The deep state is coming.
full on at the Trump administration at this point. They're using the media as their microphone to try to do it. The Ivy League types who went into a government job, who are looking down on the guy who went into sales are like, no, I went to the Ivy League. I work for the government. That's the thing is I don't have to respond. When ABC News was like, federal workers are anxious having to explain what they do around here. It's like, really? Because every other American has to do that at their job.
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Well, if it isn't a good Tuesday to you, I'm Josh Holmes, along with Comfortably Smug, Michael Duck, and John Ashbrook. Left or right across your radio dial is always fellas. We celebrated 500 last week. Can't thank everybody enough for showing up and making it a very special occasion. I mean, it was a home run. It was great. Thank you, gents, for that surprise, having the YouTube button there. Oh, yeah, the button. Yeah, I mean, it was top to bottom. Amazing show. Had a great time and hope everyone enjoyed it. I mean, dude.
Kind of went after it there. I mean, whenever you get a chance to throw a party for yourself, you know, it's going to be a good time. It is going to be a good time. I was like right in the pocket. Like, you ever seen that clip from... I saw some suggestions in the comments that maybe thought perhaps the pocket was exceeded at times. No, no. There's that line from Trailer Park Boys.
sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it. That's right where I was. It was a good time. It was a great time. It was a great time, and it's always fun with you fellas. I'll tell you, everybody who watches the show, they're like, man, are these guys really friends? You know, Brian Kilmeade always gives us a hard time. Tell me, you guys aren't really friends behind the scenes.
Yeah, he always tries to pit us against each other. He does. Well, that's his thing. He likes to create drama. The reality is if you were sitting around a bar with us, this is exactly what you would get. And that's what we try to deliver here on the Variety Program. The only time I was legitimately upset was when I was giving Ashbrook shit for his...
Somehow orchestrating him in a hockey jersey, why I look like an asshole. Yes. And he made it into a USA chant. Yes. It's incredible. That was impressive. Our audience loves their country. That was impressive. We had an impromptu game of hard pivot is what I think that was. Yeah. He automatically. It was really good. It was very good. He got the crowd on the side. He totally ignored the question and went right to a USA chant. Yeah.
Well, thanks to Wolf and Spaghetts and the whole crew, Hollywood Hen and everybody who was involved in that. It was very, very fun. First time we played that venue in three years. Yeah. So it had been a little while. Great venue, too. It really is. Yeah, it's like our Red Rocks, you know? It is. Dude, it's our Red Rocks. Yeah. It was really great. So, I mean, like, everybody tunes in here expecting us to talk about politics and shit. So here we are. Plenty going on. We've kind of, like...
worked through the low-hanging fruit section of the program where you're talking about
confirming nominees. You're talking about initial agenda, executive orders and things like that stuff that everybody's worked through and done a great job with. But now you get to like the second section, which is a legislative agenda. You saw the Senate passed a budget last week after a big voter Rama. That's a huge component, but it's kind of their backup plan. They're waiting for the house to,
to perhaps this week pass a budget of their own, although there's some holdouts there. And we can tell you what we think about all of that. We might do that maybe Thursday. Because I think they've got Monday, Tuesday. We may have some guests that can provide some amplification for what it is that we're talking about. But we're not there. It's not ripe yet. And then you've got all of the various cabinet agency heads getting in and doing what they're doing. And then you've got Elon Musk.
And we got just a bunch of different stuff that you've probably read a little bit about. If you've heard anything about Elon through the mainstream media, chances are you've heard what it is, that unprecedented, unconstitutional thing. So I was out of town for the past weekend. We did our show.
I left the venue and I caught a plane like hours later. Chat Town. Yeah. Chicago, surprisingly great city. Why? Because it's in the Midwest? I mean, come on. What kind of an elitist asshole thinks that? I think a lot of it is because it's in the Midwest. It's great. There you go. When I was like, I'm going to check out, I'm going to check out. So I didn't get exposed to any takes of like, as the media has become basically, everything is a constitutional crisis and we're all going to die. It's like...
President Trump walked across the lawn. What does this mean for, you know, at-risk youth? Like, I got to avoid the freakout, and I think this is what life is like for the majority of people.
of Americans who've completely given up on it because we have to follow the mainstream media for what we do here. Yeah. We read it so you don't have to. It's like life is so much better without all their insanity. Yeah. I wish I had like us translating that conversation
to us. Yeah. Where we didn't have to get like the free base version of what it is that the, that the media is coming up with. Cause it, it's some crazy shit. But so over the weekend, there were two things that completely unraveled the mainstream media, the deep state and all of the things. And like the deep state is coming full on at the Trump administration. At this point, they're using the media as their microphone to try to do it. And the,
The first thing that I thought was kind of funny, like one that like we'll get into substantively. But the first thing was, can we play clip one, please, Spaghetts? That ultimatum from Elon Musk, it is making federal workers even more anxious and confused. Musk is taking his effort to slash the size of the federal government to a whole new level by posting that federal workers need to explain what they've accomplished in the last week or get fired.
This morning, chaos and confusion across the federal government. Elon Musk now downplayed the ultimatum he issued to federal workers, explain what you've done or resign. Musk initially posting on X, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation. Those emails already going out. Sources tell ABC they ask employees to list five bullet points
points of what they've accomplished in the last week. The deadline to respond is tomorrow night. All right. All right. So there's so much here. First of all, you got to love the ABC vignette on this where they show him at CPAC with the chainsaw. Yeah. Like he's just a maniac. Yeah. Right. They're like, look at this crazy person. Things keep sounding better. Let's keep this going. Where are we going with this?
But what he did, I mean, look, there was a lot of controversy last week of all the various agencies that they've dropped into. And they were talking about Social Security. They were doing all this kind of stuff that like everybody was shooting at everything on the left was basically. And that was they survived the week. And I thought on better footing that they started it and that he was making for progress on valid arguments and why the American people should be very interested in what they're doing.
