Repeat Rampage

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Five — "Repeat Rampage" (May 12, 2026)

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Episode Overview

In this episode of "The Five," the hosts tackle a range of hot-button issues dominating national debate, focusing on the repercussions of lenient criminal justice policies in major U.S. cities, the challenges facing Democrats ahead of the midterms, the rise of outsider candidates, media shakeups, and a viral travel etiquette debate. The conversation is lively, contentious, and peppered with personal anecdotes, the panelists' signature wit, and pointed criticism—mostly aimed at progressive narratives and Democratic leadership.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Criminal Justice Failures and Repeat Offenders

00:35–11:47

• Cases Highlighted:

  • Boston: Career criminal Tyler Brown opens fire, critically injuring two after a light sentence despite prosecutors demanding more time for a prior attempt to kill a police officer.
  • New York: Romel Burke, with multiple arrests since February and recently released from a psych ward, kills a retired teacher just hours after release.

• Root of the Issue:

  • Judges and politicians are seen as prioritizing ideology (e.g., restorative justice, racial considerations) over public safety.
  • Compagno and Gutfeld argue that repeat offenders are not getting the "tough love" or necessary deterrence due to patterns being ignored in favor of political correctness.

• Notable Quotes:

  • Harold Ford Jr. (02:24):
    "I don't care if he was white or Asian or Hispanic or black. You can't keep putting repeat criminals and people who do heinous things to society, undermining trust. Keep putting them back out in the streets..."
  • Greg Gutfeld (03:27):
    "Pattern recognition. It's how man has evolved and survived... some people, by their very nature, are criminals... you're talking about too many second chances."
  • Emily Compagno (06:47):
    "A decision to not act is actually an action... any victim that doesn't speak up on account of some fabricated reason why, like that means that they are sacrificing someone else's life."

• Cultural Diagnosis:

  • Increasing reluctance to report or prosecute due to social/racial guilt, particularly among white victims.
  • Judges and blue city officials become detached from the personal pain their policies cause.
  • "Restorative justice" is critiqued for unleashing chaos, with statistics allegedly being manipulated to show falling crime.

2. Democratic Messaging Woes

11:57–21:36

• Trump's Communication Style:

  • Clips of Trump lambasting reporters serve as a contrast point to the Democrats' current lack of message clarity.
  • Trump's success attributed to authentic, direct language versus perceived Democratic "focus group" jargon.

• Inside the Democratic Party:

  • Raphael Warnock struggles to articulate how to talk to men without alienating them with progressive jargon.
  • John Fetterman warns against making "Trump Derangement Syndrome" (TDS) the sole campaign message.

• Panelist Analysis:

  • Democrats only act "normal" around elections, reverting to niche, progressive rhetoric otherwise.
  • The party is said to be out of touch, having "capitulated to progressives" and failing to adopt clear, everyday language that resonates with ordinary voters.

• Notable Quotes:

  • Jesse Waters (14:54):
    "They can only take a shower to wipe the radical filth off maybe once every two years... They could learn from Trump in a very simple way. When he entered politics, he changed the system. The system didn't change him."
  • Harold Ford Jr. (18:49):
    "We suffer in our politics from a deficit of either side wanting the other side to work with one another... Democrats need to speak to an agenda. They need to speak to the aspirations of voters. That's how you win elections."

• Men as a Voting Bloc:

  • Criticism of Democratic messaging toward men, with suggestions to "try to be normal" and not vilify or label men as "toxic."
  • Gutfeld adds gendered humor: (21:42)
    "Men have honor. And so it insults our honor when you guys lie to our face... When you say walls don’t work or there could be 17 different genders, we're like, all right, you guys are crazy. We'll be over here."

3. Spencer Pratt and the ‘Fascist’ Smear in LA Politics

24:02–31:57

• Backdrop:

  • Outsider Spencer Pratt gains traction in the LA mayoral race by addressing pressing issues—homelessness, crime, unaffordable housing.
  • His rivals, notably Councilwoman Nithya Raman, respond with "mini Trump" and "fascist" label attacks instead of engaging on substance.

• Panel Reactions:

  • Kennedy highlights how mainstream politicians fear debating Pratt, as he "annihilated them" with real-world talking points and unorthodox campaign tactics (25:01).
  • Harold Ford Jr. (26:41):
    "He's tackling this in an unorthodox, unusual way for today's politics, which should be the norm. He's actually offering answers."
  • Emily Compagno and others reflect on LA voters’ resistance to common-sense solutions for fear of being seen as “MAGA” or Republican—even though Pratt is independent.

• Jesse Waters (29:39):
  Compares Pratt’s story to a Hollywood movie, emphasizing its "too good to be true" dynamic if only it didn’t threaten existing power structures.

4. Late Night TV: The End of an Era?

32:17–36:32

• Segment Premise:

  • Satirizing the "funeral" for Stephen Colbert’s late-night show as an emblem of mainstream comedy's struggle to remain relevant and profitable.

• Key Points:

  • All-white, ideologically homogeneous late-night hosts criticized for lacking diversity of thought and staying power.
  • Audience numbers and ratings drive the narrative—if you don’t connect, you don’t survive.
  • Gutfeld and crew imply their approach ("The Five") is fresher, more audience-responsive compared to the formulaic network approach.

