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Interesting, informative, thought provoking and funny show in America on air and on the world wide web. This is the Rob Carson Show. Well, it's good to see you for hour two. My name is Ken Matthews. Always a pleasure to be filling in on the Rob Carson Carson Show. The number if you'd like to join the conversation personally on the program, 800-922-6680. You know, before we get into hour two here and some of the other things we want to talk about today and taking your calls, I have to say I'm very blessed and I hope you have been over the Christmas holiday. I got to spend time with both my sons and my beautiful wife, and one son has moved out. And as parents know, you know, when the kids move out, the first holiday, it's like, oh, my gosh, you know, you, you're working your way up to it. It's. I miss my kids in the weirdest times. You know, just you're in the garage and you're fumbling around for something and then you realize, oh, my gosh, one of my sons moved out. You guys know what I'm talking about. But it's funny because they're both in their 20s now. They both work full time and, and they have their lives and. But I remember, you know, when they're, when they're in middle school or in high school, especially like freshmen and sophomore, you, parents probably know that, that now we do not have girls. We have two boys. So again, I pray for you, the, the ones with girls, because it's a whole different. It's a whole different thing. Because unlike what, you know, Bill Nye the science guy says, there is a vast difference between boys and girls. And I talk to my friends and neighbors that have girls and they're raising girls and well, let me just say they've aged a lot and. But I always used to say, remember you used to say, you know, I can't wait till these kids are out of the house. When you get out of the house, when you get, you know, you can, you, you can move, you know, and you always go through those. If you've ever had that conflict, you know, the classic I hate you, mom and dad conflict or the I hate you, dad or I can't wait to get out of here conflict. Right? We've all had that. If you've raised teenagers and, and then they leave and you miss them so much and they end up missing you, it's a weird, it's a weird dynamic. And again, this just could be the. I'm intoxicated now with cookies. That could just be the Christmas cookies talking. But while I was home on my Christmas vacation here, I caught up on what I think is one of the, the greatest shows on TV or cable or whatever you want to call it. I stream it and I don't know if you've seen this show, but I just want to mention it to you because if you're looking for. And by the way, is, is not a paid endorsement, I just get really excited about great content, whatever it is, if it's music, if it's, you know, scientific content, if it's, whatever it is. And Landman is great entertainment. And that's the name of it, Landman. And it's from the same guy that wrote Yellowstone and he's written several other shows. But I, you know, Landman to me was, and now people are, you know, they're, they're turning on to it. If you watch it, let me know. And if you haven't seen it, I'll give you a little background. It's about, you know, a family that lives in Midland, Texas. It's, and you know, it talks about the family dynamic and it's, it's an energy driven show. It's, it's drilling for fuel. It's a big oil company. And it just, it's so topical and so well written and some of the, some of the characters, John Ham, who has since passed away, he was like one of the big oil guys. Billy Bob Thornton, Demi Moore, Sam Elliott. I mean, listen to the cat. I mean, it's like a movie lineup and it's every week. But I have to tell you this, and this is why I always get melancholy over the holidays. That's why I told you that sappy story about my kids and how I miss them. But the dynamic between Sam Elliott and he plays Billy Bob Thornton's father, now imagine if you will. I'm sure you know both those actors, that casting was brilliant. And the, the dialogue between these guys, it brings you to tears, especially if you're a guy. And I know if you're a guy, you may not want to admit that you cry at certain stuff, certainly certain things. But I gotta tell you, when Sam Elliott is getting emotional, I'm. I'm tearing up. Because he's, he's a pretty manly dude, if you know his track record of. It's like when Clint Eastwood. When Clint Eastwood used to get emotional, who didn't tear up? What guy wouldn't tear up? When, when Sly Stallone gets emotional. When those manly men, those icons of theater and film and entertainment, when they start tearing up, you know, Paulie, I gotta tell you, Paulie, you know what I mean? That was my Sly Stallone, by the way. And one more thing about Sly, he is in a. Another series that I watch regularly. And I remember I watched the, the pilot, the very first one, and I'm addicted. And this series has Sly Stallone, Annabella Sciora, Robert Patrick, Frank Grillo. I think Frank Grillo is one of the, one of the best kept secrets. You'll know him when you see him, or maybe you already know him, but he is just, he's in everything. Kevin Pollock, Dana Delaney, Remember China Beach? They're all in this show called Tulsa King. And Sly Stallone is like, you know, an old boss, you know, mafia dude. And he ends up in jail for 25 years and he keeps his mouth shut. So he comes back and some of the guys want to kill