Border chaos continues, Should Whoopi Goldberg be fired & schools bringing back mask mandates

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So glad to be back with you. It is fantastic to be back with you. Ugh. we have so much to talk about on the show. You know, the border is doing super great.

You know, we got that under control. The Biden administration just keeps blaming Congress, and Congress is like, well, we got laws, you're just not enforcing them. And in the meantime, they're just trying to break into people's homes along the border. Not all of them, but you know.

So it's great all the way around. And to join us, let's start out talking about the border.

Someone who knows the border, someone who knows what should be happening at the border and knows how to fix it. But unfortunately, the Biden administration is not asking him. Tom Homan, Fox News contributor, retired acting ICE director, Heritage Foundation visiting fellow. Tom Homan, welcome to the Brian Kilmead Show. Good morning.

Good morning. So well, it seems to be a big problem. The administration, as you heard me say, blames Congress. Congress needs to fix the problem. We're doing everything we can.

Congress needs to come up with policy. Um, isn't there policy in place? Yeah, they they're they're playing coming together pretty damn good. I mean, Joe Biden ran in open borders, and that's what we have. I mean, he he said what he was going to do during the campaign, and he's followed through on that.

I mean, his first three weeks in office, he signed. 91 executive orders pretty much abolishing everything we created on the Trump administration.

So this isn't, I said it many times, this is not incompetence, this isn't mismanagement. their plan is coming together brilliantly and this is what they want.

So Chinese. Yo no, Congress needs to do some work. But they don't need Congress. All they gotta do is brush off the Trump Trump playbook and make it secure the board in a week.

So the so it's a convenient excuse to say, well, we can't do anything, uh Congress has to do something. But aren't there laws that are currently on the books that Congress has has passed, like actual laws that they're just not enforcing at the border? Oh, absolutely. Yes, see so if they enforce those what are they? And if they enforce them, would it change the game?

Yeah, it would. Look, I testified. in a lawsuit against the Biden administration for the state of Texas. We clearly show there's a law they're ignoring, and which says that if you're if you have a conviction, this I'm talking about interior enforcement now. If you're if you're alien in the United States, if you're convicted of a drug offense, a a crime involving moral turpitude, or if you get a fined order, which means you enter the United States, you lost your case, you were s ordered sent home, I s must detain and remove them.

And they're simply not doing that. I used to have the lowest number of removals in the history of the agency under this administration. The law also says it's illegal to enter the United States. It's a crime, a violation of Title VIII, United States Code 1325. They should be arrested and detained.

But they're not doing it, as you can see. They're releasing everybody. And if you look at the probe statute, when you probe somebody in the United States, which this administration is proing thousands Growth actually says it's a case by case determination based on that case specifics. They're not doing that. They're just taking thousands of people and say, We're prolling you all.

They can't do that. And that's why one of the groups I'm working with, we followed lawsuit on that.

So, yes, there are numerous laws they could enforce. That would help the border situation. Not only are they not enforcing them, we showed in the Texas lawsuit, they're actually violating it. You know, they seem to violate a lot of rules of um Barack Obama did the same thing and would just not not Play by the rules and just ignore court orders, etc. And he got away with it at least long enough because they know that if they ignore long enough until someone finally comes after them and forces them to stop, it's that many more people that have gotten in that they know will never be deported.

I saw this morning on Fox that Title 42, everybody keeps talking about Title 42, that this administration is only refusing entry or expelling people under Title 42, about 29% when they could be preventing about 80% from coming in using Title 42. Is that yet another law that they're just not enforcing? Yeah, Title 42 is the CDC statute, and under Trump administration, we deported, I think, eighty six percent. Because there's some, if there's a significant humanitarian reason, like when they cross the board, they're they're very sick and ill. They need medical attention, we can't return them.

Situations like that, you know, we have to custom and care for them because. we have to and we should. But we returned eighty six percent. Under this administration, they've actually released more into the country than they returned on the Title forty two. Right right when they started this administration title, they said title 42, okay.

We'll keep it going because of COVID, because there's COVID when he became president. But here's what they did: they carved out retired populations. They carved out all these families that's coming across, can't be returned under 42. Unaccompanied children can't be returned. People from various countries can't be returned.

I guess the government feels like they can't have COVID. They're not a COVID danger. But they carved out a big group. which resulted in them releasing more people and actually removed. Yeah, and the whole Title 42 thing is such a disaster because we either have a pandemic or we don't.

You know, you have in hospitals in many states, you still have physicians, and if you go into the hospital, if you go into a medical facility, you have to wear a mask, which at this point to me is just cosplay. We're just pretending that this works. You have the administration who wants to keep forcing our servicemen and women to receive COVID boosters. But if there's no pandemic, then why do they have to do that? Right?

Like, so there's just such mixed messages. In some instances, there is a pandemic. We have schools that are trying to mask our kids again. Oh, so there's a pandemic. Except at the border where now there's not a pandemic, it just doesn't make any sense.

And there doesn't seem to be any kind of clear consistency or policy with any of this. And I blame the administration.

Well, look, people need to understand Title 42 is important. I'm glad the Supreme Court accepts it because it does, you know, it's going to prevent some people from coming. But it's not that big of a difference. What they want to do. And this administration really wants to secure the borders.

They really want to give Borg Cho some relief. They will simply reimplement the remain of Mexico. The federal courts have ruled that that's a legal program. People still can claim asylum. But they shouldn't wait Mexico until they're hearing.

That was a game changer with the Trump administration, but this administration won't even consider it.

So th which is another example is they don't want to secure the border. I mean, you look at and and Congress upset me, they signed off in his omnibus bill. 18 Republican senators signed it, which is disgusting considering that.

Some of them have been to the southern border. Doing their dog and pony shows what a travesty it is. Then they sign a bill that gives zero. zero dollars for border enforcement. But it gives millions of dollars to NGOs.

That will process and release people into the country.

So that itself is disturbing. That we had 18 Republican senators vote for that bill. It gave the border nothing. Yeah, so let's go down that rabbit hole because I find this fascinating. I I look at some of the ones who voted for the omnibus and you have like the Adam Kinzingers and the Lynn Changes.

You have a lot who are retiring, who signed on to this, who endor you know, voted for this. A lot who are retiring. It seemed to be like a big F you to the half of the country that supported Trump. It seems to me, and maybe I'm reading it wrong, that there's um these people are just have such, they just hate Trump so much that they're willing to just throw the country under the bus because they just hate him so much. Am I reading this wrong?

No, I think that's part of it. I think that's part of it. But I also think part of it was some of these retiring congressmen They got their earmarks, right? The Democrats threw an earmark in there that helps them, helps the district, so they can retire and say, I gotta win. Look what I brought home to the district.

I got a new plant being built or something. I think, you know, if you look at all the earmarks, That was more important to them than securing the the border securing the border.

So I agree with you. There's a lot of them out there that are never Trumpers and want to stick into them one last time. But I also think there's some that got their earmarks to get their payday and and they vote anyways. I mean, I'm talking not only ones retiring, but some of the only ones are still there. I think everyone that voted yes got some sort of earmark for their district.

Oh, yeah. They it was Chuck Phil, and it wasn't just the Democrats. Republicans did it too. They're just as complicit, which is just disgusting. You had mentioned, you said, you know, they arrive at the border and they need medical treatment.

We have to take them in. We have to treat them. Yuma Medical Center in obviously Yuma, Arizona, they have now been stuck with over $20 million in unpaid expenses in six months. For illegals that they are treating. And they said it's not little stuff either.

Some of them need dialysis.

Some of them need heart surgery.

Some need cardiac catheterization. Women who are coming into labor and delivery, some infants that are in the neonatal ICU for months at a time. All these are incredibly expensive medical procedures.

So I think a lot of this is just medical immigration. They just come here, cross the border, know they're going to be treated for free, and they say we can't come after them for any kind of payment because we don't even know if the name they give us is the right name, let alone where they're going. They're done. They leave. They walk out the door.

We never see them again. And they lose the money. How long can this go on for? These hospitals are going to go under, and then the American citizens don't have a hospital to go to. Yeah, you're exactly right.

This has been going on since I started in Borg from 1884. I can't tell you how many people I arrested crossing the border that were in dire straits and by regulation. We we just can't return to Mexico medically unsound. And, you know, a lot look, I got a phone call from a a nurse friend of mine in Phoenix. This is your maternity board in her hospital.

was so full, uh eighty percent undocumented, that uh they're turning away US citizens going to have to go to other hospitals. It's it's worse now just 'cause of the c 'cause the ill illegal immigration is worse now. It's a per it's a percentage, right?

So this been along over thirty years and here's here's here's what here's what's happening over there in Yula. If you're in Borbatro custody and they take you and you're sick or you need medical attention, they have to provide it. Right. Then Borbatro gets stuck with a bill. But if they're released, which most are being released as we can all see, That who gets stuck with Bill the hospitals.

And the hospitals at some point that I talked to hospitals before on this, they said, Well, we absorb the cost You know, we'll absorb the cost because there was just a small percentage of it. But now it's such a huge percentage of emergency room calls. They can't absorb it. They can't keep, you know, they pass it on to people like you and me who may have medical insurance. There's a certain point where they can't fill that hole.

So you go see trauma centers shutting down. You you know, elementary schools right now, classrooms in some of these major cities are so overcrowded and these children don't speak English and it's holding the class back. I mean, some of the social services system in these cities, you know, food banks and and s stuff like that are overrun. And and people need to understand this when when we had all these family groups coming across when I was the director, We went after and went to locate those that lost their cases. And we went after them, we the ones we found over forty percent of them were already pregnant or had a U.

S. citizen child. At taxpayer expense.

Now, when you have a U.S. citizen child, that automatically qualifies, you can go put in some food stamps or welfare or other benefits.

So this is going to drive. Our care system in the United States is down the hole. I mean, we just can't survive this amount.

Okay, so we've got two minutes, and you have said that the Democrats want this, they're doing this on purpose. And I think there are a lot of Republicans who want this as well, because cheap labor drives down wages for big business.

