The Left In Shambles: Penny Not Guilty, Lorenz Fired, NY Assassin Captured?

Summary

Ruthless Podcast Episode Summary: "The Left In Shambles: Penny Not Guilty, Lorenz Fired, NY Assassin Captured?"

Release Date: December 10, 2024

Hosts: Josh Holmes, Comfortably Smug, Michael Duncan, and John Ashbrook

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Overview

In this episode of the Ruthless Podcast, the hosts dissect a series of high-profile events that highlight what they perceive as the decline of left-wing influence in various sectors of American society. From the acquittal of Daniel Penny to the firing of Taylor Lorenz and the capture of a New York assassin, the discussion blends political commentary, media critique, and sharp satire to offer a conservative perspective on current affairs.

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1. The Left in Shambles

The episode opens with the hosts discussing a significant shift in the sociopolitical landscape, suggesting that leftist ideologies are losing ground across media, corporate America, and social platforms.

• Michael Duncan [03:05]:

  "There were like two diverging paths. One, which is like the worst case scenario if something had happened to President Trump... But we are now on the good timeline."

The hosts argue that Trump's election victory has catalyzed this "vibe shift," leading to increasing dissatisfaction and fracturing within left-leaning circles.

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2. The Daniel Penny Case

A substantial portion of the discussion centers on Daniel Penny, a Marine who heroically subdued an individual threatening violence on the subway. Despite his actions, Penny faced legal challenges that the hosts attribute to politically motivated prosecution.

• Josh Holmes [04:02]:

  "Daniel Penny ultimately subdued... but faced murder charges."

The hosts criticize the media's portrayal of Penny, labeling the prosecuting attorneys as "Soros prosecutors" intent on demoralizing public intervention and discouraging ordinary Americans from taking decisive action in emergencies.

• Comfortably Smug [08:42]:

  "She is the prosecutor in New York and there's a picture of her... she is going to carry out this leftist view of the world."

The discussion underscores a broader concern about political prosecutions undermining civic responsibility and rewarding non-intervention in crises.

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3. New York Assassin Captured

The conversation shifts to the capture of Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the assassination of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson. The hosts employ satire to critique both the suspect's background and the handling of the case.

• Josh Holmes [17:27]:

  "Does that feel right? Because we could, we could go with like a Mangione."

They mock the suspect's attempt to use fake IDs at McDonald's and highlight the absurdity of an educated individual turning to such extreme actions, drawing parallels to historical figures like Osama bin Laden to emphasize perceived ideological extremism.

• Michael Duncan [21:25]:

  "You can't fight genetics... He tried to have a normal life."

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4. Taylor Lorenz Fired

The episode addresses the firing of Taylor Lorenz from the Washington Post, portraying her as a symbol of radical leftist media influence.

• Josh Holmes [24:18]:

  "Is she gonna find a home? I didn't know Vox was still in business, by the way..."

The hosts critique Lorenz's advocacy for violent actions against insurance executives, framing her as a "trust fund kid" disconnected from practical realities and overly influenced by extremist ideologies.

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5. Renaming Canada to the 51st State

Engaging with listener contributions, the hosts entertain the hypothetical scenario of renaming Canada as the 51st state, presenting humorous and satirical suggestions.

• Comfortably Smug [32:37]:

  "I think we could rename Canada something like Trump Landia."

Listener comments range from "Mar-a-Lago" to "Canuck," highlighting the hosts' blend of humor and political commentary.

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6. Department of Health and Human Services Celebrates Pansexual Pride Day

The hosts critique the expansion of LGBTQ+ terminology, specifically targeting the Department of Health and Human Services for recognizing "Pansexual and Pan Romantic Pride Day."

• Josh Holmes [48:58]:

  "You got men, you got women, you got a bunch of people in categories underneath it... I certainly don't need the health of human services being the one that's arbitrating how you identify personally."

This segment underscores the hosts' skepticism towards evolving gender and sexual identity classifications within governmental institutions.

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7. Donald Trump Selling Colognes

In a lighter segment, the hosts discuss Donald Trump's foray into the fragrance market, using it as a vehicle for satire.

• Comfortably Smug [51:47]:

  "It's so funny... fragrance your enemies can't resist."

They mock the marketing imagery and the concept of a political figure endorsing a personal grooming product, highlighting perceived vanity and commercialism.

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Notable Quotes

• Michael Duncan [03:05]:

  "The good timeline for the left is a very bad thing."

• Comfortably Smug [32:37]:

  "I think we could rename Canada something like Trump Landia."

• Josh Holmes [48:58]:

  "You got men, you got women, you got a bunch of people in categories underneath it... I certainly don't need the health of human services being the one that's arbitrating how you identify personally."

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Conclusion

The episode offers a critical examination of recent events through a conservative lens, emphasizing concerns about left-wing overreach in media, corporate governance, and legal systems. The hosts blend serious commentary with satire, aiming to resonate with listeners who share their skepticism towards prevailing leftist narratives.

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Note: This summary focuses solely on the substantive discussions within the episode, excluding advertisements, intros, outros, and non-content segments as per the provided transcript guidelines.

Transcript

[Josh Holmes]

It is pretty incredible what's happening.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah.

[Josh Holmes]

Because you can see it in media, you can see it in social space, you see it in corporate America. All these things are sort of combined, like everybody sort of figured out, like, oh, we've been on the wrong side of things for quite some time.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah. I mean, it definitely feels like there's been some kind of a vibe shift. I think Trump winning the election absolutely solidified it. And you're seeing a lot of people are finally catching on to that. There was this line, I think it was when he was on Joe Rogan, Marc Andreessen had a line where he was like, the day of the attempted assassination of Trump, there was like a split in the timeline and it was like there were two diverging paths. One, which is like the worst case scenario if something had happened to President Trump, like, it would have been the worst possible outcome. But we are now on the good timeline. Like, Trump survived, Trump won. You're seeing like Walmart's against DEI now. Right. You're seeing as we'll cover in the news. Daniel Penny, like, we are in the good timeline. And the good timeline for the left is a very bad thing.

[Josh Holmes]

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[John Ashbrook]

Just catching strays over here.

[Josh Holmes]

You're in for a hell of a show.

[Michael Duncan]

Keep the faith, hold the line and own the libs.

[Comfortably Smug]

It's time for our main event.

[Josh Holmes]

Welcome back to a big program here in the Ruthless Variety Program. I'm Josh Holmes along with comfortably smug Michael Duncan. John Ashbrook. Left a right across your radio dial. As always, fellas, it is a hell of a week. We're getting close to the holidays here.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah.

[Josh Holmes]

The most wonderful time.

[John Ashbrook]

Time of the year.

[Josh Holmes]

There we go. I wanted the madrigal involved. Thank you, Michael. Lots going on.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah.

[Josh Holmes]

It turns out the left is in shambles.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah. I mean, the news cycle is like a mile a minute right now. It's flying. But basically the news cycle continues to be. The left is melting down and we keep winning like I'm still not tired of all the winning.

