Mary Walter Ruins Christmas Topics (On Purpose)

Summary

The Rob Carson Show

Episode: Mary Walter Ruins Christmas Topics (On Purpose)
Date: December 12, 2025
Host: Rob Carson
Guest: Mary Walter

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Rob Carson Show delivers its trademark blend of political news, cultural commentary, and sharp comedy. Rob welcomes guest Mary Walter for a lively, festive, and occasionally irreverent discussion about Christmas show topics, societal changes in dining habits, the insanity of crime and public safety in American cities, and quirky news stories. The episode is packed with Rob's comedic takes on the week’s political headlines, parodies, and an extended on-air banter with Mary that highlights their friendly rivalry and quick wit.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Theater, Christmas Plans, and Local Love

• Rob shares his plans to see A Christmas Carol at a local Maryland theater, humorously explaining his reluctance to pay exorbitant ticket prices and giving a shoutout to Classic Theater Maryland ([00:52]).
  • Quote: “You think I'm going to spend $1,200 on tickets? No.” — Rob ([01:18])
• Takes a jab at Maryland liberal politicians, calling Annapolis “the insane group of lib tards who run that,” but notes not all are bad.

2. Congress, DHS Hearings, and Immigration

• Recap and parody of recent congressional hearings involving Kristi Noem, the DHS, and ICE ([04:46]-[07:14]).
  • Rob lampoons Democrats for what he sees as performative outrage and failing to change laws rather than simply “complaining” ([06:56]).
  • Quote: “If you guys don't like the law, go change it. That's your job.” — Kristi Noem ([06:51])
• Rob derides a congressional exchange about deported veterans, clarifies facts, and rants about grandstanding in hearings, calling out the media for misleading narratives ([08:11]-[09:53]).
  • Notable moment: Explains that the army veteran in question “self-deported” and never obtained citizenship.

3. Policing, FEMA, and Government Agencies

• Rob praises current FEMA operations under Kristi Noem, claiming they're finally dispensing aid promptly and without political bias ([10:16]).
  • Quote: “FEMA today is deploying resources two times faster on average than in history.” — Kristi Noem ([10:18])
• Asserts some federal agencies have become obsolete due to corruption or inefficiency.

4. Drug Cartels, Border Policy, and "Fishing Boats"

• Extended satirical riff on accusations that the Trump administration is “blowing up fishing boats,” which Rob ridicules as media fabrication ([11:39]-[16:35]).
  • Cites staggering figures: “NCTC has identified around 18,000 known and suspected terrorists that the Biden administration let come into our country.” — Guest ([11:59])
  • Argues Trump is targeting drug-running boats, not harmless fishermen, and invokes historic parallels to Biden’s rhetoric on narco-terrorists.
  • Comedy Parody: Jim Gossett sings a riff on “It’s Raining Men” called “Exploding Boats” ([18:05]-[19:16]).

5. Mary Walter Joins: Christmas Topics Duel

• Mary teases Rob for using up all the good Christmas content before she does her own holiday fill-in shows ([22:08]).
  • Quote: “So the poor slub, namely me, who does have to work over Christmas has zero Christmas topics to do because you did them all already.” — Mary Walter ([22:27])
• Banter about the decline in office holiday parties and the new “early bird” trend in dining, with stats on Gen Z and millennial preferences for 5-6 pm restaurant bookings ([24:38]-[25:10]).
  • Quote: “5:30 is now the new 8 pm.” — Mary Walter ([25:10])
  • Light riffing about party fatigue and Rob being banned from restaurants.

6. Crime & Drones Delivering Contraband to Prisons

• Discuss contemporary criminal ingenuity: using drones to drop contraband into prisons, and Rob’s mock solution to “shoot them down” ([27:01]-[29:15]).
  • Laughs about how certain regions (Southern Missouri, Arkansas) would never tolerate low-flying drones due to “an armed populace” ([28:52]-[29:15]).

7. The Jingle Bells “Racist” Controversy

• Parody from Jim Gossett lampoons Joy Reid’s claim that “Jingle Bells” is racist ([30:19]).
  • Quote: “If you like to sing this song, you’re a racist too…” — Jim Gossett ([30:26])
• Mary and Rob both ridicule the premise, noting its absurdity and the attention-seeking nature of such claims ([31:53]-[33:06]).
  • Quote: “She intentionally tries to look like a fool to get attention. I do it accidentally.” — Rob ([33:11])

8. Odd News: Swallowed Fabergé Pendant and College Pranks

• Weird news break: New Zealand thief swallows a Fabergé pendant; Rob tells a story about swallowing a quarter in college ([34:03]-[35:01]).
• Brief aside: Swiss man jailed after stating “men’s and women’s skeletons are different,” prompting discussion about biological realities and online spats ([35:41]-[36:43]).

