Walz's flex gets a taker (03-21-2025--Hour2)

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[00:00:29] All right, so remember yesterday we talked about this. I played the clip. If you didn't hear it, first off, shame on you. You can get the podcast. It's totally free. Go to thepeatpod.com. But more importantly, I will play it again for you in case you did not hear it.

[00:00:43] This is the guy who was held up as the epitome of masculinity, and he was going to win back rural dudes to the Democrat fold.

[00:01:01] He was right. Just his mere presence and him calling J.D. Vance weird, that that was going to be the thing. Oh, and also that he he walked around in some camouflage and in a hunter's cap with a gun. And that was going to that was it. Like, that's all the Democrats that flip to Republicans out in the rural areas all around the fruited plain.

[00:01:26] That was all they needed to see to say, you know what? The Democrats aren't actually so crazy on all of their positions. I'm going to go ahead and sign back up as a Democrat. Right. And it worked very well, obviously, because that's why we call him Vice President Tim Walz. So Tim Walz was on the Gavin Newsom podcast.

[00:01:47] Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, having completely fixed the state after all of the problems and built that super speed light rail, got him out of the multibillion dollar deficit and rebuilt all of the fire ravaged parts of the state. Now he's doing a podcast because he's he fixed everything. So he's doing the podcast and he's got Tim Walz on the show.

[00:02:12] And here's the clip that has been making the rounds. It's Tim Walz acting like a jerk. He's acting like a guy suffering from the toxic masculinity while also wanting to be seen as toxically masculine or something. You got to respect people you disagree with, even you can't just dismiss people. This notion of it. Well, this this notion of most of their ass.

[00:02:41] I do. But I don't know if we're going to fall into that place where we want to. OK, we challenge. All right. So there you go. So Tim Walz. I think I could kick their butts. I can do it. I'm super strong. I know how to do it. I've fixed my truck. I can work on my truck. He did say that, too. Here, I'll play the rest of it. You do what to, you know, a WWE fight here type of thing. Oh, no, no, no. It is. It's a natural reaction.

[00:03:10] I think it's one of the reasons we're losing so many men. And again, it's multi-ethnic. It's not just white men. Right. We're losing them. We're losing them to these guys online. That's why I brought these are bad guys, though. These are bad guys. But they exist. There's the there's the virtue signaling. They're bad. Everybody's bad. They're all bad people. And I can turn and beat them up because I'm good. I'm good. And I can beat people up and they're bad. They're under a rock. They exist. They exist. Not only they exist, they persist.

[00:03:39] And they're actually influencing young kids every single day. How do we put some of those guys back under a rock? Well, first you beat their butts and then you put them back under the rock. Because they're bad, bad, bad, bad. To first understand what their motivations are. I think we have to understand what they're actually doing. You don't think it's racism and misogyny? Yeah. Racism and misogyny. That's why they're bad. And that's why I can beat them up because I'm good. They're bad under the rock. Blah, blah, blah. OK.

[00:04:07] So Tim Walls goes out, lets his mouth write a check that maybe his body is going to be unable to cash. He has now gotten a taker. Not that he offered to fight anybody, but he did threaten basically half of the country. Well, I guess. Well, half of the country that voted for Trump, but then a chunk of that, say half of that, half, so maybe a quarter to a third of the country. The dudes. That's who he said he could beat them up. He could beat up everybody.

[00:04:37] Like, this is a guy. I do wonder. I'm not even going to go there. I'm not even going to go down that route. I'm just going to say, like, not a good idea to threaten a whole population of people and you have no idea what their skill level might be. Because you end up getting some people who are interested in taking you up on that offer.

[00:05:05] After Tim Walls, this is according to a piece at Fox News, after Minnesota Governor Tim Walls said he believes he could, quote, kick most Trump supporters' ass, one of them has now stepped up to the plate. And I don't know. I'm not generally a betting kind of guy on this, but I would probably take the guy, the MAGA guy, the Trump supporter.

[00:05:32] You may know him under his fighting name, Kane. His name is Kane. Well, it was Kane in the ring. He is a WWE, so wrestler. He is a legend. He stands seven feet tall. When he wrestled, he weighed in at over 300 pounds.

[00:05:59] He has now challenged Walls to a wrestling match. For charity, of course. For charity. Maybe they could use the money to help alleviate, you know, some fired IRS workers or something. If Walls win, then his money gets to go to his preferred charity. Probably Planned Parenthood, I would guess.

[00:06:21] Because Kane, whose real name is Glenn Jacobs, is now the mayor, actually, of Knox County in Tennessee. So he's an elected official now. I did not know this. He issued a challenge to Governor Walls yesterday saying, quote, All joking aside, I don't know what he sounds like, but I feel like that's what he would sound like. Because he's really tall and very big and kind of scary.

