Platner Panic: Democrats Hit the Eject Button

Summary

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Episode: Platner Panic: Democrats Hit the Eject Button
Date: July 10, 2026
Host: Rob Carson (with Mary Walter and various guests)
Theme: A satirical, high-energy breakdown of the Graham Platner scandal, Democratic party turmoil, and the fallout in the Maine Senate race, plus humorous discussions of culture and current events.

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Overview of the Episode's Main Theme

This episode centers on the spectacular collapse of Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner amid mounting scandals – including old Reddit posts, a purported Nazi tattoo, and sexual misconduct allegations. Rob Carson, with his characteristic humor and biting commentary, examines how the Democratic party and media are responding as they shift from defending Platner to distancing themselves. Co-host Mary Walter joins for lively banter, and the show also explores broader cultural topics like the meaning behind names, the rise of Catholicism in Phoenix, and the buoyant job market.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Rob Carson’s Move to DC and Studio Anecdotes

Timestamps: [01:45] – [06:15]

• Rob opens with personal reflections on moving his broadcast into the main Newsmax building in Washington D.C.
• Expresses gratitude for his career journey, referencing his humble beginnings and struggles prior to joining Newsmax.
  • “From a guy who just a few years ago was knocking on death’s door, selling cars for a living – look what’s happened.” [04:48]
• Tells a personal story about being discovered by Newsmax’s Chris Ruddy.

2. The Graham Platner Scandal – Democrats “Hit the Eject Button”

Timestamps: [06:15] – [15:00]

• Mary Walter introduces Graham Platner as “the real deal… a fighter.” Rob immediately lampoons this as party spin ([06:15]–[06:35]).
• Rob highlights how the media and Democrats pretended to be shocked by Platner’s misconduct, despite longstanding knowledge of his misdeeds.
  • Rob: “They're couching it as a mistake. They knew exactly what was going on. The Democrat Party knew...” [06:39]
• CBS Segment: Recaps Platner’s controversies – racist Reddit posts, Nazi tattoo, abuse accusations ([07:19]–[07:55]).
• Rob and callers rip into the Democratic Party’s hypocrisy, cynically suggesting they’d nominate anyone who could win.
  • Rob: “They would have elected Satan himself if they thought he could win.” [08:42]
• Explains Platner’s exit only happened once prosecution became likely:
  • “The state prosecutor was threatening criminal charges against him. That's how ingrained the Democrat Party is. They said, basically, you drop out or we're going to bring rape charges against you.” [11:11]
• Notable Quote: John Fetterman on Platner’s exit:
  • “Trash took itself out.” [10:51]

3. Democratic Fallout and Media Contrition

Timestamps: [15:53] – [22:00]

• Rob and co-hosts dissect mainstream media’s sudden candor, unprecedented among Democrats, about Platner’s flaws.
  • “How was the Nazi tattoo not enough? How was the fabrication of his biography not enough...” [16:22] – Political Commentator
• Democrats now trying to justify their delayed action with shallow arguments about “second chances” and “redemption.”
  • Ro Khanna: “We need to find some way of having grace... having redemption.” [19:32]
• Rob mocks these attempts, skewering Democratic efforts to spin defeat as a moral stand.

4. The Maine Democratic Divide

Timestamps: [17:23] – [21:06]

• Some Maine Democrats resist national calls for Platner’s removal.
  • Shelley Pingree: “Just stay away and stop writing all your dumbass columns...” [17:23]
• Rob ridicules these defenders: “We like our sexual predators with Nazi tattoos. So mind your own business.” [17:44]
• Joe Scarborough’s report: Despite everything, some local Democrats still wanted Platner (“Platner signs are still up” [13:16]).
• Troy Jackson, touted as Platner’s replacement, is grilled about his ongoing support; his muddled answers reveal lack of preparation.

5. Rob & Mary Walter: Banter and Social Commentary

Timestamps: [24:10] – [40:08]

• Rob and Mary riff on building radio studios, affluent-sounding old houses (“the servant’s bathroom”), and radio nicknames (“Summer Steel”) ([24:10]–[26:40]).
• Comic exchange about the worst male/female names (“Chad” and “Karen”), and how name stereotypes happen.
  • Mary: “Can you imagine if you came up with a name for a black female busybody? You would be considered racist. But it's okay to do it to a white woman.” [29:03]

6. Economic and Social News: Jobs, Migration & Culture

Timestamps: [40:54] – [43:27]

• Rob touts historic low jobless claims, attributing success to current policies and noting the media’s lack of coverage ([41:05]).
• Discusses migration trends – liberals moving to Phoenix, Arizona, driving a boom in Catholicism.
  • Rob asks if they’re bringing “their politics” with them; Mary laments the spread of “this crap all over the country.” [35:10]
• Observes a “hunger for tradition and structure” fueling religious resurgence and critiques chaotic modern society.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Rob Carson (on Democrats’ willingness to win at any cost):
  “They would have elected Satan himself if they thought he could win. And they thought because of the massive turnout in Maine by bet guano, crazy academic white manas, that he was going to go all the way.” [08:42]