him. They're like, he's gonna rat. He's not gonna rat. He's been in jail for 25 years. He never ratted. We need to give him something, but we're not gonna give him a piece of the New York action. We'll, we'll send him out to Tulsa, Oklahoma, which at the time was a wasteland. And then the, the whole series is about Sly Stallone creating this dynamic cast of characters. He's employed all these different people. The cast is great. It's very young, by the way. The cast is very young. He' of Gen Zers and Gen Xers in there. And, and the Tulsa King thing deals with, you know, legalizing pot and gambling and all that stuff. So I've Been catching up on that because if I did not unplug from some of the things that are happening in this country at least several hours a day, my head would explode. And I'm sure you feel the same way. 800-922-6680 the Rob Carson Show. My name is Ken Matthews. Now. At the very top of the show today, I talked about things that I hope will be dealt with correctly, meaning there will be arrest. One of those things was Russiagate. We'll put that on the back burner for now. Another thing was a stolen election. But the thing that I have been passionate about, passionate about since day one, was the whole scamdemic and the fact that millions of people believed that the COVID vaccine was both safe and effective. And it's been proven repeatedly. It's. It's not. And here's. I have two surveys here. You can go look them up if you want. But this is another example where we have the. We have the surveys. We have the. Not just a survey. This is a study. Excuse me, there's a difference. This is a peer reviewed study, by the way, and it's been published. Now, they wouldn't have published this a few years ago because of the censorship. This is back in the days where if I said, no thanks, I don't want to take the vaccine, someone would call me a science denier. Or they'd say, well, you don't even care about your children if you don't take the vaccine. If you're not taking the vaccine, what kind of patriot are you that you don't want to inject yourself with that crap? You see? But things have changed a lot. And that's one nice thing about the last few years, especially 2025. There has been an awakening across the board from top to bottom, in every single sector of our existence, from medicine to employment to technology, people are awake. And those of us that are awake, we outnumber the people that lie. Have you noticed that? We outnumber the people that write the narratives, the people that make up little stories. Like if you criticize Ilhan Omar, then you're, you're a racist. We outnumber those people. Now everybody looks at that and they hear it and they go, this is ridiculous. Shut up. It's like when someone says you're anti science if you want to know what's in a vaccine. So it's a, it is a whole new era. And I think it kicks off in 2026. I just don't know what direction it's going. To be going in. But there is a censored study that has now come out showing that MRNA injections like the COVID 19 vaccines induce severe genetic disruption linked to cancer and chronic disease. It's now peer reviewed. Now, the reason I bring this up is this was a big deal among all the doctors that had the courage to come forward, and some did not. Some played along, some didn't know better. My issue was with people that went after truth tellers. I have a real big issue with that, and I'm sure most Americans do. You know, and there were so many funny things that happened during the COVID scamdemic. You know, the lockdowns, the quarantines, Everything was done back halfwards. It was just, it was so abnormal and it was so not medically sound what they were doing. You know, it's never before in history were some of the things that took place during that lockdown. And so much of it was just foolishness. The mask, the fact that they're ineffective, the distancing, the locking people indoors, the way they treated the elderly, the way that children were abused during this process. People under 50, safest, safest sector, they were the least at risk. People under 50 that were healthy. So there's, there's such a large part of our generation or, or our population, excuse me, that weren't even, didn't even have to worry about it. And yet they were targeted. And a lot of us knew there was something up about that. We, a lot of us did. And I remember talking about it in the media and talking about it to friends, and unfortunately, the narrative and, and the pre, pre programming went on for too long. And as a result, a lot of people have died because of the vaccines, and that's now provable. The question is, will our government go after the people that knowingly, knowingly allowed people to die and knowingly lied about treatments that worked? That was the other big issue that bothered me. A new study just came out two days ago linking COVID 19 boosters to elevated risk of shingles. Yes. And did you know that's a potential gateway to dementia? And if you noticed, I don't know if you have. I have. Again, the conspiracy analyst in me. Have you noticed all the new shingles medication that's out there? Yeah. And a new dementia medication is coming out. And I often wonder, and I ask people, I know people personally that have been injured by the vaccine and they've never been the same since they had their boosters. If you want to weigh in on that, you certainly can 800-922-6680. It's the Rob Carson Show. My name's Ken Matthews. We're coming right back.
