0:14

Happy. Friday. Welcome to Sarah Gonzalez

0:16

or not filtered those of you

0:18

who have not yet done so.

0:20

Just a reminder. To. Go

0:23

if you're watching this on you tube. I've made it

0:25

very very easy for you. Okay. Go.

0:27

To the description of this episode and

0:29

click the link at the very top

0:32

of the you tube description and go

0:34

subscribe to our audio podcast and adjust.

0:36

The more people who subscribe the more

0:39

it helps us and the algorithm. By

0:41

the way, while you're there, go ahead

0:43

and us a five star rating and

0:46

review. Five stars obviously.

0:48

And actually you know he used to read

0:50

some of those reviews. I think we're going

0:52

to start doing that again, so give us

0:55

a good review. and if you're I don't

0:57

know, particularly. Creative or funny or

0:59

flattering, we might, we might show

1:01

your. Review. In. A

1:03

future episode of Sarah Gonzales Unfiltered Know

1:06

we we quite literally like we are

1:08

very biased. That nice are you are

1:10

the more likely that we are to

1:12

show. Your. Of you. So

1:15

we were coming on to our to

1:17

record this today. We. Table

1:19

little bit earlier than normal

1:21

on Fridays and apparently got

1:24

word that a man I

1:26

think a man. a person.

1:28

who am I. To. Just

1:30

assumes one's gender in this day and

1:32

age. And twenty twenty four a person,

1:35

which, by the way, or even know

1:37

if that's appropriate anymore as such as

1:39

a being okay, Apparently.

1:42

Set. Themselves on fire.

1:45

Outside of the

1:47

courthouse. Of. Donald Trump's

1:49

Hush Money Payments Trial

1:52

and I believe. From.

1:54

what the report said this

1:56

person was in the protest

1:58

area outside

2:00

of the courthouse and just Set

2:03

himself on fire for whatever reason it we're gonna

2:05

play it's very it's graphic as you can imagine

2:08

It is someone actually setting themselves on fire

2:10

and on fire. So it is graphic. We're

2:12

gonna play that There

2:19

he is just standing there I

2:21

wonder if he regrets

2:23

his decision and I

2:28

would imagine that is probably this person screaming

2:34

Falls to the ground Something

2:38

flew out from his body. I'm not

2:40

sure what and Here

2:43

come the police like what the hell?

2:47

Why did this person just do this? I

2:52

Mean I heard that the Donald Trump trial was

2:54

gonna be lit, but I think that they took that

2:56

to a whole new level Look

2:59

it's really hard to feel sorry for someone who sets

3:01

themselves on fire. I don't

3:04

I don't know why this person did it I

3:06

don't know Who

3:09

they are what side of the fence

3:11

they're on I do know that they

3:13

must be absolutely insane and crazy perhaps

3:15

Trump broke them But

3:17

it's really hard to feel sorry for

3:20

someone who sets themselves on fire for

3:22

any reason really like you Play

3:24

stupid games win stupid prizes. I

3:26

guess okay. We'll find out more

3:29

about this particular crazy person Not

3:32

note no shortage of things to talk

3:34

about this Friday. So inside the courtroom

3:37

There were a few more potential jurors who

3:40

were dismissed today. This is of course

3:42

day four one of whom Apparently

3:45

had previous criminal convictions that disqualify

3:47

her from serving on the jury.

3:49

So Great work to New

3:52

York City keeping up with all of your

3:54

juror roles That's awesome because she was the

3:56

one actually who had to tell on herself

3:58

like um Judge. I'm ready. We're

4:00

sorry, but I don't actually think I

4:02

should be here because I have a

4:04

prior criminal convictions. I've served time for

4:06

so. I'm sure she's also registered

4:09

to vote. So couldn't do it

4:11

for her. Or the other juror

4:13

was dismissed because her ties to

4:15

Chris Christie's and from Peter Michael

4:17

Cohen prevented her from being impartial

4:19

and she had anxiety. About.

4:21

The matters She said she had a lot of

4:23

anxiety. Okay, Blood. Thanks.

4:25

For the honesty. Goodbye good riddance, don't let

4:28

the door hit you. were the good lord

4:30

split chef or right. Every

4:32

day that passes and this trial becomes

4:34

more and more real and people are

4:37

like setting themselves on fire over a

4:39

freaking trial. I

4:41

just have a really hard time swallowing.

4:43

What we have become like. Decide.

4:46

Screaming about Fascism Are the Fascists. And

4:48

they're literally trying to imprison their political

4:50

opponent by throwing ninety one bogus indictments

4:53

at him to see what sticks. And

4:55

I know I was the person who

4:57

was selling every one as we were

4:59

going through the beginning of this. Would

5:01

he was the i don't know, maybe

5:03

just like size indictments at the beginning

5:05

of this weaponization of the judicial system.

5:07

I was, of course, the one who

5:10

was saying to people who were saying

5:12

they're not actually going to throw him

5:14

in prison, they wouldn't actually do that.

5:16

And I'm like, ah, Have

5:18

you met the Democrats? Of course they would

5:20

and is even hard for me to stomach.

5:23

Okay, but I look around and

5:25

I go. Is. It just

5:27

us. Is it just. Conservatives

5:29

who are actually paying attention like

5:32

are we the only ones that

5:34

understand the severity of unprecedented lawfare

5:36

being waged against political opposition. And.

5:40

I'll give you a little bit of silver linings

5:42

a day on this Friday as a yes or

5:45

no. It's not just us. And.

5:47

i don't want you to take my

5:49

word for it okay because i'm obviously

5:51

a very vocal opinionated conservative i'm very

5:54

biased and i'm happy to be bias

5:56

and i'm happy to admit that i'm

5:58

biased okay so instead Take

6:00

ESPN commentator and I would say generally

6:02

unlikable Democrat Stephen A. Smith's word for

6:05

it. Alright, I'm going to play him

6:07

in his own words what he

6:09

had to say last night on Hannity. When

6:12

I think about Donald Trump, I

6:14

think about this case in New York. I

6:16

mean, I'm looking at the Democrats right now.

6:18

And again, primarily, I have voted Democrat throughout

6:21

my life, but I'm utterly disgusted with what

6:23

I'm seeing because it seems to me that

6:25

they're trying to use the law in the

6:27

courts. And it's clearly politicized this thing with

6:29

Donald Trump because they can't come up with

6:32

a strategy to offset the momentum. He's clearly

6:34

gayed and at least five polls he's up.

