Uncovering BIAS In Boulder Terrorist Attack Coverage: A Deep Dive

this guy basically threw molotov cocktails at him tried to burn him tried to kill him and then had this whole scene much of what you've seen in video we're not going to play it because we don't dignify that but like It was basically like free Palestine. And I saw this thing on Twitter, which I thought was fascinating. It was like free Palestine is basically the modern day hell healer. And it jars you.

When you hear that, because it's a Democratic Party constituency in the age of the media, the corporate media as it is today, there is a permission slip.

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attention please keep the faith hold the line and own the lids it's time for our main event Good Tuesday to you. Welcome back to the Ruthless Friday program. I'm Josh Holmes along with Comfortably Smug, Michael Duncan, and John Ashbrook. Left to right across the radio dial, as always. Big week back here in Washington. Congress is back in session. Big things to do, but there's also just a lot of things that happen over the weekend you ought to know about.

We're going to have some fun here on this program, too. The first thing, obviously, incredibly ridiculous.

attack in Boulder, Colorado. You've heard us talk a lot about this ever since October 7, if not before, just about where political... violence in this country has stemmed from, the left, cheat code, and how that's manifesting itself in this particular day and age, intersectionality and such, which has become...

Absolutely ridiculous. And this one, in so many ways, is we're going to explain all of it. We're going to explain a little bit what happened, but then the media coverage of it, which I think outrageous. I think it will give you a good. of why we've been so fired up about this topic for a couple of years now? I mean, really forever, but as watching the left become just an anti-Semitic...

It's really become something. We're going to talk a little bit about that. We got a great guest today. We were invited to do the Great American Road Trip kickoff. From the Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy. And so we went out, headed on out. out into this field, basically, in front of the Department of Transportation. We did a car show and all kinds of different things that we participated in. Had a great conversation with Secretary Duffy.

Whale of a guy. It was an incredible conversation. Within two seconds, the guy was busting balls. Yeah. He understands us like few people do. Totally. I love talking to him. Totally. You guys had a good time with that. Well, I mean, I remember we got the message. They were like,

Secretary Duffy's office wants to know if you guys want to come hang out at a car show. Yes! I immediately was like, yes! 100%. And it was even more fun than I thought it was going to be. It was awesome. It was also a great kickoff to, you know, America 250, the celebration of America. with that anniversary coming up. Got to see a lot of really cool...

Cars, a Winnie. There was a Cybertruck with an Airstream attachment. I don't want to spoil the whole thing, but you're going to want to see that. You're going to want to see that. So we got a big interview on that. And then we obviously do Variety, which I've come to find out.

Like over the weekend, we get – as one does, you text and you slack. and there's different things that come across your radar and you're kind of having some yucks. The last few weekends, Smug is like just pulling deep. If something hits my algorithm on one of my feeds that I think is a bad thing, anger. It's going in there and we're going to have one for Friday day.

So he's doing all that. Let's start with the serious stuff. We'll get the veggies up front for you. We'll get the veggies up front for you. You know, not any sense in talking about the world of sports. We're waiting on the Stanley Cup. We're waiting on the NBA. NBA Finals, you know, much what governs us on a weekend, not relevant. But what is relevant is the news that happened over the weekend, Boulder, Colorado. So FoxNews.com reported Boulder, Colorado suspected terror attacks.

Solomon faces hate crime and murder charges. If you haven't seen this story, you just need to get familiar with it because it speaks. It's not just a random act of violence.

Comes on the heels of a lot of different attacks upon Jewish people. You saw the shooting and killing of two people in Washington, D.C. a couple of weeks back outside of a... an Israeli, what was it, a museum? Museum event, yeah, for the Israeli embassy, I believe. Right, right. And what we've been saying forever is, like, you don't understand, like, this thing is deeply rooted. This is not...

A situation where you've got a few loose cannons, which like the Nancy Pelosi's and Chuck Schumer's would like you to believe that there's a few loose cannons within the Democratic. And also, don't forget, it's coming that attack. those two murders are coming on the heels of the governor of Pennsylvania having the governor's mansion firebombed by the same free Palestine.

Crew. Yeah. So we've been saying basically since October 7 and then watching what was initially the Biden administration's response. That was, I would categorize it initially as responsible. Immediately, this is our ally. We'll stand with our ally. We'll do what we need to do. And then you watch the degradation of support. over Israel and what needed to be done to eliminate Hamas. And then everything you see in the Middle East, all the fighting that we've all kind of grown up watching.

that happened overseas suddenly happens here in America. Yeah. I mean, to me, that's the most troubling thing is it's been allowed to creep from the media having an obvious pro. this free Palestine becomes the thing that like the young people in the slack at the New York Times and everything are pushing. That became like their movement of like, okay, now we got to make sure everyone's pushing this nonstop.

Today you saw them starting to rip posters down of like kids who got kidnapped in New York and how quickly that transformed into. You've got the governor's mansion being firebombed. You've got people being shot on the streets of D.C. You've got molotiles being thrown on people in Colorado, and they're all chanting the same thing. It's like, this is now a violent...

Problem. These are violent terrorists, and this whole situation needs to be treated as such, and the way the media has been treating it is disgusting. It's completely disgusting. But if you take a step back, it's entirely predictable.

When you have a political party in this country that is basically giving a permission slip for this belief that somehow there are two moral sides. to this discussion. I mean, just recall, October 7, you had Hamas indiscriminately raping, murdering, killing everybody from babies to the elderly.

uh because they could and because it was what they said they were sworn to do and any response that you had to any of that that was the war crime and then it's gotten more and more and more predominant within democratic philosophy to the point where Kamala Harris can't pick Governor Shapiro. as a vice presidential nominee for fear of offending that core constituency of the Democratic Party. Well, and then you had Democrats having to say...

You know, these college kids chanting Intifada, Intifada on campuses and targeting Jewish students and locking down buildings, maybe they make some good points about peace. In the Middle East. It's insane. You hear them say globalize the Intifada, which is the point you were making.

And all of a sudden it's globalized. All of a sudden it's happening in Colorado. It's happening in Pennsylvania. It's happening in Washington, D.C. But if we're being honest, the reason why it's globalized in the United States is because there is a constituency for it that was.

not treated as like say the KKK amongst The Republican Party. Right. Anytime anybody accuses the Republican Party of racism and there's some like one off. white supremacist who endorses a Republican somewhere. You get a Republican party that immediately mobilizes like, no, no, no. We don't want that as a part of our coalition. We're not interested in it.

