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I don't think this is censored. I don't think this part is censored. I'm gonna get into some audio, but I just saw. Uh Hunter Biden going off on the UFC thing. And he said, I like the UFC.
They ruined it. They. Have to put it on the blank, blank south lawn. What the blank? How is this appropriate?
Okay. He literally had crack in the White House. And your dad had topless trainees on an Easter. weekend picnic. on the White House lawn.
In 2023. That's a real thing that happened. Oh, and let's not forget thee. uh gay porn that was filmed in the Senate chamber. Let's not forget that.
Don't Google that. Oh, dear heavensy no. that all of that happened. But that was okay with him. He liked that part.
You know, because it's okay, it's D, it's different, right? It's different. Hey, uh what is everybody's uh favorite You know, I really, like I said, any which wave it loose, I really liked her in that film. Remember that film? We talked about Clint Eastwood with Gabe Altaib last.
Wait, hang on. Any went, but. You guys remember that movie, Any Which Way But Lose? Yeah. You and Sandra Locke?
Yeah, Clint Eastwood and Marjorie Taylor Graham played Clyde. And it was just. Um No, I'm not being mean. Stop. I'm not I'm being You all thought it.
Really liked her in that movie. She's now going on Russian state TV. And Well, this is 11. Watch this. Cut a limit.
She goes on Russian state TV to bash America. Remember when the Dixie chicks did that?
So Marjorie Trader Greene is so scorned because she thought that she expected Trump to give her the Senate seat in Georgia. She was mad that she actually was, I was told. I've heard that she was mad that she actually expected a campaign. It's like you read stories about actors and actresses in Hollywood that are offended if they have to audition for parts. She expected it apparently to be like a coronation.
She didn't think that she was actually going to have to campaign. She just thought she could just announce for Senate. and that Trump would give her all the money she needed and she didn't really have to do anything. And then when they when she was told And I know some of the people that were involved in the polling that, girlfriend, look, you are going to be devoured. You have not a shot in Hades.
At winning asinity. Then she got mad, blamed her unelectability on Trump. and is now going on Russian state T V to bash the United States. Which then takes me back. Would you have really wanted somebody?
Who is that? realize that you actually have to make the case to voters. And you have to try to win voters over, and you actually have to have policy positions, and you have to go out and talk about those. Heaven forbid. Would you actually want somebody to be in the Senate that does that?
That just expects everything to be handed to them. I mean, I I wouldn't myself. But Apparently Georgians didn't either. But she's mad. She's mad at this.
So she's going on now Russian state TV. To do this.
Now, when they're not doing that, like we got to go check in, let's go check in with a podcastistan. You know, they all interview each other. because they won't go on anyone else's show. They are too afraid of a challenge. They're too afraid of it.
So uh Tucker's drunk brother, Buckley. went on the podcast to Stan Circuit. Uh Promoting the Marxist Graham Plattner. Listen to Cut Nine. If I can make it through, it's a minute, dear heavens, help us all.
Early prayers this morning was that the excellent voters of South Carolina will reject Lindsey Graham in this primary today and Mark Lynch and I think I've seen some encouraging numbers. It's hard. You're right. Can you believe that's Tucker's younger brother? Younger Maine.
Younger brother. Yeah, can we just get to the point I had? Susan Collins. Yeah, it seems like. I mean, obviously, the primary, but the general's coming up and no market.
And how will that affect the GOP caucus, I wonder? Because she's such a reliable. conservative. I do that.
So is it now green platform? Like what? You have a decent point. It's like, how will anybody? Gosh, what a boring ass conversation.
Just get to the point. He's like Wants transparency in elections. They want safe elections, and they've just given up on that. I guess now they have given up on it. Anyway, the whole point is the soundbite, apparently, is supposed to be that he said that Platiner was inevitable and that would be better than Susan Collins.
I would rather gouge my ears out than have to listen to this boring conversation. You know, I get it. It's like one of the times that he's sober, but still. Uh You're pimping Susan Collins, like you are pimping Graham Plattner over Susan Collins. I don't like Susan Collins.
She's I think it's generous to say that she's a rhino But She's voted more with Republicans than Democrats. And if that's the best you can get in that area, that doesn't mean you go, okay, give up. Guess we'll go with the Marxists who tubin' the portage on. Woo! That's not what you do.
You you work. Two You work on the elector at first. People there, you have to remember. The politicians are a reflection of the electorate. Right.
You can't just like switch out the politician and think, well, that's going to change all the people that voted for him. It's like if the people vote for a bad guy, you don't just switch out the bad guy with the good guy and be like, no, this good guy's going to make the bad people that voted for the bad guy good. That is why the founders were like, you must be a virtuous people, because from a virtuous people, you elect virtuous leaders.
So my point is that Susan Collins right now in that district is the most Republican that you are going to get. But it's someone that caucuses with Republicans. It's someone that votes with Republicans more than Democrats. Do I like her? No, but that's a separate conversation that's meant to distract from this one.
No one gives a rat's ass if you like the person. They are a tool, a vehicle for your vote, for your will. You think you're gonna get that with the literal Marxist Nazi? Who roughhoused apparently his girlfriends and Tubensit and Porta John's? Because the chemical smell gets him off.
I didn't say that, he did. That's what you're gonna go for? I mean, it makes sense that Buckley Carlson would like him. That makes sense. I guess.
I don't know. He's He's in a weird way. His wife left him. Yeah. Similar line.
So uh I got more. Speaking of the podcast to standeys. Because here's another one.
