Kevin Downey Jr. (2:43)

I'm groovy. Thank you.

Big D (2:45)

How was your. How was your Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, first of all?

Kevin Downey Jr. (2:48)

Oh, they're wonderful. Didn't have to go far. Stayed here in Long Island. Didn't drive to Michigan, which normally we would, but we stayed around town this time, and it was a lot of fun. And I appreciate not spending 24 hours in the car.

Big D (3:00)

Okay. Yeah, it's always a good thing. Yeah. How was the ringing in of the new year here this last couple nights? You were. Now, you were on the road for that? I saw you some videos you put out.

Kevin Downey Jr. (3:10)

Yep. I was at doing shows New Year's Eve, I was at the Paradise Stream Resort in the Poconos. And the night before, COVID Haven, also in the Poconos. Two great shows, a lot of fun and maybe a little too much whiskey after. After the shows.

Big D (3:27)

Okay.

Paul Nolan (3:28)

Never.

Big D (3:28)

Never would have guessed.

Slickster (3:30)

It's very unique.

Big D (3:31)

So out of character for you, Kevin. All right. Very good. Kevin Downey Jr. Will have some news here tonight. Slickster. How are you?

Slickster (3:37)

I'm doing good, Big D. How was.

Big D (3:39)

The New Year's Eve party that we all knew about?

Slickster (3:42)

Yeah, it was quiet this year, actually. Yeah, a little quiet, but that was okay. It was really good. I tell you, I. I enjoyed. You know what I enjoyed? Diana Ross, believe it or not. She came out a little after midnight. All those other walk artists, I could care less. But she was. I thought she was really good. She looked 81 years old, dude. I mean, come now, give it up for Diana Ross.

Big D (4:00)

81. 81. Okay. Yeah.

Slickster (4:02)

And my mother in law is 81. I'm sitting my mother in law. I said, look, look, mom, look how good you look at 81. And she was really. I thought she was great. I mean, give it. Give it up for the.

Big D (4:10)

She's.

Slickster (4:11)

I mean, hard. She was having number one singles when I was born. Okay. Baby love. I mean, that's how long she's been around, so I thought that was really cool.

Kevin Downey Jr. (4:18)

Was that when you were born? Baby love.

Slickster (4:20)

Yeah. What's that? That's how it happened.

Kevin Downey Jr. (4:22)

The number one song when I was born was I hear a symphony.

Big D (4:26)

Yes.

Slickster (4:26)

So there you go.

Paul Nolan (4:28)

Well, yeah. They say 81 is the new 71.

Big D (4:31)

The number one song when I was born. I don't even know. 72.

Slickster (4:38)

Number one. So when I was born was the House of the Rising sun by the Animals. One of the greatest songs in rock and roll history.

Big D (4:43)

Yep.

Slickster (4:43)

September.

Big D (4:44)

Yeah. What was the number one song the year you were born? That's an interesting question.

Slickster (4:47)

Yeah.

Big D (4:48)

But no, you know, I saw a little bit of her and I thought, man, she looks pretty good.

Slickster (4:51)

Yours was probably jive talking.

Big D (4:57)

What are you implying, slick?

Slickster (4:58)

No, that was in 75, that song. So you were born a little before that.

Big D (5:01)

All right, very good. And the party went well?

Slickster (5:04)

Went well. Very nice.

Big D (5:05)

Okay.

Slickster (5:05)

Thank you.

Big D (5:06)

How about you?

Slickster (5:06)

How are the wings?

Big D (5:07)

Well, I'll get to that. Okay. Mr. Nolan, how are you? I'm good. What did you do for New Year's?

Paul Nolan (5:13)

Oh, well, mine was I went to a buddy's party and snuck out. Irish exit as early, as quick as I could.

Slickster (5:21)

1201, 1145.

Kevin Downey Jr. (5:24)

So I could watch the drop at.

Paul Nolan (5:26)

Home with the kids. And in bed by 12.

Big D (5:28)

Oh, man. Okay. Leave the party. 11:45. Ball drop at home and then in bed. 1201.

Slickster (5:34)

He didn't say he was there at 1:30 in the afternoon.

Big D (5:39)

True story.

Paul Nolan (5:39)

Yeah, I just looked it up. The number one song for me was hello, Goodbye by the Beatles. When I was.

Slickster (5:46)

Oh, that's a great song.

Big D (5:47)

What year was that? 68.

Paul Nolan (5:48)

68?

Big D (5:49)

Yeah. Okay, look up 70. Look up April 72.

Paul Nolan (5:52)

All right, let me do that right now.

Slickster (5:54)

April 72.

Paul Nolan (5:55)

He's got to get the audience.

Slickster (5:57)

Probably like car wash. Tell us your.

Paul Nolan (5:58)

Number in the chat.

Slickster (5:59)

You're so vain, Kali Simon. Could have been 72 in the chat.

Paul Nolan (6:03)

Tell us what you're. So start searching it and tell us.

Slickster (6:06)

I think it's the coolest thing.

Big D (6:08)

That is pretty cool. I never thought about that. 72. Yeah. Maybe it was a country song. I'm going to go with country song. Yeah. So George Jones.

Slickster (6:16)

Maybe that went down to Georgia.

Big D (6:19)

Well, the wings worked out great. Slick kids loved them.

Slickster (6:23)

Yeah.

Big D (6:24)

We ended up only doing 100.

Slickster (6:25)

Oh, really?

Big D (6:26)

Yeah, we did 100. My son picked the whatever flavors. Whatever you call it. And I'll tell you, I. I had the barbecue ones. They were good.

Slickster (6:34)

How many did you go through? Did you go through the whole hundred?

Big D (6:36)

Yeah, they're gone, so.

Slickster (6:37)

You should have went with the bigger amount.

Big D (6:39)

No, no, I mean, they were gone because we ate them the next day, too.

Slickster (6:42)

Oh, okay. Okay. You did good, then. You did good. Nice.

Big D (6:45)

No, it was good. It worked out good. I had 13 people in my house.

Slickster (6:49)

That's a good crowd.

Big D (6:50)

Trying to figure out how to get rid of them throughout the night. But they wouldn't leave.

Slickster (6:53)

No. Really?

Big D (6:54)

No.

Slickster (6:54)

Some of them probably slept over.

Big D (6:56)

A couple of them did sleep over.

Josh Whalen (6:57)

I know.

Big D (7:00)

But. No, it was. It worked out good. It was nice to. And I'll tell you, it's nice to have the kids home.

Slickster (7:05)

Yeah.

Big D (7:05)

Safe and home. And they wanted to be there, which is. I don't know what that says. I guess that says you got a.

Slickster (7:11)

Cool place to hang out. You guys are cool parents.

Big D (7:13)

Yeah.

Paul Nolan (7:14)

Good environment.

Big D (7:14)

So they wanted to be there. So that was. That was good. I don't know how much longer that's going to last, but take. Take it when you can get it.

Slickster (7:20)

I guess going out on New Year's Eve is. Overnight is overrated. You know, it's amateur night in Dixie. I think a lot of the places, even your favorite restaurant, doesn't get it right that night for some reason. It's just. It's a rough night. I know Kevin has to be out because he does comedy and all, but it's a tough night to be out. I mean, I rock and roll with the best of them on New Year's Eve, but.

Big D (7:37)

So I don't get an answer on 72. Okay, what is it?

Paul Nolan (7:40)

All right. They ushered in Horse with no Name by America.

Big D (7:44)

Oh, okay.

Paul Nolan (7:45)

But that was up until.

Slickster (7:46)

That's kind of country.

Kevin Downey Jr. (7:46)

8Th.

Paul Nolan (7:47)

April 8th. It got taken over by the first time I ever saw your face by Roberta Flack.

Big D (7:52)

Oh, wow.

Slickster (7:53)

That's all she kept.

Kevin Downey Jr. (7:57)

Which day of the month is your birthday?

Big D (7:58)

April. April 28th.

Kevin Downey Jr. (8:00)

28.

Paul Nolan (8:01)

You were Roberta. You got Roberta Flack.

Slickster (8:02)

Roberta Flack who passed away this year. She passed away earlier this year. Roberta Flack. Great, great artist.

Big D (8:08)

Aaron, what was the number one on your birthday? Like Milli Vanilli or something?

Slickster (8:13)

No, she's.

Aaron (8:13)

Yeah. No, I don't know. July 99. Someone's got to look it up.

Big D (8:19)

That's probably, like, MC Hammer.

Kevin Downey Jr. (8:21)

July what?

Paul Nolan (8:22)

July.

Aaron (8:22)

July 23.

Slickster (8:23)

It's Cisco to Thong Song.

Big D (8:28)

No, it's probably MC Hammer.

Slickster (8:30)

MC Hammer.

Kevin Downey Jr. (8:31)

I don't know what year, Aaron.

Aaron (8:33)

99.

Big D (8:33)

99. 99. Yeah.

Kevin Downey Jr. (8:35)

I've got underwear older than you.

Slickster (8:39)

I would imagine so.

Big D (8:40)

Older wig.

Kevin Downey Jr. (8:41)

We've got scars. Older.

Slickster (8:43)

Dude, what was your song?

Kevin Downey Jr. (8:44)

It was. For me. It was I Hear a Symphony by the Supreme. My favorite bands ever. For Aaron, it's Bills, Bills, Bills by Destiny's Child.

Jade Olchefsky (8:52)

Yes.

Aaron (8:54)

Fantastic.

Paul Nolan (8:56)

Now, when we.

Slickster (8:57)

And she's a Jeff fan, though.

Big D (9:00)

Hey.

Aaron (9:03)

No bills for me.

Big D (9:04)

What.

Paul Nolan (9:05)

What was the date? Because there's some change in this thing.

Big D (9:07)

Oh, for me?

Paul Nolan (9:09)

Yeah. Wild.

Aaron (9:09)

The 23rd.

Paul Nolan (9:10)

Oh, the 23rd. Then it might be Wild, Wild west, because that. That became the.

Big D (9:14)

Oh, Will Smith. Right.

Kevin Downey Jr. (9:16)

I got bills, bills, bills. July 23, 1999.

Big D (9:19)

Okay.

Slickster (9:20)

What about Francis?

Paul Nolan (9:21)

Yeah, I got Bills, friend.

Big D (9:22)

What year are you? I am 78. And my song is Kiss you all over by Exile.

