Nashville's Morning News with Dan Mandis

Hour 1 of NMN, Iranian Oil + Byron Noem Exposed

38 min
Apr 1, 2026about 2 months ago
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Summary

Nashville's Morning News discusses President Trump's plans to end the Iran war within weeks, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirming negotiations and military readiness. The episode also covers the exposure of Brian Noem's secret online fetish activities, which creates national security vulnerabilities for his wife, former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

Insights
  • Trump administration signaling imminent Iran conflict resolution through coordinated messaging from POTUS and State Department, with gas price relief positioned as key economic outcome
  • Iran's 60% uranium enrichment represents critical proliferation threshold; progression to 90% weapons-grade material is technically easier than initial enrichment stages
  • Personal security lapses by government officials' family members create foreign intelligence leverage opportunities, even when not actively exploited by adversaries
  • Media coordination strategy evident: administration pre-positioning talking points before prime-time presidential address to shape narrative around military operations
  • Democratic opposition to Iran military action framed as soft-on-crime policy parallel, suggesting partisan divide on national security threat assessment
Trends
Executive branch using coordinated media appearances to build public support for military/foreign policy decisions before formal announcementsUranium enrichment levels as technical indicators of nuclear weapons development intent and timeline urgencyPersonal conduct of government officials' family members becoming national security classification issueGas prices positioned as primary domestic economic metric tied to foreign military operations successPartisan framing of national security threats along ideological lines (progressive vs. conservative approaches to Iran)Foreign policy negotiations characterized as delay tactics by adversaries, requiring military readiness as negotiation leverageStrait of Hormuz control as indirect mechanism for global oil price influence on U.S. domestic economy
Topics
Iran Nuclear Enrichment ProgramU.S.-Iran Military Conflict ResolutionUranium Enrichment to 90% Weapons-GradeGas Price Impact of Middle East Military OperationsSecretary of State Negotiations StrategyNational Security Vulnerabilities from Personal ConductStrait of Hormuz Oil Market ControlTrump Administration Foreign Policy MessagingDemocratic vs. Republican Iran PolicyLong-Range Missile Capabilities DestructionInternational Nuclear Watchdog OversightPresidential Prime-Time Address StrategySanctions as Negotiation LeverageEnergy Independence from Global Oil MarketsGovernment Official Family Member Security Risks
People
Donald Trump
Planning prime-time address at 8 PM to discuss Iran war conclusion; negotiating with Iran on nuclear weapons and miss...
Marco Rubio
Appeared on Hannity discussing Iran negotiations, uranium enrichment threats, and administration's military readiness...
Kristi Noem
Removed from DHS position; husband's secret online fetish activities exposed, creating national security blackmail vu...
Brian Noem
Engaged in secret online fetish interactions with sex workers, sent $25,000 in payments, exposed to blackmail threats
Corey Lewandowski
Alleged affair with Kristi Noem mentioned as potential catalyst for Brian Noem's behavior
Senator Kennedy
Questioned Kristi Noem on DHS commercial spending; protected Trump by stating Trump likely unaware of expenditure det...
Mark Wayne Mullen
Confirmed as replacement for Kristi Noem as DHS Secretary
Dan Mandis
Primary host discussing Iran policy, gas prices, and Noem family scandal
Quotes
"All I have to do is leave Iran, and we'll be doing that very soon. And they'll become tumbling down."
President TrumpEarly segment
"There's no use for 60% enriched uranium. The only reason to have 60% enriched uranium is to be able to enrich it to 90% and put it in a bomb."
Marco RubioMid-segment
"We're not gonna allow fake negotiations to be used as a delay tactic to buy more time, to buy themselves space."
Marco RubioMid-segment
"This is the weakest Iran has ever been. This is the weakest Iran certainly has been in 25 years."
Marco RubioMid-segment
"President Trump is the only leader in the world with both the capability and frankly the guts to do something about it."
