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7-8-26 Hour 3 - Chris Rips open the Mailbag

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July 10, 2026 | 00:42:01 | Government, News, Politics

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00:00:00 - 00:02:52 | Speaker 1:

do you believe the women who have accused them of sexual misconduct look i don't know what you're talking about yeah she doesn't know what you're talking about she doesn't follow the news she look as a democrat with a nazi tattoo sexually assaulted one woman after another that have all come forward but we ignored them when they were republicans that he assaulted And she doesn't know what the reporter is talking about. Sexualists, she just wants the seat in the Senate because Democrats, you know. Speaking of Democrats, there is a Democrat, he's a big Democrat in Florida, in Florida. And he's a black man. He's a black man, and the Democrats, they wanted him to be governor, not Ron DeSantis. They wanted this guy, Andrew Gillum, to be the governor of Florida, and he lost to Ron DeSantis, but not by much. And now he's driving around Alabama smoking joints and doing meth. You know, methamphetamine, crystal meth, or your various other forms of methamphetamine. It's not always crystal meth, you know, that they get all the good PR, the crystal meth people. But here is the remarkable story out of this guy, Yahoo News. Former Florida governor candidate Andrew Gillum arrested on drug charges during Alabama traffic stop. You know, if you're driving around on the panhandle of Florida smoking fat joints and doing methamphetamine, Definitely take a right and go into Alabama, where you know things are going to get better for you there, because they might enforce the law there. Now, here's the story. Andrew Gillum has been arrested again. This time, the trouble followed him across state lines. It's really all his fault, I think, not the state lines' fault. The former Tallahassee mayor, he was the Democrat mayor of Tallahassee, And one-time Florida Democratic candidate for governor was pulled over late last night on a stretch of highway in Alabama. And what started as a routine traffic stop turned into a fresh legal headache. Is that really what it is, a fresh legal headache? It's good to be a Democrat, isn't it? And in the lead, you don't even have the drugs in the lead. The lead of the story is not in the lead paragraph. Listen to this. For anyone who followed Florida politics over the past decade, the name alone is enough to make this story newsworthy, well beyond state lines. It's still not really a state lines issue, but okay. The arrest happened on Highway 98 in Daphne, Alabama, a town on the Gulf Coast about 11 miles east of Mobile.

00:02:53 - 00:05:49 | Speaker 1:

Police said officers noticed a vehicle being driven erratically just before 11 p.m. and made the stop. That's when things escalated. One of the officers spotted a glass pipe sitting on the center console. This is where you tell the kids, listen, when you're pulled over, don't leave your glass pipe on the center console because, you know, dot, dot, dot, which gave them probable cause to search the car. So they searched the car, as you might expect. What they found inside led to multiple charges, Fox 35 reported. Officers recovered several rolled marijuana cigarettes. They're marijuana cigarettes. They still call them marijuana cigarettes. Additional marijuana products, various products. And in Washington, D.C., I think that's all legal, isn't it? We have products. You have gummies and rolled joints, and that's all legal. But apparently not in Alabama. So three small packages containing a substance that later tested positive for methamphetamine. See, well, that shows that he got his money's worth, and he didn't buy fake stuff. Andrew Gillum, Democrat, gubernatorial candidate, 46 years old, was booked into custody on charges including possession of dangerous drugs, drug paraphernalia, and marijuana possession. See, separate and aside from the dangerous drugs. He was released from the Baldwin County Jail the following day. This isn't Gillum's first brush with controversy, and longtime followers of his career, an important Democrat career, will remember the name from a closer race than most had expected back in 2018. Andrew Gillum lost to Ron DeSantis, running for governor, by a margin thin enough to make anyone wonder what could have been. I didn't wonder what could have been, but that's what the news media is. Oh, if only the black guy who's a crackhead. I'm sorry, it's meth. It's not crack. It's meth. Meth head. And dope smoking meth head could have been. governor and oh what might have been since then his path has been anything but smooth don't let the smooth taste fool you uh gillam was once considered one of the brighter prospects in florida democrat politics uh coming within a hair of becoming the state's first black governor can we just get past the first black this and the first black that you know and can you stop being democrats don't you know that you're the party of the plantation but his post-campaign years have brought a string of setbacks that might have something to do with the methamphetamine and the glass pipe in his car but in 2020 he was found in a miami beach hotel alongside a man who had overdosed uh and gillam himself was reported too impaired to explain what had

