title 4-23-26 Hour 3 - Schumer Lies about the SPLC

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pubDate Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:48:00 GMT

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Speaker 1:
[00:03] We know that this investigation was open during the Biden administration, and then mysteriously closed. I really don't have any information about why it was closed. And then we started again last year, the FBI did, working with the US attorney in Alabama. And it's extraordinarily egregious.

Speaker 2:
[00:18] Extraordinarily egregious, the acting attorney general of the United States, talking about the Southern Poverty Law Center. Turns out this place is a hornet's nest of left-wing mental illness. I just did a little poke around. The New York Post today has a fun story of sorts, that the CEO being paid $522,000 a year in 2023, she took over because the then CEO and co-founder, Morris Seligman-Dees Jr., he had to be fired after accusations of sexual harassment and being complicit in racial discrimination among the staff. Well, they're consistent, I guess. Womp, womp, womp. But then Wang, the new CEO, Wang, with a $522,000 a year salary, Margaret Wang, and a $522,000 a year salary. Wang's tenure saw the Southern Poverty Law Center take a much more partisan tone, accusing conservative and religious groups like the Alliance Defending Freedom, Moms for Liberty, and the Family Research Council of fomenting hate and extremism. Fomenting hate and extremism. Sure, the so-called Civil Rights Group, founded in 1917, also included Turning Point USA, on its Hate Watch newsletter. One day before its founder, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated during a speaking event at a Utah University on September 10th. On September 10th. Isn't that amazing? In fact, we have an audio sound bite that I'd like to share with you, because it's true that the Democrats assassinated Charlie Kirk on September 10th of last year of 2025. But on May 27th, May 27th of last year of 2025, that Charlie Kirk was speaking to, it was Laura Ingraham he was speaking to. This is Charlie Kirk himself. Naturally, before the Democrats assassinated him, perhaps at the incitement of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Speaker 3:
[02:41] They're literally putting high school chapters of ours on a hate group next to the KKK and next to neo-Nazi groups. I mean, we can laugh this off. There's an element to this. Remember that there was a shooter that went to the Family Research Council years ago, inspired by the SPLC list. This is them trying to make us basically surrender at Turning Point USA. We're going to do the opposite and our students are only going to lean and even more.

Speaker 2:
[03:06] Uh-huh. And he was most worried about the students that come to his events and his gatherings. And then a short time later, he was shot by a sniper using a rifle and killed. He was assassinated for political reasons. The Southern Poverty Law Center has ties to multiple terror attacks, perpetrated against conservatives. And, you know, maybe we should dox the people at Southern Poverty Law Center and hand out all the information on their personal lives, their home addresses, where their kids go to school, what their cars look like, all that good stuff. A piece published last year, Hwang claimed that hard right extremist groups have steadily penetrated American life, politics, and government since President Trump's 2016 election, but never before that. Yeah, Trump is a big right-winger. He was hanging out with everybody. He was a Democrat in Trump's life before he came down the escalator. I got to New York, the city that never sweeps. Arguing his second White House run gave them an ally in the highest office in the nation. This is what Hwang, the Southern Poverty Law Center, said about President Trump. Suddenly, it's a hard right extremist groups. There's a hard right extremist group anywhere near Donald Trump. Completely outrageous. I got to tell you. What was once considered a fringe agenda in the modern era is the blueprint from which the country's president and the MAGA movement is operating. Hwang blasted in an article for the Daily Coase, a hardcore left-wing communist organ harvesting gang, warning that the hard right is muscling its way into schools and libraries. You mean where parents say they don't want their children's genitals to come home in a mayonnaise jar at the end of the day, that the Democrats are planning on severing or snipping or whatever it is they do. By spreading disinformation, peddling conspiracy theories and preying on people's fears and uncertainty, they seek to deepen divisions and rouse suspicions of any effort to make spaces more welcoming for all, that is to say, child rapists, which apparently every adult Democrat is today. Well, virtually every adult Democrat is today. The Alabama-based nonprofit first gained prominence for busting the KKK with novel lawsuits and legal strategies, and that's fine with me. That's, you know, they honestly, there's a Klansman I met once, but he was a well-known Democrat since the Democrats created the KKK and everything. Let's go to Chuckles Schumer. Chuckles Schumer yesterday, who is the Lizard King, and he's an awful person, Democrat forever. He's been in Congress since 1776. Actually, I think it was 1972 or something. He's been in elected office. Chuck Schumer yesterday, ranting and raving, like the rabid mental case that he is on the Southern Poverty Law Center. And now again, a grand jury indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center a couple of days ago, and I believe 11 counts. And having to do with everything from money laundering to everything they do is corrupt these people. But the Justice Department has now indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center after a grand jury. And again, I played the audio a minute ago. The investigation was actually begun at the Department of Justice under the Biden administration, but they dropped it like it's a flaming bag of Hillary Clinton. And amazing stuff. But Chuck Schumer came out to lie angrily about it yesterday. Did he call for a civil war again, Michael? Because you know how these Democrats, the violent, criminally insane Democrats, Chuck Schumer on the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Speaker 4:
[07:14] On the Southern Poverty Law Center, I just want to say a quick word about the deeply disturbing charges the Justice Department has brought against the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Speaker 2:
[07:24] Not concerned about the charges.

