Fries, Fear, and Federal Waste

Summary

The Rob Carson Show – Episode Summary Episode Title: Fries, Fear, and Federal Waste
Date: April 9, 2026
Podcast: The Rob Carson Show (Newsmax Podcasts)

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Episode Overview

This lively hour of The Rob Carson Show blends humor, pointed political analysis, and cultural commentary as Rob weaves personal anecdotes with a critical look at media narratives, federal spending, California’s high-speed rail disaster, and “elite” attitudes from politicians. The episode captures Rob’s signature blend of satire and sincerity as he rallies listeners around patriotic values and exposes what he sees as government incompetence and media deceit.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Boardwalk Fries, Food, and "Gifts from God" (00:50–05:09)

• Rob opens with enthusiastic recollections of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, focusing on local food traditions: Thrashers fries (“Salt and malt vinegar, that’s how you eat Thrashers fries.” – Rob Carson, 01:43) and crab cakes, which he deems “a gift from God.”
• Expounds on a running list of foods he considers “gifts from God”—including bagels, New York pizza, pasta, lasagna, BBQ, and peanut butter.
• Promotes his listener trip to Washington, D.C. (October 25–29), promising “luxury accommodations, six meals, ground transportation, guides, gratuities…and me.”

2. Iran, Media Propaganda, and Trump (05:09–10:20)

• Rob sharply criticizes U.S. media and select members of Congress for “repeating Iranian propaganda” regarding negotiations and alleged U.S. concessions to Iran, referring to reporting of a “10-point plan.”
• Notable Quote:
  “Now that is…the words of the enemy being spewed.” – Rob Carson (05:42)
• Highlights Jack Keane’s confidence in Trump’s ability to negotiate,
  • “President Trump is not going to make a bad deal. He knows these guys…knows they’re full of BS…” – Jack Keane (07:30)
• Rob frames the moment as a “battle of good and evil,” lambasting Democrats and the media for “throwing distractions and lies”—equating it with temptations from Satan (07:56).

3. Commentary from Carl Higbee & Others: Ceasefire and Media Critique (09:20–11:24)

• Features audio from Newsmax’s Carl Higbee, who decries the media’s “biblically stupid” coverage of US-Iran developments, as well as the left’s reflexive anti-Trump sentiments:
  • “It’s actually remarkable. It’s like a medical talent to be able to shove your head up your own rear…” – Carl Higbee (10:05)
• Satirical musical segment lampoons calls for “ceasefire.”
• Rob urges listeners: “Stay joyful, stay positive, stay patriotic…Don’t listen to Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson. Dear God, what’s wrong with you?” (10:43)

4. Federal Waste, California High-Speed Rail, and Government Spending (11:24–29:15)

Government Overspending & Reductions (14:11–18:17)

• Kevin Hassett touts Trump administration’s “winning news” on cutting over 300,000 federal jobs and reducing the deficit ($600 billion),
  • “We cut government employment by…more than 300,000 workers.” – Kevin Hassett (14:20)
• Pete Hegseth details $580 million in Department of Defense contract terminations (“not a good use of taxpayer dollars”), including over-budget HR software, decarbonizing Navy ship emissions, and “equitable AI.”
• Rob Carson’s commentary is scathing and mocking regarding green initiatives in military spending (“Decarbonizing…our craft in the military. How stupid.” – 17:26).

High Speed Rail in California: A “Charlie Foxtrot” (24:45–29:15)

• Rob and guests Steve Hilton and Kevin Kiley deride California’s high-speed rail as a catastrophic failure:
  • French operator abandoned project, calling California “too politically dysfunctional” (Kevin Kiley, 25:11).
  • Costs have ballooned (initially $33 billion, now up to $126 billion for only a segment).
  • Last leg is now “a bus from Bakersfield to L.A.” (Steve Hilton, 26:44).
  • Memorable Exchange:
    “Did you hear what he just said? The last leg…is a bus…this is beyond laughable. This is sickening.” – Rob Carson (27:09)
• Guests and Rob argue for “real infrastructure,” not “crony projects” (Steve Hilton, Kevin Kiley).

California’s Homelessness & Fraud Boondoggles (29:46–32:06)

• Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew join for a segment ridiculing California’s astronomical ($24 billion) homeless spending with little to show,
  • “It got worse and not have any results…It sounds sort of mathematically impossible.” – Adam Carolla (29:54)
• Rob and guests point to widespread fraud, shell companies, and “need to depose these people…imprison them.”

5. Satire of Elite Attitudes – The Newsom Family & “First Partner” (18:52-20:23, 36:23–38:22)

• Rob derides Jennifer Siebel Newsom (wife of California’s governor) for her “first partner” moniker and claims of a “war on women.”
• Mocks her gendered parenting (giving sons dolls, changing book pronouns) and condescending attitude toward the American South as “racist.”
  • Skewered by Victor Davis Hanson, who satirically likens their “visit to the South” as “a zoo tour…the zoo animals were Alabama and Georgia” (36:27, 36:43).
  • “That over there is what they call a redneck…He’s generally white and he’s super racist.” – Rob Carson (37:23)

6. The “Homeboys, Hillbillies, and Hebrews” Unity Theme (39:13–41:17)

• Rob recounts a positive conversation with a Black acquaintance about ‘70s American culture, rejecting the divisive “white privilege” rhetoric from today’s elites:
  • “We just thought them as a family…there’s more that brings us together than separates us by far.”
• Promises his next book, “Homeboys, Hillbillies and Hebrews: How We Came Together to Save America.”
• Show closes with a tongue-in-cheek musical number celebrating unity across backgrounds.

