Gavin Newsom Gears Up For Presidential Run, Scottie Scheffler Gets It, And Jake The Rizzbot

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The Catholic governor of the largest state in the Union is definitely gearing up for a run. So, we have a couple of those statements we're going to get into today, and I'm actually just curious to run some of them. By Josh for the smell test, because he is so reliable in that regard. I also have the education department is finally going through some cuts, so we're going to get into exactly what's going on there. We are finally defunding NPR, it looks like, which is exciting and overdue.

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That is CharityMobile.com, promo code LOOPcast. Thank you, Charity Mobile, for sponsoring today's episode, and again, warm welcome to everyone here in the chat. If you guys have questions for today's show, let me know, and we might have a little extra time to cover at the end. So, if you guys have a question you want to throw in there. Rosie can grab it, and we can talk about it at the end. So, yeah, let's get into the show. Gavin Newsom, definitely planning to run in 2028, no question on that.

He took a trip to South Carolina, actually. I believe it was under the guise of talking about healthcare reform. It pretty quickly turned into a stump speech of sorts. Why South Carolina, you might ask? Oh, gee. That's a great question. Why? How random.

Because, not Iowa, not New Hampshire, but for Democrats, the first state to vote in the primaries is South Carolina. That was instituted by Biden. Why? Because a claim was, Iowa and New Hampshire are just too white, and South Carolina has a major black population, especially in the Democratic Party, right? And so, that is why it is the first state. So, if you are running for president in 2028, where are you going to go to campaign? More than New Hampshire? More than Iowa?

You are going to? South Carolina. Well, Josh, that is probably an accident because he wanted to talk about healthcare reform. Yeah, I mean, he is obviously, why didn't he do it in North Dakota? Why didn't he do it in California, the state that he is the governor of? Interesting. Let us get into it. Here he comes. Expansion of rights. But what we have seen in the last number of months, frankly the last couple of years, we have seen this rights regression.

These are folks that quite literally, with respect, With respect, want to turn back the clock to a pre-1960s world, and you see it across the spectrum. You understand it better than anyone here in South Carolina on voting rights, on civil rights, on LGBTQ rights, on issues, obviously, of women's rights. No state more impacted on those issues.

Oh my gosh. Thoughts? Heard this script before. Did you pick up on how he decided to talk in a way that would be, I don't know, more pandering to a Black audience? Like, the way his, you know. I think the kids call it code switching.

Yeah, I mean, Hillary Clinton did it, you know, just so obviously awkward, whereas Kamala Harris, even though Kamala Harris was, like, raised in Vancouver, and, you know, she at least is half black, so she could actually, you know, it's not that much of a stretch for her to try to play to her audience. This is like, Gavin Newsom, you're like white villain extraordinaire. Like, what are you doing here? You know, it's the anniversary. Yesterday was the anniversary of Hillary Clinton saying.

Pokemon go to the polls. Oh, wow. One of my favorite memes of all time. But anyway, it sounds like it didn't really hit with you guys. It was a very impactful event for me, personally. Maybe think about voting.

So, yes, we get that clip, the grand scanning. So, I will say there's just kind of, we talked about it a little bit yesterday in regards to how he's handling ice, but there's kind of been a wholesale shift in tone, and he seems to be already kind of moderating to the middle. And I feel like Gavin Newsom's kind of, right now, the standard bearer for who will be this kind of. Moderate opposition figure to what Trump is doing. Because a lot of people are seeing the deportations, they're seeing the action overseas.

And there could potentially become a space for more of a moderate in the middle. So, for example, I mean, Moderate understood amongst Democrats who are running for president. We're all talking about psychopaths here, obviously. So, he's begun promoting limiting free healthcare for illegal immigrants, potentially disagreeing with men and women's sports, and I mean, I did catch this, Sean. I want to get your thoughts, Erika, on the Sean Ryan episode. Oh, my gosh. So, Sean Ryan had him on, which is kind of hilarious.

He's still doing his podcast, and he's going on a lot of these right-wing podcasts, and you're like, well, he's going to get exposed, right? Well, here's a clip. About people being outside, even. And we realized then, after the fact, what the hell are we doing shutting down the beaches and open areas and not understanding that early on? And so, I think that of all issues, looking back, I remember Florida, there was a big issue, too, even there, about people being outside, even.

So, they're going to be doing a review of what went wrong in California. An objective review, I believe is the correct phrase. Just so we understand, obviously, I can say moderate understood, but if you think about trying to run for president in the Democratic Party, what's your game plan? What kind of different coalitions are you going to get?

And if you look at the numbers right now amongst the people running for president, sometimes... Kamala Harris is number one. Sometimes, actually, Pete Buttigieg is number one, but if you look at, actually, they do breakdowns on what different groups are supporting each of these different candidates, and Pete Buttigieg, you got like, he's like at 40% amongst white liberals, right? Right. Amongst blacks.

Goose egg. Zero. So, I mean, people would watch it and it's like getting massacred, you know what I'm saying? Like, no, like Southern Blacks are not going to go for like a super, you know, urban gay guy. I just don't think they will. I mean, I might be proven wrong, but so Gavin Newsom's thinking to himself, how can I, a white villain guy, actually do well? It's going to be, you know, he's going to try to make himself like the Biden.

heir apparent to the black voters in south carolina so he's going to appeal to the blacks and then try to pick off you know small segments of other people that's my guess uh eric actually this was the clip i specifically wanted your thoughts on he's uh he's given more thought to the uh child trans issue what about for your values i mean is eight years old too young yeah i mean look i i you Now that I have a nine-year-old, just became nine.

Come on, man. I get it. So, those are legit. Get what? You know, it is interesting, just the issue of age. As I am, as someone that has been so focused on equality. Broadly, LGBT rights, particularly gay marriage. The trans issue for me is also novel. It is over the last few years. I am trying to understand as much as anyone else. The whole pronoun thing. Trying to understand all of that. All that stuff. I get it. All this stuff started to collapse on us.

I joked with Charlie about Latinx. Oh, my gosh. You've got to admit, he's a master of saying absolutely nothing and speaking. He is, he is. Wait, wait, wait. I want to hear Erika. I want to hear Erika. Yeah, this is, people are like, oh, maybe he's moderating here. No, he's not. He's just not answering the question at all, remotely. He's just like, well, I can't, what I can't do is I say, because I mean, talk about like the Southern Black community rejecting the trans thing.