00:05:49 - 00:08:45 | Speaker 1:

happened and i think the man was like a street prostitute man and the and the mayor of tallahassee And the Democrat chose to be choice to be governor was in the hotel room, so drugged up with some gay street prostitute man that it was, you know. But when you're a Democrat, that just washes away. And the news media is still not talking about it when they cited here. No charges were filed in that incident. It's good to be a Democrat, isn't it? Because, you know, he's going to run for governor. But Gillum stepped away from public life for a stretch afterward to seek treatment for alcohol abuse. And so good thing he took care of that alcohol abuse because driving drunk is a problem, whereas driving on crystal meth, much better while smoking fat joints to level you off. Now, in 2022, federal prosecutors indicated Gillum, excuse me, I apologize, they indicted Gillum on charges. I keep forgetting who we're talking about tied to alleged campaign finance fraud from his 2018 run. Democrats, I've got to tell you, you give them an afternoon and they'll commit a crime. That case ended in mixed results. The following year, a hung jury on the fraud-related counts and an acquittal on charges that he lied to FBI agents. Somehow I suspect that he did lie to FBI agents, but the jury didn't think so. There was also an earlier ethics finding back in 2019 involving undisclosed gifts from lobbyists, which he settled for $5,000, meaning that he took gifts from lobbyists and stuff. And now, as of now, Gillum hasn't released a public statement about the Alabama arrest. Why would he? And it's unclear when he's due back in court. Maybe you should look into that, make a phone call. He currently co-hosts a political podcast called Me and Meth. That's not what the podcast is called, but this is good. He currently hosts a political podcast that picked up the NAACP Image Award last year because if you don't use this guy as the image for your kids, then who are you using? This is the guy you want your kids to grow up to be, right? He's an important political figure who's a drunk, overdosed gay man in a cheap motel with methamphetamine and glass pipes and all that. So his public profile hasn't disappeared, even as his legal issues have piled up. That's because he's a Democrat, and Democrats get away with that in the media. Whatever happens next in the courtroom, this latest chapter adds to what's already been a bumpy road for a politician who once looked like a future national name. Oh, he might still be. The Democrats don't care about any of this. He should start, well, I guess he can't rape women, but he can rape when? He can rape men, right?

00:08:45 - 00:10:25 | Speaker 1:

So these people, can I just tell you, the Democrat Party. And, Jeff, we have audio of this from the news media and the police, do we? I think we do, don't we? Oh, this is from the earlier hotel incident. Okay, because we covered this story at the time. I was going to just do a little refresher on Andrew Gillum because he's still a rising star in the Democrat Party. And this goes back to when he was found naked, drunk, drug overdose, passed out in a cheap motel with a man who, just from memory, I think I remember, a man who was like a male street prostitute. And, you know, they were having a Democrat hoedown here. It was a Democrat hoedown. Just amazing stuff. And here is, this is from the arrest, Channel 10 news reporter, when Andrew Gillum was arrested in this motel room. It's around 1 a.m. March 13th Miami Beach police make their way into the Mondrian South Beach Hotel and up to the 11th floor. The first knock goes on answer. seconds later that's when things literally get blurry for privacy reasons the audio also goes silent police encounter a man barely dressed if at all you can make out what appears to be miami beach fire rescue medics moving around the room yeah because they're you know there are people

00:10:25 - 00:10:44 | Speaker 2:

passed out and it's uh that actually it's not a cheap motel the mondrian's a perfectly nice hotel so uh probably the other guy was uh paying for it or something uh these guys and the police are there and the news media is there uh and it continued at one point police direct what appears

