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What it is, good morning. Surprise, surprise. It's day two with Tyrus. B-Rye is hopefully resting, probably walking those giant dogs of his somewhere or getting walked by them. But I am in the helm today, filling in.

And we're starting this off with one of my favorite people, the one and only Charlie Hurt. And we're going to talk about what's going on. Of course, you're the Fox and Friends weekend co-host. Father, extraordinaire, outdoorsman, et cetera. Yeah, we country people got to stick together.

Yeah, you know, and we're going to get because we're going to talk about some fun stuff, but. You know, last night, right now I'm in the midst of my Boston Red Sox are playing, you know, just phenomenal. You know, last night they completely destroyed the White Sox.

So, but. I was switching back and forth and I'm watching what's going on. with uh with elections and stuff and I I feel like we keep We hear a lot about Um The fear of socialism. And But there's also the, and they were like, well, why are Americans turning to socialism? And I don't know if it's the turnings of socialism.

So much as We're not giving them a lot of good choice. Yeah. And you know, it's kind of funny 'cause like if you look at like the uh what's going on right now with Democrats, it's ver to me it's very similar to what Republicans went through back in 20 To 2008, 2010. And amazingly, and the crackup is about so many things. It's about like frustration with establishment, frustration with government.

It's about, you know, also has a lot to do with like technology because now everybody's walking around. They don't need to go to like the mainstream media to get their information. They look at their phone. Everybody has their own printing press in their pocket.

So all these things kind of devalued the sort of establishment party. And Barack Obama did a great job of keeping Democrats together through all of that. Republicans didn't have anybody keeping them together until Trump came along. And then Trump did this weird thing where he brought Republicans together, but then also brought Democrats together.

So they remained. Yeah, because they hated him. And so then now, as kind of the, I think the effect of like trying to portray Trump as And boogeyman is like wearing off.

Now, suddenly, it's like the Tower of Babel. Everywhere is Babylon. And Democrats are completely coming apart, it seems. And it's so funny to me because with the Tea Party, Everybody's like, oh, I hate the government. I'm so frustrated with the government.

So the Tea Party comes along and says, yeah, so we should have less government. Democrats are like, I hate the government. I'm so frustrated with the government.

Now they're like, oh, yeah, we want to put the government in charge of everything. We use terms like the government's sacred right. Yeah. I don't have sacred rights. Yes, let's put them in charge of all health care.

Let's do it. And when we talk about the Medicare for all, and we do it, we fall for it too because you're just trying to get stories out. We talk about Medicare for all. It's not Medicare for all. It's socialized medicine.

It's government-run medicine. And go to places that practice that. Yeah, exactly. My wife, when she, in her first marriage, when she he was, I think he was a punter or something like that, a kicker, and he was in, he was playing in the Canadian Football League. And w her oldest son was sick and had to go to the hospital.

The team mom's like, no, no, go to Buffalo. Wow. Like, because you'll be there all day, and you're going to be in there with some of the worst people. And you, you know, you're going to get sick being in there waiting for stuff to go. But if you're lucky, you still get crappy care.

Yeah. And so. I think it sounds good, but the other side of it is, and some of these people, like, America's not falling for it too much because people like Corey Bush, you know, like she's 0 for 2 now. But listen to when you hear this type of rhetoric. You play number 4.

Yeah, yeah. We're not Going to let, let me tell you, these bills that come about where we're sending $3.3 billion for more, say it real. We can't just let that go and nobody say anything about it. When they spend more money, when they can't fund under it, but they can fund war, when they can't fund our schools, but they can fund war, when they can't fund health care, but they can fund war. We gotta call it out and we gotta do something about it.

You know, I hate talking about. Like racial breakdowns in voting. Democrats have mastered it, and everybody that's in politics, they're always talking about racial breakdowns. I hate it because to me, it's like if you're a good politician, what your arguments should appeal to everybody, regardless of that. But I do think it's really interesting to look at this moment right now where the Democrat Party, the most reliable voting bloc by race, which again, I despise talking about this, but it's I know you do.

Yeah, but I do. Yeah, because it's just, it's like un-American. It's pointless. And it's totally un-American. And they use it to divide people because they have figured out how to capitalize on those divisions.

But that aside, Black voters have been the most valuable, important voting bloc for the Democrat Party for decades, which is crazy when you consider Democrats. Yeah, their history. Anyone has cracked open a history book. Yeah. Yeah.

And of course, that's why they don't want people to read. No, absolutely. Because if you can read, you're like, they did what? Yeah. And kept doing it.

Yes. And then you look at all over it. Yeah. And then you go and you look at all the places where Democrats control black. uh majority population places and like schools are terrible, crime is terrible, they fail at everything.

And so what I think is kind of interesting right now is when you watch this takeover of the socialists, where is it not working? In traditional black districts, black voters are like, Yeah, we're off the crazy train. We want to go back to you. Look at in Detroit, the uh, I think the mail-in ballot was for Haley Stevens over El Syed was like she won by double digits in the mail. It's kind of it's too it's kind of hard right now because that has not been officially called.

But uh, same with Corey Bush. They're like, Yeah, we're not here for crazy anymore. And so they stick with Wesley Bell. And we've seen it in a number of places where black voters are like saving. They're the only sane Democrats left.

And I think a lot of it has to do with, and sadly, the other thing that I think is really sad about it is the fact that Democrat establishment, after years of relying on black voters, it's like they found like a new shiny object and they're just going to go run off with that and ignore their loyal base.

So, and here's the other side of it. And this is something that like we got to call balls and strikes. We have Corey Bush, who's on the extreme weirdness, right? Great for TV. Yeah, great for TV.

Great for gut fellows, but not for your district. Yeah. But on the other side, Republicans, we have a character problem. Yeah. You know, and it's like, and let's just be honest, can we roll number 11?

People have asked me, what are you going to do? Are you going to drop out of this race? Are you going to resign? Are you going to get out before the deadline? And my answer to you, Jake, is no.

And I can tell you why. In 2016, when President Donald J. Trump faced the most extreme allegations in the world that hit him day after day after day, and people in the media, very much like yourself and others, said that he would have no shot at winning, that he should not be the President of the United States. But guess what? He stayed in and he was resilient.

And what the American people can see is that they can see that somebody is fighting who is resilient, and that is a quality that the American people cherish. And so for no second am I going to sit here and continue to be debased by false and baseless allegations. Hi. This is a problem for us in the Republican Party. And here's the deal: if this guy was a Democrat.

The story would be everywhere. And, you know, Plattner was a pretty bad dude. And I'm sorry, these, everyone should be heard. Yeah. And but when you have three different people.

Who don't know each other, and some of his responses. And whenever they whenever I see someone who's made an accusation pull the Trump card, I'm immediately going, Sorry, man.

So that so that's Max Miller, Republican of Ohio. Um Dude, you're not Trump, okay? Yeah. And when we were playing that, you off-Mike said to me, This is what pissed me off. And it pissed me off.

So when I saw him say it, I lost it. Dude, you're not Donald Trump, first of all. Just drop it, okay? And these people that have gotten on the Trump train and then hide behind Donald Trump, President Trump should be mad about that. He should be like this.

Because it hurts. The guys, the guy is an embarrassment, and look, I get it. You know, divorces are horrible, they're nasty. We neither one of us has any idea what the truth is. We don't know what happened.

We don't like it. It's impossible to know. But I know this: you've got a really screwed-up home life right now. Yeah, you need to get out of politics and stop making this our problem, fix your family, your problem, go home, and fix it. And if it was just one thing, but it's not.

There's a woman before that, and a woman before that. When we saw this with Platiner, we were like, this son of a bitch needs to go. And then it's the same thing. And for me, the killer was not the fact. And look, I'm not a Jake Tapper fan, but Jake put him to the fire.

It was good. And he made him tell on himself. But what it comes down to is. Character has to mean something in the conservative movement. It has to be the number one thing.

And when I see someone who is Being, my thing would have been, and we've all been through hard times in our marriages and with kids and things like that. I can't serve the American people if I can't serve my house. That's right.

So you step down. And also, it's like, I'm sorry, is there no one else that can do this? Actually, just about anybody from the phone book can do this. Yes. Just go home, fix your problem.

Come back. Take care of your daughter. Come back in two years or four years when it's done. It doesn't matter. You know, it's not.

And these people, they get it in their head. And this is the definition of the swamp. These people who get it in their head that only I can do this. No, you just shut up. Just leave.

Find somebody else in the phone book and we'll bring them in. Because if you did, you know, and the old thing, the old saying, and it's true that William Buckley used to say: if you took a phone book and went through and picked 535 people randomly out of the phone book, as long as it wasn't like Boston or New York City, and just put them in Congress, they would fix everything in like six months and everything would be cool. But these people, and they get full of themselves. And you're right about the character thing. But the other thing, then, but if that doesn't.

Sell you on it, then let's just look at it in a practical sense. We're looking at a house that is going to be controlled maybe by one seat. We don't know, two seats. Every seat is going to matter.

So if you're just looking at it from a practical standpoint, Get the F out. Yeah. And put up somebody that will win that district just fine and who's not, um, doesn't have like insane home problems. And he's like bringing up, talking about how, you know, invoking his daughter. It's yeah, when he brought the daughter up, and that was for me, was like, hey, man, you just said she can't do sentences.

And then all of a sudden she's telling she's scared of mom. Like, brett, stop it. And speaking of stop, we got to take a quick break and we'll come back after the break and talk about something more fun. But hey, character matters. Both sides, all opinions, it's Brian Killme.

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It's Brian Killmead. What it is, Tyrus here, filling in from B-Rye. I want to talk about one more thing with the great Charlie Hurt here, just about weirdness in general. Thanksgiving was attacked, and I took it personally. Like, I got very upset, and uh, that's my favorite holiday of all time.

