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Golden Globes Celebs Show Off Anti-ICE Pins, Kimmel and Colbert's Dangerous Rhetoric, and Meghan Markle's Return To The UK
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Link Lauren gives his take on the “Be Good” and “ICE Out” pins worn by celebrities at the Golden Globes, then he dives into the protests breaking out around Minnesota over Renee Good and the celebrities taking to social media to speak out about it. Then, Link breaks down Matt Roger and Bowen Yang slamming Jasmine Crockett then walking back their comments after online backlash and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s return to the UK in 2026 for an Invictus Games event. Plus, Manhattan men are having “dating anxiety” and Link shares why. Cowboy Colostrum: Get 25% Off Cowboy Colostrum with code LINK at https://www.cowboycolostrum.com/LINK Liver Health Formula: Discover two American-made supplements that help boost energy, support weight loss, and reduce swelling—plus get 35% off today at https://PureHealthResearch.com with code LINK CovePure: Start the new year right—discover why clean water is the ultimate health reset and get $200 off CovePure at https://CovePure.com/LINK LIKE & SU...
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At Amica Insurance, we know it's not just what's inside your home that matters. It's who you share it with. That's why we work even harder to protect it. Visit amica.com and get a quote today. Well, my friends, welcome back to Spot on with Link. Lauren, Happy Monday. I hope you're having an amazing start to your week. You're probably wondering why where I am. Okay, I have to go to the dentist. Unfortunately, I only like the dentist back in my hometown. Okay. I don't like the dentist where I live now. So I have flown to see him because I have had a toothache for the longest time. Okay. I am tired of being in pain in dealing with the toothache. But we're going to push through. We have an amazing show for you guys today. We're going to be breaking down the Golden Globes a little bit about what you missed some of the virtue signaling. We're going to talk about Prince Harry Potter, Meghan Markle. Prince Harry, he wants to go back to the UK and reconcile with his father. I don't think his father should go anywhere near him because he'll probably just end up in the press and the tabloids. We're going to break down everything happening in Minnesota with Renee. Good. That entire situation, okay? They are working overtime to turn her into this folk hero, into this martyr. We have a bunch of hot topics. So I apologize. I apologize. I am not in the studio today. But one thing about me, I don't care that much if the background is perfect. I don't care if the angle's perfect. I don't care if we look perfect. All I care about is the really the relationship I have with you guys. So I'm going to the dentist in about 90 minutes. Pray for me that they can figure out what is wrong and get me on the right track to where I'm out of pain. Now let's move on to the Golden Globes. If you had asked me about the Golden Globes five years ago, ten years ago, I would have been so excited. It's a show I would have watched. Right. I used to watch all of these award shows. The Academy Awards, the Golden Globes, not so much the Critics Choice Awards. I'm still not really sure what that's all about. But I used to love the Golden Globes. That was sort of the precursor to the Academy Awards to the Oscars. But last night, I could not have cared less. I haven't seen any of the films. Okay. I haven't seen the Timothee Chalamet haven't seen Marty Supreme. I haven't seen any of these Golden Globes films. And it's because they don't really speak to me. And Hollywood has gone so woke. I mean, Hollywood at this point, it's cringe. It's. It's woke. The storytelling is bad. I feel like a lot of these scripts are written by AI or Chat GPT. So I'm not that interested, I'm not that interested in what Hollywood has going on. I think the era of Hollywood being at its height and its peak and people caring about celebrity, that was a few years ago, right? I think 20, 16, 17, 18, before COVID celebrity culture really reached its peak. But nowadays, very few people care, right? Very few people care to keep up with what Selena Gomez is wearing on the red carpet, what Miley Cyrus is wearing. And doesn't mean we hate these women. Okay? We like Jennifer Lawrence, she's incredibly talented. But people just don't care as much. We're busy with our day to day lives. We've moved on. I feel like politics has sort of become the new pop culture the way people follow politics. That's kind of how we used to follow a lot of these celebrities in pop culture. So when it came to the Golden Globes last night, I didn't care. I hadn't seen the films and I really did not need to hear political opinions from celebrities or walking around in full hair and makeup with full time publicist, full time staffs. I don't need to hear all of the virtue signaling, but Mark Ruffalo, Natasha Leone, Wanda Sykes, who I actually used to think was quite funny. I thought Wanda Sykes used to be actually a pretty funny comedian. She wasn't someone who was always politically correct. But because the culture has shifted so much, right. So many Americans have left Hollywood behind. I feel like they're doubling down on their leftist rhetoric and they live in their liberal elite enclaves. And everybody was wearing these pins that either said be good or I sound. Obviously they're trying to show solidarity for Renee Goode. What they failed to mention is the fact that Renee Goode rammed and stocked an ice agent with her car. They failed to