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Donald Trump's election.
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No, no.
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It's the gift that keeps on giving.
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It's the rob carson show, young man. 800-922-6680. My name's ken matthews. In for rob today. No need to feel down. New Year's Day is coming. So my one, my one son is heading to New York. My other one is. I don't know what he's gonna do. I haven't been to a New Year's Eve countdown in ages. I think the last time my wife and I were in New. I think it was New York. Was it New York? Of course it was, yeah. The last time we were there, though, this was back when my wife and I was, before we had kids, when we had money and time. And it was very exciting and it, and it reminded me of this. And I have to share this with you because I know there's people, there's people in this audience. And we're going to go to the phones in a minute. They're stacking up and I really appreciate it. 800-922-6680. I know there's people in this audience that can relate to Pete Holmes, one of the comedians that I enjoy. And here he is.
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I don't like New Year's.
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Anyone else?
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Not like New Year's. I won't make fun of you. I see us out there being like, five, four. I'm like, we deserve everything the shadow government is doing to us. We deserve all their tricks. We deserve chemtrails, fluoride in the water, rigged elections because we're 1098 people. And they know that. That's probably why they know they can get away with it. They're probably up there right now, Scott, scheming in their weird castle, just like, do you think we could spy on them using their very own cell phones? Then another weird Nosferatu guy is like, no, no, that's a bridge too far, even for us. That crosses a line. Then they turn on the TV on.
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New Year's and we're like, three, two.
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They're like, we could do it and tell them we're doing it and they still won't revolt.
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Isn't that, isn't that the truth, though? Isn't it the truth? I mean, they tell us what they're doing. They tell us in the fine print. You know, you're, you're signing up for this. We will be using all of this information, and we will be tracking you with it. Okay. If it gets me into the movie theater quicker, if I don't have to wait in line. I mean, think about COVID Think about all the. The incentives people used to. To get you to take the vaccine and to get you to behave, to obey. Canada, the Ukraine, uk Among the worst situations. There's so many lawsuits. You think there's lawsuits here? Oh, my goodness. I mean, they. They actually had camps in Canada and Australia. And. But the fact that they were saying, you know, if you don't get the COVID vaccine, you can't go to the Taylor Swift concert. What? Okay. You can't come into the classroom or you can't come into our restaurant. And people said, okay. And then I think about parents, you know, grocery shopping and mom's in the. In the grocery lane grocery line, rather. And she's looking. She's looking at the wrapper, right? Oh, let me see. Hold on a second. Honey, I know you want this, but I just want to check. Oh, no, you can't have this. There's too much sugar. Too much sugar and salt in it. Honey, I'm sorry, but I want it. Mommy, no. We've got to get over to the. To the drugstore and have someone who was selling shoes a week earlier inject you with the COVID vaccine that. I don't know what's in. What's in it. George in California. Thank you for holding, George. Welcome to the Rob Carson Show. Is George there? He's not there now. Well, we'll go to Ken in Santa Clara.
