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Firearms Friday. Your chance to sound off on issues of a 2A nature right here on the Michael Duke Show. Hello, my friends, and good morning to you. Welcome to this Friday.

Friday the 13th. I'm not a superstitious person, but I wanted to shake my fist this morning at something. Five years of this program, and I've only ever had minor Internet issues for, you know, over the course of the years. And this morning. It was everything I could do to get us to get us on the air this morning. It is definitely a Friday the 13th moment between that.

And the fact that our first guest, Yehuda Remmer, ended up with the wrong link, an old expired link. I don't know how I grabbed that one instead of the right one, but it is, you know, it's... It's Friday the 13th. I'm not superstitious. It's all going to be fine. Don't worry about it. It'll be great. I'm armed.

It'll be fine. It's going to be a good day. So this morning on the program, we've got a lot of stuff lined up. We're going to jump into it here in just a second. Like I said, with Yehuda Rummer, the Pew Pew Jew, we're going to talk about... all the hot news of the day and his thoughts on stuff that's going on around the country and around the world and the reason why we are members of the 2A culture.

We'll get his thoughts on that. In hour two, we're going to be joined by Chris Chang, Top Shot champion. Season four of the show, Top Shot. He's going to come in. And with him, I really want to focus in on the whole thing that's going on in L.A. because, I mean, it's like into the mouth of madness.

in california right now uh and we'll talk about that especially as a gun owner and uh you know how does that how does that make him feel uh and what are his thoughts on the overall uh situation down there as well and then of course as always we're going to finish up with our friend willie waffle

who comes in for the weekend, just kind of lighten it up right before the end of the show for the weekend, our entertainment review or movie and streaming. And, oh, you know, we've been doing that with Willie for... going on 15 years now so it'll be a good it'd be a good thing all right um so that's it today it's all about firearms gun rights it's our favorite day of the week we kind of try and

You know, we created Firearms Friday so that we could bring all those stories down to one day of the week and focus on them. And today is that day.

All right. Well, let's get started. I see down in the green room we've got Yehuda Remmer with us. You know him as the Pew Pew Jew. You can find him at the pew pew Jew dot com where he writes. on everything from reviews to articles to commentary on what's happening around the country.

And in his in his world as well. And he joins us this morning to discuss a little bit of everything. And we bring him on the program right now. Good morning, my friend. Thank you for coming on board. We appreciate it.

Absolutely, Michael. Thank you so much for having me. Well, we appreciate it. We've been trying to get together. Yehuda and I have been trying to, we've been like ships passing in the night, trying to get this going on for a while. And special thanks to Chris Chang for introducing us.

and bringing us together here. You know, Yehuda, when I watch what's going on, and especially in light of what happened yesterday, And, you know, we're in a world kind of gone mad. You know, we've got we've got war. We've got terror. We've got people who hate each other. We've got a lot of things going on. And it just reminds me that this is one of the reasons why I'm happy to be here in America, because at least here.

We have the ability to kind of grab our own manifest destiny by our hands and, you know, take care of ourselves if we need to. Everything from the Austria mass shooting to, of course, the attack in the Middle East and everything else.

This is one thing that at least gives me a little comfort to know that I can protect myself in this country. And that's, I guess, one of the greatest reasons to be here. What are your thoughts overall on kind of the state of the world and your thoughts, how it relates to the Second Amendment? Oh, well, I think the state of the world right now is a one-way FedEx ticket straight to hell. I think it's a very dangerous world we live in, and I always love when, you know...

I hear people say like, yeah, I was talking to my grandparents and they said, oh, you guys have it so much easier these days. And I'm like, no, no, I think my grandparents, they might have had not have had as many luxuries out there as we have today.

I'll tell you one thing. They definitely had it easier than we do today. But I think you see everything going on in the world. And especially as an Orthodox Jew. The Second Amendment is elemental to our survival. People with ARs don't get in cattle cars, right? It's that simple. Second Amendment protects us against tyranny, whether it's local government.

Foreign government doesn't make a difference. Right. The idea of having a Second Amendment ensures that Americans have the right to defend themselves against all enemies, foreign or domestic. Yeah. Well, we lived, you know, our grandparents definitely was a simpler time.

In many ways. Right. Life was a little bit simpler. They weren't necessarily influenced by everything. You know, you didn't know what happened halfway across the world three and a half seconds later. Right. You weren't inundated with that kind of information and everything else. And so.

definitely was a simpler time we do have a lot more amenities a lot more luxuries and everything else um and but you're i think you're right i think that the a lot of times that uh it's a little bit more complicated today and with all the voices out there It's a little confusing, but there is comfort in knowing that you at least can defend yourself, your family, take care of things, you know, and and I think that that's important. You make the point, of course, obviously, that an armed populace.

much harder to overcome. You know, Jews with ARs don't get in cattle cars. And and that's true with almost anybody. And I think that's one of the reasons why you've seen over and over and over again. One of my old friends, Aaron Zellman, who's no longer with us, you know, he.

He wrote about this extensively, you know, gateway to tyranny, how gun control and registration led to basically to genocide in many cultures and in many countries over the years. And I think that's why you see this this push. across the globe to basically to disarm people because

There are folks out there who just believe because they're part of government that they're doing the right thing and that everybody else is just kind of in their way. And we're the only ones standing in that in the gap at that point. No, 100 percent. Like I said, you know. People with ARs don't get in cattle cars, and that doesn't just mean for Jews. It means for anyone. It truly is the barrier that separates free men from slaves.

Yeah. You just wrote recently on your on your website.

about a rabbi who had written a book and how the rabbi had written a little section about how he was just shocked, shocked, I tell you, that they would sell cap guns in New York and went on to say how any... representation of a gun was apparently a bad thing i mean i remember growing up as a kid we played cowboys and indians we played in in in in up here in alaska i remember we had a group of kids that we played uh uh you know allies and nazis i mean we would hunt you know we'd hunt

to hunt them down you know kind of thing in the woods with with toy guns with bb guns sometimes you know we we were a little radical you know we'd shoot at each other with bb guns um but

It really is just kind of part of our culture here. And the fact that people have become so... you know, sensitive and inured to even the fact that, well, you can't even have a squirt gun or a cap gun or anything like that is kind of, I think, demonstrable of what's wrong with this country as far as letting people.

explore that kind of ideal of freedom or good versus evil, I guess I would say. Yeah, absolutely. So the rabbi in question... wrote a book about uh education and this rabbi is a very world-renowned rabbi who a lot of jews call for advice and And a pathway forward, you know, if they have any kind of questions pertaining to Judaism, having a crisis of faith or anything along those lines, this is the rabbi they call. So, yeah, the person calls in and I guess calls and writes in.

I want to give my kid a cap gun. And the rabbi's like, not only are cap guns super dangerous, and I was trying to think, I'm like, the only danger I've ever encountered with a cap gun is... You know, my friends were watching a horror movie at like 11 p.m. and it was all dark and I, you know, shot a cap gun in the room and scared the living G's out of everyone. That's about as dangerous as I've seen a cap gun yet.

But the rabbi basically finished with his last sentences. Guns and gunplay are not for Jews, period. And my response to that was. You know, you want to take let's say, for example. Nowadays, guns are for Jews, right? But. My point is, here's this world-renowned rabbi who has refused, apparently, to remember Jewish history, right? From Abraham fighting the kings to Jacob preparing for war.

for King David taking on Goliath and the Philistines and beating them in war, to all the judges in Jewish lore and books that we have who all went to war. you know to to the mockabees in fighting for religious and uh fighting i'm sorry it's not for against religious and political tyranny i mean jews have been a warrior culture have a warrior heritage since the inception. We've always been warriors. And at what point did we lose that notion?

of david verse goliath when when did we lose that and that's what my mission is to remind jews that no we we are warriors and it is totally okay to fight back against those who want to do us harm. Yeah, no, and I think it's important to remember, again, it is a warrior culture and they have been, you know, oppressed and chastised and chased and, you know, tyrannized for millennia.

And I think that's it's, you know, specifically for Jews, it's an egregious push to try and say that, you know, you don't need to be warriors. You don't. That's not you anymore. When obviously we could just look back to October. to see that it is what's going on and why they need to be protected and why they need to be able to protect themselves. I've always found it interesting to see some of the...

biggest anti-gun folks out there uh you know come uh from the jewish people and i'm like do you not remember your history do you not remember this is this is what happened and this is why you know the only way that you're standing The only way that we're standing is because we took a totally different tact. It really kind of boggles my mind. Yeah, absolutely. Unfortunately, the biggest gun grabbers in the government.

tend to be jews from michael bloomberg to diane feinstein when she was alive chuck schumer all these people um are trying to restrict our guns and and a lot of them i call them ginos right? Jews in name only, right? And that's really, they're nothing more. They don't practice Judaism. They don't practice the faith. Like I said on Fox News, liberals worship liberalism before they worship Judaism.

And I think that's a very fair and accurate assessment of the state of a majority of Jews in America today. You know, you got to keep in mind that Orthodox Jews, which I am, tend to be a little more right-leaning. They believe in Judeo-Christian values.

they believe in the sanctity of life and that means you know defense of the two-way now again that's not a blanket statement as we just mentioned that rabbi wrote but right jews orthodox jews tend to be pro-gun pro-second amendment now it's not for all of them i have a lot of friends who are like hey we support the hell out of you what you do your books what you're trying to do for the jewish people however

We're just not gun people. And I'm like, okay, you know what? I can live with that. You do you, Buttercup, right? You want to not have guns, not defend yourself? That's fine. As long as you're not trying to take my rights away and America's rights away.

then I'm okay with it. That's the, I mean, that's the ultimate ideal, right? We don't want to say everybody should have a gun because there are some people out there who should not have a gun, but right. But I mean, we should all be have the ability as long as I'm doing me, my guns.

never hurt anybody you know 99.95 percent of all guns out there have never hurt anybody there is a half a percentage of people out there who are doing bad things but don't take them all away from all of us and if you don't want it Don't do it. That's fine. Just don't impede my right to do those things. Absolutely.

