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This is an iHeart podcast. All right. Live from Studio 6B on on a Monday, brand new week. September 29th, 8:00pm on the East Coast. Glad you're in real America's voice. Slick Rick the Slickster sitting right there. He's gonna do sports. Slickster, how are you?
B
I'm doing good, Big D. Very good.
A
How was your weekend?
B
It was great. I did the tunnel to Towers run yesterday with about 30,000 other people. It was amazing. What a day. Incredible.
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All right, Slick will tell us a little bit about that in a little bit. Rick Delgado's here. He's gonna do some news. Mr. Delgado, how are you?
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I am well. Wonderful weekend. Now that you asked.
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Yes, I always ask.
C
I was sportsing all day on Saturday, believe it or not. Went to the Yankee game, watch the big win. Another judge home run on Saturday, the one o' clock game. Then from there went to Beth Page to hang out in the village there because they had a cordoned off and band playing and had a couple of adult beverages and then shot back to the old homestead area, went to dinner and watched.
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Wow.
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Anything else?
C
Let's see. There was a Penn State game. Was on. Was watching that. They lost.
B
Yeah, they did.
C
Yeah. And the Tennessee game, pulling it out overtime. A good day.
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Sportsing on Saturday, Mr. Nolan Sierra, he's gonna do some news. How are you? I am well.
D
My friend also had a great weekend and you know, as my buddy Tim Corbett always says, I only do one thing in a day. Well, I did four things on Saturday, so. And then I did three things on Sunday. But it was a non stop day of friends and family and got to see my Giants finally win a football game.
C
Yes.
D
It was just.
B
Yeah. Scatter.
D
Boo's a dog.
B
You lost your receiver for the year though.
D
The run. That cornerback Phillips dog, they got some players. Now the good news is my Giants only suck.
A
Yeah.
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And neighbors is out for the year.
C
I know, Terrible.
D
Look how gleeful he is. I'm reporting the nice. I don't believe that for a second. It'll take your tire. Go kiss your sister.
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All right, well, we'll get to all of the news, all of the sports. We'll recap the Giants. We'll recap the Rider cup. We'll do all of that right now. Let's get to tonight's first word, folks. Every day, young people, bright, promising young people leave this mortal earth. And sadly, too often their passing goes unremarked, unlamented. But then, then there are those rare moments when a sudden tragic departure of a vibrant outspoken, 31 year old man sends shockwaves not just through the pinnacles of power, but right down to the bedrock of decent, ordinary America. And the question, the real question, isn't about him. It's about us. Why this profound sorrow? We're talking about Charlie Kirk. A phenomenon. Brilliant, jovial, laser focused, ambitious, disciplined, loving and determined. You couldn't capture the essence of Charlie Kirk in 100 page thesis. If you passed him on the street, you might not even have noticed them. Unremarkable appearance, sure. Tall and lanky sneakers with a suit. Classic American individualist in that big toothy smile, the trademark hair. But watch closely when he debated the left wing lunacy, that little nose wrinkle, the quick blink of an eye, that was the genius at work. Processing and dismantling irrationality in real time. Thinking and articulating simultaneously, that was Charlie's superpower. He absorbed everything. History, philosophy, religion, politics. And he could pull from that vast intellectual arsenal every single scintilla of truth and apply it to any argument thrown his way. And why did he do it? In defense of an America he knew this nation could and should be. Charlie Kirk was so utterly convinced of his principles, so steeped in American exceptionalism, that he took a garage operation, a little conservative youth group, and single handedly forged it into one of the most influential political youth organizations in the history of the free world. So was it just his entrepreneurial prowess? Or was there something else about Charlie Kirk? Something so profound that his passing elicited a national gasp greater than what we feel when a president or king is taken from us? The answer, my friends, tells us more about the sorry state of the world. A world desperately lacking men like Charlie. Charlie Kirk should be the norm, but he isn't. Oh, he was human. Fallen like the rest of us. But Charlie Kirk was unequivocally the finest public example of a devout Christian, a dedicated husband, a loving father, and a patriot this nation has seen since its very founding. He walked in obedience, embodied all that God called him to be. And because of that, he became the exception, not the rule. That, ladies and gentlemen, is why we lost him. The whole damn world snapped to attention in the wake of his passing. Perhaps we as a society need to do some soul searching. Why did Charlie Kirk seem so special? Because he shouldn't have been. Who was he? What he stood for? That should be the American standard. Let's just admit it, folks. Men like Charlie are dangerous to the forces that seek to dismantle this civilization. That's why he was cut down. Executed. I tell you by the sinister forces that persuade young men to question their very gender, that have succeeded in demoralizing masculinity while encouraging confused kids to engage in grotesque sexual escapades with furry abominations that look like something out of a deranged science fiction novel. At such a tender age, Charlie Kirk stood out a beacon against the tide of guilt placed on American men by a secular, godless society. For decades, American culture has systematically demonetized and God ordained roles for men. They discourage men from being recognized as defenders of faith, as leaders, as husbands, as present fathers, as patriots who put God in country first. And then, after stripping them of their purpose, they blame them for every societal failure that follows. Charlie proudly embodied all these traditional male roles precisely because he was genuinely different. America needs more. Charlie's a man who rushed to defend his faith, who loved his wife, cherished his children, and kept his eye firmly fixed on the ultimate prize, Christ. Standing firm against the religious, political and cultural onslaught, Charlie was a grinning gladiator facing down a den of lions. And with his life, he was trying to lead our misguided youth bravely into that arena with him. He denounced promiscuity. He championed self discipline using facts, logic, reason. Remember those? Charlie exposed the false realities peddled by the political left and worked tirelessly to promote truth because he sincerely believed it was his divine calling. Charlie would not hesitate to face the enemy, debate the foes, and boldly proclaim Jesus with joy and confidence. After losing Charlie, hopefully, rather than forget him, we will remember that he was one man who embodied everything God created us to be. His passing was tragic, yet a profound loss. It shocked us all, and the whole world turned its focus to Utah and mourned. Why? Because as Americans, we loved what Charlie represented, but also because it forced us to reflect on the gravity of losing a man who served as a role model for every single one of us today. Charlie's death in such a brutal and significant way demanded our attention. And in doing so, it revealed truths about ourselves that we all desperately need to see. Charlie's memorial now has ended, and soon the world will regrettably return to its normal. Tears will dry. Everyday life will resume. But in his memory, the best thing we can do, the only thing we can do, is to emulate Charlie Kirk. Let's honor him most excellent by recognizing where and how we all fall short in living out the best, most fulfilling life God has planned for us. Regardless of the number of days we're given in the coming days and years, Charlie Kirk must continue to serve as A mirror held up to the face of every American, a testament to the inherent nature within us to choose, to thrive with courage or to fail. And may the person he was, the fearlessness he embodied, help us access that goodness and value within ourselves whenever and wherever we fall short, having left us too soon. As we mourn a world without such an extraordinary person in it, let's also look forward to a better future. A future filled with men and women whose lives Charlie Kirk touched by inspiring us to realize all that we can be. And that's tonight's first word. All right. Live from Studio 6B, nine minutes past the hour. Paul, I know you were. You've been thinking a lot about Charlie Kirk, and I'm sure a lot of that resonates with you. You've been watching a lot of videos and you sent me some compilations of him, and I know he's still been on your mind.
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Yeah, like that. That was. That was outstanding. And you know, for me, Charlie represents something much more than to me. Charlie Kirkland. I said it to John Solomon, right? And you. The first night that he never embarrassed us, like, he was like. He was like our proudest son. He would step up to the plate in a world where we were watching a culture war since 2012 and before that. But it really amped up when Obama and his team of Marxists in their cultural revolution has come to fully attack young men, masculinity, conservatism, and just being white in general. Every TV commercial was so pervasive with. The white guy was dumb, the black guy was smart, the woman was powerful, the white guy was a dingbat and useless. Everywhere we turned, it became such an insult to everybody. And anytime you said anything, like, to stand up for it, you were chastised as, you know, white, privileged, colonialist patriarchy, all these stupid buzzwords of the day and Charlie's understanding and retention skills. When it comes down to, like, I catch him in a. Quoting Murray Rothbard. Nobody reads Austrian economics anymore. And Austrian economics, to me, are the route to save this country. We need economists who aren't reciting these Marxist. These Keynesian, terrible, absolutely destructive communist forces. And he was such a champion to decency the Lord our Savior, a. A godless nation. So when he gets struck down to me, he. It was just like. Like, to me, he was like the soul of. Of this, like, counterculture, this voice and where he was changing children and young adults and converting people back to normalcy with such dignity, such grace. He truly walked the walk. He. He truly was a servant of God. He truly was the man he proposed himself to be. He was never phony. You can't find one article about him. You can't find him ever stepping out of line. You can never find him being a hypocrite in any one spot because the left would have found it by now and they haven't because it doesn't exist. The man truly walked the walk. I look up to that 31 year old, like in a way that there's really no way to put it. And all we could hope for at this point, we all act as living testimonies, you know, in the name of Jesus, in the name of decency. If you don't want to believe in God, that's fine. I totally understand that. But just live in the state of decency. Just live in a state of just do on to your neighbor like you want done to yourself. And if you just live by those tenets and you speak the truth and you read like he said, just read as many books as you can on history and economics. Stand up to the nonsense of the left. Thanks for letting me get my two cents on that because I absolutely love Charlie Kirk Delgado.
