D (4:00)

Absolutely, Sean. The threat does continue to rise. The amount of death threats or doxing or other types of threats against.

C (4:08)

Yeah, that bleep's going to end this year, too. Going to have to start busting some. Busting some chops.

D (4:12)

Our agents does continue to rise. Now, Sean, there is a bright spot. As you know, we're here operating in Operation Catahoula Crunch here.

C (4:20)

Catahoula Crunch. Doesn't that sound like an ice cream flavor? Every time I hear Catahoula Crunch, I'm like, gun, dang it. That sounds good. I wonder if he's got, like, toffee in it, maybe some peanuts and stuff.

D (4:28)

In Louisiana, in the New Orleans area, we've got a fantastic governor, Governor Landry as well. Some good police chiefs here. Keith Connolly of Kenner PD and Colonel Hodges of the Louisiana State Police. And what we're seeing here in Louisiana is the exact opposite of what we saw in Chicago or Charlotte, because the.

C (4:48)

Attacks on ICE and the negativity and all of the caterwauling and the protests and all that is bought and paid for by the Democrat Party. And it's sycophants like George Soros because the. They want to keep illegals there. Because people are leaving the, the Democrat run states to go to Republican states. And they need to fill up their coffers, their, their population coffers with third World dependence that they can ladle on all sorts of government largess and they will vote slavishly Democrat. There's no debating that. There's no debating that at all. It's settled science, if you want to call it that.

D (5:24)

We haven't had one use of force against a violent protester or a mob. And also we've not had a Border patrol agent assaulted for the entire time that we've been here in Louisiana. We've been here almost two weeks now. No vehicle rammings, no shots fired against Border patrol agents, no physical assaults. You have to attribute that to the fantastic support of Governor Landry and again, those police chiefs and law enforcement and also the community.

C (5:52)

Yeah, there you go. And another reason why the Democrats are not going to win both houses of Congress in the, in November, because they're offering you no reason to vote for them other than it's midterms and they hate Donald Trump. But you see, they're going to clean up the voter rolls. They're kicking out all these illegals who would otherwise vote. Nine million of them got Social Security cards and the ability to vote. And in Democrat states like California, they don't investigate voter fraud. They don't investigate it at all. They allow it. They do it for a reason, honestly. And then of course, we have the issue of people coming into the United States and it's really gotten bad. Really, really, really bad. People who do not come here to assimilate into the culture become American. And it is really, I mean, now I'm glad this is happening. I'm glad in Minnesota happened. I want to see people go to jail, but I'm glad that we know now, people, the immigration to our country has become not about coming to America, but living the American dream, building your own future, doing what you have to to get where you need to be. It's about coming here from a third world crap hole and taking advantage of a giving and kind and benevolent people. Because you're from a crap hole. Yeah. This is Representative Andy Ogles talking about how, how this has changed how immigration went from Ellis island to the joke that it is now.

E (7:22)

You know, in 1965, we passed the Heart Seller Act. Since that time, we've seen chain migration on a scale that, quite frankly, I'm not sure even the progressive liberal authors of that bill could have possibly imagined in that amount of time we've seen 60 million migrants come into this country, most of which 90% from third world countries.

C (7:47)

Yeah.

E (7:48)

There are roughly 300,000 Afghans in America, 200,000 of which came under Biden. Approximately 45 of Afghans are on u. S Food stamps. Where it's Minneapolis.

C (7:58)

Here in the homeland business, violent crime.

E (8:00)

In cedar riverside, a Somali Hub rose 56% 2010 to 2018. Dearborn.

C (8:07)

They're just living the American dream.

E (8:08)

Michigan crime 105 above the national average. Ham Track outside of Detroit, 92% of assaults by Muslim immigrants.

C (8:18)

Yeah.

E (8:18)

Drug arrests 85% Muslim immigrants. Now let's go to Nashville, Tennessee where a Somali man, a migrant who came in 2015, raped to death a woman on the steps of a church.

C (8:34)

I've had enough.

E (8:35)

I've said it once and I'll say it again. Deport them all. This is our country. We get to decide who comes in and we get to decide who has to leave.

