The Adult in the Room

Former Navy EOD specialist Tom Sauer recently caught a great deal of Twitter attention after a Memorial Day thread posted in tribute to those he served with. Today, he joins Victoria on this very special edition of The Adult in the Room Podcast to talk about his service and coping with the loss of several of his friends over the years. Now the owner & administrator of a substance abuse counseling & recovery center in San Diego, he also discusses in-depth the health crises facing many Americans but disproportionately affecting veterans: poverty, addition, and mental illness. Plus, Keith Olbermann is back to his antics, this time triggered by a federal court judge. TOP STORIES: Another 'Orange Man Bad' Leftist Lie Dies After Ridiculous Investigation Into Trump Bible Moment NBC Hilariously Thinks It Caught Rep Louis Gohmert in a Guam 'Capsizing' Moment and Gets Trolled Hard Chi-Coms 'Shame' 'Environmental Princess' Greta Thunberg Over Her Big Fat 'Carbon Emissions' 'Plexiglass Theater' to Fight COVID Is Being Given the Hook Dementia Joe Forgets Where He Is Again The Number of Small Businesses Destroyed by COVID Lockdowns Will ASTOUND You The Latest Tranche of Hunter's Text Messages May Be the Worst Yet MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

On this week's episode of Leaving California, Victoria talks with Ricky Bush, a former California resident who lost everything thanks to a devastating wildfire. Learn why he blames the state government for the fire and what his life is like after relocating to the opposite coast. Plus, Victoria chats with an Oregon mom who was treated like a criminal after demanding answers from her local school board. TOP STORIES: Moms Learn Lengths to Which a School Board Will Go to Silence Complaints About CRT and Masks. You'll Want to Sit Down for This... White Teacher Lectures That Not Teaching Critical Race Theory Is Child Abuse and Racist. Uh, Nice Daishiki, Lady Stop Everything and Watch This Cop Apologize for 'Robbing' a Kid 'They're Trying to Kill Me.' A Portland Antifa Death Squad Goes Head Hunting for Andy Ngo and Somebody Gets a Beatdown Police Investigate Portland Antifa and BLM Armed Militants Who Blocked Traffic in Armed Checkpoint Andy Ngo Beaten, Hunted Like an Animal in Portland How Low Will They Go? Now Washington State Backs Weed Giveaways for Getting COVID Shots Epic Troll: Rep. Lauren Boebert Smuggles Kamala Harris for First 'Appearance' at the Border and You Shouldn't Miss It MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

In this first episode of a new multi-part series, Victoria talks with Terry Gilliam, a soon-to-be-former California resident who has had quite enough of the state's draconian tax codes, wokeness-first education system, and ridiculous anti-freedom laws & regulations. Also, she talks with author John D. Trudel about their latest collaboration, an audiobook version of his high-tech supernatural spy thriller Raven's Redemption. Plus, Biden whiffs the Pledge, ANTIFA & BLM honor the memory of George Floyd with riots, looting and murder threats, and John Cena grovels to Beijing. TOP STORIES: Heroic Virginia Cop Lifts Car Off Head of Woman Pleading: 'I Can't Breathe.' Quick, Democrats, Cancel Him! Biden to Release Terrorists Including UBL's Guard, Al Qaeda Bag Man, and KSM Aide from GITMO. But Look Who's Still in Jail. U.S. Media Should Take a Lesson From BBC Apology for Fake News During Princess Diana Interview. They Won't. AOC's and Her 'Squad's' Love Fest With Hamas Gives the Head of Simon Wiesenthal Center a Shocking Case of Deja Vu The People’s Republic of Oregon Imposes First Vaccine Passports and Conscripts Businesses and Churches to Do Its Spying  George Floyd's Family Meets With Joe Biden On Anniversary of His Death. Will the Riots Come Up? WaPo Admits It Ignored 'Tin-Hat Nonsense' of COVID Lab-Leak Possibility Because ... Trump MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

