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>> hello, david webb, anita vogel and tom shillue, welcome to the "big weekend show". big story tonight. a win for pizza lovers and barstool sports founder, hours ago at the peak of us he doubled down on the washington post. after that liberal red put out the hit piece targeting the brand and the event. >> they got that checked or they posted the article right below, dave called the reporter lying and manipulating advertisers. >> a couple of days ago, decided to call a food reporter who wrote the article in the washington post didn't call before hand for comment. the confrontation went viral. the washington post continued with the article which describes the pizza shop at the festival as quickly accused of supporting a man accused of sexual misconduct in the history of

using racist misogynistic language defendant says during his pizza reviews, one bite everybody knows that signature line, the sports founder things more people will know about it now. >> people here, the pizza makers makes my brand and pizza brand stronger. people don't want to be told what to do and what they do is ring the community who want to have fun and live life together, disguising them to expose them for the trash that they are. >> attendees of the pizza fest agree. >> i love dave's response. it was wild, helped small business so much and criticized him for anything. >> we live in a little liberal town but the end of attacking us a lot, too so we are on dave's side.

>> everyone is out to get him. >> journalism is dead. long live pizza. [laughter] >> amen to that. i've had a little bit of pizza addiction in my past, i had to get help for it but this is of pizza possible, they are doing it pieces, why? >> because of dave and because these are old legacy yet and don't like what's happening. he's getting all the hits. places like barstool sports, they attract readers. it's not just courts, it's kind of a rope lifestyle and these things take off. the people who did this, this was the food pages of the washington post because people used to read the washington post to tell them where to eat but now they go to dave portnoy so they have it for him in many ways so they don't like what he does, pizza places love it.

the article starts by saying if he gives you a good review, it can make all the difference donahue get customers and everything but if he gets a bad review, it can hurt your feelings but the place he trashed, he didn't like the pizza in massachusetts. the guy doubled his business anyway so even if he trashes you, in terms of publicity, you end up making out in the end. i'm glad piece of us went over well. i've never want to go to the best because i love pizza but two slices and i'm done. you buy a big ticket. >> i would expect more from you, two slices? >> you go to brooklyn and eat pizza after pizza? i don't think so. >> we don't know each other well enough. [laughter] what you think about all of this? you think is food critic was

waiting for the day and it came to her desk and she liked finally i can attack dave portnoy? >> i don't think it's about food. you look at what she was accusing him of, i'm a guy he used to run around with the critic friend of mine in newspaper days and it matter at one time because tom would show up and if you got a good review, it was fair. she was after the racist misogynistic public, but about pizza? what about thin crust versus the crest? you put fruit on pizza? what about an actual critique? she had no interest in that. i love the story because it shows their irrelevance is there they are irrelevant and others are taking over and they don't control the orthodoxy anymore. >> go ahead. >> it's just pure democracy dies in the darkness.

food critics died in the darkness, i don't know. >> we need to place this call, he reports his call a reporter, let's listen and then anita, i want you. >> basically sending an e-mail that says to the effect, dave racist -- >> i haven't said anything like that. >> i can read what you said, i have it. planning the festival sponsors and participants draw criticism, dave portnoy has a history of problematic behavior. >> that's what i said to [bleep] which was -- this is standard journalistic staff. >> unfortunately, yes. >> standard journalistic stuff. [laughter] >> this is a quote from the article that says when portnoy learned the post was reporting on his festival, he called the reporter it accused the news

organization open names thing and hit piece. he agreed to an interview but when the post asked to reschedule, he declined and declined the offer to answer questions. we heard the journalist or food critic say it's standard journalistic fastest. is it? >> i agree with dave, there is nothing in the article about pizza. this reporter had a vendetta alternative mindset going into the story, it wasn't about pizza, it was a step up dave portland. if you do, call the guy and say these are allegations, what is your response? did she call him? >> she was e-mailing the sponsors before hand and they claimed they would go to him for comment but they are waiting until the last minute to drop this bomb on him. >> it was a set up, call it plain and simple what it was.

she wanted to have these soundbites, responses so she could set him up. he could have answered this and read a bible verse, it doesn't matter. she would twist it. i love the story. fair irrelevance is here and find a way, i hate to see this, i worked for the telegram, second largest paper in new england, we worked on the who, what, why, when and how. it was all about doing the job right. the food critic, i wouldn't eat anything. >> was doing in the morning 10:00 a.m. so i can get my ducks in a row assault ready and she's not ready.

