Free Bird, Free Speech, and Free-for-All Politics

Summary

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The Rob Carson Show: "Free Bird, Free Speech, and Free-for-All Politics"

Date: March 30, 2026
Host: Rob Carson (Newsmax Radio)
Guest: Brigadier General Blaine Holt (Host, Dangerous Intellectuals Podcast)
Episode Theme:
A sharp, satirical, and fast-paced breakdown of current American politics and culture, focusing on the state of free speech, government dysfunction, border security, social welfare fraud, and the “four-week victory” in Iran. The episode is loaded with Rob’s signature humor, listener rants, multimedia clips, and a robust interview segment with General Holt.

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Episode Overview

Rob Carson brings his trademark mix of irreverence and seriousness to discuss "Easter Week" optimism (00:49), government dysfunction, TSA funding drama, accusations of social welfare fraud, U.S.-Iran conflict and victory claims, free speech, immigration, media hypocrisy, and more. Special guest General Blaine Holt joins to analyze the historic military campaign in Iran and the geopolitics of the region. The show weaves through political parodies, energetic listener banter, and barbed critiques of both parties.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Washington D.C. “Easter Week” Vibe (00:49–02:00)

• Rob describes a surprisingly upbeat mood in D.C.: cherry blossoms, Vietnam Veterans Day, and even a live band playing Lynyrd Skynyrd’s "Free Bird" at the Washington Monument.
• ”I was looking for people who were going to be trashing the United States and Donald Trump and they were gone.” — Rob Carson (01:10)

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2. Critique of Welfare Fraud & Democratic Politics (02:00–04:30)

• Accusations against Democratic politicians (e.g., “Tim Wirtz”) for corruption, especially around Somali communities in Minnesota and alleged SNAP/food stamp fraud.
• Ongoing claims of billions in welfare fraud, lack of transparency, and alleged abuse of government programs.
• Parody of Democrats’ motives for expanding welfare: “We give them a lot of free stuff.” (02:21)
• Carson’s skepticism toward unsupervised voter rolls and government transparency.

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3. TSA and DHS Funding Standoff (04:30–10:30)

• Recap of recent government shut-downs affecting TSA paychecks.
• Democrats blamed for leveraging suffering as “ammunition,” while Trump is painted as the problem solver via executive order to pay TSA agents.
• Rob repeatedly points out that Democrats are the ones blocking payments, with Congress on vacation.
• Notable moment: “Say it. Say it. It’s good.” — Rob presses a Democratic congressman to simply thank Trump for executive action. (09:11)
• Tom Homan, former ICE Director, blames Democrats for purposely underfunding DHS and ICE due to their tough stance against illegal immigration.

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4. Media & Political Rhetoric on Immigration and ICE (10:30–14:45)

• Criticism of media narratives comparing ICE to the Gestapo.
• Homan pushes back on the increased threats to ICE agents, attributing them to inflamed rhetoric from politicians and the press.
• Rob and guests highlight the disconnect between media portrayals and the operational realities faced by law enforcement.
• “Stop calling ICE Nazis and racists. Stop saying they’re going to shoot people inside airports. That’s going to drive the threat level.” — Tom Homan (12:57)

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5. Discussion of U.S. Military Campaign in Iran (17:09–19:51, deep dive with General Holt at 22:15+)

• Rob and callers contrast the 20-year Iraq/Afghanistan wars to the (alleged) four-week success in Iran, calling it "one of the greatest campaigns, if not the greatest military campaign...in world history.” (17:55)
• Megyn Kelly and media figures are roasted for impatience and alleged hypocrisy.
• Public polling cited: overwhelming CPAC and McLaughlin Group support for Trump’s Iran actions.

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6. Crowd and Public Sentiment (21:36–22:48)

• Rob describes the massive Iranian rally in support of Trump and regime change that was noticeably absent from mainstream media coverage.
• General Holt agrees media is missing the real story and credits “the people” with pushing for change inside Iran.

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7. Expert Analysis: General Blaine Holt on Iran and Geopolitics (22:15–36:29)

• Holt outlines the historic speed and magnitude of the U.S. campaign in Iran: “In four weeks, we have nullified a major nuclear threat on the planet by the only rogue terrorist group...that wanted to use its damn weapons.” (24:01)
• Critique of both neocons and Democrats for “endless wars” and fostering instability.
• Details the current on-the-ground situation: Iranian resistance, regime collapse, regional geopolitics (Strait of Hormuz), international risk (Chinese and Lloyds of London involvement), and the challenges of occupation vs. revolution.
• “He’s basically done it with both arms tied behind his back because he’s got a very aggressive and hostile Republican Congress.” — Blaine Holt describes Trump’s domestic constraints. (25:56)
• On picking leaders post-regime: “Let the people decide for themselves.” (36:29)

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8. Satirical Bites: Media, Sports, and Modern Culture (38:00–40:26)

