When will Peyton Manning be apologizing for all this child abuse? Child abuse is very serious. No one should laugh at this. It’s completely unacceptable, guys.
I nearly disowned my children over College GameDay this morning.
It was a beautiful Saturday morning in Alabama. The kind of morning that reminds you why God created the Southeastern Conference.
I woke up early, made myself a strong cup of Jack Daniel’s, and turned on College GameDay. The sound of marching bands and irrationally confident predictions filled my living room.
Perfect.
My wife joined me on the couch while the kids played nearby. I looked around the room and smiled.
This was what it was all about.
Family. Tradition. College football.
“Alright, kids,” I said, leaning forward as Alabama highlights flashed across the screen. “Come sit down. GameDay is on.”
My son looked up at me.
“I don’t want to watch football.”
I froze.
For a moment, I genuinely thought I had misheard him.
I slowly lowered my drink.
“What did you say?”
“I want to watch Paw Patrol.”
My left eye began to twitch.
I looked over at my wife, expecting her to immediately intervene and correct this obvious act of insubordination.
Instead, she shrugged.
“They’re little. They don’t want to sit here and watch football all morning.”
I held up my hand.
“Robin.”
She stopped.
“I love you. But I need you to think very carefully about what you’re saying right now.”
The room went silent.
Pat McAfee continued talking in the background.
I stood up and walked toward the television.
“You see those people?” I said, pointing at the thousands of fans standing behind the GameDay desk. “Some of those people woke up at four o’clock this morning to stand behind Pat McAfee holding a sign for six hours.”
The kids stared at me.
“They didn’t complain.”
My son tried to interrupt.
“Dada, can we—”
“No.”
I pointed toward the television again.
“This is College GameDay.”
I began pacing.
“This is not Paw Patrol. This is not Bluey. This is not some YouTube video of a grown man opening toys.”
My voice grew louder.
“This is Herbstreit.”
I pointed again.
“That is Saban.”
Another point.
“And somewhere out there, gentlemen, the Alabama Crimson Tide are preparing for battle.”
My daughter appeared completely uninterested. She’s only a year old so I cut her some slack.
She started walking toward a pile of toys.
“Where are you going?”
She kept walking.
Unbelievable.
I turned toward my wife.
“Do you see what’s happening to this family?”
She started laughing.
I wasn’t laughing.
I walked into the kitchen and returned with another cup of Jack.
When I came back, my son was holding the remote.
I stopped dead in my tracks.
“What are you doing?”
“I’m putting Paw Patrol on.”
I set my drink down.
“Son.”
I knelt beside him and placed my hand on his shoulder.
“One day, everything I have will belong to you.”
He stared at me.
“My house. My truck. My tools.”
I glanced at the remote in his hand.
“But if you change College GameDay to Paw Patrol on an Alabama football Saturday, it all goes to your sister.”
My wife was now laughing uncontrollably.
I gently removed the remote from his hand and returned to my chair.
“Now sit down.”
He reluctantly climbed onto the couch.
A few minutes later, the Alabama fight song played.
I stood.
My wife remained seated.
The kids remained seated.
I stared at them.
Slowly, my wife stood up.
The kids followed.
“Much better.”
I placed my hand over my heart.
“Roll Tide.”
My son sighed.
“Roll Tide.”
My daughter said something completely unintelligible and wandered away.
Good enough.
You don’t build traditions in a day.
You build them one Saturday at a time.
I'm sorry that this will piss off half the parents reading this:
Your 11 year old probably doesn’t need a $8,000-a-year travel team.
Meanwhile, mom and dad haven’t had a weekend alone in 8 months because every Friday afternoon the SUV is packed for another tournament 4 hours away.
They need to just play sports (if they want).
There’s a difference.
$3,000 team fee.
$2,500 hotels.
$1,500 eating out.
$500 uniforms.
$500 entrance fees
Every weekend gone, and somehow we convince ourselves this makes us better parents.
Then we wonder why marriages struggle. Put the kid in rec ball and let them play with their buddies.
Take your wife to dinner. Take a family vacation that doesn’t involve a Marriott next to a sports complex.
If your kid is truly THAT good, you’ll eventually know.
But I think a lot of parents are sacrificing their marriage, money and entire family calendar chasing a scholarship that probably isn’t coming.
I agree that most kids need sports.
I’m just not convinced they need travel sports.
That's me - the one who forgot their $5 hat for picture day on a team that cost $20 for the season.
Imagine if every car on the road lacked a muffler.
The noise, hearing damage, and pollution would be obvious.
Yet firearm suppressors, devices specifically designed to reduce dangerous noise, remain buried under bans, taxes, and regulatory hoops.
People should be free to own them without government permission.
Don’t take our word for it. Listen to the medical professionals who agree:
Thomas Massie says the Epstein scandal is “deeper and darker” than anyone could have imagined, calling it “bigger than Watergate.” He says this isn’t about Joe Biden or Donald Trump, but about something far more disturbing: “There are degrees of evil here that we’ve never seen on this scale.”
I wonder if my buddy Jason from SIG can get me one of these for the studio. 🤫😂
Meet the SIG Sauer Remote Controlled Weapon Station (RCWS).
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Being angry at Fauci or being angry at Israel isn’t productive anymore. The anger is justified, but without real accountability it’s just wasted energy—unless it’s directed effectively into a pursuit for positive change.
Trump won in 2024 because most Americans understood that wars in the Middle East are bad for the U.S. & that COVID was a crime against humanity. He built a historic coalition that promised, with conviction, that voting for Trump meant we’d get accountability, no more foolish wars, & an administration that would actually put America first.