And then Saturday comes and he's like, hey, why don't you send me a five-bullet plan on what it is that you did over the last week? Which, you know, I mean, for those of us who've worked in a job like that, it's not uncommon for a manager to ask, like, what is it that you've done this week? The indignity. Yeah, right. And, like, it would behoove many agencies within the United States federal government to,
to have such a thing. No, it's exactly right. Anybody out there who's working in sales does that to their boss every week as a matter of course. And, you know...
The Ivy League types who went into a government job, who were looking down on the guy who went into sales, are like, no, I went to the Ivy League. I work for the government. That's the thing. I don't have to respond. When ABC News was like, federal workers are anxious having to explain what they do around here, it's like,
Really? Because every other American has to do that at their job. So here's the email. Graphic one, if you wouldn't mind, Spaghetts, for our audio-only listeners. This is just an email that was sent out government-wide, and it's, please reply to this email with approximately five bullets what you've accomplished last week to you and your manager. So it's pretty remedial stuff.
But can I say one thing real quick? Yeah. The second line of that I love in that graphic says, please do not send any classified information. You'd have like a CIA guy be like, here's the terrorist I shot in the head.
Well, this is the best part. Like Elon does what he does with, you know, he's got like the spreadsheets going and he's running way out ahead of everything. And then at some point he's like, oh, I'm going to send this. And the lawyer's like, just make sure you say no classified information. A hundred percent. Because they sent it to everyone, which is quickly what became the problem in that you had like Tulsi Gabbard, who was just confirmed at DNI.
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I ran into a buddy of mine on Saturday night when this email went out, and I won't say the name or the agency or anything about him, but he was like, yeah, I just got this. And he's like, actually, I already wrote up my five bullets, and I was ready to send them. And then my boss was like, no, no, don't send that yet. Yeah.
Don't send it. We're working through the system. There's some consternation. Yeah, so there was some confusion in different departments because people were like, okay, of course, yeah, Trump is in charge. I got to reply to him. They're asking for this. But you also have like Cash who just got confirmed to the FBI. Right.
who was very wide open about his fundamental change of the FBI. They didn't even let his staff in the doors last Friday. That might be news here on the Variety program, by the way. Wow. I don't know if you all know that. I didn't know that. No, they did not let—and it may be an issue internally with PPO or whatever, but his staff, after he was confirmed on Thursday, was not allowed to go into the FBI on Friday. Really?
So like Monday was the first day of work.
And but like if you're if you're like in charge of this, he's in charge. He's just got, you know, confirmed by the United States Senate. The idea that somebody else is like, I'm going to demand something from your employees is like, whoa. Yeah. Slow your roll, dude. Like we wanted to get all of these nominees confirmed because we trust that the personnel we've empowered to run these agencies and departments are going to do it. I mean, like, look at what Lee Zeldin's doing at EPA, for example. Right. You know what I mean? It's like.
Part about being the boss is like finding good people, recruiting them, getting them hired, and then delegating authority to them to fulfill what you want, right? And it's like, I mean, the thing that I don't love about the email is like the federal government is incredibly complicated. We're talking about an email that went to like 2 million people. And it's like...
And if you're pushing paper somewhere in the bowels of the Department of Labor, I'd like to see the five points. Easy, easy five points. But if you're like shooting ice darts into the neck of foreign leaders, I don't need to see it. Right. If like you're establishing a listening station for signal intelligence in the Horn of Africa, I don't want that in a fucking email. Right. No, I think that's right. But there, so anyway, it's been a little bit of a off kilter standpoint, but
But then, like, as soon as they got themselves all outraged and done all that, then immediately dropping into that was the DOD firings.
WHERE OUTRAGE ENSUED. AND DO WE HAVE CLIP TWO, PLEASE, SPAGHETZ? THIS WILL SET THE STAGE. AS WE COME ON THE AIR THIS FRIDAY NIGHT, A MAJOR PURGE AT THE PENTAGON IS UNDERWAY. PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS JUST FIRED THE HIGHEST RANKING MILITARY OFFICER IN THE COUNTRY WHO STILL HAD YEARS LEFT ON HIS TERM ALONG WITH SEVERAL OTHER TOP MILITARY OFFICIALS.
Air Force General Charles C.Q. Brown, who was serving as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was just dismissed publicly, at least via a social media post by Trump. What an outrage. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, someone who has to...
accumulate all of the advice from all of the heads of the different factions of the military and provide consensus to the Department of Defense and the President of the United States, lo and behold, it's important to the Trump administration to have somebody that Trump listens to. What an outrage. I can't believe that this is even suggested. First of all, like, this is pretty commonplace. I understand that
Joint chiefs haven't been replaced like on the reg. Many of them. And I remember one back in the Bush administration that had at the end of the Bush administration resigned.
Before the election, which is what one does when someone runs against an Iraq war, for example, as Barack Obama did, and you're going to get into a new administration. Obviously, you're not going to make him make that call because they're going to go in a different direction. Well, this guy apparently had I mean, he ran against everything that the military was doing. He was like, no, I think I'm my job safe.
Right, right. And the idea that the president of the United States, the commander in chief of everything, isn't able to just make changes at the top. And then you on a Friday night, CNN has the dramatic like timpani and everything. Yeah. Oh, breaking news. He's changing personnel at the top of the military. And they call it a purge.
Right. And they wonder why people don't trust them for what's important. And what's interesting is in that reporting, because I saw a little bit about this, they don't report that that man was hired in the first place by President Trump. Right. In President Trump's first term. Right. So this is not some kind of like a purge. But CNN has this problem where they like.
They reported breaking news about Scud missiles flying over Tel Aviv 20 years ago. And they're like, oh, everybody watched that. So naturally, every single news event has to be treated with the exact same. They've been chasing it since 1990. They have. The truth is not everything is Scud missiles over Tel Aviv. This is not a big deal. It's not. It's just a president. And also the folks that President Trump has been picking for over at DOD.
amazing people. I mean, look at the images you've already seen of Pete Hexeth. He's out there training with the troops in the cold. Like,
President Trump knows what he's doing. And in those photos, like especially the like giant dude, y'all remember saw him running with like Pete Hex. Oh, yeah. Folks in the military seem pretty happy about it. But I mean, even look, even if you're skeptical about that, which I've got good friends on the conservative side who are skeptical about some of that. But even if you are, it's the President of the United States. You know the title of Commander in Chief?
