Radio Show Hour 1 – 01/01/2025

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[00:00:36] This, my fellow Americans, is the broadcast for January the 1st in the year of our Lord 2025.

[00:00:44] Happy New Year to all of you from the staff at Liberty Roundtable.

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[00:01:38] Welcome to the broadcast.

[00:01:39] We are live for New Year's Day.

[00:01:41] I've got James Edwards with me both hours.

[00:01:43] We've got a surprise guest coming up second hour.

[00:01:46] James, Happy New Year.

[00:01:48] Welcome to the broadcast.

[00:01:49] Happy New Year to you and your family.

[00:01:51] Sam, a happy New Year to you, brother.

[00:01:54] And a little tired this morning after last night with my wife and kids and parents.

[00:01:58] And we stayed up past midnight.

[00:02:00] And everybody's a little slow off the jump this morning.

[00:02:03] But I tell you what, it couldn't be any cooler, the timing of all of this.

[00:02:08] Just a couple of hours into a brand new year.

[00:02:11] And here we are on the first day of it, spending time together on the radio.

[00:02:15] I can't think of a better way for me.

[00:02:16] And I thought we might ease into the show today and talk about some of the biggest stories from 24.

[00:02:22] Make a few predictions for 25.

[00:02:23] And, well, the world had other plans, didn't it?

[00:02:31] Yes, indeed.

[00:02:32] One of the predictions I was going to talk about is this is going to be 25.

[00:02:35] It's going to be the year of polar extremes.

[00:02:39] Plenty of great, plenty of horrible news.

[00:02:43] And you can see that as we kick off with this sad story.

[00:02:49] Before we even woke up in the new year, this took place.

[00:02:53] We'll talk about it.

[00:02:55] DC News Special Report.

[00:02:59] Good morning, everyone.

[00:03:00] I'm Morgan Norwood.

[00:03:01] We are interrupting our regular programming to bring you breaking news out of New Orleans on this New Year's Day,

[00:03:06] where police say at least 10 people are dead after a vehicle, a pickup truck,

[00:03:10] plowed into a crowd on Bourbon Street.

[00:03:13] It happened just after 3.15 this morning,

[00:03:15] just after so many people had gathered there on Bourbon Street to celebrate the new year.

[00:03:20] ABC's Aaron Katursky on the phone with the latest.

[00:03:23] Aaron, good morning to you.

[00:03:24] What are we learning at this hour?

[00:03:26] Morgan, according to New Orleans police,

[00:03:28] a small white pickup truck drove around barriers meant to prevent a vehicle ramming attack,

[00:03:35] sped up and plowed into a crowd of tourists and local residents still celebrating the new year on Bourbon Street,

[00:03:43] with a goal, the police said, of killing as many people as possible.

[00:03:48] The police superintendent said that the driver of the vehicle was hell-bent on causing carnage.

[00:03:54] 10 people are dead.

[00:03:56] Three dozen people were injured and taken to area hospitals.

[00:04:00] As soon as the driver came to a stop and exited the vehicle,

[00:04:04] police said he immediately began firing at responding officers.

[00:04:08] They returned fire and shot and killed the suspect there at the scene.

[00:04:14] Once the authorities began investigating the vehicle,

[00:04:18] they appear to have found what the FBI described as improvised devices.

[00:04:23] Those are now being investigated for viability.

[00:04:27] It's a complex investigation involving a vehicle ramming, gunfire,

[00:04:32] and an improvised explosive device potentially,

[00:04:35] and the authorities were quick to call this an act of terrorism.

[00:04:41] I got a problem with it already, James.

[00:04:44] It's the middle of the night.

[00:04:45] It's 3-something in the morning.

[00:04:47] Literally this happens.

[00:04:49] I don't know how they drove around the barricade without any cops really being there to stop them

[00:04:54] or anything like that.

[00:04:56] It just seems a little strange how this could happen.

[00:05:00] Tight security everywhere, I'm sure.

[00:05:03] And you look at this whole thing and you go,

[00:05:05] man, right before the new legislative session starts on Friday,

[00:05:09] you know, they wanted gun control to be increased during the lame duck session.

[00:05:15] Quick to call it terrorism.

[00:05:17] Quick to say the person's dead so he'll never talk.

[00:05:20] Dead people don't talk.

[00:05:21] You'll never get the other side of the story.

[00:05:23] We look at Charlottesville.

[00:05:25] They tried to make the same kind of a claim.

[00:05:27] Hey, some crazy got in his car, moored everybody down.

[00:05:31] Turned out to be not factual as we were told at all.

[00:05:35] The poor guy was fleeing from some other people,

[00:05:37] and sure, he made some mistakes in a panic.

[00:05:39] We get it, but it isn't as we're told.

[00:05:42] And I'm starting out the new year sadly saying I don't trust the mainstream press,

[00:05:47] even coming out of the gate, James.

[00:05:49] I got a text message sometime during the night.

[00:05:53] This happened at 315, which wouldn't have been the busiest time for even Bourbon Street on New Year's Eve.

[00:06:00] But I was asleep, and I woke up to a text from the man who was actually our keynote speaker, Sam,

[00:06:07] that the Friday night portion of an event that you and I were both at back in May,

[00:06:12] a great guy, an actor, a celebrity.

[00:06:16] And he texted me.

[00:06:18] Let me stop you there, though.

[00:06:19] A celebrity, true, an actor, factual, but nice as all get out, down to earth as you could be.

[00:06:24] And that's a rarity, James.

[00:06:26] Wonderful and completely with the mission of this network.

[00:06:30] And honestly, a good friend, a very good friend.

[00:06:33] We talk, at least through text message, virtually every single day,

[00:06:38] even if it's just passing back news stories and just a couple of quick hello or how's the day going.

[00:06:44] One of the few people I probably talk to every day of a handful.

[00:06:49] And he texted me during the night, massive terror attack in New Orleans, and Grandpa Clampett is in charge.

[00:06:55] So, again, this goes back to the timing you mentioned, Sam.

[00:06:59] And then you just never know with these things, obviously.

[00:07:02] So I haven't seen anything yet about the suspect's name, his racial identity.

[00:07:12] That's what I mean.

[00:07:12] Before you get any factual details about it, you get that it's already terrorism, that the guy was just hell-bent on destruction.