Marco RubioMid-segment
Full Transcript
Supertext line is open 615-737-9986, 615-737-WWTN. We've got a lot of stories this morning, Joan. The Wutherford County Librarian is apparently exploring her legal options. You should have me over here, by the way, now, Sam. Number one, the librarian is apparently going to be out for blood in Wutherford County. We'll talk about that. POTUS goes to SCOTUS on Birthright Citizenship in the 14th Amendment. Do you like that? Very good. And is the war in Iran almost over? We've got that story for you as well. Just a lot going on this morning. By the way, President Trump is going to be addressing the nation tonight at 8 PM our time. And I think that what he's going to be doing is he's going to be setting the stage for the wrap-up of the war in Iran. I think that's what this is. The president, and we've been covering all of this, the president, and Marco Rubio, both have been talking about wrapping this up. And I do believe that it is about time. I think that if we can figure out a way to get out of there, and we have basically decimated their ability to manufacture nuclear weapons, we've decimated their ability to launch these long-range missiles as well. And if we have, and we're now with three regimes in, and now we're talking to what Donald Trump would call the right regime, the one that they can deal with at our level here at the White House, of course, with President Trump and our government being able to talk to and deal with whatever the government is in Iran, and everybody has an understanding. No nuclear weapons, none of these long-range missiles. And if Iran wants to make Iran great again, and if they want to sell oil on the open market, they don't want to have all of these sanctions placed on them, then they'll learn to play ball. He was asked, Donald Trump was, about the price of gas in the Oval Office yesterday. This is part of what the president had to say. Need some audio if I could, Sam? OK. Well, let's see. Let's try it one more time. Nobody panic. It's going to be OK. In decent exposure, the incident happened. Stand by. We're off to a rocking start. Let's see here. We have, I know, we, I know. Hold on. Hold on. There we go. You know what, Joan? We spent too much time in our pre-show meeting. I know. I blame Joan Jones. It was the Wally's Bean Machine. It was at the Wally's Bean Machine Coffee? Yeah. Here we go. This is President Trump yesterday in the Oval Office being asked about the price of gas. Gas prices. Today they had $4. We have $4. Yeah, and we have a country that's not going to be throwing a nuclear weapon at us in six months. But Americans are feeling the effects in the interim. And they're also feeling a lot safer. What is the plan to bring them back down? All I have to do is leave Iran, and we'll be doing that very soon. And they'll become tumbling down. And stock prices were up today almost to a record because they know two things. Number one, we have a safe country. We had to take a little detour because we had a madman named Khomeini who sadly is no longer with us. I love the, and sadly he's no longer with us. And so a few things, right? The president and most folks that I've spoken with are saying that the price of gas will go down once the war is over, which the president is saying could indeed be in a few weeks. They do say that the price of gas is determined by the replacement of the current gas in the gas station tanks. What I notice, and I know that a lot of you folks have noticed too, is that the price of gas, it goes up really quickly. And it doesn't always come down as quickly. Have you noticed that? I certainly have. But things do need to get back to normal. And as the president said, we leave Iran. And things will eventually get back to normal. Of course, you all know the Strait of Hormuz does need to open back up. One thing that the president has been saying about the Strait of Hormuz is that it will be dealt with by the country's that actually use it. But of course, I would submit that our gas prices are still impacted by what is going on with the Strait of Hormuz. But it's a lot of other factors as well. But the bottom line is that our prices are set globally, not what is necessarily going on in our country, but what is going on in the world. By the way, again, the president is going to have a prime time address tonight. 8 o'clock, Marco Rubio, Secretary of State was on with Hannity last night. One of the things that I'm noticing, of course, is that the president's administration, now basically what's happening is there is a full on response in the media to the talking points that the president wants to put forward regarding the wrapping up of the war in Iran. Obviously, it's a good thing. I'm glad it doesn't. I don't know, Joan, is this, I don't want to be over my skis here, but are you sensing that between what President Trump is saying, I've got some audio from Marco Rubio essentially saying the same thing, that we are all well and good to wrap this up in a couple of weeks. It does not sound like we're going to end up getting Karg Island, trying to abscond to Karg Island, if you will. And I'm not sensing any