This is the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review Podcast for Friday, July 25th, 2025. This week, Stephen Colbert gets cancelled, Hunter Biden defends Crack, and Tulsi Gabbard drops former President Barack Obama directly into the hot seat. That and more coming up on the Week in Review.
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Thank you.
SPEAKER 06 :
Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. It’s Friday, July 25th, 2025. This week, Stephen Colbert gets canceled, Hunter Biden defends crack cocaine, and Democrats, well, they go mental. Let’s begin with the only story that really matters. Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, released new documents that point to a massive government conspiracy reportedly led by Barack Obama himself. There’s all kinds of news. I mean, there really is. But there’s only one story that matters. There’s only one story that you need to be aware of. In a time when it’s all coming at us from all different directions and we’re doing our best to keep up, and we’re all doing our best to keep up, I hope you are aware of what the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, discovered and announced Friday after we got off the air. A bombshell announcement suggesting that the Obama administration whipped up this Russia investigation in what Tulsi Gabbard described as a treasonous conspiracy.
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The implications of this are frankly nothing short of historic. Over 100 documents that we released on Friday really detail and provide evidence of how this treasonous conspiracy was directed by President Obama just once. weeks before he was due to leave office after President Trump had already gotten elected. This is not a Democrat or Republican issue. This is an issue that is so serious it should concern every single American because it has to do with the integrity of our Democratic Republic. What we saw occur here, as the documents we released detailed, was that we had a sitting president of the United States and his cabinet and leadership team, quite frankly, who were not happy with the fact that President Trump had won the election, that the American people had chosen Donald J. Trump to be the next president, commander in chief of the United States. And so they decided that they would do everything possible to try to undermine his ability to do what voters tasked him. President Trump to do. So creating this piece of manufactured intelligence that claims that Russia had helped Donald Trump get elected, contradicted every other assessment that had been made previously in the months leading up to the election that said exactly the opposite, that Russia neither had neither the intent nor the capability to try to, quote unquote, hack the United States election for the presidency of the United States. So the effect of what President Obama and his senior national security team did was subvert the will of the American people, undermining our democratic republic and enacting what would be essentially a years-long coup against president trump who was duly elected by the american people now i know the temptation is great to shrug your shoulders and to yawn and say okay what’s next but you if you care about
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the rule of law, if you care about the Constitution, if you care about the country, whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat or you’re completely politically agnostic, you’ve got to care about this. If it’s true that the Obama administration knew before and after the election in 2016 that Russia did not affect the vote’s outcome through cyber attacks, If this is true, that the U.S. intelligence community assessed that Russia played no significant role in impacting the election, if this is true, that they knew all along that the Russia collusion narrative was a hoax and they did nothing to stop it, they were trying to subvert and sabotage the Trump presidency. And if you go through the timeline and you look at what was released by the Justice Department, by our current intelligence community, Tulsi Gabbard released these documents to the Department of Justice to deliver the accountability that Trump, his family, and the American people deserve. Independent reporter Matt Taibbi weighed in on the alleged plot involving Obama. During an appearance on Fox News, Taibbi offered some important perspective on this massive scandal. Tulsi Gabbard is now telling reporters that this was manufactured intelligence that led to a treasonous conspiracy to commit a years-long coup against the Trump administration. I want you to hear a conversation… between Fox News Channel’s Bill Hemmer and Matt Taibbi. Matt Taibbi is a veteran investigative journalist, and he had some very intriguing and compelling things to say about this bombshell, and I do mean bombshell with a capital B, that was revealed after we got off the air Friday, and I want to make sure you are well aware of it today on Monday.
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A lot of the usual suspects, Clapper, Comey, Brennan, etc. But also Barack Obama is mentioned in a lot of this. And you read Iraqi news that a source had told you that Obama is now, quote, center square in the Russiagate scam. Go ahead and explain that. Then I’ve got questions for you after that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Sure. So the last major revelation that came out was that Trump, John Brennan and James Comey were the focus of criminal investigations that have been opened by the Justice Department. But these new documents that were released by Tulsi Gabbard and the director of national intelligence make it clear that the investigation is now aimed at the Obama White House. And in particular, Barack Obama, because of decisions that were made in early December of 2016 to suppress the presidential daily briefing and go ahead and order a new intelligence community assessment that ultimately would have much more aggressive conclusions about Trump and Russia.