mention she was a radical agitator and instigator. Right? This is a woman who went out looking for trouble. This is a woman, from what people are saying online, who allegedly lost custody of her children. We're still trying to mine through what's real and what's not. But this is not some winner here. It's unfortunate. It's unfortunate. The ICE officer had to go to a level to protect himself in self defense, but she was using her car as a weapon. But these celebrities, they only see one side of things. And what's interesting, when it comes to ice, when it comes to immigration, these celebrities want to show so much solidarity for all of these immigrants. Are you inviting them to live with you in your mansions? That's what I want to know. When all of these celebrities are saying, we love immigration, bring more people, make America a melting pot. Okay, great. Let's say that's true. Why don't you invite them to come live with you? Okay? It sort of reminds me of when Selena Gomez was crying saying, all of my people are getting attacked. All of my people. And I'm like, are your people, Ms. 13? So why don't you invite them to come live with you? Why don't you guys actually go to Minneapolis? They don't want to go to Minneapolis because it's cold. Because it's cold and miserable. Okay? So when I look at these celebrities, I just don't need to hear their opinions on politics because they live in such an elite bubble. They live in such an elite bubble. The only people, many of them interact with our hair, makeup, publicists, agents, folks at these award shows, right? Like Ariana Grande. Do you think Ariana Grande is going out there and speaking to the forgotten men and women of this country? She's incredibly talented. She's smart, she's talented, she's got an incredible voice. Wicked was a hugely successful film. But when these people are making political statements, have they traveled, right? Have they traveled to Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa? Have they gone and talked to people on the ground? Or are they getting all of their news from msnbc, right? Are they getting all of their news filtered through this very liberal lens? And I want to play you guys a montage of some of these celebrities on the red carpet trying to make these political statements. This is for her. This is for the people in the United States who are terrorized and scared today. I know I'm one of them. I love this country. And what I'm seeing here happening is not America. The pin be good. Tell me about. Yes, of course. This is for the mother who was murdered by ICE agent. And it's really sad. And, you know, I know people are out marching and all today. And we need to speak up. We need to be out there and shut this, this rogue government down because it's, it's just awful what they're doing to people. I just think it's important that we don't normalize what's going on in this country right now. I love America. I love us. I love our communities. Free speech, the Trevor project and all that. So I think it's important Renee Good, you know, say her name. So what I find interesting about that montage, number one, Mark Ruffalo is a very rich elite celebrity, okay? He's trying to be this social activist, and he's sort of waged into these social activist movements before. This is not a new thing for him. But I just think these people are off base, right? When it comes to Renee Goode, why don't you speak the facts? And when I look at Wanda Sykes, right, she says, this is a rogue government and we have to shut down this rogue government. Elections have consequences. Elections have consequences. You guys, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Kamala Harris lost. I'm sorry. You can see the writing on the wall. I'm sorry that you're not happy. President Trump is in the White House, but he ran on mass deportations. He ran on what he was gonna do with ice. So now you guys all wanna act shocked. You wanna act shocked that he's actually carrying through on his campaign promises. Said to me over the weekend, they said, I think what really shocks them is they're so used to a president saying a bunch of things on the campaign trail and then doing none of them when he gets into office, right? And so I think these celebrities are actually shocked that, oh, in the first year, he's really getting things done. So Wanda Sykes, I think she should focus more on her career, focus on getting into some films. Mark Ruffalo, I couldn't tell you what movies he's done recently. I used to love some of his films. I loved him in that movie. Oh, what was that movie with the kids? The Kids are All right with Julianne Moore. Love that film. You look at that now, it's a little woke. But celebrities, I don't just hate them on face value because they're rich, elite, out of touch celebrities. In fact, that's what's kind of entertaining about them. The last woman, Natasha Leone, I really don't know who she is. I really don't know much about that woman. I wish her well. But all these celebrities, I think they should go back to the drawing board and figure out, okay, why are people not going to see our movies? Why is our popularity at an all time low? And it's because you're not listening to to half the country, okay? You're not listening to folks in these states. You like to fly over between California and New York. A majority of Americans, okay, don't live in Los Angeles or Hollywood or New York City or lower Manhattan. They live between the coast. Right? Hardworking Americans want to go see films that speak to them, that tell their stories. It's like with J.D. vance. Part of the reason Hillbilly Elegy resonated so much is because it was an American story, right? We've