[Josh Holmes]

It is pretty incredible what's happening.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah.

[Josh Holmes]

Because you can see it in media, you can see it in social space, you see it in corporate America. All these things are sort of combined. Like, everybody sort of figured out, like, oh, we've been on the wrong side of things for quite some time.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah. I mean, it definitely feels like there's been some kind of a vibe shift. I think Trump winning the election absolutely solidified it. And you're seeing a lot of people are finally catching on to that. There was this line, I think it was when he was on Joe Rogan. Marc Andreessen had a line where he was like, the day of the attempted assassination of Trump, there was like a split in the timeline. And it was like there were two diverging paths. One, which is like the worst case scenario. If something had happened to President Trump, like, it would have been the worst possible outcome. But we are now on the good timeline. Like, Trump survived, Trump won. You're seeing, like, Walmart's against DEI now. Right. You're seeing, as we'll cover in the news, Daniel Penny. Like, we are in the good timeline. And the good timeline for the left is a very bad thing.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah. Right. It involves Taylor Lorenz.

[Michael Duncan]

Yes.

[Josh Holmes]

And a whole bunch of things that we're going to get into in this show. But, like, look, I think we ought to start with the Daniel Penny thing.

[Michael Duncan]

Yes, yes.

[Josh Holmes]

So just for those of you who hadn't followed this, there was a big, big kerfuffle along. Was it like mid summer, early summer, maybe even spring? I don't even remember exactly what the timeline was, but Daniel Penney was someone who was riding a subway who encountered an absolutely unhinged individual who was attacking people, basically. And this was a guy who, much like the people that we all grew up with, when you see something in danger to others around public place, you do something about it.

[Michael Duncan]

There was an unhinged guy on the subway who said it was direct, quote, I'm gonna kill everybody.

[John Ashbrook]

I don't care if I go to prison.

[Michael Duncan]

I don't care if I go to prison.

[Comfortably Smug]

Yeah, right.

[Josh Holmes]

So this guy did something about it. And there was a ton of video contemporaneous of the fact about what happened. Exactly what happened. Well, the guy who was saying he was gonna kill everybody and was assaulting people and whatnot that Daniel Benny ultimately subdued died as a result of his actions and his own actions.

[Michael Duncan]

Because when the police arrived on the scene, the unhinged dude was still alive.

[Comfortably Smug]

Right. And there's all of this context about what the unhinged guy had consumed ahead of his, like, assault on these people on the subway. And so a lot of the blame went to Daniel Penny when he maybe wasn't totally.

[John Ashbrook]

And if we. If we lived in a normal world, you know, Daniel Penny would have been a hero from day one. But of course, not in the media. How they characterized it at the time is like, famous subway Michael Jackson impersonator murdered by.

[Josh Holmes]

We covered at the time.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah, yep. By veteran.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah, that's basically how they covered it. It was a famous Michael Jackson impersonator. Never mind the fact that he had all kinds of mental health issues and that he was actually threatening life or death of people on the subway. This guy did something about it. And you're right in that any other case, at any other point in American history, we were looking at somebody who would have been given the keys to the city and somebody who would have been celebrated as a hero. And this particular law enforcement agency within Manhattan decided, oh, no, we're going to press murder charges against this guy. Which we covered it at the time. And like, my big fear about this, and I still continue to have this fear just because of what Michael Penny had to go through now, he was ultimately acquitted yesterday on all these things, which is like a bless to humanity. But my concern was, look, all of us, we try to limit public interaction at this point because of these kind of situations. We didn't used to. But you grew up with this sense of obligation that if someone was being hurt, you would do something about it. And all of us, like, it's instinctual in a lot of ways. In our generation, I think it's instinctual that you would do something about it. You probably wouldn't think about it until after it was all over, and you would find yourself in the situation that Daniel Penny had. But my concern was for future generations that you wouldn't. You're like, oh, it's much more concerning for me.

[Michael Duncan]

That's the thing, and you see this across the country is when you had these, like, Soros prosecutors show up on the scene and their intent was in. In a way, basically to demoralize the public of like, if you see something, say nothing, do nothing, right? Remain in fear. And if you've had the misfortune to ride the New York City subway, you know, you get on there, there's probably going to be someone nutty running amok. It's full of homeless people, people who are jumping the turnstiles. Anything could happen. There's been Numerous people killed, pushed onto the subway tracks. It's become this like daily way of life for people that, oh well, I could get attacked by an unhinged homeless person. Because prosecutors in New York City have made it legal to be insane and a danger to public and illegal to step in and try to do the right thing.

[Comfortably Smug]

But speaking of the Soros prosecutors, if you haven't seen the prosecutor who was trying to bring down this hero, Daniel Penny, do yourself a favor and Google Daphna Urine. She is the prosecutor in New York and there's a picture of her.

[Josh Holmes]

Do we have.

[Comfortably Smug]

There's a picture of her wearing this like modern art T shirt with the lib glasses, talking about how she is going to carry out this leftist view of the world in all of these interviews that she does.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah. There was a video that went around where she was. There was a case of, I believe he was an 86 year old man who was robbed at the ATM and he was thrown to the ground and died. And in this video she's saying, you know, I feel really bad for the robber. I mean, because, you know, he grew up under rough circumstances and was put in this situation. Put in this situation. He kills him. When the prosecutor is saying, I sympathize with the criminal instead of I sympathize with this 80 year old man who was murdered, there's a problem.

[Comfortably Smug]

Right. These Soros prosecutors are a big problem because they pick winners and losers as they see the world, not as regular people who understand the system of justice as it should be.

[Michael Duncan]

That's right.

[Comfortably Smug]

They believe in a system of injustice.

[Michael Duncan]

That's right.

[Comfortably Smug]

And they, they're there to correct it. Exactly.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah.

[John Ashbrook]

I was worried about it for a little while because, you know, last week there was a deadlock on the jury.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah.

[John Ashbrook]

And then they came back and ultimately found him not guilty of the manslaughter charge. But then the judge, I think it's called an Allen charge, where you go to the jury and be like, all right, you have to like deliver a verdict on this thing, this other charge. And so they went back and deliberated longer. Thankfully, though acquitted on that as well.

[Comfortably Smug]

But the reason why they did that is because this process lunatic leftist prosecutor was like, please dismiss this initial charge in hopes that she could get him on this other charge. And of course the jury was like, not guilty.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah. Also weird that manslaughter is a higher charge than criminally negligent homicide. You would think, you know, homicide. What is homicide in the word?

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah, it's just, it's also Such a bizarre circumstance. But, but it is indicative of this larger, bizarre point in time that we were in from 2020 to 2023.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah, it's just political prosecution.

[Josh Holmes]

Where it's political prosecution. And this is why, if you, if you revisit back to our conversation from last week about the Hunter Biden thing, why I was so upset about being a president United States and giving voice to political prosecutions as being a problem because it affected his own son and then not talking about the larger problem that is inflecting Americans around this country and has been now for three or four long years.

[John Ashbrook]

I mean, specifically in the same jurisdiction as this in New York.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah.

