In this episode, Bill Gundersen takes us through a detailed analysis of current financial markets against the backdrop of escalating trade tensions. Discover how tariffs imposed by the U.S. are impacting international relations and influencing market movements. With expert analysis on Apple's manufacturing decisions and an insightful discussion on Japan's emerging bond market issues, listeners are equipped with the knowledge to understand and navigate today's financial uncertainties.
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He's been seen on CNBC, the Fox News Channel, and the Fox Business Channel. His articles can be found on MarketWatch, Seeking Alpha, TheStreet.com, and many other places. He's the author of the weekly Best Stocks Now newsletter and the inventor of the Best Stocks Now app. He's president of Gundersen Capital Management. Here is professional money manager Bill Gundersen.
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And welcome to the Friday, it is the Memorial Day weekend edition of the Best Stocks Now show on this May 23rd, 2025. And may we all remember what Memorial Day is really about. Yeah, let's talk water skiing and fishing. Yeah, that's all the things we do, but remember what Memorial Day is all about. We've got the Dow down 277 today as Trump threatens Tim Cook. He threatens Apple. He threatens Harvard. He threatens the EU and on and on and on. And that's got the markets a little nervous. Dow down 277. The NASDAQ is down 218. That's a 1.2% drop. I didn't see much that was really down, however. It was mostly Apple with the threats against them about refusing to bring any of their manufacturing to the U.S. The S&P is down 86 basis points right now to 5,791. Small caps down 1% right now. I did notice that the tenure is back to where it was before the Moody's downgrade of our debt. It did get up above 4.6 there for a while, and now it's back to 4.50. right back where we started from. We have Bitcoin down a little bit. It's at 108,000 after hitting a new all-time high yesterday of 111,000 and change. The big mover today, and it's been good to us, it's the best hedge when this turmoil hits, trade turmoil hits, is gold. Gold is up 1.34% today. which is easing the pain for us quite a bit here today. Nice hedge. It's kind of been one of the only persistent hedges, that and cash. Welcome to the Best Stocks Now show on this Friday, beginning of a three-day weekend. I officially proclaim it a four-day weekend as it begins now, as you think about what you're going to do this weekend. My wife is headed off to Atlanta to see the San Diego Padres play the Atlanta Braves. I was just a little bit, you know what, I don't know that I could stand in another TSA line right now. That's the worst part of travel. I was shocked when I got to the Cleveland Airport at 3.30 a.m. and arrived there in the departure area, and the line was down the block for TSA. I mean, really, really long. which was surprising because Cleveland's a pretty quiet airport, actually. And then I finally get up there to where they look you in the eye, and then they look at your ID, and they said, you've got to go redo your ticket. I said, what are you talking about? They have one day off. I was off by one day on my birth date. Instead of January 18th, they had January 19th. You mean to tell me I can't get on a plane? I'm a threat because of that? What kind of... Now, I didn't say this to the TSA guy, or I might not be here today.
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Yeah, you said this on the way back to the counter, bro.
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Oh, God. You know what? That is just stupidity. I mean, that is bureaucratic stupidity. But anyways... Got home, and here we are today.
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And they love your equipment, by the way. And I'm sure they love your radio equipment that you can take through there.
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They were okay, and the meatballs I smuggled home from Red Steakhouse, they were happy about. The drug-sniffing dog was a little on the edge there with those in my suitcase. But anyways, here we are today. And I expect a quiet day in the market, although it has started off kind of with a big downward move.
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The true social message kind of.
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Trump's in the threatening mood. And I have to say, that's the thing I like less, the least about Trump, is when he picks these fights against certain individuals or certain institutions and just won't let off. I mean, he's got it in for Harvard. Now Harvard, that's going to go to court. He's got it in for Tim Cook, and he's going to just continue to rail on Tim Cook. And he's got it in for Apple. And, of course, the EU, he's threatening to raise the tariffs to 50 basis points. So we're kind of back to where we need Besson to enter the picture here. He did.
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He actually spoke real quick. He had a quick comment maybe about it. An hour ago, and it kind of quieted things down a bit.
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He's a little more diplomatic than our president, I would just say.
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And today tends to be one of those, you know, from a volume standpoint, it tends to be a very light volume day. So to start out with some headlines like that, it was overwhelming.
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All the big institutional money managers and head fund managers are standing in TSA lines right now. That's where they're at mostly or driving somewhere.
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Driving to the Hamptons.
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Yes. We did have a very soft day in the market yesterday. I mean, the Dow was down one point, okay, after all of that. I said, why did I even come to work today? But the 10-year was down four basis points. Bitcoin hit an all-time high, 111,069, which is pretty incredible. Okay, today I guess there's a couple big news items that are driving the market south a little bit. Trump pushes EU to lower tariffs or face more tariffs. The EU does not like Trump. Okay, let's just call a spade a spade. The EU as a trading bloc does not like Trump. He's pressing them to unilaterally lower tariffs on American goods, warning that without such a concession, negotiations to avoid additional 20% reciprocal duties will stall. And he's got his big boys on this one now, working with the EU, Jameson Greer. They want some action on this. The U.S. imposed 25% tariffs on EU cars, steel, and aluminum. in March, followed by 20% tariffs on other EU products. Then he halved them until July the 8th, creating a 90-day window for both sides to negotiate. And that's where I hope that enters stage door left, stage right. Hopefully Besant will get in there and smooth things out a little bit. The EU so far has merely offered a reciprocal tariff reduction rather than pledging to lower duties alone. So anyways, we always knew that Europe would be a very tough block to deal with. And he said it himself. Trump has said it himself. Next month, Greer and his counterpart from the EU are going to meet in Paris. So that would be in June. That will be a crucial test of whether or not the two – I say Sen Besant –
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Send Besson over there. I mean, we're more intertwined, obviously, not just from, say, an economic standpoint. We know the China deal will be tough, but that's primarily economically. And when you look at Europe, there's obviously geopolitical defense, trade, right? There's a million, lots of different factors intertwined within a deal with Europe. So I've always kind of thought that one's going to be one of the, tougher pieces to hit just because of so many different facets of that particular agreement.
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It's kind of like deja vu all over again. We're going a little bit back to March 8th, and of course that was the low of the market. The 90-day negotiation window with Europe is set to expire on July 8th. So the clock is ticking, but we've got plenty of time. They'll work it out. I feel strongly they'll work it out.
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And that's one of the reasons you've been holding a little bit more dry powder. I mean, as you kind of go through these, as you go through these different 90-day periods, at some point, right, you create a little bit more uncertainty and then
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you know something's gonna shake out but the trick is you know what's the timing of that yes and i have taken on a little bit different tactic here recently normally i buy four or five percent positions in stocks so a portfolio ends up being twenty to twenty five stocks during this time of uncertainty i've been taking three percent positions just a little bit less to not really you know i just dip my toe in the water three is still a pretty big position When you consider that an index, you know, let's say the 500, the S&P 500 is a very small position. That's 0.2%. I'm taking a 3% position these days. And I'll say one other thing. I was really in the buying mood. I got off the plane. I got home right after, you know, the market opened, not too far long after. And I did do a lot of buying yesterday. And my main reasoning behind it, I think we've had one big uncertainty taken off of our plate, and that was the passing, at least by the House. The market really does not like unknown tax policy. And that tax policy, you know, I mean, it's almost a certain thing now that those Trump tax cuts, for better or for worse, are going to stay in place. And, you know, they really wanted to keep the growth part of the big, beautiful bill intact. And they did that. And the House amazingly agreed on something. And that does take a bit of uncertainty off the table. I do think that it's, you know, I think the Senate will definitely pass that big bill. And then we can go on to other worries, which we'll talk about here in a moment. This is the Best Stocks Now show. All right, get out your worry towel. You remember the basketball coach, Jerry Tarkanian. Tark the shark used to chew on his towel. By the end of the game, there was very little left of that towel. I'm going to tell you one other little quick analogy here. When I was growing up in San Diego, we used to go to the Imperial Valley, which was about two hours away to go pheasant hunting. in the alfalfa fields. And we had a little bird dog, Brittany Spaniel, that never had any training at all. He just knew how to do it.
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He knew what to do. There was bread in him.
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He would bounce through that alfalfa field, which is, you know, alfalfa is not a low plant. It's at least 18 to 24 inches high. Every once in a while, his little head would pop up. But then he would start making a big circle. And each circle would get smaller and smaller and smaller, and then he would stop and come to a point, and that pheasant would come flying out of that, fleeing out of that alfalfa for his life. I like in the stock market, you know, I kind of spend Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday going through the alfalfa, and my subscribers will see my head pop up every once in a while, and I'll say, I'm looking at this one, or I like the looks of this one. but I'm not ready to pounce yet. Thursday is usually my busiest day in the market, and yesterday was very busy. I'm going to guess that I made at least 10 buys of stocks that we already own that I bought for new people that don't own them yet, and then I think I bought one or two brand-new stocks yesterday. That's all going to be in the newsletter this weekend, but I went on point, and those stocks flushed, And I press the trade button, the buy button, and bam. So I just want to let you know that, you know, you think maybe I'm not doing anything on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. No, that's when the real work is taking place. And Thursday a lot of time is the trigger day. where I pull the trigger and make the final decisions on a lot of those stocks. The nuclear stocks really look good to me right now, once again. Through the roof today. Yeah, because of what Trump, Trump is very much pro-nuclear. I saw some really good action in the big ones and the small ones. The quantum stocks had a very good day yesterday. Very good day and a very good week. But they still make me a little nervous. You've got to understand that that is way off. That's a Cathie Wood type stock. It's a long duration. Maybe someday it will be profitable. Maybe not. So, you know, that should not be bought in a conservative. Those are trading stocks as far as I'm concerned.
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I was going to say, because, I mean, where you've got to look at is in the inherent volatility of them. They're not a buy and hold. They might be one you own five times from now until 2030, whenever SMR actually has.
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That's the way I look at them right now. I look at them as very, very volatile. Okay, now let's take a look here. There is a lot going on here, obviously. I've got to get my notes up here. Barry, talk for a minute.
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Oh, yeah, no, we got the... I mean, I was... You said that you had the... Talking about Europe, I saw where Denmark raised their retirement age to the highest in the world. So it'll be... uh 68 if i think they went to 70 didn't they go yeah what they're doing in incrementally so 68 it'll be 2030 and 69 it'll be 2035 and before reaching 70 in 2040 so um they're uh you know they're trying to to maintain that pension and they have an aging population and so that's uh just kind of you know some news that i saw today from a planning standpoint it was like well you know
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well we are living longer we need to for whatever reason that is the third rail of politics is to not even talk about social security and medicare which are on uh... you know real sustainable of course and uh... it seems to me that at some point whether we like it or not we're going to have to address that and to me that would be the The natural, the least painful way and the least controversial way to give ours a little bit of a boost would be to move the ages forward a few years on everything. Would that create a total backlash? Would that be a losing hand when you go to run for re-election as a party if you were to touch that? I don't know. But that seems to me like if you're going to do it, and I think at some point they're not going to have a choice.
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Well, the problem is they've shown it, you know, the easiest way to show it and the most proper way to show it is mathematically. Mathematics. Right? That doesn't mean anything to Washington. Exactly.
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They don't believe in mathematics.
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You need opinion. You've got to have some opinion because it's more of a gray area than it is if it's mathematics, right? This is going to run out on this day if you keep doing this, right?
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Well, they keep trying to convince me that the new math says that you can take in $4 trillion and spend $6 trillion and everything's going to be okay. That's new math, all right? Now, okay, the other one that is in the headlights or in the – Crosshairs of Trump today. Apple dives as Trump says tariffs must be paid on iPhones not made in the U.S. That's a big deal. Now, he's threatening that. If you go to the AT&T store today or the Apple store or Verizon or whatever the case may be, You're not going to have to do it. But he is not happy. He said, I long ago informed Tim Cook of Apple that I expect their iPhones that will be sold in the United States of America will be manufactured and built in the United States of America, not India or any place else. Well, in my book, a CEO of a company, you know, should have the say. He should lean towards hiring American workers and whatnot. I don't know that you can force somebody, but he has done the same thing with the auto industry, really, I mean, with Mexico and Canada, and they are bringing their They're Mexican operations here, and so are the Japanese car makers. and uh... what what what do you think out there and listen our listeners uh... should uh... should a uh... president of the united states force a c e o like tim cook uh... who's who spent billions of dollars setting up moving it to india moving it to well first to china and now to india uh... and he's wanting them to bring it to america and i don't think you can i don't think it's a good idea to force But the tariff part, I suppose, you know what, okay, if you make that decision, then when you go to import those phones into the U.S., but that just opens the door to a Samsung. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if I like that or not. But anyways, the two of them met recently, and Trump says he's building all over India. He says, I don't want you building in India. But he said as a result of their conversation, Apple will be upping their production in the United States. I don't know of what. But Apple said in February that it would invest $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years. And I just don't see Cook not going forward with his India plans and bringing it to the U.S. We'll be right back. This is Bill Gunderson. Thank you for tuning in to today's Best Stocks Now, Best Inverse Funds Now show. I put several hours of research in during the wee hours of the morning each day to bring you the very best cutting-edge stories that I can. To get two free weeks of my newsletter, go to GundersonCapital.com. To talk to us about our fee-based only money management services, call us at 855-611-BEST. Now, back to the second half of the show. And welcome back here to the second half of today's Best Stocks Now show. Apple remains a soggy stock. Not only has it become a single-digit – hey, maybe it's – I've been saying this for a long time. Maybe it's time for a change. Of course, Cook, I guess, was a pretty important guy under Jobs there, and he's ran it, and there just has not been much innovation. We have no exposure to Apple whatsoever. That's not a good chart at all on Apple. It's down another 2.3% today, yet it's one of the most widely held stocks. Everybody thinks, oh, I own Apple. How could you not own Apple? Well, you know, okay, they have not. Number one, before this take away the controversy with the tariffs on iPhones made outside the U.S., they'll come to some kind of agreement. But it was not a good stock before that. Wedbush is not happy, though. Wedbush does not like Trump. You can put them on the side of those that... Can't stand the man, I suppose. Wedbush is a, what's his name, Dan Ives, C-E, not Dan Ives. Yeah, Dan Ives. Yeah, Dan Ives. Okay, he says.
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You'd know if you could see him because you could see that binding colorful shirt set.
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Yes, he always was. He's a colorful guy trying to get attention. If Apple were, he says, if they were to build iPhones entirely in the U.S., it would have roughly a $3,500 price point. I don't know how they figure that out. But that's the math that they do on it. And he says it would take about five years to build those plants here in the U.S., so it's totally a non-starter. He says, we believe the concept of Apple producing iPhones in the U.S. is a fairy tale that is not feasible. Okay, and you're heading into iPhone 17 production this fall. So they need to get it worked out. Now, coming from Apple's point of view, and one of the downsides of offshoring your manufacturing, I asked my nephew, the PhD from Stanford and Harvard, who worked alongside with Apple, Clay Christensen, the guy on technologies, disruptive technologies. I said, what would Clay Christensen have to say about offshoring your product? And he says, well, he would say, you don't want to offshore your product because they're going to steal your ideas from you. Especially when they're manufacturing your product. They know every little bit of your product. And that's exactly what happened to Apple. Apple's business is so bad in China that they're offering trade-in discounts on new iPhones because Huawei is eating their lunch. Do you think if Apple would not have offshored the production of iPhones that Huawei would be the biggest producers of iPhones out there today? Or whatever they call their phones. They're not iPhones, but they're competitors to Apple. Now, the Federal Reserve, I saw Waller yesterday was saying, if we can settle in at about 10% tariffs across the board, we're a long ways from that, I would say. He says then the Federal Reserve could start cutting. So I guess if you're looking for a benchmark, at least Waller, who has one vote, he wants to see tariffs settle in at about 10%. I have noticed, I was buying some... 24 by 30 inch, like quarter inch poster board for crafts and hobbies and whatnot for my grandkids and whatnot. I've seen the prices of those skyrocket since the 30% tariffs went in. It's now for 25 sheets of that, it's $260, $11 a sheet. where before it was $6 a sheet. So it is now officially showing up where those tariffs are now. They're unloading the boats, but they're getting hit with 30% tariffs on stuff that was getting hit with zero tariffs before. So all of a sudden, The prices have skyrocketed. You're going to notice that in Amazon going forward. Harvard barred from enrolling foreign students. That's another one that he's picked to fight with. Again, I don't like these individual fights. I don't know. It just looks petty to me.
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I think if you're enrolled, I saw something. If you're enrolled, you've got to basically transfer. Wow.
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Yeah, I mean, it's just, I don't know. He's over the top at times. The Supreme Court preserves Fed independence. Okay, that's pretty, you know, that's something that the Supreme Court has ruled on. He can shake up other agencies, no problem. I know that there was a federal judge yesterday. You've got to hire back all those people that you let go from the Department of Education, which he basically shut down the Department of Education, the federal department. But it looks to me like the Supreme Court, that's a pretty big win. On the surface, you may think that's a loss if you're for the president having the powers to, for instance, eliminate the Department of Education. The Supreme Court was okay with that, but as it relates to the Fed, they think that the Fed or the laws prevent him from messing with the Fed and the... I worry about the...
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Don't worry about taking the Fed's independence away or reducing it in some capacity. Of course, there's always another administration coming down the pike. You don't know where that comes from.
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Yeah, they could totally restore it because these executive orders can be overdone unless Congress steps in and makes them law. Now, NVIDIA, if you've still got some fingernails left to chew on, NVIDIA is going to report May 28th, so five days from now. I guess that's next Thursday or Wednesday, I guess, Wednesday. That'll be, you know, NVIDIA in my book these days is the number one company uh earnings report and uh this is like the last one of the quarter i don't know why nvidia has such a weird uh reporting date because 95 of the companies have already reported but we never understood why they had that late date i mean a lot of you get a lot of your retailers are late just because they've got a lot of them are physically counting inventory but yeah i never i
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Never really understood why theirs was so late, especially since it's the one we've been anticipating the most for the last two years.
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Yeah, and, you know, NVIDIA is a member of the Dow. I think a lot of the obstacles in NVIDIA's way, I think they've gone easier on China. I think Jensen Wang's trip to the White House went a whole lot better than Tim Cook's trip to the White House. Yeah. And I think Wayne was able to convince President Trump that it's not in our best interest. He's kind of like, let the markets work on this. And I think that probably has helped NVIDIA clear out some of those gaps. Those roadblocks and obstacles. I think the stock looks pretty good right now. We'll see. Their earnings are going to come out on Wednesday. You just never know. Decker's reported today. And Decker's did not, they couldn't even give any guidance.
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Took away their guidance, yeah.
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That stock's down 20% this morning. I own that one in the value, the relative value portfolio. And I bought it pretty cheap. But it is down 20% today. I have no intention of selling it. That's been a great stock over the years, a bump in the road as far as I'm concerned. Now, here's 10 risks to the U.S. economy today. according to Apollo. Number one, Moody's downgrade of U.S. debt, increasing borrowing costs. Well, it's had very little impact so far. The ongoing negative impact of tariffs. Yes, from day to day, week to week, that is a risk. The trade deal uncertainty and trade war. That's another one. Extremely high uncertainty for business planning. That's another one. And weak corporate confidence. Consumer spending slowing because of the higher prices in stores such as Walmart. I just mentioned Amazon. There's no way I'm going to buy. I'm going to pay $256 for 24-inch by 30-inch foam board stock. No way in heck. And a lot of people are going to say that. Historically weak consumer confidence right now. Lower tourism right now. There is a backlash against Trump in the U.S. Student loan repayments restarting. That takes money out of the economy. Housing demand weakening because of higher mortgage rates. Well, they've been parked here at 6.9 for a long, long time. And doge laying off government workers. So there's ten more reasons to worry this weekend. But wait, here's one more. Here's the big one, Japan. According to Societe Generale, they say that the global financial markets could face a dramatic shift, an Armageddon triggered by Japan's bond market turmoil. Now, this is a new one to me. I mean, they're down under 1% on their interest rates, but apparently there's cracks and it's starting to crack and it could turn into a tsunami, according to Society Generali. So we'll be watching Japanese interest rates going forward. We'll be right back.
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And welcome back here to the final segment of today's Best Docs Now show.
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I want to go back to the Japanese story just for a moment. Because it is a big story, and I don't mean to brush by it as if it's nothing. You know, if you look at the chart... of japan's 10-year the the interest rates now you wonder why in every week's newsletter i have the yields of greece spain and italy in there it's because that almost brought the world to its knees when the club med stocks all of a sudden had a bond crisis The pigs, remember? Yes, and I've been monitoring them ever since, and they've behaved themselves. But now you've got even a bigger economy, Japan, which in 2020, during COVID, their bond rate went negative, minus 0.25%.
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And they were virtually at zero for like 20-something years. A long time. Until about a year or two ago when the carry trade unwound.
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Yes, now that you said the key word, that finances a lot of funding as investors go in there, borrow that money for next to nothing, and go out and buy stocks and bonds. With that money, okay, that's called the carry trade. You're borrowing the money from Japan, and you're carrying it to other investments, and you're trading a very low-yielding instrument for one that yields a whole lot higher. And now Japan's gone from minus 25 basis points. They're at 1.55 today. And if you look at that chart, that is a pretty explosive chart. This is how you want a good stock to look, not your bond yield.
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Interest rate, yeah. And what that's doing, your borrowing costs are getting... More and more expensive, which at some point makes the differential, say, between where you could borrow there and then turn around and invest that money somewhere else. Your borrowing costs are going up. It's messing that arbitrage trade up a bit. When you unwind that stuff, that's where you've got – when you're selling a lot of, say, Japanese bonds onto the market, when normally people have – it's been going the other way for years, you get a problem.
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Well, I mean, it's a sure thing. I mean, look – and where it could show up is in U.S. treasuries. Because you borrow money from Japan at half a percent. You turn around and buy a U.S. Treasury at four and a half. That's funding. They call that the yen-funded carry trade. And that accounts for substantial foreign bond purchases. You're buying the cheapest bonds in the world. And you're buying ones that have much better yields. And this era appears to be ending as capital returns to Japan while the Bank of Japan loses control of its long-end curve. The unwinding of these massive carry trades could create a loud sucking sound in the U.S. financial assets if yields on Japan continue to go higher. So that will be something now that I put on my weekly... a watch list because this has never been a problem this is all japan has had near zero interest rates for years and years and years and years and even at one and a half you say why is that a problem well it's gone from zero to one and a half in just four years what if it goes to three or four and it's going to continue to unwind that carry trade. So it's definitely something that's going to have to be monitored carefully. That can be your third fingernail that you chew on. That's the Japan carry trade. NVIDIA may top Q1 estimates. but its outlook could be hindered by China. That's going to come up next week. As the nuclear stocks are flying off the shelf, the solar stocks, because in that, Trump, the so-called Big Beautiful Bill. Depending on which side you're on, one side calls it the Big Beautiful Bill. The other one says it's the Big Ugly Bill. It is the first one to actually attack spending, even though the bottom line is not all that much. But I did listen to a guy that is on the budget committee, He's pretty controversial because he's for draconian cuts. And he was saying, you know, there's actually a lot more cuts in here than people realize. So at least, you know, he thinks there was something in there that was worthwhile.
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Yeah, I mean, don't forget, I mean, just slowing the growth of spending in reality, right, is the equivalent of a cut nowadays.
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Yes, but they did accomplish some cuts in there on top of that. Not just slowing, but eliminating. Okay, now... The solar stocks are just getting hammered. Sunrun was down 39% yesterday. I had someone transfer Enphase to us. I sold that one immediately for solar. The solar stocks are just getting hammered because they're going to speed up the phase-out of those credits. And that's what kept the solar industry alive, really, was the tax credits. And now that's going to disappear. So that's a cut. Okay, that's a cut. to spending. You're not allowing those solar credits here down the road a lot sooner than the original phase-out was. Now, I'm looking at the bonds market every once in a while. I looked at that. Here's a good example. Flutter, which is the best stock now, a massive gambling company. Well, you can gamble on there. The five-year is at five and an eighth. Which, you know what, I mean, that's going out six years. And if you hold that, you know, over until 2031, five and seven-eighths, and if the company's still around five years from now, you get all your principal back. That's one of the most attractive bonds that I've seen in a long, long time. Five and seven-eighths on a senior secured note due in 2031.
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I think it's coming out around, what, beginning of June, I think.
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Yeah, you're going to look into it for us. Nuclear names surge as Trump sets to sign order to boost the industry. And I have not had a chance to go through it yet. I've got a long day ahead. A guy in Cleveland told me, try Grok. I said, what is that, a Greek restaurant, an Italian restaurant around here, over there in Mentor or something? He said, no, that's Musk AI. He says, go to Grok. I can't remember if it was Calm or something else. He said, it's amazing. So that's another one. You know, look, how many irons in the fire does Elon Musk have? And now he's got a competitor to chat GPT. So anyways, try Grok over the weekend if you get a chance. And try my newsletter and four-week trial over the weekend. It's the best education you'll ever get on the market. Go to GundersenCapital.com. Set up an appointment with us at 855-611-BEST. 855-611-BEST. Have a great day and have a great weekend, everybody.
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An early childhood taxing district? What on earth is that?
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I don't think that we should be passing legislation that is so complicated that people kind of throw up their hands and say, I can't understand that.
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And it's not fair just because you're a big business that you get a break on this and the little guy doesn't.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let's have a conversation.
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Indeed. Let's have a conversation. And welcome to the Kim Monson 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's Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Friday, Producer Joe. Happy Friday, Kim. We've got a three-day weekend. We have prerecorded the show for Monday. A great guest, our number one, the featured guest is Colonel Bill Rutledge, retired United States Air Force, 96 years young. We'll be talking about Eddie Rickenbacker, An Amazing Life. He was a Medal of Honor recipient. He was a World War I flying ace. He was the owner of Eastern Airlines, the Indianapolis Speedway, which the Indianapolis 500 is raced on Memorial Day. And so really an amazing man. And of course, Colonel Rutledge really brings that to life. And then second hour is Drew Dix, who is a Medal of Honor recipient for actions that he took during the Vietnam War. He is a co-founder with Brad Padula of the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo. And it's a really important interview as well. And we want to remember and reflect and honor those that have given the last full measure of devotion. You might check out that song as well. You might do a quick web search on last full measure of devotion and something to listen to this Memorial Day. And so great shows planned for you. And so be sure and check that out on Monday. The show comes to you 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday. The first hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon. The second hour, 10 to 11 at night. And this is on all KLZ platforms. That's KLZ 560 a.m. KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, the KLZ app. You can say Alexa, play KLZ. And then after that, it is on Spotify and iTunes as well. Check out the website, which is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Make sure that you are signed up for our weekly email newsletter that goes out on Sundays. That way you'll get first look at all of our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. You can email me at kim at kimmonson.com, the text line, and I want to hear from you. And Ron, if you're listening, I'd really love to have you call in at 617 regarding your comments on what we were talking about regarding South Africa. And didn't get to that yesterday and would really like to do that. And of course, that call in number is 303-477-5600. And again, the text line I want to hear from you is 720-605-0647. And thank you to all of you who support what we're doing here. We are an independent voice. And what that means is I buy my airtime. And so I have full control of guest selections, subject selection. I do consult the good Lord about that. And we're blessed with amazing guests. But I support or I really appreciate all of your support. So we're an independent voice on an independent station. Crawford has, I don't know, 24, 27 stations throughout the country and a pretty amazing group of people to work with. So thank you for your support. What we do on the show is we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force. Force versus freedom. Remember, it's never compassionate nor altruistic to take other people's stuff, whether or not it's their rights, their property, freedom, livelihoods, opportunities, childhoods, or lives via force. And force can obviously be a weapon, but it's policy, an unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation. The agenda by the World Economic Forum, globalist elites, and plays out through the United Nations, this Colorado State Legislature carries the water for that agenda. And nothing happens down at the Colorado Legislature without politics. Basically, Governor Polis's blessings. There's a few things that he vetoed, but that could also be very political because he wants to make a run for president. So all that's playing out here in Colorado. But they use land use codes and zoning regulations. And we'll talk in the second hour. Our featured guests are Natalie Minton and Mike Rolick, who are really citizen advocates and experts in just kind of what zoning can do. It can either be used to protect property rights or it can be used to usurp property rights, and we'll talk about that. But then again, there's forced fees and conservation easements. Biden was using national monument designations. These transmission lines, easements, as well as CO2 pipeline easements, all of this is taking property via force. And so that's why we are looking at these issues. Remember, if something is a good idea, you should not have to use force to implement it. And the other thing on the show is we focus on these issues. And we'll mention the people pushing these issues, but we are really working diligently to stay out of all the personality fighting that can occur. in life, in politics, in eighth grade, all of those things. So I wanted to say a thank you, first of all, to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show, because it's reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy from oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives and fuels our hopes and dreams. And that industry is under attack. And I'm certainly for all sources of energy. But we need to get government subsidies, government tax incentives, all of that stuff out of there and let all of these energy sources compete in the free market. And when that happens right now, it is oil, natural gas and coal. that can provide something that really works for our lives. So we continue to shed light on that. And one of the things I'd suggest that you do this weekend is check out A Climate Conversation, which is the documentary that I had the great honor to moderate. It is the brainchild and also stepped up and financed it. And that is Walt Johnson. And we also have a great series of podcasts with experts there. And it is very, very informative. So be sure and check all that out. Our word of the day is criteria. And I selected it because we used it in one of our quotes earlier this week. And it is a noun. It is spelled C-R-I-T-E-R-I-O-N. And it could be a standard rule or test on which a judgment or decision can be based. It could be... let's see, a standard of judging any approved or established rule or test by which facts, principles, opinions, and conduct are tried in forming a correct judgment respecting them. And I would say that the criterion for any rule, regulation, ordinance, city ordinance, state law, federal law is this litmus test, the criterion of our vision of our declaration. that all men are created equal. So that means that judge anything regarding the courts should be impartial. So we're all created equal and that we have these rights from God of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, which liberty is the responsible exercise of freedom. And so the criterion of all of these things should be the Declaration and the Constitution. Our quote of the day comes from the Center for American Values, and they are located in Pueblo on the beautiful Riverwalk. And on Fridays, we share from their Medal of Honor quote book one of the quotes from one of our Medal of Honor recipients. And this is from James N. Sprayberry. He was born in 1947. This is actions that were taken on April 25th, 1968. This is his citation. And it says, For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity, an action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty, Captain Sprayberry, armor, U.S. Army, distinguished himself by exceptional bravery while serving as executive officer of Company D. his company commander and a great number of the men were wounded and separated from the main body of the company a daylight attempt to rescue them was driven back by the well-entrenched enemy's heavy fire captain sprayberry then organized and led a volunteer night patrol And that word right there, volunteer. So these are guys that said, okay, I'll do it. And he led this night patrol to eliminate the intervening enemy bunkers and to relieve the surrounded element. The patrol soon began receiving enemy machine gun fire. captain sprayberry quickly moved the men to protective cover and without regard for his own safety crawled within close range of the bunker from which the fire was coming he silenced the machine-gun with a hand grenade and then identifying several one-man enemy positions near by captain sprayberry immediately attacked them with the rest of his grenades He crawled back for more grenades, and when two grenades were thrown at his men from a position to the front, Captain Sprayberry without hesitation again exposed himself and charged the enemy-held bunker, killing its occupants with a grenade. Placing two men to cover his advance, he crawled forward and neutralized three more bunkers with grenades immediately thereafter. Captain Sprayberry was surprised by an enemy soldier who charged from a concealed position. He killed the soldier with his pistol, and with continuing disregard for the danger, neutralized another enemy emplacement. Captain Sprayberry then established radio contact with the isolated men, directing them towards his position. When the two elements made contact, he organized his men into litter parties to evacuate the wounded. As the evacuation was nearing completion, he observed an enemy machine gun position which he silenced with a grenade. Captain Sprayberry returned to the rescue party, established security, and moved to friendly lines with the wounded. This rescue operation, which lasted approximately seven and a half hours, saved the lives of many of his fellow soldiers. Captain Sprayberry personally killed 12 enemy soldiers, eliminated two machine guns, and destroyed numerous enemy bunkers. Captain Sprayberry's indomitable spirit and gallant action at great personal risk to his life are in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the U.S. Army. And this is what he said. He said, And again, that's James M. 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It is Friday. Welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search 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 thank you to Hooters Restaurants for their sponsorship of the show. I got to know them when I was on city council. Very important story about property rights, capitalism, and PBIs, those pesky politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties. that think they know better how to control our lives. And so Hooters Restaurants has five locations, Loveland, Aurora, Lone Tree, Westminster, and Colorado Springs. And it's a great place to get together Monday through Friday for lunch. They have great nachos and they also have great fish and chips. And so I would recommend that you try that out. Regarding some of the news out there, first of all, on the local level, it is very interesting. They are changing the name of the 16th Street Mall here in Denver. And I don't think changing the name is really what needs to be done. And if you have been downtown downtown, which people are not going down there because they're very concerned about illegal immigration, trash, homelessness, crime, all of those things. But this is from Axios, and it says, the title, Say Goodbye to the 16th Street Mall. And it says that the 100... It says the 100,000 rebrand. So they're spending $100,000 to rebrand the 16th Street Mall to the 16th Street. I think it's just street. And it's part of the city's $175.4 million effort to revive the downtown strip and reshape the narrative around a corridor that struggled since the pandemic. So we have PBIs that close down businesses. And then we've also heard stories of businesses that customers could not get into the door because the homeless were in front of it. And so anyway, Johnston thinks he'll spend $175.4 million of opium. Oh, that's other people's money. Thank you, Jenny. And it says Denver Mayor Mike Johnson made that announcement, saying that the name change, and that was earlier this week, reflects the area's evolution from a shopping district to a mile of diverse restaurants, businesses, retail and commercial. It's the whole downtown experience. And he said, oh, they're calling it the Denver Way, excuse me, as a secondary name with a double meaning. It's both a literal route through downtown, he explained, and a symbolic nod to the city's values. And it says, so far, nine of the 13 blocks are finished, complete with 950,000 new pavers, nearly 200 trees, upgraded infrastructure, public art, and better accessibility. And so we'll see if that $175.4 million is what was really needed to get people to go down to the Denver way. Next thing, again, Johnston is using $250,000 legal fees for his sanctuary hearing. And it says the attorneys are representing the city of Denver and Mayor Mike Johnston at a congressional hearing in March submitted a $250,000 legal bill. And it says that's just the first invoice in a contract worth $2 million and comes as city officials prepare for a tight budget this year. And it says the request for payment from the Washington, D.C.-based firm of Covington & Burling, first reported by the Denver Gazette and confirmed by Axios Denver, is for professional services. And I think this is important to note. As you know, we've got our lawsuits out there that all of you helped use your hard-earned dollars to file regarding our elections. But yet here we have Johnston using OPM, other people's money, for his particular agenda. uh next thing again this is from axios it says the city may ditch minimum parking mandate mandates and so they think that if you can't find a place to park that you're not going to drive someplace thereby you are going to use transit to get to these um all of these businesses that will be on the 16th street denver way Well, what actually happens is people like their cars and they're probably going to just go to some other jurisdiction and go to those restaurants and push that tax revenue there. So it says anyway. Denver could eliminate parking minimums citywide, a move supporters say will bolster transit use, reduce housing costs and streamline local laws. And it says in a city where cars are king, dropping parking regulations could fundamentally shift how Denver's new and much needed housing develops in the future. Opponents, including many residents, so that's the people that live there, say the change could give developers too much leeway and potentially cause more street parking woes in neighborhoods already crammed with cars. And so again, that is Mike Johnston, I think, driving Denver into more and more decline. Yesterday, and again, Ron, if you're listening, I'd love to have you weigh in on this. And we talked about the meeting with Donald Trump and president of South Africa. And I think it's Ramaphosa or Phosa. And there was a video of all of these crosses by the side of a road. And I've not watched the complete meeting with Donald Trump and the president of South Africa. However, the article is saying that Donald Trump said that this was a burial ground. And so this is an article from the BBC saying, The title on it is On the South African Road Incorrectly Identified as a Burial Site by Trump. So I mentioned yesterday that there was an article from Reuters and an article from AP News that said that these were baseless claims in South Africa about white farmers being killed. And so what they're trying to do is is tap down the story so that busy people, they look at that, they go baseless claims and try to discount that. And Trump had this this video, which thank you, Lisa, for sending that over to me as well. And so what had happened now, the BBC is trying to tap down this whole story as well, because and that is why it is so important to get everything absolutely correct. Because if for some reason we don't get it absolutely correct, instead of focusing on the big issue and you can even you can when you're in discussions with people that may be on the left, if you say something that. The big picture is correct, but you're getting the detail wrong. What happens is, is they will hone in on that detail that is wrong instead of having this conversation about the big picture. And so the challenge then is to to clarify, get it right on the little detail. And pivot and get back to the big picture. So again, this is trying to go in on the detail. And this is from the BBC. And you need to read the whole article. But again, if people don't, they're not going to get the whole story. So it says, the P39-1 is an anonymous stretch of thinly tarred highway connecting the small towns of Newcastle and Normanian in South Africa, which is a four-hour drive from Johannesburg. says this week the single carriageway road, which runs mainly along the edge of farms nestled in the remote hills of the country's KwaZulu-Natal province, has found itself at the subject of global attention. On Wednesday, it says many South Africans were among those watching live around the world as U.S. President Donald Trump ambushed, now again, this is another word that they're using to discredit things, ambushed his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, with video making the case that white people were being persecuted. He had previously said that a genocide was taking place. So it says the most striking scene in the video was an aerial shot of thousands of white crosses by the side of the road, a burial site, President Trump repeatedly said, of more than a thousand Afrikaners murdered in recent years. I don't think that... So I think I didn't think it was a burial site. I didn't think that there was people buried underneath those crosses. But anyway, that's the issue here from the BBC. Says the president did not mention where the road was, although the film was quickly linked to Norman, Normanian. And this goes on to say that. But the people who live nearby know better than anyone that his claim is not true. Well, his claim that it's a burial site probably isn't true. That's probably incorrect. So the BBC visited the area on Thursday, the day after the Oval Office showdown, to find that the P391's crosses have long since disappeared. There is no burial site and the road looks like any other. A new grain mill has been built along one stretch where the crosses once briefly stood. What BBC found was a community shock to find itself under the spotlight and a truth about the crosses that reveals much about the delicate balance of race relations in South Africa. Then it says Roland Collier is a man who understands both. He is a farmer from South Africa. Now, this is where we get to the meat here. He's a farmer from South Africa's Afrikaner community. And it was the murder of his aunt and Uncle Glenn and Vita Rafferty bludgeoned to death in their home five years ago, which led to the erection of the crosses. It says their deaths at their farm by attackers who stole valuables from their home led to a public outcry by the farming community and the temporary planting of the crosses by fellow Afrikaners keen to highlight their murders among those of other farmers who've been killed across South Africa. So, yes, this is occurring in South Africa. The mainstream media, the BBC, Reuters and AP News are trying to tap down this. And that visual of those crosses are something that you can't get out of your mind once you see that. And so that is why I think that they're really working to try to discount that. And so it's important that we continue to speak truth into all of these things that are occurring. And here in America, so an example, here these people were killed, bludgeoned in their home. And that is one of the reasons why the Second Amendment is so important here in the United States. The founders realized that, that we should have the right to keep and bear firearms so that we can protect ourselves against bad actors. And that that Second Amendment right is under is under attack. And it's really incremental. And here in Colorado, it started back at the state legislature in 2000. And so that's why it's important that we shed the light on all these little things that are occurring to try to take away our right to keep in place. and bear firearms to protect ourselves against these bad actors. And that's why I'm so pleased to have the Second Syndicate and all the great work that they're doing as a new sponsor.