6:36

He's up in the polls over Biden and

6:38

at least five polls that I counted. That's

6:41

the reality of the situation. Despite the

6:43

counts against them, the indictments against them

6:45

being impeached twice and all of this

6:47

other stuff, he is the presumptive GOP

6:50

nominee. And you don't seem to have

6:52

the issues in your favor. You believe

6:54

so because of that, you're going to

6:57

manipulate the system as best as you

6:59

possibly can to avoid him possibly running

7:01

for reelection again. That appears to be

7:03

their strategy, but I'm here to tell

7:06

you it's not working. This

7:09

guy hates Donald Trump. He

7:12

hates him. And even he can

7:14

see it. And by the way, he wasn't

7:16

done there. He went on his own podcast

7:18

yesterday and doubled down also. Watch. I

7:21

have called the Democrats an embarrassment. I

7:24

have said there's no excuse for

7:26

not being able to find someone other than a

7:28

soon to be 82 year old

7:31

incumbent to compete against Trump. I

7:33

have said it's pretty damn pathetic

7:35

that a person has been indicted.

7:40

Okay. With four charges, 91

7:43

counts impeached

7:45

twice. It's somebody that you still can't

7:47

touch that you're engaging in law fear

7:49

because you can't beat them. I

7:52

do recall saying that. Ladies

7:55

and gentlemen, let me be very, very clear.

7:57

So everybody understands where I'm coming

7:59

from. I meant that. I

8:02

meant every word. Now

8:06

again, I don't have to call you a coward, but

8:08

do I think you're scared? Yeah, you look scared. I

8:10

mean, they are cowards. You look

8:13

like you are depending on the

8:15

courts to beat him because you

8:17

can't. You can't.

8:21

He's just storming ahead. Meanwhile,

8:24

Biden's losing momentum. So

8:28

clear, even a crazy

8:31

Democrat like Stephen A. Smith

8:33

gets it. And you

8:35

know, it just has me thinking, like, is

8:38

there a political climate in which Joe

8:40

Biden and the Biden regime ever gets

8:42

away with something like this without Americans

8:44

realizing it, without even Democrats going, guys,

8:47

this is wrong. We

8:49

see what you're doing. We see

8:51

that you're weaponizing the entire system. This is wrong.

8:53

Like, is there a political climate in which that

8:55

exists? And I just keep thinking, maybe,

8:58

maybe, I don't know, but maybe they

9:00

could get away with it if things

9:02

were going well in this country.

9:04

Right? If Americans weren't

9:06

also dealing with the reality of

9:09

Joe Biden regime, they would

9:11

call it presidency. I just call it regime. Maybe

9:14

if the economy was good. Maybe

9:17

if our border was secure, we weren't dealing

9:19

with inflation or high gas prices or sky

9:21

high mortgages, or we didn't already have a

9:23

whole hell of a lot of problems we

9:26

were dealing with on a daily basis. Americans

9:28

might be able to overlook the weaponization

9:31

of the judicial system against a presidential

9:33

candidate. But this is Joe

9:35

Biden's America, guys. And

9:37

everything sucks. It's

9:40

all bad. And people feel that.

9:42

Right? Like, you're

9:44

everyday American. It doesn't matter if

9:46

you've previously voted Democrat or Republican or

9:49

Independent or Green Party or whatever the

9:51

hell other party. People

9:54

feel that. I

9:56

mean, unless you're, I don't know,

9:58

a mentally deranged leftist. I

10:01

know, that's repetitive. I repeat myself that that's

10:03

the same thing, mentally deranged leftists. Unless

10:06

you're one of those or an

10:08

elitist up there in your ivory tower already

10:10

having, you know, just raked in so many

10:12

millions of dollars that paying the 30% increase

10:14

in your grocery bill makes

10:16

absolutely no impact. You can't even tell there's

10:18

a difference. All those illegal

10:21

immigrants coming across the border don't matter to

10:23

the liberal elitist who, by the

10:25

way, I noticed, don't want to house

10:27

any of them in their mansions. Just step

10:30

over them on their way to a fancy

10:32

restaurant. They're lying in the streets. I'll just

10:34

step over you. But you know, their

10:37

neighborhood's dated. So what do they

10:39

care about all those problems? But I've

10:41

noticed, do you know who does care? Everyone

10:45

else, literally everyone else. And I want to play for

10:47

you a man in Philadelphia

10:51

saying, I think what the rest

10:53

of us are saying, failing

10:56

thinking for the last three years now.

10:59

Watch. So my

11:01

thing is, you know, you got all these people here

11:03

for this guy named Biden. We

11:05

got a lot of people, veterans in

11:07

the street suffering. You got low income

11:09

families where he actually came to visit

11:12

struggling, but you got migrants, immigrants

11:14

coming over here illegal and they're helping people. We're

11:17

going to help the American people. That's what I would like to

11:19

know. You know? And then

11:21

you pull our troops from Afghanistan, make

11:23

us look weak as a country. Now

11:25

people don't take a serious. They laugh

11:27

at us. They look at us like

11:29

a joke and then not on top

11:31

of that. You're not like mentally capable

11:33

of running a country. Well, you know,

11:35

who is Trump? Trump

11:38

is, he's quick to push button, but that's

11:40

what we need. We need to our fish

11:43

for this country because Biden, Biden, he's a,

11:45

he's a, he's going through Alzheimer's.