C (8:48)

Yeah, there you go. Michael Kaplan wrote this piece for cbs. Luxury cars, private villas overseas, overseas wine transfers. CBS obtained dozens of files and photos showing Minnesota's fraudsters blew through hundreds of millions of dollars. Many of the Somali, well, mostly Somalis by the way, took taxpayer money meant to feed hungry children, used it to buy cars, property, jewelry. Videos of them propping popping champagne in the Maldives. In a text message one defendant said you are going be the richest 25 year old ala willing. There is a confirmation emails for a stay in the over overwater villa with private pool at radisson blue resort Maldives lakefront property in Minnesota. Receipts show wire transfers to China and east Africa, first class tickets to Istanbul and whatnot. Stacks of cash between defendants and a sentencing 24 year old Abdul Jamar. US District Judge Nancy Br said where others saw a crisis you rushed in, you saw money and you stole. He has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, ordered to pay $48 million back. House Republicans just launched a probe into Minnesota democrat governor Tim von handling of the cases. And the treasury department said it will investigate whether money made its way to al Qaeda. There you go. Among other things, by the way. And Joni Ernst says this is just the beginning and this is what I'm telling you. We are now discovering that the United States is more. I used to say it was as, as corrupt as the Soviet Union but. But the Soviet Union didn't have six, six and a half trillion dollars annually to steal. We're worse. We actually are worse.

F (10:35)

I'm talking about bureaucrats approving PPP loans for applicants who used pictures of dolls for IDs. Imagine giving Barbie or Ken a taxpayer funded loan. Not only that, but they also believe folks claiming to be over 115 years old were alive and well enough to be approved for 3095 PPP and EIDL loans worth 313 million.

C (11:10)

Enrollees on Obamacare either are fraudulent or do not receive any benefits. But we pay their premiums to the tune of billions of dollars and insurance companies get filthy stinking rich. And they know. They know it.

F (11:24)

$33 million including $36,000 to a 157 year old. Millions of your tax dollars were wasted through USAID to fund Iraqi Sesame street in fiscal year 2024. Federal agencies shuffled.

C (11:45)

Now this is the last year of.

F (11:47)

The Biden administration out $162 billion and improper payments. $79 billion in potential Covid fraud could have been prevented if four basic questions were asked. Is the applicant's Social Security number valid? If valid, does the name connected to that number match the name on the application? Does the birthday match? And lastly, is the individual.

C (12:19)