Slickster (9:26)

Oh, I want to kiss you.

Kevin Downey Jr. (9:31)

I was at a middle school dance the day you were born. I was dancing to that song.

Big D (9:38)

Oh, man. Well, I had a first word to do tonight, but we've blown all the time here. Maybe I have enough time to. No, I don't think I have enough time to do it. So maybe we'll do the first word here in a little bit. But I do have a bunch of fun stuff that we can do tonight since there's, I mean, there is some news actually on here on Friday, July, January 2nd. July 2nd. The President out this morning with a tweet that raised a lot of eyebrows on Iran. Of course, what is, what is the definition of come to your rescue? I think is the best way to put it because that's, that's the half of the sentence that you have to pay attention to when the President puts out something like that. And that, that is, that's what I think you have to ask yourself what is the definition of come to your rescue? Because that's going to raise a lot of eyebrows. And while I read many things today, how important it is that people feel that America speaks in this moment as the Iranian people once again rise up. And we've seen this before, but the President's tweet sure leaves a lot of open endedness on what that means. America will come to your rescue. We are locked and loaded. I don't have it in front of me, but I believe it was something to that effect. That, that's pretty, that's pretty wide open.

Paul Nolan (11:09)

It's pretty wide open.

Big D (11:10)

Yeah. Yeah.

Kevin Downey Jr. (11:13)

So here's another little angle to that. A, I guess a fairly famous Iranian pilot, a colonel, came out and said, hey to the military, defend the people, not the mullahs, defend the people, defend the nation. Now for him to say that, that's putting his life and his family's life at serious risk.

Paul Nolan (11:35)

So what out of that for me, unpopular opinion. I just think we should let them, let the mullahs run the place into the ground. Well, actually we want to do for me is start bombing them. What we should, they're gonna, they run with it is, you know, with Islamic law, Syria law. They have no ability whatsoever to run an economy. They're going to cave themselves in. And if we start bombing the people who hate the mullahs, which is the majority who are trying to uprise against them are getting shot in the street right now. I think 10 people were killed in, in protests against the Mullahs. If we go in there and try to create another American nation building regime change, I just think we're hurting ourselves. It's going to cost more Muslims to displace to Europe. We'll end up coming here. I don't want any more here. You know, enough's enough. Let them rot themselves out. Let it, let it burn itself to the ground and play the long game, play the waiting game. You know, if you don't get who you want and the regime change after the people rise, then you may have to do something, maybe. In the meantime, I say let them rot.

Big D (12:34)

Bill Ponton and the American Thinker this morning. Make Iran great again. He says. He says after the October 7th massacre, Israel realized that it had made a mistake. It had allowed the twin evils of Hezbollah and Hamas to grow too strong. It had ignored what was brewing below the surface. It had stuck with defensive measures and avoided starting a larger conflict in the region. After the massacre on October 7, it accepted that the larger conflict was inevitable. A war not only with Iran's proxies in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, but one with the Iranian regime itself. Everything we have seen since October 7th flows from that change in the Israeli attitude. The destruction of Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria in quick succession and the elimination of Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile program demonstrated an assertive, emboldened Israel in action. It also showed a frightened, impotent clerical elite in Iran, one that is now succumbing to the fate of being overthrown by its own. The Iranian people are tired of being viewed as the pariah in the international community. They're tired of the regime's senseless military adventurism and hatred directed at Israel. Most of all, they're tired of being repressed and murdered on the orders of men in robes. With dramatic finality. Ruling mullahs are being swept aside in a people's revolution. Let us pray that it will succeed and that the nation of Iran will return to the world stage as a respected member. Make Iran great again. Short little piece this morning from Bill Ponton I believe is how you pronounce it in the American Thinker. So we'll talk a little bit, maybe more about that. The President's tweet, what we think he means by that. Plus there is some other news. Plus we'll do some fun stuff. Looking back at 25, looking ahead to 26 on a Friday night. Happy New Year, everybody. Glad you're back for a quick Friday night show. And we'll be back, of course, on Monday after the Weekend. We'll get the news. Everybody's got news. We'll get the sports recap of an amazing two days. Looking forward to an amazing weekend. Odds Makers tonight, 9:30. We'll do that. Lots to do live from Studio 6B. We're back right after this.

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Big D (16:42)

Our live from Studio 6B on a Friday night, January 2nd. Gonna do sports. Kevin Downey Jr. Is going to do some news. Paul Nolan's going to do some news as well. Aaron and Fran holding it down as always. Lots to get to here on a Friday night. But right now, since I screwed up the timing in the first segment, let's do tonight's first word. Well, my friends, welcome on in. Welcome to a brand new year. Happy new year, Everybody. Welcome to 2026. And let me tell you something right out of the G. This is not just another turn of the calendar. This is not just another year stacked on top of the last one. No, folks, it feels like 2026 is the year that America begins to rise again. Now, I know, I know. We've been told for years that America's best days are behind her, that decline is inevitable, that faith is outdated, that borders don't matter. Strength is dangerous. That pride in the country is somehow a flaw. Well, that lie is beginning to collapse. If not collapsing because what happened in 2025 was not flashy. It wasn't instant gratification. It Wasn't a magic wand. What Trump did in 25 was preparation, stabilization, rebuilding. Re anchoring this nation to the things that made it exceptional in the first place. And now, well, now comes the payoff. As America approaches her 250th birthday, we are standing at one of those rare hinge moments in history when you can feel it in the air, when you know something big is coming, when the foundation has been poured and the structure is about to rise. Let's start where every nation must start. Sovereignty. In 2025, the United States remembered that a country without borders is, well, not a country at all. Law and order returned to the conversation. Criminal, illegal aliens were removed. Chaos at the border gave way to control, predictability and enforcement of the law. And guess what happened? Well, communities felt safer. Americans felt heard the rule of law meant something. Again, this was never about cruelty. It was about protection. Protection of citizens, protection of workers, protection of the social fabric that holds a diverse nation together. And once you secure the border, everything else becomes, well, possible. Then came the economic realignment. Tariffs that put America first. Incentives that brought factories home. Confidence, real confidence return to, well, investors and entrepreneurs. The stock market surge. Capital flowed back into American industry. But again, this wasn't about overnight miracles. Factories don't rise in a week. Supply chains don't rebuild themselves in a month. Foundations take time. And now in 2026, those investments will start producing jobs stabilize families. Wages rise, spending increases productivity returns. And thanks to meaningful tax relief from the big beautiful bill, Americans finally get to keep more of what they earn. Low inflation, falling interest rates, a strong market, real growth based on real work. That's not luck, that's policy. Now let's talk about peace. The only, the kind of peace that only comes from strength. In 2025, America stopped apologizing for being powerful. We invested in our military. We modernized our weapons system. We restored morale. And suddenly imagine this. Global tensions began to cool because history teaches one lesson over and over again. Strong America equals a more peaceful world. When our adversaries know we're serious, they think twice. When our allies trust us. Stability follows. Strength is not provocation. Strength is deterrence. And deterrence saves lives. Strong leadership brings peace. And a strong America guarantees that. But perhaps the most important shift of all didn't happen in Washington or on Wall street or overseas. It happened at home, in the hearts of the American people. In 2025, millions, especially young Americans, began walking away from the woke insanity, the endless division, the grievance of politics, the hollow promises. And what did they move towards? Faith Family, meaning responsibility. Churches filled families, recentered conversations about virtue, duty, purpose, came roaring back into the public square. Americans remembered something the left never understood. A nation is more than an economy. A nation must have a soul. In that spiritual reawakening. Folks, we've only seen the beginning. None of this happens without leadership. President Trump set the tone. Clear vision, no confusion, no apologies. Leadership that wasn't about managing decline, but about reversing it. The administration worked with purpose, not ego, with conviction, not cowardice. And now, as we enter 2026, the year of America's 250th anniversary, the nation is reflecting on who she is and why she matters. We are rediscovering our strength, our purpose, our soul. The groundwork is done, the foundation is set. And the rewards, faith, family, freedom, prosperity are coming into view. Ronald Reagan called America the shining city on a hill. My friends, that city is lighting up again. The golden age of America is not behind us. It is emerging. So buckle up, enjoy the ride, and never forget, a renewed America is rising. Confident, faith, faithful and free. Happy New Year, everybody. God bless the United States of America. And that's tonight's first word.

Paul Nolan (23:10)

Outstanding.

Kevin Downey Jr. (23:11)

I couldn't.

Paul Nolan (23:12)

I couldn't agree more.

Slickster (23:13)

Good way to start the year.

Big D (23:14)

I think a lot of us, I mean, maybe even a lot of you on the show maybe have expressed this wave before. I think maybe I've even expressed it or felt it, too. Vin's been on it. Paul, you've been on it. That, that 26 will really, you know, 25 was, in some ways, it was great, but still frustrating, obviously, Congress and that. But some frustration because things still seemed pricey. Still things seemed high. And it was. Everybody was like, let's chill. You were. Vin has been very much like Delgado, too. 26 will be the payoff.

Paul Nolan (23:46)

Well, I think from an economic standpoint, without a doubt. I've been talking about, in my opinion, making sure we maintain control of the. Of the world reserve currency, we make sure we control trade, we control these tariffs, controlling shipping lanes, this whole geopolitical landscape. To me, Trump has now essentially took a sledgehammer to all the people have taken advantage of the American tax people on a global level. Let's see if he'll do something. You know, in Minnesota, in Boston, in Ohio and Washington. Washington. We're watching all of these, really, let's be honest. These are like deep state coups where they bring in all these Somalis, you know, and we're supposed to be shocked when Somalis pirate the taxpayer. And now, if nothing gets done there, that'll be a concern. Obviously, we're going to hope for that. But from an economic standpoint, I can't not see how trade here in America no longer being like this mercantile state of China, building things here, making things here, getting people back to work here, getting illegals out, giving the economy a chance, giving the young people a chance to maybe buy a home. This like slave system to make sure nobody could ever buy a home. The blackrocks, the central banks, I think, I really think we're gonna start seeing some hope for the youth of America to be able to financially, you know, secure some real estate and some property and those the key to your rights. And then for me, hopefully, you know, us old folks who are still grinding can retire one day without the government stealing all our money through inflation and tax.

