How do you feel about the Governor's Race? Your calls + The Lightning Round!

Sorry, I got distracted. I was watching a reel that Mason sent me on Instagram. Is that real or is that AI? I think it's real because I watched it multiple times looking for traces of AI. But the way the bear comes in looks a little... Yeah, well, it's like, and the, the graphics says, bear in home, what would you do? I'm like, I'm shooting that bear, obviously. What else would you do? Like, what do you want me to do? Offer him some porridge? I'm going to scratch his little ears. Sir, let me save you some time. It's the middle bed that's the comfy. I was just to say, let him get revenge for Goldilocks. Like, what do you mean? What? Like that thumbnail says, what would you do? You're shooting that bear. Every single time, actually. Every single time. Yeah. Listen, I'd love to, I'd love to open up the phone lines. I get a vibe check on where people are at on the governor's race. 615-737-99-86. 615-737-9986. We have three candidates, and one of these are going to be the governor. Let's be perfectly honest. Marsha Blackburn, clearly the favorite right now. John Rose, Monty Fritz, are trailing behind her. We just had Monty Fritz on who said that, well, he's doing a couple things. For starters, he sent a letter to Governor Lee and Cameron Sexton and Lieutenant Governor McNally, asking them to... drop the state gas tax and the state grocery tax until the end of the fiscal year to help Tennesseans who are dealing with high prices because of the Iran conflict. And I think that that's actually pretty noble. I don't know if they'll do it. They would have to probably do it via a special session. But he sent the letter. And it would be 26 cents off a gallon, I believe he said, off of regular gas, 27 cents a gallon off of diesel. I think that that would be fantastic. He said that he is in favor of medical marijuana for cancer patients, epilepsy patients, our veterans. I mean, the amount of veteran suicides that we're seeing, I think, is interesting. Well, interesting. It's dark. It's sad. And we need to do anything we can to help these guys out. And one of the things that people understand about the suicide epidemic, which is it's even more dark, is it becomes generational. If you're a young kid and your dad commits suicide, like you're walking into a life full of depression and then you are at a greater risk of committing suicide. So I'm interested what you think on Monty. I'm interested what you think on John Rose, what you think on Marsha Blackburn, where are you ranking them? And then what are you doing when it comes to the current campaign? Are you getting involved? Are Tennesseans getting involved in the governor's race? Or is it just, you know, I'll donate, I'll cast my vote, and that's that. Or are you getting involved with these campaigns? No wrong answers. I'm not, I'm not going to shame you no matter who you like. I just will ask the question why. 615-73799-86. Sandra, you're up first on Super Talk. What do you think about the current batch of gubernatorial candidates, the goobers, if you will?

Well, I'm still checking all of them out. But you made a statement earlier that I really wanted to comment about when you were talking about the governor's race. And you said you were going to probably not vote for Marsha Blackburn, but you were going to vote for one of the guys because he was a good old boy. Well, I'm going to vote for Monty Fritz. And I'm just, I don't know if that's, I don't know if that's the right thing to say, right? Because when I go out a limb like that, that could freeze me out of a Marsha Blackburn governor's office. I don't, I don't get any contact from Governor Lee's office. Well, what I'm saying here is to make a statement that you would vote for him because he's a good old boy or good old guy. That's what's wrong with our country right now. People voting for people because their friends or their good old guy and not because of their qualifications. Well, I would just say, I would push back on that gently. I said I'm voting for him because he is a good guy, not because he's one of the good old boys, but because I believe he's a good guy. Monty Fritz has served as a state representative, I think, very, very well. He's a veteran. I respect that a lot. And I think he just talks about a lot of common sense policy when it comes to medical marijuana, making Tennessee the conservative leader in the country. He was talking about property taxes, maybe not being able to abolish them totally, but freezing them where they are when you buy the house, not letting it be something that can evict you from if you become delinquent. If you're in your old age, you can't. keep up with these property taxes anymore, not losing your home over that? I think that I think these are all common sense things. And then I would just say, I would just say, I'll let you go. I'm sorry, ma'am. Those are things that, yes, if you would have pointed out and then said, you know, he's a good guy, I wouldn't have had any problem with that. But just to make that statement, because I had not heard you say any of the other. That just, I've never liked that when people say, well, I'm going to vote for him because he's a good guy. I mean, to be fair, and I'll just like, just full disclosure, I don't think Marsha Blackburn or John Rose are bad people by any stretch of the imagination. I've met, I've met Marsha a few times. She seems great. Yes. One of the things... He's done a lot of good in Washington, and I really hate to say a loser. And she's one of the reasons why we don't have a state income tax. You can make the argument that she's the reason we don't have a state income tax. So I salute her for that, and I give her all the flowers. I think one of the things that always is tough for me with Marcia, is it like even off the air? It always feels like I'm doing an interview. It never feels like I'm having a conversation. And it always feels like there are these guardrails up and things that, you know, I'm not getting the real thoughts. And that could be. Realized the position she's in and have been in for so many years that that's probably why that guard is up because so many times things are taken out of context. Well, and I think that, I think that that comes, that that's one of the costs of being.