• John Fetterman (on Platner’s departure):
  “Trash took itself out.” [10:51]

• CBS News Reporter (on Platner’s baggage):
  “Despite scandal after scandal… Despite his old Reddit comments… his chest tattoo with Nazi history…" [07:31]

• Shelley Pingree (Maine Democrat Representative):
  “Just stay away and stop writing all your dumbass columns on the Internet...” [17:23]

• Joe Scarborough (on grassroots support for Platner):
  “I hear nothing but support from Maine Democrats on the ground for Plat.” [13:03]

• Ro Khanna (on party redemption):
  “We need to find some way of having redemption... if someone was felt hurt by Graham in a past relationship, we can listen to them and we can listen to Graham and we can have conversations.” [19:38]

• Mary Walter (on Democrats and Platner):
  “They picked him because he seems like he's very masculine. Right. And they were told to find an alpha male. They found an alpha male who's like out of control and they didn't vet him.” [37:52]

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Important Timestamps

• [06:15] – Graham Platner campaign ends, media pivot begins.
• [07:19] – CBS segment recaps Platner’s scandals.
• [08:42] – Rob’s “Satan” comparison and commentary on political tactics.
• [10:51] – John Fetterman’s “Trash took itself out.”
• [13:03] – Joe Scarborough on Maine Democrats’ continued support.
• [17:23] – Shelley Pingree defends Maine’s independence.
• [19:32] – Ro Khanna talks about party “grace” and “redemption.”
• [21:06] – Troy Jackson’s awkward response regarding his Platner loyalty.
• [29:03] – Mary Walter on double standards in name stereotypes.
• [35:02] – Discussion of migration, rising Catholicism in Phoenix.

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Wrap-Up & Episode Flow

• The first half laces political scandal with humor, parody, and biting critique, especially around the Democrats’ failure in vetting and then rapidly abandoning Graham Platner.
• The second half blends light-hearted cultural commentary (names, jobs, regional quirks) with pointed social analysis regarding religious revival and political polarization.
• Frequent musical comedy bits and radio banter keep the show’s energy upbeat and irreverent.

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For New Listeners

This episode is a rapid-fire, comedic breakdown of a major political debacle, giving listeners both the context and the spectacle of how quickly parties and the media can shift narratives when candidates implode. It’s entertaining, sharply satirical, and intersperses real news analysis with comedy, parody songs, and cultural conversation.

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For a full episode experience, listen to:

• [06:15] – [15:00] Platner panic and party betrayal
• [17:23] – [21:06] Democratic infighting and candidate chaos
• [24:10] – [40:08] Rob and Mary Walter’s engaging culture/pop-culture discussions

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Quotes and timestamps attributed per transcript. Skip the ads, enjoy the snark, and get the context if you missed live!

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[Mary Walter]

Graham Platner is the real deal. He's a fighter and he's ready to take that fight to Washington. Graham Platner has the grit to go against the brain and to fight for what?

[Rob Carson]

Go against the brain? Did she say go against the brain?

[Mary Walter]

That's right. That's the energy, that's the fighting spirit that the Democratic Party.

[Rob Carson]

He's a fighter.

[Mary Walter]

He'll never give up now more than

[Rob Carson]

we are suspending campaign operations. Well, that, that. Okay, that was a little abrupt there. A little abrupt, yeah. You know, it's interesting. The media, for the first time ever, are being contrite about a gigantic. They're couching it as a mistake. They knew exactly what was going on. The Democrat Party knew exactly what was going on. The grand planner. It's just become so massive, scandalous, embarrassing that they have to act like they were on the. They're on the right side of all this when they're not. This is cbs. This is cbs.

[News Reporter]

The big question tonight is why did so many in the Democratic Party, the party of Black Lives Matter, and believe women continue to see Graham Platner as a future star?

[Rob Carson]

Listen to this. This is cbs.

[News Reporter]

Despite scandal after scandal that seemed to undermine those principles. And more, despite his old Reddit comments about, among other things, why Platner thinks black people don't tip. Despite his chest tattoo with the Nazi history.

[Rob Carson]

There was that.

[News Reporter]

And despite the accusations of abuse against women.

[Co-host or Guest]

Yeah.

[News Reporter]

Through all of that and more, Platner downplayed or denied the claims and was.

[Rob Carson]

Because they're all lies. All of those things that just suddenly came up, that with the hundreds of witnesses, it's all lies ended by the

[News Reporter]

party and some of its biggest voices.

[Rob Carson]

I do believe people should have second chances.