You know, I believe you have to answer all four of those questions when you buy a cell phone. I could, I could be wrong. No, I'm right. I'm right. Absolutely. It is so. We, our government is so profoundly mother bleeping corrupt. It is, it is thoroughly, I told you this. That this country would have to have a colonoscopy. Its first colonoscopy in 250 years. If we were going to survive another 250 years we would have to do a baptism by fire of the filth, corruption, rot, evil of this government. And we're just beginning. We're just beginning. But there has to be hell to pay. People are going to have to go to jail. I mean in mass. Hundreds, hundreds, maybe thousands of people will have to go to jail for what they've done in the government, outside the government, in, in, in different recipients of this, this large. Yes, including I would venture to say big pharma and, and big insurance and, and big defense. All of it. All of it. There has to be a baptism by fire. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show. Little spongebob. Joy to the world. It's the thing to do. But the world does not revolve around you. Don't be a jerk. It's Christmas. I have two Gen Z kids we raised on spongebob. And the Christmas special is really funny. The first one, it's just goofy, silly fun. I'm not afraid to admit that I can do goofy, silly fun. I want to congratulate Emma Rickenberg from Newsmax. She gave birth to a baby. Veronica Sloan Fitzgerald. That's a cool name, too, by the way, on the 8th. She got married last year. She's from St. Louis, by the way. She does not like Emo's Provel cheese. I forgive her for that. If you're from St. Louis, Emo's Provel is a cheese. You can buy it a lot of places in the country. It's this really creamy kind of. A lot of people don't like it. A lot of people love it. I love it. I love it. But anyway, congratulations to her. I'm really happy for. She's a delightful person. She just got married a little over a year ago now. She got baby. Now she got a baby. I loved being a father. Oh, man, I was the best dad. I had songs for everything. I had all sorts of stuff, man. I had songs for stuff like Juice Box Hero. There was one thing. Juice box. You can be a juice box hero, you know, I did. Oh, you wouldn't be. I was the dad. You have no idea. If I was, Jim Carrey would have played me as a dad in a movie about my life. Because it was just. I just was a. I was a toy. I was like a big toy when they were toddlers. And then I just. I did. I mean, surprise birthday parties and. And I mean, it was just. I had so much fun, you know. The best thing. I'll just offer some advice for new parents, if you don't mind. If you don't mind. Number one thing you can do. Enjoy them. Enjoy them. And they will be gone very quickly, you. And it gets faster the older they get. High school goes like middle school, college. And then you're like, oh, my God. It's crazy. It is crazy. It's nothing new. I mean, this. Boomers are saying this, you know, before me, before that. The world's the greatest generation. We're saying that they all say the same thing. And eventually you're going to say the same thing. You're going to say, oh, look, the group. You know, what they do in. In. In, like in. In Gaza, what the mothers say when their sons go off to, you know, to fight jihad. They. They lament. They go. They blow up so quickly. They do. They do it just like that. It's crazy. So Newsmax. I work for Newsmax, and Newsmax is a. A terrific network, and they don't betray their conservative bona fides. And. And, you know, and you get an honesty And a. A real. A realness with some of the hosts. Greg Kelly is a prime example. I mean, just the way he dissects things and shares them with you on a very personal level. And just. He is. There's no one like Greg Kelly. The same goes for Finnerty. The same goes for Schmidt. And Carl Higbee is the deal. Carl Higbee is an American badass. He kicked down doors and killed terrorists. He can bench press four plates 15 times. That's like £400. He Deer hunts. I think he actually just wrestles them to the ground himself. He hewns his own lumber, cuts his own eight by eights and carries them on his shoulder. My God. And if you're not watching Newsmax, you need to get off. You know, you can. You can peruse Fox. It's cute. They got all the pretty, you know, and all that and whatever. And I like some of the shows. I like Jesse Waters. But Newsmax is just. Just fantastic. Listen to this. I want you to listen to Carl Higby last night, because I got. As this was happening, people were texting me saying, you've got to watch Carl. He is on fire. Listen to Carl Higby holding Rhino. Republicans rear ends to the fire.

G (17:27)

Everyone's, oh, this is the most important election. No, the most important election of our lifetimes. From here on out is the next one, okay? And then the one after that, and then the one after that. And if Republicans don't make these things into law and get this through their head, they're gonna lose. And Republicans are gonna sit there in.

C (17:42)

The mirror and scratching their head. I don't understand why we didn't have turnout. We're not gonna let that happen.

G (17:48)

Better question is Mike Johnson, why would we show up to vote? You haven't thrown a single person in jail. There's no accountability for Covid. And New York Dems ran the guy who literally stuffed elderly patients into retirement homes with COVID and killed people. They blocked meds that would have saved lives. They shut down schools. They forced people to get a vaccine against their will, who then got heart conditions and nothing happened. And they lied about it coming from some dude that it was in a wet. He ate a bat in a wet market while Fauci and his cabal were killing beagles and funding the Wuhan Coronavirus lab and expected us to believe that it didn't come from a lab in Wuhan named Coronavirus. No one in jail for Russiagate for censorship, not One of the 51 former intel officials who told us that Hunter Biden laptop was a Russian plant. It actually does turn out that Hunter Biden was in fact smoking crack in bathtubs with hookers.

C (18:41)

Yeah.

G (18:41)

You failed to indict Letitia James.

C (18:43)

They found freaking cocaine in the White House when he lived there. Dear God.

G (18:47)

For like the third time today. Because you did it wrong the first time. Still haven't charged Adam Schiff for the same mortgage fraud. Looks like James Comey is probably going to get off scot free. And the best the Republicans can do is here. Here's 800 million more dollars for Ukraine.

C (19:03)

Yeah.