She knew that Lee was going to go out, and now she just wants to be governor. We do not need to drain the swamp back to our state. And Monty Fritz just fits the bill. And if people would research him, I really believe in him, because you introduced him first. and a long time ago, and I was just, I've been, you know, chasing around talking about them, telling everybody look them up. And I just wish people would realize that Marcia believes that. She knows better than... Get that MX Gold card ready. I'm too tired to cook. We feel in five guys or the cheesecake factory? Both. Earn up to $120 a year in statement credits of participating partners. Up to $10 each month when you pay with the MX Gold card. Learn more at Americanexpress.com slash explore dash gold. Enrollment required terms apply. Scrolling with Haley, join Haley Caronea as she scrolls through the biggest headlines. If you haven't watched this show before, we do blind reactions. I have not seen these videos, so I am seeing them for the first time with all of you. We're going to implement the tinfoil hat time segments and all the stuff you know and love. And I'm going to finish the show and answer some of your questions. Someone asked me, what made you get into podcasting, and I was producing podcasts for other people. And I was like, I could do this for myself. And here I am. Scrolling with Haley, follow and listen on your favorite platform. All of the people that she represents, she doesn't vote for us. She votes for herself because she knows better. And if you look at her votes, that's how. And please remember, she was the first congressperson on January 6th to stand up and say, no, I cannot support Trump anymore. Well, and I appreciate the call, Karen, and I get the passion. I will say. That while she did do that on January 6th, there were a lot of, a lot of them that did that. Okay? And a lot of them have been forgiven. And she was also one of the first senators to come back. and defend Donald Trump after that. And I know it's still a sore spot with a lot of Tennesseans. And I'm not saying you're right or wrong for it being a sore spot. But I do think that the context is important. And the context is she wasn't alone in doing that. A lot of Republicans did that. And, you know, I wasn't a fan either. But when it came to time to defend Trump and support Trump, a few weeks later, Marsha was one of the first people to be back on Trump's side. Again, let's call balls and strikes. And I do think that while Marcia has become a bit D.C., she's done a lot of good for this state. We don't have a state income tax because of her. I mean, let's just be fair. Let's be as fair as we can be. Let's go to Patrick and Bonacqua. What's up, Patrick?

