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They were down with the left 100% and they parroted the talking points of the federal government without question. That's what they did. So if you would check out Newsmax. My show is on the weekends, by the way, and it's pretty, it's pretty darn good. Here is. This is interesting. This is Joe. Robert Rogan played a little Rogan earlier. Joe Rogan is recognizing, he said that they've opened the, the casket and the vampire of, of Doge, I should say. The Doge isn't the vampire. The deep state is the vampire. Doge is trying to drive a stake into it. And as I have said, the left dies like movie vampires. They, they try to drag you kicking and screaming into hell and that's what they're trying to do. That's when, you know, wrinkly old Maxine Waters shrieks at the top of her decrepit old cobweb filled bones. And, and that's why they're doing it. It's because Democrats know they can't win elections on issues. So they have to have the government unions behind them. USAID, 97% of political donations went to the Democrats in the election year 2024. That's the way they do it. Same goes with the postal service, same goes with every other government union. This is about the caterwauling is because we. Once they're gone, once those people are fired and their unions hopefully maybe disbanded altogether, then they have no power. It's the same way with the Department of Education. Why do you think they're caterwauling? Why would they support, why would anybody support a department where every metric of success and excellence in education has plummeted since that agency was created, including right now 70% of kids across America cannot read at grade level. Why would the Democrats defend the agency that did that? Well, it's because of all that sweet, sweet money and votes from these leftist leaning unions that are represented by Randy Weingarten, who was a childless, bitter cat lady who probably hates children. Probably rounds them up like that scary Child hunter in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, you know, leads them with lollipops into a, into a wagon and then closes the door and you realize it's actually a cage. You know, that kind of thing. That's, that's. I think that's what she does. She and Nancy Pelosi. But here is, here is Joe Biden talking about the, the, the Democrat Party, their modus operandi. When that, when they control the media and they control all these agencies. He makes a brilliant analogy. Yeah. Like a big part of the whole left wing narrative that has like overlaid our country over the last, whatever, eight years, 10 years, is all propaganda funded by our own government. This is why Trump won the election. Yeah. People don't really believe in these things. The amount of people that think that transgender biological males should be competing against your daughter in sports is so small. Yeah. But yet our own government was propping it up. Yes, it's so. And why are they propping it up? Because it's a beach ball at a concert. You keep it tossing up in the air and everybody's just distracted. Yes. As long as you can keep a few things going. Here's the things you got to keep going. Abortion. Yeah, right. Overtoning. Roe v. Wade is so great for business because now it's like a battle. The battlegrounds. And women's rights and their lives are at stake. Okay, that's one. Gay marriage. That's a huge one. They're. Now they're going to take away gay marriage. Oh, my God. Bounce that beach ball. We care. That's a gigantic one. War is a giant one. Oh, yes. All these different things are just beach balls. And they toss them around every now and again. And in the meanwhile, they're just siphon it. Billions of dollars. Yeah. Zelensky just said he's missing $100 billion in the 177 billion that we suppose. Yeah, yeah. Our government is the largest organized crime operation in world history. World history. And very little of that money made it to you. Because all of the agencies in our government are failing largely at everything they do. Everything they do. They're failing at it. All of the agencies are broke. None of the agencies are providing satisfactory service for anyone. And they always want more money to fix it, but they never fix it. That's just the way it works out. That's just the way it works out. Here is. Oh, this is Donald Trump talking about Doge and the Democrats who are caterwauling because their votes are about to disappear. I watched some of these Horrible people like Maxine Waters. Real sleaze. Oh yeah. And I watched her screaming at the security guard or whoever he was. I actually, he was pretty cool at the Department of Education. Standing in front of the Department of Education. She's only looking for trouble. She's not looking to help people. You know, it's kind of weird because there were some Republicans who wanted to get into the D.C. gulag because there were prisoners in. They were kept there for four years without a trial and they were being denied clean water and toiletries and. And all. And some of them tortured, you know, wearing box cuffs for more than 24 hours and whatnot. And. And they wouldn't let them in either. Learn. Look, tell Maxine and all of our friends that we're last in education out of 40 states. We're last. We're number 40. Yeah, but we're number one in cost per pupil. That's all you have to know. Yes. We have to make a change. I want to send education back to the states. Yeah, but you ever seen this woman named Rosa Delaro? The one who looks like. I don't know, she got like purple hair and she. She looks like somebody who would lure children into a house made of candy in the woods and then feed them lots of candy to fatten them up and then push them into an oven and eat them. That's what I think she looks like. Here she is yesterday. Listen to the myriad lies that she's saying about getting rid of the corrupt Department of Education that has seen America's schools descend to 40th place in the world and 70% of our students not being able to read it at grade level. The other piece of that is the outrage of the American public when you think we've got candy in here kids. But there is a legal issue but you have to think about what the. You know, what are they. Okay, now here comes the. The nonsense sky is falling lies cautions to American families. You take education, you're looking at denying people school lunches. That's what she came up with. Getting rid of the Department of Education, getting rid of school lunches. What the hell are taking the opportunity for a college education if you cut Pell Grants, you're not doing that. You're just cutting the. The Education Department student financial aid. There are. Oh, you mean the. The loans that Joe Biden paid off when the Supreme Court said not to whole range of. Of what these services just grabbing. It's not right now do for the American public. That's the worst the kids won't be able to afford apples to give to their teachers on the desk. Oh, that was a long time ago. This has to get out. When you cut education, you title one 72,000 teachers nationwide. No, that's not going to happen. Just your stinking department that manages them terribly gone. Your kid may be in a classroom that doesn't have a teacher. Special education might as well not have a teacher. I mean, remember Covid for developmentally challenged kids that will be cut. What happens to those kids? But again, it's usaid, it's education. They're going to go to Medicaid. And it is about the effect of what happens in the lives of Americans, people of middle class families. Oh, dear God. She's just again grabbing at straws, trying to grab to drag you into hell. This is about getting rid of a governmental agency and giving the money and the support to the states and they're closer to the kids so they can provide everything that that Jack Weed just said we were going to take away. And the reason why she did it is because Democrats specialize in fear porn. That's it. If they had an only fans page, it would just feature Democrats talking about fear porn. That's what would be there. And it'll be all sorts of subscribers. They all be Democrats, union members and whatnot. This is, this is Sebastian Gorkha, Bastian Gorkha, last night talking to Rob Schmidt about why Donald Trump has a mandate and why he's going to be successful even though Democrats are fighting him. If you actually brainwash yourself, you have no understanding how 77 million Americans who want America to be strong, want America to prosper. Yes. Can choose a man who not only comes in on a platform of security, of peace through strength. Yes. But actually keeps his promises. Rob, look at the Instead of an old man with pudding for brains who is on vacation 40% of the time and whose family is the most corrupt political family in world history, every morning we walk into the White House, I have to pinch myself and say, this isn't month five. This isn't the second year of the second administration. It's week four of week four. You've got, you know, the Colombian president sending his plane to take back deportees. That's true. We've got Pete Hegseth dismantling Wokery as we speak. Yeah, he's changing it back to Fort Bragg. Fort Bragg is now Fort Bragg again. Tom Homan at the border. We've got our guys smiting ISIS in Somalia just