00:10:44 - 00:11:14 | Speaker 1:

to be a nude man to the bathroom he's questioned and later takes a seat the call came in about a suspected drug overdose. Andrew Gillum, husband, father, and rising star in the Democratic Party, the first black nominee of a major party that he ran for Florida governor, was one of three men found inside that hotel room. Police say Aldo Mejiaz came back to the room where he found Gillum and Travis Dyson under the influence of an unknown substance. It's unknown. I think we

00:11:14 - 00:11:23 | Speaker 2:

can take a couple of guesses, though. And then amazing, and he's a Democrat. And then long after this uh this is pretty amazing stuff there is actually one more let's go to the news people

00:11:23 - 00:11:47 | Speaker 1:

because it's fun gillam who'd reportedly been found vomiting in the bathroom was later allowed to leave the hotel to go home police also released these photos showing the mess left behind stained pillowcases and sheets pills and bottles of pills spilled in various places police also removed what they suspected to be three small bags of crystal meth.

00:11:48 - 00:12:52 | Speaker 2:

Ah, yes, we got crystal meth back then. You know, but I've got to say, I've got to pause this again because there's something very important here, and that is the NAACP Image Award, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. They still say colored people over there. And they gave them an image award because this is the kind of person that, if you're a black family, You want to raise your kids to view as the, you know, the model for your kids going forward because, you know, the Democrat Party and that's the party of slavery in the plantation. They're still still taking care of black people. The NAACP Image Award for Andrew Gillum because of the gay meth crack parties in the hotels and the arrests and the losing political races in an amazing. And the news media, they loved the story at the time, and as they should have loved it at the time. It was a heck of a story at the time. And here's our fun news people wrapping it up for us.

00:12:52 - 00:13:19 | Speaker 1:

Police say those suspected drugs were eventually impounded. No criminal charges were ever filed. And Gillum claimed he was here in South Florida for a wedding. He has since apologized and says he never has used methamphetamines, but he did say that after that unsuccessful bid for governor, he did fall into depression, started abusing alcohol and he has since entered into rehab we reached out to all three of the men who were involved in this incident that night have not yet heard back yeah live here in miami

00:13:19 - 00:15:00 | Speaker 2:

beach larry livingston local 10 news thanks larry livingston uh local 10 news that uh that's good so and back then say you never use methamphetamine and he was just arrested with methamphetamine in his car by himself with the joints in alabama uh where you probably get jail time for methamphetamine and driving around with all that stuff, isn't that amazing? So arrested again, and for methamphetamine and pot, which is, I think, legal everywhere that I go in D.C. based on the aromas and remarkable stuff. There is methamphetamine. But he say he never used it. He just started using meth after that. That's what he'll say when he gets to court in Alabama, no doubt. Amazing Democrat Party stuff. All right. We do have the mailbag still coming up. And again, this is this is the guy that they that they ran for governor, almost beat Ron DeSantis. And he's a meth head, a dope smoking meth head. And it's fine if that's what you want to be. You know, look at Hunter Biden. He's not a meth head. He's a he's a crack head and a coke head. But crack cocaine, I think, is his preferred thing. They still haven't figured out who dropped that cocaine in the Biden White House either. We may never know. It's just going to be one of those great mysteries for the ages. But I do have – we've got a short segment coming up, and then we've got the mailbag, because today is Mailbag Wednesday. And, again, this guy was this close to being governor of Florida rather than Ron DeSantis. And then what, everybody would get free meth and free crack. The Democrat Party needs to be disbanded. And you need to stop selling – oh, he's the first.

00:15:00 - 00:15:42 | Speaker 3:

First black guy to be arrested for methamphetamine in Daphne, Alabama. Maybe they should do something on that. The first black man to be caught naked in a hotel room in Miami with crack and meth and pot and whiskey and passed out naked men all over the place when the police showed up. And none of that stays on your permanent record when you're a Democrat because they may still want you to run for governor again or maybe president because, you know, then he'd be the second black man to be president of the United States with a background in methamphetamine. What a time it is. You're listening to The Chris Plant Show.