So everybody's wages get driven down, the Americans as well, because they'll hire an illegal to do jobs. What is the ultimate goal here? Because as you said, none of this can be sustained. We just don't have the money. We don't have the ability.

Our systems are going to collapse. If I put my tinfoil hat on and I go, well, the Cloud Piven strategy is to collapse the social network, and then the government steps in and socializes medicine and takes over everything, and that's the ultimate end goal. Is that what we're watching happen right now? Or is this about votes? I think it's both.

I think both is what they're thinking about right now in the long term is. You know, the the entire system's collapsing, but I think right now they're con their thought is, and people say, Well, they can't vote.

Well, they don't have to vote. They can be k uh, 'cause they the Trump Biden overturned the Trump census rule. They'll be counted in the next census, which is going to result in what? Morse seats in the house for the damage 'cause Morse's Mostly amazing go to you know Democrat-controlled sanctuary cities and stuff like that.

So they don't have to vote, they just be counted, and it's going to result in more seats also denotes. But that's why they're pushing for amnesty. If they give amnesty to 20 million people, they strongly believe most will vote Democrats.

So I think right now their their main focus is perpetual power. They see they perceive a future political benefit by doing this. And I tell you, I was in Texas last year, and I had probably 30 Republican congressmen down there doing a border tour. And I told them, I said, you guys don't pull your head out of your butts. You're not going to win another election in 15 years.

The Democrats are playing the long game, and you guys are playing no game. Yeah, it happens all the time. I mean, and we've got to run here, but I could talk with you far longer than this because this is just what is happening is insane, and you're just so knowledgeable, and it's just so fixable. But Republicans are always reactive, always, always, always. And that's why I'm not a Republican.

It's why I'm not a registered Republican because I refuse to belong to a party that is just so feckless and inept, and they are. And this country's going down the toilet because of it. Tom Holman, thank you so much for joining me. Have a great new year. You too.

Have a great year. Thank you for having me. Thank you so much. 866-408-7669. Your calls.

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Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Mexico has a law that says that Migrants or anybody that comes in into Mexico has to come through a port of entry or airport and leave the same way.

So, what they're doing right now is against Mexican law.

So, we have to get the Mexicans and other countries to do more. Otherwise, we we're just gonna be playing defense on the one-yard line called the US border instead of playing defense on their 20-yard line. That was a Democrat congressman Henry Quayar of Texas on MSNBC yesterday saying, Look, we're not making them. Donald Trump, love them or hate him, made other countries and play by the rules. They're not playing by the rules.

They want to get rid of their poor people. They want to get rid of their drug smugglers. They want to get rid of their criminals. You know, they're emptying out the prisons, push them through. They don't want that problem.

And America's like, woohoo! Come on here, we'll take everybody. and we'll give you citizenship as long as you vote for us. 866-408-7669. Let us go to the.

I love Montana. Nancy, you're on the Brian Kilmead show. Hi, Nancy. Hi, good morning. And I want to continue the the conversation you've been having this morning on illegal immigration into the United States.

And I am just so stressed out over this. I have been talking about it for years because I have a small column that I write for here in our local newspaper, my small town in Montana. And I have you know, Montana has been infiltrated with the Mexican cartel. We have eight Indian reservations here, and they and the cartel have been using the reservations to put fentanyl in our country. And there's missing Indian women and girls.

They're taking them. And but what I want to say is that this more or less started back in 1965 because, you know, our Our borders were actually closed from the 1920s until 1965 when Senator Ten Kennedy. He made the immigration law of 1965, which opened up our borders. And ever since then, we have been having problems. And of course, when President Ronald Reagan, he gave amnesty to 3 million Mexican illegals, they just started to pour across into our country.

But what I want to stress here is that you're right, we cannot sustain this. And they're using amnesty. And there is no war in Central America. There is no war in South America. There is no war in Mexico.

There's no wars in Haiti and Cuba where the majority of these illegals are coming from. And we can't give them that legally. And if you go back to the United Nations, there's an international law that says the first country that illegals come to has to give them amnesty. And that would be Mexico in this case. Exactly.

Nancy, we got to run very, very quickly. Where are you in Montana? I love Montana. I was up at Flathead Lake this summer. Where are you?

Well, I'm in central Montana. I'm from the United States. Just tell me the name.

Okay, we've got to run.

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Well, I think it's the same strategy we saw right before the midterm where they offered these amnesties for drug convictions or amnesties for student loans. And I think they understand they have a message that doesn't appeal to 51% of the electorates, so they have to offer these subsidies. And the irony is we're $31 trillion in debt. This is the time we should be incentivizing work, not compounding and fueling this idleness. And, you know, we're down to 62% of labor participation.

It's almost a historic low. And the whole system of taxes and subsidies is built on an implicit bargain that all of the people who go out and work and pay taxes, then they do that with the understanding that if there's a need to help the disabled or those who've lost their job, they're willing to do that. But if they get the message that there's a large percentage of the population that simply will not work, and wants money, then it's going to be very hard to convince them to pay their taxes. That's Victor Davis Hansen, Hoover Institution Senior Fellow. I'm Mary Walters, sitting in for Brian Kilmead, 866-408-7669.

And what he's talking about there is that in a lot of states, People are making more. Sitting home on their butts, above what what the what the medium income is in their state than they would if they were working. Because benefits have gotten so out of hand. Because once you give someone, and politicians know this, once you give someone something, a program, some kind of freebie, you never you can't take back. You just can't take it back.

Because the other side will just scream that, oh, I can't believe you're taking food out of the mouths of babies. They want to push grandma over a cliff. You know how that goes.

So these people probably will never work again, and then they'll just go on Social Security and they won't have enough, so they're going to have to have you know all other bunch of other freebies too, because they're not saving any money. And it's unsustainable.

So, I'm going to go into that more, but I want to throw this in here. And I want to know. Perfect. If and I'll tell you why coming up, so hang on. i if ha if you have children if you have adult children, are you subsidizing them in some way?

They're out, they're you know, out of the nest. Are you subsidizing them in some way? Maybe they're living in your basement and you're paying for their food and their electric and their heat and all that other stuff. Or maybe they're out of the nest and you're paying for their cellphone and you're paying for their car insurance or you're paying for other things. Because more and more parents are doing that.

And Did your parents do that for you? Or maybe they're doing it for you now? I I'm I'm just curious. I I'm just curious 'cause I know Well, my parents would have told me. I know what my parents did tell me.

So you've got a combination here. And one of them is, as Victor Davis Hansen was saying, 14 states, in 14 states, unemployment benefits and Affordable Care Act subsidies for a family of four with two people not working amounts to an annualized equivalent of $80,000 a year in wages and benefits. Washington State, Massachusetts, and New Jersey, the benefits add up to more than $100,000 a year. In Washington, The median household income is $82,000.

So you're making more than the median household income. Than the people who are paying for you. In New Jersey and Massachusetts, it's eighty nine thousand. In Arkansas the the combined benefits, you still get eighty thousand, but the median household income there is fifty two.

So families have a choice of going back to their full-time jobs after the pandemic Or they can bring in ten to twenty thousand dollars more per year by sitting on their butts and letting you pay for them.

So, and I think we're just perpetuating this within an entire generation. Credit Karma, which is a personal finance website, did a study, and they found that nearly a third of parents, 31% of parents that they surveyed, admit to still providing their adult children with financial support beyond the basics. The 31% who provide support for their adult children, out of those, 51% said they allowed their children to live at home. 48% also paid some or all of their children's monthly bills, such as cell phone, utilities, and car payments. 24 who support their adult children, 24%, will regularly give them an allowance or checks.

Which is insane. Of the parents who supported their children, 81% said that they feel the effect on their own lifestyle. With 50% saying it affects their lifestyle, 49% of that 81% said that they have had to cut back on living expenses for themselves. Forty percent said they limited their retirement savings. Thirty percent say they have to work longer and prolong their retirement, and twenty five percent said they're taking on more debt.

To pay your child's cellphone bill who is a grown adult, you're the problem. You are the problem. This is why we have an entire generation that feels entitled and feels like they don't have to work. And I'm not going to take that job because really, that's a I I have to work more than eight hours some days and I don't get an hour for lunch. You're the problem an' maybe I am old as dirt.

But my parents no way Would they do that? We were each given the summer off after graduation. from college. And then come September you had to have a job, because come if and they gave us September to find a job if you didn't have one. Come October first, they charged us rent.

They didn't give us anything. They charged us rent because my father said, Do you enjoy the heat on in your room? Do you enjoy food on the table? Good You're paying rent. And he said, he's and I add, we had a student loan, so come, I had one year grace, but then I had to start paying that student loan.

They weren't paying anything for me. My first job, I got shipped off to California and then I got shipped off to Texas on my own, living on my own. I bought a car on my own. I had to pay the payments on my own. I didn't pay my my rent on my own.

They didn't pay anything. Nothing. And if I c if I was struggling, you know, for stuff, my father was like, Well, you know, see that manicure? Stop getting the manicure. That was it.

He's like, I'll show you how to save money, but I'm not giving you any more.

Now, if I had something that Lake really needed, that I really needed uh for you know, for for a basic necessity, I'm sure they would have helped me out. But There's no Way my parents would have paid my phone bill. Like, if you can't pay your phone bill, get a second job. Eight six six four zero eight seven six six nine. You combine these two things.

We have a lot of people in this country who just aren't working, and those who are working are paying for them. for some insane reason. Let's go to William in Indiana, listening on WTRC. William, you're on the Brian Kilmead show. Hi.

Hi, Mary. Good morning. I've talked to you a couple of different times. Always enjoy it. Thanks for taking the call.

A couple of things here that as I was telling Pete, this is absolutely ridiculous. Walking all these small businesses, small restaurants, small privately owned businesses, and they still have no help. And I'm like, you know, COVID's been over for a long time. And when I say COVID's been over, as far as the pandemic and being shut down, And I'm like, well, where's everybody at? And they're still like, well, we can't get employees.

I'm like, well, where did they all go? Nobody can get employees. They're not all working somewhere else. What's going on? Yes.