SPEAKER 03 :
Hmm. So a lot of this December 2016 into January of 2017, I’m assuming also, you know, but Trump’s people were in there for four years and the current CIA director had his job for eight months at the time. I just did his people fail him. Why wasn’t there more urgency on this and Trump 1.0 as there is now?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, that’s a complaint I heard a lot over the weekend from people who have been following this and even from former officials who are close to Trump. One of them said to me, a former high ranking Trump official said there was, quote, so much corruption in the last Trump presidency that this shouldn’t have been overlooked, that these documents should have come out. Absolutely. But the overall sense I get is that everyone’s happy that they finally are coming out and they’re looking forward to what is likely to come out this week.
SPEAKER 03 :
OK, another question about Russia is the allegation they were trying to influence our election or is the allegation that they actually change votes? I think we need to be clear on that. What can we say?
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So it’s both. The Democrats are making a lot of hay over this apples and oranges issue that there was never any question that they didn’t actually change vote tallies, but they did influence the election. Actually, there was some question about whether they had the ability to influence the election. There were quotes earlier from that. From that year with the FBI saying they didn’t have any evidence that they had done so and they were uncomfortable making that statement. There were also quotes saying that they lacked evidence that Russia had the ability to impact the outcome of the election. So all of this would have been passed on. to somebody like michael flynn um because presidents elect are entitled to receive the presidential daily briefing that’s why this is important it’s not so much what the pdb did say it’s what it didn’t say it didn’t say that there was a sweeping conspiracy to help trump and if they had that it would have been a very different political picture going forward okay it looks like it’s the doj’s call next and we’ll see what they do
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Well, it’s a big story. It’s a huge story. And I want to make sure you’re well aware of it. There were so many surprises this week, I don’t think anyone anticipated CBS’s announcement that they’re going to cancel The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Chief among those caught off guard? Well, Stephen Colbert himself. They think that this nagging, partisan scold, this hack… who believes that Adam Schiff is a good headline guest, he’s more important in their world than the actual President of the United States. So this should get good, because I can’t wait until Big Tish goes after Big Stephen, or goes after Big Trump. Because Big Steven is big mad. The Writers Guild of America. And the only reason they’re calling on her is because they know she’s stupid enough to go for it. She might accept it. She might say, yep, we have to have a full scale. I’ll bet they’ve already begun the investigation. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Oh my gosh. Here is a writer… They rounded up a writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to appear on CNN. I don’t even know what the writer’s name is. Some no-name writer went whining to CNN about how mean and awful it is that CBS would pull the plug on their show that is clearly tanking. You lose $40 million a year, something is going wrong. And I can speak from experience. I’m a decades-long broadcaster. I’ve been at this for, you know, 40-plus years. No one is going to hire you to host a talk show. And look, it could be at the level that I’m at, or it could be at a TV network level like Stephen Colbert. You don’t get to stay if you’re hemorrhaging money. It doesn’t work. Nobody stands by a show that is bleeding money, right? But check out this writer, a guest on CNN explaining, well, Stephen Colbert Colbert brings an awful lot to the table. Reportedly, the show show lost up to 40 million dollars last year.
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OK, so that’s a lot of money. But as I said, it is the top rated show. I mean, when you hear this is financial, this is financial. There’s nothing else to see here. Do you think that’s right?
