A Case for MAGA Calmness at Home & Abroad; Guest: Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow

I'm gonna bribe our news daily. Thanks for being here. We have a three hour radio show on

Series X and Patriot. We'll give you two segments here for free. So we talked a bit about

the podcast wars and the opening segment, but we did a bit of this as well. Actually,

we did more of it on my podcast YouTube.com slash at politics by faith. If you want to check out

the YouTube there. So let's instead do this segment we did on Iran, kind of resetting the table,

where you know, a couple of weeks in, it's kind of set expectations a little bit. Talk about,

you know, there's no goal. There was no plan. Trump's never even heard of the straight-ahorn moves.

Don't be ridiculous. There was a plan and it's all outlined in the national security strategy

from it was like last October. So when they released it's all written down right there. So we go

over that and try to make sense of it. And what's next and get our perspective right.

All right. I want to start off with Iran, but then get to the economy and that's going to be my

overall point. I don't, we'll talk about Iran here and there. I'm sure there's other shows that

that's all they talk about, you know, whatever, whatever I was supposed to do. But I don't think I

ran as the biggest thing going on in the world. It's a thing, but I don't want to elevate it. I

think we need to elevate it to the biggest thing. So we'll start with Iran, but then we'll get to

the economy. First point, and then I'm going to share some thoughts from Victor Davis Hansen here.

VDH said that when we went into World War Two, we didn't really know what the ultimate aim was

either. There's a lot of criticism against Trump because he doesn't know what the goal the end goal is.

I don't know. I think you can have an end goal without knowing exactly what it looks like. There's

some parameters, there's some principles or different end goals that would be acceptable without

knowing exactly because I can't, I think that's the standard of the presence being held to. It's

like, oh, you don't know exactly what it's going to look like. Then therefore, we should never do

anything, but nothing's like that in life. I don't know. What's the end goal of my kids?

I got like a couple ideas, maybe, but like, I don't know. I can't make it happen exactly. When you

start opening a business, you can have some end goals, but you don't know exactly what's going to,

no matter how specific your goals are, you can't know exactly what's going to look like. But you have

like bigger principle goals. VDH's first point was that the goal of World War Two was unclear.

I'm styling was our ally, first of all. Were we going to fight Germany to

a stalemate? Were we going to crush them entirely? Were we going to take over all of Europe after

we won or we could take over all of Germany? There was a lot, there was a lot in the air.

And VDH who I value as a military historian, if nothing else, said that a lot of things are

articulated as you go along and that's okay. If you, if you have the general principle that

you're going to fight to win. And if the end goal, and I think this is a fair end goal,

is to have Iran not be a pain in the butt anymore. Because that's it there. There's just a pain in

the butt. I heard a clip of Joe Kent, this Joe Kent guy, who apparently now was already under FBI

investigation for leaking. So he just wanted to go out for a bank with a bank. I don't understand

leak. I don't know what, what was it for him? What's the point of that? I don't get the whole leaking

thing. But oh, JD clip JD Vance had a good clip about this actually. Remind me that I'll play it

at the end or in the next segment. He had a good, he said a good thing about Joe Kent.

Or a good thing about the Joe Kent situation. He didn't really say good thing about Joe Kent.

But Joe Kent was on Tucker a couple of years ago, talking about why military intervention in

Iran is a bad idea. He was also on some other podcast, more recent than that, talking about why

Iran, conflict with Iran is a good idea. So whatever. But the one where he was on Tucker,

one of the reasons why he said it's a bad idea is because if we get in another war, if we get bogged

down another war in the Middle East, then China will benefit and we'll make ourselves weaker and

though they will therefore be stronger. That was his argument. And I very disagree with that point.

The reason for this war is so that we no longer ever have to be bogged down in the Middle East

anymore. So Joe Kent says, we can't go to war with Iran. We're going to be bogged down in

the Middle East forever. And Trump's philosophy is, no, no, we're going to stop Iran once and for

all so they could stop being a pain in our butt. And we no longer have to focus on the Middle East

ever because we're sick of being focused on the Middle East. And the only reason we're focused

on the Middle East is because they took our oil. In the national security strategy, which we

cite often because it's literally spelled out everything that's going on internationally. It's

written down in a 29 page document that they released publicly and announced today world.

Here's everything we're going to do. And if anyone reads it, it's right there. And you're like,

they're doing the things that they said. Let me quote two quotes I have here. First,

they say we want to prevent an adversarial power from dominating the Middle East. It's oil and gas

supplies and the choke points through which they pass straight of her moves while avoiding the

forever wars that bogged us down in that region at great cost. So the White House is very much aware.

First of all, the straight of her moves. They talked about choke points. Because I was one of the

Democrats talking points. I was like, Trump's never even heard of the straight of her. And I caught

it by surprise. And the second point is they acknowledge that we don't want to be bogged down

in another forever war. But here's the most relevant quote.