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Yeah, I mean, this is something Paul and I were talking about a little bit just before the show started. And it reverts back to, you know, what I said a few weeks ago is, you know, start looking for some of these clips. You start to find stuff and somebody just put a great compilation together. Right, Paul? Yeah, about, you know, because we see all these things taken out of context. You got to see the whole clip. You can't just go by the one line the Democrats want to share and you find out he was not a racist. He was actually the opposite. He didn't want race to be a factor in any of this. So I thought that was, that was an important thing. And again, to keep pointing people out to keep looking for those things.
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All right, 13 past, they are live from Studio Six. We just getting started, lots to do. A couple of crazy towns tonight. Oh, crazy towns back. We got a couple of them. Newspapers, sports, all coming up on a Monday. Brand new week getting started. 17 past the hour. Live from Studio 6B, Real America's Voice on a Monday. Brand new week getting it started. Glad you're in. Lots to get to tonight. All the boys have news. Slick's got lots to talk about in sports. I know you guys did at the Odds Makers on Friday at the American first warehouse.
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Yeah.
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Which I heard was great. And I heard you had downtown Eddie Brown on. Yes. Where? South Carolina.
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South Carolina.
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By way of Selden, New York.
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Yes. Okay.
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Hey. Grew up in Seldom.
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All right, so we'll get a recap on the odds makers and we'll see what else is going on with sports. We'll do that now. Sports is brought to you by our friend Mike Lindell. Lfsxp. That's the promo code to use if you want to shop at MyPillow. It'll give you a great savings and we appreciate when you use it. It's a great way to support the show. Great way to support Mike and everything he's doing all the great. Did I see he's gonna run for governor of Minnesota?
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Is he?
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I. That's what I thought I read. I don't know. I have to look it up. I could have swore I saw that. And I thought, man, who better to run turn that place around than Mike Lindell? Yeah, I mean, maybe there's some others who would be good, too. But, I mean, I don't know. Sound pretty good at first I saw it. So, I mean. I mean, I don't want to make. I don't want to. It's not against Mike, but there's got nowhere to go but up after Waltz. Right? I mean, come on.
C
Exactly. And maybe you can use some of his great towels to clean up the mess that Waltz has left behind in that stages.
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That's a good idea. Let's do some sports. Sports, as I said, is sponsored by Mike Lindell. Slick Scott. It. What's going on?
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We got to talk about the Ryder Cup. Big D. I'm sure you were watching it all weekend. I didn't want to text you because I knew you were probably going crazy come Saturday night.
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I think at one point, my wife actually thought about divorce this weekend at.
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Some point, you lock yourself in hotel room.
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This go.
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Whether it was on Sacred Hearts campus, on the phone, at the football game, in the dorm.
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It was a weekend. Of course she considered it. It's. He considers it every week.
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No, she doesn't. But she did this weekend, I'll tell you that. I was.
C
Were you, like, walking around the campus with headphones, just yelling randomly, yelling at.
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The tv, pacing in front of the TV by myself, yelling at my phone in the stands at the Sacred Heart. And people were just. It was bad.
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It was. No, it was terrible. I mean. And I. Of course I watched Friday and Saturday just about everything. But then I had the event yesterday, so I really missed most of it by the time I got back on the train and I saw. We made a roaring comeback yesterday.
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We did nothing.
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Well, the first two days, it was pretty much over Saturday, my Saturday night, I was like.
A
It was over Friday. About 20 minutes in, I think I tweeted, well, see, in two years. Literally about an hour into day one, I said, see in two years, because I could see. Because it's a putting contest. Yeah. And then we are so uncluttered. Yeah. I mean, you just can't make it up.
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What do you have? What I see, they had Scheffler faced how many birdies?
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Who.
D
What's his name?
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He wasn't. He didn't. He wasn't there. He wasn't he supposed to be.
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The next time.
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He was supposed to be the number one Tiger Woods.
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Big D's. Big D. Who's been telling us that?
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Yeah, let's. Let's go on, slick. Because if I get started here, I may take the whole.
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Listen, we know. We know what I mean. Basically, after Saturday, I thought, you know, the game was being. The event was held in Farmingdale, New York, if you know anything about Long Island. But I thought it was more like 5 miles south, Amityville Horror. Because that's what it looked like the first two days after that, those matches. But they did come roaring back. They ended up falling 15 to 13. I mean, I'm gonna get into all the. All the different numbers and brass tacks, but, you know, we know what happened.
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Came back. They had a great.
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No, no.
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They got embarrassed. They are embarrassing. The people there were embarrassing. The fans were embarrassing. The golf was embarrassing. It was.
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I'm gonna push back on the fan thing. My brother and my brother John, my buddy John were there. My brother's there all six days as a marshal. So it was my buddy. He said there was just a handful of jackasses and they got kind of self police. He said it was. And they were hanging out with a bunch of Irishmen. In fact, they were Irishmen who were part of the Marshall crew. They come in from Europe. They bring in Europeans as well, to Marshall. And they said, this is no different than we see anywhere else. So all the news here just loves the hate. So don't buy too much into it because I have a couple friends who were there, including a brother, and they said it was so overblown. It was mostly just a good time.
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And to piggyback on that, Paul Breitbart is a story. Europeans blame Trump for rowdy. American Ryder cup fans want to Todd Houston and Brett. But European fans went after President Donald Trump this weekend after some American fans were rowdy and unruly toward European golfers. During Sunday's Ryder cup in New York, the European team even posted a message taunting Trump with a video featuring the players chanting, are you watching Donald Trump? Trump took the ribbing in good nature and replied, yes, I'm watching. Congratulations.
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You love the.
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He's a good sports fan. He's a good, good sport. However, many Euro fans were unhappy with some of the taunting from the crowd aligned during the tournament. At one point, Ireland's Rory McIlroy got so fed up with it all that he gave several fans the finger. He also reportedly told the crowd to shut the bleep up on Saturday. So he was stoking the fire a little, too. You're a professional. You don't. I mean, typically, you don't get involved with the crowd. That's rule number one. You zone out, they're gonna chant names, they're gonna harass you. You got. I mean, that's my opinion. That's how I am. You go back at the crowd, Big D. Yeah.
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I think when they get to a level of obnoxiousness, when they're going after your wife and kids and stuff, I would say at some point you react.
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Yeah, let it go. I'm. I'm. That. That's me personally, but. So that's it on the Ryder Cup. What can I tell you? We lost 20, 27. We'll have to see what happens. We got to get back now. That's two in a row we lost. Right. So not good.
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No, that's more than two in a row. I think that's.
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Oh, it's two in a row.
A
Well, we. We won the last one at home. Yes. So that was.
C
We got three ago, I think.
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Three.
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Yeah. Well, three.
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And then we lost last two.
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Yes.
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We won five straight before that.
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I think so.
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Yeah, we were on quite a roll. Yeah. But now, obviously, we're at. We're out.
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We've. I don't think we'. Five straight before they made it Europe, maybe when it was just Great Britain, but not since it was Europe.
B
Oh, in Scotland. Yeah. And, Aaron, we have a recap on the odds makers. As far as I know, I went, what, three and two for the weekend. And how did. How did Eddie Brown do? And you.
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Yes.
C
You went three and two on the.
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Weekend, including Thursday night.
C
I went four and one and Eddie went two and two.
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Okay.
A
Wow. Four. One. Four and one, Aaron. Wow.
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Yeah.
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Very nice.
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That's good. Coming off zero and four last week, that's a good rebound.
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We don't need to talk about that.
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Mr. Yeah. Well, I had the Rams laying three and a half over the Colts and well, they pulled that game out with a great 2 2. Atwell with an 88 yard touchdown catch right there at the end of the game. That pulled it out. Bears with a blocked field goal. That was great right at the end there. I pulled that one out. Unfortunately, Georgia loses again at home to Alabama. I tell you, Eddie DeBoer, Caitlin DeBoer has really come back, Big D. He's won three in a row now with Alabama.
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I think Georgia's lost Alabama like eight in a row or eight of them.
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They last time since 2019 they've won every time. They've gone to into Georgia, into Sanford Stadium. So it's just incredible. They're beating there. And the Jaguars down the Niners. I thought that was a bit of a surprise. Jacksonville went into San Francisco Levi's Stadium. I thought that would be a blowout. Just the opposite. Four big takeaways and well, they won 26 to 21. Jacksonville Jaguars down the 49ers with three and oh yeah, well, Brock Purdy came back. But they, you know, McCaffrey's not the same either. You could see, Right.
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And they lost Bosa for the year.
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No. Well, that was big losing.
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Nick.
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Fred Warner is 100, 164 years old, if not 65.
