I just like hot dog. Hot Dog is my favorite meeting because I just
like I thought, Oh god, that's both there is about you old as
you give you have doutiu fid. Look. I understand Senator meant Romney or
Mittens of Utah as I like to call him. I understand he loves hot
dogs. But should a man his age be eating that? I don't know.
That seems risky. He's he's pushing eighty, isn't he? Oh boy,
how about about enjoying a delicious lettuce rap or something. Anyway, Welcome
everybody. It is that time again, Matt Connerton unleashed and we are live
from the studios of WMNHEM and Glorious downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. And it
looked pretty stormy out there for a moment, so I hope although that was
a quick storm at least from what I noticed, I got here before it
started, which is nice. It's always there's something comforting about being inside the
studio and looking out and seeing terrible weather outside and knowing that I'm safe and
sounding here. But it looks like it is over pretty quick, so hopefully
no flash flooding this time around. Although Jenny did message me that there was
a twister in Keene, New Hampshire. So I'm sure Dave Ridley will be
calling us to tell us how the federal government with their weather machine sent the
twister to Keene to disrupt liberty. I'm kidding, I like Dave. By
the way, that's that's not intended as a shot. I'm just kidding around.
But who knows, maybe we will hear from him today. But yeah,
so we are live, of course on WMH ninety five point three FM,
also on Comcast ninety seven if you are in Manchester and hello to all
of our online listeners across a nation and around the globe. You can go
to my website Matt Connerton dot com for all of your live streaming options,
social media links, contact info, show archives, etc. Etc. By
the way, the song that you just heard it is I Love hot Dogs
by the Remix Bros. Featuring the voice of Mitt Romney. So if you're
looking for it on the YouTube, just type in I Love hot Dogs the
Remix Bros. The reason that song exists, if you don't know, is
I don't know. It was National hot Dog Day recently or something. So
Senator Mitt Romney posted a video of himself, or someone was holding the camera
for him, I guess, or the phone rather recording the video. And
Mitten's is wandering the halls of Congress holding a hot dog and talking about how
much he loves hot dogs and it's his favorite meat, and it's just very
awkward and strange and certainly open to ridicule. So naturally someone made a song
about it. But yeah, I just don't know if he should be eating
that. And then before that, I did open the show with a beautiful
song Shaloo by Matt Litzinger. A little bit of a mishap, however,
the reason I played that song, even though I mean not that you need
a reason to play such a beautiful song, but I did play that for
a specific purpose, which turns out to have been all for not. I
played that because I thought he was performing this weekend at the hop Knot,
because I have a schedule on my phone that says he was scheduled to perform
July twenty ninth at the hop Knot this Saturday night. And then I look
at the social media post and I see that, no, there must have
been a change. Kevin Horn is actually playing at the at the hop Knot
By the way, Kevin Horn was a guest on the show a couple of
months ago. He was a musical guest, came in with his acoustic guitar.
Just incredible, incredible. I got a lot of positive feedback on that
one, and he's amazing and a really nice guy too, very very talented.
He was in a band I say was because I don't think they do
much now, but called the Stone Road Band. Really really good, but
also just a phenomenal solo artist. So he will be at the Hop Knot
Kevin Horn Saturday night from seven to nine pm. So I don't know what
happened there with Matt Litzinger, but apparently there's been a change. Let's see.
Boy. That song brought some Facebook comments as I knew that it might
that it might. Jay Fed in the chat room says, how about a
weener wrapped in lettuce instead of buns? Oh? Yes, what would you
call that though? Would you still call it a hot dog or would you
call it a would you call it a hot dog rap? You know,
like a lettuce rap but with a hot dog? Well, the lettuce would
still be there though, So why would you replace the lettuce in the lettuce
rap? If the lettuce is still a part of it. I don't know.
I don't know what you'd call it. I don't know if I even
want to think about it, because, uh, you know, look,
it's never gonna happen, right. I mean, it's a fun thing to
think about wrapping a hot dog in lettuce, but is anybody gonna actually do
it? I hope so, I certainly hope so. Um. But the
other thing that I thought of too is, you know when when they do
the squad dogs every year on the Morning Show, and I think it's Bob
Friedis who comes in for that, and then uh, they they do things
with the hot dogs. You know, Ron puts one in his belly button
for example. They have a lot of fun with that on the Morning Show.
I'm very picky about hot dogs myself. I don't I don't put them
in my belly button, and I will only eat them under specific circumstances.
They have to be well fried. Hot dogs are good fried, even though
fried is terrible for you, and steamed is okay, but their best grilled.
I love a grilled hot dog. I will not eat them well,
I don't like them boiled. Boiling them is weird. They get like squiggly,
they become misshapen. It's very strange boiling hot dogs. And I absolutely
will not go anywhere near a microwave hot dog. That is. How anyone
can eat a hot dog after it's been in the microwave is baffling to me.
That is nasty. I'm sorry what happens to if you watch it,
I mean you can watch it happening in real time while it's cooking in the
microwave. It's horrifying. And how do you then eat that? It doesn't
it doesn't look like a hot dog when it's done. It looks like some
sort of food item. But I wouldn't eat that. I don't recommend it
at all. So there you go. But Mitt Romney, I get the
impression that Senator Mitt Romney of the Great State of Utah, from the video
that he posted, which again the remix Bros Made into a song, I
get the impression that he will eat a hot dog under any circumstances. He
did not strike me in his soliloquy about hot dogs and his love of hot
dogs. He did not strike me as being necessarily picky or overly selective about
what hot dogs he will eat. Or what condiments you might put on them,
or what kind of bun. He even said to eat them out of
the bun. That's kind of disgusting to me. A hot dog should be
in a bun at least. And some people do weird things. I'll like,
cut hot dogs up and put them in and put the hot dogs in
the macaroni and cheese. I've never understood that those things do not go together.
That is not a flavor profile that I wish to partake him, and
I've never in my life until now, even use the phrase flavor profile.
I find it a bit pretentious to be honest with you, unless you're a
chef. Six h three two five six seven. The studio line is open
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a number of news items to get to, but before we do that,
so let me circle back to the Hop Knot for a moment, our wonderful
sponsor in the Brady Solomon at one thousand Elm Street. Today is Thursday,
which means tonight is Trivia and I hosted by the great Broderick Lang. I
do suggest, either through social media or a good old fashioned phone call,
that you reserve a spot at the Hop not for that, because those spots
fill up very quickly. Trivia Night is a very popular feature there, so
but that is I believe that. Yes, that starts at seven pm with
Broderick Lang. Then Tomorrow night they're open noon to midnight with Happy Hour from
three to six pm, and then of course Saturday's Saturday, they open at
noon and they've got live music with Kevin Horn from seven to nine pm.
So there you go. Lots lots coming up at the Hop Not. The
other thing that I wanted to mention quickly is tickets for Swarmy Fest two have
gone on sale. Of course, our friends in the band Sepsis, who
have been on the show many times, they do they do an annual event
or this will be the second one, so I guess. Now technically it's
officially an annual event, Swarmy Fest at Jewel Nightclub. It's a little ways
away. It's coming up November fourth, but tickets are available online if you
go to event Bright or go to Sepsis's website or their social media pages.
So November fourth, but Jenny and I of course will be there to represent
and really looking forward to that representing the show. So that is coming up
November fourth, twenty twenty three, but you can get your tickets now,
they are already available at Jewel Nightclub. Looks like Carpathia, is that how
you say that? Is going to be there? Also a Simple Complex,
a band that I know very well. I've interviewed them many times over the
years, Trading Tombstones, who I think was there last year as well,
really really good band. And after the winter two stages, so there are
many more bands to be announced two stages this year, so it's gonna be
a big deal. So really looking forward to that Swarmy Fest. And one
other thing I want to remind you about Tomorrow night. Tomorrow night, of
course, Friday is my long day here at WMHS because I do this show
and then I have the honor and prince village of being police is one of
Policy's co hosts on Retrospectrum Radio with Polyc tomorrow night. His friend Aaron Zadovski
is going to be with us live in studio and really looking forward to that
as well. We've been talking about it for a couple of weeks. Now
this is a big deal. He's done a lot of great stuff. So
Aaron Zadovski will be joining us live in studio tomorrow night for Retrospectrum Radio from
eight to eleven pm, So really looking forward to that. Let's get caught
up with everybody in the Facebook live chat and then we'll get into some stuff.