Big D (25:21)

Yeah, we'll get Kevin Downey's junior thoughts on 26, what he sees and Slick as well. Plus, we'll do sports with Slick. We'll do an odds makers at 9:30 as well. Looking forward to the weekend. So lots to do. Still on A. Live from Studio 6B Friday night. Glad you're in. We're back right after this, Sam. All right, 30 minutes past the hour. Live from Studio 6P on a Friday night, January 2nd. Happy New Year, everybody. Glad you're in for a Friday show. And of course, we're obviously off for the weekend back back full force on Monday. Hope you enjoy the weekend. Hope you had a great New Year's slick series. Gonna do some sports. Paul Nolan's gonna do some news. Aaron and Fran holding it down as always. Kevin Downey Jr. Host of the Kevin Downey Jr. Show, heard nine to 11 weekday mornings on LI News Radio, long Island, Suffolk County. He's sitting in for Delgado, who's off tonight. Kevin Downey Jr. I wanted to give you a chance to kind of respond to what Paul said. And my first word tonight on outlook of 2026 kind of Trump laid the foundation in 25 and now we want to see some payoff maybe in 26 and another step forward for the country. What are your thoughts?

Kevin Downey Jr. (27:30)

I think everything in the first word was dead on. I would add that the culture has changed significantly and to our advantage and that is huge. Trump is doing saying things now that if he did it in his first term, they say, oh, look at this, so racist. Look at that racist go. And I think a lot of Americans are waking up to the fact that, yeah, we weren't the nice guys who let a bunch of people in and they been Robbing us blind. I think the Somali thing is really opening some eyes. If you look at the ratings for Ms. Now now. Ms. Now.

Big D (28:02)

Ms. Never.

Kevin Downey Jr. (28:04)

Yeah. If you look at, I think their ratings are down 27%. CNN is down something like 29%. And Fox News while their ratings doubled. That tells me that people sort of not, not the far left wackos with the blue hair and the, you know, the everyone looking to have an abortion and not those Gorgons, but the people in the middle who maybe leaned a little to the left, they're watching CNN or Ms. Now. They're gone. They left and they. Well, you know, the numbers of the losses here at Ms. Now and CNN happened to just about match what Fox News picked up. That tells me that we the people have had enough of the nonsense and are walking away from woke. We see DEI dying all over the joint. People are throwing that out of their buildings. The you know what? I wish I was born in the 80s, that my song would be the future so bright I got to wear shades. That would be it. Because I think everything's looking great.

Big D (28:54)

Yeah, yeah, good point, slickster.

Slickster (28:58)

Yeah, Big D. The word that I'm hearing is the payoff. Waiting for the payoff. So it's going to be one year in about a week or so, two weeks that the president has been inaugurated. So I'm hoping that this past year, economically they've done a lot of infrastructure repair and that going to start to see the payoff. I do a lot of work with small business, as you know, on a local level, President of the chamber for over a quarter of a century and my businesses are struggling. The restaurants are struggling, the shops are struggling, the hair salons, everybody is off because everybody's pinching those pennies. They're starting to eat home more, they're starting to drink home more. They're not at the bars. So this has become an issue and a lot of folks are saying, look, I love the president, I stand behind the president, myself included. But I haven't seen this great economy and I know things take time. One year, is that enough time? I don't know, is it 18? Hearing a lot about maybe the end of the first quarter, we're going to start to see a shift now, maybe a little bit more drop on interest rates. That's what I'm looking for. We need some kind of stimulus for the economy. We're going to see fuel once the fuel drops. In fact, I had a long conversation with a really good caterer on New Year's Eve. He Actually watches the show, loves the show. Kevin from Trio and he told me, he says, you know what, they got to get the fuel costs down. Then everything comes down. The delivery charges come down. So that's where I'm at. Big day. That's part of the payoff that I want to see because on the street where I am them, it's still tight and people are still waiting to see what the president can deliver for them. And most of the folks that I speak to love the president, like myself, like us, we support them, but we just haven't seen the results yet. Maybe I'm being a little too impatient, I don't know. But we got to see the payoff. Big day, as you said.

Big D (30:28)

Well, that's kind of what we're talking about to pay off in 2026. We take another step forward and economically things get better. I mean, one thing you know for sure, you know you're going to have lower interest rates because you're going to have a new Fed chairman. I think the latest it can be, I think is May, if he sticks, maybe March or whatever it is. But you can guarantee whoever is taking, whoever's getting Trump will not make the same mistake on the Fed chairman that he did with Jerome Powell in the first place. The Fed chairman is going to lower interest rates. Now, there's going to be an argument whether that's the right thing to do. When you have growth, that if we have GDP growth of 4, whatever, you know, that they said now because of the shutdown, there's some numbers that are skewed. There's a lot of people who don't agree with those numbers. I've posted some things on it. It. But taking it at face of value, if we have growth like that, what's the, what would be the point of lowering interest rates? The. So the two, the two don't mix. And, and if you look at the bond market, the bond market is screaming. There's that that it doesn't believe that lower interest rates are needed or are coming. When you look at where, where the, where the 10. Where the two year and the 10 year and the third you look at just the bond market screams the answers to all these questions usually. So you know, but you know, the president wants lower interest rates. There's. He doesn't care. I can, I knew, I remember in his first term thinking, well, we're effectively at zero and he was still calling for cuts. So the president wants effectively zero. Let's just put the baseline there.

Paul Nolan (32:04)

Yeah, he wants to come, you know, he wants to kill that national debt. He, I mean, what are we servicing?

Big D (32:08)

$1.5 million trillion dollars. Yeah. Trillion dollar payments. Now this year.

Paul Nolan (32:12)

It, you know, it's crazy. So if we can get that down and with the tariffs and with, you know, manufacturing here in America, you know, for me at this point, just let's do whatever. It's a house of cars anyhow. Right. But let's do whatever we can to keep control of it.

Big D (32:25)

Yeah. Well, you don't want inflation to spike right around the midterms of November either. Again. So there is a line to walk for whoever the new Fed chairman is. But you can suspect you're going to have lower interest rates this year for sure.

Paul Nolan (32:36)

But I feel, I really feel like I could change. I feel like we could trust Trump when it comes to the banking game. I really, I mean this guy's played the bankers game his whole career. I mean he's made a living off of beating the banks at their game and now he's got the right guys around him, in my opinion, when it comes to, you know, the Treasury Department. So let's hope, you know, I'm very confident and he'll make the right decision because it's way above my pay grade. Because you said a million times we never know, you know, if we go to zero and you know, where are we going to be at? But there are so many pieces moving at once. I just feel like I'm, I'm, I, if I feel we have the right guy in complete control of this situation and I think he's taking it on globally as well.

Big D (33:18)

Well, I think we're going to see it play out. There's no doubt because I think he's going to put somebody in there, whether it's ha, Kevin Hasard or my guy who I did not bet on, on Kalshee by the way. But where is it now?

Paul Nolan (33:29)

The odds?

Big D (33:29)

I don't even checked it, but I think you're going to see somebody who was going to want lower interest rates cut this year multiple times. So. All right, let's do some sports. We'll get to other, some other news as well. Sports is brought to you by Mike Lindell. LFS six speed. Lots to recap. Man a bar burner two days. Slickster. What's going on?

Slickster (33:47)

Well, let's start with the barn burner. That was on New Year's Eve, Big D. So Texas over Michigan. Aaron was on that game. Texas laying seven points. Arch Manning, I tell you, he showed he's for real. A lot of people were down on him. We were talking earlier, Aaron and I, but he showed up at the Cheez It bowl. How about that 60 yard touchdown run? Right up the middle, untouched. Incredible. He was 21, 34, two touchdowns, 221 yards plus a rushing touchdown. Great game for Texas to finish out a good season over Michigan was close for about a little into the third. It was close, but they ran away with it. Then we had Friday night, the Miami game, Big D. I know you were talking about that. That over Ohio State. Major upset, right? Major upset plus nine and a half. Miami was getting. You couldn't figure that, right? We were talking about that back and forth. Well, unbelievable. I mean, caution in the back. He had a decent day, kind of pedestrian, only 138 yards, one touchdown. But that defensive Miami, Big D, I think they can hang with anybody. And they're gonna have to probably end up hanging with Indiana. So we'll see what happens there. But good game there all around. And a good win for Miami. They won 24 to 14. Texas Tech, well, they ducked out early against Oregon as they laid a goose egg. See what I did there? 23 Nothing. They lost absolute horrendous game really, just from the start. Baron Morton, the quarterback for Texas Tech. Why they left that young man in after two interceptions. He was throwing the ball to the wrong guy. Almost every other play they dropped two or three. So that was really a disappointing game. I had Texas Tech, so you could see why I'm complaining. But Oregon, all they do is keep winning. You know, they're an amazing team. Nobody, nobody wants to to really. We haven't really been on them, but they are really good. 121 now, 131 with that win. Great game there. And then you had Indiana, the Nick.

Big D (35:25)

Saban coaching tree showing up in these playoffs. Every single existing coach that's still alive and most of them who just got knocked out this last weekend, these last two days are all people who coached under Nick Saban. Every one of them.

Slickster (35:39)

I know, it's incredible.

Big D (35:41)

Every single coach, it's just amazing.

Slickster (35:43)

It's kind of like the Bill Parcell's NFL tree years ago, right? Same type of thing. But just absolutely incredible there. So how about Indiana? Well, they really are the odds on favorite right now to win it all. Big D. I mean they're just an absolutely incredible. Fernando Mendoza, 38, 3. They won yesterday and absolutely in a great game there.

Big D (36:03)

Here's what the network should do. By the way, I have a suggestion for all of them. If they want to make extra dough, they should have for the remaining Indiana games, you should have pay per view. One single camera that only frames up Signetti's face and follows him the entire game. I would watch that channel. If I never saw playing the game. I would just watch the Signetti Faith channel. That's what I would watch on pay per view. I'd pay 2. $2.992.99 to have access to that camera. That never leaves that guy's face. The eyes during the game.

Slickster (36:36)

His eyes are just incredible. He's never happy.

Big D (36:40)

It's cinema.

Slickster (36:41)

He's unbelievable. Just incredible. So they really look good. Obviously now they're 14 and also unbelievable. They won their Rose bowl, the granddadd. But of course, the. The game of the day, really. And the game of the weekend was. Well, the weekend of it would be the College football playoffs. 8:00pm how about that game with the Dogs? Big D and Ole Miss? Ole Miss pulls it out. 39, 34. Big D. I think you had called that game there, right?