Speaker 4:
[07:25] These charges should send a chill down the spine of every American who cares about free expression and the rule of law in the Justice Department.

Speaker 2:
[07:35] The rule of law. Oh, in the Justice Department.

Speaker 4:
[07:36] It should send a chill down the spine of every American who cares about civil liberties and the fight against violence, extremism.

Speaker 2:
[07:44] That's he's also not very well spoken. He's not a very intelligent man, but isn't that isn't that amazing stuff? Man, oh man. The Southern Poverty Law Center has spread hate. It is guilty. Is it guilty of a crime? Is the question. This is kind of fun at the free press. The Department of Justice on Tuesday issued a stunning indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center in a public interest law firm representing purported victims of discrimination. The indictment charges Southern Poverty Law Center with secretly funding some of the very so-called hate groups that they're supposed to be fighting against, including the Ku Klux Klan and other KKK affiliates, that the Southern Poverty Law Center tells its donors it is fighting against. According to the government, between 2014 and 2023, Southern Poverty Law Center paid over $3 million laundered through bank accounts registered to fictitious entities, to insiders at those groups, the KKK and the Nazis, and a motorcycle gang, at least. What is it, the Aryan Nation Motorcycle Club? Often, people in leadership positions, supporters of the Southern Poverty Law Center, will see the indictments as yet another vindictive Trump prosecution, this is what Chuck Schumer is peddling here, of a left-wing adversary. Haters will see it as an overdue justice, finally coming to a radical left nonprofit that worked with the Biden administration to target conservative parents, like Catholics whose kids go to public school, and to call right-leaning Catholic organizations domestic terrorists. And so did the Biden Justice Department, call conservative Catholics terrorists and everything else. These people, the Southern Poverty Law Center, put out a, now, I mean, they spent millions of dollars on giving the money to hate groups. And the Southern Poverty Law Center, yesterday, they now have an interim CEO, Brian Fair, ironically, named Brian Fair, who said, Taking on violent hate and extremist groups is among the most dangerous work there is. If only that were being done. And we believe it is also among the most important work we do. That's not the work that you do. The actions by the DOJ will not shake our resolve to fight for justice and ensure the promise of the civil rights movement, and it becomes a reality for all. That's their statement from the interim CEO at the Southern Poverty Law Center. Aren't they amazing? But you guys aren't fighting against the organizations you're funding, are you? Because you've given millions of dollars, more than three million dollars to extremist groups, the National Alliance affiliate, and I guess that's like a Nazi group, to Aryan Nations affiliates, they've given more than $300,000. Again, the National Alliance, more than $1 million. They've given more than $270,000 to unite the right, which is the, that's the group in Charlottesville, where that woman was run over by a car and killed. The Democrats have killed four people, you know, in the last 24 hours in Chicago, I think, and in Washington, they've shot a number to 140,000 that the Democrats gave to the former National Alliance chairman. I gotta do, these people should be on TV, the former head of the National Alliance, a National Alliance should be on TV explaining how this happened. They gave $73,000 to former KKK members. Sure. They gave $19,000 to a national president, national president of the American front, who was a convicted felon as well, still is a convicted felon as well. And the Democrats, they give money to these causes. And I said, well, the Clooney's, George Clooney and the Democrats, they give lots of money to this stuff. Chuck Schumer, he's a big fan of the Southern Poverty Law Center because he loves the Klan and he loves Iran and he hates America and he's a lizard, he might be a space alien. Democrat Senate leader Chuck Schumer.