And can we roll number 16, Francesco? Do you still believe that uh Thanksgiving should be cancelled? I'm a chef and one of the first meals that I made that was for the community when I was 16 was a Thanksgiving meal. Thanksgiving is also a time that's incredibly painful for many people in our communities. And so I think there I wanted to make sure that people understood that there are multiple views, but views can evolve.

Uh Painful for whom? Right, exactly. Yeah, my rule is you have to only speak from first person. If it's painful to you, and you can explain why it's painful to you specifically, going back to 16, 17, then you can come talk to me. And then after I hear you out, I'll determine whether I apologize.

I am not apologizing to you for Thanksgiving. Here's the other thing: since she loves to play the race card, you're Korean. Yeah. Now, I don't think you had a big presence at Thanksgiving when it was founded here. I don't think anyone, I could be wrong, but I don't think there was a huge contingent of Korean people suffering during Thanksgiving when the Pilgrims and Indians sat down.

Could be wrong. Maybe I don't know. It never came up in the history books, but she, you know, because she's very anti-white. You know, so even though her, even though she has a son who's half white, and she talks about how frustrating, what a burden this is on her because of something about proximity. But it's so great.

Proximity, you picked him. Yeah, as LJ said this morning, yeah, proximity was getting in bed with him. Yeah, like, hey, you picked him. Yeah, but the thing about it is, you don't even have to make this stuff up. It's, it's, it, it is the care, the caricature is so ridiculous, and she's favored to win majorly.

And it's great for Republican. I mean, I'm sorry for the Democrat Party because I want, I don't trust either party. I want to, I, I don't. I want a choice. Yeah.

I don't want to have a choice. The choice shouldn't be extreme, extreme. Yeah. And I don't want, and this insane. Bat insane crazy stuff from the Democrats is very dangerous to me because I have seen Republicans can screw up a one-car parade.

If you think for a minute that, oh, this means that Republicans will never be out of power, you watch. They will screw this up so badly and then we'll wind up with Francesca Hong as your like Thanksgiving czar.

Sorry, yeah, and that's not happened.

Now, Thanksgiving has to do with obviously the mainstay is turkey and all the cornucopia that goes with it. You got to have a good farm to grow the crops. Oh, yeah. And you, sir, have just that. Yeah, yeah.

We have a really good farm where I like pile money up and I light it on fire. Yeah. And then I go to the grocery store and I buy food because, I mean, the amount of effort that goes into like, especially like greens, all these people want to be vegan. I mean, I would like to, if you want to be a vegan, you should be forced to grow all of your food for one year and just see how that works out. See if you can get all the calories you need for your kids.

Yeah. And see all the little critters you got to take care of to keep them out of your tail. Yeah. You know, and all the ground you got to dig up. Yeah.

And. It's hard work.

Now, you had some issues with the chicken coop. Oh, the coyotes of the coyotes, right? And destroyed us.

So, I recently came into possession of the El Gante chicken eggs. I don't know if you've ever seen these chickens. They're about three and a half feet tall. They look like raptors, really long legs, and the roosters are that you see. That sound you hear is my wife stabbing the voodoo doll of Tyrus for mentioning a three-foot chicken.

And I also came into some pied peacock eggs. Oh! And are you going to hatch them? They're in the incubator as we speak. The giant chickens hatched Sunday night before I left.

Four of them hatched. Is this on your Instagram? They will be. They will be. The peacocks haven't hatched yet.

No, but I want to see the chickens. Oh, I will. I'll send them to you. But I immediately thought of you. Because uh we're just Selling the we're flipping the eggs, right?

But I was like, I'm going to gift one of these Pied Peacocks. Oh, because I know you had some issues and I want to send you one of these things. But I will also be happy to throw in An El Gante rooster. Chicken. Yeah.

Well, you know what's interesting about the peacocks? The peacocks have actually managed to survive. We've lost a bunch of them, but we've got four that have remained. And they're partly because they're taller, and they are always one is always on the lookout. And they roost high up in trees at night on their own, but it's when they nest, it's when they lay eggs.

That's when the coyotes get them.

Well, maybe a tall chicken can help. Yeah. Always a pleasure, man. Great to see you. I will send you those photos.

I can't wait to see them. All right, this is Tyrus filling in from Brian Kilmee. The more you Listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Kilmead. What do you think about the traction these candidates who are backed by the DSA and members of the DSA are getting?

Well, I think it's crazy because they're going to ruin our country. They want to, I don't know if they want to. I think either they're very naive or they actually want to ruin the country. No matter where you look, go back a thousand years with different names. Anybody doing what they're doing and what they're espousing, everything turns out to ashes and junk and filth.

You know, one thing I said the other day for the first time ever, never thought of it, but you go to these cities that are taken over by the socialists and the communists, they're always filthy, dirty, they're disgusting. Joining me now to talk about just the president that never, you never have to worry about what he thinks, right? Joining me now is Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review. And you currently had an article. Yes, the DSA has a communist problem.

Good morning, and thanks for joining us. Hey, hey, Joe. I'm doing alright. Um I think the president kind of Said it all right there. Yeah, you did.

Look, this Michigan primary was a key test of whether this DSA phenomenon. was would be mostly limited to urban areas, New York City, some other cities around the country, or whether it could play in a a big purplish state, at least in the primary. And it did. He underperformed his polls. But that doesn't matter at the end of the day, he won that race.

And I think it's it comes a a real chance for a Republican pickup. in Michigan, but it's going to be very competitive and in a good year for Democrats, a guy like that's going to win and probably be the he'd be the most anti-American senator ever in the history of the country, or at least I don't know, since Confederates came back into the politics after the Civil War. I d I don't know. It's just off the charts.

Now, what do you think Because we see these guys in the bluest to blues, and you make a great point about Michigan being purple. But is it More or less a misunderstanding of socialism and And is it the other side of it? Is Republicans aren't putting. Forward the best candidates in terms of we have a character problem in the Republican Party in a lot of these races.

Well, so far, where they've won is places like Mayor's Race in New York City, the Republicans just don't don't have a chance, and these deep blue districts where if you win the Democratic primary, you're going to win the general, because the Republicans are going to get 25%. This would be this is a whole new level of a test. I mean, that this is the one of these candidates running in a real competitive race. And the base of this party, even though a lot of the candidates themselves are immigrants or have an immigrant background or are Muslim like Said, the backers, the voters are educated white people, college-educated white people who are dissatisfied because you're an associate professor of sociology somewhere. You don't think you're making as much money as you should.

Don't think you have as prestige as you should.

So you hate the country, and you think the whole apple cart of our system needs to be overturned. And you vote for a guy like this. Whereas working-class voters, the DSA is supposed to be a working-class phenomenon. Working-class voters have no interest in this whatsoever, and black voters aren't very interested either.

So that's another reason Republicans can be a little more optimistic about Michigan this morning. Said won among college-educated whites, but showed real vulnerabilities among blacks and working-class voters. And maybe Mike Rogers can exploit that opening.

Well, you think it's a combination of low voter turnout and then virtuous signaling. People who are typically unaffected by government. When you look about the white liberals, you know, it's that suicidal empathy where I vote for things that, because it usually, when it comes back. 'Cause it cannibalizes.

Socialism cannibalizes itself. And we've seen that in New York where I can't remember the guy's name, but he was upset because he was doxxed by Mondami for owning properties. Got Galloway. Yeah, and I was laughing because I'm like, but this is what you voted for, but you didn't think it was going to affect you. Because it was just, it was, it sounded good at Starbucks, letting everybody know I voted for this guy because we need to change.

And the reality is that anyone. Like if you should talk to anyone who has moved. from former Soviet Union, Russia. And grew up in America, ask them about socialism and communism. Because you're not going to get the thing about, oh, it's awesome.

Because if that was the case, China and Russia would have an influx problem with immigration. Yeah, totally.

Now, I think it's it's people who are fundamentally dissatisfied with our system and are downwardly mobile rights. Right, so they they're they're they're doing okay, but they're not doing great and they're not doing as well as their parents did, mostly as a matter of lifestyle choice. Again, my hypothetical: I'm an associate professor of sociology, you're not going to make a lot of money in that job, right? You'd be better off being an electrician, right? Exactly, but then you're going to have to actually work.

Yes, but they think there's something unfair about that. There's something wrong about that. And these people, they're not losers. They're not like sitting on their couch playing video games, smoking a bong and can't get a job. They have jobs and they're somewhat organized.

And they go out and vote.

So you made the point in a low turnout primary. That's certainly been the case in New York City. Yeah, he won on 11%. 15,000 people decide, right? And if you have a bunch of these type of voters who are going to vote no matter what, that's a huge advantage to you.

Yeah, because the new Mondami thing, when I hear, you know, being the fact that I work for a news network, you know, people are crying, oh, this is the end. And I'm like, wait a minute. 11% voter turnout, and there was no viable alternative. FOMO was damaged and the fact that he even ran I thought was an insult. And the Republicans offered up a man who hasn't been relevant in 20 years.

So when you when that is the opposition You can get away with 11% turnout. But when you, when the same thing, you know, we saw with California, Spencer, was it Spencer Pratt? Yeah. He made a big impact for a guy with no experience and never had been on the political scene before. Imagine what an actual Republican with.

Boots on the ground who's done some things. and can make a strong attempt, but they just they I think Republicans have just The party has just kind of been like, oh, we can't win in those areas.

So, you know. Don't do it, but I think that's the wrong approach because now these things are getting roots, and people don't believe. You know, the 11% they just see on social media Mondamis everywhere.

