In this episode, Mike dissects the ongoing battles that shape modern political discourse. Faced with surprising headlines, including potential lawsuits by Trump against major media outlets and the defensive maneuvering of Democrats led by figures like Warren and Schiff, the show shines a light on the complexities of maintaining a politically informed society amidst chaos. Walk through Mike's personal insights on media dynamics, political strategy, and the impact of cultural narratives on public perception.
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He's the happy conservative warrior, Mike Gallagher, broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide. And seen on your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel. Here's Mike.
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So I'm at dinner last night here in the upstate of South Carolina at Chop House, what is it, Chop House 47, I think it's called, over off of Pelham Road. Very important client, very important people. And the dinner included Peg and Joey. My phone is buzzing in my pocket. Story after story after story. It was the wildest night, certainly on X. Stephen Colbert at CBS fired. Pam Bondi ordered by President Trump to release the grand jury material on Epstein. Wall Street Journal, bombshell story. Trump scrawled a stick figure of a woman with breasts for Jeffrey Epstein. It's like, and I'm trying, I'm so intent on dinner because it was a really wonderful night. I mean, and I do recommend, I mean, unsolicited plug, there's a lot of great restaurants in the upstate of South Carolina. I always forget how fun it is to go out to eat. Larkin's for lunch the other day. Chop House 47 for dinner. There are so many great restaurants here in the Greenville area. Anderson, Spartanburg area. It's crazy. And Chop House 47, you know what I noticed was how great the service was. The food was unbelievable, but the service was also second to none. I love it when a restaurant, they're real quick to get the dirty plates out of the way and freshen up your Diet Coke and all of that. It was a great, we had a great night. But it was a little distracting because I'm trying to keep up with all of this. And I need friends to help me keep up with it because I don't have a clue. Last night, the immediate takeaway was Trump didn't write that letter. And then, of course, the other side, he absolutely had to write that letter. And I'm watching all this play out, and I'm thinking, nobody knows if he wrote it or not except Trump. And he denies it. He says he's going to sue the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch. He warned them, don't you dare publish this falsehood, this smear. I'm not sharing secrets with Jeffrey Epstein. Now, the funny part about the hit job, and it was a hit piece for sure, the funny not in a ha-ha way, but the funny... peculiar thing about this story is that it apparently happened allegedly in 2003. That's before Jeffrey Epstein was charged with anything, and that certainly is before Trump banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago when he found out what a degenerate he was. All right, so big deal. So it's a body letter. This is what they're going to run with to try to take Trump down? Here was Scott Jennings' take on it all last night on CNN.
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My reaction to reading this was, so? I mean, 2003, before anything had happened. We know Donald Trump knew the guy. We also know he disowned him and kicked him out of his club. I was waiting all day long for this rumoring of a bombshell. This looks like kind of a dud to me. And look, the president says it's not. I don't know. But either way, this gives me like a Kavanaugh yearbook vibes. My impression is Republicans are going to strongly rally around the president on this thing. I mean, he may have been facing some turbulence over the Epstein situation, but this is the sort of stuff that brings people to circle the wagons around him.
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It absolutely brings people to circle the wagons. This could probably boomerang. Do you care? I saw an article from Douglas Murray of the New York Post. How many voters really care about Jeffrey Epstein? I know people are all excited about it, and I'm so sick of talking about Epstein. I want so badly, and don't worry. I know it's my show. I can control the content, and I do. I also don't want to refuse to reflect what you're feeling, thinking, believing. Here's what Douglas Murray wrote. over at the New York Post. X is not the real world. Who knew? If you were on the social media site for the last week, you'd have thought that the most important issue for American voters is the dead criminal Jeffrey Epstein. There's a huge amount we still don't know about the convicted sex offender, he writes, and there's plenty about him, the sources of his wealth, high-profile connections, his manner of death. the public deserve to know about. But outside the Twitter sphere, Epstein isn't the story at the moment. Some MAGA influencers have decided that the release of all known information about Jeffrey Epstein is a make or break issue between them and the president. The president has expressed understandable frustration that he should be distracted from matters like, say, the economy, and keep getting asked about Epstein. Online personalities threaten that Trump is going to lose all support from his base unless every file relating to Epstein is released. And yet, despite this bragging threat, the polls show otherwise. President Trump's approval rating among Republican voters actually went up this week, according to two separate polls. Douglas Murray concludes by saying, whether or not the administration is right in its attitude towards the files, Trump himself is absolutely wise to look at his Twitter critics and say, oh yeah? And who's online army? I mean, what really matters? You want to know why all this is happening all of a sudden? Do you understand how unpopular the Democrats are right now? Let's keep it on CNN for a minute and turn to good old Jake Tapper to reflect where they are.
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On the subject of Democrats, a brand-new CNN poll out today shows that Democrats' favorability among Americans is at its lowest point in the history of CNN's polling back to 1992. Only 28 percent of Americans view the Democratic Party favorably.
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I mean, it's rock bottom. And maybe why. You want to know the headline for the ages? I'm not kidding you. This is an actual headline at a news site. Prominent Democrats Adam Schiff and Elizabeth Warren demand to know if CBS is ending Stephen Colbert's late show for political reasons. These are senators. Senator Adam Schiff, Senator Elizabeth Warren said the public deserves to know. Schiff wrote on X, if Paramount and CBS ended the late show for political reasons, the public deserves to know and deserves better. Elizabeth Warren said CBS canceled Colbert's show just three days after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount. for its $16 million settlement with Trump, a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Am I having a stroke? Really, am I suffering an aneurysm? Am I reading about two pathetic people Desperate, frantic Democrats claiming that the American public has a right to know why CBS dumped this unfunny loser Stephen Colbert? the guy who has taken that late show franchise and run it into the ground, who inherited a show from a funny, successful, profitable David Letterman, destroyed the show. CBS said, you're out. And two U.S. senators, two prominent Democrat senators, want to know why? And are demanding to know why. As if it's any of their business. As if it's any of anybody's business why CBS did it. You want to know why CBS did it? Again, let's stick with CNN. Brian Stelter, who's the media guy over there, inadvertently shares the real reason that CBS is pulling the plug.