[John Ashbrook]

You know, like that misdemeanor against Trump or becomes, you know, however many felonies against Donald Trump and only in New York would they do something like that. And that was just what they did to Daniel Penn.

[Comfortably Smug]

They spent months trashing this guy through their allies in the left wing media. And then in the courtroom. I don't know if you guys saw this in the courtroom. As soon as the verdict of not guilty came down, there were leftists who basically threatened to kill Daniel Penny.

[John Ashbrook]

Yep.

[Comfortably Smug]

When he walked out of the courtroom, there was a guy waiting, this leftist lunatic who was like, oh, it's a small world.

[Michael Duncan]

He was like a BLM leader, implying.

[Comfortably Smug]

That they're going to do something to the guy. So where, if you're a guy, if you're Daniel Penny, you've now been found not guilty and yet what do you do? Where do you live? You're a hero who protected all these people on the subway and all these, you know, people on the subway who were victims, white, black, Hispanic, whatever. They needed somebody to help them. And that's what he did. And yet these leftists are like, no, there's no quarter for you. We are going to come and find you. So what do you do if you.

[Michael Duncan]

My advice to Daniel Penney, same thing I did. You have to leave New York. It's not a sane town anymore. It's a town. This has shown how hostile they are to Americans who want to go about their daily lives, who want to be normal people. You can't do that in New York City. You gotta leave. My recommendation, I pick North Carolina, pick Florida. They've got a sane governor and a sane justice system in the state of Florida. But that's what's happened is that these cities, especially with the rule of these Soros prosecutors and these morons that are elected to public office there, it's just, it's untenable.

[Josh Holmes]

If you live in a city where someone runs in an elected office, elected judicial office, meaning they're upholding the law, whether they're a judge or a sheriff or whatever, at putting political enemies in prison.

[Michael Duncan]

Yep.

[Josh Holmes]

Get the fuck out of there.

[Comfortably Smug]

Yeah.

[Josh Holmes]

Because, I mean, this is. This is what Biden had the opportunity to speak to and he deliberately chose not to.

[Comfortably Smug]

Yeah, you. I mean, this was a great point that you made, like a week and a half ahead of time for all of this stuff. And it's. It was very prescient for what we're dealing with today.

[John Ashbrook]

Well, I mean, this. This is a thing, you know, crazy people running amok on, you know, Metro or sub or the subway that, like, I've dealt with.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah. Oh, everybody.

[John Ashbrook]

I'm sure everybody has. I remember a few months ago riding the Metro and, you know, one of these crazy people starting to, like, shout at other people who did nothing to them on. In the train car. And like, you know, what you do in a situation like that, at least I do, is like you position yourself where you've got eyes on that person.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah.

[John Ashbrook]

But you don't look at them.

[Josh Holmes]

Right.

[John Ashbrook]

You know, because again, there are lunatic periphery.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah.

[John Ashbrook]

But you want to make sure, like, your back is to the wall and you're aware of what this person is doing. You don't want to be surprised. And I remember looking around that train car and everybody petrified. But in the back of my head is like one of these libs on this. If I. If it came to doing something, one of these libs on here is going to be all in favor of me being put on trial for assaulting this.

[Josh Holmes]

Crazy person, which is like, through no.

[Comfortably Smug]

Fault of your own.

[Michael Duncan]

Right.

[John Ashbrook]

And it's like, you know, how many people just like, hurry off the car on the next stop and don't do anything because they're scared of the jurisdiction in which they live.

[Josh Holmes]

Look, it's an important moment and we lead the show with it. It's not top federal political news, but we lead it with. Because it's an important moment. One, he's acquitted. Thank God. Two, you have to think about why he was ever prosecuted in the first place and know what the danger is in what you are facing when you're dealing with these hyper political prosecution units across this country that were funded by George Soros and everything else. So anyway, I'm glad. Thank goodness Daniel Penny's a free man. He's a Marine. Decorating Marine. Did his work on behalf of all of us and the people in that subway and thank goodness he's going home. When we come back, we're going to talk a little bit about the New York assassination of the United Healthcare CEO.

[John Ashbrook]

Big law and order day on the.

[Josh Holmes]

Ruthless law and order. There's news on that front. There's news on that front where you get into all of that right after this.

[Michael Duncan]

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[Josh Holmes]

Out, much to Spaghetti's dismay, that they've named a suspect. And, well, let's just say he, he's not Irish.

[John Ashbrook]

No.

[Josh Holmes]

Luigi Mangione.

[Michael Duncan]

Oh, what a surprise.

[Josh Holmes]

Does that feel right? Is that the, is that like a. Because we could, we could go with like a Mangione.

[Michael Duncan]

Mangione.

[Josh Holmes]

Are we going Mangione, Spaghetti? Yeah. Okay, well, so this is the cat that they've brought in custody. You've probably all seen the video by now of cloaked assassin outside of a hotel in New York City who like brazenly in a morning came in and just shot the CEO of a Fortune 50 company. That just doesn't happen in America. I mean, it's just something that's just completely insane.

[Comfortably Smug]

Right?

[Josh Holmes]

And it looked like a hit. I've seen a lot of YouTube videos that suggested that this is not a professional hitman based on the way that he handled it.

[John Ashbrook]

But he's living up to the Italian stereotype.

[Josh Holmes]

But, you know, he did what he did and now all of a sudden you find him in a McDonald's where.

[Comfortably Smug]

I don't.

[Josh Holmes]

I mean, listen to the New York Post. A person of interest was nabbed Monday in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson. Busted. Possibly trying to use a fake ID at McDonald's. I got a lot of questions about that.

[Michael Duncan]

Yep, same.

[Josh Holmes]

A fake. What is he being ID for McDonald's.

[John Ashbrook]

I have to imagine a concerned citizen probably recognized his face and must have called the cops and the cops asked him for id. I can only think that's the reason why, you know.

[Josh Holmes]

Right.

[Comfortably Smug]

Gotta be, well, the best of us are going to McDonald's. Or I think that that proves that it's.

[Michael Duncan]

Was he trying to like order a Chianti or something? They're like, we need to see some idea Migo. Like.

[Josh Holmes]

I mean, like, nobody is greater hurt than the Olive Garden at this thing than he was at McDonald's during.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah, bad for the brand.

[Josh Holmes]

He goes to McDonald's. The man who sources said is being eyed for the cold blooded targeted execution in front of a Manhattan hotel last week. Allegedly had a manifesto on him when he was taken into custody. Custody by cops in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He also had a gun, a silencer, four fake IDs and other items consistent with what authorities said they were looking for in the case.

[Michael Duncan]

They were looking for a tall Italian. They caught Luigi. Who would have guessed? You know. And what's the manifesto? You know, just a spaghetti cookbook. What's this guy got on him? You got Luigi lasagna caught in the McDonald's. You knew it was an Italian. Like, let's be serious. We all knew it was an Italian. You're. It's the middle of New York. The guy pulls out a suppressed gun, shoots somebody. This is the same thing. It was like St. Valentine's massacre, right? Was it Spark Steakhouse? This is just the Italians do in that town.