That's what that is. Yep. Exactly. That's what that is. You know what that means is that the military is responsive to a commander-in-chief. Right. That is literally why they call him commander-in-chief. That's right. And it's not just president. Shouldn't we have some new leadership, like, after that disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan where nobody was punished for a failure in intelligence and implementation of, like, a plan? Like, I mean, who exactly is supposed to be held accountable? I think this guy. Well, people...
Totally. Like, you know, I mean, Biden pardoned Mark Milley. Yeah. Right. And Milley was like seen as the worst of the worst in which there's a lot of evidence to suggest that he was not great. I mean, overtly political to try to blend in with a far leftist administration in terms of administration of of defense policy.
But like Trump hired that guy too. Right. You know? So like the idea that Trump is some existential threat to somebody like Mark Milley, that's how he got the job in the first place. I mean, you know what I mean? They always act like he's just off the wall. Yeah. Like he hasn't thought it through. It's like he vetted him because he previously hired him. Yeah. He knows what he needs to know and he knows this isn't the right fit for now. And he didn't do the job. Right. Right.
So he wants to get rid of them and he wants to get rid of these people too. And they're talking about the head of the Navy and the Air Force. And again, when you get that job,
It's at the pleasure of the president. Right. You were saying this earlier, Holmes, like under what circumstances would you think that Trump is going to keep Biden's people? Yeah. After what you've seen over the last four years. CNN treats these positions like it's some sort of tenured professor, professor emeritus, which in and of itself is an outlaw. Right. Right. Right.
But you're right. I mean, it's those. No, this is an untouchable class of stuff. Right. And the thing I like the most about the what Elon and Doge are doing and what Trump's doing with these these head positions is he's just rejecting the premise. Like, no, it's not some like tenured thing. And it's not that we want to make him partisan or responsive directly, but they're going to have to do something better than what they've done.
And if you can't, then we're going to find somebody else who can. And that's what's happening here. The media is acting like this is just insanity, complete insanity. I mean, who knows? The one thing I want to touch on before we go to a break –
You mentioned EPA, Lee Zeldin. There was a story that came out in the Free Beacon last week that was amongst the most wild things I've ever seen in my entire life, where the EPA, in a rush to try to get money out the door from the Inflation Reduction Act, which was a Green New Deal light, spent $2 billion on an organization that had been stood up three weeks before they got a grant. It was run by Stacey Abrams.
You know, this failed, you know, three time candidate, two time candidate for governor ran against Brian Kemp to try to administer grants that would go replace gas stoves in low income housing. Not a single one of them ever had any experience in stoves or environment.
I mean, like, think about... Two billion. Two billion with a B. That scandal of, like, this is just straight up. They were... The Biden administration was running the U.S. government using your tax money as just a slush fund to shovel money to friends and
and these left-wing causes of like a group that's created two weeks before they get $2 billion. Yeah. It's Stacey Abrams. This is cash and carry government. I mean, what's actually heartening about the whole thing, although it's obviously terrible and horrible, is like, it's nice being right. I mean, we've been telling, if you listen to this show every week for the last,
two years this is what we talked about yeah we talked about this vast left-wing dark money ecosystem that basically props up new industries yeah out of nowhere gas stoves were here to ban your gas stoves right and the left-wing media rolls their eyes and everyone says no one's coming for your gas stove and then oh lo and behold two billion dollars to a a failed daughter of the liberal left
who puts $100 in a bank account, and then suddenly the EPA puts $2 billion in an account at Citigroup that's going to be funneled to her. I mean, that is an insane thing. Like, in my wildest dreams, when we talked about it years ago, about how they orchestrate this whole system and move money around, I never thought they were that brazen to the total of $2 billion. Billion. Though, in the whole program, it's not like it was, like...
hey, we're here with a bag of groceries. We know that you're having a hard time and we want to help you. No, it's like, I want to get rid of your gas stove and replace it with this induction model that my friend who's building them happens to sell. You know what I mean? It doesn't actually help. Their energy secretary was making money off their buses that didn't work. This is their business model. This is their business model. All this...
green BS that they've been trying to force on the American public.
And it's the same thing with they spend billions of dollars to build these electric car chargers that don't exist. Right, right. This is all just handouts to their friends. The thing is it's like the next iteration of this cash and carry government smug. And we talked about this, Holmes, when we were reading the story. But we're old enough to remember Solyndra. Oh, yeah. Huge scandal out of the Obama administration. And Solyndra, horrible thing. And they ate shit immediately. Yeah.
But like, at least Solyndra was a business. Like, Solyndra, like, at least they had a deck. Like, they had something where they could be like, we're selling stuff. We're selling stuff. We are trying to do this. And the government, yeah, I mean, obviously stupidly was like, yeah, no, Chinese solar panels, yeah, we're going to put those all across the country, whatever.
Like, they don't even invent businesses anymore. They're just like, no, we're just going to literally pad the pockets of our friends. That's it. Do you know what Schlinger was? A $561 million loan guarantee. Yeah. This is $2 billion just cash in an account. Cash wired.
It's Citibank. It's just sitting there to be wired to Stacey Abrams to be like, well, you know the low income. Do you know how many Americans tax money that is? That just got wired to Stacey Abrams. Just a remark. Insane. Two billion dollars. Like, I know money gets lost, but like, billion? This organization was stood up for three weeks? Three weeks.
Three weeks. It's just like you have to understand because like we take the long view of all of this. And like I believe in my heart that the left wants America to be worse because they need it to be worse in order for government to be the solution that can fix it. And Stacey Abrams is like the poster child of making that happen. After Governor Brian Kemp passed that reform of the election laws in Georgia, they moved the All-Star game out of Georgia.