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It is Friday. Welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. Check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com and sign up for our weekly email newsletter while you're there. You'll get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. And we talked with Jody Henze earlier this week, new sponsor of the show. She is the owner of Mint Financial Strategies. And she can help you with your financial freedom. She and her team really do amazing work. They're an independent firm and they're an accredited investment fiduciary and they put your interests first. Mint means more than money. It stands for a meaningful relationship, information sharing and a network of smart strategies and a thoughtful advisor who puts you in control. No cookie cutter plans there. Everything is tailored to you. So call Mint Financial Strategies down at 303-285-3080. And again, that's 303-285-3080. And Memorial Day is right around the corner. And it is a day to stop and reflect about those that have given their lives for our liberty. And what is liberty? Well, it's the responsible exercise of freedom. And I'm so pleased to talk with Don Beasley. He is the Honorable Don Beasley. He's president of Proforma Partners Business Brokerage and has been in the business of selling your business since 1987. He's a passionate advocate for freedom. He's a former state representative in the Colorado House District 33. And he also served as vice president for development at the Cato Institute. Don Beasley, welcome to the show.
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Thanks, Kim. Good morning. How are you today?
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I am doing well. And you've written a very important piece that we will roll out in the newsletter this Sunday, and then it will be on our website. Does Memorial Day still matter? And I know my producer, Steve, who's since retired, his blood pressure would go up several degrees, I think, because he was so frustrated with people just thinking that Memorial Day was an extra day off. and a sale, you know, furniture, mattress, whatever, and that it was just a barbecue weekend. And so he was very frustrated about it. So does Memorial Day still matter, Don Beasley?
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Well, I think it does. You know, there's two national holidays that are really important to me. One is Independence Day, July 4th, and the other is Memorial Day. And I think these two things are very closely connected to each other. And we have to ask ourselves, what are we fighting for? Why does it matter? And it is those exceptional principles that make the United so unique, not just today, but in the history of humankind that makes Memorial Day matter.
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Well, and those principles have really been under attack, I would say, because the founders, we fought a revolutionary war, obviously. People gave up their lives for liberty, the responsible exercise of freedom. But what they put in place was this vision of the Declaration and then the Constitution that said, hey, we're not going to settle our differences, right? We're going to have a system within liberty that people can settle their differences without picking up arms against each other. But that Constitution has been under attack almost since the ink wasn't even dry on it, Don Beasley.
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Yeah, it has. And I think you always have to go back to first principles. And the idea of this country is that the individual matters, that your life belongs to you, that you're not the property of a king or a Congress. And that exceptional idea is what sets us apart. And the Declaration of Independence declared those ideas, and then the brilliant effort in the Constitution to codify those ideas into law and into a government. So in fact, we would have limited government that exists to protect the rights of individuals. And that is truly exceptional in history, and that constitutional structure is definitely under attack today from, I would argue, both left and right. We see a large bill that was just passed that really doesn't roll back a whole lot of attacks on individual liberty, kind of ignores reality in terms of the budget, and it's just – I think our founders would – their minds would be blown by trillion-dollar deficits and $35 or $36 trillion of debt, whatever it is today. And it's getting back to those first principles. Remember, what is the purpose of government and that constitution that exists to protect our rights to individual liberty? And then as far as Memorial Day, those are the ideas. that we've sent people into horrible situations to fight for us, whether it was the meat grinder of World War I, World War II, the Gulf Wars, thinking about what is it that will protect American sovereignty. And that's one of the points I make in the article you mentioned is American sovereignty matters because America matters. But remember, America matters because freedom matters. Those are the ideas of individual liberty, limited constitutional government, and free market capitalism. And capitalism, they tried to make a bad word, but it's the only moral social system. It's how we all work with each other peaceably. And as you mentioned, one of the ideas in the Constitution is to have peaceful government and peaceful transfer of power. And capitalism is a reflection of freedom and peace in our own personal lives. How do we work with each other voluntarily? and peaceably and associate with each other as we choose. And if we choose not to, that's okay too. We can't be forced to do so. And those ideas are what we fight for ideally when we protect American sovereignty. And that's what Americans need to remember on a weekend like this is it's the ideas that matter. It's the ideas that make America exceptional. And that idea is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We own our own lives. We have a right to live in liberty, and we have to because of human nature. We have to be free to take action to improve our lives. And guess what? When our freedom is protected, you know what we do? We get up in the morning. We work hard. We're generous. We take care of our family and our friends, and we build good communities. When that freedom is violated, things start to go south.
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Well, and Don Beasley, what we have seen is these principles have been used against us. And so, for example, Liberty, Ben Martin, I think you probably know him. He is a patriotic historian. And I went through a course on America's founding heritage. And he has this great love for our country, West Point grad, former Army Ranger. And he always would say, liberty is the responsible exercise of freedom. So liberty doesn't mean that you can do just whatever you want. So liberty does not mean that we would use government To, in essence, steal from our neighbors. And you can see it even at the local level. I was on city council. You were at the state legislature. And what happens is cronyists and our people, our young people have taught that capitalism is a bad word. The word that they really are referring to. and our young people haven't understood it is cronyism or cronyists and cronyists are when government and big business or small business when people want to use government to forcibly get to a goal that they want and get in bed with each other then that's cronyism and we don't like that but capitalism this free exchange of value for value that's what makes America unique.
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It is. And I love Ben's quote about the responsible exercise of freedom. And I think that freedom creates its own values. You know, the difference between kind of cronyism and plunder, right, versus the idea of personal responsibility and personal initiative when you have freedom. And you saw this in our country for so long where we had a culture of hard work, of personal responsibility, of honesty and decency. And as you get into a more cronyist world, you see that start to erode and you start seeing people trying to think of government as how can I use it to get what I want from somebody else? How can I use it to initiate force without having to do the hard work myself? And it really does start to corrode those essential human values of personal responsibility, of hard work, and even of just rationality of like making good decisions for good reasons. and and you see it corrode the culture and and it certainly at the legislature even when you tried to make you know minor reforms to you know occupational licensing is kind of a hot button for me i don't i don't think you should have to ask the government for permission to to do your job you know you try to make some minor tweaks to that and and and it was met with a firestorm you know you try to liberalize it just a little bit to create a little bit more freedom a little bit more opportunity for people to work and achieve things And somebody's like, well, wait, that could be competition. I don't want that. So they stand up against it. And your world gets very small when you get into that cronyist mentality rather than a larger view of humanity and opportunity and flourishing and prosperity.
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I had something really interesting happen. This was several years ago. Don Beasley, I was at the post office. And I really think that if you put like Chick-fil-A in charge of the post office or the motor vehicle department, things would change significantly. But, you know, a long line. And there was a guy that appeared that is probably a new immigrant to the United States. And the post office worker was just not being very helpful. And this guy, he said, but you work for me. And I was just shocked when he said that. He must have gone through courses to become a citizen where we said that we the people are in charge. And I just had to smile when he said, but you work for me. I thought that was just a precious moment.
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That's incredible. And people who come from other countries and have experienced things, particularly when they come from, you know, former Soviet Union or China and places like that, that they understand this relationship better than a lot of Americans do. Actually, I have an acquaintance I'm working with right now who just got his citizenship last week. And he just sent me this, you know, I sent him a congratulations and he sent me this just beautiful email that like almost brought tears to my eyes about how, and he was from Europe, about how important it was to him. And he commented on, you know, standing next to us now as Americans and how important it was to And he also referenced, because Memorial Day was coming up, you know, he referred to it as our veterans. And I was just like, I was just emotionally moved by this email. It was incredible. And he sent me a picture of him and his wife standing there, you know, at their swearing-in ceremony. And he was just so proud of it. And that pride, I think, is very unique. You know, Europeans... don't care about their flag. They don't, you know, they don't, they don't really think about their country in the way that we think about our country. And the reason we do that is because it's exceptional because of that history of, of personal empowerment and individual liberty and opportunity and taking responsibility for your life and building and creating. We've just created such a unique culture. And I think that goes back to freedom, creating its own culture that, that when you're freedom, when you're free, you have to rely on yourself. And that builds character that builds a country's character. And I see that eroding, but I also see hope in it because of people, his name is Jacob, that sent that email to me, because of folks like that as well as great Americans like you who are working so hard every day to affect and change the culture because it does start and end with the culture, I think, about what we actually think and believe as Americans when we get up every day. And that's where we have to start is helping people understand that Freedom is good because freedom is right because it works. It's human nature. We have to be free to take action and then take responsibility for that action. That builds our personal character and it builds the character of our country.
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Well, absolutely. And our founders, I don't think they ever knew what would happen when they founded this country with these principles or this vision that all men are created equal from our creator with these rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Well, what happened? America happened today. And so we're going to continue the discussion with a former state representative, Don Beasley, and his piece that we will publish this weekend for Memorial Day. And it is titled, Does Memorial Day Still Matter? Well, it certainly does. And we have these discussions because of our sponsors. For everything mortgages, reach out to Lorne Levy.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You'll get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays, which we will be rolling out. Don Beasley's essay this weekend, Does Memorial Day Matter? One of the things I would suggest that you consider doing on Memorial Day is the USMC Memorial Foundation will be hosting an event out at the Memorial at 2 o'clock. There'll be a swearing-in of new Marines at 1.45, and Paula Sarles and her team always do just really great events for Memorial Day. And the featured speaker is Bob Chica, who we did interview for America's Veterans Stories, but he was on the USS Pueblo. which during the Vietnam War was captured by the North Koreans. And it was held for, I think, 11 months or so. And really a fascinating story. A lot of people don't know about that. And so this event will be a great event to honor Memorial Day and those that have given their last full measure of devotion for our liberty. And also, I think, a very historic presentation as well. So check all that out by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. that's usmcmemorialfoundation.org and the honorable don beasley is president of pro forma partners business brokerage and has been helping businesses sell their business since 1987. he is a passionate advocate for freedom and he's a former state representative in the colorado state house district 33 he's also was served as vice president for development at the cato institute Don Beasley, you were in the state legislature 2011-2012. And first of all, thank you. I'm going to say thank you for your service because you were down there. You saw how the sausage is really made. And boy, they were making a lot of sausage this last legislative session. What's your comments on all that?
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Yeah, you know, there was really an inflection point. My last year was 2012, and that kind of 12 to 14, 15 range was really an inflection point in Colorado. And this last session in particular has obviously been a disaster, whether it's assaults on free speech, assaults on the right to actually defend yourself and your family. What people don't know is there's so many little micro things that have gone on as well. I just finished doing an annual update course for my real estate license because I have to ask the government for permission to do my job. And you wouldn't believe the Marxist level thought that is in this legislation. And that's just one piece of it. But controlling every little thing, the size of signs, when you can do this, when you can do that, the fact that you as a landlord can't evict somebody from your own property basically without going through it to extraordinary lengths versus freedom and a contract and adults making adult decisions. It's just infuriating. When I'm mad at our state government at a 10 out of 10 and it's waning, I do that update course and it goes to 648 out of 10 because it's micrometaling at every level controlling our lives, and it's really Marxist ideology of trying to control property and make everyone equal on the outcome even though one person's earned it and somebody else hasn't.
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Well, and it is. And I think, Don Beasley, that Colorado is at the tip of the spear of this ideological battle that is going on between the Marxist communists that are controlling the Democrat Party. I think it's important for people to understand this Democrat Party is not the Democrat Party of Tip O'Neill or JFK or your grandpa or your grandma. This Democrat Party in Colorado and nationwide is being controlled by Marxists that really want to destroy America. And so we are in this amazing ideological battle right now, Don Beasley.
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Well, and a really important thing, and you touched on this, is that the Democrat next door is not the Democrats that are in the state legislature. What's happened over the last 10 to 15 years here in Colorado, and you see it at the national level, too, is the Democrats that are being elected are the radical activists who are active in the party and have gotten themselves into that position. The Democrat next door doesn't know it isn't JFK's party anymore. Unfortunately, people don't always think as much as they should when they vote. And so they've always voted Democrat, and I'm not going to argue with them about that per se. But they just continue to check that box without realizing that the folks that are actually now getting elected are not the same folks even just 15 years ago, that these are radical left-wing Marxist advocates with an agenda. And unfortunately, when Republicans have opportunity, they hesitate. When these leftist activists have opportunity, they do not hesitate. They go for everything all the time, every day. You saw that in the transgender bill, in the firearms bill, just across the board, things I referenced about just seeing in my little corner of the world, in my industry. They go all out all the time for the most – for true Marxist equity ideology. And the Democrat next door doesn't know who they're voting for, and they've got to figure it out. At least I hope they don't know who they're voting for.
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Well, but it's because these candidates don't tell the truth about who they really are. But the – oh, gosh, what was it? I can't remember. It was the Hillary Clinton training for female candidates, right? Text me at 720-605-0647 if you remember what it is. It starts with an E. But anyway, it was a training program for women candidates to train them to run for office and to win. And they would train them on what to say, read the audience, and then say what your audience wants to hear. And in fact, I was speaking at a Republican event in Denver and a woman was running for city council. And I thought, huh? And she sounded kind of conservative. But then I went and did a little more research and she had gone through this Hillary Clinton program. And so she was able to read the room and say what she figured people wanted to hear. And at the end there, it was difficult to figure out, was she actually a radical Democrat? And and she was. But she was able to read the room, whereas Republicans, I think, many times have a real messaging challenge because they they sometimes don't understand the principles that are involved.
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Yeah, I think you're you're certainly right. And there is it comes back to. To achieve your – the end justifies the means. To lie to get where you want to go is okay. And people who have a kind of more conservative or Republican bent typically can't process that, right? They can't think about I'm going to go out and lie. I'm going to instead go out and tell you who I am and what I think is right and why I think it's right. And which is the right way to be. But they've got to, you know, I think as candidates and as a political party in Colorado, the Republican Party's had some challenges over the last few years. But as a party, they've got to start figuring out how to have a coherent message that connects with people and makes a difference for folks. Especially, you know, it's majority unaffiliated or plurality unaffiliated voters in this state now, which is good. That's an opportunity. They're turning their back on the Democrat Party. But Republicans have to give them something to move towards. It can't just be we've got to we have to expose Republicans. The evil that exists on the left, and it is evil. I mean, it is a rationality and a desire to certainly rot this country from within. But we also have to give that beacon of light, that shining city on the hill of why our vision is better and how that's going to make their lives better. And I think sometimes Republicans challenge to make that connection. But I don't believe Colorado is lost for two reasons. One is. Our principles are right, and reality wins in the end. So number one. And then number two, you actually even saw in this last election, we have a split on our representatives of four to four. I think it's a purple state. I don't think it's a blue state. Colorado has been fiscally conservative but socially moderate to liberal for a long time, a really long time. It's just that as these social issues became more front and center in terms of gay marriage and abortion and things like that, that Republicans sort of struggled to grapple with. That's when when we started losing our message and losing the voter. And so I believe it's even though, yes, it's Democrat control and hard Democrat control to our to our detriment. And that's why we see so many people leaving the state. But I believe it's still at heart a purple state that is fiscally conservative because you see people uphold the taxpayer bill of rights. You see them vote for an income tax reduction. But people are more socially moderate to liberal, and Republicans have to figure out that equation so they can't constantly be outflanked in their election rhetoric.
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Well, that's very good advice. And so I'd really recommend that people check out our website. We'll have it on the website after we get it published in the newsletter. And that is, does Memorial Day still matter? Don Beasley, I so appreciate you are a very coherent voice for liberty in our state. And I really appreciate the piece that we'll publish this weekend. So thank you.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, my pleasure. And thanks for having me on and publishing that piece. And thank you so much for all the work that you do on behalf of this state, this country. Kim, you're fantastic.
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Well, thank you. And again, that's Don Beasley. And our quote for the end of the show is from a known. It's it's this. It says our flag does not fly because the wind moves it. It flies with the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it. 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. Stay tuned for hour number two.
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Indeed, let's have a conversation. And welcome to our number two of the Kim Monson 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 thank you to the team. That's Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. It is Friday. Producer Joe. Happy Friday, Kim. Happy Friday to you. And the show comes to you 6 to 8 a.m. The first hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon. So if you did not hear the interview with former state representative Don Beasley, you can catch that at 1 o'clock. So the first hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon, second hour 10 to 11 at night. This is on all KLZ 560 platforms, which is KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, the KLZ app, and Alexa. Play KLZ. It'll come in on Alexa as well. 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And I do want to say thank you to an amazing group of people, and that is my fellow Colorado Union of Taxpayer Board members. And you can join us by going to coloradotaxpayer.org. It is an all-volunteer group that we also pay our $25 membership to give up our weekends throughout the legislative session, or a big portion of our weekends, to take positions on different pieces of legislation. ratings report, which will come out. It'll be several weeks before we get that done. But an enormous amount of work on getting that thing done. And so we'd love to have you join us. And again, that group is Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Ramey Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Ohnersorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. And in the 2025 legislative session here in Colorado, there were 733 bills and resolutions that were proposed. The Colorado Union of Taxpayers took positions on 261 of those pieces of legislation, and we looked at them, things that affect the taxpayer or property rights, Parental rights slash school choice and taper. Those are the four things that we really work on. And you really you need to know what's going on. And I think many times they flood the zone with so many different things coming at us that that's why to try to percolate all this and really get to the. principles, as Don is able to do, Don Beasley, is you got to stay on that true north. And so a tool in your toolbox that would be very helpful is to join us at coloradotaxpayer.org. And speaking of finances, taxes, all those things, financial freedom is really, really important. And so pleased to have Mint Financial Strategies as a new sponsor of the show. And Jody Henze and her team says, hey, do you have big dreams for your future, but you're not quite sure how to get there? Well, call our friends at Mint Financial Strategies. 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Well, the federal government doesn't create anything. The federal government lives on opium, other people's money, our money. And so first and foremost, and we've learned that many of our educational institutions have been indoctrinating young people to hate America. And I saw a meme regarding other countries getting money from us. It says, why should we be paying other countries to hate us? They can actually hate us without our money. And so this thing with Harvard They have a big endowment. So people give to this endowment. And I think it's probably considered a nonprofit. So it's tax deductible. So this is a way of people reducing their tax burden. And I think that goes to why should we have an income tax that picks winners and losers? We need to have a tax that everybody has the same skin in the game. and so is it five percent everybody pays five percent but people start to make decisions differently when they have skin in the game if they can vote to have somebody else pay taxes that they think that they're going to benefit from it's human nature and that's that's many times what is used for a tax increase but anyway this is from bloomberg It says former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers blasted the Trump administration's decision to block Harvard University from enrolling international students, calling on the institution to fight back. Well, first of all, who's paying for the tuition for those 6000 students? And are they not taking the spot of an American student? But anyway, it goes on to say he says this is vicious, it's illegal, it's unwise, and it is very damaging. Summers, who is president emeritus of Harvard University, told Bloomberg TV, why does it make any sense at all to stop 6,000 enormously talented young people who want to come to the United States to study from having that opportunity? I still think that this is more about dollars and cents, but we'll continue on. It says Harvard must start by resisting. This is the stuff of tyranny. I think actually the tyranny begins when we start to have institutions that teach hatred for the American idea. But it says Trump's team has blocked Harvard's university from enrolling international students, citing an unsafe campus environment and alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Existing international students must transfer or lose their legal status, the Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday. These international students are here as guests of the United States, and so I think the United States can probably choose the rules on that. So anyway, though, Larry Summers, big Democrat, he's saying that Harvard should resist. Well, let's quit, first of all, giving any of the opium other people's money to Harvard and Harvard. And perhaps they should use their endowments for scholarships. And this is taking the spot, 6,000 spots of students from America that could be attending Harvard. So stay tuned on all this. Donald Trump is doing so many different things. He's got a short timeframe to do this. We got to this point, it took a lot of years to get to this point. And so we've got to be acting fast to reclaim our country and he's working diligently on trying to make that happen. And we have these important discussions because of all of our sponsors and the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance team. They carry my home in auto. And if you bundle everything together, you might be able to save some money. And you won't know unless you give them a call. That number is 303-795-8855. 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It is Friday and welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search 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 on Memorial Day out at the USMC Memorial, the foundation will be sponsoring an event. The speaker, the featured speaker is Bob Chica, who was a prisoner during the Vietnam War. The North Koreans captured the USS Pueblo. and he's going to share his experiences on that. And the event starts at 2 p.m. at 145. New Marines will be sworn in, and you can get more information about all that by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. That is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. On the line with me is Natalie Minton. And she is a citizen advocate. She served on the RTD board as a director. She is a director with the Tabor Foundation and really understands these issues that are facing the citizens here in Colorado. And she works tirelessly to protect our pocketbooks. So Natalie Minton, welcome to the show.
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Glad to be here, Kim.
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And Mike Rolick, I think it was Natalie that introduced us, Mike. And you have been really a watchdog of a lot of things that were happening down at the state legislature. And you and I, you were on, gosh, a week or so ago. We were talking about it. And we talked a little bit about zoning. And I said, well, gosh, we should do a show on that. And he said, I'm up for it, but I'd really like Natalie Minton to join us on that. And zoning, Mike Rolick, can be used to protect property rights, but it can be used to usurp property rights as well. So Mike Rolick, welcome.
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Hey, good morning, Kim. Thanks for having me here. Thanks for having Natalie as well.
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So property rights, Natalie, property rights are inherent in the American idea. And when there's new development, and I think when I was on city council, I had to go through this journey. And that is, I believe people should be able to do with their property what they want, if they need to do that responsibly, with consideration, I think, for their neighbors. But then what I saw is that if there is like a new development, it can affect the property rights of the people that are already living there. It could be traffic. It could be water. So how would you like to set this up for us, Natalie?
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Well, it's a very complex issue, so that's a difficult question to start the morning with. Land use to me is one of the most complex issues. uh, issues out there for, for somebody, especially does believe in the, the property rights. And, um, you know, I think, I think in the big picture here, what, what we've got for our discussion was that like when you opened up your, um, your, your, it's a statement that you repeat through most of your shows. If it's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it. And that's a very good statement to start with. I think, um, What we've got is a situation where we've seen this in the works over the last few years where the governor has been very driven to force state mandates down on local jurisdictions about zoning basically comes down to increasing the amount of dense housing in Colorado. Now that would be perhaps acceptable at some level, except that for me, I have to look at the financial end. And what we've got is a drive for subsidized housing at that dense level. That's a lot of what it boils down to. It's not a free market system that's been set up. So in the big picture, we've got started with Senate Bill 213, which was a monster bill And it was the state handing down a bunch of heavy mandates. The constituents, the community, just said, no way. And they were furious over it. The bill died on the last night of the session. I was down there and it was right till the end.
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And that was last year, right?
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No, that was prior. That was prior year. So it was, as I say, a monster bill, Senate Bill 23213 is what it would have been. So prior to – so we're going two years back. Since that one exploded, well, Polis wasn't going to give up. The governor wasn't going to give up and those supporting this. So they broke that bill into pieces. A big chunk of those went through in the 24 session. and then a couple remaining pieces went in or got passed this year. Now POLIS is getting a lot of pushback again because of bills, especially like one of the biggest examples would be 24-1313, the housing and transit-oriented communities. And it has gotten so bad that multiple cities, public entities, are now suing the governor to stop the state from forcing these mandates on down. So, you know, you talked about a general question. I don't want to dominate too much here at the beginning, but zoning has always been kind of regarded as a local issue. And here in the state of Colorado, that carrot that government thought will let locals do it, has turned into now where Senate Bill 213, the big monster one, has broken into, it's basically just a big club or stick being used to force his will down on local jurisdictions. And because of this lawsuit that just came out earlier this week, it's obvious this matter is not settled. And I'll stop there. That to me is where we kind of go with
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a discussion but it's such a big subject it's so dense it's so complex i'll let you go from there as to where you think we should go okay so mike rollick uh last week uh governor polis this was in the headlines uh said that he will shut off millions in state grants to cities and counties that do not show that they're enacting this recently passed state housing law. And so, first of all, I think a big takeaway that people need to look at is the government giveth and the government taketh away. And so we should not be, and one of our listeners said, said this, our listener, Ginny, and I don't know if this is original or not, so let me know, Ginny, but she said that these PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interest parties are addicted to OPM, and that's other people's money. So Polis has all of this other people's money that's really taken via force, and it was for Again, I have this in air quotes, affordable housing, as Natalie has taught me, affordable housing means subsidized housing, which means government housing. And we know that that hasn't worked out very well anywhere because there's no property rights that are inherent in that. But anyway, Polis says he's going to not give money unless people obey him. What do you think about that, Mike Rollick?
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Well, that's an interesting topic because fundamentally, if you peel back the layers of the onion, we have a taxation system where individuals send money upwards, right? Sales tax might go to county, some sales tax or other youth tax might go to local, and then taxes then go to state, and then a lot of our income tax obviously goes to the federal, and then they all have that ability. We've seen this before, whether at a federal agency or state government that says, you know, you're not doing what I want, therefore I'll remove your money. So fundamentally, trying to get taxation again to be A, limited, and B, To the local level is interesting. So, for instance, you know, I posited this question a while back. If someone was going to say, well, we're not going to send state money to fix roads, could the citizens then volunteer on a Saturday to fix their local roads? Well, the answer was no because of insurance and engineering and all this kind of stuff, which is layers. But it would be an interesting experiment to see, well, gosh, the state says you don't get money because you're not following our way. And the local community says, well, we like this way better. And they say, well, here's your punishment. And if the citizens had a way to say that's OK. We'll do it ourselves on a Saturday. We'll fix the road. We'll do what we have to do. We just don't want to be under that sum. So how do you peel back all those layers of the onion? It's a great question, but I think fundamentally we've set a taxation system up that shoves all our money towards the top, and then we wait for it to come back in form of grants or project money. So I think that's a fundamental problem right there. I don't like how it is to be told, well, if you're not going to do what I like, or the law is, then we're gonna hurt you with money.
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Well, and then there are those that would say, well, guys, Trump is doing the same thing to Mike Johnston, mayor of Denver, saying that he's not going to give some of the millions of dollars of FEMA money because of the sanctuary policies. So what would you say to that, Natalie? Because I like that. But yet I guess there is the fundamental question, I guess. The fundamental question is where we really need to go to, and that is how does the federal government have, first of all, that money, and how is it that Mike Johnston, mayor of Denver, doesn't follow the law? Do you think those are the two questions to ask?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I think Mike hit on a good point, and it is who ends up with the money, because money, to me, money equals power, and I think it's displayed here. I think it's displayed in both, frankly, both situations. But what Mike hit upon is, is it appropriate that we're setting the money up there? So we had the feds with a system that I don't know how far back this goes to what presidential era it would have come from, but where the federal government was reimbursing states for bringing in those who are undocumented. And that in itself is a principle is why is the federal government reimbursing city and county of Denver or state of Colorado for some of these expenses? And in the same way, why, you know, what kills me, I'm getting off track here, so sorry, is that the government constantly says we don't have enough money, we don't have enough money. That is a priority problem in where they choose to spend the money. So I think there's certainly a problem with the state of Colorado issue going on, and it's hard to track right now and identify specifically. You took in this money from sales tax paid to the state of Colorado, and now instead of going into a Colorado highway or a variety of the judicial system, Health and Human Services. Why is that money then being earmarked for a certain purpose and then, which is a very small, very, it's not a statewide type of issue, really. Why is the money being directed there in the first place? And then it's being diverted from what many of us would consider a higher priority and what the money was intended for. I'll give an example. We've got gas taxes, road taxes, going into what's called the National Highway Trust Fund. It used to be called the Trust Fund. It depends who you talk to. But that money is being diverted to transit projects, which are meant to bring in more population. And I'm going to start ending up with agreeing with Mike. First, the taxation, because that puts the power in the hand of the politicians. then instead of using it for the purpose it was thought to go towards, they're using it as a stick. And in the case of immigration, I mean, we've got 45 minutes. No, we only got a half hour left. I don't know how we fit in some of these very complex issues. I think the fact that Denver declared itself a sanctuary city, the state of Colorado went along with it. Many There's other, I'm not going to say many, other jurisdictions in Colorado that have decided to become sanctuary practices. That's a problem in itself. If we have law and order, the rule of law, then that should be abided by. Why are we putting money into it? Why is there not a process? Why are people getting cheated in the line they're raiding in? And then public money goes towards... giving them catered meals at a hotel. There's something fundamentally wrong with that. So I kind of see different points. Okay, super interesting. I'm going to stop.
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Okay, super interesting. I'm talking with Natalie Minton and Mike Rolick about, well, zoning is where we began, but we get into taxation. The fruits of our labor are money. is property. And so we're seeing this attack upon property and certainly through taxation, subsidizing housing, moves this away from a free market. And again, as Natalie mentioned, then that puts power in the hands of those PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties. And we need to remind people that are elected, they're not elected officials, they're elected representatives, and we need to remind them to do that. I did want to say thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show because it's reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy from oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives and fuels our hopes and dreams. And also, for anything regarding residential real estate, you want Karen Levine on your side of the table.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search 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 very pleased to have the Second Syndicate as a sponsor of the show. And Alicia Garcia and Teddy Collins are working to bring all of these different organizations together to work together to protect our Second Amendment, which is our right to keep and bear firearms to protect ourselves. And so you can support them. by going to their website, which is the second syndicate, so the number two indie, syndicate.com, and support them. Because instead of having us fight with each other on these important issues, we need to come together. So they're doing really great work on that. And they will be our featured guests next Friday in the second hour. They're both traveling today. And so that's why we're not hearing from them. But on the line with me, is Natalie Minton. She is a citizen advocate. She is a fierce protector of TABOR, Colorado's Taxpayers Bill of Rights, former director on the RTD board. Also talking with Mike Rolick, who is a citizen activist as well, and really watching many things that are happening down at the legislature. So Mike, when I was on city council 2012 to 2016, I connected dots. So I'm going to do my best on this. I believe in property rights. I believe that people should be able to use their property as they want to. They have they really have a duty to be responsible on how they do that. But property rights are so important. So I would look at these big apartment buildings that were coming out of the ground and thinking, well, gosh, that developer has the property right to develop that property as he sees fit. But then what I learned was, and it's really the World Economic Forum, the idea to have people in very dense housing and be able to only ride around on trains and buses and bicycles and walk. that it wasn't just a free market on these apartment buildings, that zoning laws or ordinances were possibly being changed. So people may have bought the property across the street and the zoning said that it was the same for everybody and then that zoning changes. But also with these big apartment buildings, we've realized that government is pushing that through maybe favorable financing, changing zoning laws. So some municipalities have said, well, we're not going to do that. And now Polis and the state legislature said, oh, well, you municipalities don't get to make that choice. The state's going to make that choice. So the problem is, is there's coercion with all of this dense housing. It's not that the developer says, oh, this is a great idea. It's government trying to use zoning to make these, you know, push this agenda. Your thoughts on that, Mike?
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That's an interesting thought there. I wanted to kind of frame this whole thing via a Milton Friedman discussion, if I could. February 1999, he was on the Take It to the Limits show. And just because I know we're all always seeking maximum freedom. So the host had mentioned that the typical definition of libertarianism, in my mind, is that a libertarian wants a smallest least intrusive government, and then Milton comes in with consistent with the maximum freedom for each individual to follow his own ways, his own values, as long as he doesn't interfere with anyone else who's doing the same. And that is that division of where your freedoms end and my begin, right? So in the idea of – this is an interesting one because we're looking at comprehensive master plan changes, and comprehensive master plans are – are necessary under Colorado state law. So if I move into an area because the comp plan might say, you know, agricultural, rural, and I like horses, say, so I have my horses there. And then over the next 10 years, there's a density creep. And then there becomes a derivative precedent of, well, you know, we did allow half acres, so we should allow quarter acres, we should allow quarter acres, we should allow you know, multifamily, multifamily, then turn to apartment buildings and you're stuck with that horse farm. And you're like, well, I had this plan that was promised to me and I bought this plan with this plan in mind. And now I have to move on my property. My value might've changed for the better or for worse. Uh, so my freedom has been truncated by the fact that this would might've been my nest egg. And it has changed, uh, rights of way, easements, things like that. Utilities could have come and encroached. And then also just the basic fact that, um, You don't really have a protection of a view shed per se, but you do have certain rights to clean air, sunlight, things like that. And so the idea of building, say, the skyscraper next to the single-family home might seem like a ridiculous idea on its face, but it really hits in that point of have your freedoms with your property truncated mine. And I just also want to hit this one idea here. We usually own land in C-simple. Very few states and very few areas of states have Elodio title, which would be free from those encumbrances of easements, rights of way, eminent domain, S-sheet, things like this. So, you know, in a way, we have a bundle of rights and interests in our property, but do we truly own it fully? Nevada and Texas actually have or had some provision for Elodio title. So when we look at land... I don't know if we truly have full ownership. You know, I have to let the internet services go to my backyard, even if I'm not home because they have an easement or right away back there. So with that in mind, when we look at these comp plan changes, we're told, well, it's progress and progress is going to happen, but progress only goes one direction. It'd be a far cry for anyone to say, let's go to downtown Denver and decide to put a farm there unless you can secure it on top of a rooftop. It's not going to happen. You might get a little community garden here or there, but you're not going to get a ranch or a farm. The progress only goes one direction, out towards where people have more rural lifestyles and those folks who used to enjoy the freedom of living with less neighbors. That changes. If it's proper or not, that's something for the citizens to decide. And local land use, I think, should remain local. I was looking at this as well. Oh, gosh. Let's see. It was – no. Yeah. Okay. I lost my place on this, but I was looking at certain court cases. Cherry Hill's. a resort development company versus the city of Cherry Hills. And it talked about not only due process, but how things should be, especially under a home rule charter city, a matter of local concern. When the state or even the federal takes over, you lose freedom. I like this balance and division of powers. If the state wants to fight with the city on who gets to control zoning, I think that's good and it should be heard in courts. I agree with more local control because if I don't like how my city is going, it's much more easy to pick up and move from city to city, though I wouldn't want to. But if I'm in a state or even in a country, it becomes pretty prohibitive.
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Well, and so what do you think about this, Natalie Minton, regarding how this zoning can be used for property rights and changing zoning changes property rights as well, and then state control versus local control?
