is anyone siblings? No. It has to be the same person. Like, they.
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Andy
She would have thrown you if she was throwing you like a Grover Cleveland. That would have been. That would have been. Hey, at least you. At least you have an idea.
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Haley Karenia
She's got no idea.
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Andy
Way wrong.
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Haley Karenia
She's got no idea. I aspire to be this clueless one day. Just be this wealthy where you. You don't need to know what's going on in the world. She's just dropping thousands of dollars on jewelry, and she's on vacations, and she's making money. Good for her. All right, that all of the videos that I have for the rest of the show are AI this first one, before we get into the AI Babies, this next one is AI President Trump, and he has great genes. There's President Trump. It says, donald J. Trump has great jeans. This is the. I said I would never speak of Sydney Sweeney ever again, but this is like a remake of her American Eagle ad. But President Trump. AI President Trump looking swaggy. I would actually pay money to see real Donald J. Trump wear a Canadian tuxedo, but I don't think he would give Canada that much credit. Maybe if it's an American tuxedo, but what's more American than blue jeans? I don't think it should be called Canadian tuxedo. I think there's nothing more American than denim on denim.
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Andy
I fully agree. I mean, right now, I think he could pull it off, but, like, he looked. He looks sharp right there, you know? I mean, look straight out of the 80s.
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Haley Karenia
I know it's AI, but he looks great.
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Andy
John. He looked like a John Cougar Mellencamp kind of man right there. I love it in those. In the denim.
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Haley Karenia
I love it Americana, for sure. Okay, let's get into the AI Babies, because I have tweeted about this before, so don't come at me. I. I'm admitting when I am wrong. I said that I didn't find the AI Baby trend funny. The one where it was the Theo Vaughn, the Joe Rogan, the Trump, JD Vance, whoever, all as babies. I don't know why. I just. It didn't hit my funny bone. These, for whatever reason, I find so funny. So this is a new trend that has been on TikTok, where it's AI obviously, but a newscaster is interviewing newborn babies. So here's the first one. Oh. How does it feel to finally be out? Some woman named Grandma keeps whispering in.
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Josh Williams
My face and she smells like my diaper.
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Haley Karenia
This is, like the dumbest humor of all time. They're gonna get dumber. So someone in the chat said, I love the babies. Okay, so these are for you. Okay, this next one. This is a good one. Play it. How did it feel being in your mom's stomach.
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Josh Williams
She kept eating hot cheetos. I thought I was in hell.
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Haley Karenia
I love the little, like, grumbling noises in it, too. I don't know if that's just, like, the AI being warbled or maybe that's the mom's stomach with the hot Cheetos.
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Josh Williams
Cheetos. I thought I was in hell.
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Haley Karenia
It's good everyone in the chat is dropping LOLs in the chat, so I'm glad that I'm not the only one that thinks these are funny. Okay, this next one. Who's your daddy?
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Josh Williams
How does it feel to finally be out?
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Haley Karenia
Well, I heard my mom say that she didn't know who my dad was, so.
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Josh Williams
Kind of shitty.
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Haley Karenia
Kind of shitty? Yeah, it's pretty shitty if you don't know who your dad is.
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Andy
Yeah, that's a good one.
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Haley Karenia
Send me back. Okay, this next one. Where's the doctor? He's walking. I need to go back in.
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Josh Williams
My parents are broke as.
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Haley Karenia
First of all, I think it's very funny when kids curse. I just think there's something very. It's just. It's just funny because there. It's something very innocent about it and also bad at the same time, but it is. We know this is AI because the newborn baby is walking and cursing at the same time. All right, this is even worse than being broke. Watch this one. What do you want to be when you're older?
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Josh Williams
I want to be normal, but my parents have they them energy, so I'll props turn out to be a furry.
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Haley Karenia
That's even worse than having broke parents or having your mom not know who your dad is. If your parents have they them energy, you're screwed. And I would like to point out that that baby already had bunny ears on, so they're already halfway to being a furry.
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Andy
This is true. Do you get. Do you. Let me try to get this back up here. I want to show you when I was cutting this video, that looks very real. I know, but this kid looks like Patrick Mahomes. It's like Patrick Mahomes face.
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Josh Williams
Like.
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Andy
Does anybody else see that? It's like they AI'd a baby.
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Haley Karenia
Mahomes right there.
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Andy
Does anybody else see that in the chat?
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Haley Karenia
I can't stop thinking that it kind of does. All right, I just wanted to admit to all of you, I can admit when I'm wrong when I say that AI babies aren't funny. So I just wanted to lay that out there. This is my proof. This is my evidence that AI babies are funny. So I'm sorry if I offended the AI baby community. Anyway, thank you for scrolling along with me tonight. If you want to catch me in between shows, you got to do it on social media at Haley Karenia on all platforms. Most platforms, not Facebook, but everywhere else. And and not threads, of course. But if you want to catch the show, you got to do it on rumble rumble.com Haley is where you can watch it on the Bongino Report channel nightly. Scroll with Haley to search it on any of your favorite podcast platforms and I'll see you right back here tomorrow. Bye.
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Josh Williams
Sa.