Episode #2147- Hammer and Nigel Full Show

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Kristi Noem putting out the $200 million ad. Yeah. Taxpayer money funded. Uh, promoting herself and DHS. At least, at least according to the scuttlebut, that's really what got Trump's goat. That's it. She wasted $200 million on an ad campaign that prominently featured herself. Yeah. In one of these ad campaigns, she was spending, I think it was upwards of $6,000 just on makeup for the commercial that was shot at the feet of Mount Rushmore. So, yeah, it's a little bit of a disaster there. Infidelity. accusations, which I think all but have been confirmed with her and Corey Lewadowski, who were both married. It was a big deal because that was the first firing in the Trump cabinet, in the Trump administration. And Markwayne Mullin, I think, is a good replacement. He's an immigration hardliner guy. He has tons of experience in the government. You know, when talking about federal agencies and lawmaking, decade plus in Congress and Senate. And the big thing is, and this is why I think hopefully DHS is going to get funded. Yeah, welcome. You just got named head of DHS. You're not getting paid. I don't think the head of DHS is getting paid right now, right? I mean, if the TSA agents are getting paid, the head of... But they get the back pay eventually. They're going to get retroactively, yes. But that's not helping out the TSA agents. He's a senator. He can afford it. They've made cushy stock. Yeah, I understand. Now, you do, you're stepping away from your role as senator, right? Is that? That's a promotion. That would seem like a downgrade. You think so? Yeah, because your appointment is DHS is temporary, but a senator can last virtually forever. Look at Mitch McConnell. It could. His seat, I don't know if it was safe long term. He's only held that seat since 2023 and hadn't. He's not yet won a full six-year term there in Oklahoma. But also you've got to think that the head of DHS is just head of one department, but a senator is one of the 100 most powerful men in the United States. They are. It is a more prestigious operation than, say, the Senate, or the House. It's much more prestigious, which he did serve in the House, by the way. But the DHS, like 260,000 employees. It's one of the biggest agencies under the federal government. TSA, FEMA, border security.

Secret Service and I mean, he's got about like Atlas right now with the weight of the world on his shoulders, literally. Yeah, I know. So that is Markwayne Mullin in a nutshell. TSA, like you mentioned, still not getting paid, but going to work anyway. I could not imagine. Look, I know this is going to get done eventually, but it's been five weeks. They've missed multiple paychecks. It's not a glamorous job. Leave it to the Democrats to help me, you know, to leave me to defend TSA, you know? They're facilitating me defending T. I've been felt up like, um, hard by TSA. I've gotten the old back of the hand a few times. The back of the hand across the plums. Yeah. No question about it. Sorry, Allison. You might clip that for the montage Friday, even though I'm not going to be here. But the good news is Trump, we've had that story the other day of Elon Musk putting it out there, world's richest man. $850 billion is, wants to sign TSA's paychecks while they're being defunded. Trump was asked about that today or yesterday. Elon Musk has offered a paid TSA workers during this DHS shutdown. Is this something that you've been speaking to him about? Yeah, I'd love it. I think it's great. Let him do that. And I want to thank ICE because they steps in so strongly. They'll do great. And if that's not enough, I'll bring in the National Guard. We're not going to have the Democrats destroy our country. These people are the most destructive sick people. So, and he mentioned ICE going to the airports to help facilitate the security and the long lines at some of the major airports. I mean, within hours in Atlanta, we also saw the footage from Atlanta over the weekend, like four hour wait times, people missing their flights because TSA agents are not getting paid. And then they're calling in and not coming to work or finding different jobs. But now that ICE is involved, Ethan, we see that lines at the airports, the wait time is going down, again due to Donald Trump sending ICE agents into help with security. Even CNN is reporting positively. Finally, we can take a deep breath here. The numbers have dropped off. The lines are getting shorter. I think the average wait time now is under 40 minutes. So there's a protest schedule against ICE here at the airport in the next two hours or so. So now you have extra police officers from the Atlanta Police Department ready to respond to what may happen when protesters arrived. And we've been told they actually applied for a permit. So now you're bringing all these people surging them into one area.

Could you imagine now ISIS has helped passengers get to their flights on time? And there's people showing up to, and there was a protest yesterday. And that guy was in the Atlanta airport. I don't know what the official name of it is, but... There's a few dozen protesters that showed up. It was no big deal. What a bunch of losers. But I think I've got a solution to this problem, Nigel. Everybody else, they can go in the quick line where the ICE agents are helping out and getting everybody checked in. And the protesters, they can wait for four hours. Just give them their own little separate waiting room and make them step off to the side. You can wait for four hours since you want to protest ice. Everybody else, they get to get checked into the airplane ahead of you. It's got to burn. I mean, just if you're a... liberal progressive that's got to fly through one of these major airports and you've got to sit there and look at ice hey at least they're unmasked right that's what you wanted You didn't want masks on ice. But they're still arresting illegals in the airport, which they also had a problem with. I saw I forget which airport this was, but they were posting it. You're talking about San Francisco. Yeah. And it was before ICE was deployed by Donald Trump. And the lady fleed. The lady, it was, she had been on like some sort of detainer or some sort of scheduled to deport since 2019. And it was before ICE was. actually deployed by Donald Trump. I think we might be talking about separate incidents, but if it's if it's a one in San Francisco. Anyway, Cory Booker, it's this ice at the airports is, you know, helping reduce wait times for Americans traveling, sending Democrats into a tailspin. The great senator from Jersey, Cory Booker, is throwing a temper tantrum. And so what's happening today in America that should outrage everybody? He's taking this very same agency that has been bursting into our schools, into our churches. into our hospitals, into our courts, and even into the homes of Americans. He's taking that agency that is reckless is out of control and bringing them to our airports. Under the lie that somehow this is going to help deal with the long lines that he created in the first place. It wasn't a lie. This is an outrage. It wasn't a lie. Just listen to that CNN clip that I just played. The Atlanta, my wife's boss flew out of Atlanta this morning. Took him 40 minutes. Went over the weekend. It was four hours to get through TSA because of the shortage.

and the defunding and I'm not getting a paycheck. That seems like a pretty night and day difference to me, and you've got to give points to Donald Trump for creativity. I'm trying to get the president of the IMS Doug Bowles to call in. Hammer gave me his private cell phone number, but he hasn't. I texted him like five hours ago. He's probably pretty busy on the day that they announced the Carb Day headliners. Counting Crows. headlining Miller-like Carb Day joined by special guests Switchfoot. And that's Friday, May 22nd Memorial Day and Carb Day creeping up on us here. It's a little bit earlier than it normally is in May. So, I mean, you know, you know counting crows, right? Or are you familiar with their catalog? That's the guy off of Sesame Street, right? Von Crow. Two crows. Three crows. That is not a good joke. That is not any way of talking about. Adam Durrance in the count. Mr. Jay Jones, round here. I think accidentally in love, the shack. Or upshack. Shrek 2. Was it Shrek 2 or Shrek 2, Allison? I think it was Shrek 2. Shrek 2, yeah. Yeah. Huge song, global hit. And it's hit after hit after hit. And then Switchfoot's great too. I've seen them live and they're great. They have a lot of hits as well. Men to live, Dairy to Move. This is your live. Really love Switchfoot. So it's going to be a great Miller-like carb day. and I believe Hamer and I will be broadcasting. I don't know all the details there yet, but it's going to be fun. Friday, May 22nd. What is Toyota affordability? It's buying smart. Your local Toyota dealer has great deals available today on Tacoma, Tundra, and Forerunner with the space and features for any adventure. It means driving for less, with available hybrid options, delivering great MPGs without sacrificing power. And it means trading for more. Toyota is known for building long-lasting vehicles, meaning your truck will hold its value for years to come. Shoptojota.com to find out more. Toyota. Let's go places. You're listening to the Hammer and Nigel show. Oh, this is Switchfoot, isn't it? What song is it? Is this? Ment to live. Ment to live. That was their first hit. Switchfoot, special guests along with the headlining Counting Crows announced for Carb Day earlier this morning. My name is Nigel, Ethan Hatcher, filling in for Jason Hammer. If you're looking for a reason to drink tonight, hold one up, pour one back, pour one out.