11:49

He's a joke. He don't play around, man. He just thinks done

11:51

and he gets, you see action. You see action and he gets himself. We don't need to

11:53

keep the fucking off. In

12:01

Philadelphia, okay, Joe

12:05

Biden has lost black men in

12:07

Philadelphia as a Democrat. I

12:10

would say things are not going well. So I

12:12

guess, I don't know, I guess if I were

12:14

him, I'd be pretty insecure about the next election

12:16

also. Now, I wouldn't throw

12:19

my political opposition in prison because I was

12:21

scared to lose, but I'm also

12:23

not a fascist. So,

12:26

let's go ahead and take a quick break. We

12:35

will be back with more with our panel on this Friday. You're

12:37

not going to want to miss it. First, we want to thank

12:39

our sponsor Preborn. So Preborn

12:41

is a ministry that their

12:43

mission is very simple. They

12:46

want to save all the babies. How do they

12:48

do that? Well, they take these young women who

12:50

are coming into their network of clinics. They're scared

12:52

about, you know, they're pregnant. They're scared about having

12:54

a baby. They're being told that they can't do

12:56

it on their own. They're being told

12:58

that it's too expensive. They can't afford it. They're going

13:00

to be poor. It's just a clump of cells. Don't

13:03

worry about it. You're not going to

13:05

regret it. It's just going to be a simple procedure

13:07

and then it's over. They're being fed all of these

13:09

lies. And what Preborn does for these women is they

13:11

actually show them the truth on

13:13

ultrasound. These women get to go in

13:15

and actually see their baby, see that it is not

13:17

just a clump of cells. It is

13:19

their baby that God has entrusted them to take

13:21

care of. They get to hear the heartbeat. And

13:24

those of you who are parents know this.

13:26

It's a life changing moment. Anytime the first

13:28

time, the first time you hear it, especially,

13:30

it just, it changes you and you feel

13:33

that much more connected to your baby, which

13:35

you should because it's yours. So oftentimes

13:37

the women is like twice as

13:40

likely to choose life when they are

13:42

shown the truth by Preborn. $28

13:44

is the cost of an ultrasound. So I'm going

13:46

to challenge you guys. How many babies

13:48

lives can you save? Okay.

13:51

Donate securely over at preborn.com/Sarah,

13:53

but just know every $28

13:55

that you spend could

13:59

be the difference between. lives and deaths of

14:01

a baby. It's preborn.com/Sarah donate securely

14:03

over at preborn. Welcome

14:17

to the show. This lovely

14:19

Friday Matthew Marsden, Blee's TV contributor

14:22

and actor and producer extraordinaire along

14:24

with Eric July, Blee's TV contributor

14:26

and founder of Ripaverse Comics. Did

14:28

you guys catch that guy that

14:30

set himself on fire? I

14:33

can't get over it. I assume guy. I

14:35

think we're going to see more of it to

14:37

be honest because it's, I mean, if you think

14:39

I don't know the last time where I saw something

14:41

like that and then

14:44

you got the guy that the Air Force

14:46

guy right that did it. Yeah. And now

14:48

this guy's done it which is, I

14:50

mean we have a real bad mental health

14:52

problem in this country. I mean people are

14:54

crazy. I mean why would you do that

14:56

over a politician? I

14:59

mean the trash

15:03

wants to take itself out. I

15:05

don't know man. That's just,

15:08

there are more ways for

15:11

sure. I just

15:13

don't understand. I guess

15:16

maybe it is part of the doom and gloom that's

15:19

caught Ripa so many people

15:21

in not just this country but the

15:23

world that they feel like they

15:25

have to go out there and send a message by

15:28

lighting themselves on fire. What message that is?

15:30

You're crazy. That's the message you're sending. You

15:32

are absolutely crazy. That's it. The message

15:34

itself, if it's effective or what the

15:37

hell the message is. It's very effective.

15:39

I now know that you're crazy. Very

15:41

effective. So maybe not to

15:43

their message but to, we know that

15:45

there are folks until your point that

15:48

have some mental issues because wanting to

15:50

light yourself up on fire is already

15:52

signifying that you have some problems and

15:54

doing it over these

15:57

silly reasons that they're doing it

15:59

is insane. Like a guy setting himself

16:01

on fire because of what's

16:03

going on in Palestine and Israel. And that's

16:05

just insane. At that point,

16:07

you're just a nutty person. You would

16:09

think that you have more to live for, I would

16:12

think, as an individual. And it's not like,

16:14

hey, you set yourself on fire. Has

16:17

this conflict been resolved? Right. Well,

16:19

and I mean, going to the Palestine

16:21

and Israel issue, someone set themselves on

16:23

fire. It's like, well, if you care

16:26

that deeply about the issue, just

16:28

like go there and fight. If

16:31

you're willing to die, which I'd

16:33

imagine you're willing to die if you set yourself on

16:35

fire, okay, if you're willing to die. Take some

16:37

of the enemy out with you. Right.

16:40

Like just go do that thing that you're that

16:42

passionate about rather than just being like, hey, I'm

16:44

going to take this match and see what happens.

16:46

You know what's concerning about that. That's the

16:49

same mentality as the suicide bombers. I know.

16:52

I know. It's only a matter of time, I think,

16:54

before they're going to start saying, well, hang on a

16:56

second, because the truth of the matter is if they

16:58

really thought it through, they'd realize it goes something like

17:00

this. Oh,

17:03

someone set themselves on fire. Oh,

17:06

Kardashians. Kardashians. Oh, that's

17:08

all it is. Like, nobody, it's not

17:10

like it was back in the day where the

17:13

monks sat down and they protested.

17:16

It's just another thing to flick

17:18

across on TikTok now.

17:20

Nobody cares. I mean, I

17:23

don't even know how long ago it was that that

17:25

guy set himself on fire outside the

17:27

embassy, but everyone just moved on. I'm listening.

17:30

If we can move on about COVID and nobody gives a

17:32

damn about something that shut down the entire world, nobody's going

17:34

to care about a guy that sets himself on fire. Yeah.

17:38

So let's go back to what's happening with

17:41

Israel and the idea of

17:43

suicide bombers. I don't know. It just

17:45

feels like every day we get closer and closer to World

17:47

War III, which is just a

17:50

little bit unnerving. So Israel,

17:52

of course, launched their retaliatory

17:54

strikes to Iran

17:56

and they Iran decided to try to

17:58

save face on Friday. Friday morning by

18:01

dismissing the reports, but Israel did strike

18:03

them. It was limited in scale. And

18:07

of course, there was a back and forth and

18:09

back and forth and back and forth. So I could tell you

18:11

it came in response to the unprecedented

18:13

missile and drone barrage. It

18:16

was, I think, like 350 total. Seven,

18:19

I believe, actually went through. So it

18:21

was limited in any

18:24

sort of damage that was done only

18:27

because Israel has the iron dome protection that

18:29

they have. Obviously, Israel

18:32

would have been obliterated a long time ago if they

18:34

did not have that. So thank God that they do

18:36

have that. But Israel

18:38

did finally strike back. They

18:41

struck targets near the city of

18:43

Isfahan. I'm going to

18:45

pretend I said that correctly, which is

18:47

home to the country's largest nuclear facility.