Yeah, because the shakedown racket at that point. Because of the shakedown. And like literally sucked out millions of dollars of revenue from that city, from people that you're now going to show up at their doorstep and be like, hey, I'm going to give you a free induction stove. Sorry, you don't have a job and your housing sucks. And we took out all this tax revenue from the city because this woman who lost two elections lied to all of us.
But here's an induction stove. Yeah, right. And that's the insanity of the movement. And by the way, I get the money, so I'm going to pick the contractors, and I can't imagine that ever comes back to me. I hope they steal that stove from you, Stacey Abrams. I hope they take it from you and they sell it off the street. It is just remarkable. But all of this is creating this unhinged bureaucracy. Mm-hmm.
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a New York Times profile. What's a douchebag from Connecticut? Chris Murphy. Yeah. Oh, God. Oh, profile. It's like, oh, we're going to profile this very important member of the Democratic Party. So easy to be a Democrat. And it is just like a very mediocre white guy. Probably the most wonder of Wonder Bread I've ever seen in my entire life, but occasionally shows up and says something incendiary, so people are like...
Yes. Yeah. You know, it's like the next Adam Schiff. Right. Basically, it's what he is. So like New York Times spread for sure. If you can beat that, Tina Smith, the senator from Minnesota, she just announced she wasn't running for reelection. This is one of I'm not kidding you. It's impossible to beat Maisie Hirono. She's in a category by herself.
But if you take her out of the equation, this might be the second most unimpressive member in the history of the United States Senate. She knows absolutely nothing. And she's like as articulate. I don't want to get into it, but she's absolutely horrible. Can't say what she thinks. It's like it's awful. She tweets this. The ultimate dick boss move from Musk, except he isn't even the boss. He's just a dick.
Oh, so this is in response to Elon. Right. And like this is a thing that we've seen now show up in three consecutive weeks of Democrats calling him a dick as if that's like new and innovative, edgy and fun. It's like, oh, look at I'm being cool. It's like how they tried saying that J.D.'s weird. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like they try to come up with something like, hey, that's brilliant. That's good messaging. Let's all just do this. And it's for what? It does nothing.
Like I saw polling this morning that 78% of Americans support Doge. And then this is, this is what you have to go against. It's really all they have dude, because they can't obviously defend all of the programs that Doge is targeting on merit. No. Right. And so he's a dick. You just got to talk about the guy trying to do it. You got to sort of disqualify the guy who's the hero of the story and turn him into a villain. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, look, this is for those of us who spend a little time in government at some high levels. If you couldn't ever get the guy, this is what you did. You tried to focus on the guy under the guy to try to cripple him politically, make a mess out of the organization and try to halt for progress. Right. Which is what they're trying to do with Elon. Well, yeah. And they've also done it trying to pit Trump and Elon against each other. Yeah. And when they did that joint interview with Sean Hannity, it's like.
Come on. Yeah, it's going to work. Well, and they know the game they're trying to play. You know, like the president knows. He's a master of the media. Totally. So it gets worse. Can we put this Glasser, Susan Glasser tweet up? Graphic four. She's so crazy. This one is unbelievable. Response to the firing from a former senior defense official. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs was fired immediately.
quote, just because he's black. It's insane. It's insane. There is no reason to believe what it is these people are saying. The best thing is, so the community notes for that instantly goes up and says, he was actually hired by President Trump. I know.
But the journal didn't even do a 30-second Google on who this general was. Nope. Before being like, ooh, let's put this take out there. Yeah. No, and they'll be like, oh, we're just reporting what the people are saying. Yeah. That's news. Well, it's just one of those things that's too good to check. It just happens to be the narrative that I'd like to wedge into the public discourse. Yep. Which is exactly what that is.
Let's put, remember this guy, Vindman? Yeah. So is it this cat or is it his brother that was responsible for the first impeachment of Donald J. Trump? I forget which Vindman it was. One just got elected to the House. Yeah. And his brother's the one that went after President Trump. Yeah. So recall he was the one who was the whistleblower.
Who decided that the perfect phone call was an imperfect phone call. Hard scrabble, normal person. It's unbelievable that we went through impeachment hearings about that whole thing, by the way. You had a president of the United States who was actually trying to extract something for a corruption inquiry. And somebody blew the whistle. And next thing you know, it was like a full impeachment inquiry. Anyway, graphic five.
The senior military officer purges will put our troops in danger. Trump put a part-time airman in charge of the military, jumping a slew of three and four star with 30, 40 years of military experience. Our enemy couldn't be happier. Oh, my God. Like, dude, let's go back and check the tape on the Joint Chiefs. Like, what? Like, what?
Like, what is it you think when you type that up? Like...
I will defend the honor of the blob. People waited their whole careers to be promoted. They were in line, damn it. You know what I mean? It's like, how out of touch do you have to be? How out of touch do you have to be with the results of the election of last November to seriously get all huffy and decide you're going to tweet about the honor of the next guy in line and how long he's done the job? They were in line, damn it. Yeah.
Why, I've gotten four stars on this uniform. My God. Then he attacks the actual guy that's currently in charge now. Yeah. And he's like, oh, well, if you attack the previous guy, that puts troops in danger. But I'm going to attack the current guy in charge. And that doesn't do anything. That doesn't put it in danger. No. No, I mean, it's just so back ass words. But it's the entire left at this point. And they can't take a pitch. They swing at everything.
Isn't that the most remarkable part about all of these stories? Is that there are some things where you're like...
Look, it's a 70% American issue. People are all on board for it. And then there's some things, you know, like the Elon email or whatever, where you're like, you always didn't really follow that. And you could see where you could create some issues. But each and every one of them, they're trying to barrel up. Yeah. Which is wild to me. That's the thing is Dems in the media, their strategy so far has to say is...