Speaker 4:
[12:30] Let's be clear what this case is really about. It has nothing to do with alleged wire fraud, with the Southern Poverty Law Center somehow working in coordination with the KKK.

Speaker 2:
[12:43] It has nothing to do with that.

Speaker 4:
[12:44] That's ridiculous on its faith.

Speaker 2:
[12:45] The Dren jury didn't think that.

Speaker 4:
[12:46] It doesn't pass the laugh test.

Speaker 2:
[12:48] Yeah, the laugh test.

Speaker 4:
[12:49] It's about Donald Trump turning the Department of Justice into the Department of Vengeance, his own attack dog. He's done it time and time and time again. You think it can't get worse? It does.

Speaker 2:
[13:02] You know, it's about trying to hold people accountable for their misdeeds. And you guys use the Justice Department to target members of the Trump administration pre-dawn raids with a CNN camera crew and producer in tow across the street. You guys are targeting people for things that you laughed off when Hunter Biden did, like not appearing for a subpoena before Congress. Ha ha ha. Oh, you're just trying to. And the Democrat Party is at war with the United States of America. This is a form of asymmetric war. It's asymmetric civil war. The Democrat Party is a what is the festering boil on the buttocks of humanity? Is that would that be too generous? Maybe too generous. And Chuck Schumer and again, the grand jury came to these conclusions. Oh, and it's all Trump's fault. And the Biden administration opened the the same investigation was opened into the Southern Poverty Law Center under Biden. But because they're communists and they're criminals and they're liars and thieves, they dropped it and nobody at the New York Times noticed nobody found out, nobody leaked it while they were sleeping with one another in other people's beds. Chuck Schumer.

Speaker 4:
[14:16] To attack the Southern Poverty Law Center of collaboration and accuse it of collaboration.

Speaker 2:
[14:23] To attack of?

Speaker 4:
[14:25] With their known enemy, the KKK? Weaponizing the DOJ to indict civil rights groups is not law and order. It's a message. If you defend voting rights, if you fight white supremacy, you're next.

Speaker 2:
[14:39] Defend voting rights, which they seek to undermine at every possible turn. And if you defend, they're paying the KKK to incite a riot in Charlottesville for one. And it goes beyond that.

Speaker 4:
[14:52] In 1983, the Ku Klux Klan tried to burn down the Southern Poverty Law Center for daring to expose its hatred.

Speaker 2:
[15:00] And that's your job.

Speaker 4:
[15:01] More than four decades later, the Trump administration is trying to do the same thing in the courtroom. It's an absolute disgrace how far this administration goes down, turning what America is all about inside out.

Speaker 2:
[15:17] He really doesn't speak very well, does he? He's not a well-spoken senator. The Democrat Party, they get worse and worse with each rotation of the earth. Wow. And here's how, just taking off some of the dollar figures. They're the ones paying people that are spreading hate, and then their fundraising tripled after they paid men to go in and site a riot in Charlottesville, which they still use. Remember, Joe Biden said he ran for president because of that riot, and it was a little bit of mayhem. One 19-year-old crashed his car into a crowd. That was terrible. The Democrats were tearing down statues in order to erase their own history, and some people thought they shouldn't be doing that. Democrats.

Speaker 5:
[16:16] I ran for president in 2020 because of what I saw in Charlottesville.

Speaker 4:
[16:21] That's ridiculous on its face.

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Speaker 2:
[17:01] All right, let's go to the telephones, Michael. Let's go to Steve, calling from the great American state of Indiana. Steven, you're on The Chris Plante Show.