real discussion of ground troops at this point. So I think it sounds like President Trump still trying to make a deal, but if he can't make a deal, okay then we'll destroy all that we need to destroy and we're out. And we're going to let the rest of the world handle their own stinking problems with the Strait of Hormuz. We will get oil from our own oil processing centers. And he's got to work on that. There's work to be done. So- I think you're absolutely right. I think part of what we need to do is we need to sort of extricate ourselves from the global market, if at all possible, the global oil market, if at all possible. And that is a monumental Herculean task. But that takes the cooperation of multiple administrations. That's not just something that Donald Trump can do in the remaining, what is it, two and a half years of his administration. That is something that has to be, you know, cooperation of both Democrats and Republicans. And we need to do whatever we can to limit how our gasoline prices are impacted by what's going on on the world stage. And here's the rub with that. You know that the left is not going to help the president in this regard. In fact, they'll work against him because they know that if the gas prices come down, everything comes down, and therefore the economy will be settled and voters vote on economy. Yep, yep, and that's it. And so for the Democrats, you know my question for the Democrats would be, okay, so let's say in July or August, let's say by June, July, August, oil prices are back down, inflation is back down. Iran has been absolutely neutered, right? So they don't have any uranium to enrich and they don't have the missile capabilities that they once had. And you know, things are going swimming. What is Iran going to, I should say, what are the Democrats going to say? How are they going to attack Donald Trump? I mean, it'll all be, what's the right way to put this? It'll all be partisan, it'll be partisan, and oftentimes the Democrats like to tell lies, we already know that. So for the Democrats, if all of this works out the way that we hope and believe that it will, then the Democrats, you know, talking about Iran being neutered, the Democrats are gonna be neutered because we'll have a neutered Iran and gas prices. Hopefully we'll be back down to where they were before the start of the war and everything else will be back down as well. So then you gotta look at the Democrats and say, okay, so now what? Now what are you going to complain about as we head into the midterm elections? I've got some great audio, by the way, from Marco Rubio. He was on with Sean Hannity last night. By the way, let's see here, Joan, Sam, at some point we're gonna have to tackle the discussion of bimbification. Oh my gosh. At some point today, I would rather do it like in the 530 so that I can just say that I've checked it off the list of topics and then I've moved on. And if anybody is like tuning in at 745 and wants to know why I'm not talking about bimbification, well, I did it earlier in the show, Sam. It's a valid excuse. I was kind of shocked when that information came out. I'm really surprised that Christy Noem didn't shoot those puppies. Next roll with Vernon Davis, the transformative journeys of athletes, artists and entrepreneurs. Ladies and gentlemen, lights out, Sean Merriman. I want to be the biggest and the best when I do. And so whatever it takes, I'll get it done in business and everything else. All I do is know how to fight and earn what I want. My man, Malik S. What actor, comedian would you want to collaborate with? Me, Jamie Foxley, Kevin Hart in a movie. We said it on Vernon Davis' podcast then. So we'll circle back and be like, yep, it's gonna clear. Next roll with Vernon Davis. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. The plastic one's on his chest. Where's the rims? The rim shot, thank you. Where's the rim shot? Yeah, cause come on, man. You can rim shot yourself. All right, very good. You can rim shot yourself, that's right. I'm pretty sure that's what Mr. Noem might've been doing. So anyway, we, and listen, it is a serious topic. For the people that are like, oh, you gotta talk about the real news. That is, he actually put our country at risk. Like he really did. Now see here you're going into all this and people don't know what you're talking about. I'm gonna save it for 535. Okay. Bimbification talk at 535 on Nashville's Morning News. Words I never expected to hear out of your mouth. Listen, I'm just saying, it is a bizarre story, man. Anyway, Marco Rubio. Let's try to stay focused. Marco Rubio was on hand at you last night talking about the end of the war. We can't ignore that for 47 years, they've avoided and rejected any efforts to negotiate. That doesn't mean we're gonna stop trying. The president of the, President Trump always, always would rather have negotiations than war. And he will always, we gave him 60 days early last year. We gave him additional time to negotiate after midnight hammer again earlier this year. But each and every time those things have proved fruitless. But we're gonna keep trying. There are messages being