for Peyton Manning turning 50. What a champ. Super Bowl champ here in Indianapolis. Super Bowl champ in Denver. He did it with two different teams. That is rare. And he holds like seven million quarterback records of the NFL. So he did retire on top because his team won the Super Bowl. Didn't he do it twice? Well, yeah, with the Colts and with the with the Broncos. Yeah. And he. And he actually went to three Super Bowls, two of which were the Broncos and lost one of those. That's still a big deal. 50 years old. I turn 50 May 8th. Ethan, how old are you? I am 33. I will be 34 in November. You look like you're 48. Thank you. Is that a... I mean, that wasn't even a backhanded compliment. I don't think I've always looked old for my age. You're 33? Yes. Wow. Born in 92, November 92. Also on this date 54 years ago, the Godfather is released in 72. Are you a Godfather fan? Look, I mean, I'm not going to say it's a bad movie. I will say it insists upon itself. It insists upon it. Look, the Godfather's a good movie. The hell does that mean? That is a reference to those of you who watch Family Guy. Okay. Look, Godfather for me, and I don't know how it's, they play it around things, the holidays now, if you've noticed. Is it a Christmas movie now? No, but they play it around. Everyone. Let's watch the Godfather for Christmas. Thanksgiving and Christmas. It's on kind of as much as Christmas vacation and a Christmas story and things like that. But Godfather released back in 72. Marlon Brando is the Don Al Pacino is Michael Corleone. One of my favorites. I tried to, I took a chick. but I'll add on a date that was way out of my league and she asked me what I wanted to do I go hey let's let's go back and watch the godfather I never heard from her again you know what she wasn't she wasn't the chick wasn't uh her name was Lee I think and she ghosted me ghosted me after that I made her sit there and watch godfather one and two she didn't want to go through it again but you know what's an underrated mob movie nige Killing Them Softly with Brad Pitt. Highly recommended James Gandalfini, one of his final roles before he tragically passed away far too young. Great movie.

What was it about? Ray Leota is in it. It is about a failed robbery of a mob card game. There's also several cast members that were in The Sopranos. Phenomenal movie, and it is all an allegory for the 2008 financial crisis. So there is a cross section of mob movie enjoyers and political enjoyers that are right in the target demographic for this film. I'm watching the trailer right now. Brad Pitt's in it? Good stuff. Yeah. Wow, I was just watching casino last night. Oh, what a classic. I mean. Robert De Niro, yeah. Oh, James Woods, his Lester Diamond, and his bit part was so funny. And what's his face? Joe Pesci and his brother met probably the worst demise I've ever seen on screen there in that cornfield. with those baseball bats. I can't watch that anymore. It's so... For the hammer scene with the hand. Yeah, no. Oh, I love now where he, uh, Robert De Niro or his henchman were smashing the hand of the guy that was cheating. Yeah. You could either keep the chips or you could take the hand. That used to, that used to happen in old Las Vegas. Oh, I believe it. I absolutely believe it. So I was watching that last night. And then 10 years ago in 2016 comedian Gary Shandley. Gary Shandling died at the age of 66. I can't believe it's been a decade. Love Gary Shandling. Love the Gary Shandling show. If you've never seen the Larry Bernie Sanders show, it's being streamed on HBO Max. I have that on too constantly. It's kind of like the behind the scene. He plays a late night talk show host. Kind of like Letterman, but it's it's behind the scenes and it's shot kind of like a reality show, but it's fiction. obviously if you have did you ever watch the larry Bernie Sanders show i have not oh man so i've seen him in a few bit roles but not a huge gary shandling fan Uh, well, that's too bad because you missed out on a great career. I will have to go check some of it out. It's the Hammer and Nigel show. Legal stuff. Crime. Punishment. Judges. Legal stuff. Legal stuff. Thank you, Mr. Attorney General Todd Rokita here on the Hammer and Nigel show. I'm Nigel Ethan Hatcher alerted me to this piece of footage from last month. Let me just do this simple setup here. This transgender attorney Rob Hopkins of Oklahoma. It's a woman pretending to be a man. That's what she's going by these days is Rob. Yes. Okay. This is in Oklahoma and she's a lawyer and was arrested in February for direct contempt of court.

Anything you want to add to this? Like, I've got the, I've got a couple of clips here. The first clip is, you know, let me just play this first clip and maybe you can add some context. The judge here is, is warning. This guy, this woman, I'm kind of confusing. I can't do it. But this person was, pretending to be a man. This lawyer that was arguing for their client. And the judge is like, hey, you keep at it. You're going to jail. You interrupt me one more time. You are being held in indirect contempt of court. And you can wipe that smirk on my face. I don't have a smirk on my face. I do not. I'm not. I'm not upset. And I'm not arguing. You're not letting me make an argument. I'm not right in the face, ma'am. I'm not. So. Okay. So that was the beginning. I mean, this is like a seven minute. procedure here and and that was snipped down from an even longer video of the whole interaction I know but I just I wanted to set up the fact that the judge is tired of putting up with this trans attorneys act Now, what are you doing? I can't breathe me. You're hurting me. You just kick me. You don't get me. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. Put your hand behind back. I can't breathe. Now, you have to understand, that sounded pretty bad. But if you watch the video and there's context, this person was. just resisting arrest and the cops were simply trying to put handcuffs on this transgendered. This is somebody who lives in a time warp as if they were still in 2020 and they're reading directly from the BLM Handbook about the I Can't Breathe, but of course they're taking, you can hear gigantic gulps of air while they're screaming at the top of their lungs. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. It's being like it sounds bad. I don't want to make it sit here like I'm laughing at this person, but it's, they're being overly, overly dramatic. And if you watch the whole thing, he was resisting arrest. She was resisting arrest. Do we have... That's what happens when you pump yourself full of estrogen and testosterone. It makes you think like you're the incredible hole. That's the other thing. I mean, I wonder if this is a manifestation of a bigger mental illness. Because this person is trans. Now, do we have, self-inflicted? Do we have the number three one? This is, listen to what the trans lawyer who's being held in contempt, being subdued by the police. This is what she is saying here.

Somebody got everyone! Somebody got everyone! They're here. All right, we'll go pick you up. Roll him you down. No. I don't. Get a female officer now. Get a female officer now. Get a female officer now. Oh. You could watch this video. Just go to the Facebook page, Hammer and Nigel. But I thought it was interesting that this trans lawyer woman pretending to be a man with a beard looks like a man from this security camera footage. Why was this person asking for a female officer? Well, that's a good question, especially since they come from the... The philosophy that believes you can just declare yourself to be a different gender and that makes it reality. But all of a sudden, he gets turned up and they remember what gender they actually are. It's interesting how that works. Just a little bit of pressure and the truth comes out, Nigel. The truth comes out. You can see the whole interaction. Again, it sounded a lot worse than it really was. It was so over the top. Right. She's a drama queen. And if you just would have put your hands behind your back in front of... This is in a courtroom, by the way. Just go to Hammer and Nigel on the Facebook page and you can find that. This is something else I emailed you late last night. I think my boss emailed me this one. I just want you to soak in this headline. A professional cornhole player and quadruple amputee was arrested in Maryland after fatally shooting a passenger in his car during an argument. Just let it's let let let let that one soak in. A quadruple amputee reaching for their firearm and shooting someone in an argument. Well, now I've heard everything. It was a professional. A professional cornhole player. Yes. That's not a euphemism either. No, no, no, not at all. These guys make money on tours and stuff like that. Dayton James Weber has been charged with first degree murder. Now, the reason he's a quadruple amputee is because he survived a pretty obviously serious blood infection as a baby. Jeez. And, yeah, no, I mean, ESPN did a whole profile on this guy for a Cornhole. The ESPN airs the Cornhole Championships. I don't know what the argument was about. We don't have details yet. He's been arrested again charged with first degree murder. He's being extradited to Virginia. But after the shooting, there were other people in the car that witnessed this. And he was like, hey, help me get this guy out of here. Because I could shoot him, I can kill him, but I can't lift him. I'm a quadruple amputee. They refused. The people in the car refused to help him, and they called police. Let me see if I can find. This sounds like an aspirational story to me, Nigel, because if a quadruple amputee can proficiently operate a firearm, then what's your excuse?