Jay fed is in the chat room and says good afternoon everyone. Hello.
Mariam Banish joins us and says, good afternoon. All done extended school
year work. So now I have a few weeks off, I'm sorry,
a few weeks of summer left to enjoy. Very good. Oh, the
EAS system is is just kicked on. For those of you who are listening
live. If you're listening later to the podcast, you won't hear this part,
but I assume there's a see. To me, it looks like the
storm here already passed, unless there's another one coming in. Trying to listen
to see. If you're listening live, you might not even be hearing me
talk. Well, I'm probably still going out on Facebook. Oh well,
that sound is annoying. It's not talking. Oh, here we go,
severe severe thunderstorm warning for for Rockingham County and oh, severe thunderstorm near Manchester
moving east. Yeah, I think it already went through here where we are.
M hmm. It looks like it's raining, but it looks like it's
probably about to clear up though. Well, be careful, especially if you're
out there driving. But Jenny says, yes, I am on Facebook,
so I think the EAS only goes out on the FM band. Um,
all right, it's boy. This is a very detailed EAS warning about the
storm torrential rainfall. Oh there was a flash flooding flash flood warning on this
one. All right, we got eight seconds left of the e A.
S oh, Hillsboro County is included. It's Hillsboro and Rockingham according to that.
Okay, all right, very good, very good. We'll finish saying
everybody in the chat room here Jenny, of course, is in the chat
and says, hello and peeps, let's see. Michael Albert joins us in
the chat says, good afternoon. My dad used to microwave cheap hot dogs
and it would stink up the house. Oh god, I'm nauseous just thinking
about it. That is that is some nasty business. Yeah, you should
not eat hot dogs that way. A New Force of the Spark joins us,
of course from Greensboro, North Carolina, and says, we say,
good afternoon. Hashtag Matt. We say, how are you doing. We
are going to be performing soon as we can. Our manager producer hashtag Texas
Mike. We say, well, very good, Yes Texas mic clearly doing
a phenomenal job for New Force of the Spark. And Shannon is on the
line. High Shannon, Hello, Hello, you don't want to find hilarious.
No, it's thundered about three times here and then I don't know,
fifteen twenty minutes went by. I turned rading one for your show. You
just said. The yes was on. They're always they always seemed to be
a little late. M hmm. It at least for you know, the
areas they're talking about at the time. I don't know. I blame the
deep state, the deep space state, the deep state. Oh, they're
all corrupt and they're controlling the weather, just like the Cassadines did on General
Hospital, or or or it all fits together. President snow in Hunger Games.
Yeah, I've never actually seen Hunger Games. But yes, I didn't
either read the books. Yes, the book is always better anyway, um,
I had said the h On the Morning Show, Peter had played a
snippet of Mitch McConnell's Now, I don't know anything before or after his loss
of speech or whatever, but when I was listening to it this morning,
I said, it's like because I heard two years, several years ago there
when John McCain had spoke and he wasn't grasping the words, you know,
and I was it was just eerie. It was. It was weird.
Yeah, and the video if you see the video too, So McConnell is
speaking, but he's not speaking clearly and not quite It's not that he was
ever a fast talker, but his speech seems a little bit slow, and
then he kind of seizes up and his face isn't moving, and he's just
he looks like he doesn't quite know where he is, and I think that
goes on for about twenty three seconds of just silent a stroke. Well,
so we don't know because he's he's not really saying much about it. That
very well could be tia. I believe it's it's called a mini stroke.
Uh, that can happen. Um. The thing is too he did he
had that terrible injury recently where he fell and he hit his head. So
some of them did I get whatever news I get, I get from the
radio and I try to get as many different news stations as it can because
sometimes two stories are different. Sure, sure, but I didn't know he
fell on his head. Yeah, he suffered a concussion, So it might
be that it might be it might have been a TIA caused by that.
It might it might be a symptom of what is it post concussion syndrome if
I have the term correct um, could be other things. There was some
speculation that it might have been dehydration, but that that seems unlikely that something
that severe would happen. But he I assume he's embarrassed or self conscious about
it, because he's you know, when he's asked about it, he just
says, I'm fine, I'm fine, or you know, or he tries
to make a joke about it, but um, I didn't know he two
eighty one. I believe, yeah, he should say, you know what,
maybe one he told it's about time I tell the truth. This is
what happened. Well, And he also apparently he's had more falls recently than
we knew about. So um, I don't know if he's hit his head
more than once. I don't know if he has an issue that's causing him
to lose his balance. It could be maybe his equilibrium is off and that's
affecting his balance, and who knows, I mean, who knows. He
asked to see a doctor though, and get checked out, and I assumed
that I assume that he will best because it's it's scary to watch, you
know, you watch the video and it's like, you know, even if
you don't like the guy, and you know, to be honest with you,
I don't have a lot of nice things to say about the guy,
but but I don't wish anything like that on anybody. And and it is
really uncomfortable seeing the videoing oh yeah, yeah, because he just kind of
stops and you know, he's kind of moving back and forth a little bit,
but it's like his face is just sort of froe, isn't in place.
It's really scary. It reminded me of I've seen something like that happened
on television once before, but this was years and years ago, many years
ago. But there was a news reporter, I think in a major market
I don't remember where. I want to say, Philadelphia, but I'm not
sure. There's this news reporter who's live on the air and all of a
sudden, something happens to her where in her case, hers was definitely a
tia. She didn't she didn't seize up, but she she started speaking gibberish.
Yeah. Yeah, if you've seen that, you know what I'm talking
about type of migraine is that. I thought it was a tia, but
it could have been something else. But all of a sudden, it's like
she's talking and it's like she's suddenly speaking a different language, and she can't
control it, you know, because she just she just keeps going, almost
as though she thinks she's speaking the correct words and doesn't realize what's actually coming
out sounds like gibberish and yeah, and it's really scary to see it.
It's like and she she wasn't that old. I think she was in her
forties. U he's younger maybe, yeah, I mean or there's two separate
events that are kind of the same. Yeah, it can happen to anybody,
but it's, um, it's a scary thing to watch. Well,
I got a shower yesterday afternoon and I bent my head over to tile drama.
Hey, when it's looked it up at went sideways, should vertigo hit
me? Oh, it's good to have a small bathroom. There's no real
place to fall. But I was calling also for a warning and a request.
You know, I'm I'm gonna be saying extra prayers for August first and
the policeman's thing there at the JFK because pull moon August first. Oh easy,
gee, I believe he typed in something on Monday show to you,
but he hasn't called you. I don't think. Yeah, he apparently is
h he wants to resume his entertainment report in I believe the first week of
August. Okay, because he called the Morning show the other day. But
easy, if you're listening, Um, what floor are you on? Because
just just you know, on the on the Morning Show, whatever to just
say third floor, goodbye, goodbye, you know, because I wrote to
him at the address that Peter had given me, and I put Eric Gardner
for Gagnan, and I don't think he ever got it. Well, I
blame THEE send him anything else. I blame the deep state for that too.
No, I'm kidding. Actually I blame Bruce. Yeah, I bet
Bruce knows what happened to whatever you sent easy g Well, I just I'm
figuring it went into some if it's I don't know where he's at, Satanic
sat I don't know if it's a big place. I don't you know.
If somebody doesn't recognize something, that could just go in a pile. M
it could be in a pile, pile of stuff, a pilot, a
pile of stuff. Well, well, yeah, better workman to Tuesday,
full moon Tuesday. And I knew it because my cat got me the other
day. So I looked at the calendar and it was August first three,
every month, a week before I started the Vertigo. Mmmm. Well it
was a great man. One said hello, Hello, We're in a place
called Vertigo. It's a song, isn't it? It is this song?
It is a song what is it. I'll give you a hint. It's
an Irish band. It's an Irish band, Irish. I don't know.
It's you too, Vertigo. Oh, it's one of their biggest hits.
I would really fail at the RIF sector night. Yeah, Bono would be
very disappointed, disappointed with you. I think that policy should just nace it
up and splice the snippets and riffs, you know, not splice them together,
but separate them and not tell you ahead of time. It could be
a snippet, it could be a riff. Uh huh, you know,
a little bit challenging. They can be all these things and more. But
I love listening to you guys. And I'll get off the phone now.
