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It's time to check Adam's voicemail. Happy New Year, Ace Man. I missed your regular shows. Listen, I got to get your thoughts on Carson Cresley riding in the Rose Parade, honoring the firefighters that fought the fires that didn't burn down your house, bro. Get it on. Happy New Year.
You can leave us a message at 8886341744. Yeah, I watch a short doc on that which is on YouTube. Figure out what that doc was called Ralph Aula sent along.
I don't I don't know if it was that one. I was over the holiday break, but uh the firefighters didn't do that much. They hung out day two and everything just basically burned and they hung in and they blamed the fire hydrants.
Yeah. They did a shitty job. Anyway, hero stuff though. Everyone's a hero. All right, what do you got?
All right. Well, over the weekend uh a major uh military uh campaign.
Yeah. Under the cover of night.
Um, the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro and his wife. Well, world leaders are not happy about it, dude.
Uh, they're not happy.
Nope. They're griping.
Did it? Yeah.
Um, they're deeply alarmed. Leaders from Russia, Iran, China, and Colombia among the nations lining up Saturday to demand the Trump administration release Maduro and first lady uh Sila Flores.
Let me ask this in terms of Middle Eastern demands. What's your batting average? You know, like Iran demands this and demands that and everyone goes, "Oh, [ __ ] you." But by the way, in the circling back to the no more defund the police and community policing and safe injections, I just [ __ ] force just force force force consequence consequence consequence. You can talk to Iran for 30 years about their nuclear program and sanctions and beg them to stop and have inspectors. Or you can take a couple of bunker buster [ __ ] MOABs and drop it up their ass and blow their [ __ ] correct enrichment plants up and then you can turn the page and move on.
Correct. Or you can talk about it for another 30 years while they enrich uranium and get the bomb get ever closer to the bomb. So it be I want to live in a world where we can send our diplomats over to Iran and they can talk to their folks and we can break some bread and we can make a deal. But I also want a deal where I can tell Somali, "Hey, do not collect welfare or child support that you don't need." Okay? I want that world, too. Except for that world doesn't exist.
Yeah. Here's the statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry. In view of the confirmed reports about Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro and his spouse being in the United States, we strongly urge the US leadership to reconsider their position.
Yeah. And release the legitimately elected president of a sovereign country and his spouse. Meanwhile, in Venezuela, they're parading through the streets celebrating. They're so happy.
Now, the Democrats are great, too, with this stuff because it's all in. You know, I was thinking about the other day as I was like going on my third avocado in a day and a half. I thought, remember when the Democrats were explaining we weren't able to have avocados?
That's right. That's right.
What happened to avocados? What happened? Remember when uh if Trump moved the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem that the
going to start the war?
Middle East was going to be on fire. All they do is pronounce [ __ ] I Mandami is talking about how New Yorkers are in danger now because they took the guy from Venezuela. It never hap it's it h it happens as much as can't get a takati. Hey, is anyone able to get their hands on a avocado? I know a guy. He's got a van. He sold me one for $128. It was a little old, but I and he sold me a Takati beer six-pack. $71. Or did none of this ever happen?
Mhm. No, none of it ever happened. Speaking of which,
by the way, and none of it ever does happen.
No, it doesn't. You bomb Iran, we're going to start World War II or nothing.
I want to know where all of the dead children are because of Doge.
Where are all the dead children? That's what I was yelling about.
What? There 50,000 100,000 dead kids.
They're in mass graves somewhere. Dawson.
Uh, in avocado news, just real quick, I planted an avocado tree in my house. Two avocado trees.
In 2018.
Uh-huh. I got my first avocado over the weekend. One.
And it's it's big. It's bigger than my fist. It's a big avocado.
Chuck Schumer will give you $1,200 for it cuz he Chuck told me we were not going to have access to avocados. It took freaking seven years to get one one avocado. You know, the funny thing about all Democratic scare [ __ ] is I just every once in a while I'm just cutting an avocado and I'm go or whatever I'm doing going, "WHAT HAPPENED?" AND NOW the answer
and nobody ever says anything about it.