And then there's a residual set of stories like how not interested are you in it? Like, well, maybe your messages are misconstrued because they clearly think they're a part of your movement. And you have to go out of your way for a series of weeks as a Republican.

and to say, no. I mean, the way that they tried to push that hoax that many Americans still think exists, the Donald Trump lie about flying people on both sides. That's the way the media treats it. Yeah, I mean, that's the way they treat it when it... resides within what is perceived to be, not even actually in existence, but perceived to be the American right. On the American left, we've had people who have

had all out calls for the extinction of Jewish people on this planet. And they're like, we don't want to offend them. They're a core constituency. And you don't get, nobody has to answer the question. Nobody has to say like, No, we don't want that as a part of our coalition. That's not who we are. In fact, it went so far as to reach the highest office in the land, the vice president of the United States, who is actually trying to choose one person.

that would supplement their candidacy best in 2024. And the person that everyone knows would supplement their candidacy best can't get the job because, wait for it. They're Jewish. And they're worried about how that would impact Dearborn, Michigan. Or they're worried about how that would impact grassroots donors to their cause. But that's a real thing.

So if you take that forward and knowing that there is now a constituency that has not been relegated to the extreme fringes of society, it's basically – embraced at some level. I'm not saying the violence has been embraced but I'm saying the ideology. at some point has been embraced. It's not surprising this shit is happening. I will tell you that there are a lot of conversations out there about the money that is flowing.

Money that is flowing to universities, money that is flowing to their parties, money that is flowing to their candidates that makes people wonder if. There's a reason why Democrats all of a sudden are against Jewish people. I mean it's just – you don't need to wonder about it. They've told you. They've told you. And it's whether it's money or whether it's votes, whether it's a it's a base. And I've said it for like three years now that Hamas is a constituency of the Democratic Party.

in this country. It just is. Either you wake up to it, acknowledge it, or you don't. And if you don't, you're just...

All you're doing is emboldening this situation. So listen a little bit about this. The violence on Sunday against a pro-Israel group advocating for Hamas. This was a group of like elderly people. elderly people children it's in boulder colorado like they're not it's just not the national mall in dc right some people are taking a little bit of time on a sunday right to express their view that the

that the hostages that Hamas continues to hold should be released. Well, what happened was this guy basically threw Molotov cocktails at him. tried to burn him tried to kill him and then had this whole scene much of what you've seen in video we're not going to play it because we don't dignify that shit but like it was basically like free Palestine

And I saw this thing on Twitter, which I thought was fascinating. It was like, free Palestine is basically the modern day hell healer. And it jars you when you hear that. You know? it jars you. Like it's, that's like an emotional response and it's kind of like hard to process. But if you think about it,

In practice, is there a real difference? Well, it's like what Ashbrook always says. They're not chanting, two-state solution, two-state solution. No. What they actually are calling for is the eradication of the state of Israel and Jewish people. And the guy was here. illegally. He came here under the Biden administration and overstayed and violated his visa here illegally. He's holding two Molotov cocktails in his hands while he's on video. And you have to wonder.

Is he the only guy here in America?

Right now, today, who is capable of doing something like that, who is here illegally like this. This is the biggest problem that I have on our illegal immigration. It is not just the people flowing over from Guatemala. Yes, that's something the president. But there are North Africans or Uzbeks or guys from Tajikistan who are 23 years old who came over our border to do us harm. And nobody's talking about them. Well, and not just the border. It's the visa overstays.

What was identified here is that he came in on a tourist visa or whatever, and he was supposed to be in the country for five days, and then they just don't leave. And then they apply so that they can stay. And then they do shit like this. That's the thing. So this guy was an illegal, like we've already mentioned. But you look at the timeline. that DHS has given on this guy. And not only did he get in under the Biden administration, his visa expired in February of 2023.

But after that, in March of 2023, the Biden administration then gave him a work permit. They're like, oh, well, we know you're here illegally or overstaying your visa, but here.

We'll help you out anyways. This comes on the heels of a very real discussion with the media thought they just had the Trump administration. And Marco Rubio had to field these questions where they were talking about college students. They came here who were advocating free Palestine, and they were creating riots on campus.

major damages in universities, making Jewish students at universities feel like they couldn't attend those universities at all. Many, many... testimonials to that effect and his point was you don't have a right to come into this country particularly when you are advocating for something that is not only disruptive but violent

to our people. And the media was like, that's the First Amendment. That's the First Amendment. They can say whatever they want. We're required to import foreign nationals and educate them in our universities. We're required.

Exactly. And if you lived through 9-11, you think back to the late 90s and early 2000s when people came to this country. And you wish the government had done a little more spade work on who these people were. that are coming into our country. You know there are thousands of people who are here right now who have the exact same intentions for us, regular old American people, and the people who are listening to this show, exact same intentions as the...

Saudis who flew those planes into the trade center. It's true. They hate us. And they're here. And the libs want them to stay. And President Trump and his administration are trying to kick them out. I really hope they succeed.

I understand why we can't just be rational about this. It's like, okay, if you are visiting a country, if you are that country's guest, what country can you go into and you're like, you know what? I want to show up and I want to start riots. I want to tell the country.

that they are genocidal maniacs. I want to radicalize a generation of them to ensure that they hate the country as much as I do. You can't do that if you go into other countries. No way. You shouldn't do that if you come into this one. But the media thinks... It's like your obligation. Yeah. Like you show up to a campus here. You better start riots. Like, are you for real? Right. Well, it's youthful indiscretion after all. If you come to this country as this country's guest act.

Right. Act like you want to be here, respect the people who are here, respect the rules that are here, keep the peace. You're a guest. Yeah, the mindset of the media is like, no, there's a plaque on the Statue of Liberty that says you're allowed to terrorize us. It's unreal. It totally is.

But what really makes this grip is what we're about to get to in how all of this is reported and commentated upon. So in the face of the growing trend of these horrific anti-Semitic attacks, again. Not new. It's been going on for quite some time. The media and top Democrats continue to do everything possible to muddy the water, downplay these attacks, make this sort of unclear.

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that we just discussed in the first segment. They're bad enough. And we gave you our perspective on why it is that all these are happening. It's basically a permission slip. Whether you want to acknowledge it or not, we're willing to say it. There's a permission slip in American political culture where the Democratic Party has suggested this. This is a significant constituency in a way that is entirely divorced from how we have handled radical, violent constituencies in a two party system.

in this country going back to like bull Connor. Yeah. Right. I mean, we have done a pretty good job of isolating this entire, I don't care who you hate. and who you want to commit violence against, we've done a really good job of pointing it out and making parties be like, we're not a part of that. Until now.