Everything's a crisis. They even create this constitutional crisis term. Everything's a crisis. You should panic when you hear this. Freak out. We've got the timpanis going on CNN. And the vast majority of Americans, when you just give them a wall of noise, they just tune out. And also, just like by way of history and all of this replacing generals thing, I mean, when Obama got into office, he relieved David McKiernan as commander of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The primary...
global conflict that we were involved in at the moment of his election, the guy you could argue most important in terms of trying to have some continuity between administrations. Right. An active military theater. Yeah. Gonzo. And then he replaced Stanley McChrystal, who had led special operations in Iraq and was in charge of like the whole ball of wax at that point. And he said he wanted fresh eyes.
And the media is just like, oh, yeah, fresh eyes. Everybody's like, oh, no, it makes sense. Whatever you say, Obama, we'll do what you want. He fired James Mattis as head of U.S. Central Command. Another capital idea. James Mattis didn't deserve to be there anyway. Obama, what do you want? Obama, we'll do what you want. But, like, you didn't hear about any of this stuff. No, never. It was by far more consequential of a decision than what the decision-making tree would be to...
fire any of the people that we're talking about under Trump at this point. It's just... They're so dishonest. It's just so bad. And they wonder why nobody watches anymore. Yeah. So, anyway, I think the question that we're looking at today in terms of a question of the day, on the Doge front in particular, we've seen this thing...
Go 99 percent in the right direction and then you'll get little little tidbits, you know, like Elon attacking Todd Young while Donald Trump's trying to court his vote for Tulsi Gabbard. And then like 10 minutes later, he's like, yeah, I talked to him. He's all good. We're good. And then you get, you know, this email over the weekend where it's like everybody send me your five point plan. And the cabinet secretaries are like, no, dude, like you got chill on all that stuff.
And it strikes me as like it just every once in a while just gets a touch beyond the remit.
Just a touch beyond the remit. As I said, 99% of it, fantastic. Keep doing that shit. Find the Social Security pieces. Like, that's not the problem. Find all of the USID was such a great thing to start with. Totally. All of those things. Like, just keep on going. We got to get into the Pentagon, by the way. I want to know, like, the 17 different accounting outfits that have not figured out paying a trillion dollars for a toilet seat doesn't make sense. Like, I want all of that. Like, keep going on all.
But stay focused on that and not so much on like the here's a new policy that, you know, I'm going to do with a five point plan to all federal employees. So our question for you, what would you do? What would you focus on if you if you were giving Elon, if you were his chief of staff and you were saying, what should Doge do next? You know what they've done up to this point and you know all the low hanging fruit that we've talked about for a long time within inefficiencies in the federal government. What would you be your advice?
Where should you go? Good question. You know? And, like, look, I think there's a lot. Yeah. And most, I would say all of these agencies, we mentioned the pushback on the employee note or whatever, but in terms of entrance into the cabinet agencies, every one of these cabinet heads are like, yeah, come on in. Come on in and do your work. No, I love that. Like, and I love the way you sort of described it, Holmes, like 99% of it is pitch perfect and you should keep doing it. I would consider it like...
If this was a ball club, it's like be the general manager, like look at the balance sheet and figure out like how you're going to pay for the roster. Yeah. Don't tell me who's going to play first base on Monday. Right. Right. You're not going to be the manager. You're not setting the starting lineup. Yeah. You know? Yeah. No, it's smart. It's smart. Anyways, that's our question. What should Doge focus on next? And when we come back, your comments, fantastic comments, great.
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Okay, once again, we had 500 on Thursday, a great party which we all had a lot of fun with. I'm sorry to those of you who couldn't get in. We had a limited number of people who could because, as we said, it was like playing on Red Rocks. This is the place that we first started doing live events, and so it didn't –
We would love to have had 10,000 people there, and now my understanding is that the wait list was quite substantial. But for those of you who made it, thank you. And for those of you who wanted to, promise we're going to get to something soon where everybody can get in. We can have a huge party. But you had some things to say. And as our question of the day, we always start –
With a voice. And as always, we like to say like and subscribe, like and subscribe if you wish to opine. And we always read these comments before we get to the back of the book segment here at the Ruthless Variety Program. I just added that. First one comes from Lisa Yeager. Lisa writes, congratulations on your YouTube award and the 500 episodes. I'm a huge fan and look forward to tuning in every single week.
Always great reporting, and thanks for making me literally laugh out loud every single episode. You all gave me hope this past year when I thought we were doomed for another four years with the dumb Dems. Keep holding the line and calling out those crazy-ass journos with a heart at the end. I love it. Lisa Yeager, I mean, just incredible. Just a 10 out of 10 comment there. What do we got, Duncan?
This one's from Tomorrow Web.
Tomorrow writes, your shows and your fellow podcasters are the real news now. Without you, who knows what would have happened during the last election? You brought light and humor into the landscape. So kind. That's a good summation of what we're doing here. I have one more thing real quick, Josh. We got a nice gift. I have one of these for all of you. We have a dedicated listener who actually attended our live show.
Oh, that's awesome. Firefighter here in D.C. No kidding. Can you give Wolf a little look at that hat? That is a first class. That is so cool. It's incredible, buddy. And, yeah, I'm not going to out him here, but he also provided us a very nice bottle of Whistle Pig, which we are enjoying currently. Oh, my gosh. That's fantastic. Just legend. Yeah, you got to love these people. Well, I mean, that's the great thing about the show, right?
You got some of the most powerful people in the world who listen to this thing. People all across the country. Firefighters. People working the oil fields. We are just across the entire country in so many different facets. It just turns out most people like to be normal. Like to have a normal take. Like to read the news and be like, hey,
This seems fucked up. Yeah. Or, hey, this is funny. Right. And then laugh about it. Right. Rather than getting it through an MSNBC lens. What do we got, Smug?
This comment three comes from Linda Frank. Linda writes, congratulations. Been watching this show since almost the beginning. Don't even know how I found it, but found MK through you. Oh, that's awesome. Love to start my Tuesdays and Thursdays laughing at the Dems. Love the animal stories, love the games, love the camaraderie, and feeling like part of the sane segment of society.
