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Hey, we have a rapid fire recap of the top stories from the weekend and some perspective on all that. Also pull up a chair because Uncle Glenn has a new children's story for the folks and the governor of Wisconsin. Also, John Irwin of the Irwin Brothers joins us to talk about a new Hollywood venture. And believe it or not, it's good. And he's got the control of the stories he'll be telling with Amazon. Another chuck, another win up for the right. All this and so much more on today's podcast. Let me tell you about preborn Abortion is a tragic part of our lives as Americans and the rest of the world. Even after the overturning of Roe vs Wade, it continues to rob children of the right to live. In fact, what's more devastating is that a majority of women who get abortions say they would have chosen life if they just had some simple support. Now you have the abortion pill and abortions are going through the roof. 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All right. Let me just give you the news as I see it. What happened over the weekend of February 15th and 16th, what happened this weekend, I think is liberty, justice, and the truth breaking free. So let's dive in here. Cash Patel is taking the FBI helm. His first full official day is today. He was sworn in as FBI director with the hand on the Gita of a pledge to upload, uphold his Constitution. Um, it's not a bureaucratic. Bureaucratic shuffle. It is a shot across the bow of the weaponized deep state. This one makes all the difference in the world. Cash is making people in Washington sweat, and he should. Patel has vowed to root out corruption left, right, or center. And the whispers of the Epstein client list that he told me over the summer was in a. In a safe behind the desk of the director of the FBI. I know that Cash Patel must have been in the office of the FBI on Friday because Pam Bondi said the client list is now sitting on my desk. I'm reviewing it. I have a feeling Cash took it out from behind that desk safe and brought it over to Pam Bondi. She looked at it and I'm hoping as today is his first full day in office, it will be released today. But transparency, one way or another, is coming. And justice isn't going to care who you voted for. I'm going to tell you more about this coming up in just a minute. Uh, also, Trump has locked in his cabinet now. He has finalized his cabinet this weekend. Patel, RFK junior Tulsi Gabbard, the folks you know, who have bucked the system, not bowed to it, are all in the Senate's buzzing. But this crew is built to shrink government and not meddle abroad unless America is directly threatened. No more endless wars, no more nanny state, just constitutional governance. That's what they're promising. And so far, that's what they're delivering. The elites absolutely hate it, which makes me love it. Uh, by the way, I don't understand Democrats. You've been preaching against the the Pentagon forever. Now, Wait, Donald Trump says cut 8% of the the defense budget in the next four years and you're somehow or another against that now? Wow. Hello, Democrat Lindsay Grahams of the world. Midwest storms all through the states. Uh, but FEMA wasn't there. Oh, no. If you read the stories about this this weekend, you heard that it was chaos because FEMA had been cut. Really? Is that what caused the chaos, Bruce? Storm buried the Midwest. Snow piled high, power was out, lives disrupted. The media is whining about FEMA and the FEMA cuts. But hang on, because I think everyone saw this storm coming. It wasn't like, oh my gosh, it was a tornado that came out of nowhere. The storm had to travel halfway across the country to get to your state. Illinois, Michigan, you didn't have warnings. Were you in Ghana? How come you didn't prepare? You see, it's weird. When we know a hurricane is coming, Florida seems to be able to pull their head out of their rectum and actually prepare so when it hits, they can turn the lights back on. But gee, Illinois, Michigan, you just couldn't get it done. What does Illinois and Michigan have in common? Where are the governors? Florida shrugs off hurricanes without federal babysitters. Why can't Michigan and Illinois? FEMA is nothing but a bloated crutch. States need to step up or ask for help. Oh my gosh. Wouldn't it have been crazy if when you knew there was this storm coming, you as a governor could have been in the same room with the President at the White House last week. Maybe you got to pull them aside and said, hey, we got a big emergency coming, can you help us? Seems other states did that. Why weren't you ready? People, you need to start relying on your states and demanding that your governors pull their heads out of their rectum. Next story that I saw. The homeless. Homelessness crisis. Oh my gosh. It's a crisis. Ha ha. This is the first time I've seen that one. There's a homelessness