[John Ashbrook]

It is. It is very funny in hot blooded Italian, perfect hot blooded Italian lore that he only got caught because he took down his mask to flirt with a girl.

[Josh Holmes]

So I will stress allegedly in all this case because charges have not yet been brought on Luigi. But this is unbelievable in so many different ways. I mean, look, people. People have different. The story. We were talking about this a little earlier before we came on show. So this guy that they're identifying as the suspect who had all this stuff on him was the valedictorian of an elite school. $40,000 a year. And he went to. He allegedly is like a master's or was obtained a master's from Penn. The story of what brings a human from the point where he was at to doing what allegedly happened. It didn't allegedly happen is allegedly he was involved in it outside of a New York hotel room, it's got to be the wildest thing you've ever heard.

[Michael Duncan]

You can't fight genetics. Like, you know, he tried to have a normal life. That should be his defense. Not guilty by reason of Italian. You know, like he had a normal day and then the Italian just snapped in. She went, full Italian.

[Josh Holmes]

Spaghetti's coming over the dial.

[Michael Duncan]

Never go full Italian.

[Josh Holmes]

He's coming over the diet.

[John Ashbrook]

He went to a very expensive school in the Baltimore area. And you know, it's just, it's not surprising. I, I don't think like, I think like affluent, rudderless, intelligent people have been, you know, terrorists since the dawn of man. I mean, like, think about like Osama bin Laden, like the scion billionaire scion of, you know, construction fortune. Ayman Al Zawari was a doctor. Saeed Khab was a professor.

[Josh Holmes]

There's always a fascinating story as to what led them to this point.

[John Ashbrook]

Oh, of course, you know, of course.

[Josh Holmes]

And that, that is the most interesting part to me is that you've got a guy who seemingly had a lot going on for him, who got to a level of bizarre, anti corporate, like, what is it? Antifa, basically anti fascist point of view where he felt like he was on him to assassinate a CEO of an insurance company. Of an insurance company.

[Michael Duncan]

Like, what happened to this guy? He get like an injury on Rainbow Road. He got hit with a red shell. Luigi's gone. He's snapped.

[Josh Holmes]

He got hit by a red shell.

[Michael Duncan]

Claim denied. And he's like, that's it.

[John Ashbrook]

But I mean, that's how these Marxists always are, dude, is like, if they see somebody who's wealthy or has done well in their life, the first thing they think is, what labor did you exploit from the asses? And that makes you an evil person in their eyes. And so that anything is justified against those sorts of people.

[Josh Holmes]

It's. It's bizarre.

[Comfortably Smug]

It is bizarre. And you know, the other thing that struck me is the way that the left has reacted to this. Yeah, you've seen so many tweets from the left that they're like, yes, I need to find the jacket that he wore and I'm gonna buy that jacket and I'm gonna wear it around New York. And the, like, the difference between how the left reacted to Daniel Penny, who was sticking up for other people who are on their way to work on the subway, and the way that the left has reacted to this lunatic who shot a guy in cold blood is stark. And I think it tells you exactly who they are. And it tells you why nobody in America wants to be like that.

[Josh Holmes]

Well, no. Better personified by somebody who is an annual powerhouse in hack madness. Taylor Lorenz.

[John Ashbrook]

Yes.

[Josh Holmes]

Now we were extremely concerned when she was fired from the Washington Post because, you know, this is somebody who is a final four participant each and every march in hack madness here. And like, is she gonna find a home?

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah, it'd be like Duke dissolving its basketball team.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah, right. It's like, oh, you can't. No, we can't have it. Like, I would expect to see them compete.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah.

[Josh Holmes]

And. And well, anyway, Vox hired her. I didn't know Vox was still in business, by the way, but Vox. Vox, yeah, hired her and then they fired her. So the reason they fired her was following an article in which she said she wants more executives to die after the assassination of the United Health CEO.

[Michael Duncan]

This is exactly what Duncan just said is Taylor Rends went to like a 70,000 a year Swiss boarding school. Yeah, right. Little trust fund kid. And she's out here being like, yes, the Marxist revolution must come. We must assassinate more seniors.

[John Ashbrook]

Wealthy rudderless kids who feel like the world owes them something, are addicted to these luxury belief politics that are extremely radical.

[Josh Holmes]

They just are becoming more radical. It used to just be that like, the hell with everybody, you know, everybody's wrong. And they would just. They would have. They would platform themselves to speak nonsense. But now we're talking about advocating for the murder of people, which is like that. That's a different. That's a different thing.

[Michael Duncan]

You'd really think there'd be a line.

[Josh Holmes]

Look at the graphic 4 why we quote, unquote, want insurance executives dead. No, that does not mean people should murder them. But if you've watched a loved one suffer and die from insurance denial, it's normal to wish the people responsible would suffer the same fate. So she goes on to like, basically provide some.

[John Ashbrook]

It's a defense.

[Josh Holmes]

Level of defense.

[John Ashbrook]

It's a defense of murder is what.

[Josh Holmes]

It is of what's going on.

[John Ashbrook]

Because to them it's like, wink, wink. It's justified.

[Comfortably Smug]

Here's the thing, just to build off of what you've said a number of times, Michael, and I think it's a very astute observation about these trust fund kids. They have all the money in the world. They have no wants, except for one thing, fame. They want to be famous. Taylor Lorenz wants to be famous. Luigi, whatever his face is, wants to be famous. And infamy is a form of fame to them. Yeah, it's an acceptable form of fame because they just want people to know their name. They don't want to just be a rich kid who somebody else earned the money and gave them to them.

[John Ashbrook]

So I think it's kind of that, but I think it's like a life where you have. Everything is a life devoid of meaning. And so they, like people like that are in search of some meaning. And some of that meaning means rejecting what they are themselves.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah.

[John Ashbrook]

Which is.

[Josh Holmes]

Well, that's the only way you get attention.

[John Ashbrook]

Right, right.

[Josh Holmes]

You're never going to. I mean, look, it goes into partisan politics. Like I remember McConnell telling everybody when we first got started in a Republican conference at the height of democratic power in 07 or 08, you're never going to garner more headlines and be more popular the moment that you speak out against your Republican colleagues. And that goes in a very crazy way to what we're talking about. Now. If you're a rich, like, fully subsidized individual, you'll never get more attention than you are of rejecting the culture by which you were brought up in.

[Michael Duncan]

And that's like, imagine being Tyler Lawrence's father, you know, like, you end up with this trust fund monster. Like, what would be worse? Like, if you're in that situation for your daughter to be Marxist journal or only fans? Like, what is the worst possible outcome? Dude, journal are only fans.

[Josh Holmes]

Do you have an answer?

[Michael Duncan]

Dude, that is like a Sophie's choice.

[Josh Holmes]

No, it's a really Sophie's choice.

[Michael Duncan]

Oh my God.

[Josh Holmes]

Would you rather have the poll or would you rather have like Marxist journal? I don't.

[John Ashbrook]

Oh my God.