Because it's a Democratic Party constituency in the age of the media, the corporate media as it is today, there is a permission slip. So let's just take a look. Let's see how they handle these things. Graphic one, please, if you wouldn't mind spaghets. Okay, this is interesting. Multiple Gaza hostage awareness marchers. Gaza hostage awareness marchers? Gaza hostage...

Awareness marchers injured in Boulder. What did Obama say? Easter celebrators? Or what did he call it? What is wrong with you people? So the Gaza hostage awareness marchers, for those of you who are a little slow on the uptake, they're Jewish people. They're Gaza hostage awareness folks. There are many of us who are aware of the hostages in Gaza who are not being firebombed by a radical fucking Islam. The people here in question, they're just Jewish.

Including, if I'm not mistaken, a survivor of the Holocaust. Yeah. Which is what we're talking about here. This is very specific and very intentional. about who it is they were trying to harm. They're not Gaza hostage awareness marchers. They're a juice. What a line. They're a juice. By the way, we would have saved you a bunch of characters in that headline. Right.

Phineas would have said juice. I mean, we all know what they're doing. They're trying to minimalize it. They'll do anything in their power to not say those words. Minimalize it and blur the lines of who's the victim. They want you to be looking at that story and be like, oh, I don't know. Sounds like there's just some random acts of violence out there. The good news about social media and things that we do and everything else is that you can shame.

some of these corporate entities into changing it. I don't know if it's a lot better, but it's a little better. They changed their headline. Suspect charged with murder after a fire attack on Israeli hostage advocates in Colorado. OK. More true. Touch better. Yeah. Touch better. But again, if you look at what we're about to present to you, there's a difference between journalism in terms of.

uh supporting one point of view or another there's another about journalism omitting the key fact and it is a It's the most insidious. It's the most insidious. The lie by omission is the most insidious. It is the most insidious. It is. Why not write terrorists throws Molotov cocktails at Jewish boomers in Park in Colorado? Yeah. Like, like, literally. It makes no sense unless you are driving to a point that you think like they're supporting one side. Radical, illegal Islamist extremists.

attempts to kill Jews in Boulder, Colorado. I mean, that's what happened there. That's what happened there. Like, why don't you just say that? Anyway. We got more. CBS decided to have a submission in this in Graphic 3, not surprisingly. Attack at Boulder's Pearl Street Mall in Colorado burns several people. It's amazing. Police say. Police say. So you have to believe the police.

Not your lion eyes. There's no details on this attack. It's not like the guy was screaming anything to give any hint at what could have caused this. They're like, oh, and the police said it. I got to say CBS News. Truly on a generational run of being terrible. Oh, God. It's like Jordan in the 90s. I know. I mean, it's nothing but net. So the subheader, several people burned. Several people suffer burn injuries after an attack on a Colorado male.

Police say. Take their word for it. A suspect in custody. That's all. Okay. That's all they can report on that. Random person. Well, you know, just in local flavor news. You know, some suspect did something. Yeah. This also. People shoplifted some things in Wichita over the weekend. Yeah, right. You know what I mean? Like that has no bearing from a national standpoint. They know that you have to file it as a national news story because it has impact. But they're not telling you.

what's happening. And the omission, that's what journalism is. Journalism is ultimately informing the American people about what's happening that has significance. In their lives. It's not a national news story unless it has some significance. That's what national means. Even the basics, the who, what, when, where, why, how, they try to not have a single one of that in the headline. We have where. We have wear. That's it. It raises the question, why? Is there money changing hands?

And there has never been a full accounting for the amount of money coming from anti-Semitic forces into these taxpayer-licensed... Broadcast organizations. I think that there should be. All that grant money that they get from overseas, they love it. It's a decent question because, look, graphic four. This is CNN. They felt they need to put in quotes.

around peaceful when describing the pro-israel demonstrators that is so nuts these are the these are the elderly victims i added One of them was an actual Holocaust survivor. And the way that they – put that thing back on the screen so people can see it. A man reportedly set – People on fire in Boulder, Colorado, leaving multiple individuals injured. The city's police chief said as people gathered for a, quote, peaceful, unquote.

Pro-Israel demonstration. So it's not about – like if you inverse what happened, the demonstration here is what's – Of concern because it's – I don't know. Was it peaceful or not? The person who decided to try to murder these elderly people. Right. They're not in that subhead. Like the instigator of the violence is the protest. It wasn't even a pro-Israel. This was for the hostages.

This is asking hostages to come back. And they're like, well, it was pro-Israel. Exactly. Because they want to automatically try to taint that in your minds. Like, this is a political thing. This is a political thing. This could have been peaceful. Exactly. They were like, was that old lady's shirt too...

Too short. Too short. No, no, no. Did she have it coming? Right. Exactly. That's the way it was written. Can I read you guys something that caught my attention over the weekend? Please. So the New York Times.

At the exact same moment that this. Boulder terrorist attack was playing out on Twitter and on X. And everybody was learning about it and sharing news at the exact same moment. The New York Times sent out a push alert. What did their push alert say? Six people were injured. I'm sorry. Hold on a second. 26. I'm sorry. At least 20 Palestinians were shot and killed and 100 others were wounded. According to Palestinian officials, this is something that happened in the Middle East.

And that's what they were reporting on at the moment from the Gaza Health Ministry. It wasn't until 9.59. So that was at 6.22 p.m. that push alert went out. OK, right when this was being reported, it wasn't until almost 10 p.m. at night for five hours later that they reported on what happened in Boulder, Colorado. What makes this worse? What we found out about that initial push alert was that the story was false. It wasn't even real? No. I mean, the story at least...

26 Palestinians. This is a CNN. At least 26 Palestinians were killed after Israeli forces opened fire near a Gaza aid distribution center, the Palestinian Red Crescent said today. We have since found out that is not a true story. And Israel itself has provided video evidence to suggest this was not accurate. It was, in fact, Hamas that was doing. What they accused Israel of doing. What is going on in our media?

That they rush to tell the story of Hamas and they won't even talk about regular old Americans. For two years we've talked about this, though. Do you remember, like, we had great yucks. On our commentary post-October 7, when you would get this balanced story out of the New York Times where they'd be like, here's what happened in the news today. And Hamas says... And then it would be like a Hamas reinvention of reality. And they would treat it the same as they were treating Benjamin Netanyahu.