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Yes, sir.
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How are you, sir?
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Good. Your name is Ken, too? I'm also Ken. So I got a quick question for the whole group and for the discussion. Why have we uncovered so many dozen issues of fraud with either Democrats or the liberals or the craziness of. Of medical confusion, and then nobody, not one person has ever been arrested. You know, we. We catch them doing all kinds of fraudulent things. Nobody, Nobody, Nobody threw me FBI. Nobody from the nih. You know, Tulsi Gabbard, she went up on. On the podium where normally the White House information girl. Remind me her name.
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But Blondie.
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I think her name is Blondie.
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That's what she looks like.
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Anyway.
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Yeah. You know who I'm talking about? Well, anyway, Tulsi Gabbard got up after she had said a few things, and she invited her up to the podium, and Tulsi Gabbard explained that they uncovered all these details about the fraud that Obama launched. So that, so that Trump would have all these years of trouble to deal with. And who, who went to arrest Obama for the crimes he committed.
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Ken, that's never, that's never going to happen. It's. It's never going to happen.
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And I go ahead for years of finding this stuff. We need to, we need to press them. Hey, you need to go and arrest these people that you keep uncovering. Because after all these frauds are uncovered, if we can't arrest somebody for, for committing the fraud against the American people, then we have a bigger problem than just the fraudsters.
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Good point. Thank you. Thank you for calling the secret. And I can tell, Ken, just by what you shared with me, you already know the answer. The answer is it's one big party. It's one big club, and we ain't in it. That's the sad reality of it. The sad reality is the Trump is not going to throw Biden under the bus. Biden's not going to throw Obama under the bus. You're never gonna see James Comey or John Brennan arrested. It's just not gonna happen. And the reason it's not gonna happen is because every one of these major issues involves Democrats and Republicans. That's why. And once they get to Washington, it's them first. It's not us first. I mean, during the campaign, it's us first. You know, I'll never forget 2016. I'm watching that legendary, legendary debate between Hillary and President Trump, and she said, well, I hope you're not going to be president or whatever. And he said, if I'm president, I'm going to put you in jail. And that was how many years ago? Nine years ago. I'm still waiting to see Hillary in jail. Ain't going to happen. It's them in charge, and we just work and we pay the taxes and there's no difference between the two parties. I know. That's a bubble popper. The numbers 800-922-6684. Yeah, that's how I felt after four helpings of Christmas dinner dessert. Who are you? The Rob Carson Show. My name is Ken Matthews. Always a pleasure to be filling in for Rob today, and even a bigger pleasure to have retired Brigadier General Blaine Holt, United States Air Force, and he's on the Newsmax hotline. And, General, welcome back to the show.
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Great to be with you. Thanks for having me. Happy New Year.
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Happy New Year to you, sir. I have to say, I've read a lot of your stuff. I followed you for quite some time, and Your recent assessment of China and how we sometimes over worry about it, I thought was right on. I was actually, I was relieved because you're someone that has been there. I know you lived in Hong Kong for five years and you've, you travel the world and you're quite the world traveler now. It was good to hear that because there's so many other balls in the air.
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I greatly appreciate that. You know, throughout history, especially the last hundred years, our military industrial complex, the one that Eisenhower warned us about, has always needed us to have a boogeyman or a bad man. Something that will justify endless spending in single military nook and cranny. You can imagine. Well, the Chinese have always been a favorite, but if we just step back and read the President's brilliance in the national security strategy, what we'll find is, is there may be some strategic opportunities here that actually take away our Taiwan problems, take away our concerns, and actually get us into a place of more cooperation. And we may find out that we, we can actually work with China as it sorts out its own problems, which are absolutely existential and significant in their domestic politics right now.
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Yeah, I think we forget, and especially those of us in talk radio or podcasters, I think sometimes if we don't get out of the country, we forget that as bad as things are in this country now, most countries are worse off and China is such a great example of that. Who, who do you think would be the boogeyman now? I mean, if you look at, if we look at Venezuela and Ukraine and of course China, Russia, is there a bogeyman now? Is there somebody that you would say, oh stop.