all had a family member with addiction, right? We've all had issues in our family, so that could really resonate. Sound of Freedom spoke to a major issue that was going on in the country. So there have been these films that speak to more conservative independent audiences, right? People who aren't part of this far left agenda. And I think Hollywood, if they go back to the drawing board, they can resurrect. But it's going to mean hiring some new actors, hiring some new writers and letting new voices in. Because these people say they love diversity in the writers room. But how come every film is the same woke liberal agenda? You guys don't actually want diversity of thought, but we got to pay some bills. After you pay some bills, we're going to be back to break down Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, a dating scandal, and then also everything you need to know about Minnesota. If you finally want to fix your gut, make your hair healthier and stronger, and add some glow to your skin in 2026, you need to add colostrum to your daily routine. Today's sponsor, Cowboy Colostrum offers the highest quality Bovine Colostrum available in the Cowboy colostrum is 100% made in America from 100% grass fed cows. Unlike other Colostrum brands, Cowboy Colostrum is true first day whole Colostrum rich in bioactives and growth factors. Don't worry, Cowboy Colostrum only collects the surplus Colostrum after baby calves have had their fill. Cowboy Colostrum isn't processed or stripped down. 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Now, of course, she's been made into a martyr and a victim by the left. And nobody thinks this is a good situation. No pun intended. Nobody thinks this is a good situation. But she went out looking for trouble. This woman was an agitator. She was an instigator. She was out looking for trouble. And unfortunately, she found it. Okay? You cannot stock federal agents with your car. You cannot ram federal agents with your car. This was not even the first time this ICE agent had been dragged by a car. This happened to him back in June. Right? So this is someone who has been dealing with this. And this is what happens when you demonize law enforcement. Right? When you demonize and vilify law enforcement and the way that Tim Walls has and the way Jacob Fry has and the way these mainstream Democrats have on TV and online every single day, you're going to have people out here who are maybe, in my opinion, a little bit unwell. People who don't have much going on. We're learning more about Renee Good's background. And it doesn't look good. Okay? It doesn't look good. That's the pun of the day. Okay. We're learning more and more about Renee Good and her network and her friends. And I'm here to tell you these aren't just willy nilly people who are down for the cause. Right. I believe there's funding behind this. I think there are groups funding these protests. When you see all the signs that are written out the same, they're the same size. When people know exactly where to show up and what to do and what to say, and their text chain saying, okay, it's time to clear out. I really do think some of these people are being paid. And I've seen independent journalists on the ground. There was an independent journalist from Daily Wire who reported that she believed a lot of the folks at these protests were paid. Right? They left. Right? At a certain time. They're like, hey, did we get our check? Did the wire transfer come through? We're out of here. I don't think any of this is organic, Right? These aren't like protests Back in the day, people used to protest war and previous generations would protest various things. I don't think this is that. This is not just some organic protest. This is a concerted effort and movement to vilify and demonize law enforcement. And there's a reason. We've seen, we have seen threats against law enforcement go way, way, way up. I don't have the exact numbers, but if you look at any single metric, go look at the Department of Homeland Security's information, right? All of these attacks on law enforcement have gone through the roof. And so my heart goes out to them. I am so, so grateful for law enforcement, the people who keep us safe, the people who get violent criminals off the street. Because that is what this about. This, that's what this is about, right? People voted to get violent criminals off the street. That's what ICE is doing. If Tim Walls, Tim Walls prioritized getting criminals out of his state, you wouldn't have situations like this. But I want to talk about Tim Walls, right? Tim Walls is someone who back in May of 2025, referred to ICE agents as modern day Gestapo. Let's take a look at that. Donald Trump's modern day scapo d' escapo is scooping folks up off the streets. They're in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being shipped off to foreign torture dungeons. No chance to mount a defense, not even a chance to kiss a loved one goodbye. Just grabbed up by masked agents, shoved into those vans and disappeared. Now, if Trump and his folks want to come for Minnesotans, we need to make sure that there's a firewall that they have to come through before they get to them. So I've explained this in depth on social media, but let me give you guys a little Cliff Notes version here. When you have the governor of a state, when you have the leader of the state, the person people look to, especially if you're a radical right, if you're a radical like Renee Goode, you look to Tim Walls. He's going out there and saying, ICE is modern day Gestapo. That's very, very strong language. So he's saying ICE is modern day Gestapo. And then you have someone