Big D (37:04)

You called 34. And with two minutes to go in the game, it was 34, 31. It was clear even with two minutes to go that it wasn't going to stay 34, 31 because both offenses literally couldn't be stopped. But I had, I had a shot. I had a shot slick to have it end. 34, 31, Ole Miss.

Slickster (37:24)

You were right there, Big D. But I'll tell you, I thought it was over when Georgia missed that long field goal. I just felt like they, they let. They let Ole Miss hang around there. They should have closed them out. But that Trinidad Chambers, take your hat off to that young man playing Division 2 college ball last year. They won the championship, this team. I forgot the school.

Paul Nolan (37:42)

Small school.

Slickster (37:43)

But he came up with 362, two touchdowns. Boy, he made a name for himself. And how he.

Big D (37:49)

He made some of the. The best throws I've seen in a long time on his. We on his feet. I mean, moving like on. You know, he was showing ropes, man, ropes.

Slickster (37:58)

And I love the way he thanked his Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. The end of the game, boy. Came out full, full speed. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Jesus gave me this opportunity. So I just thought it was great all around. And another big winner was their former head coach too Big D, Lane Kiffin. He cashed in on that game last night. I don't know if you guys heard about that one, but yeah, Kiffin, who was rumored to possibly attend the College Football playoff quarterfinal. After all, he is hanging out in Louisiana after Taking the LSU job celebrated the team's win in a post on social media. What a great finish. So much fun. Only two more to go, he wrote in a post on X tagging the Ole Miss football team. While Kiffin's well wishes could be interpreted as being said in good faith, there is a financial benefit for Kiffin if the Rebels keep on winning. According to front office Sports, part of LSU's deal to lure Kiffin away from Ole Miss was to pay his full bonus structure from his previous employer. Kiffin made 150,000 for the rebels making the playoffs, which was raised to 250 when Ole Miss defeated Tulane in the first round Thursday night. Win over Georgia last night upped the bonus to a half a million dollars and a win over Miami. The semifinals would raise that figure to 750 and it'll be over a million if they win it all. So good work if you can get it for Lane Kiffin, huh?

Paul Nolan (39:07)

Not bad.

Slickster (39:07)

So and I guess the team really doesn't miss him too much. However, there is an issue with his assistance because you know, open the open enrollment thing comes up right with the, the cat with the not the draft but the ncaa they have to watch now because a lot of the assistants are scheduled to be in LSU having signed the contract. So them playing the game coming up next week is going to be going to create some issue. I don't know if they're going to be able to get out of their contracts or what they're going to be.

Big D (39:31)

Charlie Weiss Jr. Still calling. Charlie Weiss Jr. And it seems like they're going to continue to let him so.

Kevin Downey Jr. (39:38)

Good stuff.

Big D (39:39)

All right, we'll do some news of Paul Nolan and Kevin Downey Jr. We get back live from Studio 6B on a Friday night. We're back right after this. SARC 2 to the hour. Live from Studio 6B Real America's voice on a Friday night. Glad you're in. Slick's doing some more sports odds makers coming up at 9:30. Paul Nolan's gonna do some news. Kevin Downey Jr. Is gonna do some news right now. Aaron and friend holding it down. Mr. Nolan, what's what's up first on your news radar?

Paul Nolan (41:02)

You know I've seen a lot of this from data Republican from libs of tick tock is a good story from town hall. Does the Minnesota fraud scandal go all the way to the Somali government? And it sure looks like it does. This is by Amy Curtis. Shortly before New Year's we learned of several developments regarding the Somali and ongoing fraud scandal. Involving Somali community in Minnesota. The first is that the United nations is letting a Somali led UN Security Council effective this month. As our own Jeff Charles wrote, the leadership will last month under the Security Council rotation policy but overlooks a rampant terrorism, piracy and widespread violence in the African nation. As the leader of the Security Council, Somalia will be responsible for calling and scheduling meetings, including emergency sessions and represent the council to the media and other UN agencies. And it turns out the Somali ambassador to the UN Aboukar Dahir Osman, also known as the health care administrator in Ohio and another health care company shared the same suit in Osman's company along with multiple others at the same address. So Osman's company, Progressive Health Care Services in Cincinnati. So he, he's the president of a bunch of different companies that have been busted for fraud. So this is from libs of TikTok. Somalia's ambassador to the UN Aboukar Dahir Osman was the health care administrator in Ohio. They're in another healthcare company in the same suite tweet as his with it with a different name and multiple others with the same address, all with Somali names. So he's been busted there. According to this Somali ambassador to the UN was also the health care administrator in Ohio. There is another name for the health care company in the same suite with his different name and multiple other same addresses with all Somali names. But you know, this is absolutely insane, of course, but it doesn't stop there. It appears the fraud and the corruption in Minnesota goes all the way to the top of the Somali government and not just the un. The Somali Minister of Foreign affairs owns a home health care company in Ohio. There are two other health care companies in the same suite as his and multiple others at the same address as the Somali owners. So you know, we're watching the same exact kind of tiered scam. Everybody's in the same office and they're just running their money laundering system all the way to the government of Somalia. And that money's probably coming back to the DNC and all these scammers and the liver lily lipped Tim Waltz and how he runs cover for these guys. So you know, on Somali's Farm, Prime Minister of Foreign affairs owns the health care company in Ohio. There are two other health care companies in the same suite. This is all being reported by several different outlets and this article is pretty long. I'm going to post it on my X feed. But the web is really, really, the lines are very easy to follow here that this is pure corruption. Our government and the government of Minnesota is just giving away your tax dollars. They're stealing your money. You're busting your butt and you can't kid can't buy a house. But meanwhile that Somali dudes driving around in Sprint divans that cost $130,000. My construction company can't afford one. I would love to buy a. Maybe I should pretend I identify as I'm Somali.

Big D (44:32)

Well, Kev, you haven't been here to come comment on all this and it is, it is amazing. Some of the things we've seen even since the main story when Nick Shirley has, you know, broke. We've all the follow up stuff we've seen and obviously other states, Washington state, now looking at Boston and looking at other places we've talked about in the show this week. But even some of the details, when you see like 44 daycares opened in the same day.

Kevin Downey Jr. (44:57)

Yeah.

Big D (44:58)

With the same paperwork, other than I think the address change, most of the addresses are not even real. And then you see that those 44 went off and got $14 million in funding or whatever it is. It's just, it's, it's not only crazy, but it's probably sadly the tip of the iceberg on what we're going to find nationwide in these, in these daycare health care scams. I bet you it approaches trillion, if not 8 trillion. Close to trillion. A trillion dollars when it's all said and done. But just give me your thoughts overall on the whole thing.

Kevin Downey Jr. (45:31)

First of all, I heard that they've stolen as much as Somalia's gdp yearly gdp.

Big D (45:36)

That's just out of Minnesota though.

Kevin Downey Jr. (45:38)

Yeah, that's just out of Minnesota. My favorite knucklehead is the one who, they went to him in his daycare, said, let's see the list of enrollment. He goes, you know, it's so weird. A guy just broke in.

Big D (45:48)

Yeah.

Kevin Downey Jr. (45:49)

And he stole all of that. He came in, he swooped and he saw it and I don't, I think not. The bee discovered this, right? Reddit. He's wearing $2,400 glasses. The frames are $2,400. As he says, they're going, they stole the books, man. I don't know what to tell you, racist. Stop coming around.

Paul Nolan (46:12)

They showed the video of the hole in the wall, but as a, as a construction guy, the sheetrock was pulled inward. That means they broke in from inside.

Slickster (46:22)

Inside job.

Big D (46:25)

Literally.

Kevin Downey Jr. (46:26)

You know, they probably it in Paulie then had a guy crawl out, crawl out. We get video if you break it out of the wrong scam, put on a Maga hat. We know how to do this.

Paul Nolan (46:37)

They didn't break in, they broke out.

Slickster (46:39)

Inside job.

Kevin Downey Jr. (46:42)

It's amazing the cajones on these people, man. Hey, and thanks for the, the free food and thanks for putting us up. Now we want all of it. We're gonna get, get it. And you know what else probably I saw so you know those animals with the, the 250 million dollar Covid food, whatever.

Paul Nolan (47:01)

Yeah.

Kevin Downey Jr. (47:01)

Now they turns out five out of. They looked into 10 of these daycares. Five out of 10 were working with that, that, that group. So they were getting money too. So, so you've got the, you've got people stealing because they've got a daycare center and they're stealing because of food and now they're working together to steal more war. It's just, it's a.

Big D (47:21)

You know what?

Kevin Downey Jr. (47:22)

It's really, it's offensive at this point.

Paul Nolan (47:24)

What I find so humorous is that like people are shocked or in denial that Somalis would pirate our tax money. Are you kidding me? Writes itself.

Kevin Downey Jr. (47:35)

Piracy is. That's their number one income over there.

Paul Nolan (47:38)

But you want to be. When you're a kid, you know, they ask a little kid a fireman pirate, you know, policeman.

Big D (47:47)

By the way, it was James Woods. I don't know if you can throw this up, Aaron. That Kevin was just talking about this. It's woods who put this up. He says the Somali fraud would be highly high comedy if Americans didn't have to work two jobs to fund it instead. It's infuriating and disgusting, as are the crooked democrats who are in on it. And there's the picture of your glasses. Yeah. Price of $2,400 down there.

Slickster (48:12)

That's a lot of money for that.

Kevin Downey Jr. (48:13)

And you know the problem? D look just right next to the guy. See that blonde haired liberal woman?

Big D (48:18)

Yes, that's the.

Kevin Downey Jr. (48:19)

Yes. Thank you. That's the problem with this nation because she's actually supporting this guy. We work, we pay taxes.

Slickster (48:26)

It's his optometrist.

Kevin Downey Jr. (48:27)

How cookie to say go ahead and steal it, boys, because racism or something, I don't know. Just go ahead and steal it. But imagine defending that guy. Defending that. All right, now go to work, lady. Go pay your taxes. Because that guy right there, he needs another 2400 pair of glasses.

Slickster (48:43)

It's a Garcinio hole.