So Chunk Jr. Junior chunk? Yeah, sure. It's Captain Chunk's nephew. Uh Hassan Piker.
Forever heretofore known as Junior Chunk, and you can thank Steve for that. Guys, Junior Chunk is so pup set. Hold up. Junior Chunk, remember when he went to Cuba in a $700 silk shirt? Because who wears silk?
To a tropical environment, morons do. Such an unforgiving, unbreathable fabric. And he also wore like a thousand dollar sunglasses and all this other stuff.
So, Chunk Jr. is super pup set, guys. Because he actually first off, he had to pay for his Knicks tickets. You know, I mean I mean, sure, it's only like a few $6,000, but he had to pay for his tickets and then. Can you believe the indignity of not even like glorifying him on the jumbotron?
This is cut fourteen. Because I ended the broadcast last night, as you guys know, Will was inebriated. He came over here. uh and he beat my ass and he demanded that we go uh to Madison Square Garden, which we did. Uh we had uh dumped a decent amount of money for these seats that weren't Like technically nosebleed seats, but they weren't great either.
It was like a weird angle. Um It's like a weird Uh Uh you know, I don't know how to describe it. It's a weird angle.
Okay. Did you say hi to Taylor? Yeah, no, I did not. I didn't. I was not mentioned in the celebrities that were invited.
Is there a point? Is that content? What in the hell did we just listen to? I immediately was like, I know it's my own show, but I gotta tune out because that's horrible. Wow.
$7,000, huh? I've heard that number before.
So he's mad because he didn't get. His butt kissed on the Jumbotron. Chunk Junior is just like you. Everything's given to him. His uncle works in podcasting, so he's going to work on podcasting.
Yeah. I just don't even understand. Oh my gosh, this is just insanity. But he was super pupset. that he did not get.
Like the hat tip and the Jumbotron. That's who these people are. I'm surprised that he's not going to be Katarlson's next. Guest. Honestly, you know.
I'm Pretty simply, you know, I was thinking about this. All of these people Like the Marjorie Taylor Greens and the Catarlsons and all that stuff. All of these individuals, they used to be, I think they were situationally like MAGA. Like they are trying so hard to get their next grift in line. before Trump's term ends.
That's a lot of what this is. They are trying so hard to get the grift set up.
So, when his term ends, they have something to go to. That's what a lot of this is.
So much of it's this. I mean, it really is. Also, um. The, let's see, I'm not going to get into all of this stuff with the podcast to stand and talking about the TPUSA and all of that, but I will say this. Uh with a lot of the stuff that I've seen out there, I I posted this on X as well.
Why is it? That women, that the women, the few of whom are not bots. that the women bullying Erica Kirk Seem like Pick me feminists. who are so desperate to feel like they're just part of something. To fulfill the emptiness.
in their lives. I mean, it might be a rhetorical.
Sorry, rhetorical so that Gal Sharpton can understand it. Same. Hmm. But I think have you noticed this? Like the the Pick me feminist mommy sleuths.
That's what it really I find that fascinating. That they are like this. that they It's fascinating and sad. I just wonder: like, are these the women who never got over high school and they feel like they desperately want to be part of something?
So if they all pile on, then that that gives them that sense of belonging. I mean, really, I think that they are psychological studies in the making. I had to put that out there because I've seen some of these women do this. I'm like, What is the matter with you, Broads? What is the matter?
We've got more on the way, including we got headlines coming up. Ooh, and then later, our friend Brad Thor. Is going to be joining us. All right, folks.
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I called her the little boudica, the little, the, not little, but the Scottish girl, the young girl that was in that video where she was being aggravated by this. Migrant. I don't know if they entered illegally or not. I mean, basically, everybody was given asylum, and they all, you know. And she had a little, she had a knife and an axe.
Remember that? And it there were two um Migrants that were sexually propositioning these minor girls. and the older girl, it was Lola and Ruby Moyer. And this went viral in August of last year. And They were sexually.
soliciting these girls. And apparently some of it was called caught on camera. 13-year-old Loyla Lola Moyer, they call her Sophie of Dundee. They were making remarks to them and also according to some of the witnesses. He was saying, Come here, sexy, I'll show you how to have a good time.
Telling that to her, 12 and 13.
So she was 12 at the time this happened, and then she was with her little sister. And she was defending her sister. And apparently, so the two people, they are Ilya Belov and Nad Shizabelova.
Sounds right. Yeah, that works. They were the ones that were propositioning the girls, and the girls were with two of their other friends. And sorry, Ruby. twelve and thirteen were the girls' ages at the time, so I guess fourteen now.
And The man had pushed Lola and the woman had grabbed her by the hair. Dragged her to the ground and had kicked her in the head. Remember the little girl that showed the axe and the knife? Kicked her in the head. It was after she was physically assaulted that Lola brandished a knife and an axe.
And it came out that You know, they're banned from being carried in Scotland because they're morons. but she did it anyway. Because the consequence of not carrying them, she felt. was worse. Than the law that would punish her for carrying them because it's so dangerous.
Sexual crimes in Dundee and Scotland are up over a hundred and thirty per cent. It is the rape. capital of Scotland. And you had these Foreigners. Who were harassing these young girls, these young Scottish girls.
propositioning them. I think that they were trying to kidnap them for trafficking. That's what I think. And I think that they messed up picking on this Lola, this Scottish girl named Lola. I think they really messed up picking on her.
And they were slandering these girls and libeling these girls. And the media was saying, oh, they're so mean. Juan's getting ready to show you the video of the very thing.