[Co-host or Guest]

If this is a character election, the incumbent has a lot to answer for as well.

[Rob Carson]

I'm going to do everything I can to make the. Graham Platner is the next Susan Collins have to answer for. My God in heaven. She's like Mother Teresa. Senator from the state of Maine.

[News Reporter]

So what's behind all that support for him until now? Could it simply be that he was winning? That he had blown out the sitting governor in the Democratic Party?

[Rob Carson]

They thought he could win primary.

[News Reporter]

It sure seemed like the Democrats best chance to beat Maine's Republican Senator, Susan Collins.

[Caller or Guest]

Yeah.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah. They tried the seances to conjure Satan, but he wouldn't answer. So they went ahead with Graham Platner. Yeah, they thought he could win. They did this with Joe Biden. They would have wheeled his corpse across the finish line. They would have. They would have wheeled his corpse across the finish line. Kind of doing that right now with Mitch McConnell, by the way. But, you know, but they would. They would have elected Satan himself if they thought he could win. And they thought because of the massive turnout in Maine by bet guano, crazy academic white manas, that he was going to go all the way. And he started losing. He was behind in the polls by 4 points minimum, which, by the way, would mean probably in November, a 20 point loss. So they got rid of him. The party got rid of him.

[News Reporter]

In political circles, the answer, it appears, was yes. Many Democrats knew Platner had character issues. The theory from Daniel Moraf, the political strategist who plucked Platner from obscurity and made him into a star, was that the voters wouldn't care that they wanted, quote, real people who have lived real lives.

[Co-host or Guest]

I mean, we want people who didn't run for student.

[Rob Carson]

That guy right there, that creepy guy. Apparently there are some sexual harassment allegations against him. He's the most unsexual person I could imagine.

[News Reporter]

Right.

[Co-host or Guest]

We want people who have not been spending their entire lives planning their est that to political power.

[News Reporter]

But after Platner was accused of rape this week, it turned out that theory had its limits. Character does matter. Platner denied the accusation.

[Rob Carson]

No, no, character did not and still doesn't matter to Democrats.

[News Reporter]

But for some Democrats, he'd committed the one offense no political party can tolerate. He started to look like a loser.

[Rob Carson]

He was gonna look at his cbs. Oh, my God. That is cbs. That is so amazing. Thank you. Barry Weiss, you're doing a great job over there. Here is John Fetterman. This is the line. This maybe the sound bite of the week. There's so many sound bites to choose from, to be quite honest. But here's veteran talking about platinum leaving.

[Caller or Guest]

Trash took itself out.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, the trash took itself out.

[Caller or Guest]

Trash took itself out. You know, threw it out. Yeah. And now he. He leaves an accused rapist. Yeah, he's the guy that spent.

[Rob Carson]

He'll be remembered. Apparently the thing that got him to leave is the state prosecutor was threatening criminal charges against him. That's how ingrained the Democrat Party is. They said, basically, you drop out or we're going to bring rape charges against you. Now, what's really sickening about this is that they used it just to get him out of the. Allegedly out of the race. And presumably, I would assume. And now that he's dropped out, they're not going to pursue the charges. That's gross.

[Caller or Guest]

A guy that spent 10 years, okay,

[Rob Carson]

if you're going to drop out, rape

[Caller or Guest]

away, rape away years and kick the platform. That's a predator's paradise. He now defiled his marriage and sent sexual messages to women as a newlywed. You know, and all the things he said now he, he, he gets to go away. He can go back online. He can go around doing all the kinds of things. But, yeah, the, the trash took itself out.

[Rob Carson]

That is fantastic. Oh, my gosh. There, there's a rumor that John Fetterman could be leaving the Democrat Party. And what did I say? I said that the Democrat Party would have to reinvent itself or disappear into the dustbin of history. And they're doing the sweeping. They're doing the sweeping. But here's the thing. Here is Joe Scarborough. He says that those, those psychotic, crazy cat lady academic liberals and the emasculated men in their lives still want platinum.

[Joe Scarborough]

I will say this, and this is just a word of warning to Democrats in Washington, D.C. grant Platner was losing support with independence, no doubt about it. But I will tell you, meek and I have heard nothing.

[Rob Carson]

Nothing.

[Joe Scarborough]

Let me underline that. Nothing. I hear nothing but support from Maine Democrats on the ground for Plat to

[Rob Carson]

give an idea what sort of people they are.

[Joe Scarborough]

Yeah, Platner signs are still up.

[Co-host or Guest]

Wow.

[Joe Scarborough]

They think that this is, this is Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeff.

[Rob Carson]

I wouldn't put a Platner sign in my, in my front lawn if I had a young daughter living there.

[Co-host or Guest]

He's.