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Well, you've got to say there is some merit, I think, to when you do buy a property and it's zoned in a certain way, which That makes the assumption I'm agreeing with the original zoning, which is not necessarily the case, that you have bought something with a certain expectation of what that is going to provide in the environment. You know, I guess for me, there's two parts that I boil this down to, this discussion that's been going on for at least three years. It goes back further than that COVID thing. which, frankly, I blame the government for that, has created so many additional problems. Again, it is so often now I hear, oh, we've got to do this, we've got to raise taxes because of COVID, we've got to do this because of COVID, da-da-da-da-da. When I try to boil all of this down, this very complex subject, it really comes down to two parts. First of all, because it's the most important, water. How are we going to support all the growth, They're expecting. They say that dense developments will get around this problem and make it less of a problem for water, the infrastructure. But the water source, where are we going to get that? And one of the good things in all of these bills, there's seven bills that for those who don't know, that were passed regarding this zoning, occupancy limits, parking requirements, all these things. So there's seven bills in here. A couple, at least one, I'm going to say, actually, of the featured bills in here, 1313, does state a local government doesn't have to do this if they cannot support it with the water and the infrastructure. And we continue to forget about that. We have been fairly blessed. with the amount of precipitation, rainfall that we have gotten in the state of Colorado. That was a hard one there. And we still have problems coming. And we continue to divert more water from things that actually produce, keep life alive. And it's going into housing, other different things, which one could argue that keeps you alive also. But if we don't have food, if we don't have water, Those are the two basics. So the water thing is a big part of it to me. Second big part of all this big picture boiled down is the money. We have gotten out to where government says it's okay to take from neighbor A to give to new neighbor B because of for some reason they are owed that and property owner A must pay more. And when we look at the subsidized housing, Generally, that means no property taxes are generated. That means neighbor A is going to be paying more because there is a higher demand. Now we have household B over here. And those are the two – it sounds very generic, but to me that's the best way to boil it down into my brain. And when we're talking then about property rights, if – Somebody has the right to develop, develop, develop. Well, where is the water being countered into that, and are we cutting our own throat, cutting off our own food supply, limiting it? As I said, to me, over all the years, this is the most complex and hard subject, and it almost has to be taken by an instant at a time or a situation that and then apply some of these things to, okay, where are the property rights here? Is it about being able to build as much as you want so you want to put 1,000 people on that property? Or is it about the water impact that's going to affect the farmer who has had property rights for a real long time too? Where do we build all those things in and then figure out what is fair, what is right, and what is about liberty and not harming somebody else For instance, if they can no longer turn on the tap and get a glass of water.
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Yeah. Boy, these are such important points. I'm talking with Natalie Minton and Mike Rolick, and it is complex. And I really appreciate the two of them being up for trying to unpack all of this stuff. And so I did want to mention the Center for American Values down in Pueblo. On the 28th, they're going to have an event in honor of Memorial Day. It's one of their On Values presentations today. And it'll be at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. And you can get more information about what that event looks like by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. That's AmericanValueCenter.org. And another great sponsor of the show is John Bozen and Bozen Law.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. On the line with me is Natalie Minton. She is a former director on the RTD board. She is a citizen advocate. She is on the Tabor Foundation Board. And then also talking with Mike Rollick, who is a citizen activist, really watched a lot of things this last legislative session regarding privacy. But we're talking about zoning. And Natalie said it's such a complex issue. There's two things that are really important to consider, and one is water and one is money. And so regarding water, just think about the amount of water that a multifamily apartment building that is subsidized is going to use versus the amount of water that a single family home would use. I think that multifamily units going to use a lot more water. And as my friend Ivana said, you can't have water conservation unless you have water storage. And so instead of going down and trying to take water from our farming communities, I think that these PBIs need to get serious about some water storage. But the other thing is money. And that is, is that many of these multifamily apartment buildings that we see up and down the transit corridor are receiving favorable zoning benefits. They're receiving government money, tax incentives, favorable interest rates. That's not a free market microlic. And I think that's important that people understand that.
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I would agree. And the third thing I would mention is crisis. Every time there's a potential crisis, and that could be in quotes, I'm doing air quotes, things seem to change rather quickly. And I want to put this frame in the context of cell phone towers for a minute, and then we can get back to Holmes. But I'm not sure if you had dealt with when you're on city council any kind of planning and zoning decisions on placement of cell phone towers. But that used to be something that maybe not a city council, but at least a planning and zoning division would do. They would take a look at the site, the height, the placement, the aesthetics of a cell phone tower. I used to help a cell phone antenna team in San Diego, and there was a lot of rules on how to make it look and how to hide it and what have you. But none of the rules ever really affected the EMF, the radio frequencies. So in 2018, because we needed to, apparently, the FCC came out with the small – And that basically said the need for commission action. 5G wireless services in particular will transform U.S. economy through the increased use of high bandwidth and low latency applications and through the growth of the Internet of Things. And then here it says the commission has acknowledged an urgent need to remove any unnecessary barriers to such deployment, whether caused at federal law commission processes, local and state reviews or otherwise. And then they go on to go through certain cities, like a city in Texas that said you can't put a 5G tower in a right-of-way and on and on and on. So the issue here is the crisis of needing this Internet of Things to said the federal government can take this power away from local jurisdictions. A local jurisdiction might actually listen to us about EMF and if we're sensitive or not, maybe move that power a little bit for health. Good luck with a very large organization like the federal government. In fact, the city of Portland sued over this, and the Ninth Circuit ruled in favor of the federal government in 2020. And as such, now, the cities and counties basically have zero power to say where these can go. In fact, you can put a 5G right in residential areas. So if you have any question about how zoning can possibly protect you, there it was, and now it's gone. And in fact, we even have a state law that passed this year, 1056, That says if a local jurisdiction can't get to a cell antenna zoning application or not zoning, but just an application within 90 days, it's considered as approved because we need to rush these things through even more. So we see continually this rush towards a crisis situation. usurping local authority and then local authorities closest to personal authority right because we might know our city mayor a city councilor but good luck you know talking to the president or the governor so i want to frame it matt one more The CSU Fort Collins new bat vivarium, which is a BSL level two, with room potentially to go to a BSL level three, as said during the county process, only needed what they call a location and extent process, a kind of zoning decision, but just basically does the county say the location and extent fit the need, and then it becomes mostly a use by right. And that's it. Now they can have a BSL level two and work on importing bats from Thailand right to Fort Collins. So zoning could have protected that, but it didn't.
SPEAKER 09 :
Wow. Okay, Mike, that's a lot of really important information. We have a couple of minutes left. Natalie, what's your thoughts about Mike's perspective on what's being used, pushed down from the federal government? And so what's your thoughts on that?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I, I guess I would have to agree that there's merit to it, what he has stated. With the limited amount of time that we've got, I just want to close with something I didn't mention earlier, and I want to definitely bring it up. Where did this series of things start with this zoning and what we're talking about with the density? Part of the problem is because voters passed Prop 123, in year 2022. Many people were not real aware of it. It's called the State Affordable Housing Fund. And in itself, there were a couple problems. One, they were not very clear in the ballot title in what that really meant. For the average person, they thought that meant, oh, my taxes are going to go down or I'm going to get cheaper housing out there. At the end of the day, what it was was about subsidized housing. Prop 123 passed. Governments had to increase density to get part of this money. They had to increase density by 3% per year. In that, I think there's been resistance and maybe that they're not seeing the density that they want, which has now created seven bills that will be like the foundation for what these governments actually have to do beyond the specifics of increased by 3%. It reminds me of why I got on RTD, because there was a huge property-taking issue. We'll go back to eminent domain. And the whole goal was to make this transit system work, make all your dollars work. We have to build an incredible more density around these systems to make them work. And I just will end with, I think that sums it up in a round picture that when we give government money and it sounds like it's going to this, that is not necessarily what it really is. And it was a PR person who spent a bunch of money on polling, figured out the words that were going to persuade the voter to fill in the yes box. And voters need to think, need to do more digging on the impact of these things before they do that. Absolutely. Leave it at that.
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Explore the evolving perspectives on youth, work, and technology as Angie Austin and Jim Stovall unravel stories of hard-working, young innovators. From the energetic atmosphere at ThriftCon to personal anecdotes about growing up and inter-generational wisdom, this episode sheds light on the promise and potential of the younger generation. As bonus content, get ready to grill like a pro with insights from BBQ experts Chef Eric Gephardt and Jacob Lubbers, who share their top culinary tips.
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Welcome to The Good News with Angie Austin. Now, with The Good News, here's Angie.
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Hey there, friend. Angie Austin and Jim Stovall with The Good News talking about his Winner's Wisdom column. And this week is They Want Us to Know. Hey, Jim.
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Hey, great to be with you.
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All right, so you had mentioned this intern to me before because she's a high school intern. So let's just start there because the article has to do with younger people.
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Yeah, it's very, very different for us. We've had a lot of upper-level college interns or graduate students or beyond. But earlier this year, we took in a young lady in a gifted program, and she was 16 years old, so she's a high school junior. She turned 17 during the time she was with us, and she was truly, truly amazing. And, you know, I learned so much from her. you know, her generation is Gen Z, as it is. You know, they are accused of being not resilient, and they're addicted to their technology, and they don't have good interpersonal relationships. You know, that's just not true. You know, they may do it a little different than we did it, but all this generational stuff started when I think when Tom Brokaw wrote a great book called The Greatest Generation about the people that lived through the World War and the Depression, and they were great in a certain way because they were called on to be. One of my favorite authors, Louis L'Amour, said no one can be judged except against the backdrop of the time and place in which they live. And that greatest generation and the young people today, Generation Z, They are what their environment taught them to be. I find this generation to be very engaged. They are resilient in different ways. They do have good interpersonal relationships. They may conduct some of it through their technology that they use, but so be it. And it's not just the one person. I mean, I have an ongoing relationship at the Stovall Center for Entrepreneurship at the university, so I deal with hundreds of young people from all around the world. Working with this generation, Angie, has made me feel very hopeful about the future.
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Oh, I'll bet. I'll bet. You know, it's funny you say that because I read your article when it was sent to me last week. And that's just kind of reading ahead and getting ready for our interview. And I had not gone to the big weekend event I went to with my son. So my son's 18. He's a senior in high school. And he did a lottery. It's hard to get a booth for this thing called ThriftCon. It goes all over the country. And you think, oh, dusty, you know, T-shirts and, you know, old sweatshirts. No, this is like they actually – they call it a curated selection. So Riley spends all this time looking for specific pieces. He had an O.J. Simpson trial shirt. Actually, that was from my cameraman when we covered the trial. And then he had – Matumbo Nuggets worn jersey and then he had Rolling Stones and Grateful Dead and Fleetwood Mac and then Carhartt that like workers like workers wear and they're all very popular and so and certain jeans like old Levi's jean jackets but anyway he knows what people want and so he had a booth and it was so well organized I mean he had it color-coded he had about probably just under a thousand items. And he was so busy that my husband and I, we went to kind of just watch things because you have to watch for people, you know, stealing things and whatever. Actually, we only almost caught two teenage boys. And boy, that poor teenage boy my husband caught, I thought he was going to maybe have an accident right there in our little booth because my husband is no Shrinking Violet at 6'6". And he went in there and he was like, get out of the booth right now. Get out. no because he I told him to watch the kid because he had a little bag by his feet and he was dropped he dropped a shirt into there and then he was with a friend of Riley's and so Riley's like hey you know Bobby is this your friend and he's like yeah and I go oh Bobby shame shame your mom would be so ashamed of you guys the kid was so embarrassed to him that he actually bought the shirt but a $70 t-shirt and so my point to all of this is though a good point not the point of the thieves this kid worked so hard our son To get this booth together, it was a two-day event. We spent three days, Friday setting up and then Saturday, Sunday. He had everything tagged, everything color-coded. It was bagged in these 50-pound giant, you know, like kind of like almost a giant bat, like a rucksack, like the military guys use. And all the hangers in the same direction, same kind of hangers. He bought all of the racks. It took us probably four hours to set it all up. Anyway, and it would have taken a lot more if he wasn't so organized. I got to meet all these young people at this event all weekend. So next to us were three guys in their mid-20s. Everyone called me mom there because I was like – I think I sent you some pictures of the young people. So they'd be like, mom, do you want a burrito? Mom, how are your feet? You want some Advil, mom? Yeah. It's just funny that they call me mom. And they're like, well, most moms answer most easily to mom. I'm like, yeah, every time I hear it, I turn my head. So I went around and saw their booth. And most of these people, most were 30 and under. Now, there were a few store owners from around the country. They'd come over to Riley's booth and they'd buy like 75 items at a time because one guy was flying back to California, a guy from Indiana, a guy from Missouri, a guy from Washington, a guy from Vegas. And they'd buy like bulk per se. And one of the biggest compliments I had, Jim, was two of the store owners came over and they said, we wish we would have found your son's booth yesterday. We've been through every booth in this place, and it was huge. It was a Western stock show-like location where they hold the stock show in January. It's enormous. Anyway, they said, your son has the best selection, the best curated selection of vintage clothing. And that made me feel so good since he's 18 years old and he works so hard at this. He works every hour. He's not at school, basically, and his job, trying to find and work out deals. He goes to estate sales, waits in line in the rain at 6 o'clock in the morning because everybody's lined up to get into these estate sales. Anyway, I just... I saw so many hardworking kids. And there was another one, Jim, that came from Illinois. And he takes like old jeans and he sews like patches on them. I actually bought a pair from him. He had like Girl Scout patches on them and like, you know, like a Letterman jacket patch on them. And, you know, they're supposed to look like maybe they're from the 60s or 70s and kind of bell bottoms with zippers. And so they... customize all these things anyway and he has a sewing machine i went to his instagram page and saw all of the things he's making and all the things he's doing like i was so impressed these were all little entrepreneurs with their own little pop-up shops at this giant thrift con and they travel around the country doing this yeah and they're amazing and i mean kids have passions and things that matter to them and you know they're all over it and you know a lot of us would say wow they're over there playing games all the time on their little device well
SPEAKER 04 :
You know, we were doing things when we were their age, and they were different things. And, you know, sometimes I'll hear, you know, middle-aged people or baby boomers saying, well, these young kids, you know, they're just not that mature. Well, first off, we're not as mature as we remember ourselves being. And, you know, we... We had to grow up and learn the hard way, too. But I am just so encouraged by these young people. And we'll talk about it in a coming episode, one of my columns coming up about the Young Men's Service League. And just, you know, young men across the country. that dedicate a lot of their free time during their high school years to doing community service for no reason other than it needs doing. And, you know, this is amazing stuff. And so I am very, very intrigued with this. And, you know, I am very optimistic about the next generation.
SPEAKER 03 :
I think when you talk in the article and you mentioned Tom Brokaw and his book, The Greatest Generation, talking about our parents, the baby boomers, and how just the grit going to war at maybe 17, 18, and they're supposed to be 18. But as you know, they put some of those young men back in line and said, when you come back to the front, say you're 18, not 15 or whatever, right? And so there were young people who came back and worked so hard and had so much grit, but i i think there is definitely like a sour taste in many people's mouths when you say millennial or generation z and one thing that i have noticed with my husband's employees is feelings like they think we care about their feelings and most bosses really don't care about your feelings that you feel this way or that way i mean they might pretend they do but they really don't care about your feelings there's definitely more like openness about talking with emotions i remember when my um my cousin's kid didn't like the election and he was very emotional about when Donald Trump was voted in and he said, well, if you're a Republican, please unfriend me. And also, I'm just so glad our teachers understood how emotionally devastating that this is for us and that they've delayed finals. And I'm like, I can't even imagine back in my day, finals being delayed because I was emotionally upset about something. I mean, I've lost a brother to murder. One of my brothers was homeless. My dad abandoned us. He was an alcoholic. He was abusive. I would never go to my professor and say... you know, I'd be having a hard week. And I'm just wondering, my feelings right now aren't right for a final. Are you kidding me? So sometimes I feel like they're really in touch with their feelings to the point where it's a bit much. However, these are generalizations. And I was so impressed with the work ethic of all of the young people I came across over the weekend. But don't get me wrong, they were having fun. They were skateboarding and falling off their skateboards. And it wasn't open container event. So people were walking around having fun drinking. But the effort that it put into making a lot of their items on their own, I was impressed by their work ethic for sure.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, yeah, and they have a work ethic of things they're interested in. I mean, it amazes me when I was their age, everybody was always worried about their car. They're working on their car, want a new car, I've got to have a car. And so many young people now, they don't have a car and they don't care. They get on their phone and get an Uber. So that's not a status symbol anymore. But heaven forbid they don't have the right sneakers. And that's... You know, they may not have a car, but they've got to have the right sneakers. And, you know, that's a big deal to them. And we all get to decide what matters. But, you know, I think we need to, you know, look at them like a lot of possibilities, a lot of opportunities with some of these young people.
SPEAKER 03 :
So this 16-year-old you had as an intern, I take it that she was quite impressive. It seems like she was a little gifted.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, she was. And she... You know, she was not in the least intimidated by being here. She was very respectful, but she asked a lot of great questions. And, you know, and I heard from her this week. She said, I'm going to be out of school. Is there any way I could come by and we could have lunch and talk about things? And I would always give her a topic of the day when we were going to spend time together. And she said, I would like to propose a topic to the day. How do you see the world in 100 years?
SPEAKER 01 :
What do you think will be around 100 years from now?
SPEAKER 04 :
I love it. Wow. I mean, you know, because, but I also ask her, you know, one time, you know, hey, when you get together with kids and you're 16, what do you guys talk about? Oh, you know, who's going out with who and who's going to the ball game and when's the test coming? You know, the same thing us and our parents and grandparents thought about.
SPEAKER 03 :
I think about another cousin. Her daughter, I was just spending some time with them, and they were so interesting. I knew them as kids and teens, but now they're 25 about, and they're so interesting. And they were gathered at the table. I was staying with them for a wedding. They were gathered at the table with their high school friends. And so that's seven years ago that they graduated. And they're gathered around, and they're They were talking about how they keep in touch. And I'm like, what do you do? This is so cool. You guys are still in touch. And they said, well, we have this app and then we have a blog and we enter information and there's a group of us and we do updates on our lives and we keep in touch that way. And I'm like, so they have like, you know how you have your accountability partners that you meet with once a month on a Sunday? They basically meet with their friends through this kind of the way a lot of us do with Facebook with our friends. They have like a blog that is like an ongoing blog that they enter information and some kind of an app where they're able to keep up with each other seven years on in their relationship. And interestingly enough, I saw my high school best friend while I was out there in Portland, Oregon that I hadn't seen since I was 18, since we graduated. So I was like, wow, that is so cool that you're here. keeping in touch with each other in such a creative, you know, but it takes effort. You know, they're putting the effort in to keep these relationships. That's one thing they find very important relationships. And we know from the Harvard study that that helps increase our happiness. All right. We're out of time. Jim Stovall.com. You're the best friend. Take care.
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Flatville is listening to the mighty 670 KLT. Hey there, if you are just joining us, this is Angie Austin with the good news. And who doesn't want to throw a great barbecue? Well, joining us are two experts in that area. Chef Eric Gephardt and Jacob Lubbers here to teach us the top techniques to have the best cookout. Welcome, gentlemen.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thanks for having us. Good morning.
SPEAKER 03 :
You know, it's so funny because my brother has a smoker. He's currently driving here from Arizona. And I don't invite people over until he's going to be here because he is such a great cook. And so he did like, I don't know, 25 pounds of pork. And so we're going to have like pulled pork sandwiches. And like, I love his cooking so much. And with his smoker, he can do this. So it would be fun if like I could actually do it without having my brother drive from Arizona to Denver. Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I think we can give you some tips and techniques that can get you going. One of the things I would say is start with a great fuel source and an amazing grill. So beside me, I've got a Kamado Joe. Beside Jacob, we've got a Masterbuilt. These are both natural lump charcoal grills that are going to give you better flavor than gas and higher temperatures than pellets. When you're cooking with charcoal, we like to say your fuel source is your secret ingredient.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, so talk a little bit about, I don't know the difference between the charcoal versus gas versus pellet. Explain that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, well, natural lump charcoal is an artisan product. It's a three-week, low-oxygen burn, high-quality in, high-quality out. And you can imagine this kind of lit and embered up in a steak, kind of that fat is melting, dripping, caramelizing, and then that beautiful blue smoke is enveloping whatever steak that you're grilling. You can't imagine doing that with gas. You can't imagine doing that with pellets. So it actually burns longer, it burns hotter, and it's a more neutral flavor, which allows you to take your own flavor destiny into your own hands, if you will.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, so my neighbor has one of these. So is that like a digital grill?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, so when we're talking digital grills, I know a lot of people, when they think cooking charcoal, they're probably thinking lighter fluid, charcoal chimneys, some of that more traditional stuff. Well, this makes it easy. It takes a lot of that guesswork out of it. How am I going to get my temperatures where I need them? We're going to load this hopper up with our secret ingredient, our lump. natural lump charcoal and then it's as easy as you can do it right here on the grill this this easy to use screen we dial in our temperatures or we can use the phone app even when you're walking around the house everybody's busy got stuff to do you don't have to worry about your grill you got enough stuff to worry about this isn't one of them once you dial it in it is where it is and you're getting those those big bold beautiful flavors
SPEAKER 03 :
You know, this is so cool because, all right, I bought $150 worth of brisket for this party we just had at the neighbor's, right? So they kept messaging me from the swim meet, and they kept saying the temperature isn't up yet. You know, Dimitri's monitoring on his phone. As soon as it gets to this temperature, we're going to send you guys over and have you pull it out. I'm like, this is crazy. Like, we put it in the night before, like, I don't know, 11 o'clock or something. And then and then covered it like in the morning. Right. And then they're monitoring it at a swim meet, telling me their neighbor when to go pull it out. I mean, I'm like to me, it was like crazy. Like, how are you guys doing this? How are you monitoring this? That's all. That's the digital grill that you can watch on your cell phone.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, and I think it's a really cool time in history in grilling. If you think about the history of food and where we started with just an open flame, and now we're still using that age-old technology of flame, if you will. But we're also using this forward-thinking technology that allows things to be easier. So that time spent at the swim meet isn't spent at home over the grill worrying about that brisket. So it's a tool that's going to enable us to be more present with family and friends.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, and what I learned, too, with that was they thought it would be done at noon. Right. It wasn't done till four. And so they would have been sitting around missing that entire swim meet because they kept messaging me. And I'm like, hello, am I going over to take this meet out? You know, it ended up that they went to go to the whole swim meet and they came home and took it out. So had they not had that technology, they would have one of them would have missed the whole swim meet.
SPEAKER 05 :
I have to tell the family all the time, I don't tell the meat when it's done. The meat tells me, right?
SPEAKER 06 :
I'll give you a little hint that works great with the Kamado Joe Masterbuilt and brisket in general. It's called the Texas Crutch. So once you get to that 185-degree mark and you really like the bark on that brisket...
SPEAKER 01 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 06 :
Or pork butt, for instance, or short ribs, which I call brisket on a stick. You can wrap it really tightly with butcher paper and place it back on the grill. And that's going to allow you to get through what's called the stall, where that collagen turns to gelatin and begins to break down. It's going to get you through it a little bit faster. It's called the Texas crutch. So check that out. That's a method that works great on these grills that are best in both class, low and slow, and big, bold searing. But that Texas crutch at 185 will help you get to that 200, 206.
SPEAKER 03 :
takes a lot faster and i love using butcher paper because you don't lose a lot of that beautiful mahogany texture even yeah all right well i want more tips and i also want to know like i just bought some of that really coarse pepper um you know to use and because i'm obviously going to be continuing to grow with my neighbors um some of that coarse pepper and then i got a couple of different you know um the seasonings or whatever the brisket rubs what do you guys like
SPEAKER 06 :
For seasoning, I like to do a layering system of white, red, brown, but I have a friend here who's got a seasoning line that he does a lot with.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, throughout the years, I've come up with a few recipes. I started in the competition world and always made my own sauces, seasonings, things like that. So we have a few of them over here. The layers that Chef Eric likes to talk about, you know, going white, red, brown, it's easy to do with your salt, pepper, garlic, followed by a nice barbecue rub. And then I may even hit it with a little extra brown sugar, get some caramelization on there. Fill that bark a little bit. Yeah, and layer your flavors. But, yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
And having digital access to your grill, being able to just say, okay, I want it 20 degrees hotter. And I don't suggest chasing temperatures internally on meats, but if you want to build that bark towards the end, making it super easy to take it up 20 degrees by just turning that digital knob and allowing hands-free charcoal accessibility to raise or lower temperatures, kind of groundbreaking in the grilling industry. So Camacho and Masterbuilt leading the way again.
SPEAKER 03 :
Now, in terms of other tips besides, you know, getting the bark and the temperature and the butcher paper, anything else you guys can offer us?
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely. You know, there's a line of accessories that come with these grills to really meet anybody where they are or what you like to do. So there's a soapstone that comes with the Kamado Joe that's great for blister-searing fish. If we're worried about things sticking on the grill grate, this is a natural non-slip surface, so a lot of fun. Non-stick surface, sorry. Okay. There's cast irons. There's rotisseries. So I would say get a grill that does it all, right? Some grills do really good low and slow. Some grills do really fast and furious. Some rotisseries work. Some don't. The Kamado Joe and both the Masterbuilt allow you just to kind of have this culinary jungle gym where you can kind of choose your own adventure, if you will.
SPEAKER 05 :
My favorite accessory is there's a beautiful pizza oven that slides right here onto the Gravity Series. That's an awesome when you're having people over build your own pizza, let them slide it in, let them take it out. It's easy. It's fun.
SPEAKER 06 :
You want to feel like a kid again, get that pizza going.
SPEAKER 05 :
I mean, that's, that's, that's fun to get. And if you're trying to get the kids to eat, if they're cooking it, they're at least going to try it. Right.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, my God. You're speaking my brother's language. He's bringing his pizza oven because every time we're with him, we do the smoking and he makes the homemade pizzas. What about the meat cuts? Because I'm kind of a novice. So let's just be honest. My kids say that they're really good athletes. So, you know, D1 is the best athletes, right? So they call me a D1 microwaver.
SPEAKER 06 :
Let's leave Chef Mike out of the conversation here. I'm going to give you kind of a barbecue cheat code, if you will. So when I'm cooking on the Kamado Joe, again, we continue to talk about this low and slow, fast and furious. But if I'm doing four or five steaks or more, I'll buy the larger roast. Instead of trying to individually get these temperatures right, think about this. If we've got a larger roast on a grill and we're smoking it, or even just cooking it at a low temperature, almost like you would a prime rib, you can cook it 80% of the way. That's about 120 degrees internally. And the lower and slower we do it, the better it's going to be. So start it early. But then here's where your trick comes in. This is called the barbecue pause button. Now I can take that roast off when it's at 120, and whether it's 30 minutes or three hours, it can be hanging out. I can crank up the temperature here. And then when everybody's around, we can slice the steaks or let them slice their own, which is fun. Wow. Season it, blister sear it for 45 seconds on each side or until you get to the internal temperature that you're looking for, and then put it on the plate nice and hot, ready to go. Think about all the stress that you eliminate because you've done all the work ahead of time, and then you're just chilling, hanging out, having beverages, getting things ready, whatever you need to do. and your company shows up, and then you're ready to rock. So let the grills, the Camacho and the Masterbuilt with the digital access do that kind of work for you. Let the rest do the rest of the work for you, and then just entertain as soon as they show up with letting them grill their own, slice their own, whatever you like.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, one last question. The cut of the meat, when I got the brisket last time, I got the slightly cheaper, and I thought it was a little fatty. Does it pay to get the more expensive? My friend says the cheaper, the fattier is better, but I was going to try the little bit more expensive with a little less fat. What do you like?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, you know, there's a big debate in that world, I guess. Sometimes you get what you pay for. If you're going to pay for a Wagyu brisket, yeah, you're probably going to have better marbling at the end. But don't be scared of that prime, that choice brisket. There's so much fat in there that you're going to still get that perfect moisture. These grills help you cook it, getting your temperatures dialed in. As long as you stay consistent with it, you're going to get big, whole beautiful flavors, which we keep saying, out of even what you might think is not as good of a cut, there's plenty of marbling in there. You're still going to get that juicy, fluffy flavors out of that meat.
SPEAKER 06 :
The beauty of a brisket is the cowboy cut. You know what I mean? You've just got to let it go low and slow. I'm not a fan of the prime, all that fat content. To be honest with you, my system can't handle that much fat anyway. It's going low and slow. The grill's doing the work. You've got moisture content from the meat. You've got the low and slow, even heat from the grill. I do not see the point in buying it. There's going to be some comments made on this. For sure. Very controversial. But I'll say this as well. I would do short ribs 10 times out of 10 over brisket. I call it brisket on a stick. I'll say no more because I'm going to stir up some controversy. I can feel it.
SPEAKER 05 :
And we had taken first place in brisket back in the day with a choice brisket that we started with at a barbecue competition. So it's all how you cook it.
SPEAKER 03 :
I love this. I love all the different opinions. All right, Eric and Jacob, my husband loves to watch those shows when you guys are competing against each other. It cracks me up. I'm like, how can you watch someone barbecuing? You're like watching someone paint, and he's like, no. We're the Bob Ross of culinary. What can I say? What's the website, you guys, for us to get more info?
SPEAKER 06 :
Check out KamadoJoe.com and Masterbuilt.com, and don't forget to follow and subscribe to all the social channels as well. YouTube's a great place to start with videos and written recipes, kind of how to get you started.
SPEAKER 03 :
Excellent. Chef Eric Gephardt and Chef Jacob Lubbers, thank you both so much. It was a lot of fun. Thank you. Thanks for having us. You bet. Well, looking forward to all the good barbecues this season. I know we're going to have one on Memorial Day. How about you? Oh, I love some good food. Hey, I just wanted to also thank you for listening, but also thank ARC because I think you know that ARC is a big part of my program. They really keep us on the air. We couldn't do the good news without a sponsor like ARC supporting us. And It's such a blessing to me that I support them so much. My son works for them now. I knew Lloyd's son when he was born, and he knew Lloyd knows my son. He's known him all 19 years of his life, almost 20 here now, and he's working in corporate this summer, learning more because he's a business major at University of Colorado. So we have a big family tie to them, but the reason we have a big family tie is because I really believed in what ARC was doing and worked alongside them and did a lot of the ARC graduations for ARC University, you know, where the ambassadors take different programs to learn about, you know, how public transit works or social norms, boundaries, you know, teaches them all kinds of things. And not just about living their lives, but also education as well. And I just get such a kick out of the ARC ambassadors and their I'm so thankful for the support they give me. So please, artthrift.com, shop at their stores. It is definitely shopping with a purpose. This is Angie Austin with The Good News. Thanks for listening.
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Thank you for listening to The Good News with Angie Austin on AM670 KLTT.
In this riveting episode, we dive headfirst into a week brimming with controversies and unexpected incidents. From President Joe Biden’s alleged cover-up regarding his health to Congresswoman LaMonica McIver facing legal challenges, each segment unpacks intricate layers of political drama that have kept the nation on edge. As we break down Rahm Emanuel's infamous words about crises, we further discuss Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel's eye-opening revelations about potential health deceptions extending back into Biden's presidency. Adding to the turmoil, we spotlight the unsettling headlines about CBS News amidst a significant lawsuit and the resignation of key figures, emphasizing the ongoing issues plaguing mainstream media. Political tensions hit a fever pitch with outspoken exchanges between Senator Chris Van Hollen and Secretary of Rubio, setting a backdrop of political intrigue and strategic diplomacy. Meanwhile, the absurdity reaches new heights with a Mexican naval ship’s collision with the Brooklyn Bridge, with Chuck Schumer adding fuel to the fiery political banter. Ending on a lighter note, we celebrate the energetic contributions from listeners sharing musical memories, providing a charismatic and engaging contrast to the week's more serious themes. Join us as we connect the dots on these unfolding narratives, merging critical analysis with audience engagement for a truly dynamic discussion.
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Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. It's Friday, May 23rd, 2025. I'm Eric Hansen. And this week, Joe Biden reveals another cover up. Secretary of State Rubio delivers a smackdown. The CBS News president is out and a tall ship runs into the Brooklyn Bridge. We begin with the announcement that the former president has cancer.
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I'll play the Zeke Emanuel clip for you here in just a moment. it's stunning. On MSNBC? I mean, what is the lefty audience of MSNBC thinking right now? Hi, Kay, thanks for joining us. How are you?
SPEAKER 10 :
Hi, Mike, love your show. I just wanted to point out that you can't help but question the Biden House of Lies. And is this a smokescreen, a diversion from the scandal of dementia? And lo and behold, as I'm listening to you, I find out Rahm Emanuel's brothers on TV who they never want to let a disaster go on.
SPEAKER 14 :
Never let a crisis go to waste. Remember that? You're right, Kay. Remember when Rahm Emanuel said that? Never let. Well, now here's the guy. Kay, your call is brilliant because you've set this up perfectly. Thank you, Kay. Rahm Emanuel once famously said, thank you. Rahm Emanuel once famously said, you never let a crisis go to waste. You take it as an opportunity to get what you want. And that includes distraction. Are you ready for Rahm Emanuel's brother, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel? Here he was on MSNBC's Morning Joe.
SPEAKER 09 :
You're an oncologist, obviously, incredibly respected. You believe that it is likely, just for those just tuning in, you believe it is likely if this prostate cancer has spread to the bone that he could have had it. for up to a decade, but certainly it's likely, would it be fair to say, it's likely to have had this for at least several years.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, more than several years. You don't get prostate cancer.
SPEAKER 09 :
I just want to stop you. So this is this is not speculation. If you have prostate cancer that is spread to the bone, then he's most certainly you are saying had it when he was president of the United States.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, yeah. He did not develop it in the last 100, 200 days. He had it while he was president. He probably had it at the start of his presidency in 2021. Yes, I don't think there's any disagreement about that.
SPEAKER 14 :
My gosh. Are you letting that sink in? And do you think it's conceivable? that the President of the United States had a medical team that failed to detect it, knowing that that's inconceivable, they lied in one of the biggest scandals in American history, if what he said is correct.
SPEAKER 15 :
Democratic Congresswoman LaMonica McIver faced justice this week after being arrested at an ICE facility in New Jersey. Can we expect Pam Bondi's Justice Department to hold others responsible as well?
SPEAKER 16 :
Alina Habba's doing it now with Congresswoman LaMonica McIver of New Jersey assaulting ICE officers, and she flat out got charged.
SPEAKER 14 :
And the Democrats, of course, are melting down faster than a bucket of water on the Wicked Witch. They're saying, how dare you chill our... It was part of her oversight. Oh, yeah? Your oversight is to lay hands on an ICE agent? That's part of your oversight? Nice try, Congresswoman.
SPEAKER 16 :
Did you see the posturing? I think it was 3, 4 days. It was end of last week. I had back-to-back audio. There was Hakeem Jeffries with that wonderful hand-chopping thing he does. I just want to tell you that if they do anything... But if they cross a line, that's a line that you do not cross. Well, what are you going to do? I'm not going to tell you, but that's a line that you do not cross. Do not cross. And then AOC, if you lay one finger on our people, we're going to have a problem. Oh, really, young lady? And what exactly were that problems?
SPEAKER 14 :
They're just about threats and they're about flailing about because you can't put hands. Look, no one is above the law. And if you're a congressman, now she made a decision not to charge the mayor. And I saw an analysis last night. I think it was over on Facebook. I think it was at One American News, they were saying that the video doesn't show conclusively him putting hands, but she does. She's pushing. She's shoving. You don't shove a cop if you're a member of Congress. Who do they think they are? They just think they can get away with anything, and I'm fed up with it. And again, back to Pam Bondi. Do you think that Trump's Justice Department has been sufficient enough? Here's Kash Patel and Bongino. Oh, Epstein did kill himself. which infuriated Epstein's brother. Epstein's brother said, no, he didn't. He was killed. Who are they to say that? I mean, it's like, here's what the MAGA masses are growing. This is Tal Axelrod over at Axios. The MAGA masses are growing disillusioned with Justice Department officials who are failing to deliver damning information on a laundry list of hot-button issues. There's one problem with the headline.
SPEAKER 16 :
One problem with the headline. Masses. What you and I have described and what you brought up is absolutely resonating with. And it's not a tiny sliver. It's an appreciable number of people. But I would say the vast number of people who voted for Trump don't pay a lot of attention. And when I say don't pay a lot, they want an active, they want Pam Bondi to be great. They want justice done for justice reasons and not DEI and not preferential treatment, not political witch hunts, et cetera, et cetera. That has been cleansed and that's good. about this is somewhat limited at the moment. It's a kind of a political junkie kind of thing. So the notion that the MAGA masses are frosted by this is an overstatement.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, to your point, the reality check at the end of the article says not everybody is ready to flip the table. While some people are still building up their MAGA bona fides, like Pam Bondi, others like Patel and Bongino have longstanding credibility with Trump fans. And the underlying point remains the National Pulse's Raheem Kassam texted Axios. The underlying point remains Cash and Dan are badasses at the height of their efficacy. They deserve more time. and more trust.
SPEAKER 15 :
Disgraced former FBI director James Comey rushed to MSNBC this week to defend his despicable Instagram post that threatened our current president.
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Let's see what you think. Tony in Rochester, Minnesota is back. Hey Tony, how you been?
SPEAKER 05 :
Hey, Mike, thanks for taking my call. You betcha. You know that the term 86 is an old mafia term? It means eight miles out of town and six feet under. And for an FBI director that, after all the investigations of the mafia, does not know that, I'd say charge him.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, he claimed he didn't know. Here's cut 14 on MSNBC. Comey insisting, I didn't know that 86-47 was controversial in any way, shape or form.
SPEAKER 10 :
You are back in the middle of a political firestorm.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, for walking on the beach with my wife. So I don't know how we ended up here. Never occurred to me that it was any kind of controversial thing, but that's the time we live in.
SPEAKER 14 :
Didn't occur to him that it was any kind of controversial thing. 86-47, it was just a seashell formation. He went on, though, to prove why he's a liar. Of course he knew it was controversial. He certainly knew it was a political viewpoint.