I know the answer.
We never go back. The answer is nothing. Whatever it is you said was going to happen never happened. So pardon me if I don't believe you.
Well, let's move on to the Somali fraud regarding daycare centers. Mhm.
Um, this story we're going to get into simply because it's from NPR and I'm just going to read the headline and then we will dissect the audio from the interview and the story itself. But here's the headline.
Rightwing influencers fraud claims leads to threats for Somali daycare owners.
Yeah. The thing So here's an interesting thing. Yeah. So, no one cares about NPR and no one's gonna listen. Remember, I did an interview with NPR 10 years ago. They never aired it. So, this whole truth is for all or transparency [ __ ] they're all full of [ __ ] over there.
Uh, no, no one should listen to them. No one should listen to any mainstream media anymore because they're biased. And I But I will explain what what has gone on, what what what has happened to these esteemed news organizations. Now, NPR is going to do what NPR is going to do. What they don't realize is nobody cares anymore.
No one's listening except for a handful of their [ __ ]. And they're in their own echo chamber.
Right? But but and I think we have this clip and I'll I'll tie it into your NPR thing here which is actually Barry Weiss sent it to me over the over the weekend and uh she wants me to write an article for the free press or whatever column something. Anyway, well, her and I are friendly and so she sent me this and uh I'd already torn it apart on Twitter before she sent it to me. So, I felt bad. But, all right. So, this is the new and look I love Barry Weiss. And and this is or as Mike August would call Barry Weiss. And then when I explain to him it's Barry Weiss when we're going to the vent, he goes, "What's the difference?" And then I go, "Well, one is Barry and one is Bari." And to be fair, but who cares? And I go
at a Dokan concert.
That's right.
I love the joking. I go, uh, well, she's probably going to care, Mike. But anyway, there is a path here. You can just pronounce it correctly.
Yeah. And then we can move on. But there's a way to do that with the calendar and the dates and the live shows, too. But I guess that's not going to happen. But anyway, Bariwise uh sent me this, but and then I'll explain what's going on. So, I'll play you this. This is the new anchor for CBS Evening News.
Okay. A lot has changed since the first person sat in this chair, but for me, the biggest difference is people do not trust us like they used to.
Correct. And it's not just us. It's all of Legacy Media.
Correct. And I get it. I get it because I've been hearing about it from just about everybody for more than 20 years as I've traveled America on this assignment or that. my mom's neighbors in West Virginia, my own neighbors in New York City. Thousands and thousands of conversations in between. Sometimes people want to talk to me about our coverage of NAFTA or the Iraq war. Other times it's all about Hillary Clinton's emails or Russia gate or more recently COVID lockdowns, Hunter Biden's laptop or the president's fitness for office.
All right, pause. All right, it's all stuff you lied about. But you all lied about it. Yes.
But I will explain what the problem is. Cuz these people, here's what they do. It's funny. In their attempt to claw back some legitimacy, they lie again.
Yes. And what I need to hear is Amia Copa and explain to me what you did and what happened. And now we need to move on. But listen to Okay. So he goes, uh, Hunter Biden's laptop, the president's fitness, co all [ __ ] they all lied about.
100%. Okay. Now, we can't say we lied. We're news organization. So they do this thing where I we got a few things wrong. Okay. You got you got a few things wrong. This is my every time you go to the corner store, you give him 20 bucks, you get short change for a bottle of Gatorade. And then you say to the guy, "Uh, I gave you the Gatorade's five bucks. I gave you 20. It gave me 10 bucks back. I should have 15." He goes, "Oh, the cash register's broken." Yeah. If the cash register's broken, I should get more half the time. And then last year, it should vary.
I've been here every time. All I do is get short changed by the broken cash register. So maybe it's not a broken cash register, which is you got it wrong. Maybe it's your lying. Maybe it's working the way that you have intended it all along.
So, he's going to explain to us with all these stories what happened. Hunter Biden's laptop or the president's fitness for office. The point is on too many stories, the press has missed the story because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American.