who's impressionable, who's already a far leftist, who's probably a professional protester, someone who likes to go out and do this and look for tr. You have all of that together, you throw it in and you make a recipe for trouble. You make a recipe for trouble. And so Tim Walls, in my opinion, he's the one who has the blood on his hands. Tim Walls is the one who ginned all of this up. He has fan the flames for years and tried to vilify law enforcement instead of working with them. And here's my thing. Kristi Noem, she has spoken to Tim Walls. She's known Tim Walls for years. If Tim Walls wanted to work with the federal government and say, look, let's hatch a plan to get violent criminals out of the state, I'm with you guys. I want violent criminals, I want illegal aliens out of the state. They could come together and make a plan. But Tim Walls doesn't want to do that. Right. And I don't think he'll be in office much longer. I do see Tim Wallace perhaps stepping down or seating going away. It's not looking good for him. He already announced he's not going to be running for reelection as governor. I think if Tim Walls has any aspirations for 2028, those have also gone out the window. So what's happening in Minnesota, it's a microcosm of what's probably going to start happening in California and these other blue enclaves around the country. And I hate to say it, but as we move into the spring and summer and into the midterms, I think we'll see more protests. Because a lot of these protests really get heated when the weather gets nice out. These protesters are actually lazy, right? These protesters are lazy. They don't like the cold. It's why I think this Renee Goode situation hasn't totally caught on yet, because they hate the cold weather. And so I think once we get a little bit warmer into March, April, May, June, July, we'll see more of these protests and clashes. And so my heart goes out to law enforcement. And the last thing I'll say, this is a very important point. Folks on the left like Tim Walls, they want to point at President Trump and say he needs to tone down the rhetoric. He is the one making all of this bad. He's the one riling up the masses. You're the ones calling ICE agents modern day Gestapo. You're the ones saying that Republicans are fascist Nazis, threats to democracy. So you guys are the ones who turned up this rhetoric in the first place. You guys are the ones who want all of these violent clashes on the street. And before we move on, Tim Walls, if you think, if you think this is going to distract from your Somali fraud scandal, the billions and billions of dollars that have allegedly gone accounted for, unaccounted for in your state, you need to think again, right? Tim Walls, this is not going to absolve you we need to circle back to all of the Somali fraud, the daycare fraud, everything going on there that Nick Shirley uncovered. We also need to talk about SNAP fraud. SNAP was a huge issue we were talking about a few months ago. These blue states, they don't want to turn over their SNAP data. You're telling me 42 million Americans are on SNAP? Come on, 42 million people are on SNAP. Imagine the level of fraud even happening in Minnesota with snap, a program that's supposed to be for people who really need it. So I think what happened with Renee Goode, while it was tragic, has been a gift to Tim Wallace. I think he is secretly loving it because it's getting the heat off of the Somali financial fraud scandal. But it seems like Scott Bessant and the administration, they're going to continue following that through and chasing it down to see exactly where that money went. Arrests need to be made and so do deportations. Now, as it pertains to Minnesota and Renee Goode, these late night television hacks, I don't call them host anymore. They're just late night television hacks. They have really taken this to heart, right? Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, they've really acted like this is their mission, right? They also hate ice. They hate law enforcement. They're really going to support Renee Good. They're going to make her this folk hero and this martyr. Let's take a look. We put together a little compilation. Try not to bomb. You know what, maybe they're trying. I know what they're doing. They're trying out a new slogan. Donald J. Trump is going to kill you. Pretty good, right? This maniac, he isn't just killing people overseas. An ICE agent today shot and killed an unarmed 37 year old woman during an ICE operation in Minneapolis. Two ICE, get the out of Minneapolis. So the message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city, obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn't obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country, whether you live in a red state or a blue state. What I find so disgusting about Jimmy Kimmel, let's start with him. He holds up this shirt that says, Donald Trump is going to kill you. You guys want to talk about turning down the rhetoric? You want to talk about turning down violent threats and you're holding up a T shirt that says Donald J. Trump is to kill you. It doesn't get worse than that. Okay, Jimmy Kimmel, be glad you still have a show. Be glad you're still on the air because you're not a comedian, you're not funny. But to hold up a shirt like that, if I recall correctly, President Trump is the one they've been trying to take out, right? Let's talk about the assassination attempt in Butler with Thomas Crooks. Let's talk about the other assassination attempt with Ryan Ruth in Florida. There are probably countless other threats against him daily. So when you hold up a shirt, you hold up a shirt that says, Donald