But everybody be careful out there. Let's be saved. It absolutely good advice,
all right, Shannon, Well, well, thank you. We appreciate
the call. All right, take care, all right, take care bye
bye? All right. Always nice here from our friend Shannon. And that
does open up the line for you. Six zo three two five zero six
zoo seven. Six zo three two five zero six zoo seven. We'll finish
saying hello everybody in the Facebook live chat. Oh, I see Mike from
Queen City Cabinetry joins us. Mike, of course, speaking of Retrospectrum Radio,
Mike is not only one of our great sponsors here at WMNH, but
Mike is one of our co hosts on retro Spectrum Radio with Paul c.
So always nice to get get to hang out with Mike on Friday nights and
enjoy that very much. Um let's see. Chris Rose from the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts joins us in the Facebook live chat. Also Hello to Carol Zaroora Wicks.
If I'm saying that even remotely correctly, I hope that I am.
And if I'm not, apologize. Let's see. A new Force of the
Spark says we are from Greensboro, North Carolina, and we say to you
hashtag Matt and hashtag Jenny. Yes, I say I say that to you
as well. Sapsis joins us in the Facebook live chat and says Unleashed Yes,
Hello to Sepsis. We were we were just talking about you a little
bit ago and Swarmy Fests two coming up in November. Very excited about that.
Speaking of excited, the New Force of the Spark says in the chat,
we will be I'm sorry we willing to be performing at Saint Pious Catholic
Church for the Sunshine Club there until September one, twenty twenty three. We
say that as in Greensboro, North Carolina, we say that is so sad
news recording artist singer of Shanad O'Connor passed away. We say, r ip
Shanad O'Connor. Yes, yeah, we talked about Eric Pilcher and I talked
about that a bit yesterday and apparently, you know, we were speculating about
the cause of her death, and you know, because she had just lost
her son, I think a less than a year ago to suicide. And
I did not realize this until today. I was reading today and we still
don't know her cause of death, but apparently she had had a couple of
suicide attempts in the past herself. So very very sad thing, oh,
Miriam says in the chat. And this is regarding that that news reporter who
had the what appeared to be at tia live on the air. Miriam says,
I remember that odd thing with the newsperson had a migraine. She does
seem like she was speaking another language. Yeah, Yeah, it was like
all of a sudden, She's just but she just kept going. It was
like her brain didn't know that she was What she was saying wasn't making sense.
It was very strange and very very frightening to watch. Let's see.
Eric Street joins us in the Facebook live chat and says, uh, who's
the eighty one year old you were talking about? Uh? Senate Minority leader
Mitch McConnell eighty one years old. Uh, let's see here. Stepsa says,
thank you always we shared your live feed. Great work always you guys
much love, thank you very much, and same back. Absolutely, Let's
see here. Michael Albert says, fifty six is too young to die?
Yeah, yeah, like I said, I mean unfortunately, you know,
and you know, Eric Pilcher and I were talking about it yesterday. Her
one of her last social media posts was was talking about her son and how
she missed her son. Her son was only seventeen when he committed suicide,
just which you know, we were talking about how that's something you probably never
get over, you know. And and she already had her own struggles with
depression as it was, which can you know certainly that type of really any
type of illness, be it mental illness or physical illness or whatever it is
can very often be hereditary, and so she might have passed it on to
her son. But that may very well have been you know, I'm sure
she was, Like I said, it was still fresh. It just happened
a year ago, so within the last year that her son had committed suicide.
So I have a terrible feeling that that played a role. Um.
We may never know the exact truth, but I know that from what I
read today, Uh, they've they've ruled out any sort of foul play,
and that um, when when they arrived at her you know, when the
MTS arrived at her home, I guess she was found or or a family
member found her unresponsive and then called the MTS. I'm not sure now I'm
forgetting, but she was found unresponsive. And yeah, it's it's very very
tragic. Um. Let's see, all right, let me give the number
again and then we'll get into some stuff. Six zero three two five six
seven six three two five six seven, Um. Two big big things going
on legally in the world of politics, and the last couple of days,
one which was happening yesterday and we just didn't get a chance to get to
it at all, and one which is an evolving story today. Today there
was a meeting with the Department of Justice and Trump's lawyers, and there's a
lot of speculation that a third indictment is pending, but so we're on indictment
watch for that. But what I'm particularly interested in at the moment is this
debacle yesterday in court regarding Hunter Biden. And we'll look at the details on
that in a moment. But part of why I wanted to talk about that
today is I have a little bit of a different take on the whole thing
than a lot of people. Do you know when it comes to if you
think back to the initial plea agreement, Oh, Melanie La Liberty joins us
in the chat. Hello, When you think back to the initial plea agreement
that was announced regarding announced regarding Hunter Biden, of course, you know,
everyone goes to their corners and says what they will say. Ideologically. Of
course, you had many people on the right, politicians and media saying,
oh, they gave him a sweetheart deal, he got off easy just because
he's the president's son, and and of course you had everybody on the left
going no, actually, these are things that you wouldn't even normally be you
wouldn't normally see jail time over if anything, they're going hard on him to
make an example of him and um. And then there's a lot more sophisticate,
you know, in between the two extremes, there's been a lot more
nuanced and sophisticated analysis in the media as well. But of course, if
you're a Democrat or a Republican who is actively in office, you know,
you have to kind of go to your corner and spin it whatever whichever way
you find verbal to the rest of your party and to your constituents and so
forth. So so that's what happens, and these things get all twisted up.
And but I feel like the most concerning thing about this ongoing Hunter Biden
story, the most concerning thing about it to me, has kind of gotten
lost in all of this. But well, we'll come back to that.
But I was noticing it seems like what happened yesterday with the unraveling of the
Plea deal goes back to something we talked about on the show, and my
dad texted me about it too. If you remember back to when the Plea
deal was announced, there seemed to be two different versions of what had actually
happened and what this plea deal was. The statement on this plea deal h
what prosecutors were saying versus what hunter Biden's attorneys were saying when the plea deal
was announced. There was there was something. There was a detail that was
not consistent in the two statements. Even though the broad statement was about the
plea deal itself, right, that was consistent, But there's a certain other
detail, a very important detail. And I thought at the time, you
know, this might be a problem later. And that was when the prosecution
statement or the statement that came out of the d d J did reference that
there was still an ongoing investigation regarding hunter Biden, indicating that there could be
additional charges later, which a lot of people noticed and said, wait a
minute, this might be a problem. But the narrative that hunter Biden's attorneys
were putting out there was that Yep, this was it. Okay, we
got a plea, we had a plea deal here, and this is how
it works. This is what was agreed to, and that's it and we
can move on. And some people said at the time, people who did
notice that, m there's something a little funny here, because what the DJ
is saying is not exactly that. They seem to have left the door open
for additional investigation and perhaps additional charges and prosecution. Some people who notice that
said, well, that probably doesn't mean anything. They might just be saying
that because that's just something that they often say in these cases. They don't
want to completely close the door because if you if you say, okay,
well here's the deal that we've arrived at and that settles this these charges,
but then you you do come across something far more egregious later on, you
know, you don't want to say other words, you don't want to say,
okay, well these are the charges, and we've agreed to this deal
based on these charges, and then just act like, so, whatever else
we happen to find out, well, we've already we've already given this guy's
plea deal. So if something else comes up, you know, that's that's
all right. We're not even going to worry about it. I thought this
might be a problem, and you know what this reminds me of. I'm
going to I'm going to offer an analogy here. Now, when you hear
me say this, you're going to go, what Matt come on, that's
ridiculous. When I tell you the analogy that occurred to me, and I
will tell you up front, I will concede. It's not a perfect analogy
that I'm about to present, but analogies almost never are perfect anyway, So
but hear me out. I'll try to make it worth your while. The
analogy that I thought of is it reminds me again. You're gonna think this
is nuts, but hear me out. It reminds me of when Mick Mars
left the band Motley Crewe and Eric Pilter and I talked about this on the
show quite a bit when this happened. Now, how what could that possibly
how could that possibly be analogous to anything about Hunter Biden and this plea deal?