00:15:45 - 00:16:14 | Speaker 1:

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00:16:14 - 00:16:41 | Speaker 3:

all right we're back and uh we have the uh the mailbag coming up still coming up this hour uh right now let's go to the telephones let's go to mad jack calling from florida because you got to go to mad jack calling from florida mad jack you're on the chris plant show good morning

00:16:41 - 00:18:01 | Speaker 4:

Christopher, Matt Jack here. Christopher, I know I'll have a short time, but using your contacts in Washington, D.C., all of them from the Supreme Court right on to the Pentagon, somebody at the Pentagon, hopefully Secretary of War, can brief President Trump on the 12 Days of Christmas bombardment, which almost brought North Vietnamese to their knees. As you might have read, General Japp, Vo Quinn Japp, said in an interview about 10 years after that bombing attack, had we kept it up for three more days and nights, North Vietnam was going to hands up surrender. And that's what we need to do in Iran. We don't need any more Vietnams, don't need an armistice like in Korea. we need to win we we need to win the last win we got was granada and and that's one that i was in so i insisted on the win so is there any way you i know you have contacts throughout washington so they someone can brief our commander-in-chief on we need to have to sustain bombing until they

00:18:01 - 00:18:17 | Speaker 3:

fully surrender so the regime is gone the islamic revolution is gone um and you went into 1983 you went into grenada with her armed forces did you i i did sir and my son god bless him he uh he and a

00:18:17 - 00:18:30 | Speaker 4:

friend of his made a board game about me with pictures and i'm in magazines uh thanks to them all right that's fun blew up far more than than than what i did i jokingly said i won the war

00:18:30 - 00:18:55 | Speaker 3:

the great war in the caribbean the great word it was good i spent i spent a month in grenada one time when i left cnn i uh got on an airplane i went to grenada and spent a month in grenada kayaking and riding a bicycle and enjoyed myself uh very much mad jack i liked it i liked it a lot it was a sweet island i still have some scrubs from the medical school there this is the chris

00:18:55 - 00:18:56 | Speaker 2:

Plant Show.

00:19:17 - 00:20:00 | Speaker 3:

I tell you what, online I went looking for Matt Jack's board game out of Grenada. I haven't found it yet, but I may keep looking. Because, you know, I'm going to find the Grenada board game. Yeah, and that's fun, I've got to say. Great stuff. It is Sun made the board game. How much fun is that? That's wonderful stuff. Just great. Just great. It is Mailbag Day. I haven't found it yet, but I'm still looking. Remarkable things going on all over the world, aren't there? because, well, the left and the Islamists have joined forces and the Democrats.

00:20:00 - 00:22:44 | Speaker 1:

Party in the United States of America. They've joined forces with the Islamists and the gangs, you know, and Mexico and every place else. They're not on our side. Boy, are these people not on our side. Let me tell you that. All right. Now, let me get to the mailbag because it's Wednesday, and it's not hump day here at the Chris Plant Show. It's mailbag day, And I'm going to jump right in with my mailbag question, starting with Eduardo. Eduardo, and I may have spoken to Eduardo out of Florida on the telephone. Eduardo says, Chris, you've been sharing a lot of well-researched content quotes from John Adams, etc., on social media about the American Revolution and founding era lately, and I've been enjoying it. Do you recommend any books? Do you recommend any books? And good stuff. I've got to say fun things. And we're kicking this around today, and Kevin jumped in, and he says, our friend Kevin, who helps with the mailbag and social media and all kinds of great stuff, Kevin Tobert, he says, tell Eduardo that I highly recommend The Glorious Cause by Robert Middlecoff, The Glorious Cause by Robert Middlecoff. And he actually attached a photo of it in the emails there. And also, I was going to say when I first saw the question, also I was going to say Ameritopia, the Mark Levin, the great Mark Levin, the great one and his great books. But all the Mark Levin books are great ones, of course. And On Power, On Power by Mark Levin as well. Great stuff because, you know, Mark Levin loves America. He's on Team America. He's on our side, and he writes great, great stuff. And I've got to get to work myself writing books because, you know, now I've got all this free time on my hands now that I stopped doing television and everything. But Kevin wanted to jump in there, too, with his selection of late The Glorious Cause. And Kevin's a great thinker and a great guy, so I bet that's – I haven't read it myself yet, but Kevin wanted it in there, so I shared it. And I'm going to recommend Mark Levin because, hey, he's a friend and his books are so great and pro-American and fact-based and history that's true and verifiable and all that good stuff, already verified, in fact, great stuff. But, Eduardo, fun question and so much to talk about, isn't there? You know, history is on the line. The left is here to rewrite, to demolish history, to reinvent it.