So they, you know, it it's it's like a contagious well, this is bigger than what it is. It's like, you know, it's like this giant balloon full of helium, but they think it's full of substance. Yes, no, absolutely. And it's important to contest these places even if you don't win. And Spencer Prowd is a great example of that because he shined a light on a lot of problems, most especially homelessness that the establishment has just totally failed To deal with, but I think in New York City, to have a real shot at winning again, Republicans, I don't think it's going to happen for a Republican.

I think you need an independent, you know, Mike Gutenberg type that Republicans can abide, you know, but doesn't have necessarily have an R next to his name and has an independent status and a lot of independent wealth. And if Mom Doni really messes it up in this first term, you might get that kind of challenger the second time around. It might be more of a real contest.

Well, because the one thing I will say about America is, which is different than any other country. or civilization for that matter, is that we have the ability to Uh reset. And relatively quickly, we saw what happened during the pandemic with the Biden administration. America said, oh, no, this is not the direction we're going to go in. And then you end up with a Republican winning the popular vote.

So, we definitely can see the course correction. America is a very important thing. It's a learning society. Oftentimes, that's the process of us getting it right, is getting it wrong from the outset. Absolutely.

And that's the nice thing about no matter how bad it is, it's four years.

So, there's the opportunity to change course. But I think what doesn't help is when you have. The Estagus, at this point, the Republican Party is the Establishment Party. Uh when you put forth Uh low effort Candidates and worse. Or character candidates in a time where most young people coming up, their JFK moment is the Epstein files.

You know, and so when you have a candidate who is. Has a lot of things, bells and whistles around them. You know, we were all about, you know, everyone was about the guy in Maine, but the Republican Party's got some guys running that shouldn't be running. And to young people, it's like, well, this is the problem. You know, because and I I I just think like I think the Epstein files Is like the biggest, is the biggest story for that age group to kind of be like rebel, you know?

Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's it's become a symbol for a lot of people for uh yeah. But now now I I think it's uh Epstein files have been Exaggerated. Oh, a thousand percent, but it's like an emotional bubble. When you try to talk to a young person about it, and you can hit them with common sense and facts, and even when you say, you know, the guy who did it is not here anymore.

You know, and you know, they're like, well, this and that. And I'm like, well, you know, and that argument, you just, it's such a feelings argument. And they use words like my truth or you're part of the establishment. And I'm thinking back.

Someone says my truth, you got to back up slowly. And yeah, just kind of leave the room. Yeah. You know, and I, and it's, and it has a lot of, and I'm thinking in a history always repeats itself. And I'm like, this is the same arguments that were happening in the 70s.

Like the hippies would be like, oh, this and that is corrupt and this and that. And it's like, you can't argue with them. Yeah. Yeah, well th th the these DSA types, though, it th they they if if you don't like Thanksgiving, like this woman out in Wisconsin. That that was a red that's a that's a red that's a no deal for me.

That's a deal breaker. Yeah, exactly. But she is in some ways the most disturbing example because there's no persona or personality there. Mom Donnie, you know, great smile. Yeah.

Plattner, you know, had a certain gruff kind of charisma as a low-some and twisted person. But this woman has no personality at all. She's like, you know, if you go to the public library in the middle of the day and there's someone using a computer that's socially isolated and a soft talker, that's her.

So what's the attraction to her among Democrats? It's her core beliefs are twisted and anti-American. She's like, and some of the stuff that she says makes zero sense. And, you know, she was making comments, and I was like, you're talking about your children, but she was talking about her child being half-white. And she was like, you know, I have to deal with being in proximity to that.

And I was like, you were in proximity with the father. You chose him. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah, that clip is so.

I hope the kid, I don't know how old he is, I hope he never sees it. Yeah, that his mom would talk about him in those terms. That level of ignorance is shocking. And it's it goes back to the activist who is and it's a and she's quiet, but she has a very sinisterness about her. She's very she's very anti-American.

And her argument over Thanksgiving was like it's very painful time for her community. And because she likes to use race so much, I was like, I didn't know that Koreans had a big issue with Thanksgiving back in the day. I don't know where that, I guess, I missed that page. Weren't a lot of Koreans here in 1621. Exactly.

And again, and I think racism and politics is the cheapest. Cheapest thing, there's no point to it other than you don't have a decent argument. And when you try to mobilize, it's this, white this, white that. America is a melting pot and. Uh, I think a lot of people have smartened up to that.

So when I see Her playing that card, it's like that card doesn't work anymore. It does get you on the news, though. I think that's another problem too, is like they the the media pushes these groups to make us think they're bigger than what they are. And I also think that is another thing that makes because another thing is we have to take responsibility in our communities. Veterans aren't voting, Christians aren't voting, the hunters and gun advocates aren't voting, and this group is voting.

It is all about, they are mobilized and they are emotionally tied to this. And a lot of Americans get energized. And she's leading out there by 20 points in the polls, and the second place person dropped out like a week ago.

Now, maybe El Said in Michigan underperformed his poll, so maybe she'll do the same thing, or maybe there's some chance she would lose, but I think she's going to win. As well, which would be another huge feather in the DSA's cap to have a serious gubernatorial candidate. in Wisconsin. A major party candidate in Wisconsin, although I think she could lose as well. I mean, the the Democrats will get a cruise in Wisconsin, but if they nominate her, they might not.

Yeah, I mean, and I'm going to play. We got time to play six real quick so you can hear Abdul Saeed. I mean, he's not hiding how he feels. For the next thirteen weeks and the next six years after that, I'm asking you to join me in helping to build that America. We should know who the victor will be tomorrow, and the work starts anew.

And so, for one last time for this primary, money out of? Money in your Medicare for? Let's go win. And you know, Stalin couldn't say it better. Yeah, and look, you know, it's kind of simplistic and crude, but i in politics if if people can re repeat back to you your lines, That's a good thing.

You're getting your brand out there. I think it's a nefarious, noxious. brand and one they could lose there. But again, it's going to be a tough year for Republicans. There's a chance he he gets in and it will be the most radical member of the United States Senate.

You know, and when I when I hear things like that, Um You're pushing also this mindset that, and I think the pandemic has a lot to do with this. That in that time where people became very focused on self. And an overemphasis on the quality of my life. And I didn't ha I could work from home. I don't have to do this.

I can there's funding. I can get they can pay for this, that they can pay for that, the government can do this, and I can just live my best life. And for a lot of young people during that time, they were spending so much time on how important their world was. Hard work. And things like that kind of became a four-letter word in terms of, like, well, I don't want to do that.

And then you have these candidates going, hey, we can keep this party going. You get free health care, you get welfare, state, you get money, free groceries. You can continue to focus on building the gram. and and going on vacation. And I think that has been entitled, and it's a very unrealistic goal with horrible consequences, but.

When you're just thinking about me, you know, I think narcissism was probably the biggest outbreak during the pandemic, you know, where people have just had this, you can only see things through one point of view, and as long as it benefits me, I'm good with it. Yeah, it had a real deranging effect. The the crazy tweets from Hong, they're all from that period, like the one where she said she's got a culverse and she needs to get out 'cause there are too many white people. But the thing is tho those those tweets were revelatory. It's still she she's crab walked away from some of them, but it's clearly what she still believes.

Well, she's wanted to get elected. And uh we're Running a little bit out of time, but again, hey, man, thanks so much. Really enjoyed talking to you, man. You definitely get it. And ladies and gentlemen, Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review.

Thanks so much for joining me today, man. And hopefully America, we get it right. Keeping you informed, engaged, and always a step ahead. It's the Brian Kill Me Show. If you're interested in it, Brian's Talking About It.

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Marci Smith, co-founder of Independent Council on Women's Sports, icons. 15-time, 15-time, 15-time All-American Swimmer, NCAA champion, chair of the Nevada Lieutenant Governor, Protect Women's Sports Task Force at the University of Arizona, Hall of Fame athlete. Thank you so much for joining me today, and I'm very excited to talk about all things sports with you. I'm so excited to be here and to talk to you for the first time. Yeah, this is awesome.

15 times. It was a long time ago. That doesn't age. That's like wine. The longer it goes, you can add 16.

I mean, 15, that's an out, unbelievable, that's a Hall of Fame number.

Well, thank you so much. And I had the most wonderful experience at the OVA in Tucson on the swim team with just incredible athletes, men and women.

Now, let's just. I have been pretty vocal as a father of three daughters and two play sports. And one swims and plays softball, the other one is an equestrian who jumps horses. And growing up in sports my entire life, unfortunately, though, I did not ever get to 15 times. Anything.

That's an amazing, absolutely amazing thing. But Uh Had some success, paid some bills with sports. At never growing up, there was never, this issue was never even. Fada. Everything from PE, boys and girls were just different.

And it was, we played, and you could play together at a certain age, and then it just became. Obvious, you know, and it wasn't. It was a no-brainer. And then all of a sudden, this absolute nonsense became. It's like we like reality just got flipped up on our heads.

Like, how did we get here? In the first place. Because it makes no sense. Yeah. Well, that's a really good question.

I asked myself, how am I sitting here talking to you right now? Because I'm a mom of three little kids now. I was, you know, going about my life kind of very naive, believing that the leadership in sports had athletes' best interests at heart. And my entire world was shattered in 2022 when I watched on television the NCAA swimming championships. It was a meet.

that in 2005 I had the life-altering experience of standing on the first place podium step and being awarded a national championship title. To say that that was One of the most incredible feelings a person can go through is an understatement. I mean, it really has transformed my life.

So much so that the impact of watching Leah Thomas, a man who competed on the men's swim team, suddenly switched to the women's team and be awarded by the NCAA a championship title. It devastated me in a way that I had to react. I didn't know how, but I had to. And many things unfolded, but my very dear friend now, Riley Gaines, at the time, was also speaking out. I had started speaking out in the media, and she connected me with Kim Jones, who was the mother of an Ivy League swimmer that year, competing against Leah Thomas as well.