9. Policy Analysis: Trump Seizing Oil Tankers

• Katie McFarland explains Trump’s strategic chokehold on Venezuela by seizing illicit oil tankers, predicting Maduro will be ousted as a result ([38:22]-[39:42]).
  • Quote: “If Trump takes away that $200 million a week, Venezuela pretty soon runs out of money.”— Katie McFarland ([38:42])
• Rob asserts this signals a real, effective “war on drugs” and lauds Trump’s aggressive tactics, contrasting them with past administrations ([39:56]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Rob: “I'm the guy who looks for the yellow stickers at Walmart on sandwiches everybody throw away. You think I'm going to spend $1,200 on tickets?” ([01:18])
• Kristi Noem: “If you guys don't like the law, go change it. That's your job.” ([06:51])
• Mary Walter: “5:30 is now the new 8 pm.” ([25:10])
• Rob: “You would never have a drone fly over Southern Missouri or Arkansas. They would shoot that sucker down.” ([29:04])
• Jim Gossett (parody): “Jingle bells, jingle bells, Joy retelling you / if you like to sing this song, you're a racist, too.” ([30:26])

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Annapolis/Christmas Carol ticket rant: [00:52]–[02:30]
• DHS/Noem/Congress hearing commentary: [04:46]–[07:14]
• Deportation/veteran debate: [08:11]–[09:53]
• FEMA and government agencies discussion: [10:16]–[11:08]
• Drug cartels/"fishing boats" media critique: [11:39]–[16:35]
• Mary Walter & Christmas content rivalry, dining trends: [22:08]–[25:10]
• Crime/drones in prisons: [27:01]–[29:15]
• Jingle Bells “racist” debate & parody: [30:19]–[33:06]
• Weird news & skeleton controversy: [34:03]–[36:43]
• Trump, Venezuela, oil tankers (with Katie McFarland): [38:22]–[39:42]

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Closing

The episode is classic Rob Carson: unapologetically irreverent, fast-moving, packed with political snark, and anchored by a playful, freewheeling rapport with Mary Walter. Listeners get robust conservative commentary, comedic parodies, and lots of holiday spice—with a keen eye for pointing out media absurdities and cultural quirks. This hour stands out for its ability to both inform and entertain, making even policy deep-dives feel lively and accessible.

Transcript

[A]

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[B]

You are about to hear the most interesting, informative, thought provoking and funny show in America on air and on the World Wide Web. This is the Rob Farson Show.

[A]

This is the Rob Carson Show. Welcome to it. Hour number two, Mary Walter is going to join us at the bottom of the hour. We got a lot of stories lined up. I got a lot of stories lined up for her. You what it. And she sent me a couple today that I didn't even know about. And I usually know about everything because I have no life at all. No life at all. I just work and work and work and I go home and when I'm not working, I work some more. So there you go. Oh, I got some good stuff coming up for her, by the way. This weekend I'm going to, going to the theater. I was going to go see the Christmas Carol at, at Ford Theater, right? And I asked someone to go and she said, oh, I don't really want to go. And I went, oh, o. So I let the opportunity slip through my fingers. The tickets were $180, which I've never spent ever for any event. I've never spent $180 for it. I know, I know. At my age, never. I've never paid $180. No, actually there was a couple of football games. Okay. Football games. You know, there were the Green Bay, the Green Bay Minnesota game. When I lived in the Minnesota 50 yard line three rows up. I think I paid $300 a piece, but I don't spend that kind of money. So $180. And so I didn't go. And then I go back to the Ford Theater website to buy, maybe go by myself or something and they're $1,200 to $1,500. And so, you know, I'm the guy who looks for the yellow stickers at Walmart on sandwiches everybody throw away. You think I'm going to spend $1,200 on tickets? No. So I'm going to this little theater in Annapolis. I haven't been to Annapolis forever. Annapolis Is the. The capital, the state home of the. The Navy? Drawn a blank on the. The school. But anyway, it's there. The Naval Academy. Of course, the Naval Academy. Thank you. Brian is my. One of my elves who, who occasionally when Santa Carson forgets something, he whispers in my ear. He's like an elf on a shelf is what Brian is. So, yeah, Naval Academy is there. The Maryland General Asylum is there. The insane group of lib tards who run that. But it's a lovely. It's a lovely. And I'm looking forward to seeing it at Christmas time because I haven't been there in like 12 years. They might, might swing by Ramsay and even though I don't drink anymore and say hi, but classic theater maryland.org they still have tickets available. I'll just mention that because they're in. And, and if I should say this, there are people at the Classic Theater who aren't just liberal and they listen to this show. So they're cool. Yeah. So Classic Theater Maryland, I put it on my social media at robcarsenjo. It's up on Facebook, it's up on Twitter. It's on LinkedIn. I do LinkedIn. I get a lot of feedback on LinkedIn. If you want to order tickets, they still got a few available and they're, they're not expensive. I think upper level 65, below 85, that ain't bad. And they're a great little theater. So I'm going to throw that out there. Just wanted to throw it out there. I'm not getting anything for it. I just, you know, I want to help them out because I, oddly enough, I know you're. You don't believe I come from a theater and music background. Hey, you know, my entire young adult life was spent, you know, competing in, in vocal music and, and acting and, and speech. So I am quite knowledgeable of it. Yesterday, Tulsi Gabbard was, you know, not Tulsi Gabbard, Christine Ohm was attempted to be dressed down by Congress and she ended up making them look like complete morons. Here are a of a couple of Karens at the hearings yesterday going after Kristi Noem even though she's doing an incredible job. DHS is doing an incredible job. For the first time, they're actually doing what they're supposed to do. They shut down the border, they're arresting illegals, they're booting them the hell out of the country. And the Democrat Party is caterwauling because the voting base of illegals, the ones who are bought and Paid for with our tax money are going bye bye American people.