18:51

I would imagine that we can expect this

18:53

to just escalate between

18:55

the two countries because Iran

18:58

finally said, OK, we're not doing this

19:00

through our proxies anymore. We're not

19:02

just going to have Hamas do it

19:04

over in Palestine. We're just going to

19:06

do it directly from our country, which

19:08

hadn't happened previous. So escalation, escalation,

19:11

escalation. Where does this end? My

19:14

question. It's like ground. Is

19:17

that what they call it? The

19:19

whole groundhog's day is like, wait

19:21

a minute. We're about to because

19:23

of course that conflict, it escalates.

19:26

When America gets involved in what was

19:28

this part five of Iran

19:30

and in the US, like what in the

19:32

hell is going on? War

19:35

sucks. It always has. It's

19:38

not pretty. You say that, but it

19:41

seems to me that our lawmakers really love

19:43

it. They love it. There's

19:45

incentive for them. They love it. They love

19:47

it. Lawmakers love it. People that run

19:49

for office absolutely love it because that's a big

19:51

talking point. Definitely when people feel like they are

19:53

unsafe, you're going to always get it. So the

19:55

entire campaign is going to be ran on, hey,

19:57

I'm going to keep you guys safe. So conflict.

20:00

It is very, very attractive to politicians. So for

20:02

them, it may not suck.

20:04

They just see it as an opportunity

20:06

for sure. However, just

20:08

looking at people that are inevitably

20:10

going to be caught in a

20:13

crossfire, which is often civilians, because

20:16

of what Lord knows who is

20:18

sad. It is very, very unfortunate

20:21

because as we always

20:23

discuss with Israel and Palestine, it's always

20:25

gonna be chicken and the egg, right?

20:27

Well, this is a retaliation to that. And

20:30

then, well, depending on what side you're on,

20:32

they're gonna say, well, that was in retaliation

20:34

to that, because you did this. And

20:36

then how far we go back into the physical, either

20:39

way, it just seems like it's

20:41

an inevitable conflict. Which I just wanna be

20:43

clear, like I know, this is

20:45

just Sarah Gonzalez speaking for Sarah Gonzalez.

20:48

I know which side of that argument

20:51

I believe is correct, which

20:53

is Israel, right? But that's

20:55

the point that I was trying to make earlier, you

20:57

can go back to this, this was because

21:00

of this in response to this, in response

21:02

to this, of course, Palestine likes to go

21:04

back, oh, a long time. They're

21:07

like, well, we attacked you October 7th because

21:09

of something that happened a really long time ago. And it's

21:11

like, you can't play that game anymore. It's like

21:13

when you annoy your wife. If you

21:15

annoy your wife, and you'll be there at dinner,

21:18

and she'll be like off with you, and you

21:20

go, what's wrong? Not my wife, by the way,

21:22

my wife is also. And they'll go

21:24

like, you'll say, what's wrong? You should go,

21:26

do you remember when I asked you for the salt,

21:28

and we're at this restaurant, and you'd be like, oh,

21:32

years ago. Yeah, you didn't send it to me,

21:34

you didn't pass it to me. No, but I

21:36

mean, look, these things are very, very complicated. And

21:38

again, Sarah, now we were saying, we were talking

21:40

about this before, that my stance

21:43

on it is, what is our

21:45

situation, right? Because

21:49

they're gonna do whatever they're gonna do anyway.

21:52

Clearly, I mean, we

21:54

do have a very, very strong president

21:56

that said don't. Oh, wait,

21:59

he kind of mutters. I'm

22:01

just glad he said that. I mean, that he had

22:03

something coherent to come out of it. But

22:05

what we have to be mindful of is

22:08

the blowback here. And I always

22:11

said it a thousand times, there are sleeper

22:13

cells in the United States and they will

22:15

be triggered. It's going to happen. And

22:17

when it does, that's when

22:20

you're looking at something very, very serious. Personally,

22:22

I mean, I know there's the back and

22:24

forth. Again, I think that Israel is absolutely

22:26

right in their responses. I wish, actually wish

22:29

they hadn't have responded this particular time

22:32

because nothing really got through.

22:34

And I know you can say, well, you know,

22:36

it's only because of XYZ. I

22:38

get it. But this is what the mullahs

22:41

want. They want to escalate. They want to

22:43

drag other countries in. They want to drag

22:45

America and they want to do that. So

22:48

I just, you know, just me, I just wish

22:50

that they hadn't have done it this

22:52

time because, all right, they can hit

22:54

those locations precisely

22:56

every time. But I just wish they

22:58

hadn't because I feel like it has

23:01

escalated it again and they're

23:03

going to want to actually do some

23:05

real damage next time. Because if you think about

23:07

Iran, Iran was like, Hey, listen, we're going to

23:09

attack you next week. Right.

23:12

Right. But I mean, but you can understand,

23:16

like for me, I'm like, they

23:18

just launched 350

23:21

drones, missiles, whatever at my

23:23

country. Of course we're striking back.

23:25

Who cares how many didn't get through because you

23:27

don't, you don't play around with us. You don't

23:29

mess with our country like that. But they know

23:32

that they know that. I mean, look, the

23:34

Iranians were funding the majority of they killed

23:36

the Iranians killed more American troops than anybody

23:38

else in Iraq. Right. They would, they were

23:40

funding that. That's why killing Soleimani was such

23:42

a great thing. I mean, that guy was

23:44

evil and he, they're responsible. Hold on. Who

23:46

did that? Yeah. I

23:51

can't do it. The other guy died like a dog,

23:54

like a dog on

23:56

his knees. Like a dog. I

23:59

just wanted to. clarify. Yeah, Trump killed

24:01

him. So remember

24:04

that, remember when we had actually a strong,

24:06

competent president who wasn't getting us, you

24:09

know, seemingly getting the globe into all sorts of

24:11

foreign conflicts. And is it amazing that

24:14

every single thing that the left said

24:16

that Trump would do, Biden has done?

24:18

Yeah. Yeah. But

24:20

I think that, and

24:22

we see this all the time because

24:25

the Israelis are constantly getting bombed, and

24:27

they're constantly showing restraint, constantly showing restraint.