Thanks for all you do. Maybe take it a little easier on us Italians. Oh, Franco. Franco's got something to say about that. We had a lot of Italians. I'm actually surprised that you got in and out of Chicago without taking a beating. I'll give him credit, man. The food is incredible. Italians can cook. Can't say anything against that. What do you think of the pizza?
You're a Chicago-style guy? So that's the thing is, like, I wasn't offended by it. Like, I love New York-style pizza, sure. I just busted out fork and knife and went to town. Here's what I love about Chicago-style pizza. America's pushing the envelope. We're trying different things. We got Chicago-style. We got, you know, New Haven is a great place for pizza. Oh, yeah. It's not tomato pie. Detroit. Like, when in Italy—
You know, start innovating. I feel like they do one thing with some globs of mozzarella and some leaves of basil on it. America is constantly innovating. Yeah. You know, that's why we have the best pizza in the world. Right. They build one Sistine Chapel and they're like, okay, we're done. Oh, we're done forever. But here we have them on every street corner in this country. That's exactly right. Yeah.
I love it. And the Greeks probably provide a little insulation for you on that. Yeah, I just got to say, like, great town. The food is amazing. Amazing food. I was eating like a pig. Well, it's been a long time coming, fellas, but one of the worst liberals on all of television has been fired. Ooh. Yes. Love to hear it. We're going to get to all of that right after this.
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Oh, you know, so I have, again, every time one of these things happen...
I just, I have mixed emotions about it, fellas, because I look at, we're now in the window of Hack Madness, which is the tournament, for those of you who are new to this game, we picked 64 of the worst journalists in all of America, and we set up a March Madness bracket-style competition, which you, the listener, vote on, and advance them through their brackets. We've done this, what, five years? Yeah. Yeah. And...
It has been just an extraordinary success, something I think we all take great pride in. It's incredible. But there's always these strong contenders.
And time after time, they just don't have what it takes to last. It shows how difficult it is to stay on top. Yeah. And I'm going to make an argument here that just like a player who starts the season with their team and gets injured is still a part of that team during March Madness in basketball. Oh, interesting. I think because Joy Reid started this season. So there it is.
On TV, she is still a part of. So that's the news. That's the news that has broken. Joy Reid of MSNBC's show is canceled in a major shakeup of MSNBC. I dare to say it's probably going to take more than the firing of Joy Reid. But what an interesting situation. I mean, this is a lady who, remember, she had that blog. Smug, you followed this. Yeah. So this is great. So in 2018, Joy Reid's blog.
was found and it discussed how she was like,
Trans people are terrible. She doesn't care for the gay people either. And you can't, if you have a show on MSNBC, that's stuff that you can't say. So she tried to explain it as a time traveler hacked her, right? She tried that. And then for over a month, she stuck to the story. She was like a time traveler hacked it. And then she changed her story to, well, I don't remember writing any of this. And then for another month, she tries pushing that. And finally she had to issue an apology of being like, I don't recall who that person is. But MSNBC at this time,
was like, okay, cool. Like she kept the same time. Sometimes you have a time traveler hack you. She was like. They have their own rules. It's just proof that they have their own rules. They have their own rules. And it's also the rule of liberal media, which is you can be as offensive and incorrect on a daily basis as you can possibly be. But when nobody is watching, well, there is the crime. Also, I saw she was getting paid three mil a year.
Wow, really? My God. Three mil a year to lose half her audience after Election Day. So I have a couple of thoughts on this. Are you ready for this? Do you want to do that before or after she gives her benediction? It's going to be so much better after. Okay. Let's go to it. Let's go to it. Clip three.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Yeah.
That's a greatest hits album. So at the end of the clip, and we didn't get to it, though, is a, I think, her finest work. And that is on election night as Kamala Harris eats shit and is not doing better than Biden did in 2020 in any county and everything. And everyone there is just long-faced. And she's like, Kamala Harris ran the perfect campaign. Yeah.
And then proceeds to provide all of these proof points that back that up. She had all the Swifties. She had all the support. In such a short time, she ran the perfect campaign. And it's like, dude, she's got, like, she's better than Baghdad Bob. It's absolutely incredible. And, you know, so there's that. Also, and at the top, Holmes, you mentioned, like, you feel conflicted in this because, like, we're going to miss out on so much great content if she's not there.
there. I don't think she qualifies for Hack Madness. Oh, it's interesting. And I know Ashbrook is saying she qualifies. I kind of more consider it like Kajana Carter going down in preseason with an ACL tear. Like, he didn't play the rest of the games. He doesn't qualify. You can't be Rookie of the Year if you didn't start at Rutgers a number of games. That's exactly right. Look, he was drafted.
He's a great college player. Well, it's a Penn State. Yeah. For those of us who know, what he's done here is denigrate our friend Cincinnati Heritage at the same time buffering his Penn State allegiances. Well, I'm just telling you that that team that won that Rose Bowl and went undefeated should have been national champion. I knew it was coming. And it's offensive that they weren't. But.
Kajana Carter didn't play the rest of the season, and Joy Reid's not going to play the rest of the season. We can't see her in Hack Madness. What do you think, Smug? Do you think she should be in Hack Madness? I think it comes down to the tweets. Because here's the thing. They can...
They can take the show, but she's also been dropping these takes on Twitter. It's, I mean... But she's not employed. She's not currently going to be employed. That becomes a wrinkle in it. Yeah. Because, I mean, like, Keith Oberman could have been a number one seed every single year based on the tweets when he was unemployed. Yeah. You know? But he did make it into the tournament, which, you know, look, ultimately this is about you, the listener. That's what I think. Because you end up telling us, this is a good time. We're now two weeks out from having to field...
What is the greatest hack? And for all our new listeners, of which there are many, I would say, to borrow a phrase from Donald Trump,
it is a seeded bracket just like March Madness, and it's all those liberal hacks. So if you're watching this and you're like, what the fuck are these guys talking about? I don't blame you. I'm sorry. But in these coming weeks, you're going to learn so much more about it. Stay tuned on all that. But if you look at the past champions, you're talking about Jennifer Rubin, you're talking about the potato. First ballot hall of famers. Brian Stelter. Of liberal hacks. Right. Taylor Lorenz is involved. None of these people have a job.