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There is, but it's the kind that is not very appealing to the defense industrial base because you're not really going to get at them with bombs and jets. It's what I would call the globalist consortiums, these transnationalists, City of London types, World Economic Forum types, UN Sustainable Development Goal types that really are absolutely very interested in dominating people, taking away their freedom. And this is where freedom's fight is today, much the way it was at the founding of our country. And it's very not satisfying to those who want to justify the next bomber on the next budget line. We have to be very clever about this. And I think you're seeing signs of that in the National Security Strategy, but also in the, in the Financial Stability Oversight document that just got released as well. The FSOC combined, they paint a very different world than the one that the neocons of the world would tell you you Live in right now.
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And it's interesting you brought up neocons because there's so many neocons in the media or they own media. And that's where so much of us, especially now, since this is the short attention span generation, they get their seven second clip on TikTok and they say, oh my God, we need more F35s. And I know you're not a big fan of that.
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You know that's right. But we in the second seven second sound bite world, or in a world where news stories have maybe three or four hours of legs and then they're gone for the next one, we're supposed to believe these tiny little sound bites when invariably always the answer is it's complicated. So you would say, is Russia bad and the west good? It's complicated. Is China bad? Is the west good? It's complicated. What about Iran? It's complicated. In other words, what we have to do now, we got to go back to basics and we got to do critical thinking. We have to think for ourselves.
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Yeah.
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Do we really want to keep poking a bear that's armed with the best, most advanced nuclear weapons on the planet?
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I don't know.
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Some are actively arguing today that that's exactly what we need to be doing.
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Ah, you're referring to another boogeyman, Russia, right?
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Absolutely.
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Yeah. I've never really thought Russia was a threat. Now I know again, I'm not a military vet with your experience at all and, but I always looked at Russia as it. I almost felt now, now I know someone's going to take this wrong. I almost felt bad because after the wall fell, I mean, the whole world just beat up on them. And it was like everybody made Russia the bad guy. And it's like I could imagine the, the, the population of Russia, Russia saying, well, I thought you said if we tried to get, you know, we tried to welcome freedom, you wouldn't kick our ass every day. What's going on? And then there was opportunity. Yeah, we could have really made them an ally. And I don't think again, I don't think the people of Russia, and for that matter, most of the people that we fought with, and you would know this better than I, I don't think the populations are really enemies. I think it's the people that are puppeting their governments.
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We're not enemies. And that's the biggest thing is the propaganda always wants you to believe that. Your problem is with those people that look at, look at Iran. Every Iranian wants to come kill us. No, that's not the case, actually. If you go to all these countries, you'll find people are just there. They want to make a living and they want to raise their families and they want to live in peace. And that is most of them. That doesn't mean there's not monsters in this world. It doesn't mean that unchecked migration of Islamist extremists are not a good thing in Europe, wiping out the cultures and creating potential civil war. But in the case of Russia, what was wrong with a Marshall Plan where we reach in and we try to help raise up corporations and institutions that support freedom and democracy. Why wouldn't an inert Russia be good?
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I'll tell you why.
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Here's the answer. They're sitting on 75 trillion in natural resources. And these globalists, they want that. They want that money and they want to. So when they say we're going to get rid of Putin, well, I wouldn't do that, because the ones coming after him actually believe you can win a nuclear war. But they think that they'll Balkanize Russia tomorrow and everything will just fall into place and we'll recollateralize our Ponzi scheme debt markets with all of the Russian assets and we'll all make a lot of money. It's insanity.
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And the problem is, and I have to say I'm thrilled to hear someone with your experience speak like this on Russia, because I get so tired of when I comment like this on my podcast or on other shows, people are, oh, so now you're pro Russia? What are you, a communist? I thought you were mega. I am mega. And I think one way to make America great is to keep nuclear missiles out of our airspace. And Russia has them.