[00:07:20] When you see the details of out of order, I'm just telling you right now, I've been in the news business for a long time, 30 years, James, almost.

[00:07:28] And I'm telling you right now, you don't start with those things.

[00:07:30] You start out with a who, what, when, where, why, how of a story.

[00:07:34] And right now, I see it all topsy-turvy, and that tells you something coming out of the gate.

[00:07:39] The other point that I would make on this is, why give us every detail so quickly?

[00:07:48] Well, I see a picture here.

[00:07:50] Why make this so national so quickly, James?

[00:07:53] Well, I mean, it's certainly a big story.

[00:07:55] You know, this isn't something that happens every day.

[00:07:56] I can see the newsworthiness of this.

[00:07:59] And you could probably put the pieces together and make an educated guess that it was some sort of an act of terrorism.

[00:08:04] But, again, not knowing this guy's name, where he's from, his cultural background, his political ideology.

[00:08:11] I mean, some of the things you would use to piece together some sort of understanding of what could have been the motive here.

[00:08:18] We still don't even know anything about the guy that almost killed Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, right?

[00:08:22] Well, but that was, again, as you said, Sam, I was thinking about that a moment ago when you were sort of breaking down what we know so far,

[00:08:29] which is very little except that somebody ran into revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.

[00:08:34] And, by the way, I was just there.

[00:08:36] I mean, I was right there in November.

[00:08:39] I didn't make it to Bourbon Street, but I was a block over and a block back picking up a friend who was in town for a conference,

[00:08:45] and we spent the weekend together.

[00:08:47] He's a dear family friend.

[00:08:48] And so I was just about a block away from this a little over a month ago, right before Thanksgiving.

[00:08:53] But I'm looking at a picture here now for whatever good this might do.

[00:08:58] And I think it's good.

[00:08:59] I mean, if, you know, a person did this driving a Prius, you might think, you know, left-wing wacko.

[00:09:05] But apparently the suspect's vehicle is a pretty nice new Ford F-150 extended cab.

[00:09:15] It's got Texas license plates, which is, of course, mostly a conservative Republican state.

[00:09:22] He had flamboyantly a black flag.

[00:09:25] And, of course, you know the symbolism, you know, behind a black flag.

[00:09:29] He was flying a black flag from a pole attached to his hitch in the back behind the tailgate.

[00:09:36] So I don't know, you know, what you could do with that.

[00:09:38] I mean, that would lead me to believe that this guy may be some sort of –

[00:09:41] But, you know, a lot of times in these things, though, Sam, as you know all so well, going back through the 2000s and the 2010s, you had a lot of Muslim terror attacks.

[00:09:52] I doubt that that's what this is.

[00:09:53] But you had just a lot of these attacks.

[00:09:55] A lot of these attacks are just because the people are on psychotropic drugs.

[00:09:59] It really doesn't have anything to do with ideology.

[00:10:02] Well, and if the media would come clean with that reality check and talk about that, I would be fine with, you know, a lot of their narrative.

[00:10:09] Here's the problem.

[00:10:10] Back in the day, Ronald Reagan said, trust but verify.

[00:10:13] And since then, it's been what?

[00:10:17] 40 at least years?

[00:10:18] 40 years.

[00:10:20] And I look at it and say, I can't trust but verify anymore.

[00:10:25] They have eroded trust so far to where now I have to start out going, okay, they've created another crisis.

[00:10:32] And, you know, let's wait for the details.

[00:10:36] If it turns out that it is a legitimate, you know, bad guy did a bad thing, single incident, fine.

[00:10:42] But the timing is shocking.

[00:10:44] And the details coming out of the gate, they're positive it's terrorism.

[00:10:48] We don't really know much else, but by golly, he was bent on hellbent for mass destruction.

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[00:13:02] Well, welcome back, everybody.

[00:13:03] Always an honor when Sam Bushman lets me bring you back in from break on the legendary Liberty Roundtable show.

[00:13:11] And as we were talking about at the beginning of it, I had, well, the plan was, Sam and I talked about this yesterday,

[00:13:19] the plan was for us to kind of cover the biggest news stories, recap 2024 writ large,

[00:13:25] and then make a few predictions for the coming year, just sort of ease into 2025 before events and circumstances overwhelm us,

[00:13:33] and then we couldn't even get to noon on day one before something outrageous happened.

[00:13:41] And that, of course, is the situation in New Orleans this morning where last night, during the night, during New Year's Eve celebrations,

[00:13:51] someone, we do know this, someone in a pickup truck drove into Bourbon Street and was mowing down people.

[00:13:57] Now, I agree with what Sam's saying.

[00:14:00] He was touching on this before the break.

[00:14:01] By the way, really quick, James, we couldn't even get to wake-up time.

[00:14:04] 6 a.m., buddy.

[00:14:05] Yeah, I was still asleep.

[00:14:06] This happened at 3.

[00:14:07] I mean, if it had happened at midnight.

[00:14:08] Forget 12, we couldn't even wake up.

[00:14:12] I laugh to keep from crying.

[00:14:14] I think, you know, if it had happened at midnight, we would have still been up.

[00:14:18] And if it had happened, you know, around lunchtime, we would have been up.

[00:14:21] But this just happened in that small sweet spot with an early morning radio program

[00:14:27] where we were actually asleep from New Year's Eve night to the time we woke up,

[00:14:32] and then this happened in that small window.

[00:14:34] But I agreed with something you were saying right before the last break,

[00:14:38] and I asked if I could be sure to respond to it.

[00:14:40] You let me come in from the break and start back.

[00:14:43] But terrorism, yes.

[00:14:45] I mean, for the media and law enforcement officials to instantly jump to terrorism

[00:14:53] before they know anything is definitely inappropriate.

[00:14:59] I mean, the textbook definition of terrorism is the unlawful use of intimidation,

[00:15:03] especially against civilians in the pursuit of political aims.

[00:15:06] Now, that's key, Sam.

[00:15:08] That's key.

[00:15:09] Amen, a.k.a. the IRS, by the way.

[00:15:12] Shut that sucker down, Donald.

[00:15:14] Let's go, baby.

[00:15:16] So listen, folks.

[00:15:20] Terrorism is, you know, a mass act of violence or killing used to advance political aims.

[00:15:29] We have no idea what this guy's political ideology was or if he even had one.

[00:15:35] I mean, you don't call Ted Bundy a terrorist.