I can't. Yeah, exactly. Can you? Can you proficiently operate a firearm? Not as proficiently as I should. I've taken it to the range a few times. But, you know, this guy's made me want to want to pump those numbers up. Go take it out to the range again, you know? Let me see. Sig John Sauer 365X. Wonderful weapon. I just reposted on our X account at Hammer and Nigel, an old video of this guy. taking a firearm and loading it and shooting it with his, with his, you know, his nubs there. I don't want to be crass. I don't make fun. I mean, I know he's a murderer now, but are accused. Do you watch the show Reacher on Amazon Prime? I've seen a couple episodes, yeah. The guy that plays Reacher. who is an ex-special Forces guy. Tom Cruise played him in some movies, but there was controversies because Tom Cruise is like a little guy, like 5'7. He's a badass in the movie. He's badass. I loved his portrayal. But Reacher is a book. The book describes it as a hulking, just tall dude, and that's what star Alan Richon is. Rickson. Rick, R-I-T-C-H. Richson. Is that I'm saying that, right? Richson. He was caught, okay. God. So I love Reacher, and he's also in the movie War Machine in Netflix that just got released on Netflix, which is really fun and really good. Anyway, Alan Richson was caught on video throwing punches at another dude, this man in suburban. Nashville and the fancy neighborhood that they live in. So they got into it because Alan, the celebrity, Reacher, was driving his motorcycle too fast. He had his two kids with him through the neighborhood revving. And this little neighborhood. And the neighbor finally came out and put a stop to it. It's like, hey, you've got to stop this. And allegedly, and there's video of it. I'm watching it right now. Reacher is beating the crap out of this guy who is named Ronnie Taylor. Here is Ronnie's side of the story. It started on Saturday morning when I'm an experienced motorcycle ride. I've been riding bikes for my life. I'd heard this, this ancestral revving and speeding through our neighborhood of the motorcycle. I eventually saw the guy on Saturday. I didn't know who it was. And I sort of like flippantly sort of said guy deep, like he was quite a way. Flip them off. Slow it down, please. And on Sunday when I was cleaning my bike outside my house. He rode past once, twice, and on the second time, I walked out in front of him, and I said, you've got to stop. Someone's going to get hurt. And it escalated quite quickly from there. I did push him because he was coming towards me on his bike. Bad move. He did it again for a second time. I pushed him a second time. I think the second time he got off his bike and kick the crap out of me. Who could have seen this coming from an effeminent British male? I can't. And plus, I can't imagine.

Pushing Reacher. Do you know how big this guy? I mean, if you, I mean, you've seen a couple episodes. He's a Hulk. He is bigger than an NFL offensive lineman. And those guys are big. He's like, probably if you're familiar with the Colts and their old offensive line back in the day when they won the Super Bowl, by the way, Peyton Manning went to four Super Bowls, by the way, I said three earlier, four. probably Ryan Deem. I've stood next to that guy several times who lives in my area. Like, just a Hulk of a man. You don't want to be pushing him around. This sounds like basically Revolutionary War II, USA versus Britain. Is that what it is? With the same results. Is that their ass the first time? We'll do it again. And we'll do it again, too. It's the Hammer and Nigel show. What is Toyota affordability? It's buying smart. Right now, your local Toyota dealer has great deals available on some of the most reliable trucks on the market, like the off-road ready Tacoma, rugged full-sized tundra, and legendary forerunner, each with the space, tech, and features to handle it all, from the work site to the trails. It means driving for less, with efficient hybrid options available, extending your overall driving range and delivering great MPGs, meaning bigger savings at the pump without sacrificing power. And it means trading for more. The Tacoma and Tundra are ranked number one and number two in resale value over all vehicles, according to Kelly Boo Book, which can mean thousands more than average right back in your pocket when it's time to trade in. That's Toyota affordability. Buy smart, drive for less, and trade for more. ShopToyota.com or your local dealer for deals and details. Vehicles projected resale value is specific to the 2026 model year. For more information, visit Kelly Blue Books KB.com. Toyota brand average resale value is 53% versus the average vehicle at 45%. Toyota, let's go places. Ethan Hatch are filling in for Hammer. I'm Nigel. How do you think Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. is doing as HHS secretary? Honestly, Nodge, I have no real major complaints. I like a lot of the direction he's taking, especially with nutrition, reincorporating lard and natural fats instead of reliance on these oils and other high calorie ingredients. I think that's a better direction because the human biology has basically evolved to digest those kinds of fats more easily than seed oils. Try to... Also change the vaccine schedule a little bit for kids. Take the COVID vaccine off the recommended list for kids and a federal judge put a stop to that. It may not be a federal judge, but it's crazy. The mandated COVID vaccines are ridiculous. It's not mandated, but it's still on the recommended list. Even in Europe, even in Europe, they took it off the recommendations for kids. The COVID development was rushed. I think it obviously had some undesirable side effects to a certain percentage of the population. I would want to see more information on the childhood vaccine schedules because, I mean, vaccines have done a lot of good in this world. And measles are terrible.

thing, especially for young bodies, polio. You can think of another, a number of other diseases that have been effectively ended with vaccines. Smallpox most prominently. We effectively wipe that illness off the face of the earth. So. I wanted to play this clip of Cheryl Jim Himes on the Howie Mandel podcast talking about going on the view because she went on the view just because by virtue of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. is her husband. Cheryl Jim Himes is an actress, a Kirby enthusiasm, Larry David's wife. Really funny. But she said she had a negative experience on the view. But once the cameras were off, they treated her like she was just like a normal person. talking about the view and saying they shouldn't that they shouldn't be asking you questions about your husband the whole time you're on the view but it's reflective of what's going on but it seemed like an attack more than a question well yeah there were her some of them weren't questions they were just statements and then I would have to say okay well there have only been three doctors who were secretaries of HHS. Right. You know, when they say, Bobby, it's not a doctor. Did you say, when the cameras were off, how did you react? Well, it was funny because right before the end of it, Whoopi said, will you please come back? And I said, really? I was being sincere. I was like, why do you want me to come back? I'm like, all you do is you guys were just like coming at me the whole time. And then I got to cut it off there because we're up against it. But she went on to say that like, it's so fake. I can't believe that program's still on because they were all like, oh, thank you for coming on. We know it's difficult. Can you come back for another break? And then they, what's the cameras on? These vipers attacked her for being Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s wife and for being. married to a guy that's part of the Trump administration. Disingenuous, false-faced liberal women? No. I've never heard of that, Nigel. Oh, yeah, it's a Hammer and Nigel show. Hammer and Nigel. Do you believe these characters are weirdos? Well, Ethan Hatcher, who is filling in for Hammer. It's a theme with this segment a little bit. It's Democrats saying the quiet part out loud. As we know, Democrats are not going to fund DHS, which can't pay TSA at the airports, the security. They've been working without a paycheck. Until it's clear, ICE agents won't show up at sensitive places. This is what they're trying to negotiate. Ladies and gentlemen. election denier and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. The reason why we are in a DHS shutdown right now because Republicans have refused to agree to the type of bold, transformative, meaningful, and dramatic reforms we are demanding.

We want an explicit prohibition that ICE can go nowhere near any polling sites in the United States of America. Oh. Just shout it from the rooftops, from the hills. We want illegals. To go vote in elections and we don't want them to have to show IDs. I mean, that's what he's saying, right? We're not funding DHS. We are keeping paychecks from hardworking individuals at the TSA because we want illegals to vote. That's, did I? Am I misinterpreting that? Liberals have said on multiple occasions at this point that placing ICE agents near polling places would de-incentivize individuals from coming to those locations to vote, which... Yeah, if you're illegal, you would be de-incentivized from participating, which you shouldn't be to begin with if you're not an American citizen. Ah, I see the problem here. And then, okay, we could go back to the piece of legislation that Donald Trump feels is most important to Save America Act, which is pretty simple. Show that you are an American citizen when you register to vote. And then show an ID when you go to vote. federally on a federal level. How do you feel about that being a libertarian? And a lot of Republicans are saying, no, this is a state's rights thing. You don't want to get federal what we're doing state-by-state elections. What do you think? I think that safeguards individuals' constitutional right to vote. You don't want your vote to be diluted by bad actors within the system. So in order to protect everybody's right to vote, this is a very common sense implementation of a rule. Oh, speaking of, you know, on the issue of people being here illegally. And the theme of the beginning of this segment, sometimes Democrats say the quiet part out loud. This is Senator Chris Murphy. See, at Connecticut, I think he's Connecticut. Yeah. He was on MS now with that, with the male version of. What's that? Did you say something? I was talking to myself. I thought it was Massachusetts, but I am, I think he's Connecticut. But this is Chris Murphy on MS now. Oh, it is Connecticut. He's the male version of Rachel Maddow. He looks exactly like Rachel Maddow, except he's a dude. It's got the thick, rimmed.

