Colbert's PAINFUL Goodbye, Lemon's Whining About White Men, and Trump's Hilarious Rant, with Stu Burguiere | Ep. 1322

Welcome to the Megan Kelly show live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at least. Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly show. Happy Thursday and happy last day of the late show forever. Stephen Colbert is hosting the final episode of the late night show. I mean finally tonight on CBS and the left is reacting with existential dread blaming the cancellation on the evil and fascist Trump and ignoring the fact that the show hasn't been funny in a decade and is losing a reportedly astronomical sum of $40 million a year. A year. You don't need an MBA from Harvard Business School to know that CBS cannot keep paying Colbert. It reported $15 to $20 million a year to lose even more. What like what are we doing? His weak competitor Jimmy Kimmel apparently thinks Colbert deserves to be paid millions in perpetuity and because he's not getting that wish he is now urging viewers to watch Colbert tonight and then never ever turn the dial to CBS again. Oh gee, who would that help? Watch. Stephen and our friends at the late show all fun farewell. Not too clever. Then there's good old Bruce Springsteen who's clearly become a woman who thinks Colbert is being taken off the air because President Trump and the owners of Paramount are just too sensitive. Stephen, I'm here in support tonight with Stephen because you're the first guy in America who's lost his show because we got a president who can't take a joke. And because Larry and David Ellison feel they need to kiss his ass to get what they want so these are... Anyway, Stephen, these are small minded people who got no idea what the freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about. He should ride that guitar right off into the sunset and be quiet. Just be quiet. No one gives a shit what you're saying. You're weird little songs that you've parodied up to make fun of Trump. During his performance it was truly like something out of a leftist presentation in high school. They had slogans projected on the backdrop on like an American flag that was up there. Resistance. Honestly, this happened. Peace, truth, hope, unity. Okay, so inspirational. People have their marching orders. Hope, unity. That is such a typical leftist move. They don't want unity. Those are lies. They absolutely don't want unity. They want dominance. These are the same people who are pretending to shoot themselves in the neck to this day in the wake of Charlie's murder. They think that the people who are praising Luigi Mangione have started an interesting conversation. There'll be no unity. It's a no. And let's check in with Robert De Niro, who's even crazier than Springsteen. He's crazier than Rosie O'Donnell. He truly, I think, has the worst case of TDS we've ever seen, ever known to man. I mean, that's saying something. Who got Colbert. This is, oh my God, this is actually the most ridiculous thing. None of us watches Colbert, obviously. So we didn't know about this tricky little thing he does, this fun little trick he's been doing on his show for years. This clever little cat and mouse game he plays with his guests. What does he do? It's an ongoing saga. Apparently it's been going on for years. It's a little Q&A where he asks them a mystery question that he wants them to guess the answer to. What is it? You know, number of gumballs in a jar? No, it's just what number am I thinking of? Okay, that's his game. What number am I thinking of? And this passes for like $15 million a year entertainment. This being his last week, he and Robert De Niro chose last night to reveal the big answer. We're finally going to get to hear the number and apparently it's been one number. It's not even like a clever thing. We're night after night just to see if people on his wavelength, he changes his number and they, that would be dumb and boring enough. I guess he's had the same number and has had all these years. And if you get it, he doesn't tell you. And if you don't get it, I don't know what he says. Who gives a shit? This is the most boring fucking bit we've ever discussed. How did this pass for entertainment? So he brings on De Niro to do the big reveal of the number, my friends, my God. And De Niro couldn't even spit out the number. The whole bit was awkward. Watch. What number were you thinking of? There's a hint as to what the answer is. Ethan Hawke immediately goes, I know what it is. It's three. That's the number. That's the number. I was thinking of it. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Because I thought it would have been 2 million point five or two and a half million. That's the number of Epstein files Trump still hasn't released. Is it over? Is it over? Actually, it is over. Thank God. Tonight, after tonight it's over and we don't have to talk about him anymore. Thank God. I'm sure he's going to launch a podcast or do something in the independent lane and it'll probably do quite well because he has some following there, not enough to justify paying him $15 million a year on air at CBS. But he's the one who's chosen to treat it like a funeral. That's Stephen Colbert's choice. I mean, the months of tributes have been a little much. And wait until you hear what Don Lemon is writing about this cancellation. And I guess he's got a sub-stack now. You'll be shocked to learn he makes it all about himself, all about himself and his arrest for allegedly violating the face act when he stormed a church in St. Paul, Minnesota with anti-ice protesters back in January. There are dozens of other examples we've got to get to. But first, before we do, we want to bring in our friend, Stu Berger, who's host of Predictable with Stu. Find out more at PredictableShow.com and the relaunched Stu and Dave Do America on Blaze TV. 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Thank you Megan. Great to be here. Okay. So they are all very, very, very upset that Stephen Colbert is going away. And we have to pretend like this is some sort of unprecedented free speech violation by a network colluding with a president and not the result of a network losing $40 million a year. Can you believe how pathetic and lame the send-offs have been? It's incredible, especially from someone that has just not really made an impact, right? I mean he went over there and he started, there's this big piece of the New York Times just, you know, again, another obituary for the show today where they talk about how he started over at, you know, with the show and he tried to do a show that would entertain people like every other late night host was doing for, you know, many, many years. The formula that appealed to a mass audience, make some jokes, the show's not super expensive to produce, you make a bunch of money, everybody's happy. He tried to do that and it was failing. It was failing miserably. So Donald Trump comes down the escalator, Colbert decides he's going to switch his shtick. I mean he'd always been obviously critical of conservatives, but he was trying to do something else, I guess, at the beginning. And the way the Times phrases it is, you know, he became successful in a period where it was still possible for a show to be successful with a point of view, which is, I thought I'm an amazing way to put it. I missed the era where all these networks were allowing conservative points of view to be the lead parts of their late night shows and hardcore conservatives being critical. I don't remember, you know, Rush Limbaugh having the late night show. He did have a syndicated show at one point that was successful, but that's not the way that they allowed this stuff to work, even with successful people like Rush. It's a joke. He has not been successful. He's, you know, just shedding money like crazy. And he's, I think, if I'll give him any credit on anything, he was smart to lean into this sort of victim situation where he is now the victim of the president. He can be seen as the white knight fighting for everything that's good. It's such a lie, but it's much better than focusing on the fact that you're losing $40 million a year. Oh my God. Yes, you're a loser. That's the truth. Honestly, that is, you're a loser and you got canceled because you've been a loser for a long time to quote the president about Rosie O'Donnell. That's one of my favorite quotes by him. Rosie's a loser. She's been a loser for a long time, as if it's like quantifiable, like identifiable, the date she became the loser forward. Scientific consensus. It's same. Same for Stephen Colbert. So let me give you a taste for what's happening. Of course, John Stuart is also devastated at this. And he, you know, as part of the parade of honors for Colbert on his way out, he's not dying. He's just getting his show canceled. John Stuart goes on and says the following. Watch, stop for. And let me say this, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, not just for this show, but for the country. The day, the day, oh, people, close your eyes and dream. The day that the electorate in this great nation we call home repudiates this putrid administration. The day that that happens. My brother. My brother. Uh-huh. There will be, and I mean this, the day that that happens, there will be a joyful noise from the bowels of this great country that will make Hungary's repudiation of Orban look like an Amish Sabbath. Okay, I mean, that's what they're celebrating, right? Like, don't you worry, you know, it's all Trump's fault and Trump will get his will, the nation will repudiate him. This has nothing to do with Trump other than Stephen Colbert caught a very bad case of TDS, turned his show entirely political based on his obsession with Trump, ratings cratered, and as a business matter, he was no longer viable and his show went down. That's not Trump's fault. That's his fault for making a bad calculation about what people wanted in the so-called comedy slot on nighttime TV. Yeah, because I'm sure that audience is very well versed in the policy profile of Victor Orban. I'm sure they just cheered so loud for that because they understood the reference completely. Yeah, he's trying to make him, he's always trying to show you how smart he is, which is a tell, of course, that he doesn't feel smart at all. Right, exactly. You know, it's funny because honestly, without Donald Trump, to be clear, you could say, okay, well, Trump has been critical of Colbert and that's obviously true. They've warred in the media. But without Donald Trump's presence, Stephen Colbert's canceled in like 2018. His entire show, the only thing he ever says on the show is an echo of what John Stewart just said in just filling in the controversy of the day into his crappy jokes. This is his entire career at this point he owes to Donald Trump, at least on this show. The fact that it lasted that long is only because he went in there and he did connect with a portion of the country, a very left-wing hardcore portion of the country. And that gave him enough of a bump just like MSNBC and CNN did in that period. They