G (19:03)

Why the hell would Republicans be excited to vote if Trump's not on the ballot? You want to keep your majority? Throw 100 people in jail for political corruption. Corruption. Doge uncovered. None of those people are in jail. That's like low hanging fruit.

C (19:18)

Yep.

G (19:19)

Including everybody involved with the auto pen primary, all the 21 state senators in Indiana who just voted with Democrats to oppose congressional redistricting for their own party. They essentially just gave up two seats.

C (19:30)

Bullcrap.

G (19:31)

Abolish the filibuster and just start getting stuff done. Give us nationwide reciprocity. Abolish the income tax. While you're at it, let's deep6 the IRS. And then you can sell a building or drone strike it or do whatever you want so nobody can come back to it. And then you can tell the Muslims seeking refugee status to do it in the 56 surrounding Muslim countries that they have rather than here so we don't have to pay their benefits.

C (19:54)

Boom.

G (19:54)

You do that, you'll gain seats. Now 300 seat majority. People like me will be excited to go out and vote because we're not right now. Because if you do that stuff, man, Mike, I'm telling you, I will legit run through a wall like the Kool Aid dude to get to the polls.

C (20:11)

And he will.

G (20:13)

But if you don't, you'll lose, man.

C (20:18)

Carl Higby, you are the man. Oh, my goodness. He said it all, didn't he? He came off the top rope with a folding chair. That's what we need to do. Come in off the top rope with a folding chair. Take him down. Send some people to jail. Christian Toto, up next. Hey, guys, it's Carson. Normally I wake up at 2:30, 3, 34, 30 in the morning. A couple of months ago, I was awakened by something unusual for a change. The sunrise. I discovered beams. Dream powder. I'm telling you guys, it's miraculous. At night, I have a little shake. I use a banana, some ice cream, some vanilla. Yogurt, a little bit of milk and my Beam's Dream powder chocolate brownie flavor. It's really good by the way and it makes you sleep beautifully. Beam is a company founded in America run by people who share our values, hard work, integrity and they deliver results. Beams Dream Powder is a healthy nighttime blend packed with science backed ingredients shown to improve sleep. It's made with a powerful blend of all natural ingredients. Reishi, magnesium, L theanine, apigenin and melatonin. So if you've been waiting for the right time to try dream, this is it. Go to shopbeam.com newsmax that's shopbeam.com Newsmax take advantage of my exclusive offer for up to 40% off. So with my discount code Newsmax, you can get their best selling Dream powder for just $39. That's a $25 per night. So go to shopbeam.com newsmax today that's shopbeam.com newsmax today. It is a Rob Carson show. Vince Guraldi Christmas. One of my favorite Christmas albums of all time. Right up there with Carpenters. Yeah, the Carpenters. Oh my God, the Carpenters are spectacular. The Carpenters. Merry Christmas. Dialing all of that. Ah, Richard and Karen. Phenomenal. Phenomenal. I'm just in the Christmas spirit. There's no, there's no doubting it. I'm here to spread joy. And in other stuff, Christian Toto, Hollywood. Toto hollywoodintoto.com how are you on this Friday, sir?

H (22:33)

I am well, thank you. I'm getting the Christmas spirit myself. The music, the music pushes me over, that's for sure.

C (22:38)

Any, anything, any album or song that you particularly like. Mannheim Steamrollers is big. Their Silent Night is my favorite song, I think of all time. My favorite Christmas song. And then my favorite kind of silly one is Christmas in Hollis. Run dmc. Thank you very much.

H (22:55)

You know, almost anything by Dean Martin, almost anything by Frank Sinatra.

C (22:59)

Oh, the classics.

H (23:00)

Yeah, the classics never go away. Then you choose Baby, Please Come Home. I like a lot.

C (23:05)

Oh yeah.

H (23:06)

I think it's called Wrapping Paper by the. Is it the Waitresses?

C (23:09)

Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Oh, yes.

H (23:11)

No.

C (23:12)

Oh, yes.

H (23:13)

I think the lead singer died very young. And it's a wonderful song. It really is to me.

C (23:18)

It's.

