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BONUS: Would Europe Exist Without Us?

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April 15, 2026 5:08 pm

BONUS: Would Europe Exist Without Us?

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April 15, 2026 5:08 pm

The discussion revolves around NATO's stance on Iran, Europe's reliance on the US, and the implications of taxation policies on the movement of people from blue states to red states, potentially shifting the balance of power in Congress.

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So why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year on NATO? if they're not going to be with us. If they're not going to be with us on Iran, they're not going to be with us on a much bigger subject. Then Iran NATO Well, he's not wrong. And Iran's a pretty big subject, I will say.

That's a pretty sizable subject. Let's just go ahead and get that out of the way. And POTUS. Discussing whether or not NATO is going to be on our side and with us on that. It's We have to have that clarity.

And we haven't had that clarity. you know, for some time as a nation, to be quite honest. And now we're really seeing where all of these all of our so-called allies stand on all of this. And it's for them. I wrote a I wrote a piece.

So I guess it was last night as I was doing prep and getting ready for today. And the piece was illustrating how You have these, you have Britain and France, and some of these European nations that are going to be. gathering together and they're going to meet. and tried to determine a good way to establish navigation in the strait. you know, separate from that of, you know, they're going to figure it out on their on their own.

And As many places as I saw that distributed to, I realized that Uh they they b sent it out to the press because they were bragging about it. They were actually bragging about it. And I guess they thought that that made them look as though they were doing something. Like how Kier Starmer said, Well, I'm going to. I'm going to go out to the strait, and we're going to go out to the Middle East, and we're going to meet with these.

I'm going to meet with these countries and these leaders, and he'll take pictures of himself meeting with said countries and said leaders, et cetera. But he didn't do anything, he didn't contribute. I'm all for them figuring out. their own way. I'm all for them getting off their entitled backsides.

and stop demanding that the US taxpayer Fund everything that they do so they can turn around and fund entitlements. and they can turn around and fund their I guess you could say sovereign sepoku, the illegal immigration that they are dealing with to a terrifying degree. And they are. I mean, they can't even protect that. They're dealing with such a lack of assimilation.

So I can't, I mean, do you really? A nation divided like that, there's no way that they're going to be able to figure out how to do this on their own. And that's not being mean, that's just observing simple fact. And that's when people sit here and talk about multipolarity. I'm like.

You know, the same could be applied. The same thing could be said of China, it could be said of so many of these other countries. But with Europe They have for so long subsisted, on this this Idea that they're too good to have to do any of this. We talked about this, I think, last week. The Ego.

that Europe has. And how we kind of helped create that with the create that with the Marshall Plan, et cetera, et cetera. We did. You know, we kind of built them back up after World War II and then they got really arrogant and thought they did it themselves and it was all organic and then now here we are. But it you know clearly it wasn't.

And we built them up to the degree where they can't actually maintain it. Which is kind of a terrifying thing when you think of it. You know, w would they be Europe without us? Would they?

Okay, we just had like a midlife. I think we all had just an existential crisis.

Sorry.

Sorry, guys. I didn't mean that heavy. I mean, you're like, damn, Dana, I haven't even had lunch yet. I haven't even had my like third cup of coffee. What are you doing to me?

I'm not. I know. I didn't mean to have like an existential crisis right out of the gate.

So, hey, what's up? It's your girl. We're here. The start of the show. And uh hopefully the weather looks tornadoy.

Taine. Oh yeah. I don't like it.

So, if we get blown away here in Texas, just know that's what's up. It's not that it's not. The Chinese or anything. Tis the season. I don't like it.

It looks the weather looks pregnant. I don't know how else to say it. It looks pregnant with rage. I don't know how else to describe it. It's quite poetic, is it not?

All right, so welcome. We're gonna get into all of this stuff. We've got the latest with the perverts in DC. Do you know TMZ is setting up shop? I had this down the show sheet for later, but can I just say?

TMZ is sh is setting up shop in DC. Assumedly.

Well, presumably, presumably, they're going to. Treat D C the same way that they I guess do. Hollywood? Do you think that's gonna work? Because everyone's like, oh man, look at this.