For half a century. So there's a section of the national security strategy document. And it

breaks down the regions of the world. Asia, Middle East, Europe, Western hemisphere, and there's

one more missing. What's the one missing? Africa. And it breaks them all down. All right. So here's

the Middle East. For half a century, at least, American foreign policy has prioritized the Middle

East above all other regions. And it goes on. It says that the other nations in the Middle East

need to step up and be normal. And they happen. And it ends with this. But the days in which the

Middle East dominated American foreign policy in both long term planning and day-to-day execution

are thankfully over, not because the Middle East no longer matters, but because it's no longer the

constant irritant and potential source of imminent catastrophe that it once was. I would say no

longer a pain in the button. Iran is the problem in the Middle East. So the goal is to eliminate the

problem so that we can focus on China properly. Everything in the present is done when it comes to

foreign policy has been to has been to make it set the table so that we can focus on China.

Everything. And if we not got Iran and we then control their oil shipments, we just knocked out

50% of China's oil supply. And we don't have to worry about the Middle East anymore. Just focus

on China. But you wouldn't mind my point here. So Joe Ken says, oh, we don't want to get bogged

down in the Middle East. We are bogged down in the Middle East. We've been bogged down for 50 years.

And if we stay at the status quo, then we're, that's still bogged down.

Pretty much all my military friends have spent most of their career in the Middle East.

I'm sick of the Middle East. I want to 20 anything else but the Middle East.

We've been bogged down there. We are bogged down there. The goal of this is to stop being bogged down

there. And we can only stop being bogged down

if the threat for my ran is gone. By the way, I keep saying bogged. I saw a video there.

I'm a guy. And I think it was in Arches. I think it's where we were for vacation today.

Who got stuck in quicksand? Quicksand! I didn't know that was a real thing. Well, I'm a growing

up. I definitely thought it was a real thing growing up. I just terrified that I was going to get stuck

in quicksand. Oh, yeah. Every cartoon you watch, everyone is always getting stuck in quicksand.

Not just quicksand was everywhere. But then you grow up and you're like, oh, there's no such

thing as quicksand. And this guy got stuck in quicksand. They had to pull him out of the quicksand.

That's a terrifying way to go. He was also bogged down.

So that's my first point about China. Does that make sense? We're good. All right. So VDH,

one last point from VDH. He says there are three potential outcomes.

It's obviously infinite number, but three general outcomes. I'll put them in descending order

from best to worst. The best outcome is they give up the theocracy there. They have no military.

They have no power. They're terrified to go outside. They're terrified to use a beaper. They can't

go to a hotel room. They can't meet together. They just can't imagine that being your life.

Like I may get a missile to my head at any moment. Their supreme leader is gay. It's over for us.

They just give up. So they say, we're done. And then the people rise up and the theocracy's over.

And we welcome them into the world of Western-ish neighbors. And then they create some sort of

transitory government, which leads to some real election one day. Okay. But the deal is I ran.

You can't have the theocrats come back. You can't have the Muslims come back. And

because if you do, then we're coming back. And this is normal. We didn't let the Nazis have a role

in the German government after World War II. After the Civil War, we didn't let the confederates

come back into Congress or state government. It was the 14th Amendment section three of the four I

think of the 14th Amendment. I know it's the 14th Amendment, but it's sorry, I think section three

of the 14th Amendment says if you ever engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the constitution,

you're not allowed to hold state or federal office. So. And then we gave them we gave some amnesty

in 1872 about that. So they could hold some more offices after a period of time. But we would do

the same thing in Iran, but like, oh, like if you're buddies with the I tola, whatever, you can't.

So it's option one. So option one, the theocracy gives up normal people take over. Great.

Option two is the Venezuela solution. So someone in the government, the former government,

maybe there's some military general way down in the hierarchy who we haven't killed yet.

And they're able to step up and they're like, all right, all right. We give up. I'll take over.

I'll do whatever you say. I'm a secular guy. No theocracy. Let us just stop. Stop bombing everything.

And we'll be normal. And it's someone in the government, kind of like in Venezuela.

Like in Venezuela, the former vice president is now the president. She's working with us praising

Donald Trump about how great he is. So we'll get someone like that. That'd be cool too.

Third option. The worst of the three is we leave in like a month or so. And in Victor Davis

Hansen's words, we say, see I wouldn't want to be a good luck. I hope you all figured out you're on

your own. And we just we're out. And we got all this stuff to do. So we're leaving. But if you

put another crazy mola in charge, then we'll be back and we'll kill them. But overall, you're on

your own. So option one, all the leaderships gone. They all give up or die. And some transitional

figure comes in and move towards elections. Great. Option two, some strong man within the government

rises up, but they meet our demands. They agree to our demands. And they stop supporting terrorist

groups. And that's great. Third option is we leave and say, see you later, sign our up. And maybe

people rise up. And maybe they don't, but we'll come back if you put another eye toll in charge.

And then we'll kill them too. Those are the three options. And I think any of those are fine.

We just don't want them to be a pain in the butt anymore. And it's different than Afghanistan,

who bring up Afghanistan. Afghanistan was full of cave people. It's a totally different thing.

Iran has a pretty recent history of being a normal Western nation. And I think they can do it.

VDH's analysis. We'll see how it goes. Now it's going to take time. I call this the video

vacation, video gamification of life can also call it the Netflixification.

We're reiterating from time to time, we have been trained because of video games and Netflix to

think that real life should operate at the same speed as a video game or a Netflix show.

We watch so much TV. We consume so much TV and play so many video games

that are brains have been trained to think that that's how time works.

All right, you watch TV show. And the whole thing gets wrapped up in 30 minutes or an hour.