And together, we organized because what we realized when asking ourselves, how did we get here? Is that the NCAA? was instrumental. In imposing this way back before any of us had any idea of what was going on. In 2010, They allowed men to compete in women's collegiate sports.

And since that gate was open, we have seen. Division I national titles fall. Women's scholarships, full scholarships go to men in volleyball, fencing. We have seen conference titles, school records, conference. Records falling to men in sports like tennis, track, and field.

Um softball, I mean, you have every sport. Yeah, powerlifting, although it's not an anticipable A sport. And so. We have had to organize as women to ensure now that we needed to correct this incredible catastrophe. And we have worked to platform female athletes to share their stories and experiences and what they have been going through, the traumas and harms, Riley being the forefront of that.

And we have organized legal teams to represent athletes.

Now, in three different lawsuits, including Riley, about two dozen female athletes in collegiate sports to sue the institutions, to sue the NCAA in order to hold them accountable for violating the law, for violating Title IX, and left to their own, the NCAA. Decided that men can have access to women's collegiate sports at the highest level, to scholarship, financial aid, to locker rooms and showers. And we have had to work. For years and years to try and combat that. And I'm sorry to say that even sitting here today, that goal of correcting this is not achieved yet.

Well, because it doesn't help when you're not getting support from women. And I don't. You know, I never thought of myself as a feminist. But I've become a feminist because this There is no, even as a professor, in my time in the WWE as a professional wrestler, I would not. ever be in the ring with a woman.

For fear of just one slip of an elbow or something that could break a jaw. I just wouldn't do it because it's just not. It's not right. And When you think this is a no-brainer. When you think that women should be galvanized about this to protect women.

From men Period. But the whole point, the whole point of women's sports in general was there: if there was an argument that there was no difference, there would be no women's leagues because everyone would all just play together. But there's a reason why, because you're not going to have WNBA stars playing in the NBA, it's not going to happen. You know, and vice versa. And when you see this stuff, you would think that women athletes would come forward, not just to protect.

women and little girls, but their spots and their places. And I'm just gonna like and and Sophie Cunningham has kind of And I don't even think she wanted this. She was just basically just saying what was common sense. Can we roll number 29 for her? I said what I said.

I think it's kind of common sense. And I think I'll always believe in that. I think it's really important to protect children. And that's little girls who are also involved in that category. And so I stand on what I said, and I'll always believe that.

And she gets blowback for basically saying it's common sense. This. This is such a frustrating argument, but then in the same breath. Do you have Caitlin Clark, who's going through her own stuff, being a generational player and kind of changing the game and being a star in a league that unfortunately pushes the wrong stuff. You know, color of your skin, who you sleep with is more important than contact and your athletic ability.

She has an opportunity. to protect and you get an answer like this, roll twenty-eight. I think for us, like, you know. it's not really a discussion we really have in our locker room. I think it's for leagues and the governing bodies to work with their athletes to find solutions.

But our focus is on basketball and that's what we talk about and how we can get wins. And obviously we didn't do that tonight.

So we need to find an area to improve in that way. Do you have any reaction to the Dodging it, you I argue back, you do have a responsibility. You do. And you should be the one protecting your sport because you're Here's the thing. Unfortunately, I think the unaffected seem to be the ones who are pushing this.

Until it is affected. Until you have a Transgendered Man. Uh Living as a woman, playing in the WNBA, leading the league and scoring and rebounds and block shots, then I think suddenly the attitude will be a little different. You know, the same thing with Rat Bo, when she came out and she was like, I don't really know who the issue is. Yeah, if that high school boys team that beat you all were given wigs and were allowed to represent the United States and you were out of a job, I think you would have a problem.

And you think that's the biggest thing? Or is it because.

Somebody's cutting checks for these to support these things. Is it money? I just don't, it's sad to not see this. It's the one place that I think women should all be together on. Men should not play with women.

Play with men. Men don't care if you wear makeup or you want to play if you're good. I pick up basketball when I was a kid. We didn't care. If you could make the basket, you were in.

Yeah, I understand your sentiment, and I have had the honor and privilege as. A co-founder of a women's organization that advocates specifically on making sure policy is aligned that female. Sports is for females only, as silly as that sounds. And in this position, I have. spoken to hundreds of female athletes.

Who are exactly in this spot right now and their parents over the past five years. And what I want to share with the audience is: it's frustrating when someone is put on the spot with the platform that Caitlin Clark is, and they don't definitively share their common sense perspective, which I personally don't know for a fact, but I believe that she shares. What I will say is The fear? Is real. Of the blowback, and what seems like common sense to so many of us, there is what I What I've been recently calling the women's sports industrial complex, where the leadership of women's sports is completely captured.

The leadership of universities, you would not believe the debates that I have had with Ivy League professors who have been studying women's sports issues for decades. They are on a different planet, and they are teaching the next generation. Complete Nonsense. And unfortunately, it is absorbing in a certain number of people and activating the most ardent. Captured ideologues that have money and power in sports and sponsorships.

And so I and we at Icons do not believe that any athlete should be forced to share their position at any point. We help to guide athletes in sharing different opportunities to try and speak out. But Um When you see a Sophie Cunningham, When you see O'Reilly Gaines, the reason they are stars, the reason they are embraced, that they sell out products, that they make headlines, is because They are unafraid to stand on foundational truth and share reality with the masses. And that is. Actually, a rarity.

In the number of athletes that I've spoken to, as devastating as their stories are. The number that will actually go to media and put their face out there is fleetingly small. And so we really need to embrace, that's why we're seeing these rallies to support Sophie. And I want to continue to encourage Caitlin Clark as well to just lean in. And join her teammate, her good buddy, and stand up for her too, because by sharing the arrows, we will push forward because we must.

Um we as parents Are impassioned at a different level than athletes right now in the sport who maybe don't have kids because we see what's at stake for our little girls. And so, parents, and particularly dads like you, we need more dads. This is not a women's issue, this is society's problem, and we need dads. In there, in the faces of this, these leadership is the WNBA leadership. Where are they on this?

Where are they? They should be held to account. They should be answering questions on what is going on and why are you allowing men in women's National basketball? Like these questions should be posed to leadership. Let the players play and encourage them to share their personal.

Feelings. And a lot of it, unfortunately, has to do with narrative and politics. And if you're in the The consonant soup that is the I can't even remember all the letters anymore, but it seems like that is more important. Than when they say inclusivity is so important. But inclusivity shouldn't mean at the expense of other people.

You know, because and Is it going to take for someone like an athlete of Caitlin Clark, who easily is the face of the WNBA, whether they like it or not? Is it going to take a transgendered man blocking her shot and stealing it and costing her a championship? Or winning, you know, is it going to take something like that? For These athletes to actually Say, hey, this isn't right, because that's what's going to end up happening. But Also the other thing is like the the percentages of this is ridiculous.

And it's just very convenient that it's and Thomas, for example, was what 75th ranked? Was not going, was a mediocre swimmer in the men's division, and then lo and behold, you know, and then it's the same thing. You don't see this happening in sports where there isn't advantage. For a perfect example, my daughter is an equestrian, and men and women compete in equestrian riding, and women win it just as much as the men do. But you don't see a transgender equestrian rider, at least I haven't seen it yet.

at the highest level because there's no advantage. And I think that's what it's all about. It's narcissistic advantage. And it's sad, and we need to protect our girls and respect women's sports. There is a place for it.

And thank you so much for joining me today. And I hope the next time I talk to you, that we're like, man, we're glad this is behind us. Unfortunately, probably not, but like keep fighting. Thank you so much for your time. Radio that makes it a very good thing.

Makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. What it is, this is Tyrus filling in from B-Ride today on the Brian Kilmead show. Yesterday, I was saddened to hear the passing of the great Dory Funk Jr., one of the greatest wrestlers, wrestling families of all time, one of the best heels, and he was one of my favorite. Um legends.

And uh I it's funny how life It's funny how life works because I couldn't sleep Sunday night. And I've hopped on YouTube, and I always like to watch a lot of old school wrestling. And anyone who sees me down in the gym when I'm doing the bike, that's all I watch. And I'm watching uh Dory Funk Jr. and Jimmy Hart and Jack Funk, who wore the little mask, against Ricky Steamboat, the junkyard dog, and.

a kid something, I can't remember his name. And I was watching Dory and he was so great the way his presence and got the crowd behind him and he just was just amazing, awesome guy. And then on a personal note, When I was in the WWE and they called me the Funkosaurus, I got a chance to meet him and I was terrified because I was afraid he's going to be like, Funkosaurus, you out of your mind? And he says, Nope, you're a funk. And you're the Funkosaurus.

And he would tweet me during the week, the whole time I've been on. TV and when I was NWA champ, he said I was a great NWA champ, and I just I will miss you, sir. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. Wow, What it is, Tyrus filling in today for B-Rye on the Brian Kilmead show.

And very excited with our guest we got coming on here, rep Chip Roy. Program out of Texas, his committee's judiciary, budget, and rules. Mild job. Shout out to Bill Maher. Are you with us today, sir?

Oh, we're still waiting for him to join. But while we're waiting for him to hop on, I will want to preference. President Trump, can we roll number 14? The Communists are the new base. Yeah, I'd say so.

I mean, don't forget Abdul was way down a few weeks ago.

Now I guess it looks like it's gonna be. A little bit of a horseboard. And it was just that a horse race. And I believe we have confirmation that he has, in fact, won. Uh the primary So he will be representing the Democratic Party.

For that Senate seat. And again, I just kind of Go back and forth wondering If This is more about Yeah. Voters just Tired. And willing to accept something new without fully understanding it. And oh, joining us now is Chip Roy.