Reliable narrator, Hamas terrorist organization. They bombed the hospital. Well, it turns out they didn't bomb the hospital. Remember that? Yeah. You know, and like, of course it's not true because they are fucking liars. They've been like, they're terrorists. These people like literally live to kill people. They surround themselves with innocent people in order to be more difficult.

difficult targets as they committed attacks against Israel. But I was told by NBC and CNN and the New York Times, their greatest concern is disinformation in this in this Internet age. So why is it they're being swept up by this disinformation? Well, maybe because Hamas is a constituency.

Of the Democratic Party. It just is, folks. Until you get your eyes open to this, you're not going to understand why this would be like, do you think? That like Baghdad Bob was going to get a pushback headline in the New York Times about like, well, Baghdad Bob says the American forces aren't anywhere near. Baghdad as bombs are going off behind him. No, because there was no constituency in it for them. Everybody was on the same team at that point. In this point, they're not all on the same team.

They've created a constituency within the Democratic Party of which all these publications have a huge constituency. They don't – like we don't read this. Like we read it so you don't have to. None of you are listening to this. are like subscribing to New York times and being like, what is it that they have to say about this?

Like maybe the truth. Maybe the truth is there. They don't – you know that. You've already known that the truth doesn't exist within these publications. So their whole goal is to service their constituency. Their constituency. It's Pro Hamas! It is. And I will go back to something that really concerns me. And, you know...

Twitter and social media and the rise of citizen journalists has replaced the need for legacy media. Right. Am I right about this? People are going to different sources than the traditional legacy. media. And so do you think that that means that traditional legacy outlets are scrambling for resources from places they maybe previously wouldn't have sought? It's entirely possible. It's entirely possible.

I don't know if we can prove that or not, but I think the overseas grants are insane that these places get. I mean, those have been public from the NGOs of like, oh, and now we're going to give a grant. And these are major corporations getting these grants. It's like, oh, the grant is being given to Bloomberg.

for reporting on it's like bloomberg they're owned by one of the richest man on earth they don't need grant money are you serious well maybe they want to take it and then the person who's giving this grant might have a viewpoint that they need to be shared

You've seen it tons, tons of that. And I think some of the clarity that we have on this are we're people who live through 9-11. We're people who live through the ramp up of 9-11. To know that this is. Not just sort of an idle he said, she said discussion. There is an entire population of terrorists funded by Iran.

who are trying to do real harm within the United States all the time. I mean, literally all the time. And this isn't some, like, weapons of mass destruction discussion. Like, this is just what it is. We've come to grips over this over the last 25 years. This is not an idle international diplomacy conversation. This is very clearly one of the moral questions of our time. You may ask yourself, like, how does it affect me?

Like, why do I give a shit whether Israel's got trouble with Hamas or whatever? I don't live in Israel. I don't have any relatives in Israel. If that's your look, I'm sorry if that's your perspective. But if that is your perspective. Consider for the fact that, like, I don't know, it's our only steadfast ally in a region that has been waging attack.

on western allies in every single country that is an ally of the united states including the united states for now 25 years 30 years they have does that matter to you Probably doesn't matter until two planes hit the World Trade Center. Right.

Exactly. But you live through that and all of a sudden you get a different perspective about something like that. Now we're 20 years removed, 25 years removed from that situation. Right. And so that may not hit home in the same way that it does us who watch that.

But if you look at the placation of terror, as one did in the early 90s, and you look at the ramp up of what people are trying to do and create constituencies of... ambivalence within the united states about whether or not we have moral clarity on something like this it's exactly the same it is dude and it's terrifying it can happen again

It really can. And I think that anybody who thinks otherwise is fooling themselves. They're crazy. It's just it is what it is. You don't have a dog in the fight until all of a sudden. 3,000 neighbors get killed with a plane into the tube. biggest buildings in your neighborhood that's exactly right man it's terrifying and it absolutely can happen here because the people who have been let into our country hate us

Trump really needs to redouble the efforts and make sure that they are not here. And I sincerely hope that that's something they're focused on. Can we speak about like the danger that this country faces? This is good. Yeah.

Can I get clip one? I think that the press conference that we saw, one thing was abundantly clear is they, the local authorities, and I'm not sure we got the name of that person who was speaking. He seems to be a chief or somebody in charge there.

Yeah, he is really being very, very careful. And I think that's the right approach at this point. They don't... have a clear idea that they're willing to communicate to the rest of the world yet of even exactly what happened, who was there, how they were attacked with fire.

and what the purpose or the motive of that attack might have been. So he was very, very clear to say that they're not drawing any conclusions about terrorism or anything else at this point. They're trying to figure out who they have in custody and what that person might have done. and who he was trying to hurt with that action.

It's hard to imagine that the FBI has more or better information at this point to kind of rush out with the conclusion within like 10 minutes after we all started hearing about this, that it's a targeted act of terror. Look, it's one thing to use the word alleged. It's another thing to not want to rush to the cameras with the name of a person. It is something completely different to just sideswipe the.

whole thing that is happening in our country. And this guy was in charge of the FBI for quite some time. An organization that's tasked with keeping us safe, first and foremost. Isn't that the entire point? This guy who used to run things at the FBI is right now being like,

Let's not rush to conclusions, folks. We have an illegal immigrant, Mohammed Sabri Salman, who is shouting, free Palestine. We don't know what caused this. What could have done it? What could be his motive? Do you think, I mean, maybe a misrent payment. Disgruntled man. Oh, yeah.

disgruntled Colorado man turns out his wife broke she broke things off he has a huge payment that he's doing I mean this is this is a guy who was at the FBI being like whoa why is the FBI rushing the cash needs to slow down They have signs that say free the hostages. This guy shouts free Palestine, throws fire on him, and he's like, it could be anything. Is it not terrifying that a guy like that was in charge of the FBI for a period of years?

While all of these people were flowing over our southern border, coming in like this Egyptian guy who ultimately was throwing Molotov cocktails. Like, it's no wonder why that guy got through. Why is this guy here? I mean, last week. Great question. Why is this guy here in the first place? I remember last week Democrats were complaining that FBI has been helping DHS with deportations. This is why. This is why. Right.

All right. So the second clip we want to show you, Jamie, you're asking, you'll remember him from the impeachment hearings. This guy's commitment to truth is less than anything that I have ever encountered in. Which is saying something. That's a lot. That's like a – we're in a shift level stuff here. But what he does because he – look, he's a Jewish guy. What he's doing here is – Positively contemptible. Clip two, please.

We are still in the midst of a gun violence epidemic. So we need to be acting with due concern for human life. I mean, this is why, of course, we have been. fighting for a universal violent criminal background check. We are for a ban on military-style assault weapons in the country. You know, our lax gun laws are a danger to everybody in America. And that's something that we can act with some legislative determination to turn around.