Now remember when you're watching this video, this is right after, and there were witnesses in this case. This these four these two foreigners had attacked these girls and had grabbed them by the hair and had punched them and all of this other stuff. And that is when the girl pulled out her knife and axe. because they would not leave them alone. They followed them, they grabbed their hair, they punched one of them, they took him to the ground, and that's when that other girl actually had to brandish a blade.
and threaten them. And then they were the ones who were like, these girls are racist and mean.
Well guess what? Those foreigners were convicted. They were convicted of assault. And injury and making sexual remarks to a child. What do you think would have happened?
If that little girl had not had A blade on her. If you're watching the video, notice that they only backed up. After. She presented. her weapons.
Then they backed up. Then they left her alone. Pro I got the feeling she probably could use them. But he was not leaving her alone, and they kept backing away, backing away.
So those two were charged. And the judge in the case I mean that I'm It's just crazy to finally see some justice, I think, over there. But they were charged in this case. This is wild to see this. He was found guilty of making this is from the BBC.
I think the woman too. The woman was convicted. The man was found guilty of making sexual remarks to a group of girls under the age of 14 in Dundee before grabbing and pushing one of them to the ground. The woman he was with was also convicted of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner towards all towards the girls. The woman pled guilty to one.
They had one who pled guilty to one charge of assaulting the girl in the incident. And they're going to be sentenced on August 5th. I think they should be deported. Mm-hmm.
Some of the other stuff that they said that I read, I I can't really say on air because apparently it was pretty nasty. But that's what they were telling these girls. I mean, I can't. It's just amazing to me. It amazes me.
It amazes me. Because normally, what you have is, well, like this story from May 22nd. This came from the Daily Mail. This is a crazy story. There was a teenage gang that lured a girl to an underpass, and then they gang raped her and filmed it, and the judge praised them for having good behavior during the trial.
If you had to guess. If they were Born there or immigrated there from a different country where apparently they don't have any kind of good behavior culturally, you would be correct. This is insane. Britain can't even protect its girls. They can't protect their women.
If you can't protect, that is the most basic defense. Young boys learn that. when they're in elementary school. You are the protector. They understand this.
But in these countries from where these people are flooding into Britain from That's not practised. They're taught that women Are for children, boys are for pleasure. That's what they're taught. It's horrible to say, but it's true. Just stunning.
I'm actually shocked that they aren't you? I'm shocked that they actually Convicted those two. Migrants for sexually harassing and assaulting those kids. Pleasant Michelle. I mean, yes, pleasantly.
I mean, I. Because weren't you sort of resigned to not hearing anything else about it ever again? I know, I wish too. That's so I'm I I mean I'm pleased to see that. In the meantime.
Couple of other things. Did you uh Did you guys hear about Jerry Seinfeld? Mm. Let's play cut 12. This was after he was leaving after the Knicks game, right?
And people got him, they were yelling questions to him on tape. This is pretty based. Watch this. Oh Jerry Sean. What up, Seinfeld?
What up? Can we get a free power stand? Can we get a free pass data? Come here, give me a free pasta. It doesn't exist.
Ha ha ha! I love it. That guy was shocked. Did you see that guy's face? He was shook.
That dude was shook. I don't think he was expecting. I mean, his name is Seinfeld, for kind of like, what do you think he's going to say? I don't think he was expecting him to say that, or at least be that aggressive, right? Do you see he just stopped and went Because it's true, it doesn't exist.
It's an entirely made up place. And he's right. Where is he right?
Now, this was cut 13. Illen Omar, the woman who married her brother, the woman who defrauded taxpayers nationally and in Minnesota. Right? The woman who brushed off 9-11 as some people did some things. The woman who felt bad that the terrorists were killed, the ones who perpetuated October 7th.
This is what she had to say, cut 13. See you. Good to see you. Hey, Jerry Seinfeld. has said again last night Palestine doesn't exist Do you think that's dangerous rhetoric for someone with such a big platform.
I mean, Jerry Seinfeld has been really proficient human being and an example when it comes to talking about the reality of the genocide that Israel has carried out. And I think when people prioritize their own people In in the interest of Harming others, it's very dangerous. Are you accusing of a dangerous thing? And I will think of anticipation. A celebrity of the.
You anti-Semitic terrorist. That's what she just did. She just accused him of dual loyalty because he's Jewish. What about your dual loyalty? Because you're from Somalia and the fact that you basically took the Somalia tribalism right to the Minnesota elections, you absolute colonizer.
Illinois Marr is a terrorist colonizer, and her entire family should be deported. And if we were a country that actually 100% followed our principles and constitutions, that would have happened already. She wouldn't even be in office. You know, the founders in the Federalist Papers wrote about allowing people who were new to the country to serve in elected capacities like this. They were against it.
She's in complete She is in complete conflict with what our founders would have wanted in terms of being someone who hates this republic, comes over here and wants to represent people in this republic, not because she loves the republic and for which it stands, but because she hates everything about it and would love to destroy it from within.
So let's be real about it. But did you hear what she just said? She questions his loyalty because he's Jewish. What about Ellen O'Marr's loyalty? All the money that she that she and the people that she helped defraud taxpayers in Minnesota sent back.
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Siri, the newest in the series is out. And it's from a friend of ours, Gabe Al-Taib, who we've had on before, Big Man Comics. And this is the name of it, which is the most American thing I've ever heard, and it sounds very clintist witty. And it's called, and I got to do the affectation: Dean Kane, All-American Lawman.