All right, pause there. All right, that's fine. You didn't miss the story. You lied about the story. And yes, you did listen to advocates.
By the way, you're not supposed to listen to advocates. You're supposed to go do the research and crunch the numbers, not listen to people who work for this organization or that organization who have an agenda without fear or favor.
Yeah. You're going to go talk to the person who runs a Somali daycare or you're going to do some journalism. No.
Okay. Here we go. Advocates and not the average American or we put too much weight in the anal. You don't need to talk to the average American either. You need You're a news organization. DOES CO KILL healthy kids? No. Okay, we got our answer.
You don't have to talk to the average American to get that. You don't need to talk to the average American. You don't need to talk to advocates. But keep going of academics or elites and not enough on you. And I know this because
go back a second. Sorry. I have been you or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites and not enough on you.
And I know this because at certain points I have been you. I have felt this way too.
All right, hold on. I don't know what he's talking about. Hold on. He doesn't need to talk to us about anything. Co
Hunter Biden's laptop. Does it exist? I don't know. Go interview the guy from the MacBook store and go talk to the FBI and see if they have it. and go [ __ ] pull some records and go talk to Giuliani or whoever.
Tony Babalinski. Go talk to Tony Babalinsky. GO DO SOME [ __ ] WORK. YEAH.
DON'T TALK TO ME. Let's go do some journalisming. Would you [ __ ] please relying on academics? Yeah. Academics that are dying the wool Democrats instead of focusing on Yeah. Yeah. We don't need to know what they are saying in Duth.
Just go. That's not the news. Get the story. It's a laptop. Does it exist or doesn't exist? You can start with the guy who owns the Mac store.
Then you can go to Bob Linsky. Then you can see if Giuliani has his has the files and then you can take them and vet them, which is easily done. And you can find out that the FBI had the thing for a year.
Mhm. Okay. Go ahead. You you and I know this because at certain points I have been you. I have felt this way too.
Okay. I felt like what I was seeing and hearing on the news didn't reflect what I was seeing and hearing in my own life and that the most urgent questions simply weren't being asked. So, here's my promise to you today and every time you see me in this chair, you come first. Not advertisers, not politicians, not corporate interests. And yes, that does include the corporate owners of CBS.
All right. [ __ ] This news is brought to you by Glaco Smith Klein every other [ __ ] day. You liar.
All right, listen. It's not relying. Here's what [ __ ] up corporate news and all mainstream media. NPR includes all of it. All of it. Just listen to me, everyone. I'm telling you what happened. It's not Yes, there's money. There's there's pharmaceutical companies and there's pressure and there's whatever whatever else and relying on experts. It's not relying and listening to academia. Nothing. Nothing here. Let me explain to you what exactly happened. News outlets were a sausage fest 30 years ago. 75 years ago it was all dudes. There was one woman in the building. She was working as a receptionist, right? And it was just all dudes, right?
And then we decided we needed more women and more women and more women. More women everywhere, by the way, making all the decisions, running the daycare centers, you know, mayor of Los Angeles, in the newsrooms. The newsroom on most of these places went probably in 2000 was probably 9% women or 13% women. It went to like 57% women. It went it did what college campuses did. It did what everything did, you know, college students and graduate degrees and stuff like that. It's now majority women. Correct.
Okay. And so these newsrooms got filled with women. Um, women in these news rooms, well, they hate Trump. Okay, now you go. Okay, you your newsroom is filled with a bunch of women who hate Trump. Ladies, what you're going to have to do is separate your feelings for Trump in order to be professional journalists. Well, you know what? We can't do that. We can't. Just like, as I've said, take a mom. Hey, mom. You're a mom. That's right. You love your 13-year-old son. Yeah. More than anything in life. He's a champion little league pitcher. Okay. Well, the umpire got sick today and we're going to need you to call balls and strikes behind the plate.