Bro, someone throws Molotov cocktails and the dem runs out and he's like, it's time for gun control? Like, are you for real? Exactly. If anything, the gun violence epidemic is not strong enough because there should have been somebody in the crowd to gun this asshole down. There should have been gun violence.

It's the fact that he was apprehended in and of itself after throwing Molotov cocktails at elderly people. He should have been gunned down. Right. You know, like where I came from, that probably happened. And I would imagine, like, Colorado, any place other than that. No, Colorado's gone blue. It's falling. No, it terrifies you if you live in a blue state where you're not allowed to have firearms to protect yourself. All of a sudden, like, you know that's where the terrorists are.

looking for well there was a time when i was growing up there when colorado was a red state you think you think you'd have these illegals able to take apartment buildings no no hell no you'd have been now look what's happened yeah no it's true but listen i mean this is the whole

picture that we thought you ought to see because it's gone back now for two years that you've been listening to us to talk about this larger picture. This isn't just a one-off moment. Where you're like, wow, there's a crazy person who did crazy things. Media screwed up and how they characterize it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not saying it's intentional from everyone. It's intentional from some people.

But the omission of the fact that Hamas is a constituency of the Democratic Party has given license to people like this. Literally admission to this country. For people like this to come in and do something like that. Right. And until you wrap your mind around that, you don't really understand the consequence of what it is that we're dealing with. This isn't just bad journalism. This isn't just like politicians you disagree with. It's a permission slip.

For people to firebomb the governor's mansion, to kill two people in Washington, D.C., to throw Molotov cocktails at senior citizens of Boulder, Colorado. And God knows what's next. It is, dude. And I hate to keep coming back to September 11. But the fact remains, every single year, people stand at the memorial and they read off the names of the dearly departed. And the hope is that everybody remembers what happened, remembers the names and the people who lost their lives in the hopes.

that it never happens again. And we're always supposed to remember. We're told to remember. We're supposed to never forget what happened that day in hopes that it won't happen again. And what guys like that will do is let it. And it is the worst thing that can happen in our country. We absolutely have to. We have to be vigilant. You know, who cares what names people call us?

Listen, it's well said. Our question of the day is what can President Trump do here to stop what is very clearly an Islamic extremist agenda that is... perpetrated within our university system. People are not necessarily even identified with Islam. It's the whole intersectionality of the left. The whole idea that anybody but a white person is to be defended and everyone else is to be murdered. And where that is manifested in and of itself is a foothold within Hamas.

Within the United States, it's not Hamas. It has blood. It's Iran. It's Islamic extremism. It's the roots of Al-Qaeda. It's all of that shit. In this country, what can he do? What do you think the most important thing? That he can do. To address this topic. Because I can tell you right now. This will not be the last story that we're covering. Like this. It's terrifying. It will not be. It just will not be. It's sad. But it is true.

So you tell us what you think, and when we come back, we're going to get to your comments from last week's episode. When we talked a little bit, remember about the men? Dem's trying to talk to men. They're like, we need men's. How do we get the men's? And we asked you, what do you thought about the PowerPoint presentation? What the hell did that thing look like? Great comments right after this.

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OK, so last episode, we asked you the question of the day about the men pitch. The Democrats were at $20 million. Just a. A drop in the bucket for them. They went out and they solicited some dollars from the liberal left and decided, how are we going to get men back in the Democratic Party? Well, we... pontificated about that. And then we asked you to provide your point of view. And this is what we've come up with. To that, we start with the voice. Okay, first one comes from B. Foster.

And B. Foster writes, word on the street is the PowerPoint presentation hatches a scheme to mobilize the trans females who have been dominating women's sports, smashing records and snatching up championships to inspire. The next generation of men that they too can become winners on the left just as they have. I love it. The whole pitch is just like, no, we have to get more men.

Just to identify as women, that's how we get men. You got a shot at an Olympic championship. That's good. That's good. I like it. 2028, Los Angeles, one of us could be the 100-meter winner. Harunks, what do we got? This is from John Ambrose. He provides a full PowerPoint here. Slide number one, simple syntax and words should be simple. so the yahoos can understand us. Two, athletics. Use analogies from sports. Avoid polo and lacrosse, however. Three, macho.

Make your content macho. A little Spanish lingo never hurts, and we may have been having some problems with Hispanic males, so this would help. Slide four. For another $20 million, we will host another son of Sam session at a Left Coast luxury hotel. We guarantee results. Note, if they could authentically laugh, not a Kamala cackle. They would stand a chance.

Best unvarnished advice, listen to the fellows in their five-star program for laughs and enlightenment. Banger, bravos to your show from Richmond, Virginia. I love that, John. Thank you so much. That's such a good take. Smuggles. Comment three is from John Beaumont. John writes, I can't help but picture Donald Sutherland's character from Animal House sitting in front of a room of libs gasping for air and fainting when he tells them a real man.

can't menstruate, and have an abortion while simultaneously trying to explain the rules of football and why we drink bourbon neat. That's right. A mass gathering of deer and headlights. That's the thing, is they have boxed themselves into this insanity.

I mean, the visuals of these comments are fantastic. They're fantastic. That was perfect for Smug because he also drinks bourbon neat. That's the only way to roll. Well, it really paints a picture, doesn't it? And no one can identify. I want to say real quick.

Not in the script, but when you mentioned sports. I saw this weekend, we've discussed the enhanced games. Yeah. It's like the Olympics, but steroids or whatever. Everything's legal. They're having the preliminaries going on right now.

A dude just broke the world record in swimming. No way, really? Yeah, it's already worked. Like, they had a photo of him side by side of before he... Because, like, before he was competing just... on on reg like he wasn't taking any juice but then he started training on the juice bros delt and everything like he is shredded yeah shredded it's like a superhero movie i mean literally he looks like he-man now

This is a strange vernacular of the variety program for those of you who are new who find out that we're very traditionalist except – We somehow support juicing. It should be legal. Let's see humans at their max. And doctors are like monitoring all this shit. It's like his heart won't blow up or anything. But he set the world record. It's happening. We're going to have humans, super humans. The trans athletes get to do it. Yay, that's a good point. That's a good point.

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the Ruthless Variety Program, to welcome a very special guest and an incredible backdrop here at the Department of Transportation, Mr. Secretary Sean Duffy. How are you, sir? I'm doing well. Thank you guys for having me. Thanks for coming to the Great American Road Trip Expo. which is our car show. Yeah. With DOT as a backdrop. I mean, this is something else. So you're rolling out this entire summer of activity around the Great American Road Trip.