And you can sit there and you can binge and watch six hours. And let the show's over. You're like,

ah, fixed. And then we go to real life and our brains with our brains. We think that everything

should take that long. We think things should take a few minutes to work out and resolve. My

buddy is going through a job interview process right now. It's been torture, absolute torture.

First of all, he's had like six job interviews and they all turned into nothing. And each one's

it's like one a week, right? And they turned into nothing. And he'll go to like the second round

it's nothing. And then he got this, this other one, which is the biggest job of them all.

This is like the king of job that he couldn't have dreamed that this would even be an opportunity

that he would ever get. And he got an interview. He's like, I'm never going to get this job,

but I'll go to the interview. It'll be good practice. Makes it to the second round.

But the second round is next week, right? So he's got to wait a week. And then it makes him

pass the second round. I'm like, oh, we want you for a third round of interviews. It's like,

all right, third round. Got it. And he does it there. Hey, we'd like you to come to our offices

and you'll meet the team or whatever and say, do I have the job? I'm like, no,

I just want to meet the team. So he meets with the team. And then he's going to have like, well,

we have one more round of problems that we want. He has to like do they give him some like

scenario problems. He's like, work him out of it. And he did do it again. This is the other day.

This was on Tuesday. And I texted the other day. I said, how the how to go, man? And he goes,

oh, I think I did good. Whatever. I said, I'm over it. He said, I feel like the interview went

well. We'll see. I said, I'm over it. I'm sure you are too. Whatever. This point, I don't even care

if I get it. But the point is you can't wrap it up in 30 minutes. The whole thing doesn't,

takes time. We don't live like that. The patience that he's had to go through to work through this

is crazy. But when you play Farmville, is that still a thing? This Farmville is still a game.

Where's that? Like very 2004. I don't know. But in Farmville, your crops grow right away.

Well, here's my crops. Crops. And then three minutes later, there's corn, harvest crops.

And then you got your crop. You got your corn. And we think, I can seriously, I'm not

kidding. People, especially kids who grow up, that's all they've known. They think that's what

is. And you tell them that I have to do this to my kids. They'll be like, we want to plant,

plant food, plant a tomato. Like, all right. They'll eat an apple. They'll get an apple seed.

Like, we want to plant an apple tree. You're like, all right. That's 10 years.

Like, that's not happy to. I'm happy. We'll go through the experiment. I think, let's do it.

We can learn all about seeds. But it's going to be 10 years till you pick an apple off that tree,

guys. So you'll be, you'll be in college, Jack. Well, I don't know. College will exist at that

point. But you'll be, it'll be 18 years old. 18, 19 years old. When you can eat an apple.

And it's fine. But you just need to know that. It's not going to take three minutes.

And when I ran, people still think we're playing a video game.

So it takes time. Similarly,

the economy takes time as well. Change is in the economy. Take time. Change is in the global

world. Order or take time. Change is in the economy. Take time. The president can't snap his

fingers and have the economy work. Now, the best thing a president can do is just get out of the

way. That'd be amazing because we've had plenty of presidents just in the way. This president's

done more than get out of the way. He's actively brought investments in to America.

$14 trillion worth or whatever the number is of promises. But then, but you just like another step

after that. And he can't do that. It takes people to make things happen. It takes people with

knowledge and work ethic plus time. And I don't know if we have all that in America. We certainly

don't have time because that we operate in two year political increments. That's just not enough

time. Do we have the knowledge and work ethic? I don't know. We'll see. But if we don't have that

right equation, then Trump's going to get blamed as if he's the guy, you know, doing the welding

at the factory that we're building. It's like, Trump, why did you weld that faster? He's like,

why can't weld the... Trump's also working against these stupidity of state governments.

So maybe in the past, but say New York City, let's say when New York City was a functioning

place to do business and invest and grow, the feds could remove some hurdles and then things would

get built in New York City because New York City is ready to go. They're ready to hire,

ready to build, ready to write whatever, whatever ready to do, whatever economic thing needs to get

done that improves the economy. But now Trump removes an obstacle or some hurdle. And nothing's

going to get done in New York City. So it's like, oh, well, so Trump's working uphill because of

this stupidity of the blue cities and states. But even if the red states get stuff done, it all

still takes time because it's not a video game. At this conversation with Jack through the day,

Jack's reading this book. He's read like a thousand times. It's the Jaco book, Jaco Willings book.

It's a called way of the warrior kid. Great. There's three of them, I think. And they're awesome.

You got to read them. They're great, great, great, great, great, great. We first read them when

Jack was like five and he reads them every now and again. They're pretty short, easy reads,

but they're so good. So by all the Jaco books. And the book, the character wants to do pull up,

can't do a pull up. So then Jack reads a book and he wants to do a pull up and he goes to the garage,

pull up hard, can't do a pull up. He's like, why can't I do a pull up? He's got to practice.

So the next day he goes, he does, he's like, I still can't do one. Yeah, yeah, it's going to take

a long time, bud. Do you know how long it takes to grow a pineapple?

I think about this every once in a while. There's two random things I think about a lot.

Just say it here. Quick sidebar. Two things I think about a lot.

Like every day or every other day, two random facts I think about every day or every day,

pops in my brain. Do you know how long it takes to grow a pineapple?

Three years. I think about that every day. I don't know why. I heard that fact.

And I think about all the other one I think about is the world record for planking.