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Yeah, exactly. So and that's a rapid sports, Big D. That's pretty much what I got for the weekend. And I've got a couple more coming up next.
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Stories.
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A couple stories.
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My mom will be 88 in two weeks.
A
How's mom feeling, by the way?
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She's doing great, but slow. But she's smiling and has great faith.
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All right. Very good. So special. Happy birthday to Bob. Thanks for watching. We'll do some more sports. We'll get into the news. Lots to get to crazy town as well. Two of them tonight. Oh, they're good, too. All coming up live from Studio 6P right after this. All right, 30 minutes past the hour. Live from Studio 6, speed. So there's. We should have done the odds makers quickly because it's. We have football tonight. Monday night Football. So slick. We've got Cincinnati at Denver since he's up three nothing. They were seven and a half, but now that they're up, that's now five and a half. So we'll bet it live in game betting for the odds makers right now. What. Who are you going to take?
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I gotta. I gotta go with Denver. They're the team. They're home. They look good. They're playing well. I'm gonna take.
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I'm gonna take them for +5/2 minus in game line right now. Aaron, what do you got?
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I also had Denver here, minus the.
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Seven and a half originally.
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So I'll go with the five and a half. I'll take that. Okay. So you guys both got Denver minus five and a half at home even though they're down three nothing. Yep. Okay. All right. There you go. So there's your odds makers for Monday night. Well, there's lots of news to do, but we got a couple crazy towns. Let's get to one crazy town. Then we'll get to the news. We'll do crazy town number one, the first one, Aaron. And this. You know, it's been hard to do crazy town because Biden, of course, served it up for six years just by showing up to a microphone every day. I didn't have to do anything. Just go pull the speech, cut it up and bang, there you go. Gold, comedy gold. Not quite the same anymore, obviously, but I'm gonna start. We're gonna start keeping our eyes out for crazy town stuff. And I thought this was a Good way to bring it back, because, well, you'll see. Crazy town. Roll it. Aaron.
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So happy to have you.
A
When people say, I changed my mind, we have to say, welcome back to reality. Yeah, let's all be Americans together. Sure. Right. Because what's happening is not only happening to Democrats, it's happening to everyone. And when the Medicaid go in, old people are going to start to die. To die. What he's done yet hasn't even hit us yet.
C
And if he's not stopped now, we have lost our country.
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And I don't know, Nicole, how it.
C
Is that some people cannot see it.
A
My therapist said, why are you so upset? And I said to her, why are you not. Yeah, that's it right there. 100%.
C
So much.
B
That wrote itself.
A
Yeah.
D
She should have been like Ron Burgundy just sapping a quarter milk.
A
Nicole Wallace is gonna cry. Yeah.
D
Talk about a pair of rock stars.
B
Oh, yeah.
A
I discuss it with my therapist. He says, why are you so angry? She says. I say, why are you not? People are gonna die. People are gonna die. They're gonna literally die. Oh, my God.
D
They're gonna spontaneously combust.
A
Yeah. I don't know.
C
Crazy people are insane. Well, that's. That's. That's a walking, talking version of TDS right there. You just saw it right there. That's what it looks.
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Eating.
C
Yes.
D
Version of tds.
C
And it's funny, too, because later on in that, she. She says, I don't see how other people don't see it. And you see Nicole Wallace actually. Almost. Almost like she's admitting, like, yeah. You know, I. I kind of. Now. Now I see, you know, what's wrong with me. You almost see. She's like, oh, my goodness. She could be seeing the light here. It could be. Talking to. Rosie has actually given Nicole Wallace a chance. Like, oh, my God, I can't be as crazy as this lunatic.
A
She once called herself a conservative. I think, actually. I actually think that's true.
D
True story.
C
Oh, my goodness.
A
Am I right about that?
D
Yes, you are conservative.
A
I love the. My favorite part is the last little at the end. Yeah, play that. Play the ending, Aaron. Just play that little ending there. After. Just rewind a little bit of cartoons. Just play a little bit of that ending. Therapist said, why are you perfect?
C
So upset.
A
And I said to her, why are you not. Yeah.
D
Watching the club's face. We really should pause it with the top lips. Yeah, that flat.
A
But she's gonna start crying.
C
It's glorious.
A
Oh, man, these people.
D
Glad it's back.
A
These people are crazy.
D
So music is perfect. That music should play everywhere they walk.
A
Oh, man. All right, let's get to some news. There's a lot going on in the news and President Trump was active on Truth Social. But one of the things I picked up on, I mean Delgado discussed it was what's going on in Portland. Oh yeah, and, and the President truthed out on, on Portland. If we have that, Aaron, let's throw that up. Here's what the President said. At the request of Secretary Homeland Security Christy Noem, I'm directing Secretary of War Pete Hexith to provide all necessary troops to protect war ravaged Portland and any of our ICE facilities under siege from attack by Antifa and other domestic terrorists. I'm also authorizing full force if necessary. Thank you for attention to this matter. So Delgado, what do we know on this story?
C
Well, what do we know about Portland? Well, federal troo gone in Damon, and they're, you know, you've seen some, I don't know if you've seen some of the clips. Some of the people that, that are from Portland are celebrating it. Federal agents began arriving in war ravaged Portland, Oregon over the weekend after President Trump ordered the military deployment to the city. With at least one clash already erupting outside an ICE facility. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer was seen Friday shoving a protester to the ground as they became unruly. Another demonstrator was dead, detained by agents confronting the crowd outside the Portland site. In an early morning Truth social post Saturday, Trump said he authorized a full force to protect what he called war ravaged Portland and federal buildings that are under siege by Antifa and other domestic terrorists. You got the mayor, Keith Wilson speaking out about this as well, saying we now have a sudden influx of federal agents in our city. Like that's a bad thing. We did not ask them to come. They are here without precedent or purpose. They're there because you guys aren't doing your job. That's basically what's going on. Other locals warn that the federal president could. Federal presence could escalate unrest. I don't see how that could be when you think about all the lunatics running around controlling the streets around the ICE facility in Portland as well. So unfortunately that's what's going on in Portland. It's kind of, they're kind of run rampant now. They're, now they're, now they're starting to be met with force.
D
Yeah, thank.
C
Good. So we'll see what happens with that.
D
You know, I know you guys saw also in related news that In Chicago, they've, you know, border patrol agents, Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices, you know, obviously are there. And, you know, and the local police now feel a little empowered. Have you seen that story that Chicago's finally getting help? And if you watch the, you know, the majority of the video, the black people in those areas, like, thank God, we need help. It's not safe. My mom's. Go get groceries.
A
Yeah.
D
So the people of Portland feel too, there's so much pushback on these wackadoodles who are so over the top. So I'm not a big fan of a giant iron fist, but when, when, when terrorists like Antifa and these wackos are destroying and attacking cops, it's not. It's. It's a different animal altogether.
C
So not only attacking cops, but they're making it. They're making it unsafe for the people that live there.
D
Oh, yeah. Well, you start attacking cops, I mean, that means anybody's game.
A
Yeah.
D
So this guy here was great.
A
D. Here. Here is a couple of the locals for. For all of the people who run Portland who say, everything's fine. We don't need anybody from Trump here. And the people hate it. Well, this guy I don't think agrees. Here's. Here's. Here's one of the locals.
B
I am so happy that Trump is.
A
Sending the National Guard in here.
B
I live in this building. We actually, we both live in this building. We've been asking for help for months, and we're finally gonna get it.
A
What do you think? Yeah.
C
Yeah.
A
Nice. So. And you can already hear what's going on in the background?
C
Yeah.
A
And the basis of our second crazy town is Portland. So I don't want to run it now. But this. Who's the woman who's in that video dug out of the mayor or the governor? Governor.
C
Yeah.
A
I mean, she's.
C
She's a disaster.
A
She's straight out of central casting. Yeah.
C
I mean, if you were to see the mayor, you'd be like, hey, what's up, buddy? I mean, the governor, because that's, you know, that's what you're dealing with. You're dealing with all these. All these radicals who continually try and tell you nothing to see here, everything is fine when it's not. You see, if you hear it in the background, you see that guy, he lives there. He has to deal with what you're hearing in the background. All that yelling constantly. It makes it impossible to actually have a life.
D
In that video, there was a woman with him, said she's been petrified to go out and shop. She's petrified to go anywhere. She just, you know.
C
Yeah, I think, I think. Was she in a wheelchair as well?
D
I didn't know she was in a wheelchair. You know, I was, you know, I didn't see that, but I did see a little woman said she's petrified to leave her home. Yeah, it's complete insanity. And I don't know if you saw, the other Antifa group had a video calling on all veterans to descend on Portland and fight back. Bring your weapons. And this is what this guy's saying. He said Antifa is not an organization. He said it's just an idea. And the thought of, of attacking an idea. And this is what this kook said. I was going to send the clip in, but I don't want everyone to throw up on the desk.
A
Well, that was, of course, I mean, he's picking up on that was what Biden said. Yeah, Biden said Antifa is just an idea. So that's the Democrat talking point on it.