on week three. Now, I know, I know people Realize promises kept. Now, this is why so many people saw Dirty Harry movies. This is why so many people love the Equalizer movies. Because the bad guys, guys are in charge for a while. And when the good guys come around, they just kick ass. And that's why you go see those movies. That's why you watch those movies time and time again. You know that movie? Nobody. I love that movie. Seen it a dozen times. The good guy has to come back and kick the bad guy's ass. That's why Donald Trump is winning. It is a winning formula. Everybody loves it, and that's what he's doing. One more sound bite from Sebastian Gorka about the return of what I said years ago. Common sense. This is when you realize the grift. The scale of the grift. Yes. Whether it's fema, whether it's usaid, they had no sense of their responsibility to the American people in the American tax. It's like the organized crime family in Equalizer three that took over the small Italian town. And then, of course, what happened? Yeah. Denzel kicks ass. And God bless Elon Musk. Why? Because he comes in with these geniuses will be with the algorithms. And then. And then we have to listen to what people justify money being spent, as you said, for, you know, Big Bird in Iraq or illegals getting hotels paid for in New York. That shocking statistic, I think it was Eric Trump, what was it? 56 hotels in New York that you can't book a room in because they're full of illegals paid for by you and me. That's why President Trump was elected, and that's why common sense is back. Boom. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show. Donald Trump's election. It's the gift that keeps on giving. It's the Rob Carson Show. If I read a list, you'd say, this is ridiculous. And you've read the same lists, and there are many that you haven't even seen. It's crazy. We're talking about hundreds of millions, even billions of dollars. It's just a fraud. It's a big scam. Now there's some good money, and we can do that through a little bit. Any one of a number. I think I'd rather give it to Marco Rubio. Me too. Over at the State Department. Let him take care of the few good ones. But, I mean, usually when you have a list like that, you'll have a couple of, like, bad ones and all good ones. Here we have a couple of good ones. And all bad ones, pretty much. Hundreds of horrible places that they're giving this money. So I don't know if it's kickbacks or what's going on, but the people. Look, I ran on this, and the people want me to find it. And I've had a great help with Elon Musk, who's been terrific. Yeah. You know, one of the things that they spent $20 million on USAID. Imagine what $20 million would do for my hometown of Neola, Iowa, or Persia right next door, where the entire Main street is shut down. They didn't even put up the American flags anymore. Imagine what would have happened in my other hometown where I played baseball, Minden, Iowa, that was wiped out by a tornado this year. Imagine what $20 million would have done for those poor people. Those poor people, yeah. Would have been something else. But instead they spent it on Sesame street in Iraq. Sesame Street. $20 million. Hell, I'll do finger puppets in my studio at home for $1 million. You just. I'll go in. I got. I got extra socks. I literally have a whole bunch of extra socks that I can't find a match for. And I'm either gonna throw them away or I'll do my own version of Sesame street right out of my home studio. I think it'd be great. Jim Gossett actually came up with the Iraqi Sesame street theme song on the Rob Carson Show. 20 they gave us to bomb and kill US aid they gave Iraq a treat can you tell me how to blow how to blow up Sesame Street? How to blow up Sesame street featuring Kermit. It wasn't easy giving up pork. Brand new. Best explosive trap to my chest. Sing along, kids. Soon our mission will be complete. Can you tell me how to blow how to blow up Sesame Street? There you go. That is brand new. How to blow up Sesame street or death to America. Yeah, yeah, yeah. One car bomb Two car bombs from the river to the sea Sesame street will be Jew free Ah, ah, ah yeah. That's the kind of crap that we've been spending money on. It's amazing. Just amazing. And then, of course, the people who signed off on 50, $59 million going to New York from FEMA. FEMA. FEMA. The people who screwed over the people in North Carolina and all that left them hanging. People in Lahaina, Ohio, the people in Springfield, Ohio, the spring. The people in East Palisade, Ohio, and all that left them hanging there. Fema, the Federal Emergency Management, they've been fired. The people who said that $59 million last week, despite the order from Donald Trump to stop. They did it. And so they're all losing their jobs. Yeah. Isn't that cool? Here's Caroline Levitt talking about the people who signed off on $59 million after the new boss took over. Well, I know that Secretary Noem and her team have confirmed that all those who were involved in hitting send on that 59 million dollar payment against the President's executive orders and his agenda will be terminated. And I know Tom Homan. I'll let him speak on it. My dear colleague and friend has very strong feelings about those who continue to leak information about ICE's deportation efforts. We are not going to allow rogue bureaucrats in this city to obstruct the will of the American people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no. $59 million. Can you imagine what a slap in the face it is to you and me, right? $59 million. You and me struggling paycheck to paycheck, and the average wage In America, about 65 grand. 65 grand. You try to have a house, own a house. 65 grand and pay for groceries. Forget about it, man. This is Corinne Jean Pierre. She said that no disaster money was being spent on housing illegals, and she was lying. So disaster relief. This is a falsehood. Disaster relief funds used on immigrants illegally in the U.S. the fact is, no money is being diverted from response needs. That's the fact that. No, it's not a fact. Everything you said that was a fact was a lie. Everything that you saw called disinformation and misinformation was true. And I figured that a while back. This is. Oh, Tom Holman. You don't want to mess with Tom Holman. Tom Holman says not only is he not going to. He's going to defy the orders of sanctuary city mayors and states and all that. He's going to actually target them exclusively. Well, sanctuary cities now, they're putting up every roadblock possible. No, rather than the rest of the. The bad guy in a county jail takes one agent. Arrest a bad guy. When they get arrested and put in a county jail, we got to send the whole team to the neighborhood. So it's going to be. It's very difficult. Thanks. For a city and also the whistleblowers who've been tipping off people to these raids, they're going to be found and they're going to go to jail. There's no if, ands or buts about if you leak a raid. Maybe that's your radio station. KCBS did it. You could lose your license over that. But individuals who are doing this within the the FBI, you're going to go to jail when you're found. We're going to keep coming. What are we doing about sanctuary cities? I'm going to double the manpower in those sanctuary cities. Sanctuary cities, if we can't get them in their homes, we'll get into the place of employment. We're going to have large scale work site enforcement operation. So we're going to send more resources. We're not going to stop. We're going to keep coming. We're going to keep coming with more. We're going to increase the targeting in those cities. We're going to get full steam ahead on sanctuary cities. Sanctuary cities are becoming the priority. Why? Because of protection. They're protecting public safety threats and national security threats. So we're going to double manpower, we're going to double operations, we're going double targeting. We're coming full bore. And they're not going to stop us. And they are not going to stop them. No. Not one little bit. Coming up, J.B. mcCuskey, West Virginia Attorney General to talk about the Climate Super Fund. That's going. Buh. Bye. That's coming up. Don't go anywhere. Hey, guys, it's Carson for Prosper Wellness. Do your knees hurt? I know mine do. They feel like rusty old hinges. And I looked for a solution for years until I found this. They're called Joint Restore Gummies. And I have to tell you that not only do they taste great, they work. My knees are almost like new and I'm moving and feeling better than I have in years. These delicious gummies have two powerful ingredients that radically reduce pain and inflammation in your joints. 