went on hardcore against Donald Trump, did basically TDS network and were able to pump up at their ratings at a time when there's a lot of passion and everyone was screaming about this new guy who is in here and pissing everybody off. That got old and once you took half of the audience and immediately tossed them aside and tried to continually hit the same audience with the same jokes and the same monologues and the same guests over and over and over and over again, eventually they just got bored of it. And when you got to the point where they, I guess, got what they want and they got a Joe Biden presidency and that went so poorly, a good chunk of the audience that was with them before left. And now you have basically nobody outside of John Stuart and Jimmy Kimmel watching and that's why the show's up there. It's got nothing to do with Donald Trump yelling at Stephen Colbert. Yeah. Well, there's another Don who thinks he has something to do with it and that's Don Lemon. I can't believe what I'm about to read to you. Of course, we don't keep tabs on what Don Lemon is doing. No one cares. But he's apparently doing a sub-stack and his sub-stack reads as follows. Okay. I'm going to give you some of the low light Stuber gear. He says Colbert was the canary in the coal mine. I know something about that. He writes back to me. I gave one line to someone else back to me on January 18th of this year. I was in St. Paul, Minnesota, covering an anti-ase protest at a city's church and as an independent journalist. I live streamed it. I interviewed protesters. I did my job. 11 days later at approximately midnight on January 29th, the FBI and Homeland Security investigators arrested me in Beverly Hills where I was there covering the Grammy Awards. He goes on. Shortly after I appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jimmy gave me a platform when a lot of people were watching to see who would. Sure. The nation was on pins and needles seeing who would platform Don Lemon, public enemy number one. I told him I was doing okay. I told him I wasn't going to let them steal my joy and I meant it. But I also said this is very serious because it is. And I said something else that night that I keep coming back to. I was full of profundities that I just can't get over. I was the canary in the coal mine, not just for what happened to me personally, but for what was coming for all of us. Here we go. Buckle up, Stu. Stand by. The networks didn't like me asking conservatives hard questions. Okay. CNN didn't like the mirror. I was holding up every night. So they pushed me out. This is the most, I'm literally unbelievable revisionist history ever. And I thought if it happened to me, it will happen to others. It will trickle down or up depending on how you look at it. Now it has trickled all the way to late night television. So his own firing, which was as a result of his terrible ratings, zero talent, misogynistic comments, and the outing of some very dark incidents in his past at CNN. That's why he got fired. That is not to blame. Don Lemon wants you to know it's because they didn't like me asking conservatives hard questions on CNN and didn't like the mirror I was holding up every night. So they pushed me out. This is just utter bullshit. It's amazing. Are people reading the sub stack? Yeah! Right on, Don. What do you make of it, Stu? Well, there's ever been a person in history who loves staring into a mirror. It is Don Lemon. The guy absolutely loves himself. Nobody loves Don Lemon more than Don Lemon. He should know when writing a sub stack. We have a sub stack, as you mentioned, at predictableshow.com. If you are writing a sub stack, you should know on your keyboard, I is not the only letter you're allowed to use. How many times did he use the phrase? There's also M and E. So just mix it up a little bit. Just a wild retelling of history here. Again, these are the people we're supposed to trust to tell us the news of the day. How many years did they throw Don Lemon on TV and act like he was a reliable source that was supposed to explain the world to us? You see who this guy is in real life. He's obviously massively egotistic. And that's, you know, I guess he's not alone in that when it comes to television, I suppose. The unsupported hubris. Like Trump is a narcissist, but he's a billionaire and a successful businessman and won the presidency twice. So he's got a few things to back up his narcissism. Don Lemon is an empty vessel and is just as, if not more in love with the sound of his own voice and face than Trump is. Yeah, certainly. And of course, again, the only reason that Don Lemon stuck around long enough as he did was because he was sitting here being constantly critical of Donald Trump on CNN, which they were encouraging, which everyone who's ever watched CNN understands this is the stuff that they're encouraging. There are two other reasons. There are two other reasons to all let you try to guess what they are. Here's a hint. Don Lemon reminded us of them when his neck was on the chopping block at CNN every other night. Yeah, they were, yes, that's true. I mean, because you can find people to criticize Donald Trump that are better at it than Don Lemon was. So there were other reasons for sure. Lots of, lots of intersectional reasons why Don Lemon remained there for as long as he did. I'm black and I'm gay. He literally came out and said it. He just explicitly referenced those two identities in an effort to save his job. I mean, it was just, it was so patent. So now, okay, so now listen to this. He tries to make it. So the guy who fired Don Lemon from CNN was named Chris Licht. And Chris Licht came over to CNN from CBS Late Night from Stephen Colbert's short show where he had been brought on in I think 2006. Colbert has been on the air for 11 years. So I don't know, or 16. So you can do the math on how long that was, but he came over, let's say halfway through Colbert's tenure on the air or not quite. And then he left Colbert to go run CNN when Jeff Zucker went down. And he ultimately fired Don Lemon. And so Don Lemon has it in for this guy. He thinks his demise was a Chris Licht problem, which it wasn't. It was not a Chris Licht problem. And he writes the following. He's got to tie it all together, you see. The world that produced the Late Show. And he means Chris Licht, because he was the executive producer of that show for a time. The world of legacy media, cable news and network television has long had a problem. Nobody wanted to name out loud. It is a world that has been extraordinarily good to a very specific kind of person. Can you guess who those kinds of people are, Stu? Don Lemon's mind, the ones who succeed. White people probably knowing Don. More specific. More specific. I don't know. Who is it? White men. White men. White men. You, my friend, you are the problem here. As usual. White men who fail spectacularly and are promoted for it. The nerve of Don Lemon of all people to be leveling that charge. White men who make catastrophic decisions and are handed bigger offices for it. White men who are visibly, demonstrably unqualified, stand by, and are given more power anyway. I have watched it for 30 years. I have been managed by it. I have been undone by it. He says, he writes, the executive producer who ran the Late Show for years, eventually left and somehow landed in my world. That same person from that same TV orbit eventually became my boss at CNN and fired me. I won't name him. I don't need to. But I will say this. It was one of the most spectacular examples of a white man failing up that I have witnessed in this industry. Profoundly unqualified, visibly incompetent, elevated anyway. Now talking like about failing upward, how did Don Lemon ever get a show in the prime time of Fox News? The answer is, I refer you back to his identity politics. We later came out that he, much younger in his career, allegedly, when he was co-anchoring with Kira Phillips, was so jealous of Kira Phillips that he sent her threatening notes and she knew that they were coming from him, but he wasn't identifying himself as the one behind them. It turned out, allegedly, he had been doing it from a burner phone so that he wouldn't be identified to his co-host about the nasty, somewhat ominous messages she was getting. There was reportedly a whole human resources investigation into him as a result of this and he was not exonerated and yet they kept promoting him up the line still. I'm sure that would have happened to a white man too. Oh sure, sure. This was just one of many problems there. Woman after woman came out and gave an interview to the press after his Nikki Haley comment about women are only in their primes in their 20s, 30s and 40s. Like you could never have a woman in her prime who isn't actively having babies. I mean, not for nothing, tell it to Katanji Brown Jackson because she got appointed to the US Supreme Court at age 54. I'm thinking she's fucking prime. It's fucking prime time for any lawyer or judge on earth. Don, can you see it? Can you see it? Since it's a black woman and not a white man or a white woman, can you see it? Okay, anyway, so this is his newfound explanation for why he went down. It was the white man Chris Licht and then he goes on to suggest that somehow Chris Licht may have been bringing down the Colbert show too. I don't even understand how he says, I don't blame Stephen Colbert for any of this stuff I'm talking about Colbert is brilliant. He operated with integrity, but I do wonder whether the man I just described, the one who failed up from that world and into my professional life and eventually fired me had more to do with the end of the Colbert show. He says that show than anyone wants to say out loud, maybe losing tens of millions of dollars a year wasn't just about the economics of late night. Maybe it was about who was running the building. This is so weird. I mean, Chris Licht was no longer at CBS. He'd gone to CNN and then gotten the boot. But I think what he means is white white man, white man made these decisions. White man is running the world. White man has fired. What is Stephen Colbert again? The checks note. Another white man. And this is to say nothing of the numbers, the ratings of Don Lemon's programs right before he got fired, which I will talk about as well in two seconds, but your reaction to this insane narrative. Quite catty there from Don Lemon. You could tell this is just, you know, he's very, very angry about losing his gig, but I don't even understand. You kind of hit on this. I don't understand what the storyline is for these people. If you look at the time where Colbert was, I guess, moderately successful, again, nothing compared to the late night show hosts of the past. But if you look at the high points of the Colbert show, it's when Chris Licht was running it. That's when it was actually at its high point. Again, incredibly critical of Donald Trump that entire time. But if you had, if there was a peak to this very tiny mountain, it was when Chris Licht was there. I would also argue, I don't know that it's failing