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Here's the reporting that I have just in the past few minutes, Anderson, about this financial explanation. Think back to 2023 when the Late Late Show with James Corden went off the air. I reported at the time that that show had become unprofitable, that CBS was not able to sell enough ads to make that show profitable. Well, that is now the case for Colbert as well. I'm told by a source close to the network that the Late Show with Stephen Colbert is now technically unprofitable. So that does give the company a financial reason to end the show starting in May 2020.
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Think it's technically unprofitable? What do you mean technically unprofitable? Is that like being a little bit pregnant? You're either profitable or you're not. Stephen Colbert turned into a shrew. A leftist, Trump-bashing, Republican-hating lunatic. Every night. That's his entertainment. Rip the Republicans. Just praise the Democrats. Remember when he had the skit with the dancing COVID vaccine needles? That's what passed for entertainment on that guy's show. And he's losing money. I'm sitting around thinking, in what universe? I'm a lifelong broadcaster. You think I could sit here day after day if my show was technically unprofitable? That's the whole point of having a show. The goal is to inform, to entertain, and to make a profit for the company you work for. If you're technically unprofitable, you're out. But Elizabeth Warren and Adam Schiff, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Adam Schiff, say the public has a right, they demand the right to know how this show got canceled. And you wonder why the Democrats' approval rating is in the toilet. This is the stuff that the Democrats are worried about. When they're not embracing Mamdani the commie, They're fretting about a stupid, unfunny talk show being canceled over on CBS. Wow. 800-655-MIKE. Welcome in. We've got a lot to cover today. A bunch of breaking news on a Friday. Colonel Kurt Schlichter is going to join us in a few minutes. I can't wait to get Colonel Kurt's take on all of this nonsense. He's got a new book out. We'll talk about that and more with the great Kurt Schlichter. In the meantime, I want to talk to you in the Relief Factor studios. 800-655-MIKE. Call or text. One number does it all. Call or text us. Let's put your voice front and center here on the Mike Gallagher Show for a Friday. Join us. 800-655-MIKE. All of the times you told me. Ph.D. weight loss has changed my life, and I've got a little secret for you. You know Big Pharma and semaglutide and the shots in the belly. You've seen the story recently about the study that shows that a lot of people that are getting this are going blind. You don't want to do this. You want a program to lose weight that's centered around science and nutrition, a proven roadmap that has helped over 8,000 clients lose weight and keep it off, like me. I lost 53 pounds a few years ago, and I've kept it off. I know what to eat and when. I know how to quiet any of the cravings I might get and finally release that unhealthy belly fat that I carried along for so long. Make the phone call that can change your life in the way it changed mine. It's called PhD Weight Loss. PhD Weight Loss, Dr. Ashley Lucas' program is brilliant. And how do I know? Well, 53 pounds later, here I am. 864-644-1900 is their number. Call and schedule your consultation. You can do this program from anywhere in America. Call 864-644-1900, 864-644-1900, or visit MyPhDWeightLoss.com.
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Look at our CNN poll. The prior one, 86%. The one out this week, 88% were Republicans. How about Quinnipiac? The prior poll, 87% approved were Republicans. This week out, 90% were Republicans. If anything, Donald Trump's approval rating has gone up since this whole Epstein saga started. He is at the apex, or close there to, in terms of his popularity with Republican voters. Epstein files complaints or not.
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In the Relief Factor studios on Salem News Channel and Salem Radio Network, here's Mike.
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I don't know why I kept thinking about Kurt Schlichter with all of the torrential story after story after story. The proverbial fire hose. Colbert gets canceled. Pam Bondi orders the Epstein file. Well, President Trump actually ordered the Epstein file grand jury materials to be released. We haven't even gotten to the people caught on the kiss cam. Did you hear about that story? The CEO? allegedly cavorting with his girlfriend. They're both married to other people, and they were caught at a Coldplay concert canoodling. And then he tried to duck down, and she turned her back. What a mess. And I kept thinking of Kurt Schlichter, because the senior columnist at townhall.com, where his column appears twice a week, he's a Los Angeles trial attorney. He's a veteran of both the Persian Gulf War and Kosovo, as well as the L.A. riots. We've got some on-air political rioting firestorms of our own to tackle. And he's got a brand-new gripping novel out. It's time to welcome back to our show the one and only Kurt Schlichter, looking nice and Natalie-attired in a summer suit. Is that seersucker? Seersucker.
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No, it's just a delightful wool suit. I'm feeling perky. And I got to tell you, as a lawyer, I was very curious about this kiss cam thing. So I looked up the divorce petition of the guy's wife, and the grounds for the divorce, Mike, were he likes cold play. What?
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Which is a bad, bad thing to like. Look, he's wealthy. She's going to get real rich. I mean, she's apparently already... You know, and Kurt, you're a funny guy, but can I just take 30 seconds to say something serious about that? I know it's funny and it's kind of awkward and people like to see people, you know, caught in that kind of a... You know what I see? I see a couple of hurting families. I see kids involved. who are being completely embarrassed, you know? I just see a lot of pain and dumb, bad mistakes. Am I sounding like a wet blanket here in saying that I just don't really find the story all that amusing? Is it just me? Am I having a bad day? Do you agree with me?
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I think you are, because I wanted to point out that she actually took him back after catching him listening to Nickelback.