Uh-huh. Yeah. So, if he's like, I'm going to court that vote. I'm going to get ahead of it. Pete Buttigieg on that one. I'm going to get that demographic. Well, I have to at least sound like maybe I'm thinking about it. So, he keeps repeating, well, I'm thinking about it. Gosh, this hit me like a ton of bricks. I'm like, yeah, it hit us all like a ton of bricks seven years ago, if you were paying attention. Oh, wait, when did Jenner come out?

Oh, two weeks after Obergefell. This isn't new, Gavin. It is all about getting the votes, and he is. Shameless. He didn't answer a single question there. He didn't moderate anything. He's just dancing around. Wait, but he gets it. No, he gets it. I get it. I get it. I get it. Because I have a nine-year-old. I'm like, yeah, okay. There's no moderating going on here at all. I have a nine-year-old, too, and I'm not going to bring her to California. Okay, so it's crazy.

Again, I'm trying to put myself in the shoes of an ambitious politician here. Clearly, Gavin has plenty of that. This is a line I'm seeing him run with. He's Clintonian in terms of like absolutely, you know, it's not just that he's immoral. It's like he's amoral. Like he just, like literally just whatever it takes to win, he would. Yeah, he's a good politician. I mean, the joke is that, you know, kill your own mother. Well, he has done that. So, like, what else would he do?

Do you want to click on that, what you're talking about? Yeah, expound on that one. He helped his mother commit suicide. Like we talk about it in our CAP report. The guy is just horrible and everything, but of course, it's compassion.

This guy is just, he is like every 80s movie villain. Like, there's this white guy with slicked back hair, like he's either a politician or a businessman. You know, like, he just, he's the guy who just doesn't care anything about you. All he wants is your vote.

Here is the new attack line, and I am curious if you guys know more about this than me, but just take a listen. It separates our game from the game played elsewhere as innovation, entrepreneurialism, more patents, more engineers, more researchers, more Nobel laureates in my state than any other damn state, more Fortune 500 companies in my state than any other state. Look that up, because I know people are rolling their eyes and saying, no, it is Texas. You are wrong. It is true.

I looked it up. And we are, by the way, a donor state. We provided $83.1 billion more than we received from the federal government. Okay. Texas took $71.1 billion. Hold on a second here. Hold on a second here. We got to pause that. Okay, so first of all, he got in a spat with DeSantis over what was the, you know, DeSantis said, Florida was rated the number one economy of the states for the third year in a row by CNBC, which is a liberal business network, okay?

And Gavin Newsom was like, no, our economy is larger. We didn't say what was the largest economy, you idiot. Obviously, California is larger in size. You've got like 50% more people, dumbass. No, the question is, what is the best economy to actually operate a business in? And then this thing we just said right now, I was going to use it as my twilight zone, but I might as well use it now since you brought it up. This whole idea of- This just drives me bad.

Yes. This talking point, okay? So, his point is the federal government sucks up a ton of money in taxes from wealthy people in California and blue-collar people, too, and the amount of money that California receives is less than that, so they are considered a donor state. They're giving more to the federal government than they're getting back. Yeah, well, most are, but there's a lot of these red states like Oklahoma and Louisiana that are Paying some money to the government, but they're getting a lot more money back.

By the way. Well, how would you think that Democrats like Gavin Newsom would think about this? You would think, hey, this is exactly what they want. They want a government that helps poor people, right? Well, let's look at Jasmine Crockett. Oh, that was a great line.

If you go to my, at the bottom there, yeah, this is my point. Yeah, that was such a great line. Jasmine Crockett is, she's not an idiot. She just plays one on TV. But they are, it's like blue states are constantly. Putting red states on life support, yet we got these little red states that ain't contributing nothing, but they are definitely taking up a lot of money. You know, it is interesting because the governor in California, I don't know if you caught this, but Governor Newsom was talking about just holding on to his dollars because California is what they call a donor state, meaning that they actually contribute more than they take from the federal government, and then you can go down south to states like Louisiana, who are broke, and so they need California to pay in.

So, it is so interesting that we are... For the audio, this is not Love Island. This is Congress. I honestly, I didn't even watch this. I just saw the text on it. This is how we're talking in Congress, though? This is how we're talking. Now, by the way, there's so many thick layers of irony here, okay?

Because, of course, you would think Democrats are like, yeah, the purpose of the federal government is to tax money from the rich people and give it to the poor people. So, the idea of taxing rich liberals in Los Angeles and giving that money to poor people on Medicaid in Louisiana, you would think they would love that. Sounds like Bernie Sanders. But then if we as Republicans, let's say, in different states are like, you know what, maybe the federal government's power is too big.

Let's try to solve problems on the state level, and we want to cut these programs and return them to the states. Then they're like... No, no, no, no. You cannot do that. They want power in the federal government. Here is the interesting thing about this, though. These little red states are not contributing nothing. Look, Jasmine Crockett, your district, you are representing a blue district in a very red state of Texas. You are the district that is not contributing that much. You are the moochers.

By the way, this whole moochers talk is just not that good. This is the Democratic mirror. Argument, Mitt Romney's 47% Moocher thing. Americans detest the argument, because it inevitably says, you're trying to divide us between people who receive money and people who don't receive money. Go deeper into your argument. What was the Romney 47%? Yeah, Mitt Romney, when he ran for president in 2012, gave this talk to a bunch of rich donors, and some guy who was busting the tables recorded the speech, and this is when Mitt Romney said, you're trying to divide us between people who receive money and people who don't receive We've got like 47% of the population that are moochers, and they're just mooching off the government, and it played well with the audience.

I don't even think Mitt Romney believed it in his heart of hearts, because I don't think he's that much of a jack wagon, but it's just like his way, because he was a liberal Republican, he had to try to convince these donors that I'm with you, and I just think it really is not helpful. Are there people that are getting way too much money from the government that are mooching? Yes.

I'm not disputing this. The question is, is this an argument that the American people like? No, most Americans are detested by the argument. They're also detested by Jasmine Crockett's argument that she tried twice to run for a higher seat in the House caucus or whatever, and twice her conference rebuked her because they don't want her, but Democratic voters like her because, in fact, there was a pullout right now, which of these Democrats should run for the Senate seat in Texas, and Jasmine Crockett was way at the top of the list.

And my friend who used to work for Mitch McConnell, he said, oh, no, don't run. That would be terrible if you were the Senate nominee in Texas. I'm a high-ranking official who used to work for Mitch McConnell. You warned Democrats, don't you dare put her up. It was obviously sarcastic, because she would be politically toxic in Texas. But I just find this, someone else made this comment.

