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Alongside history's lens, the episode also investigates the contentious topic of critical race theory, highlighting its roots and current impact on educational and societal norms. By peeling back the layers of cultural and historical discourse, listeners are invited to reflect on the foundations of collective identity and the spirit of freedom that has defined America. Join the conversation and gain a deeper understanding of our shared values in this compelling narrative.
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I eat the Greek yogurt and then I went to this thing called Nunu's, which I joke and say it's no-no's. It's supposed to be no-no's because it's no-no's for you. It tastes like horrible. It tastes like a tragedy. Whenever you have a chance to shrink the size and scope of government, shouldn't you do that? Shouldn't that be celebrated? Sometimes I think maybe we need like mental health checks on some of these lawmakers before they are fit to run again.
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The Dana Show with Dana Lash.
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Each community on Earth. If you take that away and try to distill us just down to white folks, We'll be like Europe, an aging, slowly dying former empire. The Roman Empire didn't survive because it didn't have enough strength in its diversity. It suppressed its diversity and it died. If the U.S. wants to be the Roman Empire, keep voting the way you're voting, y'all.
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Not only is she a racist, but she is an absolute bimbo, too. That's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. It's completely historically illiterate. And it's embarrassing that she felt that that was an OK thing to say and then put it out online, ignoring the racial part of it. I think I'm I think I'm more offended by the stupidity of what she just said than I am the racism that is within it. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. That's Joy Reid, who clearly Harvard is meaningless. That's the kind of brain the brain trust that Harvard produces. You have her and then you have what's his face? that pig kid, David Hogg. Those two are products of Harvard. Some of the dumbest people I've ever seen. So first, welcome back. If you're joining us by listening terrestrially or if you're watching the stream, Channel 347 Direct TV, the chat's at Rumble. You can also find us at X and Facebook. So I love history. I am a major history buff. And one of my favorite things is reading about ancient empires and love reading about ancient rome and i watched yes i did watch the hillsdale thing the rise and fall of rome i've also been watching i actually watched a thing last night that was about the construction of roman roads and how all roads literally did lead to rome but more so to her point she's saying that the the u.s isn't diverse enough and that's what is uh and that lack of diversity is what killed rome That is a historical nonsense. And here's why. In fact, it was too. You can now listen to me. It was too much. I don't mean that in the racial sense because it comes down with having a shared identity. This is one of the ways that America learned from Rome's mistake and our founders learn from Rome's mistake because at some point there was admittance of, I mean, every scene, everybody got Roman citizenship. Everybody had Roman citizenship. And I don't know. I don't know if people realize that, uh, the Roman emperor at the time, uh, Krakala was the one who he, you know, that's the sacking happened on his watch. But every free person in the empire got citizenship. And previous emperors also did that. And at first it was looked at like it was Rome's strength because they would conquer and then incorporate. And that was really different in those times. They didn't just leave something conquered and they didn't force them to adopt every single thing that they did within Rome. But they did incorporate it. They incorporated it namely so that they could say, OK, you're a conquered emperor. You have to now give us X amount of foot soldiers. It's one of the reasons why they had the biggest armies is because that was part of that incorporation. But there was never any diligence in in. creating that singular identity. Everyone talks about a Roman identity, but when we look in history, it was kind of all over the place. People wanted to consider themselves Roman, but there has to be a shared loyalty, a shared identity. And that was just one of the things. And that's like one part of it that went into it is that there was citizenship given to every single person. The overspending was crazy. the amount of spending was just, even on Caesar's time and before, was entirely irresponsible. And then you had a lot of instability because there was a lot of corruption. There was a lot of intrigue. And the other thing, too, was you were losing a lot of traditional values. And the Eastern Empire was already starting its rise. And then you had the barbarians and you had the goths and you had no not like the cure goths but like you know the visigoths you had the goths and then you had the the huns that were all coming in so there were a lot of things that factored into it but i think one of the biggest was this strain on or an absence a strain caused by the absence of a shared identity is one of the things that played into it And the idea of being a Roman and what that meant in being a member of that empire was diluted as a result of that. In the United States, it's one of the things that our founders did differently. They didn't make a shared identity on a race or a religion or anything else, but it was about that animating spirit of liberty. So if you want to be free, then we are kinsmen. And that's how the founders set this up. And in the Roman Empire, they didn't even do that. They're just like, OK, you're here. You get a Roman citizenship. You get a Roman citizenship. And the absence of those share a shared value led to an absence of cohesion. It led to instability. It led to a complete dearth of. cultural values the whole nine yards. And there was so much internal fighting as a result of that. Rome, by the time the Goths came in and sacked it, Rome had already sacked itself. That was just the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back. So everything that she's saying, it's literally actually the opposite of that, that created the fall of Rome. Now, In the United States, this is where this communist, this cultural warfare comes in. You know, the critical race theory. Everybody says DEI. DEI is an offshoot of critical race theory, CRT, which is the Frankfurt School of Marxism, right? It is an absolute Marxist theory. And I wrote about this 15 years ago. When Andrew Breitbart was still alive and I was working with Andrew Breitbart, Derrick Bell, who was a prominent academic, and he was at Harvard. He was kind of a mentor to Barack Obama. And I remember at the time we had this video. Barack Obama hugging Derrick Bell. And I thought it was pretty significant. The media tried to bury it and act like it wasn't a significant thing. But we're like, there's an introduction of a new tactic here. It's critical race theory. It's been exploding on college campuses since the 60s. And here's how it's affecting you now. All of this stuff that you see now with DEI and wokery all came from that. Every bit of it. It all came from CRT. And it started on American college campuses in the 60s. Derrick Bell was a huge proponent of it. And that gets into, that was a tactic to identify, isolate, and destroy those shared cultural values by turning everyone against each other based on So that's where all that comes in. Oh, if you're if you have two women, if one woman's a black woman and a white woman, well, she has one more intersectional box to check than the white woman. So now she has more power. Oh, but if this chick is gay, then she may have they may equal out them. But if one of them's trans, then you see what I mean? It's like a constant one up. So instead of focusing on shared cultural values and that shared identity that's based on liberty, you're now weaponizing all of these other variables to destroy that. It's an ingenious way to go after the thing that really did separate us from the Roman Empire was that singular shared identity. We had something around which we could rally and be loyal, and that was we are free to be free, and this is where you come to do it at. That's why you can be from anywhere and you can be a kinsman. And freedom. And so that's why what Joy Reid just said there is so incredibly embarrassing. I'm embarrassed for her. Can you imagine making a video and showing your ass like that with how stupid you are? I mean, there's no excuse. She's like a 50-something-year-old woman. There's no excuse for you to have the money that you have, be on television and have the internet, and then not understand the basic concepts of history like this. I mean, that's truly something. But that's the thing. And you know what? When you are removing the recognition of that shared cultural value that is your identity, because when you think about, well, what does it mean to be an American? At its most just distilled core, what does it mean to be an American? Free. Freedom. I think that's what ultimately everyone would come down to, yeah? Freedom. Freedom. So that is the American identity. Well, when you start weaponizing all of these other things around it and attacking it, destroying it, doing this, reinventing the Mao cultural revolution with going after and attacking our history like they did with our founders. Oh, our founders were imperfect. Thus, everything that they have done is imperfect. Well, that's illogical on its face because all you got to do is read the Bible. I mean, David was imperfect. He came from one of the most imperfect lines in all of mandum. I mean, David, who sent Uriah to be killed so he could get Uriah's wife. David. And from him came the Messiah. So that completely blunts that argument. But they don't care. They want you to be separated from God so you don't understand that. And they also want you to turn on your fellow man. and ignore that animating spirit of liberty so that we can destroy the social cohesion and obscure the identity of what it means to be American. Now, Rome did that to itself. Because they were allowing every Tom, Dick and Harry and giving everybody citizenship with just completely unfettered immigration, not even just immigration. It wasn't people even coming to Rome. Rome would go elsewhere and they would conquer a land. Oh, you're Romans now. Here's your citizenship. You're incorporated. The incorporation was smart, but everything that happened afterwards was not. So there's the she doesn't even understand. She she doesn't even understand the warning cry of the fall of the Roman Empire and what that means or what it looks like. in current times because she's just focused on the racial aspect of it. Immigration is a variable and that's, and racists like her don't understand that. And I'll say it again. Immigration is a variable because the identity once again is about being free. It doesn't matter what your skin color is. It doesn't matter what your religion is. Do you want to be free or And we are founded on Christian values, but we're singular in that we do not demand that you worship as we worship or do what we do in order to accept the perks of freedom, for the lack of a better way to put it. I mean, it's just one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. I'm like, golly, has she ever read a book? I don't know. But it's just truly stunning to me. But I had to I had to talk about that. I had to talk about that. And the other part, too, is, you know, they were bringing in all of these the the Goths and all of that. It sounds funny to say it now because I immediately think of, you know, like a hot topic. So actually it's emo. I immediately think like the cure or something. But they the way that they ended up managing it and the twilight of their empire just hastened that the the conditions that created the fall. They'd already sacked themselves. So it's just a dumb, completely dumb thing from her. Now, a couple of things that I want to make sure we're touching on. So we had the White House Correspondents Dinner. We didn't go. Did you go? Or did you watch? I didn't watch it. I felt like we used to watch it before. Or like we would pay attention, but eh. But apparently it was nobody watched it, nobody cared because POTUS wasn't there and nobody from the administration attended. They had a club that launched That night, it's a members only club that's in Georgetown and you can pay a fee and you can hobnob with the administration. I don't know how I feel about that. But that launched the same night as the White House Correspondents Dinner. I know the press secretary was there and there were other people that were there, but they they didn't. I mean, did they even have a comedian host it? I don't even think they did. So what was the point of it? They were patting themselves on the back. That's all it was. They were just celebrating themselves, patting themselves on the back. That's it. And that's the White House Correspondents Dinner. Now, coming up, two things that we're going to get into. Dims are ratcheting up incitement. J.B. Pritzker calls for disruption. Also, the latest with red state rhino hunting. You need to protect your title. I mean, if you haven't yet, good heavens. I don't know. I don't know why. 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This is Chelsea Handler from Dear Chelsea. Picture this, you're on an important virtual interview answering that make or break question and suddenly your screen freezes. Not the impression you want. Good internet has never been more important. I'm constantly doing podcast interviews, video calls, and important work on my computer. So I have... to have a solid connection. That's why you can't take slow for an answer. And with Optimum Fiber, you won't have to. It is the fastest, most reliable fiber internet in the New York Tri-State with 99.9% network reliability so you can stream, work, and game seamlessly. Plus, get a five-year price lock and a $400 prepaid card. Don't take slow for an answer. Call 888-4-OPTIMUM. Visit your local Optimum store or visit Optimum.com today. Terms apply. See Optimum.com for details.
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Hamas releases its last American hostage just hours before Trump's trip to the Middle East. Lefties in the media now insist they didn't hide Joe Biden's decline, it was their sources who lied. And Homeland Security is investigating whether Los Angeles County gave our social security benefits to illegals. I'm Greg Karumbas, inviting you to join Jim Garrity of National Review and me each weekday for the Three Martini Lunch podcast. We'll give you the good, bad, and crazy news of the day, and hopefully a lot of laughs too. Follow the Three Martini Lunch on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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I didn't even know this could happen. California is running out of license plate numbers. The license plate sequence that starts next year is kicking off. The one that began in 1980 began with 1-888-000. And now, oh, I'm not even reading all this. It's nine UB. I'm not good. No, not even. Anyway, I didn't even know you could run out of.
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It's what happens when you give illegals a bunch of license plates. Well, dang, look at you.
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Hollywood Film and Television Productions. Everyone's saying it feels empty. Is it in a death spiral? Aw, filming in Los Angeles is at a historic low. Remember how they were talking about implementing more tax credits and they never did it and people were mad? Yeah, so they said that even in the back lots, there's nobody there. Nobody even around some of the bigger ones. Hollywood is facing intense competition for production in Atlanta, New York. places that do tax credits elsewhere. A lot of people have been coming to Texas. It actually creates money. But man, these policies are not good for business. They said shoot days declined over 22%. That's wild. Also, aren't things being made differently? Things are being shot different. Production's different now. It's very different. Virginia Goffrey, one of Epstein's most prominent abuse survivors, apparently dies by suicide. Now, there were a lot of questions surrounding this because she had said at one point, I'm never going to commit suicide, etc. But Lorraine noted over the weekend that she and her husband apparently split. He took the kids. And so she was like already going through it. And that might kind of, that's sad. It's very sad. Southwest Airlines. Oh my gosh. Why? What would you do if you were on this flight? A Southwest Airlines passenger, stripped naked, defecated on the seat as the plane landed. It was a flight to Chicago. It was a female passenger. They had to call the cops to Midway because this lady was going crazy. Yeah, you better burn, just burn the plane because it's just no good at that point. They had to take it out of service for cleaning, hopefully with flames. That's nasty. They said that, and then the last month they almost missed, almost hit a jet, a taxiing jet to sun glare, apparently. But they, man, they handled it. Can you imagine being on that plane though? I don't know. I keep seeing these videos of people who are told to get off the plane because they're being disruptive and then they fight and threaten to, you know, delay the whole plane. I'm surprised that passengers don't intervene as much as I just at all. I'm actually kind of surprised over all of that. All right, coming up, we got red state rhino hunting and who stole Kristi Noem's purse again? Hey, folks. So I want to share something important that every American should be aware of. We're seeing a lot of economic uncertainty right now. You have the national debt rising. Global trade tensions impacting markets and tariffs with higher prices on the stuff that everybody uses every day. It's not about panic. It's about preparation. So this is why I partnered with Gold Co., the top rated precious metals company, to help you take a step towards protecting your financial future. Smart investors look to hard assets like gold and silver to help weather the storm. It's a strategy that's been used for generations. And right now you can get a free 2025 gold and silver kit that breaks it all down for you. And if you qualify, you could receive unlimited bonus silver, real silver matched to your account with no taxes or penalties. It's a smart move that could help you feel more secure with what lies ahead. Visit danalikesgold.com to get started. That's danalikesgold.com and move forward with confidence.
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I want to tell you about Long Island Man because we've been talking so much about Maryland Man. Maryland Man, that innocent Maryland dad who just happened to be like a woman beating human trafficking gangbanger. But what of? Let me tell you about Long Island Man. This is the New York Post. This is a headline that's a big mouthful. War criminal who helped orchestrate Rwandan genocide hid out as Long Island beekeeper for decades after lying on his immigration documents. And he's from, and this was in Long Island. So he's a literal convicted Rwandan genocide war criminal. He was a little beekeeper. Didn't I see a movie, something like this with Jason Statham? Sidebar, total sidebar, pause. The movie, I think it was called Beekeeper. I'm looking at Kane. I think it was called Beekeeper. And it was Jason Statham, and it was a great movie. There was no character development. It was just, hi, we're here. The plot is ass-kicking.
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That's what we're doing. It's called The Beekeeper.
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It's called The Beekeeper.
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Last year.
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I watched that, and it was a great movie. I liked it. Have you seen it?
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I have not. Although, I do like Jason Statham. I need to check this out. I think there's another movie that's out of his right now.
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Steve said he didn't know we were playing Mad Libs today. Well, that's in more than one way.
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That headline was mad.
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Yeah, it was absolutely mad. I mean, so he's this dude was he's a beekeeper. Well, is he, though? He acted like a beekeeper and he was in Long Island for 20 years. He lied on all of his immigration papers about his past. Faustin not going to say this name, right? Cain. N-S-A-B-U-M-U-K-U-N-Z-I. N-S-A-B-U-M-U-K-U-N-Z-I. That sounds right. The way you said it. N-S-A-B-U-M-U-K-U-Z-I. That's right.
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65.
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Came to the U.S. in 2004. Blied on all of his green cards, his naturalization papers. He said he didn't have any part in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He even did media interviews about his refugee status. And he developed connections with wealthy Hamptonites, wealthy progressive people in the Hamptons. They freaks. And then they apparently paid his bond, $250,000 bond after he was arrested so he could continue caring for bees because he was a beekeeper. I guess they weren't his bees. He was caring for someone else's bees. Nizibimisu Kizuzi, who was a beekeeper in his native country, he continued it here. He was also what they call a sector counselor. When he was in Rwanda, he literally directed the killings and rapes and participated in the violence against the Tutsis in Kibriti during the 100-day genocide that was carried, the ethnic cleansing that was carried out. Nizibutu Kibriti also assured folks during public meetings when he was in Rwanda that they would be protected. And then private meetings, he would tell the opposing factions that he was going to kill the other ethnic group. He set up roadblocks to stop them from fleeing. I mean, it's just horrific. And one massacre, apparently he told one armed faction to kill a group of a different faction that were in an administrative office. And he apparently also beat some person to death by clubbing them in the head. So that's this guy. He encouraged people. He encouraged the factions to rape the women as a genocidal tool. All of this. And he was there in Long Island forever. 20 years, and he also traveled abroad. He went to Ivory Coast. He was in Togo just recently in March. He was in Madagascar. He lived in the Ivory Coast for a decade prior to him coming to the United States, so he's been a fugitive forever. How are you, literally a guy, directing rape as a tool of war, a weapon of war in Rwanda, and yet you're able to come here and live as a beekeeper of all places in Long Island. Right. Isn't that weird? It's weird that no one that that didn't tip anybody off. No one's like, hmm, would you say your past was again? It's a little odd. They approved his green card in 2007 after he explicitly denied ever engaging in genocide and he denied ever committing a crime of moral turpitude. He applied to become a citizen in 2016. It's been pending ever since. They could deport him if they convict him. Interpol Rwanda issued a notice that he's wanted for genocidal crimes in 2016. His client says, no, no, he's a victim. He's a law-abiding beekeeper and a gardener, simple gardener. He was a victim. But there are tons of witnesses who've all given statements to authorities that, yeah, we watched him beat a guy to death in the head. Yeah, we literally watched him help hold women captive so they could be raped as a weapon of war. All of these people are coming out saying this. So I don't know. He's just a Long Island dad, Cain. Guys, he's a Long Island dad. Gotta think of the bees. That Beekeeper movie, though, it is a great movie. I'm not kidding you. I don't know anything about the guy's past. I don't think they ever got into that. It's a plot hole that nobody cares about because if I watch a Jason Statham movie, I'm not watching to see his Oscar-level acting. I'm not watching to see that.
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Although he is good and Oscar-level.
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He's a great actor, but I'm not watching him to see a Ralph Fiennes performance. I'm watching him because I believe it when he punches people to death. And that's what I want to see. Sometimes I just want a movie where the guy comes out and all you know about his character, he just goes, I'm the good guy. I'm going to play this bad guy. And then he does it. And you're like, yay, that's a great movie. That's what I like. I'm a simple person. You know, I don't need all the other garbage with it. Just, you know, show me that. So this is just a simple Long Island beekeeper, guys. I wonder if there were signs. I mean, that he literally was a general in a Rwandan genocide. That's a pretty particular skill set. Were there signs? Just feel like this is going to be a movie. It ought to be. So a couple of things to get into here. So we've got, we've been following all of the latest targeting of Hegseth and others. Did you see, I have this New York Times piece that I wanted to show you. I'm trying to find out what the motivation is here. New York Times piece, What is Dark Woke? Have you ever heard of that? I've never heard of Dark Woke. The subhead, Democrats are trying out a new attitude. It's provocative, it's edgy, and it's perilously towing the line of not being too offensive. Basically, it's because they cuss, I think, is what the point is. It said they went back to the presidential primary and they boil it down to, quote, it requires being crass but discerning, rude but only to a point. And it has a name called, excuse me, called dark woke. How about just like assertive? you vocabulary-challenged, feeble-minded halfwits. How about assertive, curt, blunt? No, no, no. We're going to totally full-on idiocracy it. It's dark woke. Doesn't that person look assertive? No, that person doesn't look dark woke. This is the dumbest stuff ever. It started as a meme, but now they're actually trying to make it a thing. They, uh... They say this is just the lack of awareness in this. Can I read this graph to you? The lack of awareness. Democrats don't know who they are. They don't even know how they act. Listen to this quote outside the party. The dirtbag left a term for a cohort of leftist provocateurs who is huge. Civility politics inspired headlines for their unrestrained derision of conservatives and liberals alike. When have they never not been that? Right. When have they never not been there? What do you mean that they've always eschewed civility politics? When has the left been super civil? I can't tell you the number of protests I've been to where I've seen the left act. Where is this? They act like they've been just kittens in sunshine this whole time. Now they're dark woke because, damn it, Trump did it. Trump made them eschew civility politics. That's what this is building up to. They did this in 2016, too. Of course, they cite Jasmine Crockett. And then they highlighted her argument with Marjorie Taylor Greene when Greene was going on about fake eyelashes. Remember, that was actually a brilliant hearing, and it is true, girl. You need to take them down a gauge. They don't all need to be 18s. And they said that they highlight Jasmine Crockett as somebody who's dark woke. They list a number of other lawmakers. And then I realized I've seen these lawmakers either they're on MSNBC or CNN cussing up a storm or they've got B-roll of them acting a fool at like some rally or speaking event. And listen to this. They make this like this is all the right that has corrupted the precious innocent left. Democrats have embraced some aspects of the rights toolkit. Trump advisors like Elon Musk have used slurs and profanity. And now they said, Now Democrat politicians have encouraged or allowed more swearing. What? So the way that this New York Times piece reads is that the left was just, they were all angels. It was all kittens and sunshine. And they were all perfectly well behaved people. They said yes ma'am and no ma'am. Yes sir and no sir. And they were just, they're so kind and so nice and they They prayed before every meal and they went and they were very kind. Nobody believes this. What in the world? If anything, the right has adopted the left. I think you have members of the woke. I think there is a woke right right now. And I and I've talked about this before. I actually have a chapter on it in the very last book that I wrote. Identity politics being incorporated and weaponized by some people on the right. There's different factions of the right. But the left for them to act like they never, ever were rude or aggressive. They've always ever been aggressive. And it's one of the reasons that certain Republicans got more aggressive because they thought that they had to in order to be able to compete with this. It's wild. And they said that, oh, well, they're now becoming more authentic. I think they're just devolving further. I mean, in the past, you know, when you would have like, you know, James Carville, I'm going to use him as an example because he's like one of the older old guards that's, you know, out there on CNN, etc. It just seems like, you know, in the past, they were aggressive and they would, you know, all this. James Carville's always cussed, but he's always made a point. What is Jasmine Krakus point? She gets up there and she makes fun of people in wheelchairs. What is her point? I don't get it. This is such a goofy article. Culturally, I tweeted about this last night because I saw this article as I was getting ready to go to bed. I was reading this. And it has to do with Pedro Pascal. Do you guys know who he is? Pedro Pascal was in, well, my favorite role was as Oberyn whatever, Martell. Oberyn Martell in Game of Thrones when he had his head crushed in. I thought that was his best role. That was one of my favorite scenes in all the TV. Popped his head like a grape. The Mountain did. He fought him. Anyway, so he has come out. And he's attacking J.K. Rowling. As you know, they've had a massive legal fight and they had a big win in the UK over defining what, you know, protecting women and defining what they are. And he has come out and attacked her. He called her a loser, among several other things. He was also in Mandalorian and he was quiet when Gina Carano was attacked. Gina Carano just said it was pointing out some fascistic elements of the left and they went at her over it and fired her from it. Hollywood Reporter says Pedro Pascal blasted JK Rowling for her trans tweets. He called her a heinous loser. He commented on Instagram calling her a heinous loser. He's also in The Last of Us, which I don't watch. And he was responding to a post by an activist saying, who criticized her for celebrating the UK Supreme Court. They had a big ruling last week saying that trans women should not be recognized as women and sex legally means biological sex. Rowling was on her boat. She was with a cigar and she said, I love it when a plan comes together. She's gloating and she has every right to. And she goes, I get the same royalties whether or not you read my books or burn them. Enjoy your marshmallows. And he went off on her saying awful, disgusting blank is exactly right. Heinous loser behavior. Now, one of the things that I've read is his sister apparently is he's got a well, he's got a brother who pretends to be a girl. It's not like actually his sister. he's got a sibling, a brother, who came out and said that she was a girl. And he's gone to events with him before. He's taken his brother to events before. He has spoken up in favor of trans issues before. I think that kind of gives you some insight as to why he never said anything in defense of Gina Carano. And also, you get insight into this J.K. Rowling thing. He's making people mad, too. Lorraine found this because he called Rachel Zegler an icon. This is a throwback. Well, not too much of a throwback. It's just March of last year. But after all the stuff with Rachel Zegler and after she ruined the Snow White movie, he weighed in on it. And now people are kind of rolling their eyes at him. He called her an icon. He's just... He is... He will... Pedro Pascal is a pick-me guy. He will say whatever he has to say to ingratiate himself with Hollywood. Whatever he has to do, he will do it. And it's really... One of the most emasculating things I've ever seen. When I think of emasculation, I think of Pedro Pascal. I thought this for a long time. Any man that doesn't have the balls to stick up for his coworker, much less a female coworker, when she's being savaged unfairly and falsely in the press, you're just nothing but a sack of low testosterone. That's all Pedro Pascal is. He's a pick-me guy. He will kiss whatever backside he has to and possibly more, I think. in order to get more traction in Hollywood. It's just, it's cringe. He tries so hard. If you've ever seen any video of him, any red carpet appearance, anything like that, that's exactly what he tries to do. It's really cringe. We've got a lot more on the way. So let's be real. Medical freedom isn't just a catchphrase. It's your right. Your health decisions belong to you and not the government, not big pharma, and definitely not someone elected bureaucrat. So that's why I'm all in on what All Family Pharmacy is doing. They're putting medical power back where it belongs, and that's in the hands of you, Americans. Through the end of June, they're making it even easier to take back control because when you control your health, you protect your family, your future, and your freedom. Get 20% off site-wide. No insurance? No problem. No insurance needed. And licensed doctors in all 50 states. 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Back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We're at the top of the second hour. And my friend, our listener, Vegas Larry, that's his official name. He's going to have to get like a satin jacket with it on as many times as we shout him out on the show. He made this. This is an actually great point. And I retweeted it. He said, everyone who wanted student loan forgiveness, they're all of a sudden economic experts on tariffs. I was telling Cain over the radio break that, and I was trying to find it, someone actually was trying to op-ed the you know the whole black friday thing and how we it doesn't exist right now because we don't have a black friday and they're trying to say oh well you know it doesn't necessarily mean like literally friday people the black monday thing like what what it kane what were the headlines friday yeah it's all gonna be black monday we're all gonna die today it didn't happen so now the left is like well it doesn't literally mean like my what yes it does actually it's in Yeah, it does actually mean that anything that they can do. So at what point, look, I'm not going to sit here and talk about it nonstop, because I'm not going to engage in the speculation. That's what I don't like. I don't like the speculation. Because at some point, you know, we know the tenants of free market, and we know the tenants of good economic policy. And you know, there's only so much to be said of it. But You know, at the same time, I can't stand getting into the speculation of stuff and making people freak out unnecessarily. Right. I kind of am one of those. I'm going to just stay and sort of bob in the water here and watch and see what happens, because it all changes so dramatically day to day. I mean, for crying out loud, Cain, it's like the EU is now saying, yeah, we would like to have a zero tariff. We'd like to have, you know, a zero tariff policy. So let's talk about how maybe perhaps we can do that. OK, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Listen to this. The content. Listen.
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These tariffs come first and foremost at immense costs for U.S. consumers and businesses. But at the same time, they have a massive impact on the global economy. Especially hard hit are the developing countries. And this is a major turning point for the United States. Nonetheless, we stand ready to negotiate with the United States. Indeed, we have offered zero for zero tariffs for industrial goods, as we have successfully done with many other trading partners.
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That's Ursula von der Leyen. She's the head of the European Union. She's the head of the EU. And so that's she's coming in and saying, yes, we would we'd love to be able to to have no tariffs. Let's talk about how we can make this possible. Great. Let's do it. Let's make. OK, then let's have that. I'm okay with it. And I'm okay if it's all on China. We need to really start purchasing less from China anyway. And we're going to talk to Steven Yates about this coming up. So these are all great things, right? Can I just change your gears totally for a moment? We'll come back to this. Can I just go back to this? I had it in the headline. It was a brief headline. And the reason that I am bringing the story up to discuss this particular totally not in news at all story today is because I really feel like we all should go here and take it over. And then we become the tribesmen and then we can shoot arrows at anyone who wants to try to get near us. I see the headlines like I've been seen with the terror of craziness and it makes me want to go to the silence. So it's the Bay of Bengal. And in the vast expanse, let me put on my David Attenborough hat, in the vast expanse that is the Bay of Bengal, there lies North Sentinel Island, a remote speck of land that is fiercely guarded by both the Indian Navy and its indigenous inhabitants. people known as the Sentinelese. It is a tribe, the population of which we can only estimate maybe between 50 and 200, right? They are classified as uncontacted. They are isolated and they respond in the same manner that I do when unwanted guests appear with lethal force. They don't like drop-bys. Don't think that you're going to just scooch on over and knock on their door. It's not going to happen. And they are protected in part because the Indian government and others do not want them contracting any kind of potential diseases from outsiders to which they've no immunity. And so there are strict prohibitions on approaching the island So they've declared the island and all of the surrounding waters to be an exclusion zone. And they enforce this with a regular naval patrol. And any unauthorized entry is highly illegal. And you are forbidden to contact the tribe at all. Now, they do this not because they're going to necessarily fine you, but because you will be killed to death by the Sentinelese. They are legally permitted to defend their territory, even up to the point of killing trespassers. And now, they've had hapless fishermen. There was a determined Christian missionary. All have gained access, and they all met grizzly ends there. Now, last Monday... Not this Black Monday, Cain, but last Monday, there was an American tourist. Now, if you said, oh boy, I already know where this is going, Dana. Yes, you do. Down to the description of said tourist. Said tourist, again, you know, I have a thing about, because I think it looks bad and it just isn't the same. White people with dreadlocks, particularly if you're blonde, don't do it like this guy did. So that's his first problem, right? You look like a tourist. Stop that. He's an American tourist. He traveled to a restricted reserve on North Sentinel Island and he left behind a can of Coca-Cola as an offering. so that the most isolated tribe in the world could try it. The experts branded this guy's attempt as a deeply disturbing stunt. Not only did he put himself in danger, but the entire Sentinelese tribe, they could contract a common disease like socialism or something, and it could kill all of them. There's no education, by the way, as the actual vaccine for socialism. Did you know that? It's true. You don't even have to get a shot just there. So he was arrested. He's 24 years old. He was arrested when he returned to land. And they were warning him, like, you could have been killed to death. You know this, right? Because they will kill you and eat you. Well, maybe not eat you, but they'll totally kill you. Apparently, they've inhabited this place for 30,000 to 38,000 years. I don't know if I believe that. But they're there. They're indigenous. And you don't want to mess with them because they will literally come out and just throw a barrage of arrows at you. It will rain down and block out the sun. Didn't Xerxes say that when he was battling the 300? The arrows will block out the sun. And so I don't know why people are hell-bent on contacting them. What if, though, to get away, because if I swear, if I have to put up with any more of these press headlines, what if we just act like we're there? Like, oh, no, no, we didn't. We're here. We've been here this whole time. Just, you know, just go and show up and we'll act like we're members of the tribe. That way we don't have to watch these insane headlines and all of the weeping and gnashing of teeth about the economic or not downfall. I would. Would you go there, Cain? But you like grounding in bacteria tea.
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I can do that wherever I want.
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You like hippie stuff. These are like professional hippies.
SPEAKER 05 :
You're really throwing that professional word around.
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Well, I mean, by our society's measurement, they are.
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Still a lot of heavy lifting.
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Professional.
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I don't see it.
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This is where I think that if we don't go there, we should send the Panikins there. It still sounds like I'm talking about a bird, doesn't it? I don't like Trump's nickname. I'm really disappointed. It's the first time I've never not liked a nickname. That's what he's calling Chex Notes, the weak and stupid people.
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It'll be the new Galapagos. We'll just put all the Panikins there.
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They're like pangolins, but dumb. Well, what can you tell us? This is an indigenous Panikin. Oh, yes. They're bulbous heads. And very dumb, very dumb beasts of burden. They are the panikins. Don't they sound they sound like a weird flightless bird panikins. So just just, you know, just saying. All right. Some of the other the things that we've been watching, obviously, the tariffs. I'm not going to be. Why also? Can I ask this question? Why is it? And this is what I wanted to bring up last. This is one of our last segments, but we ran out of time. So CNN has announced that they're hosting a town hall with four battleground members of Congress. You've got Lawler out of New York, McKenzie out of Pennsylvania. Those are the two Republicans. And then you have the two Democrats, Tran out of California and Hayes out of Connecticut, moderated by. Jake Tapper and Caitlin Collins, and it's going to be this week. Why are they doing this? It's going to be a two minutes hate sesh. It'll be like Parkland light. Why in the world are they doing this? Because I got to be honest with you. I feel like the comms people that work with these particular battleground folks that are they're not going to adequately prep these lawmakers, how much you want to bet. And it's going to be a bunch of Democrats that are going to get up and they're going to scream and gnash teeth. And why are you letting Elon Musk steal all of our monies and all of these other things? That's what you're going to hear nonstop. There's not going to be any kind of resolution or ground of agreement to be had it is literally a way to make money from a two minutes hate session i think yeah you agree kane that's oh yeah i i would not i don't understand the point of doing these i told a congressional member that had one of these town halls And of course, it was a two-minute Tate session. I'm like, why did you even have this? First off, these people are arguably not even in your district, number one. Number two, this isn't about having an open and honest discussion. It's a bunch of socialists that want to screech at you. That's it. And take videos of themselves screeching at you so that they can put it up on Instagram and act like they're a hard ass later. That's all they want. That's all this is. Why would you even participate in this? This is not a good faith town hall. For real, a good faith town hall. Why don't you have a good faith town hall about Tesla at a Tesla dealership and see how well that goes. You guys remember the one town hall that we had? This was after the shooting of Gabby Giffords that took place and there was a tea party. I still talk to him every now and then. He was the head of the Tucson Tea Party. And they threatened to kill him. Like this guy stood up and threatened to kill him like live on air at a CNN town hall. You remember that came? And CNN was like, anyway, guys, remember that? That's kind of how they view the town halls. So I don't. Why is any Republican doing this? If you're in a battleground, this isn't the way to do it. Yeah, I'm just saying this is not the way to try to, like, get an advantage. Our Gen 3 Sub 2K, brand new, K-E-L-T-E-C, Florida-based company, great company, by the way. And the folks over at Kel-Tec, they have this, I mean, they have different versions of the full in-half carbine, but now you have it chambered in all kinds of stuff, including brand new 10 millimeter and everything made right here in the US of A all American parts all American labor and all American ingenuity single twist and fold motion of the rotating forend folds this quickly in half optics and all you don't have to detach anything and just as quickly it deploys zeroed and ready to rock it folds down to 16 and a half inches for easy storage and transport takes Glock mags you got a reliable blowback design ensuring ease of maintenance and consistent performance A five-pound trigger pull for greater accuracy. Internal buffer for softer recoil. Rails up top for accessories. In-lock integrated. It's ideal for home defense, backpacking, and camping, as well as law enforcement, school, church. I mean, whatever it is you need it for, it's ready. And they have great, like I said, great innovative designs, and they stand behind everything that they make. Learn more at Caltechweapons.com. Innovation, performance, Caltech. K-E-L-T-E-C-weapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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They're really trying to get you to freak out over bird flu. They're saying, oh, my gosh, bird flu could be heading north this spring. Fewer federal health officials are working to stop it. I don't care. It's a virus. It's just that's the way it is. Just wash your hands. Don't be gross and don't eat dead birds on the side of the road. I mean, really, how difficult is this, people? Do we have to freak out over everything? Stop it. Just take a breather. These people with these headlines. Good night. Panic in Austria. Borders are shut to two countries after a disease outbreak. Oh, but not to like the influx of people coming in from all manners of the globe illegally. They said Slovakia has closed 24 borders, introduced strict measures to help prevent the spread of a highly infectious disease. They said this is it's foot and mouth, foot and mouth disease. Again, just don't be gross. Be careful what you eat. I mean, what? cocaine. What in the world? People know this. Second measles death reported in Texas. I mean, all of these are just like and also Texas AG is investigating Kellogg's over healthy cereal claims. Ken Paxton said that they're investigating Kellogg's over the artificial food dyes in cereals. Why does anybody eat? Why Like the pops and the Froot Loops or Frootios.
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From nostalgia, probably. I remember as a kid loving it.
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I never had Froot Loops until I moved out on my own and I bought a box of Frootios. I always had Frootios. I always had, like, the great value version of stuff.
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Actually, growing up, you're right. We had Cheerios.
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Dude, I did not get cereal in a box, like, maybe a couple times. It was always in bags, right? It was always in a bag.
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Remember when Kix came out? Kid-tested, mother-approved. That's a horrible cereal. I used to like that cereal. Kix was just a boring disappointment. Because all I had was Cheerios up to that point.
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Cheerios also was horrible, unless you put a cup of sugar in it. It's horrible. Why would anybody eat that?
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Remember Grape Nuts?
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Grape Nuts are horrible. That's like, go out and just, you know what, just beat up a squirrel and take its food. I used to love putting sugar in that. You know what great nuts is? Squirrels eating nuts and spitting them into the cereal box and they seal it up at the factory and send it out and people pay money for it.
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That's where great nuts come from. Huh?
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I'm just saying. Anyway, just stop eating trash. There's your headline. And then, but I've got more. What? Dana, we're done with your Dorian-ness today. That's okay. But you're not. NASA, by the way, we did miss this last segment, last headline. NASA, they're saying that there is a mysterious structure on Mars that proves there was life on the red planet. It's a new book out. They said that they've analyzed dozens of photos of structures on the Martian surface and they are positive that they are man-made. Well, I don't know if they're watching what our headlines have been for the past 48 hours, actually longer than that. They don't want anything to do with us because the stupidity may be more catching than the hand, foot, mouth and the measles. I've said for years now that our media is just garbage. Legacy Press is garbage. How does the average person know if a news story, if the source is accurate or if it's biased? Ground News can be a great solution for that. Ground News can show you the stories and the sources of the day and then they give you details about their sourcing. how reliable the reporting is and who owns them and keep you fully informed on any potential political or motivational leanings. So, for instance, you could use Ground News to read about the Trump administration suing the state of Maine over participation of transgender athletes in girls sports. The Huffington Post said, quote, Trump's newest political power grab is targeting Maine. The Toronto Sun said, quote, DOJ is to sue Maine over trans women competing in female sports. So same story, but two very different headlines. Is it a power grab by the president or is it in the hands of the DOJ? You can sign up for your Ground News account today and get access to the mobile app the website, the browser extension, and exclusive newsletter so you can stay informed on the news and the bias. Visit groundnews.com slash Dana today to get 40% off the Ground News Vantage plan and get access to all of their news analysis and features. That's groundnews.com slash Dana for 40% off the Ground News Vantage plan for a limited time only. Groundnews.com slash Dana for 40% off.
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And not only that, there was actually a discount. You didn't have to pay a deposit. on the feet. This is like how it works. I couldn't believe it. So we didn't know anything about the racial identity of the kids until they started to look mixed race, which they are. And contending with the hair thing is already a thing. Lots of advice, especially from black parents.