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Noteworthy Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• “Cheese is a gift from God. All right? Cheese is a gift. That’s a gimme. Okay?” – Rob Carson (02:25)
• “Now that is…the words of the enemy being spewed.” – Rob Carson on media repeating Iranian talking points (05:42)
• “President Trump is not going to make a bad deal. He knows these guys…knows they’re full of BS…” – Gen. Jack Keane (07:30)
• “Stay joyful, stay positive, stay patriotic.” – Rob Carson (10:36)
• “Decarbonizing…the exhaust from our…our craft in the military. How stupid.” – Rob Carson (17:26)
• “It got worse and not have any results…It sounds sort of mathematically impossible.” – Adam Carolla (29:54)
• “This is stuff for revolutions here, man.” – Rob Carson on California government corruption (28:09)
• “That over there is what they call a redneck. It’s a redneck. He’s generally white and he’s super racist.” – Rob Carson, satirizing coastal elitism (37:23)
• “There is more that brings us together than separates us…for sure. Oh yeah.” – Rob Carson (40:23)
• “Homeboys, hillbillies and Hebrews is who you should raise. You’ll receive nothing but absolute praise.” – Rob Carson Show Announcer musical parody (41:08)

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Segment Timestamps

• [00:50–05:09] – Food, Delaware memories, “gifts from God” discussion, upcoming listener trip.
• [05:09–11:24] – Media analysis on Iran, Trump’s negotiation stance, segment with Carl Higbee and ceasefire parody.
• [14:11–18:17] – Federal job cuts, DOD contract waste, government spending critique.
• [24:45–29:46] – California high-speed rail debacle, guests Hilton & Kiley, infrastructure fraud, comparison to foreign projects.
• [29:46–32:06] – California homelessness spending, Carolla/Dr. Drew segment on fraud and administrative bloat.
• [18:52–20:23, 36:23–38:22] – “First Partner” satire, Jennifer Siebel Newsom and Victor Davis Hanson’s critique.
• [39:13–41:17] – Celebrating American unity, preview of Rob’s book, musical closer.

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Episode Tone & Style

• Language & Tone: Candid, often irreverent, blending biting satire with moments of earnestness.
• Humor/Satire: Frequent musical parodies; mockery of media “talking points”; lampooning of political correctness and California “elites.”
• Engagement: Emphasis on listener community (“homeboys, hillbillies and Hebrews”); rallying calls for optimism and patriotic joy.

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Summary for Non-Listeners

This episode offers a robust ride through Rob Carson’s world—a place where food and music are celebrated, government waste is mocked, “elite” politicians are skewered, and unity across American backgrounds is highlighted. Whether ridiculing California’s rail failures or recent media narratives or rallying listeners to joy and patriotism, Rob’s voice is unapologetic, funny, and critical of what he sees as government and media overreach and hypocrisy. Notable segments from Newsmax regulars and “real people” stories add depth and contrast. If you missed the show, expect a mix of cultural nostalgia, biting political scandal, and satirical sketches all rolled into one.

Transcript

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[Rob Carson]

This is our number three of the Rob Carson Show. I hope you've enjoyed it thus far. If you're just joining us, get ready for another hour of fun as we are live on radio stations around the country, including glorious KSCO in Santa Cruz, the Penny media stations in New Hampshire. We are also, of course, at WGMD Rehoboth beach, where I'm going next weekend. Not this weekend, next weekend I'm heading up to Rehoboth for the first time of the season. I can't wait. I can't wait. I, I just really, it's weird. I, I love Delaware. I love, I think Delaware is great. I know Joe Biden, whatever, but my family used to go up there to Rehoboth beach in the summer and I never lived on the east coast before. And it's interesting. Up and down the Eastern seaboard from New Jersey all the way south. You know, it's a very. Boardwalks, you got these, one of these Thrashers fries. They're these boardwalk fries. They fry them in peanut oil and you, you serve them with malt vinegar. Yeah, I know it's crazy, but it's so good. No, catchy. No, no ketchup. Stop it right now. And then, of course, they got all sorts of, it's just cool. And you go there and you sit on the beach and you play pickleball and you and your body surf and you know, you can't scuba dive because you can't see in the water, you know, because the sand and whatever. But it's just, it's fun. It's just fun. Duke E. Bear on Rumble said, malt vinegar. Yes, malt vinegar on your fries. That's where you eat them. Salt and malt vinegar is how you eat Thrashers fries. Just go and try them because you, it's going to change your world. It's going to change your world. And we used to have this tradition we do. On the last day that we stayed there, we would do crab eggs Benedict. And if, when you guys come here, this of this fall for the trip to D.C. we're going to get a crab cake at some point. Okay. If you guys are going to be coming in from wherever. But I'm going to. I'm going to take you. We're going to get crab cake somewhere because you have to experience. You know, I got a lot of things that I talk about. You know, there are things that are good, and then there are things that are a gift from God. Okay? It's so good that it has to be a gift from God. Let me give you some examples, all right? Cheese is a gift from God. All right? Cheese is a gift. That's. That's a gimme. Okay? Pasta is a gift from God, but lasagna on its own is a gift from God. It is part of the pasta subcategory. Pizza is a gift from God. New York pizza is a gift from God. Do you understand what I'm saying? Crab cakes, Maryland. Crab cakes are a gift from God. They just are. You have no idea how good they are. I had one the other day. Oh, my Lord. So here's the deal. The trip is October 25th through the 29th, and we are going to just take in this city. I want to introduce you. Somebody says pesto is a gift from God. I'm going to say that. Yeah. I think pesto is a gift from God. I think a good Sunday gravy is a gift from God. That's how. That's what they call marinara you make all day out here. So anyway, boiled crawfish. Pretty close. Yeah, I'm with you. If you got some andouille sausage, potatoes, and corn in there, I got you. Okay, you guys are commenting on social media. Here's the deal. The trip is this fall, October 25th through the 29th. Five days, four nights, heart of D.C. you're going to be staying at luxury accommodations down there. Six meals, ground transportation, guides, gratuities. And me. And me. I know, me. All right, so. Travelwithrob.net look at the. You'll get this wonderful, wonderful brochure and all of that. And. And you're going to want to come. It's going to be so much fun. I can't wait to show you the city that I've chosen to live in. Travelwithrob.net 800-383-3131. Barbecue is a gift from God. Kansas City. Barbecue is a gift from God. There you go, all right. Bagels are a gift from God. New York bagels are a gift from God. They're just as. I got a lot of. Peanut butter is a gift from God. Really good. Peanut butter is a gift from God. It is. You know, there's just a lot of things that are gifts from God. Some things are good. Mustard is good. Is it a gift from God? Maybe not so much. Maybe not so much. Ah, this is Trey Yigs talking about how the, the American media spewed the Iranian propaganda about the United States capitulating to Iran's demands.