how long do you need to prepare to talk about pizza? [laughter] >> she had her ducks in a row for the advertisers so why couldn't she ask when she had it on the phone? >> i think she was pushing it back closer to publishing time but this guy, one bite everybody knows the rules if anybody has washed so they say it can increase revenue 50% for these pizzerias. the fund during covid to help small businesses, a lot of are areas, tens of millions he raised and donated so he's done a lot of good but they are not paying attention to the. >> i'll go wider. what did the washington post editorial stuff will newspaper do to help save small businesses? i love to see that number persists portnoy literally -- >> they were shutting down

businesses, they wanted to shut it down big tech and zuckerberg and these people, they want the economy shut down. >> i think back to when the washington post reported on watergate, they made a name for themselves. >> after that it's gone. >> i long for those days. >> we will end up with words of western. coming up, no papers, no problem. illegal immigrant parent popping up in texas and no one is doing anything about it. that's next. ♪

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♪ ♪ >> welcome back to the "big weekend show". new video today of chaos at the border border agents cutting razor wire to let illegal immigrants in. miles away from home and security secretary alexander mayorkas met with the president of honduras today near the border is an illegal immigrant town. developer reportedly is selling border crossers home plots without asking them for documentation and it's happening as the border crisis hits another record, 200 30,000 apprehensions in august. the most ever for any august.

while it appears the biden administration is doing nothing about it, at least mexico is. law enforcement blocking thousands of migrants running up to the u.s. border on a freight train called the beast. okay. illegal immigrant town. david, i thought part of the american dream was to be able to purchase a home, young american family purchase a home, save up for years, i know people still saving to buy their first home. this seems like a bit of a giveaway, what do you think? >> there's a little more to th this. they are building here or what ronnie johnson wants to do in chicago, they are illegal alien locks because they are sending illegal aliens to be segmented areas. i looked into this developers background and this is someone

who has lost even if he's not harmed and the army corps of engineers looked into him, questions about the properties he owns in the quality of properties, it's another grifter off the system finding a way to sell something and when you dig into the backgrounds of the stories, you should look at the people doing this. they are getting paid by the administration and other groups with massive contracts, they fill hotels for this guy, dig a little deeper. i found lawsuits from 2021, 2019 and more so an illegal blocks. where's the police? was the emergency plan hold? all the things that have to be in place. permitting, zoning, all the

things you need to develop property. >> even the media admits there's a problem at the four. look at this headline from the new york times. they are saying permanent migrant crisis and a quote that says fundamental problem facing the administration on the southern corner where every attempt to get ahead of the extraordinary numbers trying to cross or claim asylum has been overwhelmed. even they started to acknowledge this. i want to listen to something president biden said about the border crisis. >> we need our colleagues to act. for decades immigration has not been bipartisan. my predecessor spent four years guarding the immigration system. they continue to undermine border security walking bipartisan form. >> he's blaming this problem at

the border on republicans and the previous president but i went to this graphic showing interesting information. take a look, you see at the bottom, 2020 under president trump. red, blue, green line, the years under biden so it brings to question what the president says. what you think? >> he's a liar. he started this crisis intentionally and continuing to drive it and the media is not being honest about what's happening. they tried to shut down the truth. you can't call it invasion despite the fact that 9000 illegal crossings a day, you can't say they try to import keep labor when joe biden tries to make hundreds of thousands of migrants eligible to work in the united states and you can't say they tried to replace american voters when joe biden allegedly tries to give up ids and states moving toward pennsylvania,

automatic voter registration when we seen other states like california where illegal immigrants have been registered to vote in so they tell you can't say these things that if you look happening, it seems like what is taking place and it was obama in 2006 who warned us about influx of immigrants in the country that would depress low color wages and overburdened our safety net yet democrats are singing a different tune now. >> biden is blaming everybody mark republicans. >> i think it's ultra maga now. >> he's in the 1973. he's part of the problem, he is a liar, he's been the longer than some of the republicans is blaming. >> does it say something even now the new york times is commenting on the same biden has a problem at the border, the new york times?