They're going to be doing so much dirt digging. Are they though? Are they? I'm not quite sure that's true. But Team Z apparently has opened an office in DC.

And people are very excited about it.

So I don't know. I don't know what I th I don't know how I I how I feel about it. Do you think that they're going to be effective? Do you act like that's going to prevent the Swawels, etc., from taking place? I just don't think it will.

I just don't think it's gonna. People aren't as interested unless there's bodies buried somewhere or lots of, you know.

Well Maybe I should take that back.

Sometimes I think DC maybe has more drama and baggage than anybody in Hollywood. It's like non-stop Britney Spears, you know, slapping her bare butt in her living room. recording ourself in DC. It's like twenty four seven of that.

So We'll we'll we'll dive into it. You know, the Navy's still controlling and doing a good job, I should say. Yeah. the straight. And then On top of that Where we're I mean Apparently it wasn't ever entirely closed.

That's another False narrative. Apparently it wasn't ever entirely closed. Do you know what was, though? What? Iranian ports.

Ah That's right. That is true.

So you could go through. These straight, but you just can't go to Iran. You can go through the strait, but you can't go to Iran. You can't even leave Iran. You can't leave Iran.

You can't go to Iran. You can't look at Iran. You can't talk about it. I mean, you can, but. Don't say I ran.

Don't say I ran. So, yeah. The don't tell me happy tax day, X. Don't you dare do it. I'm trying.

So the If you were going anywhere but Iran or leaving anywhere but Iran, you could go through.

So Iran doesn't count.

So it was never actually. Closed. Ha. And no issues. We haven't had any issues.

You would think that if Iran had the muscle to do it, they would have done something, but they didn't do anything. Because they don't have any way of pushing back on this blockade. CINCOM declared their blockade on all their ports complete. And uh Did you hear about this the tanker called Rich Starry? Yeah.

I love these tanker. Can I just name the tankers? Let me do it. Rich Starry previously did business with Iran. This is from Reuters.

It's a sanctioned tanker. Reuters reports that it made its way back to the Strait on Wednesday after exiting the Gulf the day before. and it was unable to get through the blockade. on vessels that were calling at Iranian ports.

So yes. CENTCOM. Is accurate in saying that the blockade is real and the blockade is fabulous. It's great. It created all these, you know, traffic is still pretty much small, infinitesimal, compared to the 130-plus daily crossings before the conflict started.

But there have been no zero nada Iranian tankers carrying crude for export per routers or passing through the straits since the blockade began.

So where did Richard Starry load all the stuff that was in it? Apparently, they had 250,000 barrels of methanol, but the Wall Street Journal said, let me pull this up. Wall Street Journal said that they actually had spoofed. their transponder. For like two weeks.

They were trying to hide the fact that they were having a, that they were having, it was a transaction with the Iranians. And they thought that we wouldn't figure it out. We did. And so they got, they weren't able to go. And then a top general in Iran's regime regime, they threatened to end the ceasefire if Trump didn't lift the blockade.

And pretty much the United States was like, try it and see what happens. See what happens to you. Kiss your ass, goodbye, see what happens. The UN, or Iran rejected the UN proposal that would, the UN. I love how the UN gets together.

Let's have a focus group about things we can't control. Yay! I'm helping.

So the regime has their revenue cut. Apparently it's over $450 million a day in oil sales. They do not have, they can't continue producing without the export.

So they they have nowhere near the storage capacity to do that. and they don't have enough to keep the production going. for a long period of time with this blockade.

So This is, they thought they would close the strait and that it would outmaneuver Trump. And then Trump was like, nah, we ain't doing this. And so now.

Now we've taken over.

So it's interesting. And Trump has been Trump talks about troops going in, not because he's committing troops going in, but because he wants them to know or wants them to get the idea that he is going to constantly up the ante, that he has a ton more cards to play. I'm really shocked at the number of people who call themselves like. you know, news hounds that how they don't understand this. They don't understand this.

Well, Trump, Trump said, Yeah, this is called negotiating. You absolute product of incest. It's called negotiating. These people are mental abortions. They purposefully act as stupid as possible.