C
So did Jerry Nadler.
A
Exactly. So. Well, we have a crazy town on Portland. So we'll, we'll show you exactly what the governor is and is not talking about and what the reality, the ground is here in a little bit. But the other big news, obviously, as we spent most of the day, I guess on Thursday it was, is James Comey. And as you could, as you would suspect, and we have some clips here of what was going on with Comey and all of his little rats who scurried out from underneath every little orifice they could find to run to the cameras after the Comey indictment came down Thursday. Delgado and I know you have some clips of all of the little, all the little worriers on if they're next. Let me see a couple of these. Yeah.
C
Well, according to this, believe it or not from msnbc, Damon, this goes back to Paul's own reference many years ago about who investigates who. President Trump has promised more indictments are coming after indicting former FBI Director James Comey. Trump's long list of enemies include CIA Director John Brennan, who is currently under investigation by the Trump administration. Here is what he had to say when asked about the case that could be being built against him. This is cut number four, John Brennan on msnbc. Check this out.
A
You know, I don't see any case against me. I have looked back on all of my actions and decisions and with John.
C
Durham, the special counsel and others that.
A
Have looked at what we did, it was certainly consistent with our legal authorities and with the laws. So I don't know what, what, you.
D
Know, they're referring to there individuals who.
C
Used to work in the government.
A
Even if their security clearances were revoked, they could be subpoenaed, they could be, you know, called to provide testimony in support of whatever allegations they have.
D
I just, I don't see a case there.
C
He doesn't see a case.
A
We're shocked by that. We really expected you to come out and go, yeah, I think I'm in hot water.
C
Yeah.
A
You know, I'm one of the more unethical people that's ever held office along with my buddies, Comey, McCabe, Clapper.
D
He said, can you go to my GoFundMe?
A
Yeah, I think, you know, all my criminal misconduct is really going to come back to catch me. I mean, you were shocked you didn't say that.
C
You wouldn't believe what I covered up.
A
Anyhow, here is where I'm actually facing accountability here.
C
And here is another former convict who switched to the Democrats on msnbc, Michael Cohen, stunning the panel with his take on the Comey indictment. Cut six.
A
Do any of us actually really know whether or not Comey is or is not guilty of the charges? I know that they parade out all of these pundits. They have the great titles in the chiron. Former prosecutor.
C
Yeah.
A
Former FBI. Who seen a single document that's in the possession right now of the doj. The answer is nobody. Who has the crystal ball? Still nobody. I will tell you from my investigation, which I used Brian Karam, who's a 30 year White House with a happy to speak to people inside government because they wouldn't talk to me. I learned that Comey was actually very much involved in the Russia investigation in a very negative way. And chances are this doj. Aaron, hold this. Let's hit the break and then we'll come back to this gold plated phony talk about why he's all of a sudden talking like this. Brian. Brian Caron, investigative reporter for formerly Playboy. Okay.
D
So many jokes.
A
All right, 13 to the hour. Live from Studio 6B. So Delgado was doing some news. We hit the break and we're playing Michael Cohen who sounds like he's now back on the other side of the fence looking for a job back in the White House or something. Or I don't know what's going on over at msnbc, but this snake is all of a sudden now is going to go over there and play be the voice of, to be the voice of reason or something. What exactly.
C
Or maybe it's Just from his personal experience, knowing, going up against the government, this is what they're going to do to you and this is what they have. Because, you know, he made some great points. I don't know if you want to pick up from where he was talking again, you know, talking about the indictment of James Comey.
A
Now let's play the whole thing again because he does make some good points. And I just wonder where this is all of a sudden coming from msnbc as the other three panelists sit there in cemented face of horror as Cohen actually tries to make some valid points, which is, well, what's he up to? Yeah. Somewhat surprising. Let's roll that again, Aaron. Any of us actually really know whether or not Comey is or is not guilty of the charges. I know that they parade out all of these pundits. They have the great titles in the Chiron. Former prosecutor, yada yada, former FBI. Who seen a single document that's in the possession right now of the doj. The answer is nobody.
D
Nobody.
A
Who has the crystal ball? Still nobody. I will tell you from my investigation, which I used Brian Karam, who's a 30 year White House correspondent, to speak to people inside government because they wouldn't talk to me, I learned that Comey was actually very much involved in the Russia investigation in a very negative way. And chances are this DOJ has every single email, every text message, every communication. I believe likely he will be found guilty. Oh, well, that's interesting because time to go to bridge. What? What I believe likely he committed a crime. I don't know what that crime is, but there are hundreds of thousands of documents and government has each and every one of them. All they need to find is that one.
C
Yeah.
D
Good luck. Their reaction.
A
Thank you, Michael, for your last appearance here on msnbc.
D
And you're not welcome. On fire.
A
Yeah.
C
Cohen said, I've been through this system. I know better than anybody what a weapon weaponized DOJ looks like and it's insurmountable. Jordan press Cohen on whether he actually broke the law, blah, blah, blah. The other one asked to clarify whether he thought the Department of Justice was weaponized under Trump. He said, I think your argument is it is weaponized. It has been weaponized then by Comey against Donald Trump. That's what you're arguing right now. And you think that there's evidence that they'll show in court that thus validates this against James Comey? Comey, he says, I couldn't have said it better myself. So he, he thinks, he thinks you Know from his, from his perspective that James Comey is likely guilty.
A
Yeah, he's 100% guilty. And he's, he's a, he's 100% guilty of about probably 10 other things. He's not even getting charged for the things he really could get charged for. He's getting charged on a 1000. 1001 violation. Obstruction of justice. I mean, and the idea that someone's going to argue that, well, it's going to be, we're not really sure, and it's McCabe's word against his word and all this other stuff. That's like saying, if someone on this show was leaking something to a reporter and I found out about it and I did nothing about it, would you say that I authorized it? Yes, of course.
B
Yeah.
A
So what are we arguing about? We know for a fact it was leaked and we know for a fact that he knew about it because they printed it and he never came out and said anything about it. So in my eyes, his refusal to do anything about it, no matter when he argues he found out about it, is tantamount to authorization. So I don't even know what people are arguing about about this guy on the 1001 violation. He's absolutely guilty.
C
Well, it wasn't the only thing that they were arguing about, Damon. They were arguing also about how this may change James Comey's life and make it worse, believe it or not.
A
Who said that?
C
It came from Eugene Washington, over on the Washington Post, of course, msnbc. You got to see it for yourself to believe it. They're really worried about James Comey now and how much money this might cost to cut number five. Check this out.
D
Maybe he, Comey will end up walking.
A
Away from this, but this will still be expensive. It will be stressful.
D
It could ruin Comey's life for a time.
A
And it seems to be foreshadowing if Comey's now, who could be next? Right. I think that's the punishment. It's the punishment. James Comey has to have expensive lawyers now and it'll take a lot of his time and, you know, emotional investment, theoretically his liberty will be at stake in this case.
C
Kind of like what they did to Trump.
A
And that's what the Justice Department, you know, a federal indictment is nothing to sneeze at. It is a life changing event and it is, this is clearly punishment directed at James Comey. I mean, it couldn't be more explicit because that's what Donald Trump demanded in so many words. In that message to Pam Bondi, the Attorney General. I mean, I've never seen anything like this basically saying, go indict this guy. Find something to indict this guy on. No harm. It wouldn't be like the AG of New York actually running outwardly on that platform of we're gonna get him. No, you've never seen anything like this. Eugene was just dropped there from Plut today.
C
I guess he's never heard of, of General Flynn. He's never heard of Mike Lindell. He's never heard of Rudy Giuliani, Peter Navarro, Steve Bannon, Flynn so hard they.
D
Threatened his kid and he had to cave. You think about the lawfare that those guys went through. Peter Navarro gets embarrassed on a plane. That guy's a rock star. They have to drag him on a plane, make, make a spectacle. Think about all the stuff they've done.
C
Yeah.
D
I have no sympathy for them whatsoever.
C
None whatsoever.
D
When I hear people tell me things like, we don't want to reduce level because when they get back in power, they're going to weaponize, they're going to do it anyhow. They're not stopping. Get them all now. Fry as many as you can and make it, make it be a deterrent for their criminal behavior in the future.
A
This is not about Trump getting back. This is about trying to restore some equality under the law and what this guy has done to the FBI that they may never recover from it again. This is the easy stuff. This is the easy stuff. I think it's pretty easy to argue you that this guy's getting charged. I mean, the grand jury alone could have charged, I think a third thing that they gave to him and they decided not to, which was left with the two that we have. But there's so much more that Comey did, leaking, lying under oath. How many times he pleaded that he didn't. He misled investigators. How many times. I think it was 245 times claimed amnesia under oath. There's no way he had amnesia that many times. There's so much, so much with this guy. He's getting on. This is, this is.
D
And his criminal and his past goes 20, 30 years back to Whitewater.
A
Right.
D
I mean, he's a lifelong criminal, but.