[Joe Scarborough]

And the Washington establishment, he might stop

[Rob Carson]

by for a campaign visit, which meant

[Joe Scarborough]

coming to get him. They all have the same story. They started hearing 10 days ago that people were coming up to Maine and they were desperate to try to get Platner off the ballot because they thought Susan Collins had too much on him and would destroy him. I will tell you, without revealing any names, that we have been bombarded by phone calls and text messages from people who want Graham Platner off the ballot, who are high up in Maine politics. And we've been getting that for the last two weeks.

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There you go. Put it right, right back in. Put him in, please. Put him in. Put him in. Although the, the roster of candidates, the leading guy is supported by the Democrat socialists and he is not ready for primetime. We have got such a glorious show ready to go today. So if you want to chime in, 800-922-6680. This is the Rob Carson Show.

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[Political Commentator]

Taking a step back, anyone with half a brain could have seen this thing coming. Okay, this was a car accident waiting to happen. How many pieces of evidence did we need to understand that Graham Platner should not be the Democratic nominee in this U.S. senate race? Okay, how was the Nazi tattoo not enough?

[Rob Carson]

You'd think.

[Political Commentator]

How was the fabrication of his biography not enough? How were the other credible allegations of sexual assault in the months leading up to this latest discovery not enough? I mean, this is extraordinary.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, yeah. The. I've never heard a contrition from the Democrat Party. I don't, I don't know what this is about. Maybe they feel like nationally it has done so much damage to the party, exposing to everyone that there are no lows that the Democrat Party will not go to to get someone office. Everybody looks like fools. Liz Warren looks like fools. Hakeem Jeffries, they all look like fools. A lot of, a lot of people started bailing a while ago, but, but some stuck around and it is, it is utterly, utterly embarrassing for the party, to be quite honest. However, Maine Democrats are like, it was not our choice to get rid of them. We should have kept them. This is Democrat Representative Shelley Pingree saying, stay the hell out of Maine's business.

[Shelley Pingree]

Just stay away and stop writing all your dumbass columns on the Internet and telling us what we should be doing. And don't call me anymore. I don't want to hear your ideas about, you know, why we're not doing it well enough. And, you know, it's.

[Interviewer]

That's just.

[Shelley Pingree]

That's just not how we do it here. And. And Devin made a really good point. We're independent. We don't like to be told what to do, and we're not stupid, and

[Rob Carson]

we like our sexual predators with Nazi tattoos. So mind your own business, you know? This is embarrassing. Yeah, that's just. That's just. I mean, honestly, I. I like the show Main Cabin Masters. I love that show. A bunch of kind of ex hippies going out and. And redoing these. They call them camps up there in Maine. They call them camps. They don't call them cabins. They call them camps. And, uh, and, uh, you know, they're kind of hippie dippy. You know, they were Grateful Dead stuff, but they're kind of. They're like Maine rednecks, you know, liberal rednecks. It's kind of weird, but. But they're making Maine look just damn foolish. Honestly, just absolutely. Just absolutely foolish. Here is Ro Khanna. Ro Khanna. Ro Khanna. Just a week ago. And again, maybe it's because the Democrat party look so foolish and have exposed themselves again as willing to. To vote in Satan if necessary, even knowing that if. If Satan is voted in, he will destroy the world and all humanity. But they got a seat. All right. They got a seat. Here's Ro Khanna.

[Co-host or Guest]

As Democrats believe in respecting the equality and the dignity of women, and we always will. And we reject unequivocally misogyny. We reject it, but you know who else rejects it? Graham Platner. Those years that he came back.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, my God.

[Co-host or Guest]

Were not the best years of his life. He was ashamed of some of the things he said and did. And then he, unlike others, took accountability for it. We need to find some way of having grace.

[Rob Carson]

They were talking about redemption. The Democrat Party was talking about redemption. I know. Funny, right?

[Co-host or Guest]

We need to find some way of having redemption.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[Co-host or Guest]

We need to find some way of saying that if someone was felt hurt by Graham in a past relationship, we can listen to them and we can listen to Graham and we can have conversations.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, yeah, they. Oh, they were just all in. They look so stupid. They just look so stupid. Here's the guy that is supposedly, like, the front runner. His name is Troy Jackson. He is not ready for primetime. He was on with Katie Turd. Tur. It's Katie Tur. Sorry. With cnn. And it was being asked, hey, Man, I mean, why did you stick with Glam Platner through all of this? And he has such a non answer. It shows that he's a rube.

[Interviewer]

Why did you stick with him for so long? Why'd you stick with him after the Nazi tattoo? Why'd you stick with him after the New York Times article and the aggressive women stuff? Stick with him after the Reddit posts that were arguably racist and sexist? I know he denies the sexual misconduct allegations, but why did you stay with him for so long?