And some of the biggest offenders of this are all the woke Reich digital whores. It's all of them.

So he says, yeah, you know, we got troops that we can send, and all the woke Rikers and the left freak out. But Trump's not gonna, he's not committing troops. He's talking about it to up the ante. That's why Iran's not doing anything. All right, so let's be honest here.

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Prodigy wrote a song about how to respond to this headline. A mad woman, 31, abducted a stranger's toddler at knife point at a Walmart and cut him, and then armed cops brought it to a deadly conclusion. Nomi Guzman, 31, snatched little three-year-old Siler Hillman from the store while his mother was shopping. He was in his shopping cart, and she just was like putting stuff in her cart. She had a large kitchen life, ordered his mom to leave the store.

I mean, I'm not kidding. I would have drawn on her in like less than a second and dropped her to the ground. Yeah, not even happening.

So, that's why it's important to be armed, by the way. But they had officers arrive, and they had to shoot and kill her because she's going to kill the kid. She had a knife out.

Some of the images. I don't even know if I could show them because she has a huge butcher knife. And she is literally threatening to stab this kid. And the moment that she put her hand up, they just dropped her and they had it. That's as much as we can show on the simulcast of the radio program.

That's terrifying. But the officers dropped her the moment she did that.

So thank heavens because he got a little cut. He got a, well, not a little cut. He required stitches. He got a cut going from like the top of his ear down to his face. And so he had stitches for that.

But otherwise, he's okay, except for probably being emotionally scarred. But heavens, that's terrifying. In addition to that, we also have. Ooh, uh the cost of flights. Pretty pricey right now because of the jet fuel crunch.

And it's not just the price for tickets, it's everything: check bags and fees. They have been skyrocketing. And apparently, also, airlines are cutting back on some flights until everything gets sorted. Although it's on that way, it's on the way of getting sorted. POTUS has already been handling it.

So, in addition, A family says their teenage daughter died. She died because she drank too many of these energy drinks. It's a 17-year-old Texas cheerleader. The family filed a wrongful death. Lawsuit?

Because she ingested such large amounts of caffeine. I've never allowed energy drinks. My kids have never been allowed to drink energy drinks at all. But they're suing this beer and beverage company, the distributor, even though they have a warning on the can. Every can apparently contains like 200 milligrams of caffeine.

Yeah. Yeah, I feel like that's on you, the parents. It's horrible, but you need to know, I mean, if you have a minor. In your home, you need to know what they're ingesting. And they did have a warning on the can.

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Soler hot fast grills at besthotgrill.com/slash hot. Welcome back on this national day of government theft sanctioned income seizure. Under threat of penalty. Oh, glorious day. That is where we are.

And we're at the bottom of this third hour. You can watch across the country, the simulcast, listen terrestrially. Democrats had posted six hours ago: tax the rich. I thought we did. Joining us on this holiday.

our very good friend Grover Norquist, who we've had on, I think. Like clockwork, well, several times throughout the year, but especially on today. He's the president of Americans for Tax Reform, ATR.org. His latest book, Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government's Hand Off Our Money, Our Guns, and Our Lives. He joins us now.

Grover, good to see you on this sad, sad day.

Well, it's the anniversary of the Titanic sinking. Oh, Lincoln's. Lincoln's death. And the IRS taking our money every year.

So cheer you up. It's a trifecta. It's like a goth trifecta. I don't even know how to, it really is.

So that's how they picked the date. Yes. And I, you know, I looked at Democrat, they were tweeting, they were marking the day by saying tax the rich, even though we all know we've seen the stats. ATR has them. You know, the top 1% earned, you know, most of the total income, paid over 40% of all the, everybody knows this.

The bottom 50%, if we wanted to have that argument, doesn't pay their fair share. But what really gets me is this argument that has come up about blue cities and red cities, Grover. And you've even discussed this as well. Like a lot of people in these red states are seeing a lot of people from New York come in, from Chicago come in. And, you know, it's a lot more than that because those cities, nobody's moving there.