24:29

So again, I understand it, right? It's

24:31

not like I object to what they

24:33

did at all. I do

24:36

think, and again, this is a little bit of clarification,

24:38

how you think the same is that standing with Israel

24:40

doesn't mean that we have to fund them. That's

24:43

a very... Or send troops

24:45

into their war or anything like

24:47

that. But again,

24:50

of course, I think that they are justified

24:52

in their response. I just personally wish that

24:55

they hadn't because, you're right, that was an

24:57

opportunity where, like October 7th,

25:00

they had to respond because it was

25:02

a mess. It was disgusting. What happened?

25:05

Nobody actually got killed this time,

25:07

right, with the Iranian attack. So

25:10

you could argue that that was the point

25:12

where they could go, okay, let's...

25:15

And maybe this next retaliation that

25:17

went back over to Iran, maybe

25:20

they'll back off a little bit so they know

25:22

it's not going to ramp up unless they really

25:24

want to. If they do, there's nothing

25:26

we can do anyway because it's just going to go through

25:28

the roof. Okay,

25:30

so speaking of the potential

25:32

for World War Three, we

25:35

got to take a break. And then when we come back, I want

25:37

to talk about the FBI, making

25:39

the statement that Chinese hackers are

25:42

preparing to attack the United States

25:44

infrastructure. Things are going really

25:46

great. Yay, Biden. Awesome. We'll

25:48

be right back. Got

25:50

something to say? Leave

25:52

Sarah a message at 888-969-5113. One

25:57

of the best measures of how corrupt a country

25:59

is... is how rich its leaders get

26:01

while they're in office. They're not so

26:04

good at passing laws or governing, but

26:06

they're great at investing. Imagine if every

26:08

American could make money off of

26:10

war. In 103 days, that

26:13

position ends up gaining around 103%. So

26:16

she made $2 million plus her

26:18

original two, so $4 million. I signed her

26:20

sponsor the bill and made too much voluminous

26:23

flair over it. So I wouldn't be

26:26

seated. So I shut up. The threats

26:28

that fly around are just absolutely insane.

26:30

The Blaze Originals team traveled to Washington,

26:32

DC, home to one of the most

26:34

brilliant financial minds in the world, Nancy

26:36

Pelosi. In our documentary, bought and paid

26:38

for, how politicians get filthy rich, we

26:40

spoke to reps Matt Gaetz and Chip

26:42

Roy, George Santos, and the bane of

26:44

DC elites, unusual whales, to expose how

26:46

our elected officials are beating the stock

26:48

market, and more importantly, what we can

26:51

do. To watch today, go to congressgetsrich.com

26:53

and use code WITCH to

26:55

get $30 off an annual system that

27:01

will be in

27:04

the US. The IDSR

27:06

Christopher Wray was sounding

27:09

the warning bells for

27:11

Americans yesterday at the Vanderbilt

27:13

University Summit on Modern Conflict

27:15

and Emerging Threats, saying

27:17

that Chinese government linked hackers

27:20

have already infiltrated into critical

27:23

infrastructures, which, you know,

27:25

sounds really awesome. In

27:27

a certain person, critical infrastructure is

27:29

largely invisible. These

27:31

are sectors whose existence we don't

27:33

often think about or appreciate, as

27:35

long as they're working right, but

27:39

these vital sectors, we're talking

27:41

about everything from water treatment

27:43

facilities and energy grids to

27:45

transportation and information technology, form

27:48

the backbone of our society.

27:52

And what a lot of Americans may

27:54

not be tracking closely is

27:56

that China is positioning its

27:58

enormous hacking enterprise. remember,

28:00

50 to 1, for

28:03

more than just the

28:05

outrageous theft campaign I described

28:08

a few minutes ago. It's

28:10

using that mass, those numbers, to

28:13

give itself the ability to

28:15

physically wreak havoc on our

28:17

critical infrastructure at a

28:19

time of its choosing. The

28:21

PRC has made it clear that

28:23

it considers every sector that makes

28:25

our society run fair game in

28:28

its bid to dominate on

28:30

the world stage. And that

28:33

its plan is to

28:35

land low blows against civilian infrastructure

28:37

to try to induce panic and

28:40

break America's will to

28:42

resist. Great.

28:46

So what are we going

28:48

to do about that, Chris?

28:52

And also, no duh.

28:57

Yes, this is how China has been playing

29:00

its game for a very long time now. So

29:03

where's the solution? I'd

29:05

like a solution-oriented administration.