J. Trump is going to kill you. How disgusting. And the fact that ABC and Disney pushed this out there and thought that was fine. This is Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. This is Jimmy Kimmel after learning his lesson. This is Jimmy Kimmel who's trying to reach out now to conservatives and say he wants to hear the other side holding up that kind of shirt. Could you imagine, could you imagine if a conservative comedian did that while Biden was in office? If a conservative host. Are there any conservative late night hosts? I don't know. But could you imagine if a conservative television personality held up a shirt and said the same thing about Joe Biden? I'm not even going to repeat it. How gross and disgusting do you have to be? And you're the ones instilling fear. You guys are the ones who want the riots. You guys are the ones who want the chaos that we saw with blm. Now, Stephen Colbert, Stephen Colbert, he's going to be off the air soon. He's running a $40 million deficit, right? Nobody, nobody cares about Stephen Colbert, but he has just gone farther left and farther left because he continues to double down. Now, the last celebrity we need to discuss is Billie Eilish. If you don't know who she is, she's a singer. She does that kind of like, kind of sad music. You know, Billie Eilish, she's like, it's always that sad stuff. So Billie Eilish, let me read you her post that she did on Instagram where she was slamming ICE agents, right? Let me read this to you. ICE is a federally funded and supported terrorist group under the Department of Homeland Security that has done nothing to make our streets safer. They are the domestic terrorists tearing apart our families, terrorizing citizens, and now murdering innocent people. Enough is enough. Once again, where's the context? Where's the context, right? I would love, I would love if one of these liberal celebrities came out of the woodwork and said, you know what? She was ramming and stalking a federal agent with her car. She had nothing better to do with her days. She was a Professional agitator and instigator. Why can't they just say that about Renee Goode? That they always have to make everyone a victim? Because victimhood is a currency in Hollywood, right? We've seen this for years. If you are a victim, right, you're going to get pressed, you are going to get praise, people are going to love you and feel sorry for you. Nobody, nobody wanted to see what happened to Renee Goode happen, right? It was the worst case scenario. But she's the one who went out looking for trouble. You understand what I'm saying? The ICE agent, because he's been dragged before, because he had to defend himself, because God knows what she was going to do with her car after that. He had to defend himself. She went there looking for trouble and she found it, right? She went looking for trouble and found it. Don't interrupt law enforcement. Don't try to hit them with your car if they're coming through your neighborhood. For me, for me, you guys, if anybody in a uniform told me, hey, stop, stay in your car, I would not try to speed off, ram them, hit them. I am a goody two shoes and I follow rules to the end, right? I don't even like to drive over the speed limit, let alone ram someone with my car. And so I don't know why these folks are even out looking for trouble. They don't want to follow the rules, but it's because I think they have nothing better to do and they might be getting paid. There are people out there who are probably getting paid to go out and protest and gin up trouble and controversy, controversy. And I think Tim Walls is loving it. But Billie Eilish, I don't need to hear from you on politics either. The last clip I want to play is Conan o'. Brien. I think some comics go the route of I'm going to just say F Trump every, all the time or that's their comedy. And I think, well now you, a little bit, you're being co opted because you're so angry, you've been lulled. It's like a siren leading you into the rocks. You've been lulled into just saying F Trump, F Trump, F Trump. Screw this guy, you know? And I think you've now put down your best weapon, which is being funny. And you've exchanged it for anger. And that person or any person like that would say, well, things are too serious now. I don't need to be funny. And I think, well, if you're a comedian, you always need to be funny. You just have to find a way. Thank you, Conan o'. Brien. So many of these comedians, right? Jimmy Kimmel says he's a comedian. Stephen Colbert is a comedian. None of these guys are funny. None of them are funny at all because all of their humor is anti Trump. Look at the Golden Globes. Everything was anti Trump. We hate Trump. Look at Robert De Niro, right? Robert De Niro used to be this incredible actor. I used to love Robert De Niro. The Trump derangement syndrome has eaten him alive. I think the comedians that are thriving right now are ones who are open to making fun of both sides, right? Poking fun at everything, right? We don't even have the Johnny Carsons anymore. We need someone like a Johnny Carson in a late night position because we just don't have that right. You have to be a far left liberal, right, a dyed in the wool blue Democrat to watch Jimmy Kimmel. You can't watch Jimmy Kimmel if you're conservative, independent, libertarian, Maha Maga, anything. How can you watch Jimmy Kimmel go out there and say, donald J. Trump is going to kill you. What type of disgusting rhetoric is this? So thank you, Conan o'. Brien. There's a reason comedians are playing more red states than blue, because people can laugh, they can have fun, and you've got to embrace all sides. Even from