up to go from CBS late night to CNN. Yeah. I got it seems. Because I remember at the time there was a big conversation about. Many of us had a lot of questions about that move that like, why is Chris Licht doing that? Exactly. It seems like a demotion, right? It seems like, why would you want to go to CNN where there's like 12 people watching when you have a network, you have this big show, you know, you're constantly in the positive spotlight. Why would you want to leave? And at the time, if I remember Licht was trying to make an argument that he thought it was important. Like it wasn't like, hey, this is a much better gig. He's like, he thought it would be important to try to save this network. Again, that didn't happen. I think some of the choices he made while there were actually pretty good. I think there was some improvement of CNN while he was there, which of course is the reason he was no longer there. You get tossed out the door. You know, every once in a while, CNN would recognize that half the country doesn't agree with their nonstop crazy leftism, right? And every once in a while they would say, wait, weren't we supposed to be the people, we're not supposed to be MSNBC. What if we try to at least... We're supposed to be boring, not biased. Yeah, exactly. And honestly, like Megan, it is boring and it's terrible, but there's room for me in the media sphere. I wish there was a place that did what we're supposed to believe a CNN does, like a place that just doesn't have the politics. I miss the old CNN. Yeah, yeah. I liked the boring version. Yeah. And honestly, I think they always leaned left to some degree, but at least I think there was a time at CNN where a good portion of the people who worked there tried. They were leftists and Democrats and stuff, but they would still attempt to do journalism. A lot of that is gone. You know, there's still some good people who work there. You'd have to put on a serious filter when you watch them talk about politics, but anything outside of politics, you could trust CNN. They actually used to be really good for that. And even the politics were nowhere near as openly biased on CNN as they became under Jeff Zucker and remain to this day. So yeah, I agree with you. There was a time where CNN was okay and it was tolerable, but that changed. And Don Lemon is one of the main people who changed it toward the worst. He now wants you to think that it's because he was black, I guess, that he got fired by a white man. He hates white men. Okay. He's married to a white man. So I like, I don't understand it. Are they all bad? Is just the one you married? Okay. Is there anybody else who's okay? Like how about the white men who watch your show? Oh, wait, there are none. Okay. Never mind. So anyway, he goes on to talk about how, you know, back to himself and how sad he is about how he got fired. The network didn't like me asking conservatives hard questions. Okay. Here's the truth. When Don Lemon got fired, his morning show, remember he got booted from the late night show because it was in the basement when it came to ratings. He was getting absolutely no numbers. I thought, do I have his late night numbers here? I don't know if I have his evening numbers here. Oh yeah, I do. He got fired from the late night show or whatever the prime time show. He was averaging 600,000 viewers in the prime time. Okay. He was averaging 150,000 in the demo just to give the audience a feel for where that is when I left my prime time job at Fox, which was January of 17, we were averaging about 3 million viewers a night. Okay. He was getting 600,000 and we had between three and 600,000 in the key demo given whatever, any given night in the news cycle. I actually looked it up. We were averaging 500,000 when I left. So we were averaging half a million in the demo. That was what he was getting in the overall. That's why he got fired. That's why they booted him out of late night. He had no numbers. He couldn't put any points on the board. It was pathetic. Pathetic. I never even looked at his numbers or anybody's numbers on CNN. They weren't relevant to me. They weren't even a competitor. It was boring for me to even consider them. Then they moved him to the morning as his promotion, remember? They tried to spin it as a big promotion to go from a solo prime time position to a three person morning show with Caitlin Collins and Poppy Harlow. It became the lowest rated program in a decade for CNN. Then he made his comments about Nikki Haley. That show, by the way, was averaging about 360,000 viewers in the morning. Fox and Friends was averaging 1.2 million. MSNBC was averaging about a million, just under a million. That, Don Lemon, you were fired because you failed. You failed in every role they ever gave to you. Then you became offensive on top of it. A failure and offensive. That's what happened. It's fine. You found a niche. You're making it in the independent lane in a decent way, I have to say. So that's good. That's good for you. But there's no reason to rewrite history here. Your firing had nothing to do with Whitey. It had to do with you and the lack of talent and offensive comments that you made repeatedly and dumb comments. Everyone knew you were dumb, which was one of your major sins, which is not really overcomeable. So I shouldn't hold it against you. In any event, these are the people who remain outraged about Stephen Colbert getting his proverbial head chopped off by, I guess, the white men in the sea suites, too. Those evil white men and their vendettas against other white men. That's what happens, I suppose. The other thing you mentioned of him being moved from a show that was completely failing in prime time to the morning show, if I'm not mistaken, that was a Chris Lick move, right? He actually saved Don Lemon and put him in the morning show. Again, he didn't make all good decisions, but that was a terrible one. But he tried not to fire him. Which is seemingly the central focus of this entire media organization for years and years and years and years was to figure out a way to not fire Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon. I don't know why they were so dedicated to that cause. It didn't work out all that well. But you talk about those numbers. Gosh, I remember going back when we first started in television, the first major network that I worked in was in the building at CNN. We worked for CNN and at that time they were trying to say, hey, wait a minute, we've noticed half the country won't ever turn us on. Maybe we should put a conservative on that little ugly stepchild network that we have, CNN Headline News. They put on Glenn Beck and I was working with him at the time. It was amazing to watch there where, I mean, they had nobody watching that network. Nobody was turning the thing on. But our numbers, we got on there, were higher than the numbers than you're talking about with Don Lemon. That's embarrassing. That shouldn't happen. There's been other developments in that time period. There's certainly a rise of digital and other things. But you're basically at the point now where it's just sort of one of those networks, it's like a prestige play in some executives portfolio. It's not, they're not trying to do news or get ratings or make money or anything else. It's just this thing. Everyone kind of remembers CNN as they had this positive view. Gosh, remember when they, how they covered the Gulf War? Hey, let's keep, make sure this continues to go on. Remember Larry King? Well, yeah, we remember Larry King, but that was a long time ago. This thing has been dissolved and dissolved and dissolved. They've tried to remake it over and over again. It's like the person who goes in for too much plastic surgery, right? At some point, you get to that place where this looks nothing like the beautiful person we used to know. It is this, it's just this sort of revolting, weird, uncanny valley of a network. And I don't think it's saveable at this point. It's so true. So here's what's happening over on NBC, where Jimmy Fallon was always sort of, I think it's fair to say the least political of the late night hosts. Seth Meyer is he, he's a jerk. I'm just going to say he's such a jerk. He was such an asshole when I was over at NBC. Like I really, I couldn't stand him. I put his wife on because she was pushing some initiative, some charity, charity. And it was a favor. I was like, sure, okay, I'll put her on. And then like a couple of months later, he was out there attacking me at the up fronts where you make your pitch to advertisers. Literally, he was out there like making jokes about what a racist I was. Like, what, I'm sorry about that. You're just a dick. Like, if you do that, like what, who would do that? Like, if you don't like me or you think bad things about me, okay, no problem. We don't have to like each other. Why would you ask me to do you a favor and to do a solid for your wife? And then I did it, which was a nice thing for me to do. And then to attack me publicly. Like, you're such a douche. That's a fucking douche. Sorry for my language. Okay. Anyway, back to Jimmy Fallon, who is far less political than Seth Meyers. Or is he? Look where he went. Was this, this is Wednesday night. This is last night. This is Jimmy Fallon, who may be starting to think he can fill the shoes of Stephen Colbert. Listen here. Trump had sued the IRS for 10 billion. What a mess. Trump controls the DOJ, told them, make it go my way. So he got immunity. No more audits. OMG. He's so happy. LOL. Popping bottles like Caspital. DJ T says DOJ. Is it illegal? IDK. DJ T stops IRS. Is that sketchy? YES. Trump says NBD. Okay. If FBI is MIA. Trump says, okay, BRB, I got to watch the UFC. IRS VDOJ SMIYKYK. NGL, it's SUSTLDRWTS. Oh my God, Stu. Oh my God. That is the worst thing I've ever seen. I should have come with a viewer warning. Yes. Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sort of angry at you, honestly. I've made it for even showing that. God. They, it's like. I was recoiling. You know, it's like it kind of hit my OCD. In bad ways too. I disapprove on every level. Yes. There's that weird feeling that you get into. There's certain episodes of The Office that make you really, really uncomfortable like Scott's Tots. That's the feeling that I had watching that as if I was being tortured. You know, the show that's going to replace, I guess, Colbert is a show called the comics unleashed, which, you know, is from what I understand is, you know, gives comedians like shots that, you know, that maybe people didn't know who they were. I work with Dave Landau on my show, Stu and Dave Do America. He's a comedian. And he always trained. He traces back the fall of late night. And this is something he puts a lot of out into, into the Colbert vaccine song sketch. If you remember this one. With the dancing needles, the dancing needles. And it was the vaccine, S C E N E. And they tried to make it into this. Hey, this catchy thing, you should take this shot. It's and it's like. It became the exact opposite of what the institution was supposed to be. It was supposed to be something that was pushing back against, you know, the things that, you know, that you were hearing from the government. You're supposed to be this like, you know, this force, you know, pushing against the tides and making fun of everybody. And instead it was like, you know, you have to embrace the messaging coming from the man, right? It is the exact opposite. And again, it doesn't matter what you feel about any of these issues, honestly. It was it's always it's it's good to have voices and comedic comedic voices have always been the best at doing this, who will just just take shots at what we know what we see in in Washington and, you know, from our authority figures and from our institutions. We should look at them. This is America. We're supposed to look at them kind of like with a side eye and always be suspicious of what everyone's telling us. If you fold and say, hey, everybody, line up to take this medication, whether you like it or not, you're just sending the signal that we've just given in. And that is what they did throughout the Biden presidency. They couldn't find comedy in Joe freaking Biden for four years. It was the funniest thing anybody ever seen. If it wasn't just for our lives all collapsing, we needed the comedians then and they abandoned their duty. No accountability. No. No accountability. Dead teenagers from that damn Vax. No accountability. Nothing. Nothing about the glorifying Fauci, whose honestly, I think a criminal felon liar. Nothing. No, no accountability whatsoever. We have the vaccine. The dancing syringes get quote unquote. Don't don't show another one. No. I know. I'm sorry. He actually did this. It's so bad. No. See. My Lord. This is embarrassing. People who work at Pfizer. That's saying something. Now they're in the audience. All those poor audience members had to look like they enjoyed that. This is just cruel. All right. That's enough. That's enough. I'm subjected to. Stood to enough here. Thank you. So I know I I like you too much for this. Do I'm treating you like an enemy here? What did I do to you, Megan? I don't understand. I don't know. I get we'll have to do this one more day because we'll see what ridiculous thing he does tonight and may or may not comment on it. But then that's it. I like I'm so over him. I don't care. He's irrelevant. Like no leftist even is waking up. I think asking themselves, what does Stephen Colbert think? He was never that guy. Rachel Maddow. Yes, they rely on her as their queen or did when she was doing more than one hour of television a week. But this guy was never the guy setting the agenda or like the talking points or, you know, offering new ideas or new ways of looking at leftists and leftist candidates and or even right wing candidates at all. He wasn't. So whatever, fair, farewell. Nothing against him personally, but this is it's too much. He's got to get over himself. Now, I just want to steal one moment. If you don't mind. You mentioned Glenn Beck, who I love. And Glenn, as we both know, is an enormous history buff. I mean, I don't think there's a topic he loves more than history. And he was so generous. He had on my husband, Doug Brunt, who has just published a new book called The Lost Empire of Emmanuel Nobel. And it's all about this guy named Emmanuel Nobel, who was being raised in, um, well, Sweden and then moved to Russia around the turn of, you know, into the 20th century, alongside another kid named Joseph Stalin. And one would become the richest oil baron in the world. And one would become someone who wanted what that first guy had. And, uh, the book is doing really well. And I just want to tell people, because the audience, I had it dug on, um, two days ago. So the book is doing very well. Thank you. Thank you to all of you for buying The Lost Empire of No, Emmanuel Nobel, but it's doing very well in the reviews too. Um, here is something lovely from our friends at town hall who wrote this unsolicited. We did not know this was coming. And a guy named Arthur Shaper writes straightforward, simple, engaging, informative, all encompassing. If you are looking for a grand story on modern Russian history, if you're interested in a crash course on the rise of Soviet communism, or if you're simply seeking a good read that connects so much into one great history epic, The Lost Empire of Emmanuel Nobel is the book for you. And then I'll give you one more. Apple Books has made it the book of the month. Apple's so enamored with Doug's book, it's their pick for the month. And they write whether you are interested in the ideological clash between capitalism and communism, or you're a fan of fascinating historical deep cuts. The Lost Empire of Emmanuel Nobel is a gripping read. That's Apple. So this is great. You got not every book can get a rave review from town hall and one from Apple, right, which are ideologically opposed, but it's not an ideological book. It's just a fun, interesting page turner of a story that actually will leave you knowing a lot more about world history and about the world today. Cause it's like, as Doug was saying the other day, you know, the more things change, the more they remain the same with the oil turf wars and oil ruling the world and everyone fighting over it and governments fighting over who's going to control it. It's like, and by the way, just such a fascinating background on how communism came to be, which I didn't know before I read it. Okay. So point of personal order there. I appreciate you indulging me on it. Stuber Gear. Oh yeah. I mean, I can't, first of all, I can't wait to read this book. I know it just came out, but I'm going to definitely read it. And, you know, it's, I think like Glenn's level of, of, of understanding and history and the reason why he loves it so much. And I'm sure the reason he wanted to talk to Doug is because history has that way if we just, if, you know, we let it go and we don't pay attention to him, we don't understand those, those lessons. We wind up repeating it over and over and over again. And we, you know, look, there's a lot of dark roads. When you're talking about Joseph Stalin, there's a lot of dark roads that we, there's a, I think an increasing percentage of people who look back at those days. I think we see, we see this a lot of times, even on social media, you look at these people who are protesting outside of events here in America and they start to embrace the, the, the types of worldviews that, that influenced a Joseph Stalin to do all the terrible things that he did. So I, thank God he wrote this book. We need, we need more people pointing back a bright light at history. So we don't wind up going down those dark roads again. Well, I'll tell you something. I would love it if the audience would buy a copy and you can get one in time for Father's Day, which is June 21st. If you order right now, you'll get it before they sell out because they tend to sell out and then you have to wait. So order it now, Lost Empire of Emmanuel Nobel and do it please also because one of the main competitions in nonfiction this month is the Trump hating Andrew Wiseman, who was at the DOJ and now is an MSNBC contributor. And we can't have that guy make the list and not Doug, who, you know, that's just wrong. Who's been a Trump fan who, unlike his wife, has actually been defending the Iran war, duck and higher on different pages when it comes to that. He's a patriot and he's been very good to Trump. So anyway, you got to support Doug Brunt, please. I appreciate it. Okay. Moving on. I, there's so much to talk to talk about, but I'll start with Spencer Pratt because it looks like now Trump may or not give him an official endorsement, which I think is probably smart, given that he's not running for, you know, mayor of Houston. He's running for mayor of LA and a Trump endorsement could do more harm than good, but Trump is telegraphing how much he likes. Spencer Pratt now. And then Spencer Pratt, I think, is leaning in a little bit more. He had to run as a partisan, like either a Republican or Democrat, so he chose Republican, but he had said early on he was an independent. And now he's leaning a little bit more into his Republican identity, Stu, which is interesting to me here in SOT 20. Why are you a Republican? Well, you want to break some news here? Sure. It's in my, you know, I've told this before. And this is the only time I've ever said this. So this is breaking news. Everyone's just going to freak out. When I was a hated reality star, I got so many death threats. I had so much security and police. And what did they tell me to do? Get a gun. This is where I know people don't like guns, but LA was dangerous if you're hated. So I got a gun. My wife got a gun. And then we needed CCWs. The only people that supported a CCW was the Republican. That was what I aligned with my safety, my personal safety, my family's safety. I know people don't like guns, but when people are threatening your life and your own security is telling you, you need to have home protection train to, it's not like just, I went to the, you know, go through the proper steps. That was my, that's it. Amen, brother. I mean, that's how it is to do, right? Everybody, not everybody, but a lot of people don't like guns until you need one. And then they're your best friend in the world and you're very happy that you trained with them. But if you live in the People's Republic of California or New York, for that matter, they do make it very difficult for you to get one, unless, and to carry, unless you can prove that you have a specific threat, you know, like a stalker, et cetera. Yeah. So your thoughts on Spencer explaining that rationale, I mean, in front of a California audience. It's an interesting one. I mean, look, I think when you get to a position where your family's life is in danger, you know, you attend, people tend to see that second amendment as a kind of valuable and it is, you should be able to protect your family and protect your own life from people who are threatening it. This is something that I do think that almost everybody agrees upon in principle. I mean, I think that, you know, there's a very, I think core part of progressivism in general, which kind of pushes people to think that everybody else can't handle themselves, right? We have to be able to help them. You know, when it's me, when it's my family at risk, of course, I should have a gun. We know this when people like Michael Bloomberg who have armed security, right? They can afford it, but it's not like they don't want guns around them. They want to ban you from having a gun because they don't trust you with your own life. They're the educated ones. They're the ones that are your betters and they're going to help guide you through this world. I think Spencer Pratt is it's a risky territory. I mean, the Trump endorsements in the same way, like obviously that would help him probably raise money. There's a bunch of things that would be beneficial from that. But on the other side, like this is an area that Donald Trump lost 70 to 28 to Kamala Harris, right? So any thinking of him as a Republican is, you know, it's why he's looking around. He looks terrified. He's like, my people are going to get on me for this because reminding them that he's a Republican and not just a guy just speaking common sense and saying, hey, maybe we should let our cities burn to the ground. That's probably his direct path to victory here, if there is one. Yeah, I think it was just honest. I think he was like, I'll tell you the real reason. And I mean, I think a lot of us have been there where you run head first into the reality of leftist policy and it can radicalize you. Yeah, I can, I can relate on a number of levels. Stu stays with us, thankfully, but we're going to take a quick break and we will be right back. While I have you go to Megan Kelly.com and sign up there for our American News Minute. It's our once a week email. 