Polymath, he is a funny guy. He said, just talking about in general, this formulation that Gavin Newsom just said, and then also Jasmine Crockett said, where you have got rich liberals from blue states that are subsidizing poor white rednecks in red states.

So, basically, this guy says, my favorite pattern in politics is Democrats who want infinite compassionate. For poor people who vote for him, and starvation and death for poor people who don't vote for them. Good point. That seems to be about the point that's going on. You'd like me to be even more on the nose? Erika, I think you did the research on this. It sounds like a fire was allowed to destroy the Palisades to then create low-income housing. This is actually, yesterday afternoon, this is what drew my attention to Gavin Newsom and catalyzed this whole A block, I think.

But yeah, so P.T. Keenan was reporting on this. She, of course, lives. ...or lived in the Palisades. I think it was either her or her aunt or something. But anyway, her whole family's there. And as you might remember, about a year ago, it started all burning down in LA. LA was burning down. So, a year later, we get these announcements. So, Governor Newsom, he has approved funding to support low-income housing development in communities affected by the wildfires in the greater Los Angeles region.

There has been very little rebuilding so far because of... California's crazy regulations because of the fees, because I design. By design, they have not been able to rebuild. You can look at drone footage of what it still looks like there. It's third world country. It looks like Damascus, Syria. I mean, come on, guys. So, instead of helping people who own the land there actually rebuild their homes and making that go faster for them so they can get back to life, Newsom has approved the city of Los Angeles to buy back land from the people.

He's allocated $101 million for affordable multifamily rental housing, low-income subsidized housing in the wildfire-impacted area. The funding is going to include grants, low-interest loans, operating subsidy reserves, and the projects will be required to remain affordable. keyword for 55 years. At the same time, we have a bill, similar bill, going through the Senate in the California legislature that would allow property taxes to let LA County buy fire-destroyed lots for low-income housing. So, some people are like, oh, well, isn't this great? Now, LA will be rebuilt, and poor people can live there, too.

The problem being that government-subsidized low-income housing never works. It absolutely destroys local communities. Whenever the government steps in and is like, we're going to take over housing, it kind of works like government-owned grocery stores did in the Soviet Union. It never works, and there's all kinds of studies about this.

And the people who are hurt the most are, of course, single parents with children. Yeah, I mean, I have an issue with your house, your own house burning down, and you not being able to rebuild it on just total principle. Right, so then the government comes in and is like, hey, we'll lowball you. You can just get it off your chest. We'll just take it off your hands. You can go live somewhere else out in the mountains, and we're going to take your land.

It's basically like eminent domain. We're going to burn down the city, empty the reservoirs, and then offer them these lowball figures so that we can build low-income housing. Yeah, so that's happening, which I, on principle, disagree with, but then something's also happening where cost of living, affordability, and specifically housing in California is just... I actually don't know how anyone could live there. So, I think similar to the grocery store situation where people living in New York City cannot afford to live based on grocery prices, the thought is, okay, let's come up with a really extreme solution that is government-owned grocery stores, which is funny.

I saw that Mamdani said that the way to... Cop shit was wholesale buying. What's his exact? In a shop at Costco. Brain, dude, just brain exploded. I got it. Wholesale pricing, like someone's never thought of that before. But similar to this, like you go and you build affordable housing, like government, people call it the projects, basically. It would be like basically creating projects in Palisades.

I also don't think that's the solution, but I actually don't know, like, what is the solution for California in terms of housing? Do you have any? Yeah, I mean, the first thing for the victims of the L.A. wildfires would be to let people who own the land rebuild on their land, right? Yeah. Like, actually do that. Crazy idea. I know, right? Like, oh, it's your house, and it burned down. You can take care of it. Other things would be, like, L.A., obviously, had not been taking care of the wildfire threat.

They weren't prepared for it, and insurance companies had been pulling out. Insurance companies were like, we're either going to jack up the premiums so high no one can afford to insure their homes against fire, or we're just going to pull out of California, right? Same with car insurance companies. You know what, though? They claim that they're greedy.

Oh, that's right, because it's there in greedy capitalist insurance companies. These insurance companies are greedy. There's, you know, insurance companies in the other 49 states. Are they apparently, you know, not greedy there? I don't understand. Yeah, and I mean, slashing all of the California issues, slashing regulation, the ridiculous, like, climate change, green energy mandates that the state has suffered under that have just driven up electricity prices sky high. Like, energy costs there are through the roof. And then taxes, right? You go on and on.

All of these things that we know what works to help communities recover from disasters, and they just won't do it because of ideological bias and guidelines and power, the desire to control. Yeah, I mean, I think they're intentionally trying to remake LA into like all public housing, low-income stuff, because they want to house their voters. They can house, you're like, again, this is one of those things where this is not the Democratic Party. I mean, we have two parties, two healthy Democratic and Republican parties.

For many decades and generations, a lot of people remember it, but the Democratic Party over the last 25 years, really, you're like, what is going on? Why would they allow dangerous fire conditions that would potentially burn these nice housing units? They look at those housing units, and they go, those rich white people, and they want the houses to burn. They didn't cry. They didn't feel sorry for the people, and then when they're burnt, why is it that they're not able to rebuild?

Because they do not want them to rebuild. They have not even issued permits, right? Right. I mean, this is on purpose. There is no reason. Look, we built the Empire State Building in 20 months. There is no way we cannot build that entire neighborhood by now. These are acts of will. These are choices. This is the key thing I think we need to remember again and again when it comes to everything. Well, like, for example, our border. Why is it that, you know, Axios can't figure out why we have no border crossings anymore?

Like, we can't figure it out. But everyone else knows. We have a new president in town, and he took care of business. It's a choice. These are choices that we make. Like, we have a housing affordability crisis in this country because we've made choices.

Speaking of choices our president has made, I genuinely do. I was ready to move on past Epstein. I was. We got this this morning. Someone's brought it up in the chat. I feel like we need to address it, and I'm actually curious on questions for a political future. So, this is not an Epstein-free episode? Is that what we're saying?

Well, I wish it was. I really wish it was. Here's Donald Trump this morning on True Social. Josh, you've got to explain this to me. I do not understand the rationale for this as someone that basically made his political career off of reading the winds of public sentiment. So, okay. The radical left Democrats have hit pay dirt again, just like with the fake and fully discredited Steele dossier, the lying 51 intelligence agents, the laptop from hell, which the Dems swore had come from Russia, know it came from Hunter Biden's bathroom, and even the Russia, Russia, Russia scam.