Yeah. Good luck, mom. Good luck. He's going to [ __ ] bounce his first pitch to home plate and she's going to yell strike because she can't stop, right? Because she's a mom first and an umpire second. And all those [ __ ] who now got fired from all their Ivy League schools when they got pulled up in front of Congress, when they got prodded and poked at by the female Republican, they were women first, not presidents of Harvard and presidents of Brown and presidents of Yale. They were women and they were like, "Fuck you. [ __ ] you." Because they were women first. Women are women first. Guys can separate.
Mhm. Now compartmentalize. You could have me call balls and strikes if my son was pitching and I would do a good job. As a matter of fact, I would overcompensate a little bit. Probably be a little tough runner. Yeah. My ex-wife couldn't do that because Sunny's up there and she loves her boy. You see? So now you take all these women and you put them in the news organization, right? All right, let's have our Monday morning meeting. Shall we cover Hunter Biden's laptop? No, we should not. Why not? It's a news story. It hurts our guy, right?
And we hate the other guy. All right, I have an alternative story. What is that? Uh I have an unknown source, an unidentified source that says um that Donald Trump was seen pissing on the tomb of the unknown soldier. All right, let's go with that one. Uh you sure you don't want to go with the 100 Biden lap? No, no, no. We can't confirm. We can't confirm. Leslie Stall has been at CBS for 150 years and she sits there in front of Trump and Trump starts talking about the laptop and sir sir sir what's she doing at that point she's no longer journalism she's a woman
now a journalist would have went you know what a journalist would he go what about the Hunter Biden laptop you miss that sir well you know what inform me educate me go ahead president of the United States tell me about Hunter Biden's laptop So what do you know? Have you seen it? SIR, SIR, SIR, SIR. That's all the woman stuff.
So it's gynofascism. We took women who are emotional and that's good for raising kids and it's good for many things for ratings for a while. It's not good for journalism. And it wasn't you listening to experts. It's you got a whole bunch of women infused into that. They all hate their daddy. They all hate Trump and that's why you guys [ __ ] all your reporting up on everything from COVID to Hunter Biden's laptop to inject bleach to good people on both sides. You guys [ __ ] all that up because got a whole bunch of crazy [ __ ] in there who hated Trump. That's what happened to you guys.
Right? Okay. So, see if we can fix it.
Well, see the other thing, too. I would I like the effort here. Yes. I I want this to happen, but I don't believe a word out of his mouth. Now, if he said our credibility is 10% of it, what of what it was 20 years ago, and our revenue is down year by year by about 40 to 50%. And so, we figured out we're doing it wrong. We're changing. That's what they don't I don't I I maybe Barry Weiss I'm I'm sure that she has
Sorry, but go ahead. Yeah. I'm sure that she has good intentions, but in the end, to me, as a pessimist, pessimist, this is all money. This is all a reaction to money. They don't really care about the news. They're losing revenue.
Yes. All right. Next story.
Next story. Well, let's get back to the Somalia guys. Would you like to listen to that NPR thing or do you want to cut in? Okay.
I like I like to This is an NPR story where they
Well, and now here's the other thing with women. They can't stop.
Mhm. It doesn't matter. They'll keep going. It it you you know what's an interesting quality with women? Every woman I've ever known really. If they tell a story like if if they don't like Okay. Okay. Okay. They don't like Mike Dawson, right? And then um they go um well I don't want Mike Dawson coming to the Christmas party because uh last year he uh he stole some of the uh granola bars that we had out for the guests. And then I go, "Oh no, he didn't steal those bars. I put those bars away cuz I thought the party was over." And they go, "Oh, okay." One year later, I'll go, "Let's make the guest list." I'll go, "Uh, we invite Mike Dawson to Chris." No, I don't want that guy here. He stole. That's how their [ __ ] brains work. Do you understand? So, there is no I'm going to explain to you about injecting bleach and I'm going to play the tape of good people on both sides and I'm going to tell you uh no border guys beat any Somalians with with rains. Okay. Okay. They'll go right they go right back to it. They go they can't it's emotion. It's you know what it is. I hate Mike Dawson and I don't want him at the Christmas party and it doesn't really matter if I can explain away whatever it is, but I can't get through to the emotion right
now, put that in the newsroom, get rid of Mike Dawson, put Trump in there, and good luck getting some news. And the more you repeat
the story,
yes, the more people are just going to be willing to take it that I'm a thief, but specifically granola bars.