H (23:18)

I can't have Christmas without it. So this is just a plethora of great songs.

C (23:22)

Hold on. Here it is. Let me find it for you. I'll play it. I can play it. I can play it without any issue. Here it is. Hello. Come on, sing. Here we go. But all this year's been a busy week. For me would be Completion Zone. Yeah. That is a great song, Christian. I forgot about that song.

H (23:53)

Yeah, it's got a rock edge to it. It's original and it's pretty magical too.

C (23:57)

It's a great song. Let's talk about Jimmy, Jimmy Kimmel. He got a, he got a Christmas present. He got it. He had another year contract, didn't he?

H (24:07)

And we got, we got Kohler stocking. But you know, it's fun to say, oh, no, he's back. He's going to be fighting the power and speaking truth to power, to Trump. But when you have these kind of deals, usually it's not a one year deal, maybe 2, 3, 4, 5, they want to lock you down.

C (24:24)

Yeah.

H (24:24)

So I think this was really. This is two things. One, I don't think ABC could fire him at this point. I think it would look too bad with.

C (24:31)

Yeah, yeah.

H (24:32)

Freak out. And also they know, they'd love to fire him because I'm sure he's not making them a lot of money. No, no. And they know this is a dying format. So I think this is a treading water contract.

C (24:43)

Yeah. Rock beat, hard place for abc. I don't know. I don't know what the future is, to be quite honest. Christ. With regard to late night, I think, you know, appointment television really only works for sports. Right. I mean, really, honestly, who. I don't sit down to CBS Wednesday night or, or, you know, what used to be, I guess maybe was it ABC Wednesday night with the Muppet show and Fantasy island and all that we have. Thursday night was all in the Family. Whatever. That's when we gather around the family cart well into the 80s, into the 90s. Friends, you know, we watch Friends. My wife and I watch Friends. I was Chandler, she's Monica. Not kidding. Really we are. So appointment television is going the way of the dodo. And particularly when it comes to being in front of the family hearth at 10:30, 11:30 at night.

G (25:39)

Yeah.

H (25:39)

I mean, I think some of this is not the current host's fault. Like you said, it's just changing culture, changing technology.

C (25:47)

Oh, I think it's the host fault.

H (25:51)

I don't absolve them completely. Yeah, I think part of it is that we're just changing as a culture. But they're hateful, they spread misinformation, they are not funny, they're mean and cruel and they aggressively chase away a large chunk of the populace. I know that, that, that ain't good. That's good.

C (26:09)

No, no. We Were talking online. I had Mary Walter on my show a little while ago. She's on every Friday. You are as well. And. And Mary and I have this, you know, yin and Yan kind of thing where, you know, I'm. I'm a comedian, I'm a. I'm a commentator. And she occasionally just knocks me right on my ass. And I said, the reason why that is. He said, that is a convention of comedy. You have to let the host become the victim every once in a while. Johnny Carson did that. That was what late night used to do. He used to do things like that. Right now you've just got political operatives spewing nonsense, inviting politicians who nobody would find entertaining. Otherwise, who the hell would think that Adam Schiff would be a good guest on. Are you out of your freaking mind? Adam Schiff is the most repulsive individual. He's a PEZ dispenser with. With. You know, that's instead of candy spews nonsense.

H (27:05)

It's absurd. Yeah, I completely agree. There are a few select politicians who can be funny, who are funny.

C (27:11)

Yes.

H (27:12)

That can crack a joke that can roll with the punches. You know, Ted Cruz has got a surprisingly good sense of humor. He's.

C (27:17)

Or John Kennedy. Who wouldn't want John Kennedy on his head? He's a frickin. He's a blood. He's hilarious.

H (27:22)

He should host Late Night Eric. He shouldn't be just on them.

C (27:26)

Yeah, Eric Swalwell. Are you kidding me? They just had Eric Swalwell on and the guy is a toad. He is a toad and they had him on. Like what? You have forsaken any predisposition that you might find something entertaining here when you invite Eric Swalwell on your show.