So, I should be having Erika do the Trump impersonation, so that's my bad. Um, but I gotta grind through this totally fake and made up story used in order to hide crooked Hillary's, uh, big loss in the 2016 presidential election. These scams and hoaxes are all that Democrats are good at. It's all they have. They are no good at governing, no good at policy and no good at picking winning candidates. Also unlike Republicans, they stick together like glue. Their new scam all caps is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein hoax.

And my past all caps supporters have bought into this bullshit hook, line, and sinker. They haven't learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the lunatic left for eight long years. I have had more success in six months than perhaps any president in our country's history, and all these people want to talk about, with strong prodding by fake news and the success star Dems, is the Jeffrey Epstein hoax. Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats' work.

Don't even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don't want their support anymore. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Make America great again. Josh, you've got to talk me off the ledge on this one. I'm feeling like a panicking.

I mean, again, he and his campaign, including his son, Donald Trump Jr., campaigned hard on the Epstein list and making sure that we're going to get this, and we're going to keep campaigning. They were the ones who brought it up.

Rooting out the deep state and transparency as well. Yeah, so I don't know why Trump thinks he's not going to get any blowback on this. He certainly is, but I think what he's trying to do is get his strongest supporters to turn on each other and to try to mellow them out a little bit, because he's just like- I cannot believe people are talking about anything other than how awesome I have been in these last six months with wages and with the border.

Ultimately, I have been pretty clear in the 10 years about Trump. I talk about his faults, and one of his faults is this is a man who has got an enormous ego, and he just does not like the fact that we are distracting from praising him for all the awesome stuff he has done. But the thing is, you promised. Your campaign was promising. Something here that we're going to get to the bottom of this. I got the list on my desk, Attorney General Pam Bondi said.

And then you got nothing. Right. I mean, I just, again, I kind of said, maybe you should kind of hedge your bets on this or say, oh, gosh, looks like the deep state got to this list and destroyed it. We're going to have to find out who these nefarious people are in the deep state and get rid of them. Like, that would have been a more, I don't know why you wouldn't go with that. I mean, it's. They need to watch LOOPcast.

Someone said, feel free to abbreviate. Oh, yeah, sorry. I will say, the reason I didn't, the reason I didn't, oh, the BS. Look, he said it. Okay, so that's what, I was ready to move on, right? I was like, I'm frustrated, but for him to say, so obviously, just a disgust and distaste, former supporters, scams.

This is from someone who spoke to people who were downtrodden, asked what they wanted, and then campaigned on it, and this is so out of, it feels like the first time there's been real, like, open discuss in text for people that have supported him, and I also read the entire list because This, to me, also discredits a lot of the hoaxes leveled against him before, such as the steel dossier and everything like that. If you're going to loop it in with something that is so publicly available and understood, all to what Josh is saying, maybe poor strategy, but I think it's worse than this.

I was ready to move on. I think this... To me, I just, I'm really disappointed, and it taints, I think, a lot of what's going on where it could be successes. This isn't going away. This is going to be a defining, I thought maybe at one point, if he handled it well, it's going to go away. This is going to be a defining issue of his presidency. It's going to alienate many of his previous supporters, and Democrats are going to run hard on this as they should.

Now, last part, I doubt they'll run on it. They already are, Josh. Well, I'm sorry. 18 months from now, people are not going to be talking about this when they decide who to vote for in November. I just don't think so. Okay, well, they're going to be talking about the mortgage rates. Now, will it hurt Trump's coalition? Yes. Is it a black mark? Yes. Could they have avoided this with a few different ways of talking about this? Yeah, I think they could have really limited their damage.

Well, and partly, they could have limited their damage if Trump would just shut up about it. Yeah. What even provoked this? People are moving on, and then it's like, oh, you just posted a great American novel about your feelings about Epstein. You're like, come on, man. Get it under control. This is kind of like, this is the playbook. With Elon, it was like the worst, it was an Armageddon of two dudes who do not know when to stop talking.

Yeah. It's just, they'll never stop. I'm really disappointed with it. I think this isn't going away now. We'll see. I think it's split people for the future because clearly the treatment of an international black male pedophile ring that implicates major billionaires, politicians, and heads of state that is all publicly available and understood, I think saying, oh, well, there's no list is a total dodge. Like, we were promised accountability from the deep state, from the Justice Department. We didn't get it. And I think for people that their lives are more than just...

While I don't want to rock the boat, I'm okay with the kind of general liberalism of culture as long as I can get my paycheck and I can live in my white picket fence or I can have my urbanite life, which we had someone internally point out is like very kind of waspy, actually. Like, there's a history of this in America of just like, ah, don't rock the boat. We kind of want this moderate party. I think there's a generation of people my age younger who genuinely do care, and I think there actually is something pretty heroic about not letting it go.

Personally, this is real. I mean, are you saying that there's going to be a lot of the population that's not going to let this go? Yeah, I guess. Yeah, a significant one. Sure. I'm just saying, like, is it going to be enough to sway the congressional elections 18 months from now? I doubt it. I don't know about congressional, but you're going to now need to take a stance on this. Maybe.

Guess what? Let's see. I just thought that broke this morning. I thought we'd talk about it. But yes, people are looking forward to good news, as am I, Erika. All right, well, it's summer, and everyone thinks about ice cream during the summer, and I know I do. And the good news is that Secretary Kennedy over at the... What is he at? Health... Oh, my gosh. My brain. I'm like... The Department of Health and Human Services. Thank you. Thank you, HHS Secretary.

Secretary Kennedy. He announced another MAHA win this week. 40 companies that represent 90% of the ice cream volumes sold in the United States have pledged to eliminate artificial food dyes from their products. So, yes, strawberry ice cream will be... Back on the menu, I am very excited. Two of my seven children love strawberry ice cream, and I have to admit that ever since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. brought to my attention that most strawberry ice cream contains the evil red dye, I haven't been purchasing it quite as happily or often.

And now, look, it's going to be back on the menu. I'm pretty pumped. So, I'll take it as a W. RFK. I like strawberry ice cream. I mean, and this is an issue that should bring everyone together. This is a bipartisan It's an issue, as they like to say in the swamp. Everyone wants their ice cream to just not have chemicals in it, except for the natural cow chemicals, natural two cows milk, and a lot of sugar. So, yay.