Speaker 7:
[17:11] Come on, Wayne, put down the camera. It's a parking lot.

Speaker 2:
[17:14] It's a parking lot for the love of God. The great Rodney Dangerfield doesn't get much better than that.

Speaker 7:
[17:23] There you go. He made the movie.

Speaker 2:
[17:24] Yeah, he really did. He definitely did. Yeah, that's right, you're the head of the Southern Poverty Law Center. It's Wayne. That's right. Put down the camera. That's right. Good pull, Steve. Good pull.

Speaker 7:
[17:37] I'm slightly older than you are. I spent 43 years in union construction and as a union steel worker. I've hunted, fished, drank beer with, shotguns with hundreds of guys, bikers, crazy, wild-eyed Southern boys, hillbillies. And I have never come across a neo-Nazi or a KKK member. I knew this bunch was phony from the get-go because the people just aren't out there. They have to create them.

Speaker 5:
[18:13] Right?

Speaker 2:
[18:14] Yeah, one of our soundbites said that too, that the, oh, it was the Turning Point USA guy, right? And said that, you know, there aren't all these racists out there that they imagine, so they invent them. They create them. Right, Steve? And that's the Democrat Party.

Speaker 7:
[18:31] There you go.

Speaker 2:
[18:32] And they created him in the first place. You know, they created the KKK and Jim Crow, and it's all the Democrat Party.

Speaker 7:
[18:40] Hey, Wayne, look at the pictures. It's a parking lot.

Speaker 8:
[18:43] Come on, Wayne.

Speaker 2:
[18:54] All right, let's go to the telephones. Let's go to Louie, also calling from Arkansas today. Louie, you're on The Chris Plante Show.

Speaker 8:
[19:04] Hey, Chris, Durka Durka.

Speaker 2:
[19:06] Durka Durka, Muhammad Jihad, Louie.

Speaker 8:
[19:11] Hey, I was following you, because I was like you. I've been listening to the news a long time, almost all the time with you, that I heard about the attack on the cop city in Atlanta years ago.

Speaker 5:
[19:23] Yeah.

Speaker 8:
[19:24] And they had Antifa all around it, throwing, I don't know what they were throwing, some kind of explosives and stuff. One of the guys that got arrested was a Southern poverty law-centered lawyer.

Speaker 2:
[19:40] Oh, is that right?

Speaker 8:
[19:45] Yeah. He was just cleared by a judge, I think, just last year. He was just there just for, I don't know, studying or something. But they didn't do nothing, no community service, no nothing at all to the guy, but he got cleared. But he was there and they had a video of everybody throwing explosives and rocks and setting new vehicles on fire. And my cops had to retreat back behind a fence. And yeah, he was in it and he was surrounded by all the antipas. I'm sure that antipas is connected with SPLC too.

Speaker 2:
[20:29] That is great. I can't believe you nailed that, Louis. That's the kind of thing that I love. Putting the pieces together and you put the pieces together, is true this facility in Georgia, the Atlanta area, Cop City, where they train law enforcement, federal law enforcement, and the left was attacking it and firebombing it and, you know, being the communist terrorists that they aspire to be. And Southern Poverty Law Center attorney among 23 charged in Atlanta, Cop City attack, and I just found it here thanks to Al Gore's amazing internet because of the patriarchy. Louis, the patriarchy gave us the internet. Very nice. But an attorney, Southern Poverty Law Center attorney among 23 charged with domestic terrorism in the Atlanta Cop City attack, and that is a pretty amazing story. An attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center is among 23 protesters who have been charged with domestic terrorism after they allegedly hurled Molotov cocktails, a favorite of the Democrat Party, and fireworks at a future Atlanta police training facility, cops said on Monday. Thomas Webb Juergens, 28 years old, was one of the nearly two dozen people detained on Sunday, and what police have described as a coordinated attack on the under construction Atlanta Public Safety Training Center dubbed Cop City. And you remember, obviously, Louis, that they camped out there and they lived there, like the mentally ill people that they are. And I had completely erased the fact that there was a Southern Poverty Law Center lawyer in the middle of it, who was looking doubtless to be arrested and then he could be a victim, and then he'd defend the terrorist criminals that are firebombing the place. Right, Louis?

