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Good afternoon, everybody, on this Monday, January 19th, 2026.

I have all of your news for your rush hour ride home, or maybe you're not working.

It's Martin Luther King Day, which we will be discussing. We'll get into MLKs. I have a dream speech.

What that means for the world we live in right now. And Candice Owens, the Daily Wire, which is owned by Ben Shapiro,

mocking Candace Owens by using Martin Luther King Day.

I'll explain how and why.

Plus, Trump has penned an angry letter claiming he no longer wants to be for peace after not

receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.

I'm going to read it to you.

It's bad shit crazy.

It's wild.

There's nothing else I can say about it.

In a conversation around tariffs, ICE, as Minnesota continues to be the subject of terror, we'll get into all of what's going on and more, and it starts right now on The Rush. So let's start with this Candace Owens story. The Candice Owens podcast on Twitter is owned by The Daily Wire. Candice Owens had a show on the Daily Wire, so they own the intellectual property known as Candice Owens podcast, which is wild because it's also her name. So they don't own her name. They just owned the podcast that has her name in it. And they've made this collaboration. I actually didn't pick up on this right away. I was like, oh yeah, they're being stupid.

But they took all the times that Candace Owens has said she had a dream and they strung it together on her own channel.

Now, why is this interesting? Well, it's Martin Luther King Jr. Day. And he was known for his famous speech about having a dream, you know, optimism for a better world where we're not divided by the color of our skin. It's an amazing speech. It's one

that I think our country could, could listen to on a day like today and a time like now.

But what's wild as Candace Owens, and, you know, she probably won't play the race card, and I'm certainly not going to play it for her. But what's wild as Candace Owens, and you know, she probably won't play the race card,

and I'm certainly not going to play it for her. But what's wild as a black woman that they use the speech of Martin Luther King Jr. against her because she talked about having dreams. She didn't talk about having dreams in the context of that speech, but they did this on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. This is wild. I'll just play like a few seconds of it for you.

I had a dream. I had a dream. I had a dream. And like I said, this one was clear. I had a dream that Charlie was betrayed. All right. So anyway, isn't this wild? And it goes on for a minute and 50 seconds. So somebody at the Daily Wire, you know, was paid to edit together all the time. She said, I have a dream on Martin Luther King

Jr. Day. Quite wild if you ask me. And the comments don't disappoint. I'm sorry, not sorry.

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