29:08

Do you think that it is possible that,

29:11

because it's never happened before, that China would

29:13

introduce a virus of some kind into the

29:15

United States? No, that would never happen. Never

29:18

happen. Silly. But it

29:20

does make me think, what

29:23

was it yesterday or the day before they had all of those 911 outages

29:26

in all those different states in the

29:28

country? Was that related? If

29:30

only we had a president that said we should

29:33

bring the manufacturing home. No

29:36

one would. That's crazy, Matt. Who would ever make

29:38

that? Who would ever make chips in this country? No. Make

29:41

drugs in this country? Just that,

29:44

dude. China is

29:46

manufacturing. We were talking about this, like on

29:48

the other side, with our respective

29:50

careers and how much

29:53

it ran out of China. It's insane. But you

29:55

find out more information on it. It has nothing

29:57

to do with, like, just because China can do

29:59

it. and provide it for cheaper because

30:01

of slave labor. That has

30:03

almost nothing to do with it. It's

30:05

more because the American people, the American

30:08

government more accurately, is crippling its own

30:10

folks with all these damn regulations that

30:13

do not allow folks to

30:15

produce altogether or let

30:17

alone at a cheaper price. It's

30:19

insane. I mean, even in the

30:21

toy industry, why do you, America,

30:23

believe it or not, in the toy,

30:25

toy and like sculpture, like manufacturing, has

30:28

zero infrastructure. All these toys that you

30:30

guys see are made in China,

30:32

Taiwan. I think India's gotten the game for

30:34

the most part. It

30:36

wasn't always this way, but now it

30:39

is. There's zero, no matter

30:41

how much money yet you have, there's

30:43

zero infrastructure for you to basically get

30:45

that done in America. See, I

30:47

think that he makes an argument for

30:50

decentralization more than

30:52

anything. That's what I hear because

30:55

it's like, okay, we

30:57

can't trust you. Remember, he specifically

30:59

brought the grid. There happens to be one

31:01

grid that isn't attached to theirs. Maybe

31:06

that's a more preferable situation because

31:08

let's assume that they are successful

31:10

and they hacked something. We

31:12

wouldn't want that to apply country-wide, would

31:15

we? No, but we

31:17

talk about solutions. To me, that sounds

31:19

like more or less the

31:21

solution, right? Like centralization has created

31:24

a problem that these guys, you

31:26

are so scared that they

31:28

at some point, it seems more like it's inevitable,

31:30

not if it's gonna happen, it's a matter of

31:32

when it's gonna happen,

31:34

that they're gonna come in and hack

31:37

something, be it our grid, be it

31:39

talking about water supply as far as

31:42

treatment is concerned. That sounds like a problem,

31:44

but it sounds like a you

31:46

problem that you don't know how to fix, that you

31:48

don't know how to more so, more

31:50

or less prevent. But sitting there saying that

31:52

they may or may not do it doesn't

31:54

necessarily help us or that they 50 to

31:56

one, is that what he said? We know

31:58

they're gonna do it. We know they're saying

32:01

no, they are. That's what I'm saying. No,

32:03

like that's the point. Like it's like, okay,

32:05

telling us that is not necessarily helpful by

32:07

any means. Right. And that's what I'm saying.

32:09

Like, yeah, no shit. I

32:12

think China's going to try to attack us

32:14

from the inside. No way. I would have

32:16

never guessed that. To me, what that says

32:19

is look how bad it is because we've

32:21

known this for many, many years. They're

32:23

not addressing the border, right?

32:25

Where there's actual physical Chinese

32:28

coming over. Right. They can

32:30

actually, you know, do

32:33

an attack on a physical attack, let alone

32:35

that. So what would happen if they shut

32:37

down the grid, right? They shut down the

32:39

internet. They start paralyzing things. Well,

32:41

they've all got a plan to, that's what you do.

32:43

If you're a competent military is then you'd start moving

32:45

your pieces where they need to go, by the way,

32:47

I want to, I want to tell people about this.

32:49

I've done a few guys know about this a few

32:51

years ago. There was an

32:53

attack on a substation outside of San

32:55

Francisco. Do you know about this? There

32:57

were armed guys that shot out. They

33:00

tried to shoot out fans on

33:02

the electrical substation that would have

33:04

sent the heat up in the

33:06

substation, melt it down. I'll

33:09

tell you another about it. You can go and look it

33:11

up. It happened. We did nothing. We

33:13

did nothing. And here's the other thing. Our

33:17

electrical grid is antiquated

33:19

Russia and China. Both

33:21

have a grid now that's been

33:23

updated as is like from, I don't know

33:25

if it's even from the 1950s that

33:28

would cost to completely

33:30

change our entire electrical grid

33:33

about $9 billion. Why

33:35

are we sending money to Ukraine? Why are

33:37

we doing it? We're sitting there

33:40

like, okay, it's 50 to one. Take the

33:42

hundred billion dollars that you send into Ukraine

33:44

and hire a bunch of hackers to go

33:47

to, to compete against the Chinese. What

33:49

are we doing? None of

33:51

it ever makes sense. But

33:53

China's positioned itself. I'll

33:56

be, I'll give you a black peel first, but then I'll

33:58

give you a white one. But China has

34:01

positioned itself to where if they were

34:03

to do something like that, because they

34:05

provide so much of

34:07

our goods, they're in this weird position

34:09

where it's like America may even be

34:12

forced to play ball. The

34:14

white pill is China has its own

34:16

issues, by the way, as

34:18

well, especially with their own damn people.

34:20

So maybe something happens out of that

34:23

that would deter them from actually doing

34:26

something, but it is something worth paying attention to.

34:28

We should be relying on that, though. I agree.

34:31

We should be relying on them. We should be proactive. No, we

34:33

should be relying on the Chinese people to take it to their

34:35

own government. No, for sure. I would

34:37

agree 1000%. I think this

34:39

is where decentralization should be talked about

34:41

more. I think the regulatory body, particularly

34:43

in manufacturing, should be

34:45

addressed immediately, like

34:48

right now, as in tomorrow. That

34:50

would be my argument. You

34:53

should go out there, if you're

34:55

a Republican especially, trying to get

34:57

rid of all of these laws

34:59

and regulations that really prevent the

35:01

American people from producing in their

35:03

own damn countries because it's too

35:05

expensive. Do you know what I think about often?

35:11

Before COVID was a thing here, and it

35:13

was just in China, and

35:15

they sent out all of those videos

35:17

of people dropping dead in the streets. And

35:20

then that literally never happened here. And

35:23

nobody ever got to the bottom of who

35:25

sent those videos out. Were

35:28

they? Was that Chinese? The

35:30

F? Right. CCP propaganda

35:32

to scare Americans. I

35:34

would argue it would have to have been because

35:38

they were just dropping dead in the streets. And

35:40

that's really weird because nobody did that here for

35:42

COVID. And everyone just seems to forget about it.

35:45

Well, and do you remember when they showed

35:47

videos of them welding them into their apartment?

35:49

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

35:52

And I think, again, any questions? This

35:54

is the issue is all on the

35:56

American people. We can

35:58

point here. We can point. there, but it's

36:01

all on us because people are not

36:03

getting engaged. They're not asking questions. Like

36:05

I said, let's just see what's going

36:07

on on TikTok, which

36:10

is a Chinese propaganda tool as well.

36:14

And you know what's funny? I just want to just segue

36:16

across to something. When we were going

36:18

through yesterday, the jurors and where they

36:20

got their information from. TikTok,

36:23

TikTok, TikTok, TikTok. It wasn't like maybe

36:25

six, seven years ago, it would have

36:27

been Facebook, Instagram. Where it

36:29

was TikTok, TikTok, TikTok. Still is a

36:31

problem, I would say. It's not getting

36:33

a good from Facebook or Instagram either.

36:35

It's all a problem, but it's

36:38

really a problem when it's TikTok. So,

36:40

I mean, we're in a lot of trouble. And

36:42

again, as Eric always said, well,

36:44

we all always say, can we please look

36:46

after America first? Can we please stop sending

36:49

money away? By the way, we don't have

36:51

it anyway. But can we just sort out

36:53

our own infrastructure, please? I

36:55

mean, you know, I really honestly thought

36:57

that once COVID had

36:59

actually happened, there were some

37:02

silver linings. But I thought that one

37:04

of them would be that Americans would

37:06

agree that letting China manufacture

37:08

our medications is a problem.