SPEAKER 02 :
No, I don’t. And I don’t for a couple of reasons. I mean, first, this show has not taken any of the steps that other late night shows have taken to cut costs to stay on the air. And also, you know, profit and loss reports don’t account for a lot of ways in which a show like The Late Show with Stephen Colbert brings value to CBS and to Paramount. The Late Show is referenced in almost every quarterly Paramount investor call that we could find. Right. Right. Oh, wow. And I think that the right and that’s because of the tremendous brand value that this has for the company. When you think about CBS, one of the first people you think about is Stephen Colbert. And so I think that the right the wrong question is, was this was their financial problems? I think the question is, why was this canceled?
SPEAKER 08 :
Was it because of a. Well, and as you point out, if you have the top rated show with something that is part of pop culture and, you know, ubiquitous in American culture, then would you try to do everything you could to keep it? as opposed to jettisoning it so quickly.
SPEAKER 06 :
You know the wildest part of that clip? The CNN interviewer is acknowledging that the show is losing $40 million a year. No one’s pushing back against that. Have you noticed that? Nobody’s saying, oh, that’s not true. We’re breaking even. We’re making a little bit. We’re making $5, $10 million a year for CBS. No, no. They all acknowledge it’s losing $40 million a year, and then they’re all… stomping their feet and throwing a hissy fit because the show’s being canceled. Don’t worry. Do you think Jimmy Kimmel is going to criticize Trump any less? How about Jimmy Fallon? How about MSNBC, CNN, all the rest of them? Don’t worry. There’s not going to be a shortage of Trump criticism because this pompous ass, Stephen Colbert, gets the boot. Don’t worry. The anti-Trump mindset in America is going strong. And it ain’t going to go away. Gosh, you know, I come back to a very highly sophisticated technical rule that I think applies to these people. I say it ever so often. I believe it with all of my heart. These people are nuts. These people are absolutely crazy. They’re nuts. They’re out of their minds. 800-655-MIKE. Look, I don’t want to spend two minutes on Stephen Colbert. I don’t care. I have never, I can honestly tell you this. I have watched one second of Stephen Colbert’s Late Show in my entire life. We’ve played, I guess, clips on this show. Never in my life have I watched Stephen Colbert. Maybe you have. And maybe he really is a beloved genius. Yeah, here’s a beloved genius. Here he was last night.
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Friday, Donald Trump posted, I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings. How dare you, sir? Would an untalented man be able to compose the following satirical witticism? Go f*** yourself.
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And incidentally, I know that on paper, you know, it sounds like a joke. Oh, look how witty I am and sophisticated in telling Trump to go f*** himself. But the look of rage on his face, it’s more than a little unnerving. Oh, no, no, this guy’s unhinged. You know how people, you can joke, sometimes you tell a joke and you think, well, I’m just kidding, but you’re really trying. He’s filled with rage. This guy has got almost a look of violence on his face when he turned into that close-up and he said, hey, Trump, go F yourself. Oh, no, no, the hatred that these people have in their hearts is kind of scary. because they’re capable of anything. The controversy over Florida’s so-called alligator Alcatraz has reached stunning levels of absurdity. Believe it or not, the left now says Florida’s favorite reptiles are racist. There’s a new twist on the opposition. Share with us what the latest complaint is, at least from Axios, about alligator Alcatraz.
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Well, that alligators are racist. This is kind of a ridiculous level of discourse that has been brought up. The Democrats do not like alligator Alcatraz at all. And an alligator expert says the idea that alligators lust for human flesh is rooted in racism, dating back to Jim Crow and tourists could buy postcards illustrating black children as gator bait. Now, we did have some very bad times in the racist era, but the idea around alligators being inherently dangerous, according to Mark Ashera, a wildlife expert, is wrong. I tend to disagree. Alligators are quite dangerous. They do attack people and dogs and anything else if they’re hungry.