Sounded way tougher in my head. And they both join me now. Dean Kane, and who is literally Superman, and Gabel Taib, who is the brains behind Big Man Comics, publisher. He built it, and he is the artist and the storyteller behind Dean Kane, All-American Lawman. They both join us now in a rare three-box interview.
Hello, gentlemen. Happy Friday. Good to see you both. Nice to see you there. Yeah.
Hey, thank you for having us. Thank you so much. Of course. Of course, pleasure. It's good to have you both.
So, I got to first, my first question. Oh, let me, because this just makes so much sense. And I'll start with you, Dean, and then Gabe, I'm going to go to you. Because this is a very First off, I think a lot of people, a lot more people in the United States have been reading graphic novels, and the storytelling is great. This so perfectly suits you.
And I love this, because now we've got, you've had several in the series.
Now you've got the latest series out. And it's you. It's, I mean, you're not Dean King, you're a character in the graphic novel. You're traveling. Are you like, how do you participate in this series?
Because you and Gabe, I guess, worked together. Did he come to you one day and said you would be great as like a modern-day Clint Eastwood? Like how did that happen? It happened that Gabe left DC Comics and was very public about that, about their wokeness. And so then I contacted him and said, hey, man, I support what you're saying, what you're doing.
And then we started talking about the kind of movies and projects we liked. And we decided to make something in that vein, in that 80s action, you know, action-adventure stuff, good Americana, pro-America stuff, pro-values, you know, man, woman, excitement, things of that nature, like romancing the stone and stuff.
So we put that out there. We call it Dean Kane, All-American Lawman. I happen to have been an all-American football player. I am a lawman.
So it was a lot of fun to play. Amy literally played Superman. I don't think it gets more than a year. And I did play that superhero. But the character in the show, in the series, in the graphic novel, is Chris Tanaka.
My son is Christopher. My dad is Christopher. And my given last name is Tanaka.
So it was really nice to put that together and make this action-adventure romance. Incredibly, incredibly visual series with Gabe. And it's awesome. And people have been extremely positive about it. And now we're coming out with volume two.
Yes, which is exciting. And Gabe, because volume one, I read a lot. Volume one was Dangerous Freedom. From what I, it's like under a hundred pages. Graphic not, I mean, beautifully illustrated.
Your stuff is, I mean, it's, I like the storytelling and I like what Dean was saying because I love, I mean, when you're Gen X, the 80s, the 80s like cop movies in the 80s, you know, like Dean just said, Romancing the Stone, that was such a vibe and it was great storytelling. The characters were so well developed. The visuals were great. We haven't had anything like that in a really, really long time.
So it's nice to see that story. And really what's new in this format, because as I said earlier, so many people now in the United States are reading graphic novels. I think I read something where it's like more than they ever have been. It was like a huge increase. Talk to me a little bit about that.
Yeah, oh, yeah, graphic novels, they've taken over. If you go to any bookstore, those sections in like Barnes and Nobleware, they're filled with manga and all that. Yeah, manga's just Japanese comics. But yeah, it's an action movie in a graphic novel form. And for those of you listening out there, that stuff you've been dying for, that stuff you want, whereas a man is a man, and right is right, and wrong is wrong.
We have that. I'm obsessed with 1980s Hong Kong cinema: John Woon, Ringo Lamb, Chow Yun Fat.
So I set the sequel in Hong Kong. The first one took place in Baja, California. The character's taken down a cartel that's working with Chinese drug suppliers.
So now in this sequel, we go to Hong Kong and we take out the head of the snake there. And it's so much fun. Chris Tanaka, our main character, he's a single father. He's got a hot-blooded Mexican girlfriend that he met in the first edition. And we really, we don't want to moralize.
We don't want to lecture. That's what the left does. You know what I mean? I have a slogan for Big Man Comics. Other stories give you a lecture.
Our stories give you an adventure. We do have. Values: I'm a Christian, I'm a patriot, all that stuff, but I'm not sitting there wagging my finger at you. The first goal, always as an artist and a writer, is to entertain. Yeah, I'm entertaining you.
There's a moral in the story, but you're not going to feel it. You're just going to feel thrilled. You're going to feel like running through a brick wall when this is over. Because, I mean, besides, outside of Top Gun Maverick, when do you get stuff like this in recent times? You just don't get it.
So that's what we're trying to do. And yeah, they're movie length. I write them in the Hollywood three-act heroes journey kind of thing. I have a lot of fun with those. And we have a brilliant illustrator for these.
I illustrate some other books for my company, but these are illustrated by former Disney animator. He's a brilliant guy, 30-something years as a pro illustrator and animator. He worked on Emperor's New Groove, Atlantis, Brother Bear, all that stuff. And the Tarzan, he animated all those for Disney, worked at Marvel Comics. Then I met him at DC Comics working on Aquaman together.
And I just love his sense about it. He says he is the secret ingredient here, but he's not an internet guy.
So he never comes on any shows or he doesn't post or anything like that. But Philippe Briones, he lived. In Paris, he's our kind of guy. And you just threw them out there. Yeah, we gotta keep him hidden.
Gabe, he just gave it up. We gotta protect him at all costs. Because I love that. If you guys are, everybody's just joining us. Our friend Dean Kane, Gabe Altaib with Big Man Comics.
And Gabe, you had let the last time we had you on, we were talking about your journey, leaving DC. And then striking out on your own. And what you were talking about, creating these characters. And these stories that are not lecturing, there's no immoral preening, there's none of that. And that gets out of the way for the story.