00:22:44 - 00:25:43 | Speaker 1:

Isn't that what they always do? They're reimagining. That's what they're always doing. Reimagining things, which is a mental problem, I think. Reimagining. What are you reimagining? Did you imagine it in the first place? Because you might need help if that's the case. But thank you, Eduardo. And let's go to our next question from Ray Dorman. Ray Dorman. And Ray says, Chris, do you think the Republicans should have a big tent outlining what they want in it to outshine the Democrats? And good question. I've got to say, you know, this big tent, the Democrats are using this big tent party a lot, the phrase. They're using that a lot lately. And it reminds me of the Occupy Wall Street movements when they had to set up the sexual assault tents at all of their encampments. Remember, that was a big tent because there were so many rapes happening in New York and beyond because they set up these Occupy Wall Street things all over the country, college campuses and stuff. And there was so much sexual assault going on because every Democrat is a sexual deviant and a criminal, apparently. and so many sexual assaults going on at these gatherings that they literally had to set up big tent. They had to pay, you know, with George Soros' money, pay big tent companies to come in and set up wedding tents and things like that. I did that when I was a teenager in Chicago, worked for a company that set up the big tents for, well, Milwaukee Fest in Milwaukee and big for backyards for weddings and things like that. That was a hard job. That was a tough job, but not important. Now, the big tent, I've got to say, you know, the Democrats claim they have a big tent because they racialize everything, and they're like, yeah, bring that black guy over here who's smoking meth. Bring that crackhead over who we ran for governor in Florida. Stand him here because, you know, he's the first black guy to stand right here and smoke methamphetamine in a glass pipe, and they're very proud of that. and he gets the NAACP Image Award because it's the image that the NAACP is promoting. Meth-smoking, dope-smoking criminals who are... fleeing their wives and getting caught up with naked men in hotel rooms and – but like that. I think the Republicans kind of do have a big tent. They just don't explain it well, you know. I mean, if you're a Democrat and you're black, you need to read a little history. If you're a Democrat and you're Jewish, you need to read the newspaper. If you're a Democrat and you're a woman, you need to stay away from all the Democrat men around because they're all sexual deviants and mentally ill and violent. and criminally insane uh so that uh you know but i honestly i think ray that the the republicans uh should explain that so many people that uh that the democrats claim are in their their rape tent

00:25:43 - 00:28:43 | Speaker 1:

i think it's always a rape tent isn't it uh that uh that that those people shouldn't be a part of the democrat party and really i wish sometimes that i were the not for long uh the speaker of the house so i could come out and hold a press conference and start telling the truth about the democrat party and what goes on in politics in washington and the big lie that is the democrats but but ray i do think that the republicans if they could explain themselves they should hire me for a lot of money to explain how they should say these things um and just uh you know just uh crazy crazy stuff because those those wacky democrats i also it's funny i you know i know some people around town and my friend my friend bill texted me we're talking about grenada and my scrubs and i spent a month in grenada kayaking and riding a bicycle and and he says hey um my stepbrother was one of the medical students at saint george's in grenada who was evacuated the medical school who was evacuated from grenada it was the united states marine corps I was doing that. And I remember the Democrats lying about President Reagan going into Grenada where communists had come in. They built a long runway for Soviet bombers that was only needed for Soviet bombers and not for airliners and tourism. And the Democrats lied about it then. And they had killed the Maurice Bishop, the leader there, lined him up against the wall and shot him and killed him. I went to that wall and stood there. I might have a picture of me against the wall where they killed him and executed him, because that's what commies do. And the invasion, liberating the medical school there and all that good stuff. And then a couple of days, that happened, the invasion, a couple of days after terrorists bombed the Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, killing 241 Marines. And the Democrats then, I remember saying, oh, Reagan staged a fake invasion of Grenada to distract attention from his failure in Beirut with the Marine Corps barracks bombing. Because the Democrats have been filthy, pathological psychos for a long, long time. And they said all that stuff then. But, of course, the ships had already been pre-positioned off the coast of Grenada in the Caribbean before the Beirut bombing. But the Democrats, they lie about everything. Yeah, and my friend, Bill, yeah, he said, I asked him, what's he doing now? And he says, well, he's partially retired now, but he's practicing OBGYN in Florida and went to medical school in Grenada. That's fun. It's a small planet we have here, isn't it? All right, and Ray Dorman, let me just say, the Republicans have a big tent party. They just don't know how to explain it, and they should pay me a lot of money, and I'll help them to put together phrases. They could even bumper stickerize them if they wanted. Remarkable stuff. And outshine the Democrats.