The world record plank. Do you know what the world record for a plank is?

For on your, on your elbows. World record plank. I'll hold a plank for a minute.

Having a tough go. 90 seconds. I don't know. I don't know if that's happened.

Life or death. Maybe I could do two. Gun to my head. Maybe I could knock out two minutes.

Do you know what the world record for a plank is?

Take a guess. Zach, what do you think? World record plank. Holding a plank in one hour.

An hour. Have you ever held a plank? Do you know what an hour is?

An hour. The world record for a plank is nine hours and 38 minutes.

What?

Nine hours. I recorded the TV show. I stood for 45 minutes.

And I was like, I'm a backer. It's just because I'm standing. Nine hours and 30 minutes.

Anyway, I think about those two facts a lot. Nothing to do with anything here. I guess the pineapple

one does. Things can get destroyed immediately. Takes time to build. Our time frame needs to be

decades. We live in two year increments with the midterm elections. Our time frame needs to be

10 year increments. We need a decade of mega leadership before we see some real fruit.

Fruit, pineapples, apples, planks. But we're over here just like we're playing Sim City,

data center, power plant, factory, residential, commercial, industrial,

cheap code. We win. It's not Sim City. All right, take a break. Speaking of loser governor is making it

harder for Trump, probably intentionally. I got a clip here of local governor in New York.

Two years ago saying, get out of New York. We don't want you here to Republicans.

You don't share our values. And then yesterday, governor, Hocal says, if you live in Florida,

we would love for you to come back. We really, we need you back in New York.

Thanks for listening to Breitbart News Daily. Here is the great Alex Marlow. He came in a little bit

into the segment. So we do a segment about Caesar Chavez and then Alex shows up. Alex should be here

momentarily. But busy man lots of kids early in the morning. If he doesn't, it's all good.

Uh, I got a couple of things to do here. Let me mention this because this is this was the big

story on the New York Times yesterday. I don't know. Often you read the New York Times. This was their

big thing. Caesar Chavez. Did you even know this is that he's in the news at all? He's the big

story in the New York Times. Caesar Chavez. His name comes up from time to time. In California,

he's a hero. They have statues of him. There's Caesar Chavez day. Everyone's off from work.

The banks are closed. I remember my first movie California was like Caesar Chavez day.

Why is everything closed? And New York Times all about, and there's all these headlines now,

about Caesar Chavez being accused of sexual assault. And my first thought was it has to be a

different Caesar Chavez. Because Caesar Chavez, the civil rights icon of the left and founder of

the United Farm Workers Union, died in 1993. Been dead for 33 years.

So surely New York Times isn't writing these huge exposés about a guy who's been dead for 33.

So the reason they are coming after him, I can you come after someone who's dead for 33

out of you can come after the reason, say it to my face is Rand Paul. The reason they're going

after Caesar Chavez is because he was a vehemently against wet backs. He hated illegal aliens.

And that's politically a problem for the left. Because they love illegal aliens. So they're like,

ah, what do we do? Who do we abandon? Well, obviously Caesar Chavez has got to go.

The Caesar Chavez would set up lines that have union member union farm workers set up lines on

the border. It's back before there's a border wall. And they would physically beat back. They put

their cars on the border. Your conservatives did this too. There was a long time conservative

talk show host in San Diego. And they would organize these events where they'd go up on the border

and turn with the cars and then put shine their lights on the region, this land that was between

the countries. And and prevent people from going across every now. This is before there's a wall.

Now there's a wall there. And there's a mall right on the border. But on our side, the other side is

squalored. But anyway, they would they would like physically tackle illegal aliens, prevent them from

coming across the border, which is a problem if the left is also lionizing him. So the best way to

remove Caesar shop, there's statues of you go to college campuses and in the center, you see San

Marcos in particular, you see San Marcos in San Diego. There's a big statue like the like the

usually a school have a statue of the the first president of the school. But there's

and what would Caesar shop is big statue, Caesar shop. So the way to get rid of them.

It's already dead. But the way to get rid of his legacy is to accuse him of sexual assault.

What's he going to say? How's he going to defend himself?

New York Times, Caesar Chavez, a civil rights icon, is accused of abusing girls for years.

So just to be very clear, they're only canceling him because he was against illegal immigration.

So they got to they had to kick him out. And the allegations are super graph. They went

they went all the 11, 12, 13 year old girls, multiple times, brutal horrible stuff. But the

lesson here is that the left will use anyone if they need them and keep anything a secret

to advance their agenda. All these activists knew what he was doing at the time. But they said

nothing because he was politically powerful to promote the unions. But now that he's dead

and the unions are firmly entrenched in California. And there's no opposition at all in California

to attack their power. He is now a liability. He serves no beneficial purpose anymore. He's now

a political liability. So cancel him get him out of there.

Also, when Caesar Chavez was alive in California, Californians were all against illegal immigration.

Someone put on Twitter, what we've said a million times. And that is the Save Our State Act

in 1994 was a valid initiative in California. Save our state is what was called Save Our State

and abandoned illegal from everything. From everything, illegal couldn't go to school. They couldn't

go to the hospital. They couldn't get healthcare. They couldn't get welfare. They couldn't get

housing. They couldn't get nothing. Nothing total ban on illegal immigrants in every way in California.