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J.B. mcCuskey. He does, doesn't he? Yep. So I was thinking about that early. He joins us on the Newsmax hotline. How you doing there? I'm wonderful, fellas. I love the bumper music, too. Oh, buddy, we've got it. We've got all sorts of great bumper music here on the, on the show. You know, you JB McCuskey does sound like somebody who is destined to be a law enforcement officer. And did you hear what Donald Trump did this morning with Hamas? He said yesterday, if by noon I will meet you. I'm going to meet you in the town square at noon on Saturday. And if you don't have them hostages released, there's going to be trouble. That kind of reminded me of the old school kind of pistols at dawn kind of thing with regard to Donald Trump kind of laying it on the line saying you return the hostages or you go boom, boom. What do you think about that? I love it. I'm an alumnus of the American center for Law and justice. So I have spent a very large portion of my legal career being a supporter of and a legal advocate for the people of Israel and watching President Trump stand up for their right to exist in a way that is meaningful and is steadfast and strong. It is just wonderful to see. You know, I've spent much time in West Virginia. I lived in Washington, D.C. for a dozen years, drove through West Virginia. And I love it. It is wild and wonderful, by the way, for those of you who don't know, it is wild and wonderful and it sounds like the future is very bright for West Virginia with Donald Trump as a president. Obviously, West Virginia is famous for its, its fossil fuels. A lot of, a lot of generations have been mining coal which is absolutely necessary for the, the country to operate. And let me talk about, first of all about Donald Trump's election. And then of course, your governor who is saying that there is a new renaissance coming for West Virginia. And I believe it too, by the way. Hey, here's the deal. Every single freedom loving person that lives in this country that has a family and is looking for a place where they can come in, worship and freedom can, can, can exercise the Second Amendment and freedom can live around other people who will stay out of their business, who are humble and kind and live In a, in the kind of dream American lifestyle. This is your place. And now is the time to get here because the line's getting long. And, and, and we are just excited for everyone that's a mountaineer out there in the country to. What's the closest place, what's the closest place to D.C. because I'm, I, I'm going to be buying a place near D.C. there's no way I'm going to live in D.C. or Maryland because they're insane. And I thought you're going to be living in Jefferson County, West Virginia. All right. Which is as beautiful a place there is in the whole world. I'm thinking about it. It's full of great patriots and people who will welcome you with open arms. I love it, brother. I love it. All right, so a lot of things going on. You have launched a lawsuit with the West Virginia Coal association against the governor of New York because New York is obviously run by a bunch of morons who, who don't understand where their energy comes from. And you've joined some other AGs with 20, 22 other states, I believe. Tell us about what you're doing, my friend. Yeah, so New York passed a Superfund bill, which is a $75 billion fee that is going to be levied against the energy producing companies of this country. And as you know, here in West Virginia, we mine the coal that built the steel that erected the very skyscrapers that these people in New York are looking down on us from. And the irony of that is not lost on me. As they now say, you're toiling your men and women who go to work every day and shower after work instead of before. It aren't good enough for us. And we are, we're going to find you to the point where you can no longer sustain your family and your business. And we know that in America, fossil fuels are the current and the very near future of all of our energy needs. We have a computing and an AI revolution coming. We need more electricity. And there is no way that solar panels and windmills are going to fill that gap. And what we do know is coal and natural gas are going to do that for us. And we're beyond excited to defend our position here and to protect the law abiding, wonderful natural resources companies that are based right here in West Virginia. Well, what would happen if New York, if West Virginia just said, you know, I think we'll just sell our coal elsewhere. What do you suppose would happen to New York, my friend? Well, New York gets a substantial amount of its electricity off the natural gas market. And what would happen is what's already happening, and that is in New York, the average family is spending an astronomical amount of money to power their homes. And not everybody in New York, remember, gets to live in one of these penthouses in New York City. There's a lot of great, you know, middle income, wonderful blue collar families right there in New York who are struggling every day because of the backwards and the asinine energy policy that their state is trying to create, not just in New York, but all over this entire country. And that's really the problem with what New York is trying to do is they are far exceeding their constitutional authority in regulating the energy markets in states that don't, in states that aren't New York City or New York State. Now, how long and what is the process of you shutting down this tax on coal producers around the country? What is the process here and what do you suppose the prospects are that you are going to be victorious? So it's very, it's very important to note that this is not a tax, this is a fee or a fine. Yes. And the process, you know, it's the judicial system. So it isn't, it isn't super swift. But we think that our arguments rise to the level that will add a little bit of exigence to what the judiciary is going to be doing here. And we, you know, we're very hopeful that this can start being litigated in the very near future. Now, dunno if you heard this this morning, President Trump, is this according to Breitbart, Donald Trump waging a war against, against former President Joe Biden's green energy regulations on American household appliances. That's good news because, you know, the media said that Joe Biden wasn't waging a war against gas stoves. New York City, they wanted to eliminate gas stoves in a place that's one of the food destinations of the world. And any cook worth their salt knows that you've got to have gas and electric stoves suck. There are no great kitchens in the world that have electric stoves, are there, sir? There are not. And what we know is that you cannot sear a tomahawk on an electric stove. And I love to steer a tomahawk in my, in my cast iron at the house. And we're real happy to do it with West Virginia natural gas. Well, I am behind you guys 100%. You know, I always laugh because these, you know, you see these idiots who drive electric vehicles and I like to say that EVs are for posers and nothing against people who want to use them as commuter cars. I rode in the Tesla the other day. Elon Musk basically reinvented the electric car, a vehicle that was made completely, completely obsolete in 1890, because in 1888 the first electric car was, you know, sold, I guess, or created. And then in 1890, the gas car came around and made the electric car absolutely obsolete. And they've been trying to force it down our throats forever. But you got idiots like here in Kansas City who have electric cars and these stupid ugly looking electric pickups. I don't know what they look like. Sad, they have sad faces. I don't even know what they're called. Rivians. Rivians are terrible. And then the Ford F150 Lightning, because of that, Ford Motor Company is going to lose $5 billion this year because everybody knows that a electric pickup truck won't haul bleep, you know that. And then on top of all that, when you plug in your, your electric car at home, guess where that power is coming from? The coal fire plant right here in West Virginia. And so I drive a, I got a 1500 Sierra Duramax. Diesel's the way you got the diesel. Oh. But I'll tell you, so what's really interesting to me, and I've talked about this a lot here, is that if, if the people on the left really cared about the people of Appalachia, they would have said, we want you to power every electric car in this country. We're going to allow you to build 10 new coal fired and gas fired power plants to produce the electricity is going to charge these cars. But they didn't do that. They pulled all of our coal plants offline, reduced what we're allowed to do, they reduced the amount of electricity that we can make and then tried to force us to buy cars that we can't afford. I can tell you right now that if they said you can build 10 new coal fired power plants, there wouldn't be 10 gas powered cars here in West Virginia. But that's not how they did it. Because they don't actually care about middle class Americans. What they care about is their agendas that don't have any rational basis in how to make America stronger. Let me ask you this as a, an attorney and a, an Attorney General for the state of West Virginia. These lawsuits against Doge, these lawsuits by judges who were appointed by Democrats trying to shut down the chief executive's right to fire people for not performing for Negligence for, for, you know, being criminal activities. Where do you suppose this is going to end up with these judges trying to interfere with Donald Trump doing what an executive is supposed to do. So let me answer that question two ways. First, they're going to lose those lawsuits. And I think you just described to the layman a very good way in why they're going to lose. And the second thing is I just got done as state, as eight years as the state auditor of West Virginia. Yes, sir. And we created something called the West Virginia Checkbook where we opened up the entire state's financial accounting system into a public facing website. And so what Donald Trump is doing and what Elon Musk is doing is something that everyone used to agree with. Everyone used to think the government was too big and too expensive and we needed to cut the waste. But when Trump and Musk do it, it's somehow evil. And I don't really understand where we've lost our way. But it used to be common knowledge that the federal government was too big and our taxes were too high. Yeah. And now apparently that's only, that's only something that half the country believes. Well, this is all about votes. This is all about votes. This is all about donations from the unions. This is what it's about. 