SPEAKER 06 :
If they’re hungry. Maybe it depends on whether they’ve eaten or not.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes. Now, the false but racist belief that alligators inherently like the taste of black fresh flesh proliferated in the South. It was just one of these racist myths. Alligators like any flesh. They like dogs. They like cats. They like you. They like me. If we happen to be there in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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And they’ll make excellent guards. Not according to Axios. They prefer apparently black children as gator bait, according to the Jim Crow era. And therefore, I mean, I’m not kidding you, Roger. You’ve been a newsman a long time. I know I don’t want to ask you to rip into fellow journalists, but this is an actual article at Axios Tampa Bay. A woman named Catherine Varn headline alligator Alcatraz leans on myth steeped in racism. The fact is the alligator lusting for human flesh. rooted in racism, dating back to Jim Crow, and they include a postcard in the article, Roger, of little black kids sitting on the bank and they’re portrayed as gator bait. I mean, Roger, you can’t make this stuff up.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, and the people who are in Alligator Alcatraz are of a variety of races, most of them white, Hispanics who are going back to their countries, and they will bite them or anybody else. You and I were talking about going down there and checking the security and maybe having me go in the water and see how bad it is, but… No, alligators will eat you, whether you’re fat, thin, white, black, any race. If they’re hungry, they’re very, very dangerous.
SPEAKER 06 :
And you can confirm that. As a decades-long Florida newsman, just to confirm, there are numerous examples, news stories of alligators. Attacking humans, correct? And dogs.
SPEAKER 05 :
And most of the humans they attack. Yes, there are. And most of the humans they attack happen to be white.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thank you, Roger. I appreciate it. Roger P. Shulman, I’m telling you, we’re stepping into a level of madness that is unprecedented. I’m not kidding you. Key to the marketing ploy, they write at Axios, underpinning Florida’s detention camp in the Everglades is the alligator, portrayed by Republican leaders as a bloodthirsty prison guard ready to attack anyone who escapes. Nothing about that portrayal is accurate. Experts in alligator biology and history tell Axios. And not only is it inaccurate, they don’t really want to eat people and dogs and stuff. The idea of the alligator lusting for human flesh rooted in racism. The idea as ferocious human-eating beasts dates back to accounts from William Bartram, a naturalist from Philadelphia, who in the late 18th century traveled to the southeast. And there’s the myth, the belief that, the false racist belief that alligators liked the taste of black flesh. Oh boy. Oh boy. MyPillow employees and Mike want to thank you for all your support. 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Their unhinged hatred forced us to ask the question, are these people actually mentally ill? Here’s my question for you, and then I promise we’re going to get on to a lot of other stuff that we have covered for you today. But this is what intrigues me, and Michael from Kentucky just put it in proper perspective. He said, look, people that let an election ruin their lives need psychiatric help. No other explanation needed. These are people who are mentally unwell. So my question for you is, I mean, number one, do you agree with that? Do you think that people who are this shattered by the Trump presidency and by Republicans being in charge again are mentally ill? And were they already mentally unwell prior to the election? And this just turbocharged their challenges? Or did the election cause them to become mentally ill? I’m telling you, I’m fascinated by this kind of stuff. I love talking about human behavior, why people do what they do. I could watch videos. I go to bed at night sometimes, and I watch videos of people interacting with other people. The Karen videos always get a lot of airplay. They always get tons of viral attention. People that are just, the behavior of human beings when it’s awful just intrigues me. So let me just ask you that question. Is Michael in Kentucky right that these are people who are mentally ill, They’ve got severe, or maybe not even severe, but they’ve got some psychological, and I’m not trying to mock mental illness or mental health challenges. That’s not something that, you know, I’m making fun of. I’m just wondering if you think that the Ellen DeGeneres, and it’s not about her. So I got a couple of text messages. Nobody cares about it. I get it. I know that. I know that I’m not talking about Ellen. I’m talking about anybody who got broken by November 2024. You know people like this. I know people like this. I’ve got people in my life. I’ll probably never speak to them again. They don’t want to talk to me ever again. And I’m not sure the friendship is ever coming back. There are families fractured all over America. Kids who aren’t talking to their parents. Parents who aren’t talking to their kids. Brothers who aren’t talking to their sisters. Is it, and I’m not trying to be glib here, is it mental illness? And meanwhile, President Trump just keeps on winning. You know, I know that this week we’ve been talking about Trump’s six-month anniversary. It’s been six months since he took the oath of office. And we haven’t spent enough time sort