• Notable Quotes:

  • Emily Compagno (33:18):
    "It's like one of those paper dolls... pull the string and they say the same thing."
  • Jesse Waters (34:02):
    "He canceled a show that existed before he got there... It was called the Late Show. Letterman had, was a very successful beast... They just said screw it, we're done."

5. Viral Debates: Airplane Overhead Bin Etiquette

37:24–39:58

• Viral TikTok as Societal Lens:
  • Discussion of whether using overhead bins for small items like coats signals selfishness or bad behavior.
  • Kennedy and Emily agree it's poor form; Gutfeld jokes about overhead bins as metaphors for societal cooperation and personal responsibility.

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Memorable Moments & Quotes

• On Forgiveness vs. Protection:
  • Gutfeld's Aesop's fable analogy: (03:27)
    "His compassion couldn’t save him from the viper’s nature. Some people by their very nature are criminals."
• On Party Messaging:
  • Jesse Waters (14:54):
    "If Democrats act like it was election time every day, they'd be normal. But they don't."
• On Voter Experience Disconnect:
  • Jesse Waters (11:32):
    "Progressives have this thing that... they're banking on 20 year olds, 25 year olds not having any concept of civil or a safe society."
• On Outsider Candidates:
  • Kennedy (25:01):
    "He didn't just win that debate, he annihilated them. It was embarrassing."
• On Late Night TV Decline:
  • Emily Compagno (33:18):
    "It's like one of those paper dolls... pull the string and they say the same thing."
• On Cultural Shifts:
  • Jesse Waters (29:39):
    “Hollywood would make a movie of this guy if it were fiction... but in real life, they're afraid.”

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:35–11:47 — Discussion of repeat offenders, justice system failures, and victim psychology
• 11:57–21:36 — Trump’s communication style vs. Democratic messaging troubles, Warnock and Fetterman’s perspectives, men as a voting bloc
• 24:02–31:57 — Spencer Pratt’s rise in LA politics, attacks from establishment, viability as outsider candidate
• 32:17–36:32 — The state and future of late-night television; Colbert's show funeral
• 37:24–39:58 — Viral TikTok: Airplane etiquette as a microcosm of society

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Takeaway

This episode of "The Five" delivers its trademark blend of political commentary and cultural criticism. The panel critiques criminal justice “leniency” and left-leaning ideology in justice and urban governance, mocks Democratic struggles to define coherent messaging, and lionizes outsider candidates challenging the status quo. The tone is sharp, sarcastic, and occasionally contentious, offering listeners both entertainment and ammunition for water-cooler debates. Those seeking a concise, plainspoken summary of current conservative perspectives on crime, politics, and culture will find this episode a vivid snapshot.

Transcript

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[Unknown Guest]

Well.

[Emily Compagno]

Hello everyone.

[Kennedy]

I'm Kennedy along with Harold Ford Jr. Jesse Waters, Emily Compagno and Greg Gutfeld. It's five o' clock in New York City and this is the five. We have some shocking and horrible stories. Woke cities keep releasing maniacs and innocent Americans keep paying the price. First, let's go to the horror show in Boston. Career criminal Tyler Brown opening fire, critically injuring two people until cops and a marine stopped him. The lunatic had just been recently released from prison for attempting to kill a Boston police officer just six years ago. The judge there gave him a light sentence of only five years even after prosecutors begged for 10 to 12. Don't even know if that would have helped. And over in New York, a suspect with four prior arrests since February killing a man just hours after being released from a psych ward. Romel Burke is now charged with pushing 76 year old retired teacher Ross Falzon to his death down a flight of subway stairs. One of Burke's past victims, a 23 year old woman telling the New York Post that Burke assaulted her and a friend on the subway just last month. She declined to cooperate with prosecutors but now regrets her choice, saying, quote, maybe a part of me was just like, I don't want to put another black man in jail, end quote. Let's take this one around the table. So what do you make of that quote, Harold? Because I don't think that she should have put another black man in jail. I think that she should have put a violent felon in jail. But that's just me. What are we seeing here?

[Harold Ford Jr.]

I agree with you. It's good to be back with everybody again. I'm a law and order Democrat. I try not to see race unless race demands to be seen. And if someone is committing a crime and politicians and judges don't put people behind bars, you undermine the trust that citizens expect from their representatives and from their politicians. So I don't, I don't even she may have felt that way, but I have to tell you, I don't care if he was white or Asian or Hispanic or black. You can't keep putting repeat criminals and people who do heinous things to society, undermining trusts. Keep putting them back out in the streets, be it Boston, be it New York, be it wherever.

[Greg Gutfeld]

So

[Harold Ford Jr.]

I don't, I don't, I don't have a reaction to them being black or white. It was a crime.