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So... There you go. All right. You know, maybe ACDC is in their future. All right, let's dive in, Kurt. We got, I mean, yeah, what's that? as a way to bring them back together. Yes, correct, correct. A little Ozzy Osbourne maybe will reunify them. All right. I don't even know. I'm so Epstein-ed out. I mean, I even had Wednesday off, and I was still tired of talking about Epstein. You know...
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Look, I've been out on like 20 shows talking about American Apocalypse, my new novel. And every single hit descends into a discussion of Epstein. I know. I was on an English television station from like England. And they're like, boy, tell me about Epstein. I'm like, no. I don't want to talk about it. This is why my ancestors shot yours.
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This is why we threw all the tea in the water. I mean, really.
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I will say that I'm very impressed by the letter thing, though.
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All right, so let's get to the letter thing. So Wall Street Journal, let's go back on the letter thing, because this is just, it's one idiocy after another. So the Wall Street Journal, they were murmurings about the bombshell from a major publication. We all heard this all week. There was going to be some big shoe was going to drop. The shoe that dropped, the bombshell. Yeah, they got it. Hey, Kurt, the walls are closing in. The walls are closing in now. Trump wrote a letter, supposedly, in 2003 that he typewritten wrote and yet scrawled a stick figure with breasts and said that we're sharing some secrets. Jeffrey Epstein. I mean, look, he said he's going to sue the you-know-what off of Rupert Murdoch. Rupert might want to get his checkbook out, huh?
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You know, look, we've all known Donald Trump for like 40 years, right? And in the 10 years, last 10 years, we've got to know him really well. Does anyone objectively think that letter sounds like anything Donald Trump has or would say or do? And the answer is so obviously no. You know, I'm just thinking about when he brings that lawsuit in Florida in front of a Florida jury and says, I didn't do it. It doesn't sound like me. I'd never do that. And all the jurors look at each other and go, that doesn't sound like Donald Trump. You know, that sounds like AI. It sounds like a teenage girl writing in her dream journal.
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But Scott Jennings pointed out on CNN, none of us know if it's real or not. The only two people that know are Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, and one of them is dead, allegedly. But here's the bottom line. 2003, Epstein hadn't been charged with anything. 2007, Trump bans him from Mar-a-Lago because Epstein's such a creep. All right, so he writes a bawdy letter to a guy that, frankly, everybody knew. You see all the pictures. I mean, everybody was hanging out with the guy in the early 2000s, from Oprah to Bill Gates to Trump to Bill Clinton. Go down the list. So this is really the gotcha moment for Donald Trump? Seriously?
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I mean, it's just dumb, you know? The only contribution this thing's going to have to American society is the term body letter, which is going to go right down there with wide stamp.
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Body letter. Well, body letter is right up there with a headline that I can't stop laughing about. Here's the headline. It's a real one. Prominent Democrats, Senators Adam Schiff and Elizabeth Warren demand to know if CBS is ending Stephen Colbert's late show for political reasons. That's what Democrats are upset about, Kurt. This is what they're worried about. This is a priority for them, Kurt.
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Well, this is why the Democrats are polling among Democrats somewhere between toe fungus and STDs. I mean... I mean, look, if Elizabeth Warren wants to go on the warpath about something, so to speak, perhaps there are subjects more near and dear to the heart, even of her own people. And if Adam Schiff wants to show interest... It's my mortgage fraud joke of the day. In this, I don't see anyone else sharing it. I mean, it's just stupid. I mean, the good thing, look, Donald Trump is the luckiest man in the universe because he's blessed with the most ridiculous enemies possible. I mean, it's a clown show.
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Look, if they mounted an intellectually... serious opposition to him, but look at what they've become. Kurt, look at what they're reduced to. I saw last night, Ro Khanna, he's supposed to be the moderate Democrat, right? He's the guy, he's on Hewitt more than Hewitt is. I think he and Hugh are going to be guest hosts. You've talked to the guy. He's embracing, endorsing, and supporting Mamdani the commie. He's saying, oh, yeah, sure, he talks about affordability, and I like that. The Democrats are going to endorse this guy? The guy that talks like he's right out of the Karl Marx playbook? Are you kidding me? Well...
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Look, their problem, and I've talked to Ro Khanna. I think he's a smart guy. But like many of them, look, many Democrats are smart. They're not wise.
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And that's an important difference. They're in this bubble. I mean, he comes from Silicon Valley. I grew up near where he is. Right. But back in my day, it was a normal place where people had station wagons and jobs where they made things. It's very different now. It's a blue bubble. It's MSNBC planted on the San Francisco Peninsula. And places like that in New York City and Washington, D.C., are these blue bubbles. And they don't know normal Americans. And normal Americans look at this foreign-born Marxist weirdo. who thinks that prisons serve no purpose. Right. And they're not into that. Normal Democrats, well, a lot of normal Democrats are now normal Republicans, but the remaining normal Democrats are just not into that. This is a faculty lounge affectation. It's boutique Bolshevism. It's a niche market.
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Look, I like to sit back and watch him do it. Let the Rojanas and the Hakeem Jeffries of the Democrat Party. endorse a guy who doesn't know what the purpose of prisons are. Those are his words. Endorse a guy who would like to abolish private property. Those are his words. This guy is as radical a lunatic as anybody who's ever come. He makes Brandon Johnson from Chicago look like Gene Kirkpatrick. So good. You go ahead and run with this guy. I want to see how this goes. I almost want him to win because... Because they'll never win another election. All right, let's get down to your book. Of course, I am excited about it because here's what you wrote at town hall the other day. You said, or we remake it into something like the glorious golden country it once was. How does this all end? That's your book, American Apocalypse, the Second American Civil War. Tell us all about it, Colonel Kirk.