[News Reporter]

The Iranians are trying to put out disinformation already. And yester we reported on a 10 point plan and I'm told by a US official that that was actually an old plan that the Iranians put out because they wanted people to talk about it and try to put their perspective forward. And so we are correcting that today. And we spoke with US officials yesterday who said that is not the latest plan. There is an updated plan that the President agreed to. And despite these efforts by the Iranian regime to try to spin negotiators, this will be incredibly consequential this weekend to see whether or not they are serious about creating a good faith deal.

[Rob Carson]

Now that is the, the words of the enemy being spewed. And here is a stand out one. A member of Congress, Chris Murphy, spewing the same talking points.

[Political Analyst]

Control of the Strait of Hormuz. That is extraordinary. If you go deeper into the statement from the Iranian National Security Council, he

[Rob Carson]

even admits it comes from the Iranian Security Council. I've. No, I know I've talked about this several times, but this is really important. This man is a treacherous Russian, wretched, awful human being.

[Political Analyst]

They claim that Trump has also agreed to Iran's right to enrichment, to suspend all sanctions against Iran.

[Rob Carson]

Again, this is. These are old talking points. How dare. And you know what? Aaron Burnett or whoever the hell this is, she wouldn't push back. She didn't even push back on the propaganda.

[Political Analyst]

And to allow Iran to keep their missile program, their drone program and their.

[Rob Carson]

None of that was true.

[Political Analyst]

No, who knows if any of that is true?

[Rob Carson]

But he even admitted it came from the Iranians and then he said, who knows if it's true?

[Political Analyst]

Their missile program, their drone program and their nuclear program. Now who knows if any of that is true. But if at the very least this agreement gives Iran the right to control the strait, that is cataclysmic for none

[Rob Carson]

of it is true. And honestly that cnn, CNN is just, I gotta tell You. I've never seen anything like this in my life. I've never seen anything this treacherous, this bad from the media, especially considering our troops are doing such a good job. Just a brilliant, brilliant job. We should be so proud of them. This is Jack Keane talking about Donald Trump. And Donald Trump is not going to make a bad deal, which flies in the face of the lies that he just said. I know this.

[Jack Keane]

President Trump is not going to make a bad deal. He knows these guys. He's negotiated with them more than any previous President has, and he knows they're full of BS at times, that they're going to obfuscate, they're going to promote lies. And our team obviously has to be aware of all of that going into it. I'm assuming that they. They understand that the backstop we have here is the President himself.

[Rob Carson]

And, you know, I've told you that we are in a battle of good and evil. It's very clear to me it has been for a very long time. And, you know, the Democrat Party is dying like they die like movie vampires, you know, clawing and scratching and doing whatever to drag you into hell with them. And here's the deal. They're going to throw a lot of distractions. They're going to throw a lot of lies at you. This is what evil does. This is what Satan does. Lies to you, tempts you, talks smack about God, says, oh, you know, he's just fooling you. Honestly, you can't trust God. I mean, honestly, why would you be in this situation if God would let you do this? A good God, if a good God would allow this to happen? I mean, how good is God? Seriously? What the hell? This is an old story. This is an old story. And again, you got to be. You got to be of good heart. You've got to be a joyous person, and you have to overwhelm them with joy and patriotism. This is Carl Higbee from Newsmax, and I just thought this was wonderful. This is one of the things that Carl does so well. He's a common man. He's a military hero, Special Forces guy. I talked to him about, you know, do you have ptsd? He goes, rob, I don't have time for ptsd. I was trained to do all of the things that I had to do over there, and he killed a lot of bad guys. And he is just an outstanding individual. And here's how he opened his show yesterday.

[Carl Higbee]

But I also want to address how stupid, how biblically stupid the majority of coverage has been on this whole thing in the last 24 hours, right after Trump sent out this, like, gangster truth about the elimination of an entire civilization, every lib rushed to the camera. No, we have to stop. We have to have a peace deal.

[Rob Carson]

The only way we're going to get out of this is to have some kind of diplomatic solution. What I'm hopeful of is that some negotiation is going on that can get a ceasefire and end this war.

[Kevin Hassett]

They were having a negotiation with the Iranians. They just cut it off. And the next day, you know, we're doing airstrikes into Iran.

[Rob Carson]

We need to end this war now. We need an immediate cease fire. Iran, Israel and the United States need to stop bombing and have a negotiated settlement.