Well, I'll tell you. Hear me out. When Mick Mars left
Motley Crew of several months ago. Now, there were two separate narratives that
were put forth. When Mick Mars left, he put out a statement or
his management or his attorney or whomever put out a statement to the press,
and it was an announcement. Mick Mars was announcing. He said, due
too, I don't have it in front of me here I'm gonna paraphrase obviously
from memory. I'll paraphrase at the best I can. But basically, Mick
Mars said, due to my ongoing health issues and deteriorating condition and so forth,
I can no longer handle the rigors of touring with Motley Crue, and
so I am effective immediately, I am retiring from actively touring. I will
no longer go on tour with Motley Crue. I will still be involved in
the band if they're doing a show, if they want to play a one
off like a festival show, or if they want to do a residency somewhere,
or if there is going to be new studio work to be done,
I will appear in studio with the band to record new music should that opportunity
arise, but I will no longer going forward, effective immediately, I will
no longer actively tour with Motley Crue and upcoming tour dates because they still had
more of this, they kept adding onto this stadium tour with def Leppard,
but going forward future touring dates on that tour, I will be replaced by
a fill in, a guitar player. So that was that was the statement
that mcmars put out there regarding his departure from Motley Crue. Well, Motley
Crue also put out a statement. Now, everybody was amicable at this point.
You know. Mick his statement very very pleasant, you know, thanked
the guys for you know, called them brothers or whatever, my brothers and
Motley Crewe, whatever it was. It was all very friendly, right.
Motley Crewe put out their statement also very friendly, very deferential, you know,
with platitudes of you know, this is our brother, Mick is our
brother. But Molly Crue statement was, Mick Mars has left the band,
and uh, you know, we wish him well. It's his health obviously
has to be the number one priority, and and we thank him for everything
that he's done for us. And here's our new guitar player, John five,
and we welcome John five, who is replacing mc mars in the band.
Now again, both statements were amicable, friendly enough, all of that,
right, you know, business like but amicable. And I remember at
the time thinking these two statements don't quite match up. And the area in
which these two statements don't quite match up makes me think that there's some trouble
coming. In fact, I think there's gonna be a heap of trouble.
And by the way, I realized, geographically in the Northeast, we don't
usually say heap of trouble. That's not a phrase we use. But I
like it, so I'm saying it anyway, and I'd like to get other
Northeasterners to say that. I know it sounds like it's from another place,
but a big heap of trouble. I just think it's fun. But I
remember thinking, yeah, there's trouble. And because it's Motley Crue, whatever
trouble occurs will immediately spill over into public view for us all to witness and
be fascinated by, while simultaneously having our hearts broken somewhat over this, watching
this unfold, because there is an element to it that's very sad. But
and that's exactly what happened, and it's a big mess, and it still
hasn't all been resolved legally, I don't think, and there's lawsuits in all
of it. But I remember thinking at the time, these two statements don't
quite match up. They sort of, you know, same same overall message
here, right, the message being Mick Mars has left the band, But
there's there's some important details here that don't match up, and that's going to
be a problem later. And that is my analogy with the Hunter Biden situation.
They had a plea deal, but the statements coming from Hunter Biden's legal
team versus the DOJ, the statements at the time didn't quite match up up,
and that there was that one detail that didn't quite match up. Hunter
Biden's legal team saying, Yep, this is all settled, this is all
good, but the DJ and their statement leaving open that little window there.
Oh, there might be something else coming, but this part is all set,
but there might be something else coming in. I thought at the time
the same thing I thought of when mc mars left Motley Crue and those statements
didn't match up. At the time, I thought, there's gonna be trouble
later. Something's not right here. There's gonna be trouble. And sure enough,
yesterday in front of the world, trouble arrived. A heap of trouble.
See I use it again. It sounds good, doesn't it when I
say it, a heap of trouble regarding Hunter Biden. Oh. Dylan Reynolds
joins us in the Facebook live chat and says hello, Hello, Dylan nice
to see you in there. So oh and also Rondo Fervero from the great
state of California joins us and says love Mick Mars. Yes, mc mars
one of the most underrated guitar players in rock in my opinion. Ever,
Um, I always say about Mick Mars. I know I've said this before.
I'll just say it again quickly because I do want to get to the
Hunter stuff in more detail. But the song Home Sweet Home, I never
liked it, even when I was a kid, even when it was a
big hit. I mean Moley Crue, I do love Molly Crue. I
never liked Home Sweet Home, except for the guitar solo. The guitar solo
that Mick Marris plays in that song is so magnificent, and it just it
makes the song. I don't really like anything else about it. I don't
you know. It's it's it's cheesy, it's I don't like the way Vince
Neil sings it. I think is horrible, to be honest with you,
I mean, it's a it's a It's such an iconic song, though,
I'm sure even even in even in this day and age, I'm sure at
high school proms across America. I'm sure Home Sweet Home is still played at
every prom I have no doubt about that. It's a truly iconic, multigenerational
song, but I never liked it for the guitar solo. Mick Mars is
phenomenal on that song. He makes a song. But yes, yesterday everything
went haywire and this judge did not except the plea deal, to the shock
and chagrin of Hunter Biden's legal team. So let's look at this a little
bit closer. But then I want to get to the part that I'm well,
it'll make more sense after we look at the details of this thing.
If for anyone who doesn't know, this will get us caught up, there's
a short story here from Axios dot com, and this will get us to
the part that I'm most concerned about with Hunter Biden. By the way,
Rocky Huber says in the chat room, Hey, it's been a while.
Am I still in the Unleashed Club? Or has my card been revoked?
You, sir, have a lifetime membership, Rocky Huber, unless you team
up with Garth Brooks and go on a killing spree or something. If you
don't know what I'm talking about. You got to listen to the show every
day, okay. Axios reports this Hunter Biden's plea deal on hold after roadblock.
Hunter Biden's plea deal on two misdemeanor tax charges was in jeopardy on Wednesday,
as Biden pleaded not guilty after a judge says she wasn't ready to accept
the terms of a revised deal. Whyat matters. Hunter Biden's legal team was
stunned by what it had expected to be a formality of a hearing that would
allow the president's son to avoid prison time. The case is now on hold
for at least a few days while both sides submit new materials to Judge Mary
Ellen Norikas and she takes time to review them. The delay came at the
end of a raucous and tense hearing that featured two recesses as prosecutors and Biden's
attorneys privately and publicly feuded over what they had agreed to. Hunter Biden's plea
deal to avoid jail time included a guilty plead to two tax misdemeanors for failing
to pay taxes, and a diversionary agreement on a gun related felony for owning
a weapon using drugs. The first recess was prompted when Hunter testified that he
believed the guilty plea agreement on tax misdemeanors was connected to the diversionary agreement on
the separate gunfelony, which the prosecutor said was incorrect. Let me just stop
there for a moment. When this is all said and done, I cannot
help but wonder if Hunter Biden will be hiring a different set of lawyers to
sue this set of lawyers for legal malpractice, because this is like, how
does this even happen? Now again, think back though those two competing statements
when the original plea deal was announced. Why didn't see? What I couldn't
understand then is why didn't Hunter Biden's lawyers? And look, I'm not a
legal expert of any kind. I can in way over and over my head
on this stuff pretty quick, but at the time I couldn't help but wonder
our Hunter Biden's lawyers just ignoring what the DOJ said about an ongoing investigation and
sort of keeping that window open. However it was worded in the statement,
I don't remember the exact words, are they just kind of is it a
wishful thinking thing? You know? Okay, well yeah they said that in
the statement, but we're pretty sure they're done with you. I mean,
what went on here, because it seems to me like this is a pretty
serious misunderstanding on this original plea deal. This is pretty bad. I mean,
if if I were a client of these lawyers, I'd be really upset.
Oh, Geo Stowe, if I'm saying that correctly? In the chat,
him says, Wisconsin Chapter checking in, it's hot, stay safe out
there, Yes, you as well. It's actually not that hot here,
but it's it's been raining, it's it's humid though, it's muggy. Okay,
let's let's get back to this. So all right, so the prosecutor
said Hunter Biden's see Hunter Biden himself, apparently, as we was, as
was learned in court yesterday, didn't fully understand the terms of the plea deal.
Apparently shouldn't his lawyers. I mean, it's kind of their job to
make sure that he understands what he's signing off on here. So I don't
understand how this happens, all right, So, I mean I assume these
are pretty expensive attorneys I assume. I assume they're being paid a tremendous amount
of money to get this right. Oh, the light's just flickered in here.