To really for people to appreciate the story. That's always been my big thing. I have a really difficult time getting over, you know, suspending my disbelief to get into a story. And when you get all of the politics and the preening out of the way, you can really do that. And I think that that's what makes your stuff really unique with us.
Talk to us about the character as well and how you really came up with this character with Dean.
Well, we talked about the values we had, Dean and I, before we started. I had a very nebulous idea with James Bond, Indiana Jones, Jack Colton from Romance and the Stone, this cool guy that travels the world writing wrongs. And Dean wrote like a five-page dossier on him. And I remember the quote, I think it was a Frederick Douglass quote: I'll work with anyone to do good and with nobody to do evil, or something like that, was a quote he put in there. And he wrote all these other ideas about who he was as a man and a father and a patriot and this and that.
And then I just ran with it from there, with all the stuff I love about action movies. And, but to me, the heart of all of it. Is sacrificing yourself for others, you know. This isn't just endless bullets and just stupidity. Like, there's a deep story here.
He has deep conversations with his son. He has to make terrible choices and always stand up and do the right thing, no matter how deadly it is. And we do get deep into the characterization, so we mix it. There's a lot of bullets and babes and bad guys, as I like to say, but there's a lot of thoughtfulness and a lot of what I think it means to be a man, yeah, to have restraint, to have honor, to have integrity. That's the heart of this thing.
And it's not to lecture anyone, it's to inspire everyone. Say, you know what, you could be more than you ever thought. Whatever you want, whatever you're supposed to do, it's standing, it's on the other side of fear. Just push through the fear and you're going to do it. Yeah, you know, that's what we have here.
One of the things that this reminded me of: there's this, there's a strain of the story, and I think it's really the character development and the fearlessness, Dean, of your character. I don't know if you guys are, well, I'm Gabe is probably Ramoni Kenshin, which manga, a great series as well. And there was something about That series that this reminded me of kind of like that character in a way: the fearlessness and the integrity and the willingness to do what's right and having that clear-eyed consistency, which I love that in characters. Dean, why? Why is that so avoided in character development?
Do people think that that's not a compelling thing for viewers to watch? I think maybe studios are people to feel that way, but the regular everyday Joe on the street, it's something that makes perfect sense to me. You know, I would watch that and I would just be drawn to that sort of character. And you know who you're rooting for, you know why you're rooting for them, even if they're a bit, you know, on the edge, if they make some mistakes and do some things, you know who they are. And I, you know, I think that.
Storytellers, filmmakers haven't been the ones. Telling the stories and doing that. There's been a lot of executives and a lot of groupthink going on there and stopping you from being able to tell your story.
So, here it's just me and Gabe. And so there's nobody going to tell us how to do it and what to do and how to make it. And so we get to be very clear-eyed. And I mean, you knew what Dirty Harry was going to do. Oh, yeah.
You know, you were rooting for him in the coffee shop. There, you got all the sugar in his drink. And, you know, you know, he's coming back because it's the right thing to do. And it's, you know, and that's that feeling where you're like, of course, I understand this. You're not getting bombarded with all these other outside, weird things.
You know, somebody like the lead actress in a, I don't know, a brand new DC film picking on Christian dads, stuff like that isn't going to be. I wanted to ask you about that. That was no, and you're right, though, because I read that interview. And I'm going to, and I got to, I'm going to come back to, I'm going to come back to the series here in just a second, but I read that because you got into some headlines. You got into a spot of headlines, Dean did, because I hadn't heard of a remark that, you know, because I think it originally began, you're like, how does Supergirl get her ears pierced?
Because you're bulletproof. You know what? That's the kind of stuff, honestly. That people like me would watch and be like, That is a great. Why are her ears pierced?
Because now I don't believe her. I don't believe her. But then they got mad because you said she looked like some other Klingon character. I said, I laughed. You laughed.
That's all you did. You didn't say it. You just said, I laughed. That's it. And it was funny.
It was funny. That's why.
Well, see, the thing is this. Dana, when I started playing Superman, I'm a quarter Japanese, I am Tanaka. When I started playing Superman, somebody, you know, the internet was in its infancy and they said, We want Superman, not sushi man.
Now, being Japanese, now I could be like, oh my gosh. My brother and I laughed. For we still laugh to this day, because to us, that's hysterical. I'm an athlete. Insult me all day long.
I'm gonna knock you down on the field. That's, I don't, insults to me. They don't mean anything, you know, because I'm not worried about whether I look Japanese or not, or whether she looks like that character from whatever blah. There was a similarity, I thought it was funny, and so I made I giggled at it. And boy, did the hordes get mad.
But that's the thing, there's that horde group there. They may not buy Dean Kane All-American Lawman, but there are some everyday regular people who will, yeah, who will enjoy that our series and enjoy that stuff.
So I'm not worried about that stuff. I think it's funny. I got a good kick out of it and then I forgot about it. Gabe, because this is so cinematically told, even in a novel form. Are there plans to make this?
Like, you know, more, like bring it off from the page and have like a series? I mean, I could definitely see this as a, and because Dean's making that face, I now I definitely want to know because this is, this would be a great scripted series. I've already casted this movie in my head. It's uh, in the sequel, he's got his British friend Harker, a mercenary, who helps him. That's already Matthew Marston.
Oh my gosh, I found a girlfriend. That's already Eva Mendes. I've casted the whole movie. Oh, that's awesome.
So don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. I absolutely would love to turn this into a show or a movie and we'll work towards that. And if that's what God wants from me, then that's what we'll do.