[Kennedy]

Yeah, exactly. And I wish more judges would see that. Because if they would look at patterns as opposed to immutable characteristics, maybe some of these recidivist criminals would be in jail and not out reoffending violently.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Pattern recognition. It's how man has evolved and survived over many, many years. I'm reading Aesop's fables and you have this one about this farmer and he sees this viper and it was freezing to death outside. So because he's so kind and compassionate, he takes the viper, puts it inside of his cloth coat and holds it and then once the viper warms up, bites him. His compassion couldn't save him from the viper's nature. Now, some people by their very nature are criminals. You can look at the statistics inside the Bureau of Prisons. 20% of of people incarcerated in federal prison have been serving prison sentence. Sometimes five, six, seven, eight sentences before they even get there. That's not second chances. We love second chances. I'm successful because of several second chances. You're talking about too many second chances. You have to live in reality. You can't live in a world that doesn't exist. You're adding additional risk for no reason. You have this one guy, 16 years old, Travis Lewis. He murdered a 75 year old woman. The woman's daughter befriended the killer when he was in prison, actually petitioned for an early release. Guy gets out, she hires him to do work on her house, he kills her, he kills the mother and he kills the daughter. And so you gotta take vengeance. You can't just take pity. There's an episode of Cheers and really

[Kennedy]

running the gamut here.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Jesse, there's an ex con that's in the bar. And Diane sees him and hears him and he's talking about an armed robbery that he's gonna do. And she goes to Sam, please don't call the cops, don't do it. These guys is just gonna be another victim of the criminal justice system. I can sa and she tries to talk to him, it doesn't work. And he sticks up the bar. Women have a savior complex. And I'M not saying the criminal justice system has been feminized, but I kind of am. There is a deep seated guilt. A lot of whites have it, but women especially, where they think they can just change the world and not change these people. Some of these people you can't change. They are born bad and we have to stop trying to save them. How about we save society from the criminals instead?

[Harold Ford Jr.]

We need to get back to our Bible study. I can tell you, by the way,

[Jesse Waters]

can I just point out that both of Jesse's examples can be found in the Journal of International Fictional Examples.

[Greg Gutfeld]

I thought you were going to see Gad Said's book now.

[Jesse Waters]

Fables, Fables and sitcoms. Jesse's go to.

[Greg Gutfeld]

No, that's something here.

[Kennedy]

There might be a few people wanting to commit suicide after hearing your long winded explanation. Just kidding. I'm totally kidding. It's a joke. Emily, as a white woman that Jesse was saying are too empathetic in society, you actually have a healthy vengeance streak. So much so that you became a federal attorney in order to put bad guys like this in prison for their unnatural lives.

[Emily Compagno]

Yeah, no one ever mistakes this Sicilian temper for anything but a commitment to vengeance. Look, this is a perfect illustration that a decision to not act is actually an action because that victim's decision not to act. Oh this, this will not put another black person in jail meant that she sacrificed that 76 year old man's life. And the inaction, her inability to do something meant that it led to that chain of events that led to another death. In 2023 in Oakland, there was a woman who was a prison abolitionist, she was an activist and she was dragged to death in a bank parking lot when thugs were trying to steal her purse. And her chosen family, as it was referred to, advocated that her murderer wouldn't go to jail at all because they knew that she didn't believe in it. Now he went to jail, he took a plea deal for seven years I believe. But the point was that I thought about it and I was like, well, she sacrificed herself for the cause, but that prior victim sacrificed the 76 year old man. Any victim that doesn't speak up on account of some fabricated reason why, like that means that they are sacrificing someone else's life. And that includes the judges that lets these recidivists out. It includes the defense attorneys and the prosecutors masquerading as such that get these reduced sentences and let these guys out on the street. I was telling Greg the other day that when I was in Lenscrafters up by Columbus Circle. This was like six months ago or like a year ago. And while I was in there, two or three people came in, robbed the place. This happens all the time in New York. It's no big deal. They're just taking all the sunglasses. Right. We're all sitting there, cops come, none of them were white. And they're taking the statements from the young women that work there. And one of the people who had robbed the store, black skin, dyed blonde hair. So she kept saying it was a blonde haired woman. And the cop was like, okay, anything else? Blonde hair. Anything else? Blonde hair. And she refused to say what was so clearly a description of Dana Perino. Why couldn't she say it?

[Kennedy]

What?

[Emily Compagno]

You know, and look, that was just taking sunglasses. What's next? The whole point is you have this agency over your behavior as people on the left try to say, but it impacts everyone. And in these chains of events, it impacts people to their death.

[Kennedy]

Well, also you've got these blue cities, Greg, who were saying that violent crime is going down. And I hope it is. I hope it is going down in Seattle and Portland and Chicago and New York. I don't have a ton of faith in that because it also feels like in these blue cities they have reclassified and recategorized a lot of these violent crimes. So they're no longer felonies.