Yeah. Yehuda Remmer is our guest. We're up against the break. We're going to continue here in just a second. You can find his writings and everything else, plus some great merch, including... that including that shirt that people with ARs don't get in cattle cars and many more at his website. It's at the pewpewjew.com. We're going to continue here in just a moment with Yehuda Remmer. Don't go anywhere. The Michael Duke.

show common sense liberty based free thinking radio back with more firearms friday right after this don't go anywhere Running on 100% pure beard power. Oh, also some coffee. We dip our beard in coffee. Ha, nice beard. The Michael Duke Show. Okay, we're in the break right now. Yehuda Rummer continues with us as our guest. Just you, me, and 40 of our closest friends on the internet right now hanging out and doing it.

um how things been going uh you've been a little quiet lately i know you got a lot of stuff going on what's uh what's happening with you yeah i've had some stomach issues um I've had stomach issues for a while, but in the last six months, they got significantly worse. They found some growths on my stomach. Thankfully, they were all benign, but I've had fungal, parasitic.

worms and i'm on i'm on like one two three four five six uh oh seven seven pills now luckily I went to see this holistic doctor which I love and all these pills tend to be more herbal supplements to help with like all the parasites and stuff like that so right it's not like i'm taking drugs um so but in the last two weeks since i started with this holistic doctor i've never felt more human

in my life or at least in the last 10 years it's helping but it's like a six month battle that i'm fighting and i'm only in week three so wow okay um yeah i'm doing that and um i've kind of been slow just because of my health been uh fortunately i lost my job a few months ago but i've got two very solid leads

So, you know, I've just been dealing with life. Yeah, oh, life. It comes at you, doesn't it, sometimes? Yeah, oh, yeah. God, yeah. So I've just been dealing with life. But, you know, I'm a fighter. I'm not a fighter. Even though I want to quit 90% of the time, probably even more than that.

But, you know, it's that 1% of the time. It just drags you across the line, doesn't it? It just drags you across the line. I want to quit, but I can't quit. I just can't do it. No, it's hard to quit when you have four kids who... Especially I have one kid who like worships the ground I walk on. Oh, yeah. My nine year old. So it's very hard to quit and then teach them that quitting is OK. Yeah. You know, you can't.

you can't do a tactical retreat in life right there's no tactical retreating it's you you either you either do it or you quit advance advance advance right yeah but you know i'm i'm i'm working on

four books simultaneously to add to my nine previous books. So I'm just, I'm, I'm working hard. Yeah, no, that's a, that's a you know that's kind of that's life when it comes down to it there are times when you just wanted to throw your hands up in the air and shout at the sky but you got to just kind of

move is like the old guy used to tell me he goes if you're gonna fall at least fall forward you're six feet you're six feet closer to your goal right just keep getting up and and go again yeah no absolutely yeah You've got four new books. You want to give us a tease here in the next – we've got a minute and a half here. You want to give us a tease as to what the four books are about so we kind of have in the know here?

is this public or is this well it's just i mean it's on the internet so it will be public i mean we're broadcasting so i'm gonna i'm gonna hold that hold that close to my heart then because uh uh i don't i don't need some person uh stealing it from me there you go especially all four are going to be i think really really fantastic books um so and i actually have one book that's already done i'm just looking for sponsorship for it so yeah um yeah

Okay. All right. Well, that's fine. You can keep it under your hat. We're all about that. We're all about that right now. Again, Yehuda Remmer is our guest. Brian asks, and this is a really Alaska question. Totally un-gun related question for Mr. Remmer. Are caribou kosher? That is a fantastic question. I don't know the answer to it, but if you can tell me, do caribou... chew its cud and have split hooves? They do, in fact. They do both? Yes. So if that is...

If that is the case, then caribou is 100% kosher. And I did just look it up, and yes, caribou is kosher. I've never had it. Oh, it's delicious. Oh, it's delicious. Well, that's good to know. I might go after Blitzer and Donner. Yeah, exactly. That's right. Donner, Blitzen. We'll get all those guys. We'll get all. Right. Rudolph, that guy. He's the worst. Yeah, we'll get them all. All right. Yehuda Remer is our guest. The Pew Pew Jew. We're going to.

here in just a second we're ready to return the michael duke show common sense liberty-based free thinking radio like share subscribe ring the bell let's get to it here we go 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. Another guy who doesn't have any murder guns. They're all protection guns. It's Yehuda Remmer. He checked the tags before he bought them. They all said protection guns. I always check the tag at the store just to make sure because I don't want any murder guns. We're here on Firearms Friday ready to... dive into it with the Pew Pew Jew.

You know, Yehuda, as we look at what's going on around the world and we look at America, we look at this battle over the Second Amendment, we're we're taking some gains. We were just talking about, you know, always advancing, advancing, advancing. We're taking some gains, but we. Should not be doing any kind of happy dance as of yet, as the Supreme Court decision that just came out kind of showed us. We're not always winning.

Although we are, I think, further ahead today than we were five years ago and even five years before that, we've got a lot of ground that we've covered. But it's still a battle out there. And you are fighting in an area that... historically, categorically, maybe stereotypically, people would consider to be more of the blue territory. You know, you're trying to fight and trying to educate the Jewish community on the right and duty of owning a firearm.

What's your thoughts overall on the state of the gun culture war and where we're at and how we could do better at this? So I think the state of the gun culture war. is changing i think that it's changing in our favor i think there's a lot of people um who are waking up whether you are whether you are Liberal conservative, I think there's a big push to become gun owners, even in the liberal world. Now they're doing it so they can fight us, but that's okay because I've seen their training.

You know, I think that there is a big culture shift in terms of firearms. I think that if we want to do anything that will benefit us, I think the gun industry has to A. stop taking themselves too seriously. They have to learn to roll with the punches and not get so heated in debate.

just kind of like don't you know you don't you don't have to go to the whole well you know second amendment says shall not be infringed and that's it you know like you have to be willing to have a conversation now you don't have to give up you know i'm not saying give up any ground right i'm not saying

compromise in any way but you know they have to they have to have rational conversations now most of the people i know do are able to do that but you know i've been in the gun world now for eight and a half years and the one thing that i found is that gun companies and and other influencers are

very big snowflakes, right? So I'll give you a perfect example. People always ask me, what's your favorite gun company? And without a doubt, without fail, I always say High Point. I say, I love High Point. And people ask me, like what do you mean high point how can you say high point over everyone else i said you asked me what my favorite gun company is not what my favorite gun is right yeah right and they said well why do you love high point so much

Because they are the only gun company that doesn't take themselves seriously, that when you make fun of them, they make fun of themselves as well. They know what their guns are. They know who their clientele is. They know how to run a business. And there's a reason why you see so many gun companies close their doors. High Point's still around. They're funny. They're self-deprecating. And I absolutely love that about High Point.

Whereas, you know, you take a company like Sig Sauer or, you know, you got your Glock fanboys. And don't get me wrong. I own three Glocks. I love Glock. But you got your Glock fanboys who, God forbid, you make fun of Glock, you know.

they freak out and then you have your old boomer 1911ers and you know god forbid you say a glock is better than a 1911 and all of a sudden you get the back-to-back world war champs you know like it just it's just one of those things that like no one takes themselves seriously and high point uh high point doesn't and that's what i love about high point so you know i think the gun company has a lot to learn from high point um

And yeah, that's pretty much it. No, I think they offer a valuable service. I mean, we can all say that they don't make the highest speed.

highest quality firearms we we know that but so do they right i mean they are catering to a market that if you're looking for an entry-level gun market company that's the one that you definitely want to do it you know guns for the masses and you're right think a lot of times uh some of these companies just take themselves too seriously and in a way they don't make it necessarily as fun as they could

In some of those respects. I mean, the thing that I love about guns is, yes, I can defend myself. I can defend my family. But more than that, in an everyday standpoint.

It's fun. I mean, to go out, to go shooting, to go plinking, to be able to defend yourself, it gives you a feeling of... of uh of accomplishment and and it's just it's just fun to go out with friends and and do that kind of stuff and sometimes i think some of these bigger gun companies i think they they forget that and they also forget to cater to kind of that middle to lower end gun owner

who doesn't have $3,000 to drop on a rifle or $1,500 to drop on a handgun or something like that. I mean, they seem to forget that sometimes. No, 100%. And the high point, you know... The fact that they asked the public to name their next gun and Yeet Cannon was the name of the gun and they ran with that, you know, speaks volumes to me.

Of course, I was going to say something else about High Point. It's escaping my mind right now. But, you know, I've dreamt for a very long time to do a signature Pew Pew Jew gun.

with a company and the only company that i really would want to do it with is high point and the reason is it would be you know a high point yeet canyon uh a pew pew jew yeet canyon but it would come as a threaded barrel and an unthreaded barrel and i guess a standard barrel and they would call it the circumcised and the uncircumcised and and let's be honest two things a

high points to only company that would actually have the cojones to do it oh yeah oh yeah and b the gun would be so successful it would sell so well um i'd have it i'd have one just because i mean i'd have one because it's called the circumcised uncircumcised i mean yeah that's just pure marketing gold right there so uh high point if you're listening You know who I am. We've talked a million times. Reach out. Reach out. Just reach out. Let's get this circumcised and uncircumcised gun going.

What are some of the, you know, what's some of the biggest pushback that you've gotten? Again, you're kind of in that, you're in that tough situation of the community you're in and the culture that you're in. And you're trying to change it. Obviously, you're trying to remind.

you know, Jews of where they came from, their warrior culture, you know, how they stand against that kind of tyranny. What's been some of the biggest pushback and some of the biggest successes you've had in that pushback as you've fought? amongst your own your own folks i guess so at the beginning when i first when my first book was released in 2017 a book called safety on which is a gun

introduction to the world of firearms for children. So it's all about gun safety for children. When that book first came out, you know, I had a lot of people. calling me your typical you're a gun nut you're crazy you're a conspiracy theory it's never going to happen all all that kind of stuff um and Yeah, that was fantastic. And I took it like a champ and just getting pounded over it.