[00:15:37] He's just a serial killer.

[00:15:39] He's a mass murderer.

[00:15:40] He's not a terrorist because he didn't do it to further some sort of a political cause.

[00:15:44] We have no idea yet.

[00:15:45] I mean, it very well may be, but we don't know yet, and they don't know yet either,

[00:15:49] that this was an act of terrorism.

[00:15:52] So to call it that is inappropriate and certainly, you know, raises up the fear factor from as horrible

[00:15:59] it would be if it was just, I say just, you know, a crazy person who did a terrible thing.

[00:16:06] And then, you know, if his goal was, now I hear he had, you know, obviously there was gunfire involved on his part.

[00:16:14] So listen to this.

[00:16:15] He first off pulled around all the barricades.

[00:16:17] No one really paid attention to that, I guess.

[00:16:19] Well, cops, I don't know where anybody else is.

[00:16:21] He's literally pulling around those barricades.

[00:16:23] Barricades, instead of people, you know, scrambling or getting kind of word or somebody doing something.

[00:16:28] Hey, the guy gets all the way around all these barricades, punches it, runs a bunch of people down,

[00:16:32] rolls out of the vehicle, firing his guns.

[00:16:35] And then they even go on to say, James, in the story, and then now we found some serious incendiary kind of devices in his car

[00:16:43] and stuff like that.

[00:16:44] We shot him dead.

[00:16:45] So it was always a gun with the good guys that stops the bad guys.

[00:16:48] Remember that fact they won't highlight, by the way.

[00:16:51] But nevertheless, I mean, think about how you string that together.

[00:16:54] We don't really know anything about this guy, but I'm telling you right now, he passed all the barricades, punched it,

[00:16:59] had guns, had incendiary devices, buddy.

[00:17:01] We dug on.

[00:17:02] We know everything.

[00:17:03] By 6 in the morning, 7 in the morning.

[00:17:05] I mean, come on.

[00:17:06] Well, I will say this about that.

[00:17:08] Something's wrong, man.

[00:17:08] I live in Memphis, and so in downtown Memphis there is a block called Bill Street.

[00:17:16] I can't believe you still live there, by the way.

[00:17:18] No, I live outside of it, but close enough to where it's the nearest big city, and so I'm near.

[00:17:25] And downtown Memphis, there is a street called Bill Street, which is the poor man's version of Bourbon Street.

[00:17:32] It is a street with nothing but bars and juke joints and live music.

[00:17:36] I mean, it is exactly – everybody knows what Bourbon Street is.

[00:17:39] If you have ever been to Key West, you know what Duval Street is.

[00:17:42] Well, Memphis has one of those, and it is Bill Street.

[00:17:45] And if you're driving down one of the – and they block it off with the little police wooden barricades, just like Bourbon Street,

[00:17:51] just like what you're reading about here.

[00:17:53] But, you know, you can get right up to the barricades using the streets that are still open for traffic.

[00:17:59] So it really would be nothing just to barrel through that with a car.

[00:18:04] I mean, you know, there's nothing anybody could do.

[00:18:05] Anybody could do that.

[00:18:06] I mean, it's not like they're barricaded with steel walls.

[00:18:10] I mean, it's just one of these little rocking horse looking like, you know, wooden structures.

[00:18:16] And so that's very – you know, it would be easy for him or anyone to get through that and plow into a street.

[00:18:22] I mean, it doesn't take a lot to outmaneuver the cops if you get to jump on them.

[00:18:26] So, I mean, that definitely could happen.

[00:18:28] But what I'm saying is – and it could happen very easily, and it could happen at any time.

[00:18:33] If anybody has the will to do that, they're going to do that because these are, you know,

[00:18:37] removable barricades that they move when it's not, you know, a weekend or a special event.

[00:18:41] But if that's true, don't you have cops and people at both ends of the street kind of watching that whole deal?

[00:18:49] Yeah, you're going to have maybe, you know, half a dozen, a dozen cops.

[00:18:52] But, I mean, again, if you're plowing – you know, if you step on the accelerator, you know, it's going to take a few seconds for them to respond.

[00:18:59] Hold on.

[00:18:59] Bourbon Street, New Year's, lame duck session, riots at the ready.

[00:19:04] I mean, come on.

[00:19:04] At some point you say there's not – but yet they were not on top of it enough to let the string of events all occur,

[00:19:11] including the incendiary devices.

[00:19:13] But on top of it enough to take him out so he can't talk.

[00:19:16] We know all this.

[00:19:16] You know, well, that's always interesting when you never know and then you don't know what's planted or not after somebody's dead.

[00:19:23] We'll just take the government's word for it, which is always a foolhardy thing to do.

[00:19:28] I won't, and that's my problem.

[00:19:29] Well, I mean, and then again –

[00:19:31] See, everybody's willing to take the government's word for it.

[00:19:33] I'm not anymore, James.

[00:19:34] That's the problem.

[00:19:35] Their word's worthless.

[00:19:36] Well, I think most people –

[00:19:37] Whatever they say is a lie unless proven otherwise.

[00:19:40] This guy, whoever he was – I mean, sometimes it's sad.

[00:19:43] I know people on both sides really want – not want, but if something like this happens, you know,

[00:19:50] it's better for your ideology if it's somebody from the other side who's done it so you can use it as ammunition against that ideology.

[00:19:57] Of course they do that any time it's some sort of right-of-center person that does it.

[00:20:00] And then, you know, if it's somebody like –

[00:20:02] And I reject that too.

[00:20:04] See, that's my association and it's absolutely –

[00:20:07] No, no, no.

[00:20:07] It is definitely not right.

[00:20:10] Don't get me wrong.

[00:20:10] But, I mean, when things like this happen, you always immediately look for a political ideology

[00:20:15] and hope that it's not somebody that's on your side because you know that that could cause the government

[00:20:20] to come down more and criminalize speech or whatever.

[00:20:23] And then, of course, you know, just one example, the school shooting in Nashville not too long ago

[00:20:28] where some transgender person wanted to take out little kids at a Christian school

[00:20:32] because Christianity is fascist or intolerant or whatever they were thinking.

[00:20:37] But this situation, I mean, sometimes, though, it does just come down to some people are just crazy.

[00:20:42] Maybe it's drug-induced, as we said before, psychotropic drugs.