I don't know if you got a chance to hear that. But basically, the president was talking about the communists is the new face of the Democratic Party. Hey, great to be on. Yeah, I mean, clearly, when we saw what just unfolded, what, Michigan last night, obviously Momdani, New York, everything we're seeing with the Marxist front, you've got the Red-Green Alliance in full display and embodied in Mamdani, but you're now seeing just this Democrat socialist movement is the core of their party. And as a proud conservative, I want us to get out and win on our ideas this fall, but I can promise you the biggest asset we currently have for the elections is how crazy they are in pushing their socialist movement.

But we ignore it at our peril. It has legs, and they can win. I mean, we can't just assume that we're going to win Michigan because we've got an insane socialist Muslim running in Michigan. Also uh Conservatives, we gotta also take some responsibility of not putting some of the best candidates forward. And everything's nationalized today.

So when you have. Um poor character running for the Republican Party or candidates that are way past their prime like we saw uh in New York. When only 11% of the vote turned out and Mondami wins, but he wasn't running against anything. And I think some of that is, you know, we saw the same thing in California where. Spencer Pratt made a lot of noise, but he didn't have any background and he really was more of an angry citizen than he was a a Republican.

So a lot of it I think it is has to do with Here is this motivated group that they're on social media every day, and they're appealing to that free stuff montage without anyone there to challenge them. And I think some of that is has hurt the party as well. Yeah, I don't disagree. And, you know, I always talk about, I gave a floor speech one time in the House of Representatives, like, this is the United States House of Free Stuff. And that's part of the problem.

And, you know, Republicans have either gone along with that and conservatives have gone along with it, or they don't message what the prosperity that we've created when we have people go out through the dignity of work, creating wealth, jobs, opportunity for their kids and their grandkids.

So we don't go win that message. To your point about our quality of candidates, I mean, look, I think it's a real problem. I mean, I think we've had a number of candidates that are both kind of lukewarm, Democrat-like. You've got people with ethical issues we've had to deal with across the country. I think that's a mistake.

Look, I ran for attorney general in Texas. I'm proud of it. I fell a little short in the primary, you know, whatever. God's got a plan. But one of the things I was being hit for, despite having literally the number one record in the entire House of Representatives in terms of my votes aligning with President Trump and MAGA, I was labeled through $30 million.

run against me as not sufficiently MAGA.

Now, that strikes me as a kind of a waste of political resources while we need to be going and fighting the, I'm going to call them enemy, the political enemy that wants to remake America into a socialist, Marxist, Islamic state. People need to know what time it is in our country and go stand up and fight for the communities that we want to protect for our kids and our grandkids. That's what's at stake. And Republicans have got to create a vision to inspire people to want to follow. And that's another thing, too, is not MAGA enough.

How about you have integrity? You have accountability. You know the job. And I want to pivot because I really want to talk about some of the bills you've got going on. And I think this is important because this is the substance that is never discussed.

With all these candidates, it's never how so or what's the plan. It's like, oh, we're going to give free groceries. And there's no follow-up. And one of the things that you have recently said is that You need to codify Trump's border policies in the law. And lo and behold, you said something, and apparently, you have a bill for that.

Yes, so this is actually one of the more important issues that is not being talked about, but I'm trying to change that. We passed it two weeks ago through the House Judiciary Committee, a piece of legislation that I authored. But to be clear, it wasn't my brainchild here. I took a bill that we passed three years ago in the United States House through the House that we called HR two back then, that I wo I did have a lot to do in creating that and was a brainchild behind trying to create the codification of border security to do what? Stop the abuse of asylum and parole, catch and release the unaccompanied children that was horrifying for the better part of a decade plus that Biden was using and abusing to create a situation in which Jocelyn Dungaray was murdered, in which Lake and Riley was murdered, in which tens of thousands of Americans died from fentanyl.

And we're sweeping that aside and we're saying, oh, great, Trump and Holman and Stephen Miller and all the great Border Patrol and ICE people, they're stopping all this and the flow has stopped at the border.

Well, it's great. That's nice. It mostly has stopped. But if we don't codify it and make it permanent, then the next Democrat is just going to open the borders again in the name of asylum. You can build a wall from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific.

And by the way, I support creating a wall, but you can do that. And if all you're going to do is release people in the name of asylum, then you remake our country. And by the way, you're doing that at the same time that you're using legal immigration to flood our country through H-1B visas with a lot of people. Who don't share our values, and a lot of people that want to Islamify America, and suddenly you wake up and you don't know what country you live in. You know, and that's the thing, is they're no longer.

You know, we had during the pandemic with the Biden borders, we had a million, millions, tens of millions. influx in this country and we have no idea Where a lot of them uh Are or what their background was, and you know, and We're seeing that they're no longer come in here, and if you don't think they came from the Middle East, and if you don't think they came from these Muslim countries. into this country and if they no longer blow up houses. They they run for houses. You know, they realize that there's a different way to attack the American way of life.

And that is by running and putting money in our colleges where we have. College kids being brainwashed and thinking that Palestine is the victim. You know, we're just seeing it in real time. The results of basically four years of just lawlessness in this country. And it's very, very frustrating.

And mail in ballots and all these things. And one of the things that and I want to set it up because we're going to go into break, and I hope you stay with me at the break because I really want to talk to you an update of what's going on with the Save America Act. Also, something that you had a hand in. And this is why I like you so much is because you know the job, and that should be. You have character and you know the job.

That should be the sexiest thing right now about a politician.

Well, you know, that's what they say about me. And it's one of those. Look, here's the thing: the Save America Act, I'll stay through the break, happy to talk about it. Let me just address real quick the point you just made. Because it's not just the four years of Biden, it's the better part of two decades of weak Republican leadership who sided with the Chamber of Commerce in saying that in the name of cheap labor, we need to import effectively the third world and people who do not share our Judeo-Christian values that we end up with Minnesota, we end up with Dearborn, we end up with Mamdani, and we end up with 350 mosques in the state of Texas and a serious crisis in which the First Amendment is being used against us to transform our society and wage jihad against the West.

That's what's happening. You're right. They're not yet or not currently blowing up houses, but they are running for houses because they ultimately want to wage jihad and take over and Islamify America. We've got to recognize that because you cannot win a war you do not acknowledge exists. And man, thank you so much for putting that out there.

And that's exactly what we ended up doing. Instead of going to break, I just kept you going. I appreciate you, man. Keep up the good fight. Um And I hope we get more Americans who will follow in your suit that have character and know the job and are able to sit down and have a discussion and explain how these things work.

And that's what needs to be on media every night, not who has the hot take or says some wild sideways stuff that we're all talking about for a week. I couldn't agree more. God bless you. And tell everybody on the 5 below and just keep doing what you're doing. And let's do this again.

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The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. What it is, Tyrus filling in for B-Ride today. And yesterday, I did something in the wrestling business. We call I didn't hit my time.

I was so excited. I always get excited whenever I talk to Mr. Mayor Glenn Jacobs. And we were getting ready to close this thought, and I thought we had an extra. I was trying to milk as much as I can because I always love talking to him.

And he texts me after he's like, Hit your time, kid. And I was like, oh, sorry, boss. I was trying to get camera side.

So thank you so much, man. I know you're busy. You got a million things going on. But I. Really wanted to.

I didn't get a chance to talk to you about something. Um, that I I think was actually amazing. And the best way to say it is that you choke slammed a million dollar deal to install hundreds of Flock cameras, and you don't get enough credit for some of the things you have done. Yeah, thanks for saying that. Actually, that was in cooperation with the sheriff.

I don't really have the authority in that case to pause the deal. The sheriff agreed to do that, and appreciate him and his dialogue in this situation. I'm not a fan of the fly cameras. About a month ago, these things weren't even on my radar. I didn't know what they did.

The more I've learned about them, the more troubled I am. These are not what we would think of as conventional license plate readers that, you know, cars go by. If there's a hit on a wanted vehicle, that's flagged. You know, these things are an active surveillance network that is just collecting data. And as cars drive by, every single car has its picture taken, goes into.

database usually stays there for 30 days. It can be searched and we've seen it be abused across the country. And what's really scary is in our case, as you mentioned, they're talking about putting 260 more of these cameras out. And at that point, you can actually they can actually crack your movements and do so without a warrant. And you don't have an expectation of privacy on public roads and in public places.

However, the government can't surveil you, spy on you without a warrant. And if they can basically create this network and know where every is going to where you've been, it's the same thing.

So I think that it's nothing else that this really deserves some scrutiny and public dialogue. You know, and when I first heard it, to be honest with you, I was like, well, yeah, it's going to catch bad guys. But then. We have, we've had a history problem with whenever you give the government. A foot, they'll take a mile, and you end up becoming a surveillance state.

And that's not how I want to live my life. I mean, you I get it. If when you go outside, there can't be an expectation of privacy, but at the same time, you don't need to be doxxed, you don't need to be in a data bank, you don't need companies to get your information to try to send you stuff to social media. Like, there's a lot of things that are wrong with this, and I've completely changed my stance on it.

Now, I want my streets safe as much as the next guy, but I also don't want to open up to where you need to have a warrant. You know, there needs to be some, this is a free country, and we need to remember that. And it's a dangerous road to be on. And what you just said is typical. I mean, when I first heard about it, I was the same way.

You know, oh, this is another tool wire. People raising such a fit about it. And I'm like, oh, I get it now. And it's not about depriving the authorities and the police of the tools they need to do their job. It's ensuring that those tools are used in a manner which is consistent with the Constitution and with the confines and the constraints placed on us by the Fourth Amendment.

