9-16-26 Hour 1 - Maxine Shouts over Sec Bessent

The Chris Plante Show

A chaotic, opinionated segment from The Chris Plante Show covers media criticism, political satire, and controversial topics including alleg

Key takeaways

• 60 Minutes' declining ratings blamed on outdated symbolism and internal staff conflict rather than audience preference.
• Family of slain conservative figure Charlie Kirk files a notice of claim against Utah Valley University over alleged security failures.

Main topics

• 60 Minutes ratings decline
• Charlie Kirk assassination and university security failure

Notable quotes

"They don't like a pocket watch. You don't even know what the hell it is."

Conclusion

The episode blends outrage, satire, and conspiracy-laden commentary, r

Transcript preview

Speaker 3 (0:02) Well, some TV news following a massive leadership change. The new season of 60 Minutes just premiered to its smallest audience in more than 25 years. Yeah, for some reason the image of a ticking pocket watch isn't resonating with younger viewers. Speaker 1 (0:19) What is that? Well, they apparently don't know what it is either because it's not a ticking pocket watch, it's a stopwatch. That's not a pocket watch. Speaker 1 (0:32) Everyone is, we've got the low IQ nation at this point. The Democrats have taken over, well, every low IQ institution. Stopwatch has been around for 50 years or so. It's true, though, on Sunday night they had their lowest ratings, and they say at about 25 years, 25 years. I wonder what their show was 25 years ago when they got that extra low rating 25 years ago. 60 Minutes, and they're blaming Barry Weiss because they think she's a conservative or something when she's not. She just committed an act of journalism a couple of years ago, and that elevated her stature, her status in the journalism industry. She was brought in to fix CBS News, and instead the staff and crew at CBS News have attacked her like a pack of bloodthirsty jackals seeking to slake their thirst. on her blood. And so the, you know, hey, 60 Minutes, you want people to watch you? Do good shows. Break news. Be honest. Don't do ridiculous things. How about that? That might help. Call me old-fashioned. But there it is. And then it's the stuff of late-night jokes. Yeah, they don't like a pocket watch. You don't even know what the hell it is. You've got a whole room full of people writing a bad joke about it. Yeah, hey, it's a pocket watch. Yeah, all right, you guys are good. That's, you're about as good with comedy, too, so that's the thing. Well, a very good and happy Wednesday, too. It's hump day in the Clinton household, and that means it's mailbag day here on our Humble Radio broadcast. Mailbag day, it's Wednesday. And it's, Michael, where they should send to our Twitter. You can send to Twitter. Our Facebook. Our Facebook. Where else, Michael? Where else can people send? People mail in by way of the U.S. Mail. Mail in questions for the Mailbag Day, which is great. It is called the Mailbag, after all. So that works. But today is Mailbag Day and Twitter and the Facebook. Anyplace else, Michael? Where do they go? That's all Michael's got is Mailbag and Twitter and the U.S. Mail. Too late, I think, to send it in for the U.S. Mail for today's Mailbag Day anyway. But we've got a lot of news for you because the world just keeps on turning, doesn't it? It certainly does. There's a lot of stuff. I tell you, we've got Charlie Kirk, a Charlie Kirk update. The Charlie Kirk family, widow and family, family and friends. filing what they call a notice of claim. That's a legal term for the university where Charlie Kirk was assassinated just over a year ago, Utah Valley University. And the police, they have a police force at the Utah Valley University. And apparently they're like, oh, yeah, we got this covered, no big deal. And they put six guys on it with thousands of people on the campus and said, hey, what about that rooftop? That rooftop should probably be looked at. And they said, yeah, we got you covered. Don't worry about us. And then, of course, Charlie Kirk was assassinated. I don't know if it was foreseeable or anything, but there it was. I don't think you expect, hey, Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA showing up to campus at Utah Valley University. We should keep our eyes peeled for snipers with rifles, you know, assassins. It wasn't then, at least, a normal everyday thing. It was after President Trump was shot by a guy on a rooftop with a rifle in Butler, Pennsylvania, and a U.S. Secret Service counter sniper had to kill him, shoot him and kill him, Thomas Crooks, because, you know, Democrats, they're really fairly out of control. And then we've got the Utah Valley University. Now, a notice of claim, which is, generally speaking, a