[00:20:47] But if the goal of this person was to take out as many people as possible –

[00:20:51] and I understand that he did have a gun.

[00:20:53] He did, you know, plow into as many people.

[00:20:55] Well, we're told he had a gun.

[00:20:56] Well, we're told.

[00:20:56] We're told.

[00:20:57] Yes.

[00:20:57] Thank you, Sam.

[00:20:58] That's a good clarification.

[00:20:59] We're told he had a gun.

[00:21:00] I'm just saying we take these things as facts, and I don't know why we do that.

[00:21:04] I think we do know for sure that somebody plowed a truck into the people.

[00:21:07] We can probably take that at face value.

[00:21:09] But then supposedly he had a gun.

[00:21:10] Supposedly he had some sort of improvised bomb, improvised explosive device.

[00:21:16] But I think it's somebody –

[00:21:17] So there's 10 people dead.

[00:21:19] They're not talking.

[00:21:20] The guy that did this is dead, not talking.

[00:21:23] All we're hearing from is the cops, the mainstream press at this point.

[00:21:26] I'd like to talk to some of the 30 injured people, James.

[00:21:29] Or just people who witnessed it.

[00:21:30] I mean, there would have been probably hundreds if not thousands of those.

[00:21:34] Somebody there saw this and can tell you exactly what they saw.

[00:21:37] No shortage of them.

[00:21:38] I mean, many, many scores of them.

[00:21:40] But I think if –

[00:21:41] I don't want to give anybody any ideas.

[00:21:43] But if you were one of these people who wanted to do something like this,

[00:21:47] it would make a lot more sense if your goal was just mass carnage to do –

[00:21:52] and this is another situation where nobody knows what happened.

[00:21:56] Nobody knows what happened in Las Vegas, really.

[00:21:59] That time the guy –

[00:22:00] supposedly one guy was up in a hotel window and was spraying into a concert crowd.

[00:22:06] I mean, if that was your goal was to kill as many people as possible,

[00:22:09] which is I think what I read in one of these stories,

[00:22:12] is you would just get a hotel room overlooking Bourbon Street,

[00:22:14] and at midnight when everybody's sitting ducks waiting for the ball to drop,

[00:22:18] just start spraying into the crowd.

[00:22:19] I mean, he could have gotten a lot more people like that than what he did.

[00:22:22] So, again, that leads me to believe that if that was his goal,

[00:22:26] if he's a terrorist and he wants to kill as many people as possible to make a point,

[00:22:29] you would do something like that rather than just sort of randomly just

[00:22:32] barreling into as many people until your car breaks down

[00:22:35] and then getting taken out by the police.

[00:22:37] So that leads me to believe that if everything we are reading is how it was,

[00:22:42] that this guy certainly wasn't very smart, number one,

[00:22:48] and it leads me to believe that he was probably obviously a wacko.

[00:22:54] Our prayers are with the people.

[00:22:56] Don't trust the press.

[00:22:59] This is our first stab at it, ladies and gentlemen.

[00:23:01] I don't really know much about it.

[00:23:03] I'll be the first to admit.

[00:23:03] We've got a couple of stories.

[00:23:05] We've got a news report.

[00:23:06] But the headline starts out that says,

[00:23:09] Hellbent on Carnage.

[00:23:11] At least 10 killed, 30 injured,

[00:23:15] as car rams down people on New Orleans Bourbon Street.

[00:23:19] And I just look at that and I go, wow.

[00:23:22] See, I mean, you know, for all we know.

[00:23:24] That's your headline for the start of the year.

[00:23:25] And I know that they're saying he had a gun, he had a bomb.

[00:23:28] I mean, again, you know, we'll see about that.

[00:23:30] What we do know is somebody drove into the crowd.

[00:23:32] I mean, he could have got his girlfriend with some other guy at a bar

[00:23:34] and just flipped out.

[00:23:36] I mean, we don't know.

[00:23:37] And they don't either.

[00:23:38] That's right.

[00:23:38] But that's my point, though, is to jump to terrorism,

[00:23:41] to say hellbent on carnage.

[00:23:45] I don't know that we know that either yet.

[00:23:48] I'll give you an example.

[00:23:49] He certainly caused carnage.

[00:23:50] Well, I agree.

[00:23:51] But does that mean his mind is hellbent on carnage?

[00:23:54] And he could have had an ideology.

[00:23:55] He could have had a manifesto.

[00:23:56] But, yeah, the point is, we don't know they don't know.

[00:24:00] And the problem that I'm having is they're reporting as if they do know

[00:24:04] in a lame duck session when they're trying to take our guns away right now.

[00:24:09] I'm just telling you, it's very, very weird.

[00:24:11] I don't think anything's going to happen, but they're going to start out.

[00:24:14] Is the debate going to start out and say, let's put the speaker in place?

[00:24:18] Or is the debate going to be carnage everywhere?

[00:24:20] So now you've got a big old massive power outage in Puerto Rico.

[00:24:23] That happened in 24, one of the biggest stories.

[00:24:26] Right at the end of 24, everybody's having a merry Christmas, happy new year.

[00:24:29] They lose massive power.

[00:24:31] We'll talk about it.

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[00:25:00] Breaking news this hour from townhall.com.

[00:25:03] I'm Rich Thomas.

[00:25:04] The New Year celebration in New Orleans' French Quarter turned deadly early this morning.

[00:25:08] A man drove a pickup truck around a barrier and into a crowd on Bourbon Street.

[00:25:13] New Orleans Police Superintendent Ann Kirkpatrick says 10 people were killed, more than 30 injured.

[00:25:19] This man was trying to run over as many people as he possibly could.

[00:25:24] It was not a DUI situation.

[00:25:27] This is more complex and more serious based on the information we have right now.

[00:25:32] The driver was armed.

[00:25:33] This man, this perpetrator, he fired on our officers from his vehicle when he crashed his vehicle.

[00:25:44] Two of our officers have been shot.

[00:25:48] They are stable.

[00:25:51] Police sources tell the AP the attacker died in the firefight with officers.

[00:25:55] The FBI says an improvised explosive device was recovered at the scene.

[00:26:00] New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, describing it as a terrorist attack, is asking for prayer for the victims.

[00:26:06] All of this comes as New Orleans prepares to host the Sugar Bowl College football playoff game at the Superdome later today.

[00:26:15] 2025, going to be a great year.