37:10

Because if there's anything that you

37:12

really don't want to have a shortage

37:15

of, if there were some worldwide crisis

37:17

or pandemic, it's freaking medication, life saving

37:19

medication that people need. Maybe we should

37:22

stop letting our enemy manufacture it and

37:24

send it here. I thought, okay,

37:27

Americans have seen the problem. I've been, I mean,

37:29

that's something that I've been on

37:32

for a while, but nobody cared. Okay,

37:34

well, this happened. Maybe now Americans have

37:36

woken up. Maybe now they'll care. And

37:39

they'll do something about the fact that we

37:41

should be producing our own freaking medication. Because

37:43

let's not even talk. How about take shortages out of

37:45

the mix? How about China decides to taint the medication

37:48

that they're sending to us? I mean, there are so

37:50

many different things that they could choose to do with

37:52

that. And yet Americans have just they've just forgotten about

37:54

it. And they're just like, well, we've

37:56

got it back now. Everything's turned back on.

37:59

It's totally fine. We're a soft

38:01

people. We're a soft people now. I

38:03

mean, they're in some states, there's still,

38:06

and this is something that I saw coming from England, like

38:08

you can still get eaten by a wild animal in

38:11

America, but you can still die. And that's

38:14

why Europe is so soft, because we don't have

38:16

that anymore. There are not those situations

38:18

where a bear is going to come down and maul

38:20

you. But we've become

38:22

a soft nation where we don't like

38:25

being uncomfortable. And I think this is

38:27

where you've got your people like Jocko,

38:29

Willink, and all these

38:31

other mainly former military saint. And Jordan Peterson

38:33

says, well, you've got to be uncomfortable. You've

38:35

got to be okay with being uncomfortable. You've

38:37

got to put yourself in these situations. Americans

38:40

don't like it. They don't want that. Give

38:43

me my soul, reference to Brave New World, give me

38:45

my son, and let me go back to my life.

38:47

I don't want to see, I don't want to see,

38:49

this is horrible. And COVID

38:52

is the classic example of that. That

38:55

was tyranny. And we've

38:57

just kind of gone. Nobody's

39:00

in prison. Right. Right.

39:03

And there's, is there, how

39:05

many lawmakers do we have still on top

39:07

of that? I can think of one, Rand

39:09

Paul. He's the only one he's talking

39:11

about. He's the only one. Like quite

39:13

literally still holding, you know, even Fauci's

39:15

feet to the fire about how that

39:17

whole ordeal was handled. People have like,

39:19

for guys, out of sight, out of

39:21

mind. You know, nobody actually has said

39:25

where the virus came from. Still, still, still,

39:28

I haven't even admitted fault. Like you would at

39:30

least be, admit, hell, we

39:32

can't even get Trump do it. I mean,

39:34

I think everybody cringes when he talks about,

39:36

especially that damn jab every time, every time

39:38

he talks about it, we're like, Oh, like,

39:41

can y'all at least admit y'all took an

39:43

L on that one? Like you got that

39:45

disastrously wrong. Like not just wrong. You got

39:47

it disastrously wrong. It costs people's, uh,

39:49

livelihood because you got it wrong. And there are

39:51

still people that were shrugged and be like, yeah,

39:53

we just had to do it. What is the,

39:55

what is one of the things I mean, I

39:57

do in my kids, right? All the time. And you.

39:59

You used it in business, right? If someone comes up

40:02

to you and or you ask them

40:04

a question, it

40:06

shows character say, you know what, I don't know, but I'll

40:08

get back to you. Absolutely. Or saying, you

40:10

know what, I made a mistake there. Let me rectify

40:12

it. Yes. Yes. That's

40:15

like, that is fine. And this is something that

40:17

I really wish Trump would do on the vaccine.

40:19

Yeah. I want to do it. But

40:21

again, because there's so many other things going on,

40:23

actually, people are letting that go for now. But

40:26

it still would be great to hear him say

40:28

that and say, look, I did what I

40:30

thought was bad. By the way,

40:32

I was one of the people who's going, he's pushing his vaccine. This is

40:34

great. This is great. He's initially

40:36

to get it done because we didn't know at

40:38

that point what was going to happen. And

40:41

then the moment that we knew that it

40:43

really was. I did.

40:45

You know, you know,

40:47

Eric and I know. Yeah, we were over there

40:49

kind of. We

40:52

were out there in business, planned over here in

40:54

Blaise. Yes. In

40:56

the Communist state, California. That's what I was

40:58

going to say is like, but you are. I

41:00

mean, you have you share the same story as

41:03

millions of Americans who that that woke you up.

41:05

No, totally woke me up to the dangers. Only what?

41:08

Well, I mean, which I'm very grateful for. I was just so that's

41:10

what I'm saying. I mean, look, you can look at that, the

41:13

process and say he thought

41:15

let's just take those videos. For example,

41:18

you see that and whatever Intel he got because he's

41:20

the president of the United States and he's thinking something

41:22

really bad is going to happen. So what did he

41:24

do? He moves to get the

41:26

vaccine production move forward. And I didn't know

41:29

I was not aware of which

41:31

I am now of what

41:33

goes on in big pharma. I

41:35

was not aware of that. And this was like my moment

41:38

where I was like, hang on a second. But he rushed

41:40

to get that forward. I was like, that's smart. Instead

41:42

of we're talking about regulation. Probably

41:45

the wrong thing. The regulations. Well, you

41:48

find that there's no real regulations in that anyway. But

41:51

he pushed it and he said it's going to

41:53

be ready. If this hits, I'm like, that's smart.

41:55

And then when we realized because the amount of

41:57

time that that took, you realize that it wasn't

41:59

really. be killing anyone really, I

42:02

mean, or certainly in this demographic. So

42:04

when you're like, okay, well, I don't need to take it. Right.

42:07

I'm going to, I'm going to step off on that. The

42:09

fact that they kept pushing it after then for, to me

42:11

was the month where I was like, hang on a second.

