Latest / Brian Thomas / Friday Mornings with Jack Windsor
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- 0:00Speaker 1: V Talk Station. 838 on a Friday. Sincere thanks to
- 0:07Speaker 1: the callers who tried to get in, but one segment late,
- 0:11Speaker 1: better late than never. Welcome, Jack Windsor. I was worried
- 0:13Speaker 1: about you, brother. I thought maybe you got all wrist-slashy
- 0:15Speaker 1: after the Tuesday election results, and we lost you, man.
- 0:19Speaker 1: Welcome back. I know you got some pent-up frustration, and
- 0:21Speaker 1: it's shared equally with my listening audience, but as I've
- 0:24Speaker 1: been telling everybody, you know what? Don't Let those fill-in-the-blank
- 0:29Speaker 1: FCC noncompliant descriptive term get you down. If they live
- 0:33Speaker 1: inside your head and you walk around and your day
- 0:35Speaker 1: is ruined and your week is ruined and the next
- 0:36Speaker 1: couple of years of your life feel ruined because they won,
- 0:39Speaker 1: then they win. Another battle. The battle in your head.
- 0:42Speaker 1: Stay positive. Stay strong. Let's keep fighting the fight. At
- 0:45Speaker 1: some point, the weight of their stupidity will fall down
- 0:48Speaker 1: upon them. Jack Windsor from TheOhioPressNetwork.com. Appreciate you indulging me
- 0:52Speaker 1: with that little intro, but I had to get it
- 0:53Speaker 1: out of my system. Welcome back, my friend.
- 0:56Speaker 2: Well, first of all, it's always an honor and a
- 0:57Speaker 2: pleasure to be here. I am fully responsible. I had
- 1:01Speaker 2: an alarm set on my phone. I was doing another hit,
- 1:04Speaker 2: and my alarm didn't go off, and I'm talking, and
- 1:06Speaker 2: literally in the middle of my sentence, I hope this
- 1:08Speaker 2: makes you laugh, I told the other person, I go,
- 1:11Speaker 2: got to go, hung up, and then I jumped right on.
- 1:14Speaker 2: So that's on me. My alarm, I must not have
- 1:16Speaker 2: set the alarm the right way.
- 1:17Speaker 1: It's good to be here.
- 1:19Speaker 2: Listen, what you just said, I want to tee it
- 1:21Speaker 2: up this way, and then we can talk about whatever
- 1:23Speaker 2: you want. I don't know if you, have you ever
- 1:25Speaker 2: seen the movie miracle, Brian?
- 1:27Speaker 1: I can't remember. I've seen so many movies, Jack. I
- 1:30Speaker 1: can't remember the ones I've seen and haven't seen. Remind
- 1:32Speaker 1: me real quick.
- 1:33Speaker 2: It's, it's, it's the movie about the 1980 U S
- 1:36Speaker 2: hockey team.
- 1:36Speaker 1: Yes, I did.
- 1:37Speaker 2: Yeah. So remember when Kurt Russell's in the locker room
- 1:40Speaker 2: and he gives that really just moving speech and he starts,
- 1:44Speaker 2: I can't repeat it verbatim, but he says basically great
- 1:47Speaker 2: moments are made of great opportunities. And that's what you
- 1:50Speaker 2: have here this evening, man.
- 1:52Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:52Speaker 2: Well, Great moments are born of great opportunities, and great
- 1:56Speaker 2: opportunities are on the heels of great losses. Where there
- 2:00Speaker 2: is a great disruption, there is always an opportunity to
- 2:04Speaker 2: learn a lesson and to take that great opportunity and
- 2:07Speaker 2: do a great thing. That's what people need to be
- 2:10Speaker 2: focused on. You're going to live your life anyway. You
- 2:13Speaker 2: get to choose. Are you going to find the opportunity,
- 2:15Speaker 2: capture the opportunity, and turn it into a moment a
- 2:18Speaker 2: year or two years down the road? That is the
- 2:20Speaker 2: only way out of this. I am as frustrated, angered,
- 2:24Speaker 2: concerned about the future of Ohio and the country as
- 2:27Speaker 2: anybody else. But I think that's where we have to
- 2:30Speaker 2: start in a mindset.