Well, the first activity we're doing here is drinking Leinenkugels, which we're not going to drive with beer. That's very... Thoughtful of you, Mr. Secretary. I appreciate the clarification. Safety is first, right? You guys can't drive. That's right. So each department has been tasked by the president to celebrate our 250th birthday, right? And we have the best idea.

We're going to have the best rollout. Is it a competition amongst the cabinet? They don't know that, but for me it is. We're going to win. So we're going to do a road trip. And again, you think about freedom. I mean, freedom is cars and getting in the car and being able to move. And our country is so...

beautiful. And I don't know if you guys went on road trips with your family or take your kids on road trips. We're going to talk about that. By the way, sometimes when you're doing it, it's like, this sucks in there. You're fighting.

But you think back and it was some of the best times you had with your parents when they took you or when you were taking your own kids. So we want to encourage people to get in the car, see the country, be with their families, put the phones away so it's family. Yeah, totally.

country all together in one. But you have like a thousand kids, right? There's a Winnebago over there. I was like, hey, that's pretty nice. When the Duffy family does a road trip, do you need like a caravan or like a 16-wheeler? I could hook like a... detachable like that was the the the airstream or whatever that yeah put them in back strap them into the trailer how do you handle uh you know pee breaks when you got that many kids because i remember when i was growing up

We didn't stop unless dad was ready. So my mom had to always bring an empty, like, downy fabric softener bottle, and that was our pee bottle, because we ain't stopping unless dad's ready to stop. See, I would do that, but my wife would say no. No way. You've got to stop. I'm 53, so I probably stopped more than my kids want to stop. We're going to stop again, kids. You've got two and a half miles down the road. What are you talking about? No way to understand America. Unless you're traveling.

The best highway system on Earth is not even close. You take 40 from North Carolina and you end up in Santa Monica. Coast to coast, you just have a highway. It's incredible. We like our cars, right? I mean, it is distinctly American. Every country's got their thing with trains or whatever.

We like the road trip. We like cars. Because it truly meshes with freedom. Freedom and cars go hand in glove. Anywhere you want. By the way, on the roads and bridges, by the way, the last administration, they had all these requirements on DEI. Social justice, environmental. So the amount of money that was spent on stupid compliance, shit, can I say shit? Yeah, we can say whatever you want.

was ridiculous so we pulled all that stuff out and we're going to actually build more roads and bridges with less money and faster than the last ridiculous administration i mean that's a good one of some good news yes good news so you know obviously the beginning of your disasters, a plane crash at DCA. I mean, you're barely sworn in before you're dealing with all this stuff.

And, you know, you were walking into a Department of Transportation where Pete Buttigieg was the last guy at your desk. I imagine there was quite a bit of stuff you found that you were like, uh, what? Truly, I don't think a lot of people came to work. If you work from home and everyone's at home, you do lose focus. And you don't engage with your other teammates. You don't see the things that you should see. And what you realize is what we do.

truly impacts people's lives. If you get it wrong, people can die. The focus of what we're doing has been clear. Job number one is we're going to fix air traffic control. Again, the stuff we're using, I was up in the Burbank Tower. Holy shit. So they're all paper passes. They put a piece of paper, the strip of flight, in a metal little box, rectangle.

and they have these rails, it's like a train, and rails, and they push it up over the edge, and it slides down to the side to the controllers that are front-facing out to the airport, and then they ring a bell. Ding! You got new planes coming. You're like, come on. This is the shit we use. Truly floppy disks. And you go, we're the greatest country on earth. Yeah.

Who let it get this bad? Who didn't pay attention? I've got an idea. I've got an idea. He rode his bike to work. Rode his bike or drove in the suburban? Suburban to bike. The photo shoot was done, he hopped off, jumped in the Suburban. Incredible work. Rumor has it he was a big biker. He did bike a lot. Okay, well, to his great credit. To his credit. By the way, I hate bikers.

They never follow the rules of the road. They're always in the middle. They never signal their turn. They never stop at a stoplight. Can you jail the bikers? I would say not for riding the bike, but I don't think men in spandex look good at all. the guys that bike, but it looks like, listen, women in spandex, beautiful. Men, not so much, right? But look, you got this whole setup here, which we'll walk through in a little bit. You've invited people.

come down, showcase new American cars, which, by the way, this administration making it cheaper to buy a car, cheaper to drive a car with gas prices. There's tax deductions in this latest big, beautiful bill for buying a new car. It's an important part of the... Gas prices down, inflation down.

In the big, beautiful bill, you'll get up to $10,000 in tax credit on interest paid on an American-made vehicle, right? I mean, the number of jobs and good-paying jobs that come from the companies that manufacture these vehicles is significant. But, you know, sometimes you think of the DOT as hard hats and the construction vests, which we are that.

But we are one of the most innovative spaces in, I think, all of government. So if you think of autonomous vehicles, right, that's us. And it's going to change the way... People move in vehicles, right? I think we lose 40,000 people roughly a year to car crashes. I think we can truly reduce that number. Again, the safety side of autonomous vehicles is going to be huge.

The congestion, I think, will reduce because vehicles can come closer together, less spacing because they're smarter. We do drones, right? We do Evatols, which are Ubers in the air, the drones for humans. It's going to change the way people move, the way products move. The best part about this is that he's talking about it without fear, which is typically what you hear out of an administration, certainly the last administration.

People that are secretaries of transportation, it's like, yeah, hold your horses on the technology. We need to do more studies on the drones going to affect equity. Yeah, exactly. It's a racist drone. That's really what it boils down to.

But you know, you're embracing this and saying, let's do it safely, but let's embrace the technology and change it. You don't put it in a box and put it away. It's going to happen somewhere else, right? It's going to happen in China or India or somewhere else. And if you think of all the technology on autonomous vehicles or on drones.

or Evitols, listen, if that technology, if that information goes back to China, it's a national security risk. Like, you have to develop the technology here. And by the way, we want to develop it here and then export it.

to the rest of the world, and there'll be American jobs that are driving that technology. So you can't go too fast, right, because if there's crashes or accidents, it's going to set you back a decade. You can't go too slow or you lose the innovator. So getting the right pacing is...

critically important. Listen, we're going to do a little walk around. You're going to show us some stuff and the people you invited here. Well, here's the thing. I'm a car guy. I actually love cars. My grandparents gave me some savings bonds when I was a kid, and instead of putting the money in Apple stock, I bought a... Jeep Grand Cherokee with a 5.2 liter engine.

and I was pumped about it, and now I wish I hadn't done it, but that's what I bought. You had an F-150? I had an F-150. I love trucks. I love SUVs. What do you have now? Now I've got a BMW.