Speaker 8:
[22:27] Yeah, I think also most of the people that were arrested with him weren't even Atlanta residents.

Speaker 2:
[22:36] Yeah, they normally are not. The Democrats bring people in. You know, they got the, again, Southern Poverty Law Center raised $150 million in one year after they incited the riot in Charlottesville, where a young woman was killed, and they were paying the Nazi or whatever it was that was inciting it. But the Democrat Party is just as a cancerous tumor on our culture, Louis, I think.

Speaker 8:
[23:04] Yeah, I grew up in Chicago, and I moved here 20 years ago, and I've dealt with Democrats controlling every part of the city. I remember Harold Washington and Jane Byrne. They were not like the Democrats of today. They just passed their budgets and Mayor Daley, all of them. They were in the center, but I can never call myself a Democrat ever again. And it's just like Southern Power Law Center only looks at one side as hate, like Charlie Kirk and all his peoples were full of hate and labeled all of them, but never not one person was labeled on the Democrat side, none of them.

Speaker 2:
[23:50] Yeah. Yeah. And you have a good memory for this too, Louie, because of the 23 people arrested and charged with domestic terror charges over the violent protest. It's called only the Southern Poverty Law Center attorney, Juergens, and one other man, Jack Beeman, are actually from Georgia. So the other 21 others came in from out of state to go fire bomb with Molotov cocktails and attack a police training center under construction because the Democrat Party is anti-police and anti-law and order. They're pro-crime and pro-criminal. Most of them are criminals. And even the ones that aren't, they support criminals and crime. Amazing stuff. And of the people rioting there that were arrested, police said the majority of those arrested are from other parts of the United States, as well as France and Canada. And French and Canadian people in there. And this is the Southern Poverty Law Center. I gotta tell you, Louis, what are we gonna do about these people?

Speaker 8:
[24:54] I don't know. We just gotta keep on doing what you do for us all the time. Just keep on speaking out and letting people hear us and open people more, you know, the eyes to everything. Yeah. We just gotta keep on pushing back because Democrats are not gonna stop their part.

Speaker 2:
[25:12] You're a great man. You're a great... Your heart is Midwestern and Arkansas is full of good people too, isn't it?

Speaker 8:
[25:19] Yes. Definitely. I totally fell in love with Arkansas and the weather is so great here.

Speaker 2:
[25:26] Yeah. The weather, is that right? The weather is so great here?

Speaker 8:
[25:29] Yeah. We maybe get like half a month of winter and sometimes we get some kind of snow, but it's always like 60s to 80s in the spring. And in the summer time, it's going to be very hot. We get really hot out here.

Speaker 2:
[25:44] Well, it's not Chicago.

Speaker 8:
[25:47] No, it's not 20 below or humidity that makes you feel 120, but it's great out here. Yeah. They're growing up here. They're doing a lot of construction and try to keep up. Because every day I'm driving by somebody with Colorado or Texas, California plates have moved in here.

Speaker 2:
[26:06] People are moving there. Great mountains and rivers and lakes and great geography, topography and normal people, right?

Speaker 8:
[26:15] And a great governor. Well, most of them, except for the people that discriminated against Huckabee, who were the chrysanteria that were out.

Speaker 2:
[26:24] Yeah, we talked about them. Yeah, we did. Maybe not enough attacking. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, your governor and being targeted again by left-wing lunatics. They're just not fit for a civilized society, I think, the left, because they're not liberals at all. And I got to tell you, I don't know how much bloodshed there has to be before the Democrat Party gets slapped upside the head and told to stop what they're doing.

Speaker 8:
[26:52] No, I don't know. It's like you always say, they always project what they are.

Speaker 2:
[26:58] Whatever they accuse you of doing, it's the old Soviet playbook, the Russian playbook, whatever they accuse you of being guilty of. They know that they are guilty of, and that's why they're accusing you of it. Because they know eventually their chickens will come home to roost.