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I listened to this whole interview and he actually messed up and said that there was a discount for adopting black kids. And then he kind of caught himself And was like, well, I meant, you know, like there's no deposit. Oh, my gosh. And then he went on about like fixing hair and that. That's just a weird. That's what that is so weird. You know, he wants to run. I forgot to include him when I was listing the names of Democrats that want to run in 2028. He's one of them. Why? I don't know. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Why? Why would he be? Nobody knows. It's crazy. So it's just a total normal way of talking about starting a family, I guess. Yes, well, you know, we didn't have to put a deposit down on these black kids that we got. So I'm really... The way that he talked about it, And I listened to the whole thing. And I feel like he recognized how callous it kind of sounded while he was discussing it. And then he was like, I need to shift this into sounding a little bit more like a human. But the way that he made them sound like commodities, like kids are commodities. I don't know. He's just not a good candidate. He's not. He wasn't a good mayor. And he wasn't even a good secretary of transportation. He was horrible. He wasn't even there half the time. Oh, my gosh. We're at the bottom of this second hour. I've got some odds and ends to get to as well. And we're also going to we got to talk about this red state rhino hunting. Actually, let's do this first, because it has been a hot mess, a hot mess in Texas. So yesterday we told you about the moves in the Texas legislature to raise all of our taxes. Right. Well, apparently now they've got a bill. It's moving in the Senate. Less than 24 hours notice for the hearing that happened today. And it was in the Senate Business and Commerce Committee. And it's basically like a Chinese social credit scoring system that's in Texas. It's Senate Bill 1460. Donna Campbell wants to have the Texas Ethics Commission. And this is Texas scorecard. She wants to allow the Texas Ethics Commission She wants to give them the unilateral power to put us on an ethics violation registry. So it targets like doctors and lawyers and realtors and carpenters and plumbers and anybody who requires a license to work. You could have your entire livelihood put under risk under Senate Bill 1460. Now, for what? Well, for instance, one of the cases that was brought up before the Senate was a case of a 71 year old woman and an 82 year old man. The Texas Ethics Commission was going after them because they had handmade yard signs on their lawns and it didn't include the required disclaimer. What they were doing is not even something, that's not even political activity that you can regulate under the law. But the Texas Ethics Commission decided, no, we're going to accuse you because you didn't put a disclaimer on your handmade signs. We're going to accuse you of breaking the law. And the fines can be, it's up to their discretion. It's like pretty much unlimited. And this woman, you know, she's an elderly woman. She's on a budget. So she made her signs herself. She was hit with a default judgment because she didn't have a car to apparently drive her to her hearing in Austin. And if you try to appeal, I mean, they'll try to they will lawfare you. They will lawfare you. So if if Senate Bill 1460 passes. And again, Texas Scorecard had a real good write up of this. You also had Tony McDonald with Tarrant County GOP. They you could be dragged in front of the. I mean, I am. This is wild. This is like and this is if you require a license to work, period. You're going to be targeted with us. Be careful about your political expressions. Be careful about, you know, I this is this is a heinous idea. This is some of the stuff that they're doing in Austin. This is some of the stuff they're doing down there. I have no idea why she thinks that this is something that's needed. I don't get it. She's from New Braunfels, Texas. So that's a little south of where we are. This is just a touch of what some of these people, these rhinos are trying to push in Texas's state capitol. Like, for instance, over at, and Michael Sullivan noted this, and he's over at Texas Scorecard. You have Burroughs, Justin Burroughs, who is Speaker of the Texas House. He's getting a lot of justified criticism. They're pulling in. They pulled some pro-life legislation from the hearing schedule for some reason. And that caused the Planned Parenthood of Texas to go out and say, oh, that's great. HB 2197 has been pulled. They're not going to hear it. That's great. I have no idea why a pro-life legislation was pulled. I don't know. But par for the course. I think we're going to start keeping a ledger of names of all the people that we talk about. for these problems with red state rhino hunting. The other thing too is in Florida, you had, what's his name? Alex Andrade. He's the guy who got fired from being the attorney for the city of Milton. And he was pictured with a black eye after he reportedly got into a bar fight. He is a really short tempered dude. I mean, he doesn't have a lot of, doesn't have a lot of apparently smarts or patience. He was on a little internet show where he was talking about And he had he was it sounded like he was making fun of people with autism. And he was going after Andrade's mad because a lot of I guess a lot of the stuff that he proposed, a lot of big spending has been rejected by the governor or other conservative, actual conservative lawmakers in the Republican legislature there in Florida. And he was joking because it came up that, oh, well, somebody said that Ron DeSantis must have Asperger's. And it was like a joke. And he was like, well, you know, that's what I've heard. And then he's been all day on social media defending it. If you're mocking this stuff, if you think it's funny to weaponize Asperger's, to weaponize autism and speculate about people and make a joke of it and use it against people because you're mad that they are more conservative and successful than you are, you have a soul deficiency. That is it's heinous. I'm not playing the video. It's out there. I was floored when I saw that. Just so you know, he's the guy who threatened to fight my husband and all this other stuff. I can't believe this guy. People voted for him. He is like he sounds like a really vengeful, dangerous dude. Right. It's just like he's like he he gives me the heebie jeebies. He really does. He's like one of those people. If I was at a bar and Alex Andrade was at a bar, I would cover my drink. Actually, I wouldn't be at a bar where he was, but I really would cover my drink if I was near him. I'm not kidding. He gives me that kind of vibe. He's just he freaks me out. He's just anyway. So moving on. Can we talk about one other bits and pieces? What did you do? Steve did this. I have to address it now. I feel like. Before you, you know, I'm not getting into like entertainment gossip or anything like that. I hate that stuff. But I do think that this is sort of symbolic of the grifter culture. That ginger who came over here and is trying to be Prince of Montecito. What's his face? Hairy ginger. And then his wife who was on that game show. She had like a D-list role on some Canadian sitcom called And I don't know, was she on like one season? I don't know. Nobody ever watched it. Nobody knew who she was until she started dating Despair, right, from the UK. So that Meghan Markle lady, she... is doing a cooking show on Netflix and I've never seen, I only watched five seconds of it and I thought she was going to cut her wrist by trying to zest a lemon. This girl has never been in the kitchen in her life. She has no idea how to do basic things. You can look when somebody's chopping up vegetables or if they're doing basic things, you can tell if they've cooked or not. I mean, she was just like with the zester using this, you're supposed to, I was dying. I was like, she's going to cut herself. Watching her put stuff in a hot pot and then having long hair hanging all over the food. It was just so gross. And so audio somebody 21, Steve wants to torture me. She didn't make the times list of, of cool people, but she did get invited there because her agency probably bought her access. I have to play this. This is one of the goofiest things ever. Palate cleanser. Go ahead, Steve, kill us.
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All things to be talking about for Time 100. Let's talk about flower sprinkles. But let's, because I think it speaks to the tiny moments of joy that are so effortless and just create a little bit of magic that we're all craving. What in the hell word salad is this? Tiny little flower petals that are dried. I started putting them on salads. I started putting them on scrambled eggs. It didn't actually matter. On a yogurt parfait. I feel like she's selling me a used car. The level of charm that you find people have when they see these tiny little dried petals is something I can't fully wrap my head around, but I appreciate that there is a love for.
SPEAKER 16 :
People who have this sort of elocution are so incredibly fake. So you're, I'm elevating it by putting dried flower petals on all of my food. And just, you know, it just came, it adds a little bit of magic. You know, it elevates things. Okay, let's talk about, I'm going to be mean for a minute and bear with me. You got that image, right, Juan? Mm-hmm. Let's talk about the linen outfit. Sidebar. You're going to, I had to, look, I had to listen to J.B. Pritzker and read an article about J.B. Pritzker. You're going to give me this. Okay. So first up, let me go into total chick mode. All my ladies out there are going to appreciate this. I get it that there's this like beach casual aesthetic that permeates Californian culture. I think when you're showing up to an awards event, linen is a great material. I love linen. It's breathable. It doesn't really matter if it's sprinkled, but you don't and it can be baggy, but not too baggy. Right. These pants, I want to burn them. When you're short-waisted, you don't wear high-waisted pants, and you don't wear grandma's drapes as trousers. It's too long. It's too wide-legged. It emphasizes the wrinkles. It drags the ground to the point where your pants are dirty. Please, dear heavens, if you want to elevate something, elevate your influence so that you don't have to buy off the rack and designers will give you their stuff so you don't have to walk out looking like a Timu version of Kate Middleton. Please, dear heavens. Okay, I'm done. I got it out of my system. You had no idea what was happening there, did you? Because you're a man, rightfully so.
SPEAKER 09 :
Nope.
SPEAKER 16 :
You just can't wear big baggy stuff like that. I mean, the jacket was baggy. The shirt was baggy. Everything can't be baggy. Pick one thing. I don't get it. But it's just grifterism.
SPEAKER 18 :
She's not on the list. Why was she there?
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, because her agency probably bought her access. Probably Netflix. They're desperate and promoting that boondoggle that they call a cooking show where she makes like somebody got like a chemical burns from her homemade salt scrub. I mean, it's the stupidest stuff ever. People are broke and she's like, let's make candles. Shut up. Let's like be able to afford eggs. Not everybody was lucky and had a daddy that worked in Hollywood that paid for your schooling and paid for you to have access to all of this. And then you consider marrying above your station to be female empowerment while also pretending to be duchess in a country that does not recognize nor give a rat's ass for such titles. Spare me. Good heavens. She's the one who chartered a private plane to fly down in Texas when they had the school shooting and have a camera crew videotape her laying flowers. And then she went back. A stunt. Unbelievable. All right. So we have more to come. I don't like her. We have Florida Man on the way. And then Matt Mowers is going to be joining us later on. And then Steve also has graced us with some Dylan Mulvaney audio. Dylan Mulvaney, that dude, that twink, he wants to leave the U.S. Okay, bye. Go on now. Hey, folks. So I want to share something important that every American should be aware of. We're seeing a lot of economic uncertainty right now. You have the national debt rising, global trade tensions impacting markets and tariffs with higher prices on the stuff that everybody uses every day. It's not about panic. It's about preparation. So this is why I partnered with Gold Co., the top rated precious metals company, to help you take a step towards protecting your financial future. Smart investors look to hard assets like gold and silver to help weather the storm. It's a strategy that's been used for generations. And right now you can get a free 2025 gold and silver kit that breaks it all down for you. And if you qualify, you could receive unlimited bonus silver, real silver matched to your account with no taxes or penalties. It's a smart move that could help you feel more secure with what lies ahead. Visit danalikesgold.com to get started. That's danalikesgold.com and move forward with confidence.
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Could Luigi Mangione's killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO lead to anarchy in America? Pastor Alan Jackson says yes.
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But he shot this insurance executive. And I mean, there's this whole host of people trying to justify it because their insurance got canceled. Therefore, it's okay to go assassinate some insurance worker.
SPEAKER 19 :
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SPEAKER 05 :
It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, well, well, a Florida USPS worker. This is probably why none of my packages ever get to my house and why it takes me. It literally takes a month to send a piece of mail from my house to St. Louis. I'm not even kidding you. That's how long it takes. A USPS worker was arrested this month in Melbourne, Florida, because she decided to stop off at a house party during her route and drink a bunch of vodka. And then later in the mail truck, apparently she was caught driving the wrong way in traffic. Dude. That's a probable cause affidavit via Click Orlando. Caitlin Dye, 33, was arrested on April 12th on a charge of DUI. They literally, Melbourne police, they called and said, yeah, there's a USPS truck driving the wrong way down the highway. And the driver is literally just throwing plastic cups out of the vehicle. So the officers responded and they saw the mail truck driving west on East University Boulevard. And then it made a U-turn to head the other way. And it was swerving in and out of its lane and then went back into the opposite lane. They pulled over the mail truck, and they said that Di appeared to be confused and disoriented. They did a field sobriety exercise, and of course she did not do well in those. They questioned her, and she said that she was delivering to a home, and she was invited inside for a party, and she took some vodka shots before she left, and then she got pulled over. So they asked her why she was swerving in and out of traffic, and she goes, oh, I was tired. I was taking a nap. And she said that she threw the cup out of the vehicle because she was swishing her mouth out with water so she wouldn't smell like alcohol. She was booked in a Brevard County jail. I mean, there you go right there. Woo boy. Now we got another guy wrestling another gator every dang week in Florida. You can go wrestle a gator. So Jacksonville, Florida. Let's see. During Easter dinner, they had to call a gator trapper. A family did in Jacksonville because there was a giant gator in their yard. A woman was getting ready to take her dog out when she noticed a seven-foot alligator right by the slide door of her patio. Very good. And she said she was just finishing up Easter dinner with family and she was she needed to get the alligator off the property. But she had to get some help. And that's when Mike Dragich arrived and shoeless. And he wrestled this gator into a garbage can. And it's actually hysterical looking because it kept popping up and hissing at everybody. It couldn't get out of the can, but it kept popping up to hiss. And nobody got bit. Thankfully, they called Florida Fish and Wildlife and they were able to take the gator. But yeah, you got to be careful. I wouldn't be able to let like my dogs out or well, we could probably kill one. Wick is hardcore. Wild raccoon attack. A Florida woman speaks out because she suffered one in her backyard. They're not pets. She said as soon as she opened up her back door, it bit her on the leg. It was like Monty Python screaming and a crazy raccoon. And she couldn't shake him off. And he chased her into a corner. And they had to call, she had to go to the emergency room. Animal control had to respond. Thankfully, the animal tested negative for rabies, but it was very aggressive. They had to relocate it. Man, crazy raccoons biting ladies' legs in Florida. Stick with us, third hour on the way. Hard work, self-reliance, showing up. That's what built this country. And it's exactly how our president leads. No excuses, no handouts, just results. But let's be honest, even the most dedicated Americans can't run on empty. Real sleep isn't a luxury. It's essential. And that's where Beam's Dream Powder comes in. It's proudly American-made, created by folks who believe in the same values that we do, discipline, integrity, and doing what it takes to succeed. Dream is a clean, science-backed blend of re-sheet, magnesium, L-theanine, apigenin, and melatonin, carefully formulated to help you fall asleep fast, stay asleep, and wake up refreshed. If you're serious about showing up strong for your family, for work, and your country, then start with better sleep. So here's the deal. Beam is giving my listeners the ultimate Patriot discount of up to 40% off. Try their best-selling dream powder and get up to 40% off for a limited time. Just visit shopbeam.com slash danashow and you can use code danashow at checkout. That's shopbeam.com slash danashow and use code danashow for 40% off. Sleep better, wake up stronger, and show up ready for your family, your work, and your country. Because when you're well-rested, you're unstoppable.
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My next guest is one of the most prominent Catholic lawmakers in American history. Joining me now is the former Speaker of the House, Democratic Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi. Thank you so much for being here. I just got to read your lengthy and really heartfelt statement that you and your husband Paul released. I'm sorry. What?
SPEAKER 16 :
She's such a great she's such a great Catholic. That was on CNN with Dana Bash. And Cain and I were having, you know, we were having a little bit of a discussion about this because like what makes her such a great Catholic? Cain and I both believe that she collects communion.
SPEAKER 05 :
In bottles.
SPEAKER 16 :
She's got, you know, the blood, bottles and bottles of it. Probably takes it every couple minutes, you know, just saying. Several times. I mean, if she can be a good Catholic, then I guess a man can be a woman, you know? I mean, good heavens, I don't know. Welcome back to the program again, Dana Lash, top of this third hour, Scratched Eye Edition. Can we talk about Lesbian Visibility Week? Yeah, we need to, because I didn't know it was this week. I don't really want to. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's this week. Hold up. It's this week. It goes until Friday. Apparently, it kicked off, what, yesterday, today? Lesbian Visibility Week? It has a graphic, so you know it's official. When they come out with graphics, it's official. Lesbian Visibility Week. The one week which you can see lesbians. Any other time. And look, the graphic. Juan's shown you the graphic on the simulcast. It is official with that graphic. It's Lesbian Visibility Week. It's the week where lesbians can uncloak themselves and be visible in our community. That's right. You didn't know that, did you? They have the power of... There could be... I mean, well, this week they can't. But any other time, there could be an invisible lesbian in your car, Cain. You would know it because they're invisible.
SPEAKER 05 :
I had no idea.
SPEAKER 16 :
I'm telling you. And I have to read this tweet. I saw this last night from now. Her name is Governor Tina Kotek. I read it as Tina Kotek's. And I'm like, that makes all the sense in the world. She tweeted, I'm one of two lesbians who hold the title of governor in the United States. I'm proud to live in and serve a state where every person can be their authentic selves. How are you not being your authentic selves? Now, this is going to blow your mind, but hold up. Do you know that there are actual lesbians that go to work and don't talk about how they're lesbians all the time and preface everything with, did you know I'm a lesbian?
SPEAKER 05 :
That's how they're invisible.
SPEAKER 16 :
I'm telling you. I mean, if you're a lesbian and you're not telling everybody you're a lesbian, are you a lesbian? It's like if a tree falls in the woods, you know? Here's my question with the whole thing. Again, I have my scratched eye, so deal with me. If they're invisible lesbians, this angers me. Why are they not going out on strike teams? Think about the baddies that we don't like El Chapo or something like when he's done that, we could have sent in an invisible lesbian strike team and they could have just kill build El Chapo. Right. And then that would have been the wiser because invisible, right? Invisible. I just don't understand. And then you get this governor who says, I'm one of two. Well, I, Why do people have to constantly affix to themselves these identity politic boxes? It's like they think that somehow their specialness is magnified by however many identity boxes they attach. Right. So like, OK, you're a lesbian. What if you're a trans lesbian? Oh, my gosh, that person is more special than you are. I just, you know, I don't sit here and tell people, like, I really like guacamole, and I'm, like, really proud to be, like, a big guacamole lover here behind the mic. You know what I mean? I just don't do that kind of stuff. I don't understand why, you know, it doesn't make any sense to me why people do this. I don't know. I mean, then DOD needs to send them out as strike teams. I'm still trying to get over Governor Kotak's. I'm one of two people who believe the number of intersectional boxes you check determines your worth. Hold the title. That's what she's basically saying. Stop with this stuff. This is so goofy. You don't constantly, you know, need to list identity politics as like your lead in order to somehow give you worth. I mean, you have worth without all of this stuff. It just is goofy. We need a whole month devoted to how we get it on. What about like straight dudes into fat chicks or, you know, skinny dudes into, you know, super skinny? I don't know. Like, I mean, are we just going to start? Dudes who pee sitting down. They get a whole visibility week. Like, how are we, is this where we're going to go? Every little thing has to be played up as some sort of like identity politic check, you know, box check.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes. Representation, I guess.
SPEAKER 16 :
I mean, but why are you not having representation is my question.
SPEAKER 05 :
Like the, for those, you know, faking that you don't have representation is kind of the grip.
SPEAKER 16 :
I mean, you're a governor. I'm pretty sure you're visible. No one sees me. I'm the lesbian governor. How did you get to be governor? Well, I was a lesbian, and then I talked about running for office. That's what. I think she's a DEI hire, personally. But, yeah, I was really trying to get over Governor Kotak. It's Kotak, but still. I have a couple of audio soundbites, and we've got some other stuff we're going to get into as well. Nancy Mace had a time at her town hall. Audio soundbite 19. Listen.
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I think that there's a way that you can do it.
SPEAKER 16 :
And still, although I say this as somebody who matches your energy, right? Like whatever energy you come at me, I will double it. And then people get like, people who are mean to me online, they're so surprised when I like punch you in the throat back. They're like, why did you, it's like that meme where somebody's riding a bike and they put a stick in it. Why did you do that to me? So was the person being mean? If a man comes up to me though, I have like a visceral reaction. If a man comes up and tries to police my speech, hmm. I'm just saying. I don't care if it's a man or a woman. Anybody, but particularly a dude who's trying to cosplay as a woman. Don't police my speech. But I don't know. I feel like some of the stuff that she does is like for stunts. Tone it down, right? We get it. Just do the work. Just do the work. I mean, that's great. You're arguing with trainees, but where the hell is our tax relief, right? Why are these EOs not cemented and legislated into law? That's all well and good. Have your trainee fight, but can we do this other stuff too? I would love to see as much attention put on all this other stuff. Why are you making that face over there?
SPEAKER 05 :
I don't know. I think it's a little unfair. These people are coming up to her.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
So you're saying her putting it out on social media is part of that?
SPEAKER 16 :
I don't know. I probably would have been like, I can say what I want. And then if they ratcheted it up... Is she up for re-election in 26?
SPEAKER 05 :
I don't know. Probably. That's what I'm guessing is the case.
SPEAKER 16 :
That's what a lot of it is. I've never had anybody try to control my speech before. I don't think anybody would try to. But still, I just think we need to get some of this other stuff done. However... Can I just go back to that guy's outfit real quick? We weren't getting away out of this one. Yeah, forgive me. I have a scratched eye, so I'm constantly attending to it. So I need to talk about this guy's outfit for a minute. What in the brunch hell is he wearing? So first off, women don't dress like this. Why are you wearing a giant straw hat? Is it a straw hat? Is that Raffia?
SPEAKER 09 :
It looks like it.
SPEAKER 16 :
You're not at the beach. You don't need a sun hat if you're not at the beach. Or also, is this trying to be like Easter wear? Also, you cannot wear a sweetheart cut like that with an empire waist unless you actually have like a chest to fill it out. I'm not trying to be mean, but it just doesn't look attractive. Otherwise, it just looks like little sunken pancakes. It doesn't look any good. And that necklace is, I get that it's a statement piece, but it's too big. No self-respecting woman is going to walk out dressed like this. If you're going to try to cosplay as a woman, dear heavens, give us the respect that we're due and do it properly. I turn into Joan Rivers when I see people dress badly. Dana, you wear black all the time. Exactly. Exactly. Now you get it, don't you? A few other things that I want to... Do we have time? Yeah, we do. I'm trying to get everything in today. So... The red dyes. I need to talk about this because... Kane, when is this kicking into place?
SPEAKER 05 :
Four o'clock Eastern today.
SPEAKER 16 :
So three central.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 16 :
So artificial food dyes are going to be banned. Like red 40. They're phasing them out. So artificial dyes derived from petroleum. And there's a lot of them that are there. I mean, some studies say that they're associated with moodiness and irritability and all that good stuff. All the good stuff. They said that they are... I guess they're trying to replace them with more... natural like food-based things like turmeric and paprika and stuff like that yeah uh but it is going to be so they're phasing them out so that means so they're still going to be on the store shelves but they can't make anything new as i understand it correct right okay So get all your red dye right now. I'm actually OK with this.
SPEAKER 05 :
I'm totally OK with this. The fact that it's been going on this long, we've had years and years of examples of other countries that have wiped out these artificial dyes years ago.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
And we still haven't. Like, what is the motivation for that? great question. A little miffed.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. Great question. Well, I mean, in, in, I mean, if you travel out of the country and depending where you go, I mean, you notice a difference in the food, like Italy, there's a huge difference in the food. Some say even France is a huge, I haven't been to France, a huge difference in the food and elsewhere. And there's a lot of stuff that we put in ours. Like none of this stuff is, is you can't, a ton of European countries don't have this stuff. Nobody else has this stuff in their food. We do. We allow it. Um, But Cain, what do you say for the people who go, this is big government?
SPEAKER 05 :
Big government? No, it's big government to allow all the crap that makes us unhealthy. That's big government. What we're doing is dismembering big government's influence that we've had over the last decades as it relates to what's approved for our food.
SPEAKER 16 :
You know, this makes me think of, so I work with a nutritionist and all this stuff, and one of um and i have an allergist because i have crazy allergies and they were telling me that they were suspecting and i don't know if i believe it that i'm i'm might be gluten sensitive and i'm like i'm not gluten sensitive that's stupid i'm gonna eat all the gluten in the world and then i started thinking i'm not gluten sensitive i'm chemical sensitive That has nothing to do with gluten. When I was in Italy, I ate my weight in pasta three times a day and I had gelato. I mean, I ate like a morbidly obese child when I was in Italy. I'm not even kidding.
SPEAKER 05 :
You didn't gain anything.
SPEAKER 16 :
I lost weight because I walked like 10 miles a day. I'm not exaggerating that one at all. I've got the... I had the data to prove it. And you... I didn't feel tired. I didn't have like any of the... issues that I normally would have if I eat a lot of bread or if I eat a lot of carbs or pasta or something like that I didn't have any of that and it was just so different so when they were telling me this I'm like I'm not gluten sensitive I'm chemical sensitive that's really what this is all about and I really do think that I think that our food I mean this is like preventative imagine how much healthier we could be and what that does to the health care system overall when we start shifting our focus on treating things after the fact and we start being more preventative and with health care our system is totally backwards our friends over at the burn a gun burn a gun byrna just so you understand how it's spelled i'm always going to tell people to carry i'm always going to tell you to carry lead and i have zero issues at all whatsoever using lethal force to smack down a threat to me or my family. But I understand also that not everyone wants you to be safe. The people who pass these gun-free zones and gun control, they don't care if you're a statistic. They don't care about your family. They don't care if you live or die. They just want a virtue signal about this stuff. So this is where Burna Gun comes in because they understand certain places are disarming you legit. And we're big kids. I would love to be able to pick and choose exactly where I go all the time, but I can't. So as a result, a lot of my friends have gone out and gotten the Burna Gun, right? You always it's good to have a diversified weapons array. You have blades, you have different calibers with something like this when you are disarmed and you're not able to carry in certain spaces. This comes in clutch. It shoots chemical irritant projectiles that can deter threats from up to 50 feet away. And instead of like one or two rounds, like a traditional taser or something, this is five rounds. They have several different models, the CL, which we'll be talking about soon. But the SD, I have a lot of friends that have gone out and gotten the SD. They have rifles in that. But I think, you know, for this purpose, this is, you know, the SD is what you need to get. And that's what I would recommend. There's no recoil at all whatsoever. And there's no background check. This thing doesn't care about stupid gun-free zone signs. It's illegal in all 50 states. No background checks. No permits. No waiting period. Shipped right to your door so it's accessible for everybody. Visit Byrna.com slash Dana to get 10% off. Byrna.com slash Dana for 10% off your purchase.
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SPEAKER 05 :
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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So while we were talking to Governor Greg Abbott, the Texas House was being very, very busy. What did they do? They just passed a giant corporate welfare package to keep property taxes high, per Brian Harrison, and explode the size of government. Let's get him on tomorrow to talk about this. This is unbelievable. A $2 billion surplus. Remember how Texas Governor Greg Abbott said that that was going to go to pay down? The government regulation, like taxes, the property taxes. Now it's not going to. If you want to drive people out of the state of Texas, this is how you do it. Texas, I will move my ass out of Texas. I am not joking. They either get a handle on it. You rat bastards in the Texas legislature. Or maybe I'll show up on your damn doorsteps. You think that you got to be afraid of the left? You wait until you piss off the right. Bunch of commie. I can't say what I think of them. This enrages me. Absolutely enrages me. I want to know every single one of these heifers that voted for this. Every one of them. All right, we got more. I'm coming back to this after the break. Also, that's why we were talking. What happened? While we were having the conversation, a man allegedly rips out a stranger's eye in a random attack after the... I mean, this is crazy. This was in Arizona. The victim's eyeball was dangling from a socket. Daniel Links was arrested and charged with felony aggravated assault after allegedly ripping out a stranger's eye. The 38-year-old also punched the unidentified victim several times, fracturing his jaw. He's being held in Maricopa County Jail on a half a million dollar bond. It was an unprovoked attack. And the victim, all he said was, hey, how you doing? As he passed by, as people do, you know, and he just lost it and went at him. Links had just literally been released from jail two days prior. And yeah, that's why. I mean, he like literally stuck his fingers in the guy's eye socket and pulled it out like like like Kill Bill. It was like a Kill Bill episode. Unbelievable. And let's see. Oh, that was a bad story. Oh, apparently HBO, this is a whole other issue. They're going to have to apologize for what is being called blackwashing. Severus Snape. They decided to do, well, they're really messing up Harry Potter. We're going to talk about this some more coming up. Stick with us. So let's be real. Medical freedom isn't just a catchphrase. It's your right. Your health decisions belong to you and not the government, not Big Pharma, and definitely not some unelected bureaucrat. So that's why I'm all in on what All Family Pharmacy is doing. They're putting medical power back where it belongs, and that's in the hands of you, Americans. Through the end of June, they're making it even easier to take back control because when you control your health, you protect your family, your future, and your freedom. Get 20% off site-wide. No insurance, no problem. No insurance needed. And licensed doctors in all 50 states. You'll also receive fast shipping straight to your doorstep. This isn't just about convenience. It's also about freedom. You can get ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine. You can get methylene blue, emergency kits, antibiotics. Whatever you need to be prepared, proactive, and protected. So visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana and use promo code Dana20 to get 20% off your order. That's allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana, code Dana20. Don't wait for permission. Own your health and take your freedom seriously.
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SPEAKER 16 :
Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you at the bottom of this third hour. And of course, you can listen terrestrially all across the country. And we got the simulcast kicking at Channel 347, DirecTV, X, Facebook, everywhere. One of my favorite people in all of music. She's been on the show before. It is. I mean, I checked off like at least three buckets on my bucket list when she first came on my show. I wore a T-shirt with her face on it when I was in high school. I mean, I was like and still am mega fan, like one of the originals and just an OG icon. And I think everybody else is a pale imitation. I really do believe that. Cherie Curry, who is the the front woman for the Runaways, an artist in her own right. She's a sculptor with chainsaw. She's like the Michelangelo of chainsaws. So add that onto the resume. You know, she's got Boulevard to Splendor. She's still out there making music, kicking ass, taking names. And she joins us now via Skype because she is also, as you all are aware, like truly punk rock and that she is an open conservative when it is so dangerous still for artists to be such and to be vocal about it. And she just in a true like punk rock, hardcore fashion doesn't care. And she's fist in the air about it. My sister in conservatism joins me now. Cherie, so good to see you, my friend.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, Dana, I was going to say my sister in conservatism. Oh, I love you so much. I'm so proud of you. Thank you for having me. Always you.
SPEAKER 16 :
I miss you on television all the time. I so appreciate it. Thank you. My thank you, my friend. You I wanted to ask you this and I'm going to get into because you had tweeted about something that Nancy Wilson had said. But but to start with. I feel like more people very slowly, especially artists, because it's dangerous. You're in a discipline where you have to be vulnerable anyway. And that's like part of the appeal of the art. You are vulnerable. You're putting yourself out there. And yet. At the same time, so many like yourself, it's hard to be an open conservative in what you do or just even speak out as a constitutionalist or speak out in favor of lower taxes or just not being terrorized because of a car that you drive. Is it easier now because more people seem a little bit more comfortable with at least talking about it and being a conservative? Or do you think it's harder because it does sort of feel like the remaining very far left? they're more violent, louder, more leftier. I don't know how to put it. It's like, there's like a trade-off. How does it feel from your perspective?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, you know, you and I are so similar, Dana, because I've never really given a rusty rat, if you get it. I mean, it's like all I know is that I've had all this time, you know, to really see what's going on. I read Agenda 21 from 1992 from Rio. I knew what they were up to. I actually thought they were going to be doing it during Obama administration. I just, I honestly... The Tesla stuff, to me, I'm kind of glad because it just shows how insane they have become. And honest to God, I mean, I've never met a Republican conservative that is a violent person, that is nasty. I mean, we just- I found my niche, and now we're just surrounded by a bunch of crazy people that, honestly, I mean, to see Tesla, which was number one, everybody wanted a Tesla on the left. Now they're destroying these, I mean, they're Looney Tunes, sister, they're Looney Tunes. I agree. I mean, are you kidding me? I have no problem saying you're a nutcase, baby.
SPEAKER 16 :
Take a hike. I think anybody that would think that Cherie would be scared at all. They I mean, again, she carves things with chainsaws. Maybe just find somebody with not that hobby. Find like, you know, somebody who crochets. Maybe. I don't know. Talking with our good friend Cherie Curry. So Nancy Wilson. I read this write up where she was doing an interview with Milwaukee Sentinel. And, you know, I love heart. I you know, I I always like I always thought Nancy Wilson is a great guitar player. I and I it I don't I don't demand that people whose art I enjoy share my viewpoints. But I don't want to feel like I'm an enemy while I'm trying to enjoy what they're doing. I don't want to feel like the person originating that. The music or the film or whatever hates me. And I was reading this piece where she was talking about the 70s. And she said, quote, we were kind of embarrassed at that time to call ourselves American because of the dirty politics of the Vietnam War. And then she added, to be as subtle as possible, it's more embarrassing now. And you had something to say about it. And you said anyone embarrassed to be an American during the splendid government evisceration is out of touch with the American people. I don't know. What is there to be embarrassed about?
SPEAKER 15 :
well she hasn't been out in the world dana and i will tell you it had to it was probably a year ago i mean i live alone and uh so i only have to worry about myself and my son here and there but i went to ralph's it's a supermarket chain out here and i literally walked in there and i looked at the prices and i i mean i i had a panic attack for the families because i mean i can handle you know, taking care of me. But families, I knew that they were not going to be able to do this. And it just shot through me like a lightning bolt. I was so fearful. And I honestly believe people like Nancy, like, you know, and even Joan, Joan Jett, you know, she was wearing a Kamala pin when she was on stage. I don't blame them because I I watched what happened and the change that happens when people become very big stars and they have so much money and they've got their assistants. They don't go to the supermarket. They don't live real lives like we do. And so I have to give them a little bit of a break there. So I just find them blissfully unaware and naive. And it truly does insult me a little bit. that they don't think about the people that buy their records and buy tickets to their concerts or buy tickets to see their movies, that they don't really jump in and see what we've been going through. It has been horrendous. And that's the sad part is that All I know is that if I had that kind of wealth, the one thing I would want to do is more like Elon Musk, just to really find out what is going on. Why are the American people in such trouble? Why are they suffering so much? What can I do to help? I never see that. I only see opinions. And then they go back to their mansions and tell their assistants to go out and do their $1,000 shopping. It just- Yeah, it's just two different worlds. Really, really two different worlds.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, it is very much so. We're talking with our good friend Sheree Curry about the nature of the political sentiment and the political environment right now. And whenever I watch, because I always, you know, I watch award shows. I'll watch the Oscars because I like to see, you know, I like the old school like pomp and circumstance of it. Like I love watching. This is like, I'm making me sound like a weirdo. I love watching like old award shows that you can find on YouTube where it's like goes back into like the 50s and the 40s because it was, oh my gosh, the great, I mean, you're celebrating the artistry. And there was such a respect for the audience. Yeah. And there's this marked difference. There was I mean, they were so it was done for the audience. There were movies made for the audience. The everybody was grateful and they're thanking the audience, not just the Academy. And it just felt like the audience as a viewer, as a moviegoer, as an appreciator of the craft, you were part of it as well. Now it's like it's just very hostile and it's all about making a political difference. stance. Every time somebody goes up on stage, I'm like, what, what is this going to be like? What, what are we going to, what ranting are we going to get? It has changed so much. How does that affect you when you're creating? I, that has to be a, like a heavy weight that seems like it doesn't, does it chill your, does it chill you wanting to, to make art? I would just be demotivated. I would, I would not be motivated. I don't think.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, I'm not motivated to be in this business anymore, as you know. But as far as movies are concerned, I mean, literally they have their little group and we ain't in it, sister.
SPEAKER 16 :
We're not the cool kids, although we are really.
SPEAKER 15 :
We're not the cool kids. and beyond yes we are we truly are uh because we're the warriors you know they they're just mouthpieces and uh i mean i just can't watch those award shows because i don't want to hear it because i know that what they're going to say does not even relate one iota to the american people and uh they really they need to take a step back and take a good hard look at their words and uh and how it affects the people that now will not buy those tickets and we're just sick and tired of seeing these elites these mega rich superstars talking down to us when we're the reason that they are stars and a lot of stars forget that they forget the fans yep you know i mean that's why whenever i still do show i i go i mean if it wasn't for the fans i wouldn't be there yeah
SPEAKER 16 :
A couple of things to consider, because I feel like the younger generations, Gen Z, like the generation that that I'm raising, you know, Gen X is is really, I think, making Gen Z is going to be Gen X on steroids. I'm really feeling like that. They're economically literate. They don't want the baggage. They don't want the drama. They're actually more constitutional, apparently, according to numerous studies. I was watching these stories of, you know, Elon Musk and he's got big balls. You know, the the the nerd who's out who's out there helping to cut and going through all this stuff, literally called himself that. I'm like, this is just the best time to be alive right now. And they're all Gen Zers like he's got all these Gen Z nerds working for him. And I say that not as a pejorative, like it's a compliment. And then I'm reading these surveys. Yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
Watching Bret Baier last night. I mean, it's just astonishing what they're doing. Yes. And the fact that the Democrats are trying to stop this. I mean, we're going bankrupt. We're going bankrupt because of the waste and abuse and fraud.
SPEAKER 16 :
But Cherie, they're telling you that they're trying to save you money, which is the Republicans stealing your money. Exactly.
SPEAKER 15 :
I don't think Elon Musk really gives a rusty rats about our social security numbers. He's doing what nobody had the guts to do. And President Trump, we've never seen anything like it. It is the golden age. I've never seen anything like it. I just turned 65. And I have watched with my own two eyes, California, just go into the hole. Just my state that was so beautiful, you know, just a few decades ago.
SPEAKER 16 :
You can always come to Texas. We would love to have you here. I'm just laying it out there, you know, just laying it out there. We're pretty great here in Texas, you know.
SPEAKER 15 :
I know you are. I know you are. It's a dry heat.
SPEAKER 16 :
I'm trying to get my son.
SPEAKER 1 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
fine as long as i can carve i don't care there you go no that you the younger generation it feels like they because gen x apparently saved everybody during the election that gen x voted you know overwhelmingly republican this last election and voter turnout for gen x was pretty crazy voter turnout for gen z has was higher than previous youth votes are you encouraged by seeing this like what would you tell the younger generations
SPEAKER 15 :
I'm so, so encouraged and because to be honest, my son who is 34, he said that Trump was not gonna win and he is not a Trump supporter. So it's been a little contentious, not for me, from him. But I think that the Democrats have just made it impossible for people not to see the insanity behind that party. They have lowered themselves to a level that I never expected, nor do I think is acceptable in any way, shape or form for our leaders to be, you know, Crockett, for her to be dancing with the you know, and also with the ridiculous cursing. I mean, this is not because that's just a curse.
SPEAKER 16 :
You know, that's what they're thinking is the new punk rock. Yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah. I guess that's what they think, but they're wrong. And that's the final word on it.
SPEAKER 16 :
If anybody can get the final word on it, it's her.
SPEAKER 15 :
That's right. Yeah, they're wrong. And it's not going to work. And all I'm asking is just give it, just would you guys, especially the legacy media that is truly, I blame them for the Tesla dealership bombings and shootings. I mean, they put so much fear into people that What else can they do? They're so helpless under these lies from the Democrat Party. I don't blame them, especially with Social Security and Medicare. For them to be putting any kind of idea into these retirees that they're going to lose those benefits. To me, they should be jailed for that because we've been through so much. I mean, and we're very still raw from it. And the constant lies and people know, people know now that there are lies. It's criminal. It really is criminal, isn't it?
SPEAKER 16 :
There's going to be a reckoning. It's a slow coming, but there's going to be a reckoning. Shuri Curry, always a pleasure. My dear sister in conservatism, you are welcome to bless this show, to grace these airwaves anytime you would like. We're such huge fans.
SPEAKER 15 :
I love you, sister.
SPEAKER 16 :
Love you so much.
SPEAKER 01 :
Love you, girl.
SPEAKER 16 :
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SPEAKER 16 :
I got to say, Lorraine knows how to share news with me. This is how you hook me. Want to see an octopus hitching a ride on a shark? Yes. Who doesn't want to see that? I could watch that all day. So I did. Totally watched it. Welcome back to the program. So this is going to look up this because we got Congress. It's going to be coming back and we're going to have more fights on legislation. I love it. One other quick note about the tariffs. So the Italian wines could be affected. Italian wine exports to U.S. at a standstill. This is the only time I'll feel affected. Only time I feel like it.
SPEAKER 05 :
I think it'll change April 2nd, but whatever.
SPEAKER 16 :
I mean, I don't even like the headline of it, but that's okay. I don't care about it.
SPEAKER 05 :
It makes you want to drink.
SPEAKER 16 :
I mean, I just, I'm not, you know, I'm like for with dinner, if I have like a red meat or if I like a red sauce, you know, I like to pair it, you know, I'm. You know, it's like an extra sauce with it. I'm just saying. Sauce. They don't put any of the stuff in their wines. I just like, I prefer Italian wines over even Napa. No lie. No lie. Because they're just straight, no chaser. It's just there's no stuff that's added to it. All right. I'm going to take up all your time because I did twice this week. Today in Stupidity Kings.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. It is, thank God, not our VP, Tim Walls. Tim Walz is here. He's got an idea. Doge is working so well, apparently, on dismantling the shadow government. Tim Walz is calling for more shadow government. Listen to this.
SPEAKER 17 :
We see one of the first things they do is try and restrict the vote. This is one of the things, though, that this is going to take power to the streets. I don't know what the answer is on this, but I've been saying this.
SPEAKER 04 :
What?
SPEAKER 17 :
I think we need a shadow government so when all these things come up every single day, we've got an alternate press conference.
SPEAKER 05 :
The brilliance of Tim Walz, everyone.
SPEAKER 16 :
It's a wonder why he didn't win. Folks, that does it for us this week. Find us on Facebook, YouTube, Substack, like and subscribe. Have a great weekend. I'll be back with you on Monday.
SPEAKER 14 :
This is Chelsea Handler from Dear Chelsea. Picture this. You're on an important virtual interview answering that make or break question, and suddenly your screen freezes. Not the impression you want. Good internet has never been more important. I'm constantly doing podcast interviews, video calls, and important work on my computer, so I have to have a solid connection. That's why you can't take slow for an answer. And with Optimum Fiber, you won't have to. It is the fastest, Most reliable fiber internet in the New York tri-state with 99.9% network reliability so you can stream, work, and game seamlessly. Plus, get a five-year price lock and a $400 prepaid card. Don't take slow for an answer. Call 888-4-OPTIMUM. Visit your local Optimum store or visit Optimum.com today. Terms apply. See Optimum.com for details.