[00:06:49] All joking aside, let's put our money where our mouth is. In a charity wrestling match, we'll split the gate 50-50 between our chosen organizations. I'll kick things off myself with a $10,000 donation. What do you say?

[00:07:07] Now, in response to this offer from Glenn Jacobs, a.k.a. WWE legend Kane, Nick Searcy, North Carolina's own international film and award-winning TV star, Nick Searcy, who also has moved back from the People's Republic of California. He's come back. He's not in North Carolina.

[00:07:36] He's over in Tennessee. Moved back to Tennessee recently. And so if you are unaware of who Nick Searcy is, you actually do know him. He played Chief Deputy Art Mullen on Justified. He was the investigator on Runaway Jury in the movie Runaway Jury. He's the one that cracked the case. He also was in The Fugitive. He was one of the sheriffs after the train derailment at the beginning of the movie.

[00:08:04] He's been in The Shape of Water, the 70 Billboards movie or whatever it was called. You would know him when you see him. He also, as a public service, put out an entire YouTube series, Nick Searcy's Acting School. Highly recommended. If you want to know how to become an actor, his YouTube series will probably not help you, but it is hilarious. Okay.

[00:08:31] He has offered, Nick Searcy has offered to be the celebrity referee and has promised that he would comport with, you know, the historical objectivity of all celebrity refs in the ring. So, Walls, who was former Vice President Kamala Harris's running mate this past election cycle, made his bold claim on a recent episode of California Governor Gavin Newsom's podcast,

[00:09:02] where he says, I don't know if we're going to fall into that place where we, okay, we challenge you to, you know, a WWE fight here type of a thing. Which, I think, this is exactly what America needs. I need to see Tim Walls, Tiananmen Tim, up against Kane, right?

[00:09:23] I need to see Tiananmen Tim in a unitard and a mask, maybe a cape, going in there into the ring and wrestling with Kane, with Nick Searcy as the celebrity ref. And I need to see a guy walking through the audience with a big old sign that says something like, I steal cable. This is what America needs. All right. If you're listening to this show, you know, I try to keep up with all sorts of current events.

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[00:10:47] Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports Ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. Let's go to the phone lines here. Let's chat with Paul. Hello, Paul. Welcome to the show. Paul. Paul. Oh, Paul. That was so disappointing. All right, I'll put you back on hold. Maybe you're still there. We'll see if Bob is still here. Hello, Bob. Welcome to the program. I won't let you down.

[00:11:16] Oh, thank goodness. Bob delivers. You know why Walls was able to go on and make those bold challenges? Is it because he's an idiot? Because he was on Gavin Newsom's podcast and who the hell is listening to that? That's fair. No, that's fair. Yeah, you probably thought nobody would ever see it. Yeah. No, that's a fair point. Bob, I appreciate the call, buddy. Have a great weekend.

[00:11:46] Oh, wait. All right. So Paul is back. Let's see. Hello, Paul. Are you there now? Yeah, I'm back. All righty. The suggestion I had for Tim Waltz that if he does decide to go against this wrestler, this fighter, he's going to need a couple of stones and a slingshot. Probably a good idea. Although probably that would be a banned weapon in the world wrestling universe.

[00:12:15] Although, as I understand it, they don't actually, they don't enforce the rules very well or uniformly. I think that's my memory of wrestling. Yeah, well, I guess so. Yeah. Paul. All right. I appreciate it, buddy. Have a great weekend. Thank you. Here's my idea. All right. Because you got to have the undercard. You can't just have one match, right? You got to do something else. You got to have some other fights going on.

[00:12:43] So there are no bad ideas under the cone of creativity, as I always say. So just hear the idea. Just I'm just pitching it. I'm just spitballing here. Tag team, which is, you know, two people on each team. And in this corner, we have AOC and Ilan Omar.

[00:13:10] And in this other corner, we have Lauren Boberg and Marjorie Taylor Greene. Tell me you wouldn't pay to see that. Come on now. I would pay to see that. I'd pay to see that more than I would pay to see Tim Walls. Actually, no. I would like to see him get his butt kicked, too. So that would be, well, see, here's the thing. Now, I don't want to impugn all of the professional wrestling organizations and such.

[00:13:37] But my fear is that it would be fixed. That they would do something and make it like a draw. Right? Like, there would be some level of corruption. Maybe, again, I'm not trying to impugn all wrestlers. Hashtag not all wrestlers. I'm just saying, I have seen enough over the years and I have heard enough stories that maybe the outcomes of these matches might not be entirely legit. Okay?

