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Oh, man, we got a big show lined up for you today. It's been a while, but we're about to talk with one of my good friends from way back in the day. We've been talking for years. Haven't chatted with him in quite a while. But we are ready to go here in just a second with David Codrea from thewaronguns.com.
And he, of course, also writes for Ammo Land. He writes for the Firearms News. He's written for Guns Magazine in the past. He's also one of the folks that broke the whole gunwalker scandal, what you probably know as the Fast and Furious. issue with the Obama administration. He's a brave journalist and he's out here to talk with us today a little bit about the fate or the direction of the gun culture and the Second Amendment movement.
under the new trump administration uh is it all is it all bells is it all caviar and roses or is it uh Is there more to it? We'll see what David Codrea has to say about that. In hour two, we're going to be covering some headlines and some of the other things that are going on around the country, including more malfeasance by the ATF. And some other stuff.
in england and i mean there's some crazy stuff going on out there we'll have some discussions on that and then of course as always we'll finish up our friday with a little bit of a lighter side we'll have our entertainment review along with the movies and streamings for the weekend from Willie Waffle. So that's going to be coming up at the end of the show today. But let's just get started. Let's let's peel right into it, shall we? And and get rolling with David Codrea.
Again, you can find him over at waronguns.com. That's his blog. He's got a lot of good information over there, and it's a clearinghouse for anything related to the Second Amendment and more. David Codria joins us this morning. to start our discussion on the Second Amendment and more. Good morning, my friend. How are you? Michael, it seems every time I come on your program, it's colder in Ohio than it is in Alaska. I checked the weather this morning.
And we were 10 degrees colder than Fairbanks. I know. It's crazy. And then Fairbanks, too. And Fairbanks, we haven't talked in quite a while, but I moved down to the banana belt of Alaska. I'm down on Homer. which is down in the Gulf, and it's a lot warmer here. But, yeah, I know, hey, David, they were having snowball fights on Bourbon Street the other day, right? And we have almost no snow. So it's one of those weird weather things. I mean, who knows?
It's kind of crazy around here. Yeah, I have a sister in Jacksonville, Florida, and a son in San Antonio, Texas. and they both got snow so what are you gonna do yeah what do you get it doesn't matter where you move you're gonna get caught that's what's gonna happen right now
David, it's good to talk with you, my friend. It's been quite a while since we've had a chat. We've been really busy for everyone, I guess. And I was just thinking about you the other day and invited you on because, man, we need to catch up. You and I have had some discussions in the past on it. that we've passed this historic election, the, you know, the election of Trump to the.
confusion of many on the left and progressive sides they don't know how it could happen um but he spoke to certain things that i think a lot of americans were feeling
And part of that had to do also not just with the economy, although I think that was the major component of it. Part of it also had to do with this continuous attack on gun owners and Americans. And he made some pretty big promises. Now, I. I voted for Trump, but I also was very concerned about a lot of his commentary that he's had over the years.
Prior to when he was president, when he wrote in his book and he was all about waiting periods and other things, and then later on when he made some other comments during the Parkland shooting about, you know, red flag laws and just taking the guns and worrying about due process later.
which i've been chastised on this program by some of the listeners that i just don't understand he's playing fifth dimensional chess or something else but i know you have some of the same concerns you've been writing about it your latest piece over at um uh over at uh Ammo Land was talking specifically about this, where, you know, he could lead the fight against the Second Amendment and now it's his time to deliver. So tell me what David Codria feels like is.
you know, is going to be the answer. Is he going to, is he going to be the second amendment champion that we hope for or need? Because in his last term, His track record seems to be a little spotty. I'm a little I'm not I'm not chastising. I'm just a little concerned. We are we are waiting to see. And every day I check the new White House website.
And it has the list of all of his executive actions. And so far, we've got five pages of executive actions. The thing is just loaded. And yet we have to wait and see if he's going to put anything up. concerning the Second Amendment. I've got the link up this morning on waronguns.com asking people to check that link time throughout the day. to see if he says anything. The only movement we've seen is there have been stories breaking about the Office of Gun Control, the Kamala Harris.
Office of Gun Violence Prevention, I think it was called. that portion of the White House website being taken down, I still have not seen an official announcement about that. I mean, the entire website has changed. There's no page on the Constitution yet. and the things that we've come to expect. So we're going to have to see because he has, you're absolutely right, he made some grandiose campaign promises about our beautiful Second Amendment that seemed to fly in the face.
of a lot of his actions during his first administration. And again, you're right. We have to be able to point these things out. What I get back from the short sighted is, well, would you rather have Kamala Harris? And no, of course I wouldn't rather have Kamala Harris. What I would rather have is I would rather have the expectations that MAGA voters came to expect based on campaign pledges. And one of the campaign pledges was we were going to see.
Second Amendment action from the administration in the first week, maybe even on the first day. I'm hoping that we see things like this. One of the other problems is that with the nomination of Pam Bondi as attorney general, you know, in Florida, she had a real record. of standing up for gun control against the right to keep and bear arms. She was a proponent of red flag laws. She was a proponent of waiting until you're 21 to be able to exercise your Second Amendment rights.
and she didn't back away from any of that. And in the hearings, I was disappointed that not one Republican senator going through the confirmation process asked her a question.
about the Second Amendment. They left that up to the Democrat gun grabbers. And while she did not fall in the trap of promising them that she would go after specific infringements, she did indicate that she was going to enforce the law and and my suggestion on that is that the supreme law of the land is what the attorney general needs to be enforcing and the second amendment and the bill of rights are integral parts of the supreme law of the land i would like to see a justice department protect
the second amendment the same way it would be committed to protecting civil rights against uh state violations right and Here, you even get pushed back on this, Michael. Well, what about states' rights? What about federalism? Well, you know, states don't have the rights to be tyrannical. They all join the union. They all agreed that the Constitution was the supreme law of the land, and a state can't go in and violate the law against cruel and unusual punishment or self-incrimination.
or prevent you from speaking your mind or practicing the religion of your choice. There is no reason why the Second Amendment needs to be a second class right no and i agree i think the pam bondy thing although she does have some admirable qualities in other areas this is an area that i was seriously concerned about because of her track record she was a strong supporter
of red flag laws in Florida and came out. And then with that answer, you know, it was ironic that it was Democrats that ended up asking her questions about gun control and gun stuff with the ATF and other things. And it was irritating because you're right. Her answer was, I will support the law of the land. Basically, I will enforce the law of the land. But the problem is, if the law is unjust, if the law is unconstitutional, you have a duty.
You know, not just a responsibility, but an actual duty per your sworn oath. to see that that law is undone or to not enforce it if it is unconstitutional. And she had some opportunities there to talk a little bit about it. And you're right. The Republicans. I mean, I know they're doing a victory lap because they've got the majorities and they're happy and everything's going on, but don't be like the Newt Gingrich majorities in the 90s and just waste it. And that seems to be...
You know, I'm concerned that they could be on track to do that because they had an opportunity to highlight some of the abuses, some of the problems, some of the issues that have been coming out of the ATF for years, decades. And yet. They didn't take that opportunity to put the softball in front of her and let her wind up and just smash it over the fence. She could have done that, but they didn't. And I'm concerned that they didn't do it because they were afraid of her answer.
Well, here's the thing. We are on new ground now with the Supreme Court opinion in Bruin, okay? And now the standard is text, history, and tradition. And with that, a lot of the infringements that we're seeing... clearly are unsupportable. A lot of existing law is clearly unsupportable because it did not exist at the time of the ratification of the Constitution and a lot of the state laws.
are clearly. And here's another area that I think that when I say people are objecting on the grounds of federalism and states' rights, the states are just piling on. And they're banning this and they're banning that. They're going after our semi-automatics. They're going after magazines. We're waiting to see if the Supreme Court in conference is going to hear about the challenge to the Maryland.
quote-unquote assault weapon ban or the, what is it, the Rhode Island magazine ban. Yeah, Delaware and Rhode Island, right. Yeah, what is it, Snope and Ocean State Tactical. And so we're waiting to see what they're going to have to say about that. I just submitted an article to Ammo Land. It's not published yet. But there's this idiot politician in Washington state. who wants to force insurance with penalties and like $1,000 per gun.
all these requirements that are clearly unconstitutional, but the states can continue to do this and what the gun community has to do through its organizations. is scrape together the nickel and dime contributions from the same people that contribute all the time and try to fight states with unlimited resources virtually, our own tax dollars. And this is where the Justice Department, with its unlimited resources, could come in under the new doctrine of Bruin.
and start saying, wait a minute, you guys are violating the rights of the citizens. Right. Well, this is another version of lawfare, right? I mean, we're seeing lawfare at various levels. We saw lawfare against Trump. We've seen lawfare in various states against elected officials and more. This is lawfare.
against gun owners because, again, they've got the 10,000-pound club. They've got the unlimited pockets to be able to, oh, we'll put up any law we want, and then they'll have to fight it out in the courts. We know that a Supreme Court battle costs upwards of $2 million.
if you're going to try and pay for it out of pocket. We found that with the John Sturgeon case here in Alaska. It cost him $2 million to fight the U.S. government up to the Supreme Court. He won, but you're out $2 million. What gun owner has got that kind of pocket change running around?
to fight a law that is blatantly unconstitutional, but has to be fought all the way up to the Supreme Court, it is a form of lawfare and oppression. And even when the Supreme Court makes a ruling, you have inferior courts. going ahead and thumbing their nose at it and allowing things to proceed, even though the Supreme Court has made perfectly clear what it is, and there's no punishment, no accountability.
no one ever has to have a personal stake in the game, and they can continue to harass and continue to harass. And what it reminds me of is the old bullet feed, which various tyrannies... Iran and I believe China have imposed it in the past, where they would execute a prisoner and they would charge the family for the bullet that they used to execute the prisoner with. this again, they're making the same gun owners that are fighting them finance their infringements.
and and their protracted court battles meanwhile these things drag on for years and years and they get a decision they don't like it and they appeal it and that goes on for years and years and What did Martin Luther King, you know, say when he was quoting? I forget what he was quoting in his.
