Biden’s Embarrassing Return, Trump Dominates + MoH Recipient Dakota Meyer Joins the Progrum

**Michael Duncan** (0:00)
Kind of an incredible weekend for Donald Trump. He's had many, obviously. But they announced this peace deal with Iran, ending the conflict over there, he has his birthday, and also UFC fights on his backyard.
Unbelievable weekend for President Trump.

**Comfortably Smug** (0:19)
It sounds like the Iranians are going to be giving up all of their nuclear materials. And I mean, that's basically why, what Trump demanded at the very beginning.

**Michael Duncan** (0:31)
Trump's having a good week, but you know who's not? Joe Biden.

**John Ashbrook** (0:36)
The journal who wrote this on X when they posted this, they're like, Joe Biden is back, and at a recent event, I witnessed him kissing a woman who wasn't his wife.

**Michael Duncan** (0:46)
The guy who has your job has the UFC on his yard in the White House for his birthday, and you can't even raise money for your presidential library.

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**Michael Duncan** (2:06)
Welcome back to The Ruthless Variety Program. I'm Michael Duncan along with Comfortably Smug and John Ashbrook.
Our friend Josh Holmes has the week off.

**SPEAKER_8** (2:18)
Brutal.

**Comfortably Smug** (2:18)
The guy's out there on assignment.

**Michael Duncan** (2:20)
Well, he's doing peace with Iran.

**Comfortably Smug** (2:24)
And I'm glad he is.

**Michael Duncan** (2:25)
Yeah. I mean, it's kind of an incredible weekend for Donald Trump. He's had many, obviously. But they announced this peace deal with Iran, ending the conflict over there. He has his birthday and also UFC fights on his backyard.
Unbelievable weekend for President Trump.

**Comfortably Smug** (2:46)
Absolutely.

**John Ashbrook** (2:47)
I mean, it was. And also, I think I had mentioned this on X, but I haven't seen a UFC fight. This is going to date how old I am, but it's fine.
Since I was like a kid and I saw like, you know, Ken Shamrock and then fight. There's like UFC 2 and 3 and stuff like that. And I haven't really watched since.
And I watched the Flag Day, the Freedom 250, and it was phenomenal. I mean, it was outstanding entertainment. The production value was like through the roof to begin with. And like when they first described this and they're like, okay, it's going to be on the White House lawn. I thought it was going to be like, okay, steel cage, White House lawn. And that's the end of it. But the way that they had like the intros of like the fighters coming through the last and like the, I think they were coming some in the EEOB, like, okay, they're. Yeah, that's the production staff pulling it out.

**Comfortably Smug** (3:43)
And then like, there's Dakota Meyer too, our guest for today.

**Michael Duncan** (3:45)
Our guest for today.

**John Ashbrook** (3:46)
Again, how amazing is that?

**Michael Duncan** (3:48)
Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer joins us in the back half of the program. So yeah, I mean, they were doing the walkouts for you audio only. They were doing the walkouts from the White House onto the South Lawn, which is just an incredible visual. Also, the flyovers. Can we play that flyover clip?
So there's the claw, which is the structure over the... Wow, look at that.

**Comfortably Smug** (4:14)
Just incredible. Blue angels. It's a nice Sunday.

**Michael Duncan** (4:18)
It's a nice Sunday.

**John Ashbrook** (4:20)
It is, and now going forward, I am going to be a UFC guy.

**Michael Duncan** (4:25)
I mean, how could you not be after that?

**John Ashbrook** (4:27)
That's the thing is I enjoyed the hell out of those fights.