[Jesse Waters]

Yeah, well, they've. Yeah, they redefined what a violent felony is. And you're watching in D.C. now, the police force getting busted for doctoring the statistics. It's interesting how cavalier the judges are about this because they are separated from the outcomes of their decisions. Their decisions create a lot of pain. They let these people out, but they, they don't feel the pain. It's not like the homicidal maniacs are going to come after them. They don't resent them. They appreciate these judges and victims are too nice for vengeance. So this, I think when you, the judges are a different thing. This is what happens when an ideology makes its way to reality. It seeped out of the teacher's lounge where you could blather all day about restorative justice. Well, here it is. It's a blaze of gunfire on a Boston street. The virus left the lab. We're in a situation now where we're accepting chaos over justice because the culture puts more weight on social repercussions than punishing criminals. You know, this 23 year old woman would rather put the risk of future violence on somebody else than risk a mean Instagram comment because she testified Against a black guy. If this were the NBA, you would call that an assist. The guy, a guy got murdered. It's funny, I think progressives have this thing that they, to their advantage, they're banking on 20 year olds, 25 year olds not having any concept of civil or a safe society. There's no context. I mean, how shocked would say an 18 year old be to take a time machine and go like 20 years back to New York City or L. A and go, wow, you guys put away homicidal maniacs and you don't get called racist. Wait, I can, you can't casually walk into a walgreens to take $400 worth of beauty products. Wait, the, the toothpaste isn't locked up. What is going on here? People can, people can get used to anything. And the scary thing is now they're getting used to violent uncertainty, which means there's just fewer things that you're going to do. You're going to become a less free society.

[Kennedy]

Not if you're watching this show. We love your freedom. Coming up next, President Trump is unleashing on reporters ahead of his high stakes trip to China. Stay with us.

[Jesse Waters]

China.

[Donald Trump]

I doubled the size of it, you dumb person. Double the size you are. You are not a smart person.

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[Greg Gutfeld]

I think it's just a matter.

[Jesse Waters]

Now.

[Donald Trump]

We had a choice. Let these lunatics have a nuclear weapon. If you want to do that, then you're a stupid person. And you happen to be, I mean, I know you very well. We have a ballroom that's under budget. It's going up right here. I've doubled the size of it because we obviously need that. I doubled the size of it, you dumb person. Double the size you are. You are not a smart person.

[Emily Compagno]

President Trump knows exactly how to hammer home a message heading into the midterms, mixing it up with reporters before taking off for his high stakes trip to China. While Democrats still seem stuck in a focus group trying to figure out what their message even is, case in point, Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock is still trying to crack the code on something pretty basic, how to talk to men.

[Unknown Politician]

We have to find a way to be really clear and full throated in our condemnation of sexism. Misogyny, sexual abuse, while at the same time just talking about the agency that all of us have and create opportunities for men and for our boys. We get caught up in our jargon on the left and people sometimes don't know what the heck you're talking about. I think speaking plain English because more often than not, our policies would actually be more helpful.

[Kennedy]

Yeah.

[Emily Compagno]

Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman is also diagnosing his party's problems on how they can't just be the TDS party.

[Unknown Guest]

I know how to pay the bills as a Democrat right now. And my colleagues and people that are running, whether for the Senate or the House, they are literally running on Trump. I mean, that's literally. They have campaign commercials that. And it's absurd. And we are getting to that point and I refuse to engage in that extreme those terms. And we have to find a better way forward.

[Emily Compagno]

Running on empty. Greg Gutfeld, your thoughts?

[Jesse Waters]

Well, watch Warnock there saying like, you know, how do we talk to men? Well, try to be normal. But you notice he couldn't even do that when he was talking about it. The first thing out of his mouth is talking about, well, there's misogyny and sex abuse. And it's like, you lost us. See you later. We're out the door. They can't be normal because they forgot what normal is. They only appear normal come election time. I said it before, if Democrats act like it was election time every day, they'd be normal. But they don't. They could be pro cop and anti chaos every day, but they, they pull the, the wool over our eyes for like a couple of weeks telling us, hey, we're normal, you'll like us. And then they go back to their radical stripes. They can only take a shower to wipe the radical filth off maybe once every two years. And then now they realizing it's so crusty that they can't get it off on time. And we see that how left wing you are. They could learn from Trump in a very simple way. When he entered politics, he changed the system. The system didn't change him. It's the secret to your success. He didn't become a Republican to be more like a Republican. He became a Republican so the Republicans could be more like him. And when I went to the state dinner with Jesse Waters, wasn't that a great time? Thank you so much for taking me as a date.

[Greg Gutfeld]

You're welcome.

[Jesse Waters]

I spent time with Sean Duffy, Marco Rubio, speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, Hagseth. We are talking to these people, these are not trad Republicans. They have an energy that you'd not experienced before. You can call it maga, you can call it Trumpy. It's not. It's a kind of confidence, brash and real. It didn't exist 15 years ago. TRUMP is basically saying, yeah, you can tell roast jokes at a roast, but it's more interesting if I tell roast jokes at a press conference. You can bash the refs at a basketball game, but I'm going to do it at a debate. So what he's doing is he's bringing elements of real life into something that was supposed to be immune from it, and he's changing the way it is. Democrats can't do that. They don't know because they don't know what they are.

[Emily Compagno]

Yeah, they're panicking Kennedy at the thought that the institution looks different, is different now, while scrambling to protect their institutions of big government and education and the like. What do you think about these voices? Is it going to work? Are people going to listen to Warnock after they decipher his.