Letter from Birmingham jail about a right delay being a right denied. Yeah, and that's exactly what it is, 100%. David Codria is our guest. WaronGuns.com is his website. He writes for AmmoLand and Firearms News. You can check him out out there. We're going to continue with him here in just a moment. Don't go anywhere. The Michael Duke Show continues. Common Sense, Liberty-based, free-thinking radio.
Freethinkin' Gun Radio today because it is firearms. Say it with me. Firearms. T-G-I-F-F. That's what we're saying today. We return with David Codrea in just a moment. The Michael Duke Show. Thank you. Running on 100% pure beard power. Oh, also some coffee. We dip our beard in coffee. Ha, nice beard. The Michael Duke Show. All right. We're in the commercial break right now. David Kodria from the War on Guns blog comes on and joins us. David, man, long time no see. And I know we.
Probably should have had a call ahead of time just to see how things were going. But it's been a couple of years since we've had you on the program. Lots have happened since then. Just to catch you up to speed in case you're watching the chat room or something talking about it. I bought four radio stations down in the lower peninsula of Alaska, and we moved down here. We stood them up, and we're working down here now. We just moved down here about two months ago.
It's been a busy, well, last eight months for me, and so I apologize for not reaching out to you, Sumer. I know you've been busy writing lots of stuff. I'm still following you, just we haven't had a chance to chat. I've been busy and had a lot of changes myself in case anybody's wondering about what this pink thing behind me is. I haven't started worshiping pyramids or anything like that. I've got a new two-year-old granddaughter.
and uh this is her princess tent where we have our tea set and uh you know you you have tea with her And it's like, boy, she sets it up and it's not an invitation. You are going to drink the tea. That's right. You will drink the tea. You're going to spill the tea and drink the tea with grandpa. Isn't that great? Is it your first grandchild? Yeah. Isn't it great? Isn't it great? I mean, I got one that just turned seven, six, seven.
and uh it's just it's amazing she spent uh they spent a good six months her husband was my wife daughter's husband was deployed uh to uh korea for a bit so she stayed with us for about six months with the new baby and that was just it's just amazing when you get to see that. It's a true joy. So congratulations and good luck, Grandpa, on all that tea. It should be fun.
Yeah, well, the big problem is that, you know, I'll be playing with the tea set and my wife will come in and she'll chastise me and tell me to let the kid have a turn. That's true. That's true. You know, they've got the best toys. They've got the best toys. We've got to check it out. You know, David, I and it's funny because we you and I have shared some of the same concerns over the last few years about.
uh donald trump and some of his things again i voted for him he was obviously the better of the two choices out there there was no there was no ifs ands or buts about that definitely a better choice But I think it's still it's still our responsibility as citizens and gun owners to question the actions of people, even if we believe, you know, 85 or 90 percent of what they believe. And if they're doing something that we believe is wrong or that we're concerned that they could do.
We still need to bring that up. Yeah, the whole business of just trusting them to do things when we see them making obvious mistakes and deviating. And Trump is a guy who is going to do what he wants to do regardless. It's the ego thing, okay? You can't take away from the guy the successes that he's had. We're seeing a real good movement on the border right now from him. But we can't let it just stop with the criminal aliens at this point when we're talking about.
upwards of 30 million in this country that the Democrats are trying to put on a pathway to citizenship, which will result in basically a permanent, unchallengeable Democrat majority.
reappoint a whole new Supreme Court, reverse the Bruin decision entirely, revert the Second Amendment back to what they want to call a collective right, and do whatever the heck they want to do with their newfound voters, which all polls and the California experience and everything else shows us are going to be 80% Democrat.
for at least a generation or two, which means by then it's going to be too late to put things back. The genie can't go back in the bottles. And so then when you have Trump come out the other day... and say well he doesn't want h1b's just for the tech workers but you know also you know maitre d's and and sommeliers and even waiters you know you guys got a hotel and i'm thinking well how about uh how about your maids and they can all join the
CIU, which is a communist supporting Democrat union. And what are you trying to do to us, you know, to the cheap labor Republicans trying to save a buck? at whose expense yeah no exactly it's it's it's a problem when you talk out of both sides of your mouth or you know trump's a developer uh and it's the art of the deal he will say whatever you want to hear i think in whatever given room he'll say it
And that's the thing. All right, hold on. We're about to rejoin. Let's get to it. The Michael Duke show. Common sense radio. What the hell is an assault weapon? You know, if we could just figure out how to get all of the murder guns and the attack guns and not keep selling those to people and just sell protection guns, I think that would be great and solve a lot of problems.
Does this mean that if we hurt your feelings, you'd consider The Michael Dukes Show assault radio? Okay, we can live with that. Here's Michael Dukes. That's right. All protection guns. No murder guns, no attack guns. I'm sure David has no attack guns in his armory or his vault or whatever it is.
I'm sure they're all protection guns. I had them physically checked. They all say protection guns on them. David Codrea, waronguns.com is where you'll find him and his writing, including links to the firearms news and to Ammo Land. where he writes every week or so on various topics and covers a lot of things. You mentioned Brun, David, and we really haven't had a chance to talk since Brun was decided. When you add Heller...
and you add McDonald, and then you add Brun, it is almost the perfect triumvirate to protect and to basically reverse a lot of the gun control that we've seen over the years. Brun was probably the most important decision.
since the 1934 usv miller uh nfa uh decision which was a bad decision for gun owners this is in the opposite direction probably the best decision in nearly a hundred years for the gun culture Yeah, and Bruin has far-reaching implications beyond the Second Amendment, because if we really want to return to
what the founder's understanding was at the time the Constitution was drafted and debated and ratified, we have to look at so many laws where the federal government has just gone so far outside the scope. and the boundaries and the chains that were imposed on them through the Constitution. And it's just like they've ignored it and they've usurped for themselves new powers. And we see not just ATF.
creating rules where they don't really have any constitutional authority to do that. We see federal agencies all through the entire monstrous labyrinth. You know, what do you call it? It's like the Borg cube in Washington, D.C. And it's unnavigable how labyrinthine and just... all-encompassing it is. There's no aspect of our lives. And I forget the congressman, I forget his name, I'm sorry, but was not able to ascertain.
How many federal laws there are? The government can't even tell us how many laws there are. But if they want to, they can sure find one to prosecute us with. Right. There's something like in the U.S. in U.S. Code, there's something like 20. I think 22,000 separate regulations.
that that have to do with firearms 22 000 from imports to sales to tariffs to to taxes to whatever 20 how could you know how could you could be busting a law and in fact there used there was a book written i think it was john fund I can't remember who wrote it. It was called Three Laws a Day.
The average American breaks three laws a day and doesn't even know it in pure ignorance. They do that. When you have such a monumental amount of laws that you're literally busting three laws a day without it. in knowing it that's a problem because then as you said what was the what was the uh was it uh was it marx or lennon who said show me the man and i'll show you the crime or i'll find the crime i mean that's the thing when you can when you can
Pick any crime, pick any person out and say, I can find a crime that you've committed. That's a problem, especially here in the land of the free. Yeah, that I believe was Leventy Berea who. was Stalin's secret police chief. And exactly right, we are living in... a tyranny because just forget the 22,000 federal laws. Now multiply that by all the states that have mirror laws on the books and municipalities that have their own duplicative, triplicative, quadruplicative laws.
And there's nowhere that you can turn. If you want to take a look at all the gun-free zones in this country, you know, one of the little exercises that I wish I had the graphic skills to put this together. Okay, you take a map of the United States, and we've all seen the red blue map that shows the different counties and things like that. But now what you ought to do is you ought to take a map of the United States and put all the post offices on it.
These are all gun-free zones. Now take a map of the United States with that on it and put every school on it. these are all gun free zones and you start adding all the gun free zones into it i would like to see somebody with the graphic ability
put together a map that encompasses all of that and show us what the land of the Second Amendment really looks like. Right. Well, we've talked about the danger, of course, of gun-free zones. We don't call them gun-free zones around here. We call them target-rich environments because that's what they are.
You see time and time and time again, we've had Dr. John Lott on the program, and he's talked specifically about a significant portion of mass shooters who have left a manifesto or a journal, or they can go back and track how they were planning it out. A vast majority of them, somewhere upwards of 70%, have specifically mentioned the targets that they're going to.
being gun-free zones because they don't want to be attacked they don't want to have people be able to fight back and and of course many of these are looking for as massive a body count as they can get to get their moment of fame and they don't want to be stopped and so
That's another thing, you know, and of course, the Greenville Mall shooting was a perfect example of that. The young man there who stopped that shooter dead in his tracks, literally, was in a gun-free zone. And yet, even then, you saw the mall issue. a statement congratulating the citizen on stopping it and saving their customers. So, I mean, it's a ridiculous, it's a ridiculous situation, but I'm hoping that Brun with Heller and McDonald backing it up.
It will continue to be this this new wave of movement, like you said, going back to original texts, historical historical parallels and things like that. could be that shining moment where if we use it right and we leverage it, it could be the greatest time for restoration of gun rights in this country's history. And a lot of that depends on the new administration and the new attorney general when they finally decide to roll up their sleeves and get serious about this.
What is it that they're going to do? I'd like to see some assurances. And unfortunately, we don't appear to have the president's ear. You know, we had it when he was on the campaign trail and he needed us. And I went to a great outdoor show i forget what it was called in in pennsylvania uh and he came and spoke to us there i got to sit with the uh journalist section which turned out to be a mistake i should have just got in
with the regular crowd because i was blocked by the stand with all the cameras so i couldn't see a damn thing right But he made all the promises about our beautiful Second Amendment, and everybody was just cheering. Every time the guy said something, they just cheered like this is the greatest thing they've ever heard, and now he's in office.