It's 1994 and 60% of Californians voted yes. 60%. And then a judge stopped it and it was never

enforced. This is Stephen Miller. He said, this is a severely underestimated

fulcrum point in American history. This moment, the Save Our State Act in California. During the

90s, there was a great societal upheaval of our mass migration. California voters in the face of

an onslaught of media demonization acted to save their state. It was literally called the Save Our

State Act by passing Prop 187 and all public benefits to illegal. It was one of the most potent

examples of popular democracy defeating a trench corruption. It captivated the attention

the entire nation. Millions of millions of Californians voted to recapture their destiny. This is

Stephen Miller. The proposition passed in a landslide, but it was enjoined by a district court

judge immediately and remained enjoined permanently. Illegals continued flooding the state,

consuming benefits, and then a Democrat, great Davis won the next election and entered into a court

settlement to halt the law forever. That was the end of Prop 187 and that was the end

of California. Now the place is a total dump. The video for Nick Shirley when he was in California.

One of the things that stood out to me about the video, if you look even beyond the outright fraud

and all this, the place is a dump. So the dump. Remember that the video opened up at San Diego

at a daycare in this ban, basically a band and strip center. I say a band is not a band and

looks abandoned, but there's just a disgusting stripper and the daycare was there and there's

that they're standing outside by this dumpster in the front dumpster totally overflowing with trash,

trash all over the ground. And he's like, oh, you know, we're in the parking lot and there's the

daycare. This place doesn't look very good. Same for kids. And here's all this garbage here. And

then Amy Reichert, who's right next to him, the San Diego woman shown him around, says, oh,

there's a person in there. And Nick's like, wow, this is perfect. And then they take a step over

and there was a guy sleeping in the trash. Pat Buchanan, he said uncontrolled immigration.

This is 2001. Pat Buchanan uncontrolled immigration threatens to deconstruct the nation we grew up in

and convert America into a conglomeration of peoples with almost nothing in common.

Not history, not heroes, not language, not culture, not faith, not ancestors,

Balkanization back in this.

That's why it's so important for at least us to know our history, our heroes, our culture,

our faith, our ancestors. At least we need to know. We're planning a summer trip trying to

convince the wife that instead of the beach, we should go to Colonial Williamsburg this year.

So we can learn more about our history, our heroes, our culture, and our ancestors.

If we don't know it, how could we be critical?

These people are coming here. They don't even know our heroes and our ancestors.

Meanwhile, you walk down the street. You'll see a man on the street interview and ask,

Hey, who's the first president? I don't know. Come on.

Alex Marlow is here. He is our editor in chief of Breitbart.com. Alex, how are you, sir?

You know, came Mike morning and to you. What is your final answer, final pick on your

March madness bracket, Alex? I couldn't tell you a single team in the tournament, Mike.

Wow, you're out. You don't do the bracket, even?

No, I actually have a funny bracket story. I did one bracket. I was in high school. I went to a

high school with a bunch of very smart, capable kids who had extra money to gamble.

And I really researched it. I looked at every matchup and I did all these permutations and

matchups that could have happened. And I really looked at where you get your

upsets are when teams match up well against other teams where teams are a particular skill set

where another team is weak and that's how you can pick a few sleeper picks.

And I won wire to wire. I won every single round against all my super smart friends.

And I retired. So I've done one bracket in my life and I'd be a bunch of smart people.

On the bracket and so I quit. Go on top. I think that's right. Got to know when to fold them.

You did it right at the top top of your game. We had lots, lots of things to chat about.

But I wasn't your pick. Oh, I haven't even looked at it yet. But I will. I just have to

on noon. We'll leave it into the wire here. It's not even known. And I was just asking the guys here.

I guess like they picked Houston. Zach, would you go? And they're like basically no one knows.

And we're just picking it. But that's everyone. Like, you know, you're not going to win then

if you do that, right? I mean, I just picked the highest seeds. I think that betting wise,

I think that's your best go is just to pick the high seed. I saw someone picked it based off

of which team is further north geographically. That's as good a way as any. I think it's a

crap shoot. Right. But I appreciate that you had it had a method and then it worked for you

that one time. But I'm sure it's hecking putting that much time into this. I maybe I'll put three

minutes into the whole thing. I was I was like to chat with you about that. I let chat with you

about the state of bright part.com. How are things at bright part that anything that we all need

to know about as we listen to bright part news daily every day? Not more. We're doing very well.

I think it's maybe the best you've ever done as a company in some ways, depending on some

metrics. I think that we really distinguish ourselves over the last year or two as I think the

the voice of reason of the conservative movement, which I think is a good spot for us. I think a lot

of people sort of outflanked us on the sensationalist side even though we do have been known to use

hyperbolic tactics to get attention on things. I think we've been way outflanked and that's not a good

thing. I think we're all for the movement. Sorry, what's not the good thing?

That some people are just playing into the few culture or into the clickbait madness culture,

trying to say only use provocation and having no other gear other than just try to be overly

provocative every second. I think it's been very bad for the movement, but it's left us in a spot

where I think we're the most credible voice in all conservatism and it's worthy out. I mean,

I think our business is the strongest it's ever been ever, which is kind of shocking to say,

but it's great to say considering all the competition that's out there and all the attacks on us

over the years. We're in a very strong spot. I think our access is better than just

but in the world and to what's actually going on in Washington in particular. And I think that

are pioneering efforts to try to win the culture war or bring fruits as well.