[Kennedy]

No, because I want to pick up on two things that Greg said, because I think he's really right about the fact that they only come out and say stuff like this when it's convenient right before an election. And that makes it naturally. Like, if you say something like this when you're not in fear of losing your post as a politician, then you're a lot more believable. But if you're only saying it to get votes from a part of the electorate that you're hemorrhaging, there's something about it that is just phony. And you know, Fetterman's absolutely right that they need to figure out a way to be a party outside of tds. And, you know, they have capitulated. They've capitulated to progressives. And if you decide tried to capitulate, then you have given up any moral ground or anything that at one point moored you to an interesting philosophy or worldview. And after hearing John Fetterman and, you know, we wrote him off when he was having his health troubles and when he was running for Senate initially, but he was one of the few lonely, rational voices that is being completely marginalized by his party. And that's the dumbest thing they could do. They should listen to the advice that he has. And, you know, every time I see him say things like that, it reminds me of Harold. And Harold has to find a better man.

[Emily Compagno]

Better man Harold. I've noticed as well as everyone has that the Democrats are also ascribing that label to any Democrats that dared to work with President Trump or be open to bipartisan ideas. It seems like they're, they're really enlarging that rift. They, there is no commitment to narrowing it whatsoever.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Well, I differ, I differ there. I think that we have, we suffer in our politics from a deficit of either side wanting the other side to work with one another. And there's no doubt Democrats get beat up a bit for working with President Trump. But let me level set this a little bit here. Raphael Warnock has won Georgia statewide two times. So has President Trump. He clearly, I think if you listen to this whole thing, he's basically saying what we're saying, but it took him a while to say it, that we've got to figure out how we speak more plainly and we not alienate or act as if we're working against the interests of men. Two, I was very clear in the first segment about how I think politicians being blue cities aware of it seems like there are more blue cities that are wrong to let people out of jail who commit violent crimes. And I have to tell you, we have to be honest. The reason that the president was so frustrated and I hope he has a great trip in China is because gas prices are up 50%, jet fuel costs are up two times. Not only gas prices up, food prices are up, health care costs are up. If you look at, I don't like polls necessarily. I think the best poll is an election is, is an election. But polls give us some snapshot of where people, three out of four Americans think that cost of living issues are being exacerbated by the policies of the president. Where I do agree with you guys, Democrats need to speak to an agenda. They need to speak to the aspirations of voters. That's how you win elections. President Trump upended the political system in 2016 with a very plain spoken. Some people thought it was offensive at times, but he was plain spoken about what he wanted to do. He did it again when he won in 2024. And I think the frustration so many people are feeling, Emily, is that the president said that he would end the war in Ukraine. It's not. He said that this war that we're fighting in Iran would be over in a few weeks. It's not. He said that he would end inflation as we know it. He has not. This is not something I'm rooting against him.

[Jesse Waters]

I'm rooting for him to do these things. He's done. Harold, we'll be here all day.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

But, Greg, here's the thing. Every election just. I know you know this, but I'm going to give you just one tutorial. Elections, presidential races are. People make decisions about the direction they want to go in the country. It's always about the economy. Of course, midterms are referendums on whether or not those policies are being pursued. As we sit here today, Republicans are likely going to get cleaned. They're going to get. They're going to get clean these elections because of the economy. And if we don't find. If we don't find a way to lower costs, and if I were Democrats, I'd be asking the president to end the tariffs. The people we're making the richest in this war with Iran are the Russians, because gas prices are going up. So I hear everything you're saying. Democrats need to learn to speak more plainly. Democrats need to stop talking about some of the social issues that Greg talks about. I think rightly so. But I gotta tell you, people are frustrated with politicians all across the board, because I don't care if you're a Democrat or Republican, you're still paying $5 a pump.

[Jesse Waters]

You need your own.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

You're still paying gross.

[Jesse Waters]

You can't have hours.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Well, he's not doing great right now. I like him, but he's not doing great right now. My prices are up.

[Emily Compagno]

Jesse, also not just plain speak to men, but maybe not vilifying them, maybe not calling them toxic just for existing.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Well, men, I know what they hate. They hate being lied to. Women lie to each other all the time. It's how you guys communicate. We don't constantly lying to each other's face.

[Emily Compagno]

Never lied to Kennedy in life. And you've never.

[Jesse Waters]

That's a lie.

[Greg Gutfeld]

I'll be the judge of that. Because men have honor. And so it insults our honor when you guys lie to our face. And then it also insults our intelligence, too. When you say walls don't work or there could be 17 different genders, we're like, all right, you guys are crazy. We'll be over here. Let us know if you need help with anything. And we offered help. We offered to build a border wall and to throw away the criminals, and they didn't want to do it. So we're like, okay. I also agree with Fetterman that we don't like women using the F word when it's F Trump. F Trump. It's just. It's not ladylike. Don't put the camera. I try not to hear half the things you say anyway. Who are you talking to there is talking to women.

[Emily Compagno]

Oh, my God.

[Greg Gutfeld]

And there's also something very effeminate about complaining about a guy your whole life. The whole party complains about this guy, and it kind of makes other guys be like, all right, I've got to get this guy's back. If all these people are friends with snitching, I like that white lady didn't

[Harold Ford Jr.]

want to send a black guy to jail. I mean, what are you talking about?

[Emily Compagno]

Yeah, you know what?

[Greg Gutfeld]

It is really? It's boring. It's like long Covid.

[Jesse Waters]

Can I use your practice of. Remember the scene in Animal House after the guy goes on that date with that girl and pretends he's the boyfriend of her dead roommate? And then afterwards, she's. She's sitting with her friends and they're going, oh, did she really like the guy? But they're, oh, you poor thing. That's what the Democrat Party is about, Trump. They're like, oh, he's so bad. But they really. Sorry. Well, I was trying to save you,

[Greg Gutfeld]

you know, successfully saved. Let's go.