When prosecutors become politicians and trials become headlines, who’s really on trial—Trump, or the American justice system? George Brauchler, former District Attorney and legal commentator, joins John Rush to unpack the weaponization of the legal system. From Trump’s courtroom chaos to local lawfare strategies, George offers sharp insights into what’s broken—and what still works. If you’re worried about justice being used as a political tool, don’t miss this hard-hitting conversation.
SPEAKER 17 :
It's the Kim Munson Show, analyzing the most important stories.
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The socialization of transportation, education, energy, housing, and water. What it means is that government controls it through rules and regulations.
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The latest in politics and world affairs.
SPEAKER 15 :
Under the guise of bipartisanship and nonpartisanship, it's actually tapping down the truth.
SPEAKER 17 :
Today's current opinions and ideas.
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On an equal field in the battle of ideas, mistruths and misconceptions is getting us into a world of hurt.
SPEAKER 17 :
Is it freedom or is it force? Let's have a conversation.
SPEAKER 15 :
And welcome to the Kim Munson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You're each treasured. You're valued. You have purpose. Today, strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. And thank you to the team that I get to work with. That's Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa. amanda and all the people here at crawford broadcasting check out the website that is kim munson mon son.com sign up for our weekly email newsletter while you're there that goes out on sundays my email is kim at kim munson that's mon son.com i appreciate all of you who support us we are an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity By looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And the show comes to you 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday. First hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon. Second hour, 10 to 11 at night. And that is on all KLZ 560 platforms. That's KLZ 560 AM, 100.7 FM, the KLZ website. The KLZ app, you can say Alexa Play KLZ, and then everything is on Spotify and iTunes as well. It is Memorial Day. It's a day to stop and reflect about those that gave all or at least some. There are those that came home that have been injured. And so it's a time to stop and reflect about the sacrifices that have been made for our liberty. And so it's a day sometime today. Sit down. with your family, your kids, your grandkids, and just talk about the significance of Memorial Day. And so we are pre-recording the show, and very pleased to have on the line with me Colonel Bill Rutledge, 96 years young. He is a retired Air Force colonel, and he's traveled the world. He has... Reads extensively, has a great curiosity about people and places and things. And he said for Memorial Day weekend, both for the America's Veterans Story Show and for the Kim Munson Show, let's talk about Medal of Honor recipient Eddie Rickenbacker. And so, Colonel Rutledge, welcome to the show. Well, good morning, Kim. It's good to have you, and it's a really remarkable story. So let's start with Eddie Rickenbacker's story. Where was he born?
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, well, Eddie was... First of all, Eddie's mother and father came from the German-speaking part of Switzerland, and they immigrated in the 1880s. And Eddie... was a third of eight children. And he was born in Columbus, Ohio, October the 8th, 1890. And his parents really wanted to be a part of the American society. So they gave all of their eight children English first names. And not only that, when they were in Switzerland, Rickenbacker was spelled slightly different. So when they came to America, by coincidence, people put it down like it sounded to them, B-A-C-K-E-R, and it would have been B-A-C-H-E-R had they stayed in Germany.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. And so he was born in Columbus, and even at a young age, he was really an entrepreneur, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes. He felt an obligation, first of all, to help his family. And so he took a job when he was 10 where he was delivering newspapers, and he got $1 a week for all of his work. And then shortly thereafter, actually when he was 13, he was in the seventh grade, his father was in a working accident and was killed there. So Eddie dropped out of school. Now, it's not unique, his experience, because I compare him very often in the aviation field and also especially commercial aviation. And I relate him to people like Edison and Bell and Ford and Chrysler, all of these great, great people. Most of them never had a high school education and certainly they never went to college. And so he had an education until he was 13, and then he became an apprentice as a machinist working with people with a company that was designing and building race cars.
SPEAKER 15 :
And he became really an expert, ultimately, as a mechanic, yes?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, he became so good as a mechanic that they started having him ride in the race car now in the early days the race cars were designed sort of they were designed specifically for that so they weren't the flat traditional one that Ford was building and others but they always had two people in the cab so there was the driver and they always had a mechanic with them because sometimes they did cross-country competition as well as a fixed track And there were occasions when they'd have to get out and just stop, and the mechanic would have to get out and work on the engine. And he became an absolute expert in his field.
SPEAKER 15 :
So ultimately, though, he wanted to also learn to drive, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, right. He was so good at his job, people wanted to keep him as a mechanic. But he wanted to move up and become a driver. So he did. And he moved up. And in his late teens, then he was a driver. And since he also was so good at mechanics, he was in a position to sort of make that transition where you didn't have to have two people in the cab of the car. So he was, again, a pioneer in early race driving. And he... competed throughout the Midwest and in those days you normally you'd pay some money to enter the competition and the winner got the money it wasn't like it is today, where they scale it down and the winner gets the largest piece of the cash. In those days, if you if you came in second that's too bad no money.
SPEAKER 15 :
Interesting. And so he did end up racing at the Indianapolis 500, which that race is always over Memorial Day weekend.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, he did, and he became very interested in doing it. And he was really ready in 1917. By this time, he was 27 years old. He'd had a lot of driving experience. And in May of that year, he was in Indianapolis preparing his car to go into the Memorial Day race competition when he got a call from an old friend who was on the staff of General Pershing. And the friend said that General Pershing wanted to have a particular driving pool of experienced drivers to help move him around and other members of his general officer staff. So Eddie talked to him and he said, well, you know, I'm going to be racing next week. So if you would just let me do that, then I'd be ready to go. And the man who was a major on Pershing's staff, he said, Eddie, we're leaving tomorrow from New York. And if you're not ready to be on the ship You're not going with the first division. So Eddie said, I will be there. He hung up, and he went straight down and got on the trains and moved as fast as he could to New York and got there in time enough to get aboard ship.
SPEAKER 15 :
Wow. So it's such a fascinating story and really a story of American exceptionalism as well. And we get to have these great shows and these great stories because of wonderful sponsors. And I'm blessed to work with amazing people as sponsors of the show. And I'm so pleased to welcome Jody Hinzey as a new sponsor of the show. And we are pre-recording for Memorial Day. And Jody Henze, welcome. And Memorial Day is really special to you, yes?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yes, it is, for sure. My family has been in the military for many years. In fact, my dad was in the Coast Guard and gave his life for our country, serving our country in the Coast Guard.
SPEAKER 15 :
So thank you. And that's why it is so important on Memorial Day to stop and reflect. I know people like to get together with friends, barbecues, there's sales at the stores, but it's more than that. It is actually really to stop and reflect about those that have given their last full measure of devotion for our country. So can you give us some details on what happened?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, so my dad was part of the Coast Guard. And at the time, it was back in the 90s, and we were focusing a lot on the war against drugs. And what they were doing is they were flying drug surveillance missions over the ocean. And he was flying one of the E2 Hawkeyes, and they were flying over the ocean looking for drug traffickers. And unfortunately, the plane caught on fire. They had a technical issue and they turned the plane around. And unfortunately, the plane didn't make it. And all four servicemen members were killed in a plane accident.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, boy, this really makes Memorial Day even more important to hear your story. And that had to be really difficult. And I think that's the thing about Memorial Day. I was at an event recently where I was talking with General Joe Arbuckle, and he said there were 97,000 Americans that gave their lives in the Korean War and Vietnam War. And they leave behind wives and children. And we take it so for granted, our liberty these days, Jodi, that it stops me in my tracks to think about the sacrifice of your family.
SPEAKER 13 :
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. Be sure and check out our website. That is kimmunson.com. And we actually are pre-recording this show for Memorial Day weekend and for Memorial Day and also because Eddie Rickenbacker was a Medal of Honor recipient. So a military career as well. We thought it appropriate that we would broadcast this interview both for America's Veterans Stories on Sunday and then for the Kim Munson Show on Monday. And so pleased to have on the line with me, Colonel Bill Rutledge, retired United States Air Force, 96 years young. Amazing curiosity about people and places and things and reads extensively. And we're talking about Eddie Rickenbacker. And really quite a career. So as we mentioned in the previous segment, Eddie Rickenbacker volunteered in late May 1917 to become a part of General Pershing's American Expeditionary Force. And he was selected because of his automobile driving skills and his exceptional mechanical ability. And so he gets to New York and they get on the ship. So then what happened, Colonel Rutledge?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, when he got to New York and he was about to go aboard the ship, one of the senior officers, and I think it was a full colonel, had the authority to designate the military rank or grade that they would have. So they designated him as a sergeant. And, of course, we know we have privates and corporals and then sergeants. So he was a sergeant. And as he got aboard ship, they looked at the stripes on his uniform and checked their records, and they said, okay, you're a sergeant. So you're going to be down in the hold with all of the other enlisted men. So he went down there, and it was crowded. It was smoky. There was oil fumes around. The food was terrible, and he didn't like it. So he went up on the deck, and he came across another old friend who he had known in the automobile business. and he said where are you staying you're not with us he said oh i've got my private cabin and he said well why he said i'm a sergeant you're a sergeant he said yeah eddie but i'm a i'm a sergeant first class and um eddie said well i ought to be also and he said well You aren't. And he'd say, well, Eddie said, well, how can I do that? He said, you'll have to talk to the colonel. So he did. He went to the colonel. He said, so and so is he has a private quarters and he's up on the main deck. And it's very nice and it's terrible down the hold. So I want you to promote me. So he did. And he promoted him. And by that second night, Eddie had his own stateroom. And this was sort of the respect he had with the seniors because he was very good, but he was also very direct. And he made him know very clear that he was not happy down in the hold area.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and I love the initiative of him finding out how to change things and to change it. So then he gets over to Europe. What happens then?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, then the 1st Division went over, and they were there for several months while they were preparing to get involved actually in the combat. And Pershing refused to let the Americans be integrated into the French forces. Force or into the English. Both of those wanted to be having American units coming in to replace their units that were decimated by the war. And he said, no, we will fight as a unit, and we will be the American Expeditionary Force, and we will not be ready for a few months. So they went through a formative period. And Eddie then was working with other And, of course, he was the best mechanic in the whole bunch. So he did not actually drive for General Pershing. Many people often thought he was. It was Pershing's motor pool driving drivers. But he was so good that he was selected by Billy Mitchell, who was a brigadier, and who was in charge of the Army Air Corps. to be his driver, so that whenever he went out, he wanted Eddie. And one of the interesting stories was that they were up near the front, and it was muddy and bad roads, and it was night, and dangerous to be out. So Eddie was driving, and they got into this area with a lot of mud, and their car stopped. And he got out, and General Mitchell was very concerned. And Eddie said, well, I'll check it out. So he was so good, he found out what the problem was. He actually developed a replacement part that he put back in there, and he got the engine started, and they got out, and they moved. So this was the caliber of an individual he was. He was creative, and he designed. always took initiative. So he got the reputation of being extremely good with engines. And because of this, and because of his affiliation with General Mitchell, then he was actually assigned to one of the airplane squadrons that was being formed on the 94th. And he then became the principal mechanic for the aircraft engines. And when he did this, they just sort of centralized their maintenance because of his skill. And Eddie then approached the major who later would become one of the chief of staff of the Air Force 20 years later. And he talked to the major and he said, well, if I'm going to be working on these engines, I ought to know how to fly. And he said, but you're too valuable. And Eddie insisted, and he kept insisting. So finally, because of his persuasiveness, the major agreed to let him go to a French flying school. Now, Eddie didn't speak French, but Eddie was a fast learner. And so he went to the school. He learned how to be a pilot, and he had promised he would come back, which he did. So after he'd gone and came back, then he learned to fly, and he He would fly around a little bit in non-combat areas. And then the class of Americans that he had been in were sent away to go to gunnery school, and Eddie didn't go. But the reason he didn't go, because a major said he was too valuable as a mechanic. So Eddie again started his persuasiveness and kept telling him, look, I'm going to be working with these people Yes, I'm working on the mechanical part, but I want to be able to qualify as a combat pilot so if the opportunity or the need is there, I can help our mission. So he did. He went down to a French school, which is down in the southern part of the country, and it was designed specifically to teach people how to use machine guns on aircraft so he learned that and then he came back and so when he got back it was now the winner of 1917 1918 so he had to have some more opportunities to fly before he ever was exposed to combat
SPEAKER 15 :
So in the year 1918, though, he did do combat missions, and he ultimately was awarded the Medal of Honor for those, yes?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, but that was years later. What happened was he had to have enough training to be confident, so he didn't go out. A lot of the pilots, the new pilots, were shot down in their first missions, and he flew enough with an experienced person and actually he was the best American pilot. He'd been born in France and he took Eddie sort of under his wing, so to speak, and worked with him one-on-one where he would take his plane, Eddie would take his plane. They were flying French-made Newports and so they trained. And then Eddie had their first chance for combat the last week in April, 1918. So he did his flying. He was up and around, and he got his first aircraft shot down that time. But it was a harrowing experience, and he was learning a lot because that's a situation where you either learn fast or you're shot down and you're gone. Shortly after he had had some combat experience, he had some sort of a respiratory problem. So Eddie was actually in and out of the hospital for almost two months. So May and June were basically gone. So then he came back, and now he's got about four months to work with, July, August, September, October. Within four months, Eddie had become... the squadron commander, and had shot down 26 German aircraft.
SPEAKER 15 :
Wow, that is amazing. And again, this would be like the old-time dogfights, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, absolutely. Yes, for sure. And he learned, he really learned a lot from the Germans, because the Germans were the ones that developed the attack program in Germany. He was very observant of their procedures, and he used a lot of the tactics that the Luftwaffe was using then. Of course, then it wasn't called the Luftwaffe. It was only named that later. But nevertheless, he was flying during the period after most of the German aces had actually been shot down because of constant exposure. But nevertheless, there were still... The German pilots still were more experienced than these young Americans. One thing was interesting, though, about that they had to make a waiver on, and this is a flashback. Eddie, when he wanted to be a pilot, the age requirements was 27. You could not fly if you were that old, I mean, if you're over that age. I thought it was 25. I'm sorry, 25, correct. And, of course, he was born in 1890, so he was already 27. But what happened was the doctor who did the physical exam was a good friend of Eddie's. So he just changed the record to show that Eddie was born really in 1892. So... It shows, again, a little of his initiative and how his good friends helped get him into combat.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. And thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Something's a good idea. You shouldn't have to force people to do it. I'm talking with Colonel Bill Rutledge, retired United States Air Force, 96 years young. We're talking about Eddie Rickenbacker, just really an amazing man, both military and an entrepreneur. We are pre-recording this for both Memorial Day and for America's Veterans Stories for the day before. So Colonel Rutledge, it's 1918, April. Eddie Rickenbacker in combat flight, he gets his first kill on that. And then he was in and out of the hospital because he had some respiratory stuff going on. And so then he ended up having four months left because then the war came to an end. A total of 26, I guess, Germans that he shot down, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
Correct. And also, he had moved up where he was a squadron commander. And so when the war ended and he came back home, he was certainly the aviation hero. And also, because of his close affiliation with General Billy Mitchell, he maintained contact... with those people who were still flyers in the military. But he was also recognizing that in order to have a good pilot and a number of pilots for any kind of future combat, that we needed to develop commercial aviation for many reasons. But one of the reasons, of course, was to gain experience as pilot. So he was doing that. Then he also went back and he bought the Indianapolis Speedway. It was on the market. It was going to be sold. And it looked like it was going to be converted into homes and businesses. And he was very good working with people. financial people. So he got backers and put together enough money to buy the property. And he always claimed that because of the importance of the facility, that it was one of the greatest test places for the automobile industry. This is long before they had big outdoor tracks like they do in Arizona now. But The race tracks were great. And the people, of course, in the tire business really promoted and encouraged racing there because they had to change their tires a lot when they were doing the Indianapolis 500. So he bought that so they could continue the procedure, which is still today. On Memorial Day weekend, it is the elite race in America. And so he saved it and then the same time he decided because of his mechanical skills that he liked wanted to go into the auto production field so he actually did and uh he set up factories he got people that were going to be dealers for him around the country because he'd had some experience like that before the war and uh they actually produced rickenbacker automobiles many thousands during the 1920s but what happened was because of the great crash and depression as it started in 29 they just didn't have enough cash to survive so he had to go out of business and then he started directing his attention more to commercial aviation Especially, he affiliated with the very small airport airplane operations in Florida. And then he eventually switched the name to Eastern Airlines, and he became the executive and eventually the owner of Eastern Airlines. Now, when he was going through this transition, Roosevelt was elected in 1932. He took office in 1937. March 4th, 1933. And he was trying to figure out how to save money. And there had been some movement of airmail by commercial carriers. And that seemed to be fairly safe because they would only do it during the daytime and where they could see and follow. They used to follow railroad routes or paved roads. They did all sorts of things because Aviation was in its infancy on the commercial aspect. So he worked a lot with that. Roosevelt decided in spring of 34 that instead of paying commercial contractors to fly the mail, he was going to have the Army Air Corps do that. Well, the Army Air Corps didn't have nearly as good of planes as the commercials. They were still using training planes left over from World War I, plus the fact they didn't know enough about flying at night, they didn't know the routes well, and they didn't have enough flying time. So consequently, when Roosevelt directed that happen, he canceled all the contracts with the commercial carriers and gave the assignment to the Army. And Lindbergh, along with Rickenbacker, both made public announcements to the effect that this was terribly dangerous that it shouldn't be done and for some of the reasons i've already mentioned and so what happened in the spring of 34 within about a month or so they had enough crashes they thought they lost 12 new young pilots in crashes and i can remember because i was Very young. I was in the first grade. But I was in Georgia, and one of the pilots was from a town down there. He was from Albany, Georgia. And they used to have articles in the paper every day about this man who'd been in a crash in Florida. He was in the Army Reserve. But what his health condition was, how he was recovering. His name was Mason Reed. And I just kept hearing people talk about him. How is Mason Reed doing today? How is Mason Reed? Well, after a few weeks, Roosevelt realized that he had made a terrible mistake. So he backed off and took the Army out of the mail business and went back for commercial contracting. And that continued on until today. It's done by commercial purposes, not by military aviation purposes.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and Roosevelt kind of held a grudge, didn't he?
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, he held a real grudge. He held a grudge against Rickenbacker and also, of course, against Lindbergh. Both of them, Lindbergh had been designated a colonel in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve, and Rickenbacker had been, he served on active duty as a captain during World War I. But after the war, through the reserve, he was promoted also to full colonel in the Army Air Corps. And he was presented, of course, with his Medal of Honor many years after the war. But these were the two most important pilots recognized by the American public. And when they both came out in opposition to Roosevelt, It had an impact. So when we got to World War II, both of them wanted to come back and be on active duty, and Roosevelt refused. He wouldn't let them do it. It was just chip on his shoulder.
SPEAKER 15 :
So how did—we'd done that show on Lindbergh. How did Rickenbacker end up serving in World War II then?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, what happened was— He had gotten to know a number of the general officers, of course, from the First World War who had become generals then. And Hap Arnold now was the chief of staff for the Army Air Corps. And Hap Arnold knew how good Rickenbacker was. So when they started the military draft in 1940 and started building new fields all around the country – He approached Rickenbacker and said, I would like for you to go and inspect each one of these new bases. And what he did, he took him into the Secretary of War because there was no Air Force that's separate at that time. And Stimson was the Secretary of War. So he told him what he wanted to do. So Stimson gave him a letter. that he could use and show to the base commanders at all of the new Air Force bases being built, that he was speaking on behalf of the Secretary of the Army and had the authority to direct any changes necessary to make the bases and the training staff more efficient. So that's what he did. And he went all over America, did a marvelous job. And... He was so successful there that they even sent him to some of the other areas. And then even when Russia got into the war in 1941, in June of 1941 when they were invaded, we started sending aircraft over to assist them. And Eddie went to Russia representing the U.S. to help the Russians understand how to fly aircraft. the American fighter aircraft. And he also had the opportunity to see what the Russians were doing as far as their aircraft construction. So he was what we used to call a tech rep, technical representative, and to monitor and to come back and to share what he had learned in the field with the Army Air Corps. And it was very important. It was so important, and now we get a situation where Japan has invaded, I mean, Japan has attacked Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. In 1942, when Corregidor fell in the Philippines, MacArthur was sent by direction from Roosevelt, was sent to Australia, and he was to be the commander of that whole theater with the Army. But the Secretary of the Army... wanted to relay some confidential information to MacArthur. So he elected to have Eddie go directly to MacArthur. To talk to the general. Okay.
SPEAKER 15 :
Colonel Rutledge, let's keep that as a cliffhanger. And also before we get into that remarkable story, I also wanted to ask you about 1941 when he was in that plane crash. So let's keep those two things as cliffhangers.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, we can do that. We should do a flashback on that.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is kimmunson.com. Happy Memorial Day to all of you. It's a day to remember and reflect upon those that have given their lives for our liberty. And something that you might consider doing is the USMC Memorial Foundation website. We'll be sponsoring an event out at the Memorial at 2 o'clock on Memorial Day, so be sure and check out their website. That is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. I'm talking with 96-year-young Colonel Bill Rutledge, retired United States Air Force, about Eddie Rickenbacker. And we're getting ready to talk about when he was to take the message down to General MacArthur. But let's let's go back earlier in the year. I think it is, I guess, the year before February 1941. What happened to Eddie?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, Eddie had become the chief executive officer for Eastern Airlines and Eastern had become the largest commercial carrier in America before the start of our involvement in World War II. So he was a passenger aboard one of the DC-3s, which were the real advancement in commercial aviation for passengers. And he was just a passenger aboard on his way to Atlanta, coming out of New York. And so there was no bad weather or anything going on, and nothing was unexpected. And they were approaching Atlanta, and something happened as far as the technical aspects of the aircraft and communication of the grounds, because a lot of it was experimental in those days. Anyhow, what happened was that the pilots and the co-pilots were both killed in the crash that happened north of Atlanta. And it was finally after a flight investigation, they found that their altimeter had been wrong. They thought they were at an altitude of about 2,000 feet higher than they really were. So they flew right into the forest. And a terrible crash. And many of the people aboard were killed. And Eddie was, it was a miracle that he wasn't killed. He was in the the wreckage, and the people came out as quickly as they could get there, but it took them about an hour, an hour and a half to come to the wreck site. Then the emergency people were trying to excavate and get their survivors who could walk, get them out of the way first. And then they heard that Eddie was still breathing, so it took them over an hour to use cutters and things to get him out. But he was so enshrined with metal all around him. So they got him out. They put him in the ambulance. They all went to the hospital. When they got to the hospital, the doctors who were on call that night in the emergency room, they looked at Eddie and they thought, this guy's not going to make it. They said, put him over there to the side. So they just wanted to work on the ones that looked like they had a chance to survive. The good news for Eddie was that Eddie knew the doctor who was in charge of the hospital. And the doctor was alerted of the crash. So he came over, and he arrived there within an hour or so after Eddie got to the hospital. And he asked, where's Eddie? And they pointed out to him over there, well, he's over there with a group we don't think will make it. Well, the doctor in charge went over and became Eddie's personal physician. And he did everything he could. And he saved Eddie's life. But Eddie had many, many broken bones and a fractured skull and things which would normally kill anyone. And so the doctor told him, he says, you're going to stay here and we're going to treat you. And he said, I believe. that you will need to be here for eight months. And Eddie said, I don't think so. And in four months, Eddie got up and walked out.
SPEAKER 15 :
Amazing. Amazing. So let's get over to he walked out, and we're now getting into World War II. So now what happened?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, then we've talked about his visits to all of our air bases and acting as a tactical consultant. But he then was asked directly by the Secretary of War to take a personal oral message to General MacArthur, who was now down in Australia. So he flew to Hawaii, and when he got to Hawaii, there was a B-17 available to fly him from there on down towards Australia. Well, they took off. There was Eddie and seven other members of the crew. And Eddie was the passenger. And they were going. They had their headings. Everything was going fine. But then their radio communications didn't work right. And the long and the short of it was that their contact with the islands that they were supposed to be able to stop at and refuel... they got lost. And after a while, it looked like there's no way they'd make any kind of a landing on surface. So the pilot told them we're going to have to crash land. So they moved their supplies of water and also their supplies of emergency food. And they moved it to a particular spot on the plane. And so they had to crash into the ocean. So they came down Made a good landing. But in their panic to get out of the plane, they forgot the food and the water. So they went out and inflated their three little rafts that were done. And so they all got in those. They got off. And when they got safely away from the airplane, it went under. And suddenly they realized, hey... We don't have any water and we don't have any food. And yet there's eight of us floating around out here and nobody knows where we are. And so what they were doing, they realized they were going to be dependent upon rain for water and try to fish. And so one of the first notable things happened. eddie very smartly kept on his coat and regular suit and a big felt hat now a lot of the people had thrown a lot of their personal clothing item away because they thought it would be easier for them to swim to swim away from the plane that was stupid because it also exposed them to terrible sun so one day and this is shortly after they'd gotten out there floating around um A bird came, a seagull, and landed on top of Eddie's head. And nobody moved. Nobody said anything. They didn't want to frighten the bird. So Eddie real quickly, wham, on top of his head. And he killed the bird. And so they took the bird and divided it up into eight parts, and they ate the bird. And, of course, there was no way to cook the bird or anything like that. They probably picked some of the feathers off. But, nevertheless, that sustained them for a while. And then they also rigged up some devices with some strings and some sort of hooks they made that they could use and try to catch a fish once in a while. And then they had rain. And the rain is what saved them. And they were floating in the drift. They were lost in the newspapers. didn't cover much about it because it was a very highly classified mission. But they did later report that Rickenbacker was missing on a combat flight to Australia. So we knew this. But at 22 days before one of the aircraft, which was an amphibious plane from one of the smaller islands way out in the middle of the Pacific, flew over their area, identified them, and it took them another 24 hours to go back and get some other amphibious aircraft to come down and pick them up and take them all back to this island. And so then all the people wanted to go back to Hawaii. But Eddie said, no, I'm going on to Australia because I have a mission to perform, and it's verbal. So he did continue on. and he went and visited with MacArthur and relayed the information from the Secretary of the Army.
SPEAKER 15 :
Remarkable. And we've got a couple of minutes left. What would you say would be the big takeaways regarding Eddie Rickenbacker that you want our listeners to hear?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I think the most important thing to me was, well, the amazing thing is that I've talked to many people that I've known during the last few weeks And I'd say, do you know anything about Eddie Rickenbacker? They said, who's he? I couldn't find hardly anybody who'd ever even heard of Eddie Rickenbacker. And I told them a little bit about the story and that he was the most famous American fighter ace in World War I. But I also tried to equate him with other people of his era. And that's when I mentioned that he was on a par with people who they recognized. In other words, Edison and Bell and Ford and Chrysler, all of whom had no degrees. And you could go all the way back to Benjamin Franklin. People mostly didn't know anything about him either. But all these people did not have formal educations, but they were leaders in their field. Nobody else could have taught them Because they were inventing and creating. And he was, Eddie was a person who was creative, especially in business and organization for commercial aviation. In other words, he was to commercial aviation what Billy Mitchell was to the development of military aviation.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, Colonel Rutledge, I so thank you for all of the research that you've done on this. And thank you so much for sharing this. And our quote for the end of the show is from Eddie Rickenbacker. He said, the four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built is initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence. So, my friends, today be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. God bless America. And stay tuned for hour number two.
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And welcome to our number two of the Kim Munson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You each are treasured. You're valued. You have purpose. Today, strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. And I'm really blessed to work with amazing people. Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Be sure and check out our website. That is kimmunson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. That way you will get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. You can email me at kim at kimmunza.com. And I thank all of you who support us. We are an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And the show comes to you Monday through Friday, 6 to 8 a.m. The first hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon, the second hour 10 to 11 at night. And those platforms are KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, the KLZ app, Alexa, PlayKLZ, and then also Spotify and iTunes. And for Memorial Day, we are pre-recording these shows, and I'm very honored to have on the line with me. He is a Medal of Honor recipient for actions that he took during the Vietnam War. Drew Dix, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 05 :
Kim, it's good to be here today, and it's also good to be whenever I'm talking with you about what you think about. And I think we're doing some good letting people know what counts in this country.
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Well, and you and Brad Padula are co-founders of the Center for American Values, which is a nonprofit that I dearly love and highlight on a regular basis. It's located in Pueblo on the beautiful Riverwalk. And it is a really interesting. It's a really important place. It's focused on these foundational principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism. But set this up for us, Drew Dix. For those of listeners that may not know the story of the Center for American Values, tell us how it came to be.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, 15 years ago, Brad Padula and I went to visit Jerry Murphy, one of the other founders recipients of the Medal of Honor from Pueblo. And he was in a home and he was doing okay, but not too good that day. And we left there, stopped to have a beer and talk about it. And we got to thinking, you know, we need to do something to remember the value of having somebody like Jerry in our community that I looked up to as a young person as well. And from that day, we went down to the center where his father had just purchased one of the old historical buildings there and was figuring out what to do with it. And we asked him, we put the center in here. We got this idea, and he looked at us and said, And his style, he just kind of wasn't sure what we were talking about. And about 10 minutes later, he says, I'll do it. What floor do you want? And that's where it was. And we're on the ground floor. And he said, well, there isn't really a ground floor. And I said, well, Rudy, it really needs to open out onto that river walk. And he looked at me again, and a couple minutes later, he said, okay, we'll dig it out. And so we had great support from the Padula family, and it's been a pleasure ever since. For 15 years now, we've been honoring those that made sacrifices to this country. And that's why Veterans Day, I mean, Memorial Day is so important, is to remember the sacrifices that people made for this country. And we showcase the center with the portraits of the Medal of Honor recipients, but it's not about war. It's not about those individuals necessary, but what they represent. And that's the beauty of it. So this Memorial Day and those in the future, we're going to be recognizing those that made sacrifices for this country and all of us that were veterans in combat. can probably have faces that come in our view from the recesses of our mind about those that fell next to us and gave up their life for us and this country.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and we have a long history of everyday people stepping forward to stand for liberty, which is the responsible exercise of freedom. And, of course, the values that the center focuses on is honor, integrity, and patriotism. And patriotism isn't bravado, Drew. It's love of country. And I think it's important that people understand that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, it is. And we focus on our young people that come through the doors. And while we don't, we just, we use the Medal of Honor and stories of these recipients that are on the wall there to let them know that at some times in your life, you have to step up and do something. Not necessarily in a war, but... that they will have their time to do something, and they need to be looking for that opportunity and be willing to make those sacrifices because that's what built this country. And I just think of it often and feel blessed that we were able to keep the center going, and we're making a difference because we see thousands of kids every year that come through there, and we don't know what they do with that information, but we know it makes a difference.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and you do have these great programs for K through 12. And you can certainly use people's help in making this happen. I know so many Coloradans are saying, what can we do? Well, one of the things that they can do is support the center both financially and also with a time as well. But certainly financial resources are important for the center. And how can people make a contribution there, Drew Dix?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, again, Kim, we welcome donations. We need donations. In times like we have now in this country, there's people that just talk about it and rub their hands together and figure out, you know, complain, but So if you don't have faith in others doing the work, look at the center because we're getting the word out about things. And we're absolutely apolitical. But what needs to be done is common sense things and restoring pride in this country and what built it is. is what's important. So look us up at AmericanValueCenter.org, and there's a place to donate, and we appreciate all the support. We have some good sponsors, and I might add that none of our board members or key individuals are paid. They're all volunteers. We do have a staff, and that's what we need to keep going.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and it is a very special place. I'd highly recommend that as the kids are getting out of school that you put it on your bucket list to go down to Pueblo and visit the Center for American Values. It will change their lives. It will change your lives. Again, that website is AmericanValuesCenter.org. We have these important discussions because we have amazing sponsors. That number is 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan team is there. And I'm pleased to be talking with Roger Mangan with the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance team. And, Roger, I've got a question for you. I received something, it was several months ago, from Xcel Energy that they're doing some kind of a program. It looked like an insurance program to me to insure lines coming into your house, so your water line, different things like that. Is that something that State Farm Insurance does as well? And what would you say to people about that?
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. And you can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. And we're an independent voice on an independent station that happens because of our great sponsors. And I want to say thank you to the Harris family for their longtime great sponsorship of the show. We greatly appreciate them. On the line with me is Drew Dix. He is a Medal of Honor recipient for actions that he took during the Vietnam War. And he and Brad Padula and the Padula family are very involved in creating the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo. And there's really three things, Drew Dix, that the center focuses on. Certainly the Medal of Honor Portraits of Valor, which is... It's a very reverent place, and you have them on the walls with these amazing portraits and these great quotes. And I think that an important point to make is I can't read all of them at one time. I have to go and think and read and think. And so it's really a place that I'm blessed to get to go to quite often. But I think it's important for young people. We've heard those that have said that people can relate to people that look like them. Well, ultimately, I think that look like them is the people that have these values of honor, integrity, and patriotism. But the portraits on the wall at the medal really represent – The diversity of America. And I think it's important that we understand that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, Kim. And, you know, the interesting part about it is the first time we opened the doors and the very first school buses were unloading. out on the street ready and the teachers were trying to corral the kids and line them up to come in there i'm looking out from the top windows and oh no they're going to trash our place because you know those kids are kids and and i was very proud of how nice it looks down there and i walked down and as they and they were they were doing like kids in the line you know grousing around and stuff and as they came through the door they just kind of all got it together. They were quiet and respectful and just gravitated to all of those portraits. And we thought that the portraits would be a good piece because kids are, you know, visual. They want to see it. And like you said, it represents people like they are. But of course, these are older people that were portraits taken many years after their action, but maybe they represent their father, their grandpa, or somebody. But anyway, it was a short time before we had quotes, and that was part of the portraits, and they're inscribed right under each portrait. And it wasn't long before we realized those kids were focusing on those words. which was remarkable to me because, you know, I thought they'd like the pictures and whatever they meant, the photos. So that gave us the idea to put together the Medal of Honor Quotes book, which is a very successful book that people and organizations buy to give out to family and friends. But that's where it started. It is interesting. having young people look at faces of individuals that represent all walks of life. And it's very well done. Nick DelCaso was a photographer and put those together and had a unique ability to capture the person, not only in the person's likeness, but in capturing that person's identity some way and it is really remarkable so yes kim that's that's what makes it special and the kids just are i get letters from them uh and notes that um thank you for putting the center together so you know we all feel good when we get recognized
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Well, and that's why Memorial Day is so important. We are pre-recording this interview. And my producer, Steve, who's retired, would always just be so frustrated with Memorial Day sales for products, furniture, mattresses, you know, whatever. And I think he had a point. And so I think Memorial Day can be two things. It can certainly be about sales and barbecues. Okay. But what it really is about, though, is stopping and remembering and honoring. And, Drew, I think that going through the quote book, the Medal of Honor quote book, and then researching out what these men did, I think that if we had schoolchildren in every school in Colorado – that had a report each year that they needed to do on one of our Medal of Honor recipients, I think that it would change Colorado for the better. And I would love to figure out a way to make that happen.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and we've thought about that, too. How can we get a quote book into the hands of every graduating student? senior or maybe when they they come to they first get into the school at the younger age i don't know somebody needs to figure out but it can it can it was designed for them to refer to and as a quality book rather than just a little paperback so we put the money in building it but if anybody out there gets an idea that they can make that happen feel free to call us and uh We'll certainly work with them because the objective is not necessarily to make the money on the book and keep us going. The objective is getting the book in everybody's hand so they can feel it and touch it and see it, the relationship to the average American that did good at the right time.
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Well, and how I got involved in America's Veterans Stories is in 2016, I went with a group that accompanied four D-Day veterans back to Normandy, France, for the 72nd anniversary of the D-Day landings. And so the veterans did a number of presentations in the schools there. And what I found was so interesting was these students there in Normandy knew the history of the – the landings in 1944, and they were just full of questions. And I realized at that point in time, these stories, we need to remember and honor. And so that's why I'm really thrilled to get to do the work that I do with you all down at the center. It's a great honor for me to get to do that, Drew Dix.
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Well, yes, and you mentioned something about how they remember that in Europe, and I think they remember it more than in our schools. So that's what we like to do. We don't promote war at all. In fact, we promote peace through strength, but the willingness to be able to make sacrifices for something you believe in is so important.
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It really is. And so these foundational principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism is what the Center for American Values is focused on. That website is AmericanValuesCenter.org. And the show comes to you because of great sponsors, and I'm so pleased to have the Second Syndicate as a sponsor.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is kimmunson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter, and you can email me at kim at kimmunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Something's a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. And within all that, there is a proper role of government. And one of the things that I learned when I was on city council is proper role of government, government making the decisions that should be limited and as possible. And that's how I got to know Hooters Restaurants. It's a really interesting story that you can find at my website, kimmunson.com. And Hooters Restaurants has five locations, Loveland, Aurora, Lone Tree, Westminster, and Colorado Springs. and a great place to get together with friends for their lunch specials Monday through Friday or watch all of the different sporting events out there as well. So more information, you can find that at my website. I'm talking with Drew Dix. He is co-founder of the Center for American Values located in Pueblo on the beautiful Riverwalk. And, Drew, you are a Medal of Honor recipient, and you and Brad Padula worked together to get the center created. But there were four Medal of Honor recipients that grew up in Pueblo, Colorado, which is pretty remarkable. And I think Eisenhower said to one of the guys as he was presenting the medal, he says, is there something in the water out there in Pueblo? But it's pretty remarkable, and there is a video that highlights these stories.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, Kim, that's the unique part about Pueblo, is that there were four of us that were raised in Pueblo. It's the only... city in America that's had four living recipients. And when you think about it, of the 3,500 awarded, roughly 2,000 of those were from the Civil War before they had other awards. That's pretty remarkable when out west here, Pueblo was just a little dot on a map somewhere at the time. Really wasn't much to it in the 40s and 50s. Even when I grew up in the 60s, it was about the same size it is now, much bigger than Colorado Springs. But Still not that big of a city compared to those that were around during the Civil War, like Philadelphia and New York and those very populated places. So Brad Padula put together, co-founder of the center, put together a video called Beyond the Metal. And it's four vignettes, an hour long. That's the right term to call it. um about beyond the medal about the four of us individually and that's available at the center so if someone would like to see it it's very well done in fact he received an emmy for that his work there two of them two emmys and uh did a wonderful job and it's a very popular thing with the kids to see that because it's a combination of interviews of us when we were, you know, older after the action and then some, some action footage, uh, come during the combat scenes. Um, so it's, it's popular and a good thing for kids to see and adults as well. So that's well done. And, um, mine is called, uh, uh, the green beret because I was in special forces and, uh, And it outlines a lot of what I was doing over there prior to being unclassified. So it's pretty interesting and entertaining. Brad did a good job.
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Well, and the four guys, their names and which war they served in?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, the four guys, one is Bill Crawford from World War II, Carl Sitter and Jerry Murphy, both Marines from World War II. from Korean War. Incidentally, Bill was Army, and then me in Vietnam. And the interesting thing is, when I was raised in Pueblo and used to deliver papers, and I'd pedal my bike up that Jerry Murphy Road, which I thought was the longest road in Pueblo at the time. Uphill both ways, you know the deal. But I never thought that someday I would meet Jerry Murphy. And, of course, I met him and the other two when I was welcomed back to Pueblo after receiving the Medal of Honor in 1969.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, it is remarkable, this little town in Colorado that has four Medal of Honor recipients, and there at the conference center in Pueblo, there are some really wonderful statues of each of the four guys as well.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, yes. Yeah, it's, you know, they're very well done, because they're big, tall statues. And it's really remarkable when the kids, you know, I've seen them and they see me and they look at me like, well, you're not eight feet tall, but anyway, uh, they're well done. And, uh, uh, they were, they were, uh, our, our likenesses were captured real well. I remember Bob Rawlings when he was the, um, owner, publisher of everything, of the newspaper there, called me up one time, and he was behind it, and he said he wanted to do the statues for the Medal of Honor recipients. Well, he kind of mentioned me, and I said, well, you know, Mr. Rolland, I don't know if I feel like I want to have a statue of Pueblo. And he said, we're not doing it for you, Drew. We're doing it because there's four of you. So that was a big one. It got my attention, and so I agreed to do it.
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Well, and then during this time, with all this work going on, Pueblo became known as the home of heroes. And that's a really interesting story as well.
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It is. Congressman Scott McInnes proposed that in Congress, and it was dedicated as the home of heroes. And so we have that distinction in Pueblo. And so it's a natural place for the center to be. You know, we don't consider ourselves heroes. None of me or the other three really didn't. We were just recognized for something we did. And the beauty of it is you're being recognized by your peers. And that's a message that we like to tell those young people, that there's no greater honor than to be recognized for doing a good job by your peers, those that were with you in those times.