>> he's one of the conservatives there and i do not like him, he's a little soft sometimes and soft on this one. he says the choices to further into punitive territory the trump administration engaged in so he sank trump was way too harsh and the choice is between the harshness of trump and ineffectiveness of biden but that's not the truth. trump was not hard enough, most conservatives know, trump talked about the wall and everything and had good policies, remain in mexico policy but wasn't able to get a handle on it. we still have borders essentially open during that time and he was frustrated the whole time but never was able to get a handle on it, they demonized him with his family separation thing which obama engaged in and it was all fake. he was overwhelmed by that and the idea he was too harsh, no but even this administration --

i don't even think he knows what he's doing but the people behind this like it, they like the flood of immigration and think we will work this out later. eventually you will get citizenship. he's talking with got to get comprehensive reform. we don't want comprehensive group form, it means amnesty and what you do is what happened in the 1980s, give amnesty to illegal aliens and starting fresh, now secure the border, do it. it is all over again. >> it's more and more illegal immigration. we need to shut down the border and shut down immigration until we get a handle to be honest. you could create new states they stop the amount of people that have come along. >> this town is the size of washington d.c. >> over 100,000. >> moving on, got to go. shock sorrow, social media put

new york times columnist on left after he complained about an expensive. his apology and how biden makes his barking everyone down. that's coming up next. ♪

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♪ ♪ welcome back to the "big weekend show". new york times columnist having a little sticker shock, apologizing after he complained about a pricey meal at the airport and got blasted for it. this is the post that got him in trouble this will cost me $78 at

newark airport, this is why americans think the economy is terrible. the reporter he screwed up. >> when i get sticker shock, it's like an inconvenience. when they get sticker shock, it's a disaster so i was insensitive, i screwed up, i should not have written about, i should not write tweets in. >> it's tough. it is when you have to get in your first class seat on your flight and too many drinks to overcome the burden that cost $17. >> plus i'm sure expensing into the new york times but of course he shouldn't tweet anymore, he doesn't know how to treat and the food looked ridiculous. he had ketchup packets in front of the most embarrassing tweet and then he's not double scotch so even before the controversy hit, i saw between, that's a double scotch because it looked like he was heavy on it. >> even less currency at the airport.

>> i know he got another double burn, you can tell, you know hamburgers doesn't cost $70 so what else attribute? he tried to make about -- he tried to be compassionate. you can't do that. if you set getting tank at newark airport, it would be all thumbs up. way to go, buddy but he tried to make about the economy and of course an elitist he should put the twitter away. it will not work for him. >> no x formerly known as twitter. what do you have with your pizza? >> jalapenos or nano pepper, it depends on what i'm in the mood for. i'm not a broken person, i'm not mad and here is why, it's a positive feeling the impact of the economy and putting it out there because that is the problem where we are as a society, we saw it during covid

with the laptop as, in a, i don't want to indict him of this the reporters were cheering them lockdowns because they were not impacted. it was the working americans that were getting crushed and we feel that in the economy for people like higher income earners aren't as impacted, it's the middle class, working class getting destroyed. it's positive he's recognizing shock and cnn have an interesting article and said joe biden needs to appeal to upscale voters which is thinking. because dire straits working voters because they feel so heavily the impact of inflation and the economy, he needs to appeal to upscale voters on democracy and because the real issues are impact joe biden is latest from his. >> he went a little further and you have a moment after screwup,

on x were you go on a fema show for you are normally and this is david brooks on pbs, what's worse is. >> you can experience inflation downward slip inflation coming down but the way we experience, is the moment of sticker shock at the gas station and it cost way more than you anticipated for people less fortunate than i am, it's a disaster. >> i love it. 3.7%, up .2 from the prior month, americans $7100 in the middle class, more a year they have to put out, average grocery bill $89, $232 more for a fami family, is this real or did he read in another article? i want to know how many scotches did have because i'm looking --

>> he was drinking bourbon. >> seventy dollars a burger, even if he had two doubles, $78? that is a lot. most people assume the guy is a successful commentary so is giving his opinion, this is expensive even for me and to be attacked and have to make an apology, it seems ridiculous. >> this is the kind of guy he has the worst time on social media because he's a liberal republican or moderate the people on the right can't stand him, every time he writes an article and tries to be compassionate, the people on the right attack and in the left hates him because he's a republican at the new york times so he can't win. >> they always warn you to not drink and tweet. [laughter] >> i've done it before and have done quite well. [laughter] >> i've done it before. by the way, i tweeted from the bourbon festival nothing like

this i'll say. >> what did you tweak? >> raising money to veterans, drinking bourbon, testing bourbon. anyway, will get past my bourbon obsession for the moment. avoiding conflict and dodging the debate, a british media executive has an eye-opening take on gen z in the workplace. the "big weekend show", that's us, who will debate that next. ♪ i was stuck. unresolved depression symptoms were in my way. i needed more from my antidepressant. vraylar helped give it a lift. adding vraylar to an antidepressant... is clinically proven to help relieve overall depression symptoms... ...better than an antidepressant alone. and in vraylar clinical studies, most saw no substantial impact on weight. elderly dementia patients have increased risk of death or stroke. report unusual changes in behavior or suicidal thoughts. antidepressants can increase these in children and young adults.