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Well, look, I wanted to talk about the worst-case scenario because I think, first of all, let's talk about our side. I think some of us are a little too cavalier about the idea of taking our frustrations with a political opposition that doesn't recognize our basic legitimacy to even participate in our own governance. Right. Okay? Trump's a Nazi, and you're all Nazi supporters. You should shut up and be on your knees and be served, which we're not in the cards. And a lot of a lot of people on our side are frustrated and sometimes you hear, well, if there is a civil war, we just slap them around, you know, pull the nose rings out and send them on their way. And I want to talk about, well, let's let's talk about what violence looks like, because I served in the ruins of a civil war. I served in Kosovo, 2004, 2006. And it's not cute. It's not fun. It's very, very ugly. And it would lead to the deaths of a lot of people and change our country in very, very fundamental ways forever. What the moment requires is not violence. What the moment requires is for us to re-embrace our Constitution, re-embrace the system that's worked for almost 250 years. Unfortunately, I think... Many in our ruling class are a combination of historical illiteracy, gross stupidity, greed, arrogance and narcissism. Keep doing things that make the specter of violence, systematic, large scale violence more and more likely.
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God forbid, but look, you've got to get the book. It's the number one bestseller in military thrillers over at Amazon. It's called American Apocalypse, the Second American Civil War. Get the book. Colonel Kurt, you keep fighting the good fight. It's great seeing you. Thanks for spending some time on what I know is a very busy book tour for you. I know it's going to be a big hit. Thanks, Kurt. All the best. Thank you. And this is one of the big highlights. Always great to see you. Great to see you as well. Keep fighting the good fight. The one and only Kurt Schlichter joining us here on the Mike Gallagher Show. We're partnering with our friends at the nonprofit relief agency, Food for the Poor, and rushing emergency relief kits to these flood-ravaged part of the world. 128 people confirmed dead. Many, many more are still missing. As you know, President Trump and the First Lady visited the flood zone yesterday. Texas over the weekend as you can hear he was pretty emotional you can hear in the sound of his voice about what he witnessed they lost their child or two children and just hard to believe what I've never seen anything like it a little narrow river that becomes a monster now as the president observed We're all grieving. There's been such a terrible loss of life. Entire communities are still being impacted. There are flooded out homes. There are closed businesses. And there are many still displaced, and they desperately need your help. Now, there is a Help Texas banner on my website, MikeOnline.com, where you can make a secure online donation. Please help us rush emergency relief kits to Texas. These kits contain tarps, hygiene items, diapers, children's activity materials, and other essentials needed to ease the crisis for these poor people. Food for the Poor, in coordination with a trusted partner in San Antonio, has responded to the central Texas flooding. Nobody responds like the Mike Gallagher audience. Right now, already $13,000 in the first day or two. of donations have come in. We have a sort of an unofficial goal of 40,000. In my heart of hearts, we'll soar past that goal. Let's support our fellow Americans. Let's support the Texans who have been through so much. Please go to mikeonline.com and click on the Help Texas banner. You can also phone in your donation. And a lot of people do that. Just call 844-860-HOPE. That's 844-860-4673. Thank you for supporting these poor families who've been through so much. Let's get emergency relief kits to as many people as we can, and let's make sure that the Mike Gallagher Show once again is the torchbearer. the leader in sending as many materials as possible to these poor people. Again, you can go to MikeOnline.com and click on the Help Texas banner or call 844-860-HOPE, 844-860-4673. Tyler's in Delaware. Tyler, welcome.
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He's the happy conservative warrior, Mike Gallagher, broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide and seen on your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel. Here's Mike.
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I have no idea if the release today of the Epstein grand jury materials is going to make it worse or better. for this scandal that doesn't seem to want to die. This has taken on a life of its own. I've had a few people blast me for bringing it up. Well, I'm not bringing it up. I'm just not going to avoid something that so many people are talking about. The truth of the matter is, the Epstein controversy is helping Donald Trump. The president is actually getting assisted by the ridiculousness of this situation. Trump is frustrated clearly. He's annoyed. He's clearly, he's been betrayed by a lot of so-called MAGA influencers who have turned on him. They say, that's it. Oh, it's a bridge too far. He's covering up, covering up. Poll after poll shows the majority of Americans think there's some big cover-up. This is pretty complicated on a lot of levels. A lot of the material in the grand jury report is under seal by the courts and cannot be revealed. When that happens, I think the people that are barking the loudest are going to lose their minds. This is probably going to make things worse. I don't know. I know that last night President Trump kind of threw up his hands. He said, you know what? I'm paraphrasing. I don't have his truth social post in front of me, but I'm kind of from memory. He said, look, this has gotten out of hand. It's ridiculous. It's a hoax. I'm directing Pam Bondi to have the DOJ release all the grand jury material that they are able to release. Now, that's an important clarification because much of this information is under court seal, according to Alan Dershowitz, Epstein's own attorney. So, I don't know. I mean, I think the thing I hope is running out of steam. I might be wrong. I certainly don't want to ever discourage you or block you from talking about something you want to talk about. And the point that I think is one of the most important ones is a point that Scott Jennings made last night on CNN. Scott, of course, who recently joined us with his own show on the Salem Radio Network, heard on hundreds of stations around the country. And he's doing a great job in his debut week. We're really happy for him. week number one under his belt, coast to coast. Guys, do you have his website? Because I thought it was scottjennings.com, but I don't think it is. If you put on the screen for me, Eric, when you can find it, and I'll be sure to share his website if you want to find out more information about Scott's new show. here in the Salem Media Group. But, of course, he's also a contributor on CNN. He's that rare breed that, you know, odd man out as the lone conservative most nights on these spirited debates they have over on CNN, these contentious debates. And here was his point last night about how the Epstein saga is not hurting, but actually... helping President Trump.
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The facts of Donald Trump's base are this, and we reported on this this morning here on CNN. Since the Epstein business started, his job approval among Republicans has gone up. He's over 90% with Republicans. It's not hurting him with his base. I know you're a Democratic strategist, maybe not an expert on the MAGA base. But look what's happening. He's gone up. Why? Because while we're all sitting here dealing with this nonsense, out in real America, he's signing legislation on fentanyl. He's talking about the AI future in Pennsylvania. He's securing the border.