[Carl Higbee]

These people will literally never be happy. This is what I'm saying. The left is more interested in trashing Trump than they are about world peace. It's actually remarkable. It's like a medical talent to be able to shove your head up your own rear so far that you don't even see how ridiculous you look.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. This is Jim Gossett. The ceasefire, which we got, Democrats said they wanted it. What's the problem? I got a random blink.

[Rob Carson Show Announcer]

They knew they were on the brink.

[Rob Carson]

Stay joyful, stay positive, stay patriotic.

[Rob Carson Show Announcer]

Destruction they did not desire.

[Rob Carson]

Don't listen to Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson. Dear God, what's wrong with you?

[Rob Carson Show Announcer]

Agree to a total ceasefire. Take it away. Johnny granted them a two week ceasefire.

[Kevin Hassett]

Fire.

[Rob Carson Show Announcer]

If they violate it, that will raise Trump's ire and the bombing resumes. With no ceasefire. With no ceasefire, bring it home. Mr. President, new peace plan is on the table. Iran must prove that it is able to honor it or no ceasefire or nose is fire.

[Rob Carson]

All right, coming up, we're going to get into the sham that is high speed rail in California. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show. This fall, you're invited to experience Washington D.C. in a truly unforgettable way with me, Rob Carson and other Newsmax listeners. Imagine strolling through our nation's capital as America celebrates 250 years and seeing history come alive with an expert guide. Together, we'll tour the White House Visitor center, step into the halls of democracy with a guided tour of the U.S. capitol Building. Visit Arlington National Cemetery and the changing of the Guard. Stand in awe before the towering figure of President Abraham Lincoln, and take in the beauty of DC's legendary memorials with a special nighttime illumination tour. Our adventure includes premium hotel accommodations for four nights in the heart of D.C. in addition to six meals, ground transportation, guides and gratuities. Space is limited, so don't wait. Visit travelwithrob.net to book your DC getaway today or give our friends at Cruise and Tour a call at 800-383-3131. That's 800-383-3131 or travelwithrob.net.

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Would I launch strikes in Mexico to stop drugs?

[Rob Carson]

It's okay. Boom, boom, boom, boom Bang, bang, bang, bang Boom, boom, boom, boom. I love it, I love it. Big head Todd doing a blues standard. Boom, boom, boom. But my, I think the, the all time best blues song of all time is Voodoo Chaos, Voodoo Child. And this, I think that's the best blue song ever. I was listening to Tom Morello's version of. He did a really nice job of it. Best version, I believe is Jimi Hendrix. Jimi Hendrix. Voodoo Child is no, I mean, there's no comparison. Stevie, Stevie did a great job, don't get me wrong. But, but Jimmy owns it. All right, So I love music. So like, hope you don't mind me straying off here. You know, I find some just, I, I just, I love music. I discovered new artists. I was at the gym yesterday and I found this new artist and it just, ah, I just, I love it. I love it, I love it. Every day I surround myself with some music at some point in my life. I just love it. Gets me fired up when I come in here. Here's one of my favorite songs.

[Steve Hilton]

We love to win.

[Rob Carson]

Winning, winning.

[Rob Carson Show Announcer]

So much winning.

[Rob Carson]

It's lots of winning. Lots of winning. Lots of winning, Lots of winning, Lots of winning, lots of winning.

[Steve Hilton]

It's all so good.

[Rob Carson]

Here is Kevin Hassett of the Trump administration with some of the winning news in our economy. What are the efforts in terms of cutting spending right now?

[Kevin Hassett]

Oh, well, I mean, absolutely, we've made a huge amount of progress. And I think the, the biggest thing that we can point to is that we've cut government employment by, you know, more than 300,000 workers.

[Rob Carson]

I was talking to a guy last night and he works for the State Department. He's a really cool guy, by the way. Had a delightful conversation. We're going to have a cigar sometime. But he's 55 years old. He's going to retire in three years. He's got, you know, his wife are just well off. They got another house, Maryland and they got a house in Costa Rica and all this. And I said, dude, man, how are you going to retire at 55 years old? He goes, government job. I Went oh yeah.

[Kevin Hassett]

And those are jobs that are very high paying that are gone forever and

[Rob Carson]

that reduces Generally when you combine the sally and benefits of all of the government jobs compared to the private sector, about 70% more is government spending by

[Kevin Hassett]

unthinkable amounts of money.

[Rob Carson]

Meanwhile, I got D word for Richard in my 401, maybe as much as

[Kevin Hassett]

a trillion over the next 10 years. We reduced the deficit last year by $600 billion because higher growth than people thought and the tariff revenue and, and you know, more supply side effect of the tax cuts. That's the kind of thing that we expect to see year after year after year. But if you wonder whether we're serious, look at the cut in federal government employment and understand that that's something that is in the baseline now and it's a cut that's going to be there for each of the next 10 years.

[Rob Carson]

You know, listen, it's great. It's maybe it's an opportunity because if you, if you left the workforce and decided to stay at home after Covid for five years, which 94% of the federal government employees did in this area, you know, maybe, maybe your job, it wasn't the most important thing in your life. Maybe it was more about hanging out in your pajamas and do, you know, kind of, you know, doing whatever you do and it's such a bother to drive back to work. I mean, honestly, maybe, maybe could try something else. You know, I did car sales for a while, didn't particularly like to do it, but the first month I did it I made $17,000, sold the hell out of cars. Here's some more good news. This is the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and they're cutting all sorts of superfluous nonsensical spending. Listen to this.

[Pete Hegseth]

So today I'm signing a memo directing the termination of over $580 million in DoD contracts in grants that do not match the priorities of this president or this department. In other words, they are not a good use of taxpayer dollars. Ultimately that's who funds us. We owe you transparency and making sure we're using it well. So here's quickly what we're canceling today. There's an HR software effort that was supposed to take a year and cost $36 million, but instead it's taken eight years and is currently $280 million over budget.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, we're going to cut that like the high speed rail in California, not

[Pete Hegseth]

delivering what it supposed to. So that's 780% over budget.