exchanged, there are talks going on, there is the potential for direct meeting at some point. We're always going to be open for that. But we're not gonna be, we're not what President Trump is not gonna allow is he's not gonna allow fake negotiations to be used as a delay tactic to buy more time, to buy themselves space. That's what he's not going to allow. You know. Yeah, and Marco Rubio is absolutely right. And when you talk about what the Iranians do, and Joe and you and I have actually spoken about this, what Iran does, and Trump has talked about this too, is that the Iranians will take weeks and weeks and weeks to come back with an answer to a proposal and it's a complete, incomplete answer. Like there just isn't really a great way to negotiate with them because they're always trying to run out the clock. And that is exactly what Marco Rubio is saying. And this is what Donald Trump has said as well. We give them a one sheet of paper, a proposal that is on one sheet of paper and it takes them weeks, if not months to respond. And basically what they're doing is they're trying to run out the clock so that they can continue to enrich their uranium to 90%, which is what their ultimate goal is. I've got more on that aspect of it coming up. Here's more though from Marco Rubio. Stration spent four years, four years trying to resurrect the. Let's talk about the Biden administration. Obama nuclear deal with Iran. They spent four years trying to talk to the Iranians and they strung them along for four years and I think they thought they could string this administration along for four years but they're not gonna string along President Trump. He's not gonna fall for their games. He hasn't fallen for their games. So we'll always be prepared to talk but we're not gonna allow that or the failure of talks to impede our ability to defend this country and to protect this country from a real threat. It's a threat to the world. It's not just a threat to America. The difference is President Trump is the only leader in the world with both the capability and frankly the guts to do something about it. So Marco Rubio is correct there and I want you to think about this. So all these countries just doing absolutely nothing to help with the effort. This is a country, Iran, who has lied about their missile program for years. They've funded terror, killed thousands of people over the years. Their roadside bombs killed and maimed so many of our soldiers in Afghanistan. They have killed the tens of thousands of their own people just in the last year and they've threatened us endlessly. So yeah, I get the reasoning my Donald Trump wanted to do this and if it is true, if everything that the administration is saying is true, then I think that this was a war effort well spent. But whether or not you agree with this war effort, can we at least agree that Iran is a nation that needed to be dealt with? I mean, the left probably is like, oh no, we should have just continued to allow them to go ahead and enrich their uranium all the way up to 90% and continue to manufacture and make these long range missiles that they could put a nuclear warhead on, which by the way, what have we found out in the last couple of weeks that they were lying about the range of their missiles? It's a great analogy for the left's crime policies here in America. Let's just keep letting people out, let's just keep letting them do what they wanna do until someone ends up dead. And then eventually you have to deal with a blowback of that and you don't wanna deal with that when it comes to Iran and nukes. Yeah, I mean, what do we know about the Democrats? What we know about the Democrats is that they are soft on crime, right? They are literally, that's what they do. They're soft on crime, whether we're talking about illegal aliens or whether we're talking about just guys that deserve to be in prison. And so we have had the killing of the woman, Yorina Zarutska, talked about her yesterday in North Korea. That dude should have been in prison. You have all of these illegal aliens. We've had two deaths in the last couple of weeks from illegal aliens. Democrats wanted them to be free, again, soft on crime policies. Well, okay, then we have these horrific consequences or ramifications to the soft on crime policies by Democrats. They didn't wanna handle or deal with Iran. And so all of a sudden, oh gosh, now they've got 90% enrichment that is nuclear grade and they've got long range nuclear weapons. Oops, we probably should have done something, right? So it's very leftist, it's very progressive. It's very Democrat to sit here and say, oh, Iran wasn't a threat and Donald Trump just stumbled us into World War III. Well, it is pretty clear that he has not stumbled us into World War III as of yet. But the Democrats, whether it's crime and criminal policies here at home or on the world stage, they just don't really seem like they want to deal with Iran or deal with criminals by and large. Now, speaking of Iran and nuclear weapons, Rubio was asked about Iran's enrichment program and how much of their uranium they've been able to enrich and how far. Now, remember that they've