I hope we don't lose power. All right, here's some more from
this article. After the judge gave the two sides time to iron things out,
tensions aired as Biden lawyer Chris Clark snapped at Justice Department prosecutor Leo Weiss
or Wise Rather that this wasn't the deal and that they might as well just
rip it up. Noticing that reporters were listening nearby, both lawyers relocated to
the other side of the courtroom, out of your shot. After both sides
huddled again, Biden reversed his previous testimony and said he did not think the
misdemeanor guilty plea was dependent on the other agreement. Nikes, all right,
we're gonna get to the bringing it to the part of this whole thing that
I'm most concerned with here. This is coming up. So, like I
said, I have a little bit of a different take on all this,
all right. So the second recess was prompted by Norika's questions whether the diversionary
agreement shielded Hunter Biden here it is shielded Hunter Biden from future prosecution under other
laws, including the Foreign Agent Registration Act also known as FARAH. Acronomically,
it's an acronym. I don't know if acronomically is a word, but I
like it. I like it almost as much as I like a big heap
of trouble. Acronomically, meaning to put it into an acronym. I'm pretty
sure acronomically it's not a word. Okay. Again, that goes back to
the Remember the statement that dj put out when the Plea agreement was originally announced
it left that window open to future prosecution. And Nika saying, here,
Judge Narrika, well, I don't think this agreement shields Hunter Biden from prosecution
over violating the Foreign Agent Registration Act. Now, if you don't know,
oh, Michael Albert says, I'm at Clemento's. Lights flickered here too,
and Jenny says, the lights flickered at home. Yeah, I guess all
over the city. For those you don't know. If you're not in the
area, there's a online listeners might not know there's a storm here. I
mean, it looks like it's passed, but somewhere. It's causing lights flickering
from somewhere. So the Foreign Agent Registration Act, this is what basically,
we'll look at this a little bit more closely. We might have to do
it in the second hour after the break, but basically it says that if
you're doing business with foreign governments or foreign companies, you have to tell the
State Department that you're doing that. The State Department or the DOJ you have
to note. Well, basically, again we'll look at it a little more
closely, but you have to notify the American government that you're doing business with
these foreign entities, you know, and the reasons should be obvious, right,
potential for espionage and all kinds of things that could happen. Now,
this is the thing that I'm most concerned about with Hunter Biden, and I
think I think the Republicans are really getting this wrong. When, you know,
instead of reacting to the Plea deal the way they did, or wanting
to investigate, well, how the Plea deal was arrived at, investigate the
investigators and all the stuff they do, why not focus in on Farah because
you have to. So the law compels you. This is the law.
It compels you to register with the government that you are working with these foreign
entities. You have to do it now. Is it consistently enforced. No.
There are many lobbyists in Washington, for example, a lot of these
case street lobbyists who they don't like to register and they avoid it and they
don't get caught. They go about their business. But it is enforced sometimes.
Matter of fact. In recent years, you might recall Paul Manafort ran
a foul of Farah. Paul Manafort's in prison, I mean for that,
among other things. Mike Flynn ran a foul of Farah, did not did
not register that he was working with a foreign government, and he got in
trouble for that, he was held accountable. Those are a couple of examples.
There are others. But um so the law is not consistently applied.
But but it's still a law, and it's there for a good reason,
and sometimes it is and people are held accountable, like Paul Manafort, like
Mike Flynn. My biggest concern about Hunter Biden is not the gun charge.
We've had discussions about that. Basically, you know he lied on a federal
form. When you fill out your form for your permit, you have to
assert on the form that you are not a drug user. Well he was.
There have been again, We've talked about it on the show, and
there are discussions and debates we can have about whether or not that's valid.
People are almost never prosecuted for that. Again, I don't want to get
into that sidetrack, But that's not my greatest concern about Hunter Biden. Nor
is the tax stuff. And apparently he has paid his back taxes. But
you know, when it's you know, a couple million dollars and you seem
to be avoiding it, you can be criminally charged for that, or it's
a misdemeanor anyway, but you can end up in prison. Again, I
think that happens pretty rarely because if we're talking about that kind of money,
then you're obviously rich, powerful and probably well connected and part of the eat.
And we live in a country that, you know, the elite generally
doesn't get punished for very much. Our criminal justice system typically is much more
enthusiastic about punishing poor people, middle class people second, and the elite last,
or never, if possible, as little as possible. So again,
not something people are are typically charged for criminally. But but I certainly don't
mind seeing someone punished for it. To be honest with you, because I
say that no one is above the law, and I mean that when I
say it, regardless of who it is. Doesn't matter if it's Donald Trump,
doesn't matter, if it's Hunter Biden, doesn't matter, if they're a
D or an R. Doesn't matter if they're a liberal or a conservative.
This is what I believe. No one is above the law. I know
someone who tells me it's an empty platitude when I say it, Well,
it's not. It's not an empty platitude. I damn well mean it.
But what I'm really getting to here is my biggest concern. It's not the
taxes, it's not the gun charge. My biggest concern is Farah, the
Foreign Agent Registration Act. Why didn't he register? Now, Again, lots
of people don't register and they get away with it, I understand that,
but some people don't. Some people get caught and they're held accountable. I
think he should be held accountable, and I want to know why he didn't
register. Maybe he didn't register because he found it inconvenient, maybe he forgot,
but maybe there's something more nefarious. I'd like to know, so I
think it makes sense to me that this judge would say, hold on a
second. Here, nobody said anything about this plea deal, including potential future
investigations into Hunter Biden's violation of Farah or a potential charging of him for that.
No one said anything to me about that. No one talked to me
about it. But I might have to rule on this in the future,
So we need to go back and look at this. Rocky Huber says,
I think Hunter said the drugs use him. He doesn't use the drugs.
Lol. Hmm. It reminds me of a Marilyn Manson song. So it
says here again, this is from Axios. Why Is also told the court
that there is an ongoing investigation. Asked for more information by Norika, Wyse
said he was quote not in a position where I can say unquote. Biden's
legal team was shocked when Wise told the court that prosecutors believed they could still
charge Biden with Farah violations. Now see again, let me read that sentence
to you again. Biden's legal team was shocked when why I told the court
that prosecutors believed they could still charge Biden with Farah violations. I'm telling you
the Hunter Biden is going to have a lawsuit against these lawyers when this is
done. It. We were talking about it the day the plea deal was
announced. Why does the DOJ say there could be future charges and Biden's legal
team is acting like, nope, we're all set, We're all good.
Why nobody on Biden's legal team bothered to say, hey, how come they're
saying they might charge for something else later. Why are they saying that?
Did they just not want Hunter Biden to realize that what's going on here?
But it says here, No, they were shocked when prosecutors When Wise told
the court, the prosecutors believe they could still charge Biden with FARA violations.
Well, the rest of us knew that. The rest of us who were
paying attention, we do that right because the DOJ said it at the time.
So why are his lawyers so surprised? This is bizarre? Clark said
that was not his understanding. Clark as Biden's lawyer. Hunter Biden's lawyer.
Clark said that was not his understanding, to which Wise replied, quote,
then there's no deal unquote. The hearing almost concluded. Melanie says in the
chat room, note to self, do not hire your cocaine dealers as your
lawyer. Well, we don't know that. We don't know that melody,
But regardless of whether that is the case in this case, that is good
advice and I support you in that note to self. I would not hire
your cocaine dealer to be your lawyer. The hearing almost concluded with a new
court date a month away, before Clark pleaded for another recess to see if
the sides could hash out their differences. As the two two sides haggled,
Biden's plea deal was orally amended to be more explicit and what Biden was immune
from in the future, but it still could be tweaked in the coming weeks.
Biden's lawyers reached the initial deal with a Trump appointed US attorney, David
Weiss. Sentencing on the charges is at the discretion of Norika, also a
Trump appointee. The plea deal had drawn major scrutiny from Republicans, who alleged
that Biden was benefiting from a quote two tiered justice system. Yeah, we've
talked about that. Biden agreed in June. Little backstory here. Biden agreed
in June to plead guilty to not paying taxes in twenty seventeen and eighteen.
The federal charges were from a period in which Biden, by his own admission,
was in the throes of an addiction to crack cocaine. Biden initially failed
to pay one point one million to one point five million in federal taxes before
the deadlines for them, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Clark told CNN in
twenty twenty two that his client had paid fully his tax debts and was current
on tax obligations. The Justice Department also charged that Biden possessed a cult cobra
revolver in Delaware in October twenty eighteen, while quote knowing that he was an
unlawful user of and addicted to a controlled substance unquote. Any conclusion of this
legal investigation of Biden would not be the end of the political investigations he faces.