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Stu Bergear, host of Predictable with Stu and Stu and Dave, Do America is back with me now. I forgot there was one other thing I wanted to mention in the Don Lemon sound sub stack that I didn't get to. Here's the best part. His ending. The ending to it. I was a warning. My arrest was a warning. Colbert's cancellation is a warning. The question is whether anyone is paying attention to what all of these silences have in common. Don't cry for Stephen Colbert. Cry for the First Amendment. Cry for the journalist arrested in Beverly Hills at midnight for covering a protest at a church. Cry for me. Cry for me. Don't cry for him. He's going to be fine. Cry for me. I love how he refers to him in the third, himself in the third person. The journalist arrested in Beverly Hills at midnight for covering a protest at a church. Cry for the comedian canceled two days after he criticized the wrong corporations deal with the wrong president. For every voice that has gone quiet while we debated whether the economics made sense. And then he goes on. They will cancel Colbert. Watch what he builds next. It never works out the way they think it will. And they never learn. Show up. Okay, Don. All right. So he wants you to be crying for him. Well, we won't. We're not. And back to Spencer Pratt. Here is what Trump said on camera about him that wasn't exactly an endorsement, but again, came close. Like does he do well? He's a character. I don't know. I don't know him. I assume he probably supports me. Does he support me? Yeah, I heard he does. I heard he's a big Mac at person. He's doing well. I don't know. You have a rigged vote out there. That's the problem. The votes are rigged. Yeah, he supports me. Does he support me? So that's the president coming close to endorsing, but saying nice things about him. And then I've got to show you this. A great new ad about Spencer Pratt. Watch. This mayor race is really heating up who you guys voting for. Haven't decided. Same. Haven't really been following it. Same. Same. Same. I'm not MAGA or anything. But the city's kind of gone to shit though, right? Oh, yeah. Jessica stepped on a needle at the playground the other day. I'm not MAGA or anything, though. I'm not MAGA or anything. But have you been downtown lately? Looks like an episode of The Walking Dead. Not that I'm MAGA or anything, though. Spencer Pratt seems like he has some good ideas. Not that I'm MAGA or anything. He does seem really angry all the time, though. Well, they did burn his house down. Also, apparently he's staying at the Bel Air Hotel. Not the trailer on his property. Well, yeah. They burned his house down. OK, we're all adults here. How about on three? We just say who we're voting for. One, two, three. Spencer Pratt. Yeah. Spencer Pratt. Spencer Pratt. Can you imagine if our wives knew? Every two are not alone. Vote Spencer Pratt. We're all voting for Spencer Pratt, right? Of course. Obviously, I wish I could vote like yesterday. So good. So it was created by not start in by but created by Domilare Zanoike, who's been on this program. And it's so good. That that can happen. That could happen even in L.A. where you're definitely not supposed to be voting for Spencer Pratt. You're not to admit that you like Spencer Pratt. You certainly shouldn't be talking about openly voting for a Republican to run the city. And yet it's in the, you know, in the way we saw before Trump's last election, where there were so many crossover votes, I'm sure you are having conversations where people are kind of nosing up to it slightly still, you know, like Spencer Pratt is interesting or fascinating. Well, he's fascinating, right? And then seeing whether somebody takes the bait. Yeah. I mean, it's really interesting. I remember those conversations, having those conversations with people in 2016 when they were like, I don't know. I mean, I kind of like what Trump's doing, right? Like that was a thing. And it's the same sort of momentum that seems to be building for Spencer Pratt. It's hard to know whether it's real or if it's just an online phenomenon. I guess we don't know that yet. We'll know eventually. But it's so central to the possibility of a rise of Spencer Pratt that you have to, by default, do such a terrible job, which is what Karen Bass has done. This isn't something that can just happen. Like, you know, like a Republican can't get just elected because they're interesting and they run a bunch of ads, right? Like you have to have your city burned at the ground while you're in Africa, right? You have to watch homeless person after homeless person. Yeah, that really happened. Literally, her city burned down. Yeah. She wasn't there. She doesn't seem particularly sorry. And they're seriously thinking about re-electing her. Yeah. Well, I mean, and she's leading right now. I mean, we talk about prediction markers all the time on my show. She's leading by a large margin. Spencer Pratt still only had about a 25, 26 percent chance of winning that race, according to these markets. And this is after, after I watched Karen Bass while she's realizing this threat is out there to go out in front of people and talk about how the big problem they have is that meth addicts don't have teeth and that she needs to have full health care for everyone, not so that we can cure meth addiction, but so that we can get nice new choppers on everybody's on the mouth of meth addicts. So I guess they can bite you more efficiently. I don't know what that. She's like, you can't. No, no, thank you. I'm OK with that. And this is when she knows she's already got a legitimate challenge here. This isn't, you know, in a period, you know, 12 years ago, I mean, when Barack Obama was running, people were pulling out these clips of him five, six, seven years before the election and saying, look, all these crazy things that he believes he was smart enough to not say them during the campaign most of the time. Karen Bass is still out there just blathering on about this stuff. And, you know, the ads are being run. Some of the best ads running for Spencer Pratt are ads running against Spencer Pratt. When they say, hey, Spencer Pratt is against multiple millions of dollars going to build homes for the home for the homeless, are they unhoused, as they called it in the ad? There is a level. There's a certain thing that can happen in politics. It's pretty rare where things can get so miserable. Even people who are ideologically opposed to a conservative viewpoint can throw their hands up and say, look, we just got to have this. I mean, it happened with Rudy Giuliani in New York years ago, and it could happen here with Spencer Pratt. It would be unbelievable to watch that happen. Today is Thursday, the Thursday before Memorial Day weekend. Sadly, here in the Northeast, it's going to be a complete washout. It's very sad. It's supposed to rain all day, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Well, part of Monday. And that's going to hamper a lot of people's weekend plans. I'm not sure if that's the reason why Donald Trump's senior isn't really committing to going to the wedding of his son, Donald Trump Jr., which is this weekend. But this sound bite just hit. Look at this. He'd like me to go. It's going to be just a small little private affair. And I'm going to try and make it. I'm in the midst. I said, you know, this is not good timing for me. I have a thing called the RAND and other things. That's one I can't win on. If I do attend, I get killed. If I don't attend, I get killed by the fake news. Of course, I'm talking about now, but he's got a very personal I've known for a long time. And hopefully they can have a great marriage. He'd like me to be there. I'm so busy. In his defense, it's a second marriage. And reportedly this is out there. This is not revealing anything. It's not really out there, but reportedly it's in the Bahamas. So it's a hike. It's not like, you know, just popping over to Mar-a-Lago or if they're in in D.C., you know, to wherever in D.C. So I don't know. I'm I'm thinking I'd probably go. I know Trump adores his children, but what do you make of that? It's I mean, look, easy. It's very, very, very Donald Trump, that that entire an entire clip. Look, he is he is president of the United States. I'm sure Donald Trump Jr. would, of course, understand that if there was some big breaking thing, he couldn't be there. But it's funny, like I love how he's like, yeah, you know, I hope it's a good marriage, you know, I hope it lasts for a while. Like the way he thinks about about everything going on. There's not that necessarily that that that classic fatherly warmth that you get out of the clip. But I mean, you do get Donald Trump. And again, his kids have turned out pretty well here. So he must be doing something right. The thing is Trump does love his kids and actually he's very sweet with his kids. Like he he cons. He always I think he only calls Don Jr. like honey. He calls all of his kids honey or I think it's honey. And it's he's very loving toward them. Some of the behind the scenes footage of him with his children is actually quite heartwarming. So he definitely loves this child. I guess he's just busy. I guess when you're president, it's different. Like I can't imagine missing my child's wedding first or a second, but he's is busy. There is another funny Trump clip that I have got to show you. So Trump, it is not a mystery to anybody is obsessed with looks maxing, you might say he very much appreciates people who are hot. He does. He remarks on it all the time. You know, he's very focused on looks and let's face it, we're a looks based society. I focus on people's looks too. He's not alone in that. So he goes to speak at the Coast Guard Coast Guard graduation ceremony yesterday still. And let me play you what he said before I show you what happened next. Sat 10. For the last four straight years, which they think maybe an all time record, congratulations to Thomas Rhodes. Thomas, get up here, please. Want to see. I want to check them out. Oh, he's we're not going to fight with him. I'm not fighting him. I'm not. This is not UFC. Please understand that Thomas. Look at this guy. Look at the muscles on this guy. Just hit him in