But eventually, eventually I started winning hearts and minds. And then after October 7th, I mean, I probably trained upwards of 150 people since October 7th in the Jewish communities. My voice is now being amplified. People are listening to me. And the pushback, you know, there's still some pushback. You know, like I said, I get these.

A lot of Jews, a lot from the liberal side. I had one person, and I actually wrote a blog about it. It's really funny. I had one person tell me that I can't be a real Jew because I support gun rights. And this guy in his bio said he's a comedian. And boy, did I have a field day with that.

So, yeah, that's kind of some pushback I've got. Like I said, I've got some people in my community saying that I go overboard with it. I would say one of my biggest... success stories was I had a woman in my community who had lost a cousin in the Stone Mary Douglas shooting in Broward County, Florida. And she was vehemently anti-gun and October 7th hit. And she calls me up and she's like, hey, I want to learn to shoot. And I was like, OK, let's do it.

And what I've realized is when you are a firearms instructor, the first key to success is checking your ego at the door. So it doesn't make a difference who you are. It doesn't make a difference how badly the person who wants training has ridiculed you. You check your ego at the door until you get them into firearms. And then when they buy the firearms, then you can ridicule the hell out of them. That's fine.

But until you convince them and train them, you know, you got to be on your best behavior. So I took this woman to the range. We get to the range. This woman is usually very... she's always put together very very um uh confident and we get to the range and i can see her demeanor change she was a little a little worried

a little nervous and we get into the you know we go through all the safety guidelines i teach her how to hold the gun properly and you know trigger discipline and trigger control and We get into the range and, I mean, she's visibly shaking. I mean, she's just shaking. There was one other person at the range. So you still get that, you know, the boom of the gun. And every time the gun went off, she flinched.

Finally, I got her to the firing line. I put one round in, and she took that shot, put the gun down, and burst out crying. I mean, we're talking about full-on waterworks. And I'm sitting there, I'm like... I'm like, God dang. I don't know if I can curse. Damn it. Right. I'm like, darn. I was like, shoot. I don't know how we're guys. We don't know how to deal with our wives cry. How the heck am I supposed to deal with a woman who cries who is not my wife? Right.

But I had her step back from the firing line. I let her get it all out. She regained her composure and we talked it out. She was telling me how... She lost a cousin in Stone Mary Douglas, and she's always been against guns. And October 7th has woken her up. And, you know, she's like, I don't know if I can do this. And I'm like, I'm like.

you're paying me and we're already halfway into this so you don't have a choice i'm forcing you to do it right and i'm like tell me when you're ready so she kind of calmed down put another one round in the uh one round in the magazine loaded it She started doing her breathing, got up there. The next shot was dead center. And she put the gun down quickly. And she turned to me with the biggest smile on her face. And she said, I did it.

Yeah. And I'm like, you did it and you just defended you and your family. Yeah. And she goes, can I do it again? I said, let's do it. I'm telling you, this woman went from a crying little child to freaking Annie Oakley in a matter of seconds. And by the end of the night, she was just giddy and giggling and just having the best time of her life. And since then...

She calls me all the time. She's like, I'm not ready to buy. I'm not ready to buy, but I'm just about there. I'm just about there. And I'm like, just call me. I'll go with you to the store. We'll pick out the perfect gun for you. So. That was that was one success story. And then my other success story is I was at the range and I was at the range and this Jewish guy, not Orthodox, but Jewish guy.

was talking to all the the people who work at the gun range and they all turned to me they're like okay you're the ppg you talk to this jewish guy and um The guy asked me, he goes, I want to buy a gun and start carrying it, but I need you to convince me to do it. I'm like, how do you convince someone that you've never met before? Right.

to carry a gun um especially jews are stubborn as anything so uh i was like okay what can i tell this guy i'm thinking i'm thinking like okay i got it i turned to the guy i'm like are you married yes Do you have kids? Yes. Do you love your wife? Yes. Do you love your kids? Yes. Are you willing to do anything that is necessary to protect your children from evil? He goes, absolutely.

liar and uh literally to his face i called him a liar and he was taken back he's like how can you call me a liar i'm like because we're having a conversation on me convincing you to purchase a firearm i said if you were willing to do anything necessary then you would have purchased that firearm already. And I'm not lying to you. I swear to you, this is exactly what happened. Looks me straight in the eye, turns to the guy behind the counter and says,

I'll take that SIG365X macro. That's it right there. On the spot. He didn't say anything to me. He just, I shut it down. I called him out. He owned it and said, you know, I'm done. I'm buying a gun. It was fantastic. I mean, I love that kind of stuff. Yeah, that's the kind of stories that make my day. That's the kind of stories that make Firearms Friday.

definitely sing. All right. We got one more segment ahead with Yehuda Remmer and we're going to be done here. We got more coming up. Don't go anywhere. The Michael Duke show, common sense, Liberty based free thinking radio. We return to more here in just a moment. With Firearms Friday. We're broadcasting live through a series of... Allowing all of these entities to provide streaming stuff going on the internet. Well, it's kind of hard to explain. Sorry.

Streaming live every weekly morning on Facebook Live and MichaelDukesShow.com. All right, we're in the break. Yehuda Remmer is our guest as we continue on. Yeah, I mean, I've told a similar story. I had a similar story as a firearms instructor. I still remember. you know we had that it was couples we had like three or four couples there

And, you know, we had the we had a bunch of Smith revolvers, 22 caliber revolvers on the desks in front of them, you know, broken open and everything else. There's no ammo in the room, everything. And we're going through all the safety measures we're talking about. firearms and so i tell this lady i said go ahead and pick it up and uh i mean again we're not at the range we're in a classroom they're just sitting there and same thing she just burst into tears she just terrified of it

Um, and, and you're like, what, how do I do? How do, you know, you don't tell her, you just don't say calm down because we know how well that works. Um, you know, uh, but, and it was, it was a, it was a, uh, wasn't quite as quick as your. But over the course of a few hours of discussions and talking, getting her, you know, we have just been so inundated by the, you know, the news media and the entertainment industry that firearms are.

like the tools of the devil right they're like some kind of mystical totem that the second you pick them up everyone dies and and she was just she was terrified she was literally terrified of the firearm but by the next day she was out at the range plinking away like you said big smile on her face everything else that's part of the problem that's what we're trying to overcome is this stigma

from news and entertainment and movies and everything else showing that firearms are somehow evil. They're just a tool like any other. Yeah, absolutely. That's exactly what they are. Nothing more. Yeah, it's kind of frustrating to watch that kind of stuff come to pass. But it is gratifying, like you said, when you could see and make those changes. Obviously, October 7th changed a lot of minds. And, you know, and especially in your community.

And, of course, after that, we saw a lot of pushback and we saw a lot of attacks, you know, against people based strictly on their race or their faith. And, of course, a lot of those folks would have been people who have been...

vehemently anti-gun, anti-self-defense, but that all changed. Do you think that's going to stick? Do you think that that's... You don't think so? You think it's fading already? It's faded away already. Unfortunately... Depending on where you live, it's definitely faded away. Jews have a tendency to get their...

adrenaline up when things are happening, but then after a few months it usually dies down. So I can tell you that there are tons of Jews out there who were begging me for firearms lessons. And, you know, they kept pushing and pushing. I'm like, OK, whenever you're ready to go, they're like, OK, we'll make time. We'll make time. They never made time. And now when I approached them, they're like, yeah, you know, it's.

eventually we'll get to it so it's definitely died down it's unfortunate because again i tell people don't wait for it to happen to you but uh you know they do uh they they just wait until the next bad thing happens um Or they rely on, you know, oh, well, we have a police officer that stands guard at our synagogue. And I'm like, yeah, but what happens if he gets shot and killed protecting you and the guy gets inside? What are you going to do then?

You know, they don't have an answer. Right. So the guy's got a big target painted on himself outside the synagogue. He gets shot by somebody from a distance outside and then they come in. What happens then? Exactly. And it's again, it's something that I'm. fighting over but um i've come to the point now where i'm no longer i'm no longer proactive with it if people want the training i'm happy to do it um but i can't just keep

screaming and yelling at the top of my lungs and falling on deaf ears um you know my favorite my favorite is a rabbi came up to me and he was like you know We're happy you're at synagogue because we know we're protected. And I just turned to him. I said, Rabbi, let me tell you something. Every day, my one goal is to get home to my family safe.

If that means a gunman comes into my synagogue, our synagogue, but I have a way out. Right. Me and my children. Yeah. I'm taking that way out. I'm not putting my life on the line. in order to defend the synagogue right it's just not it's just not happening i i have a wife and other kids at home who depend on me right i said if i can't get out and i have to shoot my way out then absolutely i'll

You know, I'll make my final stand. But you guys are a very distant second to me getting home to my family. And when I told him that, he became white as a ghost. They don't comprehend the idea that the Second Amendment, the right to self-defense is an individual right. Right.

No, they don't. It's 100 percent. No. And again, there's a whole cadre of people out there believing that they could pawn that off onto other people, whether it's police officers or security officers or you or whoever. You know, I'm safe. You're here. Well, what about taking some responsibility for your own life, for your own family, for your own actions? And that's what.

I think that's what, what gets missed around here. A lot of times is they're always expecting somebody else to pick up the pieces. All right, here we go. Jumping back into it. The Michael Duke show. Let's go. 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.

Only somewhat funny. That's it. But it is what it is. Yehuda Remmer is our guest, the Pew Pew Jew. um we were just talking about you know the idea that uh the second amendment is about an individual's right to self-defense and we're here to defend ourselves and our families If somebody else is there and we can help them, I guess that's great. But again, the number one priority is taking care of ourselves.

Yehuda said, you know, you just mentioned, you know, you really got into the gun culture eight and a half years ago. When did you realize that? When did you, you know, tell us your origin stories here, as it were. I know superheroes have origin stories. Tell us. Tell us your origin story and baptism into the Second Amendment culture. Where were you before and what was the conversion about?