horn-rimmed glasses. So Chris Hayes, I don't know what they're talking about. They're talking about funding and negotiating for Ukraine, but also adding funding for the Democrats. They want a pathway to citizenship for illegals. But listen to what Senator Chris Murphy says at the end. The negotiation didn't have a path to citizenship. It was entirely on their terms in order to get Ukraine funding, right? Well, I mean, Chris, that's been a failed play for 20 years. So you are right that that has been the democratic strategy for 30 years, maybe. And it has failed to deliver for the people we care about most, the undocumented Americans that are in this country. queue it up again to that last part where he says, the people we care about most, if you could just replay that. And it has failed to deliver for the people we care about most, the undocumented Americans that are in this country. It's often been said, Nigel, that if you let someone with bad, talk long enough, they will tell you their bad intentions. But Ethan, imagine what he's saying, our priority in the Senate, at least for the Democrats, is illegal aliens. Yeah. We care about them the most. Screw the American citizens. Screw the immigrants that came here illegally. Or I'm sorry, screw the immigrants that came here legally. and did the process the right way and spent tens of thousands of dollars and years going through red tape and paperwork and being vetted. We care about the illegals. most in this. Imagine, okay, so he's saying that on MS now in a public forum. Imagine what they're saying behind closed doors about this very subject. The mind wanders. It's an excellent point, but he said the quiet part out loud. We see actions speak louder than words and we see their actions back this up on a regular basis. In a way, I guess it's just refreshing that he said it. We care about. We already knew it. I mean, between that clip from Hakeem Jeffries saying, yeah, we don't want ICE making sure illegal aliens don't vote at the polls. And Senator Chris Murphy out of Connecticut saying our priority, the most important thing. He said, I think he referred to him as illegal immigrant Americans. Something did that effect. My memory is not too. Which is complete and other nonsense. Oxid moron. Yes. Meanwhile, an update with the war in Iran. Here is Senator Ted Cruz on Fox News.

on Jesse Waters last night, kind of getting us up to date on the accomplishments of our military plan in Iran. Well, listen, the first three weeks of this military conflict have been incredibly successful. In three weeks, we've taken out all of Iran's air defenses. We've take out virtually every one of their short range and medium range ballistic missiles. We've taken out their missile production capacity. We've taken out their drone capacity. We've taken out their drone manufacturing. You look at what we've done to the Navy. We've had over 8,000 strikes in Iran. Navy, we have sunk more than 120 ships. This is the largest naval defeat, the most ships sunk since World War II. That's in three weeks. And in addition to that, we have decapitated the regime, taking out not just the Ayatollah, but the senior military leaders, the mullahs who have been tyrants in that country for 47 years. Okay, so I play that to play this. There's negotiations going on right now, according to Donald Trump, with high-level officials in Iran, who we don't know who they are. Because the leadership can't have been eliminated and be negotiated with at the same time. There's got to be somebody. I remember Donald Trump saying something about. I'm not going to tell you who we're negotiating with because if we do, he'll be killed, which concerns me a little bit. I don't want any remnants of the IRGC or the Ayatollahs or anything still. If we're doing this, we're doing this, all right? Regardless of whether or not you agree with what Donald Trump, but here is Ted Cruz on the negotiations and what the United States wants in exchange for. you know, bombing the, how did Donald Trump put it? We're going to bomb, bomb them till our hearts explode or bomb the hell out of them. Bomb them to our hearts. Go ahead. The outcome, I believe, should be simple and straightforward. We want to see a government in Iran. that is not run by crazed Islamist who leave mobs chanting death to America. We want a government that is not the largest funder of terrorism in the world, that is not giving 90% of the funding to Hamas and Hezbollah and the Houthis. And we want a government that is not murdering Americans. The Iranian regime has killed nearly 1,000 Americans. The Ayatollah twice hired hitmen trying to kill President Trump. And so President Trump has reacted with strength. That is making America much safer. As you noted, the Strait of Hormuz, Iran has been trying to put economic pressure on the world, and the President responded with an ultimatum, you open the Strait of Hormuz or you will face crushing economic blows to Iran. I think that got their attention, and the President said we've made some progress. I'm hopeful that's right.

Well, Iran is denying there's any negotiations, but I don't believe Iran, quite frankly. And, you know, Iran came out the other day and they said they sank an American tanker. Or an American battleship or something like that. They're liars. I think somebody's negotiating with something. MS now announced earlier in the day that there was Iranian insider who had reported that indeed the remnants of Iranian leadership were negotiating with the Trump administration. All I know is if that the goal was to get another 14 dead service members, high inflation, and sky high gas prices, then we've made, we've accomplished those goals. I mean, look, the... position of the president is, is temporary pain for long-term gain. Two weeks to flatten the curve, they said. Well, sure. Hammer and I've mentioned that very same thing. Can we flash forward to the spring breakers? Allison, I wanted to play this for you, Ethan. This was, I think this is Fox News, too. This is Jesse Waters show. Jesse Waters used to be a guy that Bill O'Reilly sent out to get, you know, some great street. Man on the street footage. Now, Jesse Waters sends some guy named, God, I think his name's Johnny, but this is really good. Spring Breakers in Florida getting quizzed on politics and the answers are just a disaster. I mean, I want you to react to this montage, this clip last night, says a lot about the political awareness of some of the younger folks going out to get blackout drunk at spring break. What have you heard that Donald Trump has been doing recently? Gulf of America. That's the last thing I kept up with. We're going to war with Iraq. That's been crazy. What are you doing, Colombia? You got Maduro out. You must be happy. I'm very happy. The Ayatollah's dead. What? What? What is that? Who the fuck is Ayatollah? I have never heard that word in my life. Lewis, what's Ayatola? I haven't heard. I found out about Chuck Norris yesterday. That was more devastating to me. He was the supreme leader of Iran. He's dead? We killed him. You did? You killed him. What have you heard about Venezuela? Venezuela? Nothing? I'm not sure. I barely know what be going on in, like, Tennessee where I'm from. That they beat us in the world baseball classic. Have you heard anything else? No. Nothing. I have heard nothing about Venezuela. I don't know. I'm drunk. I really. I don't know. Venezuela, isn't that in Spain? Is that in Spain? My favorite part is that dude, one of the dudes, he goes, he goes, yeah, Columbia? Didn't they? arrest Maduro from Columbia? He had Maduro in his head. Wrong country. That was my favorite part, though. Yeah, Columbia, Maduro. Yeah, they arrested the guy. Emma and Nigel presents. It depends upon what the meaning of the word is. Is this anything? All right, let's rock and roll.

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Of course. Of course she was. This is the same as those libtards that bring their children strapped around their waist to go to the ice protest because they think that that will provide them some leeway or security. No, zero sympathy for this woman. She gets everything she deserves and hopefully the cat can find a happier home from the humane society. That's what they're there for. In a viral video, a woman is claiming she was, quote, dress coded in Vegas. This is a social media influencer named Kayla. This woman was in Vegas and got dress-coated, escorted back to her room because her outfit was too inappropriate. Check it out. Guess who just got dressed-coded in Vegas. Las Vegas dress-coated me, and I'm being escorted to my room to change. So my boondky-donk was too exposed and too rumpious and bedacious. It was a pretty salacious outfit. Is this anything in Vegas? I think this is something in Vegas. I would love to see the outfit that was too scandalous for the Las Vegas streets. Have you seen the cards that those women hand out on the Las Vegas streets in the strip there? Oh, yeah. They do this. The last time I was there, they slap these cards in their fist. Here, here's a card, here's a card, here's a card. Yeah, so I would, I mean, that's got to be one hell of an outfit. All right. March Madness is upon us. Sweet 16 coming up, Purdue plays Thursday. But we have stand up comedy madness coming up next. The results of yesterday's matchup and a brand new matchup. That's all in the way. It's the Hammer Nigel show.

You're listening to The Hammer and Nigel show. Stand-up comedy madness. You have your March Madness brackets with all the NCAA college basketball teams, Hammer and Nigel. We've been doing this for a number of years now. Our latest iteration is stand-up comedy madness. We've taken the top 16 comedians in our opinion, and we're going to whittle it down to number one. We've done Biden gibberish madness. A couple different times, actually. We've done COVID hypocrisy madness. Trump nickname Madness. This is something that we've done for several years now. Now we're doing stand up. I love the Madness series. So yeah, it's awesome. So yesterday, here is the matchup. And we'll start with number 16 Shane Gillis. Really funny comedian. Beautiful Dogs, his first special on Netflix is hilarious, so funny, so inappropriate. I laugh the entire time. Here is Shane Gillis talking about how, and there's context behind this, but like how he identifies with the guys that are shooting the rockets in Iraq more than he does, the Black Hawk helicopter guys in the U.S. They also have never won. They got fucked up every single time. Bad. They would blow up like one truck every five months. They'd be just as surprised as everybody. It finally worked out. You could hear it in their voice. Someone would blow up. They'd be like, oh! I was like, yeah, dude, that's a human reaction. That's relatable. That's what I would do if I saw a fucking explosion. You ever watch us kill people? I can't relate to that at all. Some Black Hawk helicopter with night vision mows down like 40 people. Pilot gets on, he just goes, clear. lies away. It's like, you know, that's a psycho. I can't even give a fuck about that. That's my favorite bit on that. And then, you know, he, if you watch that specially, he caps it off by talking about it was either El Baghdadi or Salamai, whichever one he sent the dog, Trump sent the dogs in, like the robot dogs, I think it was El Baghdadi. That was so funny. So, so number 16 seed, Shane Gillis versus number one. The number one seed in stand-up comedy madness with Hammer and Nigel, Richard Pryor. Talking about his crack pipe. I fell in love with this pipe. This pipe controlled my very being. Don't answer the phone.