SPEAKER 12 :
I really thought that I was done. I was in another life. I was a grandfather and an author wearing sweaters and jeans. And then I went for a walk on the beach and posted a silly picture of shells that I thought was a clever way to express a political viewpoint. And actually, I still think it is. I don't see it the way some people are still saying it is. But again, I don't want any part of any violence. I've never been associated with violence. And so that's why I took it down.
SPEAKER 14 :
He still thinks it's a clever way to express a political viewpoint, a political remove Trump. Let's pretend that these clowns really don't know or believe, or let's pretend 86 doesn't mean to take you eight miles out and six feet under and all that and kill somebody. Let's pretend it just means remove Trump. You don't think remove a sitting president is controversial? Of course he does. He's not telling the truth, and everybody knows it. He does sort of apologize in his little love fest, playing footsie with the MSNBC host. This is as close to an apology as I guess you'll get.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, I regret the distraction and the controversy around it. But again, it's hard to have regret about something that even in hindsight looks to me to be totally innocent for the reasons you said. But yeah, I didn't have a gut check. In the Trump era, I've been investigated a lot, audited a lot. And so it's not my first rodeo. I'm in some strange way, the relationship he can't get over, maybe because I've lived a happy, productive life since leaving. But this has just been a distraction in that life.
SPEAKER 14 :
How pathetic. Yeah, you're living a real happy, productive life. You're posting shells, pictures of shells that spell out assassinate a president, and you think that's clever, and you're living a happy, productive life? I mean, he is going to make money, I'm sure, on his book, because a bunch of fellow travelers are going to buy his book. And maybe, I suspect, that's what it was all about. I suspect that's why he did exactly what he did. He knows what he's doing. He's trying to line his pockets by threatening the life of Trump, then pretending he didn't know what that meant, and now doubling down and saying it's just a clever political statement.
SPEAKER 15 :
CBS News locked horns with President Trump over the past several months as they attempted to settle a multi-billion dollar lawsuit filed by the president. The dispute continues, but the president of CBS News apparently resigned over it this week.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, more bad news for the embattled CBS News. The CBS News president and CEO Wendy McMahon announced moments ago she's stepping down. It's described as another stunning move for the embattled company. Her exit follows that of longtime 60 Minutes producer Bill Owens, who quit last month because he felt he'd lost journalistic independence amid an ongoing legal battle with President Trump. So, wow. CBS parent company Paramount Global is in mediation with Trump's legal team with hopes of settling a $20 billion lawsuit against CBS over its handling of a 60 Minutes interview last year with then-Vice President Kamala Harris with all the editing deceptively. Gosh, I mean, you look at this list of face plants from the left of the Democrats. Who's going to listen to anything else they say again? Look at all the things they've deceived the American people about. COVID, January 6th. Remember they lied to Donald Trump, incited an insurrection. Donald Trump told people to go peacefully and patriotically, let their voice be heard. That's what he told them to do. He didn't incite any riot. But of course they lied. Of course they lied about COVID. Bill Maher said something about COVID over the weekend. Do you have the clip about the COVID thing, the comment he made? I thought I sent that to you guys this morning. Bill Maher said such a great, had a great commentary about how crazy the Democrats got during the pandemic. College kids having food left outside their dorm room door like it was the bubonic plague of 1357. The things we did, the way we've been deceived, a couple of texters have pointed out, Another big deception, of course, was FDR and his physical condition. He never wanted to be photographed in a wheelchair. Of course, FDR suffered from polio. And he didn't want people, he thought it would look weak to have the world leader in a wheelchair. I'm trying to remember, was Franklin Delano Roosevelt a Democrat or a Republican? I was talking to MyPillow yesterday, and I'm worried that these sheets are going to run out before people realize the opportunity they missed. The Giza Dream bed sheets, any size, any color, $49.98. It's a crazy price. It is a ridiculous price. Mike Lindell wants to thank you for your years of support of his great company. And Mike is offering his best deal on these incredible sheets. They're smooth. They're silky. They're smooth. Luxurious. They're worthy of any five-star hotel. You can get any size for a limited time and any color, $49.98. Queens, Kings, Split Kings, Cal Kings, any size, any color, $49.98. Order now, because when they're gone, they're gone. Go to MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher Specials Square. You've got to go to that box. And then with anything you order, enter the promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. Or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. Sing along with me. For the best night's sleep in the whole wide world, visit MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG.
SPEAKER 15 :
This is the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. CNN anchor Jake Tapper hit the talk show circuit this week to hawk his new book, Original Sin. It chronicles the cognitive decline of former President Joe Biden. But how do you expose a cover-up when you were complicit in it?
SPEAKER 14 :
How do you handle the Tapper book? Arkansas says, I don't think you should even talk about the book. We know Jake Tapper is a liar. He's only out for money. You don't write a book overnight. He knew the whole time. Delaware, do American citizens need to know what is in the book despite who wrote it? Absolutely. New York City, Mike, this is worse than Watergate. Chicago, as pathetic as Tapper's book is, it is necessary because there's a weird entrenched faction of voters who would refuse to believe their eyes without it. See, that's where I fall down on. I agree with Chicago. As despicable as the book's author is, it's necessary. Because in a way, coming from a lefty like Jake Tapper is going to open up a lot of people's eyes to the real scandal, the disgraceful Biden presidency. We'll start with Brian in Dearborn, Michigan. Hey, Brian, welcome aboard.
SPEAKER 03 :
Hello, Mike. Great show. Thanks. Oh, you're welcome. I agree with kind of what you said, but just now what you said about why you need the book out there. But at the same time, we already have that information out there as video, live feed, you know, other people talking about it. So, you know, giving all that attention to... Jake and him monetizing off of it. You know, I just don't agree with that.
SPEAKER 14 :
I got it. Well, I mean, you could you could I understand that argument. You could say, well, we knew anyway. But this book evidently chronicles with great specificity by Biden's horrible condition. And it's going to open up a lot of eyes in a way that maybe conservative media does not. Incidentally, Jake Tapper, as part of his apology tour, he's going around saying conservative media was right. Conservative media had it right all along. Conservative media gets the credit. Now, that's all part of his apology tour. You know what's going on with Jake Tapper. He hired a woman named Risa Heller. a crisis communications expert, to assist with the book rollout and teach the CNN host how to be nicer to critics. The word he keeps using, I have great humility over the way that I treated Laura Trump. I have great humility over the knowledge that this was really understood but covered up. Yeah, right, you've got great humility. He's filled with humility. He's filled with something. Humility isn't the word that comes to mind. Tom's in Newport, Ritchie, Florida. Hi, Tom. Hi, Mike. How are you doing today? Good. How are you, sir?
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, I was just working around the house, and I was enjoying your show in the background on the film news channel.
SPEAKER 14 :
I love that. It makes me happy to know that you're enjoying us in the background while you're getting some work done, being very productive. You're multitasking, Tom.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Yeah. It's, uh, it's so frustrating watching some of this stuff that, uh, I mean, it's, I guess it's surprising some people that, that Biden had a decline going on, but I, it's hard to believe really, but I guess, you know, I, I actually found a cure for TDS. I think the, uh, The TDS stands for turn the station.
SPEAKER 14 :
Turn the station. All right. A little bit of slang. Look, you use that phrase, a cure for Trump derangement syndrome. Maybe the Jake Tapper book is part of the cure.
SPEAKER 15 :
Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen delivered some harsh words for Marco Rubio at a hearing this week. The secretary of state did not take it lying down.
SPEAKER 14 :
Here's Marco Rubio battling with Senator Chris Van Hollen, Mr. Margaritaville with the MS-13 gang member. Here's the whole thing.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I have to tell you directly and personally that I regret voting for you for Secretary of State. I yield back.
SPEAKER 02 :
Can I respond? You may sit. Well, first of all, your regret for voting for me confirms I'm doing a good job, based on what I know. That's just a flippant statement, Mr. Secretary. Can I respond, Mr. Chairman?
SPEAKER 04 :
You may. I didn't ask a question. Senator, please let the Secretary have the floor. I'd be happy to, but then I can respond to his response. Your time's up, Senator, and woefully used, I might add. Your remarks do not represent the view of this committee. Well, Mr. Chairman—
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, I'd like to. I can't respond to everything he said because much of these are untrue, but I'll go through a few. First of all, I'm actually very proud of the work we've done with USAID. For example, I don't regret cutting $10 million for male circumcisions in Mozambique. I don't know how that makes us stronger and more prosperous as a nation. I don't regret psychosocial support services. I raise two hands, Mr. Secretary, not Mozambique.
SPEAKER 04 :
Senator, I'd ask you to suspend. You had seven straight minutes. I chose to use my time that way, Mr. Chairman. That's my right to use my time that way. Please suspend, Secretary Rubio.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, I can go on. I mean, there's other things here. We spent $227,000 for Big Cat's YouTube channel from USAID. We spent $14 million for social cohesion in Mali, whatever the hell that means. So I can go on and on. I got the list here, and there's more. I didn't even bring the whole list. In the case of El Salvador, absolutely. Absolutely. We deported gang members. Gang members, including the one you had a margarita with. And that guy is a human trafficker, and that guy is a gangbanger, and the evidence is going to be clear in the days to come. Mr. Chairman. I'm sorry, Mr. Chairman. Secretary Rubio has the floor.
SPEAKER 04 :
Mr. Chairman, he can't make unsubstantiated comments like that. Secretary Rubio has the floor. Secretary Rubio should take that testimony to the federal court of the United States because he hasn't done it under oath.
SPEAKER 02 :
Here's another point, okay? There is a division in our government between the federal branch and the judicial branch. No judge and the judicial branch cannot tell me or the president how to conduct foreign policy. No judge can tell me how I have to outreach to a foreign partner or what I need to say to them. And if I do reach to that foreign partner and talk to them, I have under no obligation to share that with the judiciary branch. Just like a judge cannot order me to negotiate with a foreign minister of Russia, they cannot order me to negotiate with a foreign minister or the president of El Salvador. And if I did negotiate with them, which we have responded to them. And we've told them, we've had communications with the president of El Salvador. I am under no obligation, under our division of powers in this country, to share with the judicial branch how I conducted diplomacy of the United States. It would actually be counterproductive. If I started sharing with courts, or frankly, with the media, my conversations with foreign leaders and all of their details, no foreign leader would talk to me again. And we would break trust with them. So I have complied with every court order. What I won't comply with is in order to disclose what I'm saying and what we're talking about with a foreign leader because then they won't talk to me. Diplomacy doesn't work that way. About the student visas, let me say this. I don't deport anybody and I don't snatch anybody. The State Department does not have officers in the streets snatching everybody. What I do is revoke visas. And it's very simple. A visa is not a right. It is a privilege. People apply for student visas to come into the United States and study. And if you tell me that you're coming to the United States to lead campus crusades, to take over libraries and burn down, try to burn down buildings and acts of violence, we're not going to give you a visa.
SPEAKER 04 :
Is that what she did? Come on, Mr. Secretary.
SPEAKER 02 :
You're just blowing smoke here now. The bottom line is if you're coming here to stir up trouble on our campuses, we will deny you a visa. And if you have a visa and we find you, we'll revoke it. And we're going to do more. There are more coming. We're going to continue to revoke the visas of people who are here as guests and are disrupting our higher education facilities. People are paying money. These kids pay money to go to school, and they have to walk through a bunch of lunatics who are here on student visas. Simple as that. I want to do more. I hope we can find more of these people. That's pathetic, Mr. Secretary. In fact, the other day, some guys led a riot. I forgot what university it was. And I asked, please, can you find the arrest records of all the people that were arrested at that riot at that campus? Because if any of them have a visa, we're going to revoke it.
SPEAKER 04 :
I feel so much safer when you lock up people like Ms. Osterk, Mr. Secretary. We've had enough time on the subject. Thank you very much.
SPEAKER 14 :
Mainstream media characterized that. Chris Van Hollen really stuck it to Marco Rubio. Yeah, nice try. It was game, set, match Marco Rubio. And I don't know about you, but I think it's Marco Rubio for president in 2028.
SPEAKER 15 :
This week, a Mexican naval ship ran into the Brooklyn Bridge. I know. It surprised me, too.
SPEAKER 14 :
Somebody said after that Mexican naval ship hit the Brooklyn Bridge, you wait and see, they'll blame Trump. And I thought, well, that's kind of a stretch. I mean, surely they're not that pathetic. Surely they understand that this Mexican naval, and I still don't understand what a Mexican naval ship was doing in the East River. I'm still quite confused about the cadets that were up there in those masts, two of whom were killed. One of them was a female. I don't get any aspect of that story at all, and it kind of went away, if you haven't noticed. But come on, even Democrats, even Democrats aren't vile enough, aren't insipid enough, aren't idiotic enough to blame Trump for the Mexican ship crashing into the Brooklyn Bridge. Oh, wait a minute. What's that you say? Who? Chuck Schumer.
SPEAKER 01 :
We know that the Trump administration has been meddling in U.S. Coast Guard operations from staffing to command and comms. And I have the general sense of a doge dysfunction in parts of the Coast Guard. To put it mildly, after being fully briefed on last night's Brooklyn Bridge accident, one thing is very clear. There are many more questions than answers. We know that there has been meddling by the Trump administration into the Coast Guard staffing, and now we need to know how this meddling might have impacted the events of last night.
SPEAKER 14 :
Good old Chuck Schumer never disappoints. What a low-life... Yep, it's Doge! Trump! Orange man bad! Gotta be! Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, but here I am, stuck in the middle with you.
SPEAKER 15 :
And finally, we get all kinds tuning into the Mike Gallagher Show. Some listeners even sing to us.
SPEAKER 14 :
Mac is in Rochester, Minnesota. Hello, Mac.
SPEAKER 08 :
Hi, Mike. I've been following this Comey story over the weekend, and listening to you this morning, it reminded me of an old children's song called The Thing. Have somebody in your staff look that up and play it in the background. Do you remember it at all?
SPEAKER 14 :
No, I don't. Remind me. What does it say?
SPEAKER 08 :
Ha ha! Ha ha!
SPEAKER 14 :
You're not going to hear that on the Charlie Kirk show. Now, come on. That's good stuff. That's good stuff. I love it.
SPEAKER 16 :
You've got to look it up and play it.
SPEAKER 14 :
I will. You've got a good voice. I love it. All right. Thank you, Mac. I've never heard of the thing, but I kind of like it. Kind of like an old sailor's tune.
SPEAKER 06 :
While I was walking down the beach one bright and sunny day, I saw a great big wooden box a-floating in the bay. I pulled it in and opened it up, and much to my surprise, ooh, I discovered a... Right before my eyes, ooh, I discovered a... Right before my eyes, I picked it up and ran to town as happy as a king. This is for you, Mac. I took it to a guy I knew who'd buy most anything. Eric found it. But this is what he hollered at me as I walked in his shop. Oh, get out of here with that. Before I call a cop. Oh, get out of here with that. It's got a nice little beat to it. I've never heard it before.
SPEAKER 14 :
I've got a pretty good musical knowledge, but not that one. It's a little bit before my time, but Mac, that goes out to you. And great job, Eric, tracking that. Where did you find that? What is that from? A guy named Phil Harris, the great Phil Harris. Remember Phil? Well, I'm a big Phil Harris fan. I am so lucky to get to talk to people like Mac in Minnesota. Every time I'm in a grumpy mood, I remind myself of how truly blessed I am. I had lunch yesterday with about eight listeners here in Dallas-Fort Worth. People that donated to our campaign to help children. And we're going to have another lunch today. This group of people yesterday was so fun and smart and kind and gracious. One of them was upset that I picked up the tab for the lunch.
SPEAKER 15 :
And that wraps up the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast for Friday, May 23rd, 2025. I'm Eric Hansen. Be sure to subscribe to all the podcasts and follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you like the show, be sure to share it with a friend. We'll see you back here next week on the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast.
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Join Rick Hughes for an enriching discussion on dealing with worry, self-pity, and the adversities of life through spiritual growth. By differentiating between the enemy—stress, and adversity itself, Rick provides a roadmap to emotional freedom and contentment rooted in Christian principles. Explore biblical passages that command not to worry, embrace the teaching of faith and trust, and learn how these can culminate in a stress-free life full of happiness granted by God’s grace.
SPEAKER 01 :
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 good morning and welcome to the flatline
SPEAKER 02 :
I'm your host, Rick Hughes, and for the next few minutes, please hang with me. Stick around. Listen up. Just a few minutes of motivation, some inspiration, some education, always without any manipulation. We're not trying to con you into doing anything. We're just trying to give you some information. Hopefully the information will help you verify and identify the plan of God for your life and you can orient and adjust to the plan. But we always say that adversity is inevitable, stress is optional. I want to remind you about that. Because we're going to talk a little bit about that today, but before we get into it, let me remind you about our new iPodcast shows that are now available on the internet, on your cell phone. If you're interested, you have an Apple iPhone, you can go to Apple iPod and type in The Flotline, The Flotline, and you'll be able to hear all of our radio shows podcasted right there. Anytime you'd like to hear them, driving in your car, and then you can work it through your Bluetooth in your car and play it in your car speaker. Also, you can go to websites such as Spotify, S-P-O-T-I-F-Y, a free podcasting website where you can download it on your phone, Android or iPhone, and type in The Flotline, and you'll be able to see the podcast there as well. Other podcasts, Podcast shows as well, such as Breaker or Anchor are available. So we are making all of our shows available and we are beginning to put them into print. Hopefully it won't be too long now. We'll have our first book in print where we're taking all of the shows and giving a transcript so you can actually read instead of just listen. So that's up to you. If you'd like to grow, like to continue to listen. Good. I'm glad. But let me remind you of one thing. I'm not a pastor. I'm not your pastor. I'm an encourager. I want to point you towards a well-qualified pastor that you can get under where you can grow in grace and the knowledge of of your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I want to give you the good news that Jesus Christ is God's anointed son and that he alone paid for our sin and his death, burial, and resurrection guarantees us eternal life through faith in him. That's my job, to lift up Christ and to encourage you. I hope you enjoy the radio show. We are going into 14 years of teaching now. So thank you for being so faithful to listen and support the show. Now, the Flotline is designed to teach God's Word and those 10 unique problem-solving devices. Did you ever get the problem-solving device bookmark? I don't know if you ever did or not. I'd be glad to send you one. But it has all 10 problem-solving devices listed on that bookmark, and you can stick it in your Bible. Also, we have the Christian Problem-Solving Book. that list in detail those 10 problem-solving devices, and you can read through them in the book in a short, brief summary of what each one of those problem-solving devices are. Remember, the first one is always rebound. This is where we solve the problem of sin in our life by rebounding or confessing our known sin to God, where He said, if we'll confess our sin, then He will be faithful and just to forgive us and to purify us from all wrongdoing. Rebound leads us to the filling of the Holy Spirit, which solves the problem of the genetically formed sin nature. We have a battle within us. It's always going on. The Bible says the flesh wars against the spirit. The spirit wars against the flesh. They're contrary one to the other. And so you have to learn how to control the old man within you, the flesh. And that's through the filling of the Holy Spirit. That leads us into the faith rest drill, standing on the promises of God, executing the Christian life with faith, and then going into grace orientation, biblical orientation, having a personal sense of destiny, developing your personal love for God as your number one motivational virtue in your life. using your impersonal love for others as a wonderful way to handle people problems and people testing in your life, and then sharing the happiness of God, which is a wonderful, wonderful thing that does away with worry, and being occupied with Christ. Those are the 10 problem-solving devices. You should know them. You should be able to recall them. You should be able to see them in your Bible and Use them in your life because the whole idea is once you learn these 10 unique problem-solving devices, then you utilize them, and it's possible that you can then stop the outside source of adversity, whatever it may be, from becoming the inside source of stress. And we'll talk about that here in just a minute. So remember, adversity is inevitable, but stress is optional because adversity is what those circumstances actually do to you. But stress, well, that's something you do to yourself. Are there stress indicators? There are, and let me give you a couple here real quickly. If you find yourself worrying, you are involved in stress. You are told in the Bible not to worry. As a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, you need to understand that worry means is a mental attitude sin, and it's a self-torment, the self-torment of anxiety regarding anything in this life. So if you get into worrying, as my pastor taught me years ago, it's a disquieting and painful state of mind that involves much concern over something in your life. This painful uneasiness of your mind always anticipates the worst. And so if you're worrying and you have this anticipation, apprehension of danger, misfortune, trouble, disaster coming, uncertainty in your life, what a horrible way to live. You have a state of restlessness and you're always agitated. And it produces some mental disturbance as well, some sort of foreboding anxiety and Painful uncertainty, worrying is a horrible sin. It destroys your ability to think and to use the faithless drill. And if you don't check it, it can actually lead you to be mentally ill. So you often get a warning first with a physical problem because worry in your mind can actually cause a shock to your body. Proverbs 12, 25. The worry in the heart of a man weighs it down, but a good word produces a super abundance of happiness. So, if we're going to talk about worry as we are here for a minute, the solution is always the Word of God. Understanding the unfailing love of God with super abundance of happiness in your life so that you don't have to worry, so that you understand the unfailing love of God, He would never, ever hang you out to dry. And we do that because we love him. We love him because he first loved us. But if we have fear and worry and anxiety in our soul, then we lose the great happiness that we're supposed to have because of the garbage in our subconsciousness. And as a result of that, the happiness goes away. So the happiness that God has for you, plus H, problem-solving device number nine, can actually remove worry, which can actually bring you into carnality, sinful worry. But you can't fulfill the life of God if you worry, you can't do that. Psalm 100 verse five, for the Lord is absolutely good and his unfailing love is everlasting and his faithfulness is to every generation. So what is there to worry about it? We'll never know the greatest happiness in this world if we lose the battle for worry in our soul. So if you're worrying, if you naturally like to worry, that's a major source of sin in your life. Listen to Deuteronomy 31, six through eight. Be strong, be courageous. Don't be afraid nor tremble. There you go. Isaiah 41, 10. Do not fear. I'm with you. Do not anxiously look around. I'm your God. I will help you. You see, we're here. It's got to have an object. And what is it that you're worried about? Is it money? Is it your health? Is it the future? Is it politics? Worrying is a horrible thing. And if you can't find something to worry about, you may make it up in your mind sometimes. But sin is what causes worry. Sin. Sin. It is sin. Worry and fear both are mental attitude sins. Both those things ignore the promises of the Word of God, the doctrines that characterize the Word of God. So worry doesn't solve any problems whatsoever. It actually will distract you from growing spiritually and take away any blessing that God may have for you. Therefore, it's forbidden. Listen to me as I read these passages from the Bible concerning worrying. A stress indicator. Worry is a stress indicator. Philippians 4, 6 through 7. Do not be anxious about anything. Do not be anxious about anything. You know me, and you know how we like to go into the original languages of the Greek New Testament. And this word, do not be anxious, is a verb, merimenao, merimenao. And it means do not take thought that causes anxiety or worry. And in this case, it's a verb, do not be anxious, It's what we call the present active imperative of Mary Manao. Do not be anxious. Excuse me, I had to turn off the heater for a minute. Do not be anxious about anything but in everything by prayer and supplication. Along with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And then, and then, that's through the filling of the Holy Spirit and through the faith rest drill, And then the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus. Then, not while you're worrying. No, worrying is a sin. Worrying is your sin nature getting proactive in your life. But we want the word of God to be proactive in your life. We want you to use the faith rest drill in your life. and it will guard your heart and your mind. Remember, upstairs in your head, over your eyes, are your heart and your mind. The mind is where we receive information. That's where the Bible calls it the noose or the mind. But the Bible also refers to the heart of man, and it's not talking about the thing that pumps blood in your chest. It's talking about the cardia upstairs. You see, the mind is where you receive information, but the heart is where you store it. The heart is where you respond to it. The heart is where it becomes part of you. And that's where your conscious is located. That's where your frame of reference is located. And that's what God wants you to do. Store his word in your heart. You're never allowed to worry. Never. So listen to Proverbs chapter 3. Trust the Lord with all your heart. There it is. We're not talking about the organ that pumps blood. We're talking about that part of you that thinks. The responder, not the receiver. The receiver is the mind. The responder is the heart. Trust in the Lord with all of your heart and do not rely on your own understanding. That's where your worry comes from. You try to think what might happen, what could happen, what's going to happen, and you have no idea what God has designed to happen. In Matthew 6, 25, the Lord Jesus Christ himself said, "'I tell you, do not be anxious.'" For anything about your life, there's the word merimenao again. Now, I told you in Philippians 4, 6, and 7, merimenao was a present active imperative. The present tense means you are never to do it. The active voice means the subject produces the action of the verb. The subject is you and me. The imperative mood is a command. Excuse me. We're commanded never, ever, ever to worry. And so the Lord Jesus Christ uses the same verb, merimenao, and the same tense, present active imperative. Not only are you not to worry today, but you're not to worry tomorrow, and you're not to worry the next day. The active voice says you are the one that's not to worry. And the imperative mood is the command. What did Jesus say you should not worry about? Don't worry about your life. Don't worry about what you're going to eat. Don't worry about what you're going to drink. Don't worry about your body or what you're going to put on. He goes on to say, is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air. They neither sow nor reap nor gather. in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them, are you not much more valuable than those little birds? And which one of you, by being anxious, that's worrying, can add a single hour to your lifespan? And why are you worrying about your clothes? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow, and they neither toil nor spin. Yet I tell you, even Solomon in all of his glory was not arrayed like one of these. God has the perfect clothes. God has the perfect look. And if you're worried about what you're going to wear, worried about what you have or don't have, worried about how you fit in with the crowd because you don't dress like they dress. You're not hip like they're hip. It's a sin. It's a waste of time. The Lord provides. He can provide for you. In Proverbs 3, 5 through 6, trust, trust in the Lord. Trust in the Lord with all of your heart. The word I just gave you. That word trust is a Cal imperative of the Hebrew verb batak. And that means to have absolute confidence in the Lord or be secure in the Lord. Trust in the Lord with all of your heart. Do not ever lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him and he will make straight your path. So in both the Old and in the New Testament, we are told never ever worry. That's a stress indicator. And by learning those 10 unique problem-solving devices, we do not have to have worry. And we are told this with direct orders in the imperative mood from the New Testament. So if you like to worry, you are disobeying orders from God and you are sinning. So how can you stop worrying? Is it possible? Yes, it is very possible. Number one, if you recognize the strength of your emotional attachment to safety and security, then you will understand the need for lack of mental stress. So you've got to quit letting your emotions take over and It's your emotions that feather the worry. It's your emotions that don't think. They just react. And the Bible says, think, think, think. Let this mind be in you. That was also in Christ Jesus. Think on these things, whatever's pure, whatever's holy, whatever's right. Think on these things. The Christian life is a life of thinking. Thinking and utilizing God's word in your soul, in your heart. and not letting your emotions attack you and run you and control you. And worry comes strictly from the emotions. So if you're going to overcome worry, stop letting your emotions control you. Use the word of God, confess your sin when you get afraid, ask the Lord to cleanse you from it, go to his word, claim a promise and stand on it. So use rebound, point two, to confess your lack of trust. What do you mean I don't trust? Well, I just told you the verse, Proverbs 3, 5, trust in the Lord with all your heart. If you're worrying, you're not trusting. If you're worrying, you're assuming unassigned responsibility. It's not your responsibility. It's God's responsibility. So confess your lack of trust. My lack of trust in what? Your lack of trust in the plan of God for your life and the provisions that he gives you. You're telling God you don't think he's doing a good job, and so you're going to worry about it. That's terrible. And three, learn and execute the faith rest drill. Learn and execute the faith rest drill. That's how you overcome worry. When the Pharaoh chased the Jews out of Egypt and cornered them by the Red Sea, Moses said, Stand still and watch what God is about to do. There was no room for worry, no room for fear. Proverbs 3, 1 and 2, Do not forget my laws, but let your heart keep my mandates. because length of days and long life and peace and soundness they will add to you. Did you hear that? Let's listen again. Do not forget my laws, the word of God. Let your heart, there it is again, the responder. Let your heart keep my commandments. That's obedience. That's positive volition. to the word of God. And if you will obey God's word, length of days and long life and peace. Peace, the Hebrew word shalom, which means tranquility of life and safety and soundness. And they will add to your years. All right, here we go. Let's back up one more time. Listen carefully. Don't forget my law. Let your heart keep my mandates. For length of days and long life and peace they will add to you. Proverbs 3.5 says, In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths smooth. Now listen to the next verse, verse 7. Don't consider yourself wise. You know, people that think they're smarter than God, people that think they got it figured out, that's nothing but arrogance. That's intellectual arrogance spinning out of emotional revolt of the soul. God has a perfect plan for you. And if you will learn the plan and use the plan, you never have to worry. You never have to be afraid. You can have complete self-confidence and complete happiness in the plan of God. So if you will confess your sin, recognize it, admit it, and then you can resume your spiritual momentum every day by taking in the Word of God on a daily basis. I'm going to say this straight up. I believe this with all my heart. If you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and you're not studying God's word consistently, you will never grow spiritually and you will never come to the place where you want to be, where you'll have complete happiness, complete peace, and complete understanding of God's plan. If all you do is play around with the Bible, get a couple of verses, claim a couple of verses, Read a little bit every day. That's not growing. Growing. The Bible is a textbook. It's designed to be taught to you. It's not designed for you to read it through once a year, which is fine. That's not a sin. I'm not saying don't read it. But I'm saying if you took an algebra book and went out and sat under the oak tree, you wouldn't figure it out unless you had a teacher. And the Bible requires a teacher. God gave a man the gift of pastor-teacher in Ephesians chapter four. Pastor-teacher, poimen kai didaskalos. His job is to teach you God's word. He has a spiritual gift. And once you find that pastor teacher, once you sit under that man, then you can begin to take in the word of God consistently in your life every day, hopefully, at least every day or two, and learn and keep notes and review your notes and go over your notes. What you're doing is you're shaping your mind. You're changing the way you think. You're picking up divine viewpoint. You're obeying what Romans 12, 3 says. Stop thinking in terms of arrogance beyond what you should think, but think in terms of humility as God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from his word. The Christian life is about shaping the way you think, changing the way you think so that your heart lines up with the will of God for your life. And you are not the person who considers yourself wise. You're not wise. You have nothing to be wise about. The Lord is wise. He's the one that knows the plan. He's the one that has the program. And you can never learn it if you don't study it, if you don't read it and understand it, have it explained to you. I know you think you can get it all by yourself, but you're not. So you've got to get under the ministry of a great pastor. You've got to stay filled with the Holy Spirit. You've got to use the faith rest drill. You've got to learn these 10 problem-solving devices. And then you will give maximum glorification to the Lord Jesus Christ because you will represent him to your friends. You will reflect him in your life in the way you think. When people see you, they'll see Christ because of the way you think, because of the way you act and live. That's a wonderful thing. worry is a terrible sin but also self-pity there's another stress indicator i went to a website called gotquestions.org and i copied this from there listen to what they said every human being is prone to self-pity we are born self-centered with a powerful drive to protect our egos and our rights when we decide that life has not treated us as we have the right to be treated then self-pity is a result. And self-pity causes us to sulk and be obsessed over our hurts, whether they're real or whether they're perceived. At the heart of self-pity is a disagreement with God over how life is treating you and how he has treated us. Self-pity. Wow. Now the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 11, 26, let a person examine himself. In 2 Corinthians 13, 5, examine yourself, see if you're in the faith. Self-pity is eyes on self. And that is a real trait of arrogance and self-centeredness that you can't allow yourself to get into. Because through spiritual growth, you can take command of your own self. You can have spiritual autonomy and stand on your own two feet, but without spiritual growth, which I've been talking about this whole show, then you have to use defense mechanisms. You have to use feelings that arise in response to perceptive danger, like worry. and you hide the real feelings and the real cause of your anxiety. Self-pity is a terrible sin. An emotionally arrogant person can use illusions or hallucinations and even fantasizing to cope with the stress in their life, but you don't have to have stress. We've been telling you that. Stress is optional. Adversity is going to happen, but stress is optional. So self-pity just piles garbage up in your soul. It's things like guilt and hatred and implacability. So is it possible for you to live without self-pity? Is it possible for you to live without worry? Is there really a life without stress? Absolutely. Job was the man who faced it all. But what about Adam and Eve? Did not one of their children murder his brother? Did that cause them to have any anxiety? You know, the Bible records Job losing all of his loved ones and all of his property in one day, Job 1, 13 through 19. This was allowed by God because Satan sought to discourage Job and turn him against God, and God didn't think he could do that. Listen to what Job said when all this happened to him. Then Job arose and tore his mantle and shaved his head and fell to the ground and worshiped. and said, naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gives, the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. So in all of this, Job sinned not, nor did he charge God. That's using faith to orient and adjust. That's using faith. And that verse teaches the mature believer has no reason to fear death, no reason to fear anything dangerous. No believer is going to die until God says it's time to come home. And once he says it's time to come home, I don't care where you are, you're not going to be safe. So if you're worried about dying, you need to worry about living. The living go on living and the dying go on dying. And a person in dying grace never hinders anybody else from living. That's true. So you can have a stress-free life, a life of perfect contentment, a life of perfect happiness based on your understanding of all of God's grace provisions. And it can only be achieved if you learn and execute his plan. You have to learn it. You have to execute it. That's why Jesus said, take my yoke on you and learn of me. Matthew 11, 28, learn of me. And Solomon said in Proverbs 1, 22, how long will you simple people love simplicity? And how long will you fools hate knowledge? Knowledge is what you've got to have because it gives you insight and discernment and understanding. Gosh, I threw a lot at you this morning. I hope you got it. I hope I didn't offend you. It was a pretty straight talk. 