[00:14:04] There may be a bit of like a script or something that they're following that it's rigged, if you will. And that's my concern with any kind of a pay-per-view event with Tim Walls versus Kane, that you would end up with a rigged result and it would be like a tie. And then we would have to rely on, you know, Mike Pence to do the right thing. Here's a great idea.

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[00:15:48] He says, every wrestler has to have a signature move. Oh no. How about, for Tiananmen Tim, the Great Walls of China? The move could be where Tim takes away freedoms from his opponents. Yeah, he could like, he could get into the ring and then just like, start building a wall around him so his opponent can't get through. But then his opponent does get through and then throws him through the wall and it breaks apart.

[00:16:18] You could do something like that. AOC, former bartender, right? She could have, like you could think of any kind of a mixed drink name. Like the screwdriver. Sex on the beach. Okay, never mind. So, but you could do something like that, right? And name a move, a signature move. I'm going to stop before I get to Ilhan Omar. Tim, this is from Russ.

[00:16:45] Tim Walls proves the axiom that the only guys who say that they can kick someone's butt are guys, are number one, guys that have been in no or very few fights. Right? That's one group of guys that's like, I'll kick your butt. Right? You haven't been in any fights. Number two, the guys who have been very successful in a lot of fights. They also will say that. And Walls is definitely not that one. He is of the former.

[00:17:15] So, I think this is the fight that America needs. I think this would be very cathartic for the nation. I do. Get a little bit of the ultraviolence, you know? But it's all play acting. I mean, not at all play acting with wrestling. Sorry. Not at all. So, I feel like it may be good to get some of the aggressions out, you know?

[00:17:44] Let me read this real quick before. Because not that I don't trust your emails, John, but I don't trust your emails. Oh, yeah. Whatever did happen to the Zuckerberg-Elon Musk fight? I don't know. Musk would get, I think Musk would get his butt kicked. And then I think, didn't Musk say something like his mom didn't want him to fight? So, like, that's the oldest escape hatch in the book right there. Right? I would totally fight you, but mom says I can't.

[00:18:12] I got piano lessons next week. Right? Who hasn't used that out? Right? I feel like Zuckerberg has, like, he's doing a whole bunch of martial arts training. He's actually entered, like, under fake names. He has gone into competitions and done pretty well.

[00:18:36] Well, so if you ever watched his most recent three-hour interview on the Joe Rogan podcast, they talk a lot because, you know, Rogan's a big mixed martial arts guy. And they talk a lot about fighting and a lot about archery because, well, it doesn't matter. But anyway, so they talk a lot about Zuckerberg's training and the fights he has been in and that sort of stuff.

[00:19:03] And Zuckerberg told the story about how he had gone in for one of his first fights because he had done fights and sparring with a bunch of the guys that apparently all work at Meta. They've been doing this together. So, like, they're totally bro-ing out over, like, Brazilian jiu-jitsu and stuff. And then he entered some competition under an assumed name so nobody would know it was him. And he goes in there and he won. I think he won his match.

[00:19:32] And so people are saying, like, he legitimately knows what he's doing in a fight. And so I don't think Musk would want to go up against him. Musk? Say what you want. I mean, the guy is brilliant. He's doing all of this other stuff. I don't think he's got it in his schedule to be doing all of the Brazilian jiu-jitsu mixed martial arts training. So I don't think it would go well.

[00:19:57] But, yeah, so John says, Elon is a little busy running the government right now, but I'm sure he could get a free weekend. Yeah, I mean, think about it. You could do that as an undercard. If you do enough of these undercards with the main event and all of that, then, like, that could wipe out our national debt. It could, like, depending on, you know, the licensing and TV rights and all of that stuff and the merch. But you could definitely, I think you could make some money at this.

[00:20:26] At the very least, we may be able to knock off, like, a trillion off of the deficit. What do you think? Ray, welcome to the program. Hello, Ray. Hello, Pete. I just caught the tail end of a little bit of your segment where you were talking about AOC could invent a new drink. No, a wrestling move. Oh, okay. Well, she could apply that to this.

[00:20:50] It could be a wrestling move named after her new drink that I'm getting ready to tell you about. And what it is is you mix orange juice with milk of magnesia and call it a Phillips screwdriver. Terrible, Ray. That's just awful. All right. Thank you for the call, Ray. Have a good weekend. I was thinking of a signature move for Ilan Omar, but it involves marrying a relative, and it didn't really apply.

[00:21:24] Bain, welcome to the program. Hey, Bain. Hey, man. Here's the question. Is Cain able? Indeed he is. He's the mayor of Knox County, Tennessee. Right. Or is Walls able? No. Is Cain killed able? That's true, too. So, yo, you could do it as like Cain versus, well, no, not able. We would need Walls and Canes. This time it's personal.