H (27:47)

It's amazing. And they don't see it. They don't care. I mean, listen, it is a propaganda platform. They want to push certain narratives. And the comedy doesn't even come first or second, maybe third. Once a while they think about a good joke. I don't know. It's not the purpose. And so it's got an audience. I mean, some people like it, you know, but regular folks, you know what those left, I wouldn't like it.

C (28:11)

But Gutfeld. All right, now I will watch Gutfeld. And I. Usually I'm up, I go to bed early, I work all day. I do prep, and I'm so tired by 10 o' clock Eastern Standard Time. And I'm Midwestern. If you could stay up past 10 o'. Clock. Midwestern, I mean, you're doing something. But I'll But I'll watch Gutfeld. I wait for that monologue. And though that's different, that's, that's different. I don't wait for the highlights like you do with, you know, the late night or snl. Nobody watches SNL when it's on, you know, but Gutfeld, he's breaking the. And that's the way it is with a lot of opinion TV shows on Fox, shows on Newsmax. People, 9 o' clock will want to watch Greg Kelly. People at, you know, six or seven or eight o' clock will want to watch Jesse Waters. So that's where appointment television is still working. And Gutfeld is a little bit of both. Yeah.

H (29:00)

And what Gutfeld does, that's different. Listen, it is a right leaning show. No doubt about it.

C (29:03)

Oh, yes.

H (29:04)

A lot of guitar addicts.

C (29:05)

Oh, yes.

H (29:05)

But they often make fun of themselves. They often each other, they often challenge each other. I mean, I've seen some odd exchanges between Kat Timf and Greg Gutfeld. Oh, yes, he's the host of the show and she will hold him to account when he says something she thinks is wrong or maybe the joke went too far. There's a bit of, there's an energy and a subversive nature to that show.

C (29:26)

And also they're not listen. And a lot of the times, you know, people will, people will get on me about, like when I say I'm a Democrat, I'll say he's a D word for Richard. And we all know what that is. But people will get mad at me for just saying that. And I tell them, you know, that I'm not Rush Limbaugh, I'm a Gen X version of kind of what he did. And Gutfeld, they do that edge. And you'll hear, you know, I heard Tyrus use BS the other day twice. And I'm like, you know, we're adults here. This is an adult show. I had a woman write me the other day, I can't listen to your show with my grandchildren around. And I said, you know, I'm not doing a show for your grandchildren. And that's where it got filled in. And it's a Gen X millennial kind of vibe. They also attract a lot of Gen zers. And it's got a little edge to it. You know, maybe it's time that, maybe it's time that conservative comedy had a little edge. And it's on the Ascension because the left can't be taken seriously, as I said. But on the other side of the break, I want to talk to you about your favorite Christmas movies and, and, and Disney just signed a really big deal with an AI company which sounds to me like they want to get rid of animators and creative people and replace them because that's the kind of thing that Disney does. So we talk about that next. Let's, let's hold on. This is a Christian to photo on the Rob Carson show. Don't go anywhere. It was Christmas Eve, babe. It's one of my favorite Christmas songs. The Pogues Fairy tale of New York. Oh, this is such a good song. A sad song. The other day I was walking around Alexandria, Virginia, where I live now, and I. And I heard that song and there's something about that song. It's about memories. It's a good drinking song. If you still drink. Christian Dodo. That's a good song, isn't it?

H (31:32)

Very good song. By the way, I used to live in Alexandria and I miss Old Town very much. I'm gonna tell you, from the whole world.

C (31:39)

It is, it is. And you could eat in a different place every freaking day of the year. I swear to God. Where did you live, man? How long did you live here and when?

H (31:48)

I lived in D.C. for 10 years in Alexandria and then Arlington.

C (31:52)

It is. It's a remarkable place. It's a historical place. It's filled with commie lefties. But there are a lot of conservatives here. You see a lot of Gasden flags on pickup trucks around here. And I have enduring faith about all of them. I do, I do. So I want to talk to you about. Yeah. Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI AI which will bring characters such as Mickey Mouse, Cinderella and Luke Skywalker to the AI companies. Sora Video Generation Tool. This sounds like they want to fire a lot of animators.