On May 5, Portland-area handyman Joseph Hall was traveling to a work site when he encountered a BLM/ANTIFA protest blocking the road. After exchanging words and being threatened with weapons, he was pinned to the ground and beaten within an inch of his life. He joins the program from his hospital bed to talk at length about the assault, and why he's worried his troubles may be just beginning. We'll also talk with another local resident, Mark Dickerson, who was on his way to civil court when his own vehicle was accosted by Portlandia activists who tried to frame him for reckless driving, and was nearly ruined financially as a result. PLUS: The CDC says we should be wearing masks outdoors! Maybe! Sometimes! Probably! TOP STORIES: Governor Lockdown, Gretchen Whitmer, 'Borrowed' Billionaire's Jet to Fly to Florida While Demanding Her Subjects Stay Home Portland BLM/Antifa Draw Guns on Drivers to Enforce No-Go Zone in Broad Daylight 'I Thought I Was Going to Die' – Man Held at Gunpoint and Beaten by Portland's Antifa/BLM Terrorists Talks From Hospital Trauma Center Feds Dump More Charges On Derek Chauvin Figuring That Being in Prison for The Rest of His Life Isn't Long Enough Canadian Pastor Swarmed and Arrested by 'SWAT' Team for 'Inciting' People to Attend Church Man Beaten and Held at Gunpoint by BLM/Antifa Says Attacker Used 'George Floyd Restraint' on His Neck Governor Gavin Newsom Has a New Plan to Beat His Recall: Flat-Out Bribery MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media FRIENDS & SPONSORS: Anchor

Mike Strickland's attorneys dissect the verdict & sentencing and try to make sense of the case as they plan his appeal, but will politics and fear stand in the way of justice? Also, we take a look at the newest developments in the aftermath of the Chauvin trial, and the many reasons why his attorneys are demanding a retrial. TOP STORIES: Seattle Antifa Hate Group Threatens to Burn Down Church Over Event With Charlie Kirk After a Year of Riots, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Vows to 'Take Our City Back from Antifa.' Color Us Skeptical. Smarter-Than-You NYT Award-Winning Columnist Says Antifa and BLM Riots Were a Right-Wing Fever Dream Police-less in Seattle: Cops Are Leaving in Droves Chauvin Medical Defense Witness Is Now Being Investigated for Wrong-Think Here Are Down and Dirty Reasons Why California Lost a Congressional Seat and Texas and Florida Added in Census Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom's Clueless Reaction to His Recall Officially Going to Voters Explains Everything 8 Righteous Reasons Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial –– and That Juror's Shirt Is Only One of Them MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media FRIENDS & SPONSORS: Anchor

In this installment of ANTIFA Versus Mike Strickland, the sentence is rendered before a motley crew of freaks, anarchists, activists and slacktivists who are each craving a pound of Strickland's flesh. Plus...Andrew Branca of The Law of Self-Defense & Legal Insurrection joins the program for a post-mortem of the Derek Chauvin case, but a deadly police-involved shooting of a raging, knife-wielding teen in Cleveland publicized just minutes before the Chauvin verdict's announcement has the left-wing Twitterati foaming at the mouth. TOP STORIES: Dana Loesch Asks Some Excellent and Inconvenient Questions About the Shooting of Adam Toledo by Chicago Cop Welcome to Medellín, Minn., Where Elected Officials and Cops Are Afraid of BLM and Antifa Race 'Cartels' Did Wrecking Ball Maxine Waters Give Derek Chauvin Grounds for an Appeal? The Verdict Is in on Derek Chauvin. An Appeal Is Sure to Follow. Nancy Pelosi Celebrates Chauvin Guilty Verdict by Thanking George Floyd for Dying MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media FRIENDS & SPONSORS: Anchor

The shooting death of Daunte Wright has turned the Twin Cities into a powederkeg again as the Chauvin trial concludes, and James O'Keefe's Project Veritas strikes again with an exposé of a CNN tech director's admissions of bias! TOP STORIES: Officer Chauvin's Knee Was NOT on George Floyd's 'Neck' and 8 Other Things You Didn't Know About This Case After Open Borders, High Crime, and Defunding Cops – Joe Chooses Now to go After Guns to Defend Ourselves TX Rep Dan Crenshaw Suffers 'Terrifying' Medical Emergency Which May Leave Him Blind and His Haters Soulless 60 Minutes Tries to Pull DeSantis Hit Piece Story Out of the Crapper and It Backfires Spectacularly Chilling: California Senate Committee Votes to Make it Easier to Dox Citizens Who Sign Recall Petitions CA Governor Gavin Newsom Finally Admits He's Not Bigger Than Jesus Prosecution Rests in Chauvin Trial and the Jury Is Told to 'Pack a Bag' Former Cop Chauvin Won't Testify, Defense Rests in Death of George Floyd. Now, About Those Riots... Who Are the Jurors in the George Floyd Case – and Are They Safe? MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media FRIENDS & SPONSORS: Anchor

The trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd continues, and the defense is building a strong reasonable doubt case, from the litany of drugs in his system to another officer's bodycam that the Chief of Police says appears to show Chauvin's knee on Floyd's back, not his neck. Plus, a Seattle lawmaker scores a hilarious self-own during a hearing on a costly green transportation plan! TOP STORIES: 'Get Out, Nazis!'– Pastor Explodes in Righteous Anger, Kicks Out Canada's COVID Cops at 'Good Friday' Service Violent Rioter Freed by Portland's DA Is Arrested AGAIN After Feds Tie Him to Attempted Murders of 2 Portland Cops California Governor Gavin Newsom Announces That Someday His State Will Re-Open. Maybe. Until Then, the Catastrophe Continues 'Enough!'– Republicans Warn of 'Creeping Fascism' If We Don't 'Resist' the Vaccine Passport 'Police State': Cops Swarm ANOTHER Canadian Church for COVID Defiance and the Woke Crowd Cheers MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media FRIENDS & SPONSORS: Anchor

On today's episode, learn about the proposed vaccination passport system that's gaining support among many, especially on the left, and its connections to China's Orwellian "social credit" scheme that penalizes citizens' finances, careers, even their ability to travel, based on rules of behavior. PLUS: Julie Kelly of American Greatness returns to give an update on several cases related to the January 6 Capitol raid, and attorney Andrew Branca of The Law of Self-Defense & Legal Insurrection talks the trial of Officer Derek Chauvin. TOP STORIES: These 6 Stupendous Hoaxes Are Reasons to Give Media Narrative About 'Asian Hate' the Hairy Eyeball Armed Antifa Attack 'Freedom Rally' at Oregon's Capitol and Police Only Help When Old Man Pulls Gun on Attackers Biden's 'Screw America' Terrible Trifecta of Tyranny Begins With 'Vaccine Passports' and a Side of Open Borders Parents Fighting for in-Person School Outraged San Diego Teachers Are Personally Instructing Kids Who Just Snuck Over Border Liberal Author Naomi Wolf Warns 'Vaccine Passports' Are the 'End of Human Liberty in the West' Joe Biden's 'Vaccine Passport' Sounds Like Precursor to China's Social Credit Score. Here's How China's Plan Works MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media FRIENDS & SPONSORS: Anchor

In one of the final installments of ANTIFA Versus Mike Strickland, Judge Thomas Ryan renders his verdict, and the defense comments on the railroading they experienced from the Multnomah DA. Plus, is a wave of anti-Asian bigotry sweeping across the country, and if so, from where? Biden talks gun control and we revisit his terrible, awful, no-good, very bad advice on self-defense. And we chat with Portland attorney Jame Buchal, who is defending one of those charged in the Cider Riot fiasco.  TOP STORIES: A Study Shows VERY FEW Capitol Hill Rioters Were QAnon Red-Staters With Ties to 'Right-Wing' Groups Conspiracy Theorist Gavin Newsom Says the People Leading His Recall Are Capitol Rioters Who Want to Implant Chips in People Smoking Gun: Here's Joe Biden Basically Inviting Illegal Aliens to Surge the Border Trump Was Right: Michigan Judge Rules State's 2020 Almost-Anything-Goes Ballot Signature Rule Was 'Invalid' Psy-Op Much? Antifa Stages 'Love' March in Portland Neighborhood it Just Trashed – and Attacks ICE HQ Man Shocks ABC Reporter With the Real Reason He Snuck His Family Over the Southern Border at This Time 'Who Are These Outsiders?' Big Tech $$$$ – Zuck Bucks – Paid Government Election Offices to Become Turnout Machines for Biden in 2020 Election MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media FRIENDS & SPONSORS: Anchor