been enriching uranium to 60%. Now, you don't need it enriched to 60% for commercial use, for everyday power uses, you don't. To power homes and businesses, that's around 3% to 5%. At 20% is where it gets suspicious. The Iranians, they're at 60%. Here's what Marco Rubio has to say. There's no use for 60% enriched uranium. I know we're getting a little technical here, but there's no use for it. You don't use it to create electricity. You don't use it to create anything for medical purposes. The only reason to have 60% enriched uranium is to be able to enrich it to 90% and put it in a bomb. That's the only reason to have it. Yep, I mean, he's right. And here's the other thing. Iran has enriched to 60%. That has been ascertained, according to all the nuclear watchdogs. They also won't give any transparency. No snap inspections, no access, and not to belabor the point, but they've lied about it for years with their programs. And in reading about a lot of this, it's a lot easier to enrich uranium from 60% to 90% than it is to say from nothing to 20% enrichment. At early stages of enrichment, you're getting the system set up. You're getting the research in order, the work on separating atoms, and I don't want to get too technical because I'm not the guy for that. But developing nuclear weapons gets easier once you have everything set up and you've got the atoms in place that you need. At 60%, a lot of that work has actually been done. Getting from 60% to 90% is actually a lot easier. Here's more from Marco Rubio. Ron has no reason to have it. They should give it up. They've been given multiple opportunities to give it up. They've had multiple countries, including countries they consider friendly to them, approach them and say, turn it over to us. They continue to refuse to do so. So why do they continue to refuse to turn over 60% and enrich uranium? There's only one reason, and that is because they want to hold it and keep it to one day use it to build a bomb. That's the only way. And they were gonna hide behind all of these missiles, all of these drones, their Navy and their Air Force, they were gonna keep building those up to the point where then they would say to the world, you can't do anything about it because we'll launch these missiles against you and destroy you. Look, this is the weakest Iran has ever been. This is the weakest Iran certainly has been in 25 years. Right now, look at the damage they've been able to inflict on their neighbors at their weakest point. I mean, he, Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, has some great points about the damage inflicted. They've got all of those drones. They've got massive amounts of missiles. And yes, they have done damage to all of those Middle Eastern countries and of course Israel as well. So we'll see what President Trump has to say tonight at eight. Do know, Joan. What's that? Is that, first of all, when I said that Yorina Zarootska was killed in North Korea and not North Carolina, I just wanted to make sure people were paying attention. And they were. And boy, they were. Yeah, I don't know if you saw me make a face. That was like, ah, let this guy. I didn't know, you know what? Cause I've got North Korea on the brain because of another story. And so. Oh, they're military. Yeah, so I apologize for that. But yeah, people, you know what? I love that people pay attention. And when I shank something, I mean, I go big. You know what I mean? So. Well, you could have just said that it's April Fool's Day. I could have, but given the content that I was speaking about, I didn't want to say that I was fooling about something so horrible. However, is, you know, big of a shank is that one is not nearly as big as the boobs on Brian Noem. Oh my God. So if you're watching on Super Talk TV, I've gone ahead. And by the way, I'm just, I'm doing this, frankly, out of duress. Like I don't want to have to do this story, but if I don't, I will get obliterated by management. So I've got to do it. I'm tucking it in right here. Excuse me? The story. I'm tucking the story in the 530. I thought you were trying to squeeze the story in. No, you don't want to squeeze them because they might pop. Okay. For people watching on Super Talk TV, I did the whole hand squeezing thing. You did them pretty close to where we have the picture and picture screen too. That was. Oh really? Is it to my left or to my right? It's basically on that monitor to your left. To my left, so. Right, right, right. All right, that was terrible radio. I apologize. Anyway, moving right along. It's just terrible in general. So Brian Gnome, husband of Christie Gnome, the headline in the Daily Mail was the secret double life of Brian Gnome. So I don't, had you ever heard of Bimbofication before, Joan? I have not. I honestly, I mean, I thought it was as close to the Bimbo. What did Hillary Clinton call? The Bimbo eruption. The Bimbo eruption. I thought it was as close to that as you could get. So apparently, Sam, did you know? I've been willing to bet, yeah, Sam, of course. Unfortunately. So. I'd like to be read up on the enemy. Bimbofication is basically online fetish models who have