[Josh Holmes]

I mean, no, honestly, this is. This is the question of the day. This is the question of the day. We had a very different question of the day planned for you, but this is our question of the day. Would you rather have a daughter in your family be on the pole or a Marxist journal? I don't have an answer.

[John Ashbrook]

I mean, at least the strippers earning a living. That's all I'm going to say.

[Comfortably Smug]

Yeah.

[Josh Holmes]

I mean, look, and I don't have.

[John Ashbrook]

A daughter, so this is totally hypothetical for me.

[Josh Holmes]

Providing goods and services.

[John Ashbrook]

Just saying.

[Josh Holmes]

Providing goods and services. I don't know. I mean, look at the next graphic. This is the. This is the cat. So Taylor runs followed this cat on 4A. If you wouldn't mind spaghetti. So this is a Luigi. Yeah, this is Luigi. And again, the alleged suspect here, which he's got a. Got a picture of himself in the upper right where he's like all jacked.

[John Ashbrook]

Out and he's hiking shirtless.

[Michael Duncan]

Wait, this guy lives in Hawaii? Is that accurate? That says on here.

[Josh Holmes]

I just don't feel like any of it. Listen, this is all very late breaking. We're gonna find out a lot more, but this is allegedly.

[Michael Duncan]

Like, how unhinged was this Hawaiian, Italian? Did he put pineapple on his pizza? Like, what's the story on his.

[Josh Holmes]

I don't know, but that could be a terrorist act in and of itself. Yeah, that could be a terrorist act in and of itself. Anyway, she followed this cat, which is, I think, the surest sign that it might be an authentic deal.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah.

[Josh Holmes]

Anyway, take it for what it's worth. Here at the Ruthless Variety Program, we endeavor to give you the very best information we can. But we'll also tell you when we're just not sure. And this is one of those circumstances. So just remember the poll or a Marxist journal.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah.

[Josh Holmes]

And. And you make the call. Tell us in your.

[Comfortably Smug]

Tell us.

[Josh Holmes]

Tell us in your responses how you feel about all of that. You got to like and subscribe.

[Comfortably Smug]

Like and subscribe if you wish to opine.

[Michael Duncan]

That's right.

[Josh Holmes]

And if you got to. If you want your friends to hear this, you gotta do the same thing. We got a lot more about the depraved reactions that we're seeing from liberals around this assassination, plus your comments from last week. We're gonna get to all of it right after this.

[Comfortably Smug]

All right, so I just gotta point out that my friends at Americans for Prosperity made a huge difference this year. AFP volunteers made millions of voter contacts, which is absolutely mind blowing. They are the largest, most effective ground game operation in the country to defend and advance the conservative movement. But now that the election is behind us, the hard work of turning electoral victory into policy wins begins. And the grassroots army with Americans for Prosperity will again be in the thick of it. We have an incredible opportunity next year to get the country back on track, but it means we're all going to have to roll up our sleeves and get to work. If you're ready to join a winning team making a difference across the country, check out my friends at AFP and you can learn more at americansforprosperity.org.

[Josh Holmes]

All right, so last Thursday, we asked you a pertinent question based on the comments of Donald Trump about Canada. Remember, Justin Trudeau came down to have an audience with the incoming President United States, and was making all kinds of cases about the new alliance between Canada and the United States under Donald Trump, where he suggested, like, either they can fix the trade imbalance or become our 51st state. And so our question was, if we have it as a 51st day, what would you name this thing? What would you name this thing? And so all of our comments are just fantastic. We just love you guys for just weighing in on all of it. But we always start with a voice. And let's do that now.

[Comfortably Smug]

Okay. First one comes from Dream Child. And Dream Child writes, I think we could rename Canada something like Trump Landia. More importantly, I think the land formerly known as Canada would be better as a US Territory. I can't support giving voting rights and full representation to the lunatics who continued to elect Trudeau and put pineapple on pizza.

[Michael Duncan]

That's a theme.

[Josh Holmes]

Listen, Dream child. Dream Child gets exactly where I was coming at this. Where I was like, ah, don't let him vote. I don't feel like adding one where we get like, that's a two Democratic senator and, you know, at least a few representatives I'm comfortable with.

[John Ashbrook]

I think you'd treat it more like a Puerto Rico situation where they get a non voting delegate, you know, just like one.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah.

[John Ashbrook]

In the House and they can like sit on committees and vote in committees, but they don't get a floor vote.

[Josh Holmes]

It's like a pretend representative.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah.

[Comfortably Smug]

Really?

[John Ashbrook]

We'll call them like Mayor McSurrup and.

[Josh Holmes]

Like.

[Comfortably Smug]

Meanwhile, we'll take all of their natural resources.

[Michael Duncan]

Oh, yeah, Strip. Mine them.

[Josh Holmes]

Jesus. Okay. All right. Comment, Two dunks. What do we got?

[John Ashbrook]

This is from Scott Alford. The first idea here is Mar a lago.

[Josh Holmes]

A lago.

[Michael Duncan]

That's very funny. That's pretty good.

[John Ashbrook]

Like the Canadian.

[Josh Holmes]

A Mar a lago.

[John Ashbrook]

The second one here is the New world as it's a land full of indigenous people with multiple languages and interesting but ultimately dysfunctional forms of government that will need assistance in coming into the modern world. Lastly, the third here, the North Coast. How explanatory.

[Comfortably Smug]

Can I just ask, Josh, how would you pronounce the north coast?

[Josh Holmes]

North coast.

[Michael Duncan]

There you go.

[John Ashbrook]

There's a question mark at the end of that one.

[Josh Holmes]

Always. No, I mean declaratory statements. Coast.

[Comfortably Smug]

Yeah, yeah.

[John Ashbrook]

Regardless, I can't think of a greater gift to our new Secretary of the Interior than to give him even more interior to tame.

[Michael Duncan]

Hell yeah.

[John Ashbrook]

That is awesome.

[Michael Duncan]

Send Bergam to conquer him.

[Comfortably Smug]

Gotcha.

[Josh Holmes]

The new president.

[John Ashbrook]

We would be created as liberators if we brought Doug Bergam.

[Comfortably Smug]

Yeah.

[Josh Holmes]

For much of the country. I'm assured that that is the case.

[Comfortably Smug]

Plants a flag right in central Ottawa.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah.

[Josh Holmes]

North coast. All right, what do we got?

[Michael Duncan]

Smug this One's from Linda Michaelwitz. Linda writes, I love the show and all you guys too. If Canada were to become the 51st state, I would call it Canuck. I grew up in southeast Minnesota and referred to Canadians as crazy Canopus. When I was in college and went to the World Dairy Expo. That's gotta be a ball.

[Josh Holmes]

Wow.

[Michael Duncan]

I bet they got. Maybe they got a better buttercup. Who knows? We often use the term to describe them in front of them simply because it annoyed the crap out of them. That is the spirit. That's.

[John Ashbrook]

It is hard to annoy a Canadian. You know, you really gotta try.

[Josh Holmes]

You're like, oh come on, come on.