H (32:23)

Boy, it's a tough subject, man. I'm so conflicted that, you know, I think it's going to. It's going to give creators a way to share their stories even if they don't have the big pocketed companies behind them. I like that. But gosh, I mean, for, for animators, for artists, for writers, I think it could be devastating.

C (32:42)

And I, I know.

H (32:43)

I guess, I guess Disney just realizes that they can't. The dam will break at some point.

C (32:48)

There's going to have to. They're gonna have to do something about this AI and, and with regard to human jobs, I mean, there are some things that. AI AI is going to cure cancer probably within a decade, probably even within five years. It's going to cure paralysis, it's going to do amazing stuff. Christian. It is going to. Because AI immediately comes up with solution. AI and supercomputers, they come up with a solution immediately. There's no computations that take hours or whatever it you type in the situation and it has the answer. That's just it. That's how it works. It hits you right in the face. And it's going to get more intelligent every year. Exponentially intelligent. Much more intelligent that we are. And we've got to be able to put some, some safeguards on it so it doesn't destroy humanity in the meantime. And that includes creative people, artists for God's sake. Even artists you can type in beautiful landscape with fruit or whatever. Boom. In the style of Van Gogh. Boom, right, yeah.

H (33:50)

The trick there is that in the style of xy, so you had to have a human creator who kind of made that template. But you know, I think There's a new McDonald's commercial that was created all with AI and others in the way. Yeah, I mean the next five years are going to be very interesting. I think even the companies that may say they want to stop it or may not want to use it at some point, they may not have a choice. It really, it really scares me on so many levels.

C (34:15)

And I agree.

H (34:15)

I think it's going to have some medical breakthroughs that'll be amazing. But I don't know, we're barely able to process social media as a society and culture. I don't know what we're going to do with AI.

C (34:25)

I don't know. But don't let Cyber9, you know, go forward anyway. And as soon as it learns, you know, it becomes self aware, it's over. Hal will not let you in your apartment. I don't know, man.

H (34:39)

Try to warn us that anything.

C (34:41)

So on your, on your site I see a couple of interesting things. Ella McKay, tell me about this movie because it looks kind of interesting and also you've got another one on there that you call this year's Oscar bait sob fest. Tell me about Ellen McKay.

H (34:56)

Ellen McKay is from James L. Brooks if you don't know the name. You know his movies, broadcast news, his good cats, Terms of Endearment. Yeah, he was great for a while and he's in his 80s now and hasn't made a movie since 2010, I believe. And a lot of critics are hating on this movie and I have to say I watched it and I enjoyed it. It's flawed, it's got some issues for sure. It's about a young woman who's lieutenant Governor. She becomes the governor, but then she's got some skeletons in her closet. It's a James L. Brooks movie, larger than life, a funny dialogue, great cast like Woody, Woody Harrelson, Jamie Lee Curtis.

C (35:26)

Oh, yes.

H (35:26)

It's got some issues for sure. If my fellow critics think there are many more issues than I saw. But I found it engaging and sweet and kind of fun and in old fashioned in a way where you've got good actors, you know, biting into good material and good dialogue. There's some quibbles here and there, but I don't know, I, I didn't distaste. I didn't find it tasteful like a lot of my peers.

C (35:46)

You got a columnist, Barry Worst wrote about Hamnet, this year's Oscar bait sob fest.

H (35:53)

You know, it's. I confess I have not seen this yet. I will be watching it soon. But it's about William Shakespeare and his wife. They have a child, the child gets sick. I don't want to get more into it than that, but from every account, it's a very, very, very sad movie. Oscar consideration written all over it, supposed to be very good. My Barry Worse is the critic for my site. He didn't like it as much at all, but most critics are on board and I think it's going to get a lot of nominations. So I just want to let people know it's out there.

C (36:20)

I need to get into the theater again. I used to go to a lot of movies with my son because he's a big movie buff and we'd go. The last one I went to was Nosferatu last summer. Oh, I need to get to the theater. I need to get to the theater. I, I came up with a list of, of my top 10 Christmas movies of all time. Why don't you give me. You don't need to do an entire top 10. But is there, is there a movie you've seen a million times that you just got to see or the, or the holiday season is not over is over?