But it's got good horsepower. Of course you do. Of course you do. But here's the thing. Here's the thing. The lesson you learn. The only thing better than horsepower is more horsepower. That's true. So that's what I was going for. Once you get a little bit of it, it's like you want more. You want more. It's never enough. That's right.

All right. What do you drive? Well, that's the thing. I'm actually in the market for a car right now. Yeah. So that's what when we heard. Can you sell them one here, you think? When we were told that we were going to have this event out here, I was like, this is perfect. Two birds with one stone. I get an interview, and I get to look at some cars. So what are you looking at?

It's got to be an SUV and it's got to be extremely safe. My wife will be driving it. Extremely, extremely safe. A lot of technology. It sounds like you don't trust your driving. That's what it sounds like. Like every husband. I bought for my sons. He had to bring the kids back and forth to school. I bought him a Subaru in Outback. He gets relentlessly mocked. He's 18. He did it purposely, right? He's not going to pick up any girls in this. And he hasn't. You suck, Dad.

But he has a car. Yeah. And it's safe. I feel like it's a dad's job to have that sort of, like, underlying knock on the... Like, if you can't get your kid a nice... car that he's going to be able to show off, right? I mean, that's like eliminating your whole dad view of how you got to handle that situation. Don't trap it. I don't care. You want to sit at home? You got a bike? Your bike or the Subaru? It's up to you.

We tried the Subaru. That's very smart, Rob. That's perfect. This caught my eye when we first showed up. The Cybertruck with an Airstream. That seems like the great American road truck, like right there. Yeah, you could get some. I mean, that might be able to fit your nine kids. What? Rachel and I would have a great time in front. Throw them back. This is the solution. It's such a peaceful trip. By the way, when they have to pee, I'm like, ah.

I didn't know. I didn't know. They couldn't tell me. There's a back door. The walkie-talkie didn't work. Open it up. The window. That's so good. I love it. I mentioned this to you guys. All American-made, right? Not every company is American in where they're headquartered, but all the cars here are made in the country. Every single one. Every single one. So what's interesting is the president... And what he's done with tariffs, what he's done to say, come back home, get out of China.

I was just meeting with the executive teams of all the companies. They're all coming back. They're all trying to get here. They're all trying to realign their supply chains. Yeah, that's the intent. It's real. Yeah. And again, it's really good paying jobs. Totally. I mean, that's the thing, you know. I spent a lot of time in Kentucky. Big Toyota plant there. Employees.

Huge number of people. When you bring those jobs here, it makes such a difference in communities across the country. Like that BMW plant that we were talking about in Spartanburg, South Carolina. It matters. Dude, it changes the whole community. It changes the region. Right. Listen, so, by the way, I did reality TV. Oh, I know. Part of it was road rules. The Winnie, the Winnebago. By the way, when you were doing road rules, did you picture being the secretary of this situation?

Yes. I was like, one day in the winnie, one day. I can't thank you enough for inviting us to this. This is absolutely incredible and a really important deal that you're doing. Here, we're just encouraging Americans to get back out. It's cheaper now, more effective. You can just go see the country on your own terms. Totally true. Can I just ask one last question before we go? Yes, I'm worried. No, but when you drive and you get coffee, cars... America, you oftentimes need sunglasses.

Where did you get those sunglasses? As with everything, my wife gets me. Everything. I can't tell you. It's Rick Baldwin BMW. Thank you guys for having me. I appreciate it. You're the best. Thank you very much. Appreciate it.

Thank you so much. Thank you. Hey, Duncan, are you thinking about buying this? I'd love if you bought it. You know, uh... Okay, hold up. Look inside this. This might be... Like the ruthless road trip wagon. Honestly, take the show on the road. Are you seeing this? That'd be a great idea. Get spaghetti to drive it around. Maybe. We could sit in back. What do you think?

You know what else is crazy about these things is every time I look inside one of them, it's like they've got a big screen TV mounted on the dash. It's like what Trump says. It's all computer. It's all computer. I think it's computer. That's why I don't want one. I'm so glad I heard that line. It's quite a vehicle. So do you guys have some kind of like an influencer podcast program where you give us these stuff?

So we got to see the Winnebago though, fellas. Yeah. Because here's the thing. I've always had, and there's no way I can sell my wife on this because it's just like the insanity of the kids and everything. But I've always had this. sort of dream of doing a road trip in a big, like, Winnipeg. Yeah. You know? And this thing, I mean...

It looks to me like you could get that done. I mean, look at that. It's like you don't have to give up any comforts of home. You just put it on wheels. Paint this sucker black and put Ruthless on the side of it, fellas. This is how we get to work. I'm serious. That is it. This is the tour bus. Yeah. This is the actual tour bus. This is the tour bus. Retractable awning. Wow. And a full size bed and back there. You could do...

Atrocious things. If my wife knew we were going to get one of these for Ruth, she'd put a pillow over my face. Can you imagine every morning? Oh, you're going on tour? Every morning, the thing makes the rounds and picks all this up at our houses. That would be perfect. That's something to aspire to. Can you imagine? I mean, would it play music when it's rolling down the street? Like you would hear it coming? Oh, like an ice cream truck? Yeah.

You knew you had to run downstairs and be ready because it doesn't stop. It just rolls slowly. All right, Duffy. Ten out of ten, dude. I mean...

It took us all of about, I don't know, 15 seconds before we were like, hey, man. Do you always want to hang out? That's the thing. You don't need to have an event to hang out. Yeah, right. That's cool, too. Just a great dude. I mean, look, he's had a ton of challenges. transportation his first day was dealing with the crash at DCA which a helicopter hit a commercial plane he's now trying to figure out not only how you reinvent

air traffic control because like bootage. Yeah. Boot-pedage was like sleep at the wind. He thought it was a no-show job. Yeah. Right. Turns out it's very important. Ride your bike. Take a photo and then hop in the Suburban. Pete was like, okay, job done for the day. Yeah. Yeah.

And where's my G6? I need to get to a Chicago premiere. A movie about himself. About myself. This guy. It's insane that he's real. And he fixed bread prices. And he keeps showing up. This guy's actually real. He keeps showing up. Like I saw him in a bunch of different podcasts where he's like. He's like, yeah, you can talk to dudes. I grew a beard. Yeah!

