Hour 1 March 18th, 2026

**Derek Hunter** (1:00)
The damn, we're scoring some runs, and well, next inning, it didn't work. Anyway, good luck, congratulations to both of them. It's a great, fun tournament. It's a weird thing to do every three years, it seems. But let's get into the news of the day, because there is a lot of news on the day, right? Big hearings up on Capitol Hill, latest developments in various, things, JB Pritzker, Governor Fat Bastard's trying to make it so the government of Democrats take over in 2029 is just a nonstop assault on anybody who worked in the Trump administration, which is where I want to start, because it is really truly awful and damaging, to be honest with you, with what in the hell is happening in our politics. Now I know everybody's like Donald Trump, he broke the norms, he broke the norms, he broke the norms, he didn't break the norms. You people have been calling Republicans Hitler since it leached George W. Bush. Remember Bush Hitler, Chimpy McBush Hitler? The pictures running around, leftists on the mall, the little Hitler mustache, it was largely ignored by the media because it was inconvenient. Because back then, crazy time, 25 years ago, people thought that analogies to Hitler were beyond the pale and unacceptable. But it became the norm because it became the norm, because that's how Democrats are. They broke the norm. It was not the norm, and then it became the norm. And then John McCain was Hitler, then Mitt Romney was Hitler, and then Donald Trump was Hitler, and they're making it so JD Vance or whoever might come next is Hitler too, because it's a lot easier to demonize than convince people to your side. And Governor fat bastard JB Pritzker wants to be the next Democrat to run on a campaign if we need to stop new Hitler Jr. All him and his billions and his girth, his gravitational pull he's willing to throw, his gravitational pull behind a presidential race. I know, I know. He knows he's unattractive too. I mean, he does. He's Bob's big boy come to life. But the fluffing of him has started. And he is going to highlight the one thing that brings, is that honestly, the only advantage he brings. He's got like three or four billion dollars because his family founded the Hyatt Hotel chain. He didn't earn that money. That's how he got his governorship. He spent hundreds of millions of his own money becoming governor of Illinois. Nobody was like, oh, who we really want is this spoiled trust fund kid. And you would be surprised, money can't overcome everything. That's true in politics, but it can overcome an awful lot. If you remember during COVID, Illinois had one of the strictest lockdown protocols, serious consequences. Everybody was to be locked down. Nothing was allowed to be open, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. It was for the greater good.
And then JB Pritzker, the billionaire that he is and his wife, decided that they wanted to go to their mansion, their estate down in Florida. Now, the free state of Florida that wasn't locked down, that wasn't a prison colony like JB had made Illinois. Now travel was forbidden under, only under very, very specific circumstances, as approved by the big boy.
Wanting to ride your horses was not on the list, believe it or not. And yet, they boarded his private jet and went down there, because what are they gonna do? Look, if you were born into a multi-billion dollar family, you don't hear the word no very often. You don't hear the word no from very often, and you rarely, if ever, hear it since you were a teenager from anybody who could make it stick. And so maybe his advisors were like, you probably might want to not do this, because you're kind of locked down, everybody. Doesn't matter. He was going, he went. The consequence was he got some bad press for a little while. But what happened after that is he reached into his family's money and threw a ton of it at his re-election campaign and he won. Now, he's aided by it being Illinois and being wildly corrupt and run by Democrats for decades and the machine in Chicago, but you have to be a special kind of shameless to do that. Like I say, the PR machine is in full effect. And so the New York Times has a big feature on him, even with animated graphics on their website, the interview, how tragedy, wealth, and Trump shaped JB Pritzker. How Trump shaped JB Pritzker. He is an older gentleman. Should he not be hardened by now? Should he not have formed? Should the jello mold that is Governor Fat Bastard not have set by now that a president comes along 10 years ago and it reshapes your life? Is there something wrong with you as an adult, I would argue? And so in this interview, I just posted a few hours ago, there's something called Project 2029 And it's a play on Project 2025, which was actually a fairly innocuous and quite common. It's been going on since 1980 Used to be called Mandate for Leadership. The Heritage Foundation would put out a policy guide for the next administration. It would be updated, it's basically the same stuff, updated every couple of years, well, every time the administration changed or could change.