the shoulder. I hurt my head. It's like hitting a rock. That's great. Thomas. That's fantastic. Okay. So it's amazing because we've been laughing and sharing behind the scenes on my team. These videos by Guy Nett. I'm going to show you what I'm going to do. I'm going to show you what I'm going to do. I'm going to show you what I'm going to do. I'm going to show you what I'm going to do. So it's amazing because it's been a while since I joined my team. These videos by a guy named Branson Dietz. Who, sorry, Gates, who long before this has been taking various Trump clips. It's not a politics thing. It's just a comedy thing. And like maliving them. He does. He mouths over them with Trump's voice as though he's gay. Like ever in the perspective of being a gay man. Okay. I hate good looking men. We also have the only cadet who earned a perfect score on every single fitness says. Now we're talking fitness. Do you know who this is already? Wow, this guy must be something. I think we'll have to invite him up. I want to check it out. Congratulations to Thomas Rhodes. Thomas, get up here please. I want to see. I want to check him out. Look at this guy, look at the muscles in this guy. Just hit him on the shoulder, hurt my hand. It's like hitting a rock. That's great. Thomas, that's fantastic. Over the podcast listeners, you just see this guy who looks gay, acting kind of gay, doing gay hand movements, if there is such a thing, to that same soundtrack is very clever. This is the way in which the internet is used for goods too. Yeah, it is. And by the way, going back to our previous conversation, here we are, people who appreciate a lot of the stuff that Trump does. He's as president of the United States. We like as many of his policies. Here we are laughing, right? Because you can laugh at your own side. They could have laughed at Joe Biden on Colbert. They could have. It's not that we have a problem that you're making fun of Donald Trump. It would be nice if you just did it in a way that prioritized the comedy. If you actually cared. Yeah, you make me laugh. Yeah, make us laugh. It brings us together. That's what the late night shows used to do. If you had a president, if you loved Ronald Reagan, you loved Barack Obama, in theory, it would be great that you could go in there, you get someone who's criticizing your own side, you laugh at it a little bit. I've had a lot of laughs at Donald Trump's expense over the years, and he's had many as well. He's ready to laugh. They will laugh at Donald Trump. They'll laugh with him. They'll laugh at him. They're not incapable of doing that. It's just that everything that these late night guys produce is so full of bile that you're not laughing. You're recoiling. I've got one more. He goes by Bran Hatton online. Here's Thought 11. There were a number of people who were very, very scared. How worried were you that there were going to be injuries? I was worried. I understand life. We live in a crazy world. I didn't want to see what was happening because I did watch because I could see what was going on at the door. I also saw a lot of very strong, physically strong, really attractive law enforcement people come through those doors. And frankly, it made me feel very safe. Very, very safe. There's nobody going to get by them. The counter assault team that comes in. They were very impressive. I think they were very impressive. That's great. I've never seen those close. He's playing with his necklace. Oh my gosh. Isn't he so funny? It's such a funny imagining of Trump. It is funny too. It is one of those things where you don't really think about the words that he's saying sometimes. He just kind of goes off on these things. That's a great bit. That guy's incredible. I don't know. I mean, I- This guy's on the lookout for anything referencing somebody's appearance. That was after, of course, the latest assassination attempt, which was an odd place to find Trump remarking on the good looks and muscles of the security team. But it's one of those things. I'll bet you just like every gay man I know has wanted to know whether any personality I anchored with at Fox News was gay. I'll bet you there are a lot of gay men out there who are really hoping there's a chance on Trump because he's strong. He's older now, but he's still like, you know, most, a lot of people like a strong man. Yeah. I don't know. He's had a pretty high appreciation of female beauty over the years. So I hate to let these gentlemen down, but I don't think that big announcement's coming. I'm going to say it's no. I think it's more about his appreciation for looks than it is any attraction. A quick last one here, Sot. 12. Look at the muscles of this guy. Excuse me. Could you stand up? Look at that guy. You in the beautiful white shirt. Look at this guy. Holy mackerel. I'm looking at him. I always want to look like that. I just didn't want to do the work. I'm going to say it's no. I'm going to say it's no. I think it's more about his appreciation for looks than it is any attraction. A quick last one here, Sot. 12. You look good. Don't let anyone stop you. You look good. Those are incredible. He's so funny, right? He's so good. I'm really into this guy. Behind the scenes, we've been laughing about this for a long time. Okay. Let's keep going. Hollywood remains woke as ever. Unfortunately, just when you think like they've learned their lesson, they prove that you are wrong. And I think you guys have talked about this on your show, but the odyssey. Now, first of all, who decided it would be a good idea to make a movie out of the book? No one wanted to read and no one enjoyed in high school. Right? Like the odyssey was like the, it's like a doorstopper book that you were like, when will it end? Good gracious. It went on forever. It was so boring. That's what I remember about the odyssey. Like who's like Homer? That's a good idea. Anyway, they're doing it. Hold on a second. I'm trying to find my packet on this. Stand by. The guy who produced Oppenheimer is putting this together, Christopher Nolan. And instead of, for example, having a white woman play Helen of Troy, said to mythologically be the most beautiful woman in the world and described as extremely white in the book. It mentions that she's white armed and or pale armed. And there are other references. It's played by, it's going to be played by a black woman by Lupita Nyong'o. Okay. So at Matt Walsh, you know, he kind of put it better than I could, but he writes, not one person on the planet actually thinks that Lupita Nyong'o is the most beautiful woman in the world. But Christopher Nolan, he knows that he would be called racist if he gave the most beautiful woman role to a white woman. Nolan is technically talented, he says, but a coward. Too afraid to do anything other, anything that even slightly challenges the spirit of the age. We're told we should not object to Helen of Troy being portrayed by a black woman. And yet if a major Hollywood studio made a film set in Africa and cast a white woman as the most beautiful woman in Africa, those same people would literally riot in the streets. He's a hundred percent right. And it's not just the role of Helen of Troy. Nyong'o also plays Helen of Troy's sister from the novel. And in addition to that, you've got Elliot Page, hello, Ellen Page, who's masquerading very badly by the way as a male these days, who's going to be cast in it reportedly as Achilles, who's male, again, the character is male and they've chosen a fake male who's not in any way heroic. And Achilles is a tragic Greek hero who Odysseus meets in the underworld. Odysseus is played by Matt Damon. So you've got Elliot Page in there. And then you've got Travis Scott, who I think is the father of one of the Kardashian babies and a singer, is going to be in the movie as well as a professional poet, singer and storyteller. I don't know why, but we both know that Hollywood has these diversity rules now that lead to all sorts of weird and inappropriate casting decisions. And Christopher Nolan is hashtag part of the problem still. Yeah, it's a very strange story. I mean, you know, I, you know, I get I granted these are mythological figures, right? I mean, you know, it's not like it. And we wouldn't put this past Hollywood where they have done this and they've taken actual, you know, African-American actors and put them in the role of real historical figures who were white. I mean, that's even more offensive to me than this. But again, you know, I look at this and I say, you know, you're trying to tell the story. There's no reason to do this. And you would, as you point out, never do it the opposite way. I was looking back at this, I think it's been about 20 some odd years since something like this happened, right? Where the opposite occurred, where you put a white person in a role of an African-American. You can't do that. You can't do that. And nor, you know, look, it did happen for a real long time. I think that was a real thing that happened in our history going back a long ways. I don't think it's something that we want to come back. Having some sort of historical accuracy. And again, while it is a mythology, they do say the pale arms thing is in there, right? There is a description. So it would make sense. We saw this with Snow White, right? Where you're like, wait a minute, White is in the title. You know, you'd think that they would do this. And then you have the sad, sad story of Ellen Page, who I think actually was great. Like when she was, I mean, Juno is a great movie. I love Juno. I stand by that movie. I think it's a great movie. She was pretty too. Very pretty. And I honestly think that whole movie, that particular movie, Juno, which, you know, wound up being viewed positively by like pro life people like me, really screwed with her head, honestly. Ever since that happened, she's been on this like constant tour to prove she swears that she doesn't actually like people who are pro life or something. There's been this kind of retribution against what people want to perceiving her as after that movie. And again, you know, she's an actress. Again, I didn't think that she was, she agreed with me on that issue. She just, they just put a somewhat positive light on 50 percent of the country for an hour and a half. And that just that was seemingly enough to throw her into this spiral that winds up her being Elliot and playing some role in this movie, which I don't know if it's Achilles. I've heard that maybe it's not, maybe it's another role, but whatever it is, if she's credited as Elliot, she's already playing a role before the movie begins. Yeah. That's exactly right. It's sad to me. What's happened to Ellen Page is sad to me. I mean, she was this pretty and very talented actress who America fell in love with in that movie. And she's obviously very unwell. I mean, that's what's true. She's obviously very unwell to have done this to herself. And we're supposed to celebrate this. She poses like proudly with her scarred chest showing where her breasts used to be and we're supposed to celebrate her. And we're actually