97% of the money donated to Demic was political donations for U.S. aid were Democrats. Okay. All of these teachers unions, the doe, those are all Democrats giving millions and millions of dollars to reelect Democrats. The Democrats cannot win on a platform. The Democrats cannot win on policy. They need the graft and the corruption of the public service unions, everything from the post office, which, which endorsed Kamala Harris always endorses. That's what it's all about. Attorney General, would you not agree? Yeah. And all you got to do is go look at what the, what the blue collar unions did. Right. It's a totally different world when you're talking about the, about the UMWA and some of the, the other unions that aren't public sector and what you're saying is exactly right. I don't think I understand why they're making their big stand on usaid. Right. That is, if we're spending billions of dollars trying to deworm chickens in, you know, Haiti or whatever it is, and that billions of dollars could be spent on helping Americans get childcare and cheaper electricity and the things that young families here in this country need. Yeah. That seems like something everyone should agree with. You think about how many people, poor people in West Virginia could have homes on the, you know $50 billion a year they sent to USAID. And don't forget the experiment where they're trying to turn roosters into hens. In Jamaica, they've been doing a lot of rooster to hens kind of things going on with us. We can all agree that you cannot turn a rooster into a hen, but you'll never succeed. You do not want that chicken waking you up in the morning. That's all I gotta tell you. That's not the Chick Fil a I'm looking for. Oh, brother. No way. I don't want a piece of that chicken. No way. West Virginia Attorney General J.B. mcCuskey. It's been a real pleasure having you on the show. And if I end up in West Virginia, I'm thinking about getting a one of those park and those permanently parked trailers, you know, one of those really nice camping trailers. And I put it in West Virginia and then just commute to dc. I appreciate you joining me. Find you a proper house. How does that sound? Well, I wouldn't mind having a proper house either. I want to keep the costs down. Where can we find you on social media, my friend? Yeah, you can find me @mccutskey4wv, on Instagram and Twitter. And I would love for everyone to give us a follow. We got great content on there. And yes, sir, I can't tell you how much I appreciate your all's time. I'll look forward to talking to you soon. We'll have you on again soon. Let's take a break. This is the Rob Carson show. So let me tell you something, Mr. Trump, you gonna learn a few lessons from us. This is Jasmine Crockett. She turns on the girlfriend whenever she's out talking in public. And. And Imma be the first one you and your little friend off of Twitter. Y' all about to find out. Okay, y'. All. Yeah, let me. Let me be. Yeah, that's Jasmine Crockett. She's in Congress now because the Jerry Springer's dead. Otherwise she would have a job as a regular panelist on the Jerry Springer show because that's the kind of person she is. This is Jim Goss, Jasmine, the future of the Democrat Party. And what we not gonna do is stand around where they pull this bull they trying to pull right now. Yeah, girlfriend, we are gonna be in your face. We are gonna be on your asses. Jasmine. Jasmine Crockett, crazy as she can be, She's a racist from the Lone Star State. She is full of anger, full of hate. She is during a protest at the tre. She had a meltdown for all the world to see. Jasmine. Jasmine Crockett. She hates you if you're white, and I am. Actually, she hates me. She threw a tantrum. Just like Maxine, who wears the worst wig you have ever seen. Yeah, she tried to take on Nancy. She's unbelievable. That idea blew up in her face. Boom. Jasmine. Jasmine Crockett belongs in a padded cell. Yee haw. When will she be committed? Only time will tell. And here is Auntie Maxine going off yesterday again. You'll be tempted to stab your eardrums out with knitting needles. Do not do that. Wow, wow, wow. Look at this crowd. Elon Musk, where are you? Bring your ass over here so you can see who's here and what we're doing. Well, they think they got a movement because they have a hundred federal employees who showed up at a rally surrounding them talking, you know, about keeping their jobs even though they haven't been at work for four years. But they managed to get their asses out of bed and go to Washington for a rally with. With old anti Maxine. Old anti Maxine. Here is Senator Mike Lee last night talking about Donald Trump and these judges are trying to shut down his right to fire people who are underperforming or, or corrupt. Because you see, he's the chief executive. It's important to remember this is entirely within the purview of the executive branch. What they're looking to do. Elon Musk and the Doge crew are going in looking for waste, fraud and abuse. Yeah. Looking to ferret out ways that we can stop this problem. It's landed us $36 trillion in debt with no easy tax. There's no stopping it way out. So the fact that they're doing this and they're doing it within what the law allows, this is where Democrats get upset and they go running to the courts. Having lost in the court of public opinion, having lost elections. Yeah. They're now going to try their hand at litigating and at picking off a few liberal one off judges here and there in order to slow the process down. But make no mistake, Laura, we are going to win. Yeah. The Trump train is not going to come off the tracks, I'm going to tell you that. Jim Jordan last night was on Rob Schmidt's show on Newsmax because you know, Rob Schmidt kicks butt. And here's what he had to say about these judges attack the guy who's exposing the stupid spending instead of addressing the stupid spending. That's the Democrats mantra. And they use all kinds of big words like constitutional crisis, which they've said about President Trump. I remember when they said eight years ago that the Trump Russia collusion, which was a big hoax, that was the biggest constitutional crisis ever. So this is the typical, typical left. And by the way, Elon Musk is every bit as much a federal employee as those 80,000 IRS agents. The guys who work for Elon Musk are every bit as much a federal employee as the career bureaucrats who are supposedly so much smarter than us regular people. This is a fundamental problem the left has. They actually think the bureaucrats run the country, you and I think. And the American people believe. No, no, no. Under our constitutional systems, it's the system. It's the guy who puts his name on a ballot who actually gets to make the decision. Yeah, yeah. And Democrats are only in it for the boats because they have all of the federal unions bought and paid for. It is a gravy train. It is a pipeline. You. The government gives tons and tons of money to teachers union, tons and tons of money to federal employees. The richest benefits package you could ever imagine in the private sector. And what do they do in turn? We all vote for Democrats. They all give their political donations to Democrats. It is a, an organized crime family, that what it is. And Auntie Maxine is like, you know, John Gotti, you know, except for totally annoying. And remember that book when you were a kid called the Saggy Baggy Elephant, where there was this elephant, this little baby elephant he's always made fun of because he had saggy baggy skin and he went over by the river and the alligator grabbed hold of his saggy baggy skin and he was able to get away because the alligator only had his saggy baggy skin and couldn't actually get the elephant. And then of course, he became a hero. That's kind of like, you know, Maxine Waters, in a way. She's saggy and baggy and annoying, actually. So that's the difference. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show. This is the Rob Carson Show. As far as I'm concerned, if all of the hostages aren't returned by Saturday at 12 o', clock, I think it's an appropriate time. I would say cancel it and all bets are off and let hell break out. I'd say they ought to be returned by 12 o' clock on Saturday. And if they're not returned, all of them, not in drips and drabs, not 2 and 1 and 3 and 4 and 2 Saturday at 12 o'. Clock. And after that, I would say all hell is gonna break out. Do you want to mess with Donald Trump? Now, if I'm not mistaken, that's Shabbat. So we'll be doing the bombing because generally Jewish people take Saturdays off. It's the Sabbath, so I don't know. We'll see. We will see. But Hamas is, of course, their response today was Habala, habala, habala, habala, sheep's goats. My girlfriend and then said something like, we are not going to negotiate with you. They sound like Count Chocula. We are not going to negotiate you Frankenberry. Ha ha. Anyway, they're going to get the bot, the stock bombed out of them because, you see, you don't have a president who has dementia in charge anymore. And on vacation, by the way, Joe Biden would have been on vacation this Saturday because he was on vacation 40% of the time. Mostly because he. His brain was mayonnaise. Not even mayonnaise. It was the bad mayonnaise. It was like that olive oil mayonnaise. I got some the other day. It's not very good. It's just, it tastes like a hybrid of Miracle Whip that's gone bad. It's just not. You know, I'm watching my. Getting the cholesterol down about 75 points and, you know, feeling healthy and all that. So I decided I'd try some of that olive oil mayonnaise. It tastes like Miracle. If it's gone bad. It's not. It doesn't taste like mayonnaise. I could eat. I could eat a bowl of mayonnaise. Mayonnaise is so delicious, but it's a bunch of oil and it's not good for you. Not good for you. CNN has reported the top military leaders are allegedly discussing plans to resist orders from Donald Trump. And Pete Eggs. Good luck with that. Oh, you're going to get so. Oh, my God. You will be in the stockade. You will be court marshaled. Particularly those involved in using use of active duty troops for domestic issues like quelling city protests or assisting with deportations. These discussions are causing significant public outcry on social media. And of course, the. If you defy the order of your commander in Chief and your DoD Secretary Pete takes, you're going to go to jail. You are. Your career will be over and you are going to go to jail. That's just the way it is. Also, if I'm not mistaken, Pete Hegseth is renamed Fort Bragg. Fort Bragg. I don't have it right in front of me. But it's named after a different Bragg, not the Civil War brag. There was a World War II Bragg who was part of the Battle of the Bold. So they said, okay, we'll use that brag because he's still very honorable person and we're going to return it to Fort Bragg. There you go. Because you know, the left decided to do this Maoist cultural revolution and they, they got rid of our history and they took down Christopher Columbus and they started going after Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and they changed the name of Fort Bragg and all that and Mount McKinley and all of that. They changed that. And then they took Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben because you know, white women who are liberal, living cul de sacs and drive SUVs and wear yoga pants and drink box chardonnay out of a yeti, they decided that they were going to speak for people of color around the world. And in protest by getting rid of the Land o' Lakes Indian off the butter and getting rid of the Washington Redskins. I know, it's just so stupid. People are so stupid. So, so stupid. Elon Musk, 19 year old doge lieutenant sparks outrage after taking a new role at the State Department. 19 year old worker, an acolyte of acolyte, as they say of Elon Musk, known as Big Balls has been elevated to a new role in the State Department. Why am I talking about this? Why am I talking about this? Because it's. I have the sense of humor of a 14 year old boy and every talk radio host in America is talking about him because he uses the name Big Balls. Take a deep breath for just a moment, okay. And ponder Big Balls. Now let me ask you this. Do you suppose that Joy Reid would have ever said anything like this otherwise? Take a deep breath for just a moment and ponder Big Balls. I can't even imagine Rachel Maddow saying that. Good evening, thanks for joining us. We begin tonight with Musk and Big Balls. Big Balls. Well, look, Anderson led with Big Balls boss Big balls who work for Elon Musk's so called Department of Government Efficiency. He is obsessed with those big balls, that big ball. He is. I mean the one guy in the one case of the balls kid, a literal teenager. Big Balls online. The big balls here that Katie's talking about. A 19 year old that goes by the username Big ball. So that would be one way that we could refer to him. Young computer whizzers. Whizzes. The aforementioned Big Balls. Because who am I? And there's nobody Talking about big Balls more than ol? Ol. Anderson Cooper doesn't feel better about big balls. Big Balls. Big Balls in charge of American. Well, there's, there's Rachel Manow talking about big balls. Air traffic control. Wow. I would have never expected that to come out of her mouth. Anyway, so Big balls is, is somebody they're freaked out about because he's 19 years old. He's a, he's a wunderkind and he is part of the process of, of getting rid of the, the government waste. Big Ball's real name is Edward Korestein, first made headlines when he was identified as one of Musk's Department of Energy Efficiency prodigies working to slash government waste. Constantine, along with a gang of other young men age 25 and below, have been credited, credited with analyzing the data of federal agencies to streamline workflows, identify wasteful spending and recommend changes to Doge leadership and leadership changes to Doge, I should say. And this is about the chief executive of the country, the chief executive of the country firing employees, which is what chief executives do. Okay? They don't send it to Legal. Illegal doesn't fire you. You know, that's why the Democrats are trying to get these judges, these activists, judges to stop this. Legal doesn't get involved unless, unless those people sue you. But you're, you got to be, you're fired. You're fired. There's no, there's no more paycheck, no paychecky for you. And like 80, 65,000 federal workers have reportedly accepted the Trump administration's buyout as a federal judge is expected to weigh in on the matter today. So about that many. If you resigned this program, you'll retain all pay and benefits regardless of your daily workload, will be exempted from your applicable in person work requirements until September 30, 2025. In other words, you're going to do the same thing you've done the last four years and get the same paycheck. Did I mention that guy's nickname is Big Balls? Good evening, thanks for joining us. We begin tonight with Musk and Big Balls. Big Balls. Big Balls. Big Balls who work for Elon Musk, so called Department of Government Efficiency Doge in the one case, the Big Balls kid, a literal teenager. Big Balls Online. Big Balls that Katie's talking about a 19 year old that goes by the username Big Balls. So that would be one way that we could refer to him. Young computer whizzers Whizzes the aforementioned Big Balls. Because who among us doesn't feel better about big balls. Big balls. Big balls in charge of American air travel. This reminds me of third grade in Catholic school. If you said something like that in class, Mrs. Claussen would take you out, but man, we would laugh. Oh, we would laugh. My gosh in heaven, that's fantastic. Doge uncovered a farcical $2.3 million program training soldiers to speak and act in a DEI friendly way. Yeah, this is what our soldiers had to deal with the last four years. This is a toxic femininity, by the way. It is. It's toxic femininity. That. That's what it is. Yeah. So anyway, the Air Force and Space Force were doling out millions for training program not to better enhance soldiers fighting capability, but to help grow inclusive minded leaders. Oh my God, I'm so sorry. This is, you know what happened if you were big balls and you watch, you'd be you all of a sudden they'd be calling you small balls. They would. It was a priority for military officials under former president Joe Biden. He was the president. What? Because of unconscious bias in the military ranks. You know, I'll bet you there are a lot of men in color of color and not of color who fought side by side as brethren in arms and they still are best of friends as veterans. The program allows the participants to have a conversation that are both realistic and difficult. It's another way the Air Force and Space Force are innovating and staying one step ahead of a time when we have difficult conversations. This is part of the video. Are you ready? And this is real. This is not a Jim Gossett bit. This is not a Jim Gossett bit. This is real. This is the kind of crap that toxic femininity, Femininity in the left brought to our military life program is an opportunity to have a difficult conversation when it comes to Deia. Oh my God. Would you just hate to run into him on the field of battle? There is an avatar and behind that avatar there is a trained individual who is going to have the conversation. He or she will be able to either elevate the difficulty of the conversation or back down and understand. What the hell kind of conversation are you having? Are you breaking up with me? I mean, what, what, what really time that we're living in is we have conversations that are difficult, specifically dealing with