Do you have any don't name names you don't want to? Do you have any thoughts on the conservative

podcast war that we're reading about? Sure. I mean, well, there's a couple things I don't love.

So a lot of the conservative adjacent podcasts have I think really lost a lot of credibility.

For us in the comedian podcast, since the beginning of last year where they've kind of morphed

into sensationalist and sort of anti-Israel slash anti-Semitic podcasts or that's happened

quite a bit. And then a lot of those popular conservative podcasts have just gone are no longer

part of the conservative movement. They're just trying to serve other masters. I mean,

the Canvas elements podcast in particular where it she spent every day trying to destroy the legacy

of her friend Charlie Kirk is just sort of the most foolish thing I've ever seen in the space

and that takes place in the daily basis completely insane that that happens and we're obviously

having some sort of mental break as well in the process. And Washington I'll play out is very odd.

And I think that you know, Megan Kelly is a lot of strengths, but I think people see that she

gets lost up wrong as well. Remember she got Trump did wrong. She tried to take out Trump initially.

And then I think she's indulged a lot of the if he sabotage him that's very it has a lot of currency

and actually everything app and her podcast. And then you know, the Tucker show was also serving

I think agenda is beyond just informing the mega movement. So I think it's been very bad for the

conservative podcast space lately, but there's a lot of good things out there. There are a lot of

things we create at bite bar at the other strong points, but a lot of the most popular shows I think

are not really I don't know who they're helping other than their their house bottom lines.

Yeah, it's just a good reminder for everyone to watch what you consume. You mentioned his name

and we did earlier in the show as well that I think when Charlie Kirk was assassinated there was

obviously all sorts of lament and politically one of the I think people were I was thinking oh man,

those campus events were so good and those Q&A moments and there's all that I mean who's

going to fill that void that's like I think people will fill that void where Charlie Kirk's

real strengths were it seems was being the linchpin and a peacemaker blessed be the peacemakers

and he was the guy because he was so just such a good guy who really brought people together behind

the scenes. And I feel like maybe we've removed up behind the scenes linchpin and the wheels are

kind of coming off of when it comes to the people. I think this is something that's huge that a lot of

people who are trying to carry on Charlie's legacy in word are not doing so indeed because he was

so vehemently opposed to feed culture and that's why I you know it pains me to watch all

stuff that's happening but you know I don't engage in it a lot and I try not to attack other people

in the conservative movement who are even when I said some negative stuff about some people now

I'm trying not to make it attack other than Candice because what Candice is doing is just show

grotesque and it's not part of the conservative movement at all so I don't think that the class

applies but you know I haven't really said a lot of negative stuff about Tucker even though I

don't love a lot of the stuff he does in the show now but it's not part of this is I think of

Charlie I think of how Charlie really stayed away from fighting amongst ourselves people who are

productive within the movement and trying to reach out to people on a personal level if you

disagree with what they're doing or try to make your criticisms high level and broad rather than

singling them out to specific people and yet if you go on ask the everything app then

every day it seems like there's a new conservative conservatives eating themselves viral

catfight and it's just it's very far away from the way he envisioned the movement and that's

I'm really very comfortable saying that yeah it feels very real housewives eat like it's

weird drama yeah exactly right it is reality TV this exactly this exactly the right analogy

and I've said this specifically I don't know if I said this to you Mike but I said that

I feel like next to everyone's going to have a garden party and they're going to drink too much

at each other live stream live stream it so that we got a stream it we are

okay if you're not streaming it's not streaming you're not getting paid did it happen if it's not

streamed yeah and I haven't brought it up at all ever because it's stupid and I'm not in it

but we brought it up today only and that's the reason you just happened to be on today and I ask you

about it because I thought that Rand Paul Mark Wayne Mullin moment was so weird yesterday when

Rand was reading from the teleprompter six feet elevated above Mark Wayne Mullin saying say it to

my face if you have a problem with me or what I was like oh man like what a weird like beef that

Rand was bringing out publicly it's like like if you have a problem Rand like you could have

talked to Mark anytime you're like his office I'm sure is down the hallway like

well and it's interesting because I look at the that Mike and I mean you and I have similar styles

in this regard in that I I can't imagine you know talking to another person like that in the

public hearing yes and I but I don't know if that means maybe that means I wouldn't be as effective

in those public hearings but I always have found when I act like that it comes off it doesn't come

off well and then I have regret afterwards which I don't want to have and is a as a as a humble man

before God I often himself critical in private and I don't feel good after I have those types of

interactions even away from cameras and so it's the I really try to just try to ask people about

our differences in person and just say why would you say that that's not true did you consider this

is this and then just start using the sort of not-so-cratic method but just ask questions of them

and try to poke through their arguments that way but it always seems to make me feel better when

and it seems more effective but you don't really see that in that setting you seem more just

full throw down yes say it to my face it's like what I think in this case in particular just to be

cognitive myself here for a second I think what what what what Ryan was trying to do was not an

emotional um airing agreeances which is how it came off I think he was trying to bait Mullin into

acting angry so he could say that he doesn't have the temperament for the job okay and I do think

that tactically what's probably what is good but I could be giving him too much credit for that

but that was sort of how I was okay translating it my brain while I was watching it my other