[C]

Absolutely trust this department to keep this.

[A]

The first voice is Lamonica McIver. She's assaulted ICE officers. A few weeks ago, a few months.

[C]

Ago, and we are showing that every day, day. By the support we get across the country, the amount of people that we're recruiting to all of.

[D]

Thank you. Secretary Noem, do you agree that using DHS resources, the target members of Congress is an abuse of power?

[C]

Excuse me. Would you say that.

[D]

You would have heard me if you stopped talking. You listen to my.

[A]

Oh, my God. You're the one who's doing the talking. You question.

[D]

Do you agree that using DHS resources to target members of Congress is an abuse of power?

[A]

She is. She's under investigation for assaulting an ICE officer. That's why she's saying that. And you know why she is. Because she assaulted an ICE officer.

[C]

We are not doing that. We are out there enforcing the law.

[E]

There's plenty of that.

[C]

And we are allowing. Over.

[D]

Of course, we're not going to get any more than that. Chairman, I yield back. The lack of respect and regard for the rule of law by this administration and in particular by the. By this Secretary.

[A]

No, we're enforcing the law, you dumb.

[D]

Is at a level that we have never seen and violates all of the constitutional norms and all of the principles.

[A]

No, no, it doesn't.

[D]

Of legal fairness.

[A]

Opening the southern border to unvetted aliens regardless of criminality or disease. That's. That's illegal in this country. And you're seeing that manifest itself.

[D]

And threats to law enforcement and bubbling.

[A]

Over because you're the ones who are threatening law enforcement. Oh, my God. You are so not self aware. Oh, my God. Ooh, ooh. I had a little. Little in my temple. Just a little. Here's Kristi Noem doing a little mic drop action.

[C]

I think it's shameful to see the defense of individuals who break our laws.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

We are a nation of laws. If we are not a nation of laws, we're no nation at all.

[A]

Yep.

[C]

And that is what we are doing every day is following us. If you guys don't like the law, go change it. That's your job.

[A]

How about that?

[C]

Don't complain. I was raised by a dad who said we don't complain about things. We fix them. Well, go fix them if you don't like the law.

[A]

See, that's what Congress doesn't do. That's what. That's what Democrats do. They complain. They caterwaul, they screech. They say Donald Trump is evil, he's a Nazi or whatever. And they do D word for Richard.

[C]

Quit valley aching. Quit hitting and attacking our ICE officers. Quit going out and protesting and screaming vile things at them. Yeah, quit calling them names. We wouldn't let our children do that. Go do something that actually matters by having an honest debate and changing the law. That's your jobs. You all should be fired in my viewpoint, baby.

[A]

And then she left the chamber, she went out and she was assaulted by a bunch of howling liberals libtards while she was carrying her grandbaby. She had that two year old grandbaby. I know, she's a hot grandma. Anyway, that said they were a bunch of these liberal screaming, just screeching at her. And she just kind of looked past him like whatever, who cares? Didn't even care that there was a baby there. Just shrieking, screaming, terrifying. The baby. Didn't even care. You know why? Because the left and Democrats just suck. Then there's this, this guy, his congressman. Magaziner. His last name's Magaziner, for God's sake. And he, he decided to bring up this guy who was deported, supposedly an army veteran. I want you to listen to this setup and I'll explain why he was wrong.

[F]

Madam Secretary, how many United States military veterans have you deported?

[C]

Sir, we have not deported US citizens or milit military veterans.

[F]

We owe everything to those who have served our country in uniform, particularly those who have served in combat. Do you agree with that?

[C]

Sir, I believe that people that are in this United States, that are citizens have legal stats doing that.

[A]

The slow walk setup, like he's really going to get or you know, like, like what the. With Jasmine Crockett saying, oh yeah, well, you know, you know Jeffrey Epstein got money from Republicans. It was a different Jeffrey Epstein, but you know, he got money this year those.

[F]

Madam Secretary, we are joined on Zoom by a gentleman named Sejun Park. He is a United States army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country in Panama in 1989. Like many veterans, he struggled with PTSD and substance abuse after his service. He was arrested in the 1990s for some minor drug offenses. Nothing serious. He never hurt anyone besides himself and he's been clean and sober for 14 years. Will you join me in thanking Mr.

[A]

Park for his oh, this is just.

[F]

So holier than thou service to our country, sir.

[C]

I'm grateful for every single person that has served our country and follows our laws.

[F]

Can you please tell Mr. Park why you deported him?

[A]

He wasn't deported. Can you tell him why he was deported. No, he removed himself in here because.

[D]

This is why people hate congressional hearings and this is why people don't trust the media is because the reality is Mr. Park, while he was here, never chose to pursue citizenship. He was here on a green card. Under Obama, that green card was revoked because of drug possession and ultimately he made the decision that he wanted to self deport. That is a decision he made.

[A]

Lydia Moynihan over on cnn, she's great. She's like Scott Jennings as a girl. There you go. Didn't even change gender. Didn't even need to change gender. There you go. Here's some good, good news from Christy Noma, the DHS secretary. FEMA is no longer political and it's actually doing st. To a question, can.