crisis in our country. What? Yes. Tent cities grew this weekend. Yeah. You know why? According to the mainstream media, the HUD staff cuts by the Doge team. Hang on just a second. It's been a week for those cuts. So you cut the staff at the top of HUD a week ago and all of a sudden homelessness is outta control. Show me the cut that tanked housing overnight. Could you do that for me? I think this might predate Donald Trump. I don't know. I've never seen any pictures of homeless camps all around the country before this last weekend. This is decades of blue state failures, not a seven day staffing trim. Governors and mayors, you all own this now, not Uncle Sam. Accountability is about to go local. Hmm. Closer to the people. Maybe we can make changes. Also Trump and Zelensky, we're back at it. Zelensky says he's not gonna give the United States anything unless, I mean, he'll retire if. If Ukraine's allowed to join NATO in this, where we started this whole thing in the first place. Germany's election if we have time today, I want to talk about that. They had a snap election campaign that went on the far right. AfD is on the rise. That's because Vance was stirring the pot, you know, in Munich. That's what happened. Vance was meddling. Now, you know what we did is we cut all those USAID programs that were actually meddling in everybody's elections around the world. We decided, nah, we shouldn't do that. We should let the people of those countries decide themselves. Yeah, you wanna talk about a danger to democracy? Stop meddling in people's elections. Right? Am I right? Their vote was held yesterday and the fallout is Germany's to handle. We'll watch. Will not wait in hopefully. I mean, unless it starts to hit our shores, it's not our business. Stateside, we have bigger fish to fry. But there are some things that, if I have time, we need to talk about on that. And Elon Musk is pushing for AI innovation. The Doge crew cheered California's AI safety veto this weekend. Less red tape, more breakthroughs. At the same time, he just came out and said, we are at the event horizon of the Singularity. Big deal. What are the price of eggs? I don't know, but we might have robot chickens that eat us soon if you don't pay attention to the Singularity. We'll talk about that coming up next hour. And the FCC has called out cbs their bias. The FCC zeroed in on CBS this weekend. Probes into news distortion, hinting at real consequences. Fascist. This not censorship. This about accountability. Now hear me out on this. Should stations be able to lie? Well, no, but notice I said stations, not outlets. When you have a license from the United States government, you're in bed with the United States government. I know. I've done this my whole life. I had to get an FCC third phone. I'm a third phone license holder, I'll tell you that. I don't even know what that means, but I've got one. I had to take a test for it. Yeah. 13 years old, I'm at the FCC taking a test for my third phone license. I promptly lost that license. I mean, I still have it. I didn't. I mean, I. I lost it. Kind of like I lose my driver's license all the time. But if you want to lose a license, what you have to do as a local broadcaster is to break FCC rules. You see, local CBS stations have to have a license through the fcc. They serve the local community. Now, perhaps in New York and San Francisco, those people believe in their local community that lying to the American people and changing interviews to be able to make one politician look better than the other in a newscast is a public service. I mean, we can't have people knowing what they really believe and what they're really like. We need them to win as a public service. But I can't imagine all the red states and red cities feel that that was a public service. From CBS News. My question is, have you written a letter to your local CBS affiliate? You see any complaint letters where somebody writes in from the local community and says, I think this was wrong and I hope the FCC investigates you? And I've cc'd the FCC. Too many Cs for me to even follow. I've cc'd the FCC and so the FCC is going to know about it asap. I'll tell you that right now. And hopefully they're going to kick your ass anyway. Have you written your local affiliate yet? And manufacturers warn of trouble. New York Times says the New York Fed's latest is PEG Manufacturing at peak pessimism this last week. And a slowdown is looming. We can't wait to blame Trump. No, they didn't actually say that, but you know, they were thinking, I, this is from years of overregulation, globalism. It's all biting back. States can lead the fix, cut taxes, ditch the green tape. Washington shouldn't be the only savior here. Uh, every state should take it on. And finally, one last story, and it's a sad one. 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He's not exactly on the Trump train. Really. Yeah.