supposed to buy the lie that she's a man. This is like, you know, they just, there's been a big debate on the left about whether they should release the DNC, should release this autopsy report about why it lost the 2024 election, which is like, okay, I mean, I don't care whether they do or they don't. I mean, I know why they lost the election. There are a lot of reasons. Number one is Kamala Harris sucks. But really above that is they're far left insanity. You know, they're chopping off the body parts of healthy children. Okay. How's that? I've summed it up for you. You don't need to see your autopsy. But it is now they've released it, I guess this guy who's running the DNC who nobody knows about. What's his name? Ken Martin. He while under pressure from the guys at Podsave and elsewhere finally said, okay, I'll release it. It seems to be rather boring based on what I've seen. I've just read a summary. But one of the, one of the things they do point out in the summary is the trans stuff. And in particular, they pointed that transgender focused ad that Trump released Kamala's for they them. Trump is for you. Remember? And it pointed out that she wanted to pay for the sex change operations of prisoners in California, which was a real thing. And like Elliot, whether it's Elliot Page in Hollywood doing this and forcing this character on us as a male, as like someone who's supposed to be like a badass male in folklore, or it's Kamala Harris trying to make us get involved in actually pay for chopping people's healthy body parts off so they can pretend there's something they're not. This is what this is why Republicans have still at least a shot in the midterms still. You know, I mean, it's been like, they've been quiet. The Democrats have been smart, very, very uncharacteristically smart over the past four months. They've kept their mouths shut and let Trump twist in the wind over the Iran war and the economy where he remains, because the latest polls out of from Fox News are dreadful for Trump and the Republicans. But this kind of thing does remind us of what's behind the other curtain and it's no good. Yeah. No, you're totally right. Probably what they need to do is just get out of the way. If they get out of the way of themselves and allow nature to take course in the midterms, likely they're going to win not because of anything magical that they have on their own, but because history election after election after election in the midterm, the party in power when it comes to the president of the United States almost always loses seats outside of massively outlier type situations like 9-11. It's very difficult. We did a thing on this on my show Predictable where you go back and you look through history and it's something like 9% of the time, 9% of the time you're able to defend the house going back to a century. It's incredibly difficult to do. Then add on to that that we are looking at four and five and six dollar gas around the country right now. You have a very unpopular situation in Iran. This isn't something that is testing well at all. You have economic problems. You have even, you look at the core of who moved toward Trump in 2024. A lot of those gains happened among Hispanic voters who have been kind of turned off as some of the policies of this particular run for Trump. All that adding up, this should be just cake, frankly, for Democrats. Honestly, if they just don't yell out things like defund the police and that boy is actually a girl because of a series of magic words we've contrived, if they can stay away from that stuff. Trans men are women. Trans men are women. They should be playing. They should be wrestling against your daughter and throwing them to the ground and spiking volleyball into their heads. These are not difficult policies to stay away from. An open border is humane. You don't need to do a lot. Again, go back to Los Angeles. Just don't burn down the city and you win. That's how easy this is, but they can't even stay out of their way that much. Because of, you look at the prediction markets, had the Democrats rise from about 58% before November's election all the way up to about 85%. That has now drizzled down a little bit to 72%, 73%, largely because a lot of these rulings when it comes to the redistricting offerings of Virginia getting overturned, the Supreme Court case that has the Southern states now redistricting and getting rid of some of these majority minority districts, all that boring stuff aside, it is giving the Republicans now a chance that if they can turn around some of these things that are affecting real people when it comes to the economy, when it comes to gas prices, when it comes to them being seeing the vision of a war that might not be ending for years and years and years and years, that type of stuff, if they can cure that, and there's a small window for it here in the next few months, they can turn that around and put it behind them, people could see things going in the right direction. There actually is an opportunity here only because Donald Trump is blessed with the dumbest enemies possible, right? It is really something he has, and if they just continue to do the stupid things that they continue to do, there is an opportunity. There's a small window. It's not going to be easy for Republicans, but it does exist. They're going to need it. They're going to need to be reminded of what is over on Team Blue because honestly, these Fox News polls are so bad still. And the audience should know, I know the Fox News polling unit very well. I've worked with them for years. Even though it's Fox, which leans right, the polling unit is independent. They don't lean right. So if there's ever a good poll for Trump, the left will say, oh, well, it's Fox News. That's not how it works. They play it straight down the middle. So this one will be no better or worse for Trump than any other outlet. In fact, Fox polls tend to be, in my experience, the best polls. I trust the Fox polls implicitly. But what they're showing is that he now has an approval rating of 39%. It's down three points since last month. It's one point above Trump's lowest number ever, which was October 2017. So his lowest ever is 38. Fox News is showing him at 39% approval. His net approval on the key issues shows uninflation. He's underwater with the voters by 52 points. By 52 is negative 52 on inflation. He's negative 42 on the economy. He's negative 24 on foreign policy. They don't like the China summit. He's underwater there and not minus eight. He's underwater on immigration, minus eight. He's even underwater on border security, minus two. He's underwater with white non-college men who he was plus 17 with last March, March a year ago, 25. Now he's down minus eight in the Fox News poll, which is a 25 point swing to the negative with white non-college men. That's Trump's base. His approval is at an all-time low amongst Republicans. It's at 80%, but that's an all-time low. Non-Maga Republicans, people who are now calling themselves America first because Trump says MAGA means you love Mark Levin and many of us don't. That's an approval rating of just 54%. So these are bad and I've got to play the soundbite for you of a woman named Janet who's an MK show listener stew. And you know, after we do the show live on series XM 12 to 2, as you know, because you're here doing it with me right now, Monday through Friday. And then we release it as a podcast and a YouTube show. But after our show on series XM, Emily Jashinsky hosts an hour of, we call it the wrap-up show. And a lot of the audience will call in. I actually love listening to it. Like if I leave and I can get to the radio, I always turn it on and I love listening to the audience. And some of them rip on me and some of them agree with me, but I love them all. And this particular day, a woman named Janet from Long Island called, this is just Monday. And listen to what she said. It actually, it's made some news. This woman's call. Take a listen. Heading now to Janet in Long Island. You're on the making Kelly wrap-up show. What's on your mind? I'm Phil abandoned. I'm a Trump diehard. I'm 68, my husband's 69. We're never going to stop working. He's a contractor electrician. We built our house. We're going to have to move out of Dick's Hills because the tax is a $16,000. I don't want to quit working because Medicare is too much money. So I get benefits where I work. He has abandoned the middle class. He has to show us that all those people on bar stills across America, you know, hardworking, construction guys, plumbers, the people that stood up to him when it wasn't popular to stand up to him, he needs to help us, give us back, black tax, anything. Just make our lives easier. I feel like he's listening to the wrong people. And yeah, when he started that war, I didn't sign up for it. When I had my first boy, I'm a girl, I'm one of five girls. And when I had my son, the first thing I popped my head up, it said, oh my God, he could be drafted. I don't want my children or my friends' children dying in a war that has nothing to do with us. That's very powerful. And by the way, thank you for calling in Janet and sharing that. And I think, Stu, he's going to have to address Janet's concerns and the millions of voters who are feeling the same, who are triple Trump voters. If he wants his party to turn his fortunes around in these November midterms, which right now do not look good. No, they don't look good. And while there's been some maybe beneficial movement when it comes to the redistricting thing, that's not enough. You can't win. Even if things were going pretty well, it would be hard for them to win. They come in with a two, three seat majority, just minor, minor losses, it's going to mean the House goes away. The Senate is at risk, certainly. I mean, I think most places see it as like a 50-50 proposition as the Democrats get it win the Senate. That's terrifying. That should not have been the way the Senate is set up. Republicans should be heavily favored. I mean, it should be an 80 or 90% chance of them winning. And the fact that it's 50-50, it's because of people like Janet. Or I'm sorry to put it so frankly, or your child has a chance of turning into an Elliot page. Like truly, this can't happen. Like the Democrat Party is the one pushing this trans madness on us, open border madness on us. The only one who's abandoned that is Rahm Emanuel on the Democrat side. Gavin Newsom wants an open border. So does Kamala Harris. She's reportedly running again. I haven't seen one other Democrat say no, that they would keep Trump's border the way it is. The risks are extremely high in stacking in particular the Senate with more Dems. Sorry to interrupt. Keep going. No, no. It's true though. One of the things that I think hits hard about the trans issue in particular is not necessarily about trans issues. I honestly would argue that most Americans really don't want to think about it. We understand that people go through things and there's difficult things they're dealing with. And honestly, like I got enough stuff going on in my own