Okay, awesome. Josh, what do you got? Well, I just think it's kind of cool. I mean, I don't know how well this legislation is going to do, probably won't pass, but Republicans in Congress today are going to introduce a bill to revoke. The federal charter for the National Education Association, that teacher's union that is dedicated to protecting teacher's union employees and not really giving a crap about students.

Now, when I say stuff like this, I get some people saying, I work in public schools, and I love kids, and we work hard. Look. Yes, great. Sure, good, great. The teacher's union, though, has been blocking. Reform on education from day one, and all they've done is, you know, they have been 100% in favor. A decision over the last three decades to vastly expand the administration of students, of personnel. So, like, the number of people that work in education that are teachers is going down every year as the number of administrators goes up and up and up, and the NEA doesn't care because it's more members.

They want to make the education bureaucracies bloated, not just the federal bureaucracy, okay, which is true, but, like, School districts, bureaucracy, all these administrators, and that is not getting into the classroom. There is so much more money that is being spent on education that is not getting into the classroom, and NEA has been basically, you know, and they give so much money to the Democratic Party. You have a situation where kids in Chicago, third, fourth grade, can't read. Right. You know, maybe fix that.

Maybe try to work on that. Chicago Public Schools is bankrupt right now. We should send them more money then, right? That would be the solution. That is what they are asking for. The last thing we should do is let parents have the money to pick the school they want. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, and the NEA very helpfully last week held their big conference for the year, where they get up on stage, and they jump up and down, and they talk about what is the crisis facing American public schools this year.

And, well, one would think that the nation's report card, the NEAP scores coming back last year, saying that, oh, 26% of American high school seniors are proficient in math. That's right. 26% of them can actually do math. That means 74% of them cannot do the maths. And then we have fourth graders, we have in the inner cities, Baltimore, they had like 2% of children can read according to their markers in fourth and eighth grade. These are crazy numbers. But no, the NEA spent their whole conference saying, we have to defeat Donald Trump.

More of the same. More of the same. We hate Donald Trump. We hate Donald Trump. In fact, Moms for Liberty sent one of their sleepers, spies, maybe, into the conference, and they asked one of the organizers, they were like, we're looking at the agenda. When are we going to address the NEAP scores, and the fact that our kids can't read or do math when they graduate? And the woman actually replied, we don't have time for that. Because we have to defeat Donald Trump.

You're like, okay, well, there goes your charter. I mean, Trump's going to be in office for another three and a half years, so we don't really need to defeat him. Just, anyway. Maybe just educate the kids. All right. I have two really happy ones, okay? This is good, good news.

First one, Scott Schaeffler. The GOAT. Many are saying online he's been reading Ecclesiastes. And I guess I can show you why, but I don't even think I need to say much about this. You know, I think it's kind of funny. I think, you know, I think I said something after the Byron this year about, like, it feels like you work your whole life to celebrate.

Winning a tournament for, like, a few minutes. It only lasts a few minutes, that kind of euphoric feeling. And, like, to win the Byron Nelson Championship at home, I literally worked my entire life to become good at golf, to have an opportunity to win that tournament.

And you win it, you celebrate, get to hug my family, my sister's there, it's such an amazing moment. And then it's like, okay, now what are we going to eat for dinner? Life goes on. I love it. Is it great to be able to win tournaments and to accomplish the things I have in the game of golf? Yeah, I mean, it brings tears to my eyes just to think about, because it has literally worked my entire life to become good at this sport, and to have that kind of sense of accomplishment, I think is...

It's a pretty cool feeling, you know, to get to live out your dreams. It's very special, but at the end of the day, it's like, I'm not out here to inspire the next generation of golfers. I'm not here to inspire somebody else to be the best player in the world, because what's the point? You know, this is not a fulfilling life. It's fulfilling from a sense of accomplishment, but it's not fulfilling from a sense of like the deepest, you know, places of your heart.

You know, there's a lot of people that make it to... What they thought was going to fulfill them in life, and then you get there, and all of a sudden, you get to number one in the world, and then they're like, what's the point? And, you know, I really do believe that, because, you know, what is the point? Like, why do I want to win this tournament so bad? That's something that I wrestle with on a daily basis. It's like, showing up at the Masters every year, it's like, why do I want to win this golf tournament so badly?

Why do I want to win the Open Championship so badly? I don't know, because if I win, it's going to be awesome for about two minutes. And then we're going to get to the next week, and it's going to be like, hey, you won two majors this year. How important is it for you to win the FedExCup playoffs? And it's just like, we're back here again, you know? So, we really do. We work so hard for such little moments, and, you know, I'm kind of a sicko.

I love putting in the work. I love being able to practice. I love getting out to live out my dreams, but at the end of the day, sometimes I just don't understand the point, you know? I don't know if I'm making any sense here. The audience nervously giggles. Is he serious?

He's in his bag. It's just one of those deals. You know, I love the challenge. I love being able to play this game for a living. It's one of the greatest joys of my life, but does it fill the deepest wants and desires of my heart? Absolutely not.

I mean, I love playing golf. I love being able to compete. I love living out my dreams. I love being a father. I love being able to take care of my son. I love being able to provide for my family out here playing golf, and every day when I wake up early to go put in the work, my wife thanks me for going out and working so hard, and when I get home, I try and thank her every day for taking care of our son.

You know, that is why I talk about families being my priority, because it really is. You know, I am blessed to be able to come out here and play golf, but if my golf ever started affecting my home life, or it ever affected the relationship I have with my wife or with my son, you know, that is going to be the last day that I play out here for a living. You know, this is not the be-all, end-all. This is not the most important thing in my life, and that is why I wrestle with, why is this so important to me?

Because, you know, I would much rather be a great father than I would be a great golfer. You know, at the end of the day, that... That's what's more important to me. Dude, I think about this, what he just said, every day. Are you a good golfer? Every day.

Yeah, I think about that too, and I'm not. Every good dad does. Like, every good dad can totally relate to this. I've started a lot of... I've started watching a lot more golf than I have in my life, and you see the Tiger highlights, right? And you see Jack Nicklaus, and there's a cool, there's a mystique, there's a classiness to it. But to see an athlete just like...

Also, my general critique of post-media availability is athletes say nothing, and they get asked the dumbest questions. It'll be like, what were you seeing out there? Whatever. It's like, well, you know, I saw I played hard and did our best. It's like, why'd you lose? It's like, well, we didn't score as much as the other team. It's like, you get nothing from it. There's a reason.