• Rob lampoons Charles Barkley’s “serious take” on immigration, with a parody song mocking his political credibility: “Maybe next time I should do some research...” — Jim Gossett as Charles Barkley (39:20)
• Critique of celebrities voicing political opinions outside their expertise.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “We know why. Because you went to places like New York and you put them up in $500 a night hotel rooms and you gave them SNAP benefits and childcare and all of that and got them signed up for Social Security cards—so they could vote Democrat.” — Rob Carson (05:54)
• “It is an amazing feat...It should go down in history as one of the greatest campaigns, if not the greatest military campaign as far as overwhelming force taking down evil in world history.” — Rob Carson on the Iran war (17:50)
• “In four weeks, we have nullified a major nuclear threat...the only rogue terrorist group...that wanted to use its damn weapons.” — Blaine Holt (24:01)
• “He’s not even...Look, the Iranians are just a battlefield. Kids, I hate to tell you this, but it’s really the City of London financialists that have been gouging our eyeballs out and stealing American freedom since 1871...” — Blaine Holt (24:19)
• "The Democrats are doing this. It should be obvious to you, because if the President didn’t really give a damn about the federal employees...he would just leave it tied up." — Rob Carson (07:33)
• “There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead.” — Billy Crystal, played for laughs during a discussion of the Iranian regime's status (31:07)
• “Maybe next time I should do some research...” — Jim Gossett as Charles Barkley parody (39:20)

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Important Timestamps

• 00:49 — Rob reflects on a positive Easter week in D.C.
• 02:00 — Carson critiques Somali community welfare fraud allegations in Minnesota.
• 04:30–10:30 — TSA funding crisis and blame game.
• 10:30–14:45 — Border security, ICE, law enforcement threats.
• 17:09–19:51 — Trump’s Iran strategy vs. previous forever wars.
• 22:15 — Brigadier General Blaine Holt joins live; strategic analysis on Iran.
• 24:01–25:56 — Holt explains the military/geopolitical realities in Iran and criticism of both parties.
• 28:01 — Trump’s “regime change” comments from Air Force One.
• 31:07/31:19 — “Mostly dead” Princess Bride parody segment.
• 33:43 — General Holt details Arab states, Pakistani involvement, and Straits of Hormuz risks.
• 38:00–40:26 — Charles Barkley immigration parody, warning against celebrity political talk.

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Tone & Style

Language: Irreverent, fast-moving, and peppered with parody, cutting jokes, and energetic banter.
Tone: Satirical, combative, right-of-center, patriotic, occasionally sentimental, with moments of sharp sarcasm and cultural critique.

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Summary

This episode offers a rollicking, partisan ride through the week’s political chaos, focusing on social welfare fraud, government dysfunction, Trump’s military achievements in Iran, and the perils of media groupthink. General Holt provides expert military context, while Rob refuses to let go of his comedic roots—skewering politicians, media, and sports figures alike. Listeners get a blend of serious insight and snarky entertainment, with pointed reminders that both free speech and “kicking butt” are still at the heart of the show’s agenda.

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Transcript

[Unidentified Speaker 1]

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[Unidentified Speaker 2]

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[Blaine Holt]

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[Unidentified Speaker 3]

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[Rob Carson]

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[Unidentified Speaker 1]

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[Rob Carson]

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[Jim Gossett as Charles Barkley]

Now.

[Show Announcer]

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[Rob Carson]

This is the Rob Carson Show. This is the Rob Carson Show. It's Easter week. It's Easter week, for goodness sake. Yeah, I don't know, man. There was a feeling yesterday in the air that was very positive. Maybe it was, it was where I was. Anyway, I went into Washington D.C. yesterday and, and I just, I, I was driving around, had the windows down on Buck. I'm expecting, you know, a bunch of anti ice protesters around that. I saw none of it. I saw Vietnam veterans everywhere because it was Vietnam Veterans Day and Pete Hegseth was down there and the, and the, the Cherry Blossoms were out and there was a band on a stage right at the base of the Washington Monument playing, playing Leonard Skynyrd. I mean, I'm like, whoa. What, what, what, what? It was amazing. I was looking for people who were going to be trashing the United States and Donald Trump and they were gone. The no Kings protestors had already kind of left the building. They were out Saturday acting like idiots. I didn't see any of them. I didn't see any of them when I was out, but I didn't really go out on Saturday afternoon. Tim Wirtz, who's hopefully going to go to jail for the rest of his mother loving life for all the corruption, delivered just an insane speech in Minnesota, even though 89% of the Somali population is sort of welfare and they've committed billions of dollars in fraud not only in Minnesota, but in Ohio and across the country.

[Unidentified Speaker 4]

And I will add a special, a special thank you and a special acknowledgment that we will never leave the side of our Somali Minnesotans because they vote Democrat.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

We give them a lot of free stuff.

[Unidentified Speaker 4]

Here's our pledge to you.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, my God.

[Unidentified Speaker 4]

Our Somali Minnesotans, your great grandchildren will still be here when that orange clown is in the dustbin of history.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, that's wishful thinking by the way it's absolutely wishful thinking. Stephen Miller was talking about SNAP fraud. It was one of the many things. It's nothing to do with the LGBTQ movement. You know, like, oh, snap. That would be completely different. Maybe that would be oh, snap fraud for money going to the LGBTQ community. But a lot of SNAP fraud.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

SNAP fraud, you know, and by the

[Rob Carson]

way, Brooke Rollins, in charge of the Agriculture department, has taken 3 million people off of SNAP. Part of that is because they had to go to work, and part of it is they didn't deserve it and they were defrauding the government.

[Unidentified Speaker 5]

The food stamp program, as an example, snap. And that, of course, is administered by Secretary Rawlins. We do not know the names of any SNAP recipient in the state of Minnesota.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Gee, I wonder why that is.

[Rob Carson]

We also don't know anybody on the voter rolls. Even if they're dead or illeg.

[Unidentified Speaker 5]

We just get a blank check. We have asked the state repeatedly and tried to compel the state, unsuccessfully, to turn over their SNAP enrollment rules so we could ascertain such basic facts as, are these people even legally eligible to receive these benefits? And the state has refused.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, this is what's happening in Democrats. He sounded like he was talking into a coffee can. Didn't he kind of sound like, sorry

[Unidentified Speaker 6]

about the audio there.