And they're sitting there collecting unemployment that people like myself and yourself and how many other millions of people that are working are paying for them to sit home on their butt. And it is such BS. I am so fed up with this, that there has to be something I you'd said that once the government offers the program that they can't take it back.

Somebody needs to be taking it back.

Somebody needs to make these people held accountable. I remember probably forty some years ago I had to file for unemployment. And every week I had to go to that unemployment office to give real legitimate companies that I applied to and was not able to get or was not hired. I'm just like, this is ridiculous.

Now, to your point, I have two sons, one still a senior in college right now, and he's frantic because he's trying to get a job set up and he can't. The other one graduated two years ago. And he was freaking out because it took him two months to get a job. And he's got a job that's stellar. I mean, it's just great.

But they knew that, you know what, they have responsibilities. The deal was that my wife and I would pay half for them for their college, and they pay the other half. They know they're on the hook for that. And the again, these were things that were instilled in me when I was young. And I guess that that it just isn't that way.

Again, what you were talking about, the the parents are the blame because the children aren't going out or the kids or the young adults Whatever you want to call them, aren't they going out and applying themselves or think that they shouldn't have to do anything, that everything should be handed to them. It is literally a road to ruin for this country. Yeah, it really is. William, thank you so much for joining me. Always a pleasure.

And have a wonderful new year. I wish you the best. Thank you, you as well. Happy New Year, too. Thank you.

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And Joe 47 here says. I do help one of my kids, but it's just helping with the cost of daycare because he and his spouse both work and need a reliable and safe daycare. I contribute to about 20% of it. I'd rather do that as long as they are working. That's fine.

That's fine. I draw the line. If my parents had to delay retirement or w keep, you know, working or go back to work or we're taking we're we're we're Living less of a lifestyle because of me, because you know, I can't pay for this or I can't pay for that, I would feel guilty. I I there's I would feel terrible. And I just I just don't know if everybody you know, kids all feel that way.

Because sixty five percent of the parents who are doing this say the need to help has caused them mental stress. Sixty nine percent have financial stress. They're taking out of their pockets and working longer to to help their kids. 866-408-7669. Quick note, I do have a podcast if you'd like to join me.

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Listen and download now at FoxNewsPodcasts.com or wherever you get your favorite podcasts. A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. I am Mary Walter, sitting in for Brian Kill Mead. We're talking about the economy and how a lot of people are being paid to sit at home.

And they're making more than the idiots working are making on median income. They're making more, a lot more, $10,000 to $20,000 more in some states by sitting home and doing nothing. From, you know, it's a combination of high unemployment reimbursements plus other benefits that they get.

So why work? Combine that with a growing number of parents who are helping their adult children with things like Cell phone bills, car payments, all sorts of things. To the to the fa to the point where those parents now are suffering or having to go back to work or working themselves, and that just never would have happened. It's such a foreign concept to me. Like again, If I needed to eat, my parents would have helped us out.

But my parents' big motto was like, Well, if you're living beyond your means, you need to cut back or get another job. That was it? 866-408-766. And I'm just going to tell you one quick thing here, and then I'm going to get to your calls, I promise. I will never forget.

We were all home. My baby brother was in his, I think, his senior year in college or just out of college.

So we're all out of college. I had just quit my job and moved back with my parents, and I was getting a job locally. And I didn't have a job yet. My father, we're at breakfast on a Sunday morning. Remember it vividly.

And it's quiet, and everybody's eating. My father looks up and says, So. Your mother and I want to know why you're all still here.

Okay. And we're like, what? And he's like, You're all out of college. We've done our job. You all have degrees.

You now all need to leave. And he was dead serious. He was like, You need to get jobs, you need to get out of the house. And so my two my brothers got an apartment together. I wound up actually I I wound a got up getting a job and I stayed home and I lived at home because I was looking for a place to live and I paid my parents rent.

And then I got engaged and it says, I'm just gonna stay home, live at home, and until I get married, save some money. And they were okay with that. I still paid them rent, though. But yet my parents are like why are you here? It's time for you leave.

It's old school parenting, 866-408-7669. In Oklahoma City, Lee, welcome to the Brian Killmeat Show. Hi. Hi, Mary. Thanks for having me.

I love your commentary. Thank you very much. Oh, thank you. Yeah, I just wanted. My first wife and I were married 34 years.

She passed away with cancer. I remarried. a lady that I love dearly, but she does what you're referring to and talking about as far as for children and uh it's come between us to the point where uh we nearly broke up over it several times. I don't call it enabling, I call it disabling because you break their will. to be productive citizens and and to get off their butt and work if you just give them everything free.

So it's been a problem in our marriage, quite frankly.

Well, you know, it that's one of those things that they say you gotta talk about and you can't see everything coming, obviously. But um y you know, I I I see it a lot with my friends who aren't on the same page when it comes to things like this. And it's interesting that it's usually always the wife who wants to give, give, give, give. Although I do have one set of friends where it's the husband who he you know, his kids are everything and they're adults and it doesn't matter what they do and, you know, they're never wrong. You know, that that whole thing is going on there and gives them money, pays their rent, you know, and and it eventually with one of them ended up not in a good place.

You know, it and and now they have no relationship because it end there was so much advantage taken of the parents that it they just don't have a relationship now at all.

So, I don't envy you this, but you know. Maybe talking to somebody, a mediator, having somebody in the middle to help you walk down that road might be a good thing. Lee, I got to run. Thank you so much. Have a wonderful new year.

What he's going through sounds very familiar to a lot of people. I want to get Pete Louisville in here. Pete, I have a minute and a half. How are you? Welcome to the Brian Kilmead Show.

Just fine, Mary. How are you this morning? Always excited to hear you filling in for Brian. Thank you. Go ahead.

To weigh in on the issue, when our kids first moved out, we would help them financially to get them started. But then it became more and more often they were calling for bill money or food money. But when we found out they were using their own money to go do other things, we had to cut them off. And it's the best thing that ever happened to them.

Now they're stable on their own. They're paying their own bills. And if something comes up where they don't have the money for food or dinner or whatever, they're more than welcome to come to the house. But are the days of us giving them money to survive on, have been over for years and They're none the worse to wear for it. Right.

And to the last caller's point, you know, if you keep handing them things, you're disincentivizing them from making it on their own. Right. You're not teaching them those life skills that, you know, we love you. You know, you're more than welcome to come home. Please stop by and visit.

You know, that's what my father said when he told us we all had to move out. He's like, you can come back and visit. But your mother and I would like to live alone now. You know, we want to enjoy each other's company and travel without you.

So and and we understood, I got it. But you're not you are doing your children a disservice, I think, when you don't teach them life skills like learning how to make it on your own without mom and dad helping you.

So, I think that's a good idea. Exact exactly. Pete, thank you so much. Have a wonderful new year and all the best in twenty twenty three. Yeah, it's really true.

And I know people who think that my parents were terrible and horrible. Were they perfect? Absolutely not. Are there bones of contention to this day? Of course.

That's life. But did they give me the skills to be able to make it on my own and survive and thrive? 100%? May not have liked him for it at the time, but it worked out. And they're retired, and I'm not taking away from their life now and their retirement.

And I gotta tell you. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. I'm Mary Walter sitting in for Brian Killmead. It's so great to be with you again.

I love it, I love it, I love it. Lots to talk about. It's so weird. This has just been like a really weird week. Usually, the week between Christmas and New Year's.

Yeah, there's nothing going on. But not this year. I feel like the foot is on the accelerator and we're just hurtling towards the cliff. It's just crazy. Let's talk about that, shall we?

There's just so much going on, and the best person to talk about, everything going on, Carol Markowitz, New York Post columnist. You can find her at KAROL. Welcome to the Brian Kill Me Chow. It's such a great time to talk to you again. I love it.

Hi, Mary. Thank you so much for having me.

Now, one of the reasons I enjoy speaking with you, because this is true, you can talk about anything. It's amazing. It truly is amazing. And it's because you work in media, obviously. It's your job to consume media.

And that is one of the things I love. The other thing I love about you is you move from New York City to Florida. And I just love people who have the ability to be able to do that. Clearly, the post is allowing you to work remotely. Right.

Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yeah, I was I you know, I was thinking I was wondering if they would, or if that would be okay. Um, but I've seen more people in the wild with a New York coast in Florida than I think I've seen in New York.

In the walk like that. Yeah. I love that. I will tell you, I lived in Washington DC for three years and then one year worked remotely. And one of the things I missed is you can't get the the New York Post.

You can't get it. You have the Washington Deposit or the word USA Today. I'm like, oh, I'm not reading either one of those.

So that was something that I really did miss that as well.

So let me ask you: how different is life in Florida versus life in New York for you?

So it is different. Yes, I'm a lifelong New Yorker, so it was a big adjustment. But it's been amazing. It's not quite a year yet. We're coming up on a year on january third, and it's been a really terrific year.

I sleep better at night, not worrying about so many different things with my kids. Um and it's just been really terrific.

So okay, but every well, my friends, I'm not a big warm weather person and I don't like to go where everybody else is going. I'm not a follower, 'cause then I'm going to feel like I'm crowded. I don't want to have to deal with it. But everybody's like, Oh, you should move to Florida for the weather. Like, well, you live in an air conditioned house, you get into an air conditioned car to go to an air conditioned restaurant, you're never in the weather.

Well, I don't know. I love warm weather. I'm a real beach person, so this was a great move for me. In fact, we only considered places that were on the ocean. I need the ocean.

So I love it. And we just came back from a week in Tennessee and North Carolina, and it was terrific. We really had such a great time. I had never been to Tennessee before. It was really amazing.

Actually, I've been to Nashville, but we went to the Rocky Mountains. I'm sorry, the Smoky Mountains, and it was amazing. And it was so cold, Mary. I don't know how people live like this. We were layered in every cold weather item that we had brought with us.

And we're just last night landing back in Florida, my seven-year-old ran outside into the 70 degrees. Like, oh, yes, we're back. Yes, you know, that is one of the things you talk about traveling. There's one of the gifts of COVID, I think, is that people, I think we've seen migration and travel within the United States more than we have ever seen before. Maybe during like the Great Expansion West, you know, people did it, but I think we're seeing people, you know, saying, Hey, guess what?