After these people leave, nobody moves to those cities. What is going to happen to like the New Yorks? Their taxes are going to have to be raised sky high to make up to offset this. You have in the red states Uh, many states moving to flat-rate taxes in the last five years. Eight states have gone from graduated income taxes.

Karl Marx wrote 10 things down that he thought were important. The second one was a graduated income tax. A graduated or progressive income tax means you can divide people into different groups and mug them one at a time. Oh, we're not going to tax you, just these guys, you later. And you know, we're not going to tax the rich.

Is the beginning of a sentence. We're going to tax the rich first. California has a very high tax rate on rich people, and you get to pay about 9% of your income when you hit $72,000 a year. But you're not supposed to notice that because some billionaire, in theory, is paying a lot. But your point, People are leaving.

from Blue states with 10% plus Income taxes at the state level, add to that city level and place like New York. And they're moving to the eight states with no income tax: Texas, Tennessee, Florida. Five states today, today, South Carolina. the governor signed the law, which will take their income tax in five years from six percent down to one point nine nine percent. This was designed by a gas station owner, not two percent, one point nine nine, and then it goes to zero.

And that's the fifth state. to pass a law that will take it automatically to zero. Mississippi. Oklahoma. Kentucky, West Virginia.

Yeah. South Carolina. Add to that. Arkansas, where the lady governor there got elected on a commitment to go to zero, and she's moving to go to zero. Missouri, the governor was elected.

We're going to zero. They've got it on the ballot this fall. In Ohio, they is running on, they've gone to a flat rate tax.

Now he wants to go to zero in Ohio. Arizona is at 2.5%. Get a Republican governor, they'll go to zero. Louisiana is down to 3% on the way to zero. We have not just the eight.

No income tax states we have now, that number is going to double. And so every blue state will have a zero. Income tax and several flat rate income taxes next door that people can leave to. Yeah. And I think your point that people don't move in is even bigger.

Because you see the ones who leave California. What you don't see is the guy in Ohio who's 25 years old. He's got a billion-dollar idea. And 20 years ago, he'd have moved in. San Francisco.

No, he won't. That's huge. And you're right. San Francisco is where, I mean, Silicon Valley. Everybody went there.

Now it's punitive if you go there. You're taking a major pay cut because of taxes and then fees and then everything else. It's not good for business.

So what does that mean? I mean, if they're where is it shifting to? How does this change everything?

Well, it shifts the makeup of Congress because every 10 years we do a census and we redistrict. Five years from now, another ten. Congressional districts will move from Democrat states to red states. And then 10 years later, AI tells me it'll be 12. that move from Democrat states to red states.

So you're looking at a buildup of a natural governing majority in the House of Representatives for the Republicans based on the movement of people out of blue states into red states.

Some say, well. Don't you worry that the people who leave New York and California will bring their left-wing ideas with them. Governor of Texas did a very good poll, a very interesting poll, which turned out to be very good. Found that 75% of the people who moved from California to Texas were already Republicans. It will make Texas more Republican because of the nature of the people who leave.

Before I emigrated to the United States, I used to live in Massachusetts. And there, people leave Massachusetts, go to New Hampshire. The most Republican part of New Hampshire, right next to Massachusetts, is the part where the people from Massachusetts move to. The Republicans from Massachusetts move into New Hampshire, making it more Republican. It's a no-income tax state.

So we're going to sort out, and the people who create wealth and jobs and opportunity, and the people who want wealth and jobs and opportunity, and the people who want their kids to live near them, will move to red states. Yes. And I mean, I would love to see that happen. And so far we haven't had in Texas. I haven't noticed.

Any major shifts because, as you said, I feel like the first and second waves that are coming, they're smart with their money, they're smart with their investments, they don't wanna just pay these fees just for the sake of, or pay higher in tax just for the sake of living in California. Great weather, but that's it. You can't convince us to stay there with just great weather alone. That's not gonna do it. We'll take care of the cedar.

The liberals used to say, oh, people aren't moving to lower taxes. They're moving because of the weather. Yes. No one in the world has moved from California to Texas because of the weather ever. That is so 1,000% true.