a financial standpoint, I don't understand why these folks are only embracing a small, select group of far left individuals. Wouldn't you want to appeal to a larger audience? But the Trump derangement syndrome is so ingrained. And I think these Hollywood celebrities know if we want to be invited to the hot party, if we want to be invited to the dinner or the cookout, whatever. We have to hate Trump. I don't think all these celebrities actually hate Trump in private. I actually think some of them are really happy with his policies and they want them. But they know publicly there's no way their agents will keep them, their agencies, if they don't come out and say that they hate Trump. Now, something else going on in Hollywood that we've seen for years. They hate the First Amendment and they hate free speech. So Bowen Yang, you might remember him from Saturday Night Live. He has a podcast called Las Culturistas. I haven't watched it, but I've seen clips. He has a podcast with his friend Matt Rogers, right? Matt Rogers is not the famous friend of the duo Bowen Wings Bowen. Wayne Bowen. Yang is the one who has been in films. He's the one who's been on Saturday Night Live, but they have this podcast together, and it does quite well. Well, it went viral recently, right? They went on the podcast and they said, don't give money to Jasmine Crockett. Right? It's a waste to give money to Jasmine Crockett. And as someone from Texas, you guys know how I feel about Ms. Crackalack A Crockett. Ms. Jasmine Crackalack A Crockett. I wouldn't give her a dollar if my life depended on it. Because Jasmine Crockett, she doesn't have a prayer. And I don't say that in a way that, oh, I'm counting out all long shot candidates, right? There have been times where we've seen long shot candidates make it to the White House. Okay, multiple times. So I'm not against a long shot candidate. But Jasmine Crockett, she's uncouth, she's inarticulate. She has no policies besides the fact that she hates Trump. So take a look at this clip from their podcast. This is what got all the backlash. Anytime a politician is making it too obviously about themselves, I'm already done. Don't waste your money sending to Jasmine Crockett. Do not do it. I must agree. Don't do it. Don't. You're going to waste your money. Now, the backlash from their own liberals was swift, right? It's clear that they were told, you guys need to apologize because they issued some long apology on Instagram. I'm not going to read you the whole thing because it's boring. We'll put it up on the screen. But they did this long apology. You know, they're going to think it over. They're going to do better. I've heard the response, and I'm taking every bit of it to heart, I promise. You know what you guys say? You like free speech and the First Amendment and you love diversity. Why can't you have different opinions? Right? They think they're being canceled because they said something obvious, which was, don't give money to Jasmine Crockett, that clown. Don't give money to Jazz like Rocket. But they had to apologize, right? Because their careers depended on it. In Hollywood, you can't speak the truth. You can't come out against a Democrat even if the Democrat is an idiot like Jasmine Crockett. You have to act like you like her and support her because she has a D next to her name. So I think they would have looked way cooler, they would have looked ballsier if they doubled down and said, you know what? We're not apologizing. Why are we apologizing? What they should have done, and I imagine they might end up doing. Mark my words, if I'm thinking in a PR way, they should have Jasmine Crockett come on their podcast. Ask her questions. All right? Ask Jasmine Crockett serious questions about policy, because she has no answers. You ask Jasmine Crockett, what are you going to do about the economy? How are you going to change the tax code? What do you want to do for this? How are you going to work on inflation? How are you going to merge the public sector with the private if you win and you're a senator from Texas? Ask her anything that's not surface level. She'll have no responses. Right? And then she always pivots to President Trump. I think she was asked the other day about Maduro and Venezuela, and she somehow pivoted to January 6th. Like, she has her talking point she can't stray from. And it's because she doesn't want to work. She wants to twerk and post videos on TikTok and be a celebrity. She wants to be on Real Housewives, and she believes politics is her best method of getting there. 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I have so much respect, respect for men and women in uniform and our war fighters and the utmost respect for folks who come home injured or the ones who make the ultimate sacrifice and don't come home at all. I could never ever have the balls to do that. So I have the utmost respect for anyone who does so for Prince Harry, as much as I joke, as much as I knock, he and Meghan. I have respect for the Invictus Games. But what's interesting, Prince Harry has allegedly asked his father to be involved and open the Invictus Games Games. So he apparently wants his father, King Charles to come and open the Invictus Games. And I think this is a tough sell. Will King Charles do it? He's kind of put into a tough situation, right? How do you say no to doing the Invictus Games with your son? Because it's for the cause. Even if you have issues with your son, even if your son's done tell all books and docu series and interviews with Oprah, you kind of got to show up for the Invictus Game. So it'll be interesting to see. Does King Charles get up there and speak? Is he involved in