Yeah. They all just invented new... I guess, does the Potatoes... Is he still working at CNN? They brought him back to CNN. He's still there? They brought him right back. They fired him and they brought him back. He didn't get the second axe yet? He's like Lazarus. But if you're picking 64 libs plus some play-in libs...
I just think that someone who's been on MSNBC spouting bullshit for years and years and years... She's going to have to stay active, John. I think she qualifies. She's going to have to stay active. To me, the most interesting part of this story is...
the thesis of what we've been saying for a while now of how Americans will get their information from reliable sources wherever they are. They're not going to just tune in to a cable news place like MSNBC. Like, the fact that, uh, uh,
Joy Reid lost half her audience after election day. That was half her audience being like, everything this lady said to me is wrong, is a lie. Yeah. Why am I watching this? And that's what these people don't understand. It's not. So if you talk to an awful lot of executives off the left, what they'll tell you is, look, there's a depression that happens with core audiences after a painful defeat. And it's going to take us a while to recover those people. Yeah.
That's not true. That's like half of the story. The other half is what you just said. And like we've experienced it on the conservative side. Like I remember Fox dealing with this after 2012. If the information you're getting, remember that was Dick Morris? Dick Morris would be on Fox every night saying at his poll show.
He was a former Clinton pollster, but he became like a conservative. But his polls show that Mitt Romney is winning this election by like six to eight points. And he would go on, you know, what seemed every night and talk about how the real polls show that Mitt Romney is going to win this race. So there was a false sense of security amongst conservatives. And they were shocked to find out Barack Obama won. So Dick Morris got fired. Like liberals don't do that.
I mean, this is actually the most interesting component to what we're seeing in the realignment of leftist media. It's not going to get better. They're going to find another Joey Reed, but they're going to find a different person to lie to. And also, so this... Dude, that is such a good point. Like, that is pitch perfect because you're right. Like, their business model is different. Conservative media is like...
You got to be accurate. And when you get it wrong, you've lost that trust with the audience because the audience matters. They don't give a shit about it. It's just like when the person's found out they're like the monorail man from Simpsons, like they got to leave town with the briefcase full of money. And it's like they got to find they got to find someone new.
that the people don't know is a liar yet. - Yeah, right. We have to figure that out in due time. - And the thing is, so MSNBC brought in this new executive, Rebecca Cutler, who's cutting jobs, good for them.
And what's his Jonathan Capehart? I think that's your name. Oh, he's going to MSNBC. No, I guess he had something there and they're getting rid of that, too. Hell yeah. And he's the guy who folks might remember when Hugh Hewitt was on the show. Right. Calling out who's wrong. They go back to Capehart and Capehart was like, how dare you correct me? Dude, huge W for Hugh Hewitt. That guy is a legend. Yeah. And right before we got on, news broke that Lester Holt.
Yeah, is getting an act. From NBC. There's a lot of, this has been a long time coming. I'm conflicted. It's accountability. I'm conflicted on Lester Holt. Let's hear your confliction. Let's hear it. My wife and I love Dateline. Oh, he has a good Dateline host. And the voice is just fantastic. Yeah, he's good at that. No, but here's the thing that I get to with all this. It goes back to our previous conversation, which is like,
Okay, Lester Holt, it's a little of the anchorman philosophy. You've got a guy there. He's probably only going to be as good as what you stick in that teleprompter. And if your story's
Night after night, take just a complete leftist imbalance of the world as it is. You only cover what's going on in fever swamps off the left. I don't care if you read the teleprompter one way or you read it a different way. Like the anchor is going to be affected by that.
Right.
So, like, I don't blame Lesh. But on the other hand, it's a conflicting feeling, right? Because you can only put out so many leftist broadcasts day after day, night after night before you want to see some heads. So this is an interesting little wrinkle here, too. It says in this article, this is from Variety discussing the whole firing of Joy Reid.
MSNBC is also looking beyond the network's existing roster of anchors to fill its programming lineup. MSNBC is considering on-air host positions for Eugene Daniels. Oh my god. A co-author of Politico's playbook. That guy's absolutely nuts. No way. Great friend of Ashbrook's, Eugene Daniels, who's just nutty.
So they haven't learned. They're not like, we're going to try to find reasonable people. They're like, not crazy enough. Oh, but that goes again, back to our point. Just like you guys said. They don't need somebody to do anything different. They need a different liar. Yep. That's it. That's, that's right. I think that what you just said, Holmes, is exactly, that's the nail on the head. And, and,
What we know about the media is they only attack a Democrat. And in this case, it's staff of their own companies. They only attack a Democrat when it's in service of another Democrat. You've been like a... And in their mind, they spent a year and a half...
trying to help Democrats win an election over Donald Trump, and it didn't work. And so somebody has to lose their job because of it and have to hire new people to try to beat the Republicans the next time. That is their only...
They're not doing anything different. There's nothing different about this. I mean, Eugene Daniels is a hysterical choice. I mean, that's one of the top five funniest things ever. Yeah, no, this guy's definitely got it. He plugged in. I'm rooting for it. I am too. No, he could be. It'd be content. He could be a madness. Get him a TV show. He could be. I don't think he's been a competitor in madness. He should be. He should be in there. Make sure Eugene Daniels is in the brackets. He should be in there. But to your point.
Like Jim Acosta, Jennifer Rubin, all of these people who rise to the top of hack madness. It's like Icarus. They're gone. They like rise so high and so quick. And then their wax wings melt in the sun. Yeah. And down they go. Because eventually, eventually, they're like, well, they're liars. Yep. And, you know, they're like, well, it turns out the rest of the country feels the opposite of what they've been representing over these years. Because Americans don't want to be communists.
And that's what these corporate media companies want our country to become. I can't... I'm just... I'm begging you people because you don't know what you have. You've got... You have a channel which millions of people subscribe to because they have to out of these cable bundles. Who knows how long that lasts? But like...
just rethink that whole thing. Like do not get the idea that you're putting Eugene Daniels into to replace Joy Reed and you think you're going to get a different product.