And this is not the first time this will come up, the last time it's come up, though, you know, because it's really just, this is what happens when you have new technology advances coming online. And really one of my biggest issues with all of this is there is no. Federal framework currently, a regulatory framework governing these devices. The laws in Tennessee, the license plate readers, were written in 2014 and really haven't been updated since. Technology has advanced just slightly since then.

Yeah, just the scope. Yeah, those laws are completely at this point antiquated. And, you know, that's one thing, no matter what happens, you know, there has to be a strong regulatory framework put in place both at the federal and state level. Right now, you're just relying on municipalities, in some cases, sheriff's offices and police departments to put their own regulations in place. My friend, Congressman Tim Burgett, who was my predecessor as Knox County Mayor, has statement up to fight at the federal level.

He wants to ban any federal funding going forward for clock cameras. And we're talking about a very specific thing here. You know, there's other things that doesn't apply. To. These are these automated license plate readers that just Flock is the company.

They're the one that has put out this particular technology. But Tim has legislation to ban federal funding, and I think that's appropriate at this point. No, and that's great. And that's the reason why I was like, hey, I got to get to this. And I appreciate making the time.

You know, before I let you go, real quick, Dory Funk Jr. passed away yesterday. Yeah. And that really hit me in the gut, man. I just he he's like uh he commentates and any time I'm on T V and I just loved it, you know.

And uh when I was that uh character, the Funkosaurus, they he just came to he was backstage and I was absolutely terrified because I was a fan, but at the same time, I was like, you know, the name funk means something. And when I saw him, he's like, hey, Funkosaurus. And I was like, oh, here we go. And he's like, you're a funk. Yeah, it ain't got nothing to do with music.

You're a worker. And it just made my day, you know. And when I captured the NWA championship, I got a tweet from him: it looks good on you. And that meant the world to me. And he was just such an.

He's one of the ones that they all hurt. But uh that one stung a little bit. Mm. Yeah, and I didn't know him as well as you did, going through your particular past. But nevertheless, he trained some of the top stars that became household names.

Obviously, he was a great performer in his own right.

So certainly, Toby Miss, he leaves a tremendous legacy in the world of professional wrestling. And again, and then yesterday, real quick, in the middle, you were making a great point, and we got about a minute left. We're going to hit this time, and I wanted to save it to the end. You have always been very outspoken about the pandemic and how it affects our constitutional rights and how alarming it was. And another thing was a lot of the bias that came with Fauci, that you couldn't say anything against him.

And you were making a great point, but you were not creating a new conspiracy. You were not saying that all the news outlets sat down with, hey, how can we get Trump? But there was a lot of bias. And I think that was the point you were making. Yes.

Yeah, I don't think that the heads of CNN and MSNBC and whoever else. Together and said, How are we going to get Trump out of office? But they were all singing at least from the same hymn book, if not the same sheet of music.

So the message that came out, it was, it had the same impact, same effect.

Well, thank you, man. And we hit our time. Thank you so much for your time. And this is Tyrus filling in for Brian Kilmead on the Brian Kilmead Show. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division.

It's Brian Kilmead. What it is, Tyrus in for B-Ride today on the Brian Kilmead show. And, you know, I'm excited. I'm going to have Carl Rove on here shortly. But.

I really feel like we need to talk about the Republican Party does have a A character problem at times, and it seems We want to focus a lot on the craziness of the socialism and communist movement that's coming out of the Democratic Party, as we should. But I don't think it helps when the alternative has off-the-field issues. And it seems to be uh Popping up more and more.

Now When the the Democratic side has off the field issues like we saw in Maine. Everybody is willing to jump in, and panels are formed and to go in on them. And we got to call balls and strikes. And we gotta we gotta if anything. The one thing in the conservative movement that needs to be a priority is not just knowing the job, being able to get into office and actually understand how laws work and get things done for your constituents.

The same thing, character matters. And we need to really push that. And I can't think of anyone better. When it comes to talk about character. Um Ben Carlroe, former Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to President George W.

Bush and a Fox News contributor. Good morning, sir. Is it? Yeah, we're still before. I can still say good morning, sir.

Um I was uh just I don't know if you heard what I was saying, but. You know, we're seeing uh we just saw the results in Michigan and uh It was a lot closer than a lot of people said it was going to be.

So I think there is some. I guess there's some promise in that. Uh I think that the socialist movement has a lot of legs and blue of blue. But I also think because everything is nationalized, because everything is media and social media make things a lot bigger than they appear. When you have a character issue in one area, it's kind of contagious.

And we're seeing what was going on with Chuck Edwards and then Max Miller. And you see these things. And then the other side is saying, well, the other side is committed and they're officing something new. And a lot of our young Uh Adults and Americans in this country, their Jfk. moment was the Epstein files.

So when you're seeing these behaviors, Whether Epstein's problem is blown out of proportion or not, I think it is. But the thing is, is like that's what they grew up as their big conspiracy. You know, that's their JFK in terms of conspiracies and things. And when you see these behaviors, It is very frustrating to get people to pay attention to the messaging about what it is to be conservative. Do you agree with that?

I do. First, one quick thing. Operation Takeover is underway. Kill me's garage and office keys have been disabled. HR has been advised.

The staff has signed loyalty oaths to the TIRIS radio program.

So, anyway, it's all underway. Don't worry about it. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Yeah, exactly.

So, yeah, no, I couldn't agree more with you that character matters in politics. And I hate to say it, you're also right about balls and strikes. Edwards is out. Max Miller would be well advised to also step aside. It does not help the cause that he claims to support to continue this fight.

It's too ugly. It's too contentious. There are lots of charges flowing back and forth between he and his ex-wife. And the way to resolve them is not to try and do it in the context of a campaign. No.

He's going to be on the back foot all the way along. If he really cares about the conservative movement and the future of the Ohio Republican Party, now is the time for him to step aside, just like Edwards stepped aside. Edwards was reviewed and investigated by the House Ethics Committee, and Republican and Democrat unanimously agreed his behavior towards two young female interns was completely inappropriate and in violation of the rules of the House. And he had to go. And he's going.

My advice to Max Miller is: if you can clear your name, you might have a political career ahead of you, but you have to go clear your name and you can't. Yeah, fix your home. Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah, fix your home. And that goes with any job, you know, and again.

Everyone has a right to be heard. And, you know, it's, and then you let, you know, the chips follow what they may with investigations or whatnot. But there's also. You grew you were in a time I remember as a kid. Um Hearing about Gary Hart.

And he Was basically accused of having an affair. It was like a photo of him walking by a door or something. But it was just. No, no, no. He's sitting with an attractive woman on her lap, and he was on a boat called Monkey Business.

Yes, yes.

So, look, look, this, look, they were a lot more delicate back then. But, yeah, no, he had trouble, and he was wise to step aside. It would have hurt his party had he become the nominee. I mean, look at look at what we got in look at what happened to the Democrats in Maine. They had a candidate they thought was on his way to victory.

And then it turned out that there was, you know, besides the Nazi tattoo and the ugly comments, it turned out that he was guilty of sexual abuse. And off they went. Yeah, no, we demand better from our politicians. Nobody expects everybody in politics to be perfect. In fact, we don't expect any of them to be perfect, but we do expect them to be models for our kids and our grandkids.

And I think, and another thing is, is that one of the things that absolutely outraged me, and it was during his interview, if we could play that again when he was talking to Jake Tapper. I don't have the number with me, but one of the things that absolutely, I think was number 11. Could we roll that for you? People have asked me, what are you going to do? Are you going to drop out of this race?

Are you going to resign? Are you going to get out before the deadline? And my answer to you, Jake, is no. And I can tell you why. In 2016, when President Donald J.

Trump faced the most extreme allegations in the world that hit him day after day after day, and people in the media, very much like yourself and others, said that he would have no shot at winning, that he should not be the President of the United States. But guess what? He stayed in and he was resilient. And what the American people can see is that they can see that somebody is fighting who is resilient, and that is a quality that the American people cherish. And so for no second am I going to sit here and continue to be debased by false and baseless allegations.

Okay, that absolutely enraged me. Like, comparing your playing a Trump card, sir. Yeah, yeah. And look, I don't remember. Would you, was Melania making these trumpet cards?

Exactly. No. Was you know, was his children? You know, it was absolutely disgusting. And That doesn't help, but.

That is the problem because that is the echo chamber that is going to be on every news outlet. And people don't think, well, that's not my district. Or that's not my congressman. They think, oh, well, it's one of those things where it's now you're all in the same tent. And you're all in the same box.

And if he's doing it, then the other guy's going to do it. And at the same time, while this is going on, there's a socialist party coming along saying they're all corrupt. They're all this, and And we're offering free stuff and we're not like them. And it's hard. And then the kids have this thing where they're looking at me like, well, yeah, he's part of the establishment.

This is what they do. They harass women, they assault women. And so I'm not voting for that guy. And then there's the people in the middle Who are now your choice is And this is a hypothetical. Your choices, let's say, is Max Miller and it's Saeed.

You're going to go, I'm not voting. I'm staying at home.

So then you lose veterans. You lose the Christian vote. You lose the hunters. You lose the hardworking Americans who are like, I don't want any part of this. No matter which way I go, I'm not standing in line two hours for this.

Yeah. Well, and then let me, I got two things to say to this. First of all, a little bit of history. We've seen this drama before. You're absolutely right.

It flows on to everybody else. 2006, the war is unpopular. The president's approval ratings are in the high 30s. We look like we're going to lose the House. John Boehner goes to work over the course of 2005 and 2006.

He recruits great candidates. He raises good money. He has a good message. Here is what Republicans want to do. They sort of crawl themselves back to a place where it's not going to be a wipeout by early September.