- 2:31Speaker 1: Fair enough. And putting aside the concerns of some out
- 2:34Speaker 1: there who believe maybe the election was stolen, I don't
- 2:37Speaker 1: need to go down that road, but the numbers were
- 2:39Speaker 1: pretty damn overwhelming. The tenuous connection that the Republican Party,
- 2:46Speaker 1: as evidenced by Donald Trump's victory a couple years ago,
- 2:50Speaker 1: The tenuous connection that the Republican Party had with those
- 2:54Speaker 1: wings within the Hispanic community, within the black community, with others,
- 2:58Speaker 1: that he was able to get them over to support
- 3:00Speaker 1: his campaign. But apparently the bubble was burst and they
- 3:03Speaker 1: all got let down and shifted dramatically back over to
- 3:06Speaker 1: the Democrats. And we even lost a lot of Republicans
- 3:08Speaker 1: who had the nerve to vote for a Democrat, which
- 3:10Speaker 1: doesn't really– As mad as I might be about any
- 3:13Speaker 1: given politician, there is no way I'm going to cast
- 3:16Speaker 1: a vote for a Democrat knowing where the Democratic Party is.
- 3:19Speaker 1: So that sort of surprises me. If you can address
- 3:21Speaker 1: that phenomenon, Jack Windsor. Yeah.
- 3:25Speaker 2: So I'm still really trying to get into the numbers.
- 3:28Speaker 2: There's a problem in Ohio because voters are classified Democrat
- 3:32Speaker 2: or Republican based on whether they pull a primary ballot.
- 3:35Speaker 2: And the challenge in Ohio is there are a lot
- 3:37Speaker 2: of voters who don't vote in the primary. They vote
- 3:39Speaker 2: in the general election. And so they're unaffiliated voters. In fact,
- 3:42Speaker 2: the largest pool of voters in Ohio are unaffiliated. So
- 3:45Speaker 2: were true Republicans voting for Democrats? I'm not sure. But
- 3:48Speaker 2: certainly unaffiliated voters did more this election than they did
- 3:53Speaker 2: just two years ago. Now, one of the bans that
- 3:56Speaker 2: has been highlighted by Breitbart, I believe, the 18 to
- 3:59Speaker 2: 29-year-olds flipped 55 points in just two years. Now, I
- 4:04Speaker 2: don't know how big that pie is. Maybe it's 7%
- 4:06Speaker 2: of the electorate. But I think that's a signal, right?
- 4:09Speaker 2: It's not the full data set, but it's a signal.
- 4:12Speaker 2: And here's what I really boil it down to. And
- 4:15Speaker 2: it's why I think J.D. Vance came out Wednesday and
- 4:19Speaker 2: said what he said. America first, no new wars. I'm
- 4:24Speaker 2: going to fix the economy. Those were some of the
- 4:28Speaker 2: many things that Trump promised. And there are a lot
- 4:30Speaker 2: of people who feel like he went back on his word,
- 4:33Speaker 2: had a war that cost lives and cost money. It
- 4:36Speaker 2: increased the price of gasoline it increased the price of
- 4:40Speaker 2: everything because diesel touches everything uh and also there are
- 4:44Speaker 2: a lot of people on the right side of the
- 4:46Speaker 2: aisle i saw this in social media six months before
- 4:48Speaker 2: the election who believe that we're in iran and doing
- 4:51Speaker 2: other things at the at the at the behest of
- 4:53Speaker 2: bb and the israelis yeah so there are a lot
- 4:56Speaker 2: of people who don't feel like he's put america first
- 4:59Speaker 2: and look he didn't say i'm going to make things
- 5:00Speaker 2: the cheapest in the history of the world and fix
- 5:02Speaker 2: it completely he said we're going to make it better
- 5:05Speaker 2: and we did economically Gas prices are not $ 5 a
- 5:08Speaker 2: gallon like they were in 2022. Inflation is not peaking
- 5:12Speaker 2: at 9% like it did in 2022. But Americans don't
- 5:15Speaker 2: care because we're still paying more than we thought. Anybody
- 5:18Speaker 2: who sells will tell you if you over promise and
- 5:20Speaker 2: under deliver, you create an expectation and then dissatisfaction. And
- 5:24Speaker 2: I think those three things together really turned off voters.
- 5:28Speaker 2: If you remember in 2024, it was a resounding victory.
- 5:32Speaker 2: People were coalesced and they said, let's go do this.
- 5:35Speaker 2: And two years later, they were like, wait a minute,
- 5:38Speaker 2: we voted for this. What the hell has changed? And
- 5:41Speaker 2: I think from a national headwind standpoint, that was extremely
- 5:44Speaker 2: problematic to overcome.