We're moving to Tennessee. You never would have heard that five years ago, right? People are like, Why are you moving to Tennessee? Right? So, so I think that that is one of the gifts that we're moving, we're becoming more mobile within the country, and it's fascinating to watch the choices people are making.

People are choosing to move to red states.

So, Florida, I think, is a little bit of an anomaly where people are moving from blue states to red states, but they're not turning Florida. Blue. No, yeah. How does that how come? Why doesn't that why doesn't that happen?

I think we're seeing a real realignment caused by not COVID, but the reaction to COVID. I think it exposed so many things for so many people. You know, I always say that our family couldn't unsee what we saw during COVID. We saw our neighbors who marched for equity not care that schools didn't open in the poorest communities in New York City, but they got their kids a tutor or formed a pod or sent their kids to private school or moved to their beach house and sent the kids to school there and didn't care at all that the other kids couldn't do that. We saw so many things like that and we just couldn't live with it anymore.

So it was things like that that were exposed during COVID that forced people out the door. I think they looked around and said, I I can't do this anymore. I can't live like this. And I'll tell you in Florida, one of the I mean, first of all, there's so many new people. It's I I you know, I Really feel blessed that the Floridians have taken us in in this way.

I don't feel like there's been a negative reaction. I think that they make jokes like, you know, can the people from New York please stop honking? Which, yes, there's no honking here. It's like people just don't honk at red lights the second the light turns green. And it's been great.

But I would say that the First question is: you know, when did you get here? Where are you from? And everybody knows that we're voting a certain way. And you could see that in the results of Ron DeSantis' landslide victory. It happened because all these people moved down, said, We're not moving to bring our ridiculous politics with us.

We're moving to maintain what Florida has built. We're really grateful for it. We're grateful that we got to go somewhere normal at a really insane time. And we're going to preserve that with you.

So everybody I've met in Florida who has moved here during the last, you know, almost three years during the time of COVID is a conservative, 100% of the people. Yeah, it's conservatives fleeing what they created. As opposed to other states, I look at like Montana. I look at North Carolina, Texas to a certain degree. It's people moving out of New York and California who aren't necessarily conservative, but they're just fleeing the high taxes and the crummy schools and the lockdowns.

And all that other stuff. And we're seeing it in New Jersey. Because New Jersey's beaches were open during COVID, New York's weren't. They came down here, they're like, wow, this is great. And now they're moving here and they're paying a ridiculous amount of money for property and they're knocking down the cute house that was on it and building these IKEA box things and and they're wearing their masks and they're they're bringing their New York with them and their voting habits.

So what's happening in Florida, I kind of view as an anomaly versus what is happening in other states where it's the liberals fleeing and they don't connect their politics to what they're leaving.

So I wonder why that is. I know that Florida has been particularly focused on sending the message of we have something good here, you better not mess it up. We moved in January, and a few months later we got a flyer from the Florida Republican Party being like, welcome, just don't forget why you're here and what you've left. And I wonder if other Republican parties do that, because it really was a cool ad. It was like, you know, we're glad you're here.

Now, you know, preserve what we've built together here. And I think other states should send that message also. It's tough because how are you going to stop people from moving out? But if the politicians who were elected to preserve a certain standard of life in these states keep pushing the policies that they were pushing all along, like Ron DeSantis's, I think it'll attract the people who want that sanity, who want that more conservative life, and who want those politics.

So if the state's I get it, and especially in places like New Jersey, I know that they're getting this influx from New York. I see it. And I just, you know, I hope it doesn't make the state bluer. I had some hope during the last gubernatorial election in New Jersey that maybe it was heading in the right direction. Maybe it was picking up conservative New Yorkers who wanted to do the right thing.

But, you know, remains to be seen. Yeah, no, I I I it's not changing. I I thought the last election was a turning point as well. Since we're talking about Florida, we're talking about schools. How much of a game changer was 2022 we had twenty one, twenty two and COVID and changing our schools and and and because I think it was just an earthquake that had that happened with COVID.

That was one of the gifts of the pandemic. I agree. In places that were ready to make changes or who were ready to accept the information that they had learned during COVID and would run with it.

So I still hear a lot from people in New York City, and they're not making the correct changes. They saw what happened. They see all the people leaving, but they're still under the thumb of these teachers' unions, and they are not going to adjust anything. They're going to continue with these leftist indoctrination camps that are the schools and not make any kind of moves that were exposed during COVID and not make any moves because of that.

So I think that across the country, parents woke up and saw something and were ready to get involved and change their kids' school. But I do worry for these very blue areas that are going to continue to do what they've done and not make any changes. Yeah, absolutely. You've got Boston, for instance, uh gonna decide by tomorrow if the Boston school district is going to require masking for two weeks because, you know, they were home with other people. It was very peopley for them, you know, during Christmas break.

But, you know, we've got flu, we've got COVID, you've got RSV. People are getting more of these things now because we sat at home for two years masked up, you know, bathing ourselves in disinfectant. And that's what happens because you don't get the little, you know, you don't get things little and you're out for a week and that's it.

Now I've got the acquired immunity. This is expected. That's exactly it. And it's amazing because it's only targeting kids, right? You never get like, oh, the older set who are actually at risk, you know, the 70 plus, we're going to ask you all to wear masks for the next few weeks because we know you've been around these dirty, you know, virus-ridden children over Christmas.

It's always targeted at this very low-risk group who we know have been low-risk. This is not like information we just discovered. We knew this in 2020. And the fact that we continue to only target the children is it makes people believe that it's not about the virus, that it's about something else. It's about control.

It's about the power that these people have over these kids. And being able to assert that power in this way makes it easier to assert the power in other ways. I don't know how these cities stand for it. I don't know how they keep accepting that this lowest risk group is the one that gets masked and the one who loses school time or the one who still has events outdoors. I hear from Parents at the Brooklyn Public School that my sons had gone to, and they say they're still having all their events outdoors.

And they're not in Florida. It's not 70 degrees, it's 40 degrees, and they're still doing everything outdoors. It's crazy. It makes the kids tougher. Coming up, I want to ask you some questions about the Republicans and their messaging.

You had mentioned, you know, you got this flyer in Florida. The Republican Party is just ridiculous when it comes to messaging, and they're just wildly inept. Going to talk about changes that they should make to bring in Gen Z, younger voters, and also more independents into the party.

So we'll do that coming up next with Carol Markowitz on the Brian Kilmey Show. It's Brian Killmade. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmead. I'm Mary Walter in for Brian Kilmead.

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We're talking about what Republicans can do in 2023. You mentioned in Florida, though the Republican Party down there, you know, sent you a nice letter. Welcome to Florida. Please remember why you moved here. But there is a new poll out by the Associated Press, and I don't know if you've seen it, but they're finding that independents are leaving the Democrats between, they lost 10% of support among independents in from 20 to 22.

So that's a lot. In two years, they lost 10% of support, but Republicans only gained 1%.

So where are they going? And why aren't the Republicans picking these people up? What's happening? Oh, Mary. The Republican Party.

If I could just, you know spend three days talking about all the problems that they have. I think that the main thing is is that so much of Republican policy is reactive. And I think what we're seeing in Florida is a governor who is not reactive. He's proactive. He does things that he knows that people want.

And he is not waiting for the Democrats to pitch him something so that he could respond.

So it's been really great watching that in action. But the other thing is, is that throughout this whole midterm election, I watched the Republicans not capitalize on any of the extremely popular issues that people actually like them for.

So for example, one of the things that I keep pointing out is that before the election, Chuck Schumer said that they want to legalize every single illegal immigrant who's in the country. Not like just dreamers who were brought here as kids by their parents. No, you know, story like that. This was before the runoff in Georgia. I'm sorry, not before the election.

And yet, the Republicans did not use that in Georgia at all. They didn't say that the Democrat in Georgia would be an additional vote for the Chuck Schumer plan of legalizing every single illegal immigrant that's in the country, which is essentially open borders and everybody should accept that. We think that there's so much that Republicans are not doing like that, where illegal immigration is just such a great example because Everybody wants a secure border. Everybody, even people on the left, want a secure border. Ask Bernie Sanders, who said that if we open the borders, everybody in the world is going to come here because there's so much poverty in the world.

Bernie said that. And the Republicans don't capitalize on that at all. They don't say that we want to secure the border, we want to make sure that nobody comes in here illegally. They don't do any of that. And there's so many other messages that they could be sending to people to say, we're the party of sanity, we're the party of normalcy.

Instead, they keep running these biography candidates who nobody cares about a candidate's biography. It's just it's a side note in what they're going to do. What they're going to do is first, who they are is a distant, distant second.

So, why is that? Why are they so poor? And who gets to blame for this? There's a two-pronged thing that I've noticed. Republicans do not support their candidates.

They just don't. You know, look at Fetterman. Excuse me. Democrats acted like he's on Jeopardy next week. They never ever criticized that man at all.

Mitch McConnell's up there saying, well, you know, we don't have the best candidates in these states. And that's why he pulled money from them. You know, you mentioned New Jersey. Jack Chitterelli, did a Republican, a high-profile Republican, come to New Jersey to campaign for him? No.

Yeah. Right. Nobody thought he was going to win, and they didn't think it was going to be closed, so they didn't even try, which is the worst way to run elections. They should try to be competitive in every single state. And I think, you know, for a New Jersey Republican to watch that race and see that the National Party did not step in at all and see how close it was, it's just such a heartbreaker.

And it's like, you get to the point where you're like, what is this for? What's the point? Why do I leave my house to go vote when nobody supports us at all? And I see this happening around the country. It is Mitch McConnell, but it's also a lot of other people who I think have made it so these elections don't seem to matter to people.

And that's just a terrible way to go about it. I think that, like, so going back to the Chuck Schumer example, it's like. you know, well, what does it what difference does it make what Chuck Schumer said in Georgia?

Well, this is a vote for Chuck Schumer's plans in the Senate. And you have to draw that line for people. You have to draw that picture for them and say, do you want this? Because this man will be supporting this. And the Republicans just don't draw that connection for people.