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Well, and the Medal of Honor is awarded because these men took action when a situation presented itself. And the action was to help others and to save their lives. And I think that's important that people understand that. And there is one woman that received the Medal of Honor. Am I right? Yes.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, it was Dr. Mary Walker in the Civil War. It was awarded originally then in 1917 when they created the other medals. They rescinded that one along with about 900 others from the Civil War because it didn't meet the criteria of being in the military because she wasn't in the military. But then it was reinstated under President Jimmy Carter to reinstate her Medal of Honor. So yes, there's one female that has the Medal of Honor, and that was Dr. Mary Walker.
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Well, and I didn't realize so many of the Medal of Honors was awarded in the Civil War. But, of course, there was a lot of Americans that served in the Civil War. Let's talk about you a little bit. And I know you don't like to talk about you. But you were awarded the Medal of Honor for actions you took during the Vietnam War in And it was a long battle, like 52 or 56 hours. So it was a really long, a long, long, more than a day battle.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, it was a long, long 56 hours. Yeah, as we said earlier, the Medal of Honor is awarded for saving lives, actually, not for necessarily taking lives. But in the process of saving those, it was 14... civilians that I was able to rescue. And there were a few other guys with me, so I can't take all the credit. They were there. And of course, if they weren't there, I wouldn't receive a Medal of Honor because you have to have two eyewitnesses. So that's the deal. And at least two. And so we were able to rescue those 14 people. And in doing so, That's where it comes in. You're awarded it for rescuing or saving lives, but generally in doing so, you engage the enemy. And when I was moving through the streets of Chowdhury, trying to locate and identify those civilians that were Americans, mostly Americans, were... captured or isolated we had to take out a lot of the enemy and do it so I got about 19 prisoners one of them a general officer that was assigned to take over that city when they won the battle that's head offensive so that's it and that happened over 56 hours and I mean it was a lively time but I have to say there were some really gutsy guys that mainly the indigenous troops that were with me to Well, they saved my bacon, and maybe they should have got medals of honor for saving me, because they did. I washed my back, and I washed theirs, and it was a pretty lively time during that 56 hours back there in 1968.
SPEAKER 15 :
Wow. And, gosh, so you went back to Vietnam, though, right?
SPEAKER 05 :
I did. I did. You know, as proud I am of my service with Special Forces and having received the Medal of Honor, I'm probably more proud of working with those draftees because I was a staff sergeant and received a battlefield commission. And in those days, Special Forces didn't really have a branch, so I was infantry officer and loaned out. And... But after receiving the Medal of Honor, I was a little bit on a shrimp and peanut circuit. But most of the people were asking about how the draftees worked out because the press was kind of negative about some things. They always do what it seems like. And I couldn't answer them, so I went back, and I was proud to be a company commander in a company, 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry, 101st. And the entire rifle company was composed of draftees. One, I think, might have had two career sergeants. That was it. The rest were 19 years old or less. And they did a wonderful job. They didn't know a lot. I'm teaching them all the way, but I was very proud of them because by the time we were done, I would have put them up against about anybody.
SPEAKER 15 :
So, Drew, I had civilian questions, but these young guys, I know in World War II that I've been told that so many of these soldiers of our military in World War II came from A rural America where so many of the guys knew how to do all kinds of things, fix things, shoot, all that. What about the draftees in the Vietnam War? Was it a little different to train them?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, no. Of course, we drafted more in World War II, but we got a cross-section in 1960s, too. So we had a lot of farmers and mechanics and machinists and college graduates. We had a few of them. No, it was the same. It really was. They do a pretty good job of balancing that out. So... You could tell the farm boys had a little bit more at ease in the jungles than those from the streets of New York or Philadelphia somewhere. And they helped those guys out because, let's face it, they didn't know much as far as walking off the pavement and dealing with. with the natural enemies out there in the jungles. The farm boys did much better initially. By the time it was all over, they were all the same.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, I imagine the learning curve's pretty darn fast when you're out there in the jungle engaging the enemy. So we will continue the discussion with Drew Dix for this Memorial Day broadcast. And remember... Memorial Day is a time to stop and reflect and think about those that have given their lives for our liberty. And our liberty is the responsible exercise of freedom. We get to have these important discussions because of wonderful sponsors. And one of those is Bowes & Law.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. And it is Memorial Day. We're pre-recording this hour number two with Drew Dix. Before we get back to him. The other nonprofit that I dearly love and support is the USMC Memorial Foundation. And Paula Sarles and her team are doing amazing work for us to remember and honor. And there will be a great event out at the memorial later on Memorial Day. So be sure and check that out. It's important during this weekend to stop and reflect and honor. And, of course, the USMC Memorial Foundation also. will do a great job on that. Drew Dix, so many people have come through the door of the Center for American Values. That website is AmericanValuesCenter.org. And honoring these Medal of Honor recipients and learning their stories, I think gives us courage and gives us perspective on protecting this idea of honor, integrity, and patriotism. But last time I was down at the Center, you had shared a rather remarkable story about about a Medal of Honor recipient who was a neighbor of yours.
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That's right, Kim, and I think of him often because, you know, those of us that have been fortunate enough to be awarded the Medal of Honor, and especially to wear it, that received it a lot, don't really think that we've done anything wrong. that great, but then we realized the impact we have on others. And I remember after coming back from Vietnam the first time, and I, you know, had a, had a wife and a couple of children and bought a house and lived in this little neighborhood and two doors down was, uh, uh, a career Sergeant, uh, staff Sergeant had a wife and a couple of kids too. And, uh, And when I came back, obviously it was difficult for him to talk with me because he was so, I don't know, proud to know a Medal of Honor recipient, but awkward, I guess is the word, and maybe I'd have felt the same way. And so, you know, we'd have a beer once in a while and talk about things, but he was very, very withdrawn. And I know that it was his... It just felt like he was out of place. Well, so he went back to Vietnam, and a short time later, he was declared missing in action. And we're wondering, well, I'm not too sure if that's a good sign, because he had only been gone a couple of days, actually. And what had happened is he deployed, went to Vietnam, was in the replacement unit, And then they had these convoys that would come in and pick up the replacements and go out to their units. And Sergeant Glenn English was in that convoy when it was attacked. And his action is rescuing several soldiers, all soldiers of a burning armor personnel carrier. And he rescued them until he couldn't come out. And he perished in that. that fire and he was missing in action because they hadn't identified his remains. That's a normal process. But the point of this story is that you never know. And that emphasized the fact that we're just like everyone else. Here he thought he put the Medal of Honor on such a high pedestal and didn't know that he had the potential to stand up and serve. And as we said before, that you receive the Medal of Honor for risking your life to save people. And he definitely did. Glenn English is one I remember on Memorial Day who risked his life to save fellow soldiers, ones he probably didn't know very well.
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And Glenn English is his name. And the other thing is, though, wife and two little children back home, that's a big sacrifice for them as well.
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It is. And, you know, I... when I had that rifle company, when I went back over, you know, we, we, we didn't lose very many, but if you lose one, that's, that's probably too many, but, uh, we did a good job and they're very proud of it, but it was a different kind of war because they were just like Sergeant English went over as individual replacement. We didn't go over units because the casualties were pretty high during the 68, 69 timeframe. And, uh, so, uh, guys were going over there and I had replacements come in because I didn't travel with all three of my platoons and the jungle was so thick they weren't far away but possibly replacements would arrive and I never was able to see them and maybe on a couple cases they were lost or badly wounded and you had no idea if they even made it and we didn't even know their names because they didn't it just wasn't handled right that way and And I'm proud to say that the military doesn't do it that way anymore. But it was a bad sign of the way they handled it. And I can remember getting a call in the middle of the night from a young medic that was in my rifle company. And it was late at night, and he said, I've got this problem. I think, oh, boy, he's maybe a suicide potential. And he said, you know, I wake up wondering if some of those guys that I patched up, whether they made it or not. And I went to the Vietnam wall to see their name, and I couldn't find it because I didn't know their name other than a nickname. And I said, Hop, that was his nickname. I said, I know what you're going through because I went to the wall. I'm the company commander, and I couldn't find them because I didn't know their real name. So that's what I remember on Memorial Day. And every time I see a veteran, I wonder if it's one of my guys that I didn't know.
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Well, that is why it's more important than ever on this Memorial Day to stop and reflect and think about those guys that gave their lives in the sacrifice of a wife and children at home and just what this means for our history. It all began with the Revolutionary War where... It's amazing. These little colonies on the eastern seaboard said, we want to stand for liberty. And what is liberty? It's the responsible exercise of freedom. It's the first time, Drew Dix, ever in the history of mankind that a country was founded on an idea. And that's what makes America so special, and that's what makes the Center for American Values so special as well. We've got about four minutes left. What are some of the final things that you'd like to leave with our listeners as we are recording this for Memorial Day, for our Memorial Day broadcast?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, Kim, one of the most important things, and I think about this often, because I just mentioned, you know, when I see a veteran, a Vietnam veteran in the Army, I look at him and see if I can't. to recognize him possibly being one of the guys because, you know, after when they left, those draftees left and went back home, they were told to change their clothes at the airport when they landed in California, Travis Air Force Base. generally, and to wear civilian clothes and go back like it never happened. And I can't even imagine a country telling those young men to do that. But then I also, and for that reason, I think a Memorial Day is a day for remembrance of those people that made sacrifices. Sure, we get together with our families, but sometimes people don't even know why we're getting three days off. Memorial Day means that anybody that died, no, Memorial Day is those that died in combat. And we've kind of stretched that a little bit to anybody that's ever served. And while we all respect anyone that served in the military, Memorial Day is for those that gave their life for this country. Ripped out of their draftees, ripped out of their hometowns, sent over in the war and Many of them of an age that didn't even realize what politics were about the country. They just didn't have a clue. But they quickly learned that they loved each other and they fought hard and they did it because of the pride they have and knowing that the other guy next to them would do the same for them. So that's what I think about on Memorial Day.
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Well, it really is. That is what it is all about. So make sure on this Memorial Day that you stop and reflect. And as Drew mentioned, getting together with family, what a blessing to be able to get together with family together. on a Memorial Day. And one of the other things that we really need to do, it's not just one day, but I think every day we need to stop and reflect and think about those that gave their lives so that we could live in America. And we need to engage in what's occurring in our country now in this battle of ideas to conserve and preserve this great American idea. Drew Dix, we have just about a minute left. Your final thought.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I think I'd like to mention that the Center for American Values is having a Memorial Day presentation on the 28th, following Memorial, the official Memorial Day of Monday. But on Wednesday, the 28th, Colonel Air Force retired Jeff Chostner, former district attorney, is giving a talk there. And he's very... He does a good job, and I'll be there, and we're going to talk about what Memorial Day should mean to the average American in our communities. So I have you to come down.
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And more information, go to AmericanValueCenter.org. Drew Dix, I thank you and really appreciate your love of our country.
SPEAKER 05 :
It's always good to see you, Kim, and talk with you.
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And our quote for the end of the show is from Drew Dix. He said this, nothing is ever as bad as you think it might be. So today, my friends, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
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To the mountains climbing, twisting, turning further from my home. Like a new moon rising fierce to the rain in love. And I don't want no one to cry But tell them if I don't survive
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Hello, hello, hello. Happy Monday, everyone. Thank you for tuning in today to Shooting the Breeze. My name is Karen Murray, and I am the lead instructor at Franktown Firearms, your one-stop shop for all things gun-related. You guys should come in and take a look around if you haven't done so yet. We are conveniently located just east of the intersection of Highway 83 and Highway 86 in Franktown. You can reach us by phone at 720-770-7777. You can go to the website, franktownfirearms.com. While there, you can check out all the training classes that are available. You can get information about memberships. This Friday, the first Friday of the month, is going to be a ladies' night, so check Hopefully I will see you guys there or you ladies there, I should say. And I also have a Pistol One class on this Saturday. So if you want to check that out, you can go to franktownfirearms.com. Just click on the calendar and sign up for a class. So I hope everybody had a great Easter, had a nice Easter around here yesterday. Today is not so great. April Fool's Day. I can't stand April Fool's Day. I've never been a big fan. It's one of those days where, you know, you can't really believe anything you read anyway. But then when you add April Fool's Day, people just love to post and, you know, forward stories and write stories that are fake. And it's just, it's very frustrating to me. I don't like practical jokes. I've never liked to be messed with or fooled around with or whatever. So not only that, but I think we're living in one big, fat, never-ending April Fool's Day anyway in this country. So today is nothing special. So last week, I talked a little bit about the practice of squatting and how it's becoming an issue for many homeowners in the United States. There's a growing problem of illegal immigrants basically taking over someone's house, demanding the keys, and they're getting away with it. Someone you don't know can literally come into a property you own, and you can't have them removed. It's unbelievable. Many states, most in fact, they don't have any legislation in place to prevent this from happening. So homeowners are being dragged out of their own homes, sometimes in handcuffs, while the squatters get to stay. And that is crazy town to me. I just can't imagine how angry a person would be if they literally got ousted from their own property while somebody that's not documented has no proof that they live there, no proof that they ever lived there, gets to stay and you get kicked out. I don't understand. It's just complete upside down nonsense to me. But Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida is putting a stop to that potential threat. And I think it's great. I applaud him for this. When HB 621 goes into effect on July 1st, Floridians will have the ability to call police and have them remove anyone illegally occupying someone else's property and refuses to leave. Those caught committing the crime will face harsh penalties. He says, quote, you are not going to be able to commandeer somebody's private property and expect to get away with it. DeSantis said during a press conference per Fox News, we in the state of Florida are ending the squatting scam once and for all. So I don't expect Democrat governors, our own lovely polis included in that, they're not going to follow suit anytime soon. I'm guessing squatters have more rights than homeowners do in Colorado. I haven't really heard any squatter stories from Colorado, but they'll probably follow suit and just keep the status quo like New York and California and Illinois and Maryland and all the other ones. So in this same vein, illegals are also targeting and robbing upscale homes. They're getting very savvy now and they're learning almost kind of like a new trade. They're able to disarm alarm systems. They go in, they take what they want. It doesn't matter how long it takes. I'm not really sure how this is happening, but this audio that I'm gonna play This is from a newscast in Detroit, and it features Oakland County Sheriff, Oakland County, Michigan, not California, Michael Bouchard. The beginning of the video shows security footage of these men actually tossing a full-size gun safe down a set of stairs outdoors. It's just unbelievable. So check this out and let me know what you think.
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The security video we've seen over the past six months is chilling enough. Unencumbered and well-equipped thieves knock out glass doors, disable the alarm system, and unconcerned, easily and frankly quite loudly, slide a half-ton safe down a flight of stairs before carrying it off in a rental car.
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They come in teams with backpacks. Each backpack has a different tool set. Some are the breaching tools, some are the electronics, the jam alarm systems. Very quick, sophisticated actions.
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Local, state and federal officers went to work and put enough pressure on these thieves to head elsewhere. Yet they've cycled back from L.A., New York, Tennessee and Ohio now and more efficient than ever. Bouchard says the last group of alleged thieves arrested received training in Chile and they're roving with dozens of others.
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Now we know we have teams from Colombia. And New York intelligence has teams, criminal gangs from Venezuela now.
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They rent hotel rooms, Airbnbs, apartments carrying multiple disposable IDs in case they get arrested. Bouchard says if you're leaving your home empty and quiet for a while.
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If you have an alarm, use it. Try to get your devices hardwired. Try to have redundancy of communication.
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Isn't that something else? So in Denver here, a family recently living in their car is looking for a permanent place to call their home, but a past eviction is making it challenging. So you see these kind of stories. This is KDVR, Fox 31. One in three households is paying more than a third of their annual income toward housing, according to the city's website. So obviously it's very expensive to live here. Leticia de la Rosa and her husband told Fox 31 they are currently living out of their car with their dog after being evicted in 2022. So maybe they can just find an empty house and move in. It's probably perfectly illegal here. It's working for everyone else. Why not give that a try? So anything that I touch on today, if you want to give me a call and chat about it, the studio number is 303-477-5600. I'd love to talk to you about anything I'm touching on today. So I want to talk for a moment about this cargo ship crashing into the pylons on the Francis Scott Key Bridge. And of course, you can slap on your tinfoil helmet if you wish. In my opinion, there's no way that this happened organically. Absolutely no way. Take a listen to this piece. It is allegedly translated from a news report. Now, you can take this with a grain of salt. This is an Asian TV news report that's being translated into English, allegedly. I don't know the language, so I won't even speculate as to the origin or if the translation is accurate, but this is pretty interesting. Check this out.
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Okay, the video you're about to watch is all alleged, but it was sent to me by a good friend, and I thought you should see it.
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I would like to add that 70% to 80% of the normal traffic at this port is military material, much of it destined for Ukraine. Today we are going to bring you a piece of exclusive intelligence that we have received from our supporters within the CCP. The information is very precise. This attack is being carried out by the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party, using remote towing technology. It is a terrorist attack. The CCP has launched a terrorist operation against the United States on American soil. The impact is huge on the traffic and transportation of the entire United States. The local governor says it has an impact on the whole world, which is not an exaggeration at all. Also, the bad news is that if the CCP can tow a freighter to collapse Baltimore's bridge, They can do the same with any car, ship, elevator, any vehicle you can think of. As long as it has a connection to signal and data, a chip, an antenna, a radio, etc. Because Miles Wu once told me in the past that once Liu Yanping, the former vice minister of public security of the CCP, threatened him and said that they can crash any plane they want at any time. Don't think that if you don't bring your phone, you'll be okay. The CCP can crash anything as long as your device has something to receive the signal, like the radios in cars or planes. So again, I want to emphasize that the two pieces of exclusive intelligence are that it's the CCP that launched the terrorist attack on Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge using the remote towing technology on the freighter. The second information is that there are people in the U.S. government who knew about it but didn't report it, although we can't confirm whether they knew about it before or after the attack. but so far we have not seen any official statement confirming this information. How about that?
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So, yeah, take, you know, leave the tinfoil hat on. I don't know. I just, I saw it and I thought it was interesting. My friend Haley is actually the voice that you hear at the beginning of that, and I didn't think the video itself was necessary to kind of convey the information there, but I thought it was very interesting, and not only do I think it was done intentionally, because how long have ships been going under that bridge, you know, in and out? I don't really know the exact date that the Francis Scott Key Bridge was built, but it's been there for a while, and, you know, it's been a port, and it's been used, and all of a sudden, you know, this ship loses power, and it just seems very odd to me and very suspect. And so I think it's also going to take forever to rebuild, if it even gets rebuilt at all. Back when construction projects of this magnitude ran efficiently and were done quickly, you had things like the Hoover Dam, where construction began on July 7th of 1930, and five years later it was complete. Which is, I mean, think about the Hoover Dam. It's gigantic. It started generating electrical power on September 11, 1936, exactly six years, two months, and four days after the first shovel full of dirt was removed. The Empire State Building was fully erected after just one year and 45 days of construction. But this kind of thing just doesn't happen now. Nothing in the 21st century is going to be fast and seamless. There is so much bureaucracy and red tape and rules and regulations and codes, and every agency in the country has to get involved, and the process will be painfully slow. And, of course, we will make it cost considerably more than it should. But that's okay. We're going to be footing the bill for it anyway, right? You and me. Biden says the federal government will pay. Well, that translates into what? That translates into the taxpayers paying it. So that's going to happen. And this presents a question to me. So Synergy Marine Group is the Singapore company who owns that ship, the Dali cargo ship. Don't they have insurance for this kind of stuff? I mean, why do American taxpayers have to put the bill for this? It's very suspect, kind of makes you wonder why Biden automatically jumps in and says, you know, the federal government will pay to rebuild this bridge. Just doesn't make sense. So anyway, take that for what it is. Yesterday, many people were angered. but i think this actually might have happened on the 30th but joe biden declared march 31st as transgender day of visibility i'm sure you saw that myself included i'm pretty angry about that as well as if they need a day to be more visible didn't these people just commandeer the entire month of june don't they fall into the lgbtq plus plus category and they've got their pride month Of course, we had to make that proclamation this year when March 31st just happened to be Easter Sunday. It's just more evidence that Biden either dismisses Christians or doesn't care about how this looks to Christians. You know, Easter, the holiest of all Christian holidays, and him creating this day for trans people this year is a slap in the face to Christians, if you ask me. But who cares, right? Who cares? Biden did come out afterward and made this proclamation, or after he made the proclamation to wish Christians everywhere a happy Easter. So there you go. Nice damage control move there. But this ridiculous, unnecessary, made-up visibility day won't fall on Easter again until the year 2086. So I looked at the calendar and the Easter Sunday calendar going forward, and yeah, 2086. So most of us... They're going to be taking a dirt nap by then, right? You'll be so old you won't even care and know what's going on. So kind of like our president. So there's that. So I have some kind of crazy news here that's going to kind of go hand in hand with some of the information that I have down here today. Shocking. This is from an article that I read today. U.S. has recorded over 1 million excess deaths among the over 65 since the FDA approved the COVID-19 vaccine. Shocking statistics quietly published by the U.S. Center for Disease Control reveal over one million excess deaths have been recorded among people age 65 and over ever since the Food and Drug Administration gave emergency use authorization for the COVID-19 vaccine to be offered to the public. So following that, the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine received EUA on December 18, 2020, and the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine received EUA on February 27, 2021. The elderly were offered the COVID-19 vaccine first, if you'll recall that, they were, and the number of excess deaths recorded was astounding. During the first 20 weeks of Of 2021, 150,085 excess deaths were recorded among people over 65 compared to the 2015 to 2019 five-year average. Then from week 21 to week 40 of 2021, an astounding 165,387 excess deaths were recorded among people age 65 and over. This brought the total excess deaths from week 1 to week 40 of 2021 to 315,472 among those most likely to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The remainder of 2021 saw 133,000 excess deaths recorded, bringing the total excess deaths for the year among over 65 to 448,740. This means nearly half a million more people died than expected who were age 65 and over during a period where excess deaths were supposed to be reduced. dramatically because of an apparently safe and effective vaccine was being administered to stop a wave of deaths supposedly caused by a deadly pandemic. This year, and this is from 2022, the year 2022 improved slightly but still saw a shocking amount of deaths with 371,000 recorded among those aged over 65. And in the year 2023, 257,000 excess deaths were recorded among 65 and over. And the most recent data released by the CDC confirming 5,482 excess deaths were recorded in week one of 2024. This means that in total, 1 million, like 1 million and change, 1,069,000 excess deaths were recorded among people age 65 and over from the first time they were offered the COVID-19 vaccine to week one of 2024. This is a shocking amount of excess deaths compared to the 2015 to 2019 five-year average. The COVID-19 vaccines were supposed to reduce the number of people dying, not increase it. The staggering number of excess deaths reaching over 1 million in three years is more than enough evidence that the COVID-19 vaccines are far from safe and effective. The quietly published figures prove that they are extremely dangerous. In the USA, individuals over the age of 65 have been offered several COVID-19 vaccines under EUA. These vaccines were initially prioritized for older adults, among others due to their alleged higher risk of severe illness from COVID-19. And COVID-19 is in heavy air quotes here. Over time, booster doses have also been recommended because the jabs clearly don't work. If they did, would over 1 million excess deaths that's been recorded among those who have had more injections than any other group? I think not. So having said that, From ESPN, just an article that popped up today, ex-NFL cornerback Vontae Davis found dead at his residence in South Florida. He was only 35, and there's no foul play that's involved or whatever. They just got a call, and they went and checked, and yeah, he was in his residence deceased. So very sad. Things like this are happening, but it is what it is, right? So more on this poison death jab. This is from the expose of this online magazine, March 27, 2024. Experts discover over 200 billion DNA fragments in a single dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 mRNA vaccine. Dr. Philip Buchholz, is a professor at the University of South Carolina. He has a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology and conducts cancer genomics research. What that effectively means is he and his team are specialists at detecting foreign pieces of DNA in places where they are not supposed to be. On September 12, 2023, he tested before the South Carolina Senate Medical Affairs Ad Hoc Committee on the Department of Health and Environmental Control. And he says, quote, the Pfizer vaccine is contaminated with plasmid DNA. It's not just mRNA. It's got bits of DNA in it. A colleague who was in charge of the vaccination program in Columbia, South Carolina, kept all the Pfizer vials intact. containing remnants of the contents from the two batches that were used. From the remnants, Professor Buchholz sequenced all the DNA that was in these vials. He says, quote, I can see what's in the vaccines. It's surprising that there's any DNA in there, and you can kind of work out what it is and how it got there, and I'm kind of alarmed about the possible consequences of this, both in terms of human health and biology, he said. This DNA, in my view, it could be causing some of the rare but serious side effects like death from cardiac arrest. And then it says at the bottom, this DNA can and likely will integrate into the genomic DNA of cells that got transfected with the vaccine mix. We do this in the lab all the time. We take pieces of DNA. We mix them up with a lipid complex like the Pfizer vaccine is in. We pour it onto the cells, and a lot of it gets into the cells. And a lot of it gets into the DNA of those cells and becomes a permanent fixture of the cell. It's not just a temporary thing. It is in that cell from now on, and all of its progeny from now on and forevermore. So that's why I'm kind of alarmed about this DNA being in the vaccine. It's different from RNA because it can be permanent. So there you go. No tinfoil hat is required on that. These are experts that are testifying in front of different panels, and it's kind of crazy. So here's another story. I guess you don't need your tinfoil hat for this either. You guys have heard me talk about chemtrails, right? I'm always griping about chemtrails, and I think a couple of weeks ago I might even have pointed at one outside and shown it to Luke while we were on the air. So some people believe that it's all conspiracy. It's water vapor. It's ice crystals. Whatever. It is what they say it is. And if you believe that it chemtrails and they're spraying you with stuff, then you're crazy and, you know, you're going to be dismissed. Since I started kind of looking into the whole chemtrail thing, I've seen a lot of videos of specialized equipment and all the stuff that they use to spray this stuff. And there have been people, maybe they're just feeding into this whole thing. I don't know. But I do know that when we have a day that's very, very heavy with those streaks of white across the sky that disperse out, my eyes are killing me. They burn so bad. I end up feeling weird in my lungs and everything else. And it's concerning to me. And I've heard the chemicals that they use, aluminum and barium and other materials that The government and some other entities within the government, I guess, they've admitted that they're implementing what's called stratospheric aerosolized injection to introduce reflective particles into the atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays away from the surface of the Earth in an effort to cool the planet. That is a thing. And if you guys have never seen the documentary called The Dimming by Dane Wigington on his channel, geoengineeringwatch.org, you should go check that out. But some people, no matter what you present them with, no matter what kind of evidence you show them, they're going to think you're crazy and there's no such thing as chemtrails. If that's the case, then why did Tennessee... make a bill create a bill making the spraying of this material illegal over the state of tennessee if it's not real then why do we have to impart legislation to prevent them from spraying in the air what is that i don't understand so if it's not real then why are they trying to make it illegal that doesn't make any sense right So now we have the conspiracy of vaccines in the food we eat, mostly lettuce. There have been whispers about cattle being injected with vaccines, COVID vaccines or whatever, as a way to vaccinate people unknowingly. And people said, that's conspiracy theory. You can't talk like that. That's crazy. You're a conspiracy theorist. Well, again, Tennessee comes out with a bill that will force food producers to label food that contains vaccines or vaccine ingredients as a drug. So why is that? Just this small summary of the Tennessee legislature's bill. I didn't write down the bill number, but it's on the Tennessee legislature, the General Assembly's website. You can go find it. Food and food products. As introduced, define food that contains a vaccine or vaccine material as a drug for purposes of the Tennessee Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. and then list some amendments and chapters and whatever. I didn't want to create an account so I could read the entire bill text, but you get the idea. If it's conspiracy, then why is there a bill moving through the Tennessee General Assembly right now that if whatever kind of food it is, if it's produce or meat or whatever, it's got to be labeled as a drug? Why is that necessary if this is all conspiracy theory? Okay, okay. So, moving on to a different topic, last week I briefly, I'm going to go ahead and pause right here before I switch subjects. I got a phone call. I didn't catch the name, but what do you got for me?
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It's Sandra, Karen. Isn't it interesting, the most holy day of the year, our Resurrection Sunday, Biden comes out with this, I call it a special creepy day and making the furry tranny men lifted up. I mean, it's just bonkers. It's disturbing. Also, I want to let you know that There's this Catholic priest, his name is Father James Altman, excuse me, James F. Altman in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He's been censored over the years because he said, you cannot be a Catholic if you're a Democrat. And Joe Biden, Pelosi have been denied outright to take communion because they kill our babies, they mutilate our children, and God knows who else is on this list. I just wanted to bring that to your attention. It's disturbing what these people are doing in our White House.
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Absolutely. Do you remember years ago when I think Bill Clinton was president, and I remember at that time Hillary Clinton, I heard an interview with her, and she was quoted as saying that she just doesn't understand how you can believe in God and vote Republican.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh my gosh, I don't remember that, but that's par for the course. It is coming from her. Oh, my.
SPEAKER 09 :
Wow. Yeah, exactly. Like you, you can't be a Christian and be a Republican that they're like diametrically opposed, which, again, now that I know more back when Clinton was president, I wasn't quite as political a little bit of getting in there a little bit. But now I see right through that. That's that whole projection thing that they love to do. Yeah, they're full on out there creep show. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Well, thanks for giving me the James Altman information, and that makes perfect sense to me. And I'm so happy that Biden took five seconds out of his child sniffing to, you know, roll a couple of Easter eggs down the White House lawn. There you go. God bless you, Karen. God bless you, too, Sandra. Thank you. So last week, I touched a little bit on a scandal that's been rocking Nickelodeon. And this documentary that came out has been kind of blowing the lid off of all their dirty little secrets. If you have kids who have watched or, you know, if they watch it now or they had watched Nickelodeon, you should be angry about this. Of course, this is nothing new. This is Hollywood for you in all its glory. Sick, disgusting network of creeps and pedophiles. It's just the way it is. But the series that you can stream it on ID, Investigation Discovery, or on Max, it is called Quiet on Set, The Dark Side of Kids TV. Now, I've only watched the first episode so far, and it's called Rising Stars, Rising Questions. And that features one of Nickelodeon's kind of groundbreaking guys that was a writer and producer of some of the first really successful shows. His name is Dan Schneider. And I guess there was a show called All That, and my daughter wasn't quite old enough at the time to enjoy it. She was still watching Barney, I think, at that time. But, like, for example, just the way that women were treated. So there was a couple of female writers that were hired. And, of course, when you're in Hollywood and you're aspiring to get a job on a set of a show or whatever, if you're a writer or a producer or, you know, even a guy that runs the mic or whatever, you want to get hired by a major network, right? Right. So these ladies, very young, both of them, and they got offered this job as a writer on the set of All That on Nickelodeon. And two writers went in and they were asked to split a salary. So right off the bat, you know, there's a big fat red flag for you. So these two women agreed and they went in and they worked for one salary. So they each got to take half the salary home, which is completely illegal, but I digress. So I guess Dan Snyder was a monster to work with. I guess he was a complete jerk. He had a filthy mind. He was always cracking dirty jokes and making the females that worked for him do lewd things. And he was just a pig, just a disgusting pig. It's just a disgusting pig. And he had a really, really tight, close relationship with Amanda Bynes. And I guess when Amanda Bynes came on the scene, everybody else that had parts in these different shows were kind of brushed to the side. And he was just a little too hands-on with Amanda. And, yeah, so this series has five parts to it so far. I'm not sure how many they plan to make or if this five is all they're going to bring. But I will give you guys more information about that as it becomes available. So we're going to take a short break. We'll be right back.
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SPEAKER 09 :
And we are back. I was just talking about the Nickelodeon, kind of the dark underbelly of Nickelodeon and the documentary that you can watch now. It's so far a five-part series. You can go stream it on Max, and I think you can stream it on ID Go, but it is called Quiet On Set. So go check it out. I suggest you go watch it. Maybe the people in your life who think Hollywood is great and nothing bad happens there can get schooled that this is not another conspiracy theory. So speaking of human and child trafficking, which kind of ties in with that whole Nickelodeon thing and the dark underbelly of Hollywood and the elite pedophile rings, where's Diddy? So I guess he returned to Instagram briefly, but you can do that from anywhere on the planet, right? He returned to Instagram with an Easter message from him and his daughter that he called baby love, whatever. The comments were turned off on his latest Instagram message, but don't know where he is. Rumors were circulating that he got in his private jet after his home was raided and escaped to an island in the Caribbean that has no extradition treaty with the United States. But the act-bad rapper is facing multiple civil lawsuits filed in recent months that claim the music mogul raped or sexually assaulted several alleged victims over the past few decades. Combs has denied all accusations against him, according to the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press. However, the searches are part of an ongoing sex trafficking investigation out of New York. Although Combs has seemingly been keeping a low profile, he has recently been spotted out with his twin daughters, Delilah and Jessie Combs. The music producer and his 17-year-old friends were seen leaving a Topgolf location in Miami on Thursday, according to photos obtained by Daily Mail. He flashed a peace sign at photographers as he exited the establishment. So there you go. Where's Diddy? But I'm hoping that this arrest of Diddy doesn't just blow away and blow over and get swept under the rug. I hope that it produces something of substance in this whole entire topic that really needs to be addressed. Don't you think? I think it's time that all these people get put behind bars. So another kind of a cool, not cool, it's not cool at all, but a very interesting recent headline. FBI agent says he hassles people every day, all day long. That's kind of a quote over a Facebook post. He says it's just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will, is what he claimed. So this is from, let's see, Matthew Petty is his name. Agents from the FBI Cyber Task Force and the Department of Homeland Security Investigations conduct a search in 2021. The FBI spends every day, all day long, interrogating people over their Facebook posts. At least that's what agents told Stillwater, Oklahoma, resident Rala Abdel-Jawad when they showed up at her house to ask her about her social media activity. And I don't care about this woman's name. I just want to talk about what this whole crux of this story is about. These three FBI agents came to Abdel Jawad's house and said they had been given screenshots of her posts on Facebook. Her lawyer, Hassan Shibley, posted a video of the incident online on Wednesday. Abdel Jawad told agents that she didn't want to talk and asked them to show their badges on camera, which the agents refused to do. She wrote on Facebook that she later confirmed with local police that the FBI agents really were FBI agents. Facebook gave us a couple of screenshots of your account, one agent in a gray shirt said in the video. So we no longer live in a free country and we can't say what we want, replied Abdel Jawad. No, we totally do. That's why we're not here to arrest you or anything, a second agent in a red shirt added. We do this every day, all day long. It's just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will. Shibley says that he doesn't know which Facebook post caught the agent's attention and that it was the first time he had heard of Facebook's parent company, Meta, preemptively reporting posts to law enforcement. Andy Stone, a spokesman for Meta, and Kayla McCleary, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Oklahoma City office, declined to comment. Meta's official policy is to hand over Facebook data to U.S. law enforcement in response to a court order, a subpoena, a search warrant, or an emergency situation involving, quote, imminent harm to a child or risk of death or serious physical injury to any person, end quote. the company received 73 956 requests from u.s law enforcement and handed over data 87.84 percent of the time in the first half of 2023 according to the meta website abdel jawad's facebook timeline is public so the fbi agents could have found it themselves but none of the posts on her feed called for any violence yes she posted some stuff that could be controversial but so have i a lot Ironically, Abdel-Jawad had also posted a warning about exactly the kind of government monitoring she was later subjected to. So how about that? So I didn't get that name. I'm calling in from home again. I got a call. We're going to go ahead and take that call. What you got for me?
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, this is Johnny. I want to go back to something you said about the... Well, you didn't exactly say it, but the crane that they're using, some people have wondered, like, where did they get such a big crane? Where were they hiding this? And what I understood, I don't know if you said this, but I guess in 1974, the, I don't know if it was the FBI or CIA, they found out that the Russians had this submarine, and the submarine had, crash underneath the water. So they needed a crane to lift it up, find out what secrets they had, and then instead of cleaning up the ocean, they dropped it back down.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, wow.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I was listening to a program this morning, and they were talking about where they got this crane from.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, were you talking about the crane that's going to try to lift the cargo ship?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 09 :
Have you heard any crazy stuff about the cargo ship's contents? No. Yeah, there was some interesting stuff that I saw regarding the contents of the cargo ship, and I didn't get a chance to dive into it at all. That's going to kind of be a whole other, probably a whole other show to figure out what was on board that ship. But, yeah, pretty wild.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. Then also, I was watching an interview with P. Diddy, and he was telling about how he's like love, and he made this comment saying he doesn't want people's dreams, he wants their soul. And that raised a lot of people's eyebrows when they were listening to this interview. And then in this interview, he talked about returning these artists' royalties to And then I saw an interview earlier with Aubrey O'Day, who was 17 at the time, and she talked about how he practically worked her and the band members that he was finding at that time seven years for free. They made all this money, like $48 million. Now, even though they had to sign it, he wanted the artist to sign a nondisclosure saying that you can't say anything bad about P. Diddy and his crew now and whatever, and you can get your royalties. But the royalties add up now to $800,000. Oh, my gosh. He says, I'll give you the $800. Just don't sign that non-disclosure letter because they can go on Hulu and they can do a TV show talking about what happened and make some good money. Wow. Yeah, he started stuttering a lot when he started talking about how benevolent he was to give back to these artists the royalty. And people in the comment line would say, well, he took off his glasses and that showed him that he was really, really being honest. And I said, but what about the stuttering? Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. So, yeah. Wow. Well, I think that, I mean, P. Diddy is probably, well, they're calling him the Epstein of the rap world. You know, well, and I guess it's going to, who knows? I, you know, I would like to say that it's all going to come out when it all comes out, but it possibly won't.
SPEAKER 12 :
Reggie, who's on your station on Friday, he had met him, and he says that he wasn't a good guy. As a matter of fact, I guess Reggie Rocco said that he rented out his, because he had a mansion in Atlanta, he rented out his mansion to have one of these parties, didn't invite Reggie, but rented out the mansion. And so he... you know, saw a lot of things that were going on, and he was telling us about it, like, long before this stuff came out. Wow.
SPEAKER 09 :
Is he the guy that used to have the white party? Is that him?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
I haven't seen a whole lot about that white party, and, you know, because I remember it was a big deal. I think it was back in maybe the early 2000s or late 90s or something. He used to host that white party, and it was like the invitation of all invitations to get to that party.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, so... Yeah, just another creep. And on YouTube, they have this video about... And I don't know why a parent would do this. Like, a parent wants their kid to be so famous that they will let the kids go and be with these supposedly producers and so forth like that. And it turns out to be more of like turning out boys to be homosexual or whatever who are not... Right. And it's like, I just, as a parent, I just wouldn't, I don't know. Oh, of course not. But there's some parents, I don't know why, but there's some parents out there who did. Now, Taylor Swift's mother didn't do that. And even though Rick is a good guy, well, supposedly he's a good guy, and he's the one who founded her and worked with her, even though you know, that situation got her to where she's at. Her mother quit her job and said, I'm going to be on the road with you.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. Well, and that's a whole other line of conspiracy there with Taylor Swift being a witch and all that. I'm sure you've heard all that. But I'm not going to lie. I really like a couple of her earlier songs. I like the earlier ones. Not so much now. She's kind of creepy to me, but whatever. That's just my opinion. But yeah well i appreciate the phone call and uh give give me a call back next monday all right god bless we'll talk to you later so in finishing up with this fbi targeting this this lady um is she this lady abdel jawad um she has the right to refuse to to speak and she has the right to record the interaction that the fbi had with her She should not have stepped outside the house to talk to the FBI agents. It was wrong what they did realistically with where the community is at. I don't know if we have the bandwidth to go after them for it. That's her lawyer that's talking. More so, it's okay. Continue to exercise your rights. If they do contact you again, they're going to be hearing directly from us. We're going to deal with it. We're going to put them in check. And then there is an update here after this thing was already published. It says, after publication, McCleary provided the following statement. Every day, the FBI engages with members of the public in furtherance of our mission, which is to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution of the United States. That's hilarious. We can never open an investigation based solely on First Amendment protected activity. The FBI is committed to ensuring our activities are conducted with a valid law enforcement of national security purpose while upholding the constitutional rights of all Americans. So my advice to all of you just based on this is drift away from Facebook and from Instagram and from YouTube and go more toward Rumble and True Social and whatever, BitChute and some of those other non-communist kind of companies, for now anyway. who knows? They may suffer communist takeover at some point too. These, all these rumble, but I love rumble. Absolutely love rumble. Jim, what do you got for me?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. Hey, Karen. Hey, a couple of things here. Uh, first on that, first off on that, uh, briefly on that, uh, on that bridge thing. So I, I heard, uh, some people talking on the radio here last Friday. I truly do not agree with them. Uh, I believe that that thing was definitely some kind of a terrorist type of attack. And I think it is linked back to the Russians or possibly the Chinese. But the reason why... The people on Friday are going, well, there's going to be a terrorist attack. Why wouldn't they have done it when there was thousands of people on that bridge? That wasn't the whole purpose of the bridge coming down. The whole purpose of the bridge coming down was just what you were talking about. It interferes with commerce big time. which is costing this country billions of dollars every week by that bridge being closed down. That's the whole purpose. Did you see the bridge that got hit down in Oklahoma?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I saw something. I thought it was Arkansas, but yeah, the border of Arkansas.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, somewhere right around there. Yeah, that one. And now this one you're going to really love. This one I saw. So... Remember, what's that German guy's name when he said, or Bill Gates said, you're all going to start eating bugs? Yeah, well, let me tell you, it's already here, Karen. People are eating bugs whether you know it or not. Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
I think I talked about that, yeah. The cricket flower and mealworm.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, yeah. Well, ADM is very much into that. You know who ADM is? Arch Daniel Midland.