[00:26:17] So says President-elect Trump, who adds that things are looking up for America and, for that matter, for the world.

[00:26:23] I think a lot of progress has been made over the last five weeks.

[00:26:27] Pretty amazing when you look at what's happening.

[00:26:29] There's a whole light over the whole world, not just our country.

[00:26:31] There are a lot of very happy people.

[00:26:33] Mr. Trump speaking last night at a New Year's Eve party at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.

[00:26:39] He says he does plan on attending the state funeral for former President Carter.

[00:26:44] Wall Street, which is closed today, ended 2024.

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[00:30:45] I want to talk about the New Orleans tragedy.

[00:30:48] I want to talk about this Puerto Rico power outage.

[00:30:52] This is an interesting start to the year, too.

[00:30:55] You know, you take out that right when Donald Trump is talking about,

[00:30:58] hey, let's, you know, annex Greenland.

[00:31:00] Let's go ahead and make, you know, Justin Trudeau the 51st governor.

[00:31:04] Let's go ahead and do all these different things.

[00:31:06] And you kind of look at that and you go, hmm, now Puerto Rico just has a massive power outage, James.

[00:31:12] Yeah, so this is another interesting item to start the year with.

[00:31:17] Sam asked me to see what's being reported during the break.

[00:31:23] And unfortunately, Sam, you know, a lot of these establishment news mouthpieces,

[00:31:29] they won't let you read their stuff anymore.

[00:31:32] I saw the headline, Critical Failure of Puerto Rico's Power Grid means Dark New Year's Eve.

[00:31:37] So this is the Washington Post.

[00:31:39] I click on it and they want me to pay to access it.

[00:31:41] So they lied to you, they manipulate the facts, and then they still want you to pay for it.

[00:31:46] That's right.

[00:31:47] And so Americans need to be smart enough not to pay for it.

[00:31:49] That's one of the biggest stories of 2024, believe it or not.

[00:31:52] Major news networks lose credibility faster than you can imagine and put paywalls in place, James.

[00:31:58] It's really incredible.

[00:31:59] I mean, especially when you're talking about, along with the New York Times, the purported newspaper of record for this country, the Washington Post.

[00:32:07] You can't read an article without giving them your credit card information.

[00:32:10] And even though it's a nominal fee, I mean, I'm not going to pay these guys anything.

[00:32:14] I wouldn't pay them a cent.

[00:32:16] And then I try to go to the Wall Street Journal.

[00:32:18] Same thing.

[00:32:18] Puerto Rico outage leaves more than $1.2 million without power New Year's Eve.

[00:32:22] You want to read it?

[00:32:23] What's your bank account information?

[00:32:25] But anyway, CNN let me in.

[00:32:28] Our good friends at CNN, Puerto Rico's power outage are the largest.

[00:32:31] Now, this is an interesting headline, though, actually.

[00:32:33] Puerto Rico's power outages are the largest in U.S. history.

[00:32:37] So when I think of Puerto Rico, obviously I don't really think of it as part of the United States.

[00:32:42] I know technically, legally, it's a territory, and they have some rights as American citizens.

[00:32:49] But I certainly don't think of Puerto Rico as being part of America proper.

[00:32:54] It is, you know, for all intents and purposes, a third-world location.

[00:32:58] And frankly, Sam, blackouts in third-world places happen all the time.

[00:33:03] So in that instance, it's not newsworthy, except for the fact that it happened here again on New Year's Eve, New Year's Day.

[00:33:10] And it, you know, caused the loss of what it reads here, 1.25 billion hours of electricity supply.

[00:33:17] It's the largest in history is the reason that it's important to me.

[00:33:21] Right when Donald Trump is talking about, you know, hey, annexing, you know, Greenland or this and that,

[00:33:27] and certainly the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico and some of those kind of things, whatever it is, U.S., Samoa, I can't remember all of them.

[00:33:33] You know, these places, Guam and whatever.

[00:33:35] You know, we have these weird kind of arrangements, and I don't know how that works.

[00:33:40] They don't have full voting.

[00:33:41] Well, the people can vote, but they don't have any representation.

[00:33:43] I mean, it's very, very strange, and I think we need to solve a lot of that stuff.

[00:33:48] And it's just interesting that this all happens at the same time those things are being discussed.

[00:33:52] The Puerto Rican Power Authority is $9 billion in debt, so that probably doesn't help.

[00:33:58] Well, what big deal is that?

[00:34:00] We're $36 trillion in debt.

[00:34:01] They got nothing on us.

[00:34:03] Well, I mean, but that's just one entity, but that's just the power company there.

[00:34:06] I mean, Puerto Rico doesn't even have the entire country of Puerto Rico only has a population of 3.4 million people.

[00:34:14] It's smaller than New York City.

[00:34:16] But anyway, so, yeah, it doesn't really say why, at least that I can hear here without an embargo that I'm reading in this report without an embargo on the information.

[00:34:26] I haven't seen anything to explain why the country went out of power.

[00:34:34] You don't need that.

[00:34:35] You just need to know the salacious, scary.

[00:34:38] You need to be in fear.

[00:34:39] There's power outages everywhere, James.

[00:34:41] I mean, murderers are running around with trucks and guns and explosive devices, and you should just wake up in fear, buddy.

[00:34:49] See, that's what they want you to do.

[00:34:51] Celebrating New Year's Eve and then, well, just the lights go out for no reason or no apparent reason anyway.

[00:34:58] Yeah.

[00:34:58] Anyway, I just find the story interesting.

[00:35:00] We got so much detail about this gentleman that did the car crash.

[00:35:05] We got all the details.

[00:35:06] The power outage, you just don't know anything, James.

[00:35:08] Well, why don't they call that a terrorist attack?

[00:35:09] Never mind the power outage affected one plus million people.

[00:35:14] Yeah, they could call this a terrorist attack.

[00:35:19] A terrorist attack.

[00:35:19] A terrorist attack, sure.

[00:35:20] It's an attack on the grid.

[00:35:21] That's a terror attack.

[00:35:22] It could be.

[00:35:23] Dang rides.

[00:35:24] Anyway, I just find that whole thing.

[00:35:27] That's a third of the entire country's population was without power.

[00:35:30] That's pretty, you know, interesting.

[00:35:32] Pretty massive, to say the least.

[00:35:34] CNN, speaking of them, they did the top 100 stories of 2024, James.