And then you get, right, exactly. So, then what's the point? Like, what are we doing? You get that moment of honesty from. Genuinely, probably the best player in the world, top of his craft, should be beating his chest, you know, talking about how he wants to be the greatest. What's his legacy? Like, Mike Tyson had that funny clip. I think we showed it on here. The seventh grader. Like, legacy means nothing. We're all going to die and move on. Mike Tyson.

And everyone's like, oh my gosh, Mike Tyson's pathetic. On a 13-year-old girl, yeah. Yeah, he's right. He's right, and I'm like, to think that, I don't even know if he sat down and thought about it before, maybe it's just that moment of authenticity, the message he's delivering to people, who like, whether you're the best golfer in the world, or you dig ditches, like, truly the most valuable currency to me is, I go away to work, and my kid is just like.

I'm the biggest celebrity when I get home. He threw his little golf club when I came home yesterday, and it was like, seriously, celebrating the biggest win of all time, and my wife thanks me for putting food on the table, and I think of how humbling it is that she's at home right now with my two kids.

Like, it is what it's all about, and I was like, to hear the world, number one, say it, and then to think about it myself more, and just to even get emotional myself, like, what a beautiful moment and witness to the world, and I thought, no better good news. I'm sorry, the tears are not done yet, because, and I'm taking more time than I usually do. We need good news. So, Josh, you talked about it. We're kind of bumming here. Let's do it.

Okay, we need good news today. We need good news. I mean. This is good news, but it's also very sad. So, we talked about Xavier Randolph. Really, I hope you guys have been praying for him, praying for the repose of his soul. So, I actually went, I didn't have the time to say it when Josh was talking about it. He tragically lost his life in a swimming accident in Lake Michigan, and a beautiful Catholic family. Peter Randolph was the valedictorian of my class at Ave Maria University.

And let's just say, there's no surprise as to who that was going to be. Peter was... Pretty clearly one of the smartest kids at school. Had a bright future ahead of him, and he's actually now a transitional deacon, which is awesome. I actually didn't, I kind of didn't know. I figured he'd probably come for you, but I didn't know, and he gave a homily Sunday after losing his brother.

And so, it's now available, clips of it are available, and I thought I'd show part of it because I have a lot of respect for Peter, and I've just been thinking about his family, but here it is. We are loved, and when he rose from the dead, he proved that we can bank on that love, because love conquers all things, even sin and death.

In his death, and in his resurrection, Jesus uttered the definitive word, you are lovable, and you are loved. And if we allow this word of Jesus, that you are lovable, and that you are loved, to penetrate our hearts, renew our minds, we will know how to live, and we know, we will know that we can live in confidence and trust, fully reliant upon our God who loves us and who has saved us.

And this knowledge that we are known and loved. That Xavier is known and loved, allows us to enter into this awful situation with hope, because we know that God is with us, and that God is for us. And yet, as we all know, allowing the reality of Jesus' love for us to penetrate the depths of our hearts is incredibly difficult. And whether we're wrestling with past wounds, All too present weaknesses or tragic events like this, sometimes we wonder, God, do you really love me?

Are you really there for me? And am I loved? And it is precisely in that honesty, in that honest questioning, that God meets us. And the Father will always meet us in that point of pain, precisely because He loves us. He always wants to assure us that we are loved, but I believe that there is a special grace on this time for us to meet Him there.

From the time that we heard the awful news of Xavier's death, our family has been convinced that God the Father wants to use this for His glory, and to bring all of us, all of us here. And even those who aren't here, who don't know him, it's a deeper conversion and closeness to himself.

Obviously, Xavier's death is a terrible evil, and one that we will mourn. But God can bring good out of this, even out of this. Yeah, powerful stuff. Beautiful. That is good news. It is good news. There is resurrection through Christ.

May we see you someday in paradise. Amen. Amen to that. Amen to that. Wow. Shout out to the family. Please pray for their poses. I've been praying for the family, thinking a lot about them. It's got to be a tough time. So, on to the church corner now. One, another just beauty bring up, I think, that people found pretty funny. I saw someone in the chat was talking about it. We got to talk about the summer residence of Pope Leo.

People specifically found this image because he happened to be celebrating Ad Orientum, which is not really allowed in certain dioceses right now. So, people kind of took this and ran with it, I think rightfully so, but man, this papal palace of Castel Gandolfo. So, for people curious too, so he's facing Ad Orientum, and chapels used to be designed to face east. So, if you were at the altar and you were facing the tabernacle. You would be facing the east, right?

Yeah, which I thought was awesome, but I actually didn't know. So, I knew about the summer residence, that he's back, and that Pope Francis didn't really go there, and so it's cool to have him back. It looks awesome. He's going to be there for, I think, like a month, month and a half, and there's this private chapel that's gorgeous. I think it's open now to the public as well, but he was offering mass there, but there's historical records going all the way back to popes, like Pope Pius XII, Pope Paul VI.

They used this chapel for personal devotions, and Pope Pius XII actually died in the adjacent bedroom in 1958, which is crazy. I guess they delivered children in this. I think 40 children were delivered at the suburb residence. Wait, the moms, like, gave birth at the residence?

Yeah, I think they took people in at one point, and there was, I think, 40 children born there. Which is crazy, but it's an interesting blend of Roman history and Catholic history as well, because I think it was previously an imperial residence with Domitian.

Kind of crazy. So, I thought I'd show this. Yes, the points have been made about Ad Orientum, which I think are good ones, and I think we should open up that reverent form of worship to the rest of the global church. But man, I was just going through the history. It was cool. And then I have another kind of cool history before we get into Twilight Zone. It's worth saying. I mean, you mentioned Pope Pius XII. I mean, he offered refuge to thousands of Jews there at Castel Gandolfo during the persecution of the Nazis.

Yeah. So, other cool historical moment I thought would be nice, you know, while we got a lot going on emotionally in this episode, but footage from 1927. We have 2,000 Italians processing through London's Little Italy on Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Happy Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. I thought I'd show this. My diocese patron.

That's actually really cool. I mean, this doesn't even look. How is this even real? Bring back, make public processions cool again. I mean, in Europe, I feel like they have never not been cool. They have just kept it going.

I mean, now they are all Muslim, but yeah. Does this still happen? This doesn't seem to happen. Not the Catholics in England. No. I mean, they have Corpus Christi still, but yeah, like all the Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Okay, Josh, so how did Our Lady of Mount Carmel end up the patroness of, what's your diocese? The Diocese of Gaylord. I think it was because the diocese was formed on this date in 1972. I think that's the reason why. Oh, cool.