- 5:46Speaker 1: Well, and, you know, I suppose the bubble seems to
- 5:49Speaker 1: have burst insofar as the Trump magnetism or whatever. What
- 5:55Speaker 1: I observed and, you know, feel free as a political
- 5:57Speaker 1: observer to draw a different conclusion. It seems to me
- 6:00Speaker 1: based upon, you know, maybe J.D. Vance's post. with regard
- 6:03Speaker 1: to blaming the war on this calamity that happened Tuesday.
- 6:07Speaker 1: But there are other prominent politicians saying things out loud
- 6:12Speaker 1: critical of Donald Trump now. It seems to me that
- 6:14Speaker 1: after the election, the whole idea of keeping quiet on
- 6:18Speaker 1: any criticism of Trump for fear of alienating the rabid
- 6:22Speaker 1: MAGA folks has disappeared now. And in order to diss
- 6:25Speaker 1: themselves from evil orange man as we get close to 2028,
- 6:29Speaker 1: They're going to have to start showing that, no, no, no,
- 6:31Speaker 1: I was not a MAGA always kind of person because
- 6:36Speaker 1: the Democrats aren't going to have Donald Trump to be
- 6:38Speaker 1: their whipping boy and their evil enemy anymore. He's going
- 6:40Speaker 1: to be gone. I guess kind of ask is this
- 6:42Speaker 1: corollary question. Sorry for the compound long winded nature. What
- 6:45Speaker 1: are they going to do without Donald Trump?
- 6:47Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, I think I talked about a
- 6:50Speaker 2: year ago on this and maybe you and I've talked
- 6:52Speaker 2: about it before. The Republicans in Ohio have done it.
- 6:56Speaker 2: Republicans all over the country have done it. It's kind
- 6:59Speaker 2: of like the Me Too movement for MAGA. Yep, I'm
- 7:02Speaker 2: a Trump acolyte. That's me, man. America first, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
- 7:05Speaker 2: But who are you really? And I think that's where
- 7:09Speaker 2: there's the chink in the armor. A lot of people
- 7:11Speaker 2: are going, I hear you say that you're MAGA, but
- 7:13Speaker 2: what's going on nationally, MAGA's not MAGA. We're not putting
- 7:17Speaker 2: America first. Prices are not coming down. We're not abstaining
- 7:22Speaker 2: from fighting other people's wars. And so when you brand
- 7:24Speaker 2: yourself that now, all of a sudden, the national headwinds
- 7:28Speaker 2: are on your shoulders and it's going to be a
- 7:31Speaker 2: time of reckoning. And frankly, there were a lot of
- 7:34Speaker 2: people in the beginning, Brian, who didn't like Trump, but
- 7:36Speaker 2: Trump inspired the populist movement and they got behind him
- 7:41Speaker 2: because they didn't want to get picked off. Well, that's gone.
- 7:43Speaker 2: He's a lame duck now. So those people will come
- 7:46Speaker 2: out of the woodwork. But national headwinds are not the
- 7:48Speaker 2: only problem that we have in Ohio. There's a whole
- 7:50Speaker 2: host of problems there. And I know you probably have
- 7:52Speaker 2: to take a break soon. And I can unpack some
- 7:54Speaker 2: of those. But don't let anybody in Ohio tell you
- 7:57Speaker 2: that this happened only because of national headwinds. Ohio Republicans
- 8:01Speaker 2: have their own host of problems they need to solve
- 8:04Speaker 2: pretty quickly.
- 8:05Speaker 1: Well, isn't that a nice segue point? Pause. We'll bring
- 8:08Speaker 1: you back. That's called a tease. Jack Wins is good
- 8:10Speaker 1: at that. TheOhioPressNetwork.com. Follow him throughout the week. Bookmark the website.
- 8:15Speaker 1: We'll bring Jack back after these brief words. Could you
- 8:21Speaker 1: use a hand with the information and the books? Get
- 8:25Speaker 1: a copy of Joshua Lysak's book, Haitians of Springfield. Frightening
- 8:28Speaker 1: stuff that is, but you know, reality is something different
- 8:31Speaker 1: than what you're sold in the mainstream media. And you
- 8:33Speaker 1: get reality at theohiopressnetwork.com. It's Jack Windsor's site. Jack's on
- 8:36Speaker 1: the show with a nice tease about what's going on
- 8:38Speaker 1: here in Ohio compared to the national problems we're facing.