Speaker 9:
[27:12] It is classic Russian technique to blame on the other guy, what they're planning to do themselves.

Speaker 2:
[27:20] Victoria Nuland of the Obama administration testifying before Congress, and Luishi, she kind of gave it away when Michael and I heard that sound bite. We said, you know, that reveals a lot, doesn't it?

Speaker 8:
[27:33] It does, like you always say, more murder. Can I add on there more discrimination?

Speaker 2:
[27:45] Yeah, more Democrats, more murder, more Democrats, more crime, and you're absolutely right, more Democrats, more discrimination. And that's always been the book on them.

Speaker 8:
[27:55] Yeah, they don't hide it anymore. I think after COVID and after Trump, it's kind of brought the light to everything that we had conspiracy is showing that exactly how they are.

Speaker 2:
[28:08] Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 8:
[28:10] They want open borders.

Speaker 2:
[28:12] Yep.

Speaker 8:
[28:12] They want power. They don't care how they treat, you know, the people that walk away from them, they demonize them. And, you know, now it's gotten down to violence where anybody disagrees, I'm like, Charlie Kirk, you know, they just have to shoot them. Yeah. And that's the problem with our society is they don't think that they could just talk to people. They just got to result to violence.

Speaker 2:
[28:40] And a grand jury indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center for all their many deeds, looking at the paperwork and their books, their bank records and all of this. And then Chuck Schumer, the Lizard King, is out there saying, you know, it's not the Department of Justice, it's the Department of Vengeance. And he says, if you fight white supremacy, you're next, as if the Southern Poverty Law Center. First of all, as though white supremacy is a factor in anybody's life. And I just, I got to tell you, where is that, is the other caller still in the line? So no, no, it was actually somebody I already talked to. Said, you know, lived a good, long life out there, meeting all kinds of people, never met a Klansman, never met a racist that the Democrats are talking about. And I've worked with a lot of Democrats over the years, and they'd be the Klansmen and the racists for sure. But I got to tell you, when Chuck Schumer is out there saying, oh, if you fight white supremacy, you're next? You guys should stop shooting people and stop firebombing people. And you guys are the ones that use the Justice Department to target your political enemies whenever you have the opportunity, from Obama to Biden, and the long, long list of people they targeted for a bunch of bouchoir and putting people in jail whenever they can because they really are the third world. The Soviet Union didn't die. The Soviet Union moved to the United States and changed their name to the Democrat Party.

Speaker 8:
[30:03] Yeah, I mean, I think we have more dialogue with Iran than we do with Democrats. I mean, it's got where they don't want to hear nothing from our side. They just want it on their side. And I am so happy with the SPLC being exposed and hopefully gone with. I voted for that. I'm glad.

Speaker 2:
[30:29] Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 8:
[30:31] That made me really happy.

Speaker 2:
[30:32] Yeah, that's good. Ah, Louie, nice talking to you.

Speaker 8:
[30:36] Hey, thank you, Chris. I listen to you every morning and you rock.