It's good you said into the gun culture because my real origin story is about six months ago when I had to eat radioactive eggs to do a test on my stomach. And I've now become an evil villain eating radioactive eggs. You don't have the beard. You need to have the beard to be able to stroke your beard in the evil way. No, no, I'm more of a doctor. No, ortho doctor. No, that's great. That's great. I got I got I got the bald head, too. So my origin story is is actually.

interesting and funny at the same time. I grew up in Los Angeles, a spoiled LA boy, didn't care about politics, didn't give a damn at all about... You know, the Constitution, Second Amendment, First Amendment, Bill of Rights, they just never cared about it. And one day my buddy calls me up. He's like, hey, man, let's go shooting. I'm like, OK, cool. Like, let's do it.

um and we get to the range and i'm not lying to you it was like right out of a movie he had like at least in my mind i could i'm probably totally making this up but in my mind he had like this big leather satchel and like he kind of like unrolled it and there's like shotgun shotgun ar ar handgun shotgun like it was just like like something right out of a a clint eastwood old western right and

and i'm sitting there and i turned to my buddy like who who the hell are you like what is going on right here this is crazy right you never knew that right you never knew that this guy was like the the the john wick of of the jewish world right and so we went shooting i had such a great time um and that's when i learned that civilians uh are allowed to own firearms and

he's like dude go read the second amendment and i started reading up on the second amendment and i fell in love with it i fell in love with what it stood for um now i was also inspired because my grandfather survived the holocaust he had numbers tattooed on his arm so you know growing up in a very and this is i've never found a good way to say this but a very holocaust rich educational environment if you will um

you know i i knew the ins and outs of the holocaust just because like i said all my grandparents went through it and uh one day um you know i got married i had a little baby and finally convinced my wife to let me get a gun and it was a glock 19 it was my first gun i was living in l.a still and a few months after i bought my first gun my

I went to my parents' house for dinner one night with my wife and kid, and my parents, my younger brother let slip. He goes, hey, when are we going to go shoot your Glock? And my parents had a full-on Chernobyl meltdown. I mean, we're talking about nuclear. I mean, they just lost it. Called me every name in the book.

being you know you're so responsible how can you have a gun in the home you have a baby god forbid accident and i i responded well i was responsible enough to get married and i was responsible enough to bring life into this world, but I'm not responsible enough to own a firearm. And from there, they didn't talk to me for weeks. And during that time.

I was like, well, if I'm going to be a firearms owner, not only do I have to know the ins and outs of firearm safety, but I need my children to know about it because it's important. of course the first place you always look at and this was again this was this was god um 14 years ago this is before the nra was so hated um the best place to look for

you know, education was the NRA and I found the Eddie Eagle program. Right. And the Eddie Eagle program is a fantastic program. I'm not knocking it, but all it does is talk about what to do if you find a gun somewhere it's not supposed to be. Right. When there is so much more to gun safety. Right. So I went to the next best place for education. I went to Amazon to buy a book about gun safety for children so I can read to my kid. And I was shocked, like honestly blown away.

that no books were written for children you know you have you have you know stranger danger you have fire safety you have this safety that safety sex ed for kids right but no one had thought or was afraid to write, I don't know, a book on gun safety for children. And I always enjoyed creative writing. So one day in between afternoon and evening prayers, which usually go back to back, the rabbi in my synagogue was giving a 10 minute little pep talk, if you will.

And I don't like listening to people speak usually. So I took out my phone and I wrote my first book on my iPhone. It was like the iPhone 6 or something like that.

on the notepad and i sent it to a buddy of mine in the lapd and he calls me like a couple minutes there he's like dude your book is trash but it's a book that needs to be made so come on come on over and i'm going to give you constructive criticism and i went i went to him and he literally walked me through the entire gun industry um not i guess not the industry more more

gun lingo gun lore right um just walk me through help me edit the book until i came out with my first book and it took me over five years to get my first book published i was turned down by literary agents and

publishing companies nonstop. And finally, in 2017, I got my book published by Small Publishing House. And I was expecting my book to be... trashed i was expecting it to be you know you know put put you you know put you in the boondock saying the book was crap and all that kind of stuff and right and uh again nothing could be further from the truth um

The book was accepted immediately, highly sought after. People loved the book. And it wasn't until my fourth book when I was talking to a Second Amendment.

historian talking about the the breakdown of the second amendment for children that i wrote called 27 words my buddy called me the pew pew jew as a kind of as a joke right but but i i hung up the phone on him called my illustrator i'm like man i need a logo that says the pew pew jew a star of david and a gun all wrapped in one and the logo you see today uh is my origin story That's some amazing stuff. Yehuda Remmer.

The Pew Pew Jew. You can find him at the pew pew Jew dot com. All of his books, his great merch and so much more. We appreciate you coming on board, my friend, and talking with us. Thanks for thanks for coming out for Firearms Friday.

Yeah. Anytime. I mean, we can, we can, we can keep on going, but you know, anytime you want me back on, just let me know. I appreciate it. Hold the line for a second, folks up next hour to Chris Chang, top shot champions going to join us along with Willie waffle. We'll be back. Dude, that is so awesome. Your answer to, well, there's nothing out there, so I'll just write the book. I'm still brand new. I'm still figuring it out, but I'll write the book. I love that. I think that's just great.

Isn't that what the American dream is? Yeah. You know, you, you see a need for something and find a need, fill a need, right? That's fine. And exactly. And it's funny. Cause one of my books, I don't know if you saw my book bullet points. I haven't seen that yet. Okay, so I have this book right here, Bullet Points, Reasons Why America Should Embrace Common Sense Gun Law. Right, right.

I did see that. That's right. I saw that the other day. That's like no one no one had thought to do that in the gun industry. And I was like, you know, I'm going to write a pro common sense gun law book. And, you know, so. I have a lot of fun with what I do. i've got a great sense of humor i i was actually very reserved today you get me on a podcast like a podcast where i can go crazy oh man let's put it this way i i'm 41 i was raised on jackie mason

Carl Reiner, you know, Don Rickles, Mel Brooks, like all the great Jewish comedians. Like that's who I was raised on. So that's where my humor lies. So you get me on a podcast where, you know. There's no FCC rules. Yeah. There's no FCC rules. Oh my God. I've done podcasts where we've got like four minutes of talking in an hour podcast because...

Just the host couldn't stop laughing. It's a lot of fun. So again, anytime you want me back on, if you need to fill in a guest, if I'm able to do it, I'm happy to do it. I love doing this kind of stuff.

Yeah. So let me know. I really appreciate it. I really appreciate it. I had a great time. I've been looking forward to this. I've been following you for quite a while. And when Chris said he could introduce us, I thought that was a that was a great opportunity. I'm glad to hear that your health is getting better.

and so just keep keep on that track my friend just keep falling just keep falling forward right that's all you got to keep doing and just quickly the first time i met chris i kind of geeked out yeah it was at the gun rights policy conference right i geeked out but uh chris is like oh my god i know who you are you're the pew pew jew and i kind of fangirled even harder so we took a picture together

And you want to know what Chris posted about? Chris took the picture. He posted it on Twitter. And this is a true story. He literally wrote... A gay Asian and a Jew walk into a gun rights conference together. Oh, that's great. I was like, okay, Chris, Chris and I are going to be friends. Yeah, that is, that is the perfect, that is the perfect commentary right there. Absolutely. All right.

I'll let you get back to your show, Michael. Thank you very much. And like I said, anytime. All right. I appreciate it, my friend. Thanks so much for coming on board. We'll talk to you again soon. All right. Yehuda Remmer, our guest, the Pew Pew Jew. We should do just a standalone podcast sometime. with him. That would be, uh, that would be pretty amazing. Oh man. Um, all right. Uh, let's see, uh, Bill Anthony and Yehuda in a round table with, uh, with me.

Ooh, that would be scary. Wouldn't that be fun? It'd be awesome. All right. Thanks for accompanying and joining us. I have not been paying attention. Again, I was just enjoying the conversation with Yehuda, so I haven't been paying attention that much to the chat room other than the Caribou comment, which is...

you know, ghoul. Oh, Brian says, Brian says, ha ha headline pew pew Jew calls for the death to Santa's reindeer. That's what we were talking about eating caribou. And he was going to go after Donner and Blitzen and, uh, and Rudolph. That's, uh, That's great. I love that. Okay. What did Chris say? Okay. Chris is going to be with us about 20 after this morning. And we'll have Chris on here after the second break here this morning as we get ready to go on. Wow, what a Friday, folks. I was...

At one point this morning, I was dead certain that I was going to have to put a best of or cancel the show or do something. I mean, I was just I was convinced that that was what was going to have to happen this morning because I did not think. I did not think I was going to be able to get on the air with all the problems that we were having. So if I just drop off randomly or unexpectedly, it's not because I don't love you. It's because it's Friday the 13th.

That's why it's Friday the 13th. He needs a segment a month like Chris, said Terry. You know, I might be able to talk him into that. That would be great. He is definitely... he's definitely a fun, a fun discussion, but I think we need to have an off air discussion. I think that's what we need to do. I think we need to have a recording, you know, and I've been in all my spare time. I've been pontificating.

putting together just a Firearms Friday-like standalone podcast, you know, where it's just a podcast. Not on the air, not on the radio. So we could say anything we want, talk about anything we want. And I've been considering that for a while now. But I've been a little busy. Uh, but it, uh, it's something that I'm, I'm thinking about doing. Um, although as far as popularity goes, I'm, I, again, I'm always surprised. Like right now there's, what do we got between the

Between all the different branches here, we got about 30, 35 people between Facebook and YouTube and Rumble. And normally, we have about... 50 or 60. So it's funny that I think that Firearms Friday is one of the more popular segments, and yet the numbers don't lie, right? It's not. But I'm not going to stop doing it because it's for me. It's not for them. It's not for you. It's for me. This is my show for me where I get a chance to talk about what I care about.

But it's always funny because for years before I jumped on the Internet, I would have sworn that Firearms Friday was one of the most popular segments because that's a lot of times. That's what people talk to me about. Oh, I listen to you on Firearms Friday. Maybe the radio is different, but I'm telling you right now on the Internet, and maybe it's because we're talking about firearms and it's being hidden. I have no idea. But we'll see. Anyway, we got to go.