We have smoking to do. All the private are talking about, now come on. Don't put me down anywhere where I might fall. Because it's two in the morning and it's hard to get one of me. And I want to be clear here, the poll, the votes weren't on the clips themselves. It's the body of work. It's the quality of the stand-up comedy. Richard Pryor ended up, we did X and Facebook. Richard Pryor ran away with it, like 70. 30 as he should as he should I mean shake Gillis they're two different comedians two different eras we're doing the best we can hear people don't read too much into it but Richard Pryor is moving on now today's matchup number 15 seed Nikki Glazer. What do you think of Nikki Glazer? Do you know who that is? Female comedian. No, not familiar with Nikki Glazer. Really funny, really hot. The guy got a thing for tall blondes. I do. Who doesn't? She got really famous this last couple years after the Tom Brady roast. After the Tom Brady rose, she just, she had already been doing well, but she just skyrocketed out. Her star skyrocketed after that. Here is comedian Nikki Glazer. Talking about, I believe. sexting her boyfriend back and forth. Then later on in our relationship, towards the end, he was like hounding me to send him like naked pictures, which I didn't want to do, right? You know, but I did. And here's the thing. I didn't put my face in the pictures, you know, because that's how he asked for them. But also, um... to protect my identity. So... But I don't know. I took them... I don't know if anyone here has ever just taken a shot. Like, you're by yourself when you do it. And it takes hours. Because you're like, you look and you're like, God, no. And you have to do it again. And it doesn't... Right. I'm trying to give a direction. I'm like, smile with your eye. Like, nothing works. It just... Give me something. So, Nikki Glazer, number 15 seed, going up against the number two seed, Dave Chappelle, talking about Pepe Lepeu. They use the TV to program us from a young age. You ever watch like a cartoon that she used to watch me a little as an adult? I was with my nephew. We're sitting there, we're watching Pepp with a Pepella Pew, and I said, to my nephew, and I said, now pay attention to this guy because he's funny. I used to watch him when I was little. And we watched a Pepele La Pew, but I'm old man, I'm looking like, good God, kind of rapist is this guy? Like, tell what is he. My nephew was sitting there cracking up.

See, sometimes you've got to take the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Is he one of the most controversial comedians of modern history, I would say, for sure. He's also one of the few people who would walk away from a multi-million dollar deal like he did in the early 2000s because he was on fire with the Dave Chappelle show and they wanted him to do Comedy Central. Yeah, on Comedy Central. A lot more work and he walked away from the money so he could live a private life and he's only recently come back and he's still got it. He's still sharp as ever. Dave Chappelle, incredible talent. is no contest you can vote right now stand up comedy madness on and the poll is on x up right now and on facebook at hammer and nigel put your vote in now we'll let you know the winner tomorrow what did it get your take here i thought this was pretty eye opening a kentucky family rejected a 26 million dollar offer to turn their farmland into a data center. We've heard about these data centers. Right, Ethan? Yes, of course. One of the biggest issues in central Indiana right now. Well, really, all over our state. They're bringing water in for the cooling, the servers, and increased utility prices, gobbling up farmlands, private property. Well, it's going on in Kentucky as well. And this family rejected $26 million, which is, I think you'll hear in this report. You're going to hear in this report. 10 times the area is going rate in terms of square footage. Go ahead, Allison. It's my way. I'll stay and hold and feed an Asian. 26 million doesn't mean anything. Some people might find it hard to understand how Delcia Bear can turn away at $26 million offer to buy some of her land until you spend a little time with her walking the dirt road she grew up on and in the house her daddy built. My grandfather and great-grandfather and a whole bunch of family has all lived here for years. paid taxes on it, fed a nation off of it, even raised wheat through the depression and kept the bread lines up in the United States of America. When people didn't have anything else. They call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we're not. We know whenever our food is disappearing, our lands are disappearing, and we don't have any water and poison. We know we've had it. Man, the data center, whoever Google, Amazon, whatever.

Wanted that land bad offering her 10 times what that farmland was worth. And think about how much money that means the data centers are making in order for them to think that it would be profitable to offer that amount of money. to buy the land to put the data center on tells you how much money that's making for these mega corporations. But my take on this is not all heroes wear capes. And I'm very thankful for this woman. She is making the right decision here. And it's not always about the money. Sometimes it's about principle. And we need more principle in this country. $26 million? Yeah. 26 million. I mean, if you watch, I get offers all the time for people to buy my property. Really? I'm inundated. Inundated Nigel with calls. Who are they? What do they want to do? Is they like the gentrification type stuff? Probably. I never really entertain it. It's always one of the, oh, give you a mouthful that you can't refuse and I refuse it every time. I'm not interested in selling the property because I'm building my equity. I'm building my retirement plan. You're mega corporations can suck it. You're not getting my land. You're not getting off for $26 million. No. No. No. But I like her antiques for $26 million. I mean, and you watch this report. I saw the video. I mean. The house that she's living in is dilapidated. Now, the farmland is vast. She's got cows. As she said, her family fed the nation at one point, which there's a legacy there. I get it. I mean, what you call dilapidated, I call vintage. Fair enough. Fair enough, my friend. Okay. Did I offend you? No, of course not. It's a Hamer Nigel show. What is Toyota affordability? It's buying smart. Your local Toyota dealer has great deals available today on Tacoma, Tundra, and Forerunner with the space and features for any adventure. It means driving for less, with available hybrid options, delivering great MPGs without sacrificing power. And it means trading for more. Toyota is known for building long-lasting vehicles, meaning your truck will hold its value for years to come. Shoptojota.com to find out more. Toyota, let's go places. My name is Nigel, Ethan Hatcher, filling in for Hammer. Do you know what, and do you have a subscription to OnlyFans? Ah, well, if I did, would I admit that here? I can neither confirm nor deny. Why would you admit it? It's not just for adult content. Only fans. Of course. Yes, that's right. It's a subscriber-based social media platform. People pay to see content from its creators, fitness trainers, musicians, influencers. And yes, it did become especially well-known because many creators share adult.

content. It's not, it's not required for only fans. Sounds like you're pulling a bit of a con job here, Nigel. That's like the people that, the so-called fitness instructors that have somehow lobbied to make pole dancing, fitness. Yeah. Well, there's celebrities on only fans like Denise Richards and do you, when I say Farah Abraham, do you know who that is? Oh, no. Allison? Farah Abraham. That sounds really familiar. 16 and pregnant. Oh, yeah, that's right. And then she became an adult film star as well. Didn't the cash me outside girl? How about that? Didn't she launch an only fan? Oh, I don't know. I don't know. But, you know, Mark Carney B's on there, but there are, there are, and there's, I'm going somewhere with this because the owner of only fans. passing away at the age of 43 after cancer. And it just kind of like the guy was worth $3.8 billion. Money cannot buy you time, ladies and gentlemen. And tomorrow is promised to nobody. The guy was a Ukrainian-American billionaire. Owned Only fans. I think he sold it. But anyway, $3.8 billion was his net worth, dying of cancer at 43. Dang. That's rough. That is rough. I mean, to have your body wither away when you have that much money at your disposal too, money can't buy happiness and it can't buy your health either. It can't buy health and it can't buy happiness. It can buy... Denise Richards on OnlyFans and the teen pregnant mom. A survey asked who'd be the worst passenger to sit next to for an entire three-hour flight. There were five options in this survey. You tell me which one's the worst. The crying baby. Someone who's excessively coughing and sneezing. Person with bad gas. The drunk passenger. Or a person who constantly invade your space. Who do you think got number one? My number one would be the coughing and sneezing because the last thing I want to do is get sick coming from or going to a vacation. No. I've gotten sick on so many flights and so many vacations. I get to my destination and I'm hit for like three days. See, this is why Tony pays for first class. Is that way you don't have to sit next to, yeah, sick passengers. The result is 32% said the person with bad gas is the worst to sit next to. Oh, please. No, someone with bad gas is not worse than a crying baby for 12 hours. Yeah, this was specific instead three hours. Okay. I would rather sit next to a crying baby for three hours. I've done it before. I mean, look, I've flown with children before of my own that were obnoxious. And I did my best to corral them. My wife did as well. Well, I've worked in stinky apartments for longer than three hours. Now, what this doesn't say here in the limited time we have left for this segment is.