SPEAKER 11 :
No.
SPEAKER 03 :
They're huge. Yeah, they're huge. They're like ConAgra and Cargill and the rest of them. They're every bit as big. Yeah. Yeah, and so they were showing what products that cricket flour is. I love this product. The Cheetos. Did you see that on the Cheetos? No. Yeah, for God's sake. Yep, they're already putting it in, making Cheetos out of that cricket flour.
SPEAKER 09 :
Do they have to label it as such?
SPEAKER 03 :
I don't know. I don't know. They have a whole... And then listen to the other one. And I guess Chick-fil-A even openly has admitted to it that you're not eating real chicken. You're eating manufactured chicken.
SPEAKER 09 :
And I have seen some of the videos where they take that chicken and it just comes apart like in strings. Have you seen those?
SPEAKER 03 :
I haven't seen those. But I did see how you could test your chicken, though, at the store. I think it's primarily your boneless chicken. And I guess Walmart is really leading the pack on this. Take yourself a little magnet and go to the store and lay it on top of the chicken and turn your chicken upside down. It will not fall off.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, boy.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, it just makes you just want to not eat anything ever again. Ever. Wowza. Isn't that crazy?
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, my gosh. I think people better really start paying attention to what they're eating, Karen.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, the bioengineered food ingredients is just the tip of the iceberg, evidently. We're going to have to worry about crickets now, too. Yuck. All right, thanks for ruining my appetite, Jim. Thanks a lot. You bet. You bet, man. Bye. We'll see you later. So, yeah, and one thing, one last little tidbit that I really, really want to know, and I guess I have a conspiratory, I don't know how you say that word. I have a conspiracy mindset. You guys know that. And with the whole Kate Middleton thing and her, I understand what the official story is, as do all of you. She went in for abdominal surgery in January. She hasn't been seen. Then they found she comes out with this. You know, there was all kinds of speculation and all kinds of rumors and conspiracies going around that, you know, she's dead and that the royal family killed her and all this crazy stuff. Right. So then she comes out with this video that you guys have all seen, I'm sure. They've plastered it all over every single news broadcast network in the country where she's saying, yes, I'm still here. It's me. They detected cancer. I'm going to be beginning my treatment. She was looking very pale and very, you know, just not well. But, you know, her kids weren't there with her or her husband wasn't there, Prince William, whatever. So I, again, the conspiracy in me, the conspiracy-minded individual in me wants to question that. And A friend of my husband's was talking about the fact that people are saying that it was not her. that they've done all these technical measurements, like these measurements of her nose and her chin and stuff, and that it wasn't her, period. And with all the AI stuff going around, it's really hard to tell between, you know, the computer-generated imagery and AI with voices that you can put in that sound authentic. And, you know, I kind of thought it was weird the way she said the word privacy. She said privacy. And I just thought that was weird. But what do you guys think about that? I just think it's absolutely insane that this is even happening. We're having this conversation, but they very well could have made an AI video of Princess Kate and put it out there for the world to see and made it seem very believable. But experts who look at the video say, nope, it's not real. That's not her. So I don't know. I think it's pretty interesting and pretty crazy. So, Derek, do I have a Derek? Okay. What you got for me?
SPEAKER 04 :
It's Eric.
SPEAKER 08 :
Eric. Hey, Eric.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hey, Mama Glock. You're a great American. I got great news to bring you. Okay. Lay it on me. Civil Rights Act in 1964 was signed by LBJ. It's entitled. Six, 42 U.S. codes, 2000D, whatever that means. But D-Roy Murdoch, a black man, is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor that put it out there for everyone to see. that Trump can sue Letitia James for discrimination.
SPEAKER 09 :
I just saw that. Just as I was coming on the air, I just saw that headline. How amazing is that?
SPEAKER 04 :
That's great news. Yes.
SPEAKER 09 :
Love it.
SPEAKER 04 :
I don't know what he's waiting for. I just don't know why he doesn't put it out there.
SPEAKER 09 :
I know, right? Yeah, I really hope that we need a turning point, Eric. We need something big to happen, something big in our favor, not something big that destroys property or whatever. We just need some bombshells, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
Like that, and Trump, you know, and true social, I don't know why he's not putting it out there for the media to, you know, at least, I don't expect Fox News, well, Delroy, he's a Fox Business News contributor, you know, right on the other Fox News. But Melanie King, I got her podcast, and that's great news.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, absolutely. And, Eric, we're going to have to cut it short. We're almost out of time, but I appreciate the call and hope to talk to you next Monday. See you next Monday. Okay. Real quick, I got a joke for you guys. So a not very tech-savvy mom texts her son, Hi, son, what does I-D-K-L-Y-N-T-T-Y-L mean? He texts back, I don't know, love you, talk to you later. The mom texts him back, says it's okay, don't worry about it, I'll ask your sister, love you too. So anyway, I thought that was funny just for you techies out there that have to abbreviate everything. Thank you so much for listening today to Shooting the Breeze. I'm Karen Murray. Come on down to Franktown Firearms. Take a class. Meet everybody. We'd be glad to shake your hand. More next week from the conspiracy-minded. You can strap on your tinfoil helmet and join me next week. Until then, Mama Glock is out for now. God bless, everyone. Take care.
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Angie Austin welcomes Pastor Larry Huck to share the astonishing story behind his book From Junkie to Jerusalem. In this heartfelt and jaw-dropping interview, Larry walks listeners through his journey from heroin addiction, violence, and international drug smuggling — all the way to a supernatural encounter with God that turned his life around. It's a story about transformation, redemption, and the unmatched love of Jesus. Whether you’re struggling or know someone who is, this episode will remind you that no pit is too deep for God's rescue.
SPEAKER 01 :
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SPEAKER 03 :
Hey there, friend. Angie Austin here with the good news. You know, always fun to have new people on the show. Larry Hutch is joining us, and he is the author of From Junkie to Jerusalem. I don't even know what to expect with you, Larry.
SPEAKER 02 :
I know. You know, Angie, I've thought about writing. I've had so many people say you ought to write. a book on your testimony of what God did, because it's so unique, so rare. And, you know, I finally just decided to do it. And I wrote it for two reasons. One, to tell the story, and I tell quite a bit about the darkness that I was in with drugs and violence and drug smuggling and all those things. And I wrote it, one, Angie, to let people know that no matter what, Maybe it's them. Maybe it's somebody they love, a child, a grandchild, whoever. And you look at it and you go, you know what, is there any hope for me or is there any hope for my child, my grandchild? And so I wrote it to let people know no matter how deep of a hole somebody may be in, God's love is deeper still, or no matter how dark it may seem, God's light is brighter. And, you know, there's a, you know, my mother told my wife a few years ago, she said, when Larry left South St. Louis and ran to Arizona, she said, I never thought I'd see him alive again, because she knew of the, she knew I was a drug addict. She knew I was using heroin and cocaine. And she knew the violent people that I was involved with in drug dealing. And, you know, there's a saying on the streets, once a junkie, always a junkie. There's a saying that, you know, you'll never change. You'll never change. But that's what the world says. But the word of God says, who the son sets free shall be free indeed. And so I wrote it to give people hope that if God, God is no respecter of persons. If God can do this for me, he can do it for anybody. But then I wrote the Jerusalem part to share that, you know, when you give your life to the Lord, when you surrender your life to Jesus, it's a journey that is amazing. God said, if all the Lord did, Angie, was die for us and forgive us our sin, we can make heaven our home. We couldn't thank him enough. We couldn't praise him enough. But he said, Jesus said, I've come to give you life and life more abundant. And so who would have ever thought that somebody like me from inner city, South St. Louis, drug addict, drug dealer, would end up sitting with President Trump, Prime Minister Netanyahu. And so that's why I wrote the whole story from junkie to Jerusalem, that God has a destiny for all of us that is amazing. Just give your life to Jesus.
SPEAKER 03 :
You know, besides the book, From Junkie to Jesus, you're a pastor, and your church, New Beginnings Church in Texas, non-denominational, but you've pioneered seven different churches, I understand, in America and Australia. Is that right?
SPEAKER 02 :
That's correct, yeah. We pastor here in Bedford, Texas, right in between Dallas and Fort Worth. And my wife and I have a television program that's on every day around the world. And we teach our Jewish roots of Christianity. We go all the way back to the Hebrew, what the word says. And through that, we teach people to love and stand with Israel and the Jewish people around the world. And so it's an amazing journey. We have just great, great partners from all over the world. And it's been a fun ride so far.
SPEAKER 03 :
So you went from being a talented football player to a drug addict and dealer to a pastor who was, you know, touching the lives of millions through, you know, radio, your TV show, and now your book from Junkie to Jerusalem. So let's get into that journey a little bit of how that all went.
SPEAKER 02 :
I mean, that's quite a journey. You bet. So, well, I grew up in inner city, South St. Louis, you know, in the hood. We all grew up, I think it was like a 750, 800 square foot home. We were pretty poor and, you know, grew up, you know, and I say this, my father's gone on to be with the Lord. My mom just passed away at 97 about two weeks ago, three weeks ago now. I was actually in Jerusalem when my brother called and she passed at 97 years old. My mom was an angel. My mom was just the sweetest, kindest woman. most giving, loving person. My dad, not so much. And I don't say it to put him down. He didn't know the Lord. And, you know, one of the things I teach Angie in the book, and I've written in other books on breaking family curses, breaking generational curses, is, you know, my dad was a pretty violent guy. He was a pretty mean guy. He beat us. He beat my mom. And I don't say that to say bad about him. You know, before he passed away, he received the Lord. But the thing, one of the, you know, we talk about being a junkie and a drug addict, but Probably my biggest problem was not the drugs, although I was totally addicted. My biggest problem was my violence. I was extremely violent, angry guy. I fought all the time, got in trouble with the police all the time. And I would watch my dad, you know, my dad, my dad. I heard my dad on the phone one time and I'm and I talk about this in the book, trying to get put me in a home, give me away. And saying, I don't want him. And I can remember hearing him say that. I was probably, I think, probably eight years old, seven, eight, nine years old. And I remember going into my room and I just broke down and cried. I said, my dad doesn't want me. And then I gathered myself as a little kid. And I said, nobody will ever make me cry again. And I just became really hard and really angry. My dad, you know, one time I came in about five minutes late for supper, and he just ambushed me and knocked me down, punched me, knocked me down. And, you know, I almost knocked me out, and then he kicked me through the – through the house. And, um, my mom came in and was getting the car keys and he said, where are you going? She said, I'm taking him to the hospital. You broke his ribs. And, uh, and he said, I'm not spending one penny on him. And, you know, and I don't say that to, to blame the Bible says we battle not with flesh and blood, but I would look at that And I would say, I will never be like that. But I became that very thing. I became the very thing that I hated. And so, you know... I went from, I went from, uh, inner city, South St. Louis. And like I said, you know, I tell the story, I just did a, I just did a TV interview and I was telling the story of when the snow cone guy came around and I think the snow cone was five or 10 cents or something. And we would have to come in the house because there's no way my dad's going to spend, you know, five or ten cents on us. I was the first Huck to ever graduate from a university. First one ever. And my graduation gift was a white shirt that I could wear for graduation. And so I looked at that and I said, you know what, I'm going to get out of inner city. I'm going to figure out a way to make money. And I went away on a football scholarship to play football in college. And I started selling drugs. I started dealing drugs and, uh, It just escalated from there. And I thought, well, you know, making money and not being poor, that's going to change me. And, of course, it didn't change me. It made things only worse.
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You know, when you were on that football scholarship, you're starting to deal, you're making money, you think the money is going to be life-changing for you. And then I understand then, you know, into the dealing after graduation, you know, selling drugs, setting up pipelines into the U.S. for the drugs. I understand. Did you feel like you had progressed to putting your life really in jeopardy at that point?
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You know, I didn't think about that. I really didn't. I know that sounds insane. That sounds crazy. But, you know, we were making money selling drugs, and I thought, I'm going to cut out the middleman. So I just got on a plane and went to – moved to Columbia, South America, started meeting certain people. And just a bizarre set of circumstance, I started to do a deal with this guy that was kind of a famous guy down there for a certain reason. I won't say what he did, but he was kind of a famous guy. And all of a sudden, people that I'd met knocked on my door and said, you got to come with us. And next thing I know, I'm in a village, outside of Medellin called Embigado. Uh, they put us in a ranch up on the top of the mountains. And the next day I'm meeting a guy that wasn't well known then, but he became well known by the name of Pablo Escobar. And, uh, I'm living in an Embigado. I'm living in his village. We're instructed only take his cabs. And, um, we began, uh, dealing drugs and setting up drug deals to smuggle cocaine in the United States. But the problem on top of that was we had pure drugs as much as we wanted. And I started doing cocaine several times a day. Then I started, uh, using the needle and hitting up cocaine. And then I started doing cocaine and heroin together. And, uh, it wasn't long. Yeah. When I left, when I left, uh, the States, uh, Yeah. I played football. I was, uh, uh, doing Olympic weightlifting. I weighed 212 pounds. I was a very fit athletic guy. And, uh, by the time I got back to the States, I weighed about 140, 145 pounds. All I was doing, all I was doing was drugs. And, uh, and I realized, uh, uh, I'm addicted and the long, long story, long story short, um, This sounds totally crazy, Angie. It all sounds totally crazy, Larry. Yeah, I know. Every time I do one of those, this ought to be a movie. And I don't know if you've ever seen the series... Oh, shoot, what's it called? On the drug dealing from Columbia, South America. Oh, I've watched a lot of it. Oh, yes, yes, I have. Well, you know, I've been sharing my testimony for years and years. My family knows my testimony, most of it. They don't know all of it. And we turned on when Narcos first came on, and Piz and I turned it on, and we're sitting there watching it. And I think it's the first episode. It's been a year since I watched it. And they show... Escobar's people meeting a contact in the U.S. down in Miami in a high rise parking lot. And the U.S. Wait, hold on.
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Hold that. We just have to take a break. I'm so engrossed in your story. All right. We'll be right back.
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Oh, my goodness. Larry Hutch, we are doing an interview with Larry, and I'm so engrossed in the story that I just lost track of time. So we took a break, and we're talking to Larry about his book, From Junkie to Jerusalem. And he is a pastor. He is on TV every day. He's on the radio. He's written this book, From Junkie to Jerusalem. And I'm just I can't even believe your story, but it should be a movie. So you were a football player. You went you were the first Hutch to graduate from college. You started dealing and doing drugs while you were in college. Then you graduate. You're in Columbia now. This is long before you're a pastor and you set up all these churches and you're doing a daily Christian TV show. And you're talking about how this is like the show Narcos on Netflix. And tell us about this. Jump back into the story, Larry. Give us a recap.
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Yeah, so if you've seen the series Narcos, like I said, I think it's the first episode. I'm not sure. And they show the contact in Miami and the American contact with Pablo Escobar's people. He's standing next to a yellow 1969, 1970 Mach 1. And we're watching this, and my wife Tiz goes, that's your car. And that as you watch that, a lot of that is me. That's that's I found out when I came back to the United States that I had been selling to an undercover agent and working undercover. in the drug smuggling with an undercover agent for a couple years. And so a lot of that story is stuff that they had recorded on me. And when I got back to the United States, I found out that there were seven warrants out for my arrest. And so I was meeting a shipment of drugs and got back to our home in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. And the place was torn up. And so I thought, well, somebody tried to rob us. So we had another place. We went there. That place was torn up. And a friend of mine got a hold of me. His dad was a bail bondsman in that area. And he said, Larry, they just arrested, I think it was 48 drug dealers in the Cape Corrado University of Illinois area. They made a mass bust at 10 minutes to midnight. He said, you're number two on the list. They are looking for you. And so I said, man, this is the prime time. Let's get out of town. And so we loaded up our hippie Volkswagen van and headed out to Flagstaff, Arizona. And Angie, this sounds bizarre. The whole time I'm going through this, from the time I was a little kid running the streets, staying out on the street, we'd stay out on the street all night long. We'd just stay out and get in trouble and break into places. And the whole time I'm doing this, I know there's got to be a God. But I never even thought of going to church to see if I could find God. It just wasn't in my thinking. And so I'd read this book about spirituality in Flagstaff, Arizona. And so I said, let's go there. Let's head there. And long story short, I'm hiding from the police. My mom is not telling anybody where I'm living. I'm sitting on my porch. I got long hair, needle marks up and down my arms. I'm just a stone cold drug addict. And I'm sitting on my porch. We're living in kind of the red light district, the bar area in this little place. And I'm smoking dope. And I'm watching this young Mexican kid by the name of Bill Trujillo. And he keeps walking back across the street, down the street, and they turn around and come back. And Angie, I'm thinking he's trying to get the nerve to come over and buy some drugs. And finally, I see him get to the end. I'm just watching him. I'm thinking this is hilarious. And he takes a deep breath and just crosses the street, makes a beeline for me. And I'm thinking he's going to say, do you have anything for sale? And the first words out of his mouth were, I've never done this before, but I couldn't leave until I told you Jesus is who you're looking for.
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Oh, my goodness. I can't even wrap my head around it. So this guy just walks across the street, and he says, you know, Jesus is the guy you're looking for. Yeah, I know that. You're blowing my mind here.
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Okay, so keep going. Just out of nowhere. I mean, you know, and I love to tell people don't look. I love the scripture, Angie, where God says man looks on the outside, but God looks on the inside. And that had to be the case. I mean, you got to pick. I was wearing earrings before earrings were in. You know, I'm definitely a drug addict. And yet he walks up to me, first person he's ever witnessed you. And, you know, it wasn't that long later that Bill had a strange accident and died from the complications of that. And so I love telling people his name. And I know every time I win somebody the Lord or I do something for the kingdom of God, Bill's getting another crown in his, another jewel in his crown. I know that. And so he said, I don't know. And so he kept coming over and talking to us. I'm living with these two girls who both became, then she became pastor's wives. And I'd sit there and roll joints in front of him and, you know, do drugs in front of him. And he just kept telling me how much Jesus loves me. So long story short, he won't, you know, we'd see him coming and we'd hide behind the curtains. And he'd keep knocking. He'd go, I know you're in there. I know you're in there. I saw you moving. So we'd open him up, and he just wouldn't stop. And he wasn't condemning. He wasn't telling us we're going to burn in hell or anything like that. He just kept telling us about the love of God. And so finally they were showing a movie at the church called The Gospel Road, and it was by Johnny Cash and Chris Christopherson. Wow. You know, it was the story of Jesus where Johnny Cash and they're singing it and they're narrating it. And June Carter played Mary Magdalene. And I like Johnny Cash and Chris Robertson. I said, OK, I'll go with you to the church. There's a church about 50 people, 40, 50 people. And I said, I'll go with you if you promise to leave me alone with this Jesus stuff, man. Come on, get off of it. And he said, well, I can't promise you, but you'll like the movie. And so I went with him, myself and Donna, one of the girls that was my friend. And I don't know if you've ever seen it. It's not a really well done, but it tells the story of Jesus that I didn't know. And at the end, obviously, Jesus with the music and the drama dies on the cross. And I'm looking at this, and it's touching me. But then the next scene of that movie is Jesus once again, same motion, same drama, same music, and boom, he dies just the same way on the cross, but this time the cross is in Times Square. And then it shows the same exact thing, boom, he dies, and this time it's in the streets of East L.A. So he's dying amongst drug addicts and prostitutes and street people. And somehow I knew... I didn't understand it. I didn't know what born again was. I didn't care anything about hell or heaven. But I knew he was what I was looking for. I can't explain it. I just knew. And so the pastor, as we do, gives an altar call and has people raise their hand. And I didn't raise my hand. to receive the Lord. And then he had people come forward and he, that became my church. He became my pastor. And he said, I, he said, I'm looking at you. And he just kept going with the altar call long and long and long. He said, and I knew, I knew God was dealing with you, but you weren't budget. And Angie did this day. Nobody came and said anything to me. Nobody come and, you know, ask me anything. I didn't raise man to this day. Before God, I don't know how I got down to that altar. I don't remember getting out of my seat. I don't remember walking down there. Next thing I know, Don and I are kneeling next to each other amongst these church people. And here's a great lesson that I've kept all these years is nobody came up to us and prayed with us. I mean, I had no shoes on. I had no shirt on. I had a poncho from South America, had earrings in my ears and rings on every finger, you know, those hippie spoon rings. And we laughed about it later, but learned they looked at me and they'd walk around and pray for somebody else because they'd look at me and say, that guy will never make it. And so I didn't know what I'm supposed to do or anything. I don't know why, how I got down there. And I just said, God, if you're real, be real to me. And all of a sudden I just burst into tears. And you go back to all the time when I was eight years old and I said, nobody will ever make me cry again. And I just burst into tears because I felt like a million pounds lifted off of me. And all of a sudden, the pastor who became my pastor, dear friend, he puts his hand on my shoulder and he said, God's really touched you, hasn't he, son? And I shoved his hand away because I didn't trust people. And I said, well, somebody did. And so then, you know, everybody went back to their seat and nobody in the church said hi to us. Nobody said anything to us. And we all use that as a lesson to learn. Don't look at the outside. Don't look at what people look like. Let God move and know that he said, come unto me, all you that are heavy laden. And Angie, I know this upsets a lot of Christian people. I didn't get saved because I was worried about going to hell. I didn't give my life to that. I'm from South St. Louis. We're pretty tough guys. You know, I didn't care anything about hell. Didn't even believe in hell. Didn't know anything about heaven. I got tired. I gave my life to the Lord that night because I realized somehow that I was tired of living in hell. And that something, by looking at this actor playing Jesus, that this Jesus they're talking about was going to bring me the peace that I've been looking for all these years. Wow. And we were so naive. And, you know, Donna got saved. I got saved. Our other friend, Gail, who became a pastor's wife, she was a nurse, and she was working as a private nurse for a guy who had cancer at his home. And so we went and picked her up at about midnight, And we felt when Donna and I got in the car, she goes... what was that man i don't know but did you feel that and she had and we felt so good we went out and bought a bag of a bag of dope and a bottle of whiskey to celebrate to celebrate being saved yeah that's how i mean we knew nothing we knew nothing about church and so we went picked up gail now the thing we didn't know about gail is she was raised in church now she was doing drugs with us and everything but she was a backslider she She knew all about. She was spirit-filled. And so we picked her up, and we're smoking dope. She gets in the car, and we hand her a joint. And we said, man, I said, you're not going to believe what happened today. She goes, what? I go, we got born again. She goes, you got what? I said, you know, you've heard of this guy Jesus? Yes. I said, well, he died for all of us. I'm not sure why, but he died for all of us. And seven days later, he rose again. And she goes, you're not born again. I said, no, no, we are. We prayed and we're born again. And she goes, you can't be born again and smoke that. And we go, why not? And she goes, we knew nothing. And so people say all the time, you didn't really get saved. No, we got saved, you know.
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You didn't fully understand it yet, but you're saying, oh, Larry, I'm going to have to have you on again because I've only gotten through about a quarter of the questions that I want to ask you. You bet. We've got about a little bit less than a minute left. I want to make sure that people can find you, Larry, and from Junkie to Jerusalem and also your program, New Beginnings, that is watched and followed by thousands and thousands of people that's on every day. So how do we find you?
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Well, you can go. We're on several channels, but the main channel we're on is Daystar. And it's under Larry and Tiz Huck. And it sounds like H-U-C-K, but it's H-U-C-H. And you can get... And your website? Our website is Larry Huck Ministries. And you can get that on there. And you can go to New Beginnings in Bedford, Texas. And you can get the book on Amazon.
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Oh, what a pleasure.
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I'll have you back, Larry. Thank you. God bless you. Thank you so much. I sure appreciate talking to you.
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Thank you for listening to The Good News with Angie Austin on AM670 KLTT.
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This episode of The Flotline explores the critical protocols of prayer and the potential pitfalls that can arise from misunderstanding these spiritual processes. Rick Hughes emphasizes the necessity of knowledge, humility, and grace in developing a robust spiritual life. Learn how to navigate spiritual drift by securing yourself with sound doctrine and fundamental biblical principles, unveiling the true essence of living a successful spiritual life centered in the Word of God.
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Welcome to The Flatline with your host, Rick Hughes. For the next 30 minutes, you'll be inspired, motivated, educated, but never manipulated. Now, your host, Rick Hughes.
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Good morning and welcome to the Frontline. I'm your host, Rick Hughes. For the next few minutes, I'd like to invite you to stick around. It's about 30 minutes of motivation, some inspiration, some education. And as you know, we don't use any type of manipulation. We're talking about soul renovation. That's the whole reason for this show. Soul renovation, not financial manipulation or anything like that. The purpose of this show is for you to build a flatline, give you information so you will understand what a flatline is. It's a forward line of troops, F-L-O-T. That's a military metaphor for a main line of resistance in your soul, inside of you, because of the way you think, because you've changed your thinking. You began to think in a different way. As the Bible says, let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. As the Bible says in Romans 12, 3, stop thinking of yourself in terms of arrogance beyond what you should think, but think in terms of humility as God has assigned each one of us a standard of thinking from his word. Therefore, if you look in the mirror, God gave you two ends, one end you sit with and one end you're going to think with. And success in life is always dependent on which one of those ends you use. Heads, you'll win. Tails, well, you're probably going to lose. So the Bible is clear about growing the grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and that spiritual growth, spiritual growth. And the only way you can do that is to accumulate some knowledge of God and establish in your soul a main line of resistance, a flat line. You know, today we want to talk about what a friend of mine brought up to me. I thought it was an interesting term. It's called a spiritual tumbleweed. You know, those things that blow across the desert, tumbleweeds. I often hear repeated phrases that don't make much sense to me, and I bet you've heard them too. I bet you've heard somebody say, I prayed about that. You did. Oh, I prayed about it. And they will tell you that. But a lot of times people don't understand the mechanics of prayer. They don't understand that if you have sin in your life, God's not going to answer the prayer because the Bible says, if I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. They don't understand that when they pray, they're supposed to go to the Lord Jesus Christ using his name to pray in his name to the Father in the power. of the Holy Spirit. Prayer has a protocol. We pray in the name of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit, pray to the Father. We don't pray to Jesus. Somebody's out there praying to Jesus, not going to get answered. Has to go to the Father. That's the way it works. That's why the Bible is very specific about following the protocol plan of God. Another term that I hear often repeated is our thoughts and prayers go with you. That's like sending flowers to somebody. It doesn't make any sense. Our thoughts and prayers go with you. What does that mean? Well, we're praying for you. Well, let's go back to the same concept. You're praying for me. What are you praying? Are you praying what is God's will? Are you praying for God to take it away? Are you praying for God to help me go through it? How are you praying? What are you praying about? It's critical if you understand the ministry of prayer that you understand how prayer works and what we are supposed to do in prayer. We can intercede in prayer. We can give the prayer of adoration, the prayer of intercession, other prayer of supplication. You can pray for your own needs, you can pray for my needs, and you can give praise to God the Father in your prayer. So, you know, smart people often do dumb things like that, not really knowing exactly what they're doing, but trying to sound rather sensitive and spiritual and sound like maybe that they have something spiritual in mind when they say it. They convince themselves that they are in the will of God by saying these things, and this comes from some sort of misguided judgment. in their mind or human viewpoint thinking over divine viewpoint thinking when they don't have any biblical rationale to make decisions. This is true especially of the parable that our Lord Jesus Christ gave about the Pharisee praying and the Pharisee saying, I thank God I'm not like this sinner over here. I do this and I do that. And Jesus said, nope, nope, nope. This sinner's going to heaven because he asked for forgiveness. And this guy over here on the other side, this Pharisee, was touting about how self-righteous he was. So that's a misguided human viewpoint, thinking that you're in right relationship with God when you're not, because there's no biblical rationale to make that kind of decision. So here's a principle, here's an aphorism I want you to remember, a maxim for you. Misguided judgment results in wrong conclusions. Misguided judgment results in wrong conclusions. Say it one more time. Misguided judgments, especially in regards to yourself, result in wrong conclusions. And wrong conclusions equal you wasting time and coming up with self-condemnation eventually from your own guilt. So let's make it personal. Just exactly how many times have you flown the coop thinking you're making the right decision based on some sort of misguided judgment when you didn't have accurate biblical rationale to make your decision on? For example, have you ever convinced yourself that you're in God's directive will for your life? Have you ever done that? You said, oh, I prayed about it, and I know this must be what God wants me to do. Oh, really? Well, what was it that convinced you that you were actually doing the will of God to start with? I hear you. I prayed about it, and then you convinced yourself of some false conclusion. I was recently speaking to a high school and listening to a board member tell me how the principal of the school decided it was now God's will for him to move on to another job. My question is, how could he know God's will if he didn't understand the spiritual life to start with? On what rationale did he make his decision? And I want to ask you the same thing. What are your rationales for making your decisions? Here we have the end of an NCAA football season and coaches moving, this coach going there, this coach going there. And usually it's about a bigger opportunity and more money. But that's not what the Christian life is about. How do you know what God wants you to do? How do you live your life without wasting time and going down dead ends because you rationally convinced yourself you were doing the right thing? If someone tells you they think this is God's plan for your life, then you need to stop and consider how that person came to that conclusion because you God doesn't authorize counselors, you know. I mean, I hope you're not going to some counselor and paying money to get this guy to tell you what the Bible says when you should be under a well-qualified pastor that can teach you what the Bible says, and then you can actually counsel yourself. Sure, there are people that need medical help and medical doctors and psychiatrists. I'm not saying that. But if you're having problems in your life, spiritually or mentally, you need the Word of God. That's what it is. The Word of God can clear your thinking up. It can give you absolute direction in your life so that you know what it is God wants you to do. So that you don't have to rationalize decisions based on seeking some sort of happiness. through people or circumstances, and that's usually what it boils down to. I prayed about it, and this seems like where I'm going to be the most happy over here, are these people are going to be the ones that I feel the most comfortable around. Circumstances, did you, let me ask you a question, think about this, did you fall for the decoy of Satan that eventually led you into being out of fellowship with God, some sort of Temporal spiritual death for the while until you rebound. Problem solving device number one until you rebound and get back in fellowship where you belong. It's a shame, but this happens every day. This show is hopefully to encourage you not to let that happen, to encourage you to learn what the flat line is and build a main light of resistance in your soul so that you're not given in to the decoys, so that you're not deceived, so that you're not discouraged by failure in your life. you can't rationalize decisions on wrong thinking anytime there's some sort of push for you to make a decision very quickly well you can probably bet god's not in it more than likely unless it's a decision to save your life and go quick you know i'm not saying that but if someone's pushing you to make a decision take your time you know car dealers do it more than anybody else you walk on the lot you take a look around And they got a piece of paper saying sign here before you even decide whether or not you're ready to do that. That's an emotional decision based on some sort of persuasion from the sales personnel. There's no push to make any decision in your life spiritually. So let's think about this. what decision are you facing right now and how quickly must you make it? Is it a decision about who to marry? Is it a decision about where to go to school? Is it a decision about what job to take in the future? What decision are you facing? Take your time. Take your time and let the Word of God counsel you. You don't have to be in a hurry. If you do not stop and determine God's directive will for your life, then undoubtedly you're probably going to step out of his plan. You know, Satan is certainly a master at using a decoy. Think about this. I've used this illustration before. Think about it. Think about the poor, dumb duck. He doesn't know that he's falling for a decoy. Those guys down there hiding in that boat with all that stuff over the top of them, got those ducks out there in the water, and they're playing that music and making that quack, quack sound. And the poor duck flies over and looks down and says, well, it looks real. It sounds real. It must be some ducks. So let's go down and join the party. And boom, he gets blasted out of the sky and winds up on the dinner table. Except people tell me it's hard to make duck taste good. So you go from being a beautiful, fast-flying duck to being somebody's dinner. That is not my idea of success. 2 Corinthians 2.11, lest Satan should take advantage of us, we should not be ignorant of his devices. And that's exactly what Satan will do with you. The Bible clearly says he goes around like a roaring lion seeking who he can devour. So with misguided judgment and a wrong decision, you can wind up being a dinner table for Satan as well. So any decision that you make, apart from what the directive will of God for your life is, could lead you to a convoluted and confused life. And I'm not talking about a week. I'm not talking about a couple of days. I'm talking about a confused, convoluted life. where you're thinking to yourself, how did I get into this situation? How did I let this happen to me? And the worst thing is you don't know how to get out of it. Discovering God's will is not necessarily an easy thing to do. I understand. It's related to knowing the scriptures. Listen very carefully as I read 2 Timothy 3.18, what the Apostle Paul wrote. He said, all scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training. In righteousness, teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training. In righteousness, that's God's plan for your life, so that the man or the woman, I'll add that, so that the person of God, may be thoroughly equipped for every good decision, every good work. That's what the Word of God is there for. It is there to be your guide. It is there to be your director. This is God's way of speaking to you. If you think you're going to go out into the middle of the swamp at midnight, and sit under an oak tree and breathe in the fog of the air and listen for God to speak to you, it's not going to happen. He speaks to you through his word. And more than likely, he's going to speak to you through the communication of a man that has the gift of pastor, teacher, communicating God's word to you. If you listen, sure, you can read your Bible, and sure, God can speak to you that way. I'm not saying that. But technically, to understand the mechanics of the Christian life, this is not a novel. The Bible is not a novel. It's a textbook. That's why it says, study to show thyself approved unto God. A workman that needeth not to be ashamed. If I gave you an algebra book and said, here you go, kids, study. Well, you're not going to pass algebra because somebody's got to explain it to you. It's the same thing in the Bible. That's why God gave people the gift of pastor teacher, so they can explain it to you, so that you can understand what it is that God is trying to teach you, why he's rebuking you, why he's correcting you, and why he's training you in the plan that he wants you to live. You know, the bottom line is God operates under protocol. We understand that. You know, look at it this way. If the president of the United States walked into your periphery, you wouldn't go up and say, call him by his first name. Hey, Donald, how you doing, Donald? Good to see you, Donald. You'd say, Mr. President. You might not even like him, but at least you understand protocol, Mr. President. And that's the way God is. God, there's protocol. I hope you don't think when you get to heaven that you're gonna run up to the throne of God and slap him on the back and say, hey, God, it's me, Herbie, and I made it. There's protocol in heaven also. God is a God of protocol. And thus he's provided these procedures and these principles from the Bible so we can live his life. But they've got to be learned. They've got to be learned. I mean, here's a fair question to ask you. Do you have a hunger for knowledge? Is knowledge pleasant to your soul? Are you willing to commit to studying the Bible more than five minutes a day? I see people on Instagram and Facebook who are committed to working out. And they go to the CrossFit gym and they work out every day for an hour every day to make sure that their body is in peak condition and hopefully they're going to live a long time and feel great. Well, do you work out for God every day? You see, I've been telling you this for a long time. The ideal workout is for you to open your Bible and you to sit down and listen to a qualified pastor teach you God's Word every day. You say, well, my church doesn't meet every day. I understand that. Most churches meet about 30 minutes on Sunday morning, about 30 minutes on Sunday night, and about 30 minutes on Wednesday night. And that adds up to an hour and a half a week of biblical instruction. You cannot grow up on an hour and a half a week. Fortunately, there are places you can get more information. And I have told numerous people over this radio show who contact me where they can get it free, how you can get DVDs and MP3s from well-qualified pastors everywhere. that will teach you God's Word. And you can sit down in your home, at your desk, at your table, with a cup of coffee or a glass of tea, get out your Bible, get out your notebook, and take notes and learn it and apply it and glorify God in your life. It's available, but you don't have the time. That's what I run into. They don't have the time. Even those that I know closely don't have the time to study. I'm raising children. I have a busy day. I just don't have the time. I guess I could get up an hour early in the morning, but I'd be so sleepy by then. You will find the time when you're ready, I promise you. If you want it, you'll find the time. But knowledge right now is not pleasant to your soul. You're not willing to grow spiritually. You're not willing to do that. You're not willing to put in the time to study God's Word, are you? You're not willing to learn these procedures and these principles for living the Christian life. You don't have that hunger for knowledge. Many believers like this are what I call tumbleweed believers. What's a tumbleweed believer? He's blown all around by every strange doctrine that comes up. Blown around, Paul wrote about it in his letter to the Ephesians. that the gift of pastor-teacher was given for a reason so that believers would not be blown all around. Ephesians 4.14, that we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine. That's the tumbleweed believer. That comes from the slight of man and coming craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive you. Oh, there's some really religious characters out there that would love to deceive you. They'd love to get you to part with your money. They would love to get you to part with your time and dedicate it to them. They have a lot of plans and a lot of programs, but none of them are designed to help you grow spiritually. You can't afford to be a tumbleweed believer. Paul wrote to Timothy, you need to hold fast to that form of sound doctrine which you've learned from me. Hold on to it. Don't be distracted. You see, the deceiver Satan is a mighty convincer, and without solid, sound Bible teaching, you you you that are listening to me right now you may find yourself involved in some weird stuff in the name of religion are you one of these spiritual drifters who moves from one church to another and you never really get what it's all about since you live off your emotions i don't mean to make you mad but is that happening whatever service makes you feel good get you closer to god I've heard this before. It's so good. God was here tonight. We felt him. Listen, when you leave the building, God is still there because he's eminent and transcendent. God is eminent and transcendent. He's omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent. So you're not going to summons up more of God by singing praise and worship songs over and over again until you lose your breath. You want to get to know God? Get into the Word. That's why Jesus Christ said the Holy Spirit will come and tutor you and mentor you, and that's why God gave you the spiritual gift of pastor-teacher to direct you to the Scriptures. The spiritual drifter is a pastor-shopper, one man who's like a tumbleweed drifting from one pastor to another pastor, and he's usually confused, usually misdirected, never really living the spiritual life, instead going for spiritual emotional highs, lack of knowledge, no associated wisdom from understanding. I was talking to a friend of mine the other day who's a pastor and one of his best friends in life, a guy that actually led him to the Lord Jesus Christ, now considers himself to be something radically different than he was back 20 years ago. I've known pastors who changed their mind, who were going down one way and made an abrupt turn and all of a sudden don't believe in this anymore. Now they believe in that. They change their doctrine. They change their view. And they convince people to stick with me. You know I love you. You know I wouldn't mislead you. I know this is not what we learned together 20 years ago, but I found something new. So let's go down this road for a while. That is a pastor that's a drifter, and that's bad. If you're under one of those drifting pastors, that's a tough thing. So I'm encouraging you, get under the ministry of a well-qualified pastor and grow spiritually. A lot of people write to me and say, where can I find one in my town? I mean, I get letters all the time from people like you. Where is there a church in my town? I don't know. I don't live there. But if there's not one locally, I can tell you where to get it. I can tell you how to get it freely so that you can grow until God shows you where you belong. So the Flatline, this radio show, is about you understanding these things. It's about you understanding how God's plan works in your life. That's what it's about. It's about how the plan works in your life. Here's a question for you. What is a spiritual life? What is that? When you talk about a spiritual life, what exactly is that? And where do you live the spiritual life? Look, if I was in your presence right now, I'd be looking at you. I'd be looking at your image and your style. I'm sitting in a recording studio and you would be looking at me sitting here with a headset on and a pair of slacks and a loose fitting shirt talking on the microphone. But that's not the real me. That's what you would see. The real me is what you can't see. It's what I'm thinking inside my head. That's why the Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so he is. So guess where the spiritual life is lived? The spiritual life is lived in your thoughts, in your thoughts. That's why it says, let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. You have to renovate your thinking. That's why I told you this show is about soul renovation, not manipulation. getting you to renovate the way you think so that you can be a well-qualified believer yourself and you can have a significant impact in the devil's world. God is looking for good men like you, good women like you, people like you who are hungry for truth and who want to learn it, who are willing to take whatever time it means necessary. That's what God's looking for. So that's what the Flatline is about, to keep you away from emotional highs, not to get you to something, go down some emotional road. Sometimes people ask me, do I live near an airport? The answer is no. I live near a big highway, and I hear these rumblings going by, which are big trucks going by. It sounds like a jet flying over, so please don't be distracted if you heard that. So the Flatline is about understanding how God's plan works, how the spiritual life works, how you recover from failure, how you fulfill the plan of God for your life. That's what this show is about. So without developing this ever-increasing inventory of biblical knowledge, then no one can understand or advance spiritually. And I said ever-increasing inventory of biblical knowledge. It's true in my life. Every day I study. Every day I learn. Every day I see things I didn't know before. It's amazing how Scripture is layered, and you can peel away the top layer, and there's another layer underneath it. And you're like, I didn't see that. Wow. Peel that layer away, and there's another layer. It's layered. It's a great treasure, the treasure of the Word of God. It's called in the Greek New Testament the thesaurus, a word treasure. As you learn the Word of God, it enriches your soul. It renovates the way you think. It gives you the ability to have a relaxed mental attitude. It gives you the ability to understand God and know what his plan is. understanding how to use grace orientation and biblical orientation in your life. Two wonderful problem-solving devices. And where do I get that from? When the Bible says, grow in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. There's two devices. Grow in the grace, that's grace orientation, and in the knowledge, that's doctrinal orientation, of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. That's just two of the 10 problem-solving devices. Rebound being number one, the filling of the Holy Spirit being number two, the faith rest drill being number three, grace orientation, doctrinal orientation, personal sense of destiny, personal love for God and personal love for all, sharing the happiness of God and occupation with Christ. It's all there, all for you. I hope you'll take advantage of it. Stay in touch. Write if you want to get that book, Christian Problem Solving. It'll list them all out for you as well as a bookmark that lists them all. And let me remind you that we have now moved our show to podcasting. So you can go to Apple iPod or Spotify, the app that is available for podcasting, or any of the other podcasting apps and type in The Flot Line, F-L-O-T, and then up will come. There you can listen to Flatline shows 24-7 anywhere in the world because we're podcasting these radio shows. And we are also making available transcriptions of the radio show. So if you'd like to have a transcript, let us know. We can email it to you or we can send you a printed transcript of the show. We'll be putting those into a book form shortly. and I hope you'll enjoy that as well. I guess I better sign off. It's getting to be the end of my time. So until next week, same time, same place, I hope you will come back and join me again. This is Rick Hughes, host of The Flotline, thanking you for being here today.