And we see the inauguration. And here's one thing I thought about the inauguration. I haven't seen anybody else comment on this. He had all these tech billionaires there, people that have worked against the administration and against gun owners. He had the head of Google. which, with its algorithms, discriminates against Republicans and discriminates against gun owners. He had Mark Zuckerberg, who basically was financing a campaign against him with Meta.
He had Jeff Bezos with his Washington Post, who was terrifically anti-gun. And yet what he didn't have in the room that I saw was any of these gun owners for Trump. that they made a big public relations release about before the election, about all these prominent gun owners, gun rights leaders throughout the country. who were part of this organization called Gun Owners for Trump, and where were any of them at the inauguration? Where is any indication of the Second Amendment so far in...
the executive actions that we're seeing. And here's what my hope is for gun owners for Trump, because even though it appears to have been a campaign thing for him to do... It could be an effective organization if they gave them the same weight. as Biden gave this Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which has apparently since been disbanded, but that was headed by Kamala Harris. Now, if you had gun owners for Trump and it had it, you know, the appropriate...
weight and respect given to it, to where it was headed by J.D. Vance. Kamala can do the other one. Why can't J.D. Vance? Why can't we get some prominent, nationally recognized gun rights leaders? including GOA, including NRA. I know people are going to say, well, it's NRA, but you know what? Right. They're there, including SAF, including NAGR, including, you know.
Firearms Policy Coalition. You're a big voice in things. And these are people that could then advise the president and have his ear through J.D. Vance and let him know.
what the priorities are let him know what the legal cases are that are of concern let him you know maybe stop him before he says something stupid like take the guns first and go through due process second you know and advise on all counts if we only had the president's ear and that's what i'm afraid i have not seen yet and that's what i am
basically the only one out there that I know of right now that's waving that flag. And I'm going to keep waving that flag because I want to see gun owners for Trump. turn into the Office of Second Amendment Protection. And that's exactly what I was just going to say. Instead of the Office of Gun Violence, how about the Office of Second Amendment Protection? Because that's exactly right. What we're looking for here is accountability from the president.
Right. Because as I said in the break, you know, the president is a developer. He's a land developer. That's his background. Right. He's the art of the deal. He's the guy that walks into the room and says whatever the room wants to hear to get the deal done. It doesn't necessarily mean he believes it, but that's part of his negotiation style. And I think that's where we saw some of this stuff.
Come out before his comments on the on taking the guns and worrying about due process and everything else. He was in the room with a bunch of law enforcement who were worried and and he was just saying what he was. But we need to hold him accountable for his words and his actions. And he's made. lot of promises he's made a lot of promises on this second term after not really delivering on the first term and so all we're looking for
It's not a criticism. It's just accountability. That's what we're looking for is accountability to what he needs to do. Because shall not be infringed is a pretty strong statement. I mean, there's nowhere else in the Bill of Rights where it says it so stridently that it says shall not be infringed, period, end of sentence. And we have gone through, like we said, 22,000 regulations on the books related to firearms at some point. And we need somebody who will walk some of that back.
who will reverse some of the tyranny that we've seen being put on lawful law-abiding citizens over the course of the last, you know, at least 100 years. And I'm hoping that between that, between Bruin, between the other court cases and the new president and the majority, that we may see some changes here. You've got 60 seconds before we have to hit the break.
Yeah, well, we also have to make sure that our expectations are tempered. You know, Trump... is not the dictator he can't just wave his hand and make national reciprocity or hearing protection the law of the land these things have to go through a legislative process and when we come back if we come back uh i i have a few on that yep we'll be back one final segment dead ahead david codrea is our guest you'll find him at war on guns.com if you don't go there check it out get the feed
You'll get your daily dose every day of, I mean, he's always linking different stories and everything else. Plus, you can read his writing at thefirearmsnews.com and ammoland.com. Go out and check it out. I always like to go to David's website and click on the only ones tag sometimes just to check it out a little bit. It's some interesting stuff. You should go see it. We'll be back with more. David Codrea, our guest.
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What are you working on these days? I mean, obviously, you're doing your writing and anything else. Any special projects going on or things that folks out there would be interested in knowing? Well, first of all, I'm waiting to see what Trump does because by Monday, if I don't see any action or based on the actions I see...
I want to write an article for Firearms News and basically cover that. I think that that's a real priority. I've got a couple different Freedom of Information Act requests out there. we're pursuing and some that we're blue skying that I'm not ready to talk about yet. But that's always action that goes on behind the scenes. So we'll challenge the Department of Justice and we'll say.
hey, how come the FBI is allowing New York State to do NICS checks for ammunition purchases when nowhere in the law does it say that NICS can be used for ammunition? Right. That's an unlawful use of federal resources, by the way, just in case you were wondering. And so we're trying to get some answers out of that. And I'm hoping, again, with the new administration, with what it could do is.
it could maybe stop a lot of the stonewalling on the FOIAs and a lot of the investigative reporting. You know, when we saw Fast and Furious, okay, you mentioned that. And even with the House Oversight Committee. and the Senate Judiciary Committee asking questions, the DOJ was still stonewalling and Eric Holder had to be held in contempt of Congress. And of course, nothing ever happened to him for that. And so I'm hoping that...
With the new administration, we can maybe see some movement on that. But again, Michael, it's predicated on who has the president's ear. You know, he's got his own priorities. Right now, he's worried about H-1Bs for sommeliers, okay, for Trump Tower. I mean, you know, it's like... It's kind of baffling for somebody down here at the ground level like me who has no access and all I can basically do is scream at passing cars.
Every once in a while, spit on their windshield and try to clean it off. It feels like it, doesn't it? Sometimes you just feel like we're screaming into the void. Hello, does nobody else see what's going on kind of thing? And everybody's just kind of fat, dumb, and happy, blithely, you know, moving ahead. We see, I mean, there's so much opportunity here. And like I said, I keep likening it back to the...
You know, the contract on America, a contract for America, you know, Newt Gingrich's push in the 90s where they had this spectacular opportunity and they blew it. I mean, they just totally, absolutely blew it. And that is just so frustrating to watch that, you know, to see that going on. I just don't want a repeat of that. And I'm hoping that.
we can make the most of what we have right now, leverage this opportunity, because we know that history tells us that in the midterms, there's probably going to be a swing. You know, there's a big, huge 85 percent chance that it's going to swing the other direction in the midterms because that's how the electorate, you know, they vacillate back and forth. So we've got a very finite window here to get this done.
And we could really solidify the position of gun owners across the country if we did things like, you know. prune down or defund or hell eliminate the atf get the doj you know protecting our rights instead of infringing on our rights and so many other things Republicans snatching defeat from the jaws of victory once more. Yeah. Well, again, it's a historical, there's a historical precedent for that. And there's a reason for that.
as well. You mentioned Gunwalker, you mentioned Fast and Furious. I mean, to me, it was just always amazing that really nothing came from that. There were so many players involved. There were so many players at high level. I mean, Hillary Clinton in the State Department and Holder and Obama himself. I mean, knowing these things and getting people killed and intentionally giving guns to cartel members. And yet there was just.
no accountability and in fact it was the reverse accountability because the gun stores that that cooperated with the atf were then later thrown under the bus as if they were the bad guys in doing all these things at the direction of the atf It really was. It was a dark time in America. And I'm still, has there ever been anything else since then? No. And those of us that were.
in at the ground level and that we're pushing things and uncovering new things. We never had access to the media and the media just basically kind of ignored us. If you look at Fast and Furious today, you'll still see the words botched gun sting.
associated with it. It wasn't a botched gun sting. You know, you didn't try to track the weapons to... you know who the cartels were you let them go wild across the border and keep on going to you know until they're found at a crime scene next to a body so that then you can say well see this was you know at an american gun shop and
now we need more gun gun control in the united states yeah no it's crazy i mean i still remember the interview that i saw with one of the guys who's like we begged them to please let us stop selling it to these people
And they're like, no, no, you're cooperating with us. You're doing a great job. And it wasn't six months later they were out there at a press conference saying how bad these gun stores were for doing all this, even though they were doing it at the direct intervention of the AT. I mean, it's it's just. The state is not your friend. Exactly. That is the thing. That's the thing to remember. The state is not your friend. David Codry, our guest. Let's jump back to it. Here we go.
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Welcome back to the program. It is The Michael Duke Show. Firearms Friday is the day, and we're talking with David Codria from thewaronguns.com, where you can find his... Daily musings, links to other hot gun stories from around the country. You'll find a lot of stories there that you won't find anywhere else because they're just...
not picked up by the national media. And, of course, he writes for Firearms News and for Ammo Land as well. David, before we went to break, we were talking about kind of the future of where we were going. You said you had some thoughts and what we could do. Where are we at? Let's wrap things up here in this final segment. Well, I'm basically now looking at the Republican Party, the Republican senators, the Republican congresspeople. what they're not doing.
and also what they are doing. What they're not doing, we saw illustrated loud and clear in the Pam Bondi hearings when they didn't ask her a single question about the Second Amendment, even though national campaign notably led by Gun Owners of America. was urging its members and its supporters to contact their senators and to get a sense out of Pam Bondi.
that she was not going to be an enemy of the Second Amendment. And they didn't do that. I've seen excuses made for that. Well, you know, you can't go out there and get her to define what she's going to do on the Second Amendment, because then they won't confirm her. Well, then you can't ask her anything. you know, the Republicans, you just won, okay? Act like you won maybe for a change. And there are ways to couch the questions where you're not going to say, well, you know.
Ms. Boddy, don't you agree with us that kindergartners should be able to bring machine guns to school? No, you don't ask questions like that. You ask questions about founding intent. You ask questions about the Bruin decision and text history and tradition. and you get a confirmation and an understanding that she knows what's going on with this, and that she's not just going to be a robot for the state.
Instead, what I do see Republicans doing is they're offering all kinds of grandiose bills. Eliminate the ATF. Nationwide reciprocity. That's great. OK, first of all, Trump can't do that. OK, he can't wave his hand and make that happen. But let's also temper our expectations. I know people aren't going to like to hear me say this, but take a look at the Republicans. in the Congress and the slim majorities that they have.