You know what I mean? But I think, you know, in our culture, um, For better or for worse, entertainment is the most important thing to most people. I don't think it should be, but it is.
So the adult opinion is to deal with reality on reality's terms.
So if we're going to have entertainment influencing people so much, why not influence them with truth and beauty and the kind of things that can make their life better? God did not give me a gift or you, Dana, to speak or Dean to act. He didn't give us gifts so we can then hurt people's lives.
So I can make ugly comics that teach them cynical, hateful things. Why would I do that? You know, that's a horrible thing to do. I want people to have so much fun. You know, and everyone that has ever gotten back to me about this book, they're like, wow.
That was so good. In the comic book industry, people didn't know I was a writer. Because all I did for Marvel and DC and those companies was illustration and coloring. They didn't let me write. And so when I finally got, but I've been a writer since I was a kid.
So when I got on my own, I'm like, okay, well, now I'm going to write these things. And then everyone's like, oh, my God, you can write. Like, yeah. You know what? That was kind of a thing I didn't like at DC Comics.
They were like, stay in your lane. Yeah. Well, to your point. Remember, Jesus gave stories. He spoke in parables.
I've said that so many times. Exactly. Because he knew for him that's how he knew he was going to be able to reach people. And you both are doing the same thing. Dean Kane, Gabe Bel Taib, the series, Dean Kane, All-American Lawman.
And you can go to Big Man Comics and you can go and get it, check out every, learn about the new series. And then maybe, you know, when the time comes and they want to talk about the scripted series, the news will be there. But congrats, guys. This is great. And I love seeing good people that make good art.
Succeed, and this is just awesome. And we really needed this.
So, congrats. I can't wait for it. And it's so good to have you both. Thank you so much. God bless you.
Have a great weekend. Good to see you. God bless, Dana. Thank you. Thank you, Dana.
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Go ahead and bring it. It's our very good friend Brad Thor, New York Times, best-selling author. My family are insane fans of his, and I am really like downplaying the insane part of it. They love his stuff. My one cousin still talks about the time where I was at the range with Brad, and Brad was kind enough to talk to my cousin on the phone.
And to this day, everybody still talks about that. But he's got a brand new book out, he's got a Netflix series that's in development, and he's got the best office of anybody that we've ever seen.
So, welcome back to the program, my friends.
So good to see you. It's great to see you, Dana. Thanks for having me back. Of course. And I want to get into ChokePoint, which is the latest in your Scott Harvet series.
And I want to get into the Netflix as well because you and I talked about. You know, adapting your stories into these series, which I think is going to be brilliant. But I wanted to kind of get, because you've worked with the Department of Homeland Security, you've worked with law enforcement agencies, you have a deep understanding of foreign policy issues, especially considering everything that we've been dealing with. And so, like, the big thing today is we are all wait and see what happens in Iran, wait and see what happens. Is there a deal?
Is there not a deal? Is there half-burnt, you know, reportedly one-legged, you know, gay hominy? Is he still, is he still alive? Like, what's happening? Where is this going?
How does this end? And where are you in all of this? Like, what are you seeing? What's from your vantage point, Brad?
Well, so first of all, I have to say this. You'll remember very early on, probably was in the primaries of the general election back in 2016, where Trump was asked particularly about his value system and if he's ever asked God for forgiveness. And he said he has not because he's never made a mistake that he needs to ask for forgiveness for. That right away was a big red flag in somebody that you would even consider electing as a leader because it shows a lack of humility and a lack of self-awareness. Trump believed that the only reason Iran had not been dealt with previously is that presidents prior to Donald Trump didn't have the courage to go in and throw the full weight of the American military at Iran.
And that's not why they didn't do it. They realized what a quagmire this would be. And now we're finding out every week Trump tells us it's a couple more days. They're dying to make a deal. We've got a deal.
All this nonsense. I think Elon Musk begged him to back off so it didn't screw up the SpaceX IPO this afternoon. That's what I think happened. I think he wanted to clean the market up so that Musk could go ahead. I have no proof of that.
That's just what I believe, seeing all the insider trading that's going on on cow sheep, polymarket, and all these bets that are being placed against the price of oil by Trump's administration, people in the administration, and around Trump. I don't think you can believe a single word that comes out of this administration, much like Vietnam. I will bet you that the casualty rates are much higher than we've heard for American service members in that arena. And I think when the tale is finally told truthfully, we're going to find out how much we are lied to.
So that's number one. Number two, what I think is stunning, Dana, is how far underwater Trump is quickly going with evangelicals.
So 51%, sorry, 54% of evangelicals in the latest June 3rd to 8th Ipsos poll were against the war in Iran. And this is against 60% of Americans in total who are against the war in Iran. This is extremely unpopular, and it's lather-rinse and repeat with Trump. Every week he tells us there's going to be a deal or he's going to bomb the heck out of him. And I just don't think that this administration has any credibility.
We shouldn't believe a single thing that comes out of the White House. I always get nervous, and for those joining, we're talking with our friend Brad Thor, when any kind of military operation, I don't like when people start giving. Limitations or taking things off the table. I just, I don't like when leaders talk too much about it. We saw a lot about this with Barack Obama.
Everybody remembers with Iran. And I'm wondering, and we talked about this yesterday, when POTUS is discussing, you know, potentially maybe boots on the ground with respect to Carg Island specifically. If that is something, he said, well, you know, I haven't ruled it out. But at the same time, during the campaign, as I reminded people, I'm like, he kind of boxed himself in a little bit with that. I think maybe in the beginning, Americans would have been more open to any kind of escalation, whether use of force or commitment of resources like our soldiers.