We're talking with Grover Norquist, and we were getting into the high-tax states, all of this. Do you, you know, and I'm going to get into the tariffs and that, but I wanted to ask you as well, for the first time. That I can, I think, remember, we've had more Republicans talk about moving to like a fair flat tax and maybe abolishing the IRS. Used to, you would only have like a couple of libertarians that would say that, and only during campaign time. But now it's becoming more and more openly and legitimately discussed.

Is that a realistic thing? And if you see that happening, what's the timeline on something like that? We now have Today, 24 states that have a single rate, a flat rate tax at their state tax. Eight of them, it's zero, 16 is a number that's not zero, and the South Carolina is gonna be the 25th. Kansas has passed a lot to take it to flat rate as well.

So in the next few years, we'll be past 25. Into almost 30 states that have a single rate tax. For many of those, it'll be zero. I think at that point, you can talk to congressmen and senators because so many will live in a state that people wanted the flat rate tax and recently decided. to go to a single rate flat rate.

Why do we not kick Envy? out of the room. when we do our tax code. Why don't we do a tax code that maximizes growth and treats everybody the same? The Democrats think that envy is a political program instead of a deadly sin, but that really doesn't sell in America at the end of the day.

That's not who we are. The people who felt that way are still living in Albania. They didn't move. Yeah, I mean, that's true. I mean, they haven't moved and they stay in New York as well.

I wanted to get your thoughts on tariffs while we have time because... I don't mean to pick on Albania. No, I mean, they're great. We know a lot of Albanians. They're lovely people.

We like them. The ones that are here, that's the same thing. Yeah, that's a good point. The ones that are here. What are your thoughts on the way that POTUS has executed?

Tariffs and the proposal to either outright eliminate or offset. In some way, Federal income tax with tariff. Is that a realistic proposal? Uh but go back to tariffs versus other things. 250 years ago, when we were starting as a country, when we were a colony, we spent 2% of our money on government.

2%, Americans spent 1% to 2% on taxes. And that was true, with the exception of the Civil War and the War with Cuba and Spain. We were About 2%. For more than 100 years, 150 years, till you got to the income tax day. The income tax was put in because.

One, people wanted to ban liquor, and that was a lot of the Fed's money, so you had to replace it. And two, people hated the tariff so much they wanted the income tax instead. Which reminds you, people don't like taxes. It's not that they don't like green taxes or yellow taxes or narrow taxes, or they don't like taxes. Sales taxes, income taxes, property tax.

It's all taking money you earned. It's just coming out of a different pocket. The key issue is. How to have the least amount of Tax. And the least destructive tax.

Some taxes are more destructive than others. And I think the president's idea of going back to when we were funded by tariffs, meaning 2% to 3% of GDP, that's a great idea. Tariffs themselves are just taxes at the border and don't, there's not an added benefit to them. They're paid by Americans. They're not paid by French people.

The Chinese, when they put tariffs on us, they pay those taxes. We don't, and vice versa.

So it's a way sometimes for people to hide who pays it, but it doesn't last very long. The American, South Carolina. pulled out the troops in 1830. Over the tariff, they were going to succeed. That's how much the tariff of abominations.

Was hated. It was a big part of the Civil War and what the South was unhappy about. And it continued to be a hated tax. Up until it became a smaller and smaller percentage of the total budget.

So, um, The president used tariffs to argue with some of our Trading partners, please don't tax our particularly good businesses and things like that. As a threat, that had some success. It's not a better tax than some other tax. I really worry about all efforts to pretend that some taxes are paid by. The ferries are not by us.

The corporate income tax, the left likes to talk about, is not paid by Mr. General Motors. There is no Mr. General Motors. It's paid by people who buy cars and workers who work building cars who get lower wages.

because of the extra tax. Yeah, that's it entirely. Grover Norquist, whose book, You Should Get, Leave Us Alone, Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, and Our Lives, which it doesn't seem like they've been really, they've done that a whole heck of a lot. Just to be honest about it, I feel like we got a lot of ways to go, Grover, on this. We're doing better on guns these days.