[C]

I say something about fema?

[A]

Absolutely, you can. Thank you.

[C]

The only grants that weren't funded, the individual ones that you were talking about, mitigation ahead, were ones that were weaponized to fund the Green New Deal and for climate change. And those were rededacted to true mitigation efforts. FEMA today is deploying resources two times faster on average than in history, which means the dollars are going out twice as fast than they ever have before. And the President, as soon as these disasters are happening, is deploying those resources to Republican and Democrat states. New Mexico, Texas, Alaska, they're all getting dollars immediately and we're responding immediately to our people. I have to actually leave this hearing early because the FEMA Review Council is giving their.

[A]

FEMA's doing a great job. They're doing, they should. And they, and they're not avoiding houses with Trump signs in front of them even though they're suffering, which is what they did. Which is what they did. FEMA was a giant corrupt political organization that was run poorly and its results were very poor as well. Like so many government, government agencies, some of them had been driven out of existence like USAID because they were so worthless. The same goes with the Department of Education, which is going to follow suit very soon. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show.

[B]

Would I launch strikes in Mexico to stop drugs?

[A]

Come on, it's okay with me.

[B]

Boom, boom, boom, boom. Bang, bang, bang, bang. Boom, boom, boom, boom.

[G]

NCTC has been crunching the numbers and going through the sheer volume of known and suspected terrorists that are in the country that came in under the Biden administration. So far, NCTC has identified around 18,000 known and suspected terrorists that the Biden administration let come into our country. These are individuals who, who under normal circumstances, would never be allowed to enter our country because of their ties to jihadi groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda.

[A]

Yeah, they, they, they allowed these people to come in. It was a treasonous act. A treasonous act. A treasonous, destructive act that resulted in the death of hundreds of thousands of people. The trafficking of hundreds of thousands of people. It is something that will have to be answered for. Alejandro Mayorkas will have to face the military tribunal. There have to be people for what they did because they tried to destroy America. They allowed an invasion of an army without necessarily guns or tanks. But they did bring in an army to overthrow our country. That's what they did. This is how bloody serious it is. That's all there is to it. Here is Eric Schmidt. Yesterday I played this Eric Schmidt, senator from the state of Missouri and one of these reporters. Just to have the audacity to say to a senator that the drug boats off the shores of Venezuela filled with drugs, thousand horsepower, 15 horsepower engine, you know, boats with four outboard motors loaded with bales of cocaina and fentanyl. Very clear. Investigated by the defense department. They have all sorts of intel, there's no doubt about this all. And this woman decides to ask Eric Schmidt about blowing up fishing boats. If Donald Trump just wants to blow up fishing boats, why doesn't he blow the shit, the stuff out of, pardon me, the crap out of fishing boats everywhere? Why doesn't he blow the fishing boats off the coast of California? If he's after fishing booths, why doesn't he go fishing boats off the, off the, off the coast of Mexico? Why the heck not? Why doesn't he just blow up fishing boats? Because he's not blowing up fishing boats. He can seize an oil tanker without killing anyone. Shouldn't have done that in the way that these fishing boats were also fishing boats. Are you. What are you. What is a fishing boat? The drug runners. Those aren't fishing boats. Yeah, but those aren't fishing boats. Well, let's talk about Article 2 authority. The President, the commander in chief, has identified and designated terrorist organizations who are cartels who run drugs that kill a hundred thousand Americans a year. They do. Yeah. So there's no legal question that he has the legal ability to blow those boats out of the water and they will continue. You know, you know who said that he has the legal authority to do that? Joe Biden in 1989. For the first time, we are fighting and losing a war on our own soil. Let's go after the drug lords where they live with an international Strike Force. There must be no safe haven for these narco terrorists. They must know it. They just said that narco terrorists don't exist. The other day. They just said that narco terrorists don't exist. It's Joe Biden 36 years ago saying that there were narco terrorists. I'm sure he's forgotten it by now. And here's a little montage of the media pushing the. And nobody believes this. Nobody believes the fishing boat narrative. Nobody believes it. I can't believe they think you're this stupid. They. The media thinks you are going to buy that Donald Trump is blowing up fishing boats. Have you ever seen a fishing boat skip along the surface of the ocean at 65 miles an hour with four outboard motors? What the hell are you trying to find? What are you going to fish with, with that vehicle with the big bales of cocaine in the middle of the boat, wide out, right out there in the open. The AI apocalypse is here now, and we need a government that actually worries about that. Blowing up fishing boats. Oh, my God. Building Maria. He also said, listen to me. Joe Biden's brain is perfect. It's the best he's ever been.

[G]

When that style ballrooms he strikes on.

[D]

Fishing boats or what could be what look like fishing boats.

[A]

And now, no, they don't look like fishing boats.

[D]

Administration is saying that they care so much about stopping drugs from coming into the country that they're going to bomb the guys on a fishing boat.

[G]

Clearly, you see in the news, you know, bombing fishing boats in the Caribbean, saying they're drug cartels. You know, things like that, where it's like, well, are things careening a little bit off here? Is Trump need. Do we need checks and battles now?