of celebrating the wins, looking at the reality. When we talk about the nuts that are outside the Stephen Colbert theater or whatever it is, we really do lose sight of reality. The victories, the achievements, the accomplishments of the last six months. If you’re able to avoid the noise, if you can kind of Tune out the crazies right now and keep things in perspective. You should be able to be very proud of your vote in November of 2024. Victor Davis Hanson wrote a piece about the six-month mark. of the Trump presidency. I want to read this column to you almost word for word. I don’t normally read everything, and I won’t be able to get it all in for time constraints, but I want to read the important part, the important parts of his tremendous column. Again, this is the great Victor Davis Hanson. In less than six months, the entire world has been turned upside down. There is no longer such a thing as conventional wisdom or the status quo, he says. The unthinkable has become the banal. Take illegal immigration. Remember the 10,000 daily illegal entries under former President Biden? 10,000 a day. Recall the only solution was supposedly comprehensive immigration reform? A euphemism for mass amnesty? Now there is no such thing as daily new illegal immigration. It simply disappeared with common sense enforcement of existing immigration laws and a new president. How about the 40 to 50,000 shortfall in military recruitment, Victor Davis Hanson asks. Remember all the causes that the generals cited for their inability to enlist soldiers? Obesity, drugs, stiff competition with private industry. And now? And now? In just six months? Recruitment targets are already met. The issue is mostly moot. Why? because the new Pentagon flipped the old, canceling its racist DEI programs and assuring the rural middle-class Americans, especially white males, that they were not systemically racist after all. Instead, they were re-invited to enlist as the critical combat cohort who died at twice their demographic share in Iraq and Afghanistan. How about the end of the NATO crisis? quote-unquote, supposedly brought on by a bullying United States. Now the vast majority of NATO members have met their pledges to spend 2% of GDP on defense, which will soon increase to 5%. Iconic neutrals like Sweden, like Finland, have become frontline NATO nations, arming to the teeth. The smiling NATO Secretary General even called President Trump the daddy of the alliance. What about the indomitable, all-powerful, theocratic Iran, the scourge of the Middle East for nearly 50 years? Although it had never won a war in the last half century, its terrorist surrogates, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis, were supposedly too dangerous to provoke, remember? Well, now, now, most of their expeditionary terrorists are neutered and their leaders are in hiding or dead. Iran has no air force, no real navy, no air defenses, no active nuclear weapons program. Its safety apparently only depends on the mood of America or Israel on any given day, not to fly into its airspace and take out its missiles, nuclear sites, generals, and theocrats at will. What happened to the supposedly inevitable recession, Victor Davis Hanson wants to know? The hyperinflation, the stock market collapse, unemployment spikes, global trade war that last spring economists assured us would hit by summer. Well, here we are, summer, mid-July. Job growth is strong. April’s inflation rate is the lowest in four years. GDP is still steady. The stock market hit a record high. Trade partners are renegotiating their surpluses with America. Turns out that staying in the American consumer market is the top priority of our trading partners. Seems their pre-existing and mostly undisclosed profits were large enough to afford reasonable Americans symmetrical tariffs. For now, news of tax cuts, deregulation, drill-baby-drill energy policies displacing the Green New Deal strangulation. It has deterred, it has stimulated, encouraged rather than deterred business. Then there were our marquee elite universities whose prestige, riches, and powerful alumni made them answerable to nobody. And now? Now? After the executive and congressional crackdown on their decades of hubris? Supposedly brilliant university presidents have resigned in shame and disgrace. The public has caught on to their grant surcharge gouging. Campuses have backed off their arrogant defiance of the Supreme Court’s civil rights rulings. They’re panicked about the public exposure of their systemic anti-Semitism. They’re scrambling to explain away their institutionalized ideological bias, their tawdry profit-making schemes. The mighty Ivy League powerhouses are now humbling themselves to cut a deal to save their financial rear ends. Victor Davis Hanson says, what has flipped everything? What has turned it all on its ear? Why is everything upside down? We were living in an emperor has no clothes make-believe world for the last few years, he writes. The people knew establishment narratives were absurd, and our supposed experts were even more ridiculous. But now, but few until now, had the guts to scream, the emperor is naked, to dispel the fantasies. When they finally did… reality returned. Thank you, Victor Davis Hanson, a voice of reason, a voice of sanity, a voice of truth. Hunter Biden sat down for a freewheeling interview on a podcaster this week, and by freewheeling, whoa, you’ll see this guy all over the place. Here is what Hunter Biden said on this podcast, Channel 5 News, with Andrew Callahan, a couple of them sitting under a tree in a backyard somewhere.