[Michael Duncan]

Everyone knew that you couldn't trust them any farther than you. You can't trust Canadians. That is true.

[Comfortably Smug]

What?

[Michael Duncan]

They're a strange and dangerous people.

[Comfortably Smug]

We got a lot of people from Alberta.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah.

[Comfortably Smug]

Listening to this.

[John Ashbrook]

Some of our finest comedians are Canadian.

[Michael Duncan]

I didn't force them to be.

[Josh Holmes]

But I mean they are there. There are several that are sharp.

[Michael Duncan]

Well, they live in igloos, you know.

[Josh Holmes]

They don't live in.

[Michael Duncan]

They're cold blooded like lizards. Right.

[Josh Holmes]

They live in igloos on the coast, maybe on the co. That is just. We've just sabotaged an entire country. One of which I've spent a lot of time with over the years. But you know, these, these are perfect.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah, these are perfect. Another, another, you know, comment for the day. Who's going to assassinate us first, the Italians or the Canadians?

[Josh Holmes]

I mean the Irish have cause too.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah.

[Josh Holmes]

But we do have at least a little bit of that.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah.

[Josh Holmes]

Here. Maybe they'll see it's all in good fit, know it's all in good fun. Either way. Anyway, we got to get to a library, buddy. It's holiday season.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah.

[Josh Holmes]

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[Michael Duncan]

That's right.

[Josh Holmes]

And I will just say it is a game changing product. We did this at the convention where they shipped us a bunch of zbiotics. They were going to sponsor our show. We shipped those. We started out skeptical. We're like, I don't know, I mean you hear a lot about these things that are sort of a pre drink thing that you have before a big night out and they never really turn out to much.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah. I mean as like a seasoned expert in that department, you're a little skeptical. Yeah.

[Michael Duncan]

I remember in College, you're told, oh, if you drink a few glasses of water or you drink a Pedialyte, you'll be fine. None of that work.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah. Two Advil and a bottle of water.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah. Zbiotics actually does work.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah. So we, you know, we did it.

[Josh Holmes]

We did. The difference is.

[John Ashbrook]

Right.

[Josh Holmes]

I'm just looking directly into the camera. We did it.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah.

[Josh Holmes]

Like, this is. This is not something that is hypothetical. This is not something that we've been provided to read. We took this product, we abused our bodies, and then we came back, and I think we were pretty damn sharp.

[John Ashbrook]

We were right as rain. And the way that it works is it's a prebiotic drink. You drink it before you have a little alcohol, and it helps neutralize all the toxic byproduct in your gut. You know, it's not just dehydration that makes you feel bad after a big night. It's that top byproduct that's produced by alcohol.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah.

[Comfortably Smug]

And if you're Irish, you're familiar with the genetics that come along with being able to drink heavily at night and then start the morning as if nothing had happened. And so what Zbiotics really does is it turns you into an Irishman for a day, Irishman for a best read of all time. We honestly, it's. It's developed by PhDs. They know what they're doing. And the reason why we believe in it so much is because we've seen it work. And that's why we say there is no tomorrow without Zbiotics today.

[Michael Duncan]

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[Josh Holmes]

So remember, Christmas is right around the corner. So. And you can deal with that one of two ways. It's either you're just trying to weather the storm there.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah.

[Josh Holmes]

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[Comfortably Smug]

I mean, listen to this, buddy. Like, think about the way that the New York Times writes about Republicans. And they would say, republicans pounce on something and yet they set up this lunatic as a folk hero in their own voice.

[E]

They actually.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah, there's some in. And that was my favorite part. We've sort of graduated a little bit out of that. But there was this whole thing when failing news websites in the late teens, early 2000 and 20s were trying to just get enough traffic to survive.

[John Ashbrook]

All the headlines were search engine optimization.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah. And they were all like, jam Trump in the name. Jam something else. And they're basically just trying to hit the algorithm to the point where they were actually generating traffic. And so there was a ton of headlines that were like, social media says. Like, we would never say, Our reporters would never say. But we are saying it's one thing when you're like, those trash publications. This is the New York Times.

[John Ashbrook]

Now, aren't these the same people that said Al Baghdadi was an austere scholar?

[Josh Holmes]

That Washington Post.

[John Ashbrook]

Washington Post, yeah.

[Josh Holmes]

Washington Post.

[Comfortably Smug]

They might as well.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah.

[Michael Duncan]

Mostly peaceful. Austere folk hero commits murders that we agree with. It's unbelievable. Like, this is the New York Times supposed to be the paper of record. And I see it as them trying to launder their own feelings on it. Like Ashbrook said, like if this is, you know, they'll go with Republicans, pounce, right? But here they're trying to launder how they agree with this lunatic by being like, oh well, you know, some folks on social media see him as a folk hero, right.

[Comfortably Smug]

It just, it shows you how they completely dismiss more than half of this country in the effort to placate a very small sliver of hardened leftists. Because that's who they talk to. Because that's who they are.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah, yeah. I mean it's wild. Listen to Vox. This is the next one out of the gates. If you wouldn't mind putting that graphic up please. The deep roots of Americans hatred of their healthcare system. This one goes deeper, right, because Vox is a sort of pseudo intellectual left left that likes to make what they think is intellectual arguments behind leftist positions of anti market based healthcare systems. There's somebody who's advocated for years about government takeover, single payer, that kind of thing. So this is a perfect fit for them to march in and be like, I don't know, some guy was assassinated outside of a hotel in Manhattan. But let me tell you what, it's really about our point of view, right?

[Comfortably Smug]

Nobody was asking for a white paper supporting the assassin's manifesto, but that's what VOX has provided.

[Michael Duncan]

And it's funny because they never point out in this article, Obamacare, Obamacare causes cost to skyrocket for all Americans. But they're like, well, the deep roots of Americans hatred is the rich people are bad. They don't say, oh well, Obama screwed.

[Josh Holmes]

Up, but you're getting a little flavor for what it's gonna be like next year and beyond under a Donald Trump administration. Because as much as the country has told all of us that the Republican Party and Donald Trump in particular is a middle class advocate, that he gets it doesn'tit's not a race thing. It's not a lot in life. It's a middle class thing.

[Comfortably Smug]

Absolutely.

[Josh Holmes]

And everyone understands that at this point they don't have anywhere to hide. Now their place under traditional Republican rule for 20 years is, well, the rich people are just holding us down. Except for the fact that the voters told them that that is absolutely not true. So now they're going to hide under a whole bunch of like, extremism and try to manifest the deep roots of American hatred of their healthcare system.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah, it's just 500 words when they could have just said, we think the killing is justified.

[Josh Holmes]

That's, you know, that's right.

[John Ashbrook]

I mean, like, and if, if that, if Donald Trump hadn't turned his head.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah.

[John Ashbrook]

You know, do you know how many of these articles there would have been.

[Michael Duncan]

Oh, my God.

[John Ashbrook]

About how well, you know, had it coming. He brought it on himself.

[Josh Holmes]

Had it coming.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah.