precursor to a lawsuit where you would sue for money. for harm, damage. You got your harm done and damages and all that. And it looks like there is a lawsuit coming because this is notice of claim is generally regarded as a precursor, the first step to a lawsuit for failure to perform and all that good stuff. Security failures. I guess they have 15 police officers with the Utah Valley University Police Department. And they say, you got this big thing going on. So we'll put six guys on it. Go ahead and put six guys. Got thousands of people. Fairly significant geographic area on the campus. And I said, six is enough. We don't have nine other guys. You could just take the day off. Don't worry about this. We got it covered. And of course, they didn't have it covered. So it looks like a lawsuit coming. Family filing the notice of claim. You've got the Sorensen Center, the rooftop, where the Democrat went with the rifle to assassinate Charlie Kirk. Bloodthirsty ghouls that they are. Democrats plotted across the country because bloodthirsty ghouls. And the police chief there, I guess he's police chief of the Utah Valley University Police, Jeffrey Long. And he said, I got you covered. I got you covered. Maybe he thought he did, but we've got that. And then a bestiality on Capitol Hill yesterday. Not in real time, necessarily. Not that we're a Vicky the Goat. We don't know where Vicky the Goat is anymore, but probably not on Capitol Hill since Harry the Buddy Reed isn't there anymore. But the bestiality, we had Kash Patel, the FBI director, up there testifying on Capitol Hill. And they had a rule change at the FBI in their hiring just recently. I even made mention of it here. It was a little bit creepy. But a government reg saying that, you know, when you're hiring people for the FBI, you have to exclude them if they have this problem or that problem. And one of the problems they listed was bestiality. Bestiality is, you know, having sexual relations with animals. or at least one animal. I think that would check the box there. It doesn't have to be a bunch of bestiality in the FBI. And Kash Patel, it was Senator John Kennedy yesterday asking him about, hey, you've got this rule change for hiring, so what, now you can hire people that engage to be FBI agents, that engage in bestiality? Bestiality, which is generally frowned upon in Western civilization, not frowned upon in Hamas circles, among others. And ISIS and al-Qaeda. But never mind that. And the little back and forth that was had was somewhat amusing and at the same time somewhat alarming and disturbing as well because our government has got some pretty weird ideas, got some strange things going on there, certainly do. Have I mentioned that we are at 888-630-9625? And it is, Michael, is there still time to get mailbag questions? I don't know if you've already selected mailbag questions. Still, Michael says he's still assembling. He's assembling. And so that's good. Good thing we've got that. Yeah, bestiality and the FBI, those shouldn't really go together. You know what I'm talking about? They should be arresting people. But there's a long story behind it, and it's a sordid story. I'll get to some of it, but not the worst part. Then you've got this guy, this Ed Sheeran guy. He's a singer. He seemed to be a perfectly pleasant guy. He was in that movie yesterday about the Beatles, if the Beatles never existed. Kind of a fun movie. And Ed Sheeran. And he is on tour. And he brought along this guy who self-describes as a liberal, naturally. So McLemore. He goes by one name, McLemore. And just call me McLemore. You know, Cher is one syllable. McLemore. Just call me one word named McLemore as multi-syllables. And he said, McLemore, he really loves killing the Jews and kidnapping and torturing and raping and murdering the Jews. He likes that. So he's pro-Hamas. And he said, oh, free, free Palestine. Palestine is free. That's the problem that they have. They're free enough to be savages and attack and kidnap and murder and rape the people next door. By the thousands, they sent thousands of these savages in there. to perpetrate this crime against humanity. And the left in the United States and elsewhere, they're in favor of the gang that committed the crimes against humanity. They love crimes against humanity. Why do Democrats love crimes against humanity? And then, of course, they perpetrate the crimes against humanity, and then they blame the targets of the crimes against humanity for the crimes against humanity. You guys are committing genocide. We've got AOC is out there again. She is as dumb as a stump. She's out there yesterday screaming genocide again. Oh, to damn Jews and genocide. No, they're the victims of the targets of the genocide. And they still are the targets of genocide. And the