But now, because, I mean, what, we're like two months into this. And you know that the Iranians, Brad, you know that they're not negotiating in good faith, nor will they ever.
So what options does that leave us? And maybe that and the importance of not taking things off the table? Listen, I am continually stunned and shocked at how bad the Trump administration is with public relations, with just bringing the American people on board. You know, the first thing that Steve Bannon got Trump to do in the 1.0 administration was to go for the Muslim ban. And instead of saying this is a list of Muslim countries that was left to us by Barack Obama, where they can't properly vet people getting on airplanes and making it Obama's Muslim ban that Trump could have put into effect, which would have made it a very difficult thing to assail from the left and from the mainstream media, he just plowed right ahead with kind of red meat for his base.
Well, Bannon probably, he gives bad advice. Yeah, well, very obvious.
So, the other problem we have here is that Trump had the State of the Union address where he could have made the case for Iran. You don't go to war and then convince your population why you are in a war. You convince your people why it's necessary before you go to war. And he blew it. It was just days before he went into or launched the operation with all the bombing and stuff.
So, it's been badly handled. And again, this comes because Trump has a lack of humility. Trump thinks he's smarter than everyone and that he's the brightest guy and he's going to make all the decisions. He doesn't need to use Congress. He doesn't need to come to the American people and sell it.
And now he's cratering in the polls. These midterms are going to be a bloodbath. And every Republican has only Donald Trump to blame for this. I'm so nervous about midterms. Are we ever?
I've grown up, we've all grown up with Iran. Causing destabilization in the Middle East. I don't think that we will ever get any kind of goodwill gesture or serious negotiation from them, do you? No, and we miss opportunities to do so. And I will point backwards to, I know that they were trying to work out the JCPOA under the Obama administration, but when they had the Green Revolution in Iran, there were so many people in the streets.
There was so much pushback. Iran was right on the edge of being tipped over. And had we committed to the people of Iran then, instead of trying to get this piece of paper done, and I get it, it allowed in inspectors and all that kind of stuff. There were actually good things that happened in the JCPOA, but that was, Iran was so primed for it to topple over then. But, you know, that's in the background now.
But remember, Trump told us total regime change, going to liberate the people of Iran, and that he, Donald Trump alone, was going to pick the next leader of Iran. That kind of hubris is not good in a leader. Trump is his own worst enemy. And by being his own worst enemy, he becomes one of America's worst leaders. This is not the kind of makeup you want in somebody leading our country.
It's only going to lead us into more problems. We haven't even begun to feel the bite of the Energy prices skyrocketing. That's coming. We're in for a lot of trouble. And I kind of feel like we're living in the middle of, you know, this sort of like asymmetrical pincer attack, for the lack of a better way to describe it, because you have Russia and you have China, and then you have the growing threat of Islamism.
So you have this very real red-green alliance that's taking place, you know, and kind of like looking towards the Pacific. Which, by the way, I love that you were explaining the Strait of Malacca to all of your because you did this great video on X. And I'm going to get to that in just a second because nobody talks about that. Like I rarely ever hear that choke point brought up. But with China and Russia and Islamism, doesn't it sort of feel like, I mean, America is getting hit on all sides right now.
And we're a strong nation. I believe in unipolarity. I don't go with the Alexander Dugan multipolarity approach and all of that nonsense. I believe in America's strength. But I do worry about prosecuting this stuff in the court of public opinion and that sort of like informational war of attrition that is happening.
Your thoughts on that? That's brilliant. I couldn't have phrased it any better myself. Oh my gosh. Cut that and I'm going to put that on my tombstone because Brad Dorr just said that about me.
If anybody asks me what our greatest weakness is from a national security standpoint, I tell them it's the popular culture. It is social media. We are being influenced by the Russians, the Iranians, the North Koreans, and the Chinese. They want us at each other's throats. I don't want it to take another 9-11 to bring us all together as Americans.
We have so much that we have in common and more that unites us. But right now, anybody who doesn't vote exactly the way we do is our enemy. And anybody who votes exactly like me, I trust them implicitly, even down to the point that I don't check what they're telling me. And that's dangerous.
So those nations, before we even get into a hot war with them, are winning a very chilly culture war because they're pressing on all of our fault lines, all of our fractures, and turning us more against each other.
So if you're angry about something, instead of being angry, take a breath and say, who profits from me? Being angry right now. That's exactly it.
So, your book, you get into. This strait in the South Sea that nobody actually, I mean, I've heard it before. If I'm, you know, listening to like C-SPAN, I'll hear some people talk about it. This is incredibly important, and you actually dive into all of this. And for the folks who don't know this, his series, the Scott Harvest series, Choke Point, number one time, number one New York Times, best-selling Wall Street Journal.
I mean, it's number one every time he drops a book, it's number one. But you actually, in your series, this plays an important role. For those who are unfamiliar with the significance of this strait and the importance it has to China's trade and their economy, talk a little bit about this.
So, the choke point is a thriller. I tell people my books are like the James Bond movies. If you've never seen a Bond movie and the new one's out, you can go to the theater and see it. You could start with this Brad Thor book, Chokepoint. But the idea behind it is that China realizes that the U.S.
Navy controls one of the most strategic choke points in the world, and that's the Strait of Malacca. And that's where 80% of China's crude oil imports flow through there, and two-thirds of its trade, its maritime trade, go through this choke point. And if the U.S. closes it off in a time of war, China's dead. There's no way China can win.