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All right, and it's Thursday. Welcome, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Typically, we would have Dr. Kelly Victory and Steve House with us during this time, and that was our plan up until just a few minutes ago. Dr. Kelly Victory is actually at the White House as we speak. Don't know exactly what about. I'm sure I will know when it's all... said and done. She texted me early this morning and said she would be there. She thought she might be done from there in time to be on with us. And if she gets done even within the next half hour or so, she will still join us. But she texted me just a few minutes ago and said that she was still tied up, still at the White House, and wasn't sure exactly how much longer things would be. Again, I don't know exactly about what, but... kind of shows you the clout that somebody like a Dr. Kelly actually has, because I've never been invited to the White House, nor has Charlie. I don't think you've ever been invited, have you, as far as that goes? So she is there, I'm sure, doing some advising or conversations along the lines of the things that we talk about here on a routine basis. So again, we'll know more about that, I'm sure, in the in the coming weeks so stay tuned for that steve house also was trying to be with us today he too is doing some advising and some things along the lines of what we're talking about right now mainly with with pbms with that you know the middleman when it comes to drugs and drug prices and price fixing and a lot of things that happen in that area that we talk about here on a week-to-week basis so one thing well let me do this question of the day How many, yesterday's was how many dynasties will build the Great Wall of China? How many did, I should say? Five. Five is the answer to yesterday's impossible question. Today, in 595 to 589 BCE, the capital of the kingdom of Kush was moved to what ancient city? That is the question of the day today. Answer that on the rushtoreason.com website. Facebook page. So Dr. Kelly, again, not able to be with us today. I did have a question from one of you that said, is it possible that, you know, President Joe Biden, former President Joe Biden, And his prostate cancer and all of what's going on there is a result of him taking all the shots and some of the turbo cancers that can come from that. I'll talk to Kelly about this at some point. But here are my thoughts. And she has mentioned this in the past. And I think she would agree with me on this one. And Charlie can tell me if he thinks I'm in line as far as Dr. Kelly's thoughts and Steve House's thoughts on this or not. But I don't think any of the three of us believe Joe Biden ever got any of the shots, the real shots. In fact, anybody that you would have seen in that particular arena getting a shot, Dr. Fauci and others, it was some sort of a placebo. It was saline. It was something along those lines. Very, very doubtful that they actually got the shot itself, no matter what they're actually telling everybody. And I've got some things I'll talk about during this hour that I was going to talk about with Dr. Kelly anyways that we'll cover. But the amount of cover-up that was even going on with his administration – on the shots themselves and the repercussions of highly doubtful that he or any of his doctors around him were letting him take that shot at any time. So my feeling is, is his cancer now a result of some sort of a turbo cancer resulting from the shots? And again, I have no proof of my thought process other than just my own analysis and some of the things that we have been talking about for the past five years. But I personally don't believe it is. I mean, is it possible? I suppose he could have gotten some of the shots and that might be a part of what's going on. In other words, this discovery of late, could that have been part of the reason that it came on so suddenly and a lot of those doctors around him didn't catch it early on? First of all, I am one that I don't believe that this is something they just determined. I believe, and we talked about this earlier in the week, that they knew about this long before now. And here's the other reason why I believe this. Any of you that have listened to me for any length of time, not just with Dr. Kelly, but on the Wednesday health and wellness hour that we do every week. So we kind of do two different hours a week where we talk about different things in the wellness medical world. So two hours a week, which I'll be straight up honest. I highly doubt outside of some podcasters, there's anybody in the country other than an actual wellness show that's probably buying their time. It's a brokered type show. They're buying their time. They're doing a wellness show. I highly doubt, Charlie, that there's any other shows like ours that that do two hours of a health and wellness type topic each week. I highly doubt there's anybody else out there across the spectrum that does what we do in that regard. So where I'm going with that is we interview a ton of people throughout the year. Throughout the past eight or nine years, we've actually been doing that. And here's the one thing I learned when it came to prostate cancer, and Charlie and I learned this years ago. Charlie knew this anyways, but we had somebody come on, several people that have come on that are experts in that particular area, doctors, that talk about if a man lives long enough, into their hundreds, for example, they will most likely die of prostate cancer. In fact, we've had guests on here that talk about if you had the ability to dig up even past bodies from centuries ago, you would most likely, if you were able to go through the DNA and so on, you would most likely find that a lot of those individuals, those males, had prostate cancer. It's just... Yeah, left untreated. Thank you, Charlie. Left untreated. That's exactly what happens. Because as time goes by with males, it's just one of those things that happens. Why? That I can't answer. It's just something that happens. So here's my point. It's going to be in every man at some point. It's why as we get older, especially you hit that age of 50 roughly, they start telling men, hey, get checked. Get your PSA checked. Do your blood work. All of those sorts of things. In some cases, regular physical, you know, prostate exams, depending upon where your levels are at. So kind of what's in that world, just some of you listening may not know this. Some of you that are younger may not know this. Used to be you went in and got a manual, you know, an actual physical exam, manual exam, whatever you want to call it, a digital exam. There you go. Thank you, Charlie. A digital exam on a routine basis. With the advent of what they can now do in the blood work with the PSA tests, you don't necessarily get a digital exam unless needed. So, in other words, they'll look at your PSA levels, and if they reach a certain point, I believe it's what, Charlie, like four or above? I want to say. Okay, Charlie's saying five, five and a half. I was reading something yesterday that if it gets above three, they may do a digital exam. And it may vary from doctor to doctor. That I don't know. But if you're three or under... They typically aren't going to do anything else. You're good. You start getting above a three, and yeah, they're going to start getting concerned a little bit. They may do a digital exam, see where things are at, start monitoring things, and so on. And to Charlie's point, you stay below five, you typically don't have any real issues even along those lines. But when you start going above the five, five and a quarter, five and a half even, that's where they start looking at things, and they may even take a biopsy and do some things along those lines to determine what's next. Yeah, MRI first. Thank you, Charlie. They'll do an MRI first and then determine what's our next steps. So all of that to say, it's highly, highly, highly doubtful that those doctors that take care of the president of the United States, you know, the quote is ruler of the free world. And I hate that term, by the way, but that's the coined phrase for the President of the United States, ruler of the free world. It's highly doubtful that the medical care that the President of the United States gets on a routine basis, because keep in mind, they are doing medical exams on him and even some of the staff that are around him because of the schedules they keep. You know, they'll they'll fly. You know, they'll all of a sudden on a whim have to fly to the Middle East. Well, keep in mind that there's huge time zone changes when it comes to things like that in the Middle East right now. It's what, Charlie? They're what, about 12 hours or so ahead of us right now. So literally it's 3 a.m. It's not 3 p.m., it's 3 a.m. And yet they're flying across the world, going to all these different time zones, and it's expected that when they arrive, they hit the ground running. There's no, oh, I got jet lag, I'm going to have to hang out in Air Force One for a little bit and catch my – no, that's not how it works. And where I'm going with this again, folks, is there is a medical doctor – that is traveling with them on an ongoing basis to make sure that if anything were to go awry, there is somebody with the president that we can trust, that we as a country even can trust, because the last thing you want is somebody taking care of the president that we don't know. There's been no background checks on anything along those lines. We don't want just any yahoo taking care of the president, which... rightfully so, by the way. So if you think about that, and these are some of the things, by the way, none of the press is talking about, all of what I just explained, by the way. I have not seen anything, even Fox News, talking about what I just explained. So given that he's got that much watchful eyes on him, how in the world could prostate cancer slip through the cracks? Folks, it didn't. It didn't. It's a cover-up. They've known about it. They've known it was there. We don't even know if he's had some biopsies and surgeries and things along those lines. We have no clue, no idea. All we know now is they've announced this in the past, what, five to seven days that he has stage four prostate cancer. That's all we know at this point. And again, you don't get to stage four overnight. That doesn't happen on a whim. He doesn't leave office and, oh, wow, all of a sudden he's got stage four prostate cancer four months after leaving office. It doesn't work that way, folks. And anybody with any kind of common sense would know that. So those of you that are on the left that do listen to me, especially during this hour, because a lot of you on the left listen to me when Dr. Kelly is here, I don't know who your side thinks they're snowing, But it's not me. I'm not snowed by this. And Bob Duco has said it best. Are we concerned about Joe Biden? Do we pray for Joe, his family, and so on? Would I wish stage four cancer of any kind on anybody? Absolutely not. I may disagree with Joe politically, you know, fundamentally. I believe Joe's a Marxist. You know, do I agree with him on any level in regards to that? Of course not. I do not. Not at all. Did I agree with the way he led the country? No, not at all. Am I concerned about his health? Absolutely. Do I think a lot of what they did with Joe Biden, not only with the cancer end of it, with some of the Alzheimer's and dementia and other things that we could see happening, and I believe it's elder abuse. There's even some articles out today talking about Jill Biden and the literal elder abuse that was going on by propping Joe up to do what he did. Do I believe that was going on? Yes, I do. That I feel sorry for him in. That's just unfair to another human being, period. I don't care what end of the political spectrum you're on. That is unfair to another human being, period. Period. Abuse of another human being of any kind is not right. But there's something about mistreating of young kids and the elderly that just annoy the heck out of me. And women, of course. But just annoys the heck out of me. Those are, in my opinion, in most cases, defenseless individuals that have no ability to fight for themselves. And that's why, to me, it just turns your stomach when there's any kind of elder or child abuse or female abuse as well. But it just turns my stomach. And the way they covered all of that up and propped Joe up, those of you that are on the left, you should be ashamed of yourself and your party that allowed that to happen. I'll leave it at that. So Dr. Scott's up next. Scott filled in for me yesterday and did a great job. I was able to listen to part of the show before I had an event I had to attend. But Scott did a great job. And if you would love him, love for him to be your doctor, which, by the way, he has got things that he does that can enable you to be a lot healthier. 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All right. Charlie and I were talking there during the break on the PSA test, and I actually even looked at some of my tests that I just had recently. I've got a blood test. It's not that old, and I can go into that. Those of you that are listening, by the way, that are local here in the Colorado region especially, LabCorp, who is the blood testing company, I guess you could say. It's where the majority of... of testing goes on some, you know, yes, some facilities have the ability to do their own, but most blood work in our area is sent off to LabCorp, especially if you go to a clinic or something like that, they'll typically give results back within about 24 hours. And by the way, for all of you listening, you can go to any LabCorp center, have blood drawn and get your own tests done and not even go to the doctor to have that done. You don't have to have any kind of a prescription written or anything along those lines. Now, if you want it reimbursed and you want your insurance company to pay, that might be a different channel of things you have to do. But if you just want to know where am I at, what kind of blood work do I have, and so on, you can go to a LabCorp facility, make an appointment, go in, get your blood drawn, and they will tell you exactly where you're at. So in my specific test, and I'll give you my results. I'll give these public. I have no problem with that. I have a range of zero to four being okay. So I kind of go back to what we were saying earlier. I said three. It's actually four. So anything above a four, they start doing a little more checking to see, hey, what's going on here. I personally am a 0.4. So I'm not 4. I'm 0.4. So I'm way low on that spectrum. And that's one of those things that, again, as men, you want to pay attention to and where are you at on that spectrum because nobody wants to have – cancer any issues along those lines and so on so there's different things in your blood you want to keep track of and you know for us men where your where's your testosterone level and other things along those lines as well especially as we age so just as a a side note now one other thing too for a lot of you that are that are listening some of you men may or may not know this as you age and your testosterone levels start to drop, if you do any kind of synthetic replacement for that, they really want to watch your PSA because synthetic testosterone can raise your PSA levels. So it's one of those things that they will naturally start watching if you do any kind of synthetic replacement, whether you do a shot, cream, pills. anything along those lines, it's one of those things they want to watch because that can also be a factor in the treatment for low testosterone levels, which Dr. Scott can talk way more about this and way more highly educated than I can because he is a doctor and I am not. I'm just telling you what I have learned over the years and giving you where my levels are. And my point is, I'm just John Rush. I'm just a peon. Literally, there is nothing about me that says I have any kind of status whatsoever that would make any doctor look more closely at me than anyone else. I'm not Joe Biden. I am not the president of the United States. And I'm getting this done on roughly a quarterly basis. Tell me how I am getting this and getting the results. But our own president of the United States would not. Follow me, folks. And for anybody, including the press, to come out and say, oh, yeah, it just came on and here's where we're at. That's just a bunch of BS, folks. It's total BS. It's wrong. They're lying to the American public. Which, unfortunately, again, for those of you that are on the left, that's the history of what that administration did over and over and over and over again. Yet you accused Donald Trump and his administration of lying. You did that for four years when he was president the last time. You're doing it again. And yet we've got all the proof in the world that that administration, past administration, the Biden administration, has done nothing but lie and cover up and cover up and cover up. So, again, giving you guys a little bit of inside baseball onto how that sides of things work. And, again, to remind everybody, I am just a lowly talk show host. There's nothing special about what I do at all. I could be replaced tomorrow. I know that full well. Even in my business and so on, I've even set things up to where I could be replaced tomorrow. There's nothing special about what I do. With that, though, I still get these tests done. I still have results. I can guarantee you that the President of the United States, maybe not quarterly, but I would bet it's quarterly. If I'm doing them quarterly, I guarantee you he is. I guarantee you he's getting blood drawn, especially at his age. He's getting blood drawn every quarter easily, if not monthly. If not monthly, by the way. Again, given who he is and his age and the travel schedule and everything else that a president of the United States goes through, he's at least getting it quarterly, and I guarantee you at least every six months. But I would be hard-pressed to believe that it's not done on a quarterly basis. And remember, they do their annual big deal or they even publicize the annual checkup. And here's where we're at and here's where his cognitive is and blah, blah, blah. That's done on a regular basis as well. So once again, to go that long and then all of a sudden he exit office and he's got stage four prostate cancer. It's just and by the way, it's just it's wrong on all levels, even in regards to Joe himself. It's wrong. So I want to talk a little bit about some auto-pin things and so on as we go through the show today as well. But again, for those of you who may be tuning in hoping Dr. Kelly was going to be here, she is not. She is actually at the White House. I don't know exactly for what reason she didn't give me all the details. I just know she's at the White House. She was going to be tied up. She was going to try to be done in time for our program. Like Charlie said, don't they know she's got a schedule? She's supposed to be here at, you know, three o'clock mountain time. And Charlie's like, yeah, they don't even know what mountain time is there. And that's probably a true statement, by the way. But we will know down the road what her meeting was about today at the White House. But again, as I said earlier, we should feel very blessed that we actually have somebody of Dr. Kelly's stature and literally expertise. And given the fact that she's actually at the White House giving advice or having meetings or doing whatever it is she's doing, I've not ever been invited to the White House. They're not bringing me in asking me what I think about certain things. No, they're bringing folks like Dr. Kelly Victory in to have those discussions with. And I appreciate all the time that she gives us. We have become really, really good friends. And I mean that sincerely. She is one of those individuals that I can literally text. Just about any time. She doesn't sleep much. She's kind of like me. She sleeps about seven hours a night. I'm not much different. I can literally text her at 6 a.m. or 10 p.m. and get an answer back. And I'm not exaggerating. And we do text back and forth on all sorts of things. And in some cases, it's literally just about, hey, how's your week going? What's going on? What's your schedule like? Did you see this in the news? Those sorts of things. And we've become very good friends. And I appreciate her time that she has taken with us over the past five years, literally giving us so much information, so many things that we can use on our own here on Rush to Reason. And for those of you listening, and I talked about this last week where I had a particular individual that was leaving the studio as I was coming in. I've never met this particular individual in my entire life. He listens to us on a routine basis, though, and he thanked me for having Dr. Kelly on and all of the things that he has learned about the vaccine and what to do, not to do, how to treat COVID and all those different things. 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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Those of you tuning in, hoping to hear Dr. Kelly Victory. Again, she is not with us during this hour. Today, she normally is. She's actually at the White House having some meetings and doing some different things there that, no, I don't know exactly what she's doing. We may know that here. in the future but we will have dr kelly back with us in the not too distant future trust me hopefully next thursday which we typically have her on from this three to four o'clock hour steve house also normally with us he was doing his best to be here as well he got tied up in some last minute meetings as well that he was trying to get out of and be with us instead but he just couldn't get everything orchestrated normally one of the two of them is here rarely am i just here by myself but back to what i was talking about with the cover-up from the biden administration U.S. officials, this is under the Biden administration. These are things now that Representative Ron or Senator Ron Johnson could be part of what Dr. Kelly is there even discussing right now. I have no idea. But there have been some documents that have now been discovered that prove U.S. officials delayed warning the public about heart inflammation and the risks from the COVID-19 shot. So when I was saying earlier in the last segment that, yes, indeed, this particular that particular administration, the Biden administration definitely lied and covered up some things. It's becoming more and more apparent that that's exactly what happened. And here's my honest belief in that. I do think that there are people out there that no matter what the risks were, because of the fear that had been driven into them by our own government. state, local, national, that some people would have taken the shot no matter what. They felt like the risk of getting COVID was just so bad that I'll take any shot. Give me whatever. Give me the cure. Give me the prevention. I'll take it no matter what. I do believe there's a certain amount of people. Now, how many? What's the percentage on that? And I've got my own gut feelings along those lines, and I would say probably a third of the United States population would have done that regardless. And quite honestly, kind of correlates to politics because a third of the nation is hardcore Democrats. No matter what, you're never going to convince them. Otherwise, it is who they are. And I believe that's the third that would have taken it no matter what. Now, that still leaves 70 percent that had they known about some of the other potential risks for the shot, would they have taken the shot? And would we be today at roughly a. 80% plus, I don't have the numbers exactly in front of me, but it's about 80% plus, somewhere between 80 and 85% of people in the United States that got at least one shot. Some did more than that. But at least 80% did. Meaning, there's 15 to 20% that didn't. So, do I believe that had people known about some of the risks of these shots earlier... would that number, would that 80% number be as high? I would tell you no, I don't think it would be. My own feelings on that would be, take that number from 80 to 50. Maybe even less than 50, but I think you would have been 50-50. Some would have said, you know, I'm getting it no matter what. And I think there's others that would have said, you know, wait a minute, hang on. There's other risks in this, and I'm not a huge risk to having COVID. In fact, I've had COVID. I made it through just fine. I don't want to have it again. But do I really want to risk having an enlarged heart and things like that when I don't need to? I think I'll avoid the shot. I really feel. Charlie, do you think I'm far off in my numbers? He says he's agreeing with me. Both of us, I don't think you'd have seen as much as 50% of a success rate on the shot because that's what the government was looking for 100%, by the way. That was their goal, to get up to 100%. And you have heard myself, Steve House, Dr. Kelly Victory talk about why they wanted it to be 100%, because when you have everybody having it, it's pretty hard to say that turbo cancers are coming from that or myocarditis is coming from that or, you know, teen deaths from the shot and so on. I mean, if everybody has had the shot, how do you decipher one from another? You can't. There's no control group. The control group is now gone at that point. But now, given the fact that there's roughly 15 to 20 percent of us that have not taken any of the shots, and some people, by the way, only had one shot. And some people may have even had an early, you know, back then they had the Johnson shot, the J&J. You know, somebody may have even had one of those, which they weren't near the risk of what The other shots are. So then you really have to ask, is that number even 15 to 20 percent or is it a little bit higher? Because keep in mind that 80 percent figure includes all of those individuals as well. And I don't know that you could really include those individuals in the other. That's a conversation I should probably have with Dr. Kelly here at some point. But right now, as we speak. There are documents coming out that are proving, this is what's really interesting, proving what Dr. Kelly and Steve and I have been talking about on this program when it comes to the enlargement of the heart and so on. We've been talking about those things for, gosh, four years now. And I've even had some people via text message, never personally, but I've even had some people via text message tell me that I'm crazy. I don't know what I'm talking about. Where's the proof? Show me. Where's the documentation for this? I can't find it. Yeah, because a lot of that stuff folks got buried because they didn't want you seeing it, as in the case of what we're figuring out now. There's a document out right now, Failure to Warn. how federal health agencies downplayed the risk of myocarditis and other adverse events following the COVID-19 vaccination. This is a U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Chairman Ron Johnson, Majority Staff Interim Report. Came out May 21st, 2025, so just yesterday. I'm looking at the document as we speak. So some of you out there listening maybe on the left may be saying, oh, John, you're crazy. I don't know what you're talking about. Go look it up. This is public information now. And yes, indeed, the last administration and the powers that be hid that information from the general public. And I believe because had they done that, A, drug companies wouldn't have sold as many of the vaccines. They would have had a lot larger stockpile than what they currently have. Because not as many people would have taken them. They wouldn't have made near the money that they made when it was all said and done. You know, take roughly 30% of their sales away. That's a lot, folks. That's a lot. That's a third. Take a third of their sales away. That's big dollars. Billions of dollars, by the way. So I believe there was pressure from big pharma companies I believe there was pressure from the Dr. Fauci's of the world where he didn't want to get this stuff out there that, hey, there may be a risk of actually taking this shot. Because keep in mind, he was one of the major pushers of that shot early on, even under Donald Trump. And Donald Trump, I believe, got snowed in his administration when it came to the likes of Dr. Fauci and Birx. Birx has admitted that. Fauci never has, but Birx has. They were guessing. The six-foot rule, the masks, all of that, all a guess. No factual evidence behind it. Everybody at that time that came out and said, it's the science, it's the science, owes all of us, me, an apology. Because no, it wasn't scientifically backed. It was a swag. It was a swag. They guessed. They had no idea. And we even went through those things back in those times, talking about the six-foot rule and how far actual particles come from people breathing and what viruses do and so on. We debunked so many of those things back in the day and yet had people saying that we were the wackadoodles, we were the crazies. We weren't. They were. They still are. Any of you that will be out traveling this weekend, flying around and so on, you will run, guaranteed. There's one thing I can guarantee you. You will run into at least one person, if not more, that have a mask on this weekend in an airport and on an airplane. At least one, if not more. You'll at least have one. That I can guarantee you. I don't care what airport you're in. I don't care how conservative your area is. You will have at least one. If not more. And in some cases, you will have families with little kids even having masks on because mom and dad demand that the kid wear a mask. Dumbest thing ever. They look like total fools, and they are total fools. Because once again, unless they're wearing really high-end N95 or N99 masks, they're not doing anything to protect themselves anyways. Again, those are things we proved during that time. Don't want to get into all of those details. You can go back and listen to some of our previous episodes if you would like. But those are things that we proved with Dr. Kelly through that entire time frame. And yet I had people that were texting in. I had people on my own Facebook page that were basically telling me I was crazy. I'm going to cause other people to die. I should die. It'd be better if I didn't come back. On and on and on we go. I've never yet gotten an apology out of any of those individuals, by the way. But literally, that's what people were saying. They had bought in to the entire lie that had come out of especially the Biden administration on all of that. And do you think we're ever going to we're ever going to get an apology out of those individuals? We will not. We won't get it from the likes of Fauci, from Joe Biden and those that are around him. We won't get it from those high-end medical doctors that basically chastised everybody else that didn't believe in what they were doing. You'll never get an apology from Jared Polis that said we were all selfish bastards if we didn't wear a mask. You're never going to get those apologies from those individuals. We're not going to get that. And yes, those are all things that were done, even, of course, Jared Polis did that. He went out publicly and did that, made a whole press conference out of it early on. You know, just wear your mask. I think he even said the D word along those lines, if I'm not mistaken. So we'll never get apologies from those individuals, even though the further down this road we get, the more and more it's being proved that we were right, they were wrong. And in this case, in this particular report, they were hiding things that they knew were in that shot and that people shouldn't be getting, but they hid it anyways. And here's where I hope this goes. I doubt it will, but heads should roll with this. There should be some people stripped of all of their credentials of any kind, any way, any shape, any form, period. Moving forward, they should not be allowed to be anywhere near politics or help any way administratively, anything along those lines. They should be stripped of all of that. If you were somebody that was a part of this cover-up, you should be stripped of all credentials, period. That's my feeling. Now, I think they should do some jail time as well, but that's a wishful thinking on my end. It's not going to happen. 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All right, we are back. Somebody texted in a couple of text messages, by the way. Number one, as far as getting your own LabCorp blood test done, I believe it's 100 to 130, depending upon what you're actually having done. Check that out for yourself. Thank you, by the way, for that information, meaning it's not as expensive as you might think to have that done. And no, you don't have to go to the doctor first to have all of that. Now, as far as having certain things analyzed, you may need to have a doctor, although I will tell you right now, with the advent of AI and everything else we have, you could pretty much plug your age, your weight, your results in as to what your blood work comes back as in probably get a pretty good idea of what you need to do next as far as your own health is concerned. And I'm not saying, you know, avoid the doctor. What I'm saying is in some cases, depending upon who your provider actually is with some of the big insurance companies and so on, you might get more advice by doing what I just said versus actually going to the doctor. Yeah, and take that to your doctor, Charlie said, by all means, absolutely. But I would do some preliminary work on the front side just to find out once you get there, is he or she telling you all the same things you found out? Nothing wrong with you doing that at all. No different than anything else you would go and get analyzed and fixed. A lot of people do some research on the front side, cars and so on, and finding out exactly what could I expect with all of this and how is that lining up when I'm all said and done after I've made – Somebody else said that, in fact, the doctors have known about Joe Biden's prostate cancer for several years. It's due to his age that it has progressed. Good question. I thought it was curable if detected early. By the way, it is. Pretty confident that they tested him at least yearly, and I would say, yes, I would agree with that. Now, that's the other big question that I really would like to talk to Dr. Kelly about here at some point is, You can fix it if found early. I mean, how did they miss this or did they know? Here's the other question that none of us may not know the answer to for might be a decade down the road. Have they treated this? Keep in mind, they may have, folks. There were lots of times in Joe's tenure as president we didn't see him. I'm not exaggerating when I say that. We did not see him. Charlie, you and I both know you could go weeks at times under his administration and not see or hear announce from Joe. Somebody else is filling in. Somebody else is doing the press conferences and so on. You know, Jean-Pierre, she was doing some, you know, she would be doing them and so on. There could literally be extended lengths of time. You did not see President Joe Biden. No one did. And the press covered up that, by the way. They covered for him. There's no way any other president, Trump especially, would ever have gotten by with that. So keep in mind, those of you texting me along these lines, they may very well have treated Joe prior to now, President Biden. These are things that, frankly, I'm not sure we'll ever know, as I said earlier. That's the disturbing part of all of this. Did they know? Did they treat him? Did he have any kind of chemo? Did he have any kind of radiation? Did he have any kind of surgeries? Honestly, folks, we don't know. We have no idea. Part of what makes me wonder some of this as well is some of the times we all would make fun of him for the way he was walking or standing or shuffling or whatever, we have no idea that he could have had surgery the week prior on his prostate. We have no idea. No idea. And would some of that have made you shuffle and do some things differently had that been you having that surgery? Absolutely it could have. So again, we don't know. They're not telling us. We're in the dark. And to me, therein lies the problem. They haven't been honest with us. So while I'm not saying that this texture isn't right, what I am saying is, how do we know he hasn't been treated? How do we know they didn't catch it early on and tried to do some treatment and it just has progressed and progressed and progressed? We don't know. And that, again, folks, is my problem. I don't know. Something else, and I've really never talked about this, but somebody sent me a link on a book by Naomi Wolf. And those of you that... have listened or known naomi i've never interviewed naomi i've had many many opportunities to do that many publicists has asked me to actually interview her and i'll just be straight up honest i have hesitated in interviewing naomi because she gets way out there on a lot of conspiracy things does it mean she's wrong on everything no it doesn't mean she's wrong but i don't want to be associated with wackadoodles i'll just be straight up honest is she correct on some of the things she has found and has she been right on some things absolutely absolutely so have we though On the same token, she's been way out there on some things that you can't really prove her theory on X, Y, Z. You're sort of like those of you have sent me different things on the one guy that still claims to this day that the vaccine came from snake venom. That hasn't been proven. Dr. Kelly doesn't believe that. Steve House doesn't believe it. I don't believe it. I've seen no proof of that. But there is a particular gentleman, a doctor that's still running around out there claiming that the vaccine itself, the cure, quote unquote, for color. Hang on. I need to back up. Not the vaccine, but COVID itself came from snake venom. And it's all part of the mark of the beast in the end times. No, I don't believe any of that. I don't believe a single ounce of that. Do I believe COVID was man-made and leaked out of the lab? Yes, that I do believe. Was it all part of the snake venom end of things and a part of the mark of the beast and all this other stuff? No, I don't believe any of that. No, I think that's a big, big stretch to go that far. Now, does that mean that I can't take a nugget from that individual, Naomi Wolf, and others? Of course I can take some nuggets from them. But I refrain from having as much as I possibly can. We've had a few nut jobs on that I've actually interviewed at times where it's like, okay, you just went off the rails. We had the one guy with the nanobot thing that we had on the one time, Charlie, where everything was going well, we're having a great interview, and then all of a sudden he just gets off on this nanobot thing and I'm just like, yeah, okay, we're done. Because no, I don't believe in that whole nanobot thing, folks. No, not me. Sorry. While I believe technology has way advanced, it's not there yet on that end of things. And no, I don't believe in nanobots. And that 5G accelerates or energizes the nanobot. No, I don't believe in that. Do I believe 5G can be harmful if not handled correctly? Absolutely. I lease a tower to a cell company, so I know all about 5G, its strength, what you have to do, and so on. In my particular case, if we have anybody that gets near that particular unit, we have to tell them on the front side everything has to be powered down and so on. So, yes, I do believe that they are strong, and, yes, there's other factors in that. But is it activating nanobots? No. Much like I wouldn't put my head in the microwave and shut the door and turn it on. Of course, I couldn't, but I wouldn't if you could. There's certain things that just common sense says don't do that. Charlie's got a story about things along those lines with radiation and dishes and so on. And he's got an interesting story along those lines. And yes, things like that can be very powerful and do a lot of things to the inside of a human being's body. But no, it's not the nanobots doing it. So, again, while I appreciate those, you know, you all that are sending me those different things and so on, just as a side note, will I read a book from Naomi? Probably not. I know enough of her. And for those of you that maybe don't know her, she's a hardcore lefty that kind of came over to our side because of everything happening regarding COVID, the shot, and so on. Now, I wouldn't call her a conservative by any stretch of the imagination. She's kind of like RFK Jr. She sees things our way, but she's still a hardcore lefty. So keep that in mind when you read things by those particular individuals, even RFK Jr., who I like a lot, think he's a great guy, but he and I are not aligned on a lot of things that he comes from on the left, abortion, other things. Yeah, he and I are not in agreement on those things. Yeah, and he and Dr. Kelly are not as well. So thank you for saying that, Charlie. Yes, he and Dr. Kelly are not in a line on some of those things either. Okay, Paul Leuenberger coming up next. He is my insurance agent when it comes to home, auto, even classic cars. I should say especially classic cars, folks. He can help you with all of those different things, teach you how to save money. Give him a call today, by the way. Paul Leuenberger, again, my insurance agent, 303-662-0789.
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All right, we are back. Hour 2, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And our next guest, Jamie Cavanaugh, joining us now. Jamie, welcome. How are you?
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You're doing fine, thanks.
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Hey, I appreciate you joining us. And I'm sorry, normally in my notes, I have all sorts of bios and things like that, and I don't have anything in here about you that I can introduce you with.
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Well, I can say I'm legal policy counsel at Pacific Legal Foundation.
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Pacific Legal Foundation of the National Public Interest Nonprofit.
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Yep. Have folks on from there quite often. So I appreciate you joining us. May is Mental Health Month, which there's, as we know, Jamie, there's a lot of, how should I say, discussion around that. And it's something that continues to get talked about more and more. But the topic today with you is let nurses work.
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Exactly, exactly. We just came out with a new report talking about how we could increase healthcare workforce immediately by allowing nurse practitioners to just practice to the full scope of their authority, or sorry, practice to the full scope of their training. Do everything that they've already been trained in school to do. They have a lot of different restrictions. It varies by state. but they do things like mental health practices. We are representing some nurse practitioners in California right now who are both mental health nurse practitioners, so it relates to mental health as well. But they can do primary care. They can be midwives and deliver babies and stuff like that too.
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So some of these restrictions that are happening in different states, I mean, what are we looking at? What kind of restrictions are placed upon them? How do we help you guys fight against some of these things? How do we do that?
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Yeah, so 35 states actually allow advanced practice nurses to practice independently. So that means they can go out and do everything that they've been trained in school to do, and that helps the labor shortage in health care. But then there's all these other states that have this checkerboard of requirements. Some states say you have to practice under a physician for a certain number of hours, thousands of hours. And so you're paying a doctor for the privilege of getting to do your job. But some states say you have to have those agreements forever. We call them collaborative practice agreements. And some states, every nurse practitioner has to pay a doctor every month for the privilege of doing their job. And this isn't like a direct working relationship. There's surveys of nurse practitioners in those states where they say they go months without talking to their supervising physician. And the fact that they practice independently in more than half the states already shows, you know, we would have good evidence if there were higher medical malpractice rates or something like that.
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Yeah, and I think that's what one of the first things, at least in all the interviews and things that I have done here, one of the first things that people, you know, kind of bring up when it comes to nurse practitioners are, okay, wait a minute, they're not free. full-bore doctors. They're about as close as you can get, and I don't even know, Jamie, the difference in schooling from one to another. That's not my field of interest, so I can't explain that. But to your point, if they were doing a really bad job and we had all sorts of issues, we'd have all sorts of claims against them, right?
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Exactly. We would have really good data showing differences, but instead we see positive outcomes, lower wait times to find primary care in states that have full practice authority, lower costs. Also, there are estimates about how much we could save the health care system overall if we would allow nurse practitioners to practice independently because it could help divert patients. some lower acuity cases away from emergency rooms.
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Right, right. Which is huge costs, as we know. I mean, what you just said there a moment ago, I've talked about on this program many, many times. The dollars spent, especially when it comes to low-income families, Medicaid, things like that, the emergency room visits are just killing us.
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That's exactly right. And the other thing is that nurse practitioners are more likely to work in rural areas. Correct. And of course, I mean, there's no rural area in the country that says, oh, we have enough doctors, you know, we don't need any more health care. Right. They all are hurting for health care and primary care and mental health care, all of those things. And so we see much greater access in rural areas and states that have already implemented full practice authority.
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Some of the way I've looked at this as well, and correct me if I'm wrong, I get it that a nurse practitioner is not a full-bore doctor. Although, as you just stated, we don't have a lot of claims coming in against them on the malpractice end of things, which, by the way, we do when it comes to a lot of full-bore doctors and a lot of reasons why I'm not going to go down that path. But here's my thought when it comes to nurse practitioners in that line of of things that are going on when it comes to insurance and so on. And I'll be careful I say this because I don't want to offend any doctors or folks that are out there listening, but I have known some of these individuals. I've met some doctors that get this God complex because they kind of think they're all-knowing and everything they do In some cases, they don't even want to recheck something because they already know. And my feeling with nurse practitioners, Jamie, is that because they may not know and they don't get that complex, they may actually be a little more thorough and make sure that they're not making any mistakes, knowing that they've actually got others to answer to at times. Because of that factor, I think in some cases they're more thorough than some doctors are. Am I wrong in my thinking?
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No, I think that's right. I think that they do want to take the time to get to know their patients. They have a different background coming from nursing, you know, having a nurse training, which is a totally different type of, you know, bedside manner and patient experience. And then nurse practitioners are the first people that will refer the patient to someone else when it goes beyond the scope of what they're allowed to do.
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So, again, my feelings on that aren't that far off, I don't think, when it's all said and done. Okay, so when it comes to allowing them to do more of what they're doing, how can we help?
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So we're seeing bills introduced in a lot of states to allow for full practice authority that's independent practice, practice where you're not paying a doctor every month to work. increases the number of nurse practitioners that we see there's been studies that look at states that have full practice authority that border states that don't and of course they find you know statistically significant increases in access to primary care and availability of nurse practitioners but yeah the thing we have to do is is ask our state legislators to change these laws because this is all part of occupational licensing restrictions okay
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All right, that makes sense. So those are things that here in Colorado we will definitely watch for those. How do folks find out more of what's going on at the Pacific Legal Foundation?
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You can visit our website, pacificlegal.org. Our new report that's out is called Restrictions to Care, and that's available at pacificlegal.org as well.
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Awesome. Jamie, I appreciate it very much. Thanks for all of your info, and we will continue to stay up on that. And if anything changes and you want to come back and let us know, please do.
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Thanks, John.
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Thank you very much, Jamie. Appreciate it very much. Again, Pacific Legal Foundation, we have folks on from there on a periodic basis. Appreciate her time today as well, and it's something that we will definitely stay up on top of here in the future as we go down that path. Golden Eagle Financial, Al Smith did a great interview here of late. Stay tuned. He'll be up, and then I'll be right back after Al. You can also find Al at klzradio.com.
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Al Smith from Golden Eagle Financial and the show you love, Retirement Unpacked, is here with me. How are you today, Al? I'm doing great. How are you, TJ? I'm doing great as well. I have a couple questions for you. As a financial advisor, do you also do taxes?
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No, I don't prepare my clients' taxes. I do, however, spend a lot of time talking to them about taxes. To use a sports analogy, tax preparation is like doing a recap of the game. What I do is more like creating a game plan and then following up over time to see how it's working.
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And how much are taxes a part of that game plan that you create?
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Well, with so many different taxes we're faced with, it becomes an important thing to take into consideration. It's not how much income you have, but how much you get to keep. In addition to federal and state income taxes, there's property taxes, state and local sales tax, and fees. And they all play a part in shrinking our income.
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What about people who already have really healthy balances in 401ks, IRAs? Won't they be facing significant taxes as they draw income from those accounts?
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Well, it depends. Everybody's situation's a little bit different. There's no one size that fits all when it comes to tax planning. But often when I work with people, we'll create a strategy where we will convert traditional IRAs to Roth over time. And that not only reduces taxes in the future, but it will also lower the tax they'll be paying on their Social Security.
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Is that kind of strategy really only for the wealthy?
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Not at all. Many of my clients who have modest IRAs have chosen to convert to Roth over time. They enjoy the freedom of having a tax-free nest egg that they can access on their own timeline rather than an RMD schedule.