[A]

They're just saying. They're not saying it's war crime. They moved on. Now it's fishing boats. What did I tell you? The next thing, badoom, badoom, badoom, cheap, cheap. There you go. Next thing, it's fishing boats. It is truly absurd to go to. To that and now say they're fishing boats. I mean, it is like, you've got to be kidding me. Stupid that suddenly. Oh, yeah, it's not, you know, you know, maybe they're delivering drugs because they have to. Because they have to. Can't make a living. There aren't any. There aren't any opportunities for them. So they got to deliver the drug. Now they're just going with the fishing boat. Oh, my God, these people are so stupid. Here is why they're bombing the snot out of the boats.

[G]

In case you didn't know, 56,000 US service members were killed during the Vietnam War. Our combat role there lasted about eight years. Twice as many Americans are killed by fentanyl or cocaine that comes from places like Venezuela in just one year alone. And yet we see Democrats in the media defending narco terrorists the same way they defend those who are committing violent crimes who are in the country illegally from being deported. So just listen to the words of the next mayor of Chicago. I'm sorry, next mayor of New York or the mayor of Chicago Curran, or the mayor of Los Angeles, Minneapolis, or the governor of California for that matter. They're defending all these folks not realizing just how foolish and how pathetic they look in doing so.

[A]

Yes, one of the myriad reasons the Democrats are not going to win back either House of Congress in the midterms.

[B]

Jim Gossett, excess winning. He is thinning out the drug dealing trade in the air. Bombs are dropping on drug boats.

[A]

It's so nice.

[B]

Venezuelans, they are failing to get fentanyl through. And in most every ocean you'll hear it's raining men.

[A]

There's one right there.

[B]

Exploding boats, exploding boats, exploding boats, exploding boats. Taking out all their drug shipments.

[A]

They're fishing.

[B]

But Jero sad wah, wah, wah. Been hurt bad.

[A]

Ouch, ouch, ouch.

[B]

Soon he will be overthrown.

[A]

Bye bye, bye bye.

[B]

Bombing boats, bombing boats. They're drug boats, not fishing boats. More will be blown up today.

[A]

And we're also taking tankers. Donald Trump willing to seize more oil tankers on the coast of Venezuela as the the Trump attempt, I guess to clean up this hemisphere of drug traffickers and terrorists and whatnot continues. Katie McFarland had some brilliant thoughts on his the chess game that he is playing and it is brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. We'll have details on that coming up here very shortly on the on the show. Mary Walter joins us next. She's got a host of things to talk about. I've got a host of things to share with her. I promise you it will be entertaining and informative as it always is on this glorious Friday, you are listening to the Rob Carson Show. Back in a few. Hey guys, it's Carson. Normally I wake up at 2:33, 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, some vanilla yogurt, a little bit of milk and my Beams 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. Beam's 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 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 $1.25 per night. So go to shopbeam.com newsmax today. That's shopbeam.com newsmax today.

[B]

Merry Christmas, darling.

[A]

We'Re apart Thought that's.

[D]

True But I can dream.

[A]

And so insecure in my masculinity that.

[B]

I can't say I love Christmas.

[A]

Christmas. Thank you very much. I really love the Christmas. I really do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm using the Merry Christmas because Mary Walter joins us on the Newsmax hotline. Hello. And Merry Christmas to you.

[D]

Well, thank you. You know, two things. Number one, are you going to be that host who doesn't work during Christmas but does all the good Christmas topics beforehand? So the poor slub, namely me, who does have to work over Christmas has zero Christmas topics to do because you did them all already. Is that what's happening here?

[A]

Of course, Duh.

[D]

Thank you. Making my job my worst Christmas topic so badly. You should work during the holiday.

[A]

Well, no, I did that. I've done it. I know you've done it for many years. My, my worst day, which was my best day, but my worst day filling in as a talk show host on the Christmas break was four radio stations, three hour shows, 12 hours on the air, one day.

[D]

Yeah, you know, done that. Not doing it anymore.

[A]

Yeah, I know.

[D]

It's, I'm not doing it. It's, sorry, booked. I'm not just, I'm only doing two, I'm only doing six hours. This.

[A]

There you go. Yeah.

[D]

Christmas and New Year's. And by the way, only in like, I noticed, like in the D.C. area, they can't tell the difference between Mary and Mary or Harry and Harry. Like, they can't tell the difference. It's the weirdest thing. They're like, I'm like, you hear a difference.

[A]

They're like, no, it's one of those things, One of those things that if you're a Marylander, there's a town called Olney. Right. And, and, and if you're from Maryland, it's Olney, but if you're not from Maryland, it's Olney.

[D]

There you go.

[A]

It's weird.

[D]

Weird.

[A]

And if you're from Missouri and you're down south, it's Missouri. And if you're from Missouri and it's northern Kansas City, it's Missouri. So there you go.

[D]

Like Missouri.

[A]

Yes, yes. Well, so let's talk. Let's talk about stuff. Okay. I know you have some things you want to share. What do you. You got a holiday party, a Christmas party you're going to today?

[D]

Yes, it's going to night. It's my husband's because you know who's gonna invite me to a party? So I don't work for anybody.

[E]

So.