Yeah, so very quickly, I have a minute. Who needs to go? Oh, everybody. I think everybody needs to go. Anybody who was responsible for the midterm not being a blowout, I think it went okay the midterm, but I think that it could have gone far, far better.

And I think anybody who was in the roles that were responsible for electoral wins and didn't get there needs to go. It's not that complicated. It doesn't mean they're bad people. It doesn't mean we hate them. It means that we could do better.

Absolutely. Carol Markowitz, thank you so much. Have a wonderful new year in sunny Florida. And thank you for joining me on the Brian Kilweed Show. The more you listen, the more you'll know.

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If you'd like to join me, it's 866-408-7669. I would love to hear from you.

So there is a a kid who is at Albany High School. in California. and they put his name in here, which I find interesting, Cedric Eppel. I guess all bets are off when it's racism, when we're talking racism. Out them if even if they're ten.

Uh he was expelled along with three other kids because they posted racist messages Including images of a slave being lynched, a photo of a black classmate. Eppel said he was on the edge of bringing my rope to school on Monday. And the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that the expulsion was justified. And they said that the First Amendment does not protect expression that will disrupt classroom activities or target other students. And I look at it more as: well, one of those was the threat.

That's one.

So I think, you know, maybe you need to be expelled because of the threat. And The rest of it to me is is also bullying.

So, when those two things, without bringing racism into it, those two things, these people should be gone. I'm a big fan of zero. When it comes to threats, out. You're done. I am that's it.

We should have no tolerance for that in our schools. And bullying as well. Bullying needs to be addressed, and there needs to be a sit-down, and parents need to be involved, and it has to be handled. But this guy, and he has since admitted that he well, it was bullying, and he said it was with the sole intention of entertaining his friends, and he admits that the posts were juvenile and defensive. Yeah, because you've been expelled.

So expelling these kids because they post something racist, so now the precedent has been set that they can be expelled for this. And then you have Whoopee Goldberg. ABC is coming under fire. To under pressure to fire her, under fire to fire, would be Goldberg.

Now, She she brought back comments. She she doubled down on some comments that she made earlier. Uh would be Goldberg, it's a flashback to January thirty first. This is uh cut seventeen, Justin. Uh January thirty first, where uh she made some comments on the view about the Holocaust.

The Holocaust isn't about race. No. No. It's not about race. No.

It's about a different race. But it's not about race. It's not about race. What is it about? Because it's about man's inhumanity to man.

I was saying you can't call this racism, this was evil. This wasn't based on the skin. You couldn't tell who was Jewish. But it is indeed about race because Hitler and the Nazis considered Jews to be an inferior race.

Now, you notice in there Sonny Hostin said when she Sonny Hostin agreed with Whippie and said, No, no. when she was saying it's not about race. No, no, it's not about race.

So she doubled down. She she wound up with a what I think was a two week suspension because of the uproar over the first time she said it. But within in a recent interview with the Sunday Times of London, she defended the remarks that she made in January that you just heard, and she said she doesn't believe the Jewish race exists. She said you couldn't tell uh a Jew on a street you could find me, but you can't find them.

Now, since the interview ran, there have been growing calls for her to apologize again, and the hashtag FirewHee is appearing on social media.

Now, the tweet has since been deleted. She did issue an apology, excuse me, she issued an apology. She apologized on air. And she issued a tweet on Twitter at the time saying, I'm sorry for the hurt I have caused, but the tweet has since been deleted. And if you've ever seen the apologies they issue on The View, these legal statements they have to read, they mock them, they laugh at them, they don't take them seriously at all, and they've never been called to the carpet because of that.

Uh and I'm c I'm curious Should Whoopee be fired? Number one. But here's another angle to this. This is another part of this. And it's 866-408-7669.

Should these kids have been suspended because of racism?

Now, they should have been suspended for threatening or thrown out of school, expelled for threatening and bullying. I have no problem with that. Maybe suspended for bullying, but threats, you're out. But for racism, you know, you said something racist. And here's why I ask that.

If you're on Twitter. I cannot tell you the number of times a person of color has called me a racist because they just disagree with what I said, and I'll come back to them and say, Here's the deal I want you to screenshot, copy and paste what I have said to you that is racist. Either that or apologize. And I get nothing, and they double down and they start swearing at me. But in my book, calling someone a racist is a horrible thing.

It's defamation, because we take racism very seriously now in this country. It's and people's lives have been ruined by the mere allegation. And I just don't think you should have to w wait until someone's life is ruined because you made the allegation, in order for there to be some kind of repercussion. I just don't think we should be throwing around the racism allegation as freely as we do. I just don't.

8664087669. I for one, you know, in the beginning when people are like, oh, you're racist, I'm like, yeah, I'm racist, I'm homophobic, I'm Islamophobic, I'm a misogynist, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Let's get it all out of the way. But the f the the f What is it? The total abandon.

That's what it is. I'm trying to look for the word. The casuality of. Certain people, a lot of them in this country who, because you're white and you have an opinion with which they disagree, they just label you a racist and they all pile on, to me is dangerous. And I don't think we should be tolerating that.

It takes away from the gravity that is true racism. When everyone is racist, no one is racist. But the problem is, now we're using this idea that all white people are racist. They just starve because I disagree with them, or because they exist, they're racist, for basis for things like reparations. And for we're putting it into, you know, what they call reverse racism, but it's just tolerance of racism on the other side.

I'm sorry, you don't get, you can't be involved in a program for COVID payments because you're white. This is only for minorities. You're starting to see a lot of that pop up now. And I think that comes from this idea that it's okay to call white people racists. It's okay to be a racist against white people, and I just don't think that that's the way we go because then, like I said, if everybody's racist, then nobody's racist.

Eight six six four zero eight seven six six nine. I don't know, I think maybe just somebody needs to sue one of these random Twitter people who come after them uh for calling them racist and not backing down and doubling down on it with no proof whatsoever 'cause they didn't say anything racist and just sue them into next week. I'll do it. If anybody has, I'm in a current Twitter spat with somebody about that. And I'm just ignoring them now.

I didn't block them. I just muted them so they have no idea. Which I do find to be very, very satisfying. All right, let's go to Coral Springs, Florida. Annette, you're on the Brian Kilmead Show.

Hi. Mm-hmm. Hi, thanks for taking the call. I don't think Whoopi Goldberg should be fired over this. She's not saying she support what Hitler did.

What she doesn't seem to understand is, while it's true, Jewish people are not a separate racial group. But Hitler thought they were. He has This idea of the Aryan race being the superior race with the blonde hair, even though he didn't look anything like that.

So what we Goldberg It's just not getting it, and I don't think. Look, in my own opinion, she may be an egot winner, but I would not say she's the most intelligent person I've ever heard. Heard of, or not, you know, I never met her, or anything like that. She just doesn't get it, and she's probably incapable of learning what Hitler really was about. If she read anything about him, she would know that Hitler considered Jews an inferior race, and he considered black people an inferior race.

Right. Yeah. No, you make a good point. Thank you for kicking it off. Have a great new year.

Appreciate you joining us. But here's the thing, I don't want to give Whoopi any grace. Whoopee would not give a white person grace for saying something inartfully. Or just not getting it, not understanding, she would be cheering with Sonny Hostin to have their lives ruined.

So they've set the bar. And when it comes back and bites them in the butt, I don't think we should sit here and say, Oh, well, you know, we should give them some grace. They give no grace to anyone else. There is no nuance whatsoever. Look what they did to poor Paula Dean.

I still don't watch the Food Network because of that. Right? She was ruined and they jumped on her and they tore the body apart. They didn't say, Well, let's put it into context. There was none of that.

So why should we put Whoopee's comments into context? And should calling someone a racist on a social media platform where everybody can read it Sh should that should that be like something I I don't know I don't know how you would handle that. But it seems to me to be a very diff defamatory statement that you can't back up. And, you know, yeah, I want Twitter to be free speech. I want social media to be free speech.

But I also don't think, you know, you can be throwing the N-word around if, regardless of your skin color, if something is. Is offensive, it's offensive, right? If something's wrong, it's wrong, regardless of the color of your skin. But I think I think the pendulum's got to swing both ways. All right, I'll get your calls coming up 866-408-7669.

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Mary Walter in for Brian Kilmead, 866-408-7669. Talk about racism in this country and how Whippy Goldberg doubles down on something that got her suspended for two weeks and doesn't learn the lesson. I the t throwing the t o racism around it, white people with whom you disagree, seems to be totally acceptable and accelerating. And I think it's defamatory because it's a very serious accusation. It's not something you should be sh that should be taken lightly.

And also, you know, it kind of dilutes, it does. It doesn't even kind of, it dilutes the severity of Actual racism when everybody's a racist, just because you guys disagree. You know, there's a disagreement. And one of you happens to be white, well, you're automatically racist. Eight six six four zero eight seven six six nine in Los Angeles, Kenyatta.

You're on the Brian Kilmead Show. Hi. Hi, Mary. Listen, I wanted to tell you that you're a great stand in, if for lack of a better term for Brian, And I agree with you. I'm a six foot, three inch, 180-pound black man.

I agree with you that the term racist is thrown around way too much.

However, I think that, as Socrates said, that the beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms. You know, people can be bigots. they can be prejudiced. But that doesn't necessarily make them racist because racism implies power, and race is a European construct. For instance, I'm prejudiced against stupid people.

Oh my gosh, so am I. Oh, yes. I honestly, seriously, I wanna I wish there was a way we could mark them so that I don't have to deal with them. I mean, I am. I don't care what flavor they are, but there is some truth.

No, really, there's some truth, though, in what Whoopi Goldberg said in terms of. When I walk into a courtroom, which I've walked into many of them in my life. Everyone can see there's that six foot three inch black man. certain conclusions are drawn, certain stereotypes whether conscious or unconscious or applied. When I look w if that person is Jewish, I don't necessarily know that any more than I would know if they were gay.

So, what I'm trying to take Kanye West. Recent comments. Kanye West became famous and made a fortune by throwing around the N-word and the B-word. Uh and And and people paid him lots of money to do that. And applauded him for doing that, made him a celebrity for doing that.