[00:35:38] Did you see this?

[00:35:39] I did not, but I can tell you.

[00:35:41] I don't know what theirs were.

[00:35:43] Well, we're going to cover a few of them really quick, and then we're going to break it down

[00:35:46] into the ones that are the most important for us to discuss.

[00:35:49] Won 2024 presidential election.

[00:35:52] Yeah.

[00:35:52] Donald won big time.

[00:35:54] Kamala lost.

[00:35:55] And the pollsters are the ones that got the beating on that, James.

[00:35:58] They all predicted it was neck and neck, and that, you know, Donald was just behind Kamala,

[00:36:03] and she would, but then when the, you know, reality came out, it was a landslide for the

[00:36:07] Donald.

[00:36:07] The pollsters, they've lost it so many times now.

[00:36:10] Their credibility is gone, James.

[00:36:12] No one trusts the pollsters anymore.

[00:36:14] I think on a personal level, that is the biggest story to me, is that if you, if the media has

[00:36:22] tried to beat one thing in your mind for the last 10 years, is that Donald Trump is a racist,

[00:36:28] he's a white supremacist, he's a fascist, he's a threat to democracy, he's all of these

[00:36:32] things.

[00:36:32] He's a rapist, he's a criminal, he's a felon.

[00:36:36] And all of these things, the media, just a constant drumbeat, Sam, from one accusation

[00:36:42] to the next for a decade.

[00:36:44] And the American people, to their credit, say what you will about Trump, but I think

[00:36:48] the biggest takeaway in all of this is, if there was one thing the media taught you not

[00:36:53] to do, it's that you're not supposed to support Trump, and still he was elected president.

[00:36:57] And I think that, once and for all, for years the new media has been supplanting the controlled

[00:37:04] lying media, more and more and more, but I think this year was actually the tipping point

[00:37:08] where you can say definitively, and you have this evidence to point to, that alternative

[00:37:12] media sources like this radio network, like podcasts, like live streams, more people are

[00:37:16] getting their information from the internet than these networks and these newspapers that

[00:37:21] are all a single mouthpiece for a narrative.

[00:37:25] There is no diversity of opinion at all, and people have seen in all of them.

[00:37:30] With paywalls.

[00:37:30] So yeah, I think that is the biggest story to me on the year.

[00:37:34] Now, if anybody said, look, Trump's election, yes, you know, the arrest, the trials, the convictions,

[00:37:40] the assassination attempts, I mean, it was a hell of a year.

[00:37:42] I mean, there's so much Biden's capitulation.

[00:37:44] And we'll get into more of those details, but I really want to highlight this, though.

[00:37:47] Not only did people vote for Donald Trump, James, but all the experts in the field were

[00:37:53] so proven wrong, they didn't even know how to respond for days.

[00:37:59] They were shell-shocked to the point of literally tongue-tied silence, don't know what to say,

[00:38:05] don't know what to do.

[00:38:07] Many of them were on the brink of, I don't even want to say that, you know, questioning

[00:38:12] their own worth and everything else over the thing.

[00:38:14] I mean, it was an overwhelming for Donald Trump.

[00:38:17] These people couldn't be more wrong.

[00:38:19] Hey, nobody likes Trump.

[00:38:20] Trump's bad.

[00:38:21] Trump's all these things.

[00:38:21] And the mainstream press continued that narrative, and it culminated in 2024, this abuse to the

[00:38:28] point where he's about to go to jail.

[00:38:30] He's about this.

[00:38:31] He's on the brink of absolute complete ruin.

[00:38:34] And it was an overwhelming win, though.

[00:38:37] It wasn't just a, you know what, he squeaked by.

[00:38:39] It was a mandate.

[00:38:41] It was a landslide for the most part.

[00:38:42] Now, you could say, well, it wasn't a total landslide, Sam.

[00:38:45] He only won by four or five million people in the popular vote, and he only got 200 and

[00:38:50] whatever.

[00:38:51] So many.

[00:38:52] No.

[00:38:53] How many is it?

[00:38:53] 300 and 312 or something like that.

[00:38:55] Electoral college votes and stuff like that.

[00:38:57] But it was that given the current landscape and the propaganda against Donald Trump, it

[00:39:04] was the biggest win you could possibly get.

[00:39:06] And outspent big time.

[00:39:08] I think it's two plus to one.

[00:39:09] So outspent, outmediated, out everything.

[00:39:12] But he still won in what you could even say was a landslide, a mandate.

[00:39:18] That tells you something, James.

[00:39:20] It was absolutely a landslide in terms of what was possible with this country being so

[00:39:25] polarized, red versus blue, just to make it simple for everybody.

[00:39:29] But yeah, for him to sweep the swing states and win the popular vote, he could not have

[00:39:34] done better.

[00:39:34] I mean, there were states that he was never going to win and states she was never going

[00:39:37] to win.

[00:39:37] For the things that were in play and the things that had a variable attached to him, he ran

[00:39:41] the table.

[00:39:42] And with all of this against him, all of this going against him, all of these Trump-up

[00:39:46] trials.

[00:39:46] What if the media would have been honest and fair about this?

[00:39:48] I wonder, you know, would it have been a landslide even more?

[00:39:50] I think, you know, Sam, you could make an argument for that.

[00:39:52] It might have actually helped him.

[00:39:54] If he received objective coverage, I don't mean sycophantic coverage, but if he received

[00:39:58] objective coverage, just when he, as we try to give him, as you try to give him, when

[00:40:02] he does good, we will give him credit.

[00:40:04] When he does things we don't like, we will question it.

[00:40:07] That's objective coverage.

[00:40:08] That's not what he received.

[00:40:09] If he had gotten that, I think you maybe could have seen that, Sam.

[00:40:13] Because if you look at the margins in blue bastions like Illinois and New Jersey, he was actually

[00:40:23] almost in play.

[00:40:25] I mean, he got it down to about a five-point difference in these deep blue states.

[00:40:30] And they hemorrhaged percentage points in places like even New York and California, too,

[00:40:35] this time.

[00:40:36] It was amazing.

[00:40:36] You're right about that.

[00:40:37] I want to talk about some of the things that led up to it were huge stories as well.

[00:40:42] For example, Biden withdraws.

[00:40:45] Yes.

[00:40:46] I got to talk about this.

[00:40:47] We'll talk about this.