[D]

So it's my husband and nobody does them anymore. Nobody does the parties anymore.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

And, and so he has one tonight and we're debating whether we want to go or not because it doesn't start till 8 o'. Clock.

[A]

8 o'.

[D]

Clock, I know. Like 8 o'. Clock. Who the hell does that anymore? What happens? I'm like, eight o'.

[A]

Clock.

[D]

And he's like, well, maybe it's not dinner. I'm like, of course it's dinner. We're gonna eat and dinner at 10. And I got news for you. I'm out the door at 10. This is gonna happen at. I can't anymore. But we're apparently trendsetters and so I'm going to put you on speaker just to pull up statistics. All right.

[A]

Okay, go ahead.

[D]

Okay, so the new hot booking time in restaurants across the country 5 to 6pm is now the first sold out time.

[A]

Really?

[D]

In New York City, 5pm bookings rose 20% according to OpenTable.

[A]

Wow.

[D]

Hold on. 53% of Gen Z, 51% of millennials are especially interested in earlier dining. Seating 5:30 is now the new 8pm.

[A]

Wow, that is hilarious. Well, you know, for instance, I went to a restaurant here in Alexandria. And you know, if you're a week out at some of these restaurants, the 5:30 is gone, seven is gone. But anything after 7:30 is open.

[E]

Right.

[D]

Nobody's going out late. Now there's two reasons for this, I think.

[E]

I think.

[D]

Which is weird because it's the younger people. Because that was always like the early bird, right?

[A]

Yeah, exactly.

[D]

Younger people who are doing it. But I think there's two reasons. One of the reasons for it is that nobody wants to get mugged or stabbed on their way home. So they figure if I do it right after work, I have less of a chance of like the sentinel junkie of the junkie crazy person stabbing me in the head.

[A]

There's that.

[D]

I think that's part of it is safety. And I think the other part of it is with people working from home, they're just like, I'll just go out at 5, like, because they don't. But if you're home, you're not going out at 8 o' clock at night even. Nobody wants to do that anymore.

[A]

Well, and also, you've got a massive big screen television on home and an endless library of streamable shows and movies. I mean, honestly, really, home is a pretty damn cool place to be.

[D]

Especially the disco ball and green lights on your stairs.

[A]

I don't have a disco ball. It's coming. It's been delayed.

[D]

Exactly. Okay. Okay. Austin Powers. You know, I have a question for you though. You've been in Alexandria for how long now?

[A]

Like, five months. Five months.

[D]

Five months. How many restaurants have banned you?

[A]

Let's see, there's sort of, oddly enough, none. I know, but one of us has gone out of business. My favorite restaurant went out of business. I didn't think they were going to last long because they didn't. They don't fill the seats. But anyway, I was kind of disappointed in that. You also mentioned another story, which I think is kind of the. It's obvious. Drones threaten prison security by delivering contraband.

[D]

Yeah. Okay, so they get drones. These things are huge. And what they do is they pay off thousands of dollars to homeowners around the. Around the prison.

[A]

Yes.

[D]

Happening in Georgia. And they pay them with a couple thousand dollars to launch these huge drones. And they're dropping off things in prison yards like bolt cutters, wire cutters, what? Chainsaws, contraband steaks, food, all this stuff.

[A]

Drugs. There are. You know, I gotta tell you, I mean, there are a lot more unpleasant ways to sneak contraband into prison there, Mary. Well, that's.

[D]

That's very true. I guess it all depends on the smuggler and their particular preferences.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Luckily, I'm like, I mean, yeah, you.

[A]

Know, I don't need the cupcakes so much. I'm okay.

[D]

Right, right, exactly. So. So they're having a hard time, but they're.

[C]

They're arrested.

[D]

Only, like hundreds of people have been arrested in connection with stuff.

[A]

Wow. Right.

[D]

And I'm like, why do you even bother. Why don't the gut the guards, have guns, shoot it out of the sky, and you're done.

[A]

You would think that would be the best thing to do, but the drone technology is remarkable. You can do anything with a drone. You can. Hell, you might even to, you know, be able to fly a big enough drone in there. You can just grab a. Grab the bottom of it, haul you right out of jail.

[D]

Well, no, they're shutting down citizens of things. The negative aspect to this is they're not allowing the prisoners out in the yard now.

[A]

Oh, geez. And then they could probably put nets and stuff up there, I suppose. You know, I spoke to somebody the other day, I think it was Blaine Holt, and he talked about drones and how terrifying drones are, as, you know, a new way to come into act of warfare. You can kill, you know, the president, whatever. And he says. But he says, we are way ahead of it as far as countermeasures are concerned. And he wasn't concerned about it, but clearly prison yards are still a concern.

[D]

Well, listen, I live in New Jersey, where we had the big drone thing going on under Biden.

[A]

Yes.

[D]

They were everywhere. And then, of course, people are shooting at them and everything else is going on, you know, and that's what happens. You get an armed populace, and they're like, yeah, there's. There's bombs that are drones that are dropping bombs and stuff like that. You'd have people shooting all over the place trying to get them.

[A]

Oh, you would never have a drone fly over Southern Missouri or Arkansas. They would shoot that sucker down. Right, right. I mean. Right. There'd be. There'd be people out there with guns you've never even imagined that a person could own.