[00:21:54] Yeah, we need a slogan. We need something. Hmm. Hmm. Yeah, we're going to have to workshop that one. Bain, I appreciate the call. Have a good weekend. Cain and Walls. Walls, Cain. Cain, Walls. I don't know. I feel like there's something there. I feel like some, you know, marketing professionals would be able to come up with some sort of way to market this event and really get the interest going.

[00:22:23] But honestly, I know half of the country would tune in. The half of the country that voted against Harris Walls, they would definitely sign up for this. They would definitely pay to watch this. I'm not so sure about the Harris Walls voters. Unless, like, maybe Cain, like, makes some announcement or something ahead of time. And he says that, you know, he's been he's infirmed somehow. Right. Like he.

[00:22:51] Oh, I just had surgery on my leg or something like that. And then people think Walls has got a shot. Or maybe his voters really do believe that he is the the pinnacle of masculinity. And so he is the guy that's going to whoop up on that Magalove in mayor from Tennessee, formerly a world wrestling seven foot three hundred pound giant. Maybe. Maybe they think he'll win. I don't want to raise anybody's expectations. I don't think this is going to happen, though, people. Unfortunately.

[00:23:23] At best, they may do like I'll be will be the will be the celebrity managers of some other wrestlers. I bet Walls would. I bet he would do that. I have not heard Walls response yet. He has not issued any kind of a response because, like, it reminds me, like, what did Apollo Creed say? He's running. He's hiding because he's too scared to fight me. Right. In the words of Apollo Creed. That's what Walls is doing.

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[00:25:16] But generally, this is a safe space, but I do require a higher level of product, of work product here. So I appreciate some of the stuff I'm getting, but a lot of it is just not, it's okay in the cone of creativity, but it's not suitable for air people. Okay? Like, it's just, it's not suitable. Here's one that is. Ilan Omar.

[00:25:44] You gotta have a signature move, right? Ilan Omar's signature move would be called the brother's keeper. Very nice. It's well done. And Russ suggests this event could be marketed as Cain versus Disable. Or I would, how about this? Cain versus Unable. The Unable.

[00:26:14] That's, I have another undercard matchup. Right? Because you can't just have, you can't just have the one wrestling match. Because all, you know, WWE, WrestleManias and, or WrestleMania, whatever. Multiple events. Right? All of their events, they've got multiple fights inside of the event. They have the main event and then they have the undercards. They have all of these other matches. Right?

[00:26:45] And so one undercard, as I mentioned, would be AOC teaming up in a tag team with Ilan Omar. And then they would go up against Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert as the undercard. That would be one matchup. Another matchup that I just thought of. Jamal. Fire alarm, false alarm Bowman. Versus Matt the face Gates.

[00:27:14] Right? Bowman Gates. No, they probably would never fight because there'd be like a false alarm get pulled or something and clear the venue. Yeah. But yeah, lots of, lots of potential for these types of fights to happen undercard fights. And really work out some of the aggression that we have seen in the halls of Congress. You know?

[00:27:42] And now we'll get, we get the opportunity to raise a bunch of money for charity and to also, you know, settle some of these scores. In fact, actually, Marjorie Taylor Greene, because she got into a big shouting match with Jasmine Crockett. Remember that? So that might actually be like, you could dub that one like bad blood. Because they don't like each other at all. That might be a good fight. Let's see what Michael has to add. Hello, Michael.

[00:28:11] Welcome to the program. Hey, thanks for taking my call. I've always called you guys. I always took my call. I appreciate it. I love your station. And I just want to say that I just don't understand it. And anyone, anyone ever casts a vote for the donkey party in the future, they have to go in for mental illness. Because on your show, I mean, everyone wants to be agreed with. But like I heard a comment the other day, and I really believe it.

[00:28:40] I mean, I believe in Jesus Christ. The thing is, he just said one comment that really hit home. He said, I've never, ever seen so much truth that Satan exists than what's happened in the past six weeks. I mean, whatever this man does, these people come at him. I've never seen more racist, idiotic people in my life. And it's just proof.

[00:29:09] I mean, the man's trying to save us money. You know, I mean, he's done more in a week than Democrats than the last hundred years. You know, it's just mind-boggling. But I love your station. Thanks, Mike. And anyone that listens to your station, you know, it just has to be awesome. Because just, you know, you're just common sense. Well, I agree with that. Everyone who listens to the station is awesome. I agree with you on that. Michael, I appreciate the call. I'm up against a break. Have a great weekend.

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