[Jesse Waters]

Yeah.

[Emily Compagno]

Coming up next, desperate Democrats are trying to run the fascist playbook on Spencer Pratt after he exposed their failed policy.

[Donald Trump]

I hear the trainer coming. It's rolling around the bend and I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know where.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Los Angeles liberals crashing out hard over Spencer Pratt's mayoral momentum. They're singing Johnny Cash after exposing their whole charade on homelessness, crime and drugs. And all he had to do was just say out loud what everybody in LA sees every day. One of Pratt's opponents, will Councilwoman Nithya Raman. Like the noodle dusting off the tired old fascist smear attack to Pratt with a fresh mini Trump remix.

[Nithya Raman]

Listen, if you feel like the country is moving in the wrong direction, and if you feel like establishment Democratic politics is not feeling that urgency to solve those issues or to prevent them from happening in the first place, people lose faith in government. People will turn to fascism, to mini Trump, which is who I think Spencer Pratt really represents.

[Greg Gutfeld]

All right, Kennedy. To say that Spencer Pratt is fascist. He's an independent and he was on the hills.

[Kennedy]

All she's doing is, thank you, Joe. On the Hill. You're absolutely right. Case closed. Let's hold the election today. All right? All she's doing is trying to appeal to national voters to make this a national race. And she can only do that by saying, are you happy with how things are going in this country? Do you hate fascism? We don't want a king. Spencer Pratt is a fascist. He's a mini Trump because she knows she can't debate him. Karen Bass and Nithya Rahman were. They both withdrew from the next mayoral debate because they got their clocks cleaned. He didn't just win that debate, he annihilated them. It was embarrassing. And everyone called her specifically out for being so flimsy on the facts. And she and Karen Bass better realize really quickly that he has shown people who are just like him, they love their city. They don't know why they do anymore because the politicians have given them every reason to hate it and to leave. He is staying there. He wants to rebuild his community. He sees how it can be better, and that's the roadmap that he's giving voters. That resonates with a lot more people than just stick with us and let's spend more money and raise your taxes, and that'll make homelessness just go away. The city will be better overnight. We're ready for the Olympics. And no, they're not. They're amateurs. And he, who has never been a politician, used some AI commercials and a few cleverly, quickly thrown together tidbits to show that they are an absolute farce.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Harold, what do you think about this?

[Harold Ford Jr.]

I think the shine I said last week, the shine is coming off the California dream. I don't disagree with anything Kennedy has said. I think Spencer Pratt, I was wrong last week. I went back and watched the debate. I didn't think he offered as many. And you got into it a little bit. I think you were right. I was wrong. He offered a lot. Finally, he offered. You never admitted anything. He offered a lot. What he's doing is what every politician should do, whether you're a Democrat or Republican. Offer real, practical, actionable solutions to actual problems that people are facing. The young lady you just showed in our opening, the city councilman, she's reading from a national playbook that just says, attack Trump and hopefully Democrats. That's what will excite Democrats. I'm here to tell you that may be part of it, but at the end of the day, Angelenos understand that homelessness is a problem. They understand that public safety is a problem. They understand that housing is unaffordable for most Californians and most Angelenos. And whether you like this guy or not, whether you think he may be close to Trump or not close to Trump, I give him a lot of credit. He's tackling this in an unorthodox, unusual way for today's politics, which should be the norm. He's actually offering answers. I say that as a Democrat. So Democrats are running this race. If you don't start offering answers, this guy could very well surprise Jesse and I agreed last week he could actually win this thing even though Los Angeles is such a heavily Democratic place because people are fed up with the answers that are not being given.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Think he has a shot, Emily?

[Emily Compagno]

I do. I hope so. You know, I, you guys know we come from Northern California. I'm doing this as if we're from the same household. We both come from Northern California in separate households, whatever.

[Jesse Waters]

So we're Draw me into your sick world.

[Emily Compagno]

Just saying so. And a lot of the people that I've talked to in la, there is still a very massive streak of people that do have TDS and that haven't seen the common sense solutions being put forth by Spencer Pratt and the hilarious commercials and the very real present social media things that he's doing from the street. Like I feel like we are seeing this very clearly and objectively. We see that Los Angeles is a dying, toxic city and that there is still hope and we see the kite string of hope occurring through Spencer Pratt. But there's a lot of people there that are insulated by their money and their education and the comfort of their lives and they have enjoyed for all of the these years being very anti Trump. They use the word Republican as a pejorative, which is why you saw the union advertisement against Spencer Pratt use the word Republican as if that was all they needed to say. And I asked a friend last night who lives in LA and is voting there the same, the same question basically, like, so he'll pull it off, right? Because you don't have this isn't a MAGA person. This is just common. And he was like, I don't know if it's enough because all the friends that I have, all of them,

[Harold Ford Jr.]

it

[Emily Compagno]

is too much for them to over to surmount sort of this boundary. So I think if there's enough people that really think common sense and really have an open mind, then he will succeed. And I personally, as a native Californian am praying that he does.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Yeah, I think a lot of people are too. Greg.