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Big, beautiful bill.
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So his numbers are going up with Republicans. This is a fantasy that Democrats have been engaging in since January, that Republicans He's right.
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There's no way around that. And I think we've been confused by some of these prominent social media folks.
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who have been pushing back against Trump. And now, it seems like all of the sharp-elbowed, red-meat conservatives, the real MAGA, true and true, the Charlie Kirks and the Anna Polina Lunas, they're all supporting President Trump and defending him. They're not turning on him. They're not. And then last night, on top of the news about Pam Bondi releasing the grand jury material today, which may or may not satisfy people, then comes this so-called bombshell from the Wall Street Journal of a 2003 birthday greeting that Trump supposedly wrote to Epstein. Now, keep in mind, that's before Epstein died. faced any charges for his nefarious, ugly, awful behavior. And it certainly is a few years before Trump himself banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago because Trump didn't want anything to do with him anymore. But let's look to Chris Cuomo, of all people, over on News Nation, reacting to the Wall Street Journal article, which now, incidentally, has led to a lawsuit where President Trump will sue Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal for running with this story that Trump insists is a lie and a smear, a letter that he never wrote. depicting some stick figure with breasts and crude references to secrets that Trump and Epstein supposedly share. Here was Chris Cuomo's hot take on it.
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This Wall Street Journal piece is a hack job, OK? And he says he's suing Rupert Murdoch, who, you know, was his buddy. They have, you know, Fox kind of made Trump, you know. And he's suing the journal. He's suing everybody. He says he didn't write the birthday letter that they're ascribing to him to Epstein for his 50th birthday. I mean, it's so stupid. OK, the Epstein story is about abusing kids who didn't have the power or agency to do anything about it. That rich and powerful people may have known it was going on and they got away with it. That's the story. OK, it's not that Trump liked a scumbag. OK, now I get that in the media. This is great because it's bad for Trump and he's going crazy and he's going to pump and move the story for The Wall Street Journal right now by saying it's fake and it's wrong. But it doesn't move the needle in the country. It's going to make you some money, Rupert. Great for you. Just what you need. But. This is why we can't get anywhere. The guy says, I didn't write the letter. The letter is meaningless. You put out the piece anyway, and there's no light on what really matters.
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I am fine. Good. The Biden administration, correct me if I'm wrong, had access to everything on that scene for four years.
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You bet they did. Is that right? That's 100% correct. They had everything that people are clamoring for. The Biden administration had access to all of that for all four years. Yes. Yes, ma'am.
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If there were anything that could be remotely twisted to smear Donald Trump, it would have been leaked last October.
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You're right on the money. Couldn't agree more. Nicholas in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Nicholas, how are you?
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Yeah, I called in because I heard the audio, someone making the foundational point about being a criminal syndicate and the rich and famous getting away with it. If you want to hear from your audience, it would be interesting to do just a call in sometime about pedophilia. But the macro is this case. It's huge because of what that.
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Okay. Phillip in Fort Mill, South Carolina. Hey, Phillip. Hey, Mike. Hey. I just want to say to myself personally, the Epstein files are beating a dead horse. It's over. It's done with. I know. The man has passed away. Let it go. Move on. Move on. Time to move on quickly to J.W., Keller, Texas. J.W., how you doing?
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Good. On the Epstein files, with all this effort we're trying to find the perpetrators, I hear nothing about victims. Why don't we find out if there were some victims?
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Well, that's right. And I wonder often about the victims. And indeed, where are the victims? And are any of the victims coming forward? Are any of the victims, of course, you know, who wants to be identified for being involved in something that awful? But you've got to, the whole thing is a mess. But I'm like the other guy. You know, it's going to blow over. Maybe it's just going to take longer than we thought. Time will tell.
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It's the Stephen Colbert theme. Don't gloat. Don't gloat. I actually... This is very tongue-in-cheek because as I said on Twitter last night, and as I will tell you now, even when someone is a poisonous, poisonous political bigot as Colbert is, I don't ever root for people to lose shows, cheer when people lose gigs. I mean, the Marketplace is what it is, but here's what's weird. I don't know what Marketplace got rid of him because of the Colbert, Kimmel... Fallon trash heap of late night talk shows that used to be so beautifully done by people like Johnny Carson and Dick Cavett. His ratings are pretty good.
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Well, wait a minute. Wait a minute. No, no, no, they're not.
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Not compared to the universe versus each other versus the competition.
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Well, perhaps that's the lowest. That's the lowest hanging fruit. Those are that's a that's a that's a competition of little people. So he's the tallest little person because there are nights when Gutfeld beats all of them. And Gutfeld's on cable news. And here was with Brian Stelter. Here was the giveaway. I don't mean to laugh because I'm like you. I don't like seeing the misfortune of others. But on the other hand, if anybody deserves it, it's this guy because he's rotten. He is such a nasty. And, you know, he started out kind of funny. He played a Bill O'Reilly kind of blowhard. Yep. It was a feature on The Daily Show on Comedy Central, wasn't it? Right. And he was a character. I mean, his name is Colbert, you know, but he turned into Stephen Colbert and did this Bill O'Reilly. Back when Bill was real big, it was kind of a spoof on him. Then he got The Late Show. He inherited it from David Letterman. They gave him the Ed Sullivan Theater in Midtown Manhattan. And he started out doing a variety show. Well, he's not funny enough or good enough to do that on his own. So then he went full-blown radical activist Democrat. Now, here's the giveaway, what you just said about profitability. Brian Stelter, the media guy over at CNN, said, well, you know, I have to admit that technically the show isn't profitable for CBS, right? Oh, technically, that's why you're there. If the Mark Davis show isn't profitable for 660 AM The Answer, wonder how long you'll be around. If the Mike Gallagher show isn't profitable for Salem Media Group, wonder how long I'll be around. But this is how crazy they've become. They're like the profitability of a massive show like that is sort of incidental. That's just a technicality. We've got to get him every night to blast Trump and attack conservatives and rip into the Republican Party because that's real entertainment. Here's the headline for the ages. And look, I know we've got like 19 things to cover today. We've got time. We're good. Okay, good. Here's the headline of the ages. It's been reported that the Democrat Party is now at the absolute rock bottom lowest level of improvement they've ever had since polling began. Okay, there's no entity any less popular than today's Democrat Party. Here's an example, 1,975 of why. Headline, foxnews.com. Prominent Democrats Adam Schiff and Elizabeth Warren demand to know if CBS is ending Stephen Colbert's late show for political reasons. That's what they're worried about?