[Rob Carson]

Listen, well,

[Unidentified Speaker]

the, the Nazi tattoo and the Reddit posts, I mean, I didn't know. I mean, I haven't ever been on Reddit but you know, people talked about those things and then he turned around, said, you know, that these were times whenever they were dark for him and you know, he'd grown and all this stuff. I mean, they were, you know, a different time period for him. And I understood, you know, that people can change.

[Rob Carson]

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Happy Friday. How are you?

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I'm glorious. I. I've just been very busy moving. And I just texted you a few minutes ago because I've not had a chance to ask you what you want to talk about today. And you said, how about you talk about why you built a studio? And I'll just explain. When I moved here a year ago, I expected the studio would be around a while longer. And then I got. I'm getting booted wicked early. But I look at it as a great opportunity, as a test run is what it is. And that's why I built the studio.

[Mary Walter]

Yeah. No, but if we. I would like it noted that you and I have many conversations. And I said to you, why are you spending all this money on this, you know, this beautiful desk and this studio, and you're spending all this time and you're doing all this stuff when the Newsmax studio is right there and

[Rob Carson]

you're spending all this money because I hadn't been invited. I had not been invited by Newsmax to be in this.

[Mary Walter]

Did you ask them?

[Rob Carson]

Yeah. I mean, it was not even a possibility because I moved here my own volition. I did not. I did not move here because Newsmax asked me to move here. And I would not expect Newsmax to say, oh, one of our employees has decided to move here. Let's build a studio for him. So I said I had an opportunity was given to me, you know, Mom, Really? Mom, are we gonna go there?

[Mary Walter]

Mom, hold on, hold on. How many guests have you had? Sit on those beautiful chairs you bought?

[Rob Carson]

Sunshine, the opportunity. A lot of things changed. A lot of things changed. But I am very proud. I'm very proud of what I've done here.

[Co-host or Guest]

What?

[Mary Walter]

Listen, I think what you did is great, as I said to you, but I just think it was a little early. And I said, I understand how these big plans, but as I said to you, I said, because I have a studio too. And it's upstairs in the third floor servants bathroom.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, you've got a servant's bathroom. Well, stop it. Oh, my God.

[Mary Walter]

Well, this house was built before income tax, okay?

[Co-host or Guest]

So.

[Mary Walter]

So I've got. I've got a little table from, from, you know, Costco with a microphone.

[Rob Carson]

Well, you ain't Rob Carson. You ain't Rob Carson, baby. That's all you need to know.

[Mary Walter]

You ain't Rob Carson stuff now, now, you ain't Rob Carson, all this stuff, don't you.

[Rob Carson]

No, I don't. They're gonna move the big desk into the Newsmax facility. Then they're going to move it over to the brand new one while I'll have a dedicated space. There you go. Let's talk about other stuff. What do you suppose the worst names in America to have right now are men and women? Worst names. According to a new survey in America. What's the worst man name, do you suppose? The one that is usually prejudged before every other name.

[Mary Walter]

That's really hard because I think you judge with a lot of different names. I know, I know people in your life and you're like, oh, you know Rob. I know a guy named Rob and he's great. So you like, you think automatically think, that's a good name. There are some ethnic names that I think. And this what my mother said because my dad's German. My mother was like, we are not. We'll give those kids middle names that are German, but they're normal. Their first names are going to be normal and names that the kids can't mock. That's a really tough. Like, whenever I hear about a girl named Bri. I always want to know if she has a home named Cheddar. Right.

[Rob Carson]

I know, I know.

[Mary Walter]

You know, and some of them are like, oh, do you have a sibling at home named Kale? It's just like, people just mess stuff up.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[Mary Walter]

Made up names. And I also think, do you ever

[Rob Carson]

get called Virgin Mary?

[Mary Walter]

You know, someone asked me in Israel, and who are you named after?

[Co-host or Guest]

I'm like, yes.

[Caller or Guest]

What?

[Rob Carson]

So the answer is Chad. Chad is a long fixture on the Internet.

[Mary Walter]

Yeah. Yes, I see it.

[Interviewer]

Chad.

[Rob Carson]

It's a. It's a symbol of exaggerated male confidence. Right behind Rob, I guess.

[Mary Walter]

I think, I think the name. Yeah. In your case, Rob, it's not exaggerated.

[Rob Carson]

Well, thank you. No, it's laughable.

[Mary Walter]

All I can think of is the hanging chad, Right?

[Rob Carson]

Oh, God, yes.

[Mary Walter]

Right, like that's the only thing. And that's where I think the witch had went sideways.

[Rob Carson]

Can you imagine how bad it would have been to be a Chad in, in like the year 2000? It would have been pretty. How's it hanging, Chad? Karen is the, is the name for women. It's the worst name. And I feel bad for Karen's. Somebody came up with Karen. They decided to make Karen, you know, a white liberal busybody, to make Gladys Kravitz. They should have named her Gladys.