Paul Nolan (48:46)

2400 to spend on glasses. If I had $2400, I'd stay up all night and stare at it.

Kevin Downey Jr. (48:50)

Yeah, my car was four grand.

Big D (48:55)

There you go. So you know, I Don't know if.

Paul Nolan (48:59)

You guys saw this, but well before. But there's evidence now that back in 2008, 500,000 people registered to vote on the same exact day when Al Franken one and they any one by like 300 or 400 votes. Like they've been rigging this stuff for so long in Minnesota. Well, everywhere but in Minnesota has been so corrupt for so long.

Kevin Downey Jr. (49:22)

And you know, and you know what I'd learned? They were investigating these. These daycares and healthcares and whatnot. And it all went away in 2019. That's when Tim Walls won and Keith Ellison won to be the D. A. Unbelievable. And it all went to vice president, president Babylon.

Big D (49:39)

Beast says maybe the sports team will get a name change out of it, which could be maybe a positive here.

Slickster (49:45)

It's already the Vikings. I mean, it's bad enough they may.

Big D (49:48)

Not be the Somali pirates.

Slickster (49:51)

Is that Snoop Dog?

Big D (49:54)

All right, that's a quick wrap. Hour one, hour two coming back right after this. Sam, Here's the deal.

Paul Nolan (50:54)

If your TV sounds funny in the.

Big D (50:56)

Evening, you're watching live from Studio 6B.

Kevin Downey Jr. (50:59)

We're the United States of America.

Big D (51:02)

Shut up. Joe and Nancy. Settle down now. No fighting. No fighting. Live from Studio 6 Bay on a Friday night. Happy New Year, everybody. We made it. 2026. Gonna be a good one. Friday night, January 2nd. Real America's voice. Glad you're in. Slickster's here after a successful New Year's Eve party himself. He's gonna do some more sports. Paul Nolan is here. He's gonna do some more news errand in Franklin. Holding it down on a Friday night. Kevin Downey Jr. The host of the Kevin Downey Jr. Show, heard right here on LI News Radio 9 to 11 weekday mornings. And I know this audience is now his audience. And a lot of you listen and call in and tweet whatever else you do there. And we've all. At least I have. And we've all, I think, at this point, been on. Yeah, some point. Kevin, it's always an honor to be on and it's a lot of fun. So make sure you listen. You can listen really across the world. LI newsradio.com and hit the listen now link. And you can hear Kevin from anywhere. Let's do some news with Kevin Downey Jr. Mr. Downey, Jr. How are you?

Kevin Downey Jr. (52:13)

Thank you, sir. Doing well, Big D. Doing well.

Big D (52:16)

Did I get that right, by the way? LI newsradio.com yes, perfect. Thank you.

Kevin Downey Jr. (52:19)

L newsradio.com and you know, it's one of those things where if you're on your phone, you got to tilt it this way.

Big D (52:24)

Way.

Kevin Downey Jr. (52:25)

Then you'll see the Listen now button. Just throw that in there. That's a, that's a good technical term for showbiz. Tilt it this way. How we do that? See, I. I wish the audience could hear Aaron's sinister laughter.

Paul Nolan (52:40)

We got a mic her up. What are we doing?

Kevin Downey Jr. (52:42)

We got a mic. All right. Hey, Aaron, can you turn your microphone on for a second maybe? Shut up, Shut up. All right, let's clown slap Commie Mom Downey for a minute.

Big D (52:59)

Oh, yeah. Good luck, New York City.

Kevin Downey Jr. (53:02)

Yeah, good luck.

Big D (53:04)

Good luck.

Kevin Downey Jr. (53:04)

You know what?

Big D (53:05)

I.

Kevin Downey Jr. (53:06)

It's really stings my clans when some people go, well, good, New York City's going to learn a lesson. And the next time, well, they won't vote for Commie. But you don't understand, the next time they will have learned how to always, always win.

Paul Nolan (53:19)

Win.

Kevin Downey Jr. (53:20)

What do you know? I'm telling you, folks, this, this mom Donnie guy, he's, he, he's, he's, he's a cockroach and he's bringing cockroaches in. Look at this man. Does he hate Jews? First thing he does, he revokes executive orders, one of which bars city officials from divesting from Israel or boycotting Israel in any way. That was the first one. He said, let's get rid of that so we can go after Israel. Because, you know, this is the same guy that said he's going to have Netanyahu arrested if he gets chance because of international law, which the United States has nothing to do with. That is not us. We do not obey international law. We don't, we don't live by that. And this guy, well, you know him, he's a communist. And then they don't like America is what they really don't like. And Jews and Jews. And that's. He does. He. He repeals this executive order that adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliances definition of anti Semitism, which Eric Adams, he's. He's the one that said, yeah, all right, we're going to go with that one right there. And, well, right now we're not doing that anymore. And what that did, according to Eric Adams, he said that, he said, you know, you're demonizing Israel and you're holding it to double standards as forms of contemporary anti Semitism. So they threw that definition out so they can really go after him. Then executive order number 61, which directed the NYPD to tighten enforcement and protect synagogues and other Religious sites from harassment, investment from protesters. Now, folks, I, I'll tell you based on what I see on the news. I don't see anyone, anyone standing in front of, well, you know, the, where the, where the Somalis go to pray. You don't see anyone standing there protesting them. It's always at the synagogues. It's occasionally at the churches. And now there's not even going to be a, you know, they used to have a thing. You have to stay back this far if you're going to yell at the Jews. But now they're allowed to just go on the steps and the synagogues, synagogue and scream at Jewish people as they go to temple. I've never seen anyone from the religion of peace has get taunted as they're praying. Although I did see, allegedly, I, I heard this. I said, yeah, I, I saw what I, I think I saw Toronto shut down some streets so that thousands of Muslims could come and pray. And if people said anything about it, said, hey, I, you know, my command out, what are you doing there? You, you Muslims, they would get arrested. That was in Toronto, I've been told. I have not yet verified this. Muslims in Muslim nations typically don't pray outside. They pray inside this thing they're doing outside. A big move to show dominance.

Paul Nolan (55:52)

Absolutely. See, yeah, 100 brother. And I've seen guys in Florida taunting. Some Muslims do. And what happened? Those guys got arrested for taunting. Meanwhile, you could spit on a Christian and it's no problem. But, you know, it's. That's the double standard we live in.

Kevin Downey Jr. (56:09)

Absolutely. Commie mom Donnie going after the Jewish folks. And he's making it very easy. Keep in mind this doesn't come from some animal on the street. Well, I mean, he is an animal, but this comes from the guy who is now running New York City. And now to make it really bad, 24 years after Al Qaeda attacked the Twin Towers on 9 11, Rondani's chief counsel was a lawyer for, for some Al Qaeda animals. So he's got the inside. So basically, Al Qaeda finally got what they wanted. They're running New York City, essentially. Well, I mean, not running it, but he is the lead counsel. He's a lawyer, lead counselor for Mom Downey in New York City, is now an Al Qaeda operative. That really is the sickest thing I've ever had to say on air, which I said today.

Slickster (56:53)

And I, wow.

Big D (56:55)

I mean, I don't know how this is a surprise to anybody. I read things this morning after this guy's speech, by the way, way he does exactly the same thing at the end. I don't know if it was exactly the end. I didn't watch it, obviously, but it does the whole, you know, bum, bum, and it puts his hand up like Elon did thing, you know, like I love you or whatever, from my heart or whatever. And of course, the media jumped on Elon, that he was a Nazi salute. Mandami does the exact same thing. You can't find a news organization reporting on it. You can't find one that one. The news organizations still have headlines like, why does everybody think this guy's a congressman communist? Why does everybody think this guy hates the Jews? Meanwhile, first thing he does, as Kevin just laid out, first day, first speech, codifies both of those thoughts, that he absolutely would like to exterminate all the Jews if he could. He'll do everything he can to. To go after them. And he makes it clear that he's a comment that he's an absolute Marxist communist. And everything he's going to do is going to flow from that. We're going to end rugged individualism. Like, the guy doesn't even understand New York. I get New York the way they vote, the way they think, the ideology. But in the heart of New Yorkers is all about individualism, even if they vote, you know, the way they vote. But even liberal New Yorkers, you know, New York is like Mayor Adams said, he just had it wrong. New York has this Persona of, what me? About me? Hey, it's me.

Paul Nolan (58:29)

Get out of my way.

Big D (58:30)

Right? I'm strong. It's all about individualism in New York. Even though it's, you know, it's. I know it's different. The way they vote is obviously they vote for these liberal wackos. They're all liberal. But the guy doesn't even understand New York. You know what I'm saying?

Slickster (58:43)

Nope.

Paul Nolan (58:43)

He's not remotely connected. What he's. Right now he's connected to is a working class of young people who feel hopeless because of a system that's fully abandoned them. And he rose to the power with that form of populism that I'll just give everything you need.

Big D (58:58)

Yep.

Paul Nolan (58:58)

And it's a long game. And here it is. These kids bought a hook line at Sinker, but you said it best. They're going to be in. They're going to figure out how to rig the system even worse going forward, and it's going to be all Muslim and it's going to be, you know, you'll see the police departments change. We're Going to see exactly what happened in London happen in, in New York City. And don't, don't tell me that that's not a takeover.

Big D (59:18)

I mean this guy's, I mean some of this guy's talk though, like this, the, the, the, the, the, the health care, the free daycare, health. I mean when you look at the number when you. There's not enough wealth in New York to tax for that free health care for everybody would come in at around 5, 6 billion dollars a year or something like that. There's not enough even for rich people who decide they want to stay there, who won't, who probably won't. But even the ones who there, even if they did, did. There's not enough tax dollars to take from everybody to do what this guy wants to do.

Paul Nolan (59:52)

I mean home prices in West.

Big D (59:54)

Simple math.

Paul Nolan (59:55)

And, and Nashville County.

Slickster (59:57)

Oh, the Hamptons too. People are moving out to the Hamptons now.

Big D (60:00)

Well, they, you know, the Babylon Bee, I think had a headline this week that on dami is now awarded as U haul's greatest taking over for Gavin Newsom.