Hour two dead ahead, The Michael Duke Show.

Welcome to the party, pal. The Michael Duke Show. Firearms Friday. As Thomas Jefferson stated, it is the right and duty of the people to be at all times armed. To be at all times armed. Say hello to my ears! that the Second Amendment is in order of importance the First Amendment. The right to keep and bear arms is the one right that allows rights to exist at all. To keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Not be infringed. Firearms. From my cold, dead hands.

Firearms Friday. Good morning, my friends, and welcome back to the program. It is hour two of the big radio show. Our one day a week that we dedicate to the Second Amendment and gun rights, gun talk, tips, tricks, tactics, everything that we want to talk about here on the program. Thanks for coming in and joining us. It is a beautiful Friday.

The sun peeking up over the horizon is another gorgeous day down here on top of the world in Homer, Alaska. And I hope wherever you are in the state of Alaska or listening around the world on the Internet. at michaeldukeshow.com. I hope that you too are experiencing another beautiful summer day here as we get ready to crank into Firearms Friday. We just finished up with Yehuda Remmer, the Pew Pew Jew.

who is the author of, I mean, gosh, like eight, nine books, 10 books right now. Plus he's got, of course, all of his apparel. My favorite t-shirt so far is still... The people with ARs don't get in cattle cars. I still... I still love that. I think that is absolutely fantastic. And he's got a whole bunch of different shirts out there. And if you feel so inclined to help support him...

Because he did mention his real job, his day job, he lost his day job a couple months ago. And so he's working on something else right now and he's getting sick. But if you want to go over there and... help support him, you could go over there and pick up a t-shirt or two. I know Brian just said he just bought his book. He wrote a book for kids called Safety On. That's his first book that he wrote.

which was an introduction to the world of firearms for children. And I think that is, it's a great, a great book for you to go out there and and check out so um he wrote that one and the other one is uh uh the 27 words which is a children's guide to the second amendment so go out there and uh if you want to help support him

do that right now we're probably going to invite him back on the program more frequently because he was a lot of fun and i'm actually considering we were just talking about it uh uh doing a standalone podcast off the air Because he can get a little rowdy. We don't need no FCC violations around here. He can get a little rowdy. So we're talking about maybe having a sit down.

uh standalone podcast with him here uh one of these days as well so fun stuff if you missed it you can go back and listen to it on the regular podcast or watch it on the replay uh on facebook or youtube or rumble And just enjoy yourself. It was a good, good discussion. Coming up here in just a few minutes, we're going to be dealing or talking with Chris Chang, Top Shot champion Chris Chang. He's going to join us shortly after.

a break and then we'll be finishing up with uh willie waffle from waffle movies.com who's going to come in and do our entertainment review uh for the uh for the weekend so i hope you guys are ready to go we're gonna get all this stuff uh stuff squared away okay um

I guess we're going to jump into some of the stories. You know, one of the things that we were talking about with Yehuda was, you know, this idea that somehow he's been trying to... He's been trying to proselytize into the into the, you know, the Jewish community, trying to bring them around to the idea that, you know, gun gun. The gun culture and gun usage and the Second Amendment are just as important to them as.

You know, if not more so in many ways than any other parts of the culture. And somebody in the chat room, I think it was Terry, asked the question. She said, I'm she says, I'm surprised that the Jewish people. are not more engaged in firearms after going through the Holocaust. And, I mean, I agree. I mean, I think Yehuda touched on that, that, you know, that the Jewish people...

as a whole, are a warrior culture and always have been going all the way back to David, etc. You know, they've always been a warrior culture. And yet it seems like there's a huge chunk of them out there that have disdained that now. and are running ante to that. Now, the October 7th attack, that I think got a lot of people's attention. Just like here in America, you know, post-COVID, the George Floyd riots and everything else, people came to understand.

Although they may have forgotten it by now, but they came to understand that the responsibility for protecting themselves was on them. Was, you know, was on them. And I think that that was a big change in America. But like Yehuda was saying that the October 7th revival has kind of fallen off, I think we've seen some of that quietly die down.

since covet and the george floyd riots i mean we've still got a big chunk of new folks in the gun culture we've still got a big um a group of folks who heretofore probably would never have been considered to be You know, prime candidates for the for the gun culture. You know, we're talking about probably women, liberal, liberal folks, minorities.

Historically, they are definitely not, but post-COVID, that was some of the biggest chunk of folks out there that were buying guns because they came to realize that their personal safety... was their responsibility. And like I said, maybe they've fallen off that a little bit. But overall, I think that, you know, it's still been a good thing. But it does raise the question, why do people...

You know, why do people come to not support the Second Amendment? And it's actually a question that Tom Nightenden is taking on over at BearingArms.com. Tom goes to talk about, you know, look, there are liberals and there are progressives, and he says there is a difference. And I would agree that there are those that are liberal, and then the rabid ones I would consider to be the progressives, right?

They, you know, vehemently dislike the president. They vehemently dislike, you know, I guess the police in many ways. And yet there's this dichotomy out there. And this is something that I haven't understood for a long time, that there's a dichotomy in people who are so against, for example, the defund the police movement. And yet they are also at the same time vehemently anti-gun. And to me, those two ideas being held in the same brain just hurts my head.

Because if you don't trust the police, if you believe that there's corruption and that there's targeting, I mean, first of all, that means that one, you have to take. responsibility for your own protection because you don't believe in calling the police and you don't you know you don't believe that they'll help you and they're you know you're afraid of them and two

So you need to defend yourself from all the criminals and the bad guys, and you need to take your own defense in your own hands. And two, if you don't trust them and they can't be trusted with this kind of stuff, that would just reinforce. The same thing. You need to be able to defend yourself. And this has come up recently. There was a discussion on Reddit in the Liberal Gun Owners subreddit.

And and somebody asks, how can people on our side, the liberal side, how can they still be anti to a. If they believe that because all we're hearing today, right, is how Trump is a fascist and America is going to hell and all this stuff is, you know, all this stuff is going on. How can how can, you know, people on that side still be anti Second Amendment? You would think that that would drive them just like when.

You know, Barack Obama was going to be elected or Joe Biden was going to be elected. Gun sales across the country soared. You'd think that if people were. upset and think Trump is a fascist and thinks that he's going to try and take over the world and do, you think that these people would be the ones that would be like, I'm getting armed now. I'm getting training now. I'm buying all the ammo I can now.

But they don't. It's it's. It makes me scratch my head. Like, why? Why? You know, why would why would they? You know, why would you do that? And I just don't have the answer. It is a dichotomy to me. Again, the whole point of... If you believe that the government is, I mean, well, I mean, let me just be clear. I don't trust the government. I don't trust the government because it's made up of people.

And people are all about their own self-interest and government by its very nature grows and power corrupts and absolute power corrupts. Absolutely. And so, I mean, I could go on and on and just. spit platitudes at you for the next 20 minutes, but there are many reasons why I don't trust my government, which is another reason why I'm armed. Why haven't a lot of these other people who are decrying

The overreach of government and the fascism that's coming. Why haven't they embraced the idea of the Second Amendment? Because if you go back and read. That was the whole reason why the Second Amendment was written out. First of all, they didn't think they had to. They're like, oh, this is pretty clear, right? Self-evident. But then they decided to delineate those rules or those rights in the Bill of Rights. And there's a reason that the Second Amendment is up there in the top 10, near the top.

Because they believed that to hold back the size and scope of government, they needed an armed populace to hold them in check. So why aren't more of these people? Pro Second Amendment. I don't know. I just I don't know. Again, that idea that somehow you can defund the police and yet. in the same argument the police are the only ones who are trustworthy enough to be armed the common citizenry isn't is is a hot mess to me a hot hot hot hot mess

All right, we're coming up on the break. We got more coming up. We're going to continue here in just a moment. Don't go anywhere. Chris Chang, Top Shot Champion. Season 4 is going to be joining us. And then we're going to be finishing it up today with Willie Waffle. WaffleMovies.com We'll return in just a moment. The Michael Duke show common sense, liberty based, free thinking 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 weekday morning on Facebook Live and MichaelDukesShow.com. Okay, we're in the break here. Bill says the reason why. these people aren't more pro-Second Amendment, is because they have zero critical thinking skills. And then David sums up by saying, it's because some liberals and most progressives are incapable of rational thought.

And I mean, there may be some of that to that. There might be some of that to that. But again, I mean, I've never understood. It just can't be that because some of these people are rational people. I mean, is it is it a mass hysteria thing? I'm not sure. But when you've got a group of people, you know, Jews, Asians, minorities, you know. Gays, whoever you want, you know, whatever sub subgroup you want to highlight here who have been, you know, chastised or abused or or threatened or whatever.

Why in the world are those people not the biggest stalwart defenders of the Second Amendment ever? Right. I just I just can't I can't wrap my brain around it. can't wrap my brain i are a simple man that's the thing i are a simple man i cannot wrap my head around it um

I see Chris's drinking coffee. Did you spit coffee out of your nose? That's what I want to know. Did you spit coffee right out of your nose? Chris Chang, Top Shot Champion Season 4, joins us this morning. Hello, my brother. I think I could just listen to you all morning talk about how you can't wrap your brain around certain concepts. Well, I mean, you see this, right? I mean, you're... You're a gay Asian male in California. I mean, how do you know, how does this.

How do people who are just so vehemently anti-gun and be like, defund the police, we can't, we need to get them. And then when something else happens, they're like, well, you can't have a gun. Only the police should have a gun. How does that work? Yeah, it is.

I think part of my answer is there's such a strong negative emotion towards firearms. And so I think there is a certain amount of rational thought detachment.

happening right people just aren't there yes of course like they are rational except when our emotions take over i mean i think that's sort of just that's that's humanity right it's pretty understandable and especially if you grow up in a world where guns are bad and all you have are negative associations with firearms, then the second you hear about a gun or see a gun, your brain just stops thinking and reverts back to Neanderthal.

object bad fire fire bad fire bad exactly exactly fire bad firearm bad You know, but I mean, that's the thing. You have an argument with somebody and they start off with police are evil and defund the police. And then five minutes into the conversation, you talk about taking personal responsibility with a firearm. Oh, you shouldn't have a gun. That's why we have police.