[Mary Walter]

Right. But think about that. Can you imagine if you came up with a name for a black, white, a black female busybody? You will be considered racist. No, because you would pick a stereotypical black name.

[Shelley Pingree]

Right.

[Mary Walter]

It would be considered racist.

[Unidentified Speaker]

Yeah.

[Mary Walter]

But it's okay to do it to a white woman.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, it is, it is. It's a shame. Can you remember Hurricane Katrina? Katrina was a bad name to have when Hurricane Katrina happened.

[Mary Walter]

Can I just say, Katrina was probably a bad name before Katrina.

[Rob Carson]

I don't know, I don't think that Katrina is kind of cute, do you?

[Mary Walter]

I just think of a large woman who probably was on the East German swim team back in the day.

[Rob Carson]

42% of Americans don't feel they embody the spirit of their own first name. Older generations report the weakest connection. Only 31% of Gen Xers like us and 29% of Baby Boomers said they strongly identify with their name. Me, I'm that way. I've got a, you know, I use a. I use a fake name on the radio. My real name is Rob Hitler Bin Laden. Younger resident respondents fared better. 44% of Gen Z, 40 of millennials say their first name feels like a genuine fit There you go. How about you? Like your name?

[Mary Walter]

I don't. When I was growing up, I hated my name because I didn't have a nickname. Both my brothers have longer names that are nicknames. And I always wanted a nickname.

[Rob Carson]

Could have been Harry, Mary.

[Mary Walter]

But you don't. It's really nicknameless, you know, so. When I was a kid, I always wanted a nickname. Never had one. And so I. I don't feel one way or the other. My name's just super easy. And I had some. I had a new sex producer come on and go. And how do you pronounce your name? I'm like, Mary and Walter. They're like, okay, just checking.

[Co-host or Guest]

Like what?

[Mary Walter]

Like, how do you have to check on that?

[Rob Carson]

I. I think I'm gonna start calling you Summer Steel from now on. Summer Steel on the radio.

[Co-host or Guest]

Yeah.

[Mary Walter]

1970s radio DJ.

[Rob Carson]

I know, I know, Larry. Hey, did you realize? Did you realize Buc ee's, if you work at Buc ee's, you can make a ton of money. You could make up to $275,000 a year with no college degree required. Did you know about that?

[Caller or Guest]

No.

[Mary Walter]

And I don't know what you would have to do. And I've never.

[Rob Carson]

Let me tell you.

[Mary Walter]

Buc EE's, because they're so huge. I don't think there's enough land, undeveloped land left in the state of New Jersey to put one.

[Rob Carson]

I went to the doctor the other day at a procedure, and the woman who was there. No, no, no, no. She drove across Virginia to go to Buc Ees for dinner.

[Mary Walter]

She's got a lot of time on her hand.

[Rob Carson]

I know, I know, I know. So the chain often says, no experience necessary. But here's the deal. There was a sign out in front of a Buc ee's starting pay, 20 bucks an hour for cashiers, warehouse staff, grocery stockers, maintenance workers, Restroom crew members, 25 bucks an hour. Team leaders, 23 and $28 an hour. Department managers, $33 an hour. Then assistant managers, 125 a year. Food service managers, 155 and 200 overall. Store managers, between 200, $275,000. Health care, three weeks of paid time off, which I've never had in my Life, and a 100% company match of 6% and additional 2% for overnight shifts. Oh, my God. For 401k.

[Caller or Guest]

Yeah.

[Mary Walter]

That's pretty amazing. That's pretty amazing.

[Rob Carson]

Well, you know, in radio, you're a heartbeat away from working at a convenience store or waiting tables, so it's perfect. It's perfect.

[Mary Walter]

100%. But at this point in my life, life, I'm donning that vest and I'm gonna go be a greeter at Walmart.

[Rob Carson]

Whatever the hell works. Whatever you got. What's what. I call you the Steel. Yeah, Summer Steel. Summer Steel at Walmart. You don't look like a Summer. Anyway, coming up, there is a new. There is a new location where liberals are fleeing from and. Or to, I should say from New York and la. And it's causing a Catholicism. Boom. I'm gonna share that. On the other side of the break with Summer Steel, AKA Mary Walter. Let's take a break and come back. This is Rob Carson show.

[Co-host or Guest]

Come on, feet.

[Rob Carson]

Come on.

[Co-host or Guest]

Stop moving.

[Rob Carson]

Got to get me there. Joining us on the Newsmax hotline, formerly Mary Walter, now Summer Steel,

[Co-host or Guest]

W N

[Rob Carson]

Chicago. What do you think?

[Mary Walter]

It's so serious. Except I have to talk like this. I have to get a really raspy voice.