people or differences of opinions. It's important for us. I don't have a problem with that at all. If I. If it's going to be a difficult conversation, I don't care. You got to get it out. Are you out of your mind as individuals and leaders and service members to have these conversations and allow us to practice having these conversations that are often very difficult to have? This is for airmen. This is for guardians. This is for. What about se ranks, enlisted? I mean, you're talking about, you know, airmen. What about seamen? What about them? What are you going to do about seamen? Honestly? Third grade. All right. James Carble. James Carbill, he was, you know, years ago, he wrote this book about how the Democrats are going to be in party, in power for 40 years, and he wrote it right before Barack Obama lost both houses of Congress. It's because, you know, he's been held up as some sort of a sage, but he's wrong about almost everything. James. Carly, they know he's. He's a stage from knowledge and he talks like a shrimp and gumbo and, you know, possum by whatever the hell they talk about down there. But no, he's not really. He's just a, kind of a, kind of a, an idiot, I guess, to some degree. I mean, I'll say he's an idiot. I just. He never learns anything anyway. Here is James carville Realizing at 82 years old, or is that the Democrat party is run by a bunch of, of idiots I get for my outrage. These are partly like dramatic things or just two things that Democrats have done. What's that? That are so unmoored from reality. What anyone in the country thinks feels like it's almost impossible. The first one is some Democrats, progressives in New York are advocating for bereavement pet leave. Yeah. Okay, so in other words, if your cat dies, you get three days of paid leave. Nothing compared to us. Does anyone even know, like, in rural America, like where I grew up, how many dead animals in the entire history of the United States? Let me tell you something. A Senate that has never, ever, ever been uttered. Well, Martha Fido died, so I can't bail the hay today. There you go. Now I've got a little bit more of James Carwell. We do have to take a break. And by the way, I grew up on a farm, so if an animal dies, you have the rendering truck that comes and gets the dog, the animal. And that's what your dog ends up eating in that can of Kenilworth or whatever the hell it is. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson show. Here's a request going out on the car. Well, I'm upper, upper class, high society, going out to Lincoln county, gift to ballroom Notoriety. A long distance dedicated and I always fill my ballroom. The event is never Arkansas and Florida. The social pages say I've got the biggest balls of all. I've got big balls. I've got big balls. I've such big balls and fancy big balls. Sing it with me. He's got big balls and she's got big balls. There you go. That's that long distance dedication to Lee and Ken, who called the Carson hotline today. A long distance dedication going out to Lee and Ken, also known as Redneck MacGyver. So, yeah, there you go. Elon Musk has big balls and big balls is working for him every day. And big balls. I'm. You know what? I can't do it. I could, I could go. I. You know, I have the sense of humor of a 14 year old boy, as most men do, with the exception of maybe Victor Davis Hansen. But if he was listening to the show right now, he might be chuckling. He just wouldn't make a big deal out of it because that's just how we are anyway. Oh, yeah. Defense Secretary Pete Hegsworth, while on a C17, which is a transport plane that Blaine Holt used to fly enroute to Germany, signed a memorandum renaming Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg, the original name of the storied military base in North Carolina. There it is, pursuant to the authority of the Secretary of Defense, the name change now honor honors Army Private First Class Roland Bragg, a World War II veteran award a Silver Star and not the Confederate general General Braxton Bragg, who the base was originally named for. So that's a pretty good way to do it, is to get somebody who not only was a hero, but also, you know, you wouldn't want that dirty Confederate general in there. He received a Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity and the Purple Heart for wounds sustained during the Battle of the Bulge. During these hellish conditions and almost amidst fearless fear, ferocious fighting, Bragg saved a fetal fellow soldiers life by commandeering an enemy ambulance and driving at 20 miles to transport a wounded soldier in Belgium. There you go. I'll bet he had big balls. There you go. So ball, ball, balls. Hegseth has also moved to implement Trump's ban on transgender troops. Just the opposite of what we've been talking about. That's kind of weird how that happened, isn't it? It's kind of weird. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the military to pause integrating new transgender recruits and suspend planned medical procedures meant to treat current service members diagnosed with gender dysphoria. In compliance with an executive order by Donald Trump. They're calling it the Clinger. The Corporal Clinger directive is what they're calling it. So the order prioritizing military excellence and readiness states expressing a false gender identity divergent from an individual sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service. So anyway, six transgender active duty service members and two individuals seeking to enlist in the military had requested the department notify them whenever the administration issued guidance on implementing the executive order. They got a lawsuit ready to go. But you see the problem is you are not. You cannot be deployed if you are a transgender soldier because of all the, you know, stuff on the fake girl parts that you had drilled. I mean really, how do they come up with that? Where do they put that? Dear Lord, I can't even imagine. I can't even imagine how bad that. You know, I played a little James Carble about how off base the Democrat party is. And James actually. Why didn't he say anything before the election? He had mentioned that, you know, some of the things that the Democrats are doing like bereavement, leave for pets, dying, you know, all of that. I took a day off when my dog died a couple years ago. Our dog Lucy. I did. I took a day off because they're. They're part of the family. I get it. Whether that be mandated by the federal government. No, I don't think so. I mean come on. I mean please just think of how. Fortunately no one's going to overly publicize this. Although the right's using it in some places is just how clueless you sound. Yeah, yeah. To people who are agrarian. Yeah. It's like you know, if you live it on a different thing. Life and death on a farm is something that happens every. Every time. Yeah. Six hours. Oh man. I mean my God, we had a pet cemetery. I'm glad it wasn't like the one that Pete Pete or I should say Stephen King wrote about. Then we had the famous My farm. Our farm would have been scary as hell. DNC chair. Right. So. Okay. I don't really really care. Let me read to you something. What Speaking to the Democratic National Committee which met to select new leadership this weekend outgoing chair Jamie Harrison attempt to explain the point whereas rules concerning gender balance for his vice chair. Right. Yeah. That was about the dnc their big leadership conference where they talked about diversity and gender balance where there was male, female and then another sex and they. That's the Democrat Party. The real specified we have a gender non binary candidate office that a non binary individual is counted as neither male or female and a remaining six office must be gender balanced. Harrison said. Did I just, did I just read this? Of course I did. Yeah. Yeah. The Democrat Party is, they're, they're done and now they're defending U.S. aid. They're gathering in Washington D.C. surrounded by government employees who slavishly give their political donations to the Democrat Party. There are no Republicans protesting USAID and taking away. You know, Anthony Fauci would send people from NIH to Wuhan to buy dog meat at wet markets, fly back here and feed it to kittens. That was one of their experiments that Dr. Mengele was doing in the US and they were experimenting with transgendering animals and then giving them these party drugs. Haven't been to a club in a while, so don't know what kind of drugs they're handing out at clubs these days, but that's the kind of crap they were doing. And the Democrats are defending it. And the rest of the country says you guys are friggin nuts. You're nuts. It's the 8020 split that I talked about. It's not just for meatloaf anymore. Now the 8020 split is, is 20% is the Democrats take, they go with the 20% and the 80% go with common sense and think the 20% are nuts. Do you know why? Because the 20% are nuts. That's why. Let's take a break and come back, my friends. This is the Rob Carson Show. Hey guys, it's Carson for Green Chef. 