What? You know, I mean, you're just like, what does that do you not hear the cognitive dissonance, you know, ringing loudly from the rooftops here? Yeah, it's pretty wild. You know, here in San Francisco, we're having one of these no kings protests tomorrow, you know, that are happening nationwide. You know, so clearly people are a little, a lot of people are agitated and, you know, I would say for good reason too. And of course it's everyone's right to protest peacefully.

Now, right, when we talk about law enforcement and firearms, right, it gets really interesting with some of these, you know, protesters who are predominantly liberal and definitely here in San Francisco going to be very progressive. and it's this concept for me like what i've been trying to advocate for and at least explain over over you know the many years is look if you are in this camp of not trusting law enforcement and not trusting the government and you want to keep yourself safe.

And if you are part of a historical group, such as the LGBT community, Asians, Latinos, et cetera, that have been marginalized, who have been a victim of a tyrannical government. Yep. This is where the firearms in the Second Amendment should be something.

for you and a civil right that you would want to exercise you should be grabbing on yeah you should be grabbing onto it with both hands is what you should be doing i'm eight seconds away i'm eight seconds away hold the line and we've seen a big shift

Over the past five years, so we can dive more into that if we want. Drink your coffee, all right? Drink Demitas, whatever. Thank you. You're a super fancy guy, you. Look at you. All right, we're going to continue here. The Michael Duke Show. Common Sense, Liberty Base, Free Thinking Radio. Let's go. 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. Yes, yes, that's right. We're back.

with a guy who has nothing but protection or murder guns. I can't... i can't see it from here chris which one is it is it murder guns or protection guns so uh you know i i love obviously you know how much i love that clip uh and on a sear but on a serious note regarding that clip right like you know It provides a very clear window into what some Americans think and their viewpoint about firearms, right? That there literally are murder guns.

and that there are protection guns right and it's the same kind of paradigm around right that there are there's a difference between assault weapons and non-assault weapons right it's like there's these there are these um false paradigms right that a lot of i would say you know anti-gun and predominantly liberal anti-gunners right they present these these false choices

to people and so let me give you an example i know you just had yehuda uh rammer the ppu jew on right he's a dear uh friend of mine right um you know i i recently had a another jewish friend a few months ago uh he's also fraternity brother of mine he messaged me he's like chris like i want to learn i want to learn how to shoot and i want to buy a gun and i'm like okay that's great yep let's let's go shoot

he wanted a firearm for a home defense not because he's at least he didn't tell me because you know he was jewish his stated reason was for home defense um and he was telling me though he's like you know uh i grew he grew up in uh in the bay area where firearms were just a taboo subject right that his family didn't talk about it he didn't have friends who owned guns and just guns were just a scary thing in the past few years though have have changed that where

uh you know you're seeing a lot more a lot more jewish people a lot more asians and and lgbt and just literally all across the board and and one interesting demographic who's purchasing more firearms is the liberal demographic right right um but so with my friend you know he told me his mind shift changed right he realized that there aren't any murder guns

right or protecting guns like they're they're just two firearms are just tools and that simple paradigm shift in his mind um you know really changed the game for me now of course you know i took them i took them to the range we had a great time we shot a whole variety of guns you know from the m18 glock 17 glock 19. uh you know this is the mmp shield the mmp 2.0 i mean we just we we we had a blast And then four days later, I get a text from him. He said,

I just bought my first gun. And so it begins. And he bought an M18. And now I'm getting pictures of his targets. He's like, I'm getting better. Hey, any tips to improve my aim? He's like, I want to.

change up my trigger um so and we're going shooting tomorrow right uh so it's um it's i've experienced this ground shift um first hand across a number of different demographics the jewish community lgbt community and the asian community tomorrow well the reason i'm having i'm shooting with him is i'm having a lgbt pride fun shoot right i've

I've had for the first time ever, like I just had this critical mass of gay friends who have been asking me to take them to shoot, you know, taking them all one at a time on different days, right? This is like a big time suck. but i can obviously just like hey let's let's go to the i have a private range in the santa cruz mountains yeah and we're gonna have fun

That's it. And away we go. And away we go. Yeah. Well, and that's how you, that's how you convert people. That's how you get converts is you take them out to the range and you see that smile on their face when they understand that they're not these scary, evil. everybody's going to die. If you touch them things, they're just tools like anything else, you know? Um, and, and I, I love that Chris, you're, you're in California. God help you. Um, and, uh,

Of course, we've been watching what's happening in L.A. And again, we were just talking before you came on about how I can't concept I can't understand how people can have these dichotomous thoughts of, you know. Police are bad and they should be defunded. They're evil. But wait, you can't have a gun. Only police should have a gun. And others like that. Same thing with the Jews or with gay people or whatever minority, sub-minority we're talking about here. I mean, it is.

It is just it's crazy. And now we're watching what's happening in L.A. And I would be wondering why the entire city of L.A. that's not participating in the riots wouldn't be hunkering down and dialing their congressman and saying, I support the 2A and ordering a gun and, you know, be delivered by DoorDash or something. Right.

I mean, this this just it just it should be the biggest push for most of these people in my mind. Yeah. So, you know, the reason why why that that isn't happening in my in my in my opinion is. When I'm talking to a lot of anti-gun or even just neutral, right, Americans who just sort of don't have an opinion about firearms or the Second Amendment, it is very much about a lack of imagination.

where they just can't see themselves ever even shooting a gun, right? It's sort of that mental barrier of not envisioning or even seeing the possibility that they would ever hold a gun, let alone shoot a gun, let alone enjoy the experience. let alone understanding then what the one practical function of a firearm would be, which is personal protection.

Right. So there's like these four. These are just like four quick layers of an example. These are barriers. I think that people either put up right there. They just have these barriers that have been put up either by themselves or by. their political party uh let's assume the democratic party for a second here right i mean if you're a democrat you've just been told your entire life that guns are bad that they are the cause of mass shootings that they are the root of all evil so

if you've been spoon fed that dogma your entire life, then it would make sense, right? That you're not going to be rushing to buy a gun. You're not going to be advocating for your second amendment civil rights. And so this is, this is where I think.

you know for most people we learn the hard way right with a lot of lessons in life i mean look like yeah it's sort of like you know you want to learn that fire is bad you should get burnt right by by touching fire right right right i mean

Except for the best. They always say experience is the best teacher. They never told you that it was always better if it was somebody else's experience. I'd rather watch you get burned and me not and learn not to stick my hand in the fire. Right. I mean, that's that's the way to do it.

Yeah, and so what we're seeing, I think, over the past five years in particular, right, and I say five years because I think the pandemic, right, was really a clear, game-changing, paradigm-changing event that really forced... people to call into question you know how safe am i right and is the government keeping me safe is law enforcement able to keep me safe and for more and more people

you know depending on where you live well that answer became well either no i don't think the government's going to keep me safe or maybe it's the government isn't going to be able to keep me as safe as i thought that they would be able to right So that's where people are starting to kind of think more and maybe have that potential vision of themselves holding a gun.

shooting a gun, enjoying the gun, and using a gun as protection. And this is a journey for everyone, right? So I think we... we need to be respectful and try our best to meet people where they are right if you and i go to a anti-gunner and just say oh yo you should be exercising your second amendment rights like they're gonna just shoulder they're gonna roll their eyes at us right And for someone like that, it's often got to be either a softer approach.

or they learn the hard way right that they're gonna get mugged and i hate right we don't want these things to happen but like they're gonna get mugged they're gonna get attacked their house is gonna get broken into their car windows gonna get smashed something bad is probably going to happen to them or someone that they love or care about that would then force this question.

Right. And, you know, that's that's just I think that's just human nature. That's because there's no atheist in a foxhole. Right. I mean, at that point, because now reality has come crashing down on them that they, too. could be a victim of these kind of crimes, or they too could be. And like you said, maybe a lot of people in Los Angeles or in those areas are watching this and thinking, oh, well, that's happening down the street, but it'll never happen to me.

Until it does. And then they get and that's I think you're right. I think COVID was a big turning point for a lot of people because they could see this violence in their communities. And now there's no Kings thing. Like you said, I don't know what what San Francisco is going to look like. But I mean, a lot. places are kind of bracing for a potential of the same kind of violence and i mean that's

It's good for us in one way and is that it makes people think and maybe want to protect themselves. But I just I just I don't understand why they can't see it now. To me, it's pretty clear. that we should be taking responsibility for our own actions. But I'll give you the final word here, Dan. We're down to 90 seconds here, Chris. So what final thoughts for the day, for the weekend, for Friday the 13th? What are your thoughts today? Yeah. Well.

America, we continue to struggle. right it is it's it's it's it's been a rough it's been a rough let's call a rough decade i mean it's it's at least i mean it's yeah and you know look like uh

The thing that's always refreshing and I guess reassuring to me is if we just look at history, right? American history or any other country's history is that things are cyclical, right? Then everyone, every country has ups and downs. That said, I mean, there are... there you know for some americans right this is a big low point right whether it's financial struggles whether it's uh instability for a variety of reasons

but you know this is america's still a great experiment in the context of world history right we are a very young country however we have very passionate people right americans are very strong-willed and look i i don't necessarily um you know love the whole no kings like you know i mean i'm just not a protester in general but

that said look like a beautiful thing about this country is that we have the right to assemble right and to protest against the government right like and look at its core yeah of course i i support anyone who wants to peacefully protest against the government. Still the greatest country on Earth. That's what it's all about. And what I what I hope we the point I hope we get back to is where we as Americans can agree to disagree.

on whether it's immigration or you know gun rights because look like we're never going to agree on everything like that that is just baseline We're never going to agree on everything. And how do we peacefully coexist in this great country that we have? And that when we have these disagreements, that we don't end up burning down the cities and tearing things apart, canceling each other. That is an unacceptable.

end game for me and um i'm i don't know i i hope and pray that these conflicts will eventually lead to a more peaceful and tranquil tranquil time in our country i mean i would hope so i would hope that it would see it but again we're at such a time where The divisiveness has been capitalized on in so many ways and monetized in some ways that, you know, we're...

foisting the outrage on each other and people have become professional outrage experts at this point. And that's that's the problem. We can't just agree to disagree anymore. Right. I mean, there would be hosts, there would be show hosts that would never talk to Chris Chang confrontationally because he's a gay Asian male. Right.