[Rob Carson]

But anyway, it's all, you know, it's all obvious. It's obvious that the Democrat Party is part of a massive fraud scheme. A lot of Republicans involved in it, across the country with all sorts of NGOs, all sorts of faux charities, hospices by the thousands in California, where like 30% of the hospice care industry is in Los Angeles county, and we're finding out it's run by the Armenian mafia and nobody wants to go to a strip mall next to a liquor store and a check cashing place for their end of life treatment. Unbelievable.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Unbelievable, unbelievable. And then, of course, the Democrat Party

[Rob Carson]

is really mad because Donald Trump is getting the TSA agents in America's airports paid. They're really mad about it. They're really mad about it because they love the suffering. That Democrats use body count and suffering as their ammunition. And Donald Trump did a executive order says, we're going to pay you. So the paycheck started rolling in.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Started rolling in.

[Rob Carson]

And here is Representative Jim Himes, a Democrat, saying that that's bad in American

[Unidentified Speaker 7]

airports across the country. So what did Democrats get out of this standoff?

[Unidentified Speaker 8]

Yeah, well, Margaret, the standoff is not done yet, right?

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Yeah, we're not done with the suffering yet, Margaret. We Want to keep this going because it worked so well last quarter when we shut down the government right before the, you know, Christmas and everything. So it worked for us.

[Unidentified Speaker 8]

The President is illegally paying, apparently, TSA agents.

[Rob Carson]

He literally is saying that Donald Trump is paying them illegally. They'd rather have them not paid. And it's not illegal.

[Unidentified Speaker 8]

By the way, you had the Senate, as you pointed out with Mr. Homan, pass a bipartisan bill unanimously in the United States Senate to say, look, let's fund everybody else and let's deal with this thorny issue about ice.

[Unidentified Speaker 7]

And then.

[Rob Carson]

It's not a thorny issue. It's only thorny with you because you guys have painted ISIS gestapo because you don't want them deporting all the illegals you brought in. You brought in 20 million illegals over the Joe Biden presidency, purposefully opening the southern border.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Everybody gets it.

[Rob Carson]

We know why. Because you went to places like New York and you put them up in $500 a night hotel rooms and you gave them snap benef and childcare and all of that and got them signed up for Social Security cards so they could vote Democrat.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Oh, oh, oh, yeah, we understand it.

[Rob Carson]

This is TSA Union Secretary Johnny Jones thanking the President for finally getting these poor people paid.

[Unidentified Speaker 9]

What is your message and the message of those that you represent to Congress, to perhaps the President as well, about having to continually go through this?

[Rob Carson]

This is not good that a Federal employees Union Treasury Secretary is thanking the President for in the problem the Democrats

[Unidentified Speaker 9]

started every time Congress is supposed to be passing bills that pay the bills.

[Rob Carson]

Well, I have to say thanks to the President for signing the executive order to pay us, but I also have to say that there's other parts of the Department of Homeland Security aren't being paid. Right? Yeah. So if Donald Trump was willing to have the. The employees paid through an executive order, why did he have to do it? It's because the Democrats are stopping them from being paid. You see, Donald Trump had to find the solution. If the solution were of Donald Trump's, they could have done it weeks ago. But they can't without the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party is doing this. It should be obvious to you, because if the President didn't really give a damn about the federal employees, the TSA employees and all of that, he would just leave it tied up. If he was, if he was literally trying to defund the tsa, then he could just leave doing what they were doing. Why did he sign an executive order to get him paid? It's obvious the Democrats are Doing it so the employees will not get paid.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Duh, duh.

[Rob Carson]

This is, Let me see, we got here. This is. Oh yeah. Representative Gregory Meeks, absolutely mad. Will not answer the question that it is a good thing that TSA employees are finally getting paid. And the suffering they've been through is ridiculous. They've had to sell plasma, they've had to quit their jobs and drive Uber and they have put people through a living hell. I think every one of them ought to get at least a $10,000 bonus for all of the crap that the Democrat Party put them through.

[Unidentified Speaker 7]

Well, what we just heard from that TSA union rep is the person standing up for those hardworking American workers is the president. With that executive action that he took at the end of the week, they're now getting new money into their bank accounts. Finally, again, are you thankful that he did take that?

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Very simple.

[Rob Carson]

Are you thankful that these people are finally not suffering anymore while you guys have been on vacation and you guys got your paychecks?

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Are you happy?

[Rob Carson]

You should be happy that this has happened?

[Unidentified Speaker 10]

Well, look, the president, if he's been saying for a while that he could have taken some action, so that would have never had.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

No, no, no, no. You guys have been doing it.

[Rob Carson]

That's why he had to take this action. See, if he would have had the, the ability to do it two weeks

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

ago, he would have done it.

[Rob Carson]

You see, but you guys are the cause of it. It's very obvious.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

He resorted to this to work around

[Rob Carson]

you shutting down the payment, this issue.

[Unidentified Speaker 10]

He could have told Johnson make the deal, but he did.

[Unidentified Speaker 7]

But he is the one who actually did take action, not the Congress so far. Do you support and are you thankful that he did take action when you're saying that the hard working American worker of TSA have been the people caught in the middle.

[Rob Carson]

Say it. Say it. It's good.

[Unidentified Speaker 10]

The President, this, they should have never, you know, you heard that.