Hey, Chris. I'm with you on Marsha. I've listened to all three of your interviews, and there's something about the way she talks that has always bothered me, but I know she's done a lot for us, but when she came out against medical marijuana, she lost my vote. that although if she's the candidate, we'll vote for. Well, and that's, and I think it's important to point out, I'm voting for whatever Republican wins the primary. Like, that's just, that's just the way it's going to go. And I'm not, I'm not going to hold this personal. I want our primaries, though, to be vigorous and competitive. And, uh, To me, I look at this race, and it's no disrespect to Rose, but I'm looking at it, I'm like, at least in my eyes, I feel like it's between Monty and Marcia. Yeah. Well, I had never heard of him before, but I was really impressed. He seems to be very forward-thinking. He's put a lot of thought into what he thinks is going to be good for Tennessee. And I pretty much agree with just about everything that he said. But especially the medical marijuana, we've got to do something to help these vets. 100%. And, like, young kids with cancer and people dealing with seizures. Like, why on earth? Like, I get it. You don't like the smell. But you already smell it down on Broadway. I'm not advocating for recreational marijuana stores on every single street corner. But like when we're going to say, listen, how about you try this pharmaceutical drug, when there's a natural alternative that could help you and has been scientifically proven and documented to help so many people dealing with these issues, what are we doing just rolling out early 2000s talking points? Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, I'm with you, man. Hey, I appreciate the call, Patrick. Let's go to John on the road. John, where are you currently on the governor's race in Tennessee? Yeah, I just agree with most of the previous callers. I think regardless of issue for any candidate to say they're going to veto the will of their constituents, I think should be disqualifying regardless. And I think when you're talking about marijuana for, like you said, PTSD, et cetera, I just think that puts a finer point on it. Yeah, I'm with you. And I appreciate the call. Let's go to Todd and Gallatin. What's up, Todd? I think Marcia is unelectable. Tell me why, Todd. For the simple fact that she will not debate and she will not answer unscripted questions. Well, I'll tell you this, and I've interviewed her quite a few times. I have never had to submit a script. Now...

I think that she is well-versed in politics, and she's probably in a position where she can predict a lot of the questions that are going to be thrown her way before they're asked, and she has a put-together polished answer. But I would say I've never been asked by any Marsha Blackburn's, comms director, communications people, or anything like that for a script of questions. I wouldn't say that she's only answering scripted questions. You can make the case that she has scripted answers. And I'll tell you, it's like it always feels like I'm interviewing her. It never feels like a conversation. But I'll push back against that. Let's go to Bobby in Nashville. What's up, Bobby? Hey, nothing much, Chris. That was the first time I actually heard. A lot of a Monty Fritz interview, and I really like him, man. I mean, he seems like he's got good morals. He stands up for what's right. I just hope we have many more politicians. I will vote for him, but like you say, if it comes down to keeping a Republican in there, I will vote for Marshall. But here's the deal, too. Don't give Marshall all the credit for fighting that income tax. I was down there with Uncle Phil Valentine and a lot more back in the day. Now, I give her some of the credit, but it weren't for 99. Point seven and Phil Valentine, I don't think we'd ever got to block that, brother. So I just wanted to get that through. Hey, that's a fair point. Flowers given where flowers are deserved. And Uncle Phil was a massive, massive part of that. Let's go to Ron and Rockville. Where are you at, Ron? Hey, good morning. Big fan of the show. Love it. As I listened to all the comments today, I think you got a lot of great stuff coming in from callers this morning, a lot of valid points. Some things, you know, I've taken into heavy consideration. A couple points for me is as a full retired Army veteran, combat veteran, I have recently. been diagnosed with PTSD myself for multiple combat tours throughout my 22-year active duty career. Well, I'm sorry to hear that, and I'm grateful for your service, and thank you. Thanks, Chris. I do want to point this out. In my fight for almost two years with the VA to get my compensation and some other medical issues that I've been having throughout the course of getting older, I've recently turned 60. And if it wasn't from Marsha Blackburn's office, being intentive and helping me fight the fight with the VA, I never would have received the disability rating that I have. And I can tell you, honestly, that as a senior enlisted individual that served almost 23 years, three combat tours, I prolonged dealing with the VA for 19 years after retirement because of the... rigorous and monotonous and convoluted and antiquated system a lot of our government agencies have and i receive no less than excellent response care and speed from her office