extremely obese passengers that are taking up multiple. Like, if that thing is sitting in... Night hole. I thought they made it buy multiple seats these days. I caught myself. They might, but if you're sitting next to a large person and they're taking up your personal space. I look at him and say, you ever heard of a salad? No, now you're inappropriate. I only called him that thing. I just asked them, they never heard of a salad. No, I'm saying that would probably be the, like Allison, out of that list that I said, including people invading personal space, and we have no. We have no room to judge. But who would you rather not sit next to out of all those that I mentioned? I know. I was kind of looking at it. And I feel like at any point, the drunk passenger could have fit any of those. Yeah. Including the crying baby. You never know drunk people. Drunk's probably worse than the baby. Right. I would say I rather with the baby than any of these things, other things. Sneezing. I'm with you can offer to hold the baby. You're. You're a female. I have maternal instincts. I am assuming. I'll hold your baby. My wife would for sure. All right. It's the Hammer and Nigel show. We'll be right back. Hammer and Nigel. Do you believe these characters are weirdos. So let's rock you. My name is Nigel. Jason Hammer is out. Ethan Hatcher is in. Do you know who else is not getting paid because the Department of Homeland Security is not getting funded right now? It's not just the TSA. We hear about the TSA. because of airports and inconvenience and hours-long lines and people missing flights and working without paychecks. But there are some other entities under the Department of Homeland Security not getting paid right now, Ethan. Yeah, like the Cybersecurity Counterterrorism Task Force, which John Fetterman had mentioned. Oh, boy. That's delightful. The U.S. Secret Service isn't getting paid. The Coast Guard. Some Coast Guard personnel at the very least is it getting paid. Interesting. A FEMA. And, of course, airport security, TSA not getting paid. Is the Coast Guard not part of the military? I thought they were part of it. They fell under the umbrella of the military. It's some Coast Guard personnel. I don't think it's everything. But so. The fact that Donald Trump has decided to put ICE into airports, they're pretty good at checking IDs, right? I think they know a thing or two about that. Helping with security, immigration.

customs enforcement. Here is U.S. rep Comer out of Kentucky, and he's also the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, who, you know, they investigate how government is run. He has his own reasons why he likes ice at airports, which is drastically improved over the past 24 hours in places like Atlanta, where there were four-hour lines. They told you to get there four hours early. We talked about that ex post. that social media post from the Atlanta airport. Get here four hours early because, yeah, TSA's not getting paid and they are calling in sick. Here is Comer's reason why he likes ice at the airports. I think it's terrible what's happening. I'm glad the president's put ice in there for a multitude of reasons. That'll drive the Democrats crazy. But at the end of the day, somebody's got to step up and ensure that our air travel continues or you're going to see even further damage to our economy, which again, in my opinion, is what the Democrats want. I love it. Ice in airports to own the lives. But it worked. Yeah. It worked. I mean, you can see a night and day difference in some of the pictures coming out of these airports, Nigel, especially Atlanta, when you had lines that were wrapping around the baggage claim going out into the parking lot. Yeah, out the clear, out the door. It went. My wife's boss flew out of Atlanta this morning, and it was like 40 minutes to get through TSA. Quite the difference. between today and the weekend solely because of Donald Trump and ICE going in there and helping and assisting with security and facilitating people getting through the lines. And it is driving them crazy, as Comer put. Here's old Farticus himself, Cory Booker, Senator and Senator out of Jersey throwing a temper tantrum because ICE agents. They have the nerve to go into airports and help reduce the wait times for Americans traveling. And so what's happening today in America that should outrage everybody? He's taking the very same agency that has been bursting into our schools, into our churches. into our hospitals, into our courts, and even into the homes of Americans. He's taking that agency that is reckless out of control and bringing them to our airports under the lie that somehow this is going to help deal with the long lines that he created in the first place. This is an outrage. I bet you he'd like to have that one back. That's a lie that they're going to help reduce the wait times. They're bursting into our churches. I think, I think Cory Booker has just gotten confused with Don Lemon. I can see where you'd make the mistake. You know, Ice, Don Lemon. He just, it was confused. Such a good point. And a ton of misinformation as to what ICE has been up to at these airports, too. Scott Jennings is a star on CNN, a token Republican. They've got to.

A couple Republicans on panels. But Scott Jennings is clearly the breakout star. Used to, I mean, he was a swamp guy, worked under Mitch McConnell. Here he is talking to the CNN panel, asking if there has been anything bad. Because Democrats are melting down, just like Cory Booker, just like you said. Oh, my God, it's going to be chaos. It's pandemonium that ICE is in the airports. But Jennings is asking the panelists, has there anything bad happened since ICE was deployed to assist with security and TSA agents that aren't getting paychecks thanks to Democrats refusing to fund DHS? Is there a single report today of something going awry with ICE agents? Well, thank God for 24 hours something back. I'm asked. Maybe there was. There was. There was an ICE agent refusing to identify himself, arresting a woman in an airport, freaking people out. They weren't even sure it was in San Francisco airport. What kind of an interaction was that actually? Do you know the situation? It was an arrest. I don't know. What information do you have? Who did they arrest? Now, you're bringing it up. We'll need the internet. We'll need the internet. He was talking to some guy named Miles Taylor. I don't know who that is. Somebody called Miles Taylor. And Jennings knew that none of these libs on this panel on CNN would have bothered to learn that it was an illegal alien. that Miles Taylor was talking about, and the arrest took place before agents had been deployed to assist TSA. You're mentioning that San Francisco airport that we were talking about earlier. Yeah, she had a final removal order judgment against her since 2019, and then she tried to flee and resist law enforcement during the arrest, including fleeing and leaving her crying daughter. by herself. So that's what that's the kind of misinformation that's being spread across legacy media right now is this guy on this panel and Jennings just knew it and drew him right into the trap. They don't want they desperately desperately don't want to give Trump a win which is pathetic. that they are willing to sacrifice their perspective and honesty in order to avoid giving him any credit at all. And look, I think we've been fair with the Trump administration when the Trump administration does things that we don't agree with, like flip-flopping on the release of the Epstein files. Sure. We have been critical of things like that on this show and elsewhere on my program as well. But when Donald Trump does something that is helping the American people, which this certainly has, we're not afraid to give him kudos for that. Something we didn't get to yesterday. One of the biggest stories in the... We just were so busy yesterday. I can't believe... Like, we had this on the rundown. We just couldn't get to it. The tragic footage of the two pilots killed when Air Canada, the jet collided upon landing with a fire truck at LaGuardia Airport in New York. Terrifying. I want you to listen to the audio from the control tower.

As the crash happened, the control tower was trying to tell this fire truck, hey, no, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Truck one and company was already tower requesting to cross four at Delta. Truck one and company cross for Delta. Truck one and company crossing for a delta. Frontier 4195 to stop there, please. Stop, stop, stop, stop, truck one, stop, stop, stop, stop, truck one, stop. Boom. No, 2,603, go around. Runway heading 2000. Just 646A, collide with vehicle agent's whole position. I know you can't move. The vehicle is it responding to you now. Is the runway closed? It's terrifying footage. At first, the air traffic controller appears to say, yeah, go ahead. You can cross the... You can go ahead. Then he said, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. It's too late at that point. It was too late. The Air Canada flight was landing. Boy, you know, you think you're on a, I mean, I can't believe more people didn't die in this. It's the two pilots in the cockpit that died because they hit this fire truck head on. I believe I heard last night that. Somebody, a flight attendant, was ejected from the plane. Wow. Upon impact and survived. The people in the fire truck survived. There were injuries to the passengers, but unfortunately the pilots perished. It was, it's a scary scene. I mean, the flight almost ended up at a 45 degree angle, almost perpendicular. I can't like I'm already a nervous flyer. I'm flying out Saturday. When you land, even if it's a hard landing, like you think you're home free, right? You think, oh, that's it. All right, we're here. We're fine. The turbulence was horrible, but we just landed and we're fine. And then all of a sudden, you're smashing into a fire truck at LaGuardia. And you've got to think there's nothing that that plane can do, even if they saw the fire truck crossing, you know, the runway. They're going at. several hundred miles per hour when they're landing one of those things. Huge mistake. I think both parties were at fault and a lot of people are blaming stress from the air traffic controller perspective and people are spent and stretched thin and I think just communication was awful.