C
I mean, we only, he's only, you know, Damon, you're only mentioning the stuff he's mentioned that he was asked about. We don't know the stuff that was going on that we don't know about. And that's, that's the, that's the thread. I think that, that we hope that this, this first indictment will help kind of pick off and start to unravel all the shenanigans. And you heard it from Cohen and, you know, not, not that there's anything, you know, super cool about Michael Cohen, but he made a great point. He goes, he goes, this guy's been involved in a lot of stuff and they know it. So let's hope, like I said, that this is the first of many problems for James Comey.
A
Yeah.
C
Aside from his walking on the beaches.
A
All right, a quick hour one. We'll come back, do some sports, some more news. Paul Nolan's got some thoughts on some things going on. Plus, another crazy town. We'll get to the New York City mayoral race. And we got Trump weighed in on that, too. We'll get to that when we get back. Hour two coming up live from Studio 6P right after this. All right, hour two live from Studio 6P, Real America's Voice on a Monday, September 29th. Only a couple days left and then we're into October already. Real America's Voice on a Monday. Glad you're in slick bricks. Going to do some more sports here in a second. Rick Delgado's doing the news. Paul Nolan's got some stories as well. Aaron and Fran holding it down as always. Always appreciate all the entire audience, wherever you're watching, whether it's on Real America's Voice, one of the apps, the Real America's Voice app on Samsung TV plus or on any of the socials, make sure you hit the like. Subscribe, follow us on all our social media. FS6B pretty much everywhere, Instagram @LFSXB show and of course at Real Am Voice everywhere, including, of course, exclusively this show on YouTube on the Real America's Voice YouTube page. So make sure you follow that hit the bell notification so you get notified when we go live each and every night. Eight to ten right here. Lots to get to. An hour two, another crazy town. Crazy town makes its triumphant return tonight. We already had one with Rosie, another one about what's going on in Portland. And then you said this was the governor of Portland, right?
C
Yeah, governor of Portland, you know, doing what governors of Portland do.
A
We'll get to that.
C
Governors of Oregon, I should say.
A
We'll get to that delusion here in a little bit. Let's do some sports actually to kick off hour two. Then I'm going to get into the president on the New York City mayoral race. And then we'll get to Paul's news as well. But let's get a quick update on the scoreboards Sports is brought to you by. Mike Lindell. LFS6B is the promo code to you, slickster. What's going on?
B
All right. Monday Night Football, Big D. We got a double bill tonight. We got one in Miami going on right now. The Dolphins run 173 over the New York jets with 11:33 to go in the third quarter. Not looking good for the Jets. Not much offense down there, so we'll keep an eye on that. Jets with the ball. Bengals and Broncos getting it on in Denver. Broncos are up seven to three, 13:10 to go there in the second as well. And Condoleezza Rice is a minority owner in the Walton Penner Group, which are the owners of the Denver Broncos. So indirectly, she's got, you know, ownership, but she's not technically owner, said owner of the team. So I wanted to clarify that for you. So that's what's going on.
A
Cincinnati knew that. You're saying that would have prevented you from picking the Denver Broncos.
B
I was just kidding. No, no, I was kidding. I wanted to. I wanted you to yell at me for changing my pick. No, no, I think it's great. And I think Denver. Well, Denver's got a good team. I think they're gonna go somewhere. Bo Nicks with a nice, nice touchdown run there. And they're up, like I said, 7 to 3. Cincinnati Reds have made the playoffs. Did you see that? Yeah, they backed in with. They lost, but the Mets lost. Boy, Frank the Tank must mind Big D. I didn't see that meltdown last night.
A
They. They got where he didn't even. He was just. He was done.
B
He's already.
A
He didn't even lose it on the last game. He just. He just gave up. He just was done. He just, like, melted into a puddle.
B
That was the ultimate meltdown. Meltdown. Met down. Meltdown. Yeah, same thing. I mean, I. I just. Incredible what happened with the Mets. But to my good fortune for my Reds, they're in, of course. They're going up against the great Dodger team. They're going to throw Hunter Green tomorrow night against Blake Snell. We'll see how that goes. But Dodgers are a powerhouse. It's a. It's a wild card series. It's a bet. Two out of three. And all three games are played in Los Angeles. So 9pm Tomorrow night. First pitch. I'll give you the other teams as well. But some news today came up earlier.
A
All three games are played in Los Angeles.
B
Yeah, all three games are played now. Well, that's the problem with the wild card. When you're the wild card team. You cut, you get in, you got to play the, you know, the Dodgers. It's, it's a very tough. Yes, it'll take a miracle. But hey, I'm glad they're there.
A
The Mets collapse is the greatest collapse in the maybe the history of baseball, maybe the history of sports.
B
Well, Detroit didn't do too bad other.
A
Than the American Ryder cup team this past weekend is.
B
I couldn't believe what I was watching on Saturday afternoon when I looked at that score when they, when they came off the, came off the, the course.
D
I woke up so early Saturday morning. I'm sipping my coffee. Oh yeah, it's a beautiful morning. I'm outside watching my TV and I am so agitated right out of the gate.
B
I want the punch fleet by 7:30. Paul's ready to kill somebody.
A
Almost drives the green and loses the hole.
B
How about the, how about the putting game? It was non existent. I mean until yesterday.
D
Of course the advanced stats talked about Rose and how incredibly unstoppable he was. I think I heard that, that in the matches that what's his name, the guy who used to be the best in the world. 32 birdies against him.
B
Wow.
D
Is that possible in those rounds?
B
It's incredible.
D
I don't believe.
B
And just real quick with the Giants co owner John Mara announces cancer diagnosis Terrible. John Mara, New York Giants co owner and president announced on Monday he was diagnosed with cancer. The 70 year old young guy, longtime Giants executive issued a statement on social media which recently been diagnosed and Mara asked for privacy while he undergoes treatment and well, certainly he said, he said please do pray for me and that we will. We want to wish him well. The Marrington family, one of the classiest organizations in professional sports, certainly the NFL and all other sports. So our hearts go out to him. And that's a wrap in sports. Big day.
A
All right, let's look. Very good. Five minutes past the hour. Live from studio 6pM Be so the president unleashed today on the possible in my opinion, soon to be mayor of New York City. And now Eric Adams has dropped out. But as our guy Harry Anton at CNN told us over the weekend, if you saw his video, Eric Adams dropping out is the equivalent of a political dud because Mandami was up I think 18 points and without Adams he's up 16 points. So completely and totally and utterly meaningless. And the only chance there is to even think about not having this guy be the mayor of New York is for Curtis Sliwa to get it at least from everything I can tell, but I don't think that's likely to happen. So I think this guy's in. But President Trump today obviously must think that too, because he, he dropped quite the truth today on the soon to be mayor of New York. Aaron, if we have that, Put it up, up. Self proclaimed New York City Communist Zohan Mandami, who is running for mayor, will prove to be one of the best things to ever happen to our great Republican Party. He's going to have problems with Washington like no mayor in the history of our once great city. Remember, he needs the money from me as president in order to fulfill all of his fake communist promises. He won't be getting any of it, so what's the point of voting for him? This ideology has failed always for thousands of years. It will fail again and that's guaranteed President Donald J. Trump. And of course the left lost it when that, when that truth hit the, hit the wires. But to get to the point of it, of what Trump's talking about, let's, let's hear from the soon to be mayor himself. Cut one, Aaron, Here's Mondami on the first utopia he'd like to bring to New York City and that is going to be the public bus that he wants to bring. Free, of course, buses for all. Cut one roll that people who ask.
C
Me questions about is it possible to make buses fast and free? I say the cost would be about 6,700 million dollars, which is less than Andrew Cuomo gave to Elon Musk. One year in tax breaks of 959 million. Showing people the context that we're in and building a coalition where they may not see themselves in me perhaps, but they may see themselves in the best.
A
And the brightest that I'll hire to.
C
Surround me in City Hall.
A
Yeah, sure, that sounds, that sounds like real utopia in New York City. To get on a free bus paid for by socialism's finest and to get on a bus with about, I don't know how many, 2, 3 million illegals in the, in the country, in the city. So you'll have, think about those bus rides, what those will be like. You'll have a murderer next to you on one side, you'll have the drug pin Lord on the other side. It sounds great.
C
Sounds like a good time.
A
Sounds like a good time in the buses soon to be in New York City. Now how about the housing? Well, he's got some thoughts on that too. How about cut eight, Aaron? Here he is on the utopia that will be New York City housing. Roll that I've said many times. Oh, sorry, wrong one. Maybe it's cut seven.
C
Let's try that further toward the Vienna model. We'll have to go beyond the market. We can establish community land trusts to gradually buy up housing on the private market and convert it to community ownership.
A
Oh, great.
C
We can give tenants a right of first refusal to buy out their landlords when buildings go up for sale. And we can fully commit to a new era of social housing, ending subsidies for luxury housing development and using our wealth to build beautiful, high, high quality social housing projects that offer good homes and strong communities to everyone. We won't decommodify housing overnight, but we know what we have to do and we have history to guide us.