Yeah, listen to me. I'm a dude. I'm going to tell you about all of that. Man, I hope to God he gets the nomination. Oh, I do too. I do too. Anyway, do you guys want a little variety? Always. We can stay on Gianron.

transportation area. This is a big thing for you, Smug.

So a man abandons a grieving partner in economy after getting a free upgrade to business class on a 14-hour flight. This is according to Yahoo News. You flagged this for the fellows. I'd be curious about your upshots. on this particular story, Smug. So it says here that when her partner was bumped to first class, she assumed he would stay behind so she wouldn't have to fly alone, but he didn't.

She was pregnant, right? It says... No, she wasn't pregnant. Oh, no. She had a friend who was grieving. So it's not like she had a personal loss. I think it was her friend had lost a child. Okay. All right. So there's grieving involved. And so he got the upgrade, and she thought that he would, like, refuse it and stay with her, and he didn't. Yeah. So, I mean, my take, honestly, here is everyone is bad. All of them are bad.

Well, first off, I don't think airlines should upgrade people. You can always tell the folks who don't belong, right? You can always tell, oh boy, this guy saved his points up, didn't he? He's really kicking it back and thinking he's a king for the day. Like you can always, you didn't pay for your ticket. You saved the coupon. This is the coupon dude here.

He's like, I'd like my champagne before takeoff. First time, aren't you? First time. First time, guy. They put him in bulkhead. You can tell him every time you can pick him out. So he's that kind of guy. You know it right off the bat. Second of all, for her, why should he stay back? Why should he stay back? It might have been the move. She's his wife. They're married, right?

If only one of you has to survive an escape coach to let her have it, that might be a thought. But at the same time, I don't think anyone should be allowed to be upgraded. And for her to be like, why didn't you stay back?

With me, with the animals. It's like, are you for real? Like, that's your takeaway from this? Be like, I'm grieving. My friend had the loss. So now I'm demanding I be the center of attention. No, this is about me being the victim. Your friend's the victim. Their friend is suffering. Hold on. I want to get this straight. She had a friend who went through an unfortunate circumstance. Yeah. Don't want to downplay the unfortunate circumstance. But it was her friend. He's flying along.

With his wife. This isn't even like to a funeral, I think. This is just like a separate thing. And she's like, it's about me. And he was upgraded. And she is now... discomforted by the fact that he chose to accept the offering from the airline to sit in first class. And she's saying it should have been me. Do I have the sequence? That is correct. That's right? Right. I think what they're writing between the lines there is like she's at a vulnerable.

place right now because she found out this news about her friend and now she's going to be alone for this a 14 hour flight 14 hour flight what bro imagine what the animals are like in the back after 14 hours It's got to be wild. But here's the thing. When you get married. I wouldn't stay back there. Here's the thing.

Listen, fellas, when you get married, you agree to adopt all of the things that your wife has. And so if she is grieving, you are grieving. I don't know if I signed up for that. Who's to say he wasn't grieving for you? Well, in the first class. It's just like I'm grieving for two. And the grieving took place in a different section of the airplane. Right. Is what your point is. That's my point. Which is fine. He was doing his best. Well, she decided to drop the issue.

She, her partner, brought it up again later, leading her to second-guess herself. He said, my reaction ruined his flight. I just accepted it, she admits. Okay, well, maybe he did marry her. Okay, so that was the one point. She got to the...

She cut to the quick. I like that he brought it up later and he was like, you ruined my flight. He was like, you're the one that ruined my flight. I couldn't even enjoy the first class cabin because of how much stress you put me through. Again, you can tell the coupon people. You know what? In a second. Coupon people.

I'm going to defend the man for one second. And that is simply to say, if this man had to carry all of the luggage that I typically have to do when I travel with my wife, I, you know... threaten a shoulder, a rotator cuff, you know, carrying those things, getting them through security, getting them weighed and all that sort of thing. I deserve a life laugh.

You deserve that after putting up with all of that. That's not a bad argument at all. If I was him, that would be the logic I would use. Can I put a finer point on it? Look, if I'm traveling with my children and my wife, knowing our... personal travel issue. If I were to show up and just take the upgrade and leave her with two kids...

Yeah, I mean, that's going to be hard. I accept the bullet in my forehead, which is coming. It'd be chloroform. Yeah, I mean, I'd be a dead man. That's fine. What we're talking about here is a woman who is friends with another woman who had... unfortunate circumstance and she is upset to the point where it's now a national news story on Yahoo that he didn't just sit bitch between these two Gals? Couldn't they just do like a seven hour swap?

of this thing no dude you know maybe rotate it rotate it a little dude if you allow that then all of the back is going to start taking their 10 minutes i want my free drink i want my peanuts give me snacks and drinks It's like gremlins, bro. You can't feed them or give them any drinks. I knew raising that would get a good response from Smoke. It's like gremlins.

I want my free drink. I want my peanut. I just knew it. I knew it. Last one that Smug flagged clip three, please. Okay, so this is a zoo apparently in Chongqing, China. Mm-hmm. And interesting, interesting play. But what you have is people who are in cages driving in like a modified. Yeah, it's like a reverse zoo. You're caged in and the animals are out free. The animals are doing what... And they hang meat on the side, so then the animals come running at you. So they're like attacked.

by lions and bears in in the like but these things like jump hard yeah like so it's like you know those uh for our listeners on audio only you know those like cages that people look at sharks when you go under the water yeah well imagine you put that on wheels and surrounded with like lions. Yeah. Yeah. That's what you get here. What confused me about this. That is awesome. What confused me, there's a longer clip that you're not going to see here.

What confused me is it like the road that they're driving this thing, the lions are just throwing themselves at this thing. Mm-hmm. But what confused me is there seem to be traffic. Yeah. There's like cars that are in this too, which is wild because if you're not like an armored vehicle.

What are you doing? It's like a Volkswagen looking for the right of way. This is so rad. There's bears hanging on to the side of this thing trying to eat the steaks that are hung to the side of it. So the Chinese have understood a different...

Zoo uh experience this is chong where is ching chong china which is already i mean you have my attention at that point and then you've got animals being fed meat off the side of a truck that you could ride in like this is why don't we have this in america like this is something that texas could pull off like maybe spaghetti should set something like this up for us it is not

For the record, in case you're interested in traveling, Ching Chong, China. It is Chongqing, China. I almost had it, but it should be here. We should have that in Texas. We should have it in Texas. Just an important, you know, in case you're booking travel to try to be a part of that. She'll end up in Ching Chong and be like, I'm in the wrong place. They don't have the zoo on trucks. Very different. Very different town. No nosy one truck.

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