exaggerated body parts and they like to modify their bodies so that they look like Barbie dolls. Pretty much. And with what Brian Gnome likes is, you know, like exaggerated cartoon like breasts. The Daily Mail had the opportunity to have the funniest headline. Which was? Not Brian Gnome's secret double life, but Brian Gnome's secret double D life. That actually would be pretty good. Although I... They don't ask me for my opinion. I don't know how breast sizes work like on bras and stuff, but I mean, the pictures I'm seeing are just gigantic. I mean, it's cartoon like, if you will. So he's been basically on, if you don't know the story, he has been online doing this and basically in these secret chat rooms and that kind of a thing. And there was one photo with him where, and it's on Super Talk TV. He put a couple of balloons inside his shirt and the tip of the balloon is like the... Well, they sell shirts like that for people into that kind of thing. Oh, do they? Yeah, that's what that is. Well, anyway, what he does is his business. However, the reality is this kind of behavior leaves his wife, Christie Gnome, vulnerable to blackmail. So that's why this is actually a legit story. So maybe you need to explain the whole how it leaves Christie Gnome exposed to blackmail. So, yeah. So if you are Christie Gnome, head of DHS and your husband is doing this kind of stuff, then Vladimir Putin or China can come and say, we know that your husband is doing this, so we need you to do this. Otherwise, we're going to expose you and your husband. That's how it leads to blackmail. That's how Christie Gnome was left vulnerable by her husband who was doing this kind of weird fetish stuff. And you know what the amazing thing is? So did I explain that well, Joan? Is that basically you got the vulnerability part? Yeah, yeah. Okay, so here's what's crazy. Dude didn't even really try to hide it. Here's what I mean by that. He's using his own phone. Like he's not using a burner phone to do all of this online. He's using his own phone. That's number one. Number two, in the story, he had given these women, collectively there were three of them, he had given them collectively about $25,000. So it's like he's not even trying to hide it. And then, so he's calling one of these women on his actual phone, again, not a burner phone, but his phone that he also calls his wife on. So she accidentally, the Bimbo woman, she accidentally butt dials him, and I'm going to air quote the accidentally butt dials him back. And it's like, no insurance, please leave a message. And so it took her about 10 seconds to realize that the guy that was going back and forth with her was the husband of Kristi Noem at the time head of DHS. Number three, he's sending photographs of his face. It's not just, you know, like from the neck down. He's sending photographs of his face. So he wasn't even trying to hide it. He was very careless. Anybody want to comment at all? Or am I just on my own on this one? I realize we're all kind of stunned into silent embarrassment, but I mean. I'm embarrassed for Kristi Noem, even though I feel like, and who knows which came first, but this whole affair with Corey Lewandowski, you know, has sullied the waters for her. You know, I feel like, wow, this is really, this is so embarrassing for her, but even more so for their children, they've got three kids, they've been married for 34 years, and she has grandchildren now. She was seen, you know, with one of her grandchildren at being yelled at by a reporter that was a story not that long ago. So, I mean, this is a fully functioning family with some really deep, deep trouble. So here's the question. Did the affair with Corey Lewandowski come because of this or did he start doing this because she was having an affair with Lewandowski? And so he said, you know what, screw it. I'm just gonna do the kind of things that I've always fantasized about. I'm gonna go with the first one. Me too. Yeah. Okay. Here's the, and I would agree. You don't just wander into this level of mentally, and I might like, you know, people do what you wanna do behind closed doors. Next roll with Vernon Davis, the transformative journeys of athletes, artists, and entrepreneurs. Ladies and gentlemen, lights out, Sean Merriven. I wanna be the biggest and the best of what I do. And so whatever it takes, I'll get it done, and business and everything else. All I do is know how to fight and earn what I want. My man, Malik asks, what actor, comedian would you wanna collaborate with? Me, Jamie Foxley, Kevin Hart in a movie. We said it on Vernon Davis podcast then. So we'll circle back and be like, yep, it's gonna clear. Next roll with Vernon Davis. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. But, yeah. You know, this is bordering on the realm of gender dysphoria and is very disturbing. And so it's not, to me, that would not be the knee-jerk reaction to being cheated on. Do you think that Kristi Noem really did not know? She says that she did not know. Here's my question. They have, I looked this up, not that everything on the internet is real, but supposedly he is worth about $2 million, and she is worth about $4 to $5 million. I don't know how they do their finances. It's a pretty good income between the two of them. But how would you not know, as a spouse, the $25,000 is going missing? And Joan had a thought on that, which was maybe she ran it through, maybe he ran it through a business expense. Maybe that's what he did. If he did, he's probably got more troubles than he can imagine, because that's not clearly a business expense. But would you agree, though, that you're using your own phone, you're sending $25,000 to these women, you are sending photographs of your face, and not just from the neck down. I mean, would you agree that he wasn't exactly on the down low? It's almost like he just didn't care if he got caught. I don't think he understood the tech. No, the tech, as far as the technology goes. Until something happens, people are woefully ignorant about how they conduct their privacy and security settings on stuff. But I think the bigger story from all of this is this the reason that she was removed from her post? Is this the reason that Mark Wayne Mullen has had to be confirmed as the new DHS secretary? I believe that no. I think the reason why she got bounced was because she said that Donald Trump approved that, what was it, by $220 million in that commercial that was produced and she made it all about her, it was like a glam commercial for her. I think those two things together really, really make a good case. Because, okay, you spend too much money on commercial that happens in private business all the time, people keep their jobs. That commercial has been on the air for a year. So I would say, if that's the case, then I would say that the commercial was used as an excuse to get rid of her because they knew that this was common. The commercial was the bimbification of the total story. That's a nice try. I think that you probably have that right because that commercial's been on the air for a long time. So the administration, the Trump administration has known about it for a long time. It can't just be, oh, all of a sudden, they decided to call into question how much money was spent. It's clear that there was a lot of money spent on that commercial. And this is where I'm gonna side with Sam and Joan. Who was it that took out Kristi Noem? It was Senator Kennedy out of Louisiana, an ally of Donald Trump. I even said at the time, remember we talked about this? And I said at the time, I said, is it kind of weird that Senator Kennedy is the one that's taken her out on this because he's a Trump ally? And he, in his questioning, protected and defended Donald Trump by saying, I am reasonably certain that Donald Trump did not know how this money was being spent. So Kennedy politically assassinated Kristi Noem in the questioning about that commercial and at the same time gave cover to Donald Trump. And ultimately, if you think about the timeline, because that was only Joan, what, two, three weeks ago, if? So I guarantee you that the Noem family has known that this was coming for at least a couple of weeks because you're gonna have the daily mail that is gonna be asking for comment, right? So they knew this was coming. And so they probably tipped off Donald Trump, at least if they were decent human beings. And I believe that Kristi Noem is a decent human being. Some things I don't agree with her on, but whatever. But I think that they probably tipped off Trump or somebody tipped off Trump and they put the wheels into motion. I think that's probably, and by the way, Donald Trump, Donald Trump has not been a fan of Kristi Noem having the affair with Corey Lewandowski. So do people feel sorry now for Kristi Noem? No. They didn't wanna be caught like deer staring into the headlights. Yeah. Oh, I see what you did there. Okay, good. President Trump's reaction, by the way, said he was surprised hearing about Kristi Noem's husband and the double life as a cross dresser with a fetish for grotesquely oversized breasts. It is so weird. And that he felt remorse for the upheaval, the revelation has caused the family. And that's where I am too. Yeah. And in that sense, President Trump is, he's a family guy. And that's the first thing he thinks of is the family. And I'm with him on that. I just, to Dan's point about being so careless and hapless with everything, where do you hide that in your house? You know, like I share closet space with my wife. Where do you hide wife? I have separate closet. Yeah. They are big. With their money, I get it. But like, how do you go about not ever noticing that? That's my thing. The fetish or the clothes or what? Yeah, all of that. And this is, you know, in some capacity, you don't tell your spouse, no, stay out of there. I mean, at least my relationship, you don't. You know what? Here's what I want you to do. I want you to look up on the Google machine, how big is Kristi Noem's house? Also, he had his own office. He could have done, you know, whatever he was doing in the office. And also, by the way, as Secretary of DHS, she was all over the place. That's true. She was all over the country. And when you're a governor, which she was for the state of South Dakota, she