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[00:43:04] Busier than expected.

[00:43:05] First show of the new year, 2025, day one.

[00:43:09] And already, you know, Sam, this kind of reminds me of day one of 2016 when you were up at the

[00:43:15] Malheur Wildlife Refuge.

[00:43:18] I mean, that kicked off really one topsy-turvy eventful year.

[00:43:23] And even though you don't have a personal involvement in the stories we've covered today with, you

[00:43:27] know, thank God, the New Orleans thing and the power outage, you know, affecting Puerto

[00:43:33] Rico, it is, yeah, it's an interesting start.

[00:43:37] You know, this much news this early, I would liken it only to that in my experience.

[00:43:41] But the, we were talking about the biggest things that happened in 2024, maybe a busy

[00:43:48] year and a lot of things you could choose from.

[00:43:51] Trump's win, the convictions, arrests, trials, all of that, assassination attempts, so much

[00:43:58] more.

[00:43:59] But I think you really got to key in on Biden's capitulation.

[00:44:02] When they removed Biden after the primary season and installed completely undemocratically

[00:44:10] Kamala Harris, who never received a single vote for president in any primary ever, even

[00:44:16] when she ran.

[00:44:17] She had to bow out before the first votes were cast because she was polling at like zero percent.

[00:44:21] And so she gets to be the presidential nominee of one of the two wings of the duopoly.

[00:44:28] And hold on, not only the presidential nominee without a primary, but no debates either.

[00:44:33] Well, I mean, they had that one.

[00:44:35] Well, certainly no debates on the Democratic side.

[00:44:37] Not for Kamala.

[00:44:38] That's right.

[00:44:39] Yeah.

[00:44:39] So there she was.

[00:44:42] And there she, and she went in there.

[00:44:44] And I think that is very significant because number one, I think people just saw how nakedly

[00:44:48] corrupt that whole process was.

[00:44:51] And, but number two, it cemented the Democratic Party as this party of this radical leftist

[00:45:00] woke crazy stuff.

[00:45:03] And here's what's key to that.

[00:45:05] This was like a cascading domino effect.

[00:45:08] So they removed Biden, obviously against his.

[00:45:12] Now let me kind of quickly highlight this before you go on.

[00:45:14] They removed Biden.

[00:45:15] Here's what CNN reports is their 19th top out of 100 stories for 2024.

[00:45:22] 19, the CNN debate.

[00:45:25] Biden has shaky debate as Trump repeats falsehoods.

[00:45:32] See what I mean, people?

[00:45:34] Shaky debate.

[00:45:35] He melted down.

[00:45:36] And when we say Donald peddled falsehoods, every one of them exaggerate.

[00:45:41] Joe did too.

[00:45:43] Absolutely.

[00:45:43] This is what I mean by they've lost all their credibility, though.

[00:45:46] To have that other 19th story and to highlight it and phrase it like that.

[00:45:49] Hey, Biden has shaky debate and Donald Trump continues to repeat falsehoods.

[00:45:53] That's all you're going to take from that story for your headline?

[00:45:57] Really?

[00:45:57] My headline would be Joe completely melts down.

[00:46:00] And we discover for the last four years, the Democrats, primarily those around Joe Biden,

[00:46:08] like Kamala Harris, are literally criminal.

[00:46:10] They've been deceiving the people and letting a, what do you want to call it?

[00:46:15] What would you call this president?

[00:46:16] Letting a derelict run the White House?

[00:46:19] Letting an old man that doesn't know where he is, can't control his body, you know, run the White House?

[00:46:25] And who's really running the White House?

[00:46:27] Okay.

[00:46:27] This story they're minimizing to the point of nothing.

[00:46:29] This is one of the biggest stories of 2024 as well.

[00:46:33] We found out that they literally let Joe Biden run the country when he was unable to do so,

[00:46:37] allowing other people to cover for him and run the country, flat out lying to us about his wherewithal.

[00:46:45] See, exactly.

[00:46:47] Exactly.

[00:46:48] And that's all CNN says is, listen, Biden has shaky debate, James.

[00:46:53] I said that at the time.

[00:46:55] I said he was not fundamentally worse.

[00:46:58] He was marginally worse, but it wasn't a night and day level of worse between what he was in that debate

[00:47:04] and what he was throughout his administration and even the previous 2020 election cycle

[00:47:09] when he was campaigning from the basement and all that.

[00:47:11] Obviously, there was something wrong with him.

[00:47:13] You would have sympathy had he not been such a sociopathic, evil politician for his entire life.

[00:47:20] You would have had some sympathy because, I mean, you know, my great-grandfather had dementia at the end of his life

[00:47:27] and was in a nursing home, and it would be like running him for president.

[00:47:31] I mean, it's just a terrible, sad thing.

[00:47:34] But it led to this chain of events where people saw how corrupt this was,

[00:47:41] and it cemented when Kamala Harris was installed, and there's no other word to describe it except she was installed.

[00:47:49] It cemented the Democratic Party as this radical left-wing, transgender BLM-supporting thing that was so outside the norms

[00:47:58] that it brought Hispanics into play for Trump.

[00:48:00] And that really is the most significant thing, I think, of the whole year.

[00:48:04] If I had to pick one thing, all of these things, you know, are in the running.

[00:48:06] But I think for years the conventional wisdom has been politics is a racial headcount.

[00:48:13] They allow all of these people to come in from third-world countries because it's basically a voter registration drive for the Democratic Party.

[00:48:20] But this year, with Hispanic men, especially Hispanic men, breaking for Trump to the extent that they did,

[00:48:26] that lengthened the field for the GOP for maybe decades.

[00:48:31] I mean, if Hispanic men reliably vote Republican, and again, a lot of Hispanic men were very much turned off by this woke.

[00:48:39] I mean, Hispanics are very patriarchal.

[00:48:42] They don't really go for a lot of this radical left-wing stuff.

[00:48:45] At least the men don't.

[00:48:46] And they came over.

[00:48:49] And that is going to be significant because if that sticks, if that sticks, you may see, you know,

[00:48:57] we were waiting for the clock to run out on the future of the Republican Party

[00:49:01] to where they could never win another election because of this mass great replacement immigration scheme.

[00:49:06] But if Hispanic men, you know, are a little more reliably conservative,

[00:49:10] what you're going to have is, Sam, perhaps that happening to the Democratic Party,

[00:49:13] unless they completely rebrand because...