In all of my dealings, when the VA denied and denied and denied, I would go right back, write another letter. And she and her aid would respond, I swear, no faster or no less than 24 hours. And then I had somebody from the VA calling me, asking for submit a higher level review and walking me back through the process and going back to doctors and getting second and third opinion. It was horrible. I bet I spent a half a million dollars of VA money going back to the doctors, just getting somebody else to give a second or third opinion on the same things that had already been submitted. So anyway, a long story. I think that's good context. And listen, kudos to her in her office for helping you out there. Where are you at on medical marijuana for veterans that feel like it will help them? You know, and that's great. I do have, I brother and arm, my best friend through combat, our tours followed each other, multiple duty stations, and he committed suicide. And as difficult as that was, for me still to this day, and his family, I helped raise his kids as they were young because we were that close and we were in multiple duty stations at the same time. He truly was my best friend, and that was a very hard thing to endure. I'm not a smoker. I've never really cared for marijuana or smoked marijuana. To me, it's a no issue. I could care less about marijuana. But I am not suffering from something that I need to be medicated or have something help me feel better. I think... My wife, my children, my day-to-day activities and my mental well-being, I never am not in the position to say, okay, I'm going to harm myself or others. Therefore, I'm the wrong person to ask because I'm sure there's a lot of veterans out there that it does help with coping. Me, I don't need it. So I'm kind of, I'm probably not the right person because I'm more of. veterans need mental health counseling, those that are to the point where they've got to talk to somebody and cut this suicide rate. You know, is marijuana going to fix that? Probably not. Okay. Well, hey, man, I appreciate the insight. And thank you for your service. And I'm sorry to hear about your friend, but I do appreciate the call, man. Thank you so much. Thank you, Godspeed. Likewise, sir. It kind of does it for the time that we have available for callers. I would say, though, when, and, you know, our friend here said that he doesn't think it would help him. To those that they say it would help them, I think we should try. You know, we had a government just a few years ago that said if a mask would save one life, you've got to wear a mask. If medical marijuana would save one life, I think. I think that's a far better argument. But I'm here for it. And I think that there are veterans out there that want it. I think we should give them the opportunity to have it. Get ready. Buckle up. It's time for the lightning round. It's the lightning round with Chris Hand. I felt like I had to do the dancing. It's a little bit, it's a little bit slow today. Just moving a little slow. I feel like I've been a step slow today. I wonder why.

Could be anything. Could be any number of things. Anybody. Your guess is as good as mine. I have a pretty good guess, but. Well, people be guessing. People be guessing. People be texting. 615-73996. You want to text in. Well, you just monitor the line, the text line for me in case our last caller hits us up so we can hook him up with Denny. Yeah. It's like matchmaker. Every now and again, we play matchmaker. We're here for it. I'm here for it. Mason's in the newsroom, or Masons in the production studio, Ken Weaver's in the newsroom. And this is the lightning round. We cover all the stories that wouldn't fill up a whole segment, stories that we ran out of time to get to. Stories that we think are fun. And we like to do it here. We call it the lightning round. First story in the lightning round. Let's talk about failed New York mayor. Can we call them failed New York mayor already? Is there on Zohran Mamdani? Basically there. He's the best communist socialist mayor New York's ever had. Isn't he the only? Well, he tries to tell people that he's actually doing communism and socialism the right way. Ah. The real way. Jeff Bezos was given an interview with First Squawk. I think it was First Squawk. CNBC. That's the only show I know. on CNBC. But Jeff Bezos was not exactly impressed with one Zohran Mamdani. He said, you know, you could double the taxes I make, I pay. And you know what would happen if you doubled the taxes I pay? It wouldn't help that teacher in Queens. Scrolling with Haley. I'm Haley Karenia. I scroll with the homies here in the live chat because there's a lot to scroll through on X, on Instagram, on TikTok. Cutting through the clutter, one hot take at a time. Love seeing you all in the chat before the show. I tried to jump in just a few minutes before to say hello. I love the chat interaction. Thank you for helping. But I do it to get all of the videos and all of the content that you won't find anywhere else. Scrolling with Haley. Just search that up and I will be there. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. Pay taxes. It's so true. I pay billions of dollars in taxes. And it's a perfect, again, if people want me to pay more billions, then let's have that debate. But don't pretend, you know, that that's going to solve the problem. You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not going to help that teacher in Queens. I promise you. This is, so you can't connect those two things, not logically. You know, they're more established. Why is rent expensive? Why is rent so expensive? Well, it's got to be Jeff Bezos, right? Jeff Bezos is 100% the reason why rent is expensive in New York City, right? It doesn't have anything to do with government subsidies. Doesn't have to have anything to do with Section 8 housing. Doesn't have to do anything with supply and demand, right? Obviously. I recently saw somebody blamed it on Airbnb. Okay, Airbnb is not the cost of expensive rent. In fact, it's been almost, nobody's finished here. One second. It's already been outlawed in New York City, and rents are still very high. So we know Airbnb isn't causing high rents. What's really causing high rent is government intervention. Yep.