[Michael Duncan]

God, no.

[Josh Holmes]

I mean, they're right.

[Michael Duncan]

They're right.

[Josh Holmes]

They're wood. And they even kind of tried a little bit in that period of time. They even kind of tried that, which is unbelievable. But this is the most unbelievable one. Graphic 3 It's so unhinged. It's from Blue sky. And of course, all outright calling for more violence. And they show a picture of Elon with a gunman's hand. This is Libs of Blue Sky. Ky. Guys, the reason that Blue sky, the fundamental reason behind Blue sky was that there was violent rhetoric, things that we couldn't justify and like, the First Amendment doesn't extend to all this violence and personal animosity that Elon Musk had allowed to come forward. And then like all of a sudden that operation starts existing for 10 minutes and it's full of pedophiles and then attempted assassinations. Like one of the most successful people in history.

[John Ashbrook]

So a real mask off moment for the left.

[Josh Holmes]

Real mask off moment. Yeah. You know, I mean, I just, I can't. Whoever this is. Libs of Blue Sky.

[Michael Duncan]

No, no. So Libs of Blue sky was pointing it out.

[John Ashbrook]

Tagging. Yeah.

[Michael Duncan]

The person who did it, their name is Smiling Nodding Dot, Bluesky Dot Social.

[Josh Holmes]

Oh, so Libs of Blue Skies are people.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah, they're. They're calling this person out.

[Josh Holmes]

They're calling them out. So. But whoever this is that ultimately posted this, I hope they get visit.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah, they really need to.

[Comfortably Smug]

That's the thing. I really hope that the FBI is looking at this. You know what I mean? Like, if, if the, if the, if federal authorities are looking at anything, they need to have an eye on terrorists who are trying to harm regular people who are simply playing by the rules.

[Michael Duncan]

And the FBI is like, yeah, we are going after terrorists. We're going to all the school board meetings and write down the names of all the moms.

[Comfortably Smug]

Right. Which is why, which is why we need Cash Patel to run the.

[Michael Duncan]

That's right.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah. Well, we're going to get it soon. A couple of things that happen over the weekend that you ought to be aware of. Get a load of this. Let's put up graphic number five, please. If you don't Mind spaghetti Graphic five is from the Department of Health and Human Services that is celebrating Pansexual Pride Day. Happy Pansexual and Pan Romantic Pride Day to people. That's your government Department of Health and Human Services.

[Michael Duncan]

People are like, why does healthcare in the country suck? Well, this is what the Health and Human Services Department's up to.

[Josh Holmes]

They employ someone over there who thought this was a priority.

[John Ashbrook]

I just, like, I don't even know.

[Josh Holmes]

What the fuck that is.

[John Ashbrook]

Well, see, that's the thing. It's like every day is a day of wonders in which I learned of a new thing in the alpha Alphabet mafia. You know, I mean, pan romantic, what the hell is that? And how is it different than pansexual.

[Michael Duncan]

Is that they don't let her in the lgbtq. It's now Q, Q, I, A plus plus. Maybe like a P is in.

[Josh Holmes]

We gotta throw P in now.

[John Ashbrook]

I think pansexual is supposed to be people who are just attracted to everybody sort of thing.

[Josh Holmes]

Isn't that like bisexual?

[John Ashbrook]

You would think. I think they're all just.

[Michael Duncan]

I'm scared of what else falls under that category.

[John Ashbrook]

I think it's just a cry for attention. It's like, I didn't get enough attention, but I got to be something special.

[Josh Holmes]

Imagine just like sitting around the conference room and you're like, okay, what are the, what are the social media priorities for the week? We got this. Oh, and it's Pansexual day.

[John Ashbrook]

And don't forget pan romantic, because people be very upset.

[Josh Holmes]

No, you can't forget the pan romantic.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah, and they would be upset. Like, that's the thing is it's a.

[Josh Holmes]

Regular Romeo and Juliet.

[Michael Duncan]

It's one thing for, for people to, like, this is a mental health problem to begin with. Right. But then to have the Department of Health and Human Services, who's supposed to help tackle that problem, instead encourage it. I, I can't wait until we get RFK calling the shots there. It can't happen soon enough. Like, let's worry about actually trying to make the country healthy again instead of catering to mental health illness, which is what this is.

[Josh Holmes]

I just, I can't come soon enough.

[Michael Duncan]

And thank God it got ratio to the sun.

[Josh Holmes]

It got ratio to the sun.

[Comfortably Smug]

It also, you know, like, the good old fashioned gay people in this country voted for Trump.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah.

[Comfortably Smug]

Because they're like, wait a minute, I want health care too. We don't need to have a bunch of tweets about stuff that doesn't. It's irrelevant.

[Josh Holmes]

It's just, it's just wild, you know? And, like, we're the last people on the planet to be like, oh, you know, you don't belong. But what the hell is pansexual? Pan romantic. Like, stop with that.

[Comfortably Smug]

Right?

[Josh Holmes]

Stop with that.

[Comfortably Smug]

Right?

[Josh Holmes]

You got men, you got women, you got a bunch of people in categories underneath it, like, where they don't know they sexually identify. I certainly don't need the health of human services being the one that's arbitrating how you identify personally.

[Comfortably Smug]

Right.

[Josh Holmes]

And, like, as soon as it starts getting into, like, my kids sports.

[Comfortably Smug]

Right.

[Josh Holmes]

And bathrooms and stuff, like. Like, that's why we're in this situation. And they don't get it.

[Comfortably Smug]

Right.

[Josh Holmes]

They still don't get it.

[Comfortably Smug]

Maybe try to bring insurance premiums down. That's like. That's an option. It could, you know, maybe try to make food a little healthier. That's an option.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah.

[Josh Holmes]

Well, sadly, you see what Luigi thinks about how you do that. You know what I mean?

[John Ashbrook]

You get the red shell.

[Josh Holmes]

Like, it's crazy.

[Comfortably Smug]

You get red shell.

[Josh Holmes]

Jesus. That's unbelievable. Okay, a couple other things. So Trump. Did you guys know that Trump's apparently selling colognes?

[Comfortably Smug]

Yeah, you know, I learned that over the weekend, man. In most spectacular fashion.

[Josh Holmes]

All right, so he's apparently selling colognes. Can we put up graphic 6? Because this is absolutely hysterical.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah.

[Comfortably Smug]

I just love this so much.

[Michael Duncan]

This is from the reopening of that cathedral, Notre Dame. Just like Joe Biden was giving Trump a look, like, you know, I mean, she's celebrating romantic day looking at Trump that way.

[Josh Holmes]

So for our audio only, put that graphic back up. For our audio only listeners, what we're talking about is a commercial, like, for his fragrances. That is a picture of Donald Trump with Joe Biden kind of looking longingly at. Yeah, right. Yeah.

[Comfortably Smug]

Her president, she voted for him.

[Josh Holmes]

With the caption of fragrance your enemies can't resist.

[Comfortably Smug]

It's just so funny.

[Josh Holmes]

I will say that.