[Jesse Waters]

Well, you know, can you put up the one shot of all three of them at the debate? I find it interesting. But while you do that, I'm going to just sit here quietly. Kennedy's Kennedy is right about the effort to nationalize it. You have to remind the Angelenos. I like that. Look at it. Doesn't it look like Jeopardy. Survivor style? They're out in the woods. That's all I wanted to do anyway. It's a local election. Angelenos need to know this. Here's a point to remember. You voted for Kamala and your house still burned down. Why did you vote for Kamala? Who knows? But the reason why you voted for a Karen Bass was because you voted for Joe Biden and your house still burned down.

[Donald Trump]

Your.

[Jesse Waters]

You still have crime. You still have homelessness. You have to look at this as a local election. Get it out of your system that this is connected to somehow the national thing. You know what kills me about this? Hollywood would make a movie of this guy if it were fiction. A man's house burns down. His. I think his. His parents house burns down. He lives like 100ft from the ocean. It burns down. He's not a politician. He's some family guy. And yet he makes it to the debate stage Jimmy Stewart style. And he faces off with the mayor who presided over the city when thousands of houses burned and he whipped her butt so bad she drops out of the next debate. She dropped out. This is a vehicle star turn for Ryan Gosling. It is a film that needs to be made. But you know what? Hollywood would read that script and go, this is too good to be true. It's too amazing. What if we make the mayor a greedy white Republican who's against climate change and Spencer Pratt, what if he's a disabled, neurodivergent Somalian supermodel with two trans kids and we just. That's what they would do. They have this movie. This is a movie. And by the way, when movies. When movies present themselves, it's an old Scott Adams maxim. They always turn out the way a movie is supposed to. The third act. He's going to win. You know, Trump 16 was the first act. 2020, the second act. Third act was 2024.

[Greg Gutfeld]

What act are you on?

[Jesse Waters]

God, who knows? I'm on my. Yeah, you're right. I'm on my second act. Yeah.

[Emily Compagno]

Second.

[Greg Gutfeld]

That's what I was going to say.

[Jesse Waters]

That's a great drug that they would sell it on Fox. It's like it's time for second act with Relax.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Relaxium. Coming up next, late night comics holding a funeral for Stephen Colbert's career.

[Donald Trump]

I keep.

[Unknown Guest]

Mine.

[Donald Trump]

I walk the line.

[Jesse Waters]

All the late night chuckleheads, I eat for breakfast. Holding a funeral for Stephen Colbert's show last night before CBS takes him out behind the barn. The five of us being here right now, obviously it's dangerous because we represent so much of later Jon Stewart is Designated Survivor tonight. Someone has to survive for the president to be mad at and, and do our eulogies. Wouldn't that be great if John had

[Greg Gutfeld]

to do all of our eulogies?

[Jesse Waters]

I hope I don't get stuck in last place on that one too. It's kind of like the View but with less testosterone. I find it interesting, Emily. All white guys, same diversity of thought as skin.

[Emily Compagno]

I was thinking that when I saw that, I couldn't tell them apart. Granted, I don't have my glasses on, but I was like, gosh, they're all, it's just like, it's like one of those paper dolls.

[Jesse Waters]

Yeah, exactly.

[Emily Compagno]

And then pull the string and they say the same thing. Look, we've talked about this. The market speaks for itself. Ratings speaks for itself. And at the end of the day, you are, we, we are employed at an at will employment scenario. So if you're not funny, if you don't have high ratings, if advertisers are dropping you, if what comes out of your mouth isn't likable, doesn't make sense, alienates people, et cetera, et cetera, then you're going to be out of a job. So I feel like they're, the funeral they're having, they're directing it as some sort of like woe is me. But really it should be more of an opportunity for them to look in the mirror and do a self assessment.

[Jesse Waters]

Well, it's kind of an interesting idea, Kennedy, because remember he didn't cancel his show. He canceled a show that existed before he got there. So this isn't like we just canceled Colbert show. It was called the Late Show. Letterman had, was a very successful beast. They didn't even say, you know what, we're going to get rid of Colbert, we're going to put somebody in. They just said screw it, we're done.

[Kennedy]

Yeah, because it's too expensive. But you know, at the time when David Letterman got that show and left NBC, it's because he wanted to own his show. You know, he saw the success that Johnny Carson had and he just assumed because, you know, he was, if Carson was Joe Biden, then Letterman was Kamala Harris and assume that he was getting the top job and went over to CBS because that was a network that was going to give him ownership of his show. And it didn't take long for Colbert to really run John Oliver to the ground.

[Jesse Waters]

Where how did he become successful? He is the least interesting British person.

[Kennedy]

HBO doesn't really, no one knows how he really does.

[Jesse Waters]

It's like he dropped out of, like, somebody's butt.

[Kennedy]

He's okay. He's smug, has a thesaurus and is also a mourning constitution. And people are afraid of him as though he's their intellectual superior. He is not.

[Jesse Waters]

Harold. I really like Jimmy Fallon. He's by definition an entertainer. He just wants to have fun. I think he just showed up there because he felt that he must. But it's kind of odd, I thought, to see Fallon there. I think he was just.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Whoa, what was that?