I mean, there's just, you know, some people on the right would be to me. I don't care what you know. It's not up to me. Right. It's my thing. I want to. Where can we find some common ground? That's the thing. I may not agree with somebody in their position or whatever, their religion, lifestyle. I don't care. But can we find some common ground? And that seems to be vanishingly rare today.

That's the big thing. It just seems to be, you know, it's going to the sight line, you know, down to the horizon. And I'm seeing it's squeezing tighter and tighter to where we're becoming more of a minority of being able to say, hey. Can't we all just get along and find something to have a beer about? Yeah, I agree. And right. We're seeing this reflected in our politicians.

right that are getting elected and politicians that are trying to find common ground are the ones not being elected and uh both the left and the right are electing these very polarizing hyper-political, just drinking the dogma of whatever political party soup that's being fed. And I don't like it.

I don't like it at all. I think moderates in the middle, right? We are getting squeezed out. But again, I think this is all cyclical. I think the pendulum will swing in the other direction. Not anytime soon. but eventually yeah you know it's going to take some time and it will take those of us speaking out right and voting right and and and uh speaking with our dollars too right that means supporting politicians who

are more in this kind of moderate, middle ground, common ground area. Yeah, no, and I would hope that it could be done. I mean, if it's going to happen peacefully, it takes longer. I just don't want to see the other side. You know, I just don't want to see it come to blows, which more and more these days, it seems like that might be a more, you know, a more realistic solution is that there is some kind of coming to blow moment and nobody wants that.

You know, I interviewed the guy from I interviewed the guy from Sarajevo here about 15 years ago when they had the civil war there. And I'm like, you don't understand. Nobody wants that. Not really. You may be thumping your chest with your 3% patch on and all your ammo and your MREs in your garage and be like, I'll be fine. Nobody wants that.

uh i don't care who you are um because it you know in the end it it it scar us even worse we just need to be able to come together and i don't know i don't know how to convince more people of that um but I guess we just keep doing what we're doing. We just keep preaching truth through power. Yeah, exactly. I think it is about encouraging, facilitating calm. rational conversations, respecting people's emotions. You know, I mean, emotions are these funny things were look like.

your emotions are yours. And on some level, of course, like they're legitimate and valid. On the other hand, it's like, look, like, uh, where are those emotions coming from? Are they, are they coming from a rational place or the emotions coming from an irrational place? And, and yeah. And again, I think back to this concept of, you know, I try and meet people where they are. I think that is.

um kind of a key negotiation i mean i i was trained in negotiations in uh in grad school so i i have i look at the world and a lot of interactions as a negotiation right and right It's a game of 4D chess where you just sort of have to make an evaluation about the situation and the person and the circumstances, understand what are the moves. and what is your place, right? What am I just as an individual capable of saying or doing in this moment right now or doing in the near future to affect?

an outcome right and if it's with an individual that i'm speaking with It's a very dynamic situation, right? Especially if I've just met them. But this is where, you know, look, if I've just met somebody, I mean, I love meeting new people. And it is about... finding either common ground or interesting things to talk about and to learn about someone's background and to

discuss an issue within the context of their world right not in the context of of mine we're gonna have to pick this up my phone's ringing i got my next guest on the line chris chang top shot champion topshotchris.com

My friend, hope you have a good weekend. We'll see you next week. Thanks so much for having me on. All right. Thanks so much. Here we go.

okay uh the weekend i'm ready i'm ready for the weekend how about you you ready always the man who's always ready for the weekend who it's always a weekend in his head i don't know that really doesn't work out on monday but That's how it is. Willie Waffle, wafflemovies.com. Hello, my friend. How are you doing today? What's happening? Well, I'm doing well, but, you know, weekend in my head doesn't work out when it's Monday, and then I don't show up to work.

That's usually a negative. It's frowned upon. You show up to work in shorts and a flip-flop with an umbrella drink in your hand, right? Like, dude, it's Saturday, isn't it? Saturday somewhere, man. Saturday somewhere. All right. Well, let's get into this. Let's start off with the big...

with the big stories from the entertainment industry. I guess we'll start off with ads. Boy, they are the bane of my existence. I pay money so that I don't have ads, and yet these guys just keep adding more and more. adds to everything give me the give me the rundown here yeah oh my god so you know i i go to amc theater is a great deal there's one near my house i like going there except i'm like you

My God, why are there like 20 minutes of junk before I actually get to see the movie? Well, guess what? There's going to be more junk before you get to see your movie. Yes. AMC Theatres has entered into an agreement with National Cinemedia to increase the amount of pre-show material beyond the 20 minutes that we currently have. so you know like a lot of it's trailers and that's nice but you but everybody out there knows what i'm talking about not only do you get the trailers

Then you get like, you know, some movie tie-in where a character from some movie they're promoting is telling me to turn my phone off. Then Nicole Kidman's got to come on and tell me how much I love movies and how much she loves movies. It isn't a great we're all there. And I'm like, yeah, I'm here to see.

the movie get out of the get off the screen right and now they're gonna add more commercials they're gonna add what they're calling the platinum spot yes after all that stuff i think even after nicole kidman comes on They're going to run an ad before the movie. Right. Like right before the movie breaks, it'll be a spot. This is after it said, get your popcorn, do all the things, don't smoke, don't drink, don't use your cell phone, everything else. And then it'll be then a commercial.

I mean, at what point do people just go, I'm just going to show up 15 minutes late for the movie because I know it'll be, you know what I mean? It's already happening. I go to the movies now. I'm a big fan of the trailers. I like seeing the trailers. And I can tell you right now, I see people coming in throughout the entire 20 minutes because they figured out the scam, dude. They're like...

I know it says the movie starts at 8, but they're not really going to start until 8.20. I already have reserved seats. It's not like I have to fight for a better seat. So I'm just going to show up at 8.19 and see the movie. I don't blame anybody whatsoever. It's getting ridiculous. At some point, when is there going to be honesty? And this actually, I think, was the basis of a lawsuit. When is there going to be honesty in the published?

Start time. When you say the movie's starting at 8 o'clock, why isn't the movie? starting at eight o'clock right well because some people you know if they're trying to time something they look at the thing they see the movie starts at this they usually they have the time and the length of the movie you subtract 10 minutes for credits and you know okay so i've got you know it's an hour and 30 minutes so

I've got an hour and 20 minutes of movie. I'll show up just in time and I can still make it to my dinner reservation or something. And now it's like 30, 40 minutes later, you're like, my God, what's going on here? Well, yeah, because there's all the trailers. Now, even before they start the trailers, they do a pre-show with trivia and commercials and interviews. Okay, but at least all that stuff happens. as I'm coming into the theater prior to the published start time.

Then when we get to the start time, then it's the trailers and now commercials. Oh, boy. Oh, yeah. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. And of course, you're not getting any money out of it, right? But I guess this is how these theaters are trying to survive. I mean, they're still struggling post-COVID. they're still having a hard time yeah so they're trying to find anything they can do to monetize it so i mean i guess i can't blame them but

Yeah, I won't be showing up exactly on time. I can tell you that right now. I'll be in the lobby getting popcorn at five minutes after the movie's supposed to start because I know I'll still have five minutes of stuff once I get in the seat. Right. You know, it'll be what it is.

All right. The Wizard of Oz in the sphere. Now, I'm not familiar with the sphere. You're going to have to hook me up with this. What is the sphere? So the sphere is... the ultimate auditorium in Las Vegas. If you've ever seen the shots of Las Vegas, you see the big ball that's sitting in the middle of Las Vegas. That is the sphere. And when you enter the auditorium, it is an immersive 360 degree experience. Okay, so.

When you go to see a rock concert, there's also all sorts of images playing around you to make it a big kind of almost like you're living in a movie. Well, they're going to put you in the middle of a movie. So the Eagles have played out there and a bunch of other bands have played out there. But now you can see the Wizard of Oz. In the sphere, you're going to be surrounded with 360 degrees of visuals. They're going to have vibrating seats, environmental effects, custom sets to make you feel.

that you're right there in the middle of the tornado, or maybe you're right there in Emerald City, and you're going to see it all unfold right in front of you. This sounds absolutely amazing and tremendous.

I think I need to make a trip to Vegas. Yeah, no, I mean, this sounds like an amazing deal. I mean, who, you know, you've already got the... on like facebook and some of these other sites where you can take a 360 degree panoramic thing and then you can actually scroll through on your screen so Why not be able to do that? What if they start shooting movies in the future in 360 degrees? You know, that's the idea.

And they're taking the Wizard of Oz and they're using schematics and they're using plans and they're using the sets to really recreate the movie. all around you i think it's gonna happen i mean you know you two did a big deal out there during one of their concerts where they did all sorts of stuff around them the eagles have done this i i think I'm surprised that the people who run the sphere haven't hired like Steven Spielberg or somebody to do a special.

360 movie exactly the way you talked about. I think it's begging for it. It's got to happen eventually. Someone's going to do it. Even if you got like a David Attenborough swim with the whales underwater photography. you could look around and the whales are all around you you know coming up behind you and in front of you and i mean it would yeah i mean that would be super that would be super cool um so yeah i mean like you said maybe this time when when is this going on

So this is going to happen in late August. So, you know, they have a bunch of music acts lined up right now throughout the summer. So late August through the fall. you're going to be able to see the Wizard of Oz there. They're going to do like three shows a day or four shows a day, something crazy like that. Yeah. Okay.

All right, well, let's move on to superheroes. Wonder Woman is getting another movie. Is that what I'm hearing? It's happening. Yeah. And this didn't come like from some rumor. This didn't come from like, you know, some tabloid. This is DC chief James Gunn who says, yeah, we're writing a Wonder Woman script. We're developing it. We're going to make it happen.