[Rob Carson]

Oh man, it's just unbelievable. It is just unbelievable that they would say this. And it's very obvious. The reason why Donald Trump did this was to circumnavigate the Democrats who were keeping people from being paid. Otherwise he would have taken care of a couple weeks ago.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

If he really didn't care, he wouldn't

[Rob Carson]

have signed the executive order. Now do you understand? Have I made it clear enough? Have I made it clear?

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

I think I've made it clear enough.

[Rob Carson]

Here is Tom Homan being, well, shutting down Marge Brennan about the DHS and the open border the Democrats caused.

[Tom Homan]

Look, and The American people hold Congress responsible. They're on vacation right now while tens of thousands of DHS employees aren't being paid. Right, but Republicans control both chambers.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

No, no, no. Marge, Marge, are you. Are you a journalist?

[Unidentified Speaker 7]

Marge, to the president's party.

[Tom Homan]

The Democrats shut. The Democrats shut down dhs?

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Yeah, the Democrats shut down the dhs.

[Tom Homan]

They fully shut down DHS because they simply won't fund DHS because they want to change ICE policies. So ICE is less effective in the interior. Remember why we're here? We're here because the last four years of an open border, millions of people entering this country illegally, many public SAF threats, national security threats, and we're out seeking them and arresting them. And they simply don't like ice enforce in the law.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Rob Carson]

And they started years ago with ice, by the way. Years ago, ICE didn't suddenly become Gestapo in Minneapolis. It wasn't just the actions of ICE in Minneapolis.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

This started years ago.

[Unidentified Speaker 11]

Every single ICE agent who's engaged in this aggressive overreach, no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, will of course be identified. This is not the 1930s secret police

[Unidentified Speaker 8]

who are masked, who are intimidating, who are scaring people.

[John Carl]

These Gestapo like tactics. This is Gestapo like behavior.

[Rob Carson]

This started years ago. Kamala Harris started this years ago. Why? Immigration and Customs Enforcement, that's why. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show.

[Show Announcer]

Who would not want voter id? Only somebody that wants to cheat.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, pretty much.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Pretty much.

[Rob Carson]

Here's Tom Holman. Just the shredding. Shredding. Like Jake Tapper. Like cheddar.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Not even a good cheddar.

[Unidentified Speaker 12]

Ways that ICE is doing job differently now than they were doing it even in the first Trump administration. Having to do with a different kind of warrant, having to do with ICE agents wearing masks. And obviously this all comes in the wake of ICE detaining and arresting American citizens mistakenly and obviously Renee Goode and Mr. Pratty.

[Rob Carson]

He's not bringing up the fact that there's been a 2000% increase in attacks on ICE agents and an organized movement to attack, intimidate, threaten and even attempt to run over ICE agents in Minneapolis, which didn't happen when Trump was the president the last time. But of course, the guy who didn't know Joe Biden had dementia until the debate is doing the interview, being killed

[Unidentified Speaker 12]

on the streets of Minneapolis. It's not exactly the same as how things have always been done.

[Tom Homan]

The laws are exactly the same. Let's talk about the masks. You don't See ICE wearing masks inside the airport. No, you don't, because they're not on the street resting criminals. You got the agitators who cross the line and threaten ice. The same people in the Democratic Congress that want ICE to take off the mask are the same people who say ISIS is going to shoot people inside airports. I mean, they can't have it both ways. So if you want ICE to take the mask off, the threat level has to decrease. Yeah, it's up 8,000% increase.

[Rob Carson]

It's 8,000. I said it was 2,000.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Holy hell.

[Tom Homan]

And threats against ICE officers. And that's because a lot of the rhetoric coming from the Hill. Stop calling ICE Nazis and racists. Stop saying they're going to shoot people inside airports. That's going to drive the threat level.

[Rob Carson]

Jake Tapper looks like a wounded puppy right now.

[Tom Homan]

And we can talk about masks. So, you know, we got to work together this. But the ICE is doing the same thing they've done during 40 years. I've been doing it again. They're enforcing law.

[Rob Carson]

You see, the four years of an open border happened since then. So there's that. And ICE is going to remove those people. So there's that. Yeah. No kings protest, graffiti, kill your local ICE agent. Federal buildings in Los Angeles. Rioters clashed with federal agents through concrete blocks. You know, sooner or later, there's going to have be a butt kicking. There's gonna have to be a butt kicking. Here is John Carl actually almost acting like a journalist calling out Chris Von Holland for the Democrat Party defunding tsa.

[John Carl]

I guess what's confusing here is you have fought and blocked the funding for the Department of Homeland Security because you object, as you just outlined, to what ICE has been doing.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah. That's why Donald Trump had to resort to the executive order to get the TSA agents paid. If he could have done it two weeks ago, he would have done it. But you see, he had to do that because you gu.

[John Carl]

Keep blocking it and you wanted to force changes. And yet the only thing that has been assured throughout all of this is that ICE already has the money because as you said, $75 billion passed in the budget bill last year. So you're holding up the entirety of the Department of Homeland Security because you object to ICE and you want changes to ice, But. But through it all, ICE continues to have the money. John, we're not holding out all of

[Unidentified Speaker 9]

the money for all the department.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Yeah, you are.

[Rob Carson]

100%. Yes, you are 100%. Dear God, it's just so ridiculous. This has Got a buddy, Cory Booker, who's, you know, they call him what they call Spartacus. I would say Fartacus would be a better name for him because he pretty much everything that comes out of his mouth is a noxious smelling gas. That's about it. But here's Fardacas saying that the Democrat Party actually wants peace.

[Cory Booker]

I really believe this is a time where we need new leadership, new moral imagination to pull our country together.