takeaway from it was I did not know there were teleprompters inside of the senate hearing chambers

chamber hearings but I didn't know that until you just told me oh yeah so so it was

it was weird I should I think I have it here I don't uh I don't have it here but he had like a glitch

in his speaking he had like a weird pause rampalded and he sets up the like and if you'll let me

okay so mark what I and I was like well that was a weird thing so I kept looking at different

angles trying to find different like C span angles and different angles of the year and one of them

one one cameras angle of mark away from the side you can see in the back corner teleprompter a screen

you can see the words that he sang like part of the words that he's like half the teleprompter maybe

like 20% of the teleprompter you can see and I kept going back and forth to see if he was reading

if those words on the screen were what he was actually saying and it is so it's these reading so

he's reading this like impassioned like from the heart fight like fighting words say it to my face

from a teleprompter it's maybe even more like just total disconnect from from reality but anyway

what do you think about uh Mark Wayne Mullin as DHS chairs is a good pick I mean I I like it a lot

I think that what was going on in Nome's office was you know the more

timely you spend on it and we are now in a spot where we're um the uh but we've been through

a lot we've had a big piece on some of the background or what's going on in Nome's office

it was pretty repulsive in the end and really disappointing um but just that I don't think

people fully grasp that it really is a legitimate scandal but took out Nome and I'm not saying how

much she was personally involved but she was uh aside from that she was appearing on these ad

that were kind of cool these glossy ads but they cost the taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars

and I was tolerant of the ads but then you learn that Coraloo and Dowsky who she's allegedly having

in the fair west seems like an open secret in Washington they're both married and then

they're in a fair and he's her top advisor and he's apparently the person who's in charge

or proving on the government contracts and these contracts are going out to these brand new companies

the companies that are less than two weeks old to create these ads and then at least one of the

companies one that got the biggest grant is owned by a Christian McGlock when the former press

secretary's husband and like what the heck is going on here I mean this is the exact type of stuff

that we would have written books about if it was a Biden administration doing the Obama

administration and it was really scandalous and deeply upsetting so it's good to get someone in

there and Mark Wayne is someone who's a good communicator he's a fighter he's a very tough person

he's had some bad quotes over the years policy wise but overall I feel like he's

become one of the people I like the most in Washington and that's pretty good so I don't know

how he'll be at this particular job but I've got high hopes you can't be doing that that's stuff

you just mentioned with no matter like you can't be doing that for so many reasons just like

biblically like they start from the top go go biblically personally right and all the way down

to movemently or whatever I don't know what the last one yes it's like what are we talking about

none of those things stop you worlds bad politics like like yeah I really is I mean I'll tell you

people do really bad things for money like I know this is not new to you but it is a fact

to judge it's a it's a betrayal which to look at it as a betrayal

I don't have to fear unless I'm missing something which I don't think I am people know I don't

come up to the show through in bombs I really try to fully bet stuff like that from

coming out particularly if it's negative about again I'm against you culture so I'm not

not criticizing our friends off the cuff like that's not happening it's the I've done tens of

thousands of hours of broadcast like I'm not criticizing friends that are people have been

friendly to us without thinking about it I love personal block when I was press as the

spokesperson when she's a maid it and like her husband's like bag in mountain to cast like

from some administrations no thank you wait so the oh so Trishman go okay yeah sorry that name

it took a second so she was the dhs spokesperson that's right yeah and her husband's the one

running the the the company that just got started that got a nine-figure contract whatever it was

yeah the newsroom doesn't newsroom does that with his wife his wife runs some like documentary

film company that all the schools have to buy her movies from in order to play in their

same stuff that's the same exact stuff and I never thought well that's uh yeah that's so bad

come on come on guys all right I think because because we have stuff if you think about the wrong

war debate where there's you know it is one where there is some real nuance and some real stuff

to work through and members of Trump's coalition are going to be you know not happy about

certain things that are happening and then we can't be we can't be alienating people with

unforced errors this is this is the whole thing it's like sports 101 is you can't you can't

make mistakes you have to get the fundamentals right yes so this is the we can't miss in the

fundamentals because there's going to be stuff that's challenging this legitimately challenging

like how do we take out a you know a a a change regime of islamo fascists when we've taken

it we've staked out our brand as we are the uh a no-new wars party so it's it's not easy so we

got to do we're doing that now it's happening so can we at least keep it between the between the

lines here and the not gracing the public from one of our most favorite departments the DHS

yeah god uh you did you did a good outline right there but what is the the bright part

view on this war and I ran we've obviously been covering it well with Francis and John

here and i'll briber.com what are we doing thank god that I laid out the mantra that we're

going to report the news first um before we start weighing in because this is a very tough one to

weigh in um and that makes it very interesting if you don't get really invested in a position

because you had a snap judgment and you're very committed to uh see your particular worldview

get justified here so don't look for that in this work you want to be intellectually honest because

it's a real complicated one um but that said if you start going through what could be the standards

for getting this thing right getting this thing off to a decent stark um we were actually hitting

the vast majority of them not all of them but if you think about what a war like this could

look like uh and what could be potential objectives to the war we're talking about dismantling