Maybe just do the news. Yeah. That's the one thing they're like, huh, just read the news. No. Absolutely not. Won't do it. Maybe that's why they're selling the thing for parts. Anyway, you guys want to talk airlines? Always. Always do. Always do. I mean, this is always one of our favorite things. The discount airlines have been having a time. It's been having a time.
Um, there's a graphic six that I wouldn't mind putting up just to preview all of it. So Southwest airlines is now telling people not to play music and videos on speakerphone as a part of their pre-flight instructions. So they're like, Hey, um, you know, the exit row, you gotta be whatever. You gotta open the door, uh, your seatbelt, uh, in case you're a fucking like
Somebody with an IQ under 20 plugs into this thing, and we feel the need to say that out loud in front of everybody, which drives me insane that they spend time speaking about that. Like, here, this part goes into that part. It's like, great. Well, if you don't know that, get the fuck off the plane. Anyway...
They've now added, please don't listen to a movie or a video or any kind of audio on your speakerphone on the plane. That had to be said. Yeah. We are at a distressing point.
in American aviation. Yeah, I think we're still dealing with the long tail of COVID, and I think people have forgot how to act in public. You think that's it? No, sincerely, I really don't. Smug, I want to get your thoughts on this. I think people just... Is that true? Yes. I think the problem here is...
Too many people are allowed to fly. Right? I've said this before. What used to happen is, okay, we're taking the family on a road trip, load up the station wagon.
Now, what they want is load up the family on a Southwest flight. It's a zoo in there, right? You're going to have people being animals when you're in the zoo. And this is it. If you have to tell people, please don't play your music on a loudspeaker while we're trying to fly a plane with other people in here. Like, why are they in a plane in the first place? Yeah.
You know? What do they do? There's a place in America for if you want to travel with no rules. It's called a Greyhound. Get on the Greyhound and go crazy on that thing. Everyone expects that. You know what you're signing up for. What do they do with that? Yeah. When they load up on the Southwest, they don't even assign seats. I didn't know this until like a year ago. They don't even assign seats. It's basically like...
The stewardess throws the hay in the back. All right, let the animals in. Cattle call time. And they all just come stomping in and fighting each other. They got their 40 bags to throw up in the overhead compartments. 40 bags? There's no laws on these things, right? 40 bags? Yeah. Like, what are you doing? Are you moving? Like, why do you need 40 carry-ons?
I gotta say, Smug, I owe you an apology. Because when we travel to go do a show with Smug, I always made fun of him because...
We're just hanging out. We're trying to have a conversation. Smug has over-the-ear headphones he travels with. A situation like this, entirely appropriate. If you don't have those, you can put the noise cancellation on an AirPod. It's not the same. It's not the same. It's not the same. No, you need the full-blown.
over the year situation. But then he's also got this dramatically impressive feature where he sits down in his seat, settles his things, and then
No, yeah, yeah, yeah. He shuts down. He can just shut it down. He can just put it on sleep mode. Like, you haven't even taxied away from the jet bridge. He's off. And he's offline. And his hands just sit there like this, folks. He's like a sphinx. Yep. And I'm telling you, all credit to my parents. They're like, if you're traveling, if you're a child traveling, I don't want to hear a single P. You don't make a sound. You can either have a book or you can go to sleep. And I chose the latter. Yeah.
So like, you know, you got enough problems on the planes and whatnot, but it's not confined to the planes. And I think to your point, you're walking through an airport. You can get a disturbance in there, too. Can we play clip four?
Okay, what you're watching is a massive fight breaking out at a Spirit Airlines counter in the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport. There are people on chairs throwing punches. This is like Royal Rumble over here. Why are they fighting? I mean... Because low-cost airlines are a PVP zone. That's what it is. Anything goes.
What's a... Player versus player. It's like, you know, you're in Call of Duty. You can just hunt each other. Well, Smug, Smug, I understand that. I understand how a fight can happen between two people. It's stressful sometimes to travel, especially when there's delays. But what struck me about that video...
How are there that many people that have a vested interest in the outcome of this fight? I'm getting involved. I mean, there's like 50 people there. Yeah, they're all throwing, too. Every one of them is like, I could go to jail for this, and it's worth it. Could I get Graphic 7 from that video? An even better Journey Begins here. All they needed was the steel chair, and it was legit Royal Rumble.
The graphic really makes it. It's so, ah. Is it too much? We've posited this question before, but like there's got to be somewhere in the middle between like taking a $50,000 private flight of which no one can afford and the $350 to like $800 ticket where you got to go through the airport with like brawls and speaker phones. Yeah. Like is there no one in this country that can create an airline that
where we just have a lounge seating and you could have a cigarette, like a gentleman. Too many people are allowed to fly. That's it. It's the bottom line. Like now the product on airlines, even first class is so deplorable. It's horrible what you get for first class. But what you're actually paying for is so you're not in the back with the Royal Rumble. You know, you're just trying to fall asleep on your plane, not catch a steel chair to the head.
Like, that's what you pay for. So you're not in the back with the fight. They put the curtains out and then the animals go at it. That's it. How do they do the hay again? They just throw the hay out there and then the animals go in. Like you're feeding the ducks at the pond. It's so good.
It's so good. Anyway, that's our airline segment. Remember our question of the day. What should Doge do? If you're the chief of staff over there, what would you instruct Elon to focus upon? Because I feel like your answers, we've got a lot of listeners over at Doge. We have listeners in the White House. Perhaps you make a real difference or perhaps you're just very funny. And either way, you're probably going to make the program as long as you like and subscribe to the YouTube channel, of which thank you for the help.
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With that, fellas, I think we've done it. I think so. Absolute banger of an episode. Gentlemen, again, thank you so much to our listeners and YouTube viewers. Thank you so much. Like and subscribe if you wish to opine. So until next time, minions, keep the faith, hold the line, and own the lives. We'll see you on Thursday. Stay ruthless.