A
I mean, that's frightening. All you landlords in New York City, all you business owners, all you Goldman Sachs guys. Oh, how's, how's it sounding in New York City? How's it, how you think it's going to be pretty soon?
C
Yeah. How's that real estate market looking?
A
Yeah. If you're a real estate. Where are the guy from Million million dollar listing in New York City? How they, how they think this is going to up, man?
D
Well, the house I'm flipping and God in Great Neck has just gone up in value, that's for sure.
C
People are going to be lean.
B
Yes.
A
In the word. Yeah.
B
I mean, be like covert all over again.
D
And I gotta be honest with you, I feel like it's blood money. I cannot believe what. I just watched that video and this guy's such a hypocrite. You guys see the story like his, his Airbnb is top dollar. He gets down in like the islands.
C
No, really?
A
Really?
D
Yeah, I, I'll find the story, but I read it over the weekend. He's. He's just another liar.
A
100 million in new legal aid for illegal immigrants facing deportation. He's called for that. He calls that actually the cornerstone of his campaign. He's got 6 billion annually for universal child care. He's got that put aside. Seven hundred million for free bus transit, as you just heard. 200,000 affordable housing units. 200,000 affordable housing Units. It's partially relying on federal funding going back to President Trump's tweet for NYC. Ha. Which faces a $40 billion repair backlog. A new department of. Oh, here we go. Department of Community Safety. Sounds.
C
Oh, that sounds, Sounds wonderful. That sounds helpful.
A
Utopia has come to New York City. They're going to strip the NYPD of traditional duties like traffic enforcement and homeless outreach. We're going To. To. So NYPD will hand those duties over to the Department of Community Safety. Let's. Let's think about what the people who work for that department are going to look like. The Department of Community Safety. I'm sure they'll all fit the bill right out of central casting as well. And so he thinks the money is going to come from. For all of this, which, I don't know, add that up just even what I read you, I think is a cool. Besides the $40 billion repair backlog for the NYCHA. Forget that. Just, just alone, you're probably at a couple billion dollars there. So your corporate tax rate's going to go through the roof. You're going to have businesses with a 9% tax. He'll yank tax exemptions from all major universities to try to help fill the gaps. And of course, he won't fill the gaps with that. That. So you'll just get taxed to death. You'll get crushed by the iron fist of government. It'll be in every hand, every pocket of your being.
C
Yeah, but you know what, Damon?
A
But it'll be for the betterment of all of you. Somewhere down the line, Somewhere down the.
D
Line, I want a free house.
A
Forget about today because it's going to be better tomorrow.
C
You're going to get a bus ride.
A
So enjoy free bus rides, free housing and your free grocery stores. Right?
D
Well, the government wipe my tuck is also when I get on the bus. Well, here's that story from the postponed Democrat New York City mayor of candidate Zohan Mandami, a longtime Airbnb foe who pushed the abolition of private property. Yet his filthy rich parents have rented their posh Ugandan compound on the site for nearly a decade. It's got five bedrooms, four bathrooms, a villa, it's overlooking the ocean, it's got infinity pools, and apparently it's worth millions. So this guy's a clown. He's another communist who, you know, oligarch who lives one way and talks another.
A
All right, 12 minutes past the hour. Live from Studio 6B. We'll do some more news of Paul when we get back. Live from Studio 6P on a Monday night. SA.
D
Sam.
A
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D
Well, you know, I felt like I needed to give this family some airtime because like you said, this story just isn't getting what it deserves. This is just another horrendous crime because of a horrendous justice system, because of a horrendous political activist, judges who absolutely have no respect whatsoever for our, you know, our way of life as Americans. So an already grieving father was further enraged upon learning that the man accused of killing his daughter in a home burglary could have been already in prison for numerous other crimes. Logan Federico, a 22 year old aspiring teacher from Waxhaw, North Carolina, was visiting her friends at the University of South Carolina in Columbia and staying at Cypress street home when a career criminal broke in in the early morning on May 3rd. The suspect, Alexander Dickey, a 30 year old man with a lengthy rap sheet, entered the home in the early morning, stole several credit cards and debit cards and fatally shot Logan in what Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook described as a random crime during the May 5 press conference. I could read the story to you, but I think this father speaks for all of us. You know how we feel about this. Can you roll that for us?
A
Cut three. Aaron, how many of y' all have kids? I'm just curious. Here's what I need you to do when I tell you this story. Think about your kids. Think about your child coming home from a night out with their friends, laying down, going to sleep, feeling somebody come in the room and wake them and drag her out of bed naked, forced on her knees with her hands over her head, begging for her life, begging for her hero, her father. Me that couldn't be there. She was five foot three. She weighed 115 pounds. Dead, gone. Why? Because Alexander Devonte Dickey, 25 felonies, was on the street. How about that? How good are we doing for our family. How good are you doing for your kids? He should have been in jail for over 140 years for all the crimes he committed. You know how much time he spent in prison? A little over 600 days in 10 years. He's only 30 years old. He was committing 2.65 crimes a year since he was 15 years old, but nobody could figure out that he could be rehabilitated. Well, you'd have to put him in prison to see if he could be rehabilitated. Isn't that the idea of prison? But no, My daughter wanted to be a teacher. She finally figured it out two weeks before and she literally was executed while on her knees begging for her life. Her name's Logan, Federico, not Irina. And you will not forget her, I promise you. You will be sick and tired of my face and my voice until this gets fixed.
C
Yeah, powerful.
D
I mean, this guy is this. We're talking about a criminal who has absolutely no value to society. He is irredeemable. How this guy is walking the streets, how this guy is capable of just taking a life because he wanted some credit cards. I mean, this. What do we really think that we're doing society a favor by not putting guys like this in jail? I don't understand it whatsoever. Someone explain it to me.
A
And of course you would know he was irredeemable if you actually put him in jail instead of in the front door, out the back, as we talk about all the time and is now becoming seemingly a theme in even places like North Carolina. Not just in Minnesota and Chicago, in New York City, but now in North Carolina. This is the second high profile situation where someone who should not have been on the street, who should have been executed long before this was out there to be able to do this.
D
If you want to see the story in the full video, it's on my X feed. It's Paul Underscore exnolen on X. Please give me a follow. I'm pretty active there. The full story is there with the full video. It's worth watching.
A
And again, you know, when it, when it comes to you just wonder when people who vote for these people, whether it's the county executives, the governors, the state legislature, down to the sheriffs and all whoever, when are they going to start voting with their kids in mind instead of at the detriment of their own lives and their own families, who put these people in office, who continue to say, well, you know, the illegals are more virtuous, the criminals are more virtuous, just crazy. All right, More important news. Crazy town coming up. All right, 30 minutes past the hour. Live from Studio 6B. Another crazy town coming up here. And then news with Delgado. But we're doing news of Paul Nolan and I guess some other. What do we have? We found another sleazy investment banker somewhere. Paul, is that the news?
D
Yeah. This is brutal. Howie Rubin, he's a prominent investment banker charged with sex trafficking. You know, retired investment bank, was arrested on Friday in his Connecticut home on federal trafficking charges. Sex acts in luxury hotels and Manhattan apartment converted into a sex dungeon with BDSM equipment. I don't even know what that is, to be completely honest. Howie Rubin, he's 70, he's a former personal assistant. And his his Assistant, Jennifer Powers, 45, charged with sex trafficking, transportation purposes of prostitution, according to the Eastern District of New York. At his arraignment in Brooklyn federal court, he pleaded not guilty. He was proposed 25 million bond package was denied. He was ordered to be detained because he was a flight risk. Powers, who had been facilitating the sex trafficking operation, was arrested in Texas. He was also a former top manager for the Soros Fund and Bear Stearns. He's been under investigation multiple times. And as women's women have claimed since 2017, he subjected them to beatings and raped rape. Rubin has obviously denied these accusations. He also settled on a huge civil case for a monstrous undisclosed amount of money. And the the FBI assistant director in charge of Christopher Reyer, no relation to Gray, said for many years, Reuben and Jennifer Powers allegedly spent at least $1 million to finance a commercial sexual torture of multiple women via national trafficking network. The defendants allegedly exploited Rubin's status to ensnare their prospective victims and forced them into unthinkable physical trauma before silencing any outcries with the threats of legal recourse. And he threatened them with mafia style hits if anyone spoke a word about it. According to the criminal charges, from 2009-19, Rubin recruited dozens of women to engage in commercial sex acts with him involving bondage, discipline, dominance, submission and sadomasochism. During these encounters, Rubin engaged in conduct beyond the scope of women's consent that right now they're labeled as Jane does 1 through 10. He brutalizes poor women at one point, it said. During the indictment, Ribbon of the Power transformed one of the bedrooms into a penthouse into a sex dungeon. It was painted red with a soundproof walls everywhere and ceiling had a lock on the door, was furnished with BDSM equipment to which women could be strapped and restrained, and contained devices that shock electrocuted them, among other items. And now this is where it gets sick, is if it's not.
A
Oh, and it's already sick.
B
Get to the real graphic.
D
I mean, I'll stop this article right here.