There it is. He's not wrong. Plus, when you tax these billionaires more in cities like New York City, do you know what they have the ability to do? Leave. And then when they leave, so does your tax base. Smart people understand this. What leaves with them is also all the opportunities that they create and the jobs that they create. I heard Matt Murphy talk the other day. I think it was on the podcast. Was it during the podcast or was it off the air? We were talking about Seinfeld, not connecting with the younger audiences. I believe I left that in. Yeah, that should be there. So we're doing another podcast today, by the way, myself, Dan and Murphy. Mostly Peaceful on YouTube upload at 6am on Saturdays. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you for the plug. I'm here for you. You are. I got you, bud. So he was saying that, you know, Seinfeld doesn't connect with younger audiences anymore, and it's because a lot of it has to do with, like, the jokes are all about miscommunications and timing, right? Not getting a message, not being able to answer the phone, things that would be solved in today's world via text message, like instantly. I also think there's a huge disconnect because none of them have roommates. Not one. Does anybody in New York not have a roommate anymore? How much you have to make in New York to not have a roommate? Just so much. So much. Actually, I'm going to look up the average price of a one-bedroom. You should. And like a broke person's one-bedroom. Yeah. We don't need like a Manhattan skyrise. Just the average price. I mean, you think about George was unemployed. Pretty much most of the show. Yeah. He had that run with the Yankees. That was pretty good. But he was living in a one-bedroom apartment unemployed. I think he was the only one with a roommate after a while before Susan died. But you talk about the disconnect and timelines. Seinfeld's not going to connect with the younger audience. There's no roommates. It doesn't make any sense. Did you pull up the price? Yeah, it can span from 911 a month from the low-income areas to- So you would need to qualify for that? Yes. What that actually means is that other people are paying for that. Yeah, most likely. And then for the moderate-to-middle-income households will be $3,300 a month. Isn't that nuts? $3,300 a month. For one bedroom apartments. That's not multiple. You're probably paying that for a studio. Yeah. I mean, like, if we're, if we're being realistic, like, if you want to get in a good neighborhood, near the train, near, near some accommodations, you know. Some hotspots, the good bodegas, like, you, y'all. I knew people that had a roommate in a studio apartment. And they were making good coin. Yeah, some of the other options here for very low income is $1,500. And low income with 80% AMI is $2,400. Yikes. Yeah, it's a lot. But hey, tax billionaires. Yeah, tax them. They cause this. And I'm hard. Tax the rich. Why would you de-incentivize people making money and creating jobs? It just seems crazy to me. It seems back asswords. But what do I know?