- 8:41Speaker 2: Jack. Yeah, so you and I have talked ad nauseum
- 8:45Speaker 2: on this show about Vivek and Our concerns played out, right?
- 8:49Speaker 2: He received fewer votes than any of the other Republican
- 8:52Speaker 2: statewide candidates on Tuesday. And I'm going to go back
- 8:55Speaker 2: to a moment in time. I'm sure that you, your listeners, me,
- 8:58Speaker 2: my listeners, our friends, our friend groups have been saying
- 9:01Speaker 2: for a long time that American culture is broken, that
- 9:04Speaker 2: the Marxist march through our institutions had been complete, that
- 9:08Speaker 2: our kids were being taught what to think and not
- 9:10Speaker 2: how to think in school. And we were all in
- 9:12Speaker 2: agreement on that. But I want to take you back
- 9:14Speaker 2: to around Christmas last year. Do you remember when Vivek
- 9:17Speaker 2: Ramaswamy made some comments about other countries that are leading
- 9:21Speaker 2: internationally and how their kids study math and our kids
- 9:24Speaker 2: play football and other such things? Do you remember the
- 9:27Speaker 2: backlash from that, Brian?
- 9:29Speaker 1: Listen, there's backlash to anything coming out of a conservative-leaning person.
- 9:33Speaker 1: So I don't specifically recall hearing that backlash, but it
- 9:36Speaker 1: doesn't surprise me a whit.
- 9:39Speaker 2: So there were a lot of people who– one of
- 9:41Speaker 2: the narratives that surrounded Vivek's candidacy was he's going to
- 9:45Speaker 2: do the H-1B thing, bring in a bunch of Indian
- 9:48Speaker 2: immigrants and replace American jobs, right?
- 9:50Speaker 1: Yes.
- 9:50Speaker 2: And that all stemmed back to that December– I think
- 9:53Speaker 2: it was around December of 2025 social media post. Now,
- 9:57Speaker 2: that right there should have been an aha moment. If
- 10:01Speaker 2: I criticize my wife lovingly, if I say, hey, honey,
- 10:05Speaker 2: maybe you could ask me that in a little different voice,
- 10:07Speaker 2: that kind of sounds nagging. I'm okay with that. If
- 10:10Speaker 2: another man criticizes my wife, gloves come off, right? So
- 10:14Speaker 2: when Republicans are saying it, it's okay. But when Vivek
- 10:17Speaker 2: says it, people go apoplectic. That should have been a
- 10:20Speaker 2: moment that people went, oh, Republicans are not looking at
- 10:24Speaker 2: him like a member of the family. We better figure
- 10:26Speaker 2: that out.
- 10:27Speaker 1: Good point.
- 10:27Speaker 2: And that was the beginning. And Vivek died by a
- 10:32Speaker 2: thousand paper cuts. His political candidacy died by a thousand
- 10:36Speaker 2: paper cuts. You can throw on all the other stuff.
- 10:38Speaker 2: But there was that part of it. There was this
- 10:40Speaker 2: narrative that he bought his endorsement or the Rhino establishment
- 10:44Speaker 2: had him endorsed early. That really wasn't true. There are
- 10:48Speaker 2: some people who will still argue with me on that.
- 10:49Speaker 2: Go ahead.
- 10:50Speaker 1: No, I'm agreeing with you all across the board. You know,
- 10:52Speaker 1: I've been pointing out because I've heard it directly from
- 10:54Speaker 1: people's mouths, his religion and maybe even the color of
- 10:58Speaker 1: his skin was a reason that they would not vote
- 10:59Speaker 1: for him. I mean, I'm like, you want Governor Amy,
- 11:04Speaker 1: Amy Act, Governor Amy Act. I'm sorry, Jack, it's still
- 11:06Speaker 1: bringing bile up in the back of my throat that
- 11:08Speaker 1: we're that dumb that we're going to elect someone who
- 11:10Speaker 1: did everything she did and wouldn't even bother debating anything.
- 11:13Speaker 1: The candidate wouldn't articulate principles, just promised she was going
- 11:16Speaker 1: to lower the price of goods without articulating an argument
- 11:19Speaker 1: in favor of how she's going to do it. Anyway,
- 11:21Speaker 1: we went down that road, and part of the reason
- 11:23Speaker 1: is some people carrying a chip on their shoulder thinking,
- 11:25Speaker 1: I guess, that we live in a theocracy.