And the polls are starting to show the Republicans are coming back. And the generic ballot is changing a little bit. Still Democrat lead, but it's diminishing. And Republican campaigns seem to have going. September twenty eighth.

For a year over a year, Rahm Emanuel, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, has known that Congressman Tom Foley excuse me, Mark Foley of Florida, Republican, has been engaged in inappropriate sexual advances to young male pages.

Now rather than doing what should have been done, which is there's a thing called the House Page Committee, equal number of Republicans and Democrats. Their job is to basically be the guardians of the pages. Rather than going to the Page Committee, Emmanuel kept this in his back pocket until the right moment, and six weeks before the election he popped it out by feeding it to ABC News. It became the Story du jour. Within twenty four hours Foley was out, but Everybody said, Oh, this has been going on, and the Republicans were in charge, and he's a Republican, and we're going to hold people responsible, and the floor fell out.

Exactly. So, you know, you're absolutely right. This thing, even with Edwards gone, there's still going to be some wash on it, particularly in North Carolina. And with Miller staying in, people are going to say, really, the Republicans are tolerating that? You know, really, we thought you guys were the social conservatives, believed in family values.

And we're reading all kinds of lurid things splashed all over the news. Yeah, I mean, here's the thing. And I. Again, I I'm the Last guy to say, like, hey, an accusation, it should be, you should be investigated. But I want to play number 12 for you.

Uh I hope you never have to understand what My daughter's been through, what my daughter is going through, what my wife is going through. Two other, my two boys and my other daughter are going through. This is. truly the seventh level of hell. This has been a horrific experience for my entire family.

My daughter lives in constant fear of this man. Not like something that's existential, but deeply in her heart, she fears what this guy is capable of. You can't fathom what that makes me feel like when the dad's number one job is to protect your kids. And to have this whole thing out in the public like this is not what I wanted to do. It's not what my daughter wanted to do.

You know, and that's that's Senator Bernie Monroe. I can't see that he was excited to have to talk about this. But when you hear that, it has gotten to the point. Where You need step down. And figure this out.

You know, and If you're, if this is all a conspiracy and the other two, and then there's the other two accusations from girls he dated, women he dated in the past, or whatever. You're not right of mind to serve. I could not manage, I could not come into work every day if I had something like this hanging over me. You know, and I think there and and you are there to represent Your constituents. Go home.

Step down. Clear your name. Or get help, or whatever the situation is. And then you can come back to it. But this idea of like this this I'm the only one who can do this job Is hurting the party on the national level.

Yeah, and look, he's not. The most likely replacement for him is a friend of mine. Jane Timkin. Outstanding chairman of the Republican Party of Ohio.

Now a member of the state senate, ran in the Senate primary a couple of years ago with a J.D. Vance one, married into the wonderful Timken family of Canton, Ohio, been there for over 100 and some odd years. The Timken company is one of the big employers there, beloved by its employees. Her husband runs the company. She's smart as heck, a great lawyer, Harvard educated, down to earth.

I mean, this is a woman that you say, what a terrific public servant, and has fought hard for the cause. I mean, she took on the job of being the chairman of the Ohio Republican Party when things weren't looking so good and nurtured it and raised money and encouraged volunteers and spoke across the state and put her brilliant mind to work helping craft a Republican renewal in Ohio. And you go talk to the governor or other leaders of the elected officials in the Ohio Republican Party and they will tell you Jane Timpkin did a heck of a job and would make a tremendous member of Congress.

So, and look, this is, you know, yes, you don't want people to be in a position where accusations are thrown at them about this or that, and then just to try and force them out of the race. But this is a deeply troubled relationship between a husband and wife leading to an ugly divorce. These things, you know, are they touch everybody and they do not reflect well on Max Miller. And, you know, it's not going to get better in the next. You know it's ninety some odd days.

It's just not. And there's too much anguish there. You heard it in Bernie Moreno's comment. That was a dad worried about his daughter. And you hear it in the anger in Max Miller You know, and they're just, you're right.

There are too many accusations from too many different quarters that talk, that set a storyline that is going to be impossible for him to change between now and November. And here's the thing: divorce, let's take the abuse and all the allegations, let's just take all that out of it. An ugly divorce, a custody battle. That also to me is a disqualifier. That is something you can't do the job when you're fighting for your family or you're fighting for your, you know, who's taking the house.

And all that stuff is a weight. And the burden of serving. And making right, you have to make decisions like this. And every time you make a decision, and you know this better than anyone, sir, there is going to be, there's cause and effects, there's collateral damage. One group's happy, the other group's pissed off.

And when you're not of right mind, If you're emotionally drained. You can't do the job. And then you throw the accusations on top of it. And then he does the ridiculous interview with Tapper, which did not help him. Um And just to wrap this up, the reason why I enjoy talking to you so much is you are one of, and it shouldn't be, common sense is one thing, but you call it like it is.

And I think that needs to be more That needs to be more of the thing when it doesn't matter whether it's a donkey or elephant on your patch. If you're not doing the right thing by the American people, we got to call you out. And thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. I'm just doing what our overlords at Fox told me, which is call balls and strike.

The phrase you used earlier. I've heard many a time from our overlords on the second floor. Isn't it something? The leadership of our network is not located at the top of the building. They're on the second floor.

And I think that's a sign of their humility. But I'm delighted to be able to call balls and strikes. And it's great to be on with you. And I'm looking forward to the permanent Tyrus radio show. I was made for radio.

I got a face for it, so I'll keep my fingers crossed. Thank you, sir. Always a pleasure. Till next time. The talk show that's getting you talking.

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And again, thank you for taking time to hang out with me on the Brian Kilmead Show. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmead. That's true. He's so busy he can't even be here today.

And Tyrus, I'm filling in for B-Ryan, the Brian Kilmead show. And I'm going to be sitting in the chair a little bit today with Jonathan Albert, a psychotherapist at New York Times, in New York City and Washington, D.C., and author of the forthcoming book, Therapy Nation, which I guarantee is going to be a New York Times bestseller. Uh you're You have some interesting things here. Dating's new red flag, voting the wrong way could lead you to be single for good. Wow, that's, you know, and I was reading the back.

Of your book, is it okay if I read it to the audience?

Okay, absolutely.

So, uh. Therapy Nation pulls back the curtain on a troubling reality. Therapy, once a powerful tool for genuine healing, has morphed into a force of driving our broader societal decline. The widespread embrace of therapy as a universal solution has reshaped the way we view ourselves and one another, casting us all through the lens of illness, weakness, and division. This book is meant to spark a much-needed reckoning within the therapy industry and a cultural shift beyond it.

Patients should demand more from those entrusted with our most vital national resource, the mental health of our people. That's a very powerful statement. Yeah, it is. And it really came from, this book was born from my 20 years or so practicing as a therapist. And if we go back to 2012, I wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times called In Therapy Forever, Enough Already.

And in that piece, I called out my profession. People were going to therapy endlessly. It became almost like a lifestyle. They would go in. vent, get things off their mind, feel better in the moment, but they weren't actually getting better.

And I think people should look at therapy the way they look at, say, going to a physician. If you have a problem, you identify what it is, you diagnose it, and you come up with a treatment plan. Therapy doesn't need to be an endless activity.

Well, it's almost become a wingman or an echo chamber where you go in and you say, complaining. And one of the things we talked about before you came on, you like the the T D S D, the Trump Derangement Syndrome, where they'll go in and they'll they'll complain about things that necessarily don't even really affect their lives. And then they just keep coming back and back and At some point, isn't the responsibility You would think of the therapist to say, this is you. You're projecting. But instead, they're not.

They're just basically building a safe space, which is profoundly not safe. Right. You're spot on with that. And what's happened is we have therapists who have created this accommodation and validation culture.

So they'll just affirm everything. And if someone comes in and they say, my boyfriend's a jerk or my boss is, my workplace is toxic, they'll just affirm that. They won't push back. They won't ask the patient to explain further and teach the patient how to deal with that difficult boss or that toxic workplace.

So what's happening is therapists largely are breeding these entitled, spoiled brats. And we have people like Luigi Mangion, who's probably a good example of that. He felt it was his right, his responsibility, his duty to take out the United Healthcare CEO just because he disagreed with what was going on in that industry. You know, and the scary part about that was. And if I remember, he basically shot him in the back, walked up on him, and then he had a fan base.

There was this and it was not like just the typical weirdos are in the serial killers. It was people were coming out and defending him and almost making him like he was a martyr. They sure are. And just the other day, I received a call from what I thought was a real patient seeking my help. And I asked who referred her to me, and she said Louie G.

Mangione. And I chuckled and I knew it was a joke. But then she said, you need to think twice before you talk about people publicly and their mental health. I said I'm pretty sure that if someone's at the point where they're ready to commit murder to make a point, they've got some serious mental health issues. But that's an example of how deeply sick our society has become.

Edward. I always talk about the pandemic. I said the biggest outbreak of the pandemic was narcissism, where this one point of view is the only way. And you said it best. You said entitlement.

And laziness. And I think that's why the Socialist Party has become so intriguing in these big blue cities because they're basically keeping that party going where you can just stay home and focus on yourself and spend your time doing what you want to do and hard work and going into the office and paying your dues. That's stuff that you don't need to do. There's plenty of rich people that we can take stuff from. Yeah, isn't it great to hate the wealthy instead of like figuring out how to get wealthy?

But the DSA, they love to hate the billionaires. They love to blame other people instead of looking at how to get from point A to point B, put in the hard work, get the education, and achieve success. You know, or here's the deal: like, oh, I don't want to go to school. You know, okay, get a trade. You know he Wealth, everyone hates And it's funny because it used to be millionaires, but most of the people who are projecting this stuff are millionaires.