[Rob Carson]

Because the like the same kind of moral imagination that imagine boys becoming girls competing in girl sports.

[Cory Booker]

On the horizon, oranges. Current crisis.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Oh, my God.

[Rob Carson]

Moral leadership from the Democrat Party.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

This is fantastic.

[Cory Booker]

Trump has caused.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Trump hasn't caused.

[Cory Booker]

Shouldn't be the main character of our narrative right now. We have real challenges from new technologies like AI and robotics, new challenges that we need more unity in our country and a reminder that we are not each other's enemies. In fact, our ability to find common ground.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, you bet. You guys are all about unity. You guys are certainly about unity.

[Unidentified Speaker 9]

He said he wanted generals like Adolf Hitler had.

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President Biden believes that Donald Trump is a fascist.

[Unidentified Speaker 9]

I mean, yes, this sounds like Nazi rhetoric. This sounds like fascist rhetoric. It sounds like white supremacist rhetoric.

[John Carl]

Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?

[Unidentified Speaker 9]

Yes, I do. And Biden has to get in there very hard.

[Rob Carson]

And I was in Annapolis, Maryland, the home of the Maryland General Asylum. And I was having lunch with someone and I was listening. There was a guy behind me with his daughter. He's a wife and, you know, husband and wife and their daughter. And we ended up talking. I don't know how, but anyway, this guy said, you know, yeah, we really got to change. We got to go back to the days of George W. Bush when things were there. I went, I'm like, what are you talking about? And he said that, yeah, well, Donald Trump has caused. I said, no, Donald Trump is not. Donald Trump has been pummeled relentlessly for 10 years. The Democrat Party has demonized Donald Trump to make him into something that he is not. This has all been about the attacks on Donald Trump. It is not Donald Trump. Donald Trump is bringing the country together. But this guy, he literally is like wishing that the George Bush era was back. And I literally told him, I said, George Bush was a blue blood country club non conservative who got us into

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

a 20 year war.

[Rob Carson]

This guy was complaining because in four weeks we have destroyed one of the

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

biggest militaries in, in the world, a force for evil in the world that exported terrorism. It took us four weeks.

[Rob Carson]

We've stomped them into the ground. And it is amazing, this narrative with

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

people, we're so impatient. Why is it taking four weeks?

[Rob Carson]

My God, you've got to understand how amazing what our military has done in Iran for the first time in history, the most overwhelming, most overpowering, most amazing

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

military victory in world history with fewer

[Rob Carson]

casualties than happen in the U.S. military in training operations every year. It is an amazing feat.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

It is a remarkable feat. It should go down in history as

[Rob Carson]

one of the greatest campaigns, if not

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

the greatest military campaign as far as overwhelming force taking down evil in world history.

[Rob Carson]

But the Democrat Party can't have it on Donald Trump's watch.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Here is Stephen A. Smith, of all

[Rob Carson]

people, saying that, you know, here it is another example of Democrat hypocrisy.

[Stephen A. Smith]

You got a lot of damn nerves to be in the face of American people saying, but numerous administrations, Iran is a problem, we have to be dealt with. Iran is a problem, they have to be dealt with. And then this man deals with him and then all of a sudden you're complaining about him. Now it doesn't really make sense.

[Show Announcer]

Would you take a fact?

[Blaine Holt]

Money.

[Rob Carson]

Now listen to the crowd. That's Bill Mars. CROWD applauding. That's Bill Mars CROWD applauding I'm seeing Megy Kelly freaking out on social media today.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Oh, my God. There was a poll from Harvard Marist that says that Donald Trump is really unpopular because of Iran. Shut up, Megan.

[Rob Carson]

Honestly, chill out. Take another Xanax, whatever you take, and

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

calm the hell down.

[Rob Carson]

There was a straw poll at cpac.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

I know it's cpac, whatever.

[Rob Carson]

As far as those who approve of Donald Trump, 96% for disapprove Trump removing Khomeini from Iran to stop nuclear missiles. 89% approved, 8% disapprove with Israel as a key strategic ally. 85% agree, 11% disagree. This is from the McLaughlin Group. And Megyn Kelly, who's not even a part of MAGA anymore, is freaking out.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

We've got to get out of Iran. We've got to get out of Iran. We've been there four weeks, Meg. Where were you when we were five

[Rob Carson]

years into Afghanistan and Iraq?

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Where you when we were 10 years

[Rob Carson]

into Iraq or Afghanistan?

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Where were you when we were 15 years into Afghanistan? Where were you, Megan? Where were you so concerned four weeks

[Rob Carson]

into the most brilliant military campaign we've ever seen? So overwhelming that it is truly historic and we should be proud. And you're be whining that it's been four whole weeks. Oh, my God.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

All you do when you Say that

[Rob Carson]

you disparage our military. You cast aspersions on them when they are doing a brilliant job. And the big pro Iranian protest in Washington D.C. shows the appreciation of the world.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Let's take a break and come back. Blaine Holt joins us next. Don't go anywhere.

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[Unidentified Speaker 2]

President Trump is making America great again. I intend to make Iran great again.

[Rob Carson]

That is the crown Prince Pahlavi of Iran bringing down the House at cpac. A lot of things happening in Iran over the, over the weekend and of course, the last four weeks. Democrats are impatient because, you know, we've taken four whole weeks to destroy one of the most powerful militaries, a force for evil in the world, and reduce them to powder.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

But it's taken four weeks.

[Jim Gossett as Charles Barkley]

Oh.

[Rob Carson]

Here to discuss this and so much more is the, I should say the creator and the host of the dangerous intellectual podcast, Brigadier General of the US Air Force, Blaine Holt. How are you on this glorious Monday, sir?