- 11:27Speaker 2: Well, you know, there's a lot. First of all, I
- 11:31Speaker 2: think Vivek could have defined himself better out of the gate,
- 11:35Speaker 2: and because he didn't, because there were some chinks in
- 11:38Speaker 2: the armor, so to speak, you know, and I kind
- 11:40Speaker 2: of gave you the warning shot over the top with
- 11:44Speaker 2: So if he had defined himself, maybe things wouldn't have
- 11:47Speaker 2: gone as sideways. But here's the other part. Amy Acton
- 11:53Speaker 2: is an empty suit. You and I know that. She
- 11:56Speaker 2: was incompetent as the health director. But you know what
- 11:59Speaker 2: she and her campaign did successfully? They created an archetype
- 12:04Speaker 2: and flipped on MAGA what MAGA became powerful by. She
- 12:11Speaker 2: made it look like she was David. And Vivek was Goliath.
- 12:15Speaker 2: He was the outsider. She was the outsider. She was
- 12:18Speaker 2: the little guy. He was the guy that was the
- 12:20Speaker 2: establishment rhino guy who had all the money. And she
- 12:23Speaker 2: was fighting against him. And it worked. That was an
- 12:28Speaker 2: example of selling the sizzle and not the steak. And
- 12:31Speaker 2: so I think there's a lesson there in messaging for Republicans.
- 12:34Speaker 1: A lesson in messaging that we need to appeal to
- 12:36Speaker 1: people who aren't paying any attention whatsoever to politics. That
- 12:39Speaker 1: her message was able to successfully convince people that was
- 12:42Speaker 1: the truth. That is a reflection of ignorance among the population, Jack.
- 12:47Speaker 2: Yes, and here's the problem with that. Guys like us
- 12:50Speaker 2: and that are guys and girls that are listening, we
- 12:53Speaker 2: don't want to give a man a fish. We want
- 12:54Speaker 2: to teach him how to fish. We want to correct
- 12:57Speaker 2: how people think that some people will never be corrected.
- 13:00Speaker 2: That can be futile. So what you have to do
- 13:02Speaker 2: is influence them instead. That's how Amy Hacton and the
- 13:05Speaker 2: Democrats win. They sell the sizzle. They don't worry about
- 13:08Speaker 2: the steak.
- 13:08Speaker 1: Well, and the other thing I must observe before we
- 13:10Speaker 1: part company, at least I am of the mind, And
- 13:12Speaker 1: I've always been in awe of the Democrats' ability to
- 13:16Speaker 1: get people up and vote. They coordinate. They're social media savvy.
- 13:20Speaker 1: They're interacting all year long through their activism and their
- 13:25Speaker 1: protests and their pick a left-wing cause. They're all energized
- 13:29Speaker 1: all the time. You know, some left-winger over there has
- 13:31Speaker 1: got a different cause. Well, I'm a left-winger over here
- 13:33Speaker 1: with some other cause. I'll join in the fun. They're
- 13:35Speaker 1: clearly connected, and it clearly works with them to get
- 13:38Speaker 1: them to go out and vote. It does.
- 13:41Speaker 2: And I think part of it, listen, I'm not a
- 13:43Speaker 2: social scientist, but I think part of it is people
- 13:46Speaker 2: who are wired to be Democrats are more collective by nature.
- 13:50Speaker 2: People who are wired to be libertarian or Republican are not.
- 13:54Speaker 2: And one of the problems in the Republican Party is
- 13:56Speaker 2: instead of being a collective person, I want to figure
- 13:59Speaker 2: out how do I profit off of this? And so
- 14:01Speaker 2: you get people who fight for their own little fiefdoms
- 14:04Speaker 2: instead of uniting and fighting together as a party member.
- 14:07Speaker 1: Well, hopefully the destruction of our country and the elimination
- 14:10Speaker 1: of the Constitution and the enactment of these broad social
- 14:13Speaker 1: policies that are already bankrupting our country will get people
- 14:16Speaker 1: to wake up and think, hmm, maybe the Tea Party
- 14:18Speaker 1: was right. Fiscal responsibility, limited government, and free markets are
- 14:21Speaker 1: the only way to go. Jack Windsor, TheOhioPressNetwork.com. I appreciate
- 14:26Speaker 1: you being on the program, and I'm not angry with
- 14:27Speaker 1: you for missing. I get it, brother. I'm sure it's
- 14:29Speaker 1: been a really busy week for you. I'm sorry.
- 14:31Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
- 14:31Speaker 1: Thank you for being patient. It's okay, man. Listen, I
- 14:34Speaker 1: enjoy it.