So then it's the billionaire. The billionaire is the problem. And you see people who aren't even close to being a hundredair Complaining about billionaires. It's like you are so, you're so out of touch with what's going on in front of you. And maybe that's part of the The plan with this is that if you're delusional with what you're doing, then you're not, then you need someone to validate that.

And to say, I'm going into therapy. Tells everyone that you're on top of yourself. You're aware. Like, I'm fixing myself. Assuming that the therapist is actually helpful.

Yeah. But yeah, you're right. There are some parts of the left that need to have a villain. They need someone to hate. And I think with the DSA, it is the wealthy people, people who have achieved success.

White men. White men like me, of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's like never been a better time to not be a white man because you guys are responsible for everything. We sure are.

And then you mentioned the dating article that I wrote. And dating apps have become a litmus test of sorts where people are being screened for their political beliefs. And before you even say hello, or where do you like to dine? or what are your interests? People are screening.

Did you vote for Trump? Are you conservative? Left leaning, right leaning, and it's become a huge problem. It's like that's a deal breaker off the bat. Absolutely.

It used to be: are you 5'10 or taller?

Now did you vote the right? Are you into small government? Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. Get off my page.

And I think and I I guess but you know what if that's their their core Belief system, you're dodging a bullet, fellas. You know, just throwing that out there. I've been out the game a while, I've been married, what, 13 years? But Marriage is also difficult. And there are times when you're not sure.

You go to therapy to seek help. And I. A lot of things. One of the things you said, I think it was: how do therapists get married wrong? Like, for men, whenever my situation is, or when I think about men, is like we usually make a mistake, we do something to hurt the marriage, and then we go to therapy to try to fix it, you know, like, or at least have a plan: how do I rebuild trust or whatever.

And A lot of times I'm hearing people that go into therapy, and the first thing, when they say the problem, the first issue is: well, leave them. Yeah, and that's not always the best solution, particularly if there are kids involved. I mean, it might seem like the easy thing to do, but if you're not considering the consequences of that, but in many ways, it represents our society where things have become disposable, including marriage, and we're used to quick fixes. Can't get a proper erection, pop a pill, want to lose weight, take the jab.

So we are used to quick fixes, and therapy is no different insofar as therapists are quick to say, well, just get rid of him, instead of doing the hard work of. uh working through solutions in the problems. What do you think when Someone goes to a therapist if they're like let's say I uh Yeah Maybe you're struggling with depression and you want to see I want to a therapist and I want to Find ways to get myself when I start to feel myself slipping into that. I want some tools and some skills where I can deal with that. There should be A prescription on that, on how long I'm going to go do that for.

Yeah. Is that a good way to put it?

Well, I roughly agree. There should be a defined time. I don't think people should be in therapy forever, but no two depressed people are the same.

So it really varies. But I think the problem that we have in my profession now is that a lot of therapists are pathologizing what I would call ordinary life experiences.

So if you have a bad day or even a bad week, that doesn't mean that you're depressed. If you have a conflict with your colleague or boss, That doesn't mean that you have a toxic workplace or PTSD. It means you had a bad day or an issue and you need to work through it. But we have therapists. Who are putting this nonsense out there and then add into the mix social media and you have these so-called social media experts or influencers.

Right, right. And they're out there saying, well, I have ADD or I'm depressed. And then they're making a lot of people. Autism. It seems to me like a lot of self-prescribed autism.

And it's like, it's not a superpower. Right. And there used to be a time where people wouldn't be proud to have a certain diagnosis, but now they're owning it in a way and it's almost like they're celebrating it. Yeah. And I think it's a good thing that there's more awareness of mental health disorders, but it has become something that people hide behind too.

Yeah, because it's like you can't question them because they'll come at, well, I'm autistic or I have autoimmune all of a sudden. And anything you say to them is they're the victim and you're attacking. Right. But being autistic or on the spectrum isn't an excuse for bad behavior. Right, exactly.

Or omnipotence. Like you can't tell me anything I don't want to hear. And I think. One of the and I'm I'm a solutions guy and also accountability. If If you're going to a therapist and there's no pushback and there's no.

What are y what did you do? Or what are y d did anything you do contribute to this? If you're not getting those type of Questions, then it might not be a good situation for you in terms of like, because ultimately you can't control what somebody else does. But you can control what you do. Right.

At the end of the day. Yeah, it comes down to like your reactions. Like everyone gets hit in the mouth, not physically, but life punches you in the mouth. Right. But you're judged by your reaction and how you deal with it.

Absolutely. And I always talk when I talk to my patients, I always say, what are the things that are within your control? You can't control the weather, but you can control how you dress. You can't always control who your colleagues are, but you can control how you react to them and how you interact with them. But that has been lost in my profession.

The resilience, the accountability seems to have been lost, and it's given way to a culture of accommodation and validation. Victimhood. Victimhood, absolutely. And then, speaking, we're going to take a quick break. Do you mind hanging around for this show?

That'd be awesome. All right.

So we will be right back after this. Real talk, real guests, real insight. Where curiosity meets conversation is the Brian Killmeat Show. Uh Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

What it is, this is Tyrus filling in from Brian and Jonathan Albert, psychotherapist. Jonathan's hanging around with me, and we're talking about his book. By the way, it's new to me, but it's not new to you guys. Apparently, it came out in May, but it's still new to me. I'm very excited about it.

And you can get this anywhere books are sold, Amazon, etc. One of the things we were talking about in the break, and it actually blew my mind. You were talking about how, like, TDS, or what is it, Trump Deranged Syndrome? Yeah, TDS. was in the therapy world.

It sure is, and it's still there. And there is a point where probably about. Three-quarters of my patients, and I practice along the East Coast, so DC and New York, were coming in with real pathology. And I have to be clear, we do not have a disorder called TDS. But the pathology that I'm seeing has to be looked at very closely.

It should be studied. And if it's not Trump, it could be Rubio, it could be Vance, it could be someone on the other side. And this hyper-fixation on a political figure or person is problematic.

So, you know, Trump, whoever you want to put in there, if you're. Staying up at night because of Trump. If your relationships with family members and colleagues are being ruined because of him. If you're canceling vacation plans because, quote, I can't possibly relax knowing that Trump's in office, true story. Yeah, no.

Then that's a real problem.

So when I look at mental health disorders, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, depression, they share some of the hallmark features of what we now call TDS. Which is absolutely insane because I find and again, uh I'm a little more grounded and a little more, I guess, Neanderthalist. If I don't absolutely know the person and they're directly affecting my life. I Don't fixate on them. Like, I don't know the president and his decisions he's making for the world, not me.

You know, like I'm part of it, but like at the same time, I also know in four years someone else will be in there. You know, so it's like, even if I don't like it, I'm still going to be able to get up in the morning and go about my day. Right. And you're thinking about this in a very healthy way. You recognize that in four years or three years, whatever it is, whatever is left in the term, there's a new chance to have a different president.

But with a lot of people on the left, They have such catastrophic thinking, and they start to believe that the world is ending, Trump is a Nazi. you know, Trump's gonna do whatever. And they start to believe this. They surround themselves in these echo chambers and that's all the information they have. And it's very unhealthy.

And I encourage people to be better consumers of information. You know, whatever network you watch, maybe check out some of the other shows. Yeah, you should watch a little bit of everything. Yes, absolutely. And be a good consumer of information.

But they don't. They're so hyper-fixated. They find what they're looking for. If they want to believe that Trump is a Nazi, they'll find some crazy information that supports it in their warped way. You know, because it's.

Across the and you saw it and and it's always worse when you see it with somebody that has reach. Like Rosie O'Donnell fled the country. She's yeah, she's amazing. She's back, but she fled the country 'cause she feared for her life. She had to get out of Trump's America because she wasn't going to be around.

She's going to be arrested. She's going to be put in a camp or worse. With Robert De Niro. Yes, yeah. And what's amazing is all of a sudden she came back.

to be on the view.

So apparently the danger has subsided. Uh but for the check. And but the whole point of her being there is to She's like, ah, he's going to be so upset. And I don't think he cares what you do. And the reality is, a lot of the people who say these things are going to happen.

What happens When you were dealing with a patient, hypothetically, that says Trump's going to end the world, we're all going to be in jail, we're all going to lose our rights, women are going to go back to the Stone Age. And then it doesn't happen.

Well, I saw that.

So in 2016, when Trump first entered the scene, I would have patients who would say exactly that. They would say, I'm leaving, I'm going to Canada, I'm withdrawing my investments. They never left. Their investments actually did quite well.

So if you present to the patient facts, not fiction, some of them start to recognize: okay, maybe that was my anxiety speaking and not like actual factual information. And that's how I work with patients.

Some are a lost cause, others, I'm able to really help.

So there's a cure for this TDS sometimes. Yeah, and it's just self-realization. I mean. And like it's It's almost like when I hear people argue about whether Darth Vader could be the Incredible Hulk, and it's like, it depends who writes the story. They're not real beings.

Kids crying about all that wasn't believable that Luke Skyware, and it's like it's a movie. None of it's believable. You know, as a wrestler, when I got, I can't believe you lost to that guy. He's half your size. I'm like, I didn't write the script, bro.

You know, and it's kind of what it is a little bit. Very like they create these. Fantasies of this, that Trump's in the White House thinking about, I'm going to get you. You're like, as if. That's just not real.

Well, it's become almost like a social calling card. You know, people find support in others. Who are suffering, say, depression or anxiety, so this TDS is no different. If you connect with someone who says that they hate Trump, Then you've got a natural support system built into that. Wow.

Well, you know what? This has been absolutely amazing. Ladies and gentlemen, check out his book. Dr. Jonathan, thank you so much for your time.

Jonathan. Jonathan, thank you so much for your time. This is Tyrus filling in for Brian Kilmead on the Brian Kilmead Show.