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Like all these Democrats say, you have to talk about and realize that people are really upset about illegal immigration. You, how do you think your hotel room gets cleaned? How do you think you have food on your… And who do you think is here by the sheer just grit and will that they figured out a way to get here because they thought that they could give themselves and their family a better chance? And he’s somehow convinced all of us that these people are criminals.
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You know, a couple of illegals that Hunter Biden defends just shot an off-duty Border Patrol agent in New York City in the face. These are two criminal illegal aliens with rap sheets as long as your arm that his daddy led into the country. But Hunter’s more worried about who’s going to clean up his hotel room. This is who Democrats are. This is Hunter Biden. And you know what’s really sickening? I saw Greg Gutfeld yesterday. Oh, I kind of like the guy. Oh, he’s authentic. I like Greg, but give me a break. You’re going to praise the guy? Mark Davis, my buddy in Dallas, kind of did that too. Well, he’s authentic. Yeah, he’s authentic, all right. There’s a real authenticity to a guy… explaining the virtues of crack cocaine. Oh yeah, he did that too. You think I’m kidding? Now, as Greg Gutfeld and Mark Davis and others say, praise Hunter Biden’s authenticity. Well, at least he’s real, uses the F word a lot. And by the way, I never know how to do the clips with the beeps. Christian and I, my video producer and I talk a lot about beeps because the beeps sound annoying to me, but sometimes the beep is better than just taking out the F word. That’s what Christian did on that last clip. And if you’re listening, you almost need the beep rather than just deleting the word or, you know, sort of erasing the F-bomb. Because you don’t get the intensity of what a foul-mouthed degenerate this guy sounds like. But if you’ve seen it in other places, you hear it with the beep. I think we probably, in retrospect, Christy, we probably should have put the beeps over it rather than take the word out. Because every other word is effing this and effing that and eff you and eff the Democrats, eff this, eff George Clooney, eff, you know, what’s his name, James Carville. The guy’s just scum. I mean, the guy is just a low-life creep. And with tons of challenges. Obviously, he’s a, I hope, recovering addict. But we know he was a drug addict. He’s been a drug addict. We know about all of his shady business dealings. He’s a grifter. He’s just trash. And here was Greg… praising him. Greg Gutfeld. Well, you know, I kind of like the author. Listen to this.
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Dare I say I like him. I get I get that he’s defending Jim, Joe, Joe and Jim, his brother, right? It’s his dad. And I disagree with him on that. But he isn’t wrong when he’s going after the establishment. And I’m thinking Democrats, especially Carville. Carville said that they’re looking for their savior. It’s this guy. He’s the most direct, honest person the party has. He’s very likable. And you have to understand, you can say, oh, but he’s a drug addict. You have to understand about drug addicts and alcoholics. That guy managed to make millions and millions of dollars while high. And that’s the secret is that. You have to be super competent when you’re a junkie or else people will disown you. So he actually works extra hard. If he’s truly in recovery, he will be legitimately dangerous, just like RFK, who’s beholden to no ideology whatsoever. That’s my theory. I’m going with it. And you’re welcome on my show.