Kevin Downey Jr. (60:12)

You know what I think? I think, think this has been a plan all along. Look at the big blue toilet towns. They've been run by Democrats Milwaukee over 100 years now. And I, I know that. I, I know the years, I've been through it on air 100 times. We won't go through that. But I think the destruction of these big cities was purposeful because now you've got a bunch of people who have been poor for generations and now will remain poor. And they're always going to vote for the side that says let's go get those billionaires. So it's another way for them to solidify poor power, make the people poor, make them angry and they're going to vote. They don't see that this is intentional.

Big D (60:47)

By the way, here's a screenshot of his inauguration, which again I didn't see, but I did see this online. Just take a quick look and tell me what's missing.

Slickster (60:55)

American flag.

Big D (60:57)

It's not hard to figure out.

Slickster (60:58)

American flag is missing.

Big D (60:59)

Not. There's not one you could find anywhere.

Paul Nolan (61:01)

See, the Minnesota changed that flag to look like a Somali flag. I'm not even kidding.

Kevin Downey Jr. (61:05)

Did you see the governor dancing around? Yeah, what a cuck. Holding that flag. Jesus, that was repulsive. Just repulsive.

Big D (61:14)

But again, you know when someone comes in and says, hey, I want to seize the means of productions and it's going to be free this and free that, we're going to end Rugged individualism for collectivism. I don't think much should surprise you from there.

Kevin Downey Jr. (61:30)

Yeah, it's amazing to me.

Big D (61:32)

Good luck, New York.

Slickster (61:34)

It's himself to the face.

Kevin Downey Jr. (61:37)

You know what? Let me ask you guys, guys, how much communism did you learn about in high school? Because we, I, we. Our teachers never talked about it.

Paul Nolan (61:44)

Oh, really? We talked about.

Slickster (61:45)

Now, we didn't know. A little bit.

Kevin Downey Jr. (61:47)

Not a little bit.

Slickster (61:49)

Like a little bit on China, right?

Kevin Downey Jr. (61:51)

A little bit little ussr A little bit of China. But no one actually said this is communism. This is the biggest threat to our existence and will be for the foreseeable future.

Paul Nolan (62:01)

Oh, my kids didn't get any of that in their education. But we spoke of communism in my. In fact, we will. We was anthem was mandatory reading. Ayn Rand's Anthem, which was about the danger of communism.

Slickster (62:14)

And, well, he went to school in Michigan. We went to school on Long Island. I think that might be a difference because I got.

Paul Nolan (62:19)

And Orwell's 1984 was mandatory reading in.

Kevin Downey Jr. (62:22)

My grade, I think. So, like, for fourth grade for me, it was a 1974 Pinto repair book. You can't fix a Pinto. You won't get a job.

Slickster (62:33)

Fifth grade was the Pacer, Right. Another beauty.

Paul Nolan (62:39)

Shin's guide, so. I know.

Big D (62:44)

All right, anything else? Quickly, Kev. Yeah.

Kevin Downey Jr. (62:47)

Small Business association has suspended payments to almost 7,000 filthy fraudsters just in the state of Minnesota. 6900 no longer getting money. This would be most of these leering centers, and in the healthcare centers, you know, I think we're going to find you're going to have some guy who has a leering center, and right next to it, he has his health care center. And right next to that, he's going to have his feed the homeless thing all in one building. And he's probably taking money from three different. Three different pots here. But this is Kelly Loeffler. She's, she's the administrator at the sba. As she says, over the last week, SBA has reviewed thousands of potentially fraudulent pandemic era. Okay, remember the PPP paycheck protection program? They went after that. And of course, you know, the leering centers, whatnot. She said 7900, 6900, and maybe as many 7900 not getting money anymore.

Slickster (63:50)

That name sounds so familiar. Kelly Lafla.

Big D (63:55)

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Slickster (68:01)

Well, staying on the Touch of Fraud Golf legend Phil Mickelson Weighs in on Alleged Fraud in California Jackson Thompson of Fox News golf legend Phil Mickelson shared his thoughts on alleged fraud occurring in his home state of California in a series of social media posts. President Donald Trump said during a New Year's Eve event Wednesday that fraud in California, New York and Illinois is worse than the recently uncovered welfare fraud in Minnesota. Mickelson responded on X to comments made by Representative Kevin Kiley, Republican from California, during a Fox Business interview and later a CNN interview condemning a recently proposed billionaires tax in California. While alleged fraud is taking place, no amount of tax can help California until the fraud problem gets fixed. California fraud makes Minnesota look like amateurs, mickelson wrote. Instead of stopping the fraud and theft and getting back the money, the plan is more taxes for already the highest tax citizens in the country. In response to a local opinion column on the proposed billionaires tax, Mickelson later wrote, how about no new taxes until government gets rid of fraud. Until that happens, more taxes will only fund more fraud. In another post, Mickelson suggested stopping the fraud would cause Democrats votes. The dilemma for all Democrats is if you stop the fraud, illegal immigration and voter fraud in California, then Republicans win California and have a huge majority throughout the country. The Democrat Party all but ends, he wrote. Trump brought further attention to the alleged fraud in California in a trill social post Wednesday, claiming again that it was worse than Minnesota, referencing California Governor Gavin Newsom and Minnesota governor Tim Walz, who has been at the center of his state's recent fraud scandal. There's more fraud in California than there is in Minnesota, if it's even possible. We already said that, but he's saying it again. Donald Trump is so Newsom's office responded, of course Donald Trump is deranged, habitual liar, blah blah blah blah. Meanwhile, in the actual world where adults govern, Gavin Newsom has been cleaning house. Since taking office, he's blocked over 125 billion in fraud, arrested criminal parasites, leeching off taxpayers, yada yada yada. However, On Tuesday, the U.S. department of Health and Human Services said it would freeze all childcare Payments to Minnesota amid mounting scrutiny over accusations of fraud involving child care centers in Minnesota. So obviously wealthy weighing in. So sports even has something to say about all this fraud. And he's right. And if they do a tax on billionaires is only going to continue to fund the fraud in obviously California.

Big D (70:18)

So I love that Lefty's out there and he continually is out there. I mean, I guess you when you reach Nice to see because everybody thinks every sports, every musician, every. Everything is woke left. But it's not really true. Nope. As a matter of fact, to that point I saw Daniel Negranu, the poker player after Mandami speech. He actually put out a 20 tweet and he put four quotes in his tweet. And he. And I was actually surprised to see it. He said, let's see which one of you can remember who said this? And he put four quotes on there. The first one was, quote, the individual is nothing. The collective is everything. The second one was the interests of the individual must be subordinated to the interest of the collective. Collective. The third one is everything in the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state. And the fourth one was will replace rugged individualism with collectivism, which of course we know. The last one, of course, was the. The new mayor of New York City. The one before that was Benito Mussolini's 1925 Fascist doctrine veteran. The one before that was from on Ron's on Rand's anthem, 1938. And the first one was Mao.

Slickster (71:42)

Oh, the old shaman.

Big D (71:43)

So, wow, to see a poker player like Daniel Negranu put something like that out. You realized there's more of these guys paying attention to what's really going on some of these states and around these blue cities and blue states. And they're thinking, maybe I don't really need to stay here or be a part of this.

Slickster (72:01)

Yeah, chips are definitely down in New York. There's no question about that.

Big D (72:04)

And Phil is really taking the lead.

Slickster (72:08)

Yes.

Paul Nolan (72:08)

And it takes a lot of guts to stay here. It sure does, you know, because you get ostracized instantly in the court of public opinion. But, you know, we're talking. We're talking about legitimate communism has invaded America. And we people thought you were nuts when you were talking about this in 2004, 2005, that it was coming. You know, you talk about they thought you were crazy.

Kevin Downey Jr. (72:28)

They thought I was crazy. A year and a half ago I was given. I was. I was asked to maybe not discuss communism so much. On certain. I won't say where really place I'M no longer working for. They said, look, this is just insane. There's no communists. Like, it's everywhere.

Paul Nolan (72:44)

Listen, when we first started doing the show, Trevor Loudon was a guy I'm a huge fan of and he talked about the, he did a movie, the enemy within in 2016, and the communist movement was cranking in 2016. You know, you thought I was talking about it in 2008, 9, 10. And people legit thought you were out of your mind that this people still want to be taken care of by the state from cradle to grave. And they think tax, tax, tax. They have absolutely no understanding where that tax money comes from.

Big D (73:15)

Right.

Paul Nolan (73:15)

And with no middle class, it'll never work because the billionaires are going to circumvent the system no matter what.

Slickster (73:20)

They always do.

Paul Nolan (73:21)

Great accountants, man, and, and endless corporate structures globally.

Slickster (73:26)

And that's a rapid sports big day.

Paul Nolan (73:32)

Sports ex.

Big D (73:33)

All right, 27 past the hour. Live from Studio 6B. Odds makers for the weekend.

Kevin Downey Jr. (73:37)

Coming up, a little more news from.

Big D (73:39)

Kevin Downey Jr. After that as we wrap it up for Friday night live from Studio 6B. We're back right after this. All right, 30 minutes past the hour. Live from Studio 6P on a Friday night. Happy New Year, everybody. Glad you're in six. Doing sports, Paul Nolan's doing news. Kevin Downey Jr. Is going to do a little more news. Coming up here in a second. Aaron and friend holding it down. But right now, 9:30 on a Friday can mean only one thing. It's time to do your weekend final odds makers of the regular season. Let's go. All right, week 18 in the NFL. Here we go, final week of the regular season. Man, it went so fast. Here we are. Some games matter, some games don't. Always a tricky week to figure out who wants to play, who's gonna play.

Slickster (75:22)

Yeah, very tricky.

Big D (75:23)

So guest tonight joining us for the audience to try to get that record. I don't know what the audience record is. I don't have it in front of me. But it's pretty close to 500.

Slickster (75:33)

It is close. Yeah.

Big D (75:34)

Maybe three, four.

Aaron (75:34)

I think it's 21, 25.

Big D (75:36)

So about four games. The audience needs a clean sweep tonight from their guest picker. And that guest picker tonight would be the one and only Mr. Paul Nolan. So no pressure, Mr. Nolan, but if.

Slickster (75:51)

Coming In Hot.

Big D (75:55)

Puts the audience at 500 for the year, which would be pretty impressive. So we go.

Slickster (75:59)

A lot of pressure though.

Big D (76:00)

Four games, week 18. Slick is up first. Slickster. Where you going for game number one?