[Rob Carson]

Hey, Summer Steel. Summer Steel, everybody. Oh, my gosh. I have worked at so many radio stations with jingles. Oh, swear to God, I remember I said I never work at a radio station with a jingle right out of the bat. Jingle package.

[Mary Walter]

They all do it.

[Rob Carson]

It's all right. Nothing wrong with the jingle. Nothing wrong with the jingle. So affordable. Hotspot. Popular with Americans fleeing liberal New York and Los Angeles is a huge Catholicism. Boom. Phoenix, Arizona, has seen a sharp rise in Catholics, with the local diocese growing to more than 2 million parishioners in recent years. That's kind of interesting, isn't it?

[Mary Walter]

That's interesting because I do have friends who moved to, To Arizona, which I just think. I don't.

[Rob Carson]

It's too damn hot.

[Mary Walter]

It's just hot.

[Rob Carson]

Even if it's a dry heat, it does it. Screw that dry heat stuff. It's hot.

[Mary Walter]

Yeah. It's like people who go to Florida, like, no, the weather, fine. We just, you know, you put the air, you have air conditioning. I'm like, so you're never in the weather? The weather's great because you're never in it. Same thing in Arizona, he says, but it's a dry heat. And I'm like, but it's dusty and I, I don't like desert. I can see where the desert in some spaces is. Is beautiful. But, like, just battling that dust all the time with the dust naturally in the house.

[Rob Carson]

We, we drove through. I went to Sedona, and we drove from Phoenix to Sedona. And. And you will die in that desert in like an hour. I mean, it is Though it is. It's hell on earth out there. It's really scary. Really scary out there.

[Mary Walter]

Well, I get. I guess you're not, you know, they're not living in that area.

[Rob Carson]

You would suppose. Yeah, you would suppose.

[Mary Walter]

Don't go on a hike. If your husband says, hey, let's go on a hike. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't see. I don't see that. If that makes them happy, God bless them. As long as they're not bringing their politics. That's the problem.

[Rob Carson]

That's exactly right.

[Mary Walter]

City Catholic or not, and they bring their politics, and that is the problem. They're spreading this crap all over the country.

[Rob Carson]

They're like the aliens from Independence Day. The diocese saw a rise in adult confirmations, first communions. I don't see anything on. On, you know, possessions. Satan possessions. I think they stayed in New York.

[Mary Walter]

They probably don't have their own neck. Well, I've seen it.

[Rob Carson]

Extra citizens and all. Now, people, here's what I. Here's what I think, and here's what I know, actually. National survey by the Archdiocese of Chicag found many converts were drawn to Catholicism for. By a personal hunger. Others cited the church's traditions, including its liturgy and history. I think it's the thing I like about it. It's not an insult to your intelligence, like a lot of these, you know, these preachers wearing $5,000 suits and driving, you know, tester roses.

[Mary Walter]

I think that in general, people want that structure back. We become so unstructured. We become a society where there is no. There are no consequences for bad behavior. So we see bad behavior spread. We see a generation that's been brought up without fathers, without structure. And I think that generation. You see, this is why I think you're seeing the younger generation spur this movement, because they want structure, they want tradition. We got rid of traditions. It's bad to do something that's traditionally American because that, you know, it's all the third world people who moved here. What about their traditions? You know, so it kind of brings calm and order into a chaotic world for a lot of people.

[Rob Carson]

Also, let's not forget the aerobic exercise, because you got stand up, sit down, kneel, stand up, sit down, kneel. It's really. Then sign the cross, stand up, sit down, kneel. It's really good. And you know why they do that? To make sure you don't fall asleep in the pew. Duh.

[Mary Walter]

That's what I was gonna say. Yeah, but, you know, but. But the other thing, too, is you're going an hour tops. Like it's not one of these two to three hour things.

[Rob Carson]

Yes, yes.

[Mary Walter]

And it's the same everywhere you go. So if you go to mass when you're on vacation, you know, if you go to mass in other places, it's the same service. So there's a continuity and I think there's a lot of comfort in that continuity, that in the chaotic world there is something that's stable.

[Rob Carson]

Now let's talk about something that's on the radar news wise, which is Graham Platner and the Democrat Party. The Democrat party showing some sort of contrition like, wow, we really screwed up. I think they just made such fools of themselves and showed that they, they would vote for Satan himself if they thought that Satan could win. What are your thoughts on this?

[Mary Walter]

Well, okay, so I, I just think they didn't vet him. You saw those two idiots who were in charge of vetting him. The guy,

[Rob Carson]

and he talked like this.

[Mary Walter]

He was like up here, the vocal fry ending up talking like a 13 year old girl.

[Rob Carson]

Oh God.