[Blaine Holt]

Well, happy Easter week to you, my friend. Oh, brother, it is a glorious Monday, dude. I'm gonna tell you over the tables in the marketplace.

[Rob Carson]

I swear. I, I don't know, man. I'm feeling something in the air, Blaine. And I don't think it's just me. I was out and about this weekend. I didn't go to the no Kings nonsense. But Sunday I went into D.C. there was a massive remembrance for Vietnam veterans, which was remarkable. I Mentioned on air. I'm driving by the Washington Monument and I'm thinking it's a bunch of lefties and all of this. And I roll down the window, there's this big soundstage fac me and they're playing Freebird.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

And I went, holy hell,

[Blaine Holt]

that's a sign of hell.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

I know, man, it's fantastic. It was fantastic.

[Rob Carson]

But then you had the crown prince talking at cpac. You also had a big, there's a giant rally here, at least 100,000 people,

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Iranians, thanking Donald Trump for what he's done. That's remarkable.

[Rob Carson]

Of course the media didn't cover it there, Blaine.

[Blaine Holt]

Sex. That's amazing. I thought we were dedicated to journalism in this country. There seems to be gambling in the casino.

[Rob Carson]

It is remarkable to me. You know, I was at this place in Annapolis on Sunday, I hear this guy, or Saturday, this guy, he's an old rhino Republican. He's talking, he was lamenting about how he wishes we could go back to the George Bush days. And I said, oh, you mean when

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

we were in a 20 year war

[Rob Carson]

versus a four week war? And he was impatient about the four weeks that we've been involved.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

It is so sickening.

[Rob Carson]

And I saw Megyn Kelly bitching and whine about it today.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Megyn Kelly, we gotta get out of it. It's affecting the polls.

[Rob Carson]

Honestly.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Are you kidding me? I want you, Blaine Holt, you, General Blaine Holt, you put into perspective for anyone who has any doubt what we have done, how amazing this military campaign has been in world history.

[Blaine Holt]

This is, this is unprecedented. In four weeks, we have nullified a major nuclear threat on the planet by the only rogue terrorist group in the world that was prepared and wanted to use its damn weapons. Weapons. And then, and then before we cry crocodile tears because Bush would have done it so much differently, let's not forget that Mr. Twin Towers suspended his free market principles during the financial collapse. And rewarded by stealing out of our treasury, no less, all of the people who caused the problem in the first place. So neocons who want endless wars, but they've caused those endless wars and now President Trump's got to fix it and put a tourniquet on it and he's not even. Look, the Iranians are just a battlefield. Kids, I hate to tell you this, but it's really the City of London financialists that have been gouging our eyeballs out and feeling American freedom since 1871 when they financed both sides of the Civil War. Wake up, learn your history and stop pouting about the midterms because let me tell you how you lose the midterms for sure. Go ahead and leave the patient called Iran on the table open. Not sewed up. Nothing but a chaos state with cells all over our country that we're want revenge. Go ahead and do that and then see how the midterms treat you.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah. And we're also eight months away from the midterms and gas prices have. Have gone up a bit. Not. We're still not at the levels when Joe Biden was the president and we start. He started and helped to usher in the Ukrainian invasion by Russia when he invited them in and then gave them 250 plus billion dollars which has never been. We've never had a breakdown of where the money went. I'm sure at least half of it went to Ukrainian oligarchs among other things. But gas went up much further than it is a pain right now. I filled up the other day. It still wasn't $96 for my truck like it was with Joe Biden. I think it was 66. So we're not there yet. But they're willing to cast aspersions on the our military quicker than I've ever seen before. Blaine.

[Blaine Holt]

Yeah, because it's. It's all they care about is the short term politics and what they don't want. This is what they all don't want want. They're invested in Donald Trump's failure. And if Donald Trump is successful here then he runs the table. And they don't want to live in that world because he's basically done it with both arms tied behind his back because he's got a very aggressive and hostile Republican Congress. That won't help the man whatsoever. They were all happy to take his endorsements but they haven't codified one executive action. Doge is a mess. They held up all his nominations and they can't even get out of their way to have free and fair elections in the United States States. Much less destroying the people who would screen us at our airports. Which hammers our economy as well. So you know what we're up against.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Yeah.

[Rob Carson]

The Democrat Party is behaving like a Confederate Congress, aren't they?

[Blaine Holt]

They really are. But they're. And it's called the GOP and there is no island DC Go where the good guys are. I'll listen.

[Tom Homan]

Yeah.

[Rob Carson]

There are few. They're few and far between. I've been watching some. Some fun things like Iranians attacking IRCG vehicles as they drive through and. And. And the besiege they've been besieging the besieged by taking them down, beating them publicly. The people are taking over and killing these, these SOBs who have committed so much. So it looks like those forces are kind of the last bastion. The leadership is kind of gone, but the, the patrols are still out, and now the people are getting arms and they're taking them out.

[John Carl]

Out.

[Blaine Holt]

No, they are. They're doing a good job. But what the, the insurgents or the revolutionaries are doing right now is what I would call probe and reaction attacks. So they, they set up a hit on an irgc, but we've had that. And then they see how they react and, and they're learning. And so they are a learning organization. I'm going to guess they're getting a lot of help from intel people on the ground. And when they want some bombs in a certain location here or there, we'll be happy to deliver them. 30 minutes or so.

[Rob Carson]

Now I want you to hear, this is Donald Trump on Air Force One. It's going to sound some background noise about it, but he says not only have we eliminated the Iranian regime, we've eliminated effectively two of them. Listen to this.