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This is John Rush. All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Speaking of mental health, and yes, this, in my opinion, involves mental health because there was Israeli embassy staffers that were killed, this was late last night, in a shooting outside of a Jewish museum. in Washington. And this is a man that shouted, free Palestine. He is now in custody in connection with the shooting. And I can hardly wait for all of the lefties to somehow justify what this guy did. All of the knuckleheads that are on the free Hamas campaign. side of the aisle. And I believe they tried to stop Ilmar Ohan today as she was exiting the Capitol to try to get her statement, if you would, on that. And of course, she gives none. She just hurries up and gets in the car and off she goes. What a coward, by the way. Just shows you where her true loyalty is. But Again, our thoughts and prayers go out to these particular families that now have to deal with this. I mean, again, you can't imagine getting that type of a phone call. These are individuals that are not citizens of the United States of America either. They were here on behalf of they were doing some other things that they were here. And this would happen to be a celebration that they went to. late last night at the Capital Jewish Museum, and this knucklehead, this murderer, I don't know what else to call him, Rodriguez, he was from Chicago, Elias, Elias Rodriguez is who actually killed these two individuals. He Killed him and then discarded the gun and implied that he had committed the shooting. That was right after the shooting had happened. Then he was chanting, free, free Palestine, while being taken into custody. And yes, this is a mentally ill individual. This is somebody that is very, very, very misguided. Now, I do want to add in that a lot of this has to do with the thoughts and processes that are on the left side of the aisle. Those of you that are on that side of the aisle, I'm sorry to say, you're part of the problem. You're creating this. You guys won't stand up and denounce this stuff enough. Some of you do, but most of you don't. And because of, this continues on. We've got situations going on in college campuses that shouldn't be going on and have been going on for far too long. Now, fortunately, we're starting to pull visas and even pull the – I think they pulled the Harvard visa program. I think that happened. Kristi Noem, I believe, did that either yesterday or today, actually pulling their visa program, not allowing students to come in to Harvard because of these sorts of things. And the fact that colleges won't crack down on this like they should. And no, this isn't free speech, folks. This is not free speech. There's a difference. We've talked about that numerous times on this program. And these students running around and doing what they're doing, it's not free speech. There's a difference. So those of you that are on the left claiming that, that's not how it works. You would be saying the exact same thing if the roles were reversed, by the way. Trust me, I know that for a fact. You guys definitely would be saying that if the roles were reversed. And you are part of the problem. Those of you on the left, these sorts of things, you're part to blame. Your party, your side, you are part to blame. You guys are first to come out and attack the conservative side if a bunch of skinheads run around and kill people. You're the very first to talk about how that's our fault, that's Donald Trump's fault, so on and so forth. It's not. We don't associate with those individuals in any way, shape, or form. We don't pacify them. We call them out as needed. The problem is your side doesn't call these people out. You don't call them out. You pacify them. In fact, in some cases, you're right there with them. And then you wonder why these things happen. You're the problem. Your side won't call this out. So those of you that listen to me that are on the left, you need to really think about that. Two people lost their lives last night because of a nut job on your side. Interesting that it's a nut job on your side that probably doesn't even believe in owning guns and probably is a huge anti-Second Amendment person and so on, and yet uses that to go out and do this, showing one more time that it's not the gun that kills the people, it's the whack job behind it that does. The Looney Tune. In this case, the Looney Tune lefty. Yes, this person's from the left because, no, we on the right don't do this. These two young people, by the way, and I call them young people because they were 26 and 30 years of age. And yes, I can say young people. Some of you that are younger would say, well, they're old. No, no, they're very young. Trust me, Charlie and I both can attest to this. They have a lot of life left at 26 and 30. So very sad. Should not be happening. This stuff needs to get cured. This nonsense of people in this country being on the side of Hamas is absolutely a joke. They have no idea, none whatsoever, as to what they're talking about. No clue as to the history of what's happened over there. Zero. They have been filled with a bunch of nonsense from teachers and professors and media. And those of you that are on the left, they have been literally filled with utter nonsense. Have no idea what they're talking about. Feel these people need freed some way, somehow. I have no idea what they're talking about. If you want to free them from anything, free them from Hamas. They're the terrorist organization that, by the way, hides in hospitals and schools and mosques and things like that because they're a bunch of cowards. And yes, that's exactly what they are and exactly what they do. And they hide behind those things. And then they wonder why Israel comes in and takes them out. Because you're a thug. You're a terrorist. And you ought to be. You should be eliminated from the planet. Done. You're out of here. So those of you that are on the side of Palestine, again, you have no idea what you're talking about. No clue. It's interesting, too, that in all the time I've talked about these sorts of things, I have yet to hear one single person ever call in to this program and try to defend Hamas or the whole Palestine end of things. Not one person. And I know why, because you can't defend it. It's defenseless. And you've got wackadoodles like this running around killing people, talking about freeing Palestine. I mean, what a bunch of whack jobs. So talking about the whole mental health thing that we were talking about a moment ago with our last guest, there's another example of somebody that is definitely mentally ill. So, all right. One thing I want to talk about, we can come back and get into this, too, right after we do the break here in a few minutes. But the Republican bill, you know, Trump's big bill, it passed. There are some things in it that some didn't like. It didn't pass fully. It's passed the House going to the Senate. It will have some hurdles to jump over going through the Senate. But there's a lot of folks out there. Andy and I talked before the show today, and there's a lot of folks out there, even on our side, here locally even, that are criticizing the bill and, you know, this shouldn't be in there and that shouldn't be in there. And you know what? That's going to be the case of every bill you run through like this. Those of you, how do I say this? Those of you that want perfection, you're never going to get it. You want the bill to be perfect and be perfectly the way that you want the Liberty Caucus. They want the thing to be exactly perfect or they're not going to sign on. Folks, you don't get it that way. That's not how this works. That's not how politics works. You have to compromise. You have no choice. I don't like some of the salt stuff, the raising of the salt caps. I don't care for that. That means that I and my tax dollars are paying for somebody that decides to live in New Jersey, New York, places like that. No, I don't agree with doing that. Why should I be subsidizing them? I shouldn't. But that's some of the stuff that was in this bill. And frankly, if you're somebody that's representing those areas, you're going to do everything you possibly can to do so. I understand that. That's part of what goes on when it comes to these bills. By the way, it only passed by one vote, 215 to 214 in the House, one lawmaker voting present. So, again, now we'll go to the Senate, and you can go out and read all the different things on it, what's in it and so on. I'm not going to get into all of the details on that. They raised the salt cap from 30 to 40K. Again, it's not a huge change at the end of the day, but still, is it a bad taste in my mouth? Yes, it is. Am I going to lose sleep over this? No, I'm not. There's other people that are accusing, you know, and by the way, there's accusations from both sides of the aisle, ours and the others. Some hardcore Republicans don't like certain things in it. Of course, there's a lot of lefties that don't like a lot of things that are in it. There's things in it I don't care for. I just mentioned some of those. But at the end of the day, do I personally feel that this will move some things forward and help the economy when it's all said and done? Yes, I do. Yes, I do. We'll talk with Scott Garlis at 530 about some of that end of things a little bit more. But, yes, I do believe at the end of the day it will. So it's also extending some of the old tax breaks, which, again, I'm not even a fan of some of the old tax breaks. I'm getting tired of ex-taxpayers not paying, ex-people not paying. Now, one thing that will start to happen is some people that have been net tax receivers because they make X amount of money and they don't pay any taxes, any income taxes. When you start talking about tariffs and things like this, and I do believe this is where Trump is much smarter than he gets credit for, those people will start paying some taxes. Because, yes, I know, tariffs are taxes. I get it. And I get who pays them. But keep in mind, there are a lot of people out there that pay no taxes. Zilch. Zero. They will now. When they go to Walmart and what that item was that they were once buying is $3, $4, $5 more than it used to be because of tariffs, they're paying a tax. Because those tariffs go back in the coffers. It's like a tax, basically. That's where that tariff money goes. So where people have never been paying any taxes, as we start going through some of these tariffs and so on, they will be. Now, some, the Fed and others, think that that's terrible, it's going to cause inflation and so on. Really, at the end of the day, it won't, because we've got other things that are offsetting that to where they won't be. But at the end of the day, will they be paying some tax where they may have not been paying any in the past? Yes. Now, when I say tax, I mean income tax. I get it. Everybody, even if they're paying rent, is paying property tax and they pay sales tax and things like that. I understand that. They pay their FICA tax if they make some money and they've got Social Security taken out and so on. I get that. So please don't text and correct me on that. I get that. I'm talking income tax. There are a lot of no income taxpayers in this country. Far too many, in my opinion. And some of that came from, this is where Trump doesn't get any credit because the left will constantly criticize him of giving tax breaks to the rich. They forget about all of these that aren't paying any taxes because of those tax breaks. The fact that there was actually more of them under Trump than there was prior. He gets no credit for that whatsoever. But that's the facts. That's what happened. And again, with tariffs... They will be paying some tax now that they weren't paying prior. And I'm fine with that, by the way, because I think everybody should pay some. I don't think anybody should get off paying zero tax. I think they should. So that's probably another conversation for another day. But far too many people in this country pay zero tax. Mile High Coin coming up next. If you've got any kind of a collection kicking around and you're wondering what is the value of that collection, David Gonzalez can help you with that. If you want to turn that into cash, you can do that as well. 720-370-3400.
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All right, we are back, and I appreciate all of you listening today and, again, talking about the big bill. I refrain from going through too many details as to what's actually in the bill, what's it going to do, and so on, because, again, and this is where I differ from a lot of folks in the media. You don't know what the final of this is going to be. So why spend a lot of, in my case, airtime talking about something that might not very well make it through the Senate? We have no idea, folks. So why go through all of the details, the gore, if you would, of the bill? And this is the other thing I struggle with when it comes to people that are even against the current bill that's out there and commenting on it on social media. You don't even know what the final is going to be. So why waste any keystrokes typing out something when you don't even know what the final is going to be? This thing could very easily get kicked back to the house. We have no idea. No clue. So everybody that's got, you know, that's all in an uproar, if you would, over what's there and what's already been passed by the House, cool your jets. You don't even know what's going to happen to this thing next. So I don't know. I guess just over the years and listening to Charlie as much as I have and him being a good mentor and being in business and so on, some of these things I don't lose any sleep over until you get all the way to the end because you don't know what's going to happen next anyway. So why worry about it? Why comment on it? Especially, why type out huge things on social media against it when you don't even know what the final is going to look like? Because you don't know. You don't know. So I'll leave it at that. Again, I'm not going to talk much more about that until we actually know a little bit more about it when it comes out of the Senate. In the meantime, I'm not going to worry too much about it. So, all right, here's something that... I was going to mention today, and I have mixed emotions on this, so I want to be careful how I talk about this particular topic. But I've got plenty of time. I'd like some folks to even call in on this, if at all possible. Our lines are open, 303-477-5600. There is a trend going around social media, TikTok, Instagram, and others, where grown men are calling up their friends, their bros, and wishing them a good night and sweet dreams. And they're recording these conversations and putting them out on the Internet. Are you going to see me do this? Absolutely not. No, I'm not. Sorry, all of you that are friends of mine and so on, yeah, sorry. No, I'm not doing that. Not doing that. A, it's not in my personality. Am I going to call Charlie up before he goes to bed and say, hey, Charlie, sweet dreams, sleep well? No, I'm not doing that. Now, as much as that's great and I get the intention behind it, I – Here's the thing. Even as a man, do I need that? No. No offense. I don't need that. In fact, for me personally, I'm heading to bed. Leave me alone. I'm going to bed. I don't need you calling and wishing me well wishes and a good night. And I've got a lot of male friends that I associate with. Some of them are good friends that I even coach and consult with and all of that. And I'm still not calling them and telling them that. A, it's not in my personality. To me... Again, I want to be careful how I say this, but it's just a little gay to me. I'm sorry. I don't know how else to say it. It's just odd. And I'm not doing that. To me, that's not manly. And I was raised by a man's man. Almost to a fault. Almost to the point where there's times I have to, even Charlie will tell me, I've got to keep my emotions a little bit in check and be a little more sensitive on certain things and so on. Because the way I was raised, that's not in my DNA. My dad didn't raise me that way. In fact, if my dad, he's not cognitive right now, so I couldn't have this conversation with him. These are the times where I wish I could. Because I'd love to know what he thinks about this, and I can already tell you, I can already hear him telling me what his thoughts would be on this. You're not doing that. That's just not how I raised you. Now, again, if you do this, more power to you, I guess. I mean, you know, whatever. Whatever. I don't know. Again, I have mixed emotions. I don't want to offend anybody along these lines. If you decide that you want to do that, that's fine. But this is just not, personally, not in my personality. I've got text messages coming, and I'll do my best to read these at the same time. But somebody else just texted, this is a female thing. Yes, this is. And to me, this is where you get these trends and different things that are going on. You know, whatever. Teach his own. I'm not criticizing anybody that does it. But this, yeah, this is a woman thing. It's just so somebody just said, OK, everybody, let's text John at 930 every night and tell him good night. Laugh out loud. You guys can if you want. I may or may not read it because I'm headed to bed, but. And I appreciate the laughter of all of that, but I just can't do that. I just can't do that. I'm just, and Dave Hart, who we get along and talk all the time as well, not only here on the show and so on, just texted me and said, man, I'm crushed, you're not going to be calling me. No, Dave, I'm not calling you. Sorry, just not. Love you, but no, not calling you. And, again, when I read this, and I had seen somebody actually do this on social media, and at first I thought, is this a joke? Is this like some sort of a gag? Is this really what guys are doing? And evidently it is, and they're filming themselves doing it. They're putting it out on social media. I don't know who got this trend started, but it's caught on. And again, I will say this. I do think there are times in everybody's lives where sometimes you need a little pick-me-up. I get that. Typically, you guys that are friends with one another, you're talking enough to know when those times are, and you're already doing that anyways, okay? That's already happening. But even if I'm having a rough day, I don't need that before I go to bed. Just saying. Yeah. So you guys are giving me plenty of thoughts on this via your text messages and so on. And I'm laughing about it. And some probably are. And again, I need to be careful because, you know, May is Mental Health Month and all of that, which I fully understand. And I've said this before, even on Wednesdays, even with Dr. Kelly on Thursdays, I struggle at times with the whole mental health thing. And I have to be careful because I know it's real, and I know it's a thing that some people struggle with, and I understand that, and I'm not trying to diminish that when it's real. But at times I wonder, do we as a country, especially now, have a larger mental health issue and yet – We literally have a country that doesn't know how to work, and I mean that sincerely. We have a country that today, for the most part, not you guys that are listening, but the majority of people today don't know how to work. And I mean that. They don't. They complain about not having enough money. They complain about this. They complain about that. And then I look and say, well, you know, what's your job? What do you do? Well, you know, I do such and such. Well, how many hours a week do you work? Well, you know, I just work part-time, 25 hours, whatever. You know, they'll throw a number out. And I'm just thinking, gee whiz, there's like 140 hours. available to do whatever you want to do and as far as working goes there's a solid 80 to 100 you could work if you wanted to and you're working 25 of those and wondering why you can't make ends meet who whose problem is that yours or the government's hey it's never the government's fault it's yours so some of this i just look at at times i just think do we have a mental health crisis in this country because we We aren't working as hard as we should be keeping our mind off of some of the things that are there and some of the stresses that come from lack of finances and so on. Is that because of what I'm saying? And I'm not a mental health expert, folks, so you're talking to the wrong guy. In fact, I'm the wrong guy to come to for sympathy. That's my family. I'm not that guy. I'm just not. In my world, any time any kind of a crisis has ever come along, my way of fixing it is I work more. Maybe that's a mental health problem in and of itself, but that's me. That's what I do. If I want to overcome something, I get my mind off of it. I work more. I may pour myself more into something along those lines. And before you know it, you're right back on track and off we go. That's just me. And I've done that since I was a kid. And I'm not exaggerating in that, since I was a kid. Any kind of a tragedy comes along, a death, something along those lines, I'm the one where I'm going to go to work. I'm going to work harder than I did prior. And that's just me. Now, I'm not saying everybody has to do that or everybody can do that. And I get it. There are real solid mental health things out there. In some cases, there needs to be some treatment and counseling and things like that done. But I often wonder, are we doing far too much of that rather than my method? And I read an article the other day that was talking about how here in America, Years and years ago, there were two schools of thought on fixing people and trauma from their past. One of those methods was to continue to focus on it, deal with it, relive it, work through it, get past it, and so on. The other school of thought was forget about it, move on. Literally, that was this other psychiatrist's answer. Forget about it, move on. Bury it, move on. The problem is, as a country, guess which mode of therapy we've done? The keep reliving it over and over and over again. So, reality is... I'm not the guy to talk to about mental health. I'm also not going to be the guy calling up somebody else, some other guy, wishing them a good night and sleep well and, you know, don't let the bad bugs bite and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, no, that's not going to be me. I'm not that guy. Sorry, just not that guy. So... Maybe you are, and if you are, great. Maybe you're the more of a sensitive man, you know, that sort of thing. I'm not. You guys know that by now. Anybody that's listening to me for any length of time, that's not me. I'm not Mr. Sensitive. My family will tell you that. I mean, I can be at times, but generally speaking, I'm not. Do I care about people? Yes, deeply. Do I want what's best for people? Absolutely. Do I work hard for those that I am close to and that I am involved with? Absolutely. Is that my way of showing them that I love them? Absolutely. I want to provide for them better than anybody else can. And that's my way of doing that, which I know is different for every person. I get that. But that's my way. And calling somebody up and saying, hey, sleep well. No, that's that's just that's not me. And again, I look at some of this and think, while I know it's a trend and this trend will die off and so on, but. 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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Most of you, actually all of you that have texted in are right in line with what I'm saying on the whole, you know, calling your bro and wishing them a good night and sleep well and so on. Now, on a serious note, on a serious note. What are we doing to our young men when we do this, our young boys? Keep in mind, most of social media is full with folks a lot younger than I. I, frankly, pay attention to a lot of social media mainly because of this show. I learn a lot of things. I get a lot of things that, A, get sent to me. I view all sorts of things. I've learned all sorts of things along those lines. But I'll be quite honest. If it wasn't for this show and what I do here, would I even be on Facebook and do some of the other things that I do? No, I would not. I'll just straight up honest, I would not. I just wouldn't do it. So point being, it is full of mostly younger individuals, not all, because there is a lot of old guys that are on social media and that as well, but let's face it, it really is more young people, and there's really young people that are on social media. So I look at these types of trends, this one in particular, where you're calling your best friend or somebody, some guy friend of yours that you know, and telling them, hey, hoping you have a good night, sleep well, blah, blah, blah, And it's a trend, and others can watch what's going on because they're putting this online. So I have to ask the simple question, what message are we sending our young men? In some cases, maybe it's a good message. Maybe we're saying that, hey, if you're having a struggle and you want to tell your friend to have a great night and so on, you're welcome to do so. On the same token, are we... Are we sort of wussifying men in doing this? I'm just throwing it out. I'm just asking the question. I don't know. But are we? Are we softening men in doing this? Is this the right thing to do? I mean, I'll go as far as to say when Christ and his disciples were together, and for them at times things got really rough, But as they were all hanging around the fire, getting ready for bed, laying down, a lot of times they slept outside. Was this something they did to one another? Highly doubt it, by the way. Highly doubt it. I honestly really, and I'm sorry to, I'm not going to say this that way. I'm not sorry to say this. I want to be pointed in how I say this. We wussify Christ too much. We make him out to be a weakling, and he was not. He was the ultimate man's man. through and through. And yet the church, unfortunately, has wussified him. And I think he would appreciate me saying that because he's not that way. He was the ultimate man's man. I don't picture Jesus Christ himself laying down, getting ready for bed, leaning over and telling Peter, hey, man, sleep well, have a great night, blah, blah, blah. No, I just don't see that happening. So then I have to ask the question, why are we doing that? And I get it. It's a trend. It's kind of funny. People are making money off of this, by the way. The more influence you have and the more clicks you get and the more likes you get and so on, the more money you make. So I understand that part of it as well. And that's where some of these trends come in. If you can get this thing going and trending well and working in your favor and you make all sorts of money off of it, well, there's part of the reason why we do it. But what is the ultimate end goal? And what are we really doing at the end of the day? Are we really helping young men out when it's all said and done? Or are we making them softer? In my opinion, we're already far too soft as it is. Far too many young men far too soft as it is. And part of what I feel is wrong with our country today. The only hardcore young men that I know. In most cases, not all, but the majority of cases, the hardcore young men that I know typically have gone to the military. And they come back, yeah, they're hard. They're men. But a lot of kids that don't, a lot of young men that don't, I just look at them and think, man alive, at your age, I was doing XYZ and you're still playing with whatever, video games or whatever it happens to be. At your age, I was already having kids, or I was already owning a house, or I was doing house maintenance, or I was mowing the lawn, or I was doing whatever. And what are you doing? You're still in mom's basement. And is what we're doing in this particular trend making that part of it worse or better? And I'm being serious now. I'm not trying to make fun of the whole thing. I'm just trying to be serious about what message are we really sending young men when it's all said and done? And are we wussifying them more than what we already have as a society? You know, I watch some of these guys as they walk around even in the dress that they have, you know, the outfits that they have on, what they wear and so on. And I just think to myself, you know, you couldn't change a tire on a car and be effective at doing it. And yet you look like a lumberjack. You're not. You'd be lucky to know where the ax, which end to even chop. Nonetheless, do anything else with it. In some cases, you're going to hand that to your girlfriend and let her do it. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that. I look at some of these young men and I just look at them and I think, you couldn't fight your way out of a wet paper bag if you had to. And now I look at these trends and it's like, holy cow, have we gone off the deep end? You know, literally, have we gone off the deep end? So as you see some of these trends and you think about some of these things and so on and have some of these conversations around your own dinner table with some of your own family, and as you go through this weekend of Memorial Day where a lot of folks will get together, families and friends, and some of these things will get brought up and talked about and so on, you know, you might throw a few things in there as to what I've said here. over these past few minutes and just ask some of those questions. What are we really accomplishing here when it's all said and done? And what's happened to men? Where have all the men gone? I guess that's kind of the title that I've got right now is where are all the real men? Where are they gone? Do we have any men's men left? Are we raising men's men? I did. I raised men's men. Because my dad raised me to be that way. But are we doing that on a continual, purposeful basis? And I also understand this. And for all of you single moms that are out there trying to raise boys, my heart goes out to you. I understand what you're going through and how hard that is. And you're trying to find somebody in their life that will even show them how to be a man's man. And, yes, my heart goes out to you, and I get that fully. And I am not talking to you any way, shape, or form along these lines because you're doing the best you can, and I get that. And I'm fully aware of that. And I am not belittling you at all. I'm talking about dads that have the opportunity to build real men. Are you guys? Are you? Are you teaching your young men to be men's men? So I'll leave it at that. Something to think about. I just when I was reading that story today on the trending of things and so on, I don't know. I just at times I think through that and wonder what's the real answer here. What are we trying to accomplish? What message is that sending when it's all said and done? Yes, we can laugh. 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All right, closing out that segment on the whole man's man thing and the trend of, you know, calling your bro at night and, you know, telling him to sleep well and all of that. Okay, all that being said, I'm still a big one also on not only teaching your young men how to be men's men, but also... How do you have manners? How do you treat a lady? How do you open doors for a lady? If you're going to take your wife out for a date or you're going out on a date for the first time with your girlfriend, number one, I hope you're driving. Number two, I hope you're showing up in a car to pick her up. And lastly, I hope that you're opening the door for her, not only when you pick her up from the house that she lives in, but that when you go to the restaurant or whatever else you're doing, that you're doing the exact same thing all through the night, showing her the respect. that she deserves. That's part of also being a man. And by the way, there's also another thing when it comes to being a man. You can still take care of yourself, be well-groomed, smell good. That's all part of being a man as well. Nothing worse than a grubby, stinky, BO-smelling man that doesn't take care of himself. That's not what I'm talking about. That's not a manly man. That's somebody that doesn't care about anything. And that's a whole other issue in and of itself that I've never really talked about. But, yeah, as a man, take care of yourself. Be a man's man. Teach your kids how to be, you know, teach your boys how to be a man's man as well. Teach them how to treat a woman the right way with respect. All of the different things that I hope your father taught you. But if not, learn those things. And my wife has said for years that we should hold classes on how to teach young people, especially how to have etiquette, how to do the things that I just mentioned, and so on. And she's on the right track. The question is, how do you do that and then even get people to attend said classes? That's a whole other topic. Maybe I'll do it at a later date. All right, we've got another full hour coming your way. Don't go anywhere. Jersey Joe is going to join us here in just a few minutes. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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John, before we get to the heavy stuff, a little light stuff. You know, I live out in a rural area of New Jersey, a lot of horse farms around here. And the other day I saw this bumper stick in the back of a pickup truck that had some big, you know, boxes in it. And the bumper sticker said, I'm a veterinarian, therefore I can drive like an animal. And then suddenly I realized how many proctologists there must be on the roads. Oh, geez. Bad. All right. My question of the day, John, what is the largest non-edible cash crop in the United States?
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Non-edible cash crop in the United States would be corn feed for cows. Tobacco.
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Tobacco? Tobacco is the largest non-edible. in terms of value, the largest non-edible cash crop in the United States.
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I debate that on the corn feed.
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Well, corn is edible.
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Not the type you feed a cow is not.
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Well, you can make, no, you can make a... You and I would never eat that.
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Even if you made that into a mash, it would be disgusting.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, no, but you can make a tortilla chip out of it, John. whatever yeah all right that's debatable that one i'd have to whoever was the author of that one i'd have to debate him on that one joe all right let's move on to some heavy stuff let's talk about does the name robert her ring a bell yes now for those who don't remember he was the special um after joe biden left office um when donald trump won his first presidency it was discovered that uh Joe Biden, who was never president, he didn't have the ability to declassify anything. It was discovered that he had boxes of classified documents, both in an office in Penn Plaza in Philadelphia and in his home. They were in a box in a garage next to his Corvette. And he admitted that he had shared the contents of some of those documents with a ghostwriter who was writing his memoirs. So the Department of Justice appointed a special prosecutor, a guy named Robert Herr, to interview Joe Biden for possible criminal prosecution. And in March of 24, Herr came out with a written report. And in that report, he said while Vice President Biden had clearly broken the law and he cited the section of the U.S. Code of Justice about, you know, taking these documents and not secure it, taking them home without permission and then not keeping them properly secured. He said, I recommend against prosecution, because at this time Biden was president and they wouldn't be able to prosecute him until after he had left office. He said, I recommend against prosecuting President, you know, indicting President Biden because he would come across to the jury as an elderly man with a poor memory. And to get a criminal convention, you have to prove intent. And if somebody did something because they were forgetful, you know, you can't really say he intentionally broke the law. The Democrats excoriated her, because remember, at this point in time, March of 24, Biden was still the Democrat nominee for president. And here's Robert Hearst saying he's an elderly man with a poor memory. Well, they jumped all over him, you know, crucified him. He has no idea what he's talking about, how derried this, you know, president. Republicans said, well, let's listen to the tape. Was the interview taped? Well, yes, it was. We will. Why don't we hear the tape and we can decide for ourselves? They got stonewalled by the Department of Justice about listening to the tape. Well, Attorney General Pam Bondi released those tapes over this past weekend. And, John, you have them. And we don't need to play the whole thing, but I just want the audience to listen to the first two minutes. And here's the setup. And it's a very bad audio. And you can barely hear him, but Herr asks Biden the question, talking about these boxes of documents. And he asks a very simple question. Where in the House... were those documents being kept. Now, he then starts to talk, he talks about his son Beau, Beau Biden, who had died of brain, well, this was back in 2017 or 18, and Beau was either deployed or dying of cancer. Beau had died of cancer in 2015. Right. And he goes on, he tells these stories, and if you played the whole thing, he winds up talking about a trip he took to Mongolia and shooting bow and arrows at targets to tacked up the hay bales, but John, can you just play the first two minutes of that tape?
SPEAKER 05 :
We'll do. You ready, Charlie? Here we go.
SPEAKER 08 :
...road, and there were documents related to the Penn Bible Center, or the Bible, or the cancer photo shot, or your book.
SPEAKER 06 :
Where did you keep papers that related to those things that you were actively working on?
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, I don't know. This is, what, 2017, 18, that period? Yes, sir. Remember, in this time frame, my son has either been deployed or is dying. And so it was... And by the way, there were still a lot of people at the time, when I got out of the Senate, that were encouraging me to run in this period, except the President. I'm not, that's not a mean thing to say, but he just thought that she had a better shot of winning the presidency than I did. And so I hadn't, I hadn't at this point, even though I'm at Penn, I hadn't walked away from the idea that I might run for office again. If I ran again, I'd be running for president. And so what was happening, though, was Bo dying on May 30, 2018. In 2015, he had died.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, I'll leave it at that, Joe. I'm not sure that Joe Biden knows where he's at at that point.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right, and the question was, where in the House were those papers being kept?
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
Did anything he say come remotely close to answering the question?
SPEAKER 05 :
I'm not sure he remembers, Joe.
SPEAKER 09 :
So, well, now you can understand why the Democrats didn't want that tape released. Of course, of course. Because it would have shown just how... Incompetent he really is. Well, the extent of his mental decline, and of course... You know, Jake Tapper's new book came out this past weekend, too. Right. Where Jake Tapper is saying what a huge cover-up the media was involved in, of course. Him included. Him included. I think we played the clip of Jake Tapper interviewing Lara Trump, and she said, well, Joe is showing signs of mental decline. And he climbed all over her. You're not qualified. You're not a doctor. You can't make it. And here he's saying, yeah, we all knew it, and we all covered it up. Talk about hypocrisy at its finest.
SPEAKER 05 :
They're good at that.
SPEAKER 09 :
They're good at that.
SPEAKER 05 :
And then on the topic of people— Really quick, he did call and apologize after all that was said and done when he realized, yeah, I probably screwed up there.
SPEAKER 09 :
Jake Tapper?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 09 :
He apologized to Lara Trump?
SPEAKER 05 :
He did.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, good for him.
SPEAKER 05 :
Which he needed to because it was a royal screw-up on his part.
SPEAKER 09 :
A royal screw-up on his part. And I'm talking about people who should no longer be making decisions affecting this country. This is Nancy Pelosi. She's outdoors at some opening, some dedication of someone with Parker or office building or something. And she's trying to get words out, and her aides are whispering to her like she's trying to talk about the Electoral College. And she's searching for the words, and someone of her weight whispers to her, Electoral College. So let's play Nancy Pelosi. Here we go.
SPEAKER 14 :
Thank you very much, Mr. Swalwell, for bringing us together for this very important initiative. Because that was the day we were by law supposed to, and we did, accept the numbers from the... The Electoral College spent a good deal of time with the police officers. It's about a decision that was made to ignore the recognition to our police officers. It was one that came with such fears and... Okay, I gotta stop.
SPEAKER 05 :
Joey, she drunk.
SPEAKER 09 :
You know, she's clunk or she's either, I mean, she could be drunk. I mean, she sounds like she's drunk.
SPEAKER 05 :
She sounds drunk.
SPEAKER 09 :
She's slurring her words.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right, she sounds drunk. I'm sorry to say. I mean, she's either, I mean, and to be nice, it sounds like she's either drunk, she's had a stroke, something along those lines, because those are the things that happen after people have strokes and so on. So I'm not saying that, you know, she's got an alcohol problem. Maybe she does, maybe she doesn't. Maybe she's got, maybe she's had a stroke. I don't know. Either way, that is not how an elected official should be talking in front of the podium.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. And remember, she is in the House of Representatives, which means she ran for re-election this past November. So seven months ago, the people of her district re-elected her to her position. This woman has no position, she has absolutely no business being in Congress. And I think she's announced that she's not going to run for re-election in 26. But, you know, this is who is... you know, part of the decision-making process of government. And it's frightening. Now, there are other people that are older that, like Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana, a guy as sharp as a tack. He comes across like a country bumpkin. But, you know, this guy is sharp like a razor. But, you know, age affects everybody differently. And these two, and I can't believe that the Democrats were still propping Biden up as their candidate yesterday.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I mean, I talked about it during the first hour, Joe. It's still amazing to me that we've got people trying to say that, of all things, nobody knew Joe Biden had prostate cancer. All of this had to have just cropped up. I mean, you just get stage four prostate cancer overnight, which, Joe, you and I, being the age we are, know that just doesn't happen. That's just not the way. things work. I don't care if you're you, I, or Joe Biden, it doesn't work that way. And yet we've still got people, leaders, if you would, out there in the Democrat Party and the news media, basically trying to snow you and I. Yep.
SPEAKER 09 :
And, you know, I can't tell you how many medical experts, including Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who's an oncologist, you know, saying, in his opinion, it was likely that he had detectable symptoms, you know, as early back as 17 or 18, you know, nine years ago. And by the way, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is the brother of Rob Emanuel, who used to be Obama's chief of staff. He was from Chicago, right? And he's now the mayor, or was the mayor of Chicago. Right. So this guy is not a conservative. Ezekiel Emanuel... Oh, not at all. Not at all, Joe. So even Ezekiel Emanuel, who was an oncologist, said, no, this has been going on for seven years or more. Well, let me put it this way. Detectable for at least seven years. Now, whether or not... Now, I've also heard unsubstantiated claims that Biden hadn't had a PSA blood test since 2014.
SPEAKER 05 :
Impossible.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, if it's true, that's medical malpractice.
SPEAKER 05 :
Exactly. Joe, it's impossible. You and I both know that when they do a full workup on any president of the United States, it is exactly that, a full workup.
SPEAKER 09 :
You check every box, every box on the form.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's right. It's a full workup. I said earlier in the first hour, we may not know some of the outcome of this for... a decade or more when it's all said and done, but we will find out at some point in time. The question I've got that I'd really like to know is, when were his treatments, Joe? Because you know, you and I both know he's been treated. So that's the question I have is, when were these treatments for this, by the way?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, he kept taking all those week-long trips to Delaware.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 09 :
And he wouldn't be seen. And, you know, clearly when you have chemo, it takes you a couple of days to recover.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's right. That's right. Chemo, radiation, anything along those lines, Joe. Surgeries. I mean, we have no idea the extent of what all's gone on because all that particular administration does is cover for one another continually.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. And the White House, you know, I know Republicans are calling for investigation, but for the White House physician to come out last summer... saying that he just passed his annual fiscal and everything is fine. Either he's an idiot and shouldn't be practicing medicine or he's part of a cover-up. And if he's part of a cover-up, if he lied... the American people, I think there should be some consequences for him lying to the American people.
SPEAKER 05 :
Can't argue that. And again, Joe, you know, between that, I read some things in the first hour about that administration covering up the, you know, the ill effects of the COVID vaccine, you know, the enlargement of the heart. I mean, these are all things that that administration knew that they covered and kept out of the eye of people.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yep. Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
Wrong. Criminal.
SPEAKER 09 :
It is criminal. Well, Let's hope that some people are held accountable so that others in the future think twice before repeating that type of behavior. All right. I know we only got eight or six or seven minutes.
SPEAKER 05 :
You've got a few more minutes. Go ahead. You're fine.
SPEAKER 09 :
How about the Mexican drug trade? John, you may have read my email, but when I read this statistic that the Mexican drug trade employs 175,000 people. Amazing. It's amazing, Joe. And if you want to put that in perspective, you know, Mile High Stadium holds about 60,000 people. Correct. So that would be three Bronco Stadiums full of people. The drug industry is the fifth largest employer in Mexico. Wow. The fifth largest employer, 175,000 people. It just blew my mind how. And, of course, it's so...
SPEAKER 05 :
And that's what you know about. I mean, those are probably estimates because who knows, Joe, it could even be larger than that. We have no idea.
SPEAKER 09 :
And we also know that their police force is corrupt, their military is corrupt. Some of their past presidents were on the take. So that's what we know about. Let's move on to solar power and Chinese inverters. Now, John, you know what an inverter is, right?
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER 09 :
For those who don't, when you have, like in your car, if you have a 120-volt AC outlet in your car, Now, everything in your car is 12 volts DC. 12 volts, yep. And DC means direct current. It means it's steady. It never fluctuates.
SPEAKER 05 :
There's a battery that has to run it.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. Well, if you want to get an alternating current that goes from plus 120 volts to minus 120 volts 60 times a second, you need to convert that DC power to alternating current, and you need a device called an inverter. Now, in your car... It's not much bigger than two packs of cigarettes. Right.
SPEAKER 05 :
But if you have a 20-acre solar... And they've gotten smaller as time has gone by, as you know, Joe. At one point in time, they were the size of probably a bread box, but they've gotten really condensed now.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. Now, but if you have a 20-acre solar farm, the inverter is going to be the size of a desk.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
At least, you know, and possibly... The size of a small car, basically. Yeah, about the size of a car, and possibly two... Depending on the size of the solar farm or the wind turbine farm, two or three... That's right. Well, most of these inverters, these industrial-sized inverters, are being manufactured and supplied to us from China. And some technicians have been disassembling these inverters, and they've been finding stuff inside the inverters that don't belong there, including cellular radios.
SPEAKER 05 :
Communication devices.
SPEAKER 09 :
Communication devices that allow remote control of the inverters.
SPEAKER 05 :
So the question is— Do they want it shut off? Do they want them bringing it back on? What do they want to do? And somebody else can control that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. And so one can only speculate, and I'm sure these foreign companies that are manufacturing these are doing this at the insistent, because you don't put expensive components into an inverter that's going to add cost to the product. Unless there's an ulterior motive, Joe. Unless there's an ulterior motive. So for those who are not aware, yes, the Chinese government has been putting the equivalent of, if it was software, we'd call it spyware. In this case, it's hardware that would give them remote access to turn off power feeds from solar farms and wind turbines into our power grids.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 09 :
And on a peak day, you need every ounce of that power. On a 110-degree sunny day, you need every single kilowatt of that power.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 09 :
So you want to do that.
SPEAKER 05 :
It's very interesting as far as that goes. I read that. I think that was last week. I actually read that, not just from you. I saw that in the news. In fact, even some of the listeners listening sent me some articles along those lines. Yeah, that's disturbing, Joe, because that is our infrastructure, and that means a foreign entity has infiltrated our infrastructure.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, so there's a big scramble right now. They've got a bulletin out to all these solar farms saying, you need to take these inverters apart and look for this thing, you know, this device, this device, and this device. All right. John, one more thing. I want to talk about, you know, the big, beautiful bill passed the House last night. Right. And there's a Medicaid cut, you know, there's provision to cut. By the way, it's a tiny cut. You know, it's, well, it's $880 billion. That's a 10-year cumulative total, which is only... Which isn't much. That's right. $88 billion a year for 10 years.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 09 :
Now, in theory, states are supposed to pick up 10%. The federal government picks up 90%. But here's the scam that states have been doing. Most of the blue states have imposed a provider tax on nursing homes and hospitals. It's like an excise tax, you know, like they do with some of the marijuana stores. Well, if you want to operate a nursing home in our state, you have to pay a special tax. Even though you're a nonprofit, you still have to pay like an operator's tax.
SPEAKER 05 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, they've been raking in tens of millions of dollars in provider fees. But those fees don't go into the Medicaid account. They go into the General Tax Revenue Fund. For that state? For that state. Now, meanwhile, but then the state says, but don't worry, we're going to reimburse you. In many cases, John, they're reimbursing them for Medicaid services at two and a half times the rate that they pay for Medicare. So in other words, if you're a Medicare patient and you go into the hospital with a cut on your forehead and you need stitches, Medicare might pay $300 for that treatment. If a Medicaid patient goes in, by the way, Medicaid is administered by the states. The states said, well, if you charge Medicare $300 to stitch up that cut, we'll pay you $750, two and a half times the Medicare rate. Now, that $750, then they turned around to the government and said, hey, we just paid a claim for $750, and you've agreed to pay 90% of that. So please send us a check for $675 for that medical service. But in the meantime, their true net cost, when you net out the provider fee, their net cost was only about $450. And so both the provider and the state are making money literally on every single dollar. Hand over fist. So states should not be making a profit. Nope. Because, now, if they were to apply those provider fees into their Medicaid account, That'd be different. It'd be different, but no, they're taking the provider revenue into a general fund and only showing the cost, and then they say to the federal government, well, you've got to give us 90% of this inflated number that we voluntarily agreed to pay them two and a half times the going rate for this service, and you need to give us back 90%. Meanwhile, and even Joe Biden was aware of this, and even Biden referred to it as a tax scam. It's going on, so can states live with a 10% cut to federal federal reimbursement of Medicaid, absolutely.