life. I don't really want to think about what you're doing with your reproductive organs, frankly. I think the average American is like, I just want to look the other way and move on with my life and get to the restaurant or whatever I'm doing. But where that hit, I think centrally to people as a campaign issue, is that it hit at a very fundamental thing that we need, which is truth. We must be able to agree that when a person is born a man or a boy and they grow up and they become a man, they can't with a series of magical words, they can't say abracadabra or Betelgeuse a certain amount of times to change their gender. We all understand everybody, including those people on the left, that embrace those policies and go on television and act like they believe them. None of them believe that is a true thing. None of them believe that is possible, but they say it anyway. And that feels like people have abandoned the fundamental precept of America, right? That we're going to be here. We're a common sense people and we're going to go forward and we're going to just say the things that are true. And all of that is really, really important and it is a core issue. But typically what happens when it comes to elections, and I would say even more central with off year elections and midterms, is that if they are getting hit in the face constantly with issues that are affecting them more, the trans issue is really important because it hits a truth. But most people aren't interacting with those issues on a day to day basis. Some are and they're really important to talk about. Janet's worried about her wallet. She's worried about her wallet. She's paying her bills. Her kids or grandkids, right? That's what they care about. And in the absence of those issues, a lot of times people will be able to focus on other important things. When those things slap you in the face, the ideology goes out of the window, honestly, with a lot of people. Even if they believe in a lot of the things that Donald Trump cares about, if they believe that he is doing a good job on a good portion. And I think there is a good portion to argue on his behalf from this presidency. If this stuff happens and the result of it is we have a president who is basically trying to convince people that their economic situation is better than it is. Hey, you should recognize we actually are in the golden age of America. I mean, Trump has made these arguments very recently. We've done it. We're there. We've solved these problems. That's what Joe Biden tried to do with Bidenomics. He tried to say, Bidenomics is working. And the American people said, no, it's not. We're the ones dealing with it. And we're saying, no, there is an opening here, but it is. We're almost to summer here, Megan. You know, the concept of turning this around is exactly what happens, too. Let me tell you what happens in the summer as somebody who's been in news for 24 years. In the summer, everybody's numbers go down. People kind of turn off the news. Please continue listening to the Megan Kelly show. But and also predictable with stew. But in general, they they always go like softer in the summer because people are out living their lives are outside. They're enjoying themselves. They have time off. That is not a great time for Trump to then burst onto the scene with new messaging because people aren't going to hear it. Nowhere near the number he needs are going to hear it. Now they come back in the fall, so he'll have that time. But now we're really talking about a crunch timeline. People go back to school the beginning of September. So now you have 60 days until the midterms. It's not a lot of time. So like he needs to be laser like focused on not just talking about their economic problems now, but actually fixing them, you know, because the messaging he's been saying lately that what I heard him this week was saying was the market, the market's doing so well that no one cares about that. That's something rich people care about. You know, it's like the market is sort of a luxury belief. You might have some 401k money in there, but that's something you're trying not to tap into when you're younger and not yet retired. It definitely isn't going to help you with your grocery bills or your, you know, tuition bill or your hope for a vacation this year. You know, like they need immediate relief on in particular inflation, which he's minus 52 on that in particular. 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They've surrendered their culture to an influx of people from some very problematic countries who are now objecting to the British flag flying at all as somehow an act of aggression. We've shown the audience the videos. And now this. There was a young man named Henry Nowak. He was 18 years old and in his first year of college studying accounting. In December of 2023 he was walking home from a night out with friends and he had been drinking but was still at the place where he could drive legally. He did not have a high blood alcohol contact... blood alcohol content. He ran into a man named Vikram Digwa who's Sikh who's 23 years old. So five years older than Henry. This guy Vikram was carrying an eight inch long knife and along with something called a Kerpan which is a ceremonial blade. Now in the UK you're not allowed to carry certain knives in public unless it's a religious exemption. And this kind of knife is permitted under one of those exemptions. So you can see this is the type of knife that we're showing on the board not the actual. But my God look at it. I mean it's amazing that this thing is legal to carry around. It looks like a long curved dagger that you would not want to find anywhere near you. So these two ran into each other and Nowak Henry managed to record a video on his phone. You don't have any of the elements because they haven't released them. But it shows that Henry was speaking to friends on Snapchat when he came across Vikram Digwa. They did exchange words. Henry has heard saying in it bad man what bad man? You're a bad man. Say you're a bad man. Go on. And Digwa responded I am a bad man. Henry Nowak replied are you a bee before the footage cuts off? We don't know what he was saying there. What we do know is shortly after that police were called to the scene. They placed Henry Nowak under arrest and Digwa claimed that he'd been racially abused by Henry which we understand is why Henry was placed under arrest. The brother of Digwa said we've just been attacked by someone racially. We got attacked racially by some white person. The brother said they physically attacked my brother. We're Sikhs. We wear turbans and he attacked my brother. The police arrived. Their body cam footage was shown in court. They're trying to place Henry Nowak under arrest. As he says to the officers I've been stabbed. I've been stabbed. I can't breathe. They put the handcuffs on him. He was now lying down on his side telling the officers I've been stabbed. I can't breathe. They didn't believe him. The officer told Henry he was under arrest for suspicion of assault because that's what Digwa and the brother were saying. Nowak repeated I've been stabbed. I've been stabbed. A male voice believed to belong to the police officer said I don't think you have mate. The prosecutor alleges that Digwa did not seek help for the man. Did not step in to say to the police he has indeed been stabbed by me. He knew he had stabbed Henry. Henry was telling the truth and he had stabbed him in the lung. And the man as he lay dying was saying I can't breathe because he'd been stabbed in the lung. The cops did not believe him and is a salient who is claiming to be the victim of quote a racial assault of which there is zero evidence stood there and watched him die. After Noak collapsed the police started rendering aid. Digwa's mother is also under arrest by the way and on trial because she removed the murder weapon from the scene and then hit it at her home where police leader recovered it. The defendant was interviewed by police five times. He refused to answer any questions and steady submitted a statement in which he said he was walking toward his brother's car when Noak who he said was intoxicated came at me and racially and physically abused me. He claimed he was petrified and pulled out his phone to record his attack. And yet what we have here is that the victim's phone was found on Digwa. He took Henry's phone and he didn't help Henry. He let him die as the police didn't believe this kid who happened to be white was dying of injuries from that knife stuck into his lung. This is so horrific. Elon Musk is now promising to pay for the legal fees if Henry's family wants to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the police who did not believe him as he lay dying. And what's clearly going on here I believe is identity politics did not allow the police to understand that there could be a true dynamic in which the white boy was the victim and the dark-skinned man was the assailant and that the claims of racial attacks were apparently untrue. Your thoughts on it? That's an unbelievable story. This is the stuff that shouldn't be happening. I think we could all rewind back 50 or 100 years and think to ourselves you could see a situation where the opposite would happen, where maybe a time where we were doing things the wrong way and everyone could now acknowledge that where maybe, and this has happened, there are stories of this, where white people would claim they were being attacked by a black person and the police would show up and they would just assume the black person was the bad one in that action. I kind of thought we all agreed that was the wrong way to do things. That deciding these incidents based on skin color was the wrong approach. And for whatever reason the left wants to bring that back. In Europe and in England and all over that entire vicinity that seemed to be even farther along than we are here. But we're on that same road. This sucked that stuff out. Stop thinking about identity. Stop thinking about whether someone is, take gender and take skin color and all of these factors out, these immutable characteristics should not be the story. And over and over again, the left and the media wants to make it the story. It's the wrong way to go. The colorblind society was right. We got something right. We should continue to go after that ideal even though it is difficult for human beings to achieve it. Well said. Great to see you, Stu. Everybody check out Stu over on Predictable and we will be back tomorrow with Kelly's court. See you then. Thanks for listening to the Megan Kelly Show. No BS, no agenda and no fear. Plus claim a Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 Lite. Now we're talking. So get yours today. Offer ends 28th May. Saving on minimum 24 months, 125 GB of airtime plan. Eligibility, credit check and terms of supply. Credit by EE Limited. Claim from Samsung within 30 days of purchase. Verify best network at EE.caddy.caddy.claims. The all new, all electric Toyota CHR Plus. 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