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They don't just have them, they've got new ones. So in the last four years, while Russia, while Europe was de industrializing itself and throwing money and weapons at Ukraine, Russia put its economy on a wartime footing. They actually advanced hypersonics development, multiple reentry vehicles. They actually now have a nuclear cruise missile that's nuclear powered, meaning it has unlimited range. And so what we've done is, yes, the Russian army at its lowest levels, which you see in Ukraine, can't get to the damn Dnieper river in four years. Okay, that's one thing. But then you go all the way to the other extreme and you're like, these guys have a nuclear missile that goes on a submarine that could create a tsunami that takes out part of.
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Our coast, and that's where the next war is going to be. I think it will be on the sea, unfortunately, just because of the China situation. What do you think?
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It's a possibility. China's doing some things that are probably not very helpful. They're practicing a blockade of Taiwan right now. But even then, if you look inside of China, because I'll raise the critical thinking card again. Who's in charge of China? Don't tell me Xi Jinping, because he's been sidelined for almost a year. Wang Yi is the one who seems to be holding the country in receivership while no less than five factions of the Chinese Communist Party and the people themselves sort out who's really in charge. What I think I saw in the national security strategy is President Trump is giving them some times internally to sort that out. We'll eventually get to agreements that mean something, but we could be looking at the demise of the Chinese Communist Party, the end of the Mao dynasty in something else coming in its place. That puts us all in a very volatile situation. So do you want to just blunt force say China bad, let's go to war with them, or should we really be engaging with them on every single level possible to see where we can get ourselves aligned and keep the bad thing from happening?
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Great point. We're talking to General US Air Force Blaine Holt, and we'll be back on the Newsmax hotline right after this. 800-922-6680 is a number. This is the Rob Carson Show. My name is Ken Matthews. It's really great to be here with this great audience filling in for Rob today and a very special guest, retired Brigadier General Blaine Holt of the United States Air Force on the Newsmax hotline. And we're trying to get you all set up so you can get through 2026. So here's a million dollar question for you, General. What entity do you think poses the biggest internal threat to the United States as we head into the new year? And entities could also include a country.
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Yeah, I don't think it's a country. I, I'll tell you that. We need to get a handle on this fourth estate. Many call it the deep state. But these unelected bureaucrats hailing across every single agency we have. And the most dangerous ones sitting in cubicles in the intelligence community.
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Yes.
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Who have their own agendas. They work against us, they work against our president. They think they're above us and they're not accountable to us. You have black budgets, black programs, non reporting, and then you've got the swamp rats themselves, the politicians, politicians who are paid off Co opted, coerced, it's extorted, blackmailed, incentivized, bribed their staffers. It's this fourth estate that's not a branch of government that is imperiling our union as we speak.
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That is so well put. Because if obviously you have studied plenty of history and you've seen it being made firsthand, but history bears this out, that that has been the biggest risk to every state, especially democracies, and in our case a republic, which I think we are no longer a constitutional republic. We can pretend to be, but we stopped being a constitutional Republic probably in 1913 with the Federal Reserve. But that's for another day. But that is my biggest concern. How do we weed these people out? Because they've been kind of infiltrating and growing since the 50s, if not before. There's decades of these people that will work against people like President Trump.
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A couple of things, and I've thought about this with many of my friends for a very long time, you have to disavow yourself of the notion that this is just at the federal level. This goes down to your local school board and your library board, and they are pervasive at the local, state and federal levels. And what I think we need to really strongly consider as a nation coming together is we've got to bring back the concept of a servant citizen leader, the kind that are not professional politicians that you're resigned. First off, there's no aisle in the swamp that anybody can tell anyway. The Dems and the Republicans were supposed to believe they're ideologically different.
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They're not the same party.