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What might that even be? The network continues to hate him. They particularly hate him now. And the reason, and listen, I've got to go back and read. I watched a little bit of it. I'll play it later on. Colbert, on the occasion of CBS settling with Trump for $16 million, because they had to. They had to. CBS totally interfered with the election by doctoring the Kamala interview to make her look coherent for five minutes. And so Trump was going to absolutely own them in that trial, a trial that would have involved a discovery process that would have made clear and made public all kinds of internal memos, internal voicemails, internal hatred, internal TDS. It would have been destructive to what's left of CBS's reputation. So CBS very smartly said, let's let's write a check and make this go away. Colbert torched them. on the air, on their own network.
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His employer.
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His employer. Meanwhile, some former CBS News guy said, oh, we all have, we have like PTSD. We have PTSD because we can't believe that the network settled with Trump. Unbelievable, the arrogance and the denial of these people.
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Well, the narcissism and what's fascinating is, like Eric just said to me when I walked into the studio this morning, who gets a year's notice when you're going to cancel a show? This will be a dirge for a year now, all these insufferable leftist dimwits. Because speaking of Adam Schiff, he was the headliner last night. Yeah. Imagine in the spirit of, think about Johnny Carson or Jay Leno or any of the greats, that the headliner on the Stephen Colbert CBS Late Show is that guy, Adam Schiff.
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If Carson were to invite big-time political people, which he sometimes did. It was to have fun with them. It was to lampoon them in a good-natured way. It was to talk about things that were uniting rather than divisive. You know, Carson was never going to have Abby Hoffman on to torch Nixon. But that's what these shows have turned into.
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And Kimmel, I hope maybe Kimmel will be next because Kimmel does the same thing. He's taking it very well. His reaction was, F you, CBS. F you. How dare you? How dare you? They're all melting down.
SPEAKER 06 :
Now, if you're Kimmel, though, doesn't this give you a larger slice of the talk show pie? Because right after I tweeted, listen, dance, if you will, at the Colbert departure, but his successor is not going to be any better. And then other people that ultimately said CBS said they're not going to replace it as it with what? With another talk show in that vein? I guess I understand. Well, what are they going to replace it with?
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They're not replacing it at all.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, no, what do you mean? There's no such thing as a test pattern anymore.
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Well, they'll do something. They're going to do programming, but they're not going to do the late show anymore. They're not going to do a talk show, evidently. According to Colbert in his tearful announcement last night, he's not being replaced at all. They're going to get rid of the whole franchise, which, you know, our buddy Chris DeGaulle. It seems weird. Our buddy Chris DeGaulle this morning did a monologue that I may play it on my show today. I didn't know this until Chris said it on air. He once interned for David Letterman. So Chris said, this late night talk show stuff is in my wheelhouse. He said, I study it. I've watched it. And it is pretty fascinating. The story about Leno secretly calling all the station owners because there was a battle for who was going to inherit the Johnny Carson show. It's all fascinating to me. Look, back in the day when I was a kid, I used to watch all those shows at night. I wouldn't watch these shows now at gunpoint. What am I going to do, sit there and watch a political monologue? Rachel Maddow on steroids by Stephen Colbert. But here's what Chris pointed out. Stephen Colbert took a franchise that was decades and decades long. Letterman just did such a great job. Whatever you think of Letterman and his politics, and he's a lefty too, but it was a really compelling movie.
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He didn't wear it on his sleeve. Being funny and being entertaining was always way more important to him.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's right. And he's a funny guy and talented guy. Colbert took a little bit of time. and ran it into the ground. He ran it into the ground, Mark. And Chris said, it's just sad and kind of tragic that because the left, and this is what was so brilliant about Chris's monologue this morning, everything the left they touch, they have to politicize. They're doing it to movies. It's their life. It's their obsession. They politicize talk shows. They politicize movies. They politicize sports. They politicize everything they touch. They think they're going to shove their ideology down everybody's throat. Why don't you want the most people possible to watch and enjoy your talk show? I know. How welcome do you feel?
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Why do a show that repels half of America?
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Why even do that? Why would you set it? Because the ideology is more important than the business model. And in broadcasting, look, it gets back to the defunding of PBS and NPR. Why in the world should one penny of taxpayer money go? Do you know how many affiliates they have at NPR? I mean, there's thousands and thousands, and they need taxpayer billions? No, they don't. No excuse whatsoever. And once again, for decades, the Republicans have promised to defund public broadcasting. And it finally happened. Trump got it done.
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On the 30 final seconds of the late night world, because we're sitting here talking about these liberal shows that repel half of America. I can hear people in my earphone ear and your earphone. Well, wouldn't a conservative show do the same? I guess if Ted Nugent had a show, it would be the flip side of the coin. Half of America would be pretty freaked out by that as well. But you use the perfect example of Gutfeld. Gutfeld's a conservative flavored show. But it's fun and funny and humorous and lighthearted and satirical first. It is entertaining first. Rush Limbaugh was not huge because he was conservative. He was huge because he was a radio guy, an entertainer, a communicator, and the message happened to be conservative. Gutfeld is a master entertainer, a satirist. He's funny. He's likable. And so the politics and the policy stuff isn't the locomotive dragging the train at Gutfeld for these leftists.