00:28:43 - 00:31:37 | Speaker 1:

Really, I've got to say, Ray, I think that the Republicans have a much better argument. The Democrats lie about everything and they pretend socialism is going to solve all your problems and you're going to get free stuff and somebody else is going to pay for it and not you. And they lie about everything. And you've got to have Republicans that can. I'd like to see Thune and Mike Johnson out at the podium more frequently beating the hell out of the Democrats for the flabbergasting sacks of Julia that they are. You know what I mean? I just, the Republicans need to make the case. They, you know, the Democrats say, oh, big tent, big tent. Yeah, sure, right. Bring security when you go into their big tent, these people. But, yeah, Ray, it's just that Republicans need to learn how to message as a verb. The Democrats can do that. They can't do anything else efficiently, but they can do that. Thank you, Ray. The next question comes from Bamo, B-A-M-M-O. I like Bamo. He said, oh, and he says, Have you been invited to the rescheduled White House Correspondents' Dinner on July 24th at the Waldorf Astoria on Pennsylvania Avenue? Will you attend, he asks. Here is the... Here's the reality. I have not been invited. My best girl and I have not been invited. We weren't invited the first time. The reality is those invitations come from media organizations, right? And I might have, in fact, at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, I was not invited when the first one happened by Newsmax TV, even though I think they had a table there or something. And the radio people, and I work for Cumulus Radio and Westwood One Radio, and I have no idea whether they attended the White House Correspondents' Dinner or not, but if they did attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner, they didn't invite any of the on-air people from Washington to go to the White House Correspondents' Dinner. And this time, not only was I not invited to the new reconstituted, the rescheduled White House Correspondents' Association dinner this year, Now, I have been to a great many of them over the years, and I don't clamor necessarily to go there, but they can be fun. You see friends and things sometimes. But this time, I've got to say, Bamo, that I'm going to be with my best girl out of the country for this White House Correspondents at Dinner on the 24th. Because my best girl and I, we leave the country on, let's see, a week from this Friday. We leave on the 17th of July for we fly into Venice and then we go to Trieste by train where we will board a ship. We got planes, trains and automobiles and ships already.

00:31:37 - 00:34:37 | Speaker 1:

But we we leave the country on the 17th to join our friends for our annual sea cruise, annual sea cruise. So I would not be here for the dinner, even if I had been invited. But since you asked, not invited in the first place, so I don't have to snub anyone at all, and that's kind of nice. And, yeah, we're going to be on an extremely luxurious ship in the Adriatic Sea going to Croatia and Montenegro and Greece and lots of nice places, islands and things. Yeah, but I won't be here. Fun question, though. Yeah, there was a time when I was like, oh, the White House dinner. And, you know, it was a big thrill every year. Now, for me, anyway, it's a little bit of a yawn. But that's it. Maybe I'm just becoming too jaded, this advanced stage. But a fun question. And it is at the Waldorf Astoria on Pennsylvania, which is the old post office pavilion building, which was called for by Benjamin Franklin. And then it became the Trump Hotel when the Trump family redid that beautiful building. And then they offloaded that property, and the Waldorf Astoria is now there. You can go there for a delicious $32 cheeseburger. They've got a nice $32 cheeseburger there. Next question, Walmart Shopper asks, Hi, Chris, what's the deal with, one, Mitch McConnell, and, two, his wife, who reportedly went to China during his hospitalization? Walmart shopper, those are good and legitimate questions. And the information on Mitch McConnell, who has apparently been in intensive care in the hospital for, what is it, about three weeks, about three weeks. Now, we know very little about his condition. There were reports, I think probably false reports, that he was in a coma. I don't believe that to be true. His wife, Elaine Chao, repeated cabinet secretary in George W. Bush's administration and then in Donald Trump's first administration, comes from a Taiwanese family, Taiwan, China. The family runs a foundation, and according to the family and Elaine Chao's people, she has people, she's there dealing with family foundation issues. and apparently not too worried about the turtle because he's chugging along in a hospital back here. Maybe they're in constant touch. Maybe they're doing Zoom calls or FaceTime calls or something. That would be a little scary, wouldn't it? And what's with him? They claim it's the family foundation, her family foundation. And what's the deal with Mitch McConnell? I don't think he's doing too well. He's planning on stepping down from the Senate after this go-round, and that means in January he will leave the Senate permanently. But we'll see about all that. Randy, our final mailbag question.

00:34:37 - 00:34:59 | Speaker 1:

Randy asks, hey, Chris, you mentioned Monty Python a lot on your show. What is your favorite bit from Monty Python? That's really a tough one. He says, I have two faves. One is the lumberjack song. I'm a lumberjack, and I'm okay. You know, I sleep all night, and I work all day. And I dress up in ladies clothes and that's, you know, again, the Democrats have taken.

00:35:00 - 00:37:12 | Speaker 5:

And everything that used to be satire in Monty Python and Mel Brooks movies, the Democrats have turned into reality. You know, they're all lumberjacks now, and they sleep all night, and they don't work much all day. And the other is The Bishop. The Bishop. That's a good one. Randy, I love so much Monty Python. I mean, the movie, obviously, The Holy Grail and The Black Knight at the Bridge of Death and Come Back, I'll Bite Your Legs Off. It's Only a Scratch, Just a Flesh Wound. But you're also referencing something, you know, that Lumberjack song and all that good stuff from the TV show, which was on public broadcasting decades ago, decades ago. And I'm often reminded of the Robin Hood. Remember the Robin Hood thing? And what was his name? They didn't call him Robin Hood. They called him. Oh, Dennis Moore. Thank you. Yeah, Jeff knows Dennis Moore. Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore riding through the Glen. Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore with his band of men. steals from the poor, gives to the rich, stupid bitch, right? And that's because that's about, and those guys were making fun, the Monty Python guys were making fun of wealth redistribution in the United Kingdom, in England back then, and how stupidly it was all working out, the redistribution of wealth. And they mocked it with their Dennis Moore skit with fake Robin Hood, and he's the lupins in their pants, their big feathers, and they're all living in palaces in their underwear because Dennis Moore, the Robin Hood-like guy, came by and stole everything from them to redistribute wealth. And then the people living in the palaces had no furniture and no candelabras and no food and no clothes. And the people living in shacks were all dressed like the Queen of France and had silver candelabra everywhere. That's the plural of candelabra and all that good stuff. Yeah, Monty Python is just an endless treasure trove of great stuff, wonderful stuff. All right, that's our mailbag for today. Fun questions and end with Monty Python, no less. Got to love Monty Python.

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All right, we do have a sound bite. I know that I'm running out the clock on us here, but let's go to the Egyptian soccer team, the national soccer team. Before they go out on the field, they call it the pitch over there. They do kind of a little prayer where they disparage Christians and Jews. Listen to the little chant kind of prayer in the locker room before going out to play kickball.

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Sure.

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They really seem to know the words, don't they? They know the words together. And it turns out that this Islamic chant disparages somewhat subtly the Christians and the Jews because, you know, they're getting ready to play kickball.

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