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It's the same damn thing. And so what we have to do is we have to support, identify and give rise to servant leaders who are not career politicians, have no desire to be, and will step in the way our founders had intended them to. If you look at my friend Doc Pete Chambers down in Texas, he's in a whale of a fight right now, doing his damnedest to try to win the primary on the Republican side. But this is an honorable man with integrity who never wanted to be a governor ever, even once in his life. But he sees the need for true leaders of character, integrity and a respect and relationship with their creator, the way that the founders envisioned to come forward. Now that movement has to take, that has to catch fire nationwide or we will lose our republic. There is no question about it.
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I think the biggest thing, and it's the hardest for people to digest, is to get out of the right left paradigm and to get out of the Republican Democrat thing and understand that what we need is an army of men and women who put America and God first. And that falls into what the Republic should be. And we've just got a. We have a government filled with opportunists. They know they have an endless supply of cash coming from you and me because we pay for it.
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Right?
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That's exactly right. And you got to stop falling into this paradox. You know, my dear friend, he's on all the podcasts, Sasha Kreiner or Alex Kreiner, he says, look, they intentionally put the red ants into the jar, they put the blue ants into the jar, and then they close the jar and they shake the jar. But the people don't look up to ask who the heck is shaking the jar? And what you have to do is go, when somebody asks you, are you a Democrat or a Republican? You need to say, I'm an American. You need to say, I'm an American. And that needs to be the normal way of saying things, because we had never even envisioned these stupid political parties, and not one of them has served us as a nation. In fact, what we are is broke. We're selling our kids into slavery with debt. We have removed American values. We have stomped the church right out of our lexicon. And all those things have to change or this country will change in a way that nobody wants. And I do believe that this particular period of time where President Trump is the president. Good, bad, indifferent, good, bad, ugly, doesn't matter. This is the ninth inning for America. We will save it here or we won't. But it's going to take a lot of folks the ability to turn off the damn mainstream media and the CNN talking points that come straight to you from the deep state.
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Yep.
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And then recognize your responsibility as an American and the Constitution and do something about it.
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I mean, I remember going to Trump rallies both in 16 and 20 and 24, and the one thing that people would walk away from those rallies, and I'm sure you've seen it firsthand, the diversity of the rallies and all the different groups of, you know, like blacks for Trump, gays for Trump, women for Trump. And we would just have the best time. And I think that was the first tangible political wake up call for several generations because they had never seen that phenomenon. And that's where the bottom started to fall out for the Democrats because they, for years, they took too many people for granted based on their gender and their skin color.
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And it, and it, it scares the crap out of the bad guys. All the way up to the city of London and they want to do something about it again. So they're going to segregate you. They're going to bring in invaders. They're going to find every which way but loose that you're angry about something. What you need to do is take joy in your community, your neighborhood, your fellow Americans. Anybody who calls himself a politician, don't vote for him. Go find Billy the Mechanic down the street and say, hey, Billy, what do you think about being on city council? We love you. And start there.
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Great advice. Thank you so much, General. I hope you have a blessed holiday and a good new year, and I hope I'll have the opportunity to talk with you again. Same to you.
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Happy New Year to all and thank you for having me.