But when he said something anti Semitic, it became an issue. And all I'm saying here It's that. folks need to really think about How these terms are being thrown around. And so, what I'm it's a circuitous way of saying I agree with you. But We need to really think about The words that we use.

100%. And by the way, if I saw you walk into a courtroom or somewhere, I would be like, oh, I'm going to go stand by him because if things go south, I'm going with the big guy. Yeah. So I would draw some conclusions in that way because I'm no dummy. But thank you very much.

I appreciate you joining me and having a reasoned, sensible conversation and have a blessed twenty twenty three. Lots of luck in the new year. Thank you. So The term bigotry, he's 100% right. You have to define things.

Most people don't know what the term bigot means. It's a state an attitude, a state of mind, or behavior characteristic of a bigot, which is intolerance. Bigotry is intolerance.

So when you are intolerant of a different opinion, you are a bigot. But they don't know. Narrow-mindedness, synonyms meant narrow-minded, minded, mindedness, mindedness, prejudice, intolerance. It doesn't mean racist. It means intolerance.

So if you are intolerant of my opinion, let's say immigration, if you're for closed borders, which is what I got into it on Twitter on, which was the latest go-round of a bunch of people of color calling me a bigot, they call me a racist, is if you're if you're for closed borders, you're against black and brown people having free reign to just walk. We should have, it should be one world. And you're only against people, you know, black and brown people coming in. You're a racist. And that's not what I said.

I said I'm against just people being able to walk into a country. And you disagree with me, you're a bigot. But they throw the term racist at everything to get you to back down. And it's a very harmful term because people lose their jobs, lose their livelihoods, their whole lives are destroyed if that takes hold. And afterwards, we're like, oh, yeah, sorry, or bad, and you're done.

Let's go to Pennsylvania, Liza. You're on the Brian Kilmead Show. Hi. Hi, Mary. Thank you for taking my call.

In in terms of of Wolfie saying the um what happened to in the Holocaust, that was very horrible. What happened there? And it was rated. Um I think, I don't know, when uh the brown color came out. But I know I heard it I heard it from her.

She actually uh said the black people and brown people and I am I'm I'm Hispanic. I am very light. I'm often confused as a Caucasian person. And People Treat me very differently, and some black folks they do. And I don't think That I think she's trying to establish a color core, color.

Cold. as a white, brown, and black. And that's divisive. That brings the whole nation to be divisive. And I don't believe that.

I I believe that everybody has a different culture. Everybody everybody knows. that that America is built and different cultures. And we we make America. That's what we do.

And but she wants to actually Put it in a way that Um It's racist. And I don't care if anybody calls me racist. I am not. You can call me anything you want, but I'm not. And as long as I know that I'm not.

I'm fine with it. But She needs to be fired. She needs to actually I sh she was fine. To to make it look better. There you go.

Yeah, save face and resign. Here's the thing: yeah, it doesn't bother me when people call me race. I used to ignore it, but I'm getting tired of it. And if enough people do it and they all pile on and they're all calling you that, I think you got to be careful because it really can ruin somebody's life. Liza, have a wonderful, wonderful 2023.

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Love to see you. Let's welcome Bobby Barack here. He is a writer for Outkick. And Bobby, welcome to the show. Very interested in speaking with you today.

I like some of your columns. Very interesting. We agree on a lot of stuff, which is scary. Hi. Mary, I appreciate that.

You know, when you're right online, you don't get a lot of people saying they agree with you. Usually they get mad at you and call you names and all that stuff.

So to hear you like it, that's a pretty positive way to start this Thursday morning. Or maybe I'm subtly lying to you and I just don't really like you, but it's a way to disarm you. You know, with my feminine wiles. Yeah, and it's like when you head into a boxing match, your opponent talks nice to you at first and then you come out with a blow, then all of a sudden it's just too late.

So, yeah, I mean, I've seen that happen before.

So, one of the things, this is so timely. You have a piece up on Owl Cake about retailers being fed up with return Christmas gifts because it's getting harder and costlier for them to do this because they lose money on everything you return. And you did happen to mention: blame the women who order medium and small in case of a last-minute diet and gowns for our shortened return winnows, right?

Well, I am that woman who will order a size four and a size six just in case.

So am I part of the problem? You are, unfortunately.

So what's going on here, Mary, is that with the advent of online shopping and Amazon, people aren't trying on clothes from the store.

So if they're deciding between a small and a medium, a medium and large, maybe red or black, they'll order both, then send one back.

However, Amazon and these retailers, they're losing money on these returns because a lot of times they offer them for a discount and then they have to resell them. And after the holiday season, the shopping and online purchases decrease.

So they're not making their money back.

So we learned this year through a variety of studies that retailers are actually changing their return policies. A lot of times, quietly, what they're doing is they're shortening the window of when you can return. And a lot of them are charging restocking fees.

So you might not even know, but you're getting less than 100% of your return.

Now, get this. Hmm. Estimates say one hundred seventy one billion dollars of merchandise is expected to be returned this holiday season in part because of those people who are ordering multiple sizes of blouses, gowns and sweaters.

Well, fine. If they would standardize their sizes, this could all be avoided. If the industry, the clothing industry for women, would standardize their sizes like they do for men. Men, you buy a pair of pants, it's your waist size and your inseam. That's it, right?

Women, a size four and one is a size two and another, is a size eight and another.

So, you know what? I blame them. Yes, and look, I hated to single out women. It wasn't my intention, but I got thinking, I had to be honest, I didn't think men were as big of a problem.

So if I offend anybody, they got to forgive me for just telling the truth. And it sounds like you support my truth. I do support your tooth because I do have to do it just because of the way that they size clothes. And I'm that person who usually goes to the store to try stuff on anyway because I can't be bothered. But you can't always do that.

I have to say, one of the things that I saw, I will never forget. I was standing in line at one of the big box retailers to return an article of clothing. I forget what it was. It didn't fit. And because you can't try them on because they apparently frown on you stripping down in the aisle at Costco and BJ's to try clothing on.

Who knew? They do. They do. Yeah. They apparently get very testy.

So I was returning something, and there were two men in front of me, like two people in front of me, because that line is interminably long. Like this is a ridiculously long line. These two guys are returning, I kid you not, an ironing board. This ironing board looked like they picked it up. They saw it.

Someone was throwing it out. It was on the side of the road. And it was bent, rusted. It it was just a disaster. They're returning this thing, and this poor woman behind the check out is like, Do you have a receipt?

I'm like and I looked I wanted to look at her and say, Really? Do you really think there's a receipt for this? This thing's several years old. It's rusted, for God's sakes. They took it back.

I why do retailers this is part of the problem, is the retailers. Yeah, absolutely. And I mean, and some of it too is just reckless on their part of, like you said, the retailers and their policies, on average, they often lose $15 per return and often have to resell that return product for 30% lower.

So acceptance some of these returns as they've done so much over the past five, ten, fifteen years has really created a problem. And it really expands beyond just Christmas. I believe last year there was almost $800 billion of return. If now they got some of that money back because they resold some of it, but not at the same price.

So it's become a losing proposition for retailers across the country, particularly ones that sell clothing and non-electronic products. Those are much harder to make your money back. And it's unfortunate for people like me who are poor Christmas shoppers because I always assume that my family members are just returning everything I buy.

So I've been trying to buy electronics for them over the past two years, so they're less likely to return it. Just get the gift that keeps on giving. Get him a gift card.

Okay, so let's talk about Twitter and censoring.

So Elon Musk has now declared that Twitter will follow the science and promote questioning, which is hard because the sainted Dr. Fauci is science.

So I don't know how he's going to feel about being questioned. There are some on Twitter. A lot of people hailed this, thought it was a great thing. But it's interesting that people like a lot of journalists, quote-unquote, journalists are questioning this. New York Times contributor Wajahat Ali said something a really dumb person would tweet.

Another alleged journalist, Bike Reasoned Questioning, Elon Musk means clown car conspiracy theorist drivel. And on and on. This is a good thing, right? That we're going to be allowed to question science. Of course, I argued pretty early on during COVID that I thought the biggest issue that we had as a society was the lack of being able to question what our experts and leaders, and I say both of those terms in air quotes, had to say.

I always say the biggest threat to established figures and leadership is not opinions. You can easily dismiss one's opinion, label them conspiracy theorists, but what's threatening to them is asking them questions. That they therefore do not want to answer or cannot answer. And this is where the media failed.

So overtly during the early stages of COVID, Dr. Fauci appeared on network TV every single day, whether it be CNN, MSNBC, and the weekend, CBS, ABC. And these anchors, Chuck Todd, George, Stephanopoulos, they refused to ask him the tough question. They just put him on there to. whack eloquently about the ideas he wanted to promote.

They never questioned him on the science, the effectiveness of mRNA vaccines once we learned that they didn't stop the spread, like he said. And very few of them ever questioned him about the origin of COVID. Did it come from that lab? They just said, oh, yeah, well, it came from the bat because Dr. Felti said that.

So being able to ask questions is the best way to effectively reach the truth. And what's been going on, I'm actually writing a column this right now, Mary. I believe that leadership, the press, the government and big tech have worked together to intercept the flow of factual information. And the biggest reason they've been able to do that is because they limited the people that are willing to ask honest questions. Yeah, we're coming up.

We're going to talk more about that because I want to talk to you about other social media, not social, but platforms that are censoring or kicking users off because of social media posts or because they're with an organization they don't like. Groups like PayPal and other groups that are doing that as well. There are other other censorship happening, and I don't know if Elon Musk can buy all of them, but I really wish he would. Like, I'll contribute to a fund for Elon Musk to buy all of them.

So I'd like to delve into that coming up.

So we'll do that with Bobby Barack from Outkick coming up on the Brian Kilmead Show. Calisthenics for your brain. It's Brian Kilmead. I'm Mary Walter in for Brian Killmead.

We're speaking with Bobby Barack. He writes for Outkick.com. You can follow him on Twitter at B-U-R-A-C-K, Brock Bobby. with an underscore after it. Clearly, somebody else got your name before you, Bobby, because I can't believe that there's more than one Bobby Barack running around.