But a humble meme farmer. Got another story for you here in the lightning round? Another one. Speaking of New York City, you know what could be what could be causing those rent prices to go up? Illegal aliens. Not just the fact that they're getting free housing, but they're getting free everything. Well, Tom Homan is going to try and help that. He has confirmed an ice surge, an ice storm brewing in New York City, despite the pushback from Kathy Hochul, who has been the governor of New York, who's been demanding that the Trump administration stand down. Of illegal immigration enforcement in New York City across the state broadly. I'm working on something now. I can't give you too much. I'm not going to, you know, flag what exactly we're doing, but I'm going to keep my word that we're going to send a hell of a lot more agents to New York. And what she's doing, I sat down and talked a couple months ago, explaining what we did in Minnesota, why it makes sense. But, you know, she apparently ignored all that and went a step further in a sanctuary of city stance. But here's a problem. We're going to send more agents there to arrest a bad guy in the street, which is going to cause more angst in the neighborhood. Well, you know what? You force me in the neighborhood. I'm going to do the job. You're not going to stop us doing the job. You can make it more difficult. You can make it more dangerous for your community and our officers, but I've got to do it. And here's something else. Since the jails can no longer cooperate with us and jails can't even rent us bed space anymore, every illegal alien we arrest in New York will immediately fly out of the state. Now, tell me all that is friendly to the immigrant community. She says she wants to protect the immigrant community. Well, she's forced me to take every one of them, move them out of state as soon as she arrested. And that's what we're going to do. We're going to do this job. She's not going to intimidate this president. She's not going to intimidate the American people who voted this president to force immigration law, and that includes New York. New York's a part of this country. We're going to force immigration law in all 50 states. And New York, more attention is being given to New York in the very near future, and you're going to see it. Well, I like Tom Homan a lot. I do. And I want to see more attention being given to mass deportations in general. We cut out quite a few billion, carved it out of the big, beautiful bill to help us surge these mass deportations. And I'll be honest, the numbers have been underwhelming. They have. And the administration backed off of it so quickly after the chaos in Minnesota, which was driven largely in part by leftist groups and leftist lunatics on the street doing things like driving their car at ICE agents, which... I thought was the wrong move. They were like, well, we should probably, we should probably cool this down before midterms. And it's like, no, no, no, stop. This is exactly what we voted for. Like, we voted for mass deportations. If you want to cool anything down before midterms, I would say Middle Eastern wars, because that's not what, conservatives voted for, young conservatives in particular. You know, we voted for the mass deportations. All of them. And I get that they want to prioritize the worst first, but we've had, what, a year and a half now? A year and some change.

I think we should be passed the worst first and onto, are you here illegally? Circle yes, circle no. And if the answer is yes, you've got to go. And we've got to make it as difficult as humanly possible for these illegal aliens to continue living in this country. And we have to go out and we have to find them wherever they are. Whether that's workplace raids, whether that's getting into these jails. Nothing should be held back. Optics be damned. This is exactly what we voted for. I want to see more out of mass deportations. We're running out of time, too. I mean, that's the other thing. If we were to lose midterms and then we get a lame duck presidency for the last two years, and then, God forbid, we get a Democrat in there in 2008, the window of opportunity, the window of momentum, it's gone. And if Democrats ever regain power, we know exactly what they're going to do with the 20 to 30 million illegal aliens that are here. It starts with A, and it ends with amnesty. So get on the horse, man. Let's go. We need more of it. Get another story before you hear in the lightning round. I'll tell you what. This story is shocking. I could have never predicted something like this happening. Not in a million years. Get yourself if you're being facetious or not. I'm being completely serious. There's no laughing matter. The former affairs of black people committee chair has been indicted for fraud in North Carolina. What? I know. How could they have seen this coming? Breaking news, a former political chair of the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People Political Action Committee has been indicted in charge with embezzlement. Yeah, Cassandra Shana Stokes is charged with two counts of embezzlement and one count of obtaining property by false pretenses. That's according to the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. In a release, the FBI says that she's accused of embezzling more than $74,000. The Durham County District Attorney's Office called for an investigation, focusing on the potential mishandling of PAC funds and financial activities. that took place during 2023 and 2024. What is it with these Democrat leftist organizations and this BLM-style grift and how it always ends in fraud? Why does it always end in fraud? Does anybody know? Is that part of the game? Is that baked in the cake? Asking for a friend. Should we start? You know what we should start? We should start in Affairs of Black People Committee here in Nashville. Oh, I thought you were going to say we should start embezzling. Well, we got to start the pack first. True. True. And then we can just bait people and be like, you don't care. Do you not? What are you some sort of bigot? It'd be a shame if someone called you a racist. Stupid. Then we can go find, we can go find guilt-ridden white liberals and we can say, Hey, this will make you feel better. Stop it. Get some help. Well, we could be the help. We could be the change that we want to see. Don't you want to be the change that you want to see? I do. I do want to be the change that I want to see to my bank account going up. It seems like the quickest way to get rich is to start one of these packs.

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