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From blown temp tags to tailgating truckers and everything in between, this episode of Drive Radio dives into the growing madness on Colorado’s roads. John Rush and Ken Rackley talk about the worst driver habits (yes, we see you turning right from the left lane), pet peeves that get under every motorist’s skin, and why it feels like the DMV is handing out licenses in cereal boxes. Listeners call in with firsthand stories of radar traps, reckless buses, and the mystery of drivers who slow down after they tailgate. Plus, practical advice on oil changes, towing safety, and why Kirkland motor oil might be better than you think. Buckle up—it’s a fun ride and a full tank of automotive talk.
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All right, and it is Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for tuning in. We appreciate it. Larry Unger, of course, answering phones for us. Charlie Grimes, our engineer. Ken Rackley, Tune Tech Automotive, with us today. And thanks for being here because it's a beautiful day out.
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It's always great to be here. I appreciate you. It is nice. It is.
SPEAKER 17 :
For those of you that...
SPEAKER 03 :
Probably most of you by now have been outside, but if you haven't... You need to go there.
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Yeah, it is beautiful out. Yeah, it's warming up quick. Absolutely. So I'm going to continue on with a question of the day that really Andy, my cohort on Fridays, started last night on our daily show, Rush to Reason, and we had a few phone calls on this. I'm assuming we'll get some of these today because it does strike a nerve with a lot of people, and it is, what are your biggest, and some of you will have more than one, But what are your biggest driving pet peeves? And we haven't done this for a while. And there are a lot. And especially those of you that spend a lot of time on the road, I'm one of those. And some of you listening are as well. And I just – I'm sorry. I don't mean to be rude or anything along those lines. But it just seems to me – my wife was always laughing at me because I just talk to people as I'm driving. But they just seem to get – worse and worse and worse. We're not generating better drivers as time goes by. We are generating worse drivers as time goes by. Am I right, Ken?
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, by far. Yeah, exactly. With, I mean, you know, with... Transplants. Right.
SPEAKER 17 :
I'll just say straight up, between immigration, transplants, things like that, folks that are coming in from other states, other countries, and they bring their driving habits here, I'll just tell you straight up that there's a lot of people out there that... that just don't have the same driving capacity that I don't even – I'm just being straight up honest, folks. I don't know how some people get their license. I literally – I watch how some of these people drive.
SPEAKER 03 :
I just wonder, how did you pass a test? Do they even have one? Well, that's the other thing. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 17 :
I didn't think about that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right-hand turn from the left-hand lane. I mean, that's just at 60 miles an hour.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, I can't argue with you there, Ken. No.
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Or stopping in the right lane to get over to the left lane and with the turn signal on, expecting people to stop and let him over.
SPEAKER 17 :
I know.
SPEAKER 03 :
I don't know.
SPEAKER 17 :
No, I cannot disagree with you on that one. It's like, did you pass one? You probably didn't because you don't have a license.
SPEAKER 03 :
I take a deep breath and I say, I'm going to get where I'm going. I'm not going to let them bug me. It took me a long time to get there.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, I've gotten to the point, and there's a method to my madness here. Because, yes, there is a cost to this. And you guys know that I drive from the west side of town all the way out here southeast every single day. And in a lot of cases, I'm driving the I-70 corridor, which we now have an HOV lane in. And, yes, there's a fee to drive in the HOV lane. But I will tell you straight up. Not necessarily even for the time factor, which, yes, my time is valuable, and I like to get where I'm going so I can do other things, even when the show's done or whatever the case may be. But I will tell you straight up that unless there's light traffic... I will automatically get in the HOV lane because I feel like my area of protection around me, I've got a larger cushion, I guess is what I'm trying to say, when I'm in the HOV lane from all of the knucklehead drivers than I do in all of the other lanes of traffic in I-70. And even though I'm paying to be in that lane, I could negate all of the savings that you may find from not being in that lane with just one mishap.
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Right, yeah, exactly.
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So the way I look at it is I'm actually saving money potentially by being in the HOV lane than I am in the regular flow of traffic just because the amount of people that are in those other lanes that I look at at times, I just wonder how in the world you guys make it from A to B. Yeah, right, yeah. There's times I just shake my head. And, I mean, folks, this means everything from, I mean, we're talking about delivery truck drivers to semi-drivers to people in cars, buses, on down the line we go. I mean, this is shocking, by the way. On my way last night to pick up Richard. You guys all knew that he was on vacation this week, so I went out to the airport to pick him up. And I'm not joking. I don't drive slow. I drive, you know, I want to get where I'm going. And I'm on the way to the airport last night, and I am literally darn near racing an RTD bus that is in a 35-mile-an-hour zone doing about 60 around a corner. And I'm thinking, where in the world is this guy going? Because normally they're the ones blocking traffic, not trying to run you over. But last night I about got run over by one. Because I wasn't doing 60 through the corner. And I'm thinking, where are you going? And that doesn't normally happen that way. So my point is, it's all across the board as far as the driving individuals that are out there. But that is the question of the day. What is your driving pet peeves? We're kind of highlighting just where we're at as a community. as a state and an area and so on and i'm just telling you folks it's not going to get any better it's going to continue to get worse and all i can say is be defensive in your driving be watching keep your head on a swivel be watching all around you at all times because otherwise you're going to find yourself in a mishap john and cheyenne go ahead sir
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So I told Larry, I just drove my wife to the airport, so I got a few.
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Just today, huh?
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Just today. So first thing is why is the highway patrol running radar north of Wellington again?
SPEAKER 17 :
Money. It's a cash cow for them, John. I mean, honestly, that's all it is. It's a cash cow.
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And they had somebody pulled over, you know? I understand if you're doing 95, but everybody's doing between 80 and 85 in that stretch because there's nothing there. And he's pulling people over. So the other thing, you're in the express lane, the cold express lane, although the one on the north side of 25, they haven't turned the toll on yet, right?
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Well, where at? I mean, it's on from, if you're going north on I-25 from, say, you know, the 270 area, it's on all the way up to where it breaks off at about, what is it, 160th or so? Not quite that far?
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Well, what I was going to say is from Buc-ee's to Fort Collins.
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Oh, that one I don't know about. Yeah, that one I'm not sure.
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It's not on yet. Okay. They still have the sign tollway. Gotcha. So everybody's in it, right? Yeah. I'm doing seven over the limit, and I got a guy tailgating me. Yeah. And there's Colorado Highway Patrol out there. Sure. So I slide over to get out of his way, and he slows down.
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Those are the ones that really bug me. It's like you're on my tail, but yet I slowed down. You know, I got out of the way, got over a lane, whatever the case may be. Go by. And now you're not going by me. Why?
SPEAKER 05 :
Right, exactly. You're running interference. The same thing is when you're driving on a – people that – Want to go faster, but only if you go fast.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, because they want you to be the target.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, right.
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You're in the lead.
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Right.
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And who knows? They might pull you both over because you're speeding, he's speeding, and he's tailgating. So, you know, who knows?
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I've actually had that happen to me, Scott, 40 years ago in upstate New York. He pulled five of us over at once. Wow. And I got out of it. I was in military uniform at the time. And he asked me where I was going, and I told him. And he goes, well, I'm going to let you go this time because you're in uniform. That was the only reason I got out of the speed circuit. Everybody else got one. I was very happy. I was very thankful. But the other thing, the other pet peeve is truckers that don't understand that if they're going uphill in a headwind, you can't pass.
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Right.
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Get out of the left lane. And they live in the left lane on I-80 between – Cheyenne and Laramie goes from 6,000 to 8,600 feet. And there's always a headwind. Yep. All right. I would say like 90% of the time.
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You're right. I see the same thing even in town here, John. It's like, first of all, why are you guys in the, even in town, why are you in the left lane? You're not as mobile. You shouldn't be there. There's four lanes. Get in one of the other three and stay out of the, just because there's an HOV lane there doesn't mean that you can get in the left lane because the HOV lane is not the left lane. It is the express lane.
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Right.
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Get out of the dang left lane.
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The passing lane.
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That's right.
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Well, Didn't Colorado back about seven or eight years ago pass that law that says you're not supposed to ride the passing lane? Right. How about instead of having that trooper up north of Wellington, have him enforce the passing lane?
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Don't get me started, John. We enforce and we do, in my opinion, all of the... Why not enforce still the amount of license plates I see running around... that are expired on a hard tag or the temp tags that are anywhere from two months to a year that are out. Why are we not enforcing that? I'm paying my way. You're paying your way. Ken's paying his way. They're not paying their way. Why are they not? And I'll tell you why they don't get pulled over. There's no revenue there. The only revenue that comes in is wherever that person lives in the county they live in when they go to register the vehicle, because here's what happens. The guy goes down to the courthouse with his ticket. Let's say, in other words, he lives in Jefferson County, but he got a ticket in Denver for having expired tags. The problem is he can get out of that ticket for the most part, maybe pay a teeny, teeny fine, not enough to really make it even worthwhile for the cop to stop him, because all they have to do is show the DA they've got it registered, and at the end of the day, that ticket goes away. That's the problem with why there's not more of those written.
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Right, but I saw a thing on Fox News out of Denver, because I watch that for the weather in the morning, where Aurora started enforcing it, and they got a ton of cars impounded. They did. Impounded.
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They took a little different approach, and I think what they ended up doing is upping their fines for how that works and the impound and so on. I don't know how—I should actually, during the day show— get somebody on from there and actually ask, did this thing really accomplish what you wanted, or did it just become a much bigger headache for the city of Aurora?
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I don't know, but they said that it's...
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keeping people from not renew getting people to renew their plates i guess would be the way to say it well and i would say maybe if you live in aurora arapahoe county maybe it is um and adams county is part of aurora i believe um but i will tell you that i still see john i mean i can i drive a lot of a lot of windshield miles daily there's still a ton out there yeah oh i saw it this morning and
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In Wyoming, my wife forgot to renew her tags, and I didn't catch it because I usually just let her worry about her truck. And so she didn't renew her plates, and when she went in to renew them, they said, if you want to renew your plates, you've got to renew them from the last time you renewed them. So you've got to pay the double.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, you pay back and then pay, yeah.
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Yeah, go all the way back and do it. So I reminded her, so now she put it in her – in her Google calendar when her, her plates are due every year, even though they send you a card in the mail.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. She put a reminder in there just in case. But, John, it's getting crazier because we had one of our linemen on a trouble order got hit. A guy ran a red light and he didn't have a driver's license. He barely spoke English and the cop didn't do anything about it. They don't want to take, I don't know if it's, I guess it's the time. They didn't just want to have the guy, shouldn't you be arrested if you get in an accident without a driver's license?
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, I think you should be, but you're going to find very few in the law enforcement end of things that will agree with me.
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Well, they don't want to do it because they don't want to do the paperwork just to have the DA say, well, we can't prosecute him because we don't know who he is. And he had a company vehicle, so of course that went on the company. At the end of the year, you know, that's in the You know, in the whole budget, this is how much, you know, we had to pay to get this truck fixed. And, you know, I work for utilities, so your electric rates just went up. Or your gas rates. Because that's all rolled into the, you know, cost of doing business. Like, you know, from your landscaping business, if somebody hits a truck, that's going to, you know. The other thing, if I could jump back. If I could jump back real quick to what Cub Creek, what you were talking about, what Excels wants to do is called demand side management. And we had to go to that because you can't build a new power plant. So where's this power to feed all these extra electric things coming from? If you can't do supply side by building another plant and have more on the grid, then you've got to do it on the demand side by changing the way we build. And that's the only thing. I just wanted to say that because I was laughing when they were saying, well, they want to lower your rates during the peak time. Well, yeah, that's because we don't have any money.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yep, you got it.
SPEAKER 05 :
John, have a great day.
SPEAKER 17 :
You too, man. Appreciate you. Real quick before we go to break, somebody texted in, 2017 Chevy Tahoe 5.3 engine. There is a slight engine clatter on first startup, first part of the day. It lasts less than a second, then it immediately goes away. It doesn't happen again through the rest of the day. Any ideas? Yeah, what I would do on that particular vehicle, and Ken can chime in, I would use the BG EPR on the next oil change. That's the engine performance restoration. Let's see if we can't decarbonize some of the oil passages and so on that are inside the engine itself. We're not talking about decarbonizing the combustion chamber. We're talking about the oil end of things. Let's see if we can get things cleaned up, and then let's see what happens and whether or not that changes once you do that. That's a pretty easy, inexpensive fix, if you would, or... You're not hurting anything in doing it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Let's say it that way. All I can do is help. Exactly. You're not going to harm anything. And decarbonize the combustion chamber, too. Exactly. It's not going to hurt. No.
SPEAKER 17 :
So I would do that first before you do anything else.
SPEAKER 03 :
And make sure you've got a real good oil filter in there, too. That's right.
SPEAKER 17 :
All right. Wally, hang tight. We'll come right back. Don't go anywhere, guys. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 03 :
Right, and you can look on the bottle, and it'll say usually what refinery it comes out of. Midland or whoever. Right, exactly. Like Napa, most of your weights are Ashland, which is Valvoline. Yeah, that's another one. Ashland, that's right.
SPEAKER 17 :
So, again, Kirkland could be exactly the same. If you just look in it, it will tell you who it's bottled by. Right, or you just do a little research on, oh, what is this? Yeah, I would have no problem with that at all. Wally, go ahead.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Story regarding the gentleman that just made the comment about cop pulled over somebody without a driver's license and didn't do anything. Being down here in Tennessee, I don't know if you've heard, but in Georgia this week, a 19-year-old girl ran a stoplight. She was brought here at four years old from Mexico with her family, so she was illegal. She was arrested, and come to find out two weeks earlier, her dad had a 19 mile an hour over the speed limit. Neither one of them had driver's licenses, and they just deported the entire family after being here since 2009 or something like that. This girl was in college.
SPEAKER 17 :
I did see that. Yeah, I did see that.
SPEAKER 07 :
She'd never really known, but ICE arrested them, and The entire family is gone.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, I did see that one, Wally, and that's one where it's sort of like, I mean, I'm sympathetic on one hand, but on the other hand, there's rules, there's laws, there's reasons we do certain things. We can't just be willy-nilly about it and let people come in that aren't going through the other channels. And the other thing I would look at on that would be, you've been here how long and you're now not a citizen? Why? You could have been at this point.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and that was part of the article that we read was that he had just never did it, but they were both driving without a driver's license. So, you know, it makes you wonder how did they, you know, I don't know, even get cars, insurance. Well, they probably didn't have insurance. It makes you wonder, have they bought a house? Great question. And I understand what you're saying, because I'm sympathetic, too. On one hand, they've had a whole life here for...
SPEAKER 17 :
15 years but Wally in 15 years you could be a citizen I've known people I've got good friends that have actually gone through that entire process I'm going to go meet with one of them right after I'm done on air today I will meet with this individual that did go through all of those channels did become a citizen did spend the money that it took to make all of that happen is a very productive individual in our society by the way and went through all of those channels so I'm not going to I don't want to hear the excuse you know I just didn't have time. You know, I haven't been here long enough. Whatever the case may be, 15 years, you had enough time.
SPEAKER 07 :
And I know this is a topic for normally during the week for you, but it was just.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, it affects driving, so it does kind of correlate into what we're talking about today because I am one where, listen, I do it correctly. I have to get a license. I have to have everything insured and registered properly. I don't go for people that don't have licenses. I don't go for people that don't get their cars licensed and registered on time. I get it. Some things can slip through the cracks like John was talking. I'm not talking about those. I'm talking about the temp tag that's two years out. I mean, those are the ones, Wally, that just drive me crazy.
SPEAKER 07 :
I agree.
SPEAKER 17 :
So yeah, it does apply to what we're talking about because it correlates to driving.
SPEAKER 07 :
So you have a blessed weekend.
SPEAKER 17 :
You too, man. Appreciate you, Wally, very much. All right, let's do this. We've got calls coming in. Let's take a quick break. I did look, too. Kirkland Oil is made by Warren. Warren Distribution, which they make a lot of private label-type lubricants for a lot of other folk that are out there. And, yes, even if you buy Kirkland, and it has the DEXO symbol, for example, on it, that will still meet GM specs and so on. And Warren, by the way, is a very large oil company. So, yeah, I would not have any problem buying the Kirkland brand at all. All right, we'll be right back. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560 website, by the way, drive-radio.com. Ken Rackley with me today from Toontech Automotive. He's out here in Aurora, not far from the station here. So if you're anywhere in this Aurora area and you need work done to your vehicle, Ken is here to help you, and we send folks to him on a pretty routine basis. So if you're out in this area and you need something at all, look up Toontech off of our website, drive-radio.com, and Ken is there to help you out. Dennis and Lakewood, go ahead, sir.
SPEAKER 06 :
Hello. John, we bought a new Tacoma V6 in late 21. It's a 22 model, and, of course, it's a GDI engine. Now, I don't drive it much. I just looked at my records, and here it's been six months, and I've driven it 904 miles. Okay. I guess it's time for an oil change?
SPEAKER 17 :
No, not yet. You're okay. It's only been six months. You're 1,000 miles. You're going to find yourself doing it annually for the 1,800 to whatever, 2,500 miles a year you drive, Dennis. You'd be fine changing it once a year. In fact, what I would do is kind of put a calendar reminder of the time of the year that you bought the truck, knowing that's about the time of the year it needs to have the oil changed, and do it once a year and be done with it.
SPEAKER 03 :
First day of winter, time for an oil change. That's right. That's how I would do it. Exactly. Or Thanksgiving, yeah. Whatever you want to do. Exactly. Yep.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, you just saved me a lot of money and agony in oil changes.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, you do not need to do double a year or anything along those lines.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, the time frame doesn't really affect that.
SPEAKER 17 :
No, you are somebody that's unique. Yeah, and two, I would go with the— I do nothing, but I'm sorry.
SPEAKER 06 :
Go ahead.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, yeah, I was just going to say, you know, go with the BG oil change with the MOA and the PR and stuff like that. Yep, you'll be fine. And the MOA just helps extend that. That's right.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 06 :
Is that true even if most of my driving is very short distances?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes. Yeah, the MOA is going to help, you know, even there.
SPEAKER 17 :
But, yeah, you're not even close to your – And the short distances, in the old days especially, Dennis, we would say, yeah, you're probably a candidate to have it changed now, although the new vehicles and the fast warm-up times that a new vehicle has, that vehicle of yours literally within – minutes will be not at full operating temperature but they come up a lot faster than what they used to by the time you're done running whatever your little short trips are errands etc you're going to be fully warmed up and you don't really have any issues there it's not like it used to be right boy could i ask another question absolutely uh uh i i want to be able to inspect the brakes and uh
SPEAKER 06 :
I don't want to fool with the jack that came with it. I've got a floor jack that rolls, but it's not going to be a comfortable fit under the rear axle. this is a body on frame. Can I use my floor jack just to jack up from a frame point? Just jack up the pumpkin underneath the axle.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, I would just get under the center part of the... Make sure the front wheels are blocked if you do that because the wheels coming up now won't be... So as long as you're on a flat surface and doing it. But really, Dennis, honestly, on that truck, I'm assuming it's got some sort of a slotted mag wheel, something along those lines. And is it four-wheel drive? Four-wheel drive. It'll have discs on the back. With disc brakes, get a flashlight out. If the wheel isn't quite positioned right, just move a little bit one way or the other based upon where that wheel position is and look at your flashlight, and you don't need to jack it up.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and about how many miles are on it right now? 900.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, 900 for the oil change, and I'm coming up on 9,000 for the year. Oh, 9,000 total.
SPEAKER 03 :
Gotcha. You probably don't even need to look at those breaks until probably 30,000. At least. Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Or longer. Yeah. Okay. Now, that pumpkin has a... A drain plug right on the bottom of it. Yep. And that, I'm afraid of damaging if I jack there. You won't.
SPEAKER 17 :
Those are meant for even, you know, guys on those go off-roading, and so on. The way that drain plug is made and built, trust me, a little floor jack, and a lot of them will even have the rubber pad on the floor jack.
SPEAKER 03 :
I was going to say, if you have a rubber pad, you wouldn't have any issues.
SPEAKER 17 :
You would have no issues, Dennis, none. Okay. All right. Geez, thanks so much. And even if it didn't, honestly, for just what you'd be doing jacking that up, I mean, you would have to literally position, and I don't even know if it would even damage it then, even if you had the tong of the jack right on the plug, you might have a problem. But as long as you even, if you didn't have the rubber pad and you just positioned your jack face to where your prongs were away from that plug, you still wouldn't have any issues, Dennis. Common sense.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. Okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
And, yeah, and with 10,000 miles on that thing.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, you've got a long way to go.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I mean, you're going to look at those brakes and it's like, wow, those are like brand new. I hope so. Yeah, and I mean, and with the short driving you're doing, they're wearing very little.
SPEAKER 17 :
You, again, to Ken's point, Dennis, I mean, I would still look during oil changes and things like that just to kind of take a peek at it, but I normally would just do that with a flashlight. Or do you rotate your own tires or does somebody else do that for you? Yeah, I'd take a two discount where I've got the guarantee. If you're doing that, I mean, they should be looking at them as you rotate tires, but I don't know if they are.
SPEAKER 03 :
But they will, in a lot of cases, you know, once they get them off, just go out there or just ask them if you can go out there and look.
SPEAKER 06 :
Take a peek?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 06 :
I've wondered about that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. They used to. I don't know if they do that anymore. I don't know either. Yeah, I'm not sure. But, yeah, I know they've let me go out there before. But it's been a while.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. Thanks so much, guys. You're very welcome, Dennis. And, yeah, for a lot of you that are listening that have newer vehicles, maybe you're not driving a ton. In some cases, you might only be putting a couple thousand miles a year on the vehicle, like this particular case. Some of you that have extra vehicles where maybe you've just got your, quote, unquote, snow vehicle and you've got another vehicle you're doing all of your running around with. Some of us have those sorts of scenarios. I know Ken does. I do.
SPEAKER 01 :
Others may.
SPEAKER 17 :
You may find yourself having one vehicle that you just don't drive a ton. If that's the case, then everything we just said to Dennis would apply to you as well. That's something that don't get hung up on time yeah it's more of the mileage especially and this really applies too and i didn't ask dennis because in his case i don't think it matters much one way or the other but especially for those of you where you're parking inside sure you are literally you would have no problem doing a once a year for some of you that even have uh you know more of the you know let's say you bought a new camaro okay i'm just gonna throw that out there you bought a new camaro And maybe you drive it 1,000 miles a year. I will tell you that if it's stored in a climate-controlled deal, you honestly don't even need to change every year. You could literally, if you drive 1,000 miles a year, you could literally go to an every-other-year oil change. And if you don't believe me, pull the stick and sniff it. And you'll know exactly what I mean by that because the reality is that oil is fine.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, or send that oil out for, you know, have them do an evaluation on it.
SPEAKER 17 :
You're not going to have much wear and tear on it.
SPEAKER 03 :
The biggest issue with putting it off that long is your tire pressures, your other inspection, your fluid inspections and things like that. Absolutely can. I mean, an annual inspection is right. Oil and fuel.
SPEAKER 17 :
I mean, if you're sitting that long, your oil is going to be probably one of your least, you know, lesser. worries it's more of you've had fuel in there for two years the air pressure's down i mean it's more of those things as anything in other words if you're not driving it at all yeah make sure you're at least going through some of those things and yeah knock on wood i have one i haven't driven in two years which i know sounds really odd to some people but i had a really With all my folks' stuff we did last summer and my mom and her passing and just all the things that we had to go through last summer as a family, yeah, I didn't drive. There were some things I just didn't drive. Didn't have the ability to do so. The nice thing about modern cars, I'll just tell you straight up, even on the fuel side, With nothing being vented, everything being sealed, and I told somebody this last year on air, the plus side is fuel in those particular vehicles where you're not having any air in the system at all will definitely stay stable longer than what the older vehicles that were vented, your lawnmower, things like that. There's no recapture of that fuel and the vapors and so on. Yeah, those fuel can go bad faster. The modern vehicles, I'll just tell you straight up, modern vehicles, Can you let that fuel sit in there for six, eight months, even without a stabilizer? Yeah, no problem. It'll stay good that long without any issues at all. Are you helping yourself by throwing some supercharge from BG in it, putting a little stabilizer in it, not hurting a thing? But that fuel will stay stable. You won't have any issues, believe it or not. I don't let it go much longer than two years. Probably ought to get it down and run a tank through.
SPEAKER 03 :
The biggest problem is the stuff sitting on the injectors. That's right. That's where the supercharge and things like that would help. That helps. But, I mean, yeah, you just want to avoid that. I mean, you want to start it and run it. If you can run it, do so. Yeah, and keep the battery charged and stuff like that.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, and that's another one where, for those of you listening, where even in this case, Dennis, I would still keep a battery tender, do something. You'll find the batteries lasting way longer if you keep them up doing that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, exactly. And in a climate-controlled environment, too, they last a lot longer, too.
SPEAKER 17 :
Abs, yeah. If you've got a heated garage, something along those lines, absolutely they will. All right, we'll come right back, guys. Lines are open, 303-477-5600. Driving pet peeves is our question of the day. We'll be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, and we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Appreciate you all listening to us today. Driving pet peeves is our question of the day. The other thing, too, that Ken and I, I was waiting for him to actually be here to do this. Not that we don't have others that can, but Ken is big on towing and has some things that he tows and so on. So it's something that's right up his alley. And I thought with Memorial Day being just, let's see, what is it now? Two weekends. Yeah, away. So it's not next weekend, but it's the weekend after. So for some of you that maybe you're getting ready to get that, you know, toe rig out or the rig you're going to tow out or your toe rig as well. We'll talk about some of that as we go through the program today. And for some of you that maybe have even family members or folks you work with where maybe they bought a new toy, a new trailer, a new whatever, I'll just tell you straight up, and this is nothing against some of the – because there are some good ones out there, so I'm not trying to make this as a blanket statement, but the majority of people selling trailers – care nothing about the fact that you've never done you've never towed one before you bought it it's yours you're responsible they may help you back up hook up show you exactly how safety change should go on and make sure that the lights and everything work before you leave but once you're gone they don't care right and i'm not trying to be you know i'm not trying to throw those guys under the bus but right they don't just expect you to know what you're doing Yeah, they expect you to have a certain amount of knowledge as to how to tow a trailer and so on. I mean, there are enough YouTube videos of folks that do everything from taking a camper trailer through a drive-through, you know, taking off the canopy to fifth wheels that are huge and tall going through the canopy at the service station and knocking it. I mean, folks, these are all out there.
SPEAKER 03 :
Sure.
SPEAKER 17 :
You can go look up some of what I just said, where we're going to go with this throughout today is just some of the basic things on towing, what you need to do, how you need to handle certain things. And hopefully you can pass some of those things on to others, because how should I say this, Ken? It's not for the faint of heart, and you do need to have some basic understanding of what you're doing and what you're towing because, unfortunately, some of the biggest accidents, I believe, happen when folks either don't know what they're doing, they don't have the right vehicle for the trailer, they don't have the right combo, something gets out of control, they're towing a trailer that should have brakes, trailer brakes, or it has trailer brakes, but the vehicle isn't equipped properly, With with such and or they don't know how to set things correctly. I mean, on and on we go. My feeling is some of the largest problems and accidents that are out there happen from just flat out not having enough education on what you're doing in the first place. And that's where the accidents happen.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
And they are avoidable.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. Exactly. I mean, just your mechanical aspect changes so much on your vehicle when you hook up. You know, whether it be a 1,000-pound trailer or a – Or a 10,000-pound trailer. Right, exactly, yeah. And your brakes need to be set up right. If they have brakes, you know, not every trailer has brakes. Some of the smaller ones won't have.
SPEAKER 17 :
Some of your pop-up campers and stuff may not have, but –
SPEAKER 03 :
But, you know, you put 4,000 pounds behind a 2,000-pound vehicle or, you know, something similar, another 4,000-pound vehicle, you've got a lot of weight pushing you. And if you don't have the brakes set up right or if it doesn't have brakes, you shouldn't be towing it. Yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
And a lot of this comes down to, and I'm a big believer in having the right tow rig for the right trailer. And this is where it gets a little bit dicey. I've had all sorts of questions over the years, emails and text messages both that have come in on, you know, this is the trailer I've got. This is my tow rig. Am I okay? And sometimes I'll come back and say, no, I wouldn't use that setup. I wouldn't be doing what you're doing with that particular setup. I would be moving up to a larger truck or downsizing the trailer or something along those lines. And let me explain. I'm coming home from the show. I think it was either that or my wife and I were coming back for something. It was last weekend. And she wasn't with me, so I'm pretty sure it was me coming back from the show. And I'm literally driving next to An F-150, sure it was an EcoBoost. I didn't look to see, but more than likely because they've got plenty of power, and this is where the problem lies. So it's an F-150 EcoBoost with a gooseneck slant load three-horse trailer. Yes, it's an aluminum trailer, but it's still got three horses behind an F-150. Yes, the gooseneck helps and makes things a little bit more stable, but in my opinion, and I don't think I'm wrong here, I'll get Ken's opinion, too much trailer for the truck.
SPEAKER 03 :
Definitely.
SPEAKER 17 :
Sorry, but too much trailer for the truck.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I mean, that trailer is still going to be 4,000 pounds. You've got three horses in there. They're 1,000 pounds each, roughly.
SPEAKER 17 :
So you've got 7,000 pounds. Even though the truck will be rated for the 10,000 pounds, it's still too much trailer for the truck. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Don't care what anybody says. I mean, yeah, if you're putting a gooseneck, you— I just don't think a gooseneck should be in a half-ton truck, period. That's my opinion. Exactly what I was just going to say. Yeah, I mean, just, yeah, a gooseneck should not be in a half-ton.
SPEAKER 17 :
Right. And here's where some of the problem lies, too, folks. Some of you would say, well, it's got plenty of power. The truck's rated to tow up to 10,000 pounds. And I know all of that. And I get that. And that's what Ford has done and what they've marketed to. But keep in mind, especially on an F-150, you're a six-ply tire.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. Not a 10 ply tire. Passenger tire.
SPEAKER 17 :
So your passenger car tire on a truck because that's what they do to make them ride better and so on. So unless that person is upgraded and gone to a 10 ply tire. And yes, you can do some of those things. But I can tell you from looking at that truck, that didn't happen.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right.
SPEAKER 17 :
I'm just looking at the whole setup. And on top of that, I'm watching how they drive. Now, bear with me here. Some of you that maybe think, hey, I'm going to get a horse. I've got property. I'm going to get a horse. And I'm going to go get a trailer. Okay, that's fine, by the way. Knock your socks off. And Ken knows where I'm going with this. There is something about hauling a live animal... that is way different than hauling a camper trailer or any other kind of, even a car trailer. And let me explain. The way you take off and the way you slow down having live animals behind you is far different than you hauling anything else on the planet. Because those animals have to stay upright and they're riding with you. So you think about standing in the back of that trailer while you're jackrabbit starting or coming to a sudden stop because they're doing all of that in the trailer behind you. Right. And I'm afraid to say I have seen far too many people that haul horses especially because it's different than you guys that are hauling cows and so on because you know what you're doing. Sorry, if you've got cows, you know what you're doing.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's a whole other ballgame.
SPEAKER 17 :
But these folks that will haul around other live animals, and I've seen everything from llamas to horses to whatever, those are typically what I call the hobbyists. Mm-hmm. And in some cases, yes, I can tell a real rodeo guy hauling horses versus the hobbyist because it's way different one to the other. Just by what they're driving. Yeah, thank you. Even the rig. I can never look at the rig. The other thing that always bothers me is when I see the two-horse trailer behind a Grand Cherokee. Even though the Grand Cherokees rated enough to haul that two-horse trailer, I would not haul a two-horse trailer with two horses in it behind a Grand Cherokee. Just not going to do it, folks. Those are the combos I'm talking about that I don't think should ever be on the road and shouldn't exist. And the other thing that I will watch is how these people drive. how they take corners, how they go around even a stoplight and take a corner. Again, you've got live animals behind you, and I've watched the horses trying to catch their balance as Knucklehead is taking the corner twice as fast as he or she should have. Mm-hmm. So, again, lots of training that I feel needs to go into hauling trailers of any kind, by the way. And I'm still amazed at times that, you know, because there's no licensing, no testing that has to go into anything. And I'm not saying there should be. I'm not an over... You guys know me. I don't like extra laws and all that kind of stuff. But I do think at some point, common sense, and I know we have a lack of, but common sense has to come into play and say, wait a minute, I'm going to be hauling X with X. Do I really know what I'm doing? Have I done this before?
SPEAKER 03 :
Right, yeah. And I mean, there's...
SPEAKER 17 :
And the live animal thing, as I said a moment ago, you know firsthand.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 17 :
Am I right in everything I just said? Oh, sure.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you don't – I mean, yeah, imagine putting your dog in the back seat and just watch them how much they move, you know, if you're taking off from a start. You know, take a 1,000-pound dog. And then – And put it in a trailer. Yeah, and then slam on the brakes because the light turned yellow, you know, and watch that dog come flying up into the dashboard. And I get it.
SPEAKER 17 :
On a slant load trailer, the horses are kind of put in with dividers and so on.
SPEAKER 03 :
I understand all that, folks.
SPEAKER 17 :
I get that.
SPEAKER 03 :
It is a better way to haul them.
SPEAKER 17 :
It is, but they're still having to stand up.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, right. So they have to shift their weight from all the way on their left side to all the way around their right side. But when it happens quick, I mean, yeah, you've got to be really careful. Yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
And the folks that I see, again, I watch this particular individual. It was a guy. I watched this guy at this F-150 literally last Saturday, and I was going to remember that to talk about today because I knew Ken was going to be here. And I watch him take off at exactly the same speed I am. And I'm thinking, okay, I'm empty. You're not. You should not be taking off as fast as I am. You should be the last one away from the stoplight, not the first one.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I mean, just injuries and stuff like that to the animal and things along those lines. Not only that. I mean, it happens anyway. Not enough truck in the first place. Well, right.
SPEAKER 17 :
But here's my point with that. These trucks today, even the half-tons, and Ken can attest to this, they now have more than enough power. Most of them 400 horse plus, which back when I first started towing things in the late 70s, early 80s, we were lucky to have 200 horsepower.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I'm not exaggerating. That's pushing it. That was pushing it. We were lucky to get into the twos. Exactly.
SPEAKER 17 :
And your ability now with 400 plus horsepower and a lot better gearing and transmissions than we ever had back then.
SPEAKER 03 :
Better braking, better everything.
SPEAKER 17 :
The truck itself, yes, it will handle that much weight power-wise. Yeah. But it's still a half-ton truck as far as the frame is concerned. It's a half-ton truck as far as the suspension is concerned. It's a half-ton truck as far as the braking is concerned. And on and on we go. Transmission, et cetera. And the reality is, no, I am not one that feels that that is enough truck for that particular scenario and what's behind it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right, exactly. I mean, like you say, with the tires, I mean, yeah, and you can put airbags on them. You can do all kinds of stuff to make them better for that, but it's just, you know, you're better off buying the bigger, heavier truck. I think you need a three-quarter ton at that point. I'm sorry, you just need a three-quarter ton truck. I think, you know, a three-quarter ton for any dual-axle trailer, I mean, and I guess not necessarily. I mean, it just depends on the weight you're hauling.
SPEAKER 17 :
Agreed. And I have a lot of traders, and I do a lot of this stuff, and I have a lot of experience along these lines, and we'll come back again. I'm going to filter that through the rest of the program. Lines are open, though. We've got two more hours coming your way, 303-477-5600. Question of the day is, what are your driving pet peeves? Myself, Ken Rackley. We'll be right back here after the top of the hour here. Don't go anywhere. This is Drive Radio KLZ 560.
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In this enlightening episode, Father Andre discusses the global impact of the Mission of Hope and Mercy. From addressing systemic issues in Africa to advocating for religious freedom worldwide, Father Andre highlights the necessity of media in uncovering untold stories. Explore how embracing the teachings of Christ can guide us in tackling today's social and humanitarian challenges.
SPEAKER 01 :
In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER 02 :
Amen. At age 10, Father Andre escaped Christian massacres by living in caves in Mount Lebanon with his family. Today, Father Andre works tirelessly to encourage American leaders to keep God in the public square, defending religious freedom at home and abroad, so that all might live in peace for the glory of God. Founder and president of the Mission of Hope and Mercy, Father Andre has learned the secret to safety, joy, and peace. Love God and one another. Now, let us spend 33 minutes on the Lord's Day, retuning ourselves to the truth of love in the hands of God.