Yeah, you know, I've I've been trying to forget about that hashtag or that underscore there, but uh yeah, you Brought it up, so it kind of reminds me that somebody a long, long time ago pretended to be at Bobby Burry. I kind of have stuck with the lame underscore ever since.

So, speaking of Elon Musk, I think that should be a top of his priority list. Getting rid of the fake people that are pretending to be Bobby Burret. That's okay. There was a Filipino actress named Mary Walter and somehow and she's she's been dead for for a long time and and um somebody beat me to her uh to to the handle Mary Walter on Truth Social and it was her. I'm like, really?

Is the fan base that big?

Okay. Whatever. It is what it is. PayPal, they still have bans and they're being called out for censorship because if they don't agree with who you are as a business, they will just deplatform you. And now you can't make money.

And you can't, you've got to, at the last-minute scramble. Imagine if you have a business and your bank just says, Yeah, we're not dealing with you anymore. And take your money and get out of here because we don't like your business. Imagine what that would do for your business. We're butting up against this idea of, well, I'm a private business, I can do whatever I want, and um I don't like you, so I'm just not going to do business with you.

We're we're butting up against that, and I just don't think it's a good thing that that's happening. On the other hand, I'm also a big fan of nobody should force you to to deal with people you don't want to deal with, right? Right. That argument about we're a private company or we're a private industry, we can do whatever we want, that was the argument that defenders of censorship on Twitter and Twitter itself argued for so long. But Mary, we now know that's not true.

Through various installments of Twitter files, there's definitive evidence that Twitter, previous Twitter ownership, acted on behalf of the DNC, the FBI, and the Biden administration. And as the Wall Street Journal first reported, when that happened, that's no longer a company acting as a private industry. But a state actor whom citizens and targets can sue for restricting their First Amendment rights, which is exactly what Twitter provided the government. The government can't, behalf of the Constitution, censor critics of their rule, but Twitter allowed them to do that by censoring people at the behest of the officials.

So I have no doubt that places like PayPal are doing the same thing. Matt Tabibi is a fantastic independent journalist. He reported earlier this week that the government is in constant contact with all of these platforms, whether it be financial, video service, just social media, email.

So when that happens right now, to me, it totally proves that we're a private company excuse completely mute. And I just find it so unfortunate because As time goes on, we are so reliant on these platforms, whether it be YouTube, Gmail, PayPal, the Cash App, and for them to act this way and have such control and govern with such a political bias, we really enter a dangerous space where our speech is really as limited as it's ever been because never before have these companies had such a stranglehold on what we cannot say by virtue of censorship. Yeah, so And I I think it takes a a big investigation by Congress in order to do this because you're right, it's the government. If if PayPal is doing this because the government is saying, Hey, you know, could you do this for us? This person uh that we think this is, you know, disinformation or whatever the angle is that they use.

That to shut them down, we need to have a huge government investigation. I only have four. Four minutes.

So I would like to jump real quickly to Wooby Goldberg and the issue of racism. We're just having a conversation about that. You know, I I'm I'm I'm tired of being called racist just because a person of color disagrees with me. Right. Yeah you know, I'm getting tired of it.

It's defamatory. It can ruin someone's career. It can ruin someone's life. Yet that seems to be a-okay. That seems to be fine to do that.

You know, Whoopi Goldberg clearly has zero Problem or even thought twice about doubling down on her claim that got her. Kicked off of the view for two weeks, which to Whippy Goldberg, it's no big deal. She's a multi-millionaire. Kick me off for two weeks.

Now I'm going to go to an island somewhere. This, this. There just seems to be a double standard when it comes to this. And and should Whoopi Glober be fired? Um Yeah, I mean, this is r really a fascinating issue.

I don't think she should be fired because ABC News pays her for her opinions, often her misguided and really uneducated opinions.

So I don't think she should be fired. But the bigger problem I have is just the type of hypocrite she is talking about how the reaction to her Holocaust comment that it wasn't rooted in race or race was not the reason for the Holocaust, that's her, her calling that overblown, shows such disconnect between the public. And what's really going on here, Mary, is Whoopi Goldberg saw last week when she doubled down on these comments. She cannot believe ABC and the media would punish her and persecute her for her comments as an elitist. Far left woman of color.

She believes that she's untouchable and that she's off limits for criticism, thus her doubling down because, in her mind, she should never receive this type of treatment.

So, I think what's going on right now is she's showing her elitism and her hypocrisy by making the same comment and acting like people are the enemies by coming after her. Because if this was anybody else making these comments, she'd be at the forefront of calling for their job, their career, and really their public status. Yeah, I've become a big fan, and the left has done this to me, and the right to some extent because they're so inept and so useless. But I become a big fan of: okay, these are the rules you want to play by. I think the rules are wrong, but okay, let's play by these rules.

And then dealing with them exactly the way they deal with us. Yeah, that's a really interesting way to look at it. And that goes back to the censorship, right, when Aaron Rupar and Keith Olbermann got kicked off for a day, there's the argument of, well, I'm against censorship, but by their rules, they should have been kicked off.

So maybe you have no sympathy for them, which is exactly the case of Whoopi Goldberg. I mean, she had no sympathy for Sharon Osborne, who was dubiously fired for non-offensive remarks, yet she's saying her offensive remarks should not be in the public discussion. And I think it just raises a bigger point of not only the double standard, but how certain people put themselves in a class where they're untouchable and they hold themselves up as heroes, where they get to decide who is untouchable and who should be punished, which is precisely the case of Whoopi Goldberg. Yeah, and and the left, because they love these people, they're their heroes, the left has gone in, and I I we only have like a mini not even a minute, but I I just love the fact that you know the Bernie Sanders wing, the real the real radicals, the hippies back in the day in the 1960s who were saying don't trust the government, don't trust anybody over thirty. Are now telling me that I have to trust the government.

It's amazing how it has all turned. Bobby Barack, Outkick. You can find him on outkick.com. Follow him on Twitter. Barack Bobby underscore a great, some great, great columns.

Thank you so much for joining me. Have a fantastic new year. Mary, you two talk soon. Thank you. I'm Mary Walter.

You're listening to the Brian Kilme Show. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. I am Mary Walter, sitting in for Brian Killmead.

Okay. Santa? Did his thing since came and went. Got the New Year right around the corner.

So, I want to know what you would like to see the Republicans do in 2023. They take control of the House. They already blew the budget, right? Like, they already decided we're just going to do whatever Democrats want to do in the budget. They could have passed a continuing resolution, they could have maintained power.

They handed it over their lunch money every single day in Congress because Republicans are useless. But If Santa actually brought spines to people in Congress, wouldn't that be wonderful? What would you like to see them do in the new year? Like, what's your number one issue? Things like investigations, investigations of Hunter, Jim Biden, Joe Biden's brother, Joe Biden.

You know, let's dig into their financials. You know what I would love? I would love to see them. Let's get their tax returns. They did it to Trump.

They're releasing Trump's tax returns tomorrow. And I will tell you. Uh mark my words, there's nothing in there. Because if there had been anything amiss in Trump's tax returns, it would have been leaked long before this, and it never was. and they're releasing him.

Nothing has been leaked. They got their hands on him, right? And nothing was leaked out. That's how you know there is nothing in Trump's tax returns. Because if there was anything damaging, they would have been leaked.

But what they're gonna do is they're going to release his tax returns and they're gonna see like he didn't pay income tax. And the left, the uneducated people, are gonna go, he didn't pay any taxes. And you're like, no, you big dummy. No income tax because he didn't make any money. Remember he donated all his pay back to the American people.

Do you remember that? And if he didn't take dividends. he didn't make any money. See? how that works.

Well, he didn't pay any taxes. That that that's exactly what they're hoping for. You know, the the perpetually uneducated class with opinions will spew them.

So I would love to see something like that. I want to see some retaliation. I do. I know it is not healthy. And I know that what goes around comes around.

But I would love to see sh karma dump a big truckload, like a big dump truck full of karma back into the Capitol and dump it right in the middle of it. I want to see impeachment. I want to see Joe impeached. I want to see Majorkis impeached. Both of them need to be impeached for what is happening on this b on the border on the southern border.

They are refusing to enact the laws that are currently in place. And that we are under invasion, and the left goes, but it's not an invasion. No one's bombing you. Oh, so that's the definition of invasion.

So, if you know, Russia just China just dropped off a couple of boatloads of people, you know, a couple of thousands and thousands of people, they all just happen to be Chinese soldiers, maybe they're not carrying guns, they're bringing guns in on the southern border, but let's say that our soldiers aren't bringing guns, and they come into the country and they just dump them all off. That's not an invasion.

So they dance around it. But what is happening on our southern border, in my brain, is impeachable. You're not enforcing the law that you swore you would enforce, uphold, right? You're not doing that. The fentanyl coming in is killing our children.

The economy, you made your bed, you got a lie in it. What are you going to do to fix the problem that you just foisted upon us with this dumb omnibus bill? What are you doing with the economy? and of course immigration. I would fix it.

The administration is saying, What's the Republicans' plan? What's the Republicans' plan? Because they refuse to enforce the laws that are already on the books.

So all I keep hearing is, what's the Republicans' plan? from Corine Jean-Pierre is probably on every page in her binder. That big binder she carries around there. Like my grandmother used to carry her pocketbook because we swore she had the family silver in it. It's Corine Jean-Pierre with that binder.

And all it says in it, what's the Republicans' plan? 866-408-7669. Okay, so if you actually got to talk to a member of Congress and say, okay, what are you doing? What do you want to ask them about? You get one question.

What would you ask them? What is that issue that you want to address? Just give me one issue that you want to address and why you want that issue addressed. 866-408-7669. And as you can tell from me, there's a lot of frustration.

I'm very frustrated with the Republican Party, which is why I refuse to register as a Republican. I never have. And in my state, the wonderful state of New Jersey, you cannot register as an independent. You can only be quote unquote unaffiliated.

So I don't exist. Uh and I can't vote in primaries in my state. Yeah, I could jump through the hoops and register as a Democrat to like kind of screw over their fen their their uh primary. Or I could register as a Republican and vote for the person I like. But um I I just refuse to do it.