We are doing better on guns, but we don't have, I mean, it would be great to have national reciprocity or even better nationally recognized constitutional carry. I mean, we will get 27 states now for constitutional carry. We're on our way. But. And on the number of people moving to flatten zero taxes, we're moving forward.

They're losing. And they're going to chase more people out of New York and California with these weird taxes on. We're going to tax people who are wildly successful.

Well then. They will leave your state. 30% of the money they thought they were gonna tax in California, the billion dollars stuff, has already left. 30%. They didn't even put the tax in.

30% of the money, not maybe 30% of the billionaires, but 30% of the money that the billionaires had has moved. Who goes back into a neighborhood? If your neighbor said, I'm thinking of eating your cat. But then decides they won't eat your cat now. Right.

I think you keep the cat inside. Yeah. That's you don't let the neighbor get near the cat. There you go, right there. That's the lesson.

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but I also know what it feels like to be singled out for it. That's why this new commercial for the Blue Square Alliance Against Hate that aired during the big game really hit home. It's about showing up for someone when they're targeted, even if you don't have the perfect words. And sometimes standing next to someone is enough. And you can show support by sharing the blue square.

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Okay, I'm gonna try to get three of these stories in because these are all crazy. First up, A Florida woman threw a beer bottle at a toddler after she fell off her bike.

So, three-year-old boy was apparently trying to check on the woman after she fell off a bicycle. She thought she was being attacked.

So she threw a beer bottle at him. Toddler? By Toddler. Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office, Carolyn Miller. It was about 6.30 p.m.

A three-year-old boy went up to her to check on her. And the parents saw the incident unfold. And apparently nearby residents did too, and they all corroborated the events. She could not coherently explain what happened to her actions. She thought she was being attacked.

The child was not injured, but she's been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. How okay, how do you think you're being a attacked by a toddler. And how sweet is it that that little kid was like oh I'm going to go check on this woman. No, I know. A Florida doctor was indicted after he allegedly removed a patient's liver instead of the spleen.

And a fatal surgery. Dr. Thomas Shack. Was arrested after a two-year investigation where a seven-year-old Alabama man, he was operating on him, he didn't make it. And apparently, he took out the wrong thing.

The guy had abdominal pain, it was in Miramar Beach. And The patient at first refused the operation and he um He wanted to go home. Then he conceded under the pressure from Dr. Shakonovsky. And they did it, and then apparently, they only had a skeletal crew available.

and the staff were raising concerns about his lack of experience and skills. And they knew that These could be complicated procedures. The staff knew, but apparently, everything happened anyway. and he took out the wrong thing. I can't even believe it.

And then, of course, apparently there were some other mistakes, and he, the guy did not make it, he bled to death. Basically, it's just horrific, absolutely horrific. And a man is accused of cutting a sex offender into pieces after beating him to death. I would like to buy this guy, yes, a delicious steak dinner. Florida man.

He butchered a sex offender. 19-year-old Lucas Jones was apprehended by the authorities after the murder of Collie Lee Daniel in Florida. The 28-year-old was on the sex offender registry because he, for an offense, for two offenses. And uh apparently. Uh yeah, the guy he wasn't having it.

It was uh happened at the end of March. This is Julian Edelman from Games with Names. I want to take a second to talk about something that's personal to me. I've had the privilege of working closely with Robert Kraft for a long time. And one thing I've always respected is how seriously he takes up standing up to hate.

As a Jewish athlete my identity is something I am proud of. But I also know what it feels like to be singled out for it. That's why this new commercial for the Blue Square Alliance Against Hate that aired during the big game really hit home. It's about showing up for someone when they're targeted, even if you don't have the perfect words. And sometimes standing next to someone is enough.

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And three, the exercise on What is the purpose of the proud and mighty structure? To travel. Just in case you Wondering, just in case you One drink. We're not. No, this is what bad choir looks like.

I mean there's they're all that's just that's why does the left do this stuff? You know, when I was in when I was in college, 'cause I didn't I didn't meet a Republican until I went to college. No joke. was raised by a family of Democrats. I had no hope.