[Jesse Waters]

I have no idea.

[Greg Gutfeld]

They just kissed. Oh, that's great on the mouth.

[Jesse Waters]

It really is like the view without penises.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Kennedy said, well, the whole franchise, the late night franchise, and Greg has figured out how to do it. But the late night franchise has suffered at these networks.

[Jesse Waters]

Look, I think figuring out how to

[Harold Ford Jr.]

do it, you have figured. You have figured out how to do it.

[Greg Gutfeld]

It's a work in progress, let's be honest.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

A little room for you should never stop climbing. These guys, some of these guys, a year or two ago, these franchises were doing great things, and all of a sudden economics turned and perhaps some of their humor wasn't appealing to a cross section of the country. I happen to think the President's wrong when he goes after these guys. You let the market decide this. You don't try to censor anybody or silence anybody. They enjoy the same First Amendment protections that all of us do, and for that matter, the President. Finally.

[Jesse Waters]

It is so sad to see this.

[Kennedy]

What is he doing with it?

[Jesse Waters]

It's an audience of four, just like their audience. It's like, imagine if we had a going away thing where we all said goodbye to each other, blah, blah, blah.

[Greg Gutfeld]

It's just so disgusting when my career is about to end. Greg, which could be any day, don't kiss me. I don't want you to kiss me at all. Especially not on the lips. Harold.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Another story.

[Jesse Waters]

Why do you always want to kiss Harold and not me? He's racist. All right, once you go black, Harold, huh? Fastest. Up next,

[Harold Ford Jr.]

A viral TikTok sparking a debate claiming that you can tell if someone is a decent human being based entirely on what they put in the overhead bin. Kennedy, you had a strong reaction to this.

[Kennedy]

Absolutely right. If you put a tiny coat and a backpack in the overhead bin, you are a bad person. That is for away bags. That is for bags with wheels that do not fit under the seat. If everything else fits under your seat, including your sauerkraut, then put it under your seat and not in the overhead bin where it will spill and stain

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Jesse, this is for people. You have someone always walk you onto the plane and put your bags up.

[Kennedy]

But this is like a special little guy.

[Greg Gutfeld]

What does it say about you if you put your kid in the bin? One time Jesse was so loud, we gave him way too much sugar. So we thought we'd stuff him in the overhead. Calmed him right down. It was frowned upon. But, you know, everybody thanked me after the flight was over.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Emily, do you subscribe to this theory?

[Emily Compagno]

Thousand percent. I don't know. It's not a good person, but it's good traveler or not. For example, at that time when I was flying, whatever this lady put her coat in, I knew immediately it was going to be a problem. Lala because she got annoyed when the stewardess was like, no, you can't do this. And then she did. She had an issue with a woman behind her with baby. She had an issue with everything. And it all stemmed from her being the kind of person that put her coat in the overhead bin.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Greg, again, you and Jesse fly private often. This is what, public? This is how we, those of us, those, fly commercial. You have a reaction to this story?

[Jesse Waters]

Well, Harold, it's a greater. It's a bigger story about life itself. Every instance in life is a prisoner's dilemma. You're familiar with that? Stanford John Nash. Yeah. If you do something nice, what if it's not reciprocated? What if it's worse for you? I look at Earth as a puzzle of 7 billion pieces. And they're all individuals. And they don't fit. They don't fit. That's why we always have problems. We can't fit together. So what can you do in life to smooth the edges out so that the puzzles come in better? It's little things like this from a position of, say, service or benevolence that may actually make it easier for people to get along. What if they don't do it back? Maybe they don't. That's okay. I don't take much room at all because I fly private in my helicopter. And by the way, my pilot is legal. Those rumors were unfounded. And, yeah, he's a massage therapist, too. But we only do the massages when we land.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

One More Thing. One More Thing is up next.

[Kennedy]

It is now time for One More Thing. Let's start with Jessica.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Happy birthday, Harold.

[Jesse Waters]

Yes, we remembered.

[Greg Gutfeld]

You look great.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

You got me.

[Donald Trump]

Got me cakes.

[Greg Gutfeld]

This year we got you some real birthday present. Last time we got him chips, you didn't like that. But congratulations yesterday.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Thank you. You're Very kind. Thank all you guys.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Usually don't say happy birthday to other men, but I'm going to make an exception in your case. Harold. Tonight, Carly, Billy, Josh and Jim. Can we show the pics or no? All right, well, that's who's on Billy Bush.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

I said hello.

[Jesse Waters]

I will, you know, everybody.

[Kennedy]

Tell Derek Jeter I said hello.

[Jesse Waters]

Tonight. I got Lydia Moynihan, Charles Payne, Jamie Lisso, Joe Mackey. We're doing this.

[Emily Compagno]

Yeah, we are.

[Jesse Waters]

Greg's Polar bear. Sexy news. Run it.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Oh.

[Emily Compagno]

Oh, my God.

[Kennedy]

Yeah.

[Jesse Waters]

Polar bear.

[Emily Compagno]

That's not a pickle. That's a cucumber.

[Jesse Waters]

With a cucumber. Well, you would know, Emily. They love a big, thick cucumber. All bears listen to the 5ad free on Amazon Music with your prime membership or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.