And now take a look at the Republicans like Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, who is endorsed by Giffords, for goodness sakes. There are Republican, the word I heard used for them is Vichycons, like the Vichy French.
And they're basically what other people want to call rhinos, Republicans in name only. But they're gutless. They're moderates. Sometimes they're actually against us. They're voting for gun control. Look at the Republicans that turned on us for... biden's bipartisan safer communities wait are you talking about lisa murkowski in of alaska is that what you're talking about well you know what uh that that was you know i i i tried uh i tried like heck to uh
Help expose that. But I'm not I'm not in Alaska. Well, we know we know that's the problem is that we know and we're banging our heads against the wall like everybody else because they're out there. They are out there. We see that all the time. And yet what happens is. the the the moderates or the liberals don't put up a good candidate and they support the vici con the rhino whatever they support them because they know that it's the stealth way to get what they want
Yeah, and so then I see grandiose bills being proposed. We're going to do this, we're going to do that, we're going to eliminate the ATF. Well, eliminating the ATF. first of all, doesn't do any good unless you eliminate the laws that the ATF is enforcing, okay? Because otherwise, you're just going to bury it into the FBI. And haven't we seen that the FBI is problematic in its own right?
and now you're going to be able to bury it into a more insulated organization that'll be able to protect it better than just a small atf is going to be able to do so eliminating the atf per se without eliminating atf functions Really, I'm not sure, you know, it's the devil you know versus the devil that you don't.
Where do you really get ahead of us in the game? And the other thing that I see is we'll see people, oh, yeah, he wants to do this. He wants the congressman has a bill to do this or do that. And it's going to be great. It's going to be the best thing in the world for the Second Amendment. And then I go over to a site called GovTrack. And this is a legislative tracking site. Right.
And you take a look at the bill, you take a look at who's got it, you take a look at the number of co-sponsors, you can find that the same bill has been proposed the last 10 years in a row and never gotten out of committee. and then you get down to the prognosis you see it has a one or two percent chance of being enacted and so i'm going okay you're getting all these great headlines and you're you're getting credit for being a champion of the second amendment by proposing a bill that you know
is never going to pass. So what kind of political game are we playing here? And meanwhile, gun owners are getting all excited and they're expending their resources and their energy trying to promote something that... the very proponent of it, the very sponsor of it knows.
It's never going to happen, and they're just offering this up for political look-at-me reasons. Right. No, it's political theater. I mean, we've seen this time and time again. A bill that we know has no chance of passing, but they can trumpet it from the rooftops. Look at me. their chest look at me i've done a good job for you knowing that it's not going to go anywhere and as you said the worst part is that the is that the gun community is then expending
you know, capital, political capital, volunteer time, you know, treasure, you know, money, and they're expending it on something that has no chance. Let's get down to the grass, to brass tacks into the grassroots of what's really wrong here. And that is the law. and the regulation. If you eliminated a lot of the regulation, it wouldn't matter.
that the ATF is as big as it is because it wouldn't have the authority to do some of the things that, well, it still doesn't have some of the authority to do some of the things that it does, but it would have a lot less authority to do the things that are making headlines. And then you'd have the... opportunity to to dismantle or trim down or pare down what you've got going on what it what it ends up boiling down to is
Do gun owners have a voice with the Republicans and with the Trump administration? Right. And I'm going to keep beating this dead horse until, you know, I guess my arms won't work anymore. But I truly believe. that the Office of Second Amendment Protection needs to be established where the president gets advised and the president makes his expectations known.
to his administration and that the republican party itself gets behind it and and that uh you know it it's it's almost like like a frustrating thing but We can't stop fighting. We have to keep exposing this. And unfortunately, we have to keep exposing this, even though some within our ranks then want to say, well, what are you criticizing the Trump for? Would you rather have Kamala Harris?
and of course the answer to that is no right we wouldn't rather have kamala harris what we'd rather have is we'd rather have a constitutional republic as envisioned by the founders yeah and when we see our leaders straying from that path or missing opportunities that we think that they could have. We need to be able to point that out and we ought to have a forum.
whereby we can have their ear and we can get that message to them. Because as smart as Trump is and as informed as Trump is, he's got his niche and his milieu and we've got ours and there's things that we're going to know. that he's not going to know. And how do we get this information to him and have it viscerally make sense?
to where he sees an advantage to himself. That's the other thing about the guy. There's got to be an advantage, you know, to have Mark Zuckerberg come and kiss his ring, right? Right. Well, if you put him in a room that's full of gun owners or people from the gun culture, it'll also go back to what I was saying earlier.
say and do things to what the he'll match the room he'll read the room and match it and if we keep doing that we can hold him accountable by keeping him there all right we're down to about just under uh two minutes here david What's the future of the gun culture in America? Are we winning? Are we losing? Are we holding steady? Give us a 90 second, your final thoughts here as we wrap up. I'm very, very optimistic that we've had things like the Bruin decision come forth.
under an administration that's probably the most anti-gun administration in history. And to see that come up, despite all their best laid plans. is a very hopeful sign to me. The other hopeful sign to me is that despite all the efforts to disarm the American people, there's a core of us that we will not disarm.
OK, no matter what you do. And the fact that they haven't tried to go for the ultimate goal and, you know, the ultimate goal is they want to have a monopoly of violence and they haven't tried that. It's because they know they can't. And that to me shows that the Second Amendment. is working right
An implicit check on the tyranny of government, implied check. That's what it is. They're too afraid because they know in a nation of 400 million guns that that's going to be a near impossibility or it'll be the bloodiest battle in history. One of the two for sure. David Kodria. You can find him at waronguns.com for his daily blog and posts, and you can also find him at firearmsnewsandammoland.com. David, thanks for coming in and joining us. We appreciate it.
Michael, always a pleasure. Thank you. And best of luck with your new stations. Thank you. I look forward to talking to you again. All right. Hold the line, folks. We got more coming up. Hour two dead ahead. We'll give you the final bite at the apple here, David. I agree with you. I think we are winning. We talk a lot on this program about the implicit check on government that the Second Amendment is.
We laugh at the idea that there's 400 million. I mean, I personally think it's closer to 700 million guns in America. But you're talking about a country of 330 million people with enough guns to give everybody two and let them march out the door. Obviously, it's not going to be that big a deal. But that's why we've seen things like the New York Safe Act and some of the other, the Connecticut assault weapons. That's why we've seen such a pitiful, pitiful.
rate of compliance with those things in the single digits. And the cops aren't going door to door because they know what would happen. They know. And whether it's a constitutional or it's just a concern for their personal safety, they know that is the beauty of the Second Amendment is the ability for the people to say this far and no further.
Yeah, and no shot needs to be fired. It's just like, you know, if you have an assailant and you just display the gun, you don't have to take it any further from that, okay? The survival instinct kicks in. They want easier prey. And when you take a look at, you know, even with your with your how many million gun owners there are in this country, if you just had three percent of them say no. This goes no further.
It's larger than any force that the government can. Right. Any standing force, military, law enforcement, whatever. It is a larger. And you're right. One hundred percent. All right. Any final thoughts here, David, before I let you go? A couple of minutes here. We've got in case there's anything else.
want folks to know about or or things you're doing uh now's uh you know i i think that uh uh i'm gonna i'm gonna knock it off in case you haven't heard i've been fighting a bronchial infection that i've had it really laid me up for about a week and i'm just now getting getting recovering from it
But I'm going to take a sip of coffee before I start coughing again. Okay, yeah, you go do your thing, David. And we'll catch up with you again soon. We'll bring you on more frequently. It's been a while. And with our new setup and video and everything, it's a lot of fun. So hopefully we can get you.
some more exposure out there. Folks need to go out there to War on Guns and read what they need. So do what you need to do, David. Thank you so much for coming on board. Happy New Year to you, and we will talk with you again soon. Thanks, Michael. Take care. Appreciate it. Appreciate you coming on board. David Codria, again, waronguns.com. If you're looking for his website, that's the place to go to get all the deets.
Get all the details over there. That's where you need to go. Great guest. It's been so long since I talked to David. He is such a cool cat. I love it. I love it. All right. How you guys been doing? I'm sorry. I have not been. I've been so focused on what David's been talking about. I really haven't. I really haven't been following much along in the chat room, although I see Harold's in here saying. casting wild aspersions um about police and all kinds of stuff uh going on anyway it's uh
It's going to be Rob says I did see this as it went by. Rob says with half of Hispanic males voting for Trump, I'm not sure it'll turn into a Democratic majority. He was talking about when David was talking about the, you know, bringing all the immigrants in and creating a locks. step uh democratic majority i you know maybe maybe not i mean maybe this was a fluke i don't know um this is only the beginning of the change if this is a if this is a change
In the trend, it's only the beginning of the change, Rob. And I agree that they, I mean, yeah, they voted for him in big time. And we saw a lot of change in Hispanics. We saw a lot of change in my other minorities as well. It doesn't mean that they are all monolithic and that they're all going to vote Democratic no matter what. But historically, that's kind of the way they've gone. So we have to see if this is if this is a blip or if this is a new trend line.
If it's a new trend line, then maybe we don't have as much to worry about. Otherwise, it's a problem. Let's go over here. Anthony said, idiot politicians. Is there any other flavor I'm aware of? Oh, man. I'm just scrolling backwards here. So much ice in the Mat-Su. Yeah, and you guys are about to get more. There was a weather alert this morning. I saw that. Let's see. What was the weather alert for you guys up in the Mat-Su? Here it is right here.
Brand new weather alert for the Matsu borough. Here it is. Snow and rain. Freezing rain on top of cold snow-covered roads. Heavy snow in Thompson Pass. snow accumulation of 10 to 20 inches near Paxson, Copper River Basin, Moore, Tocena. I mean, it's just going to be...