H (36:46)

Yeah, you know, my, my list is really basic and expected. It's Elf, which I laugh at every time I see it.

C (36:54)

God, yes.

H (36:55)

Christmas Story, which I've kind of taken a break on, but I want to come back to it. Yes, it's the original Miracle on 34th street, which is just magical and I think, is it Edmund? Gwen, Do I have that name right? Who plays Hannah?

C (37:04)

I'm not sure.

H (37:05)

I have to double check. Anyway, he won an Oscar for that and you watch that movie. I bring. I don't have his name at the top of my tongue. But you'll know when you see it. He's terrific at the movie and the movie is just wonderful. I know it's black and white, it's old school. Stands up beautifully. Christmas vacation. If you, if you.

C (37:20)

Oh, God, yes.

H (37:21)

If you got a big family, that is your life.

C (37:25)

You know those, the villages, whatever the ceramic villages people buy. I have the RV and the vacation house lit up. I have that, that. It's fantastic. Here, here are my 10. 10 to 1, here we go. Number 10, the Santa Claus, Tim Allen. Number 9 is gonna be all the Rankin Mass movies. I'm just gonna throw them in there. All the Rankin basket. Eight is Miracle on 34th. Elf is number seven. Die Hard, I'm gonna say, is a Christmas movie. I don't care. I'm just saying it is. And it's. It's a perfect movie. It's a perfect movie. You can't make it better. It's perfect. Number five is Scrooged. Number four is Christmas vacation. Boom. Number three, wonderful Life. You gotta go there. Number two is a Christmas story. And my number one. You know it. You know it already. Christmas Carol with George C. Scott. 1984 was made for television. Those are my favies. And I did watch it last week, by the way. I did watch it by myself. I feel like Scrooge. I come home. Seriously, I come home. Like the other night, I come home, I put the, the tomato soup in the microwave. I take my little bowl of tomato soup and sit in my living room by myself. I buy. Oh my God. I'm Ebenezer Scrooge.

H (38:33)

But after the conversion.

C (38:35)

Yeah, after the. I've sponged the writing off the stone Christian Toto. Hollywood in toto. Real quick. Where else can they find your stuff?

H (38:43)

Yep, you can go to my podcast. You can find on YouTube, iTunes, speaker, any place you find podcasting your audio or one of the video. See my 50 something face. You can go to YouTube and rumble.

C (38:54)

All right, we gotta go. I'll talk to you next week. Let's take a break and come back. It's the Rob Carson show. My favorite Christmas song ever right here. I always remind this. This song reminds me that Christmas is bittersweet because. Because the Christmases past are past. And I'll never be able to experience the Christmases I had when I was a child. I'll never be able to experience the Christmases again with my, my, my mother when she had grandkids or when my kids would go to her home for Christmas or My kids would go to my in laws for Christmas. Those, those days are gone. They're gone. They're all gone. And, and so it's bittersweet. It's bittersweet. You have to take these things as they, as they go. And you know, I'm now that guy, you know, I've been that guy who was the guy who got married, that guy who had kids, that guy who became the cul de sac dad, that guy who now has grown kids, that guy whose parents are gone now. And life is bittersweet that way. But I'm preferring to focus on the sweet. That's what I'm going to do. I made the comment about going home and feeling like Ebenezer Scrooge in my apartment with a bowl of tomato soup in the room by myself. But I don't feel lonely and I don't feel sad because I've got too much to be joyful about. And I have you. I mean this. I have you. I know you're there every day. I can see you on the chat. And I know you're there and you're here with me. And I'm here with you. I mean that from the bottom of my heart. I really do. I am blessed beyond belief. Rush Limbaugh had the EIB network. I have the BBB Network. Blessed beyond belief. Give money to the Salvation Army. Never walk by a kettle. If you do go in and get a little extra money at the register and put it in there, watch my TV show, Rob Carson's what in the World on Sunday night. God bless you. America has founded Donald Trump as he makes America greater. And until Monday, do not catch us too. But I love you guys. God bless you. Merry Christmas.

F (41:09)

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