So, in my thriller, China has tricked the U.S. into thinking they're going to go into Taiwan, and they launch something completely different, take the U.S. completely by surprise. And then, of course, my protagonist, Scott Hauervath, America's top spy, has to unravel it and prevent it before China can deliver the ultimate coup de grace, which will bring America to its knees. Yeah.
And the scary thing about this is that it's so, like, you really toe the line. On all of the current events, and that's what makes it seem so real. Like, you honestly, I think you actually help people have a better understanding of foreign policy because of the way that you explore these issues and the context in which you put it in. Because, think about it, we've been dealing this with China and Taiwan. We've done military exercises, they've done these tests of our military strength in a potential war game, and the United States struggles.
And I think it's because of strategy resource and maybe underestimating the moves that they would make. Absolutely. And if there's one thing we are learning is that our weapon systems, so many of them, can't handle the future of warfare. We've been building weapons that are not meant for the modern battlefield.
Now that we see what's happened with Ukraine and the drones, and the Chinese are just legacy contracts, these stupid legacy contracts that we have. Yep.
So that's a big problem. No, no, no, no, no. But you're right on the money, and we need to push ahead. And we need to push ahead with serious defense contracts that make sense. Trump's kids through a golf course company now have a drone company, and they won a huge contract with the Department of Defense.
I don't want the future of our national security based upon whether Eric and Don can build drones.
So we need to get a lot more serious than we have been in this country. National security is one of my biggest issues, one of the things I care the most about. I don't care who's in the White House. I just care they're doing everything to keep the nation safe, Republican or Democrat. I know you're a patriot.
My good friend Brad Thor. Bradthor.com, his new book, Chokepoint, a thriller, the latest in his series. Always so good to have you, my friend. You're always welcome back. And love your office.
I'm just going to fly out to Dallas and have you decorate mine. God bless you, my friend. Good to see you. You too, Dan. Take care.
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It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
So a solar storm apparently cost corn growers a billion dollars.
So they said the weather channel names hurricanes, but apparently solar flares. Have names the Gannon Storm of 2024, it reads, cost Corn Belt farmers more than a billion dollars in productivity. And they said, you remember the Aurora Borealis from May 24 that everybody could see even down like in the upper Midwest?
So that's like apparently was part of it.
So that's actually crazy. They said that it knocked out GPS and it did all this other stuff. And they had industrial farming equipment that relied on it and they couldn't do the auto drive. There was a lot of stuff that it affected, which I never actually would thought. I never thought about that.
That's crazy. Also crazy? A California couple fought off a whole bear attack. with a water bottle. and a hatchet.
That's it's a California couple. It was in Mammoth Lakes, which is in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The woman went outside because she heard her dogs barking. She saw a 17-month-old black bear fighting with one of her dogs. The other dog bolted out of the door.
And then, as she was trying to stop the 70-pound bear from fighting her dogs, She was trying to break it up, and then the bear turned and ended up trying to attack her. It was biting and clawing her. A man came outside to intervene. The bear confronted him too.
So she used a water bottle to hit the bear until the guy could get free. And then he hit the bear with the blunt end of a hatchet, leaving the animal critically injured. The couple transported themselves to the hospital. The dogs had minor injuries. They're fine.
But what about the bear? They said that they had to euthanize the animal because the bear was considered a threat to public safety. They said because the bear was so aggressive, and that is unusual, they had to take the precaution to prevent. maybe another attack like that happening when the bear was older and bigger.
So I get it. A snake was missing on a plane. Venomous too. And it's real. This is a real story.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is not, this is a real story, not snakes on the plane, but apparently a commercial, it was a dreamliner from Mexico to Gatwick. 345 passengers aboard. Apparently a snake got out, a venomous one on a commercial plane, red and scaly. I don't know what, it's like a mock viper, which is considered mildly venomous. And apparently it brought everything to a standstill.
They've been trying to, they, it's on the plane still. They can't find it. It's on the plane. Yes. Oh.
So they're like. I love how the Scottish people were going. It beggars belief that a passenger brought a mock viper on board. And they don't know what the snake could do to the mechanics of the plane, so they can't let it take off again. They have to have it grounded until they find it.
That is crazy. You know, one time when I was little, we lost a turtle in our car? A turtle, whole turtle, not kidding you. Let's see here. States are moving to ban snap use for soda and candy.
That makes sense because it's processed and super dangerous. A mom was charged with child endangerment after dozens of cats were found in a Long Island home. They had to pull the cats out of the walls. Imagine you're a hoarder, but with cats.
So none of these cats are being cared for. None of them are being cared for. You're talking about a lot. I mean, it was so bad that people called 911. The 18-year-old daughter called 911 because it was such a bad situation.
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So, POTUS was saying that the Iranian negotiators, very dishonorable people, I can't do his voice. I just, yeah, that's how I said it. But Vance was saying that, oh, the deal has the potential to remake the region and lead to lasting peace. You're seeing the daylight between them. I wonder if that's contributing to the fact that this is dragging on so much.
When your number two is like well we could have peace if we mm That's assuming a lot. of a crazy rabid. you know, theocratic regime. That hates us. Just saying.
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It does. Just to get here. I started my day in northern Michigan, drove through Indiana, and came here to the south side of Chicago.
So three states. I started my day in a swing state. came through a place in Indiana where voters Voices basically do not matter in presidential politics because the state is so Republican. And now we sit in a place where voters' voices mostly don't matter in presidential politics because the state is so Democratic. As if there c how could anyone have to do it?
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