the ceremony? Is William involved in the ceremony? Catherine? Because maybe come coming together for a really good cause can mend some of these broken relationships. I don't actually think they're worth mending. I think Harry has shown his true colors. You can't really come back from some of the things that have been said, you know, accusing them of racism and driving you to have mental health issues and things I won't even articulate on here. I think it's hard to come back from that. I think it is a family business at the end of the day. So maybe they will be able to, you know, oh, it's show biz. It's part of the business. But. But even with William, right. Putting every argument and disagreement with William and Catherine into his book, Spare. That's tough. It's tough. Even if you let that family member back in. And you know, in our lives we've had this before where a family member or friend does us dirty, they do us wrong, they betray us, they backstab us. Even when you let them in and you forgive and you try to forget, there's always that hint in the back of your mind. There's that hint in the back of your head like, you did me dirty. You did me dirty. You know what I'm saying? Am I ever going to fully trust you again? And. And I think Charles, William, Catherine, they will have this. They'll be thinking, hmm, can we really trust him again? But it'll be interesting to see them get involved in the Invictus Games, if they do at all. The last thing I'll say as it pertains to Harry and Meghan. This will be Meghan's first trip back to the UK since 2022. Is she going to bring Archie and Lily? Bet. Are they going to have to stay all the way over in California with the nannies and the mother, Doria Ragland. Right. I think this could be an opportunity for the kids, Archie and Lilibet, to get to know their cousins. Right. It sucks that the kids are caught as collateral damage in the adults relationships. Right. Sort of like divorced parents. You don't want the kid, you know, to have a bad relationship because we're at odds. Right. You want the kids to get along. I think Archie and Lily bet it would be nice to take them to the UK because all they know is living on the compound in California. The only grandparent that they think they have is Doria. That's sad. They should learn that, oh, we're royalty. I think part of the reason Harry and Meghan don't want the kids to go over to the UK they don't want them to realize, oh, we could be riding in horse drawn carriages and living in a palace and we're stuck over in California with you slums, you know what I'm saying? I think the kids are going to realize, wait a second, we're royalty. What are we doing over in California with these losers? So I think it could be nice to have them go meet their cousins. You know, Louis, Charlotte, George. They have other cousins, right? From other members of the royal family. I think it'll be nice, but it will be interesting. Interesting to see and I want to hear from you guys in the comments. Do you think Charles should work with his son on the Invictus Games when they come in July? Should they let bygones be bygones? Do you show up because it's a good cause and just let all that other stuff go or put it on pause? It's tough. It's tough because Harry, now, right, has signaled through the press that he wants his father involved, allegedly. So now if the father says no, it's like, are you saying no to the Invictus Games and these people who've risked their lives and who've been injured? It's tough. I think he's putting his father kind of between a rock and a hard place and putting his back against the wall because how do you say no now? So drop a comment. I want to hear from you guys. Don't you think it'd be a good opportunity for the cousins to meet the other cousins? I think that would be great, but we got to pay some quick bills and we'll be back with a story about dating you don't want to miss if you're like me. The holidays are filled with endless desserts, late night zero workouts. But now it's a new year. Time to reset and actually give our bodies what they need. Need? For me, that fresh start begins with COVID Pure. Everyone dives into supplements or diets, but ignores the basics. Water. Even mild dehydration tanks your energy focus and metabolism. And with all the contaminants in tap water, you're already behind. Covpure fixes that instantly. Their Clearwave technology is certified to remove up to 99.9% of contaminants. PFAS, microplastics, fluoride, everything. It's the purest water possible. What I love most, instant, hot, cold or warm water. Perfect for tea size. Presets make hitting my daily goal effortless. The taste is fresh and clean. 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Because we're in this world, right? Where during the Me Too movement, where we had a few years where these women were saying, don't come up to us. Don't talk to us, and guys were getting canceled for asking girls out, right? If you ask your co worker, hey, do you want to get drinks afterward? She could have gone to hr. She could have gone to human resources. And so I think there are a lot of guys who have PTSD from that era. But what I hear from women and you guys in the comments let me know. I hear from. From so many women who are like, we miss chivalry. We miss being swept off our feet. We miss a guy coming in and making the first move, right? There's nothing wrong with a guy coming up and saying, hey, do you want to go out? Is there anything sexier than a guy who's like, I am making plans at this time at this place and taking initiative? That would be great. Okay. That'd be a miracle. It'd be like finding a Sahara. It'd be like finding a