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I won't push back. You could argue that point because I was going to say the Gutfeld show arguably is a political show, but you're right, it's done with humor.
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It is, but they're having fun first. What makes it palatable, I bet there are people who watch Gutfeld who are not that conservative and they're not propelled by it.
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But you're missing the point because to the left, they think Colbert is funny too. They think he's entertaining and they're funny.
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But they're the only people who think he's funny.
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Yeah, but you can't make the argument just because it's our side and we think we're right. No, I'm not.
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That's why I used the Nugent example. Yeah, that's a better example.
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That's a better example.
SPEAKER 06 :
A Ted Nugent show, I would love it. But half of America would go, ah, Gutfeld is the one.
SPEAKER 04 :
But they hate Gutfeld the way we hate Colbert. You're not being fair on this. You're being very one-sided.
SPEAKER 06 :
You're being tribalist, and that's okay. Stop it. Gutfeld has more viewers that disagree with him than Colbert has viewers that disagree with him.
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Oh, I don't know if that's true or not, but I'll take your word for it. Speaking of lawsuits, the Wall Street Journal is getting sued.
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What is this, Mike? What is that stupid story? Is there any universe in which people say, I know what I'm going to do. We're going to have typewritten language. It's going to be like a saucy conversation between me and Jeffrey.
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What? Well, here's what I don't understand. We don't have any idea if it's accurate or not. Nobody has a clue. I always love the conclusion people. There's no way he doesn't talk that way. Look, I'm not defending the Wall Street Journal here. Let Trump sue the pants off him. There'll be all kinds of discovery. We're going to find out. But here's a couple of things worth noting. The letter was supposedly written three years before Jeffrey Epstein faced any charges whatsoever. It was written four years before Trump himself banned Jeffrey Epstein from Mar-a-Lago because he's a degenerate. I mean, so what? There is nothing to this story. I'll tell you what it is. They can't stand all the victories that Trump is having.
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It's a smear attempt because the Wall Street Journal is not much happier than the New York Times.
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I mean, it's such a stupid—what, the picture with the woman with the breasts? I mean, a stick figure with breasts, and it's typewritten, and it's like, what? This is the Wall Street Journal bombshell?
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Oh, the mighty have fallen.
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Gosh, it's kind of pathetic. I mean, but look, Trump says, I'm going to sue the pants off him. Every other legal action he's taken against media entities that have wronged him— He's won.
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CBS, as we just mentioned. ABC and Stephanopoulos. You bet.
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Absolutely. I mean, so Rupert Murdoch, they better have their ducks in a row. But, again, we'll find out. But, again, who cares? So in, what was it, 2003? Before anything even, okay, all right, it's unpleasant. What's going to happen? Is Trump going to get fired over it? Is he not going to run now? I mean, what?
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give me a break i hate to i hate to be in there i hate to be i hate to be edgy here but compared to the excess hollywood tape this is a walk in the park that is that is correct the guy's a body the guy's a body new yorker so i have no also and somebody pointed out to me this was this was 2003 was trump in sort of billionaire playboy mode so it's not like he was a choir boy and I totally understand that. But stylistically, it's not him. He would never do something this high school goofy. Final 60 seconds. Health check. How are your lower extremities? Anything pooling down there? Everything good?
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Not yet. But don't you love the conspiracy theories? Oh, they knew about this forever. Chronic venous insufficiency. the venous insufficiency that takes a while to... I mean, Scott Jennings, who's our now colleague here at Salem, on CNN last night, he sat next to a butler denier. Do you know there's a whole... What?
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That Trump wasn't really shot?
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It was totally staged. And there's a video. Have you not seen the video circulating? Oh, by the way, 30 seconds before. Butler, real quick. There's a video circulating that says the American flag was lowered by people and it was staged. And look, there were actors. Oh, yeah, I'm not kidding you, Mark. That's how nuts these people are. Speaking of video... Tell me you saw the guy caught on the kiss cam. I did. Oh, the CEO with the girlfriend.
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Called out by Chris Martin of Coldplay himself. They're either having an affair or they're very camera shy.
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Well, it was A. Oh, gosh. But the guy is doubling down. Did you see? He went to social media and he mocked the whole thing.
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Mike, I think it's fake. Oh, that wasn't him? There were some, because within hours, supposedly from the, what's the company name? Astronomer?
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Astronomer, yeah.
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The CEO said, I apologize to my family. I have to come clean. I am indeed a Coldplay fan. Right, that was earlier work. No, no, dude, that's not him. Oh, I think it is. No, no, no, no, no.
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I'm pretty. Oh, OK.
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It's a maybe it's a me.
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I thought it was him just saying trying to minimize it and downplay it. The wife evidently has already taken her legal married name off of her Facebook page.
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There is a meme. There is a meme about it that I did respect. It said, you know what? Coldplay hasn't had a single in years. Last night they made two.
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Yeah. You know, and I saw one guy post, though, all kidding. Oh, and I got to close with this. You told me that Joyce in North Carolina, there's a listener named Joyce. Yeah. Who's going to be 100 years old. Yes. On November 26th. She wrote me. She said, Mike, it's Joyce from North Carolina. Plans are underway for my 100th birthday party, which will be on November 22nd. Please tell Mark Davis. And because she's so honored. Well, you know why? Because you said we should do something for her birthday. Well, let's do something. Well, let's go. I want to go to North Carolina. Go. Wow. Look at the time. Come on, Mark. Let's you and me go. An M&M experience in Joyce's living room.