[Rob Carson]

I know, I know. Ridiculous. Ridiculous.

[Pete Hegseth]

Number two, another batch of DOD grants.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[Pete Hegseth]

$360 million worth this time.

[Rob Carson]

For what?

[Pete Hegseth]

Decarbonizing emissions from Navy ships. Part of the Obama Biden green agenda. That's 6 million bucks.

[Rob Carson]

Decarbonize. Decarbonizing. The. The exhaust from our. From our. Our craft in the military. How stupid.

[Pete Hegseth]

$.2 million on something that would diversify and engage the Navy by engaging underrepresented BIPOC students and scholars. Another $9 million at a university to approach equitable AI and machine learning models. I need lethal machine learning models, not equitable machine learning.

[Rob Carson]

That's perfect. That's fantastic.

[Pete Hegseth]

And number three, in our ongoing effort to cut wasteful spending on extreme external consulting services.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, yeah.

[Pete Hegseth]

30 million bucks in contracts with Gartner and McKinsey. It's it. Purchasing unused licenses. So when you add it all up, $580 million in DOD contracts and grants. Doge is helping us cut.

[Rob Carson]

I love that. That is just good news there. Right there. And listen, you know, I have. I've always been. When it comes to spending, and I. And I still would. We've got to cut government spending. We're eliminating a lot of waste. A lot of really good things are happening with government waste. But we got to get rid of this deficit, this debt spending, I should say this national debt. It's got to end. That's the only thing that I've really had a real problem with Donald Trump over the years is that we've not tackled the. The national debt. This is the. This is the first lady of California, General Jennifer Siebel. She is a Barbie dimwit.

[Jennifer Siebel]

What I will say is that I don't know if our country is ready for first partner. Okay. Sadly.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, that's just idiotic.

[Jennifer Siebel]

I don't know if they are. I'd like to think that's what liberals do.

[Rob Carson]

They think the least of you work

[Jennifer Siebel]

really, really, really, really hard for people to see what's been rendered invisible and devalued in our society. And to go, oh, that's actually important. How did you feel about her wanting

[Rob Carson]

to be first partner instead of first. How about. God, on the first partner? If you called. If my wife called me first partner, I'd say, yeah, I'll just get that divorce now.

[Kevin Kiley]

I mean, I.

[Rob Carson]

She went first. I had mixed feelings how you liked it. I liked it because I thought it was just fascinating.

[Jennifer Siebel]

You have this incredible women's caucus and all these allies, and you're not asking about it.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, my God. These allies. Oh, my God.

[Jennifer Siebel]

And this happens over and over and over and over again. You wonder why we have such a horrific war on women in this country.

[Rob Carson]

There's no war on women in this country, moron.

[Jennifer Siebel]

And that these guys are getting away with it because you don't seem to care. I've given our boys dolls.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, boy.

[Jennifer Siebel]

Even if they tear the head off,

[Rob Carson]

your boys are going to grow up and resent you and hate you the rest of their lives. They are. This is going to happen.

[Jennifer Siebel]

When Hunter was really little, I got him a doll because I was like, why should Montana?

[Rob Carson]

The Hunter's going to hate you and

[Jennifer Siebel]

Hunter needs a doll.

[Rob Carson]

He's going to leave for college and he's never going to come back.

[Jennifer Siebel]

Granted, at one point, Hunter probably ripped the head off. What I've done with both my daughters and my sons is if I'm reading a book and the protagonist is a male, I just change the he to a she. I do it for my sons because I want them to see again you.

[Rob Carson]

Your son is going to grow up and hate you the rest of his life. It's just going to happen. That's it. Because you are nuts. You are. You are an insult to any sort of masculinity a child could have. On the other side of the break, I do want to play Victor Davis Hansen with some thoughts on her. She decided to take her kid, her kids on a tour of the south to show them how backwoods and racist people are. It was like a trip to the zoo for her. I'm not kidding. This woman will never be the first partner of California. And Gavin Newsom will never be the president. I'm telling you this. He'll never be the president because he's a failure. He's unlikable, he's dishonest and he's fake. So all of that's coming up. And then of course, we'll get to that audio from Steve Hilton about high speed rail and Kevin Kiley. It's a non starter. It's going to end when Steve Hilton is the governor of the state of California. Take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show. Hey, guys, it's Carson. 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Use promo code Carson. That's ghostbed.com Carson promo code Carson. You are gonna love your new Ghostbed. So the high speed rail in California is nothing more than a boondoggle. It's never going to be completed. It's. This is just California. California is a Charlie Foxtrot, I'll put it that way. And sooner or later people are gonna have to be held accountable for it and people are gonna have to go to jail because a lot of politicians knew exactly what's going on. Don't act like they don't know what happens when you, when you've got 26% of the nation's hospices in LA county and they got a dozen of them in a strip mall and you know, you got daycare centers in Minnesota where there are no kids and they get millions of dollars and they're in a strip mall or they're in an abandoned warehouse or whatever. Honestly, it's time for thousands of people to go to prison. Thousands of people to go to prison. And if they're, if they are naturalized citizens from another country, they need to be denaturalized and removed. That's it. Honestly, I am so done with this nonsense. I'm grateful that it's been exposed. In your wildest dreams, could you have ever imagined the graft and corruption that has been exposed? And now you know why they went after Elon Musk last year. Now you know why they went after his car dealerships. These organized, bought and paid for protesters who are now no kings. Protesters went after him when Doge, when it was announced and he brought a chainsaw onto the stage of cpac. I was there and they decided to, you know, instead of saying, damn, that's pretty cool. He's going to cut government waste, which I did, is pretty cool to bring a big old badass chainsaw up on a stage. I thought it was great. They went in like, oh, he's so threatening. I mean, honestly, are you this feminized as a culture that you thought that was threatening, but they saw it as a threat and they saw it as an exposition of what they were hiding. What they were hiding. In this case, it is the high speed rail in California. It was originally supposed to be a couple hundred miles from LA to San Francisco, and they have just made it into a Charlie Fox ride. It's been around since 2006. And now there's a very good chance it will never be next. It won't be completed. Kevin Kiley was on with Rob Finnerty last night. Rob Finnerty on Newsmax. And I'll just do a little plug for Newsmax. He is so damn good on this show. Rob Finnerty is so good on this show. And Schmidt is great on the show and Higby's great on the show. These are shows you, you've got to make part of your evening viewership. It's just that each one of them are different. Each one of them are true to their principles. They will not sell out like Tucker Carlson or Candace Owens. Really need to get a Newsmax plus membership. You need to start watching Newsmax. Because I was watching this day, I'm like, damn, Finnerty, you owned this. And I wrote him this morning. And Higby, I wrote. I had Higby's opening monologue last night and I played it twice today because it's so good and it's so honest and it's so connective. That's why Newsmax is kicking butt. But anyway, here is Kevin Kiely on California Rail, high speed rail. And what a joke it is. What a joke it is.