His longtime business partner, Devin Archer, is set to give testimony to
the Republican Ledhouse Oversight Committee in the next week. The two leading candidates for
the GOP nomination, former President Trump and Florida Governor Rond De Santis, have
made clear they intend to talk about Hunter Biden and his business ceilings to go
after President Biden in the general election. Now there you go. But I'm
more concerned about Farah. See that to me is the bigger deal than any
of it, because I want to know why he didn't register and is that
because he is hiding something? And from what I vaguely recall, in the
case of Mike Flynn again he got into legal trouble for violation of Farah.
From what I recall, he certainly seemed to be hiding something, and same
with Paul Manaford. Is Hunter Biden hiding something? And I'd like to know
what that is? And I understand, you know, Republicans jump to all
kinds of conclusions, and you know that's even Fox News acknowledges that a lot
of that is a speculation, and you know, you need actual evidence.
I understand there's I guess as a tape of Hunter Biden talking to somebody threatening
somebody saying I'm sitting here with my father right now. But but you don't
actually hear his dad's voice on the tape. Listen. That to me,
absolutely circumstantial evidence. I will say that. I mean, look, if
you're an active drug addict, you could tell somebody that Elvis Presley is sitting
at your kitchen table. It doesn't mean that they actually are. An addict
will say anything, especially if they need something. So if you're trying to
get something out of somebody, you know, and you want them to think
that Stephen Seagal is in the room with you, of course that would only
happen if you happen to be in Russia at the moment, because that's where
Seagal lives now and has for some time. But you know, I'm just
saying, just because an addict says something doesn't mean it's true, especially if
they're trying to threaten somebody into getting something they want. So I take it
with a grain of salt. I will say that, but I do want
to know I would like to hear I guess what I'm saying is if they
think that they can charge, you know, put put this current stuff aside,
whatever happens there happens, right. I don't have any strong feelings one
way or the other. I've heard all the arguments on both sides. I
don't have any strong feelings one way or the other about the deal itself.
I really don't. I'm concerned about something else. I'm concerned about the Foreign
Agents Registration Act. That's my concern. And again, I think the Republicans
in Congress who are investigating all of this and trying to make as much hey
about it as they can, which from a political standpoint, I understand.
I think they're a little bit confused about what they should be paying most attention
to forget about. I mean, even Chuck, who was it, Chuck
Rasley I think, was on Fox saying, well, you know, it's
really not my place to be worried about the Plea deal. I don't care
about the Plea Deal. I care about what's next the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
We do know there's an ongoing investigation about that. So the investigations into
Hunter Biden by the dj continue. Is there something to charge him with there?
And what is the standard under which you charge someone for violating farah?
Do you accept? You know, because there's always you know, there's such
a thing as prosecutorial discretion, and you know, I want to know more
about that. That to me is the bigger deal than any of this.
Paul he sees in the chat and says, Elvis is sitting at my kitchen
table right now. Stephen Seagal says, hi, big fan. Now see,
I don't know if I believe you, Paul. I mean, you
know, no offense. I mean you're my friend. I love you dearly,
but I don't know if I believe you. I don't know. All
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Six zo three two five O six Z seven six two five zero six O
seven. Uh, let's see. Um just gotta put a button on the
Hunter Biden thing that we were talking about during the first hour. I do
have the Wikipedia page pulled up for the Foreign Agents Registration Act, and like
I was saying in the first hour, this is the thing that I'm most
concerned with. So it says here the Foreign Agents Registration Act. I'm not
going to read the entire thing, but is a United States law that imposes
public disclosure obligations on persons representing foreign interests. It requires quote foreign agents defined
as individuals or entities engaged in domestic lobbying or advocacy for foreign governments, organizations
or persons to register with the Department of Justice and disclose their relationship activities and
related financial compensation. So again, this is a law. But now this
is important. FARAH does not prohibit lobbying for foreign interests, nor does it
ban or restrict any specific activities. Now that's important. That's important to be
aware of. FARAH does not prohibit you from doing business with these foreign entities
or lobbying. There's no prohibition whatever. You simply have to register with the
DEJ. You have to tell our government that you're doing this. That's all.
That's it. That's not that hard. Again, continuing on its explicit
purpose is to promote transparency, which I'm a big fan of transparency, accountability,
transparency with respect for an influence over American public opinion, policy and laws.
To that end, the DOJ is required to make such information publicly available.
Again, I love it, big fan of transparency. PARAH was enacted
in nineteen thirty eight primarily to counter Nazi propaganda, with an initial focus on
criminal prosecution of subversive activities. Since nineteen sixty six, enforcement has shifted mostly
to civil penalties and voluntary compliance. For most of its existence, FARAH was
relatively obscure and rarely invoked. Since twenty seventeen, the law has been enforced
with far greater regularity and inten city, particularly against officials connected to the Trump
administration. And I talked about this in the first hour. Paul Manafort Mike
Flynn both got in big trouble for violating this law. Subsequent high profile indictments
and convictions under FARAH have prompted greater public, political, and legal scrutiny,
including calls for reform. By the way, with all of that, what
would be Hunter Biden's excuse for not complying when he knows that enforcement has been
ramped up to such a degree during the time period that he's working with these
foreign entities, So I guess, and what I'm really saying is he had
no excuse. Farah is administered and enforced by the Farah Unit of the Counterintelligence
and Export Control. Okay, I don't want to get into all of that,
but that's what I'm most concerned about with Hunter Biden. Like I said,
I don't have any strong feelings one way or another about the plea agreement,
but I cannot believe his lawyers. Again, as I said earlier,
I think his lawyers really are probably guilty of some legal malpractice here if they
did not tell him, Hey, this is what you're actually agreeing to,
and the window is still open for future prosecution and investigation leading to prosecution,
charging in prosecution. So but we'll leave it at that for that. Six
three two five six seven is the studio line. Six three two five six
seven. We'll try to get to a couple of other things here. Oh
you know what I wanted to look at. I think I had mentioned it
on the show, Greg Gutfeld. Yeah, I was talking about Greg Gutfeld
the other day, That's right. I was talking about how I've always regarded
him as a poor man's Adam Carolla Greg Gutfeld the other day on that show,
is that the Five is that the show. These shows are interchangeable.
To me, I don't know which one is. Which Outnumbered is the one
where it's all women in one dude, right, and the Five is just
the five where they usually have like four conservatives and one liberal and anyway,
that's kind of the format there. But the subject came up about, um,
you know, the new law in Florida which encourages or requires that in
the state of Florida. In terms of the curriculum, when the subject is
a slavery it is very important and it is compulsory that these children are taught
not only the negatives of slavery, but also some of the positives as well,
you know, some of the benefits, like how it was you know,
they like it's it was a glorified jobs program. You know, some
of these slaves, you know, they went on to have great careers with
all the amazing skills that they learned. Pretty pretty disturbing in my estimation.
But Greg Gottfeld made some comments. He tried to draw an equivalency to the
Holocaust because the liberal host on The Five, and I forget her name.
I think her last name is Tarlav. You know, she was talking about
this subject and she brought up I think she's Jewish, and she brought up
you know, it would be like somebody saying to me, the Holocaust had
some benefits. And while Greg Gottfeld had a response and he started talking about
it probably has the exact verbiage in this article. But he started saying something
like, well, you know, actually, and I don't even want to
repeat the rest of it. I don't I don't much want to dignify what
he said. But he tried to drawn equivalencely saying well, actually, basically,
you could make an argument that that in the concentration camps, some of
these Jewish people who are locked up in these camps, you know, they
they learned some skills. Apparently there's a book that talks about that that he
was referring to. I don't know, I'm not familiar with the book itself.