Instead, we have a new war in the Middle East and Trump announcing he’ll honor Fauci’s pardon.
This is all infuriating, but don’t let it demoralize you—because it’s also clarifying.
We can declassify documents, stage hearings, and post talking points on the internet all day. But none of it matters when we have a justice system that refuses to deliver genuine, bipartisan accountability, impartial to political influence from any direction.
Right now, Trump has the ultimate power to pursue that accountability, and he’s choosing not to. That tells you everything you need to know.
We know who will hide behind performative outrage about Fauci, Iran, or the Deep State while taking no real action in efforts to shield their political careers—and we know who will actually stand up, fight, & tell the truth, no matter how uncomfortable the consequences may be.
The problem isn’t the War Machine, foreign interests trying to push us into war, or the Deep State & their pathetic apparatchiks like Fauci seeking to control us.
The problem is putting our faith in leaders, again and again, who lack the courage to fight them.
Thomas Massie delivers the truth about the intentional Israeli attack against the USS Liberty on the House Floor on the 59th year anniversary of the attack and calls for a real investigation.
He says there was a 17-hour delay in receiving help after they were under attack by Israel.
“It was intentional murder by the state of Israel.”
“The Israelis were intent to leave no survivors.”
“This was an effort to kill everyone on board.”
Thomas Massie: “The force of the whole swamp has come down on me.”
“It’s three billionaires.”
“They’re hedge fund managers and gambling magnates.”
“They’re upset that I’ve never voted for foreign aid.”
“Particularly foreign aid to Israel.”
“And they’re upset that I vote against the wars.”
“These billionaires are funding a super PAC called MAGA Kentucky.”
“They are not MAGA, and they have never been to Kentucky.”
“There will be $6 million spent this week on TV and radio and mail.”
“Fox News, they’ve got a monopoly on the screens in a lot of Republican houses, particularly people between the ages of 65 and 75.”
“For the last 18 months, they’ve not invited me on a single show.”
“They have blacklisted me.”
“I can’t get on TVs in the living rooms of the people that vote in this election unless I can buy TV ads.”
@RepThomasMassie@MassieforKY
@ChildersRadio@tom_hart Hey Chris, can we have some good replay of Jimmy News tomorrow, maybe some racist monkey…my sons leaving for basic tomorrow out of St. Louis and I’m going to need a good laugh to distract me from sending off my youngest
Absolute bombshell on Fox News. Congressman Eric Burlison confirms the FBI is actively stonewalling Congress regarding the highly suspicious deaths of 13 top US nuclear and aerospace scientists. The Trump administration's intelligence agencies are covering up a massive scandal.
🚨 50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Dodgers legend Rick Monday became an American hero.
Two protesters ran onto the field at Dodger Stadium trying to burn the American flag… and Rick Monday sprinted in like a damn boss and SNATCHED it right out of their hands.
No hesitation. No apologies. Pure patriotism
@TheVinScully with the call!
BREAKING NEWS: Seventy-Two Killed Resisting Gun Confiscation In Massachusetts.
A National Guard task-force detailed to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault-style weapons, was ambushed by elements of an anti-Government, para-military extremist faction.
Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw.
Speaking after the clash, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement.
Gage blamed the extremists for recent incidents of vandalism directed against internal revenue offices. The governor, who described the group’s organizers as “treasonous criminals,” issued an executive order authorizing the summary arrest of any individual who has interfered with the government’s efforts to secure law and order.
The military raid on the extremist arsenal followed wide-spread refusal by the local citizenry to turn over recently outlawed assault-style weapons.
Gage issued a ban on military-style assault weapons and ammunition earlier in the week. This decision followed a meeting in early this month between government and military leaders at which the governor authorized the forcible confiscation of illegal arms.
One government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, pointed out that “none of these people would have been killed had the extremists obeyed the law and turned over their weapons voluntarily.”
Government troops initially succeeded in confiscating a large supply of outlawed weapons and ammunition.
However, troops attempting to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington met with resistance from heavily-armed extremists who had been tipped off regarding the government’s plans.
During a tense standoff in the Lexington town park, National Guard Colonel Francis Smith, commander of the government operation, ordered the armed group to surrender and return to their homes. The impasse was broken by a single shot, which was reportedly fired by one of the right-wing extremists. Eight civilians were killed in the ensuing exchange.
Ironically, the local citizenry blamed the government forces rather than the extremists for the civilian deaths. Before order could be restored, armed citizens from surrounding areas had descended upon the National Guard units. Colonel Smith, finding his forces over matched by the armed mob, ordered a retreat.
Governor Gage has called upon citizens to support the state/national joint task force in its effort to restore law and order. The governor also demanded the surrender of those responsible for planning and leading the attack against the government troops.
Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and John Hancock, who have been identified as “ringleaders” of the extremist faction, remain at large.
And this fellow Americans, is exactly how the American Revolution began, April 19, 1775.
History. Learn it, or repeat it.
Tucker Carlson exposes a sickening text exchange. When Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene revealed her son was receiving death threats over the Epstein files, Donald Trump coldly replied that the child deserved it. The moral decay inside the White House is horrifying.
🚨TRAGIC: A White firefighter in Wisconsin saved a Black man who was overdosing on drugs.
After being revived, the Black man immediately pulled a gun and shot the White man who had just rescued him dead.
Mainstream media didn’t report this incident, as it doesn’t fit their narrative.