Just granola. All right, go ahead.
All right, let's see this NPR. Somali Americans in Minnesota who operate child care centers say they've received violent threats and have been targeted by vandalism.
This follows posting of a video right. By the way, according to the left, being harassed or threats is the worst thing you can do to somebody. Now, you stab someone in the ear with a screwdriver on the subway and kill some blonde girl, that's no biggie. No. But if you're harassed or you feel threatened in any way, that's the that is the biggest attack you can you can put on someone. And by the way, they do this all the time. Remember after 9/11, oh, the Middle Eastern community feels, "OH, GIVE ME A BODY COUNT. GIVE ME A BODY COUNT." And by the way, if we did this in their country, every [ __ ] blondhaired person be hanging from the rafters. Right. Right. Okay. You guys are going to I know they felt that. Yes. They felt harassed. They felt whatever. Everyone felt pressure. Everyone feels harassed. Right. except for nothing ever happens.
Sorry, I'm getting a little uh mad here, but what's in it for NPR? That's what I want to know. What the hell is in it for NPR? Continue, please.
Somali Americans in Minnesota who operate childcare centers say they've received violent threats and have been targeted by vandalism. This follows posting of a video last week by a right-wing YouTube influencer that he said shows evidence of fraud at Somali American childare centers. the Trump administration.
You can pause for a second. He showed the evidence on
I know. I know. They always do this. They you you know you know where we're at with the com with the verbiage. Everybody whenever they go Trump falsely claimed the election was stolen. No.
Trump claimed the election was stolen. Right. And flatearthers claim the earth is flat and the moon landing people deniers claim that. But you don't have to add the word falsely. That's what they're claiming.
Or with no evidence. Right. Right. Right. That's how they do it.
Yeah. All right, go ahead. responded to the video by suspending federal funding for child care centers, not just in Minnesota, but around the US.
In a few minutes, we'll hear from the head of a child care center advocacy group about how those cuts are affecting its members. We start though with details from Minnesota.
All right, let's just pause it for a second. Remember when the government shut down and the kids weren't going to get the food?
Uhhuh. Nothing ever happens. You You pause all the child support you want. Pause all the free food. Pause all the snap. Pause it for a month. Let's see what happens. Cuz I answer the answer is nothing. Because people will find a way. You'll [ __ ] take care of. By the way, I didn't I didn't know. I wasn't in child care when I was a kid.
We didn't have any [ __ ] money. Just [ __ ] hung out. And these days, you're in school by the time you're five or six and you're done for the next decade and a half. I mean, you're just gone. So, what? And you get your [ __ ] free lunch. So, what do we what do we need to even do with you? [ __ ] raise your kids, you idiots. Or or listen, here's the deal. Either don't [ __ ] out the kids, or if you do [ __ ] out the kids, then raise them. That's my deal to you. You have a choice.
There you go. Oh, god. All right. Is this thing done?
Uh, well, we could get into we we I think everyone's kind of seen it and the idea that we're we're putting out there is out there. This is not I do want to say this. Uh the house right next door to me in North Hollywood recently sold.
Mhm. And they did some work on it and I was driving to my house the other day and I saw a sign that looked like a for sale sign and I said, "Oh [ __ ] he's flipping it. I hope I get good neighbors."
Mhm. I walked uh around the corner and looked closely at the sign. It's a daycare center now. Uhoh.
Uhoh. I don't trust anyone who wants to take their center anymore. Who the [ __ ] wants to be around other people's kids?
Here's here's what I hope. I I [ __ ] hope it's fraud. I I I pray it's fraud. I do not want daycare children in the backyard next to my house. I don't want that. Please be fraud. Rowan Dawson. All right, Good job, Dawson. Thanks you guys for a good 2025 and thanks for hanging out. Spread the word for 20 26 everybody and until uh next time Adam Croll for Mike Dawson saying mahalo.