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Take care. This is the Rob Carson Show. We'll be right back. The numbers 800-922-6680. This is the Rob Carson Show. My name is Ken Matthews. Thank you for tuning in today. Yeah, okay. 800-922-6680. Again, I'm in a good mood. It's sugar. Sugar will do it, ladies and gentlemen. Sugar will do it. If you don't normally eat 13 cookies for dessert, let me tell you, it's a treat. It really is. If you want to weigh in on that Covid thing, by all means. We, we had a few phone calls and a couple people, they hung up during the the break, but that's okay. You know, it was interesting. We were talking with several callers and I was, it was refreshing to hear our guest, General Holt. And I know he's a regular on Rob's show, and I have heard of him through reading his work. It's refreshing to hear someone active or former military talk about two things. The deep state, which does exist, and the bankers, which does exist. And you may have heard the general refer to bankers in London. And for people that deep dive history and you really want to be critical thinkers and, you know, figure out what the heck's going on. Once you find out the bankers and the ownership of industry and tech and where it all leads, and then you connect that to the deep state, then it's this awakening. And then you. And then you will have that moment where you say, oh, my gosh, for years I hated Republicans or for years I hated Democrats. And first of all, hate is a waste of energy, but we all are guilty of it. You know, I've done my share of, you know, sticking with one party or one thing, but when that light bulb goes off and you realize. Hold on a minute. There's over 300 million of us. There's gotta be some power in numbers. Oh, there is. We just have to get people to unplug their phone for at least a day. We'll be back with hour three of the Rob Carson Show. I'm Ken Matthews. This is the right choice. Limu Emu and Doug. Here we have the Limu Emu in its natural habitat, helping people customize their car insurance and save hundreds with Liberty Mutual. Fascinating. It's accompanied by his natural ally, Doug. Limu is that guy with the binoculars watching us. Cut the camera. They see us. Only pay for what you need@libertymutual.com Liberty Liberty.
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Episode: Ken Matthews & Gen. Blaine Holt on Hostile Nations
Date: December 29, 2025
Host: Ken Matthews (filling in for Rob Carson)
Guest: Retired Brigadier General Blaine Holt, United States Air Force
This episode of The Rob Carson Show, hosted by Ken Matthews, blends humor, news commentary, and personal stories before diving into a probing political discussion with retired Brigadier General Blaine Holt. The primary focus is the changing shape of global threats to the United States and where the real dangers—external and internal—may lie as America heads into 2026. Matthews and Holt dissect the old paradigm of “hostile nations,” the influence of globalist organizations, issues of political corruption, and the vital need for civic renewal.
Timestamp: 01:01 – 11:00
Conversational, nostalgic, humorous. Matthews uses these opening minutes to connect with listeners on a personal level while setting a relaxed, accessible tone.
Timestamp: 11:00 – 17:25
Edgy, polemical, combative. Matthews expresses palpable skepticism toward the official pandemic narrative and encourages listeners to be wary of authority figures and mainstream consensus.
Timestamp: 14:41 – 17:25
Satirical, irreverent, critical of apathy and compliance.
Timestamp: 17:25 – 21:00
Cynical, resigned, urging listeners to see beyond partisan theatre—a recurring theme that will deepen during the interview with Gen. Holt.
Timestamp: 21:05 – 37:15
Timestamp: 37:15 – 39:59
“Millions of people believed that the COVID vaccine was both safe and effective. And it's been proven repeatedly. It's. It's not.”
— Ken Matthews, 11:41
“Throughout history... our military industrial complex... has always needed us to have a boogeyman... The Chinese have always been a favorite, but... there may be some strategic opportunities here...”
— Gen. Blaine Holt, 21:36
“It's one big club, and we ain't in it. That's the sad reality of it.”
— Ken Matthews, 19:09
“It's the fourth estate... These unelected bureaucrats... are imperiling our union as we speak.”
— Gen. Blaine Holt, 30:42-31:33
“There’s no aisle in the swamp... The Dems and the Republicans: we're supposed to believe they're ideologically different. They're not. It’s the same damn thing.”
— Gen. Blaine Holt, 33:03
“When somebody asks you, are you a Democrat or a Republican? You need to say, I'm an American.”
— Gen. Blaine Holt, 34:42
“This is the ninth inning for America. We will save it here or we won't.”
— Gen. Blaine Holt, 35:29
This episode balances humor, nostalgia, and pop culture commentary with substantive critique of American politics, media, and foreign policy. It challenges listeners to think beyond partisan divisions, recognize the real internal and external threats to liberty, and embrace a new kind of civic engagement—one that roots out entrenched, unelected power and champions leaders of character and integrity. General Holt’s warnings about the “fourth estate” and globalist influence, combined with Matthews’ plea for personal responsibility and discernment, frame the episode as a call to action for a politically weary but potentially awakening America.