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Take advantage of this exclusive offer. Go to greenchef.com newsmaxfree and get the number one meal kit for eating well. Next is an executive order relating to the use of paper straws. As you've consistently identified, nobody really likes paper straws. Number one trending, if you believe in a paper straw, it was number one trending for three days or so. Something. The environmental impact of plastic straws versus paper straws is entirely unclear. This has cost both the government and private industry an absolute ton of money and left consumers all over. Yeah, you know, that's one of the many executive orders that Donald Trump signed. You may not think it's a big deal. I was in New York over Christmas and I went down to the Starbucks in the hotel and, and I got a big, you know, Venti Turbo, you know, iced coffee with a shot of espresso. I know it's hard to believe I drink from that, three of them. But anyway, they gave me a paper straw. I've never had one of these paper straws. And I go over, I started drawing on this paper straw. It fell apart. And so the next day I went there and the barista standing there and she said, would you like a paper straw? And I just looked at her, I said, would you? And she goes, no, of course not. They're terrible. And they are. It's just one of the nonsensical things that's been foisted upon us in the last four years by the idiots who were, who were holding the strings for the, you know, the pudding for brains puppet that we had for president. But any, that aside, you know, a lot of things happened in the last year. The price of gold went up, let's see, 28% January to January, 24 to 25. 28%. That, that's better than Nancy Pelosi's portfolio. And, and here to talk about that is my friend Philip Patrick, a precious metal, metal specialist with birch gold. Hello, my friend. How you doing today? Doing well, thank you. How are you? Great. It's good, good to talk to you again. I couldn't believe that. And then I saw, what was it last Friday? I think gold crossed the $2,800 mark, which is, I mean, unbelievable when you think of what's, what is, what is doing this, what is doing this to gold? Because I mean, it sounds like right now is just an incredible time to have. Absolutely is. And it's being driven ultimately by all time high demand. Basically. Since 2022 central banks have set records year on year on year for gold buying. We expect that to continue and we Expect gold to continue to move, which it is. You know, there's other metals that we are, are in high demand, maybe not as valuable as gold, but Donald Trump is saying 25% on tariff on steel and aluminum imports from other countries. What is the economic logic behind that? Yeah, look, 25% tariff on steel imports now, regardless of origin. 25% tariffs on, on, on aluminum. Look, I think the intention's pretty clear. Look, our domestic steel and manufacturing simply isn't enough to supply American industries, and that's a problem. Things like defense, aerospace industries, highly dependent on steel and aluminum. Right now we import 25% of our steel and 80% of our aluminum. So I see this as another move to make American manufacturing less reliant on global supply chains and foreign nations. So, so it'll boost employment here in the United States and ultimately make us less reliant on others. Well, I mean, there are entire cities that have been built on steel. Obviously, the most, the most obvious is, is Pittsburgh. They've moved away from that, but it is still something in high demand. Obviously, it's always going to be in high demand. So, yeah, you know what, that's, that's actually, I think less about punitive with regard to a tit for tat tariff with other countries, but also just basically telling Americans buy American steel that's we don't need this other. It's the same steel, but why are we importing it when we can produce plenty of it here? You know what I mean? It's exactly right. It's also a national security risk. Yes. Due to supply chain issues, we can't make things that we need. So I think it's both of those things. You're absolutely correct. Now, you've been following this. The Doge going after government waste, and they found a lot of irregularities while reviewing the Department of the Treasury's payments. And then also I heard that Donald Trump is. They're no longer going to mint pennies and possibly even nickels because both of them cost more than it costs to press them. You have any thoughts on that? Yeah, we finally got some common sense in the White House. Right. You know, making a penny that could cost four pennies to make is an absurdity. By the way, scrapping the penny alone frees up $180 million of taxpayer money. Wow. Obviously drop in the bucket compared to the deficits we're running. But things like this are exactly what we need to do. You're correct about the Treasury Department. They found some strange things. Kevin Hassett, Director of National Economic Council said the president was referring to improper transfers to contractors and grant recipients. So it's a murky. But he went on to say, and this was no surprise, the controls for spending of the previous administration were unacceptable. They were sending money out the door without knowing where the money was going. Unbelievable. It really is. And the, the left is caterwauling about it. And it's. The reason they're doing that is because these, the unions that are involved in the federal government give their money almost exclusively to Democrats. The Democrats reward them with, with largesse, with lots of largesse. And so that's why they're caterwauling, because Democrats can't win on issues they've got. They got to win on votes that are bought and paid for. That's really what it's all about. But I found it kind of hard to believe that the United States Mint is like, I believe, $84 million deficit annually. How in the hell does a department that actually mints money run a deficit? It seems bizarre to me. You know, it's crazy. And that's the thing. Not only have we been spending money wastefully, we've been borrowing money to spend it wastefully. It's crazy. Yeah. You know, paper money is just paper money. I mean, it's actually not paper. It's cotton, by the way. And you know, we've got other metals here. We've been talking about copper, we've been talking about aluminum, we're talking about steel. Gold is the only, only one that is. Is used as currency, has been around forever. Mankind has been fascinated by it. The only reason why the King Tut exhibit was so interesting is because of that mask made of gold. But mankind is obsessed with it. It's been around forever. It's going to be around forever. And with you. Look at all the government spending, the waste, the debt, the unfunded liabilities of Social Security, of Medicare, all these agencies that are rife with corruption and have driven us into the ground. Don't you suppose because of that gold stays valuable and increases in value? Oh, absolutely. And you summarize it as well or better than I can. In a climate of global concern over sovereign debt, we are seeing investors now backing away from lending governments money. That is problematic. And gold is what governments, central banks around the world revert to when currency is up in the air. And like I said, they've been setting records for the last three years. They're betting on gold in a big way and they rarely get their bets wrong. Well, would you now, you're obviously Closer to this than I. But I had a delightful conversation with Sam Benavides of your company the other day. Fantastic guy. He definitely deserves a raise. Fantastic. I'm converting a. I'm converting a 401k into gold with you guys. And the interesting thing that I. The conversation I had, it surprised me because Burch gold was not just trying to push gold. He was saying, rob, you know, there's, you know, there's platinum, there are other silver. There are other precious metals out there that are valuable that are experiencing bounces in their value. And I thought that was very interesting to know that wasn't just being sold gold. He said, this is the amount of money you have. Let's give you an idea what you can do with it. I thought that was really great. It's exactly right. We can diversify within precious metals. Silver, for example, an industrial metal, heavily undervalued. Industrial demand is growing. Some growth potential there. He's absolutely correct. And I'm glad you had a great experience with Sam. He's fantastic. If we could edit the raised bed out, that would be perfect. He didn't ask me. I brought that up anyway. No, he was really. He really was cool. I really enjoyed knowing that he gave me the opportunity where I'm gonna store my gold. He gave me two places. One was in Texas. I'm gonna go with Texas. And I just felt like. Like I was given a. Because I've not invested in gold before. And I learned a lot from that. And I trust you guys. I think a lot of my listeners are. I know a lot of my listeners are trusting in birch gold. And I just think you guys do a great job. And I hope you're getting a good reaction from our audience because I believe in the product. I believe in what you guys do. And if you look at the price of gold and your performance, I'd say when you compare it to other investments, that's a pretty good investment, right? It absolutely is. Listen, since the turn of the century, it has outperformed most other investments. And it's because of this massive increase in the money supply. So these two things are tight