SPEAKER 01 :
Praise be the most holy name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, now and forever and ever. Memorial Day, which is a day of tomorrow, and we celebrate this long week as a federal holiday in our beautiful country of the United States of America. We mourn. We are happy yet. We are consoled yet. We feel safe because of the major sacrifices of many U.S. military personnel, even with their families, sometimes who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. We congratulate our president, President Trump, and the US government and the US people, every branch of our government, our military, everyone in our family of the militaries in the United States of America. We congratulate them on this beautiful and wonderful feast day. It is strange how sometimes sad occasions turn to become memorized, memorized in a way that they become a source of power for us, right? They become a source of reflection for us. They become a teaching school for us. They become somehow days in our lives that impact our behavior, impact our relationship and connection with each other, with the land on which we live. with a country where we pay taxes, where we do our due diligence and duties, and we receive, as we say, also our rights, our human rights, the entire Bill of Rights, as we say, according to our United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It's amazing to see that how many soldiers in the history of the United States have died serving our freedom, serving our faith, serving our family, serving our interests. You know, because of them, we are the largest economy in the world. If you come to think about it, Because of them, we are sometimes considered to be the police, the conscience of the world. I know many people may not like to hear the word, we are the police of the world. But, you know, it's a role that isn't somehow that comes with the greatness, right? That comes with us being exceptionally involved in the world history and the world's affair and the world's security issues. in the words of future, in the words of prosperity, by all means, you see that there is always a hand for the United States in the world. So I want to wish everybody a wonderful and happy and blessed Memorial Day. May God console the families of all the soldiers who might have lost soldiers. May God heal the wounded soldiers as well, who probably in battles Throughout the years, whether in active military or whether now in retirement or as veterans, they still hold in their bodies white martyrdom, injuries from the past, whether physical injuries or emotional injuries or psychological injuries, or unfortunately, injuries that go in their memories as well, not necessarily psychological by means of something bad, but they hold dear some memories. My mind and my heart goes in a very particular way to every soldier in our U.S. military who might suffer from PTSD, from post-trauma, and somehow, whether severe or whether it's manageable, may God bless them, bless their families, their friends, and all those who are supporting them. I like us in honor of this beautiful Memorial Day weekend, which also begins officially, you know, in an unofficial way, yet officially, but you may know, in an unofficial way. It's the beginning of the summer in the United States. And here in Denver, we feel the beauty every day of the summer, the blossoming, the trees, not counting the allergies, of course, and the pollens that we see basically flying around sometimes, floating around. Beauty comes with a little bit of a pain, but nature is turning green. There are beautiful days. There is a beautiful breeze sometimes. The temperatures are rising, but it's still tolerable. It seems we are having a springtime that is remaining with us. so far for a while. May God keep it that way as a balanced temperature. I want us to pray, one Our Father, one Hail Mary, and one Glory Be, for the rest of the souls of the fallen soldiers, and for healing, for consolations, for whoever, if they left behind a mother, a father, children, a wife, people who they meant in their lives essential things, essential support that today if they feel and somehow the void of the absence of their fallen soldiers. I want you to know this is Father Andre and this is Good Sunday Morning with Father Andre. And this is 33 minutes on the Lord's Day as well that we spent together. We are thinking about you. We embrace you. We hug you. We bless you. May God protect you from all evil. May God grant them rest to all those beautiful soldiers who probably died in the line of duty, believing, trusting that they were doing something good for our nation. For us, that our life will remain to be protected, will remain to be secure. Our land will remain to be the land of the free. And that we can prosper and we can live and express ourselves and continue to be a leading society, a leading beings in this whole world. Not by means of greatness through wars and through violence and through major acts of violence. leading the world, probably just economically or militarily, but also leading the world by being the most charitable people, probably, amongst nations on Earth. It is important to know that we in the United States as well, we have so many ways in which we can argue that actually we are a great people. Well, yes, I know, I could hear the criticism. Sometimes we are great in corruption, unfortunately. we are seeing the work of Dodge and what they did, what they discovered as far as things that our government was spending from our tax money and from the public funds on what programs in the world. Yes, greatness sometimes comes in a bad way, not necessarily in a good way, but nonetheless, taking all aspects of our behavior, if we look at every single aspect of our conduct, our behavior, our actions as an official nation in the world, the United States is still the best country on earth, by all means. And we are somehow the promoters, the engines that runs the entire world. And hopefully, because of the many sacrifices as we mourn today, yet we honor our U.S. military who fell in the line of duty, who died while serving us, serving in the United States Armed Forces. Hopefully, we will not disappoint them. We will make them always look like real heroes, which they are real heroes, regardless of what combats they will found themselves in. We know that through our behavior, by us clinging to the mind of Christ, being more children of light, being more obedient to the will of God, our divine Father in heaven, and stepping away, running away, and staying away from the spirit of the world, we will be actually realizing their dreams, and their falling in the line of duty will not be in vain. Let us be this nation on earth that also realizes much of the work, not only for its own personal independence, sovereignty, and freedom, but also a nation that serves the kingdom of God here on earth. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as you forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and forever and ever. Amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let your perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and the souls of all the martyrs and all the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace. Amen. Then again and again, happy Memorial Day. Now we go back to our radio show. Good Sunday morning with Father Andre and 33 Minutes on the Lord's Day. Beautiful programs during which today we're going to be meditating, doing some contemplations, some reflections together. You know, I decided, of course, we have been talking about Rome and we have been following the news regarding the Holy Father and all the doings and happenings. Now we give time and we follow and we pray and we support through prayers and the spirit of holy obedience, regardless of our personal pain, regardless of injuries, regardless of betrayals that we might have suffered ourselves sometimes within our church, regardless of the pain from within and the pain from outside. Lord, where do we go? and you have the words of life with you. And this is what the Holy Father represents for all of us Christians in the world. The Holy Father represents the most concrete reality of Jesus who stays within his community, inside his community. He is the glue that connects the community, even though who may not believe in the fullness of the revelation, the way it has been given in the hands as a deposit of faith to the Catholic Church. all branches of Christianity. I do believe the Holy Father still is this one concrete symbol through which the authority, the service of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in his sacred person still represents Peter, the apostles, the apostolic succession, the roots of our Holy Church. And of course, it makes us look with him as he guides our ship towards the future to fulfill the will of Christ for us. So with that, my brothers and sisters, we continue to pray every day. And please try to follow the news, missionofhopeandmercy.org. I would love to encourage you. Please listen to my plea. Go on our website, that is missionofhopeandmercy.org, and sign up with your emails. And we always send updates. Follow us on our X page, you know, Twitter. on our x page if you look for mission of hope and mercy subscribe please and sign up of course it's for free we don't have subscriptions but try to follow us on our twitter account on our x account as we say in the last year so please my friends i encourage you to remain always in touch with us and yes i want to say please keep supporting the work of the mission of hope and mercy in the Middle East, in Lebanon, in the United States, in Africa. Our work goes beyond just being a simple charity. We suffer sometimes as we try to confirm people in the hope of physical and concrete support. But you know, there is deeper suffering. I have been following the situation in Congo, and I have a crisis room open for Congo and for Africa. I have followed the South African situation, problem, and the massacre against the farmers. I have seen much of these problems, and Africa is a big case for us at the Apostolate of Our Lady of Hope, which is also known as St. Ravka Mission of Hope and Mercy. And you know our website, missionofhopeandmercy.org. That is missionofhopeandmercy.org. I've been following the case of Africa. And I can tell you, things are very complicated. And there is a huge amount of violence, of course, that is happening in that part of the world. Earlier this week, I commented after the meeting, and you know how some journalists, some reporters from certain media said, After President Trump had showed and has demonstrated to the president of, as we say, South Africa, he had showed him by videos and by news reports, basically, and printed articles, the amount of violence that is happening against the white farmers, right? And many people somehow, also on the media, we saw that reporter immediately after showing the thousands of crosses and how victims are being laid across highways in South Africa to prove that there is violence against the white farmers in South Africa. This is a nation of Lara Logan. This is a nation of Elon Musk. This is a nation of many of our friends as well. This is a nation of Nelson Mandela. This is a nation that really had a lot of strife in the past when Nelson Mandela was for years and years in a prison. And then he saw the light of freedom and he was hoping and dreaming of freeing and uniting a South African nation. to be one nation under God for all his children, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of where they came from, when did they come. He was trying to reconcile through his personal pain, his personal persecution from which he suffered, the future hopes for the South African nation. So I followed all of this. I will say that we do need we do need journalists who be the voice of the truth to bring hope to thousands of families in South Africa, for instance. You know, there are many families who have been rejected, killed in Congo, in South Africa, in Nigeria, in Sudan and South Sudan. Listen, the situation in Africa and in the Middle East always carries within it complexities between tribal culture and tribalism, right? Old kingdoms and new governmental regimes and terrorist cartels or terrorist groups as well as bands of thieves. And somehow it is still a wide open land. There are many people in Africa dream of law and order, just like what we have in the United States and are reaching out to many people, including to our president, Donald J. Trump, in the U.S., to help them confirm their lands and the justice and the peace and the law and order in respect of the rule of law, and to believe and to follow and to adopt and to somehow practice specific constitutions that would guarantee and secure the freedom, the faith, the family, the liberty, the peace, the security, the safety, the equality, and equal rights and equal protections for all its citizens, and of course, prosperity as well. So, you know, we do need a journalist to start covering the issues of the massacres, whether based on racism or religious massacres that are happening in Africa. And we do not have many. And it's so unfortunate. It's so sad to see on the world stage at the Oval Office. At the Oval Office, how after the president has demonstrated and shown in a movie the massacres that have happened in South Africa, a journalist comes and asks totally unrelated questions. An American journalist, an American reporter. It's like the blood of these people who are the innocents does not count. It's like it has no smell. It has no effect of fear. It doesn't move their conscience. It doesn't open nor convert their heart. That's sad. We have to pray for such people because American media is a leading media in the world, and we have such an important role to be the friends of the innocent, to be the friends of the persecuted, to be the friends and the voice and the defenders and the advocates of those who have been insulted, who have been rejected, who have been kicked out of their homes, who have been forced for migration to seek refuge elsewhere. Of course, many of us will sponsor and would want to be the heroes of a specific case. But when a case is being discussed, it's good to focus on that particular case, give it its due time, treat it well, and then you can move to another subject, for instance. I want to say, and somehow, I pray that new journalists will be on the rise, like my friend Lara Logan, to continue to open the eyes of the blind to see. But it is our sacred duty, whether us in the mission of hope and mercy, or you, you know, KNUS, KLZ, the local radios that we have here in Denver, in Colorado, and across other nations, the printed papers, the social media papers, media influencers, you know, Everybody, the Gazette, the Denver Post, all the famous papers, I do not want to keep naming, so I don't forget any, but all of those who I did not even name, I beg you, I beg you, look to the world affair with the light of God, with the light of the truth. with not a mind from the prince of the sword, but with the mind of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I know many of us in the media, they care for justice, right? I mean, look at the example of Jesus Christ, how he treated sinners, how he treated falsely accused people, how he himself was mistreated and misjudged and was publicly executed as an innocent victim of corruption. And I know you care to dig out the real corruption. Trust me, my friends, for all the media personnel, we want to pray today that there will be a conversion in the United States and our friends in all levels and all sorts of media reports will start covering the stories that are untold and the biggest secrets that are really kept in this world, which are the real suffering of innocent and vulnerable human beings on planet Earth. who are being persecuted, whether because of their faith, whether because of their color, because of their race, because of their political affiliations, but they have no voice. Let us be their voice. Also, we want to pray that we continue the work, we in ourselves, in our sacred duty, to work and to ask God to open the hearts of those who do not want to see. that they will repent, convert, and make a change towards a true unity, peace, coexistence, liberty. I believe, through their suffering, God now is allowing many people in Africa, in many nations in the world, and in South Africa, talking in the example about the white farmers, for instance, in South Africa. that now it is our duty with them to carry the torch for the true unity, equality, human rights, freedom, independence, sovereignty, and the fight to win the fight against racism, to win the fight against anti-Semitism. I want to open a parenthesis. I want to give my condolence for the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., also for the family, unfortunately, of two wonderful people who were killed or shot earlier this week in washington dc two messianic jews who believe in the lord jesus christ yet they kept the old calendar of the jewish religious calendar as well my heart really goes to sarah milgram's family to yaron Lashinsky's families as well in Israel, and if they have family members here in the United States, too much violence. I cannot believe that those people were shot in the heart of our nation's capital in Washington, D.C., as they were probably on the ground or exiting the Israeli embassy. See, all these are victims of hate, whether because of a fight because of hate for a specific race or revenge. tactic or anti-semitism we must fight my friends together join the mission of hope and mercy in our fight for true peace for true unity for true coexistence and true freedom and join us to carry the torch for the true unity equality human rights freedom and the fight against racism You know, this is what Nelson Mandela dreamed about. This is what Mother Teresa, for many people on Earth, she represents that symbol to fight for the poor. Pope John Paul II to fight for freedom in a world who played a major part, like President Ronald Reagan, to take down that wall. to take down the wall of the Duma, to take down all of communism in Europe and in the world as a matter of fact. Today, in fact, if you look at the activities, actions of President Trump, you know, somebody can interpret, can say logically that President Trump, by showing the South African president at the Oval Office the proof of the genocides, walked in the footsteps of heroes for peace and freedom, just like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, and others. We must be proud to see that our president actively, regardless if we voted for him, not voted for him, if we like him or not, but we really must be proud to see our president actively making leaders in the world see that they have a moral problem in their own country. and that they have a moral obligation to put an end to strife among all of their people and to make a peace between them, regardless of race, creed, politics, or other factors that in the past or currently divide them. So we shall continue for Christ's peace with the Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, who said on the day of his election, you know, the peace of the risen Jesus Christ be with you all. and all the nations of the world. Let us continue to work for that peace and the world. For our friends at the KNUS radio station, who now will leave us to continue this beautiful day of Sunday, I want to tell you, do not forget to go online and support the work of the Mission of Hope and Mercy. That is missionofhopeandmercy.org. And I want to tell you towards the last minute, before you leave us on this holy, beautiful Sunday morning, You know, we're going to begin now talking about a different theme on our radio show. So I will be giving reflections regarding the mind of Christ, the spirit of the world, and us. Us meaning the human beings in our personal freedom, in our personal conscience, in our personal lives, in our relation with one another as a humanity. Again, we want to start talking next week, and now we open a little bit the path to it, about the mind of Christ, the spirit of the world, and us. Hopefully we will always remain close to the mind of Christ, hopefully we will always reject the spirit of the world, and hopefully us as human beings, we will demonstrate that we have conquered all evil through the one who died, was buried and rose for our sake, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. And mighty God bless you all and have a wonderful Sunday. To our friends on KLZ who continue to be with us for a few more minutes, let us begin to introduce this major reality of our life. I wasn't sure what to call it. Do I call it the original players? You know, us being the original player in this life. The human being, original player, yes or no? Are we a consequence of players that we cannot see? Or actually it is us who deduce and who also intellectually try to interpret that there are powers over us who govern us or govern this world. The fact is we are an original player. because we have been created by God. We are the ones who drew the maps of the world. We are the ones who, even though we say God named the stars, but we gave them names. We draw their lines in the space. We even created ships as Elon Musk has been rapidly doing to try to travel to far away new planets where humanity can soar and develop and probably live We anticipate that there is probably life somewhere in the universe, according to many scientists and many people who somehow are very specialized in space studies and life outside the planet Earth. You know, we gave the names to nations. We gave the names to people. We gave the names to seas, to oceans. We gave the names to mountains. We measured every distance. We created the planes and means of transportation. We created the most fantastic and complex means of communication in a fascinating way through the technology to communicate through the entire world. Can you believe today in one second I can, like this radio show, 33 minutes on a lowest day every Sunday morning with Father Andre. You know, people can in just one search or one click, one button, one click on the computer somewhere on the server, they can actually see and hear us regardless of the difference of time anywhere in the world, anywhere, sometimes in a space. We brought the world closer. We brought the world and somehow to truthfully be the little village, the little town, the backyard of our bedrooms, of our little office. Can you believe that now humanity has this potential that we could work from our homes because of our phones? We could work as we are probably sitting in a cafe. We could work while sitting in the church sometimes. We will be doing probably. I hope you don't do that during the homily. Some people probably would look on their messages and try to respond. Communication is complex. Do not do that, please, when you are in a service or in a church or in a praise and worship. Do not do that. Of course, try to put everything away because this is one of the ways we will stay away from the spirit of the world. Beginning on Sunday. beginning on Saturday, keep the Sabbath. And on Sunday, the first day of the week, we go and we honor Christ. We honor God. We worship our Lord. We commemorate his passion, his death, his burial, and his resurrection. Whether in our Catholic form, when we pray with the Holy Eucharist, we celebrate the summit of all forms of worship as we celebrate the Holy Liturgy of the sacrifice of the Mass. We call it the Divine Liturgy. representing the final victory of our Lord Jesus Christ over death and evil, when he killed Satan, our enemy, when we sit around the banquet table with him, him, the bridegroom, him, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world. There are a lot of beautiful meanings that we can sit on Sundays and celebrate. But in order to do that, we have first to reject the spirit of the world. by sometimes putting in limitations to how much we want to listen to poisonous news, to how much we want to listen to probably to things that could really create anxiety in our hearts, to lies, to manipulated or manipulative media sometimes and somehow, or stories or gossip. Just by practicing the Ten Commandments to the best of our abilities, we are trying to stay away from the spirit of the world. And if you look at the epistle of St. Paul to the Philippians, the epistle of St. Paul to the Philippians, he actually invites us in that epistle that we do need to be encouraged to stay, to stay. in the mind of christ and so this is what i would be covering with you on our next sundays and a few sundays you know we are leaving a beautiful month the month of may has been beautiful by many means hopefully not too many people had hail damage from hailstorms hopefully not too many people experience sadnesses but a lot of people had graduations first communions confirmations Whatever you celebrated, whatever we celebrate, we share your joy. Whatever you suffered from, I am sharing your suffering in many ways, personally and privately. But I carry you all in my daily mass. I carry you all in my daily rosary. I carry you all. and my daily meditation before the blessed sacrament and my chapel at our center for the mission of hope and mercy myself personally and privately and the team of the mission we carry you in our prayers may god turn all sadness into joy into consolation the mind of christ Saint Paul says, if then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, make my joy complete. Be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. My friends, we will continue covering this beautiful mind, which is the mind of Christ. I want you to know this is Father Andre. I am with you in one mind, the mind to always make the world a brighter place, the mind to always heal the sick, tend to the poor, feed the hungry, give drink to those who are thirsty, cover the naked, host the strangers. and free those who have been imprisoned, and be nice to one another. Forgive, bless, and do not curse. This is the mind of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I hug you in the Lord. I give you a big, big, big hug. And know that in my private suffering and my daily pain, being joined to the cross of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, yet to the fullness of faith, hope, and love. I unite myself to you and to our Holy Church and to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, be in his mystical body in the world. Let us continue to crush Satan. Let us continue to make the sun rise. Let us continue to wipe the tears of every person who's sad. and to feed the hungry, and to do what is good. And most of all, let us continue to bless the name of the Lord, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, the one God to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. You have a blessed Sunday, and do not forget to go online and support the work of the Mission of Hope and Mercy by visiting missionofhopeandmercy.org. Amen.
SPEAKER 02 :
Thank you for listening to 33 Minutes on the Lord's Day. To hear previous programs, visit the show page at missionofhopeandmercy.org. Listen to Father Andre every Sunday morning at 7.30 on KLZ as he speaks on the unity of Christians, religious freedom, and the biblical foundation of Judeo-Christian values and traditions. Join him in bringing hope and freedom to people across the globe while also strengthening your own faith, family, and community right here in Colorado. Reawaken the spiritual strength of America. Go to missionofhopeandmercy.org.
Join the lively conversation as the guys explore if America can climb out of its seemingly insurmountable debt. Get unique viewpoints on how financial practices in history might have set precedents affecting today's economy. The hosts analyze the role of taxes, question government efficiency, and even speculate on the motives of billionaires involved in politics. With compelling arguments and candid opinions, this episode is sure to leave you pondering over economic accountability and ethics.
SPEAKER 04 :
I can't hide myself I don't expect you to understand I just hope I can explain What it's like to be a man It's a lonely road And they don't care about what you know It's not about how you feel But what you provide inside that home
SPEAKER 02 :
Welcome to A Guy's Perspective, where they discuss real-life topics that men today are dealing with, whether married, single parent, or just single. We invite you to call in to this live program with your comments and questions. And here they are.
SPEAKER 10 :
How's everybody doing this afternoon? It's KLZ 560. You can always reach the guys and talk to them at 303-477-5600. I'll slow that down and say it again. 303-477-5600. Remember, the end of this month, post a picture of your dog on our Facebook page, and we're giving a dinner for two to Senzetti's in a Bo Nix jersey. Also, most people don't know who we are, guys. We're real new to radio. We're pretty new to social media. We have a really good show that we have going on. So we've been on the radio, for anybody who wants to know, we've only been on the radio since February. So this is like our third or fourth month. So let's go around and introduce you guys ourselves. All of us are here. Let's start over here to my left.
SPEAKER 09 :
Hi, I'm Reno, owner of Blueprint Electric.
SPEAKER 12 :
And that's me. All right. It's me, Andre. Since we got the truth in the booth, I thought I'd come up with a unique name. Don't judge. I'm going to say it's the hypocrite. I don't know anybody that tells truth and does lie.
SPEAKER 10 :
I'm Brock. Um, I'm the truth.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh my goodness. He's still the truth in the booth. This is hypocrisy. This is Heath. Oh, and, and a shout out to Charlie back there. Always mixing. Oh yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right. And twisting it. Um, So we also want to say to every young man or young lady that's graduating, congratulations for graduating high school. Good job. That's a huge deal, guys.
SPEAKER 12 :
Also, Memorial Day week, and we want to honor all our vets, whether you served in war or not. Oh, yeah. That's right. If you've had people that passed in war or not, don't forget to visit them this Monday.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thank you for your service. Absolutely. America could only be America with our military. Right. That's just how it works. Oh, yeah. If your country ain't got a military, it's getting taken over like last week. You know? Okay, so topic I guess today is... Indulging wasteful spending, boys.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, man.
SPEAKER 10 :
What do we think about wasteful spending? Let's go around the room. You ever just wasted your money on some stupid stuff? Man, I indulge in junk food every day. That is waste. I'm wasting not only my health. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? You're dropping some waste in that toilet. That's dirty. Oh.
SPEAKER 12 :
I'm telling you, man. You visit the Oval Office quite often, huh? Oh, man.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, guys, what have you spent your money on that just sits in your garage? Is there something that you just absolutely regret that you spent your money on?
SPEAKER 12 :
my weight rack. I did for a minute. I was going hardcore. And then, you know, now it's become just a place where all the stuff gets piled up.
SPEAKER 10 :
See, that's jacked up. That is jacked up. How long has it been sitting there for? I'm not going to tell you. Is that part hypocrite? That you bought a gym set and you're not using it? You're being a hypocrite. You're saying, oh, you bring a gym set into your... Okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
What about that love conversation?
SPEAKER 10 :
Let's go around the room. The plunger of love. Is there anything you bought that you regret?
SPEAKER 09 :
I don't want to say that.
SPEAKER 12 :
It's because his wife is listening up there.
SPEAKER 11 :
Let's go to that. For me, apart from the blow-up dolls in the box in the storage unit.
SPEAKER 12 :
Dude, you need to get with that new AI robot stuff.
SPEAKER 11 :
The wasteful spending is probably like $8,000 with a Bangladesh guy and John who was supposed to market our bidness.
SPEAKER 10 :
Did you pay at all for that haircut?
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh. Oh, you're going to say that's a waste?
SPEAKER 10 :
That was a waste, dude. So wasteful spending. Spending money in a way that is unnecessary or ineffective. That's, in a nutshell, wasteful spending. So if we're going to talk about doge and wasteful spending. So if the government had, if they set up their own. their own, um, department of, yeah, department for wasteful spending. I mean, how long is this, how long has it been going on with the government to be wasteful spinning? Ooh, that's a great question. Go back for centuries. I mean, we haven't been around that long. I mean, they act like America's in debt, but is it because the government's wasteful spending?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I used to work for the government. So I've seen money go up. I've seen them waste, waste money on, Just thing after thing after thing. Just dumb stuff. I'm looking at my wages freezing, but they're spending money on art.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. So I was reading, I was sorry about that. I'll get, I was reading that, that like they were talking about the government spends money on like cups and napkins and paper, like, like stupid stuff that costs money.
SPEAKER 12 :
I also worked for the government quasi municipal, um, agency that's federally funded and locally funded or city funded and had a state funding as well. And I'll tell you what, um, I almost got in trouble for keeping a budget in my department. I was the one that was responsible for it. And at the end of the year, every time, at the end of the fiscal year for the government, they would pretty much tell you, you know what, we never, this is a quote, we never return anything. We are always over budget.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes. Otherwise, what happens is if you don't meet budget, then you don't get that budget next year. No, that's right.
SPEAKER 09 :
The budget's cut. That's what I was going to say. If you don't spend what was given to you, you won't receive it for the next year. They'll give you that less. So that's true.
SPEAKER 10 :
I don't think that's the overspending they're talking about. I don't think that part is because if you have like... mental health people that get a budget that they have to spend that money. That's allocated to them to keep that business open because they can't afford it either other way. I'm not understanding you on that one. Elon Musk. For people who don't know, Doge is... department of government yes department of government exactly and so elon musk was out finding all this different kind of money for example fema he found spent at least from my studying and and all websites are leading to this yeah um 59 million to house illegal immigrants i mean is is that wasteful spending Uh-oh, are we getting back to... No, no, no, no, but that's one part of it. Back to ICE? No, no, no, no, we're not going to get back to ICE, but... Okay, so EPA, which is Environmental Protection Agency, $20 billion in wasteful spending.
SPEAKER 09 :
You know, so why would we be housing illegal immigrants as opposed to sending them... If they're illegal. Good question.
SPEAKER 11 :
I'll tell you what the housing is. The housing is like camps. No, it's not. It's not at all. No?
SPEAKER 12 :
No, they're like at the Sheraton Hotel. They're at higher end.
SPEAKER 03 :
They're all there.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, no, they're also off of, I mean, I'm not joking. They're off of at Stapleton in Quebec at that Sheraton. I mean, I had a cop say that. They're like, yeah, we got to keep this area out because but they're housing them just across the street.
SPEAKER 10 :
But are they still doing that?
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
That's that stuff still happening now since Trump's president.
SPEAKER 12 :
They're trying to, well, remember, Denver is considered a sanctuary city.
SPEAKER 10 :
So along with wasteful spending, there's wasteful time. Absolutely. Do you feel like America is wasting our time? Not America. The politicians. Well, just America in general. And the cronies. So you think it's just the politicians wasting our time and our money to just have us look at one thing while they're doing something else?
SPEAKER 12 :
I'm glad you said that because, yeah, look at it. I mean, if you can just keep everybody befuddled, you know, working against themselves as citizens, then they can waste and spend that much money or allocate money. Or make all these transactions elsewhere? And how much more do we not care about it until it was actually exposed? All of us knew that the money was being wasted. All of us did. You know, like the $3 million toilet that the Department of Defense ordered. You know, a joke. You know, that would be said. But at the end of the day, think how many times everybody knows that government is not efficient. When you and I worked for government, it was not efficient. It never has been.
SPEAKER 11 :
We know government isn't efficient. You have like seven guys watching one guy dig a hole.
SPEAKER 10 :
There you go. If anybody would like to chime in, call us at 303-477-5600. We're talking about Doge and wasteful spending. I just want to know why Elon Musk was given the task of this. this whole operation. I mean, he's not even political. How can he say... Richest man in the world. It doesn't matter. If you're the richest man in the world, you know how to handle money. Think about this. We are talking about federal employers that have lost jobs. Who's it for him to say that they don't need this job and such?
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, well, think about this. Why would a billionaire... who doesn't have to even do that. And he's losing money on Teslas. Think about it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Hold on.
SPEAKER 12 :
I'm not saying he's... I'm not saying who... How does he have the understanding? Because he's pretty stinking successful. Whatever AOC says. Anytime. They want to compare apples to apples. AOC... is not a brain let's just be real she doesn't have you know that mental capacity like she claims she does you know she tries to bag on him and then we have all these people that really come in and listen to the media and they're basically taught what they need to know what the media wants them to know i'd rather have a billionaire that's willing to sacrifice his business to save a country oh wow that's good yeah i would like to say that the thing is uh you you want to trust a billionaire because he's a billionaire
SPEAKER 11 :
But it's likely that he's trying to find all the hidden money so he could become richer.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, or would you rather trust a billionaire who knows about money or would you rather trust a guy who doesn't know about money who's broke?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes. You tell me what positions that politicians have made. What jobs have they created? What wealth have they generated? Let's go back to Bernie Sanders. Tell me what he's produced.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right.
SPEAKER 12 :
And he's a multimillionaire. How did he become a multimillionaire?
SPEAKER 10 :
I guarantee all politicians probably have some kind of insider trade on the stock market. I'm sure, I guarantee they do. It's been exposed, but no one ever tried it.
SPEAKER 11 :
They can either manipulate markets to play in their favor or their benefit.
SPEAKER 12 :
Because if you were a politician, you would do the same. But where is the justice then? Because if you did that for a corporate company, you'd be in handcuffs and lawyered up trying to defend yourself.
SPEAKER 11 :
It's amazing. Capitalistic society, man.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, I mean, it's not only that, because they did it in the Soviet Union, too. So that brings up my next question.
SPEAKER 10 :
I was asking Heath before the show started. If America is sitting on $1.1 or $1.8 trillion in debt, is the United States of America not paying its bills?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, that is a big story. No, I mean, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER 11 :
That's for another show, honestly. Is this what Doge is looking to unearth, uncover, and find?
SPEAKER 12 :
So listeners, I mean, I know there's some listeners that truly believe that there's a conspiracy. I'm one of them that kind of sits on that fine line. If this might be a conspiracy of why we are in debt and we're made to be in debt. I think Reno, you even kind of touched on that a few times, I believe. But nonetheless, I mean... As far as debt? Yeah, why we as the United States are in such debt and how we've created and maintained such a significant amount of debt. I mean, there's a conspiracy out there, but if anybody wants to...
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, if America is seriously in debt, this could go back to World War I, where some believe that America did not want to get into the war, but the bankers at that time wanted to get into the war, so they had an American ship get attacked. So then the people would say, oh, they're attacking us. Not American, but... Yeah. American people had... The bankers had this ship attacked to make it look like they were being attacked. Well, let's correct your statement. So then the bankers... So then the government didn't have money to go to war, so they had to borrow money from the bankers. And that's why the IRS was created.
SPEAKER 12 :
It wasn't America's ship that was attacked. So clarify that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. That's what it's about, that the banking families fund the wars. Right. Like, what do you mean baking family?
SPEAKER 10 :
Rothschild. Rothschild. Roethlisberger or Rockefeller.
SPEAKER 09 :
He's got a football player, man. Get that out of here. That sounded like a meal. What were you saying, like the banks? They fund wars, so they make money off of it. They make money off of the wars. I mean, who created the school system to make all the – All the sheep. That's cheap. Absolutely. It's all of the... It's designed.
SPEAKER 10 :
That's how it's designed to be. So let me ask you this. Do you think if America wanted to get out of debt, could we get out of debt? And hold on. And I'll ask this two-part question. Can America get out of debt if they want it? And... you guys said banks or bankers or somebody funds wars do we all really believe that because i i don't know anything about that yes america couldn't afford to go to war so they had to borrow money from the bankers so they created the irs so that when the the american people would pay back their debt to the bankers truth and there's no some stuff go back to you what were you saying now
SPEAKER 09 :
I don't know. I guess that was a mic drop from Truth or Dare.
SPEAKER 10 :
Do that. I just think if America is in debt.
SPEAKER 11 :
Could it get out of debt? Oh, could it get out of debt?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes. Could it get out of debt? They don't want America out of debt. They're making money off that debt. Absolutely. Who's making money off of America? The banking industry.
SPEAKER 12 :
Think about it. Who funds the wars? That's not just the wars, man. Let's look at this. Under the last administration.
SPEAKER 09 :
You know what I'm talking about.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, under the last administration, how high was the deficit? How high was your interest rate? Guess who benefits when we're in an inflation? They do. I mean, at 31%, they, the banks.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right? So think about it. So is it possible that when Doge is incorporated, there's... Well, hold on. Let me finish. Do they – oh, man, you interrupted me. Squirrel.
SPEAKER 11 :
Good lord. Squirrel. No, yeah, you were talking about the banks.
SPEAKER 12 :
So think about it. So Doge slicing through the possibility that it's not just the politicians. There's a little bit of under-the-table money that goes on. You scratch my back, I scratch yours. It's almost like the government mafia, right?
SPEAKER 11 :
Think about it. The thing that I'd like to say, though, is about anybody who knows anything when they're billionaires and – and big agencies and entities that are claimed as human beings, these things know how to move in such a manner that they can have opportunity for gain and they can gain in high and low.
SPEAKER 12 :
Absolutely. Well, explain low.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, they can profit off of death. They could profit off of life. Gotcha. Yeah. They could profit off of good times and bad times. They know how to as an opportunist.
SPEAKER 12 :
So think about this. What about the people that use insurance? I forgot the term, but not just our average insurance, but the insurance that bets or gambles against.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
the possibility like a 911 that they basically people that say that that would never happen and i'll bring it back into perspective but the reason why i asked can america get out of debt and why america is in debt it's because i looked up the average price of a house in colorado is $623,000. If I didn't pay my bills, they would repo that stuff, boys. But America has a $1 trillion debt, and we're not paying our bills? That's a little weird to me.
SPEAKER 11 :
Which is why you have guys like... talk about financing you like robert kiyosaki he's an individual who kind of like plays into that same mentality of borrow borrow borrow spend other people's money you don't spend your own money um to to leverage and get ahead now um so what what do you think about why not a country to leverage to get ahead
SPEAKER 10 :
that's that's that's a very interesting point no he's making a good point because there are certain billionaires that they believe in i buy this i buy this i buy this and in a nutshell it brings me income so but the reason why is because you know i hate to say this but wherever the government taxes that's where most business people look at if they're going to give you a tax break on solar for instance pv arrays whatever
SPEAKER 12 :
then guess what? These people are going to come in and start, you know, most companies will start to open up more solar, knowing that they can create that type of debt, knowing that that can be written off. Which is incentivizing. So look at what Donald Trump did. If you buy a U.S.-made and manufactured vehicle, you can write off your debt. Why? Because it's an incentive. You know, we'll go ahead and write off your, or you can write off your debt.
SPEAKER 10 :
So we brought all this full circle to me to ask you this. Should we be paying taxes? Oh.
SPEAKER 12 :
Unconstitutional.
SPEAKER 10 :
Hey, if we're going to talk about America being in debt, if we're going to talk about America being in debt, let's go full circle. Should we be paying taxes? And if so, where is that stuff going and why are we not reaping the benefits of it?
SPEAKER 11 :
Listen, homie. Listen, homie. There's a lot of things you shouldn't talk about on the radio. Because the FCC says, hey, you can't talk about this, that, and the other. But you want to talk about your taxes, either paying them or not.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, somebody's calling in, right? Okay, but you see what I'm saying? Okay, I'm taxed consistently on everything. Everything. I go to the grocery store, I'm taxed. I buy a car, I'm taxed. My house, if your house is paid off, you've got to still pay a tax on it.
SPEAKER 12 :
And that's sad, especially for the elderly. How is that fair? I don't know how we got off on taxes, but I guess there's a little bit of that.
SPEAKER 10 :
No, no, no, because we're talking about American debt. You're right. How many people are in America right now?
SPEAKER 11 :
300 billion?
SPEAKER 10 :
300 million?
SPEAKER 11 :
Majority of the population of the United States.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, so let's say half of that is paying some kind of taxes. How are we still in debt? That should be paying off all of our debt. If I know anything about income, because I live on a budget. America should be on a budget. I don't dispute that.
SPEAKER 01 :
You know?
SPEAKER 10 :
I mean, it's definitely one of those things. So here's the next thing. I looked up the average family. The average income in Colorado is $147,459. Average income for a household. For a household. For a household.
SPEAKER 11 :
The median income is $92,000. If a home is $642 million, how are families living?
SPEAKER 10 :
They're not. They're living off credit cards.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. I mean, most families are living off credit cards. And think about that. Guess who's getting richer off of credit cards? The banks. There you go.
SPEAKER 11 :
The big boys. Back to the banks.
SPEAKER 12 :
The big boys.
SPEAKER 10 :
Back to the banks. Dude, I want to be a lender and not a borrower.
SPEAKER 11 :
I want to be the first and not the last. The head and not the tail.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. Isn't that biblical?
SPEAKER 11 :
You think? Hey, you guys want to borrow some money?
SPEAKER 10 :
So think about that. If America is in debt and we go to school, they don't teach us how to budget a checkbook. Schools don't teach you how to stay out of debt.
SPEAKER 11 :
It's because it's the misdirectional, miseducational system like Myron Golden says, man. As Zerino said, it is designed to put us behind so that we wake up when we're 40 to get on track and we've already lost it.
SPEAKER 10 :
You're right. No, he's right. We're already behind the ball. Let me ask you, when did you start figuring out money and getting out of debt? How old were you?
SPEAKER 1 :
40.
SPEAKER 10 :
I'm still learning. 40. And I live at mom's. Oh, my goodness. And the rich cheat. And I got no money in my savings. See, that's what – DPS for you. I'm just kidding. Just kidding.
SPEAKER 11 :
Denver Public School.
SPEAKER 10 :
That is a – you are right. It is a – Yeah, from school. What did you guys learn?
SPEAKER 11 :
It was balance a checkbook, wasn't it? Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
No, I didn't learn anything about... Balance a checkbook.
SPEAKER 11 :
You didn't learn how to balance a checkbook.
SPEAKER 12 :
I learned how to cook food in home economics. I knew how to... Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
I made that. What's that one? The ice cream with the whipped cream on top of it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Baked Alaska.
SPEAKER 09 :
So you don't get any financial literacy in the public school system. You don't get that until you get to the secondary.
SPEAKER 12 :
Post-secondary, yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
College. And even in that. It should be taught from elementary on up.
SPEAKER 11 :
It's vital. Money answers all things. It's the very thing that we need to understand from a young age.
SPEAKER 10 :
And if anybody knows better than us, call us at 303-477-5600. I mean, how many people know more than the truth? Not a whole lot. All I speak is truth over here. Dude, doesn't hypocrisy... So if America is in debt by the trillions of dollars... How are they ever going to teach the American people not to be in debt? Why do you care if America's in debt, though? Because... See, you don't have kids. This is from somebody that lives with his mama. How is it... Okay, if America's in debt... Hold on. If America's in debt, how is it affecting you, though?
SPEAKER 11 :
I know what it is.
SPEAKER 10 :
It is affecting me. I want to know how it's affecting my life, and then I might get personal, and I might get more involved, and I might send the president a couple emails. Because... You better send your emails. When... When America's in debt, it's a trickling effect upon everybody. So they start raising prices. Guys, listen to this. I've done a lot of study on this stuff, and we're going around the table, but the average price for a used car, a reliable used car in Colorado is $30,000. That's crazy. That's garbage.
SPEAKER 12 :
It used to be $10,000.
SPEAKER 10 :
I mean, come on, man. There's something not right here, guys. But America was probably in debt then. America was in debt when your car was 10 grand.
SPEAKER 11 :
And the house was 100.
SPEAKER 12 :
So you seem like you're, are you pro Elon doing the Doge thing?
SPEAKER 10 :
That's a Democrat for you. I don't mind that it's getting done, but I do not like who he chose to do it.
SPEAKER 01 :
Why?
SPEAKER 10 :
Because I don't think he's not political at all. That's better. You can't just bring in some guy that has money and says, oh, this government and this government, oh, get rid of this guy and this guy.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I want some. Guess what? Corporate America does exactly what they do eventually. Someone gets the boot out of their car or whatever you have. If they can't make it or cut the mustard, they basically cut them off. I don't know if he's doing a good job or not. Apparently he is. Well, would you guys like to see how much?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I was going to say, I can give you some stats. I can tell y'all what he found. You said because he's not political?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
That's even better. Neither was Trump when he was first elected.
SPEAKER 10 :
Guys, the U.S. Agency for International Development has a budget of $40 billion a year. That money is allocated to other countries. That doesn't stay in America.
SPEAKER 11 :
Let's see if $40 billion is enough to keep these guys listening.
SPEAKER 10 :
Again, you can call us at 303-477-5600 from the guy's perspective.
SPEAKER 04 :
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SPEAKER 07 :
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SPEAKER 04 :
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SPEAKER 02 :
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SPEAKER 10 :
How's it going this afternoon, everybody? This is the second part of our show. We're KLZ 560. You can always reach the guys at 303-477-5600. We are talking about Doge and wasteful spending, and we're in a heated argument and debate. Okay, just to kind of give everybody a perspective of what us guys are, we have Reno. Are you a Republican or Democrat? I don't identify as either. You don't identify as either. What are you identifying as?
SPEAKER 12 :
Independent.
SPEAKER 10 :
Independent. I'm Republican through and through. What are you? You're a Democrat for sure. Don't even say otherwise. No, I'm a mama's boy. Okay. He's a Democrat. Heath, you're a libertarian for sure. yeah if if less government is what libertarian yeah you're a libertarian oh no less government's also conservative well yeah he can be conservative i don't want big government he's definitely more libertarian though dude he totally is yeah he's libertarian but he does drive a tessie yeah which is a good thing that's a swastika so so so that's actually a volkswagen let's just clarify that oh So we're talking about wasteful spending and Doge. If anybody knows more about this than we do, call 303-477-5600. Let's hear it. Yeah, if you were listening to our show earlier, we talked about the government being in debt to the IRS, correct? And Doge. Is the government in debt to IRS or to other countries? No, to the bankers. I believe that the government was in debt to the bankers. And so they formed an IRS for the people to pay back the debt that the government accumulated. And wait, hold on. And Doge finding contract cancellations in the government. They canceled, they found multimillion dollars with cancellations to the IRS. So if the government is the IRS, why do you have to cancel any contract with them?