SPEAKER 05 :
They can. Absolutely. They can.
SPEAKER 09 :
It's not a problem.
SPEAKER 05 :
Great point, Joe. All right, man, I'll let you go. Talk to you next Thursday, sir.
SPEAKER 09 :
All right. Take care, John.
SPEAKER 05 :
You bet. Have a great night. Appreciate it. Jersey Joe. And he's got his own podcast, Jersey Joe Podcast, which, you know, we probably should put some links on our account to that. I'll do my best to get producer Andy to get that done. Geno's Auto Service coming up next. And, again, don't forget, Geno starts with a J. Find them at genosautoservice.com.
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This is Rush to Reason on KLZ 560. All right, we are back. Scott Garlis joining us now. Scott's in the middle of coaching a game, but Scott, thanks for joining us. How are you, sir?
SPEAKER 07 :
Hey, John, I'm well. How are you? It's actually just a practice, not a game.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, just a practice. Well, good, and again, appreciate guys like you doing what you do along those lines. That's a great thing to do, so thank you for doing that as well.
SPEAKER 07 :
Thank you, man. I love it.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right, talk to us about the bond yields and what's happening there. I've got my own thoughts, but give me yours.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, so what we've seen in the last week really is bond yields shot back up to like 4.6%. You know, there are a bunch of different stories going around. One of the big ones is that the U.S. is going to default on its debt, which, by the way, is against the Constitution.
SPEAKER 05 :
Can't do that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, you cannot do that. Secondly, you know, there's another story there. It's because of things going on in Japan that Japanese bond yields are surging. So U.S. bond yields are going to have to keep going higher to keep pace. And, you know, I think that's a bunch of garbage, too, because, you know, if you look at the Japanese bond yields, it's 1.5% because the Bank of Japan owns all their bonds. And then one of the big arguments out there is, well, the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio is 122%. Well, Japan's debt-to-GDP ratio is 220%. If you're literally worried about buying a country's bonds because they're high debt-to-GDP ratio, why would you be buying bonds in Japan?
SPEAKER 05 :
You wouldn't.
SPEAKER 07 :
Exactly. And then the other big story is the spending bill that's working its way through Congress right now just passed the House. The only thing I would say there is, When Trump got elected, the story was it was going to be $4.5 trillion in deficit spending. But now the number that got through the House last night was $3.5 trillion. I'm not saying that's ideal, but that's a trillion dollars, 25%, 20% less. than the expectations coming in.
SPEAKER 05 :
Again, these are all guesstimates when it's all said and done. As you know, Scott, if you get the economy cranked up and you get some other things going that Trump has talked about and some of the investment that other countries have talked about doing here and so on, the reality is that number could be a lot less. Those are nothing more than guesstimates.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I mean, the bigger thing I would point to with all this is, So there are a lot of hedge funds that are building up big shorts in the stock market and the bond market in anticipation of all this. And actually what's been happening is their shorts have been going against them, especially in the stock market right now. The stock market's rebounded 20% from the lows. So, you know, I think those guys want to push their story to try to get their positions to start working. I agree. David Tepper has like a $2.5 billion stock. That's $2.5 billion worth of short exposure at the moment based on some options plays. Yeah, I mean, that would be a problem.
SPEAKER 05 :
That would be. Okay, here's a thought that I've got on just interest rates in general, some of what you're talking about, and so on. And bear with me and make sure I can explain this correctly. But to me... The only way that you're going to get some of these things down, and as we know, if bonds go down, so does mortgage rates, and typically even the Fed looks at things, and lots of changes start to happen. So here's my theory on all of that, and you tell me if I'm right, wrong, or otherwise. Number one, we've got to get our economy really cranking, which I do believe some of those things even happening with the spending bill, if it passes through the Senate and so on. I do believe there's a lot of things in motion right now, including some of what's even gone on with tariffs that will stimulate the economy and get some things moving forward in that right direction. I also feel like, Scott, if we get our economy rolling along well enough, you're already starting to see, because of some of the tariff deals, what's happening in other countries, meaning their economy won't do as well as ours, meaning they'll have to inject money into their economy, meaning in a lot of cases their interest rates may actually continue to come down, much like they did during Trump's first term. And as other countries... rates come down. Ours can as well, because people would rather invest in the U.S. than they would other countries, but they will in other countries if the rate is very similar, even a little bit better in other places. So the goal is, how do we make other economies and other countries worse than ours, so at the end of the day, their interest rates actually go down, therefore ours will as well. Am I correct?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, yeah. I mean, look, These other countries like the European Central Bank has been cutting rates a bunch. Canada has been cutting rates a bunch. The Fed's the only one that... Well, Japan is because they had negative interest rates.
SPEAKER 05 :
They went the other way. That's right. That's right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, they're trying to get some sort of interest rate back. But the U.S. is the only one, the only major economy that's been the real outlier. We started to cut rates, and now we've stopped because they're saying tariffs are going to make inflation show up. Well, so far... we haven't seen the inflation show up yet. That's right. And when it came in for April, the argument is, well, wait till you see the numbers for May. Well, guess what? I just ran the gas numbers for May, gasoline prices.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
They're down like 13% last year.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 07 :
So along your line, Scott, even if...
SPEAKER 05 :
some goods that people would buy at walmart let's say are up you know 10 they don't buy near as many goods at walmart weekly as they do gas so overall they're still spending less correct that that is correct and so to your point of what you're saying earlier as you know these other countries get get their uh interest rates down you should see the same thing with the u.s just
SPEAKER 07 :
just from a competitive standpoint.
SPEAKER 05 :
And the reason why I say I think, Scott, some of these other countries may have some struggles along those lines is with some of the tariff deals that are going on right now. Keep in mind that some of them were collecting a lot of money in tariffs from countries From, again, I get it, there's the importers that are coming in, but at the end of the day, they're still collecting a lot of those tariffs that are offsetting some of their costs, if you would, at the end of the day, as government goes. And the reality is some of that's not going to be coming in like it once was, meaning that that's going to be a hit to their economy.
SPEAKER 07 :
This is true. I mean, in fact, the U.S. last month, I think it saw the most tariff revenue it's ever collected.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right. That's right. Now, really quick, along those lines, and I said this during the 3 o'clock hour where this is where me and tariffs are a little different than most. Even with the big Trump tax bill, the big bill that's going through right now. Unfortunately, Scott, and this is where I have a complaint with. these particular bills, and even the first tax cuts that Donald Trump did. Unfortunately, we in this country have about 46% of Americans that pay zero taxes, zero income taxes, which I don't agree with, by the way. I think everybody needs to pay some of their fair share. Now, what Trump is doing in regards to tariffs actually make them pay some tax. Yeah, they're paying it to Walmart, but at the end of the day, they're paying some tax that they otherwise would not be, meaning they're now going to be net taxpayers, not net tax receivers.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, correct. And, you know, the other problem, like, or not problem, but one of the issues I have with that parable that you're talking about, too, in terms of, you know, 46% don't pay taxes. You know, of the 54% that do, the bulk of that's coming from the top end. That's right. And there's this whole parable, like, we want rich people to pay their fair share. Well, rich people are paying most of the taxes.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right. That's right. Exactly.
SPEAKER 07 :
And it's just it's a false narrative.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's exactly right. No. And so, again, I look at a lot of what's going on right now. And, yes, it's not going to happen overnight. It takes a little time for things to work out. There's one particular party that would not want to see these things actually work out. They want to be you know, they want to do anything they possibly can to throw a monkey wrench into things, although I don't think they can. I do think as time goes by. These things that you and I are talking about right now will work their way out. I do think there'll be a positive effect when it's all said and done. If you can just get people to relax a little bit and realize that it's all going to be okay at the end of the day, and as you and I are talking about, Scott, as we put more economic pressure on other countries because our economy does really well and theirs isn't, that will, in fact, bring interest rates and that end of things down.
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That is correct, and that's why you've seen China already come in. They're looking to make a deal because their economy had so much trouble coming out of the first go-round, and now they're seeing the same thing again. And there's another narrative that's being pushed right now in the media is that Europe isn't interested in striking a deal with the U.S. Well, news came out just yesterday that Europe's getting ready to present the U.S. with a new offer for a tariff deal. They want to They want to work a trade.
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They don't have a choice. Scott, as we keep talking and I can't tell you how many people I've reminded of this. We are the biggest customer in the world. These countries can't do what they do without us. We've never leveraged that before like we are right now. Shame on us, by the way, for not doing so, because I can tell you what, Scott, my big customers leverage their things on me on a continual basis. Why have we never done that as a country?
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It's fair. I mean, if the end goal is very low or zero tariff trade, great. Everybody should be breaking down their tariffs so our goods are able to trade freely all over the world and our companies do well.
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The problem with that, Scott, as you know, is other countries are still going to lose revenue when it's all said and done. That's the biggest reason why some of these folks didn't want to come to the table. But what they're also realizing is, hmm, if we get no trade, there's no revenue. So you know what? A little bit less revenue is still better than zero. Yes, yes. And these countries are now starting to realize that. And, again, you can thank, you know, the likes of Donald Trump and the advisors that are around him and so on. And what I'm struggling, Scott, is, and you know my feelings on the Fed, is where I'm struggling is why can't the Fed figure out what I just said? Or, you know, have they and they just don't want to admit it? Which is it?
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You know, I think it's some of them have and they just don't want to admit it. You know, one really interesting thing is, The one guy I respect the most right now is Christopher Waller. Christopher Waller was the head of the St. Louis Fed or the head of St. Louis Fed research. And again, pre-pandemic and post-pandemic, they did some of the most incredible economic research and forecasting of anybody out there. They called the whole rebound. They called everything. Waller said, look, if we have 10 percent tariffs across the board with everybody, the Fed should be able to cut rates. No problem.
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And by the way, I don't see that not being a target that can't be reached.
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I agree. And so I think that's where we're headed. And I think that's kind of the end goal. And so if we get there, then, hey, the Fed can start cutting rates again.
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Yeah, and I can see that. I can see that out on the horizon, and I'm with you. Now, here's a question for you. How does that affect a lot of these folks you talked about earlier that have hedged the other way?
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That's going to be a problem. And so... I'm a fan of buying the S&P 500 right here, and if you want just an easy way to do that is the State Street Global S&P 500 ETF, SPY, because all those guys that are short the stock market right now, they're going to have to cover that short, which means they're going to have to buy back in all that stock, and then they're going to want to go long, so they're going to want to buy even more of it, and all that's going to do is fuel the rally, and what it'll wind up doing is taking the stock market above the all-time highs that were set back in February.
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Gotcha. I don't think that's too far out, to be honest with you, Scott. I think we'll see that within the next couple of months.
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Could be late summer, yes.
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Yeah, yeah. Okay, Scott, get back to your practice. I appreciate you taking time out of your day for us.
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John, thanks for your time.
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Really quick before I let you go, how do folks find you?
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Oh, sure. You can find me on LinkedIn, Twitter, or Substack. C. Scott Garlis.
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All right, we are back. Appreciate Scott Garlis again joining us as he did. Today was not his normal day, but I appreciate him making some changes this week, and you can hear he's in the background. He volunteers and does some coaching and so on, so I appreciate him taking time for us. Okay, I saw today that Mayor Mike Johnston, he's the mayor of Denver, city of Denver. is basically admitting or saying that there's been no growth in Denver, doesn't predict any growth in Denver. So no growth for 2025. He doesn't predict any growth for 2026 either. I think I'm saying that right, Charlie, or was it 2024, 2025, or 2025, 2026? Anyways, two years, he's predicting no growth. We've had no growth, in fact, even a retraction, if you would, and no future growth. Now, Mike, this isn't that difficult. If you'd like me to consult you on how to make more growth in Denver, I am more than willing to sit down and have a chat and tell you what you're doing wrong and why you have no growth in Denver. This is really not complicated. I literally, in an hour-long conversation with you, I'll have everything prepped on the front side. I'll bullet point the way it needs to be done. And I can show you how to put growth back into Denver in a very, very minimal amount of time. First things first, by the way. Clean up your homelessness. First and foremost. Stop catering to them and stop catering to the illegal aliens that come into this town. Those two things alone will encourage growth in Denver itself. Clean up the city, in other words. It's that simple. This is not rocket science. Mike, you are the mayor. I know you're not a dumb man. You have the ability to do what I just said. Why don't you? But instead, you'll let things flounder along and complain about no growth and this, that, and the other, and you'll blame it on everything under the sun, including Donald Trump, and it's his policies, and it's this, and it's that. Yeah, but you and Polis run the state, basically, and you guys are in charge, and if there's no growth, you can't blame that on the federal government and on Donald Trump. This is on you. You and Polis. You guys have the power to do the very things I just mentioned. Fix it. Not complicate it. But here's the thing, you won't, because you like whining and moaning and complaining and blaming on everything but yourself. Go look in the mirror. This is on you. Which, by the way, Mike, I want to remind you, you ran on cleaning up homelessness. Am I right, Charlie, on that? He ran on being mayor of Denver and cleaning up homelessness. That was his 180-day plan or whatever it was. Yeah, 100-day, sorry, 100-day plan. That was it. We've we've way gone past 100 days and he didn't clean it up. You failed, Mike. You failed miserably. In fact, the homelessness problem across the front range has gotten so bad that it's now in a lot of the suburbs and so on. And those towns aren't doing anything about it either. And they need to. My feeling is give them all a one way bus ticket somewhere else. Literally, it's that simple. Mandate they leave. We're no longer going to put up with things. Run them out of town anytime they start to set up a camp. It's that simple. Get rid of them. You guys can tell I have no sympathy for the homeless at all. Zero. Zilch. Go get a job. Yes, I understand. Some of them have big problems mental health-wise and so on. But I also know that multiple places in this whole Front Range area, they can go and get help for free. Get straightened out. Get off the drugs. Get off the alcohol. Get themselves straightened out. We have many a program in this town to help those individuals that truly want help. Right, Charlie? Yes, we do. Many. Here's the key. They don't want to. It's easy being homeless. And I've said this before, too. In a lot of cases, they're not homeless. They panhandle and they make it look like they're homeless, but they're not. That's a different story. Those people are not camped out in the camps and throwing their junk and feces and so on all over the place. Those aren't the people that I'm talking about. The people that I just mentioned, they need to run out of town, period. Get a job. You're not going to stay here anymore. This isn't going to be how it's going to work. We're going to clean up the city. Because, by the way, just cleaning up the city, taking care of the two problems that I've mentioned, homelessness and the illegal migration to Denver. You clean those two things up, and the retail will flourish. People will come back to downtown. They'll spend money again. It's really simple, Mike. This isn't that complicated. Again, I could give you a three-fold plan how to implement it and help you get it done, and it would change overnight. But you won't do it because you're too stubborn and too stupid to actually do that. I'd love to talk to Mike one-on-one. I wouldn't even do it on air. Just a one-on-one conversation off air, find out where his head is, and help him with this because it's not that complicated. So we've got to take a break here in a couple of minutes. We've got one call coming in that I'll make very quick because we're short on time here with where we're at as far as the rest of the hour goes. Dan, go ahead. We've got a couple of minutes. Go for it, sir.
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Just like individuals, governments enable people to be homeless and to continue in their
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Yep.
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And they don't know how to not enable them because they want to be compassionate. But the most way to be compassionate is to stop enabling them. Yep, that's exactly right, Dan. You say kick them out, but it's like, okay, you want to be here in Denver, you're going to have to do certain things, and we're not going to let you do... What you're doing, and that's the enabling that they're doing by letting them set up these camps and stuff.
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Dan, it's no different than letting your child that is an adult that should be out on their own. They finished college. Who knows what the situation is, but they're done with everything. It's no different than letting them live in your basement. You're enabling them to live in the basement.
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Yep.
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No different.
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They need to learn to stop. That's right. Oh, I'm losing you.
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Dan, I'll let you go. I appreciate it very much. We're up against a break anyways. Thank you. I appreciate your vote of confidence, and you're exactly right. Enabling them is not helping them at the end of the day. Golden Eagle Financial up next, by the way. Al Smith, would love to help you with your future finances, much like we talk to Scott on a daily or weekly basis. You can talk to Al anytime you want. 303-744-1128.
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It's time to leave your safe space. This is Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
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All right, wrapping up for today. One last thing about the city of Denver. In their illustrious wisdom, they have renamed 16th Street Mall 16th Street. Yep, that's going to revitalize things, get people back downtown, get some growth back in for Mike Johnston. No, folks, not going to do anything. Yeah, they spent $200 million and were renaming it 16th Street. I mean, give me a break, folks. Anyways, that's it for tonight. Have a great evening. Be safe out there. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
Join Dr. Scott and Jeremy Sova as they navigate the fascinating intersections of traditional medicine and innovative treatments. From the neurological benefits of methylene blue and hyperbaric therapies to the nuances of psilocybin in mental health, this episode challenges conventional wisdom. A special focus is placed on the extraordinary anti-aging potentials of rapamycin, revealing insights into how this ancient compound is reshaping our understanding of longevity. The conversation also unfolds into discussions on the potential of psilocybin and ketamine to ease depression and anxiety, providing fresh perspectives on mental health management.
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You are going to shut your damn yapper and listen for a change because I got you pegged, sweetheart. You want to take the easy way out because you're scared. And you're scared because if you try and fail, there's only you to blame. Let me break this down for you. Life is scary. Get used to it. There are no magical fixes. With your host, John Rush.
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My advice to you is to do what your parents did! Get a job, sir!
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You haven't made everybody equal. You've made them the same and there's a big difference.
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Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there. It is this feeling that has brought you to me.
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Are you crazy? Am I? Or am I so sane that you just blew your mind?
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It's Rush to Reason with your host, John Rush, presented by Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning.
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Welcome back, listeners. It's actually Dr. Scott filling in for John on this beautiful Health and Wellness Wednesday in Denver, Colorado, Hour 2. For those of you who missed Hour 1, I've been talking to Jeremy Sova, who is a patient-slash-client of ours at the Castle Rock Regenerative Healthcare Center down in Castle Rock. And we are talking about intelligent aging and all the things that Jeremy's done because he's on the same journey as most all of us because we're all getting older. The clock is ticking. Some things we know about, some things we don't. But before we get back into Jeremy's story, I wanted to remind folks that. I am now one of the principal investigators for a new medication. I've signed a nondisclosure, so I can't tell you the name of it, but it is actually to treat Alzheimer's dementia. And it is going to be incredible. The studies that have been out, people who have a mini mental status exam score of, say, 19, they're getting back up to 30, and 30 is a perfect score. It is given as an IV infusion. It's typically one infusion every 28 days. The average person needs about six infusions. So if you want to learn more and the next question, and I will just be blunt, no, insurance doesn't cover this because this is an investigational new drug. and um under the compassionate use so unfortunately insurance doesn't pay for this but if you have a loved one and you want the methylene blue and you want the hyperbaric that we do at the office but this new medication is insane and how it reverses dementia um I am the only principal investigator that I know of in northern Colorado doing this now. So if you want more information, reach out to my office, 303-663-6990, and I'll be happy to guide you and see if your loved one is a potential candidate for this. The exclusion is you have to be 56 years or older. So it's not for younger folks. That's just the rules they set down for this medication. So pretty exciting stuff. Well, that's very cool.
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I heard you mentioned something called methylene blue in there.
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Yes.
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There's a lot of chatter about that. What is it doing?
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So I had Dr. Fortin on, my neurologist partner, because we've created this brain center in the office with the hyperbaric chamber. He does a lot with traumatic brain injuries, dementia, PTSD, things like that. And methylene blue was invented back in the late 1800s as a dye for blue jeans. And who's the first person who ever decides to test this stuff or use it? I don't know. But it's any neurologic condition. It improves the synapses and it's anti-inflammatory. So at low doses. high doses can start to get you into trouble. And we're talking 50 milligrams down is a safe dose. You start getting 100 or more, and you can get side effects. But it repairs the synapses in the neurons of your brain. And basically what Dr. Fortin says is if you have a neurologic condition, anybody should be on methylene blue. So Judy, my wife, and I, we started taking methylene blue. The really cool party trick is it turns your pee green. I get blue and yellow make green. But I've started giving it to any of my patients who have cognitive impairment neurologic disorders and we're actually seeing improvement along with the hyperbaric because it's multi-modality sure but um in a nutshell in layman's terms without getting too scientific that's basically the nuts and bolts of how methylene blue works That's great.
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It was kind of a loaded question because I've been putting it in my coffee now for about six months in the morning. But I did find out since I have close ones to me that are on serotonin, select serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs.
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SSRIs, yeah, Prozac, Paxil, Lexapro, those. You could get a serotonin syndrome, but again, when we're in the safe zone, because I prescribe 15 milligrams, you're not going to see a serotonin syndrome.
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Oh, great.
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Because when you get the higher doses, then you can start getting into trouble. Gotcha. But that opens up a whole other can of worms is should you be on an SSRI or not? And I told you before we went on air that I have a friend of mine, Sam Peterson, who owns my spa Denver on Frequently. And I did not know this. Sam taught me that in the studies, they did a head-to-head study, Prozac versus Saffron. And Saffron is actually more effective as an antidepressant than Prozac. It's incredible.
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A flower over a drug. Imagine that.
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We now know that depression has nothing to do with serotonin. Literally. And I just learned that through the A4M conference two weeks ago. Wow. So we have been throwing pills at people right and left, making them zombies. Because what I've noticed, and back when I was a young doc in the early 2000s, is, oh, you have depression or anxiety, you need an SSRI. And So my patients, they would say, well, I'm not depressed, but I'm not happy. And the word that every one of them would say is I feel like a zombie. I'm just kind of numb in between. I don't feel the highs. I don't feel the lows. I can't stand this. So now our job is to try and peel people away and off these SSRIs. And I guess we should just go there because we had talked about, um, psilocybin, which I don't have a lot of experience with. So I send people over to Sam because he does a lot more with the psilocybin. For those who don't know what psilocybin is, it's magic mushrooms, right?
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So the primary drug in mushrooms.
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Yeah. So when you were in college and you were tripping and you saw cool colors, um, it was a psilocybin high. We're not trying to get you high, um, necessarily. We're actually trying to rewire your brain. That's correct. And so if you want to take that and run with it, go for it.
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Sure. So being in the cannabis industry for several years, you would hear about medical benefits potentially with both THC and psilocybin, which was kind of the next wave. Didn't pay a whole lot of attention to it. And I had used it recreationally in college many, many years ago. And probably in more macro doses than micro doses, and in some cases not enjoyable at all. But as it's evolved, and I'll basically plug Dr. Andrew Huberman out of Stanford, he spent, you can look it up, he's got a podcast episode on psilocybin, I think it's about two hours in length, and he breaks down, and it's all backed by studies and proof, but he breaks down that somebody that is on an SSRI or is clinically depressed or has severe anxiety, can take two macro doses about 10 days apart in a macro dose, probably in the 250 to 300 milligrams per. The key is you have to be blindfolded. That's like the secret recipe is you cannot take the blindfold off. It's a six-hour journey times two, 10 days apart. And you lay the patient down blindfolded in a safe space, safe room with a babysitter that's not on psilocybin or any other substance, so to speak. And you start with real slow classical type music, some Mozart, some Bach, some Beethoven. And then like kind of hour two or three, you start to kind of take things up and to a point that you kind of peak or climax at a lot of heavy percussion and, you know, medley sounds really intense. And then you kind of take it down into what I call like the Enya type spa music, real relaxing. And in that six hour journey, you know, it's kind of part one. Then you wait 10 days and you do the same thing a second time. And the research is showing and the results are showing and the patients are telling their stories that it literally rewired their prefrontal cortex permanently, you know, for the rest of their lives correctly. So they no longer have these anxiety or depression issues. So it's not like you're taking, you know, mushrooms every day to try to manage it, you know. And again, you know, recreational use of certain things is a kind of a different topic today. But you can really fix the brain, you know, versus being on these what I call these SSRIs or poisons.
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Yes.
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You know, and they're on them. I mean, I have loved ones that have been on for decades. All right. And they're afraid to kind of step outside the box or wean down. And there's you can't really pick up the phone and ask your primary care physician about it. Right. You know, they're probably going to fire you as a patient. So it's an emerging space. I think it's a very interesting one. And then you start to see the introduction of what they're calling really low-dose ketamine. You've got different isomers.
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So let's hold on to low-dose ketamine. We'll pick that up. We're going to have to go to a break and then take the segue for low-dose ketamine when we come back. Sounds good. So you're listening to Dr. Scott filling in. John Rush, 560 KLZ. We'll be right back.
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Al Smith from Golden Eagle Financial and the show you love, Retirement Unpacked, is here with me. How are you today, Al? I'm doing great. How are you, TJ? I'm doing great as well. I have a couple questions for you.
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As a financial advisor, do you also do taxes? No, I don't prepare my clients' taxes. I do, however, spend a lot of time talking to them about taxes. To use a sports analogy, tax preparation is like doing a recap of the game. What I do is more like creating a game plan and then following up over time to see how it's working.
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And how much are taxes a part of that game plan that you create?
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Well, with so many different taxes we're faced with, it becomes an important thing to take into consideration. It's not how much income you have, but how much you get to keep. In addition to federal and state income taxes, there's property taxes, state and local sales tax, and fees. And they all play a part in shrinking our income.
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What about people who already have really healthy balances in 401ks, IRAs? Won't they be facing significant taxes as they draw income from those accounts?
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Well, it depends. Everybody's situation's a little bit different. There's no one size that fits all when it comes to tax planning. But often when I work with people, we'll create a strategy where we will convert traditional IRAs to Roth over time. And that not only reduces taxes in the future, but it will also lower the tax they'll be paying on their Social Security.
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Is that kind of strategy really only for the wealthy?
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Not at all. Many of my clients who have modest IRAs have chosen to convert to Roth over time. They enjoy the freedom of having a tax-free nest egg that they can access on their own timeline rather than an RMD schedule.
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Well, that is excellent. And how can people reach you if they want to learn about their own taxation in retirement?
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You can reach me through KLZ or contact my office at 303-744-1128. And when you call, I'll provide you with a summary of all the tax changes for 2025.
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Investment advisory services offered through Brookstone Capital Management, LLC. A registered investment advisor. Putting reason into your afternoon drive, this is John Rush. It's actually Dr. Scott filling in for John Rush on this beautiful Wednesday. John had a thing with a grandchild, so...
SPEAKER 05 :
He said, hey, can you fill in? I said, absolutely. So here I am, and I brought Jeremy Sova, one of my patients slash clients, with me because his story is classic, and I thought the audience could learn a lot from somebody who's not myself because I could just spill out medical stuff all day long, and your eyes would glaze over, and you're like, who is this guy? And I'm tired of listening to him. But when you hear it from somebody who's a layperson, businessman, very successful, and But all the things that you've gone through, I think it will resonate more with the listening audience. So we had been talking about pharmaceuticals, and we're going to go back to rapamycin. There's a couple of things I want to talk about, especially in hour two, because people are driving in their car. People are hopping on, hopping off, not sure what we talked about 15 minutes ago. So we'll come back to that topic later. But we were talking about low-dose ketamine, and you were going to take that segue and talk about ketamine.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, that's great. So I'm sure there's multiple uses for both psilocybin and ketamine in what we call the anxiety and depression space. But my research and people that I've spoken to kind of shows that, you know, the fixing the prefrontal cortex for what we call true depression, you know, is really psilocybin specialty. But a lot of folks aren't necessarily depressed, but they're very anxious, right? Especially now.
SPEAKER 05 :
It's huge.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. And the more gadgets we get and the more robots and the harder life gets, you know, anxiety just continues to climb, climb, climb. So what I've found with people that I know and people that I've read about is that really low doses of ketamine. Let me back up. Ketamine has a couple of isomers. There's an R isomer and there's an S isomer. The R isomer is more of what I call a calming for the body. You know, when the S isomer is a little more mind oriented, if you will. So for the purposes of this discussion, talking about anxiety, we'll focus on the R isomer. But you can take, depending on your body weight, somewhere between 15 and 45 milligrams daily. Orally, you notice a trochee dissolves into your tongue. And within like five or ten minutes, you have this overwhelming tidal wave of calmness that quells any anxiety that you can possibly muster up. And it lasts for about a four-hour period. And if you take it kind of midday, it doesn't affect your sleep quality. And I found it to be, obviously it's a disassociative. They're using them for other things like EMTs, using them for car accidents and broken bones. Take the brain away from the injury temporarily while you can repair it. But from an anxiety perspective, I had no idea. You know, you hear about ketamine here. It's a horse tranquilizer and people are using it recreationally and going into these K holes. And, you know, unfortunately, God, you know, God forbid, like a Matthew Perry situation where he was being treated for it. And then he also got some more of it on his own and ended up going to a K hole in his hot tub and drowned. So you'd be very careful. But if you're under doctor supervision, right, and you're only getting enough, you know, that you need and you're getting it periodically the correct way. I think it has incredible benefits.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's exactly right. We've seen so many lives changed and getting off of these toxic drugs that Big Pharma wants you to be hooked on for the rest of your lives. It's truly... amazing what these things can do and again your regular doctor doesn't know about this he'll hear the word ketamine is like that's an anesthetic or that's what matthew perry overdose with no why you can't have this go away right and that's why i've teamed up with uh sam peterson there at mind spot denver because i do what i do very well but there's things that i don't want to touch And as we were talking during the break, I had looked at ketamine since we do IV fluids, IV infusions, that I thought, okay, well, this could definitely help because I have so many friends that are veterans, have PTSD, traumatic brain injuries, the whole nine yards. I thought this ketamine can definitely help them. But the more I learned about that journey and you can hurt somebody very, very badly and very quickly if you do not know what you're doing. Sure. So I said, if I can't do it well, I'm not going to do it all. So I've opted to team with Sam and the guys at MindSpot Denver and say, that's your field. That's what you do all day, every day. You do it very, very well. And you take insurance, whereas I don't. And so, but a low-dose ketamine or even like a low-dose naltrexone, right, for autoimmune disorders and chronic pain so I don't have to give you a pill of OxyContin or morphine or something like that. We have so many cool alternatives. That reminds me, I wanted to talk to you about CBD and CBG for pain since you were in that space. But we have to go back, remember, and we were going to talk about rapamycin.
SPEAKER 16 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 05 :
So we have to finish that thought first before we go into some of these alternatives for pain. And since you're an expert, you were in the field, I thought who better to ask? Sounds great. So let's talk about the rapamycin. Back to that, those who missed it in the first hour.
SPEAKER 16 :
So rapamycin, call it a drug that's been around for a long time for organ transplant, making sure an organ in a patient takes appropriately. Turns out it was originally founded in Easter Island, middle of the ocean, volcanic island southwest of the Peru-Chile area. And all kinds of locals were living over 100 in a number that wasn't seen in other populations throughout the world. And they found out that there was Rapamui is the name of the volcano, which rapamycin came from. So they basically were drinking the groundwater from the volcano and they were living longer. So now we've learned that you can harness the power of rapamycin in the correct dosages. And it's very important that you titrate up very slowly over time. Um, unlike, you know, Brian Johnson from Netflix, the don't die guy. Um, you want to start very slow, take a break, one milligram month off, two milligram month off and work up. My sweet spot for me is about 6.6 milligrams now. And it's taken me almost two years to get here very slowly titrating up. Um, and you're attacking what they call mTOR C1, but you're not overdoing it and touching mTOR C2. So mTOR C1 will help you anti-age, reverse age, improve health span. mTOR C2 will actually accelerate your aging. You'll start to get side effects like mouth sores and skin issues. So under the right doctor's supervision that writes you the script and can monitor you over time, You can figure out what the correct dosage is, but rapamycin is probably the number one most important anti-aging pharmaceutical on the planet from what I can tell.
SPEAKER 05 :
And how does that tie in with metformin?
SPEAKER 16 :
Great question. So in some cases, if people are sensitive to hyperglycemia, pre-diabetic, and they're not using a monitor to check their blood sugar levels, if they dive into rapamycin either too soon, it's possible that it can increase your chances of hyperglycemia. So what we found is if you pair the rapamycin with 500 or 1,000 milligrams of metformin daily, and we could talk about metformin for a But those two things together prevent what we're seeing as the one potential side effect that's negative with the rapamycin use at the right titrated levels.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, that's exactly right. And as we talked about earlier, it's all insulin resistance that's leading our cells to be damaged, long-term aging, Alzheimer's, heart attacks, strokes. So anything that you can do to prevent that is good. I try to get a lot of people off their metformin and on a GLP-1. But in a case like this, metformin is actually beneficial for you. Correct.
SPEAKER 16 :
I take both the metformin and the GLP-1.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep. We have a caller, Ben in Evergreen. He wants to talk about inflammatory markers. So let's take his call and see what Ben has to say. Ben, you're on with Dr. Scott and Jeremy.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, doctor. This is for either one of you guys. I have asthma. And how often do you see, you know, like a pancreatic insufficiency that's messing with blood sugar? I have a number of food allergies, but if I eat well, it generally goes away. And with the thing like Dr. Hyman's got, functional labs or whatever, can they find these inflammatory markers for respiratory problems like asthma?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, the problem with most inflammatory markers is they're not totally specific, especially for asthma. Like if you had rheumatoid arthritis, we could do a rheumatoid factor, and that's more specific. If you had something like lupus, we can do an ANA, and there's a certain pattern double-stranded DNA that is more specific for lupus. But in asthma, it's just the fact that you have asthma, you have inflammation, right? You've had it for years. We know this for a fact. If you're having a flare, and I did something called a C-reactive protein or CRP, then your markers will be elevated. But the fact is you have asthma, you have inflammation. So you should be doing everything in your power to decrease the inflammatory with or without asthma. You should be doing everything. So the glutathiones of the world. It's wonderful as an anti-inflammatory. Asthmatics, you have to stay away from NSAIDs and aspirin, right? I'm sure you've been told that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I've got my doctor recommends an aspirin a day, but I've been I take walnuts, fish oil.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep, omega-3 fish oil.
SPEAKER 07 :
There's plant sterols. Okay, yes. I think that's more for cholesterol. But those seem to be working pretty well. But like you said, if you don't measure it, how do you manage it?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, that's it. You can have more than one thing going on.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right? Yeah. Yeah, but I like that statement. That is really good. Yeah, Jeremy's a smart guy.
SPEAKER 16 :
And as a patient, the first thing I would do is I would ask, I would obviously get the Hyman labs done, but I would ask my doctor to test me for all the inflammatory markers in my blood that he possibly could. you know, the SED rate test, the C-reactive protein, and you're going to start to whittle things down. And you might find out that, you know, simple, you know, umbilical cord stem cell injections every six months could, you know, clean the lungs up, you know, but you really got to figure out which inflammatory markers are elevated and for which reasons. Yep.
SPEAKER 05 :
And back to your question about the pancreas is we do see that occasionally where you have pancreatic insufficiency as well. My down and dirty is I just give people pancreatic enzymes with a few meals. And if suddenly your stools get better, you have no abdominal pain, you have pancreatic insufficiency. I don't have to get a ton of tests, expensive tests. If the treatment helps, then you're done.
SPEAKER 16 :
And if you do the function health test, you'll get the, is it pronase and kinase? You'll get all the different pancreatic enzyme markers included. It's one of the organs that they focus on. And if something's out of whack, it'd be a good place to start digging. Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
I've taken this supplement before called QBC. I think it's by now. And when I was doing that kind of hot and heavy, it really managed. It's got quercetin, vitamin C, and bromelain. And it seemed like it hit the sweet spot.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
But I think I could use some more labs. And then as far as the pancreas goes, I've seen some stuff online where they go, hey, your problem, there's a... what you call, what do I want to say, a parasite or a bacteria in your pancreas, and it's not blood sugar is what they say. And I'm thinking, that sounds too easy. Where are you guys at with that?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I mean, as a guy who's practiced internal medicine and critical care for 29 years, if you had an infection, a bacteria in your pancreas, you'd be in the ICU and I'd be putting a drain in your abscess. So no, you don't have bacteria in your pancreas.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. So we can kind of rule that out.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, sir.
SPEAKER 07 :
But I'm going to get with my doctor. And can you do that, these tests? Yes. If you're on Medicare, there's a lot of arm wrestling to get them done. You can't.
SPEAKER 05 :
But you have to – most of these things you are going to probably pay out of pocket because Medicare doesn't like to pay for things other than basic labs. They will fight your doctor tooth and nail. He has to have specific diagnosis codes, ICD-10 codes. But if you have a creative doctor who will work with you, he can get most of these things paid for. But that's one of the problems that we run into. And that's why I just stopped taking insurance. It's like you're going to pay or you're not. You have to make a decision. And so. Like on the pancreas, that's why I say just try the pancreatic enzymes. It's fairly inexpensive because when you start tacking on all these biomarkers, these labs, and the price tag can go up. Well, a lot of the patients are on a fixed income or they don't have that much disposable income. So we have to find creative ways to either treat you to see if it worked and get insurance to pay for it, or we get very creative. And most doctors don't have the time to get really creative with their ICD-10 codes so that all these different biomarkers are covered.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, my recommendation as a patient is, you know, if you choose to do the function health, I think that's the best one on the market today. That's to say there isn't some competition popping up. It's 500 bucks, 42 bucks a month. You have to pay one. So $500 for the whole year. And it gives you over a hundred of these biomarkers. So you get the results after three weeks. And if you see some stuff that's out of range, take it to your doctor. He doesn't need to order labs. You already have them. Like say, Hey, look, this is off. What can we do about it? That way it takes the pressure off of him, you know, to a certain degree. And if, um, if they're not willing to work with you, I would suggest getting another doctor.