A
No, no, no.
D
Yeah. So this is where it's over the top, Ruben, of how together this is in the indictment and others materially misrepresented women the extent and manner or the degree to which Reuben would engage in physical and sexual violence. Rubin would provide a safe word to the women, and they could say that to convey they wanted the violent sexual contact to cease, but then disregarded the safe word when women used it and continued the violent conduct without consent. The indictment continued. And this is in quotes here. In other instances, regardless of whether Rubin had provided the safe worth, women were unable to object to Rubin's conduct because they were bound or gagged during the sexual encounter. And in other instances, the women became unconscious from the pain during the sexual encounters, and they were unable to. To deny consent. The prosecutors also said Rubin paid different women from commercial sex multiple times. And, you know, he found a lot of these models on places like Instagram and only fans, and, you know, he would pay them as much as 5,000 in an encounter. Some of the things that went on with this. There were texts privately between this assistant Powell's and. And Reuben where he said, we need more power in our electrocution machines because some of these women aren't passing out. I mean, this guy. I mean, if there was ever.
C
Holy moly.
D
This is. We're talking about the sickest of the sick. These people depraved. This is, you know, the elite class that really does whatever they want. There were other. Other articles that talked about this that said that they drugged these women most of the time with Valium. Valium and alcohol. So if this guy doesn't get a brick thrown at him. I mean, book. No, I mean brick him. I don't. I don't know what constitutes justice. I just really would like to see law and order restored.
A
What is it? What does it say that I'm sitting here listening to this story and thinking, you know, take out this guy's name, and how many people in Washington, D.C. could you plug that name into and have a similar story? I don't know.
C
I know.
A
I don't know. Maybe not to this degree, but I don't know.
C
Oh, we know taxpayer money has been used to pay off some people. So they had a list.
A
Yeah. All right. Very good. Thanks, Paul. So there's a lot of other stuff going on One of the big other stories obviously on the table, although it's amazing that we're, we're a day away and we really haven't heard. I mean, there's been obviously a lot going on. But to think about how quiet the government shutdown has been up, up until maybe the last week when we've been talking about September 30th coming now for how long on this show? Probably four months. I was raising the red flags on CRs. Well, well before three, four months ago, after the last one, after we're always told there's some reason we have to have another one, but. So Schumer had a meeting today with the president. Remember the last time they did this, Pelosi and Schumer, they actually went into the Oval.
C
Yep.
A
Well, they learned their lesson. They didn't want anything televised this time because they got smacked around so hard that time. They said, now we're not going to do this in front of the cameras. And so here's Schumer today. Cut to Aaron on shutdown talks. Roll that. You know, we Democrats have been pushing for a meeting and a real negotiation, which they haven't done.
C
They've just done their own bill.
A
And so I called John Thune Friday afternoon and I said, come on, come on, let's sit down. The only way we're going to get this done is a serious negotiation and we need the president as part of it. We need Speaker Johnson, let the four leaders and the president sit down. And Saturday evening we got a call from the White House that they would do it Monday at 2pm so we're delighted it's a good first step.
D
Kirsten, you think you can keep the.
C
Government open or do you think you're.
A
Headed for a shutdown? Well, it depends on the Republicans.
B
You know, we need.
A
The meeting is a first step, but only a first step. We need a serious negotiation. Now, if the president. Hold on for a second. This is how, this is how crazy this is. The Republicans have already capitulated. They've already committed to that. They're not going to get 12 appropriations bills. We're going to get a CR now, have it be a. Yeah, clean CR. But the Republicans capitulated months ago that they were going to go for a cr, that we weren't going to get any real movement in spending cuts or anything like that, or even, even 12 appropriation bills. We knew this, this. So they've already capitulated. But here's, here's Schumer because he's backed into a corner saying oh, it really all depends on the Republicans. Don't, you know, go ahead and just yell at Democrats and talk about all his alleged grievances and say this, that, and the other thing. We won't get anything done, but my hope is it'll be a serious negotiation. You know, I saw Leader Thune say there were many serious negotiations. We didn't shut the government down when they were in the minority. You know what? Why? Because I, as majority leader, sat down and negotiated with them, and we had to come to a compromise where neither side got everything it wanted. So if they're serious, I'm hopeful we can get something real done.
C
Yeah, if they're serious.
D
This guy's such a clown.
A
I mean, it's a joke.
C
Yeah.
A
I mean, a total joke that somehow this is getting framed now. And you think about. If you think about the difference in the parties, you think about Speaker Johnson, who. Who the President seems to think he's done a great job. I don't necessarily agree with that at all. Thune, I was not a fan of, obviously, a McConnellite coming in. Not a fan of him either. But you think about Thune from South Dakota and Johnson from Louisiana, and you think about Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, and you wonder how anything can get done.
C
Done.
A
Two conservative states against two communist states, and they're arguing about money for illegals and other things. And Delgado, I know you got a couple thoughts on this as well.
C
Yeah. Well, what people should know about a government shutdown right now here from CBS News. David, Republicans, Democrats are in Washington. They remain at odds over how to fund the government and avoid the shutdown by October, October, the first, which we know is Wednesday. Congressional leaders emerging from a meeting at the White House today made little progress. As a matter of fact, here is JD Vance. What he had to say after coming out of the meeting, basically saying, we're headed for a shutdown. Here he is. Cut number 10. J.D. vance speaking about the meeting he had with Democrats and their demands. Cut 10. Check it out.
A
One of the things I admired about the President, but frankly, the entire team's approach during the conversation we just had with Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries was, you know, yeah, they have some crazy ideas. Giving taxpayer money to illegal aliens for healthcare, that's a crazy idea. Funding transgender surgeries in Peru, that's a crazy idea. But they had some ideas that I actually thought were reasonable, and they had some ideas that the President thought was reasonable. What's not reasonable is to hold those ideas as Leverage and to shut down the government unless we give you everything that you want. There are multiple times where Leader Jeffries or Leader Schumer would say, you know what, we should be doing this. And the President of the United States would say, yeah, absolutely, let's have that conversation. But we're going to do it in the context of the people's government being open. We're not going to let you take the people's government hostage and then give you everything that you want. And that's really the state of the negotiation. Yeah, let's have a conversation, let's have a negotiation. But we're not going to shut down the government because we won't give the Democrats everything that they want.
C
Yeah. And some of the things they want is money for illegals so they can get free health care, among many other things. Here's, here's a take from economist Peter St. Ange. I don't know if you ever heard of this guy. He is a economist. He calls himself a recovering professor and former bartender. And here he is talking about what you can expect on a government shutdown. We're only going to play like the first 40 seconds of this. Aaron, cut number 10. Check it out.
A
The federal government is about to run out of spending authority, meaning every federal activity Donald Trump deems not essential is shut down. This happens. This would instantly lay off hundreds of thousands of federal bureaucrats. No doge required. In fact, the White House has already ordered federal agencies to, quote, prepare mass layoff plans, but also automatically defund an army of millions of left wing NGOs. It would instantly balance the federal budget. Who knew it was that easy? So federal spending is voted one year at a time and it runs out at midnight tomorrow.
C
Yeah. So you can pretty much cut it right there because that's all you need to hear. It's simple as that. And I didn't realize it was that simple. He goes, as soon as you cut that out, all that spending for the NGOs and all that stuff, all of a sudden it starts to balance out the budget.
D
Honestly, I'm all for a government Shutdown. Give us 45 days or 60 days off, save that money and let's start balancing the budget.
C
He actually said you could shut it down for a year and nothing would change because the president gets to then determine, okay, these people can get paid. Yes, you can open up the parks. Yes, you can do this. It all comes from there. So it's another little. I guess maybe they know about this. I'm sure smarter people than us know about this, that the president and the White House can do some of these things if they do decide to let the, you know, the Democrats have their Schumer shut the shutdown.
A
I have called for the government shutdown for probably all 10 years I've done this show.
B
Yep. You always say that.
A
And the Republicans have never been on board. They've always been more afraid of the shutdown than the spending. Always. They always got kicked around and lit up by Pelosi and Schumer. They would never go to the max and actually shut it down. Even though we described what the shutdown really means, means what the percentage of things that you actually shut down, how the essential things still get paid, what the order is. It's all there. The tax revenue still comes in. We've talked about this. But now maybe, maybe we'll actually get to the finish line here and people will actually see that not that much changes. All right, we'll wrap it up when we get back for a Monday right after this. Live from Studio 6 Bay. Sam. All right, 13 to the hour. Live from Studio 6B, Real America's Voice on a Monday night. We'll wrap it up here. We'll get to some more sports with Slick and more stories with Delgado. But let's get to our second crazy town of the night. We talked about Portland and what was going on there a little earlier in the show. And Delgado sent me a video of the Portland governor. Correct?
C
Yes.
A
And, well.
C
Oh, she's a peach. You'll like her.
A
She's got a different idea of what's going on in Portland. So we figured we'd make a little crazy town mashup for you to show you just how out of touch the governor of Portland is. Roll it. In my conversations directly with President Trump and Secretary Nome. Yeah.