SPEAKER 06 :
Now, I don’t know if he’s being sarcastic or not. And Mark kind of said the same thing. Well, you know, all these other progressives and lunatics on the left, they’re not genuine. They’re fake. AOC is a fake. Zoran Mamdani, they’re all fakes. But at least Hunter is real. There are actually people already murmuring that Hunter ought to run for president in 2028. I’m not kidding you. Can you imagine the idea of having a presidential candidate like this?
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Does crack cocaine make you act any differently? No. Is it safer than alcohol? Probably. People think of crack as being dirty. It’s the exact opposite. When you make crack, what you’re doing is you’re burning off all the impurities so that it combines with the sodium bicarbonate, which makes it smokable. That’s all.
SPEAKER 06 :
There you go. President Hunter Biden extolling the virtues of crack cocaine. Hunter has suggested he may run for president someday. Well, we couldn’t be that lucky, could we? However, we were lucky enough to sit down with the legendary Pat Boone, who reflected on a life in show business, the passing of rocker Ozzy Osbourne, and so much more.
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through our church, Church on the Way in Van Nuys, we are supporting ministries now in Cambodia still to this day. Well, that was one thing. But then the Easter Seals, when I was the chairman of Easter Seals, helping handicapable, is a phrase I came up with, handicapable kids. And we raised, what was it? 600 children. $600 million while I was the co-host or the host of the show. Now, we can’t do the telethons anymore because TV stations won’t give up any of their time for humanitarian things like that because they’re too interested in what they can make during that time period. So you don’t see telethons much anymore at all. Anyway, those are things that have been part of my life along the way. While I was recording in the middle of all that in 98, 99, my heavy metal album, and I did all… Big band swing versions, big orchestra band versions of heavy metal classics, including, of course, Crazy Train. And that’s when Ozzy Osbourne moved in next door to me, right at that point. And I had not met him at all.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, let’s talk about that for just a moment, because I’m so glad you mentioned Ozzy, because he passed away this week, and a lot of people don’t know the history of you and Ozzy. A lot of people have learned that, look, this Prince of Darkness thing was kind of a shtick for him. He was actually a very kind man, and I believe a Christian and a believer, and was your next-door neighbor, Pat.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yep, he moved in next door after I had recorded his song already in my heavy metal album. And I had recorded Crazy Train, which I already saw as valid social commentary. Because it was saying, hey, crazy, that’s how it goes. Millions of people nursing their woes. And I thought, kids today are plagued with… falsehood, with hypocrisy, with all kinds of things that they are told, and then they turn out they’re not true. And so they’re going off the rails on a crazy train because of uncertainty, because of falsehood, because of anger. And I called right away. When Ozzy, I met him, he came shuffling down the sidewalk from the next door to get in an Escalade. And that’s when I met him through the grate of my… The gate? The opening to my driveway. Oh, sure. And here he comes. And I said, Hi, Ozzy, Pat Boone. Oh, hi, Pat. He says… On my way to AA meeting, he says, when I come home, we get to have some tea, okay? And, of course, we did, and we became friends, and I got to know Sharon and the kids. And I tell you, I wish we didn’t call Ozzy now Prince of Darkness. I found him to be a Prince of Kindness.
SPEAKER 1 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 01 :
Because he was so kind. It was a love story, him and Sharon. Sure. And with the kids. And then when they did their show, the Osbournes, Sharon liked my version of his song, Crazy Train, so much that she used my version as the opening theme song of their show. That’s right. Crazy, that’s how it goes. That’s right, I remember. And I was doing the theme song to his show, My Next Door Neighbor. Ha, ha, ha. And I found him to be such a gentle soul. And in his house, yes, they were all kind of some kind of satanic things, because that was part of his image. But then that clashed with the cross and other things, because that was some of his spiritual belief. And he was a mixture. He was an actor. And this was his act, just like my friend Alice Cooper, son of a minister himself. And both of them created these bizarre images and songs to go with them. And they became very, very popular, but it Their public image was a total clash with their personal lives. That’s right. And they made a go of it. I mean, gosh, he became an icon. But I think it misrepresents him as a person.
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