would travel for work, I'm sure. So, I mean, I think there's plenty of room to do what he was doing. I mean, I think that there is. So, bizarre. Very. And by the way, here's the other thing though. If there was a possibility that she would be blackmailed, but it never happened. That's the other thing. Like, so apparently- You got blackmailed, it sounds like. Hmm? I mean, did it say why he was sending these women $25,000? No, I would assume, I don't know. Yeah, you know what, interesting, the article didn't say why he sent them $25,000. It's probably, is it, how does OnlyFans work, Sam? You'll notice, Joan, that I asked Sam and not you. OnlyFans- I'd like to know how the enemy- No, no, I'm just asking. Like OnlyFans, you give them, in all seriousness, OnlyFans, you give them like online tips, I guess. You can. Yeah. So, maybe that's what it was. Maybe he's giving, because it doesn't sound like he met any of these women. No, he engaged in explicit text and WhatsApp conversation with the women who are described as sex workers or fetish models. In the messages, he allegedly complimented their huge, ridiculous knockers and other things and expressed interest, oh gosh, and quote being turned into a girl. So- What, wait, what did you just say? Yeah, in the messages, he allegedly complimented the women on their huge, ridiculous chest areas, curves, and expressed interest in being, quote, turned into a girl. Oh. Just your photos of himself, wearing tight outfits with stuff underneath. See, I think that goes next level, like, okay, so you like looking at women with big breasts, like, okay, but when you're dressing up yourself, I mean, he had the balloons in that picture, he had the balloons in his very, very tight shirt with the tied off portion of the balloons facing forward. You know, that's a next level weirdness. Yeah. He sent, so they reportedly asked him for money during these interactions, and he sent multiple payments, typically $500 to $1,000 each, totaling around $25,000 or more. And part of the story, and part of the story was that if he didn't send the money, then there was the threat that they would go public because at that point they knew who he was. And one of them, actually, when he didn't get that, when he didn't send the money, she posted it on social media, but then she deleted it, probably because he sent the money. So he was blackmailed, but just not by Vladimir Putin, but by... Just imagine the Kremlin reacting, world leaders around the world reacting to... They're probably like, how did we miss this opportunity? You know what I mean? Like if you're Vladimir Putin, or if you're Xi Jinping in China, you're like, your espionage people are probably gonna be in big trouble because they missed the opportunity to blackmail Kristi Noem because now they know that they could have gotten the husband. And whatever. All right. So do you think they're gonna get divorced now? I have 100%. Yeah, oh yeah. This kind of international embarrassment, are you kidding me? You don't recover from that. I wanna see Brian Noem's dating profile once he's single. I was really wondering what that next word was gonna be. Do you know what I mean? No, no, no, think about it, Lowe. You know, what do you do when you're all of it, when you're suddenly single, you go on the dating apps, right? So I wanna see what his dating app profile will be. What are your likes? You know what I mean? It's like, I like, nevermind. Yeah, I know. Yeah, I find it fascinating that that's where your mind goes. I'd prefer to never see or hear from him again, but hey. 9388, this guy sounds like a real boob. I like it. 3353, well then, how long are you gonna keep that picture up? I have left off the phone. Your husband there for a while. Yeah. All right, well, I'll go ahead and I'll take it down now. Whatever. Well, you did the spot. By the way, can I also say the Christy Noem looks like a completely different person than she did when they first met. I mean, she's had a lot of work. It's pre-botox for sure. I'm not criticizing anybody. If you wanna have work, knock yourself out and have work, whatever. But if you do it to the point where you can't show remorse after you kill a dog. They're unrelated. Or does the killing of the dog have, yeah, that's unrelated. Unrelated. Unrelated. Because her face is so locked up from all the botox. Unrelated. 556 on Super Talk 997. By the way, 8500, are you sure these people were not working for foreign people? Possibly, he could have been swalleweled. 5536, Clintons didn't get divorced. That is true. That is true. That would have been the only thing that would have really ended the Clinton dynasty, plus who gets what half of the foundation? It calls into question the definition of marriage. Hi, I'm Joe Salci. I hosted the Stackin' Benjamins podcast. You know what? A lot of us get taxes wrong. Filing your taxes is basically data entry. There's been this trend of people going, oh, it's so cool to file my taxes in August. It's so awesome. Don't worry, I have an extension. It'll be fine. I'd like totally do it later. Stop. Do your friggin' taxes now. 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