So they're working on it. Well, so, of course, then the rumors started flying. Who is going to be Wonder Woman? Who is who's in the running? And three names have emerged. I'll see how you feel about these three names. Number one, Adria Ariona, who was Bix Colleen in Andor, if you ever saw the Andor TV show. Okay, yeah, okay, all right. Alexander Daddario. who was in the movie version of Baywatch. She was in the White Lotus. She's in Mayfair Witches.

She's the one I want to see be Wonder Woman, because I think she's physically the closest to Wonder Woman. She's got amazing blue eyes that will just light up the screen when she's Wonder Woman. And I think she can do the physical parts, I think, better than some of the other actors. Okay. And then there's a third choice. The one who I worry is going to get it, but maybe not going to get it after what happened last week, Ana de Armas.

yeah after ballerina kind of didn't do that great she might not be getting it well and she's i mean she's tiny right she's smaller yeah she's smaller i mean i mean uh again wonder woman is an amazonian right she's an amazon right that's the whole thing that's why i thought gal gadot was a good thing because she's a big tall lady you know yeah big tall lady

And I mean, I wouldn't mind seeing her come back. I thought she did a great job in Wonder Woman. But I know they're changing things. I know Gunn kicked Henry Cavell to the curb. The new trailer for Superman looks pretty good. But I mean, you know, I...

Yeah, I just don't know at this point. We'll have to see. We'll have to see if DC can pull it out with James Gunn at the helm because that was the problem is I think they just didn't have a good vision and Gunn's got a pretty good vision for what these things are supposed to look like and feel like.

Oh no, I think he does too. I think the casting is going to make a big deal about it. I think the casting is what's going to win us over. I don't know how to say it. I'm having my doubts about Superman. Are you? i'm having my yeah i've seen the trailers too and uh this corn sweat kid i don't know if he's going to be a great superman i just don't know i don't know i just don't know and i'm definitely getting some christopher about it

I'm getting some Christopher Reeves vibes from the kid, right? He's not the darker. Well, that would be nice. And that's good, but. We'll have to see. My wife is like you. She's like, I don't know if I'm sold. She loved Christopher Reeves. She loved Henry Cavell. She's like, I don't know. You know, we'll have to we'll have to see.

But I am living to see Nathan Fillion as the Green Lantern with a bull haircut. I think that's hysterical. That's going to be very good. And I'm sorry, Superdog just wins me over. Crypto, yeah. So someone knew what they were doing. They're like, hey, let's get crypto in here because, dude, people love dogs. Trust me. That's going to be good. We'll see what it looks like. All right. We're running out of time here real quick. I heard it is may the sports be with you.

Yes, it has been often rumored but never confirmed until yesterday. Ladies and gentlemen, there will be a Spaceballs 2. Mel Brooks made the announcement. If you get a chance.

Find the announcement on YouTube. It's hilarious. Yes, he is going to return. He's going to return his yogurt. And they have also lined up Bill Coleman to... turn as star lord and rick moranis will be back as lord dark helmet yeah he's coming out of retirement oh man all right i think that's the best part that's the part that gets me excited you know and josh gad's gonna be in it he's been developed

the script and working with Mel Brooks a lot. I think I also saw Kiki Palmer is going to be in it somehow as well. So a lot of people. So 2027 in what they are billing as. A non-prequel, non-reboot, sequel, part two, but with reboot elements franchise expansion film.

Yeah. There's no cynicism in there. All right. Well, let's move over. Let's move over to the things. We don't have a lot of time here. Echo Valley on Apple TV. What are we talking about? You know, a really good movie, you know, Julianne Moore, a mother who's recovering from personal tragedy with her daughter, played by Sydney Sweeney, who's a heroin addict.

And she shows up all the time. And every time she shows up, there's trouble. Well, there's big trouble because now all of a sudden she's gotten herself into some mess where she shows up with a dead body in the trunk. Julianne Moore's got to take care of business. You know, I think it's a solid movie. I think, you know, it's a movie that kind of gets complicated and complicated as it goes along. Dom Hall Gleeson is fantastic as an evil drug dealer that shows up.

in the movie. I think you're going to love him. I think it becomes a decent mystery about, well, what happened? We have her story. Is it really the truth? We haven't been able to believe her as we see throughout the movie. I'm going to be at Three Waffles. I think it's a good, solid drama movie. Okay. Dark drama, mystery. I think it was something we could be down for. That takes us over to the theaters where we've got The Materialists.

Yeah, you know, again, I think you've got a good, decent movie here. It's Dakota Johnson playing this New York City matchmaker who gets torn between her old flame, played by Chris Evans, and her new guy, played by... Pedro Pascal. And the thing is, it's really an examination of dating in the modern world. And let me tell you, it shows you, dating in the modern world stinks. It stinks.

Stinks, stinks, stinks. Everybody has unrealistic expectations. We've lost the whole idea of love. Even Dakota Johnson, her character's about, this is a deal, right? Everybody's got what they want. All the men want young. hot women, all the women want rich, tall guys. And she tries to put them all together. But Chris Evans, the guy she really cares about, he's poor, but man, she really cares about them. And you wonder if they're going to end up together.

It's a two and a half waffle. So I think the plot moves kind of simply. I think there's some very, very good dialogue here. Sometimes it tries a little bit too hard. And if you're looking for comedy, this isn't it. This is not a comedy. This is not a comedy. This is not a rom-com. This is just.

No. This is a dark romance. All right. Okay. Materialists in theaters with Dakota Johnson, which leaves us just over 60 seconds for the new remake you were talking about. What, uh, deep, uh, deep what? Oh, oh. So on Amazon Prime Video, a new movie, Deep Cover. This is maybe the funniest movie I've seen in a long time. This is a lot, but it's Dallas Bryce Howard. She's an acting and improv teacher in London. Her whole career is going nowhere and she gets an opportunity.

The police come to her asking her to get a couple people from her class to go undercover to do sting operations. And she brings with her Nick Muhammad, who's a shy IT guy who's invisible to the world.

and orlando bloom who's a method actor who tries way way too hard they get themselves in deeper undercover than you could ever imagine these three morons ever would oh this sounds great i love that just for the cast alone a negative one to three waffles where are we at deep cover i'm at three and three and a half waffles man get your prime video going this weekend man i will i just finished mob land oh man holy cow

Wow. That's all I could say right now. We'll talk about that in the after show here. WillieWaffleWaffleMovies.com. Thank you, my friend. Folks, we got to go Monday. We'll see you then. Yeah, that sounds hysterical. I mean, Orlando Bloom playing a method actor. I could just see him being so over the top in that. And Dallas Bryce Howard, she's got some chops. I do enjoy her. She's a good director, too. I really enjoy her. I think she's the glue that holds it all together.

You know, because she's kind of the lead actress. She's the one who's kind of trying to direct this motley crew, if you will, to try to make sure they don't all die. Right. And that's where the laughs come from, because, you know, they're. They're getting in deeper and deeper and deeper, and the police are like, we're not pulling you out. We haven't been able to get this far ever. You guys are the best. We love you.

Don't die. Don't die. Don't die. That's right. That's right. Okay. Well, that's good. Like I was just saying, I just finished Mobland. The Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, Helen Murren. Wow, what a wild ride that thing is. It's amazing. I know you haven't picked it up yet, but you got to get into it, man. This thing is amazing.

And we're going to start Department Q this weekend, I guess, since you were so raving about that. Do it. That'll be good. And I just heard a rumor. I haven't finished Landman yet. I actually set it aside for a bit. We were watching something else. It just came out that season two of Landman is going to be starring. Sam Elliott. He's going to be a supporting character in season two. So I'm looking forward to that. What else are you watching these days?

Well, I mean, that was the big thing. I mean, you know, I was watching prime, you know, prime, prime, or, you know, deep cover and all those, you know, I, you know, I've gotten into podcasts a lot lately. And so I've been listening to a lot of podcasts, and I just listened to one that was very entertaining but also very shocking. It's called Behind the Bastards. It is the stories of all the most evil people on the planet. And they did a six-part series on WWE owner and promoter Vince McMahon.

And all the horrible things that he has done over the years. So that was really good. What was the other one? I'm going to look up the other one that I was listening to. Very cool. It was about a murder that happened. in Washington, D.C., back in 1964. It's called Murder on the Towpath. And it's an artist, a divorcee, who is murdered in Georgetown. And it turns out she's got a lot of high-powered ties in the government, including they found out.

She might have been fooling around with President Kennedy before he was assassinated. Who wasn't? And so this then becomes... The story of, well, who is the killer? Did the person they arrest, is he really guilty? They go into the court case. They go into a lot of the things that were going on behind the scenes. They go into her involvement with the CIA. And I'm like.

Oh, my God, this is like a conspiracy dream. Wow. Well, and I hate to break it to you, but you know that there's no jobs out there for podcast critics, right? So you got to be. Yeah, right. But it's been fun. I'm starting to really. the storytelling no it is it is good storytelling that is it for sure uh all right well we got what superman on july the 11th what else is coming up in the next week or so what are we what are we well next week you know we we've got the leo movie uh which is the

big disney animated film and 28 years later yes the sequel to to 28 days later yes it's uh it's gonna be uh scary it's gonna be scary scary i hate i hate fast zombies okay that's all i'm saying slow shufflers i can i can deal with it but boy first time we watched 28 days later it was like

oh my god that was some of the most terrifying zombies you've ever seen so oh yeah well and i you know hey let's face it if the zombies are going to take over the planet i would think they're going to have to move fast I mean, if we can always get away, then again, we've had pandemics where, you know, people weren't exactly chasing us and it spread. So I don't know. Yeah, we'll have to see. All right. Well, that's it for us then, Willie. Thank you so much, my friend.

good to talk with you we'll see you next week all right see you then all right folks that's it for me i got stuff to do and then we're off for the weekend we will see you guys bright and early monday morning uh sarah montalbano on monday i forgot to mention that earlier okay all right that's fine or did i i can't even remember now all right we'll see you guys next week have a good weekend Radio Skin. And now we are slimy lizard internet people. It's the Michael Duke Show.