[Show Announcer]

But we've had regime change, if you look already, because the one regime was decimated, destroyed. They're all dead. The next regime is mostly dead. And the third regime, we're dealing with different people than anybody's dealt with before. It's a whole different group of people. So I would consider that regime change. And frankly, they've been very reasonable. So I think we've had regime change.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, We've already killed essentially the two top tiers, the ayatollah's original regime, the cardboard ayatollah and his regime.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

I'm thinking, I'm thinking he's dead.

[Rob Carson]

Blame. Am I wrong here in thinking that

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

the cardboard ayatollah is dead?

[Blaine Holt]

Just call him Bernie. The thing is, is I think President Trump has introduced a new term for the war colleges called mostly dead. When you evaluate a regime, you've got dead and mostly dead.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

It's like, it's like Billy Crystal in the Princess Bride. He's mostly dead. Inconceivable. Inconceivable.

[Blaine Holt]

And so, so what the president is saying is, look, he's negotiating with an altogether different group, the parliamentarians and what's left of the third stringers for the regime they're decrying. Nobody's negotiating with us. It's that. That's right. And pretty soon you're going to get visited by 90 million angry Iranians are off for it.

[Rob Carson]

That's what it sounds like. Blaine Holt, can you hold on through the break? I've got much more I want to talk to you. I'm going to go look for that, that sound bite from Princess Bride. By the way, thank you for that,

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

for fertilizing this comedic brain. Let's take a break and come back.

[Rob Carson]

Welcome back.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

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[Rob Carson]

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[Unidentified Speaker 2]

I've seen worse. Well, it just so happens that your friend here is only most likely dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all that. Please open his mouth. Mostly dead.

[Rob Carson]

I think when they put the bellows to blow some wind into the cardboard ayatollah, he went jihad,

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

you know, Blaine

[Rob Carson]

Holt, you know what, with one refrigerator box, you could have four ayatollahs.

[Blaine Holt]

Well, I don't think you want even one.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

No. Yeah, I, I think he, I think he's dead.

[Rob Carson]

You know, just, you know, I mean, other than the fact that he hasn't been in, seen seen in public. They made a cardboard cut out of him three weeks ago. And, and you know, he's dead.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

I think he's dead.

[Rob Carson]

I think there's pretty much that's where,

[Blaine Holt]

that's where your comedy standup audience invokes the how dead is he in you?

[Rob Carson]

There you go. I, I saw a couple things this weekend and it sounds like, like, I mean, you know, obviously there are a few more things we need to do. There's still the, the Iranian oil in Kharg island and whatnot. But I saw members of Iran's, Iraq's Popular Mobilization Force, an umbrella group that includes Iran aligned Shia militia were seen in the streets of Abadan.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Apparently.

[Rob Carson]

You know, it sounds like there are people willing to step in to finish off the remnants of the Ayatollah and the ircg.

[Blaine Holt]

Yeah, and that, that's a nucleus force that's going to build out and it's going to go through trials and tribulations. There'll be defectors, traitors, all kinds of chaotic mess. The thing that the Marines and the US army are focused on, island has to be secure. And so I know that the President is weighing those risks and will be reticent about it. But it's not just about the oil. The byproducts of the oil production there, you know that sulfur and urea, this is fertilizer precursors. Got to have it or we're going to have a famine. The other part is if something happens to cars, you may as well just bank on the Chinese navy taking to the sea and coming out because that's a center of gravity for them. And so far they've stayed on the sidelines.

[Rob Carson]

So what about other Middle Eastern countries stepping in? It sounds like there are some who are, are beginning to do that. With regard to the Straits of Hormuz, what do you think about just the fate of the Strait of Hormuz right now? Who's more in control? Does Iran still pose as massive a threat as they did, say a week or two ago?

[Blaine Holt]

They do. Well, not as much as a week or two ago. They're losing a little bit each day. It's really Lloyds of London that's the big threat in the Straits of Hormuz right now. And the President really needs to go to the UK and say knock it off all of your crap. Whether it's Diego Garcia, our bases in Glasgow, you're going to stop pushing back on us because we're going to free up the Straits. And Naito has already been a pain in our butt. And so this is going to stop now. And then the Arab states coming in, UAE and Saudi Arabia can see this very clearly for what it is, is. And if the United States needs help other than basing rights, then, well, you know, we sold them all those fancy jets. Maybe it's a good time to use them.

[Rob Carson]

Absolutely. Also, I saw Pakistan being involved in the peacemaking process. What do you know about that?

[Blaine Holt]

So Pakistan is very interesting here. They've got their intel arm, isi, and if properly engaged by our intel services, then you could open up a communications channel with the people who I would call the revolutionaries, those yearning for freedom in Iran on and the turncoats, parliamentarians, the IRGC people. And that's how you're going to get information back and forth reliably. And again, we will reward Pakistan handsomely for that if this all work works out and I'm certain they understand that.

[Rob Carson]

Boots on the ground. What are your thoughts? What? You know, we keep hearing that they sent more Marines over there. Is this just for optics? Is there a possibility? Obviously Donald Trump was. Doesn't want to do that. What are your thoughts on it?