Slickster (76:04)

Well, we've been talking about pirates all night tonight. Big D. So I'm going to go to Tampa, Raymond James Stadium, 4:30 on Saturday. Big game. This is a win or go home, perhaps not necessarily for Carolina. Let me talk a little bit about this.

Josh Whalen (76:18)

Now.

Slickster (76:19)

It's two and a half points is the spread that I have. Tampa is favored. Correct.

Big D (76:23)

Tampa Bay minus three right now.

Slickster (76:24)

Minus three. Okay, so we'll go with minus three.

Big D (76:27)

That's bet.

Slickster (76:27)

Mgm. I guess. Okay, so right now this is the scenario. If Tampa wins, they can still not make the playoffs in this game. Carolina will get in if the New Orleans Saints fall to the Atlanta Falcons at 1pm on Sunday. So I got news for you. They're going to be tuning in no matter what to what happens in down in Atlanta. So that's a big game. I do see Baker Mayfield getting it done. Mike Evans is becoming Hannah healthy. He's a real phenom even though he's 100 years old. Abuka. I see them all getting going and I really. I like Tampa big time. So give me Tampa and I'll lay the three.

Big D (77:00)

Big D. All right. Tampa minus three. And then we got to watch for Atlanta to beat New Orleans, which I. You'd figure they would. Atlanta's favored by 3 1/2 in that game, so. All right, Tampa for slick. Game one. Aaron, game number one. Where are you going?

Aaron (77:12)

Game number one for me. I'm going to take the 49ers plus one and a half over the Seahawks. I understand that the Seahawks are a great team. I get that they're 7 to 1 on the road this season. Season. But I just don't like getting behind Sand Darnold in December. He got bailed out Thursday night against the Rams two weeks ago. That's not going to leave my head. I don't like how he played at all. And I really like the 49ers right now. They've won six straight since Brock Purdy came back from his injury. And they won by an average of 14.3 points per those six games. And that doesn't happen by accident. I think they're going to keep it rolling. They're going to try and win big to finish out the regular season. I think the 49ers get the upset here.

Big D (77:47)

Okay. I like that pick because I would figure Seattle can't. I mean, Seattle is set where they're going to be set right now. Right. They can't prove nothing else is going to happen with Seattle. So one and a half at home. Home underdog getting One and a half. Interesting. Okay, so San Francisco plus the points for Aaron in game number one. Mr. Nolan, picking for the audience here, game number one. What do you think you're going to do?

Paul Nolan (78:08)

Well, I wanted to take out my spatula on that first pick and just do a little flipperooski and go head to head with Slick Rick and take Carolina. But you guys, three instead of three and a half. If I had the old hookarooski, I'm in on that game. But I am gonna back out of it and I am gonna go with Erin here. Not just because she's terrific, not because she has the best laugh, not because she's adorable, not because she's a saint.

Aaron (78:31)

Thank you.

Paul Nolan (78:31)

A real gem.

Aaron (78:33)

Thank you.

Paul Nolan (78:33)

But because her picks are terrific and she does her homework. And I really think that this is a game where we'll see San Fran, all hands on deck. They want to improve their position and this is, to me, a good spot for Seattle to finally have a little bit of a letdown. I am in cahoots with the sinister laugh of Aaron.

Big D (78:50)

Okay, so Paul and Aaron both on San Francisco plus the points there. I mean, you would think Aaron was paying Paul after that. After that he would. So that's good.

Slickster (78:58)

All right, Checks in the mail. Paul Venmo is checks in the mail.

Big D (79:03)

Thank you. Game number two. Where are you going?

Slickster (79:04)

Well, well, I got to segue right into what they're doing. I am also going with the Niners. I am on that game as well. And no, no, that has that surprise. I got Sam Donald, 38, 50 yards, 25 TDs. I see Sam Donald shutting it down for this game. I don't see them coming out. I do see Brock, Paul, Brock Purdy having a block party. Like I always say, he's got the hot hand right now. And there are six and one at home. Actually, the Niners, as Aaron pointed out, they've won six in a row. They are on fire. They are the hottest team and they are actually playing for. Not only does the suit, the road to the super bowl really could go through San Francisco because San Francisco is the host of the super bowl at Levi Stadium this year. So Niners may never have to get on a plane if they keep rolling.

Aaron (79:42)

Yep.

Slickster (79:43)

So, yeah, I'm going Niners too.

Big D (79:44)

All right, very good. San Francisco for all three. Now that's a game number two for Slick. Game number two. Aaron, where are you going?

Aaron (79:50)

Game number two for me. I'm going to take the Texans minus ten and a half. Don't say no. Minus ten and a half over the Colts. Old man river is not starting this week. Riley Leonard is going to be the quarterback for the Colts. And I think Houston's defense is going to have their way with him. They're going to have him running for his life. They're on an absolute tear. I think they've won eight straight now, looking to make that nine. And even if CJ Stroud sits for at least half the game, Davis Mills, their backup, is more than capable of running that offense and keeping them in check.

Slickster (80:17)

That defense is fire.

Aaron (80:19)

Fire.

Big D (80:19)

All right, Houston, my. I have ten and a half. Aaron, is that the line you have?

Aaron (80:23)

Yes, I do.

Big D (80:23)

Okay, Houston my -10 and a half with a total of only 39. Interesting to have a double digit favorite with a total of only 39 against Indy. I guess they figure Indy can't score. All right, there you go. That's game number two for Aaron. Game number two. Mr. Nolan, it sounds like it's the same thing.

Paul Nolan (80:39)

Well, unfortunately is. And one of the things I do like is big favorites in the final week of the season when they do need to win a playoff although to advance to the playoffs. But what I do know in my history doing this is that a lot of teams will succumb to the pressure unless they apply to this very positive 74 win, 28 loss. Big favorite in a must win at home situation. So I do like that. From a technical analysis, I also have Indianapolis as offenses rated 26 according to my old models that I used to use. And I think fellow rookies Quinn Ewers and Cam Ward, like I said, should be able to outdo a Leonard. I like this situation for Houston to not just run it up but roll over and. And keep rolling against an Indianapolis team that has essentially will mail it in this weekend.

Big D (81:26)

Okay, very good. Houston minus ten and a half for Paul is game number two. Game number three, slickster. Where are you going?

Slickster (81:32)

I'm going to Chicago. I'm going to soldier up in Soldier Field right now. Obviously Chicago's already clinched division, so they're playing.

Big D (81:39)

Detroit's out.

Slickster (81:39)

Detroit is out. They 8 and 8 and. And they'll be playing for pride and I expect them to come a little bit. But it's going to be cold, it's going to be windy and I think Caleb Williams will probably play maybe the first half depending on how much Chicago really wants to move up in the seating. They're 6:1 at home at Soldier Field. They are just a really good team. I like the Bears. They've been A dark horse all year they started out, nobody really gave them anything. Early on the season predicted them even to be be a factor in the NFC North. Right. It was all about Green Bay and did you Detroit as well. But here we come, Chicago Bears, Big D. I'm gonna take them. Three points is the line that I had.

Big D (82:13)

Yep. All right, so Chicago minus three is game number three. All right. Chicago minus three is game number three for Slick Aaron. Game number three.

Kevin Downey Jr. (82:21)

Where you going game number three.

Aaron (82:23)

I'm going with Slick on this. I am going to take the Bears -3 over the Lions this time Last year the Lions were atop the NFC north and the Bears were in dead last. So the tables have definitely turned the season in a big way without the Lions having been. Ben Johnson is OC and AG is DC Although the Lions, if you're listening, you can have AG back. We don't want them. But Ben Johnson has really turned around the Bears at this point. They're playing for the playoff seating. But the Lions are one in four against the spread in this position as underdogs. The last time they covered here was week three against Baltimore. So I don't see them covering here. Especially since we're not sure who's going to get benched since they're not in playoff contention anymore.

Big D (82:57)

Okay, Chicago minus three for Aaron as well. Paul Nolan, have you found a game number three?

Paul Nolan (83:02)

Yeah, I do. I'm going to use the Bills here. It's their final game at High High Mark Stadium.

Big D (83:07)

Teams that are blowout of the week.

Paul Nolan (83:09)

If they're just teams in their. In their final game at a stadium would be 43, 12 and 4 against the spread and they also goes against the Jet team. That applies to a, you know, a more than a touchdown underdog in a divisional rivalry in the last game of the season playing for nothing.

Big D (83:26)

They.

Paul Nolan (83:26)

Those teams have only won 25 of the last 110 games in that situation. It's a. It's a dead. It's a dead Jet team going into this. The dead men walking. McDermott said this game's important to me. It's important to the guys. It's important to our staff. And when there are other things to come into consideration considering that they can move up into the fifth seed. I'm going to take Buffalo in a steamroll. I do believe I had the line originally when I looked at this earlier the week. It's seven. It is up to eight now. So I'm gonna still lay the lumber and act like a man.

Big D (83:56)

Yeah.

Aaron (83:56)

Do you think Josh Allen's gonna play though since he's had that foot injury he's been dealing with this week. Do you think that makes a difference?

Big D (84:01)

You don't worry about our picks.

Slickster (84:08)

The jets are playing for Mendoza. What are you talking about?

Aaron (84:11)

Yeah, they are and I hope they do.

Big D (84:12)

I hope they lose. I need Mendoza.

Slickster (84:14)

Mendoza.

Paul Nolan (84:15)

This is them. Obviously he's not going to play because the line is only seven or eight. If he was playing this line would have been 17 or 18. So I know he's not. Could have been 18, it would have been 17. Easy. A lot of ch.

Aaron (84:33)

Prob.

Slickster (84:34)

He probably cover.

Big D (84:37)

Game number four. Slickster. Where you going Big D?

Slickster (84:39)

It's the only game of the weekend. Let's be honest. Sunday night night Football it is everything. What football lives for the networks. We're going to Aquasure Stadium. Cold Pittsburgh and I'm telling you common logic. Baltimore is laying three and a half if you can believe that on the road. They're laying three and a half. I smell a rat there. I'll tell you because Pittsburgh looks like too easy of a pick for me so I am gonna go with Baltimore. Lamar Jackson has something to prove because he was Crapple. Yeah, he didn't play good at all. He was on my fantasy team.

Big D (85:08)

He.