Iran's nuclear capabilities uh we're talking about making sure that they don't have more ballistic

uh the missile development uh we are talking about having them not fun terror proxies in the region

we're talking about people who seek to destroy America and our allies in the ground we're talking

about a huge chaos at the top of a very powerful and evil regime and all that is happening and

happening very quickly now we also have an affordability issue in this country

and the cost of uh a fuel and the cost of uh the ability to have commerce around the world and

the ability to get resources from that region to the United States and to the West is essential

for day-to-day life in America uh and that's taken slightly backwards the moment the

oil prices are a big time so we've got to sort that out we guess we're that quick i kind of feel

like the time frame is for me is by summer i mean when they switch that summer crew and oil prices

go up anyway gas prices go up anyway i feel like i just have done by then but overall there's

quite a few things that i think are um suggesting these strategies working there's a quite a few

of the standards that are going well even though wars are ugly ugly things a horrible thing

there are people who suffer and die because of it who are innocent but Trump laid out a red line a

year ago that Iran cannot develop mix it cannot develop intercontinental ballistic missiles and it

cannot fund tear proxies in the region and Iran's done all three of those things so we want to

present these words mean something and uh you know Marco Rubio left slip that Israel was going to

take opportunities they had to do some more devastation to Israel while they're aerial but

you are on while their aerial defenses are weak so they took a good opportunity so they've got

to get that straight open um and if they do that then i do think that we've got a chance to declare

victory and come home very quickly so i think that the standard that we're not doing regime change

wars is worth monitoring because that's a good it's a good principle overall but uh it's

despite all of the headwinds that we're seeing uh i'm content to give Trump a little more time to work

this out on a personal level and i'm i think he had better intel than your Joe Cantor's out there

saying that he'd all be intel that he'd do everything was going on i think Trump knew more and so

i don't think Trump did a fool i think Trump uh understood the stakes and understood the urgency

of the matter and i think it could be it could prove that he didn't but for now uh i think he's

earned enough good will i mean we're going to give him a couple months to do this very good um

just because you mentioned time and things going well i saw the picture of all the top Iranian

leaders who have been killed and i just i think all the time of the playing cards from the Iraq war

and and we had all like the most wanted Iraqi officials playing cards yeah yeah yeah not even

know if we even got all them right ever but to forever right uh so the effectiveness from that front

if nothing else that has been good um i got to ask you just on behalf of the bribe

our audience uh about the save act and the uh patheticness of republican senate leadership and

just what do we do with that emotionally and politically what do we do with these losers

so i have no emotions over it's just sad because this would have been a chance for

feeling to really prove himself of an improvement um over cocaine mitch um and but he had to do

the bold thing he had to do the historic thing and be a man of of action and you'd remove the

filibuster's healing way to do it i don't see any reason not to and then if he wasn't going to do

that at a minimum make sure the democrats have to stand up there like clowns and talk until

do the talking filibuster right at a minimum um and we can get things and i never i haven't gotten

the great explanation why um and then you see people like wall street journals out there

saying you the filibuster got to remain intact forever and always i i'm just uh people are

usually in a very naive world and i say this my five baby's point of bright part in having written

books about how horrific and how determined the left is to try to feed us all in the story

but the thought that the modern day democrat party will remove the filibuster as soon as human

we possible to try to make lives more difficult for the rest of us i mean they tried to jail

bankrupt and kill the president last time like of course you're going to remove the filibuster

to get more of their agenda through and we're too afraid to even make the den's talk like all night

like uh it's very hard for me to wrap my mind around it uh that that's that's all we've got to offer

and it's going to be demoralizing for the base because it you look at a race like a texas race

where it's kind of an easy one for me because i see much more eye to eye with Paxton because

Paxton's a leader he's a guy who's on the cutting edge of fighting back against big tech

censorship things like that and he's actually defending conservatives he's got a record defending

conservatives that is very tough to match in Washington he's got a lot of flaws and scandals

stuff like that but it's a Washington does not have a lot of people who have that track record

of defending conservatives for their job when it's come at personal cost and didn't you get a guy

like John Corden who's kind of fine but he this is really going to be establishment it's so easy

for me who i want to bet money on going forward and yet you have a lot of people still tell you

you don't's a lot safer to nominate Corden and i'm like well how do we know that

we just nominate someone that the people who are the most focused on politics in the conservative

movement really don't like and don't think highly of and don't trust and i think that's really

noteworthy when you look at all this is that it's about gaining trust with the voters and we're not

doing that and that's a real issue it's a problem with the conservative movement if Corden is the

best we can do in texas so we still have a lot of work to do where can people listen to the

Alex Marlow show every day thank you i'm on the Salem radio stations at a new district for an hour

and so it's on i think like 500 stations in 200 markets and like that so there's a lot a lot of

places and we put we're putting out a podcast right away so an hour or two later we'll return that

around i'm apple spotify youtube rumble and if you watch the Salem news channel on tv i'm on that

at 9 p.m. oh nice we uh we got to get you back on series xm how do how do we get the

Alex Marlow show great great thought i would love to be back in series xm i'd love to be

non-serious xm um i think that is there a path to that happen at some point and there's always a path

if there's a will there's a way love that there's a will there's a way i didn't choir i did

inquire about about it briefly like when i was launching the show and it didn't make me feel like

there's a quick path but i'll tell you this is very uh this is air air that you're on mike

that people really want people really want that air in series xm because it's terrific audience

which i know as well as anyone Alex Marlow appreciate you brother appreciate you and the

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