It's going to be a mess. It's going to be a mess. Fairbanks, snow mixed precipitation and above freezing temperatures expected. Somebody said it was 37 degrees there earlier. Accumulation of one to five inches with snowfall likely. And then periods of mixed rain and snow continue through Sunday morning. And then Frank said, ever since I moved, he says me, ever since Duke's moved, it's gotten warmer.
Well, it's because the weather follows me wherever. I noticed that when I left Fairbanks, there really has not been much of a cold winter since I left Fairbanks 10 years ago. You're welcome. That's all I'm saying. You're welcome. You're welcome. for me doing all that. And now that I move further south, you're welcome. Uh, and, uh, okay. I see that, uh, he sent me a link on Facebook messenger. Okay. I have to, uh,
I have to change. Apparently, I have to change profiles here to get that link there. Anthony, let me look at it here. See, oh, here it is right here. Boom. Got to do it on my phone. Okay. All right. Well, we're getting ready to jump back into it here. Please like and share. Mahogany AR-15. Ooh. Ooh. Ooh, yeah, no, that's pretty sexy. The Wooks Store, W-O-O-X store.com. Go check that out. That looks sexy right there.
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As Thomas Jefferson stated, it is the right and duty of the people to be at all times armed. Say hello to my little friend! I say that the Second Amendment is in order of importance, but first for none. The right to keep and bear arms is the one right that allows rights to exist at all. The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Not be infringed. Firearms. From my cold, dead hands.
Firearms Friday, your chance to sound off on issues of a two-way nature right here on The Michael Duke Show, broadcasting live across the state of Alaska on this, your favorite radio station and or FM. translator and live around the world on the internet at michaeldukeshow.com where you'll find links to the audio only live stream and to our social media sites where we simulcast the show via video.
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First and foremost, I want to give you some of the weather alerts that are just coming up. Some of them weren't here when I got started because I checked them this morning. I check the weather alerts every morning just to make sure. But there's new weather alerts up in Fairbanks. You guys are under a winter weather advisory right now. Snow and mixed precipitation and above freezing temperatures expected. In fact, people are reporting in the chat room right now that it's...
34 and raining in fairbanks total snow accumulation of one to five inches as expected with uh the snowfall likely to be in the uh higher elevations. Fairbanks and the surrounding hills are going to be impacted. And this goes on until 9 a.m. on Sunday. Travel could be difficult and there's going to be periods of mixed rain and snow continuing through Sunday morning.
So and then, of course, Anthony mentioned in the chat room that it's supposed to be something like 40 below next week because schizophrenia with Mother Nature is a thing. Down in the Mat-Su, snow and rain, freezing on top of cold, snow-covered roads. Heavy snow closer to Thompson Pass. They're expecting accumulation.
of snow uh in some of the big areas including paxton 10 to 20 inches of snow near paxton a wintry mix of snow and rain is expected along the richardson highway precipitation will be heavy at times snow and the predominant precipitation type near thompson pass will be rain And more, it's just going to be nasty. This is supposed to go through Sunday and into Monday. And, of course, there's a flooding advisory down here on the South Central. We've had so much rain.
They're expecting more flood advisories. And, of course, the roads in various areas, depending on where you are, are nasty because there's ice on top of it with rain and more. It was yesterday. I had to dig the ice cleats out again because it was taking your life in your own hands just to walk across the driveway here. So it's definitely, and winds too, by the way, high winds down here. So, you know, just a little bit of everywhere. So that's the first bit of housekeeping.
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I guess it's time to get into some of the headlines that are going on around the country. That's all the housekeeping that I have for today. Let's take a look at what some of the stories are that are going on around there. The White House Office of Gun Violence wasn't really about preventing gun violence. No, it was more about control.
It wasn't really about, you know, the violent crime. If they were really serious about stopping gun violence, they would stop including suicide numbers in all of that discussion. Right. Because that's one of the things that they do to fluff up the numbers and to confuse people is that they conflate suicides with, you know, the liquor store holdup where somebody gets shot or a school shooting.
And they're just totally separate and different things. They both utilize the same tools, but they're totally separate and different things. And when they conflate those numbers... considering when you look at gun violence numbers and you realize somewhere around 65% of those that they're using these days are actually suicides, you understand that it's not really about crime.
It's not really even about violence. It's about control. But the good news is the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention is gone. The CCRKBA, which is the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, is now congratulating Donald Trump for quickly following through on his promise to shut down the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention.
Alan Gottlieb, who's the chair of that committee, said this gun control bureaucracy has no place in the White House and it should never have been created. Its supporters are having fits on the Internet, which convinces us that President Trump's swift action is correct. It was already reported that the staff of this operation resigned prior to the transition of power, which suggests they knew what was coming.
So they abandoned ship to avoid being fired. The office's webpage has now gone dark. And the Trace, a gun control advocacy publication, it's a quote-unquote news publication. appears to acknowledge that it was really a policy outfit and coordinating hub for what amounted to gun control efforts by the Biden administration. And so it's good stuff.
it's good stuff i mean that is good so we'll give kudos where kudos are due right now to the president he has delivered on that promise but there's a lot of other things that again we need to be talking about and I would be remiss if I didn't continually try to hold the president accountable for some of the promises and the assertions that he made on the campaign trail that he's a stalwart warrior for the Second Amendment, that he didn't really mean it when he said he'd take.
the guns and worry about due process later and other things. So, you know, we're going to be, we're going to, I'm cautiously optimistic. That's where I'm going on this. I'm cautiously optimistic that we're going to see more movement on this. I really would have liked to have seen more. And, you know, the thing is.
They could have made some hay here if they'd really highlighted this. All they really did was take the office down and the buzz is that the people have been either... resigned or let go in that office and then they took the website down but they could have made a lot of hay if they'd highlighted this on the way out if they had touted their own horn a little bit on this they could have made some pr hay on this on the way out but we're hoping
Here we are. We're coming up on a one week, right? This tomorrow or Monday will be one week from the inauguration. It sure would be nice to see another slew of executive orders that repeals and... pulls back what can be pulled back in an administrative function, not because there's certain things you just can't do in an executive order without it being challenged. I mean, they still may challenge it, but you don't want to do overreach. You don't want to waste time.
But I'm hoping that there will be more coming out of the Trump administration on this for sure. But as it is right now. The Office of Gun Violence Prevention is no more. And I'm with David. David Codria was our guest in the last hour. He writes for. the firearms news and for ammo land and he has his own uh site up it's called war on guns.com war on guns.com and he said he said you know it should we should change it from the office of gun violence prevention
to the Office of Second Amendment Protection. And I think that would be great. You know, I think Trump needs to be surrounded with real people who understand the intricacies and the ins and outs of the Second Amendment and why it's so important. And because, you know, he he I think he's ambivalent. I think really, truly in his heart, he's probably ambivalent about it and he could take it or leave it more than anything else. He's saying what he's saying because it was, you know, it was.
convenient and... and beneficial for him to say it. But I think probably personally, based on his prior writings and the things that have slipped out, that he's probably kind of ambivalent to it. I don't think he's necessarily anti-Second Amendment, but I don't think he's as pro as he...
has portrayed himself to be. So we need to make sure that we keep the pressure on to hold him accountable. And we'll be watching. We'll be watching as we go through here with this. But this is good news. And it would again, it would be great to have an office of Second Amendment protection. in there as well. It is definitely, definitely an important step. The Supreme Court has yet to rule on the legality.
Of the Joe Biden's ATF rule treating by build shoot kits as completed firearms. These are like the 80 percent lower kits that we're talking about. It may be a moot point if the president. follows through with his promises and rescinds the order and directs the ATF to return to the status quo. We haven't seen that yet. We haven't seen that happen yet, but we're waiting. The last thing, of course, the anti-gunners want is that. And so they're going on. And again, the trace.
is up to its scaremongering tactics over the issue, including trying to tie the shooting of that healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, to the ongoing crackdown on home-built guns. Here's what they wrote. The assassination jolted the public. While it didn't necessarily indicate that untraceable weapons were becoming more prevalent, it did raise questions about the state of the ghost gun market.
Was polymer 80s closure a sign that the market was shriveling up or was it hydro like sprouting new heads? No, the closure of polymer 80s was because of the inexorable pressure of the Biden administration and bureaucrats in the ATF to shut. down what was a very successful gun business that allowed hundreds of thousands of Americans to exercise their Second Amendment rights. That had nothing to do with the market shriveling up. That had everything to do with regulation.
The trace goes on to say law enforcement officials, small arms researchers and ghost gun manufacturers who recently spoke to the trace described the law enforcement gains against ghost guns as tenuous at best, especially in the light of the Trump administration. aversion to new regulation ghost gun technology they warned is only getting more sophisticated and as a result the weapons are becoming more appealing to criminals
Well, what would you rather do? Would you rather have to fiddle and fart around with a desktop CNC machine or some kind of filament 3D printer and wait around and finick it and finesse it and build the parts and make sure that... it worked and do all that kind of because those things are just not like out of the box they work you know they it's a it's a homemade gun right it's finicky
It's not made to exacting tolerances and standard. Would you think that the criminals would really rather do that or they rather just go steal a real gun from somebody else? I mean, come on. Come on. It's it's you know, they're losing the war against ghost guns. And hopefully the Trump administration will take a stand, a more strident stand on this.
through executive administrative action, which they are lawfully legally allowed to do, they can tell the ATF to go back to where they were before or maybe even a little further back if we really, really, really wanted to, you know.
be part of it all right uh we got more coming up another story here in just a minute the atf more shenanigans over dei diversity equity and inclusion um we're we'll cover that here just a minute don't go anywhere oh and the stuff in the uk that's the other one stuff in the uk Things just get, I mean, no guns, but it just gets worse. We're going to talk about that here in a minute. The Michael Duke Show, CometSense Radio.