[D]

100%.

[A]

Take it down, Joe Prob.

[D]

More ammunition than the. Than the government has.

[A]

Yes. Now, I've got a couple things I want to present to you on the other side of the break that I think you're going to enjoy. Also, I want your thoughts of. Of best Christmas album and your favorite Christmas song.

[D]

No, I'm not participating in a Christmas topic.

[A]

Then I'll make it up. Then. Then I will make it up. I will make it up.

[D]

You know what?

[A]

I will make it up. I will say your favorite Christmas song is something that sucks, and I will say it every day next week. Not.

[D]

I am not enabling you to take all the Christmas topics because you're too damn lazy to work through Christmas. That's selfish and mean, and I'm not doing it.

[A]

Let's take a break and come Back. Why do I have this woman on the air? Why do I? Why do I? Oh, yeah, I suppose. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson show. Coming up next hour. Your most heartwarming Christmas memory will open the foot bones on that. But in the meantime, this is from Jim Gossett about Joy Reid, who says that Jingle Bells is racist. Thought you should know.

[B]

Joy Reid says this song.

[A]

Al Sharpton.

[B]

Racist as can be. Jim Gossett, but she's usually wrong.

[A]

What the hell?

[B]

Grace Painter, just like me, her name's Joy. Makes outrageous claims without any proof. Every time she hears this song, Joy Reid hits the roof. Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells. It's a racist tune. Bing Crosby's White Christmas we will call out soon. Jingle bells, jingle bells. Joy retelling you if you like to sing this song, you're a racist, too. Jingle bells, jingle bells Racist all the way. Ho ho ho. Oh, what fun it is to slam white folks every day.

[A]

Hey, that is Joy Reid. She's got one card and it's a race card. And here she goes again saying that jingle Bells is racist. Mary Walter, obviously everybody's heard about this story.

[D]

Well, I mean, it's. It's what, Friday? Joy Reid's is still a racist. You're doing Christmas songs, Christmas memories, Christmas movies. You're leaving me literally nothing to do during the week of Christmas, Right?

[A]

I was playing with you on the topic next hour. I would not do that topic on my talk show.

[D]

Oh, because it's not good enough? Is that what it is?

[A]

Girl, I've done every talk. I've. I've done. I've done every kind of talk radio. I've done every kind of show topic. I've done music radio, playing Christmas music the day after Halloween. I have done every damn thing you could ever imagine, girl. I've done every topic ever.

[D]

So can I ask you a question? Why did you. I didn't even bother finding out why Joy Reid says it's racist because it's stupid.

[A]

Well, hold on, let me find it. Because it's really stupid. It was written by a guy who was racist. He was written by a guy who was a confederate. And also here. Here it is. Here it is. Joy Reid, she said that there's a. The alleges the lyrics. Laughing all the way in the song likely is a reference to a racist comedic routine of the day known as laughing darkie.

[D]

People laughing in a sleigh in the snow.

[A]

Laughing darky. What the hell is that?

[D]

Goes back to that.

[A]

I swear To God published the song in 1859 and changed its name to the familiar Jingle Bells. Before that, it was Laughing Darkie, I think is the name of the song before the Civil War. And the video claims that he abandoned his family to join the Confederate army and they wrote Southern fight songs to rouse men defending slavery. God, will you just get. Just lighten the hell up.

[D]

You know what, though? She's so irrelevant. She's so desperate for attention.

[A]

This is why she does it, right? Do you suppose? I mean, because I.

[D]

We're talking about her.

[A]

Yeah. She. She intentionally tries to look like a fool to get attention. I do it accidentally.

[D]

I think you do put some effort into it, I have to say. Somebody said again, I guess advice to the contrary is the lights up the spiral stairs to where the magic happens. I mean, it's. It's just put a sign that says ladies with an arrow pointing up the stairs, you know?

[A]

You know? Well, I'm working on that. It's coming. It's from the neon sign company. You can't make neon signs like that. Like Rob's Love Lounge upstairs. That's coming. You can't just make that in a day. All right, so anyway, you know what's frightening?

[D]

I don't know if you're kidding or not.

[A]

You know what somebody said on the Rumble Chat today? She always gives Rob the smackdown. I think he's a masochist. And I said, said no. I said, one of the rules of comedy, sometimes the lead has to take the hit. That's just the way it works.

[D]

It's our relationship.

[A]

Yes. You gotta get a little yin and yen. So here's the thing. New Zealand police said Friday they finally recovered a James Bond inspired Faberge pendant six days after a man who stole it swallowed it. So they obviously had to wait six days. I'll bet it was clean as hell.

[D]

How big was this pendant? Because I gotta think, like, it would hurt, right?

[A]

Well, I mean, some people are into that, you know.

[D]

You know, it was a second.

[A]

It was a chain of. It was. It was a chain of jewels with a big egg on the end of it. $33,000. And, you know, I. I understand that when things come out of your digestive system, they're quite clean. And I mean literally, your digestive system with all the acid and everything, really cleans up jewelry and stuff. I swallowed a quarter in college. I never recovered it, but I bet it was shiny.

[D]

Why did you swallow a quarter in college?