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♪ welcome back to the beat. coach and feeling the office running for the exit.

>> it's over. i made eye contact miles but it was the mouse. scared, i can't do this, i can't live like this. >> nobody likes mice. speaking of drama in the workplace, a british media executive claims gen z can't hack workplace culture. the ceo says quote, they haven't got the skills to discuss. they haven't got the skills to disagree and commit because they haven't been raised particularly with being out of colleges to have those kinds of debates. gen z, we are talking about people born in the mid- 1990s through 2010. lisa, you are the closest thing we have to gen z so we are going

to start with you. you win the prize, how about that? [laughter] is that true? >> i don't know, i try to avoid drama with colleagues because who wants that? i tried to be a good teammate, you want to get along with people but when you see, having lived in new york, i've never seen one and i was walking home from dinner one night talking and it was like i've never seen a rat and all of a sudden one street over this, the register at the gym i was walking by and i didn't stop seeing them after that but i don't know, i try to avoid drama with people like who wants that? >> nobody want drama. >> tom, is part of the problem colleges are no longer fostering free speech and debate? she eluded to that in her quote, there's a recent survey over 240

colleges in terms of free speech, harvard became dead last. some elite schools are not fostering debate and i guess it's spilling over into the workplace now. >> my kids, i would say they have a problem debating, they are always debating over every rule in our house so something might be going right in my house too much. >> i don't want to toot my horn but. [laughter] >> did have a problem debating, i'll say that but it does start even younger college. people's feelings are so, they are paying attention to kids feelings from kindergarten on up so into it, they are afraid to debate anything and i think parents do too much for them, helicopter parents. kids don't know how to make

lunch should you think skills we have in the 70s, we could do everything on our own. i'd make my breakfast, make my floods and get ready for school and go off. we were much more independent so it doesn't surprise me. my dad and i had an ice cream store and it was hard enough dealing with high school students summer jobs in the late 80s so i can't imagine what it's like now. >> they don't show up. [laughter] >> they are not working. >> part of what the ceo is saying is the young people these days, the kids, they don't have tolerance for someone in their own has a different opinion and part of the is there is judgme judgment, a moral judgment that comes when these people don't agree with their colleagues. >> i've got to get a lot in here. two words, a rat, young offenders, the beat the heck out

of 42. now tie it all together, he's a great coach, that loss. , there are a lot of good kids out there, there really are but they need to work with the guy who teaches them a life lesson in the locker room whether in sports or whatever. the problem is, they been raised by technology, not by parents, a lot of unqualified parents out there. just because you can birth a child and be involved in the conception and birth of the child, it doesn't mean you are capable of raising kids and that's what's missing with a lot of these kids but i will defend them younger people radial them at the festival, the bourbon festival. there you go again. they are well put together. we hear about the bad, the negative and we know tom's kids are going to be master debaters, college not at harvard i take

it. [laughter] >> didn't have david webb depending gen z online bingo card. >> there are a lot of good kids and the problem is will hear about the problem children but they overrun. >> a bunch of conservative youth, both like you good kids, david. >> is free speech and mom's house. coming up, not in our backyard, from a residence make the move to stop the influencer invasion this fall. up next. ♪

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welcome back to the "big weekend show". small we become in vermont is set up with the leaf peeping influencers invading the time to get pics. so fed up, it's temporarily closing one of the main roads in the areas of peak season. they got tired of the influencers invading their space every fall during foliage. highlighting how influencers invading private properties in portable rooms to change those for their selfies. one resident going, something had to be done. something extreme. lisa, i thought this might be one of those they made a new story about looking up, i went on instagram they are changing clothes. twirling around in the foliage. >> i kind of want to twirl around. i never thought about it before but now they say don't come, i want to come think i'm a red

button person like they are like don't push the red button, i hadn't thought about before but now i am, i want to see what happens, i want to go there. >> mainstream media is getting attention, it's what they don't want. >> who doesn't want to twirl in that? >> have you ever dove into a pile of leaves? it's great. >> you can do it any other pla place. >> it is stunning, cloud plan road is one you search for on instagram. it's a bomb threat, from a is the name of the town. i think it means french fries, doesn't it? [laughter] >> even better. [laughter] >> it just looks great. i'd love to go get my watercolors and do some painting but do -- at first i thought it was silly but if you are a resident, you are probably sick of seeing these people, i might sympathize with them. >> they got their trespassing