D
I have been abundantly clear with them.
C
That Portland and the state of Oregon.
B
Believe in the rule of law.
A
Oops.
B
And we can manage our own local public safety needs. There is no insurrection.
A
There is no threat to national security. There is no need for military troops in our major city. Military service members should be dedicated to real emergencies.
B
The members of the Oregon National Guard, their mission is to stand up and protect Oregonians.
C
And they will do that every day.
A
But they are not needed in the.
C
City or they are not needed here.
A
Yeah.
C
That is the governor. The governor of Oregon. Nice fella.
B
Yes.
C
Nice fella.
B
Yeah.
C
Tina Kotak, I think is the name there.
D
She looks like Rosie o' Donnell's dad.
A
I mean, just another out of touch Democrat to what's going on. But it's to a broader, it's to the broader point and it's the same thing by the Carolina, you see the North Carolina, we just told you the story about this poor girl and her dad. And then arena on the, on the, on the thing. You see these, you see these representatives in these meetings. They can't even pronounce these girls names. When they even try to talk about it, they don't get the names right. They have no idea who they are because they don't give a damn. They don't care. There's no responsibility for them. They don't feel like it's necessary for them to know who they are, to actually get educated on who they are, are, to actually be able to speak about who they are. She doesn't think there's any problem in Portland, Oregon. She doesn't think that Trump's troops need to be there. Okay. Some people get hurt, maybe some people get killed. It's fine though, because this is the mentality of these people because they're for the other side. Therefore the enemies, they throw in with the enemy. They don't throw in with law enforcement, they don't throw in with ice. They think they're the problem. Problem. Right.
C
She even has a senior advisor, Christina Narayan, who is her legislative director when she was with the Oregon House, who was arrested throwing firebombs, mortars and other projectiles at officers outside the East Portland Community Policing center back in 2020. Yeah, but that's, that's one of her.
A
Girls probably got a raise.
C
She. Yeah, exactly. It's amazing. Did you, all these criminals, they, they just love to keep each other employ.
A
Floyd Delgado. I know the other thing you've been keeping an eye on is what's going on in New Jersey. This race.
C
Yes.
A
Race seemingly has tightened up. We've been talking about New Jersey and whether the, whether really the momentum is there to turn New Jersey. I mean, I mean, I guess we could say red, maybe even purple would be an improvement, but certainly red would be a big improvement. What's going on in the governor's race there?
C
Well, let's see. Well, it is a blue state that's been known by, but with the governor's race between, between Mikey Sherrill and Jacksonrelli, the blue state, according to the Atlantic, that is now turning into a bellwether. Nobody thinks that New Jersey is a swing state. Not yet anyway. According to the Atlantic, they're getting a little nervous. If they're, if they're writing this in the Atlantic, they're Getting nervous because Mikey Sherrill is not prone to hyperbole. The Democratic nominee for governor in New Jersey is measured in mainstream.
A
They say, is it Mikey or Mickey?
C
Mickey or Mikey, Whatever. Yeah, exactly. And they claim New Jersey is no one's idea of a swing state. It hasn't voted Republican for president nearly four decades and had last elected a GOP senator during the Nixon administration. But the Garden State has been moving rightward the past few years. Donald Trump came within six points of winning the electoral votes last year. And the governor's office has historically toggled between Republican and Democrat. Here's a little bit bit from the wannabe Democratic candidate for New Jersey governor. Here is Mickey, Mikey, whatever her name is, Cheryl, talking about what she wants to do when it comes to, you know, schools in New Jersey. Check this out. Cut number 11.
A
Should parents have the right to opt their kids out of LGBTQ related content in the same way that right now they can be removed from sex ed.
C
And health curriculum classes?
A
Look, I believe that parents have the right to oversee their children's education. I would push in LGBTQ education into our schools. Parents have a right to opt out of a lot of things, but. But this is not an area where they should be opting out, because this is an area of understanding the background of people throughout our nation. And right now, we see, for example, at the Naval Academy, an erasure of history.
C
Yeah, and what she leaves out is she doesn't want to understand the background of the parents who don't want their kids indoctrinated this way. You see, she only sees the background the way she wants to see it, which is exactly what is wrong with the Democrat Party. Hopefully this helps get the Republican Jack Citarelli elected.
A
I mean, that's another crazy town right there. It's too short, but, I mean, that's crazy town.
C
Yeah. Everything this woman talks about is crazy.
A
All right, let's do some sports to wrap it up. Sports brought to you by Mike Lindell. LFS6P is the promo code to use. Slickster. What's going on?
B
I want to shout out Sal and Amory. I ran into them yesterday at Tunnel to Towers. Viewers of the show recognized. Slick Rick took a picture with them. They were there as well, walking with 30,000 of us. So great. Yeah, Dave Portnoy.
A
Sounds like a great day.
B
Unbelievable. Joe Piscopo was there as well.
A
Firefighters I saw on the line when Portnoy started it.
B
Unbelievable.
C
Now, can I ask, when you ran the tunnels of town, did you run in a suit? What did you have a special.
B
I blended right in. They were cracking up. I showed up and like the red T shirt that they give you. And I wore purple, you know, you know, sweatpants. And I was very low.
C
Okay.
B
They were laughing. They couldn't believe they never saw me. No, nobody recognized me until right at the end. Then somebody recognized me. But no, I didn't wear my boots or anything like that.
D
No golden sneakers?
B
No, no, no. I thought I got a great pair of sneakers, but it was raining. I didn't want to push it early on before it started. Jets and Dolphins right now, 24:13. Dolphins leading that one. Seven minutes to go in the fourth, Aaron. I don't know. It's going to be a tough, tough comeback there. Not sure that's going to happen.
A
Happen.
B
Big injury with Tyreek Hill, though. He was caught it off run through January.
C
I'm going to start tuning all of you out.
A
You're not going to January, so just through December. So you'll be all right.
B
Neither is my team, so don't worry. And Denver right now up 21 to 3 at the half. I mean, Bo Nix is just having his way with Cincinnati, obviously. No Joe Burrow, so that makes a big difference as well.
D
And no defense.
B
No defense at all. Just real quick. I mean, that bad bunny was the announcement for the halftime talent. I was like, for the Super bowl, right? February 8th, Super Bowl 60.
A
Paul.
D
Yeah, I just want to chime in. I mean, we watch this revival of all these people finding, you know, spirituality and Christ and Christian. This guy's an avowed Satanist, isn't he? Complete opposite, full blown demonic figure. And here they are, they want to announce him as the guy who's going to be at the Super Bowl. To me, it's just another mainstream media.
B
F you to the world based basically on all his streaming and everything else.
A
But he's. He is. I mean, again, not to take the other side side, but he is the number one streamed artist in the history of music. Yep. Really? Y. So Jay Z and I didn't know. Did you know Jay Z is responsible for picking the halftime. Yes. I thought the NFL picked it. I had no idea they had farmed it out to him.
B
Apple Music, Rock Nation, Jay Z, they're all tied in.
A
So that's how.
B
Y.
A
So I think they're just saying, well, if we can't get Taylor Swift, which I'm sure they tried to. They did.
B
She walked out of the negotiation.
A
We might as well get the most streamed artists in the history of stream streaming. That would be my guess, not Tom McDonald. So. All right, as always, we salute our military. Active and active. Police, firefighters, first responders, EMTs, everybody on the front lines protecting us. Thanks, everybody on the show. Aaron Frank, great job as always. Most of all, thank you. Live from Studio 6B. Audience, we'll see you tomorrow night. Wrapping up September. Tomorrow night, back here, 8:00pm Live from Studio 6B. Sam, this is an I Heart podcast.
Monday, September 29, 2025
Host: iHeartPodcasts
Date: September 30, 2025
This episode of "Live From Studio 6B" dives into a mix of national news, cultural commentary, sports, and political analysis, all delivered with the network’s signature candid, energetic banter. The team revisits a major loss in the conservative movement with a passionate tribute to Charlie Kirk, covers the fallout from James Comey's indictment, surveys the ongoing unrest and federal intervention in Portland, assesses sports highlights (notably the Ryder Cup and NFL action), and looks at urban political shifts in New York City and New Jersey. The episode’s lively, conversational tone is peppered with memorable quips and several “Crazy Town” segments that lampoon media and political figures.
Segment Timestamps: 02:29–13:26
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Segment Timestamps: 29:20–34:03; 86:43–90:08
The episode balances deep outrage (over the Kirk tribute and the Federico story) with irreverent humor, robust skepticism toward mainstream media, and a “real talk” approach to cultural and political issues. Hosts frequently shift between seriousness and sarcasm, especially when dissecting progressive politicians or media figures.
This episode encapsulates the Real America’s Voice ethos: blending unflinching criticism of progressive governance, spirited defense of traditional values, and skepticism toward media narratives, all set against a backdrop of humor, camaraderie, and a strong sense of mission. It’s a densely-packed dose of unfiltered conservative analysis aimed at keeping its listeners both informed and motivated.