Dasani water bottle in the middle of the Sahara desert. You know, it's like finding a water fountain in the middle of the desert. If a guy's like, baby, I'm taking you out at this time at this place, and I'll pick you up, right? I think there are many women who would love that. And so I hate to see when I read these articles, guys who are so scared of making an approach on a woman, okay? What is wrong with chivalry? And I think women can approach guys too. I mean, I'm a little old fashioned. I do think it's a little odd when a woman's like double texting a guy or triple texting because I think sort of in the primal animal world, the man should be the hunt, right? The man should be the one making those moves. He should be reaching out. And so I want to read you a little bit some of these quotes from the article. Men in Manhattan are having dating anxiety, dating anxiety because of the fear of being mistaken as toxically macho, boneheaded creeps, okay? So they don't want to be seen as toxically macho, boneheaded creeps, okay? Why don't you guys just try asking these women out, okay? Ask these women out. And if a woman, woman doesn't like what you're saying, she'll say, no, thank you. I think what I didn't love about the MeToo movement in that era is that it sort of took the power away from women, right? I heard from so many women, even my mom would say this during that era. She would say, you know, when I was in the workplace and guys would do things I didn't like, or this happened, or this happened, I would say, back off. I would say, back off. What are you doing? Get away from me. You know, I'm not interested. And so I think what this is sort of showing is we need to have a little more chivalry in society where guys can actually ask women, women out. And I want to read you about this guy who's in the article, right? So we have a 28 year old named Ryan Kessler. He told the New York Post that when trying to win over a potential love interest, the last thing he wants is to be considered a jerk who makes ladies cringe rather than swoon with a clumsy pickup line and unwelcome advances. I don't want to bother them, he said, conceding that he's not as timid when it comes to making the first move on dating apps. But in person, he goes on to say that in person, it's hard to approach. It's kind of odd. You know what? What? I think if you approached in person because it's so rare, okay? Especially in New York and Manhattan, all these beta males, if you approach, that might be your golden ticket. You know what I'm saying? I think you should approach these women, ask them out, have some chivalry, have some backbone, okay? I also think have these dating apps brought us closer I know people who've met on apps and gotten married, but it seems like social media has also just made us so much more disconnected. They're totally fine having relationships on the Internet. Texting, a nauseum. I'm the type of person, if I meet you in real life, I know in five seconds if I like you. You can't get that over the Internet. You're looking at a few pictures. People put their best foot forward over text. In person, you can assess the situation and really feel it out. So I think we need to get back to approaching in person, looking someone in the eye, putting her hand out, shaking their hand, buying someone a drink. And these guys need to stop being so scared. Scared. Okay? Most women, most women who follow me and watch me, y' all are some strong ass women, okay? If I'm ever in a fight, if someone ever comes for me and does me dirty, I know I have an army of strong, independent women to back me up. And I love you guys. The women I hear from, they would love for a guy to ask them out to make the first move. And don't worry about being cringe. We're all cringe, okay? Dating and getting to know everybody is cringe. Life is awkward. Awkward, right? You just have to not care, okay? For me, half of what I do is cringe. But you can't care that much about what other people think. You've got to put yourself out there. And the last piece of advice I'll have for these guys, you might be having so much anxiety and worried about perception and how you're coming across. Am I funny? Am I interesting? Do I look perfect? Nobody is judging you as harshly as yourself. And it goes for the women too, right? Women think, oh, I need to look perfect on this date. Does my hair look perfect? Do I need to lose five pounds? Pounds? Nobody is judging you that harshly, right? Everybody's in their own world. Everybody's doing the best they can. The person you're all worried about, they might be having anxiety and freaking out inside themselves. So everybody, let's calm down, okay? We've moved on from the me too movement, okay? So don't be afraid to go out there and ask someone out. All right, you guys. That concludes this episode of Spot on with Link Lauren. We will be back on Wednesday and hopefully I will have gotten to the bottom of this horrific toothache and I'll be able talk and be myself and not be in pain like I have been for a long time. But I love you guys. I can't wait to read can't wait to read your comments. Be sure to drop some so I can read them when I'm laying in bed at night. I love to scroll through and I like them and I respond to them. Or when I'm on a plane or when I'm a passenger in a car. I read all of your comments because I absolutely adore you and the community that we've built online. So I will see you back on Wednesday. And also drop a comment about what stories you're interested in, because I want to cover the stories stories that you guys care about. Okay? Be safe. Kiss your loved ones bye. 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