SPEAKER 12 :
Let's clarify, it's Federal Reserve. Federal Reserve is who issues our currency. We're not based on anything but the oil standard. You do know that, right? We don't have gold. There's no backing. Yeah, we don't have anything backing.
SPEAKER 10 :
I'm asking why did the government have a contract with the IRS? Shouldn't that be the IRS? Why have a contract with them? Well, is the IRS a separate entity from the government, or is it part of the government?
SPEAKER 12 :
The Federal Reserve is a separate entity from the government.
SPEAKER 10 :
Is it, though? It is. Oh, okay. I believe you. I've never looked it up. That's interesting.
SPEAKER 12 :
When I was taking my economics class way back when, before it was unpopular like it is now, Man, the first thing that my teacher taught me was that you're going to go and take a look at the Federal Reserve System. You'll notice a few things about it. And on their website, they will tell you they are not affiliated with the United States government. Federal Reserve is a private banking system, just so you know.
SPEAKER 09 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
Unless it's changed recently. It's starting to make sense to me. So it was the gold standard first. Originally. We're currently in the oil standard.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oil standard. Because oil is running everything. I'm in oil and gas and it's running everything.
SPEAKER 11 :
So with cryptocurrencies as strong as it is and the growth there and the Dogecoin, which is a meme coin with a Shiba Inu on it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Is that what's really on it?
SPEAKER 11 :
Created by Elon and this initiative just goes – so it's all together, man. Like Doge and the Dogecoin and –
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, Elon, everyone wants to act like Elon is clueless. Well, at least politicians want to tell you that. But what was the money program that he created? Not cryptocurrency. I think he's a super intelligent guy.
SPEAKER 10 :
Was it PayPal? PayPal was one of his first things. And I think he sold that to start SpaceX or whatever it's called.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, it went PayPal, then SpaceX for the big ones. Right, right. And then Twitter, which turned to X. And you know what?
SPEAKER 12 :
He bought Twitter. Twitter was a useless investment to most financial experts. However, what it did do is it opened up freedom of speech.
SPEAKER 10 :
because let's just be real when you were doing something on facebook or saying something on facebook it was canceled yeah you were going to jail facebook jail right everyone joked about it but it's true it is true so so we're getting back to wasteful spending if if there's this many people in america paying taxes and our deficit is this high why don't you just take all the tax money and drop it right towards the deficit right out the gate and pay it off
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, that's good. Well, think about this. How much?
SPEAKER 10 :
No, no, no. Hold on. Let me finish.
SPEAKER 12 :
And then I'm going to talk about a budget. During the last administration, they spent like drunken sailors. They just did. But you know why? Because they believed one simple thing is that everybody will pay taxes. Otherwise, you will be penalized. Whether it means you go to jail by threat of coercion, by hiring more law enforcement that would basically raid your home under the last administration. Once you hear that the IRS has the ability to assess penalties, fines, etc., all these things, they have everybody, whether you consent to or not, buy your golden nuggets.
SPEAKER 10 :
So that's what I'm saying. If If everybody if they're expecting everybody to pay taxes, because I know that when I set up my budget each week and I understand we're talking about trillions of dollars versus thousands of dollars. But when you set up your budget, you allocate that money to go to specific things that need to be paid. You would think the government would turn around and say, oh, we've received all this money. Let's put it towards that. I mean, I don't mind paying taxes because we live in a... Oh, get that out of here, bro. I don't mind paying taxes out of my paycheck because, you know, you live in the land of the free. You know, you live in one of the best countries in the world. Fine. The only thing that does bother me is having to pay taxes on your house yearly. Like, if you bought this house, right? And you own it. You own it. Why am I paying taxes on it? That's a good question. Every single year. Tax me one time. Make me give the payment and call it a deal.
SPEAKER 03 :
And they do tax you when you buy it.
SPEAKER 10 :
I should have to pay every month. That's right. I mean, that's garbage. I mean, my friend bought a $2 million home. He's paying like $70,000 a year on taxes. Arena, when you sold your house, did you have to pay taxes after you sold it?
SPEAKER 09 :
You pay taxes on the capital gain.
SPEAKER 10 :
You pay taxes on the capital gain.
SPEAKER 11 :
Unless you roll it into another property.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right. Which they penalize you. You can't sell within that first year. Otherwise, you pay out.
SPEAKER 11 :
Really? Unless you roll it in. If it's an investment property, you do a 1041 exchange into another property. You roll it. Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
Or you could, if you lived in the property for five out of, I can't remember exactly the amount of years, but it's five years. Two or five. Where it was your personal residence.
SPEAKER 10 :
Then you're not paying taxes on it.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, you're not paying as much.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, you're just not paying. So now here's another thing. Why are they able to raise property taxes and I don't even get a chance to vote on it?
SPEAKER 09 :
I just get a letter in the mail saying, hey, my property taxes.
SPEAKER 10 :
No, that's happened to me all five years.
SPEAKER 09 :
It's based off the value of the house.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes, Serino's absolutely right.
SPEAKER 09 :
So when your value of the house goes up, then you pay on that value. Which, although you pay off the whole value, which I agree with Brian.
SPEAKER 11 :
So then it begins to make sense, right? Because if we're paying on cap gains or something, then what's going on is when the property is increasing in value, then you're actually paying taxes upon that, even though you own it outright. Right.
SPEAKER 10 :
Again, if anybody wants to call in, we're 303-477-5600. We're talking about wasteful spending and doge.
SPEAKER 12 :
I just want to clarify, too. Some taxes I get are regulatory. Any type of fee you pay to the government is a tax, whether you say it like under Obamacare when they said, well, if you don't pay this, then you got to pay $600. And everyone said, well, that's not a tax. That's a fee. No, government doesn't generate any type of profit outside of taxing. So with that said, you know, I get it. Sometimes taxes are used to regulate, to slow down, you know, the building, to slow down the economy to a certain degree. Would you say – I mean, wouldn't you agree with that? Because you can't get the – but it also has an impact, both positive for the wealthy and the negative for the poor. My problem with this is – Or the middle class, really.
SPEAKER 10 :
I feel like the middle class is the one that get hosed. The guy that's making – Is that all the way around? Everybody agrees with that? Yeah, the guy that's making between $85,000 to – $250,000. I would say $350,000 is the guy who gets – maybe even $400,000 is the guy getting hosed.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, he's neither poor nor rich, and he's the one that's taxed the hardest for... For everything. But here's the workaround. The only workaround that I can find is to be self-employed. When you're self-employed, you now have expenses that you write off so that you... You actually wait... It's tax loophole, tax... If you're an LLC, you're essentially considered a sole proprietor.
SPEAKER 12 :
And the problem is with sole proprietors, you're actually paying more taxes than... a corporation. So if you're incorporated, you have the ability to pay yourself a fee and you get a better tax break. The problem is when you're an LLC or a sole proprietor, you're going to spend probably more, believe it or not, in taxes than anybody.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, as an LLC, you could get your S filing for taxes. S-court?
SPEAKER 10 :
You could file as an S-court and be an LLC. And all three of y'all are business owners. I'm not a business owner. Truth is not a business owner. You know, what I hate is looking at my check stub and I got a federal tax, a state tax. Then I go and buy the kids some, you know, why is cereal so expensive? I go to buy some cereal and now I'm taxed on cereal. But I mean, you see what I'm saying? I'm taxed on all the groceries I buy.
SPEAKER 12 :
And then there's the regulation.
SPEAKER 10 :
With the money that was already taxed. Yeah, with the money that was already taxed.
SPEAKER 12 :
Good point. And so likewise with cigarettes. You know, cigarettes back in the day, I don't know. I wasn't a big time smoker or anything like that. But a carton of cigarettes, I don't know how much it goes for. Smoking tax. Yeah, you got a tax on smoking. You know, you got a tax on obesity. Technically, it's a fight against obesity. But where does that money go? Let's consider also, what about the money that we received... For all the weed tax.
SPEAKER 10 :
Who is maintaining that? You guys are bringing something up.
SPEAKER 09 :
What they should tax is sugar. They are taxing sugar. Yeah, big time. They should tax sugar the same way they tax weed.
SPEAKER 11 :
I mean, technically, though, technically we're in the mile-high state, and we're always getting high anyway. Everybody is, so we get taxed because secondhand smoke.
SPEAKER 12 :
guys i i think i i and i i know truth over here is like i don't mind paying taxes i hate it but truth lives at home with his mom the only he doesn't i don't do you expense your dogs are you able to are those deductions for you no my dog you can deduct as a business yeah the food for the dog What? Really?
SPEAKER 09 :
But look at this, guys. It's like an alarm system.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, yeah? Are you serious?
SPEAKER 10 :
We need to talk after the show. That's a good... Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
God, I'm going to keep those receipts.
SPEAKER 09 :
I don't know for sure, but... Oh, come on, man. I don't have enough. Oh, my gosh. Dude, you just literally said... Well, I can see what you're saying, though. That kind of makes sense. I've never tried it, but it was... It sounded good to me. I know. But that's what was told to me as a businessman. So, guys, look at this.
SPEAKER 10 :
The average cost of groceries in Colorado now per month. is $121.84 per month. No, dude, that seems a little... Hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm bringing all this into perspective for you. So groceries a month, they said it's $121. For yourself? Hold on, hold on. Listen, for a family of four, $100 a month?
SPEAKER 12 :
Do you think that's too high or too low?
SPEAKER 10 :
I'm spending $100 on myself a week.
SPEAKER 12 :
I was going to say, I don't believe that at all.
SPEAKER 10 :
Hey, Doug, how's it going? Talk to us. You're talking to the guys.
SPEAKER 06 :
Cool. I've been digging into the Federal Reserve business the last year, and it's quite a set of rabbit holes. But from everything I've found on their own websites, if you dig far enough, the Board of Governors reports to Congress... So there's like 12 of them. But then the member banks who actually own the 12-district banks, so the Bank of St. Louis, is owned by the banks that are members there. They have actual shares. Explain that to us. The shares, well, when you start a bank, you know, Farmers Bank in Alt, Colorado... and you want to be a member of FDIC and the Federal Reserve System, then you have to buy in, buy one share or however many shares, depends on how big the bank is, then you're allowed to play. You can't leverage those shares. You can't sell them to anybody unless you close the bank down. And I don't know if you get your money back then or not. But anyway, you have to buy into the game. And as a bank, then the member banks of a given district, again, I think there's 12, St. Louis et al., and then they report to the Board of Governors, but it's very much a cabal. It's a financial cartel.
SPEAKER 10 :
wow wow he actually used yeah so so can we ask you a question so truth over here said that in world war one that the banks kind of control things is that does that ever come up in any of your studies um oh yeah they they did really that um truth was right good job congress created the the gold standard by law back in late
SPEAKER 06 :
1800, like 1893 or something. And because everybody used gold, silver, copper, just all sorts of metals, but mainly gold and silver. And then they, the rich, wanted to just use gold because it benefited them with international trade and larger deals and everything. And so Congress, they got Congress to pass the gold standard, which then, of course, preferred gold and favored it in all sorts of ways. Then in 1913, they dreamt up, well, let's just create the Federal Reserve, the IRS. Wow.
SPEAKER 12 :
It was a late iteration of the IRS. It was done in the middle of night, too. It was basically created under the radar, and then the next thing you know, all of a sudden, hey, we've got a new banking currency, right?
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. There was a whole list of things they did in 1913. And then money started flowing, or gold started flowing to the U.S. because everybody over there knew World War I was brewing. And so they started sending stuff over here for safekeeping. And then, so we had to deal with all that influx of gold, and then they abused it ever since. They realized they could, and right now I'd be shocked if we had any gold in Fort Knox or any of the reserves.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, think about our other countries like China, you know, investing heavily in gold. I mean, all these other countries are basically doing the gold, or coming back and accumulating just a large amount of gold and silver, etc., so... Doug, well, thank you.
SPEAKER 06 :
We're at the end of that jubilee. And so, yeah, we'll be going back to a fixed currency, not a gold standard, but on a digital crypto basis. I believe that. It'll be tied to that, and it'll become deflationary. And so it'll swing the other way now for the next 50 years.
SPEAKER 10 :
And we're going to let you go. Thank you for calling, man. Call back. You gave us a lot of knowledge, man. Thank you.
SPEAKER 08 :
That was a very good call.
SPEAKER 10 :
So, you know, he made an interesting point. He said it's going to go cryptocurrency. Is that like one world government stuff?
SPEAKER 11 :
One world order or something? Monetization, yes.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, absolutely it will. And if you don't believe that, then we are moving sooner than later.
SPEAKER 11 :
If you heard in Doug's voice, it was... That in 1913, it was a Republican Party. No, I'm just kidding. That was a Democratical comment, too.
SPEAKER 10 :
No, the parties haven't flipped. They haven't, man. Some of morality and stuff from each party has kind of flipped.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, so we have... Sorry, that's a different topic.
SPEAKER 11 :
Hey, tell me that it didn't flip from Democrats like an Elon to Republicans like an Elon.
SPEAKER 12 :
That's a good point. Okay, I get what you're saying.
SPEAKER 09 :
Do you guys want to hear... It also flipped from Trump. That's true. Yeah, Trump was a Democrat. Everyone liked Trump. When he was a Democrat. Before he was in office, they were in rap songs and... Everyone was talking about Trump when he got into office. Those same people couldn't stand him.
SPEAKER 10 :
To all the listeners out there, do you guys want to hear what the truth gots to say? Give to Caesar what is Caesar. Give to God what is God. If anybody else wants to call in, it's 303-477-5600.
SPEAKER 11 :
We got 10 more minutes, so people pick up your phones, call in, and tell us
SPEAKER 10 :
how crappy taxes are um tell us if you think if you think us five guys are just you know blowing smoke tell us but the gentleman doug who called he he understood what we were talking about he was on the same page as us except for that was funny he said he thought that there wouldn't be any golden four i don't need he might be right he might be right i agree with him
SPEAKER 09 :
I 100% agree with that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Does gold not back our currency anymore?
SPEAKER 09 :
No, it's oil. Let's do a simple... It hasn't been that way for a long time.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, all five of us right now. Do you believe there's gold in Fort Knox?
SPEAKER 11 :
I believe there's gold in them dark hills.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, truth. Truth. Truth, what do you think? Oh, man, I...
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes or no? Spit it out.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes. Okay.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, I'm confused because me and Arino were just having this conversation and he was saying our currency is not backed by gold anymore. You guys are saying oil. So I'd have to say no. Our gold is going to be depleted.
SPEAKER 12 :
I think if we did an inventory inside Fort Knox, I don't believe it's all there.
SPEAKER 10 :
i i agree with that so so i don't believe so then what's back in our dollar bill is it china well it hasn't been gold for a long time no it hasn't but so so if oil is backing and i'm in oil and gas i've done a lot of study i've drilled for a whole lot of oil wells if oil is back in our currency and we we get opec is huge guys and we get a lot of oil from overseas yeah So do the overseas, are they owning us?
SPEAKER 11 :
We stockpile our own and we use everybody else's. Well, that's a true statement.
SPEAKER 12 :
With the exception of, let's clarify, in the last administration, that was not true at all. We started basically exporting. I mean, not exporting. We started just using our own reserves. What in the world are we thinking using our own oil reserves? That's just ridiculous.
SPEAKER 10 :
Can somebody look up how many barrels of oil does America produce a day? Can somebody bring that up on air? Is that why America went to Iraq? I've got a question. What is bigger, our government or the entities that run it?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, he was saying the bank, basically. I'm talking about the dog wagging the tail. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER 12 :
Absolutely. That's a great question, dude. I'm 100% behind you. Right. Which is bigger.
SPEAKER 11 :
Because we want to think that the government is what's running the things, but it isn't, man. It's big money.
SPEAKER 10 :
So, guys, I just looked this up.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, Doug came back.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, Doug.
SPEAKER 12 :
Thanks for calling.
SPEAKER 06 :
Come home back. A fiat currency is backed by debt. So all the loans that banks give out, that money's made out of literally thin air. Wow. And so they loan it into existence. There's no gold back. It's just trust, the faith of people to use it around the world. That's why we're still the reserve currency. People around the world need and want and trust the U.S. dollar more than anything else. It might be a turd, but it's the shiniest turd. And that's why we maintain the power.
SPEAKER 10 :
But, Doug, I sure do wish I had a whole lot of those turds in my bank account.
SPEAKER 08 :
I'm telling you, like, 50 million of them.
SPEAKER 06 :
And that's also why there's a quandary of paying off the debt. Well, if you pay off the debt, then the dollars disappear and you have a liquidity problem. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 10 :
That's true. That is true right there. So that answers your question. Doug, I got a question. Are you a teacher? No, no, no, Doug.
SPEAKER 06 :
No.
SPEAKER 10 :
So how do you know so much information? You're not a politician undisguised.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, I'm trying to get to the 1%. I made it to the 20%. So you're a good Democrat.
SPEAKER 12 :
You're a good Democrat, according to Heath over here.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, uh-huh.
SPEAKER 12 :
Thank you for calling.
SPEAKER 06 :
Call back next week, man. If you lose that, it's start businesses and make money. Yes, sir. Thank you.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's us. Thank you so much.
SPEAKER 10 :
So you guys heard what he said. He answered our question for us, which that's... So I also looked it up. The U.S. produces an average of 21.6 million barrels of petroleum per day.
SPEAKER 12 :
But getting back to what Doug said, Doug, you know, I agree with him because if you keep us in debt, then essentially you have that control as well.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's right. That's right. It's control. It's control. Back to control. Look how it's all interconnected.
SPEAKER 10 :
What does the Bible say? What does the Bible say about somebody who's in debt?
SPEAKER 11 :
A borrower is slave to the lender. Jesus, man.
SPEAKER 10 :
If everybody out there wants to call in at 477-5600-303, the Bible just said, say it again.
SPEAKER 11 :
A borrower is slave to the lender, and then escape the debtor like the fowler.
SPEAKER 10 :
so so it also if your life depended on it people don't understand the bible also says money answereth all things it also says the love of money is the root of all evil not money yeah right and people get that confused people get it confused all the time i see it all the time all the time money it's the love of money it's the love of money but the bible also says money answereth all things but i love me some money No, no, no, no, no. Time out. That's a lie. That's a lie. Truth just lied.
SPEAKER 03 :
If you loved money... No, no, no, no.
SPEAKER 10 :
I'm going to tell him. If he loved money, he wouldn't be living at his mom's. He'd have real estate.
SPEAKER 12 :
You cannot say you love money. And let's clarify another point. He said that he likes paying taxes. I really feel like if you're one of those type of people, look, every multimillionaire, billionaire, et cetera, they have and know the knowledge of how to avoid paying the taxes on the loopholes that guess what? The government created, the senators created. Senators created all these loopholes for themselves. And we can benefit from it. And they demonize those that use the same benefits that the senators created.
SPEAKER 10 :
Guys, this is such good talk. We're going to redo this again next week. Again, this is 303-477-5600. We're talking about wasteful spending, doge, debt, the whole nine yards. You made a good point. You're like, the debtor is borrower to the lender.
SPEAKER 11 :
The borrower is slave to the lender.
SPEAKER 10 :
So I guess what we're trying to say is if you can get out of debt, try your best to get out of debt because that's going to bring you wealth in a nutshell. What he just said, you think that's why we're slaves to the government? To make America better? To make America great? That's why they keep us as a slave. No, no, no. The deficit's not making us great. The deficit's pulling America down. We're talking about paying taxes.
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There's a crazy twist.
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So if we're going to work every day paying our taxes, that brings in a better economy. If it was spending towards the debt, is it?
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How is it bringing in a better economy?
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Clarify that. Because you've got better trade. So if you've got good trade with other countries.
SPEAKER 12 :
How? What is the government providing there? Look, Obama basically said that the government created business. No, they didn't. The businessman created, the entrepreneur created business.
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This is good discussions, guys.
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You work for somebody. That somebody wasn't created through the government. I create jobs. That person that you work for, he created your job. The government didn't create it. You tell me how that worked.
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That's good.
SPEAKER 12 :
Did the government create your job? Absolutely not, Heath. Nope.
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But the government's taking my money. There you go.
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And you know what?
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Well, am I speaking a little bit of truth? Uh-uh. No, no, no. He did. He's whispering. Guys, he knew something none of us knew. He mentioned World War I in the banking system. I had no idea about that stuff. Good on you, B. So what we're trying to say is that if America has a deficit, It's not good for America. If your bank account is in the negative 24-7, that ain't good for you. We're going to talk to men right now. We're the guy's perspective. As a man of your house, you need to be able to budget your checkbook and your wallet. Let's just be real, man.
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It says this as a righteous man stores up.
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a righteous man cares for his own household first or he's worse than a non-believer that's right what is it it says an infidel right so listen men we're the guys perspective generally we relate to men and everything men are going through you need to figure out a way to be debt free what what did it say you're worse than infidel say it again who quoted that scripture a right a righteous man cares for those of his own household first or he's worse than a non-believer Oh, my God. That's NIV version. I want... No, that's NKJV.
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Yeah, I told you.
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You're King James.
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Just want to tell our veterans, thank you for your service. Absolutely. And we do love America. Well, we love... That word, God's perspective. We are America through and through. Thank you, Jesus, for the flag. Thank you, Jesus, for America. Thank you, Jesus, for every soldier. That is every young man and woman. And it is young men and women. Yup, thank you for the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines. We love y'all. Thank you.
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Have a blessed one. I don't expect you to understand I just hope I can explain What it's like to be a man It's a lonely road And they don't care about what you know It's not about how you feel
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provide inside that home being a man is what you make it you can't always live up to expectations you try to please everybody while you struggle so you fake it and end up out of balance compromising situations
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The views and opinions expressed on KLZ 560 are those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect those of Crawford Broadcasting, the station, management, employees, associates, or advertisers. KLZ 560 is a Crawford Broadcasting God and country station.
Join Rick Hughes on The Flatline as he unravels the intricacies of communication from a Christian perspective. This episode invites you on a transformative journey to discover when to speak and when to hold back, highlighting the pivotal role our words play in shaping our spiritual paths. Rick explores the divine discipline associated with sins of the tongue, empowering listeners with tools to navigate conversations with wisdom and humility. Through scripture and insightful anecdotes, Rick outlines the advantages of becoming 'laconic'—a person of few, yet impactful, words. Learn how this ancient principle can not only preserve relationships but also transform lives by fostering an environment of peace and understanding. Let this episode be your guide to a new level of spiritual awareness and communication mastery.
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Welcome to the Flatline with your host, Rick Hughes. For the next 30 minutes, you'll be inspired, motivated, educated, but never manipulated. Now, your host, Rick Hughes.
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Good morning and welcome to the Flatline. I'm your host, Rick Hughes, and for the next few minutes, please stick around. It'll be a short time of motivation, some inspiration, some education, and it's always done without any type of manipulation, which means we're not here to ask for money. We're not going to solicit money. We're not going to ask you to join anything. We're not going to try to get you to give it up, sell it up, anything like that. What we would like for you to do is listen up. Listen. Listen as I present to you some phenomenal principles from the Word of God about how you can establish a flat line in your soul, a flat line, a forward line of troops. a main line of resistance inside your own soul, your mind, your body, so that you can stop the outside sources of adversity before they ever become the inside sources of stress. That's why we always say adversity is inevitable and stress is, of course, optional. The Christian life is, in fact, a life without stress, a wonderful way to live so that we don't have to worry, be afraid, live under guilt, things like that. it's a great way to live and that's what this show is about giving you the accurate information so you can orient and adjust to the information if you desire but we are different now this show is a little different we don't play music we're not trying to appeal to your emotions we're not going to ask you for any money we're just going to give you information and what you do with it well now that's between you and god but my job is to get it right get it accurate and that's what i do i'm not a pastor i don't pastor a church I am technically an evangelist. My job is to point you to the direction of the Lord Jesus Christ, hopefully so that you will trust in him and receive him as your savior. Also to point you in the direction of a well-qualified pastor where you can grow up spiritually and learn God's word. and apply it into your life and give him maximum glorification with everything you say, you think, and you do. As we enter into the new decade, 2020, wow, it's hard to believe we've been broadcasting this show going on 15 years now. As we enter into this new decade, I want to start off by reminding you of a principle we have taught before. I taught it in a church a long time ago, and I taught it on this radio show not long ago, but I think it's something that is worth repeating as we go into the new year. Maybe you could make this one of your New Year's resolutions. Whether or not you'll keep it is another story. But I'd like to talk to you about something very unique. You see, we live in a day and an age when people are quick to mouth off. People are quick to sound off. Say things they don't really need to say, especially with social media and the way that people get on board with Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Twit, whatever, all that stuff. Most of the time, it's unbelievable what people will comment on and what people will say. There's something in the Bible called sins of the tongue. And this is one of the three areas of sin that believers like you and I can easily get trapped into. I don't know about you, but it's real easy for me to get trapped into saying something that I didn't really want to say. I remember when I was a young man, probably 15 years old, standing in a grocery store And, uh, I remember explicitly who it was and who asked it to me, but, uh, I was there in front of the owner and the meat counter. And he asked me what I thought about one of the guys that lived down the street from me. And I proceeded to give him my own opinion unknowingly to me. person that i was maligning and slandering and criticizing was standing right behind me listening to every word i said i was being set up so it was embarrassing for sure and what i'm trying to say is don't let let let yourself be set up by satan and when not to speak and the bible tells us constantly to watch out what we say, and we're going to look at that this morning, okay? I'm going to go back some and remind you of some of these principles, something that we all need to remember. That's why I want to give it to you today, and it's a challenge of when to keep your mouth shut. There are times to speak, and there are times not to speak. The word laconic, L-A-C-O-N-I-C, means to be a person of few words, a laconic person. And when it comes to certain situations, believers in the Lord Jesus Christ who are filled with the Holy Spirit, that's problem-solving device number two. Empowered by the Word of God, that's the problem-solving device of doctrinal orientation, we have to be laconic. There's a time to speak up. There's also a time to keep our mouth shut. That's why the Bible says in Proverbs 13, 3, "'He who guards his words guards his life, for whoever is talkative comes to ruin.'" The best way that I know to destroy your life and my life and have any hope of any future in our life is to run our mouth when we don't need to be running our mouth. We need to be listening. So it's very important that we stay out of the sins of the tongue. You know, we have a lot of sports talk radio today and I listen to it often because I'm a football fan and I hear people call into these sports talk radio shows and go on and on and on. They're looking for an audience, and they're so arrogant, and they want to say something. They think they're smarter than everybody else in the world, and they want to criticize the coach and malign the players. And it's unbelievable what goes on, the gossip, the slander, the criticism, the maligning on these sports talk shows. Remember, if you're a Christian, mental attitude sins do quench the Holy Spirit, but so do sins of the tongue and overt sins. The three types of sins that we commit, mental attitude sins like worry or bitterness or jealousy, and sins of the tongue like lying and slander and gossip, maligning, criticizing, backbiting, and of course the overt sins that we get involved with such as stealing, murder, fornication, adultery, You know, as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, we're mandated not to let sin reign in our mortal bodies any longer. That's what Paul wrote in the book of Romans. So what he's saying is we just don't have time to let the sin nature control us. The Bible indicates that if we'll walk in the spirit, we can defeat the flesh in the book of Galatians. Walk in the spirit and you won't be fulfilling the lust of the flesh. So there's always the battle there, and that battle's always going on, and you, like me, have to be very careful about what you say and what you do. So let's look at some times when, in fact, we should keep our mouths shut. These are practical principles. from the word of God, for people of principle. And I hope you are one of those people. And I hope this will help you formulate your New Year's resolutions. James 3, 5 through 8. In the New English Translation Bible says, So too the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it has great pretensions. think how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze and the tongue is a fire the tongue represents the world of wrong-doing among the parts of our bodies it pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence it is set on fire by hell itself For every kind of animal, bird, reptile, and sea creature is subdued. And who has been subdued by humankind? But no human being can subdue the tongue. It's a restless evil full of deadly poison. Sins of the tongue. Sometimes we never think about it. Sometimes we just mouth off not paying attention to that. And then we go back and say, I wish I had never said that. They include sins of the tongue are three categories. Slander category, and this is gossiping and maligning and judging and complaining against other people. And then there's the falsehood category, and this includes lies and deception and misrepresentation. perjury, fabrication, pathological lying, distortion, equivocation, ambiguous and unclear expressions designed to mislead and verbal duplicity and hypocrisy. Now, I went through a lot of stuff right there. I don't know if you even got it all, but it's such a political machinations today. Deception, misrepresentation, perjury, fabrication, pathological liars, distortion, equivocation, ambiguous, unclear expressions that are all designed to mislead verbal duplicity and hypocrisy. That is the falsehood category, the sins of the tongue. And then there is the whining and complaining category. And this category is complaining when you're blessed by God and are beneficiary of his grace, but it's a distortion of the grace of God, whimpering, grumbling, complaining by you or me who have our very own portfolio of invisible assets, and we have no need to complain. There is great blessing if we avoid these sins of the tongues in these three categories. Psalm 34, 12 through 13. Who is the person who desires long life, who loves length of days, that he may see prosperity? Then keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking slander. Wow. There's a promise right there from the book of Psalm 34, 12 through 13. Control of the tongue plus avoidance of the sins of the tongue is actually a sign that you're becoming a spiritually mature believer. James 3.2 says the mature believer can bridle the whole body, can control not only what he thinks, but what he says or does. So James, the book of James, as I read to you earlier, emphasizes the fact that verbal sins are always motivated by mental attitude sins and the arrogance or the emotional complex of sins in our life. James 3.14, listen. If you have bitter jealousy and strife in your heart, inordinate ambition, and you do, he says, then stop being arrogant and stop lying against the truth. That's gossip or slander called lying against the truth. See, this is a sin of the tongue. In James 3.16, for where there's jealousy and inordinate ambition exist, there's dissension in every evil deed. The evil or the worthless deed here he's talking about are the sins of the tongue. The sins of the tongue are mentioned in several passages like Romans 2.1, Romans 14.4, Romans 14.10, James 5.9. Brethren, do not complain against each other so that you yourself will not be judged. Behold, the judge is standing at the door. These warnings of scripture lead us up to studying what it means to be laconic, a person with a few words, expressing much in just a few words. The plain truth is this, we simply need to learn how to keep our mouth shut at certain times so that we stay out of trouble and we don't get under discipline from God. So let me give you a few of those times, and we'll start by looking at the verse that advises this laconic behavior. Here's the verse that advises it. Proverbs 13, 3. Again, the one who guards his mouth preserves his life, and the one who opens wide his lips comes to ruin. There you go. Mark that one down. We should always, number one, here it is, the first thing I want you to remember. We should always keep our mouth shut when we get angry. In Ephesians 4, 30 and 31, the Bible says, don't grieve the Holy Spirit of God. by whom you're sealed for the day of redemption. And let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you. Those are all sins of the tongue and mental attitude sins, along with all malice. That's an overt sin. That's an attempt to hurt somebody. Here it is. God said, keep your mouth shut when you get angry. We should always do that. Can't allow your anger to become emotional explosions so that you say things you regret and do things you wouldn't normally do. That's letting your sin nature get out of control. Maybe you've done that this week. Maybe you didn't think you sinned. If you have done that, I suggest you go to God, admit the sin, and let him cleanse you from it because he doesn't tolerate that. Number two, we should always keep our mouth shut when we're tempted to tell a lie. As a matter of fact, in Proverbs 6, 16 through 19, there are seven things God hates. He says they're an abomination unto him. Listen to verse 17. A lying tongue. A false witness, verse 19, who utters lies. One who spreads lies among the brothers. There it is, sins of the tongue. In Proverbs 12, 22, lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who deal faithfully are his strength. God doesn't tolerate liars. If you're a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and you have a propensity to tell a lie, then you are sinning. It's straight-up sin, and you can get under serious divine discipline from God. for lying. God says, don't lie. Stay out of it. Three, we should keep our mouth shut when we are tempted to straighten out someone. When we want to correct someone, you may call him or her an idiot, but it's not our job to straighten out idiots. They frustrate you. They get you mad. They make you want to say something you should not say. Proverbs 9, 7 and 8, he who corrects a scoffer, the Hebrew word is lutz and it refers to an arrogant boaster. He who corrects a scoffer gets dishonor for himself and he who reproves a wicked man gets insults for himself. Verse 8, do not reprove a scoffer or he will hate you. and reprove a wise man, he'll appreciate you. He'll love you for it. So there are people that you can correct and people you can't correct. The arrogant idiot you can't correct. Don't waste your time. Point four, do not speak if you don't have all the facts. Having all the facts is critical. In Proverbs 10, 14, New American Standard Bible says, wise men store up knowledge. but the mouth of the foolish ruin is at hand. You know, Proverbs 3, 7 says, don't consider yourself to be wise. And there's so many people that think they're wiser than God, but they haven't stored up any knowledge like Proverbs 10, 14 says. Wise men store up knowledge. Knowledge is appreciation and reverence for God. And the foolish person doesn't have any appreciation or reverence for God, so he runs his mouth. He doesn't have all the facts, and his ruin is at hand. He'll destroy himself. Eventually, he'll wipe himself out. Point five, you should keep your mouth shut if you're tempted to pervert the truth. Critical, you understand this. Again, the Proverbs 10, 31 out of the New American Standard Bible, the mouth out of the mouth of the righteous flows with wisdom. But the perverted tongue will be cut off. Do not pervert the truth. The very worst thing any Christian could do, the worst thing any minister could do is to pervert the truth of Scripture, pervert the Word of God. There's truth related to salvation, truth related to Christian living, both of which are perverted daily, daily by Satan's ministers. who teach false doctrine. You said, I didn't know Satan had ministers. Yes, he does. There are men in pulpits across this country today and ladies in pulpits who are Satan's ministers. You want to hear the verse? 2 Corinthians 11, 14 through 15. No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Therefore, it is not surprising if his servants, who also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, there they are, whose end will be according to their deeds. They pervert the truth. They don't tell you that it's faith alone and Christ alone. They tell you that if you want to be saved and go to heaven, you got to be a good little boy. Can't do any bad things because in the end, God's going to measure the good and the bad. And if you're on the bad end of the bad, you're going to hell. That's not what the Bible says. The Bible says Christ died for the sins of the world. The Bible says he who knew no sin was made sin for us. Our sins were paid for in him and his death, burial, and resurrection are guarantees to us that we have eternal life through faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross. We are not allowed to pervert the truth, and it goes on every day. You may wonder why God let his children pervert the truth. Sometimes these people are not his children. They are ministers of Satan who are teaching doctrine of demons the Bible talks about. So remember that. And, you know, one thing that's hard to face, here it is, Moses himself misrepresented God once at the Rock of Meribah. You can read it for yourself in Numbers chapter 20, verses 7 through 12. Here's what it says. Then the Lord spoke to Moses, and he said, Take the rod, you and your brother Aaron, and gather the congregation together and speak, speak, speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water. And thus you will bring water for them out of the rock and give drink to the congregation and their animals. So Moses took the rod from before the Lord as he commanded him, and Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock. and he said to them listen to me you rebels must we that's moses and aaron bring water out of this rock for you and then moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with the rod and water came out abundantly in the congregation and the animals drank but the lord said step aside moses aaron i need to tell you something verse 12 because you did not believe me You did not hallow me in the eyes of the children of Israel. Therefore, you will not bring them into the promised land, which I have given to them. He struck the rock instead of speaking to the rock. He perverted the truth. In Deuteronomy 3, 24 through 28, listen to this. Oh, Lord God, you have begun to show your servant your greatness and your mighty hand for what God is there in heaven on earth and can do anything like you do. I pray, please let me cross over and see the good land before the Jordan, those pleasant mountains, and Lebanon. But the Lord was angry with me on your account, and he would not listen to me. And the Lord said to me, Enough of that. Speak no more to me about this matter. Go to the top of Pisgah. Lift up your eyes to the west, to the north, to the south, and the east, and look at it. But you will not go over the Jordan River." Wow. God takes it seriously if we misrepresent him in front of his people. Here's another one. One should keep his mouth shut if he's tempted to malign his neighbor. It's critical you remember that. The hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor, the Bible says, and that's found in Proverbs 11, verse 9. But through knowledge, the righteous will be delivered. How do we destroy our neighbor? By slander, maligning, gossiping, criticizing. Seven, if you have a quick temper, you should by all means keep your mouth shut. Proverbs 14, 17. A quick-tempered man acts foolishly. And a man of wicked intentions is hated. That quick temper will get you in trouble more than anything else because it'll lead you to say things you shouldn't say and do things you shouldn't do. And one of the signs of a mature believer is learning how to get his temper under control. If you have temper outbursts, if you get angry and explosive and emotional control of your life, you have not grown spiritually to learn how to handle that through the filling of the Holy Spirit. Let's see, the Bible says the fruit of the Spirit is love and joy and peace and long-suffering and gentleness and goodness and meekness. That's not you, is it? You're explosive and angry, bitter, and that's an area you must grow in. Here's another principle. You must keep your mouth closed if you're tempted to be rude, the Bible says. Proverbs 16, 24, pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the bones. I like honey. I bet you do too. I love it in my coffee and my tea. I put it on my oatmeal, honeycombs. Honey is pleasant. And it's compared here to pleasant words. Not being rude with waitresses, waiters, with your spouse, with your children. Not being rude. Okay? Now buckle your seatbelts because this one may get a little tough. Point nine. A woman should never use her words as an attempt to control her husband. Okay? In Proverbs 19, 13, a foolish son is the ruin of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continuous dripping. That's called nagging. That's using words to control your husband. You know, I was talking to my daughter about this the other day, and she said I wouldn't nag if he did it the first time I asked him to do it. And most men are not going to do it the first time you ask them to do it. And you can be pleasant about asking again instead of getting mad, getting angry, and going off on them with your temper because they didn't do what you wanted them to do or just getting mad and withdrawing and not saying anything and pouting and having a little pity party because your husband... not doing what you want him to do. No man is perfect. No woman is perfect. Most of us men are just jerks. I'll admit it. If it wasn't for the sense of God, we would probably already be a greasy spot somewhere. But you married us. You have to put up with us. So don't nag us. That's what the Bible is saying. The contentions of a wife are continuous dripping. Can men be naggers? You better believe they can be. They can be worse than a woman sometimes. critical, criticizing, maligning, putting their spouse down. There's no room in the Christian life for any sort of behavior like that. If you're that sort of man, you're not a man at all. You're just a mouse. You're a wimp. If you pick on your wife or if you pick on your children or if you intimidate them in any way whatsoever. Now, point 10, definitely you should keep your mouth shut when you're tempted to judge another person. God does not allow judging. Proverbs 21, 23, whoever guards his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from troubles. In Matthew 7, 1 through 5, judge not so that you are not judged. For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged. With the measure you use, it will be given back to you. So why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye and you don't consider the log sticking out of your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, oh, let me remove the speck from your eye. And then look, there's a log in your own eye. You're a hypocrite. First remove the log out of your own eye and then you will be able to see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. The log in your own eye is representative of your own self-righteous arrogance. Arrogant people don't see themselves as they really are. They see themselves as they think they are. And if they have an unrealistic self-image, they have unrealistic expectations. That's the way it goes. So there you have it. The laconic believer. Very critical, we understand. And that's review information that we've given to you before. But it's critical that we understand. We're not allowed to judge. We're not allowed to malign. We're not allowed to criticize. We're not allowed to slander. We're not allowed to gossip. These are all traits of the sin nature. And if you let your sin nature get out of control, this will be you. You will be rude. You will be impatient. You will be judgmental. You will be doing exactly all these things we talked about. If you'd like a transcript of this, we can provide it for you. We'll send it to you in email or in printed form. And if you would like any of our material from our books that we have published to anything else that we offer, including the Problem Solving Device Bookmarker, or the Christian Problem-Solving Device book. It's free. It's yours. All you have to do is ask for it. Get in touch with us, please. Let us know if you're hearing us. Let us know if you're listening. I'd love to get letters from you in this new year. We're coming up into the new decade, 2020. I'd love to know who's out there, who's paying attention, who's not. We're signing new contracts every day. for new radio shows, and it depends on who's there, who's listening, and how effective we're being in that area. So thank you for your prayer support. Thank you for your encouragement. Thank you for listening. And it's my prayer that you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, that you have made the most significant decision that you could ever make in your entire life. which is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shall be saved. A simple act of faith can change your life because the Bible says, whosoever should call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. I did it and you must do it if you haven't. Please consider the claims of Jesus Christ because God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. Until next week, this is your host, Rick Hughes, saying thank you for listening to The Flatline.
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Thank you for listening to The Flatline with your host, Rick Hughes. If you'd like to contact Rick, please write to him at P.O. Box 100, Cropwell, Alabama, 35054, or online at www.rickhughesministries.org.