tied. It's the biggest issue of the day. And I think everyone has to have a hedge. Absolutely. Well, Philip, I enjoyed talking to you again today. Philip Patrick, precious metal specialist at Birchgold. I thought with your accident, you would say aluminium. I really thought you'd say aluminium. Did you. Were you when you grew up, did you say aluminium? I said. I said aluminum, but it took everything I had. It is aluminium. I'm just putting that out there. Do they call it plateau nellium or something? All right. Hey, I really, I really do appreciate you. And, and for those of you guys who are listening, Birchgold, a promo code. Well, this. Text my name, Rob, to 989-898 and you'll get the great information from people, Philip and, and Sam. Philip. Have a glorious day, my brother. I, I, I think 2025 is going to be a great year for you. I think it's going to be a great year for the economy. I think so too. Thank you for having me, Rob. All right, very good. We'll talk to you soon. Make sure to recycle your aluminium cans, by the way. Anyway, yeah, Birch Gold. Text my name, uh, Rob 298-9898, if you would. That would be great. What else do we got to go here? I got a lot of stuff. Stuff. I got a lot of stuff. Oh. Oh. Blago. Blogo. Blago. Blago was, was pardoned. Rod Blagojevich. I didn't understand a lot about Rod Blagojevich, but, you know, it turns out it sounds like he really got railroaded. He became an enemy of the Democrat Party and the enemy of Barack Obama. He served eight years of a 14 year sentence on pay to play charges as the governor was accused of trying to sell President Barack Obama's seat. Well, I'm sure that's not the first time that's happened after Obama won the 2008 presidential election. He served eight years in jail a long time. Seems like a nice person. Here's Donald Trump talking about the pardon of Rod Blagojevich. Next we have a full and unconditional pardon for former Gov. Rod Blagojevich of the state of Illinois. He's a Democrat, honored to do it. What I've watched him. He was set up by a lot of bad people. Some of the same people that I had to deal with. Yeah, he wasn't quite as successful, but he had somebody that saw what was going on. I didn't know him other than I believe he was on the Apprentice for a little while. He was a just a very nice person. He had a fantastic wife. She fought like hell to get him out. He was given a sentence of like 18 years. Yeah, yeah. And it was a sort of a terrible injustice. They just were after him. They go after a lot of people. Yeah. The, the Justice Department's been weaponized also against Eric Adams, the governor of or the, the mayor of New York. The bribery case against Eric Adams dropped by the Doj following Trump's unexpected intervention, he was convicted I should accused of. Are you ready for this? Upgrading his airline seat seats and his hotel room. I know the bastard needs to go to jail for life. New York City Mayor legal legal troubles may be over. Donald Trump's Justice Department asked federal prosecutors prosecutors to drop his corruption case. The reason why there was a corruption case is because he said he was tired. All the nonsense, sending all the illegals to New York City and put him up in hotel rooms and all that. Yeah, that's what it was. That's why the DOJ went after him because he was the only Democrat saying hey you know what, stop sending the damned illegal here. You're destroying my economy. You're brazen crime. You know all of this. Adams were charged in September with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, federal program bribery and receiving cantrip campaign contributions from foreign nationals. He's also accused of defrauding New York taxpayers of $10 million through allegedly fraudulent campaign funds. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah blah. But he has been, he has been pardoned by Donald Trump and I would assume will be a Trump voter. Like Blogo. Like Blogo. Blogo apparently now is a really big fan of Donald Trump. Here he is talking to reporters after being pardoned yesterday, fresh out of prison with his sentence commuted by President Trump, convicted felon and former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich addressed cheering throngs Wednesday outside his Chicago home. We want to express our most profound and everlasting gratitude to President Trump. How do you properly thank someone who's given you back the freedom that was stolen from you? He didn't, I didn't have to do this. He's a Republican president. I was a Democratic governor. He's got a, I'm a Trumpocrat. That's right, he's a Trump. The now white haired 63 year old was removed from office in 2009 after prosecutors said he tried to sell or trade the US Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama after the 2008 presidential election. On Tuesday, Trump complained about the 14 year sentence against Blagoi, who was convicted of wire fraud, extortion and soliciting. By the way, he's going to become the possibly the ambassador to Serbia. So there you go. Good job, Blanco. Coming up, Mitch McConnell is dying before your eyes and in office. I'm just going to be honest, wheeled around in a wheelchair yesterday and Nancy Pelosi had a walker. The visiting angels honestly should set up a shop in the, in the United States Catholic Capitol. We'll get to that coming Up. Let's take a break. You're listening to the Rob Carson Show. Come on, feet. Got to get me there. So I just got a. A message on Facebook from Brandon. He says Chuck Schumer launched a whistleblower portal. So the people who could report foul play by Republicans. Well, there's not any foul play by Republicans. Anybody can fill out a complaint. It sounds like it's being overwhelmed with people filing complaints about Democrats. You know what? I think we should overwhel them, don't you? We believe in transparency. We believe in accountability. Donald Trump has tried to reshape our entire democracy. No, no. Just did his unlawful impulses. No, no, no. He's just firing useless employees. Personal corrupt people. Political interests. Senate Democrats won't let him. Yeah. What have you done for the American people? And so we have. Yes. Whistleblower portal. Does he have a. An avocado and a. In a beer here? We are urging Americans who see some real wrongdoing. Yeah. URL. Created by this Doge. Doge thing. Yeah. Thing. To report it. How. What we want. We. I think all Americans want government to be transparent. Well, you haven't been. We all agree that ensuring accountability is vital, but I think you should shove complaints up his porcelain and complain about Democrats. That I think you should do. So we got. We got people dying in Congress. The first one was not Maxine Waters. What's her name? From. From San Francisco. Yeah. Diane Flies. It died in office. She would. She died in office. They let her die in office. She didn't even know which way was up. And of course, Joe Biden died. Was dying for four years. This was a. John Larson is a Democrat representative. He's 76 years old and he froze up. He froze up yesterday when delivering a speech. Don't worry. No one on the Republican side in the House and Senate, who control both the House and Senate is going to speak up. This is real. Frozen. And challenge us. Wow. This is Congress real time here, kids. This is in real time. But we need to protect Americans privacy and their Social Security. Yeah, that's. That's 40%. Oh, boy. Of all America. Maybe the batteries in his arm were needed to be changed. Like, you know that, that super bowl commercial this week. This is really. Wow. I got to tell you. Mitch McConnell arrived on the U.S. capitol for a Monday vote in a wheelchair with a boot on his leg, by the way. He fell down the stairs outside the Senate chamber on Wednesday. He had fallen earlier in December and hit his face. He had a bruised hand. Bandages, finger. Yeah. This is what happens with older people. People eventually start falling. My mother did before she died. She fell, hit her face, didn't break a hip. That's common, by the way. Nancy just fell. Nancy Pelosi just fell and broke a hip. These are not, these are not foreign to those who are aged. And if you are aged, you know, God be with you because it's, it's tough. You try to fight as much as possible, but people like that should not be in Congress. They are not of sound mind and body. And you have to be of sound mind and body to be a member of Congress or a leader of anyone. That's just the way it is. It is a disgusting, obscene spectacle. Kind of like the last four years have been for the United States of America, a disgusting and obscene spectacle. And this is a prime example. Let's take a break and come back. This, my friends, is the Rob Carson Show. That's gonna do it for the show this week, guys. If you want to check out the video of the show, just go to Newsmax, Rumble, Twitter or Facebook pages. You can see it there. If you want to go to the podcast, just go to your usual podcast platforms. Look up Rob Carson Show. I think you're going to enjoy. We had some great guests on today, Great comedy, great commentary as well. As I always say, have a glorious day. God bless you. God bless America is founded. Donald Trump and his glorious new administration. Until tomorrow, which is Wednesday. Don't catch the stupid. See you.