[Kevin Kiley]

Yeah. Well, the answer to your question, why is political dysfunction. And you don't have to take my word for that. This is actually the term used by the early operator of the rail system was a French company that came in. They said, we can't build this here. It's too politically dysfunctional. So they went to Morocco and brought a high speed train online in 2018. So we're at the point where, you know, this whole thing, L. A to San Francisco, was supposed to be done in 2020. This is what the voters were promised, the cost of $33 billion. And now we're saying, you know what they're saying? 2033. That's just, as you mentioned, for a tiny segment of it, for the entire thing, the New York Times found it's not even on track to be finished this century. And to the cost, you know, I just caught this in the clip you played. He said with the right. Optimization. It's $126 billion. Everything goes perfectly.

[Rob Carson]

They want another $126 billion. They got two new people in charge of it right now. And guess what? Done. Done. No more federal money for it. By the way, here is Steve Hilton. Hopefully he will be the next governor of the state of California. And maybe California can get back on its rails.

[Steve Hilton]

Well, it's, it's over. Kevin Kiley, my friend Kevin has done the first part of the work by leading the effort to kill the federal funding. Yeah, when I'm governor, we're going to kill the rest of it. As I like to joke in my speeches, I'm going to stop that thing in its tracks. Except they haven't built any tracks, so I can't do that. That we're certainly not putting any more good money after bad. One last thing I'd say on the, on the plan. This is what they laughably call a plan. The last section from Bakersfield to la, you showed on the map just there. Do you know what they're actually saying that will be?

[Rob Carson]

What?

[Steve Hilton]

A bus. A bus from Bakersfield. And they're calling, basically that's. That'll take two and a half hours.

[Rob Carson]

Did you hear what he just said? The last leg of the high speed rail, which has been shortened by a third and now cost four times as

[Steve Hilton]

much as Field to la. You showed on the map just there. Do you know what they're actually saying? That will be a bus. A bus.

[Rob Carson]

Unbelievable. I mean this is, this is beyond laughable. This is sickening. This is thoroughly, thoroughly bloody sickening. And Gavin Newsom, a couple weeks out, decided to go out and touch base with it. Stand there. Oh, we're really excited. You know, things are really on. And then he just touched base on it. But he's. His name is all over this. He's the guy who was, he's been with it since 2006. He will never be the president. Here is Kevin Kiley saying that, yeah, no federal funding, it's done.

[Kevin Kiley]

That this can't be built without the federal funding. That their entire $126 billion plan is reliant on federal funding. And as Steve just recognized, we have actually cut that funding off. I used a bill to do this.

[Rob Carson]

Good.

[Kevin Kiley]

And it ended up getting passed as part of a larger measure with broad bipartisan support making high speed rail permanently ineligible for federal funding.

[Rob Carson]

Good.

[Kevin Kiley]

So if Steve becomes governor and says that we're abandoning this project, that's just recognizing reality. And he's the only candidate that I've heard certainly one of the only ones in that race who is acknowledging that reality that this is not going to be built.

[Rob Carson]

We have become a third world joke. America has become a third world joke. The same corruption in governments that we used to make fun of backwoods. You know what? Banana republics. We become a banana friggin republic. More like a Gucci republic in California. It really is just so. I mean, I'm just so bloody done with this. This is stuff for revolutions here, man. Here is Steve Hilton saying that even Californians don't want this crap.

[Kevin Kiley]

Serious question, do the people of California even want this anymore?

[Steve Hilton]

No, nobody wants it. Even on its own terms. It was a complete joke because they said it would take cars off the roads, but a tiny fraction. So it never made sense. What we actually need to do is build transportation infrastructure that help people. We need to, you know, the Central Valley. We need to widen the 99 so that the farmers can get their produce to the ports, eat more easily. Things like that, that actually help people every day. Families getting their kids to school, people getting to work.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, you know, it's like that. It's like you're a kid when they want a pony or they want a puppy and they beg you and they convince you. And I'm going to take care of this pony. I'm going to be the best owner of the pony ever. I'm going to do. All you got to do is buy this pony for me. This is what Democrats do. They get you to buy the pony to get you to pony up the money. And then once you get the money, they say screw it. That's what they do. Because all they do is pay off their cronies. They're pony cronies. How about that? I just came up with that. Here's Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew talking about business in California.