If you missed the show, you can listen to it on your time with Duke's On Demand. Oh, and it's free. Like America used to be. Streaming live every weekly morning on Facebook Live and MichaelDukesShow.com. Hello, my friends. How are you? How are you guys doing this morning? Did you see yesterday that a military convoy had rolled over on the highway, blocked the Richardson Highway, or the Parks Highway, and they recommended taking an alternative route? Yeah, I know. Right? Right?
And what alternative route is that? Oh, you want us to go through Paxson? You want us to go all the way around to the Glen? Okay. I mean, you know, okay. All right. Oh. That's great. I would like to see the president repeal the NFA act itself. Well, I mean, he doesn't, he, you can't just do that. He just can't, he could, he could support.
Or propose a bill. I mean, I suppose they could get some surrogates to support to propose a bill and he could support it. That's not something that could be done through legislative action or through executive action because it was a legislative act. Right. I, too, Gary, would like to see the NFA repealed.
Anthony says, I always chuckle out loud when somebody starts claiming that criminals favor ghost guns. Like I'm so certain there's an $8,000 CNC rig sitting in the back room of the meth house cranking out Glock clones en masse. Yeah. I mean, exactly. You know, this is not, again, this picture that they keep painting about how, oh, these are. Have you guys ever, I mean, has anybody ever out there ever built an 80% lower?
I mean, I'm sure some of you have. It is a laborious process. It's not something it could be done over a weekend. If you dedicate a good chunk of the weekend to it, unless you've got a full machine shop with all the desktop tools and stuff like that. But if you're just doing it at home with, you know, Dremels and lathes and drills and that kind of stuff, it's... It's not an easy process, and quite honestly, it's not a precision piece of machinery usually by the time you're done.
It's something that you're just proud of because you got it to work and it fires and it does. But if you've got a choice of a $500 off the shelf mass made. ar-15 and your ghost gun or your handmade 80 lower for to protect you know in a in a life and death situation probably most of us would grab the mass production unit because you know You just don't know. You just don't know. You know? It is what it is.
Rick says it doesn't take that long if you've got a mill. Well, yeah, that's what I said. If you've got a machine shop in your garage. Or, you know, even a small, then, yeah, you're right, 100%. Probably doesn't take too much. And yours is probably a lot more precision than guys like me who had a Dremel tool and a drill press and, you know, some sanding paper.
And so that was the extent of our tools, right? So probably yours is probably a lot more precision than what some of us have built over the years, for sure. Anthony said, I built one before a few years ago. Never again. I'll buy the damn rifle whole and eat the cost. Exactly. I mean, it's fun. Don't get me wrong. It's fun to do.
It is it's an enjoyable it's an enjoyable thing to get into. But you you know, you have to there's a there's definitely an amount of skill and precision that goes into it. I just don't see a bunch of messed up gangsters, you know. Uh, having the patience and the precision to be able to build a whole bunch of ghost guns. I just don't, it is a boogeyman. And again, that's why they call them ghost guns, ghost guns. Um, that's, that's why they call them that.
Because they're trying to scare you. They're trying to scare you. Rick has all the things. Yeah. I mean, you know, when I, when I grow up and when I stopped being a boy, I, when I grow up and be a real man, I will be like Rick and have all the things, all the tools, all the tools. in the garage so if i want to walk out there and work on it i can't that's uh hashtag life goals hashtag life goals all right if you haven't shared the show
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What the hell is an assault weapon? Does that mean that if we hurt your feelings, you should consider the Michael Dukes show Assault Radio? Okay, we can accept that. Here's Michael Dukes. Kind of a d**k, but somewhat funny. Well, at least he got the somewhat funny part right. Right? I mean, he's not wrong. He's not wrong. I am kind of a... All right, welcome back to the program.
Our two of Firearms Friday continues coming up in the next segment. We're going to be joined by Willie. Don't call me William. Willie Waffle. And yes, that's his real name. You know, for the first two years I talked to him, I thought it was a pseudonym. And then one day I just asked him, I just think I was like, is it? He's like, yep. Really? Wow. And I said, well, did your parents hate you?
And anyway, we've been, Willie's a good friend and he always brings a little bit of levity. It's, it's some of my, it's just, it's a great way to start the weekend. So if you haven't checked it out yet. Make sure you stick around for the final segment of the show today because we'll be talking about entertainment news and the movies and the latest from, you know, what's coming up, what's the news thing and what's going on.
And it's just a little bit of way to lighten things up because sometimes we get a little heavy on the show or a little agitated or angry or whatever. So this is a good way to do it. Speaking of getting angry. Let's talk about the ATF for a minute. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. The BATF. F-Troop, as we used to lovingly call them around here. Well, they're up to their new shenanigans.
They are up to their new shenanigans because the president has issued an executive order that all... Governmental agencies eliminate all their positions related and dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion. What's known as DEI. And the ATF in. in what is surprisingly a repeat of things that they've done in the past, have decided to buck the president's orders, not by not firing them, but simply by recategorizing the positions. of certain people. This was picked up on X.
Some some enterprising citizen journalists were able to pick this up and find this out. It was picked up by Must Read. It was picked up by. The truth about guns was picked up by bearing arms. They all picked up on this. But what they've done is they've decided instead of heeding the lawful directive of the president of the United States. They've decided to make an end run around what the president wants and what, by extension, what the majority of the country who voted for the president want.
What the citizens discovered, the citizen journalists discovered was that after Trump had ordered the agencies to eliminate all the positions related and dedicated to DEI, the ATF simply changed the job title.
of its chief diversity officer, Lisa Boykin. Boykin, who was listed on the, and I think the war on guns, no, I think Bearing Arms. Bearing Arms has got a great screenshot of this. From a... tweet are they still calling him tweets i guess from a tweet from gun owners of america gun owners of america has got a side-by-side screenshot one from the 20th of january and one from the 22nd of january showing lisa boykin in all her glory amongst the staff of the atf and on the 20th she is listed as
You guessed it. The the wrong one. I got I'm looking at the other. The chief diversity officer for the office of the director, who is Stephen Dettelbach at that point. She was the chief diversity officer on the 20th. Two days later, on the 22nd, she is now a senior executive for the office of the director. That's it. They just changed the title of her job and go ahead and just did it. Now, here's the thing. The ATF...
Had done this before a year ago, Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst revealed that the ATF had been reclassifying positions within the agency. Specifically, the ATF was unlawfully classifying administrative positions as law enforcement roles, and that they'd been doing so for decades. It violated the law and wasted millions in taxpayers' dollars. The ATF for years turned a blind eye to classification errors, even when whistleblowers brought it to the management's attention as early as 2018.
This maladministration resulted in up to $20 million in overpayments to at least 91 employees who erroneously received enhanced law enforcement salaries and benefits. while performing tasks like human resources, administrative, and other non-law enforcement duties. The ATF at that time lost the authority to reclassify their positions in 2020. But since then, they regained the authority. And now they're reclassifying the position of DEI.
to just some blank executive order. Now, executive director. Tom Knighton over at Bearing Arms goes even further, and he digs into the background of this Lisa. boykin boykin um she's now moved again from the dei to now the office of director But since there really isn't a director because Dettelbach is gone, there is an interim director. Right. So but what is she exactly doing? What is her job title? What is her responsibility? I mean, she was the DEI officer.
and her bio is mostly missing from the internet, but from what Knightenden was able to dig up, he said, basically, she's a glorified HR flack. who leveraged that into DEI somewhere along the way. She has no relevant expertise to offer the director of a federal law enforcement agency beyond DEI efforts that were supposed to end with the president. So again, another example of do as we say and not as we do. And you can't tell us what to do from your friends at the ATF.
By the way, who have a no tolerance policy for good faith mistakes made by FFLs. If you make a simple paperwork mistake, even though if it was honest to God, you didn't dot the T, you didn't cross the I, you put in it. for the borough instead of the actual writing the borough out. Oh, yeah. You put CO instead of county downside. Oh, those are those are no tolerance. You'll get dinged. They've got no tolerance policies there, but they will.
They will ignore the law when it's convenient for them. Something's got to happen there. And then we move over to England, where, of course, we know you can't get guns over there, right? Except some criminals do. And what happened when they removed all the guns from the country? Well, they saw a massive uptick in knife attacks. And that prompted, of course, knife control, despite knives being tools that we use every day.
And then now they're going to make it even harder to get knives because of this stabbing that happened here recently this last summer. The stabber. who admitted this week to killing young girls last summer, brought the knife that he killed them with from Amazon when he was 17, despite it being illegal to sell knives to people who were under 18. He also admitted to 10 counts of attempted murder.
and has been referred to the anti-terror program The government is proposing buyers, a new law now, will now be asked to record a live video and submit an identity document such as a passport to prove their age now to be able to buy a knife. Currently, when someone orders knives on Amazon in the UK, they have to enter their date of birth and are told valid photographic ID with date of birth may also be required upon delivery.
The driver will input your year of birth into the device and they may require an ID check. But no, no, now they want you to take a video of you putting it like this was going to stop anybody. I mean, it's a knife attack, first of all. a knife attack okay and this guy probably could have gone into any restaurant and stolen a butcher knife but instead he ordered one off amazon but that's okay don't worry this will stop him
Put a video up. That'll stop him. All right, we got more coming up. The Michael Duke Show. Common Sense, Liberty Base, Freethinker Radio. Willie Waffle up next. Streaming live every weekday morning on Facebook Live and MichaelDukesShow.com. Okay, we're in the break. Let me see what we got in here. I had to check my Facebook feed because Dukes wanted more government and more government offices. When did I say that?
Oh, I guess when you're saying that I wanted the Office of Second Amendment Protection. I mean, I guess you could say that that was yeah, that that's more government offices, I guess. But I just thought that the delightful irony of the. What do they call that? Symmetry, the duality, the symmetry of them having an office of gun violence prevention and then turning that office into an office of Second Amendment protection. That was, you know, that.