I didn't recognize the title or the author. Probably some Holocaust denier,
who knows. But pretty pretty disturbing, so media reports Fox staff anonymously revolted
by Gottfeld Holocaust remark at any other place's career would be over, and that
is true. It said, well, not any other place. I'm sure
if he you know, if he was on Newsmax and said something like this,
that would also be fine for them. I'm sure, Um, this
is what they're reporting here a media. Fox News staffers were revolted by a
comment Greg Gottfeld made to colleague Jessica Tarlov about the Holocaust and defense of the
controversial new Florida slavery curriculum, at least anonymously. They were right, they're
not going to speak out. They're not gonna say anything publicly because they don't
want to lose their jobs. But and and Gottfeld apparently is very powerful within
Fox News. I believe. I don't know if this is confirmed, but
I believe it is widely speculated at least that Gottfeld might have had something to
do with Geraldo Rivera getting kicked off of that show, The Five and then
which then Erraldo just said, all right, well, I'm just gonna leave
Fox News entirely says here. Tarlov and her co host debated the newly approved
Florida curriculum on black history, which includes teaching that quote slaves developed skills which
in some instances could be applied for their personal benefit unquote. On Monday's edition
of Fox News Channels, the Five that Debate included this stunning exchange. All
right, they've got the actual verbia here. This stunning exchange in which Tarlov,
who is Jewish, asks a hypothetical analogizing the Florida Standards to a similar
premise about the millions slaughtered by the Nazis, and Gottfeld had a quick reply.
Tarlov said this, I do think that she read the whole thing.
Oh, they were talking about Kamala Harris going and speaking out about about this.
She went and spoke in Florida. Okay, Tarlav said, I do
think she read the whole thing, and I think that it is an incredibly
complex piece. When you look at it, one ninety one passages, you
have some good and frankly, I'm just fundamentally uncomfortable with the sentence that Black's
benefited at all from this, And you know, it made me think of
someone Obviously I'm not Black, but I'm Jewish. Would someone say that about
the Holocaust, for example, that there were some benefits for Jews right while
they were hanging out in concentration camps, you learned a strong work ethic,
right, maybe you learned a new skill. She's obviously being sarcastic, but
this is what Greg Gutfeld said in response. Did you ever read Man's Search
for Meaning? Vic Frankel talks about how you had to survive in a concentration
camp by having skills. You had to be useful utility. Utility kept you
alive. So that was Guttfeld's response. By the way, it doesn't even
make any sense. It's not even I mean, aside from that, in
my view, fundamentally being it just an anti semitic thing to say that,
you know, in response to what tar Lava is saying, it also doesn't
not only is it is it just a repugnant thing to say, and that's
what Miriam said in the chat room, but also it doesn't even make sense.
You had to I don't even want to dignify it by analyzing it further.
Let's just go on with the article. Okay. The remark drew a
lengthy rebuke from the Auschwitz Museum and from President Joe Biden's press team, and,
according to The Daily Beasts, justin Beregona, a media alum. Fox
insiders were also disgusted. Beregona rounded up some of the public fallout, but
also included these choice cuts from anonymous Fox employees, including a producer. One
said quote, Obviously, it is a disgusting thing to say. Same with
Jesse's remarks on the matter, I assume that's Jesse Waters had something horrible to
say. Jesse Waters has a lot of horrible things to say. Just generally
speaking, I'm amazed that Fox has any ability to retain employees from multicultural backgrounds.
Our workplace is shockingly diverse, given the vitriol that often makes it on
the air, understand that they're likely here for the same reasons I am These
jobs are scarce, but I can't help but feel awful for them because they
undoubtedly see this nonsense and can't do anything to stop it. Another reporter merely
told The Daily Beasts yikes when asked to react to Goutfeld's comments, while a
network insider suggested there was a lot of internal worry about the host latest controversy,
especially since he's just recently made the move to prime time. The insider
added quote, at any other place, his career would be over unquote um
let's see. Yeah, that's that's that pretty much gets it out. But
yeah, that's true. I mean almost anywhere else his career would be over.
But that's uh, that's pretty disturbing. Uh six three two five six
seven six three two five six seven. If you'd like to weigh in on
anything, we do have a little bit of time left in today's show,
So if you are going to call, I would suggest you don't wait too
long. Another bit of news here, speaking of repugnant uh, Politico reports
Juliani won't contest Georgia election workers claims that he falsely accused them of manipulating ballots
in a heavily couched statement. He also conceded that his statements meet the factual
elements of liability for Moss and Freeman's claims that his attacks amounted to quote intentional
infliction of emotional distress unquote. So if you don't know what this is about,
Rudy Giuliani talked about, um, you know, in the whole trying
to overturn the twenty twenty election. He was putting out there that and he
told the President Trump this at the time, Ruby Freeman and I forget the
other woman's name, but I'm sure it's in the article. You know,
they were manipulating votes and doing this and that Ruby Freeman and her daughter,
I believe, you know, people who volunteered in the middle of a pandemic
to be poll workers and help facilitate the election. And um Giuliani just made
this stuff up with no evidence, uh none whatsoever. But uh but you
know, and that's that's his thing. He stood in front of UM four
Seasons Landscaping and lawn care that time, with black goop dripping off of his
face and just made stuff up for forty five minutes or whatever it was.
And that's you know. And if you if you actually analyze what he says,
none of it makes any sense or adds up to anything. But it
doesn't matter. He's just making it up as he goes along for an audience
that is so willing and happy to believe whatever he tells them, and so
it doesn't matter if it even makes sense or tracks in any logical way.
But these poll workers, who he did this too, spreading these lies about
them just to push a BS narrative. It really disrupted their lives and it's
it's so disgusting, and my god, how far this man has fallen.
Rudy Giuliani at one time respected, perhaps even revered, federal prosecutor, a
US attorney, and then he goes on to be mayor of New York City
for a long time, referred to as America's mayor, right, and look
at him now, look at him now. And he did recently give that
profer testimony where he got to go in and sit down and with prosecutors and
apparently, you know, have like a one day immunity where he could tell
them anything they wanted to know, and he would be immune from prosecution for
anything he told them on that one day. Apparently that's how that work.
I'd never even heard the term profer testimony or a profer witness, or I'm
not sure I have the terminology even quite right. I'd never even I didn't
even know that was a thing until recently. But this guy were truly despicable,
just you know, and at one time so much respect for him throughout
the country from both Democrats and Republicans, you know, And to look at
him now, he's just a pathetic creature. And the rumor is too that
he's broke because Trump never paid him, because Trump doesn't pay his lawyers.
Trump treats his lawyers like they're buy here, pay here, attorney. He's
like you see on TV, you know the personal injury attorneys. Well,
you don't pay us if we don't win. Right, That's who this guy,
That's who Rudy Giuliani became. I mean, my god, anyway,
let's look at this. This is from Politico. Rudy Giuliani made significant concessions
late Tuesday in a long running defamation lawsuit by two Georgia election workers, dropping
efforts to challenge their claim that he falsely accused the pair of manipulating ballots in
the twenty twenty election. In a two page statement filed in federal court just
before midnight on Tuesday, Juliani said he quote does not contest unquote that his
statements, which fueled a torrent of public attacks on the workers, Ruby Freeman
and Shay Moss, were false and quote carry meaning that is defamatory unquote.
So he doesn't admit that he defamed them, but he's not contesting it either.
Well that's something I guess. In the heavily couched statement, Giuliani also
conceded that his statements meet quote factual elements of liability unquote for Mouston Freeman's claims
that his attacks amounted to quote intentional infliction of emotional distress unquote. I mean
the stories they've told, by the way about you know, here's the thing.
If you're if you're working somewhere and you're a poll worker, and now
it's out there, it's your name is being circulated nationally, spoken by the
President himself, Trump on that tape, for example, with Raffinsburger and Georgia
call in Ruby Freeman a scam artist and a vote hustler, or however he
put it. And then the whole country gets to hear that in the news.
Do you think that woman felt safe? Of course not after that.
And it all started with this guy. It all started with Rudy Giuliani,
the once respected Department of Justice US attorney, the once respected America's mayor because
he was mayor of New York City on nine to eleven. Unbelievable, unbelievable,
Just what a pos this guy is. Unbelievable. But it says here
Giuliani is not abandoning his effort to fight the lawsuit altogether. An aide Ted
Goodman said his concessions and acknowledgements were an effort to bypass the fact gathering stage
and move on to legal arguments about whether he can be held liable for damages
Moss and Freeman are seeking, Goodman said quote. Mayor rude Giuliani did not
acknowledge that the statements were false, but did not contest in order to move
on to the portion of the case that will permit a motion to dismiss.
This is a legal issue, not a factual issue. Those out to smear
the mayor are ignoring the fact that this stipulation is designed to get to the
legal issues of the case. Unquote, I honestly don't know what that's even
supposed to mean. I'll sit here and smear him because I see the guy
for what he is. Sorry, I see Rudy Giulietti for exactly what he
is, not for any any other reason anyway. It says here, Oh,
Miriam says in the chatwoman, this is a great point, Miriam.