[00:49:16] Well, you're right. In fact, in 2024, one of the big stories is that Florida is so conservative now,

[00:49:23] so red, so that it's going to take 25 years to unwind this.

[00:49:27] At least.

[00:49:27] Well, and here's another thing, and it may be longer than that,

[00:49:30] because another thing, and we may have mentioned this the last time I was on,

[00:49:33] but something nobody's looking at.

[00:49:35] Watch for this to become more of an issue, folks, and you heard it here first.

[00:49:39] Because the left has been so woke and tyrannical going back to the COVID years and the George Floyd stuff

[00:49:47] and all of that stuff they supported, you know, anarchy in the streets, Black Lives Matter,

[00:49:51] they supported it, they bent a knee for it, all of this crazy criminal behavior.

[00:49:56] But the COVID stuff in 2020, you know, if you were a Republican voting in California,

[00:50:02] you might as well be voting on Mars.

[00:50:04] I mean, it didn't matter.

[00:50:04] You were just non-existent.

[00:50:06] But you've had so much of an exodus from blue states, solidly blue states,

[00:50:12] from conservatives leaving those states and coming to places like Texas and Florida, Sam,

[00:50:16] as you mentioned, and Tennessee, that what you're going to have here is when you have reapportionment,

[00:50:21] the next time you have reapportionment, and that means when you take a look at how many people are living in a state

[00:50:27] and you reallocate those electoral votes.

[00:50:30] Right.

[00:50:31] You're going to reallocate those electoral college votes.

[00:50:33] You're going to have states, these red states like Tennessee, Texas, Florida, and others,

[00:50:38] go up in electoral vote numbers, and you're going to have places like Michigan and California and New York, Illinois,

[00:50:44] lose electoral college votes.

[00:50:46] You could theoretically have, and I think very realistically have, a Democrat win all of those blue wall states,

[00:50:53] what, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin.

[00:50:55] You could win all of those and still not be elected because the electoral college is going to realign because of this exodus of conservatives leaving blue states

[00:51:04] and coming to red states, making the red states have more power.

[00:51:07] And you could have it where the Democrats never win again.

[00:51:10] And if they stick on this radical left wing, you know, we're going to criminalize you if you don't let us cut off your children's sex organs

[00:51:17] and things that they've been pushing and anarchy.

[00:51:20] And you want to know what terrorism is, is Black Lives Matter.

[00:51:22] Now, Black Lives Matter is more of a textbook terrorist thing.

[00:51:25] They completely, you know, we're in the tank for that.

[00:51:29] And now the chickens have come home to roost to the chagrin of the media who tried to cover for it all.

[00:51:38] Well, all I can tell you is this, folks.

[00:51:40] This is the most unprecedented thing in my mind in 2024.

[00:51:44] The way they attacked Donald Trump, they literally run around saying he, you know, peddles falsehoods.

[00:51:50] And to some degree, Trump does exaggerate and does peddle some things that aren't factually correct.

[00:51:54] But every presidential candidate and every presidential nominee and every presidential elect or president-elect is guilty of this.

[00:52:05] It's just true.

[00:52:06] And is it intentional?

[00:52:08] I don't think most of it's intentional.

[00:52:09] I think a lot of it's the way they see the world.

[00:52:11] But the mainstream press sees the world that everything Sam Bushman says is completely fraudulent as well.

[00:52:16] But the fact is I've got more who, what, when, where, how, why stories on the books than almost any of these clowns that report and say that I'm a, you know, not credible source and everything else.

[00:52:26] And so the problem is that you got to look at and say who's delivering the real news?

[00:52:32] Who's peddling propaganda?

[00:52:34] And I think the real story of 2024 is Americans have now seen that.

[00:52:38] The Democrats, the liberals, the whatever you want to call it, communists, fascists, well, Sam, fascists are on the right.

[00:52:47] No, they're not.

[00:52:48] They're really all on the same side of the equation.

[00:52:50] They all want tyranny.

[00:52:51] And it all smacks of tyranny, whether it's democracy, socialism, communism.

[00:52:55] It all smacks of and leads to tyranny, okay?

[00:52:59] And libertarians or the founding fathers were considered liberals at the time.

[00:53:03] Now we call them conservatives or whatever you want to say.

[00:53:06] It's all based on principle.

[00:53:07] It's all based on this fundamental reality.

[00:53:09] And I think the big story of 2024 is I think Americans are starting to realize to big time.

[00:53:16] They're realizing that, you know what?

[00:53:18] They've been played for suckers and lied to.

[00:53:20] So much so to where now anything they say people just think is a lie.

[00:53:25] I don't care any story they float now.

[00:53:27] You're going to have a significant number of people go, I don't believe it.

[00:53:30] I question it.

[00:53:31] I don't trust it.

[00:53:32] Something's wrong.

[00:53:33] And that's how I started out the hour because that's how they lead.

[00:53:36] And so the Democrats are prepared to double down even though their agenda has been completely rejected.

[00:53:42] They still don't believe that, James.

[00:53:44] They still believe that they can just come back and not really change anything and they'll be vogue again.

[00:53:50] I don't believe it.

[00:53:51] In the last four years, since January of 2021, which is when Biden was inaugurated, till today, you went from the Republican Party being on the ropes.

[00:54:00] What's in the best interest of the Republican Party?

[00:54:02] It's not necessarily in our best interest, folks.

[00:54:03] You know that.

[00:54:04] But you went from them being on the ropes to the Democrats being in such an existential crisis that they could potentially, for the reasons I just mentioned, may not be in play on a national level for the foreseeable future.

[00:54:16] Maybe ever.

[00:54:17] But they even tell you that Harris is coming back.

[00:54:21] I mean, isn't that doubling down in a pig and a poke, James?

[00:54:25] Well, the Republicans can always blow it.

[00:54:27] And they've always had a history of doing it.

[00:54:28] We'll see who they nominate post-Trump and all of that.

[00:54:31] So they could certainly shoot themselves in the foot and give away this gift.

[00:54:34] But right now, the world is their oyster.

[00:54:38] Hour one in the can.

[00:54:39] Hour two coming up.

[00:54:40] You are listening to live coverage on New Year's Day.

[00:54:42] I'm Sam Bishman with James Edwards.

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[00:54:46] And God save the republic.

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