[Comfortably Smug]

It's so funny.

[Josh Holmes]

Look, if you can get me beyond the point where I'm, like, endorsing presidential candidates, having a fragrance line, which I'm not going to do, that's one of the funniest trolls I've seen in a long time.

[Michael Duncan]

That was excellent.

[Josh Holmes]

I mean, very, very funny.

[Michael Duncan]

And I mean, it was noticeable. If you saw the images coming from that reopening, she was just, like, looking him up and down. Damn. Like, where is Sleepy Joe? Yeah, Sleepy Joe, get on the case, bro.

[Comfortably Smug]

And not for nothing, but, you know, Sleepy Joe was nowhere to be found over the weekend at this gigantic worldwide spectacle of the reopening in Notre Dame. And Trump is there. He's putting a handshake on Macron. And he is, like, showing America, you.

[Josh Holmes]

Notice how you went for the upper.

[Comfortably Smug]

He did.

[Josh Holmes]

He always has to have the upper.

[Comfortably Smug]

Dominance, demonstrate that America is full Alpha once again. So he walks in and he is doing his part. He's not complaining about Biden. There was no tweet or complaint that Biden has lost his mind. So therefore, I'm standing in for him ahead of when my payroll starts. Like, like he shows up because it's America demonstrating that they're part of the world and that they're in trouble. We are in charge again, thanks to what voters did in November. And like, I think that moment when he walked in in Notre Dame was one of the greatest moments in the last 10 years in American dominance.

[Josh Holmes]

Well, the left isn't taking any of this.

[Comfortably Smug]

Well, of course not.

[Josh Holmes]

Everything that we've covered and more. One of the favorite targets that we've had Here is Rosie O'Donnell. Remember we put a picture up of her a couple of weeks ago where I was like, whoa.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah, Election Day was not kind.

[Josh Holmes]

What, like, what happened to this lady? Well, we weren't the only ones to observe that. Evidently, she feels like, the need to sort of justify her own personal look. So can we check out clip three, please?

[E]

Well, hey, everybody, it's Friday all day, as my nana would say.

[Josh Holmes]

Oh, yeah.

[E]

Everybody'S been saying, you have herpes. You have herpes all this time. And I never had a cold sore in my life, and now I have a cold sore. And it makes me think that perhaps this weird pimple that had a tiny little head was a cold sore, too. And so I talked to my doctor today and I did a video telehealth, and they said that it's not a cold sore. It's some reaction to the sun. Now, I did sit in the sun yesterday, but I had sunscreen on, so I don't know. I will let you know tomorrow if I do. In fact, herpes keep us up. Some of the taunting from the MAGA people in the last couple, couple of weeks. Hasn't it been fun, ladies and gentlemen, to be standing in direct opposition to everything he is in reverence represents?

[Comfortably Smug]

Yeah, pregnant pause unnecessary.

[E]

And look at I.

[Michael Duncan]

My advice, everybody, keep taunting this vampire that, like, the sun is making her disfigured. Like, what the hell is she talking about? She's like, donald Trump and his supporters have given me herpes. It wasn't Donald Trump and his supporters gave you herpes. God knows what you have. This vampire is like, if you expose me to the sun, I start dying.

[John Ashbrook]

I. I feel like Scrooge and I was just visited by the ghost of Christmas Future.

[Josh Holmes]

Whatever that situation was. I don't want any part of that because it's like real, a real breakdown. Yeah, she's like, I look terrible. I know, I know. I looked, you know, I look terrible about it.

[Michael Duncan]

I look like the Crypt.

[Josh Holmes]

So wait, so let me provide an explanation, which is like the worst. I can't even imagine. Like, in Hollywood. That's gotta be the worst. Like, hey, I know you guys have noticed I look like.

[John Ashbrook]

It's like you can't feed the trolls. Just a piece of advice for you, Rosie. Like you aren't gonna own the magas or whatever by doing a three minute explainer video about how you don't have herpes. Okay. They are if the second you hit record, we already won.

[Comfortably Smug]

It's free consulting.

[Josh Holmes]

Meanwhile, it gets worse and worse. Like, I don't know. I mean, you think you'd try to clean it? I don't know. It's not good.

[John Ashbrook]

Not good.

[Comfortably Smug]

I hope she keeps at it.

[Michael Duncan]

Yeah, recording videos, talking about your herpes.

[Comfortably Smug]

Maybe we'll have four years of this. If we're lucky, maybe eight years.

[Josh Holmes]

So just remember our question of the day is whether would you rather have your daughter on the pole or a Marxist journalist? That's what we've got here in the Ruthless Friday program. You gotta like and subscribe in order to be entertained here in the variety program and for your friends to be able to see it. So like subscribe and then tell us one of the two, because I don't have an answer.

[Michael Duncan]

Tough question, Tough question.

[Josh Holmes]

Frankly, don't have an answer.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah, it's a father's nightmare.

[Michael Duncan]

I'd need a lot of zbiotics with that choice.

[Josh Holmes]

Subscribe to the YouTube channel. Check out our merch while you're there. We've got amazing things that we can deliver right before Christmas. So you get involved in that. I got a bunch of feedback from friends and listeners over the last couple weeks that started getting some stuff in. Napkins are huge hits.

[John Ashbrook]

Yeah.

[Michael Duncan]

Store. Ruthlesspodcast.com right? That's the, that's the sub domain.

[John Ashbrook]

I think we're actually out of the napkins now. We can actually promise delivery before Christmas.

[Josh Holmes]

We can't do that.

[John Ashbrook]

And we respect our listeners and viewers and we don't want to sell you something we can't get you there. Before Christmas. But I'm sure they'll be back.

[Josh Holmes]

Integrity first. Here in the ruthless variety program. We try, but we can't get it there in time. So don't buy it. Yeah, but there's plenty other stuff. Stuff.

[John Ashbrook]

Oh, there's tons of great stuff.

[Josh Holmes]

Plenty of other stuff. Yeah, we can get to you.

[Comfortably Smug]

The old man is sewing like one of Santa's elves.

[Josh Holmes]

He's just been busy as a little bee.

[John Ashbrook]

Got carpal tunnel busy.

[Josh Holmes]

Be like I, you know, one of those elves in the first Rudolph, you know, just working your little hands, just getting those things.

[John Ashbrook]

I got to keep them lathered up, you know, because I'm getting paper cuts. I've got dry skin.

[Josh Holmes]

Yeah, it's tough. Yeah, I know.

[John Ashbrook]

I'm gonna fire fire workers comp after this.

[Josh Holmes]

Just get some. Denied. We got some ointment in the back. We use it for butt paste on the kids. Listen, with all that, fellas, it's so good to go into the holiday season with you fellas. It's been so much fun. Great episode. I think we did it.

[Michael Duncan]

I think so. Absolute banger of an episode, gentlemen. Like Holmes said, like and subscribe. And like Ashwick said, like and subscribe if you wish. Pine. So until next time, minions, keep the faith, hold the line, and own the lives. We'll see you on Thursday. Stay ruthless.

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