I'm not registering for the party. I vote for the person, not the party, because the Republican party has let me down so many times I cannot play for their team. I just can't. I'm not buying the jersey. 866-408-7669.

Let's kick it off with Steve in Las Vegas. You're on the Brian Kill Me Show. Hi, Steve. Hi, how are you? I enjoy your show.

I just wanted to say that I think Congress should look into the Hunter Biden issue and especially the one hundred fifty suspicious activity reports that were filled out. That would be one thing I would like to see them do. And the other thing is try to do something to counteract this nonsense of global warming and these green green energy. It's nothing but a fraud. It always has been.

There is no viable substitute for oil, and they know it. and you have to burn oil to generate electricity to fill these to for the cars. The grids are all maxed out all over the country. And that's not going to be the solution.

So that's something I'd love to see them work on, Mary. I'm so glad you brought it up. I didn't think about the green energy thing. We were driving to my brothers on Christmas Eve just to have lunch with them and drop off presents for my nieces and stuff like that. And there's a guy in a Tesla, and he was following us.

And when you get off the parkway right there, there's a Tesla charging station. And about like four, it's like six stations, you know, six spots right there, because it's not a big town. And they're there, and this guy goes to pull in. There's no place. There was a line coming out of that little parking lot, the charging area.

to charge your Tesla. Could I regress back just for a second to another subject? I I was on hold for a long time, man. I really enjoy your show. Could I regress back to a little bit of a subject?

Very quickly, go ahead.

Okay, what you said about the people not the workforce, look at all the eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-old girls that are on YouTube and TikTok dancing around, singing, doing all this nonsense. That's why three-quarters of the workforce of the young people is um is tied up right now and they they're so used to making five hundred a thousand, two thousand a week for doing nonsense, they're not going to go work at Collis Junior, Walmart or Target. And that's a big problem. And also the people selling things on eBay and uh YouTube and that's another th excuse me on uh uh Amazon.

So that's part of the reason the workforce is so disproportionately diminished lately, I think. That's interesting. I am glad you brought that up, Steve. Have a wonderful new year. Many blessings to you.

Thank you for joining me. He makes a good point to go back to that. Yes, you have these kids who are making a lot of money doing these videos because they're going to be influencers.

Okay, good for you. if they're legitim making money If their parents have them granted or teaching them to socket away for when they're no longer young and cute and relative. I think that's a. I don't have a problem with that. If you're working, you understand what it takes to fine.

No problem. Make a budget. Good. Good for you. You're working.

Great. It's great. I can accept that ways of making money have changed and more opportunities have opened. But I think with the Feds going after anything, anything over $600 is going to be a game changer as well. And you're going to see people pull back from eBay.

I know plenty of people. who who used to sell stuff on eBay and aren't doing it anymore. People are going to pull back from eBay. People are going to pull back from selling things on Amazon because you were making a couple thousand dollars, whatever it happened to be, and it was like some extra money. And now the government's going to start taxing anything over $600.

It's not going to be the same. Same thing with Etsy. People who are like a small little retailer, if they're not making a ton of money. They're going to pull back, they're going to pull off that. The government's going to kill that entrepreneurship with this $600 thing.

You know, more people to police my how much money I'm making on Etsy, but nobody to police what's happening at the border. Priorities. Tony in Florida. Tony here on the Brian Kilmed Show. Hi.

Hi, hi, Mary. How are you doing? Doing good. Go ahead. What do you want to see them investigate or do?

Well, basically, I heard a Marine on one of the talk shows the other day while I was driving, and he said, You know, where are we going with all this? Nothing ever happens. Look at all the things we caught the Democrats doing. Look at what Hillary Clinton did, and nobody went after her for the server. All the things, Hunter Biden, nobody went after him, nothing ever happened.

I know that the Congress is supposed to go after Biden when the new guy takes over if McCarthy takes over. But the real sad thing is that no matter what happens, no matter what they do, we all know on the right side, we all know that what they did was wrong. The real problem still lies, and it hasn't seemed to change, is the left media doesn't let anybody with the other side view. Ever here Any of the facts. that we all hear on the left.

So all the good things that you talk about on your talk show and the other talk show hosts on the conservative side speak about are all wonderful and true. But the mere fact that it really never gets to the ears of the ones who need to know that. You're preaching to the choir on our side most of the time, and nobody gets the message on the other side. I'm almost getting to the point now, Mary, where I believe that. And I said this about two years ago.

Before the election fraud in 20, and before Terry Lake and Blake got screwed out in Nevada, that. We have no way of turning things around if they can keep cheating. And they keep cheating and judges keep ruling against there's no standing, there's no proof, it didn't change, it wouldn't change the effect of the election, et cetera, et cetera. I'm almost getting to believe, Mary, that we're moving towards secession. We're moving toward red states.

forming their own government and blue states kind of having to hang it on their own. And let me tell you, blue states have to survive on their own. The way they give away money and the way they don't generate any revenue, They won't be around long anyway. I just don't know how that's done logistically and how you take the good military people with you. I just don't know if that's something that could be a reality.

Yeah, I hear it. I hear your frustration. I get it, Tony, because as I've said, you've heard me, I'm very, very frustrated 100%. Nothing ever happens. You know, we have a two-tiered system of justice in this country, and that cannot stand.

Because if you're on the conservative side and you do something even remotely wrong or something that they would get away with, you can burn down the city of Portland. You can barricade police officers in their police headquarters in Oregon and try to burn it down, and they drop all the charges against you. If you're a grandma who walked through open doors in the Capitol on January 6th, by the way, who opened the Columbus doors from inside? There were officers holding the doors open. We've seen the video, letting them in.

We've seen the video.

So these people walked in, took some pictures in Statuary Hall, and walked out. Who didn't commit any violent offenses have had years and years of losing their jobs and having their lives ruined pre-dawn rays. They've had charges thrown against them and they just capitulate to them because it's lawfare and their lives are being ruined. And that's applauded by parts of this country. That's okay.

So the weaponization of the legal system as well plays into this. And I agree with you, until there is a change and until there's some kind of Of evening out of the playing field here, I don't have high hopes of anything happening. I I agree with you. Thank you so much. 866 Oh, and Happy New Year.

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You're with Brian Kilmead. Mary Walter in for Brian Kilmead.

So, Santa has gone, and hopefully, he left you everything you wished for. But I'm curious what you wish for from the Congress in the new year, especially the House. Investigations, is that on your wish list? Who would you like investigated? How about impeachment?

Mm, that's a good one. Can they possibly do something with the economy? They've screwed themselves over being saddled with this omnibus bill. Can they do anything? What about immigration?

Or whatever it happens to be. 866408-7669. Let's head to South Carolina and Columbia, William. You're on the Brian Kilmead Show. Hi.

How you doing, ma'am? I'm doing just great.

So, what do you want to see them do?

Well They do there needs to be an investment. Into this whole hunter Biden thing. because that was swept under the rug. I don't really know Care that it got passed in the president because that's in the past, but it does need to be done and it needs to be handled correctly. And it doesn't need to be the farcical show of this January 6th garbage because I'm sorry.

Like you said a minute ago, people were let in there just. Like it was no tomorrow. And then wound up being charged when they had no part doing anything wrong. They were just thinking they were being allowed to do something. And the people who are the people.

People who are perpetrating things, they should have done, they're done. But impeachment that's not on my market because I'm sorry, it's silliness. They're never going to get it past the House. All it does is put an asterisk next to your president and waste our money, which we have surprisingly a lot less with that whole bill that you just talked about that just went through. Yeah, absolutely.

And I hope, and I'm really, I've been very disappointed in the Republicans. Again, I sound like a broken record. Because when it comes to the January 6th people, as you said, they didn't do anything violent. They were let in the building. And A lot of them.

Now, were there some violent actors? A hundred percent. And the people who are violent do need to be punished a hundred percent. But I have a problem with some who are on the most wanted list and were let go, were let off the most wanted list. Why?

One in particular who was telling people to go into the Capitol. Why? But the other ones, like the grandmas and things like that, who had to do prison time because they were in Statuary Hall because they walked through open doors. You know, the Republicans have been very silent, except for Marjorie Taylor Greene, Louis Gomard, Matt Gates, maybe one or two others. Those people have just been left, and that is not fair and it's not right.

And I really feel sorry for them, and I really hope the Republicans get the guts to do that. William, have a wonderful new year. Great speaking with you. I will be back with you tomorrow.

So, I'm looking, I'm definitely looking forward to that. Don't forget, I have my podcast tonight, 7:15 p.m., live on YouTube and Getter. We talk politics, try to talk about some stories maybe you haven't heard. And you can get the audio on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

So, YouTube and Getter tonight live, and then the audio later. Or you could always go to YouTube and just watch whenever.

So, I wanted to share this story with you, just something a little funny. And I'm just going to say he's alive, okay? He survived.

So, we can laugh about this, all right, because that's important.

So, in New Jersey, there's a bridge in Islam, and I know exactly where this is. And it's only eight foot six inches high, so it constantly floods. You try to overlook, you can get a little car, even like an SUV, you're like, oh God, am I going to make it under this bridge?

So, this guy, 82 years old, was being taken to the hospital by the rescue squad, by the South Plainfield Rescue Squad Ambulance.

So, it's from a town. You know where I'm going, don't you?

So they hit the Parsonage Road underpass. It goes under an Amtrak bridge. The rear compartment of the ambulance, they hit the bridge. Everybody hits the bridge. Everybody hits this bridge.

The ambulance hits it. And the back part of the ambulance, where the, you know, the compartment is where every, you know, where the patient is, gets tilted backwards from the impact because it hit it at the top.

So the top comes up, the bottom, the top goes back, the bottom comes up. The rear doors open, and when Giovanni, 82 years old, slips out of the back of the vehicle, strapped to the gurney. It was like a Benny Hill episode. It was Mr. Bean.

He survived, thank God. But of course, now he's suing. But he's suing for 20 million. Look, you're not going to spend 20 million in your lifetime, so I have a little problem with that. But I just wanted to share that with you because it's funny and it's great.

He survived.

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