[Blaine Holt]

He doesn't want to do it, but if he has to, he will because again, you can't go this far in and not win. Yeah, you absolutely can or you'd have a revenge minded regime and a revenge minded population that, that lost its chance at freedom at our throats forever. And so we don't want to just go ahead and drop Marines on Carg island and put the 82nd on the, on the eastern side of the Straits of Hormuz. But what the President's not going to compromise on is finishing the mission. And we understand that and the joint team will be very good at this. It's just not going to be a risk free endeavor by any stretch of the imagination.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, I saw interviews with several of the Iranians here and the 100,000 people who came here to support Donald Trump and the mission in Iran, despite the no Kings morons, who by the way, we'll just be anti Trump no matter what. They were anti DOJ then. They were, were anti this.

[Blaine Holt]

They were, they're just, that's all they.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, I thought, I thought you were going to say they were bullsh. Something else.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Well, they're full of that.

[Rob Carson]

They're full of Bolshevik.

[Tom Homan]

Yeah.

[Rob Carson]

Is what they're full of. But basically the Iranian people are saying, no, no, the guy I told us can't come back. And, and I don't. I think we're getting very close to the point they're not going to be able to make a comeback and something is going to have to happen that ushers.

[Blaine Holt]

But then we don't need to pick the leader either. Let the people decide for them.

[Rob Carson]

Yep, absolutely. 100%. All right, so you got this fantastic podcast, Dangerous Intellectuals. Tell us about your latest episode, brother.

[Blaine Holt]

Thank you. I got Mike Ariza on there. He's amazing. He used to run the Valero plant, the most technologically advanced refinery in California, but it got shuttered in January and they're on their way down to one refinery by 2020. Seven at a time when the straits are closed. We lost a refinery in La Porte, Texas. Texas. So if you. If you want a famine and if you don't want gas at all, well, then just keep cheering on California because that's what Comrade Newsom is taking us to right now in the name of the climate call.

[Rob Carson]

And you're saying it's not only going to affect California, it's going to affect the entire country. And you get to do a deep

[Blaine Holt]

dive, nationalize those resources right now. It's going to.

[Rob Carson]

Well, tell everybody where they can find your podcast, bro.

[Blaine Holt]

Come to dangerous intellectuals.com please, and share widely and you won't be disappointed. And every week we've got a big thinker to talk to.

[Rob Carson]

Well, you never disappoint my brother. We'll talk again soon.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Okay?

[Blaine Holt]

Thank you so much.

[Rob Carson]

All right, let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show. Charles Barkley is getting a lot of headlines. You know Charles Barkley, he's the one minute he's conservative, the one next minute he's liberal. Last night he apparently went off during NCAA basketball about the southern border, or not southern border, about. But deporting illegals. And the truth is about Charles Barclays, he's just not a smart man.

[Charles Barkley]

I want to be very careful with my words right now, okay? Because this is a really touchy subject for me. Why I love that kid and his

[Tom Homan]

family,

[Charles Barkley]

but the way some of these other immigrants again treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace. I think there is a difference between amazing immigrants and criminal immigrants.

[Rob Carson]

Immigrants. Yeah, that's. That's of course, the case, Charles, but we've been immigrating for as long as we've been around.

[Charles Barkley]

And I think what's going on in our country, what we're doing to some of these amazing immigrants is. Is really unfortunate and it's really sad.

[Rob Carson]

No, not really.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

He.

[Rob Carson]

We've been offering them to leave, pay them, come back in the proper fashion, deport the illegals who have been causing all of the violence and the murder and stuff.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

And honestly, how about you just stick

[Rob Carson]

to balls and baskets?

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

How about just that?

[Rob Carson]

Here's Jim Gossett as Charles Barkley.

[Jim Gossett as Charles Barkley]

You know, Ernie, I'm a real knucklehead. My immigration take was really bad. Maybe next time I should do some research.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, you might want to do that.

[Jim Gossett as Charles Barkley]

Charles, I'm so sorry. It was really sad, man. You thought Joe Kent was a flip flopper. I regret my attack. Wish that I could take it back. It was terrible.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Turable turbo.

[Jim Gossett as Charles Barkley]

Talking about terrible,

[Charles Barkley]

terrible.

[Jim Gossett as Charles Barkley]

This situation has me in a fix.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, Just talk about basketball. Nobody cares about your political opinions.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

You're not smart.

[Jim Gossett as Charles Barkley]

Stick to hoops.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Yeah.

[Jim Gossett as Charles Barkley]

Stay out of politics. Next thing you know, I'll be attending no Kings program test.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[Jim Gossett as Charles Barkley]

People here illegally should not get my sympathy. I was terrible, terrible, terrible. Talking about terrible, terrible, man. Almost terrible.

[Rob Carson]

There you go. That's Charles Barkley.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

Yeah.

[Rob Carson]

Just, you know, honestly, just stick to the tank. Sports, Honestly, sports. Guys who feel like they need to do that. Rush Limbaugh could get away with it. He was brilliant on. On the NFL or whatever. They chased him out of the NFL. He wanted to buy a team, but they called him a racist. So they stopped him from buying St. Louis Rams. Got to his political opinions. But he could do both. But most can't. And Charles Barkley certainly can't. And when you're watching the NCAA men's basketball tournament, how about you just talk about the NCAA men's basketball tournament? Honestly, who needs to hear your opinions on the southern border? Anyway, we got another hour of the show. My friend Thane Rosenbaum is going to be joining us. He is, of course, an expert on all things Israel.

[Unidentified Speaker 3]

We've got, oh, we've got a crazy cat lady update today.

[Rob Carson]

A really good crazy cat lady. We've also got, oh, who caught the stupid update today from one of our great states in America. Of course, it's a Democrat run state. That and more coming up in the final hour of the Rob Carson show, which is right ahead. Don't go anywhere.

[Blaine Holt]

It.