But I don't recall. Love the Carmelites. Love the Carmelite saints. I wanted to be the next Saint Edith Stein when I was in college, but God had other plans. I ended up having seven children instead. And now, I make YouTube videos. And now, I make YouTube videos about AI and demons. It is a different ministry, yeah.

That video is awesome, by the way. Go check it out. Hey, we have another one dropping tomorrow. It's going to be great. I am talking about feminists debating the sexual revolution, and I've got a little caddy on the feminist panel.

We've got to get you on a panel, Erika. How do we get you on a panel? I don't know. Anyone in the chat? Do you have any panels coming up? I do love a good panel. Hopefully, that won't give me nightmares like your AI one did. No, I'm kidding. I know.

The AI one was great. It was really good. I highly recommend people watch it. Great team. Shout out to Simon, as always. Simon, the go. Wow. The go. Simon does good with editing, but you've got something good to edit, so you do great. Thank you. I have a lot of humility there, but you are bringing a lot to this. Great team.

It only feels moderately comfortable complimenting in general, but if they do come, they come to Erika. I think you aspire to. No, Twilight Zone now. Is that right? Exactly. Josh, you have a Twilight Zone that I think is buzzing around social media. Well, look, I mean, I'm not Protestant, and I don't watch home improvement shows like my wife does, but, you know, I guess Chip and Joanna Gaines are kind of a phenomenon, and they were, you know, they call themselves Christian, and so a lot of Christians who are intentional about themselves are like, oh, this is great to have a couple that's...

On a major network, you know, and they're talking about stuff, and they're not hiding from their Christianity. Well, it looks like now they're starting this new show called Back to the Frontier, and it features three families, including a same-sex couple who purchased two children and have severely severed that child's connection to their biological mother, of course.

So, this couple stated that their goal in joining the show was to normalize same-sex couples and same-sex families. Like, okay, so this sounds like a massive problem. And again, when Christians bring this up, like Franklin Graham, the Protestant minister, he brought this up, and he said, I hope this isn't true. So, how does Chip Gaines respond?

Talk, ask questions, listen, maybe even learn. Too much of... Too much to ask of modern American Christian culture. Judge first, understand later, never. It's a sad Sunday when non-believers have never been confronted with hate or vitriol until they're introduced to a modern American Christian. Well, this is lovely. This response is, you're judging, you're being rash, you're not listening, you're not asking questions, you're judgmental, you're full of hate and vitriol. Maybe we just don't think children should be torn from their mothers and give to...

You know, gay couples, you know, no, this is a problem, and we're not going to pretend like it's not a problem. So, you know, again, this is just, I just find it horrible. Katie Faust, though, she said, I love you, Katie. Can you revere Christ as Lord, which is what Chip and Joanna Gaines claim to do, while normalizing a household where children will never be able to obey the fifth commandment, because two men bought. Bought their genetic mother, rented their genetic mother, and are starving them of daily maternal love.

That's the question. Yeah, and I love how Chip comes back. It was so predictable, and he's like, all of this hatred and vitriol, and you're like, it is not hatred to point out to someone that the religion that they have been espousing publicly and built their brand on all these years, that the Christian faith would say you should not manufacture children deliberately to be motherless. Right. Very basic. It's not unliving to point that out to someone who has made this part of their public persona.

So, it's okay to use that public persona to sell TV shows, but once... Yeah. It just feels similar to the whole rainbow capitalism accusations, like places just being gay to get the bucks, and then not changing their logo in Saudi Arabia.

And then also, yeah, the modern American Christian charge. Isn't the whole point we should just be Christians? Yeah, I mean, I think Erika's got the good point, though, here. It's like they've built their brand on saying, hey, we're Christian, and we're just involved in doing stuff. We like housing and remodels and stuff, and we're not afraid of being Christian. So then when they do something that's completely counter to the gospel, they're like, how dare you go against that? Right. Like, dude, you're the ones that have been selling this form of, you know, using your Christianity for the last 15, 20 years, so maybe you're the problem.

Sounds about right. Yeah. Josh, I also wanted to get this. I appreciate it. Do you have any thoughts on if this is going to be good advice? Here's the headline. I was one of Biden's border advisors. Here's how to fix our immigration system, dated July 15th, 2025.

Nice. My good friend Peter Haston said, I was captain of the Titanic. Here is how to avoid icebergs. I saw another one. I am the coach of the Cleveland Browns. I can tell you about the Super Bowl. There have been so many awesome replies to this. I love how ratioed this got. One of my favorite follows, Bethany Mandel, who has like a million children. She's an Orthodox Jew, and she's like... Oh, she's one way lost. She was a good Catholic girl, but...

Oh, she's one way lost. All right. But anyway, she's like, I... What did she say? Like, I'm the mother of 15. Here's my advice on like family planning. It was so funny. Anyway, this has gotten some great traction.

You know what's funny about this situation, too, is like, I feel like actually funny enough at this point, Biden continues to just insert himself at the worst possible moments. Like, when Trump's really putting his foot in his mouth, like, yeah, you know, I messed around with the auto pen a little bit. And they're like, that just totally takes cover off Trump for whatever he just did. And it's like, they can't keep him from doing super stuff. And then this one's a moment where, like, yes, we're having debates about ICE activity and raids and whatever, and it's kind of contentious.

And I think there's goodwill arguments on both sides. And then everyone agrees what happened under Biden was horrific. The internet all comes together to be like, we're all in this problem because of you. Please never suggest anything to us ever again.

Go, please, go be in retirement, is basically how I felt about it. Yeah. Create your chemical-free ice cream on the beach. Yeah, exactly. Strawberry flavor. Erika, what do you got? All right, so you might have seen that the rescissions bill that will cut funding massively, not all of it, but massively to NPR, among other things, other propaganda machines for the leftist regime, passed this morning. J.D. Vance cast the tiebreaker, and so we are defunding.

Of course, leading up to this vote, there's a lot of angst going on on the left, and yeah, so Dana Bash over at CNN was covering the story. Dana Bash, that's a name I haven't heard in a while. I mean, just like roll the tape, because you can't make this stuff up.

Here to my rescissions bill, and in particular, defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is worse than... I'm not even going to read that. Any Republican that votes to allow this monstrosity to continue broadcasting will not have my endorsement.

I think one of the most interesting groups of people to watch in this are the rural Republicans in the Senate and House, and on all of these issues, because so many of them are affecting rural communities, and public schools are the center of small towns in America. And my understanding from Democrats who cover rural areas is they don't think that they can exactly win rural America, but they say they're being heard in a way that they have never been before, and maybe they can lose less badly.