There was some delicious irony in there. Delicious, delicious. Yeah. All right. You, heavy, agitated, say it isn't so. Brian says, Duke's getting agitated. Never. Are you guys saying that I get agitated sometimes? Is that what you're trying to say? It's a rainy day in Fairbanks going to ice skate to work. Yeah. Oof. Oof. The state is not your friends. How do knives attack anyway? Attach or I think he meant attack. How do knives attack anyway? Asking for a friend. It's a knife attack.
I mean, that's the thing. You know, we saw this in England. I mean, they at one point they talked about having chefs having to register all their knives in restaurants. so that if you had a butcher knife that was over five or six inches long, if you had an eight-inch butcher knife or, you know, that you would get. I mean, how is that going to stop any?
Anybody who can get a piece of steel in a grinder can make a knife or a machete or a sword or something like that. I mean, not great. And so how is this going to stop it? This kid was 17 when he bought the knife. He was 18 when he came. the crime, but he bought the knife before he was 18. So now they're going to focus on that part of it, right? They're going to focus on that part of it, that he got the knife before he was 18, even though he committed the crime after he was 18.
He got the knife when he was 18. So now let's focus on that. That makes total sense. Makes no sense whatsoever in my mind. But this is the same kind of reaction that they've had in England for years. They take the guns away. They take the ability of people away to defend themselves. Knives, attacks, swords. And then later on, of course, there were more guns. Guns were being smuggled across the channel.
um and then the criminals are having guns and then they had to start arming having armed units from uh you know the bobbies they had to get uh uh they had to get coppers uh where they had to have armed response units um Because, you know, the criminals had guns and so they had to gun up. I mean, it's a it's a vicious cycle. All you're doing is it all. Yeah. The video makes it easier for the state.
to prosecute yeah ghost knives ghost knives yeah are you wait a minute are you advocating for ghost knives both frank and now i mean essentially right i mean Give a kid a sharp give give a kid a hard stone and a short piece of steel and a few hours of time and you can probably whittle that thing away, you know, let alone an actual powered grinder.
Right. I mean, you could make, I mean, how to hell the guy would they do it in prison with a toothbrush, right? They shaved down the toothbrush. I mean, a plastic toothbrush. You could do anything. You know, a salt toothbrush. It's an assault toothbrush. It's a shiv, right? Again, it comes to the point where it's just reduction to the ridiculous. You can't change.
human nature in that way i'm not saying you don't make laws i'm just saying you can't expect that those laws are going to do a lot of the things that you're expecting them to do at this point which is i think or just do something for the sake of doing Something. That's where we're at right now. Okay. We're getting ready to hear my just checking my phone to see if Willie was calling in because it'll pick him up here.
In just a second, we're going to jump on board and we're going to do the weekend movie review. It's going to be so good. It's going to be so fun. You're going to enjoy it. It's going to be great. Chris says, you need an ATF clearance to buy a butter knife. Well, yeah, because you could sharpen that butter knife and it could become a real dangerous weapon.
Terry says, I'll keep my assault penguin. Thank you very much. You know, you're right. Those are assault penguins. Hard to keep in the pocket, though. That's the big problem. Yeah, I mean, I made... I made little knives when I was, they weren't real good knives. You know, I mean, I ground stuff up and made little, you know, go play outside, go play outside kid. That's what you do. But it's England. They're just going to do more. But it's crazy. All it will do will hurt knife sellers in the UK.
and prevent people from being able, I mean, the fact that you can't even carry a pocket knife in some places, that's insane. You know how many times a day I use my pocket knife? It's crazy. All right, we've got to go. The Michael Duke Show. Common Sense, Liberty Base, full of free-thinking radio. Like, share, subscribe. Let's do it.
The weekend comes to a close or the week. Sorry, I didn't mean to do that to you. I didn't mean to terrify you. No, the weekend is just starting, but the week comes to a close. And now we're bringing Willie Waffle on, who I think just dropped his transmission when I said that because he was so looking forward to the weekend. Hello, my friend. How are you?
Yeah, don't make me miss my weekend. Okay, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I live for the weekend. The weekend is our time, people. We don't have to worry about the boss. We don't have to worry about all the stress at work.
That's our time, man. If you want to sit down and watch that Buffalo Bills game in your undershores, you could do it because it's your time. We don't have to worry about the boss. Why do you hate me, man? I'm my own boss. Why do you? I can't even get away from my own boss. I'm like. Oh, I hate this guy. Anyway, Willie is here to do the entertainment news and the weekend movie review. So let's I guess let's dive right right down into it. Where are we going to start here?
Well, you know, let's talk. Okay, we'll start with something I think is a little bit more happy. Okay. Well, I don't know about happy, but we are going to have on Thursday night, January 30th. Is that right? Thursday night's the 30th? Yes. Thursday night the 30th, Fire Aid. This is going to be the big benefit concert in Los Angeles. to try to help get some money and get some resources to people who are suffering from the fire. And they've lined up a pretty good show.
I mean, so in L.A., it's going to be at the Intuit Dome and the Kia Forum. If you know L.A., they're like practically across the parking lot from each other. And you're going to have Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, Olivia Rodrigo, Rod Stewart, Sting, Jelly Roll. I mean, you're going to have all the really big stars that are out there. And what really is interesting to me. is that you're probably going well where can i watch this what channel is it going to be on it's going to be streaming
It is going to be streaming on just about everything. Amazon Prime, Facebook, Apple TV, Paramount Plus, and Peacock. I mean, it's going to be on all of them. It's going to be everything. Netflix, yeah, everything. And if you want to go someplace and watch it, there are going to be AMC movie theaters that will be playing it. You can buy a ticket. You can go to the movie theater and watch it on the big screen. Okay.
I think that's kind of interesting. The show at the Kia Forum, which is kind of the smaller venue, that's going to start at 6 p.m. West, which is going to be like 9 our time. Or 9 my time. I'm on the East Coast. That's going to be like, what, 5 for you? 5 p.m., yeah. 5 p.m. my time, yeah. And then the Intuit Dome show will start like an hour and a half later.
Okay. And they're going to do a thing where, you know, like if you have tickets to one, they're going to have screens. Like, you know, when they're changing sets, you'll be able to see what's going on at the other venue and stuff like that. you know, or just, you know, watch the stream and they're just going to bounce back and forth so you can see all that. But that is the effort. And the only thing that made me suspicious, I'm just going to say, the only thing that made me suspicious.
It said proceeds go to the Annenberg Foundation, which will distribute funds to short-term relief efforts. Okay, well, that sounds pretty good. And, quote, long-term initiatives to prevent... future fire disasters wait a second wait a second what initiatives are they talking about well i mean wait and don't the californian people pay taxes to prevent future fire haven't they poured hundreds of millions of dollars into fire prevention in that state which
Totally failed. I mean, you know, you know, how is so we're bailing out the California taxpayer because their government is inept. You know what my thought went to. Are they putting this money into some sort of climate change program? Oh, God. Because that's what it sounded like to me. It's Hollywood going full Hollywood, I mean, at that point.
But is there being a little bit disingenuous about what you're doing with the money? I mean, listen, short-term relief efforts, I think we all understand what that is. And I think that's what most people want to support. You know, how are you going to prevent the future? Well, you know, there's a lot of things that can be done. You know, some of them, some of them environmentally centered and some of them just down to.
Clearing the brush and doing things you need to do to manage the force. Clear the brush and make sure there's water in the reservoir. I mean, those are pretty simple, you know. That might help. Yeah, that might help. All right, well, it's...
California, man, what are you going to do? Those poor people down there. It's like a, it's like a hostage situation in California these days. All right. Well, so again, that's on the 30th, Thursday, the 30th, 6 PM. So 5 PM Alaska time and 6 30 PM Alaska time. You can find it on whatever streaming service you want. All right. If you want to pay for it, you can go do it. What else is, what else we got here? I'm a little angry. Yeah, me too. I'm a little angry. Okay, so.
Yep. This week, Netflix announced they had one of their best quarters ever. They added 18.9 million new subscribers in the last quarter of 2024. Why, things are looking up. They're doing well financially. So they're going to raise prices. Of course they are. Of course they're going to raise prices. They're raising prices. Those so-and-sos. Now this is the one that gets me. This is what's so entertaining to me.
The basic package with ads is going to increase by a dollar. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute, wait a minute. Weren't the ads supposed to keep the prices down? Right, right. Did I miss something? So I got to pay to watch TV now, even with ads. Right, exactly. This is cable all over again. And what's worse is that the standard plan, which I think most people like me are on.
It went up by almost $2. I mean, I'm like, what? Yeah, like $1.50. Yeah. What are you doing? What are you doing? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, it's insane. Actually, maybe it was like $2.50 now that I look at it. But, yeah, I mean, either way, I'm with you. That's way too much money. And then, like, the premium tier is going up. You know, to add a member on your plan, that's going up. And, you know.
Just in case you were wondering, oh, those price changes kicked in immediately, okay? So, like, if you were a new customer and logged on Tuesday night, those were the new prices. The rest of us, well, you know, your next billing cycle, oh, that's in a couple of days? Well, in your next billing cycle, you're going to have a higher price. Wow. Thanks for letting us know. Yeah, remember the days when we got on the streaming services to cut the cable costs because the cable costs were so outrageous?
I mean, what is it now? I mean, I haven't done the math lately, but I think the last time I looked, I'm up to like 75 or 80 bucks a month in streaming service fees. And now it's time, I guess, to start hacking away at some of those because that makes no sense whatsoever. It doesn't. And, you know, and I know you and I have talked about this.
This is exactly what we thought would happen. As soon as the, as soon as cable started losing viewers, you knew the streamers were going to make it up and raise prices. Like, you know, the big companies want to make sure they don't lose their cash. Exactly. Well, Netflix did lose money for a long time. So, I mean, I guess it's good, but 19, 18 point, almost 19 million new subscribers. And if they're jacking everything up a buck and a half to two bucks a thing. So that's an extra 40.
million a month right there just in the you know must be good to be king at that point i guess all right i want to do something like that i know i'm just gonna start jacking up prices i'm just gonna start i'm gonna make people pay to listen to this show I would go broke. I would go broke tomorrow. All right. So Netflix is done. But there's good news for us geeks out there. I guess it's good news. I don't know. Is it good news or not? Tell me about Ryan Gosling. Tell me.