Slickster (85:08)

He killed me all year and. But I think they're going to come out big. Derrick Henry is going to be ball control, cold weather. I love Derrick Henry.

Josh Whalen (85:14)

Right.

Slickster (85:14)

Just passed the great Tony Dorset as a a tenth for the all time rushing. And I got news for you. 1469 yards, 16 touchdowns. I think Henry scores two touchdowns and I think Baltimore wins it. I could be Aaron Rodgers last game maybe his swan song.

Kevin Downey Jr. (85:28)

So.

Slickster (85:28)

Yep. Give me. Give me Baltimore three and a half.

Big D (85:31)

I like the way you're thinking there slick. I smell a rat with some something that looks too easy. I like it. You sound like me now Aaron, game number four. Where you going?

Aaron (85:38)

Maybe Damon helps look with that last pick. I don't know. Just kidding. Last pick for me. I'm going to take the Rams -7 and a half over the Cardinals. You know me, I can't stay away from my Rams. They're due for a good win here to end the regular season off on a high note after they dropped their last two. Although they shouldn't have dropped that Seahawks game two weeks ago. I'm not bitter. I'll move on. It looks like they're going to be a wild card team going into the playoffs. I think Sha makes sure that they keep their momentum high to make sure this Game is a beat down. The Cardinals are a disaster. The rams beat them 40, 45 to 17 earlier in the season. And fingers crossed, we see a similar situation this weekend.

Big D (86:11)

All right, Rams minus seven and a half over Arizona. Game number four for Aaron. Wrap us up. Mr. Nolan, where you going?

Paul Nolan (86:17)

Well, I'm normally I've always been a dog player. I've lived on unders. I lived on dogs my whole life. But here it is in week, the final week here I am going to be laying even more lumber. Just when you thought I couldn't be laying more wood. Well, here it goes. I am. How much? Chuck. Get a woodchuck. Chuck. If a woodchuck good with chuck wood. Denver Broncos -12 and a half. There's no doubt in my mind the Broncos lock up the number one seed with the win. The charges best they could do is climb the five. But they also need the Texans to lose. That's not going to happen. There's enough, that's not enough of a carrot on the stick for Los Angeles to not sit there. Start as harbor said, winning and health, being healthy, those are our two objectives. And with the guys that we think, the doctors, the trainers, as myself, the organization, we all believe the guys who have the most bruises and need the most time to rest will get that rest. And that's the direction we're going in. You mark my words. Trey, Lance kaka doo doo the bed. No chance. He can't.

Slickster (87:13)

Expert analysis.

Paul Nolan (87:18)

You are so I'm gonna set these up all day.

Slickster (87:22)

Keep doing.

Paul Nolan (87:23)

Yeah.

Slickster (87:23)

So 12 and a half half. Is that the line that seems a little high.

Paul Nolan (87:26)

Oh, it is.

Big D (87:26)

Okay.

Paul Nolan (87:27)

And Denver also applies to a final game home game of the season. In a position to take number one seed, 4112 against the spread since 1980.

Big D (87:35)

All right, there you go. There's your odds makers for a final week 18. We'll post those picks so everybody can see what we're rooting for. All right, we're back to wrap it up.

Paul Nolan (87:48)

Make sure you post because I'm not going to remember what I picked.

Slickster (87:53)

Things never change.

Big D (88:18)

Sarcasticity hour live from Studio 6B on a Friday night night. Happy new year everybody. Been a great show. Before we end the show though, I want to bring a very special guest on Jade Olchefsky. She's the founder of Jade Brienne Collective. She's an artist. She's a Christ based artist and I saw this on her website and I thought this would be fantastic for this audience to listen to and hear from. This is obviously a pretty faith centralized Show. We talk about it. We've talked about it a lot tonight. So please welcome Jade Olchewski to the show. Jade, how are you? You?

Jade Olchefsky (89:14)

I'm so wonderful. Thank you for having me.

Big D (89:17)

It's great to have you. So I saw this on your website and your website has a lot of interesting quotes, but one of them I believe I saw said you're, you're, you're a Christ based artist. What. Explain what, what that means.

Jade Olchefsky (89:30)

Well, to give you a little backstory, I really found my faith when I had this miraculous healing about four years ago. And I ended up going on this journey down Reiki and different things that I thought was just deeper healing and using my natural sensitivities more. And anyways, Jesus came and rocked my world in September, so it's pretty fresh again. And everything I do in my business has really been centered around my faith. And so people can really witness if they look back back how that journey has unfolded. To me, it's been very unique.

Big D (90:14)

So. Yeah. And that journey, obviously, I'm assuming, started to want to be an artist at a very young age. Tell me about that.

Jade Olchefsky (90:22)

So from a very young age. Yeah, it was, it was just recognized that art was my thing. I remember going to Glacier national park and they had these stones for sale with, you know, animals and details painted on them. And I thought, thought, I think I could do that. And I went home and I started replicating them. I was super young. And then When I was 10 or 11, a neighbor gave me a stack of Bob Ross VHS tapes and I was hooked. I was oil painting when I was again like 10 or 11, landscapes and florals. It just came supernatural to me. And I would just get my hands on anything that I could, you know, like charcoals, pastels, acrylics, you name it. And it was really how I processed the world. I've always had a very busy mind and a lot going on. And, you know, at times it was something that I could control when things were very chaotic and it was an escape and a little bit therapeutic for me. So looking back, I can see that this hasn't just been a talent or a hobby. It has truly been a calling that has come back to me time and time again long before I knew it, what it would become.

Big D (91:36)

Yeah, we're speaking with Jade Olchefsky. She's the founder of Jade Brienne Collective. You can visit her online@jadebriannecollective.com we'll. I think it's up on the screen right now. Obviously, when you think about life and think about your faith, and we all think about our faith. There's obviously ups and downs. What's been the most challenging chapter, let's say, of your journey, of the ups and downs? And. And how has that helped? Kind of. I mean, all artists take their personal life experience and it channel it into what they do. How has that happened for you?

Jade Olchefsky (92:07)

So the most difficult season of my life by far. And, I mean, I've had many, but it was when I was in my 20s, and I had a routine blood draw, and the phlebotomist hit a nerve and a tendon in my dominant arm. And not only did I have nerve damage, but I developed this really rare disorder called complex regional pain syndrome, or CRPS. And I tell you that the pain was 24 7. I can't even articulate how extreme it was. I needed help cutting my food, tying my shoes, washing my hair. My son, who was only five at the time, you know, he was a toddler, and I couldn't even pick him up anymore. So it was very devastating. And I really kind of gave up on life at that time. I gave away all of my art and painting supplies. I really decided and just tried to accept the idea that I would never have a normal, healthy, independent life, let alone do it. Excuse me. Let alone do what I love. But, you know, that season fundamentally changed how I create. And I really, you know, I believe we all have a choice when we go through those ups and downs in life, what we do with it. And it wasn't until I couldn't use it, use my dominant arm that I was grateful that I had two legs to get me where I want to go. I was grateful for eyes that see and ears that hear. And so I no longer paint from this place of pressure or perfection or escape. I paint from reverence, and I paint from presence. And I really fill each piece up with that gratitude.

Big D (93:47)

That's interesting. And you, You. You create something that you call Visual Frequency Medicine. And I know you do a lot of work with women, women entrepreneurs. I know that's important to you. What is Visual frequency Medicine?

Jade Olchefsky (94:03)

So you know how you can be doing everything right? You can be leading the meetings, running a business, taking care of your family, giving everything and everyone 100%. And then you get home and you. You're just exhausted. Even if you love what you do, and you're really good at holding it all together, that kind of output takes a toll. So Visual Frequency medicine, my art, is a remedy to that reality. And this isn't something that I Created. This is my faith. This is what has just happened when people see my art. So what I do is every single painting is filled with that depth of gratitude, with that prayer. Every single painting is created to one song played on repeat during the entire creation of the painting. And then it's written on the back of the canvas. Because think about how powerful music is. You know, it can take us to a different time and place. It can really shape our thoughts and our perspective and it really evokes emotion. So I infuse that in there as well. Well, and then I always play with layers of texture and touches of gold. And this is to symbolize those refining moments that we go through in life and you know, those times when we are walking through the fires. And just as a reminder that you're not doing it alone. So my promise, and it has been my experience with my collectors time and time again that my art, this visual frequency medicine, because it is medicine for your soul, it will instantly elevate the frequency of your home or office. I mean, think about how it felt when you came into the studio today. Was it, you know, was it totally lit up? Was it just easygoing? Was it a bit heavy? Was it just meh, like another day? Your environment is constantly communicating to you and affecting you. So my art is something pretty to look at. It is. It's medicine for your soul and it's really a tool to support you.

Big D (96:16)

I love that. Medicine for your soul. And again, you can see this and visit her Jade Brienne Collective by Jade Olchefsky@jadebriancollective.com it's on your screen. You can go there and visit it. I know you have a busy 2026. We don't have about, only about a minute left. I know you've got an interview on CNBC that's coming up later in the year. You've got the live events you're doing doing let people know where they can see more about your work and check out more about you.

Jade Olchefsky (96:41)

Yeah, I'm super excited to be featured on Moving Forward, Moving America Forward. You can go to my website, jadebriannecollective.com you can check out my artwork. I have homegoods. You can see the story behind them and the events that I do that are very experiential. They are mind, body, soul, experience, not like anything you've done before. And really feel into the heart that I put into everything. And I also have a form on my events page where you can fill out that to book me for, you know, a retreat or a leadership team, a corporate setting, any sort of event where you want something meaningful, entertainment, but with depth. You can also find me on Facebook and Instagram.

Big D (97:26)

Well, happy New Year. I hope you have a great 2026. Again, it's Jade Olchefsky. She's the founder of J Brianne Collective. You can find it online@jbrandcollective.com Happy New Year and God bless and thank you for all the great work you're doing. Have a great year. We'll speak to you soon. All right. There you go. Jay, Brian collective visit online jbrandcollective.com gentlemen, happy new Year. Thanks for being here on a Friday. Have a great weekend. We will see you all on Monday. Real America's Voice live from Studio 6B. And as always, we salute all of our emergency personnel, Aaron and Fran, great job as always. Have a great weekend, everybody. We'll see you back Monday night, 8pm Right here live from Studio 6B.

Jade Olchefsky (98:35)

This is an I heart podcast, guaranteed human.