SPEAKER 07 :
And if I didn't go that functional health way, which sounds good. But looking at options, if I had to pay out of pocket with some of these other labs, would I get about the same amount of money?
SPEAKER 05 :
No, not even close. More? Oh, a lot more. Because if you just go to a lab, if your doctor just writes a script or you get somebody to write a script and you go into, say, a Quest or a LabCorp, you're talking thousands of dollars. So, like, I have sat down with the representative from Quest, and I beat them up over price. So things that might cost you $800, in my office it's $300. But if you just walk into a lab and say, I'm going to pay cash, they are going to rape you. Wow.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes. Well, I think part of my action plan is get some more of the pancreatic enzymes and maybe try some of that glutathione. Is that an over-the-counter?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, you can take the precursor called NAC, N-acetylcysteine. Yes. But I'm the type of person, if I want NAC to turn to glutathione, then I just take glutathione. Right.
SPEAKER 16 :
And yes, you can purchase it over-the-counter on Amazon. You don't need a prescription to get either of those two things. Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
Good to know. Well, thanks for the call, Ben. We have to go to a break. We're a little bit long, so appreciate the call. You're listening to Dr. Scott and Jeremy Sova filling in for John Rush, and we'll be right back.
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Welcome back, listeners. This is Dr. Scott Filani for John Rush. If you want to join us like Ben did, give us a call at 303-477-5600. If you want to reach me at my office there at Castle Rock Regenerative Healthcare down in Castle Rock, our number is 303-663-6990. Or you can reach us at castlerockregenerativehealth.com. Or again, you can go to John Rush's website, Rush to Reason. And since I'm one of the sponsors, there's a link there to get a hold of us. And for those of you who are driving and you're like, I can't remember all this stuff, I can't write it down, this will be on Rush to Reason's website posted, the podcast, later this evening. So if you need to go back because you missed something or you want to give it to a loved one, especially talking about the medication for Alzheimer's, again, I'll give you that information. I am a professional. He's an investigator for a new medication that has been approved to treat Alzheimer's dementia. Whether you have Parkinson's or not, your primary diagnosis can be Alzheimer's, and a lot of folks who have Parkinson's have Alzheimer's as well. No insurance does not cover it. It is an IV infusion, takes about an hour, and the average person does about six treatments, 28 days or thereabouts apart. And the beautiful thing is right now there's no side effects to this medication. But that's why they have provisional investigators like myself to get more data, more patients, to make sure it's truly safe. Right now, there's been thousands of patients who have not had any issues at all, but it will be a game changer. Unfortunately, insurance doesn't cover it, but if you have a loved one who's suffering from this horrible condition, whether or not you can come down and do the hyperbaric chamber, which is one of the things we recommend, the methylene blues, another, the GLP-1s, Jeremy and I were talking earlier about the weight loss medications under the family of GLP-1s. Those of you who missed it in hour one, the GLPs are the semaglutides, terazeptides, and now the latest and greatest is redatrutide. Those medications are showing that it can stave off Alzheimer's dementia. We now know for a fact that Alzheimer's is type 3 diabetes. That's what we're calling it. It has everything to do with insulin resistance. And so we're seeing some of those beta amyloid plaques and tau protein actually melt away from people's brains. So I'm no longer saying, oh, unfortunately, you need this just to lose a little weight and then to come off. There's actually good reasons to be on these things long term. That's why I like them a little better than the metformin. But as we discussed with the use of rapamycin, metformin is not a bad thing. And this also segues away into another thing I want to talk about is that true insulin resistance. Because you don't know whether you have insulin resistance or not. Again, your standard blood panel that you get from your doctor won't really show this unless, say, you go in there and your blood sugar is 120. And he goes, oh, that's a little high. We should monitor that. No, you have a problem. I talked to a patient a couple of days ago, and this is exactly what happened to her, is her blood sugar was a little high. Her A1C started at 5.7 and started to creep up, and now it's 6.5, which is the diagnosis of diabetes. But she was telling her doctor three years ago, hey, should we be concerned? Hey, should we be concerned? The doctor was like, oh, no, you're in the normal range. You're perfectly fine. Well, we know what's coming down the pike. You're going to have problems. And this insulin resistance is leading to all sorts of bad things down the road, the heart attacks, the strokes, the Alzheimer's, dementia. So we jumped on it. We got her on a GLP medication. Now her A1C is coming down. She's feeling better, and we're going to stave off a lot of these horrible conditions. But one of the things that you can do for yourself without permission from your doctor is you can go online to Stelo, S-T-E-L-O. Stelo is a continuous glucose monitor, or CGM. And I tell my patients, just type it in. It's made by Dexcom. I don't have stock. I don't have any money in Dexcom or Stello. But it puts you in the driver's seat. So a lot of things that I try to do is empower my patients to do things for themselves, learn for themselves, just like Jeremy. He didn't need my help. The guy is super smart on all these things. But if you put one of these continuous glucose monitors on, and pair it with your smartphone, is you will see in real time what your blood sugar is doing. And it will be an eye-opener. You will see what kind of foods that you eat impact your blood sugar. So I was just talking to my son-in-law last night, and he had worn one. He's a baker down at Colorado Springs at the French Bakery. and certain of their pastries you eat one of them and man your sugar goes to 130 and it's not as much the spike it's how long does your sugar stay up known as the area under the curve the higher the spike the slower it comes down the more insulin resistance you have And you're going to see exactly what kind of foods messes with you. And so knowledge is power, right? So if you say, okay, well, if I had a donut and my sugar spiked to 160 and it stayed up for two hours, okay. I think that's kind of bad. Now you're going to avoid the donut shop. Sorry, Dunkin' Donuts owners. But you're going to make a healthier choice or you're going to say, no, I don't need that. So now suddenly you're in the driver's seat and you're empowered. So I throw that out there. Again, it's called Stello. There might be others. That's the one that I recommend my patients use. It's 99 bucks and there comes two monitors in the box. So you and your spouse or a loved one can do it together and make a contest out of it. Say, hey, my sugar is better than yours. And I don't know, the winner gets a prize or something like that. But something that you can do for yourselves. And the other thing is start getting some aerobic exercise mixed with the weights, weight training. Again, we talked to the GLP-1s in the first segment. Regardless of whether you're on one of these medications or not, you do need to start getting some exercise. What I have done for myself is I purchased something called a Carol bike, C-A-R-O-L, like Carol Burnett. The crazy thing about the Carroll bike is it kind of looks like a Peloton, but it increases your VO2 max. And what is VO2 max? It's your oxygen consumption and how well your body, your cells, are utilizing oxygen, the fuel. Well, you can increase your VO2 max like crazy in a 10 minute workout. That's right. I said 10 minutes. So we're on your Peloton. You have to sit there for 45 minutes to an hour and you're racing against a whole bunch of people. I don't know about you, but I don't have that kind of time. So the Carol bike will give you the same workout and increase your VO2 max better than anything else out there in 10 minutes. So that's a little aerobic tidbit that I can give to you, especially in the colder winter months here in Colorado. So something you can do for yourself and then get some weights. Start doing a little weight training. Put some lean muscle mass on your body and it will pay dividends. So we went a little long in the last segment. We're going to take a break now. You're listening to Dr. Scott filling in for John Rush, and we'll be right back.
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We don't yell at you. We inform you. Now, back to Rush to Reason. Dr. Scott Faulkner, informing you on this Health and Wellness Wednesday. And we were just joined in the studio by my good friend, John Flouting, owner, you and your brothers at Revitalize there in Littleton. Like-minded folks. Yes, absolutely. So you had to battle traffic getting over here, but I'm glad to see the whites of your eyes. Nice to meet you, John. Yeah, you too. Yeah. So this last segment, before we go to the top of the hour, Jeremy, we were talking about your journey into first batteries and recycling, then the cannabinoids marijuana, right, in Colorado. And so that brought up a question in my mind because I don't like prescribing narcotics and a lot of the typical pain medicines for my patients. Sure. And so I started telling them to get CBD, CBG. So you just started rattling stuff off during the break. So I want you to inform the audience, is CBD, CBG good? Is it bad? Is it habit forming? Just run with it.
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Sure. So the body has an endocannabinoid system, right? You hear about the endocrine system and the nervous system. No one ever talks about the endocannabinoid system. The brain synapses talk to cannabinoids in a way that can help your body under certain circumstances. And to your point, it's a Schedule I narcotic still federally, so it's taboo to talk about. Unless you're in Israel in front of a bunch of doctors, it's hard to really drill down. But what I learned in my seven years in the industry is that under the right circumstances and for the right reasons medicinally, all the cannabinoids can be helpful. You start with THC, which is the one everyone knows is the psychoactive effects in marijuana that quote-unquote gets you high. There's a lot of things that that can do that can help you in lower doses. I don't recommend inhaling it or combusting the plant matter or smoking it, if you will. You know, topicals, edibles, tinctures, drinks. And in very low doses, unfortunately, they make 10 milligram doses. For most people, that's too much. They should make one or two because it's pretty powerful. high, if you will. But the key is, is the plant as designed similar to the saffron we were talking about earlier, the plant is meant to be used in all of its component parts together. So you start to strip off THC and you make like a distillate that's 95% THC. Well, you've gotten rid of a lot of the medicinal benefits from the plant. Same with CBD, CBG, and CBN, right? You break off the CBD in a lab. You break off the CBG, the CBN. CBD and CBG have a lot of anti-inflammatory properties, like similar to NYSADS without the side effects and the pharmaceutical uses. And CBN is the one for sleep. You know, it can cause a little bit of drowsiness if you're not, you know, used to it, but using the plant together when and if possible, and there's a few places in Colorado that can do this. Like for instance, I'll throw a plug to, you know, Mary Jane's Medicinals down in Telluride. She makes a topical that is whole plant infused. Now it it smells pretty funky, right? People are going to think that you're, yeah, but you know, you put it on the skin and you're getting all the benefits of the plant as religious as God intended or as earth intended versus just stripping off, you know, some of those endocannabinoids or those cannabinoids separately and So I don't want to say that if you just get a CBD tincture or a CBN or CBG, it's not going to have some benefit. But in my experience, I found what they call the entourage effect is all those cannabinoids working together in the plant as one from a medicinal perspective. Recreationally, I can talk for days on this. And what different combinations, you know, can do for you. But that's probably adding more complication than you expected. But that's pretty much what I've learned.
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Is that a good place to start, CBD, CBG? And if you get relief, then, hey, you're good or –
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I would say so. Like, for instance, I have back issues. We'll talk a little bit more about them later. But I get weekly cupping and I do bring a topical in that has all the cannabinoids mixed together in. And I found that much more beneficial than if you go to a spa for a massage and you pay that extra 40 bucks for their CBD add-on. Um, I think a lot of the stuff out there is potentially snake oily, you know, so you really got to know the source. You got to know, you know, what's in it, the profile, how it came to, was it marijuana derived, hemp derived? There's, there's a lot to it. Um, but what I've, what I've learned overall is that, um, the, the more cannabinoids that are still intact and have not been scrubbed out by machines, the better the medical benefits seem to be, if that makes any sense. Hmm.
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Well, I was just going to say, you know, I was reading some studies also where the soil base to where it comes from makes a big difference. Why Colorado is a good place for it to be grown and extracted.
SPEAKER 16 :
Sure. Yeah, I mean, obviously, the uptake. Getting hold on it, yeah. The right nutrients.
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Okay, so I'm going to go out there on a limb because I don't have a dog in this fight, right? Other than my patients are in pain, and I want to give them things like the low-dose naltrexone. I don't want to give them narcotics. I do recommend CBD, CBG, but I'm not an expert in that field. So go ahead and plug to our listeners some of these places. Since you were in the space for seven years, you did well. What are some of the places that are not snake oil that you would say yes if – and Telluride is a long ways away, by the way. Sure, sure, sure. So my patients are not going to want to go up there. Or if they could order online, I guess that's an option.
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Yeah, I can narrow it down, generally speaking, to make it easy. If it's licensed by the Marijuana Enforcement Division of Colorado, if it's a licensed dispensary, your chances of getting something that has a lot more efficacy in it is greater than you going to, say, Walmart and buying a jar of CBD off of their shelves. The more commercialized it is, the chances are more of the medicinal benefits have been stripped away. So if you're looking for CBG, CBD, CBN, a combination thereof, with or without THC, I would start at your local dispensary and just speak to the bud tenders because they know this stuff. Ironically, they can be stereotyped a certain way, but ironically, they're around these plants and in these labs and with these growers. constantly, right? So they really have the inside scoop of what's going on. There's certain, for instance, Rick Simpson oil, very, very potent, high THC. One small little pellet will keep you high for days, but they're finding that it causes apoptosis in cancer cells. So if you want to numb yourself out for three months and take your stage four cancer down to stage two as a part of other immunotherapy treatments, those are conversations that blood tenders are actually having with cancer patients. Which is hard to believe. So I would say if you're in the state of Colorado, you're listening, I would start at the dispensary and ask the bud tender. And they're mostly going to be honest, like we don't carry it, but this other place does, you know, because certain suppliers have certain relationships with certain stores. So it can get a little complicated, but that's where I'd start.
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Okay. So like my uncle, most people know the story of my uncle who had Lou Gehrig's disease. And that's how I got into stem cells. Because I took a guy who was confined to a wheelchair and got him to where he could stay. I did got it. Stand at his bathroom sink for two and a half minutes. It's incredible. It blew my mind when I saw that. But my uncle, he would go. Actually, we would go for him to the legal marijuana shop and get these candy bars. right and instead of taking a square we would give him a quarter of a square sure he got pain relief slept well slept like a baby and he did this for several years and it was a game changer it opened my eyes because i'm one of these people when i'm kind of straight laced i don't like the high sure i'm i'm a type a and i have to be in control all the time of every situation But to see what it did for my uncle, it opened my eyes to alternatives that might help him. Is that a good place to start?
SPEAKER 16 :
Is that okay, a quarter of a square? Even circling back to the low-dose ketamine, all of a sudden you take 15 milligrams of a ketamine trochee. Now he can eat the whole square without the anxiety and have more benefits from having four times the amount of just having the quarter.
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Wow. That's interesting.
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Well, anybody who wants the information on getting high, we'll give you Jeremy's number afterwards. So you're listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner, two hours in the can. We've got one to go. Please stay tuned. We'll be right back.
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Thank you.
This episode brings a whirlwind of topics, from the absurdity of standing airplane seats to the public policy of weighing citizens in Turkey. Dana uncovers the mishaps of emergency management and the comedic yet serious tone of Florida Man's intoxicated adventure at Popeyes. Explore how preparedness is questioned and societal norms are challenged in both poignant and hilarious segments.
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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 3 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 3 Martini Lunch on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Well, I mean, it's not a bad place to fall asleep. If you're going to fall asleep drunk in your car somewhere, why not a Popeye's? I mean, that's what this one dude thought. It was in Port St. Lucie. A man's late-night food run ended up with jail time instead of some Popeye's chicken. I mean, they do have some good chicken. Officers say his name is Love Floreal. No, it's not. Passed out behind the wheel in the Popeyes drive-thru while the restaurant was closed. Now, the car was still running and in drive. Opened liquor containers and drugs all in plain view. Apparently, Mr. Floreal, not to be confused with L'Oreal, Mr. Love Floreal, was coming from a night out. He's wearing a club wristband. He was arrested and taken to St. Lucie Jail where he's charged with a DUI and possession. So, I mean, maybe he's just waiting for them to open. You know, I'm just going to pull up and have a little nap, wait for them to open, you know, get me chicken and a biscuit. I don't know. Maybe. Just saying. Apparently, Rockstar changed one of their GTA 6 characters after a Florida man wanted money. Gosh, this is like so perfect. Grand Theft Auto fans are convinced that one of the characters in GTA 6 was changed after Rockstar Games got called out for money over likeness. I don't even know because I don't play this game at all. I've never allowed my kids to play it. I'm like, no, we're not. If you're going to shoot baddies in the face, that's one thing. But you're not going to get to play as a gangbanger with a prostitute. Not going to happen. But fans have been really obsessing over trailers and screenshots. And they think that there's one character that's based on this TikToker. And the guy said that Rockstar used his likeness and wanted to get paid. And so it looks like they took him out of it. So welcome back to the program. Dana Lashley here. We're at the bottom of this very weird second hour. So, as you know, Cain and I both come from the illustrious city known, Cain, as St. Louis. Yes, ma'am. Not St. Louis. Nope. That's just in a song. St. Louis. St. Louis gets a lot of tornadoes or, as my grandmother would say, tornadoes. Sounds really similar to tomatoes now that I'm thinking about it. But anyway, also delicious. But they had a lot of storms and a lot of people are cleaning up. And I mean, some towns have been really just ransacked. I think what there's a town in Iron County, Missouri, does Arc, Missouri, which was obliterated by not this last tornado, but the one before that. And I think they got some fallout from this last one, too. So a lot of storm damage, a lot of recovery, a lot of destruction. Well, then there was this story that came out because there was a lot of questions as to preparedness and response, right? Very important. You know, there's a reason why you got tornado sirens and alerts and things like that. Like, for instance, the town that I live in, they send you out text messages with inclement weather. A lot of them. Sometimes you don't need to send out that many, but I digress. Well, something bad happened in St. Louis. And it had to do with this very DEI-ish commissioner. Five people were killed in these tornadoes that happened last week. And the DEI commissioner of the City Emergency Management Agency and her staff, they were at a workshop and they just totally forgot to activate the tornado sirens. Oh, sorry. The commissioner uses they, them pronouns. Yeah, they just got thrown out on their they thems because they didn't press the button alerting everyone that there was a tornado, which you have to be near a button to press to tell everybody, hey, there's a tornado. We don't have the technology to do it like remotely. But anyway, so I wanted to this is that's what happened. The after the devastating storm, the emergency management director, they them Sarah, they them Russell, they them. Failed to activate the tornado sirens. And residents had no idea Whiskey Tango Foxtrot was happening. Now, they placed they, them, they, them, Sarah, they, them on paid administrative leave. I know that sounds like vacation. More time for her to go to Texas Outback or Outback Steakhouse or Texas Roadhouse or whatever. Here's the audio. She, they, them. Seema, they, them. Audio soundbite 27. Here's some audio on this. Listen.
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The SEMA office is very small, and the majority of the time we work closer to business hours, unless the need arises, such as what we're doing now, or special events. A lot of that work takes us out into the community, so we aren't necessarily in our office space at all times. We do have a very small staff. I have received reports of people that did hear it. I've heard from a lot of people that said they haven't heard it.
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Hmm. Hmm. Excuse me, it's ma'am. It is ma'am. The... SEMA director was placed on paid administrative leave. And in a statement, the mayor, Kara Spencer, said that SEMA, quote, failed to alert the public to dangers. Let me see. Your agency is called, checks notes, City Emergency Management Agency. So you manage emergencies as an agency for the city. It's pretty self-explanatory. You have one job. Uno jobs. One, Kane. Uno jobs. Unjobs. That's all you have. And she couldn't do that. She couldn't hit the button. Because they were at a workshop. I mean, in St. Louis, it's a little bit different from Texas. Texas, you'll be outside. It's a sunny day. And all of a sudden, the fates conspire to kill you out of nowhere. Big clouds roll in before you can run screaming to your car. And raindrops as big as animals just pelt you to death. And in St. Louis, you can see it coming from a mile away. It is a buildup. It doesn't really come out of nowhere. Born and raised there. It doesn't really come out of nowhere. I mean, you see it coming. And you have time to at least think at least, maybe we should activate that good old emergency management system as a part of the checks notes. City Emergency Management Agency. And they, them, Sarah, they, them didn't do that. So people were not alerted to the public danger. Now, that's your one job that you have. So they're placed on leave. And they said that it comes, they're launching an internal investigation into the actions of Sarah. They, them, Sarah, her on the day of the tornado incident. Because the sirens, they did not sound. As a tornado busted up major parts of St. Louis. There was no siren. None. You have one job. She was at a workshop. So Russell contacted the fire department to activate the sirens later. But apparently the unclear communication, nobody really... You have to do all of that. There's not like, I mean, hell, you have a life alert button. You can fall down somewhere and life alert and people will come get you. You don't have nothing like that for a tornado. In places like St. Louis in the spring, you basically have to wear one to just, oh, there's a tornado. I mean, it's like that. There's so many. Sidebar, when I was a little kid, I was in a tornado. I've been near a tornado once and in a tornado once. And it hit our daycare. And I watched. So we had giant concrete tubes that as a kid I could stand up and an adult would have to crouch down. But the tornado rolled those things. I've never seen anything like it. It didn't bother the chain link fence for the playground, but it rolled the concrete tubes that we would literally roll. I've never seen anything like that happen in my life. Crazy. Crazy. And then another time when I had just had my second son, there was a tornado that came through and we lived in rural near outside of Festus. And I saw a tornado from my backyard. I saw the final cloud from my backyard and we all had to go get in the basement. And I had to break open my collectible Mace Windu figurine to keep my oldest son from crying his head off. I never got over that loss, but remind him of it frequently. But it worked. The Why was there any kind of ambiguity? That's one of the things that they cited. There was ambiguity in the directive to act. Kane, let's play a game.
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All right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, you're fire department. Yeah. I'm the they, them, city, whatever management emergency person.
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That authorizes these warnings.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes.
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Okay, go ahead.
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Bring, bring, bring.
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Fire department.
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I think there's a tornado. Can you press the button?
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Will do. Thanks. Ta-da! And scene.
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And scene. That's how it works. You know this person.
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I do, actually.
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You got a photo with they, them, they, her.
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Yeah, years of doing radio. Did 28 years of radio in St. Louis. You do these emergency preparedness segments on occasion. And we brought her in every year for the St. Louis emergency management preparedness messaging that they're to do annually.
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Did you find her competent?
SPEAKER 08 :
I didn't find her incompetent. It looks like you have a picture with a small boy. Yeah, she's short. I mean, I'm tall, but she's short.
SPEAKER 04 :
Like a small boy short.
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I see what you're doing.
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I'm just saying.
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But, yeah, I didn't particularly find anything incompetent about her at that point. I mean, these are some major mistakes. This is kind of a job that... There's five people dead. No, for sure. And this is something that she's going to definitely have to answer for. Like, I don't know how you get on paid administrative leave after this, but... Especially when you're a DEI hire.
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Right. Like, they put... Kane is with this small child. Juan's throwing the photo up.
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Look at that. Yeah.
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Yes, there's five people dead and you can't do it. But they send out all of this other pride stuff all the time.
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That's 2015, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
So they send out all this pride stuff all the time. So I sent you, you guys have, it says prepare with pride and they're talking about, I guess when you go out for 4th of July or something like that. And it says prepare with pride, hydrate during the festival. We're like, wait, like, what does that have to do with, why does it have to be like a pride thing with the trans stuff on there? Why does that have to, I don't know. Like, it just seems like there's a lot more emphasis placed on like,
SPEAKER 03 :
This is how we have sex, and we have to make sure it's incorporated even in how we hydrate. Hydrate with how we have sex. Make sure you stay hydrated.
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I think a lot of that was just an effort to make the agency itself seem like it's needed.
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I mean, why is it? Why do you have to have this DEI stuff? Like, does the tornado button get pressed less if it's a straight person as opposed to someone who is they-them?
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Apparently not.
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I just, like, what is it? Does it... I don't care what your intersectionality BS whatever is, unless it means you can press that button faster. If somehow being a they-them gives you like a speed buff, then fine. Whatever. This isn't damn dark tide. This is not like, oh, let's see, I got a blessing now on my weapon. I get to have this endurance buff, and I have stamina buff. Ooh, I got a boost in armor. This is not like that. It's not how this works. They act like they're add ons that like improve somehow function. And instead it doesn't. It doesn't at all. It ignores so many times we have seen well qualified people get ignored because they didn't check an intersectionality box. Well, yes, sir. We see that you're you literally lasso tornado single handedly and submit them. But again, you're applying for this emergency management position, but how do you have sex, though? I'm sorry, you don't have sex the right way, so you're disqualified. We're going to go with this young they-them over here instead, who can't press a damn button to warn people that there's a tornado barreling down the highway towards them to kill them all.
SPEAKER 08 :
And mind you, it's not just about President Button. Let's say she's out and about like she was. You can call the fire department and they'll activate the sirens.
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I feel like they're trying to blame the fire department. I mean, it's not like, wow, the weather's sunny today. We're going to go out to a workshop. That's not how St. Louis weather has ever worked on God's green earth ever. In the history of humankind. In the history of dino kind. It's never worked that way. Ever. You know it's bad weather. It's going to be a bad day when you wake up. You know it because the weather's going to just blow. It's going to be horrible. Let's go to a workshop. Also, can we talk about why do you have to be physically near a button?
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Well, St. Louis did put a statement out. They said moving forward that they'll explicitly... Now that these five people are dead. The city policy now will explicitly be the fire department issue the warnings.
SPEAKER 04 :
Five people had to die so they could remember who could issue what warnings. Bang up job, guys.
SPEAKER 08 :
Man, that's rough.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, yeah. Man. Not as rough as finding five dead bodies in the rubble of a tornado that they weren't worried about.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, that's what's rough. Yes, that's what I'm talking about. That's...
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I'm just trying to wrap my mind around this. This is insane. This is insane. Somebody in the chat goes, the new pronouns now are has been. That's right. They got thrown out on their they thems. Now it's a has been. Good heavens. So they suspended this. And I mean, the devastation is just crazy. I don't know. They were like, oh, there's a breakdown in communication. How the hell was there a breakdown in communication on this? Wow, what's that big funnel in the sky? Okay. It's a tornado. Sound the alarm. How do you get that wrong? It's not like there's a lot of steps. It's not like the Hadron Collider. You're not running anything crazy.
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This particular agency didn't have a lot to do at all. And the thing was, the bar was so low for what you had to do. Nothing was required of you until it was. And then you failed.
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Right. You have one job. One job. That's it. That's it. I'm so done with this stuff. I mean, clearly this broad, they, them, they, them, them, they. I don't care about your stupid pronouns. Just do your job. Do your damn job. Unless, again, any of your cosplaying gives you a buff of speed or anything else. No, nobody cares. Nobody cares. Stop it. And an aside to this, how weird is it that we actually think about that when you're hiring for diversity? Wait a minute. How do you have sex? And the manner in which you get it on, how does that help you do your job of pushing buttons during emergency weather systems? I'm not kidding you. That's literally, you're like, Dana, that sounds absurd. Yes, because it is absurd. The whole damn thing is absurd. You are so correct. Just do the job. Just do it. I just can't. I can't. I just, I'm done. All right, we have more on the way. So we roll the words Florida. Maybe Florida man will say, you know what? Florida man would have pressed the button. Probably with a gator, but he would have pressed the button. Maybe he would have left a meth fingerprint behind. He'd have pressed a button. 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 Methyl in 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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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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So apparently a daughter was charged with assault in a fork attack. It's a fork attack, everybody. She attacked her mother, and it was in Canyon County, three felony counts related to domestic violence. Where's the wooden spoon? Because I feel like wooden spoon beats fork all day long. Wielded properly, wooden spoon may be the most dangerous weapon in a human's arsenal. And if you disagree, then you were never disciplined as a child, ever disciplined as a child. So anyway, this person's getting there. They're going to court and they've been arraigned. So 35 years, 35 years old. You're trying to stab your mom with a fork. What's the matter with you? What's the matter? You didn't get the wooden spoon enough. An activist sat 80 feet up in a tree near Port Angeles for two weeks. For what? We don't know. Well, I mean, we do, but no. It's something to do with the trees. It's the Olympic Forest Defender Network of Conservationists, and this dude lived two-thirds up a fir tree. What an address. Yes, can you send that to two-thirds up the fir tree in Port Angeles? protesting the sale of a swath of forest by the Washington Department of Natural Resources. They call it apparently a legacy forest, blah, blah, blah. They're protecting the trees. They said it doesn't make financial sense. I don't know, but I'm just, I wouldn't camp in a tree. No, I toss and turn.
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Did he bring two weeks of food and diapers? Like, what did he do?
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Well, I mean, I guess you could just hang over the side and, you know. Oh. Pray and spray. I don't know. I'm just assuming.
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I'm sorry. I even asked.
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Well, you did ask a question, Cain, and I did, in all of my knowledge, answer your question to the best of my ability. I'm sorry that it made you uncomfortable over there.
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I'm both thankful and sorry.
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A bearded dragon saved its owner from a house fire. I've heard of some things before. I kind of want to call shenanigans. So a bearded dragon, apparently his name's Spike, he woke up his owner Donald from a nap because he jumped on his face, insisting that he wake up. Now, I would just think that this is shenanigans from a lizard. Donald opened his eyes and saw his bathroom was on fire. He extinguished the flames before they spread to the rest of the home. He apparently slept through the smoke alarms, but not through his bearded dragon jumping on his face. Do you think that that's what the lizard was doing, or was the lizard like, I hate you, and I'm going to try to suffocate you to the best of my ability?
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I'd like to believe it's true.
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I mean, now he's got salmonella all over his face. That's my first thought. But he's alive! I'd be like, ew! Not dead! A man was attacked by a swarm of bees and it killed him. This is horrible. He was in Eastland, Texas, mowing the lawn, and apparently he made a hive quite angry. This is so sad. He was again mowing the lawn. Officer did finally pull up to the scene. They said that around they had reports of a collision. And it caused all kinds of stuff. The guy was being swarmed by bees because it all had to do with this guy mowing the lawn, going over a hive. His face swelled up. He could hardly see. It was just anaphylactic. It killed him. So sad. So sad. We have a more in store. Stay with folks over at Caltech. They have this. I mean, they have different versions of the fold in half carbine. But now you have it chambered and 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. Can we go back to this one thing that we had in headlines real quick? This is Audio Sun by 20. Juan showed you some of this. I need to have a conversation about the standing airplane seats. Are they trying to get people to go all falling down with Michael Douglas in the sky?
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This will do it.
SPEAKER 04 :
So budget airlines... are considering launching these controversial, I'm looking at the name of it, Skyrider 2.0 standing seats. Yeah. And I don't know what the ticket price would be. They are being introduced by a manufacturer. They want to increase passenger capacity by 20%. And they unveiled it at the Aircraft Interiors Expo several years ago. And they said it's an innovative seat. It allows an ultra high density in the aircraft cabin. And it opens up the traveling experience to a wider passenger market. Okay, Kane. And I know Juan has the video of how I watched this guy struggle with a bag in there. Okay, so if I'm flying, I do work typically unless it's on vacation. And... I don't know this guy. If you're watching the simulcast, how in the world do you even open your laptop or anything to work in that?
SPEAKER 08 :
You don't. How do you uncompress your spine? You don't.
SPEAKER 04 :
Next, they're going to be, we're strapping passengers to the wings to increase our capacity and open up a whole new market of passenger class. Yes, you're going to get buckled and you've got to hold onto your suitcase tight. We're going to strap you to the wing.
SPEAKER 08 :
Wing straps are only $10 with budget airlines.
SPEAKER 04 :
With budget airlines. And you get extra leg room if you're strapped onto the wings. Fresh air. No drinks or bathroom, but you won't notice because you'll probably defecate your britches before we even leave the ground. It looks like hell. I don't like being enclosed in small spaces, and I think I would riot. I think I would immediately lose it.
SPEAKER 08 :
I barely want to be on a plane when I'm seated comfortably.
SPEAKER 04 :
It's like you're sitting on a banana.
SPEAKER 08 :
Even if I'm seated comfortably, I hate being on the plane. Do I want now two additional people closer to me?
SPEAKER 04 :
And people are weird on planes. I mean, this fellow can't even get in. He's trying to squeeze himself in. I love it. You knew that, you know, you know that when they unveiled us at the expo, they were like, OK, Bob, why don't you just slide in there and let's see if you can get all situated. And he's you know, they were trying to show how easy and nice these seats were. That guy was on the struggle bus, like instantly trying to wedge himself in there. Now, the first chick, there's nobody in front of her, so she can sit in it fine. Her legs are even extended out further than this guy. Look at this guy. He can't even get in the seat. He's struggling to even get in the seat. He can't even get in it.
SPEAKER 08 :
I thought we were moving in the direction where we need bigger seats. Because remember those people with the large bottoms? They're just huge butts. And they have to buy two seats. You know what I mean? That's the direction we were moving.
SPEAKER 04 :
What is this? So what happens if you're one of those individuals?
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, you need that damn whole row.
SPEAKER 04 :
And the one in front of you. Yeah, and you're trying to get... And then what happens then? Because are they going to have to come? I'm going to pull up this. What happens then if that's you? If that's you, then what happens? Or you're sitting next to someone that they can't, in a normal seat, they would take a couple of the seats. I can't even believe that this is a thing that we're all considering. So, I mean, I don't know. In Turkey, it might not be a problem. Did you hear what they're doing in Turkey?
SPEAKER 08 :
Uh-oh, what?
SPEAKER 04 :
So overweight people are publicly weighed in order to slim down under new rules in Turkey. And they have inspectors patrolling public spaces.
SPEAKER 08 :
Wait a minute. Is that what this is without actually weighing people? Without actually weighing people, they sell these seats.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, this isn't in Turkey. This is a separate story. No, I know.
SPEAKER 08 :
But think about that. This is what they're doing. Instead of weighing you, they're making these tiny seats that make it impossible. So you look at them and you're like, well, I can't go in there. I'm too big for that. Boom. Now fat people aren't flying.
SPEAKER 04 :
They rolled out a nationwide plan to stop and weigh people in public with inspectors telling them to slim down if they're found to be overweight. Health workers in Turkey have been deployed across each of the country's 81 regions with weighing scales and tape measures as the drive to assess 10 million people by July 10 is underway. Passersby are stopped by medical examiners for spot body mass index checks. What if you don't want to do it, though? I don't think that's probably going to be an option for you to not do it. But they said, yeah, they, everybody, everybody that, and then they're asked, they're told to go to a dietician or whatever. And then they have to lose weight. But yeah, they've, they're in shopping malls. They're out in the streets. There are people who've been posting pictures all around Turkey showing that they're being guided onto weighing scales, having their height measured, and then their weight calculated. And they're told to slim up. And they go, well, like drivers are one of speeding traps. You know, they're warning people about being overweight. Can you imagine? It's an anti-obesity campaign that officials describe as a national fight, and they're running it under the tagline, know your weight and live healthy. It started on May 10th, and they're going to serve a one in eight Turks. Anybody with a BMI over 25 are referred to a state run family health center and a healthy life center where they get nutritional counseling and follow up services. Now, the Turks are mad. They're saying that this is the government being out of touch with the daily realities of Soaring food prices and wage stagnation and the impact this has on healthy eating, etc., etc. And the Erdogan government has been criticized because they're like, it's super public. They're weighing everybody in public. They're like fat shaming you in public. Now, I'm all about being healthy and I don't like the whole body positivity campaign that celebrates morbid obesity. But I also think I don't like the government walking around at all, like saying, hey, get up here, Sally, on this scale and we're going to weigh you. Tammy, Karen, Yamiche, get up here on this scale and we're going to weigh you. And and then everybody sees it. Now, the World Health Organization, if whatever you want, however you want to take this, they estimated that 30 percent of people in Turkey are obese. And so they said that. Yeah, that's how they're they're going. They think that this is they think this is going to work. How would that work in the United States? I would imagine somebody's scale would get broken. Somebody tried doing that. I think I would knock the scale out of their hands and. Like, get away from me. No, you can't because of HIPAA. I mean, there's no way you could do something like that.
SPEAKER 08 :
But I'm totally less bothered by weighing people before they get on the plane than those damn seats you first were showing.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, Kane's not over the seats.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, I'm not.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, they don't weigh you before you get on the plane. This is a whole other plane in Turkey. No, I know that.
SPEAKER 08 :
I know that. But there's no possible way that I could ever, ever think of flying on a plane like that. There's no... Like, think about it. Now you're fitting how many more people in the plane?
SPEAKER 1 :
20, 30, 40?
SPEAKER 04 :
Kane's very upset by those.
SPEAKER 08 :
So now we have an issue of a weight problem. We have now more people in the plane.
SPEAKER 04 :
Now I'm concerned about... How many times have you heard, too, where they have to adjust the weight of the plane? Yeah. And they ask people to get off. And I'm like, wait a minute, you're only asking like four or five people to get off, so you're telling me whether or not this thing sinks or flies? falls out of the sky or not is dependent upon four people being on this plane. Makes me worried.
SPEAKER 08 :
Physics is still a thing.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, a little bit. Just a little bit. Yeah, physics is a thing that bothers me. So, I don't know. But they said that One of the things that the Turkish people were hitting back at is they were saying that a lot of the professional athletes they have technically qualify as overweight based solely on their BMI because they have much more muscle mass, which weighs proportionally more than fat, which is true. Yeah, they wouldn't be taking that into consideration, would they? Do you see how stupid a government-run program like this is? It's so dumb.
SPEAKER 02 :
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