Are you really okay? Are you okay? Everything's going to be okay. Are you okay? Yeah, I'm fine. I'm pretty fucking far from okay. Are you okay with this? On the Hammer and Nigel. Okay. Ethan Hatcher in for Hammer. New study revealing that Gavin Newsom, the governor of New York's $20 minimum wage hike. I'm sorry, governor of California. I said New York. Same difference. They implemented, yeah, there's really no difference. They implemented the $20 minimum wage in California. It's now backfiring, forcing companies to pay, you know, high wages. Imagine that doesn't actually work. Here's what you're going to hear in this clip is some of the report of this new study. And at the end, you're going to hear from the head of the California Business Alliance. Statewide minimum wage hike for fast food workers is now set at $20 an hour. It was designed to help struggling employees, but a new study from UC Santa Cruz suggests it may be doing the complete opposite. The study shows more people are applying for fast food jobs, but many are not seen increased hours or even securing employment at all. It also finds businesses are cutting shifts. Customers are paying higher prices and more machines are replacing workers. You can't deny that places are closing. Big, big chains are closing. People are getting laid off. I mean, there's no denying that. $20 minimum wage hike in Gavin Newsom's California. Are you okay with this? I am not okay with the pain that the business owners and the workers are feeling as a result of this economic policy, but I'm totally fine with it blowing up and backfiring and Gavin Newsom's face because the best thing that could happen for Americans is for the economic prominence of California and New York to be drastically diminished. You heard in the report that, oh, there's going to be a ton, there's a lot more people applying for the fast food jobs. Not bad. And so the more people that get hired on for fast food jobs, the more you're going to get your hours cut because you have choices. You have plenty of people to choose from. Does that make sense? That makes sense. Does that make sense? That also makes sense why you're paying 20 bucks a burger down there. Yeah, 20 bucks. Well, yeah. $20 an hour and $20 for the new Arch Burger, which I haven't tried, by the way. I need to try that. Have you tried the Arch? It's just a fancy Big Mac, right? No, I think it's like a double quarter pounder with the same kind of Big Mac ingredients. I'm sure it's delicious. I like a big mac for time to time. I'm still curious. Sure. I will say. Although the CEO did not make it look terribly appetizing. Yeah, I saw that whole back and forth between Burger King. Yeah. Allison, some mood music, please, if you would.

Is this on your playlist, the twerk song? Yes, yes. It's a favorite. It's really? I play it on the old Victrola. Spring breakers in Florida are facing arrest for too much twerking at legendary beach parties, at legendary iconic spots all across Florida. He's facing arrest? Police reportedly broke up one of these. twerk parties armed with pepper spray and paintball guns. Are you okay with this? No, twerk on. Shake your bang. I guess they've solved all the other problems in the community, you know, all the murders, all the rapes, all the theft, all the vandalism, so now they can go after the twerkers. If you don't, if you don't make a bumper sticker that says twerk on, like it would be like if the guy that made the bumper that said bleep happens, crap happens in Forrest Gump. If he didn't make that, he wouldn't made a million dollars. You got to make a twerk on. All right. Oh, you can sell it at the Hammer and Nigel store. I will get in contact with a bumper sticker manufacturer. There's got to be one around town. For sure. Twerk on. Twerk on. Let's see. Do I have time? Oh, yes. I wanted to get to this. You ever heard of yoga? You ever done yoga? That's the character from Star Wars, right? Yo. Yoga. The exercise, the breathing, the stretching. Yeah, with the G, not D. Okay. There's something called Sward Yoga. It's a new fitness trend, popular with ladies in New York City. That tracks. It's female empowering, gets you in shape and makes you feel powerful. Here is one social media influencer trying out Sward Yoga. When we have the sword extended in front of us, creating that long line, instead of having the edge of your sword facing up to the ceiling, let your palm open up towards the ceiling. This way it creates a really clean, straight lines where you can always focus at the tip of your sword. A lot of euphemisms. I feel like she was talking about... That's where you went with it. Okay. Sword. Are you okay with sword? I am fine with this. In fact, I could bring my ill wound sword, an antique African sword from the Cuba Kingdom. Of course you have Cuba Kingdom sword. Of course you do. Bring that to the sword yoga. Oh, my sword is too big. Sorry, ladies. Uh, poll asking which bathroom stalls you'd choose. Okay, you walk into a bathroom, public bathroom, right? There's five stalls. In a row of five, they're all empty. They're all available. Would you go with the first one? Second, third, fourth, or fifth? A chaotic neutral. I'd go for the middle number three. Nobody's in there. I'd go with five. I'd go with the furthest away.

from the entrance and people, and that apparently is the wrong answer because the farthest from the entrance is statistically one of the dirtiest stalls in a public bathroom. Why? Why would that make a difference? Is that because everybody else is making your decision and they go to that one? Everybody else is making that decision and it's the one that gets cleaned last when it finally does? I don't know. Fascinating. But I try to avoid that if at all possible. I'm already preparing. I'm flying out Saturday. I have to stop at the CVS to get my emotium to take before I get on the flight, just to make sure. I don't. What do you smile at me for, Allison? You take preemptive emotium before you travel? Oh, yeah. Really? No question about it. So it's been an issue in the past. Nigel's of the age. Nobody's making fun of him for taking care of his tummy. If you remember the story, I did have to leave my Abercrombie boxers at the Tampa International Airport in my 20s. And from that moment on, It was Emodium AD all the way. What is Toyota affordability? It's buying smart. Right now, your local Toyota dealer has great deals available on some of the most reliable trucks on the market, like the off-road ready Tacoma, rugged full-sized tundra, and legendary forerunner, each with the space, tech, and features to handle it all, from the work site to the trails. It means driving for less, with efficient hybrid options available. extending your overall driving range and delivering great MPGs, meaning bigger savings at the pump without sacrificing power. And it means trading for more. The Tacoma and Tundra are ranked number one and number two in resale value over all vehicles, according to Kelly Boo Book, which can mean thousands more than average right back in your pocket when it's time to trade in. That's Toyota affordability. Buy smart, drive for less, and trade for more. Shop Toyota.com or your local dealer for deals and details. Vehicles projected resale value is specific to the 2026 model year. For more information, visit Kelly Blue Books, KB.com. Toyota brand average resale value is 53% versus the average vehicle at 45%. Toyota, let's go places. My name is Nigel. Jason Hammer is out. Ethan Hatcher is in. We'll go straight to the hotline and bring on the best when it comes to local real estate. His name is Mark Dietl. Mr. Dietl, welcome back to the Hammer and Nigel show. How are you? I'm doing well. Thanks so much for having me. Man, I saw a headline. I wanted to run by you. I'm just curious. And then I want to get your thoughts locally here on what's going on with real estate in Indianapolis specifically. But here's this headline. This is from Yahoo Finance. When will mortgage rates go down? Oil prices and inflation create uncertainty. And then it goes on to say the national average. 30-year rate continues to climb, now sitting at 6.22%. My first question is, when are rates going to move back below 6%? And is that 6.22%? Is that accurate, Mark? Well, first of all, you have the wrong guests on the show. You need to call President Trump as it relates to the rates because there's a little conflict going on that we all know about that's really kind of made these rates.

spike as it relates to inflation, which is being driven by oil in the very much short term. So if you had talked to me just four weeks ago, we were trending very well as it relates to rates. So yes, that's probably correct. But I would say that's probably even probably low. I was told yesterday that rates are up getting closer to 6.4 to 6.5. Wow. So definitely we've had a spike here very specifically related to what's going on over there and I ran. Okay, so that is correct then in terms of oil prices, even gas prices. That relates directly to mortgage rates? Well, what happens is it's, you know, it kind of just, it's that ripple effect that kind of just goes through the market. It's all of a sudden they start looking at the oil price related to inflation and then what inflation means to rates as a whole, the 10-year treasury, which is what we follow on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages. So, yeah, unfortunately, it really has had this. pretty significant impact in a short term. Generally speaking, should somebody wait till they get back down below 6% before buying a home? I knew. It doesn't seem like that would help your cause at all, you know, telling somebody to wait on buying a home. Well, let's take, I mean, if you take this the interest rate and you set it off to the side, and it's a little bit difficult to do that because I think anybody in the business I'm in and has been and does as much business as we do understand the rates are the initial driver. But if you look at statistically just our market Indianapolis, I tracked four numbers. I look at medium sales price. I look at medium days on market. I look at active inventory. at months of supply of inventory. If you look at Central Indiana, based on those four numbers, I'm telling all buyers, now's about the best time to buy that probably in the last four or five years. But it's not just as simple as that as it relates to, they have to come together as it relates to the first time home buyer and affordability. Then again, I mean, our prices are still relatively high versus where they were four or five years ago, but I still. I still don't see those coming down. So if a buyer can find the home they like and it meets their, you know, within their buy box and it fits within their financial parameters, then we're telling people, yes, buy it now. You can refi and that can always happen. But. chances are it is going to get more competitive as it relates to buying homes, and that's going to drive price. And then when the rates come down and you found that home now, you know, you could refi. So that's kind of been our philosophy with our clients. Speaking with Mark Dietl, a local real estate expert full disclosure. Mark is an advertiser on the Hammer & Nigel show and on our radio station on all the shows, I believe. So he is talking about how what's going on Iran and the oil prices directly affecting mortgage.