Tariffs, USAID, and SNAP, which the agriculture community sells their product to, these are all putting stress on rural communities. Dude, you're telling me that we can't get Erika on one of these panels? You have to keep going. You've got to keep going. Public communities rely on public broadcasting still. That too. And public education. Yeah.

These communities rely on public broadcasting. Hey, you know what? These five women really got a grasp on rural Wisconsin. They look like they're trying really hard. But no, they don't have a graph. They should all just come with me to, you know, Tractor Supply Company and just ask the customers what they think. I got to say, though, maybe if NPR and PBS and all of them didn't want their funding cut, maybe they shouldn't let Elmo go on an anti-Semitic rant. Dude, I heard Elmo became a Nazi over the weekend.

What is going on? Elmo is now on trial at Nuremberg. Some of these headlines, I'm just, like, where am I right now? It's crazy. Alma became a Nazi. Grok is, like, sexting people now. Grok is a Nazi. No, dude, I don't know.

It is the Twilight Zone, brother. If you are in the Twilight Zone, this is a safe space. All right, so actually speaking of, so shout out to Celine. She does social for us. I was just like, I'm so bummed out about this news cycle. I feel like a panicking.

I don't want to talk about any of this stuff. I'm just mad. And she's like, well, have you heard about Jake the RizBot? And I was like, okay, hold on a second. Hold on a second. So, I took the time to dive into Jake the RizBot, and I'm here to report back to you. So, there is a slick-talking, cowboy-hat-wearing robot dubbed Jake the RizBot, who spits Gen Z and Gen Alpha slang, leaving strangers gobsmacked. Now, here's a picture of our boy Jake.

Well, someone had a hat on him in Austin. I mean, the video is actually kind of crazy. Like, he's fast. For those who are also looking for their own Jake the Riz Bot, you can buy them from this Chinese company called Unitree, and they will actually, so they, it's about four feet tall. It's a little over four feet tall. They're very fast. You can run around, and they can talk, and they learn via AI and studying.

The people around them. And, I mean, very predictably, I don't even need to spend much time on this, LA got a hold of one of these and, like, immediately turned it gay. So, they've been found in Austin, they've been in LA. You control it with a little controller. They're very fast, and I guess you can put on whatever flags you want, and LA made it gay.

But, I was looking into Unitree. And yes, they're a Chinese company, and their website didn't exactly make me less concerned, especially understanding that how they operate is actually gathering data. Visually, on Americans that they're selling it to, and there's no way you can get back to the Chinese, right? Yeah, what could go wrong? It turns out, you know those robot dogs that they had in Black Mirror? Shout out Black Mirror. I love early Black Mirror episodes. Yeah, there was a backdoor installed that allowed someone to surveil customers around the world.

Shocker. And this Chinese company. And I also was like, well, I might want to go grab Jake, there is a spot for myself with all of my extra savings. Maybe I'd go into debt for Jake or something. Yeah, forget the down payment. So, if you go to the website, it's pretty slick. You got all these things, and I was like, okay.

The, you know, without a head, the dog thing, that looks creepy. Yeah, the dog without a head. They're all very creepy. Yeah. So, this is the G1, this one I'm talking about, and I was like, okay, let's take a look into it to see if they, like. This calms me down at all. It didn't really calm me down, and I think we're going to be conquered in the, like, dumbest way possible. Like, we're all just going to let it happen. The video on this was hysterical, though, because they're like, no, no, no, this is just a cool robot.

He dances. And then it has it wielding a staff in the video, and then the video cuts to all the, like, an army of staff wielding robots. Oh my gosh, like iRobot, Will Smith. You can't make this up. They have one chopping. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

So, we've not been warned about any of this stuff in movies over the last 40, 50 years, have we? Did you? There are no cultural myths warning us about this. It's like they tried to make it as close to us as possible with smashing nuts and cutting Coke bottle tops off. Oh, my gosh.

Sam Altman is watching this like, yes, I will put my AI companion in the robot head, and then it will be physically interacting with the humans. Yeah, this is crazy. What could go wrong? And I did see some footage. Leaked footage from the Chinese factory making them. One just completely freaked out and started whacking, like trying to assault the coders working on it. Oh, my God. And it's like, again, it's not like we've been warned about this in the slightest. Every sci-fi movie over the last 50 years ever.

We're just hurtling toward it at top speed, and China's going to be the one to bring it about. There is a really funny video of one that went nuclear viral on X, where Robo was running down a hill, which is pretty impressive, but he was dressed like Adam Sandler for some reason. I kind of laughed, I'm not going to lie. He had really baggy clothes on, and I was like, dang it, they're getting me. It comes up, like that white tee is busting.

I was like, dang it, that's funny. It is funny to have a robot that's four feet tall come up and say that to you, so I might get invaded. I don't know. So, Jake, there is a bot. Keep an eye out on the streets. For Jake, you can buy one for $16,000, and it will arrive at your door. Head for the hills. I'm heading for the hills.

Yep, that's where we are. Someone said, Jake, we'll report back to the CCP on your family. Yeah, exactly. Count on it. I mean, I'm amused. You laugh or you cry. I don't know what to say. A little of both.

All right, well, that's where we're at on today. It's Our Lady of Mount Carmel. I think prayer for today is, fortunately, on Our Lady of Mount Carmel. We could use all the prayers we can get. Let me find that. But in the meantime, if you want to help us out, leave a review. Shout out to Charity Mobile. Go check them out. Great mobile provider.

And thank you to our champions. I actually got to send a few messages to some champions, which was a cool experience. Really appreciate you guys. It's the only way we can do the show. So, if you guys want to end today, we've got a prayer to Our Lady of Mount Carmel. In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen.

O most beautiful flower of Mount Carmel, beautiful vine, splendor of heaven, blessed mother of the Son of God, Immaculate Virgin, assist me in this my necessity, O star of the sea, help me and show me herein you are my mother. O Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth, I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to secure me in this my necessity.

There are none that can withstand your power. Oh, show me herein. You are my mother. Oh, Mary, conceive without sin. Pray for us who have recourse. Sweet Mother, I place this cause in your hands. Amen. St. Thomas More, St. Fidelis, Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us.

Thanks for sticking through this one, guys. Brighter days to come, I promise. But yeah, we'll see you guys in the next one. Actually, no, Erika's going to have a deep dive for you Thursday, and then Friday, we're back with you guys live, 11 a.m. ET. See you guys then. Peace.