42:13

This is wrong. But if he was to just turn around

42:15

and say, look, I'm, I was wrong

42:17

on this. Right. I, I listened to the people

42:20

that advise me and I was wrong. I think

42:22

the most people would go. All

42:24

right. You know, I understand, you know. I

42:27

agree. Um, all right. We got to take a quick break. We'll be right

42:29

back. So

42:38

very often on the show, when we talk about,

42:40

um, the issue of

42:43

women's sports and keeping women's sports,

42:45

you know, for women only, um,

42:48

we always say, you know what,

42:50

it's going to take the women

42:52

and the girls to stop competing

42:54

against biological males in order to

42:56

make some headway on this. Well,

42:58

there was actually a, uh, West

43:00

Virginia girls track and field

43:03

meet where these girls decided

43:05

to do just that.

43:07

This is middle school. And I feel

43:09

so sorry for these girls that they

43:11

actually have to do this, have to go

43:14

to these lengths, but here

43:16

they are. They, um, they

43:18

have the, uh, the trends.

43:20

Okay. The biological male that goes. And then these

43:22

girls decide, you know what? We're going to walk

43:25

up. We're going

43:27

to turn back around and we're not, we're not

43:29

participating in this. We're not

43:31

going to, we're

43:33

not going to compete against a biological male. So

43:36

they stepped in and then

43:38

they stepped out. And

43:40

I commend these young girls.

43:42

I'm sure that it was not easy

43:44

to make that decision, but they did it and they banded

43:47

together and we need more of

43:49

this everywhere. No, there

43:51

should not be another competition that takes

43:53

place in this country in

43:56

women's sports with

43:58

a biological male that is present. without

44:00

every single one of these girls banding

44:02

together and refusing to participate. I just

44:04

can't imagine. I know I'm the one at

44:06

the table that don't have children yet. But

44:09

I just could not imagine having like a

44:11

daughter and like they're about to compete with

44:13

someone that I know is a dude. Oh,

44:16

absolutely no way. Like no

44:19

way. It's not happening. I

44:21

think it's it to me, every

44:24

time we talk about these things, I'm like, I can't

44:27

believe I'm here. I

44:30

cannot believe this is even a discussion that we're having.

44:33

But God bless those girls, right? We've

44:35

been calling for it over and over again. It's

44:37

sad that they were the ones that had

44:40

to do it. We are a bunch of

44:42

spineless, weak people in this country that should

44:44

be defending our children. But

44:46

God bless them, their teachers, which they clearly

44:49

were behind them, the school that must have

44:51

been behind them. Amazing, amazing.

44:53

So I personally am so I don't know

44:55

them, but I'm so proud of them. So

44:58

proud of them. I know. So,

45:01

Eric, you mentioned, you know, being

45:03

a parent, having to I don't have girls,

45:06

right? I've got two boys. So it's not something that

45:08

I would need to worry about. But I

45:10

do think about the the parents. I'm

45:12

like, if I had a girl and

45:15

she was in, let's say, a contact sport,

45:17

OK, so wrestling, because we've seen that

45:19

males are wrestling, participating in wrestling.

45:21

The last show we saw a dude get

45:24

a chick dude get knocked out. Knocked out.

45:26

Right. And I mentioned that your

45:29

biological female girl is competing

45:33

against a male wrestler.

45:35

And I'm like, I don't. A,

45:37

that would never happen for me. But

45:39

it's like, imagine that it happened and you somehow

45:41

didn't find out until afterwards. I don't know how

45:44

I would not. That wouldn't end with me getting

45:46

arrested for throwing hands. And again, the

45:48

kid expelled because something's happening. Something

45:52

1000 percent has to happen. That was

45:54

seeing I love what you brought over

45:57

real quick is it's crazy that

45:59

we're even having discussion because by the way

46:01

guys it was not that long ago that I

46:03

was a track and field collegiate

46:05

athlete that was 10 years

46:08

ago about about about a decade this

46:10

was not even something that was

46:12

conceptualized nobody in their right minds

46:15

was even considering the idea that

46:17

at some point dudes would be

46:19

competing against women unless it was

46:22

like some obscure relay that

46:24

was a mixed relay that would have like

46:26

women and men on the same relay like

46:28

or something like that those are sometimes cool

46:31

not like oh this is the women's hundred-meter

46:33

dash but there's some dude in lane four

46:35

like no that's not even that was never

46:37

even considered think about where we're

46:39

at now and how fast that happened

46:41

like where we've accelerated to where not

46:43

only is it happening but God forbid

46:46

you speak against it there are folks

46:48

that are actively against to you and

46:51

even sadly more sad let's say this there

46:54

are folks out there that would much rather

46:56

the sanctity of their sports be ruined than

46:59

be called a homophobe transphobe or whatever fo

47:01

and to me that's even more pathetic all

47:04

right we got to take a break we'll be right one

47:17

of the most popular dating podcasts

47:20

this is the whatever podcast this

47:22

is a state of American women so

47:25

technically I'm single I'm also dating a

47:28

tree yeah a

47:30

tree a tree there's just a big tree well you

47:32

see the actual yeah what kind of

47:40

tree how many questions I don't know I have

47:43

no idea what he is you have to learn

47:45

more about him and then you're in a boy

47:47

I give him like little kisses and attention is

47:50

it any shock

47:54

to any of you is it any shock to any of

47:56

you that young American men

47:58

have stopped dating Is that

48:00

a surprise to anyone? Look, I try to be like,

48:02

because I get it, you know, you get these podcasts

48:04

and the whole point is to try to, you know,

48:06

you're finding these kind of weirdos that are saying weird

48:09

stuff. That's

48:11

that's the fact that someone's confident enough

48:14

to just say something like that. I

48:16

don't care if there is one of them, one of them is

48:19

too many. Look at look

48:21

at what she's looking what she looks like. She has

48:23

elf ears. She's she's got,

48:25

I don't know, a bunch of

48:27

piercings, green hair. Um,

48:31

I mean, maybe the tree isn't even

48:34

dating a tree isn't even the worst of her problems,

48:36

which is really saying something. She needs to branch out a

48:38

bit. I

48:42

pine for the days where we had normal women.

48:49

Well, in case you guys needed a dad joke or

48:51

two. Does

48:53

she log all the dates?

48:55

I just feel so bad

48:58

for young men these days.

49:00

Like, why would I? These

49:03

women are crazy. I'm not dating them. I'll

49:05

just be alone. And honestly, who can blame

49:08

them? Stream

49:11

and subscribe to more Blaze

49:13

media content at the blaze.com/podcasts.