Tell me about Ryan Gosling and Star Wars. That's just a sentence that I never thought I would say. I never thought I would either, but Ryan Gosling is going to start to feel the force, my friends. Yes, the Hollywood Reporter. is reporting that ryan gosling is in talks to star in a star wars movie that is being developed and directed by sean levy who did deadpool and wolverine now we don't know what the plot is
We don't know anything about it. It doesn't even necessarily have a release date. However, what we do know is that they're going to try to slate it. right after the Mandalorian movie comes out in 2026. Because they've got like several development deals, several different Star Wars movies out there. And all of them seem to have fallen apart except this one.
So get ready. This is going to be your next one. This is probably going to be your 2027 Star Wars movie. And they said it will not have anything to do with the Skywalkers. This is going to be a whole other thing.
I'd be curious to see what it is. I'm kind of curious. Well, I think it will be probably more... I mean, they've had more success lately with the non... trilogy you know non-skywalker palpatine trilogy things than they have with anything else i mean andor was amazing you know uh mandalorian mandalorian has been really great you know uh some of the other ones hit or miss but i mean
I don't know. It'll be I'll watch it because it's Star Wars. And hey, who doesn't love some Star Wars? But now I've got to wait two years for it to come out. I may be dead by then. I don't know. So it's just, you know, it's a frustrating thing. Give me something new.
No. And, you know, I heard a funny story the other day, not to go too far off, but we're talking about the Mandalorian. I heard a story the other day when they were making season one of the Mandalorian, they had to do a scene with a ton of storm troopers. And they just didn't have enough outfits and enough people to make it look big enough. Oh, wow. So they put out the word where they were shooting. They reached out to the local Star Wars club, like Star Wars fan club. Right.
All these guys showed up with their own homemade Star Wars outfits that looked really good. And they had them all in the episode. That's great. Yeah. Yeah. There's like, there's like, what do they call themselves? The Battalion or something? There's like a group, a club that is like, they've all got their own stormtrooper armor.
And it's all period specific and, you know, and everything else. I can't remember the Imperial Legion. I can't remember what they call themselves, but there's a club where they all get together and they go to like, they do things like children's hospitals and other things and stuff like that. But it's just, it's this, I could.
see it you put out the word and you'll have a whole group of volunteers ready to play stormtroopers for you yeah and that's why i'm excited about star wars and ryan god yeah because you know what i'm part of that community now granted i don't have my own star wars outfit but I'm part of loving the story and loving the universe.
And I'm so happy that they're going to maybe develop something new for me to embrace. Yeah. No, I like it. Let's, let's, let's develop the story beyond where we're at and let's, for the love of God, please do not do another acolyte, please. I could, I couldn't even. get through an episode that was so much trash all right it was really slow let's go to uh the movies here we got about uh four minutes four and a half minutes um hit me with it you you choose where are we going all right
I'm going to start with one that we won't get into too much because I want to have a lot more fun with the next one. So, in theaters, directed by Steven Soderbergh, pretty good director. You know, he's become very experimental lately. He just kind of takes projects that are different and new. And this one is definitely in that category. It is called Presence. Now, think about this. It's a ghost story, but it's not a horror ghost story.
It's a ghost story told from the point of view of the ghost in the sense that the camera is the eyes of the ghost. Oh, wow. And so. we see the ghost in the house as the family moves in lucy lou and and others you know lucy luby and the mom and we see the ghost following the drama in the family, the strife in the family, the heartbreak that they've gone through, the struggles they're going through. When somebody's trying to hide their phone.
The ghost kind of looks at it for us. You know, things like that. Wow. And we start to sense what's going on. It's really, really cool. That's good. I was going to ask, is there a pottery wheel involved in this movie? No, no, no. It's a ghost movie that doesn't have horror. Well, that sounds like a cool, I mean, we're always crying about not having something new and unique. This one fits the bill.
Oh, absolutely. The three and a half waffles. I really liked it. I think it's amazing to create a character that we never see that literally we're just looking through the eyes, but we get a sense of the emotions and the fear and what this ghost has kind of been. through because you know they're going to start to find out that
There's something going bump around their house. They're going to try to figure out what it might be. And so you get a little bit of background there, too. I thought it was really cool. It was really, really cool. Presence in theaters Three and a Half Waffles, which leads us to the new Mel Gibson flick. starring Mel Gibson but directed by Mel Gibson my wife and I were just talking about Apocalypto the other day she's like oh yeah she was like I was thinking about that movie I'm like oh man
That movie was so good, and I haven't watched it in years, but it was so great. Mel Gibson is an amazing director. This new movie is called Flight Risk in theaters. That's right. Ladies and gentlemen. This is your movie set in Alaska. Yes. They are in Alaska. So go for grace. plays this basically mafia accountant who's gone on the run. He's hiding out like 90 miles north of Anchorage.
And the FBI finds him. Well, actually, not the FBI. The U.S. Marshals find him. OK. And so he he cuts the deal. He's going to testify against the mafia boss. But they got to get him to New York as fast as they can. So. The first thing they have to do is they have to fly to Anchorage and they rent a charter plane and they're on their way. Marky Mark is the pilot.
But maybe Marky Mark is not what we think he's supposed to be. 90 miles north of Anchorage is like, you know, just north of like Talkeetna, Trapper Creek area in there. And there's like, I mean, why didn't you? climb in a car and drive to anchorage it's not like it's that big a deal but anyway okay i get it and i love this you know this little movie in alaska shot in canada i mean that's what it's going to be i guarantee it yeah well most of the time they're in the plane
So all you see are snow covered mountains. They could be any mountains. I don't I don't know. But, you know, I think, first of all, listen, this is not like a Shakespeare movie. OK, let's let's let's get that out of the way. This is not Citizen Kane or Metropolis right now.
No, but it's fun. I mean, Marky Mark is absolutely insane and is playing the crazy guy just the way he needs to. And he's going to make you laugh and he's going to make you scared. And you're going to be sitting there wondering, how are these people going to get out of this situation?
They're stuck in a plane and they can't fly it. Right, right. And then they throw in a whole bunch of other stuff. I don't want to overdo it. I'm at three waffles. Okay. All right. Well, three waffles. All right. Willie Waffle, wafflemovies.com. Out of time, folks. Be kind, love one another, live well. We got to go. We'll see you on Monday. Sorry, I looked down and I was like, man, all of a sudden we're out of time. Yeah.
Well, you know, when was the last time we saw Marky Mark play a bad guy? It's been a while. It's been quite a while since he played. It's been a while. He can be menacing. I mean, he really can be, like, kind of psychotic and menacing, which, you know.
that's that's kind of cool i i dig that uh being in a you know it's never good when the movies are i mean what was the last one they filmed on deadly ground here i think was the last movie that got filmed here but everything you know everything else is like what did i watch for nostalgia's sake the other day what's the one the proposal is that the one with ryan reynolds and uh
Sandra Bullock. Oh, and Sandra Bullock? Yeah. Was that Canada or was that Alaska? No, that was Canada. It was Canada. They filmed it all in Canada and I was just laughing so hard because I'm just like, okay, okay, okay.
But I did have to laugh at the reactions of the... the the not the reactions but the uh the attitudes of a lot of the people who supposedly were from alaska because there's a lot of people like that it's like we just don't care you know you know whatever you know kind of thing which i loved i thought that was funny but anyway yeah it'd be nice to have an alaska movie actually filmed in Alaska, but we know how that works around here.
Yeah, and that's sad because I think it's a beautiful area. You and I have talked about it. I would love to go on some sort of wilderness kind of ice boat tour. Not ice boat tour, but like touring the areas up there.
They're a glacier cruise. That's what I'm trying to say. That's what you're looking for, yeah. Well, I keep telling you, if you get up here, we'll get you on a glacier boat. All right. We'll feed you to some bears. It'll be fun. It'll be fantastic. Oh, yeah. I can't outrun the bears. Yeah. If we see the Bears.
I'm done. Yeah. Okay. Like it's, it's been a good life. I loved you all. And, uh, Oh, hi, how are you doing? How are you doing Yogi? Yeah. That's why, that's why I'm bringing you. I'm bringing you so that, cause I could probably run faster than you and we'll get, um,
All right, well, three waffles. That's not, I mean, for a Marky Mark movie, that's, you know, Mark Wahlberg. That's not bad. And that's the thing. It gets a little bit too soap opera-y with the Twisted Turs, but I want to know how it ends. I want to see how those twisted turns turn out. It draws you in, and you get the thriller, and you get the mystery, and there's even a couple of voices that are kind of cameo voices, and one of them... I recognized.
I'm pretty sure it was Leah Remini. I'm not sure. Like the whole time I'm sitting there, I'm listening. I'm like, I know that voice. So I'm going to look that up. I haven't looked it up because I've been busy since I saw the movie. But I got to look because I think it was her.
think it was well in mark walberg this is the one where he's like bald right where he's like got the yes i'm just like that's not a look you expect from mark walberg but you know balding he plays a balding psychotic that's that's all great that's all good All right, well, three waffles for that. What do we got next week, Willie, before we let you go? Next week, we have Dog Man. They've put together a police officer and a dog, and they've made him into a cartoon character.
Yeah, I don't know either. Yeah, I'm not sure either. But I'm just... maybe we should talk about some of the streams next week instead because what what what all right willy waffle waffle movies.com um although i don't know why i keep saying his website i don't think you've updated your website in five years but anyway
head it's dead don't forget don't go to the website don't go to the website don't go to don't go to barbie.com i mean don't you know whatever it is all right my friend uh we will see you next week thanks for coming on board All right, see you then. Folks, we're out of time. Monday will be me and you. Have a great weekend. Be kind, love one another, and live well. lizard in