Will anyone want to be workers in the future, Well, yeah, I
mean it's pretty dangerous, right if if the election doesn't go the way some
people think it should, they might harass you in public. They might send
you death threats. By the way, these women are black, they might
uh say racist things to you, which they've both had to endure. Yeah,
why would you want to be a poll worker if the election doesn't go
the way some people think you might be under the threat of violence. And
it started with this guy, Rudy Giuliani. Y'all sit here and smear him.
I mean this guy, I means it's incredible, and I and and
of course there's millions of people who are just fine with it, which is
even more bothering to me. Bothersome. Eric Street says in the chat,
I was scanning through radio stations in the car. In a station mentioned mister
Crabs. Yes, mister Crabs has been in the news lately, that's for
sure, it says here. Still a significant acknowledgment from the former president's attorney,
who spent months pointing to security footage of Moss and Freeman as proof that
thousands of ballots had been mishandled or sabotaged in Georgia. Those claims were widely
debunked by Georgia and federal investigators, but were nevertheless echoed by former President Donald
Trump and others in his orbit. Moss and Freeman testified to the jan sixth
Select Committee that both had faced significant threats and suffered damages to their livelihoods as
a result of Trump and Giuliani's claims. Michael J. Gottlieb, partner at
Wilkie far and Gallagher, LLLP, said, quote, Giuliani's stipulation concedes what
we have always known to be true. Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss honorably performed
their civic duties in the twenty twenty presidential election in full compliance with the law,
and the allegations of election fraud he and former President Trump made against him
have been false since day one. While certain issues, including damages, remain
to be decided by the court, our clients are pleased with this major milestone
in their fight for justice and look forward to presenting what remains of this case
at trial. Unquote, Giuliani's stipulation appears intended to head off more legal pain
in the long running lawsuit, which has resulted in depositions of several high level
figures in Trump's orbit, the disclosure of text messages, emails, and deposition
transcripts, and threatened significant financial penalties. Most recently US District Judge Beryl Howell,
who is presiding over the lawsuit, threatened severe sanctions on Giuliani overclaims that
he failed to preserve significant caches of evidence related to the matter. Giuliani's stipulation
of the facts of the lawsuit came in response to an order from Howell demanding
an explanation for his failure to produce certain batches of records and asking why she
shouldn't simply rule in Moss and Freeman's favor. Giuliani's attorney, Joseph Sibley emphasized
in an accompanying a Company Hating filing that Giuliani was not, in fact admitting
to Moss and Freeman's allegations against him, but making a decision to stop contesting
them, which he says should end the women's effort to seek further in factual
evidence emails, sex messages, and other communications from Giuliani. Though the statement
amounts to an admission of the facts, Sibley said Giuliani still contends that he
has legal defenses to the claims and is asking Howell to rule purely on those
legal questions now that the facts have largely been established. In Tuesday's signed statement,
Giuliani said he still maintains his legal argument that his comments about Moss and
Freeman were quote constitutionally pretend acted statements or opinions unquote, but by admitting to
the facts, he says, further efforts by mosson Freeman to obtain documents and
other factual evidence are no longer necessary oh constitutionally protected statements or opinions. So,
in other words, he's he's making a First Amendment argument. By the
way, Now again, I'm a I'm not an attorney, I'm not a
legal expert of any kind. But uh so, forgive me if I'm wrong.
But my understanding is the First Amendment is not absolute, and there are
certain things that you're not allowed to do under the First Amendment. For example,
you're not allowed to incite violence against people. You're not allowed to defame
people. I mean, there are there's kind of rules, right, Like
you're not allowed to use the First Amendment to ruin somebody's life because you don't
like how an election turned out, right, I mean, that's that's my
understanding of things. No rights are absolute, and these things do have limits.
Yeah, So I don't know because if if Juliani's argument, which as
I understand it from some other things. I was reading basically his argument as
a First Amendment one, saying that he has a right to speculate, to
say whatever he wants about these women, and you can say whatever you want
to about anybody, and that's you have a First Amendment right to do that,
you know, regardless of the consequences. But if that were true,
then there would be no such thing as defamation of character or definition of character.
As somebody from New York I know likes to say, that's a little
inside, But there would be no such thing as defamation if Juliani's argument is
true. If you can just go around saying whatever you want to about anybody,
consequences be damned, their mental health be damned, their physical safety be
damned, then their defamation isn't even a thing then, right, that's a
is that just a made up legal concept? There's no such thing as defamation
of character. I guess if you can just go around saying whatever you want
to about anybody, because I'm pretty sure people have been sued for defamation of
character and one. But according to Giuliani's argument, now that's just not a
thing. He could he could say whatever he wanted to about Moss and Freeman
based on zero evidence. Just make it up just because it sounds good and
it pleases his boss at the time. And if that puts them in danger,
if that ruins their lives, so well, he's a First Amendment,
right, that's his argument. Right, What a guy, What a guy
he is. The statement comes as Special Counsel Jack Smith a piers poise to
charge Trump and potentially others for their efforts to subvert the twenty twenty election,
an effort that has included a penetrating look at efforts by Trump and his allies,
including Giuliani, to mount false claims of election fraud. Giuliani is sat
for at least one properse session with Smith's investigators, and again, a proper
session, as I understand it, that's where you go in and for that
session you can say whatever you want to answer whatever questions, and you have
immunity. You've been given immunity for whatever you say on that day in that
session. I mean, I'm sure there's common sense legal exceptions to that.
Like if you went in for a proper session and you said, hey,
by the way, I murdered somebody, Well that wouldn't that wouldn't fall under
that. I'm sure however it works. I'm sure there's very specific guidelines and
parameters for how that works. But but but Juliani, he did, he
did go in for that at least once. Smith has also scrutinized other figures
working with Giuliani on the election effort, including former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerrick,
who, by the way, has spent some time in prison. Kerrick,
who is also who has also come under pressure from Howell to provide more documents
to Moss and Freeman. In the lawsuit, revealed this week he had obtained
the Trump campaign's permission to produce documents he once considered protected by attorney client privilege.
In Tuesday Nights filing, Giuliani also sharply contested that he personally mishandled or
destroyed any of the evidence Moss and Freeman were seeking. He produced a statement
from another attorney, Robert Costello, that primarily pinned to blame on the Justice
Department seizure of his devices in twenty twenty one, which he said were returned
with corrupted files or in some cases wiped all together. All right, So
there you go, there you go. That's Rudy Giuliani. Miriam asks do
people get paid to work at the Pulse? Not usually. I think that's
usually a volunteer gig. Or maybe they give you some sort of a stipend
for the day. I mean, it depends on where you are. I
don't know how it works in Georgia. All right, we gotta go.
We are out of time, so we will begin to wrap up. If
you miss any part of today's show it we'll be up in just a little
bit at WMH radio dot org and on my website Maatt Connerton dot com.
Don't forget Tonight is trivia night at the Hop Knot, but call ahead if
you want to get a spot. But of course, even if you're not
participating in the trivia, you can always enjoy one of those delicious pretzels and
the assortment of Kraft beer that they do have their m oh I should play
this. I'm going to close the show with another Lewis Tivy song. It's
called let It Rain. It seems appropriate for the weather. I don't forget
Tomorrow. Of course, we have Eric Pilcher's classic film review this week.
The subject is true romance, and in the second hour tomorrow we will be
talking to Lewis Tivy all the way from the UK skyping in. And then
tomorrow night on Retrospectrum Radio with PAULC. Paul's friend Aaron Sadovski will be with
us and that is going to be fascinating, really really looking forward to that.
Oh, Miriam says in the chat room, definition of character just intruded
into my brain. Yes, Miriam knows who I'm talking about. When I
refer to a definition of character. What can you do? The guy has
a speech impediment. He talks funny. I'm gonna think of it. So
does Rudy Giuliani. Anyway, all right, we gotta go, We are
out of here. I Am going to close with one more Lewis Tivey song
to close out today's show. This is called let It Rain. And of
course, if you are listening live on Thursday through the Stage Stoor hosted by
Rob Dyon is coming up next. And that's it for me for now.
I gotta go. I will talk at you all a little bit later.
By everybody,