And um One of the reasons I didn't join a lot of the left, not because I disagreed with them on guns and abortion, because I always did. But um 'cause they were cringe to death. They were dorks. They were fruitcakes. I didn't want to associate with that.

I didn't want to be I don't what what the hell was this one dude in there? Was that a dude or a chick? The one thing with the long hair that person Is that a dude or a chick? I don't know. Feels like there's a neck lump there.

But I just didn't want to, they were always weird. They were always weird and they always stank. You know what I mean? Like the left. They're there that's Oh, you got boomers there, no offense, boomers, but these are the bad ones.

Who's that guy? And what is that? And then she's not even in it all the way. She's sitting down. Again, also, that is, I don't know, this lady, I don't know.

Then we've got the, I don't know, that lady either. And then we've put the short hair and the long Pentecostal skirt. I don't get it. Um I don't get any of this. And the energy in the room though.

Oh, the energy, yeah. That's really good. These people have as much personality. and spark as a trisket. And they're all white.

I feel like that's very important for the left because the left loves to count. Although they did say Elizabeth Warren was a literal woman of color.

So, maybe in their eyes, these are all people of color. I don't know. I'm just saying, they struggle with it. a struggle.

So yeah, I just got a problem with that. They're just it's always so cringe. But you know what I'm talking about. Like in college especially, they would always get together and they every day they had a protest. And I went to a liberal arts university.

Every day these people had a protest, and it was just so cringe. One of them handed me a flyer once, and I almost passed out because the breeze carried their BO from their armpit up into my face. And I almost died. And I'm like, what in the world? I think they just said that one time they used a stick of baking soda.

I didn't even know that's made, I don't even know where you get it. I don't care. It's just a gross. This is Julian Edelman from Games with Names. I want to take a second to talk about something that's personal to me.

I've had the privilege of working closely with Robert Kraft for a long time. And one thing I've always respected is how seriously he takes up standing up to hate. As a Jewish athlete my identity is something I am proud of. But I also know what it feels like to be singled out for it. That's why this new commercial for the Blue Square Alliance Against Hate that aired during the big game really hit home.

It's about showing up for someone when they're targeted, even if you don't have the perfect words. And sometimes standing next to someone is enough. And you can show support by sharing the blue square. I'm Rhett Rasmussen of Besthot Grill.com/slash hot. We make the amazing Soler infrared gas grills that are built to last and will give you better than restaurant grilled food.

The Soler infrared burner heats up to 1,000 degrees in just three minutes, even in the dead of winter. The high heat locks in the juices and flavor and grills food faster. Learn more about these fantastic USA-made grills at best hotgrill.com/slash hot.

Soler hot fast grills at besthotgrill.com/slash hot. And now, all of the news you would probably miss, it's time for Dana's Quick Five. So the president of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., did a bunch of jumping jacks to disprove health rumors. He said that it was supposed to... Ease worries about his health as the nation struggles.

From fallout with, I guess, Iran. Or Iran. The Philippine president, he did just a few rounds of jumping jacks, jogged briefly in front of journalists. That's kind of weird, right? He was wearing formal officewear.

while he did it. That's like when Lenny Kravitz worked out in jeans. But it's Lenny Kravitz, you know. I mean, he can do that because it's Lenny Kravitz. Let's see, a mustard company.

Their owner was sentenced for a revolution, or sorry, river pollution, that also works, scheme. Kane, this is criminal. He didn't know it was going to catch up to him. I hate everything. Uh, Greenville, New Hampshire.

He's got to spend time behind bars because he pumped pollutants in the river. Old Dutch Mustard Company, Charles Santich. He's got he done got himself in trouble. Let's see. A San Marcos man drowned in the Colorado River trying to get a lost hat.

Leave the hat. Don't do that. Let's not. Colombia is going to call dozens of Pablo Escobars cocaine hippos.

Okay, that makes sense because they're very dangerous, and apparently, these are super. Mad and they're terrifying villagers in the area and threatening them because they can kill people. They kill more than like gators, apparently. I'm Rhett Rasmussen of best hotgrill.com/slash hot. We make the Soler infrared grills, which are perfect for today's busy lifestyles.

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