[Adam Carolla]

How do you spend $24 billion on homelessness?

[Rob Carson]

That's another thing. They spent 24 billion, $24,000 million dollars on homelessness.

[Adam Carolla]

And it got worse and not have any results. It sounds sort of mathematically impossible. You know what I mean? It's essentially like saying, I did 24.

[Rob Carson]

All the green energy stuff. Same damn thing we're still owed. All of the postal vehicles are supposed to be electric. None have been delivered. We've got tens of thousands of school buses electrified. They were supposed to be delivered from Canada. Never delivered. They just take the money, guys.

[Adam Carolla]

Billion on home renovations and improvements. And then you walk into my house and go, this is the same. He burned orange tile from the 70s you go, well, I've done stuff. And you go, nothing's changed. And you go, was a lot of it's administration.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah. You know, well, but let's think about that. It's all opportunity for fraud. Right. Let me think of what happens in

[Adam Carolla]

the Palestine in Malibu.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, yeah. You have to get through the Coastal Commission. And how much money is that going to cost? You have to get surveys, and they

[Adam Carolla]

raised $100 million in a concert and no one's got any money.

[Rob Carson]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

And it ends up going to, like, political organizations.

[Rob Carson]

And then they give it back to the people that are providing the money. They need to depose these. I can't say it. They need to depose these people. We need to depose these people on the national level. And we did, by electing Donald Trump. And they're still fighting us. They need to depose these people and imprison them. Ridiculous. I want to get that audio from Victor Davis Hansen. It's really brilliant. And I got to tell you, I've never heard Victor Davis Hanson so pithy in my life. I mean, just really good. Stick around for that. This is the Rob Carson show,

[Rob Bunt (California AG)]

And yesterday we successfully executed search and arrest warrants at 10 separate locations and arrested five suspects so far throughout Southern California.

[Rob Carson]

Yay.

[Rob Bunt (California AG)]

I'm going to break down the details of this operation in a moment, but first I just want to make one point very clear. This is just the latest example of the California DOJ's long standing, ongoing and successful efforts to combat hospice and medical fraud.

[Rob Carson]

No, there you go. That is the. The Rob Bunt of the ag California. I want to know why it was allowed to happen. I want to know who was in charge, allowed it to happen. Because it should have been very easy to, you know, if you're gonna spend our money, you ought to know where it's going. It's our money, for God's sake. But there you go. At least they're arresting people. And hopefully, you know, denaturalizing, deporting, doing everything they have to do, spend, send their people there to jail the rest of their lives. I hope that. I sincerely hope that Tim Runes is next and the ag, the state, Keith Ellison, and I hope also Ilhan Omar is arrested, indicted, tried, denaturalized, deported back to the meth lab, trailer park of the world, Somalia. Interesting. I was seeing a piece on Billy Strings. You ever see Billy Strings? He's this young guy. He's like. I think he's in his maybe early 30s and he. He plays bluegrass and he's brought Bluegrass to Gen Z. And he's one of the best pickers you've ever seen. And he actually was raised in a meth lab trailer park. He was, he was. He left home and he lived in a trailer park and his parents got high. I got hooked on meth and he left at 14. He really, he literally lived in a meth lab trailer park. He is so good at Billy stings that he's my fantasy interview to have him in the studio. I'm gonna get Billy Strings in the studio. Oh my God. Dustin A baggie. It's one of his hits. He played at the Grand Ole Opry. He's bringing picking back like Jerry Reed and Roy Clark and, and, and all of the, all of the great pickers. All the great pickers. You thought it was dead. It isn't. Victor Davis answered in one second. Dollars convertibility to gold ended in 1971. At that time, gold was fixed at 35 bucks an ounce. Today the dollar has lost a great deal of its purchasing power. Power. You know this as much as I do. You know what I do. I mean, dear God, look at the price of a house. I. You know what? I'm not going to buy a house. I'm not going to buy a house because you don't want it. You know what? A medium price house here is 775 stinking dollars and I'm not going to have that kind of mortgage payment. It's ridiculous. How ridiculous to have a two bedroom, two bath, whatever the hell. 1800 square foot for 700,000. You're out of your mind, freak. I'll live in an Airstream trailer before I do that. Dear God. That said, gold has increased in value by 12,000%. Central banks buying gold at record levels. Major firms like Vanguard Blackrock are buying it. You need to learn about it. Why not learn about it? Gold was $2,600 two years ago. It's $4,600 now. You got to start with education. Birch gold is doing this online event. You can learn and earn. Okay? So just go to text my name Rob to 989-898. Birchgold announced their learn and earn precious metals events. It's going on until the 30th of this month. If you want to take part in, you better do free rewards. You sign up for learning the basics of investing in precious metals. Get free silver on your next purchase. It's pretty simple. Get even larger incentives as you go. I'm not planning on retiring for about another decade if I ever do because I kind of like what I'm doing. And so, you know, I'm gonna sit on my gold. I'm gonna wait. I'm gonna wait. That's what it's there for. Learn more.

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[Rob Carson]

Text Rob to 989-898 to enjoy Burch Gold's Learn and Earn Precious metals event. Victor Davis Hansen was talking about Gavin News wife who's an insufferable elite Barbie doll moron. Did I say everything? Yeah, Barbie doll. Okay. And. And she decided she'd take her kids. She said this about a couple weeks ago. She decided to take her kids to the south and tour the south and show the kids how ignorant and racist people are. I don't know if you've been to the South. They are the opposite of that. And I would say 99% of the American people are opposite of that. You'll stop any place in the south. If you're a black person and your tire's flat, you'll have a dozen white people there to help you put the wheel back on. I know. I've seen this. Out of Kansas City. Same damn thing. It doesn't matter. It's all nonsense. It's so outrageous. She'd say that. So it's basically like a zoo visit. But she's an elite. And again, she's never going to be the first partner of California and he's never going to be the governor. Here is Gavin. Here is Victor Davis Hanson on the elite snot naughty Barbie doll of. Of California.