[A]

Because we were playing quarters. You remember the pointless Gen X drinking games? Remember the Pointless Gen X drinking games that didn't involve anything but the skill of being able to bounce a quarter off a table into a glass. And if you did, you had to make somebody else drink. You never played quarters? Quarters.

[D]

Yeah, but see, our version of quarters didn't require you to swallow the quarter.

[A]

Well, I accidentally swallowed the quarter because you're slamming the beer. You're drinking it really fast. It just happens.

[D]

So anyway, all right, okay.

[A]

What other drinking. They do beer pong now? Beer pong. I just hate beer pong. Well, I don't drink anymore. Here's one for you. Swiss man jailed after saying men's and women's skeletons are different.

[D]

Oh, I got in a fight with somebody on X about that.

[A]

What? How did you get in a fight?

[D]

Because I don't try. They just, you know, they're so emotional. And I was very nice about it. It was a younger person. Anybody says, I'll always be a girl. And I said, look, you do you. I don't care. Like, you do you do you. You don't. It doesn't change my world at all. However, a thousand years from now, if archaeologists dig up your corpse, despite it being an address, they're going to know based on, you're a dude. And from the DNA they extract bone. You're a dude. Because she got in a fight with a friend. My friend. You know, I'm not talking young kid. And I was just like, you know, just because your friend disagrees with you and was telling you a biological truth.

[A]

Yes.

[D]

Maybe that's a good friend. And maybe you shouldn't get rid of that friend. Like, maybe you should make amends with that friend because that friend had the guts to stand up and tell you the truth.

[A]

Well, and obviously the difference between a men and women's skeleton is the bone in the women's skull is a lot thicker.

[D]

Spoken like a true newly divorced man.

[A]

Nice comeback, by the way. Thank you. You only hurt the ones you love a little too soon on that one. I don't like it, by the way. I do not like it. I did not want to do it. And. And I'm going to do it everything I can to make her regret it that she did. Because I'm pretty friggin awesome. And then she's. Well, no, actually I'm doing everything that. That I can to make her not regret it. Like putting LED lights on my spiral staircase.

[D]

I was gonna say, you know, you beat me to it. And, and, and I was just gonna say when you were telling me, I'm gonna Do everything to make her regret it. I'm like, and you're handling it maturely. You keep going.

[A]

All right, we gotta go tell everybody where they can hear your show and see your stuff.

[D]

All right, so I'm on Newsmax a lot. Newsmax tv. Just follow me on X Mary Walter Radio. And I always post when I will be on. And then, of course, my podcast is on Tuesday evenings, 7pm Eastern, 7:15 Eastern Time. It is live cash. We can ask questions and Participate on Rumble YouTube and get her look for Mary Walter Radio. And then audio is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify and Spreaker.

[A]

I will send you a photo of the neon sign when it gets here. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show. Show. I got to get to this because Donald Trump is blowing up and drug boats and in taking out tankers. And why is he doing that? Katie McFarland.

[E]

It's so brilliant. Okay, so what Trump is doing is seizing the tankers. There's plenty of international precedent for seizing sanctioned boats. So we've had the sanctions. Nobody's enforced him. Trump's enforcing them. If you look at the numbers, Venezuela makes maybe $200 million a week on selling oil that it's not allowed to sell. It also has expenses of about $200 million a week to pay for the military and everything else. And everything else. It only has a reserve fund of about a billion. So if Trump takes away that $200 million a week, Venezuela pretty soon runs out of money. I mean, really soon runs out of money. And that's the money that Maduro uses to pay the military to pay off that all the bad guys to keep himself in power. So that's why when Trump says, oh, I think Maduro's days are numbered, I think he's counting off the days until Maduro runs out of money.

[A]

Well, he can't stay. I mean, if Maduro is still in power, say, six months down the road.

[B]

That'S a defeat for the United States. Defeat for Trump. Can't have that.

[A]

No.

[E]

And I think what Trump's trying to do is not just with Maduro, but his entire South American policy he saw and the new national security strategy he just issued. He envisions a Western hemisphere that's US led, that is at peace, that invests in each other, that trades with each other and is a shining symbol to the world of how democracy and American leadership work.

[A]

Colombia, next country.

[E]

Well, Columbia's a little different because Colombia is the drug trade. So what Trump is also doing what he's doing with Venezuela when he's shooting those drug boats out of the water is he's also going after their cartels and he's stopping the drug.

[A]

You know, we've talked forever about the war on drugs and the war on drugs and the war on drugs failing. And we've even almost talked about, you know, giving up on the war on drugs. Give up on the war on drugs. You know why? Because nobody did a damned thing about it. No president did a damned thing about it. But run PSAs. This is your brain on drugs. Don't do drugs. And allowed them to come in. And then Joe Biden said, screw it, bring in as much as you want, kill as many Americans as you can. We don't even care. Donald Trump is the first president to take the war on drugs seriously and do it and cut all off. 92 to 96% of the drugs coming into America off our coast has already been shut down. And he's about to shut down Colombia, too. Unbelievable. It's nice to have a president who doesn't have pudding for brains. Let's take a break and come back last hour. The Rob Carson Jo is right ahead. I wouldn't miss it.