[Mary Walter]

But they are, they're all soy boys. And they picked this guy, you know, they picked him because he seems like he's very masculine. Right. And they were told to find an alpha male. They found an alpha male who's like out of control and they didn't vet him. But here's the beauty of all of this. Graham Platner has not filed the paperwork yet that he needs to file by 5 o' clock Monday. And I think he's going to make them squirm. We know that Mamdani's people went up there and met with him for a day or two before he, before he, you know, made the video that he was going to drop out.

[Shelley Pingree]

Yeah.

[Mary Walter]

And so we know that the communists are involved in this. So it'd be interesting to see. I think he will file the paperwork. I think that's what he's been told. You're going to file the paperwork. It'll be interesting to see if he runs on a different platform. But the guy whose name is being floated as a replacement, Troy Jackson, has his own problems.

[Rob Carson]

Oh my God. Yes, and right.

[Mary Walter]

Throwing a ball.

[Rob Carson]

And he's not ready for primetime either. He's not ready for prime time. If you hear this guy talk, he's a fool.

[Mary Walter]

But his bigger problem, fool or not, is that, you know, he served in the main house or legislature and he got, he got frustrated with a female lawmaker and apparently threw a bottle at her and hit her in the head with it. And there were multiple witnesses because he did it at the State House.

[Rob Carson]

So, yeah, there's also some financial issues, like legal issues as well.

[Mary Walter]

Well, yeah, those things don't bother them. They'll, they'll just, they'll wipe right over that. They'll just blow right past that. You know, lots of Democrats have legal problems. And you know, Leticia James, my daddy's my husband. Sorry, it's an honest mistake. I have to, I have two primary residents. Adam Schiff, it's a, you know, they get away with that, but they're throwing the bottle and there are allegedly several witnesses who saw this. They're going to have whole a hard time with that.

[Rob Carson]

Well, main voters want to keep him. That's what Joe Scarborough says. He's generally wrong about everything. But main voters want to keep him. I say keep him, keep him, keep him, keep him. And just watch him get destroyed. Get him destroyed. He's going to get destroyed. He was behind by four on Monday. It means that he's going to lose by 20 in November. There's no doubt about it. Mary Walter, we got to go tell everybody where they can find your awesomeness.

[Mary Walter]

Well, later today I will be on Newsmax at 1:30 on I will be on Newsmax and of course, just look for me on social media. Mary Walter radio with no s. Mary Walter radio.

[Rob Carson]

All right, have a glorious day, American night. Nice to talk to you in a good weekend. All right, let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show. Tom Borello doing Voodoo Child. Turn this up. It's so good, so good. Oh, I've got a 5000 watt sound system in my Bronco, who I lovingly refer to as Buck and I. Crank this. All right, here's another song that you guys absolutely love. Number one on the hit list.

[Co-host or Guest]

We love to win.

[Rob Carson]

Winning, winning.

[Co-host or Guest]

So much winning. It's lots of winning.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Lots of winning.

[Shelley Pingree]

Lots of winning.

[Political Commentator]

Lots of winning.

[Rob Carson]

Lots of winning.

[News Reporter]

Lots of winning.

[Rob Carson]

So the first half of 2026 has seen the lowest jobless claim since 1969. Yeah, weekly additional unemployment claims. First week came in at 215,000, which is a very low level. Even more impressive, the average over the first six months, 213,000. To put that in perspective, the last time the January through July period was this low was 1968 to 1969. It's working. Stick it, Democrats. The low level of layoffs, jobless claims are a proxy for layoffs is notable for two other reasons. First, it defies the narrative that AI is killing jobs. Second, it has gone almost unnoticed and certainly uncelebrated because the media wants Donald Trump to fail. And it's not going to work. Not going to work. The legacy media describes the labor market as being in low, higher, low fire mode. It's not accurate. We're not in a low hire environment. The economy has added 3.1 million jobs since January before seasonal adjustments. After seasonal adjustments, we're up to three, up 392,000 despite losing 157,000 in February. A lot of those government jobs because they're cleaning house at the Fed. Since then, we've added 548,000 seasonally adjusted jobs, an average of 137,000 per month. That's pretty fantastic. It looks like health care employment is the place you want to be. Survey shows that layoff rates in health care and social assistance are extraordinary low. So there you go. It's working. Manufacturing is coming back. Trillion trillions of dollars coming here. Toyota is going to start building the Tacoma, lovingly known as the Taco in Tejas. Thank you very much. The Tacoma returns to Texas and and much is happening. Then Apple is doing $15 billion chip manufacturing plant here and things are looking up despite the Democrats trying to drag us into darkness. But we're not going. Nope. Nope, we're not. Nope, we're not. Nope, we're not. New stuff from James Talarico, the creep from Texas who's not going to win the Senate seat down there. Oh, unbelievable story out of Minneapolis with gang members and Marco Rubio gets medieval on antifa and a guy that Tim Voltz had parked. That's coming up in the next hour. Don't go anywhere.

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