rates, one more thing, and then we want to turn locally here to what's going on. I've got some specific questions here for you about Indy. This idea of the 50-year mortgage, was that a thing? Did I see that in the news recently? Yeah, there's been talk about that. You know, that's a long way away. That's just one small conversation as it relates to the whole affordability issues. So I think there's other things that can be done. But I think there's no question we, when I say we, you know, are locally, state, federal, we really do need to look at this affordability issue because across the board, it is difficult. But that is one component that's being talked about. There's a lot of pros and cons about it. And, yeah, whether it happens, that's a little bit, you know, yet to be determined. I don't think I want a 50-year mortgage. It sounds crazy, yes. I mean, technically, if you look at it and you look at the equity improvement and you look at how long do people really stay in a home, you know, it could be a benefit for that first five to seven years on a first-time home buyer if you're getting equity growth. But again, there's calculations, there's numbers philosophically. It's hard to debate that right now until I think more information gets put on the table. Speaking with Mark Dietel here, real estate expert. And I saw one of those websites that shows you a bunch of different houses. They put in an article about the most buyer-friendly markets of 2026. And at number one... Was Indianapolis, Indiana, followed by Atlanta, Charlotte, Jacksonville, Oklahoma City. But Indy is number one on this list. Do you think that's accurate? And why is it? I had a gentleman tell me this was probably 20, 25 years ago about real estate when it comes to Indianapolis. And he says, why I like Indianapolis is because it never gets too crazy on price and it never gets too low, like, you know, those peaks and valleys. And I think that's very true. We're still considered very affordable for a large metro area. And I think we have a fairly stable job market. So when you look at that across the board, consistently we stay in that top 10. So whether we're number one or whether we're number five, it's really maybe that. can change off and on, whether you look at whatever, Realtor.com, Zillowl, all the different areas out there. But I think Indianapolis, we are fortunate to be in a market. Relatively speaking, it's still very affordable and people can go out and find homes, you know, if they've been, you know, they've approved and they can find the home that's in their, what I like to say is their buy box. So, yeah, I think there has a lot. There's a lot of benefits and positives we have here in central Indiana, and I'm thankful for that. Mark, where's the hottest location in Central Indy in terms of home sales? I'd say it's amazing statistically right now. When I'm looking at Hamilton, I'm looking at Johnson, I'm looking at Hancock, and I'm looking at Hendricks. So those four northeast, south and west, they're all very similar as it relates to the months of supply of inventory is, you know,

anywhere from the low twos to the mid to high twos. That's the number we call that. That kind of measures the market. Then when you look at active inventory, then when you look at actually the medium days on market, all those numbers right now in all those counties, when we compare it to last year, I'm looking at numbers that are up 20%, 25%, 30%. Now these are numbers that when they're high, higher, that means like these percents are higher, that means the market kind of slowed down or it's really becoming more of a buyer's market. So, and then on the medium sales price, it really has. I mean, when you look at the entire central Indiana. on the pricing, the median sales price actually went down versus a year ago in February 2025. And I'm looking at February numbers right now, which, you know, we're almost done with March. And a lot happened since February. So, you know, when I say that internationally, obviously. Sure, sure. So with what's going on right now in Iran and oil prices spiking, what kind of spring home shopping season should we expect? Well, I think this can get resolved as quickly as it's flared up if, you know, the situation happens the way maybe we wanted to unfold in the Middle East as a relation to the Strait of Hormuz and all that. And we're talking about that way over there affecting, you know, kind of the housing market. Because, again, it's impacting rates. So if the rates can adjust, if things get stabilized over there and it starts to become more containment instead of, you know, offensive. I think some of these, I think the rates can move back down to about what we were looking at 30 days ago, and I think spring could be a decent market. But if it doesn't, and this thing drags on a little bit longer, I think you're going to have people sitting on their hands and kind of holding off. I had one of my ops team leader came in this morning, and she goes, Mark, I just paid $4.20 a gallon on the west side for gas. That shock is hitting people in a real way. not just, you know, financially, but also, you know, this is kind of mentally like, oh, man, you know, maybe I better just kind of hold off here and just kind of maybe see what happens, you know, my rate. I didn't lock. I got to look at this again and it might adjust. So it could cause a pause. I'm, I was more optimistic 30 days ago than I am now, but we still have buyers. We still have sellers. You know, we had a good first quarter. So, you know, again, if a buyer. hits their financial parameters as it relates to their down payment, their credit score, they're verifiable and reliable income, and they can go out and find a house that fits their need and their affordability kind of brackets or window. Now's a good time to buy, even with everything else going on. And you can find those houses for them, right? Absolutely, absolutely. We're looking every day. Where can people find you, Mark? How do people get a hold of you? Best way is markdeedle.com. That is our website and get all contact information. Mark.dot.com is my email address. And again, you can get my number on our website, but it's 317441, 7887. That is my number. So that's how people can get a hold of us. Mark, you're the best of what you do, man. Thanks a lot. And have a great week.

Thank you, too. I appreciate it. It's The Hammer and Nigel show. Thanks to Mark Diedel, real estate expert for calling in and talking about some of the mortgage rates and what's going on and how it relates to the war in Iran and those rates going up as a property owner, Ethan, 19 properties. How does it work with you? Do you have individual mortgages on each one of those properties? Yes. Okay. So each home has its own individual mortgage. How are the rates right now for you? Did you get them at good rates? Yes. Is it different for... I got a very fair deal on the properties. Let's just say that. Okay. But you've owned them for a while. I've owned them since 2020. So six years been a small business owner officially. Okay. Not too difficult to navigate through COVID or extremely difficult? Or is that why you did it? It could have been worse. Let's just say that. It could have been a lot worse during COVID. I ended up having three tenants that took advantage of the government rent moratorium where they did not pay rent. The most frustrating one was the tenant who got over a year of free rent because they were already in the eviction process when the moratorium hit. And we were told by the... the judge at the time, well, it's the spirit of the rule. And so it didn't matter that they were already in the process of eviction. They got to stay rent free for the next year. Okay. So, but did you get compensated for that anyway? But for the government. No, of course not. Nigel, you and your drug. How does the renter not? We are still in a lawsuit to this day with the government, with the state government over rent compensation. And look, it's probably going to be thrown out anyway. We're, I think, moving for a bench summary judgment is what's called. The judge is probably going to side with the state, but it's the principle of the thing. We've been fighting it for five years now. I think it's a fascinating business, real estate in general, especially if you're a multiple property owner. Is it worth it? Is it, I mean, you work for yourself? It gives me enough flexibility to come here and do radio, which is my passion. Okay. All right. And it's been successful so far. And I thank you for filling in for Hammer. Hammer is back tomorrow, by the way. Yay. And, uh, get this Ethan guy out of here. Thank you for hanging out with us here. It's the Hammer Nigel show. What is Toyota affordability? It all starts with buying smart. and your Toyota dealer has great deals available to qualified customers on reliable cars and SUVs, including the redesigned RAV-4, spacious Grand Highlander, sporty Camrys, and Corolla's. It means driving for less, with efficient hybrid and plug-in hybrid options available throughout the lineup, extending your overall driving range and delivering great MPGs, saving you money at the pump. And it means trading for more. Toyota is known for building long-lasting vehicles. And as the best resale value brand, according to Kelly Blue Book, your Toyota can be worth thousands more than average when it's time to trade in. That's Toyota Fordability. Buy smart, drive for less, and trade for more. Shop Toyota.com or your local dealer for deals and details. Vehicles projected resale value is specific to the 2026 model year. For more information, visit Kelly BlueBookskb.com. Toyota brand average resale value is 53% versus the average vehicle at 45%.

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