Speaker 2:
[30:39] Oh, thank you, buddy. Thank you, buddy. That's great. Chicago guy living in Arkansas. I love it. See, you know, listen, I love doing this show. And a big part of it is like talking to normal people. It restores my faith in humanity and civilization in the United States of America. Talking to the people that call in. And occasionally we have a liberal call in too. Yes, we do. And I should I make, I guess I should say, because it came up, it came up yesterday in the mailbag. Question came up yesterday in the mailbag. And the question was, in the mailbag yesterday, are you still planning on leaving Newsmax soon? And I said, yes, I said, yes. And I said, in fact, my my contract expires on the 18th of next month. And I've been talking to them at Newsmax about getting out early earlier. And I can tell you it's a little bit awkward, I think. But I got an email from the company about five minutes ago saying, OK, we agreed to release you from your contract early. And you are now free from Newsmax. So don't even show up anymore. And I haven't responded yet because I'm here with you. But the I had asked, I say, you know, like I'm just working 17 hour days, five days a week, and it's got to be a big a bit much. I've had fun doing the show at Newsmax. That's now past tense. It's the first time I put it in the past tense. I've had fun doing the show, The Right Squad, originally Chris Plante, The Right Squad. They took my name off of it. They slashed my pay, and then they extended my work day by an hour and a half or so. And the last part wasn't necessarily really anybody's fault, but I was a rejiggering of the schedule for the network. But I did receive an email from someone whose name I've never seen before, someone I don't know at the company, saying, OK, your last day was yesterday. Your last day was yesterday. That's what the email says. Not for radio, of course, because radio is my forever job. And now I just learned moments ago here with you, with the whole family, that I just got the email saying, in response to your request, Newsmax agrees to end the term of your agreement effective yesterday. She is really something, isn't she? She's talking about running for president again. That ought to go well. I hope she does. She really should. Ah, so that's some breaking news, breaking news here on The Chris Plante Show. And I'm grateful, and I've had fun, and I think we built a pretty good show. One of the cast members, one of the team members on the thing has always been a ratings killer. And we were bombarded almost every day with people saying, I've just stopped watching your show because of the one guy on the panel. And we heard a thousand times, and I shared it with management there a thousand times, or at least 900 times. And, you know, nothing was done about that. But looks like I have the afternoon free. I can go have lunch with my best girl this afternoon when I get out of the radio studio, do all my stuff here, good stuff. But I liked my time through three years, just about three years at Newsmax. And I had fun doing the show. I like almost all the people on the show and all the people at Newsmax. I had a lot of people to like. But looks like yesterday was my last day there. And media companies will always like a good surprise. Communication is never the thing, you know what I mean? So we have that. You know, I used to think that a mattress was just a piece of furniture. Until the good people at Ghost Bed sent me one to try. They bring mattresses into the 21st century. And that's great because Ghost Bed doesn't build mattresses like furniture. They build engineered sleep systems, beds designed to help with relief and recovery, not just plain old looks, you know. They get covered with sheets anyway. It's no fluff. Your body should be healing while you sleep and recovering from the day, not fighting for comfort. And, you know, I noticed the difference right away. So if you're waking up a little stiff, tossing and turning at night, sleeping hot or even reaching for pain pills before bed, hoping that tonight will be different, that's not normal aging. That could be your mattress talking to you. And here's another thing that I love about Ghost Bed. You get a hundred and one nights to try it at home. And if you don't feel the difference, then you can send it back risk free. Ghost Bed is offering my audience, that's you, their lowest prices of the season, plus an extra 10% off. Go to ghostbed.com/plant and use the promo code plant. That's ghostbed.com/plant. The promo code is P-L-A-N-T-E. Also, it's great the guy that started the company calls it Ghost Bed because when he was a little kid, when he was a little kid, he was convinced there was a ghost living under his bed. So when he created a mattress company, he called it Ghost Bed because of that. A nice conference call that made me laugh out loud. Good stuff.

Speaker 4:
[36:39] Police arrive and take Jason Nichols into custody.

Speaker 2:
[36:43] Ah, yes. That was not the same Jason Nichols from the Newsmax TV show, but it's the same name as the guy that nobody likes on the Newsmax show. I see great callers on the line, and let's go real quick. I'm sorry I've run out the clock, but let's go to Wayne calling from Burke, Virginia. Wayne, I apologize for leaving you very little time, but I think you have a great story to tell.

Speaker 10:
[37:12] Yes, indeed, Chris. Good talking to you. I just want to let you know I had the opportunity to volunteer to become election officer here in Fairfax County. They said they wanted to put me where I'm needing most, so they put me down in the southern district. Of course, Fairfax County is a demonstration.

Speaker 2:
[37:27] Got to be real quick. I'm running out the clock on you.

Speaker 10:
[37:30] Yeah, indeed. Bottom line is, got there early in the morning, went outside at 5 o'clock to set up the tents for the Dems. They put out information to the voters they come through. Kept waiting for the Republicans to set up their tents. They never did. Bottom line, came inside, got all these people coming in with these little pamphlets that says, vote yes. And one guy came up to me and says, hey, what does this mean to vote yes?

Speaker 2:
[37:51] All non-English speaking.