[Commentator or Guest]

Get out, Calvin. You and your wife. Gosh. His wife.

[Political Analyst]

She.

[Commentator or Guest]

She. That was the worst. She said she gave this little interview like she took her children. She claimed. I don't know if she actually did it on a zoo tour, but the zoo animals were Alabama and Georgia and yeah, I wanted them to see what. Who reads.

[Rob Carson]

That's what a lot of the elites in D.C. think of you. That's what Tucker Carlson thinks of you. By the way. He's a snotty elite frat boy born with a silver spoon, born with a trust fund. Case you wanted to know.

[Commentator or Guest]

Date basically racist and sex. She didn't quite say that. But I wanted him to see what this country was about and how they could counteract that. So I took. Can you imagine getting in their BMW SUV and driving through Mobile and rolling down?

[Rob Carson]

There's one. Is that a giraffe?

[Commentator or Guest]

No, that's a white rhinoceros.

[Political Analyst]

Mississippi.

[Commentator or Guest]

I hear there's a really weird breed.

[Rob Carson]

That over there is what they call a redneck. It's a redneck. He's generally white and he's super racist.

[Commentator or Guest]

Era of white redneck who's horrible and we can look down on.

[Rob Carson]

Do you know why they call him rednecks? I was a redneck. I worked on a farm growing up. I started working in fields when I was 10 years old. It's because you get so sunburned over your collar from working outside all day. Your neck is red, you idiot.

[Commentator or Guest]

And you know, they can't, they can't hide it. You know when you had Jimmy Kimmel making fun of Mark Wayne, the senator plumber, saying he's a plumber, a plumber. These people are so weird because they all pose as the champion of the undercloud. They hate the working class, they hate the middle class. They do, they hate the DEI people. They just, but, and they, they, they create this facade of caring to, to square the circle that they're guilty because they're not comfortable with people like.

[Rob Carson]

Unlike the homeboys, hillbillies and Hebrews. I don't care what color you is, you are you. You is whatever you want to say. Homeboys, hillbillies and Hebrews. Screw the elites. We don't need them. Right? Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show. You know, last night I was talking to a guy and it was a fascinating conversation and he was a man of color and 55 years old. And we got talking about Generation X as I'm a member of Generation X. And I found it odd after so many years, a few years ago that Democrats started using words like white privilege and all of this. And we had a gosh darn it, we had a great conversation. We were talking about. I said, what are you, a big wheel or green machine man? He goes, I'm a big wheel. And I said, and what kind of bike did you. He goes, a Schwinn Stingray. I said, with the banana seat?

[Pete Hegseth]

Yeah.

[Rob Carson]

You know, and we talked about, you know, watching all in the Family and watching Good Times and watching Different Strokes. We didn't think, we saw Conrad Bain and the two boys. We didn't think of them as a white father and black kids. We thought of them as a family. We just thought him as a family. And I mean, watching Roots, I remember watching Roots. I'm supposed to be this white privileged family in Iowa, you know, whatever, on the farm, making no money, buying one pair of shoes every year. That's how we were, man. But, but we watched Roots and we sat there slack jawed and saw Kunta Kinte and heard the story and we didn't. We just thought it was, you know, tragic. You know, it just, you know, we didn't think twice about it. And, and, and I think that all of this, this division and bull crap is just from the elites, to be quite honest. It's just ridiculous. It's just. It's just. It's utterly ridiculous. And, and so, you know, know. Homeboys, Hillbillies and Hebrews. I, I said that. You know, I use that. It's going to be titled my book. We're working on it. It's going to be called Homeboys, Hillbillies and Hebrews. How we came together to save America. Because there is more that brings us together than separates us by sure. For sure. Oh, yeah.

[Rob Carson Show Announcer]

Homeboys, Hillbillies.

[Rob Carson]

Where is it? Are you gonna play it? Where'd that go?

[Rob Carson Show Announcer]

Isn't he Bruiser? Rob Carson's friends.

[Rob Carson]

There you go. There you go. Thanks for reminding of this, Brian.

[Rob Carson Show Announcer]

Better believe that they'll be friends to the end.

[Rob Carson]

Willie. Come on now.

[Rob Carson Show Announcer]

A new coalition to promote freedom. They're all about Liberty.

[Rob Carson]

We love America. 250 years.

[Rob Carson Show Announcer]

The perfect trio to combat the left and look out for you and me.

[Rob Carson]

There you go, people. Bring together now.

[Rob Carson Show Announcer]

Mamas, please let your babies grow up to be homeboy.

[Rob Carson]

You can be a homeboy. You can be a hillbilly. You can be a Hebrew. Whatever, it doesn't matter.

[Rob Carson Show Announcer]

Hillbillies and Hebrews is who you should raise. You'll receive nothing but absolute praise.

[Rob Carson]

There you go.

[Rob Carson Show Announcer]

Homeboys overwhelm the left.

[Rob Carson]

We gotta overwhelm the left with joy and patriotism. I'll handle the mockery, ridicule and satire. And let Donald Trump handle the butt kicking. All right, tomorrow's Friday by the grace of God. God bless you, America's founder, Donald Trump. The job he's doing, our military, that's kicking butt. Don't let him get you down. God bless you.

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