signs up, trespassing is a sign crime. a lot of these people, it's interesting. like seeing taylor swift, people paid money, some didn't even love taylor swift, they just wanted the instagram. they wanted that moment to say i was here and put on social media and i think that's what this is about. >> they want the experience but david, do you think they have a right to close the roads? people should be able to go on the road, right? >> private property, you have to ask permission. by the way, i've been to vermont a lot of times, fall foliage is great, do it behind a bush, don't put in extra effort. seriously. >> you didn't do out the changes of the bourbon best? i changed my shirt because i still too much but seriously, there's a lot, it's a beautiful area to go. don't spoil the land. just show up and be respectful,

don't spoil the land. now i will look it up on instagram, to. [laughter] >> people are having picnics and folks yards so i get that. if i come, i'm not going to do that. >> it's like lisa is here -- >> why -- they could make a buck off of these people. first thing i think of is a lemonade and but you could have a professional photographer, help them with their selfies and then could sell and photographs. >> got tom monetizing this. >> vermont maple put up a maple syrup sand. >> i worked by kids one time in miami with a lemonade stand, i'm sorry i don't have cash and they are like i have a qr code so i gave them like $20 but i was like so smart. >> more people want this kind of

life so get ready for more people, vermont. [laughter] big weekend flops are next. ♪

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welcome back to the big weekend show but the biggest fails of week. >> a member of the days when people used to get all dressed up to go to the theater? that was a long time ago. but now you do not even have to get dressed up to go and work the u.s. senate. just take a look at the fashion choice of senator john fetterman of pennsylvania but this is what he wore to me were to meet withe president of ukraine when he visited capitol hill last week. just one week after senate majority leader chuck schumer said senators did not have to dress up anymore. just the spectators who came into the gallery to watch the senate proceedings. all right guys, is that what you would wear if you are beating the president of another country? >> i think we'll look back on the photo and history think this is symbolic of the decline of america. [laughter] >> he dresses like a slob but that is his brand. that is his thing. he's not going to stop doing it because he signals he is a

blue-collar hero. it is a phony signal. he has been a government. >> he is a rich elitist that i have tons of money is the mayor of the town of 2000 people. he was a no nothing, do nothing lieutenant governor. how elitist of schumer to tell people if you want to come into this body of the world's most alliterative body, then you should dress correctly. it's also look off his parents until the 40s. this is mine, a danish but instead, the two empty canvas as he titled take the money and run. he will have to repay the museum about $70000 and another 10,000 in court fees. david is this genius or criminal? art is what artist do i think it is genius.

unfortunately genius did not work out civilly as a pay it back he just needs to paint something better and sell it. call hunter biden. sell for half a million dollars. quicstill he should pay it back. this is modern art this happens all the time progress art is art but don't give up a give a backy sue him he will get more publicity. he says this is my creation, nothing. >> david what have you got? >> a long list but will have to do this anyway. first it was the borders are, i was the spaces are and many other czars. now, let harris is a first ever office of federal gun violence prevention. oh boy. let's put it this way does not come with dressing? she has failed at everything else. look, i'm a law-abiding gun owner. i do not need her to tell me how to run my life it. americans do not need her but

this matches what they are doing in the states they have officers of gun violence prevention now they're trying to bring it and federal's not going to go and weawhere because dirty little secret, democrats appeared she should stick to venn diagrams. first baby should bring the same skill she brought to the border at. [laughter] >> nothing will happen. or tragedy will happen. >> she said this week climate anxiety is an actual reason young people are hesitant to have kids or buy homes, look for a. >> i have heard young leaders talk to me about a term they have coin called climate anxiety but makes sense to think about have children whether it makes sense for you to aspiring to buy a whole becau home because whats climate be? >> why do you think that if such anxiety, lisa? what could make the young people of such anxiety about the climate? what started with her being vice president, i've anxiety about that. [laughter] in the state of the country.

>> there's a lot of anxiety around having children in general. i don't think too many people think about the climate. i'm just offering an opinion. >> and of those parents et cetera not fit to raise kids, put her on the screen, there you go. seriously they are just pushing agendas, slamming stuff together it is an insult. that's what is this an insult. went to end on a happy note pizza and bourbon just for you, lisa. >> got to love that. guys, that does it for us produce you back here tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. eastern for the big weekend shewbread great to be with you all. "life, liberty & levin," that starts right now. ♪ ♪ ♪