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I think I had a nice card in mind. No, let's go.
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Let's do the show. But it's pretty exciting. And you know what she said? Here's this sweet lady. I so urgently have to go. Go ahead. Okay, goodbye. See you Monday. No, no, no. Don't tease me. 30 seconds. Go, go ahead. She just said, I was so privileged to support your campaigns. I bought pillows from Mike Lindell. I've done all the financial aid I've been able to do in my lifetime. I love Joyce. And so we're going to be there. God bless you, Joyce. God bless you. Joyce, Mark and I are coming. We're going to set. I want the king size bed. I want the guest, the biggest guest room.
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You can have it.
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I'll sleep on the couch.
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Well, we have a story here from The Villages. The Villages. Always sounds like we're talking about Minecraft when I'm like, it's a villager. A villager was arrested with a stolen motorcycle and meth hidden in his anal cavity. Oh, yes. Villages News says a man with a stolen motorcycle was found to have methamphetamine concealed in... Give me another word for it, Kane. In... His anal bum cover. Kai Cameron Huff. Now, how is he 36 in the villages? He began driving straight towards the deputy's patrol car, heading in the opposite direction. The deputy was forced to take evasive actions and then, of course, then pursued. Oh, my gosh, this guy's mugshot. He is high as a kite. During the traffic stop, the deputy pursued and pulled him over. He noticed a burnt piece of aluminum foil and a small silver spoon, obviously indicative of drug usage. And then he noticed the smell of, you know, some drugs coming from... you know this uh he found uh he only he found four grams of marijuana and he found a bunch of dime-sized baggies and then he found a bunch of other aluminum foil and a cut plastic straw and then something that had residue of fentanyl in it and then um when the guy was taken in to jail i'm trying to really take it into sumter county detention center you know they had to do a search yeah that's That's when they discovered a bunch of meth that was concealed. First off, wouldn't you be afraid that, oh man, look at him, he's high as a kite.
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Wouldn't you be afraid? If you're a normal, not druggy person, yes, you would definitely be afraid.
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What if something happened and you absorbed that? You would die. That would be an overdose of an amount from which you could never come back.
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You're using sanity to explain insanity.
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Apparently, I don't know. Oh, my gosh. So, yeah, he's totally in jail. I got to share this story with you. A woman attacked a driver that hit and killed a chicken that was crossing a road. Oh, she didn't know. No, no, no. It's really good. So this lady stops to let the chicken cross the road. And another Florida woman tried to speed around her and apparently ran it over. And so this Florida woman got bear spray and attacked her. I really don't understand what the crime is here, Cain. A woman stopped at an intersection. It's Key West, local channel 12, WKRC. And according to the arrest report, 38-year-old Cynthia Sosa stopped at the intersection to let a chicken cross the road. A driver behind her began honking and then sped around her and ran over the chicken. She pursued the driver. caught the driver, blocked the road in front of the victim's vehicle, got out, tried to open the door, and then pulled out her bear mace and sprayed the lady directly in the face. Then she fled the scene, but she was taken into custody later. She's got two counts of aggravated battery and one count of burglar with a solder battery. What does this other broad get? Can I just be honest? This is why I couldn't be a police officer. I'd be like, I don't see a crime here.
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What? I think it is a crime to mace somebody.
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She ran over that chicken. What if that woman was stopping because she was letting a woman in a wheelchair cross the road?
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Well, that's different.
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No, it's not. The lady behind her had no idea. She was just gunning around her because she was being a doucher. Ran over the chicken.
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Slight difference between an old lady in a wheelchair and a
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How would she know? She was behind the lady's car. She couldn't see.
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I agree. She was reckless.
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I think if you're reckless and stupid, you might get hit with bear spray.
SPEAKER 03 :
But then were they going to ticket the chicken for jaywalking? No.
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, it's dead because she ran it over.
SPEAKER 03 :
I need more common sense.
SPEAKER 06 :
I just, if I was a police officer called to this, I'd be like, I don't see a crime. Don't make false calls to the police. And I'd leave.
SPEAKER 03 :
I'd be for that. I'd be for that.
SPEAKER 06 :
I know that we have police officers listening who are going, Dana.
SPEAKER 03 :
That bear mace though. My God.
SPEAKER 06 :
What else would you want?
SPEAKER 03 :
That's harsh for a human being.
SPEAKER 06 :
It's harsh for bears. Well, what if that's all she had? It's harsh for bears. Bears don't care. All right. We, uh, I know I have a couple more of them. I fascinated with that story. I'd still literally how I would be like, I don't see a crime here. Let's be honest. Big pharma profited off of your fear while silencing your voice. They controlled the narrative, blocked access to real treatments, and then told you what you could and could not take, all to protect their bottom line. Medicines like ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, and bendazole were all labeled dangerous and dismissed, even though millions found relief and recovery from them. This Independence Day, All Family Pharmacy is standing up for your freedom with their biggest sale of the year. You get buy one, get one free on these critical medications with a doctor's prescription included, shipped fast and direct to your door. No corporate gatekeepers, no big pharma middlemen, no bureaucratic roadblocks. At All Family Pharmacy, all medications are made from 100% domestically sourced materials, ensuring the highest quality and safety standards you can trust. Because medical freedom is American freedom. But this offer won't last. It ends July 13th. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana for buy one, get one free. That's allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana. Take back your power and make America healthy again.
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SPEAKER 11 :
I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how's it going today? It's going good, man.
SPEAKER 10 :
Tell us who you are and what you do. I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said $20 billion won. $20 billion is an insane number.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think, somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on. Awesome.
SPEAKER 11 :
So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
SPEAKER 10 :
Probably the easiest way is dialing Pound Law. That's Pound 529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24-7, 365.
SPEAKER 11 :
Wow. Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America's large injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thanks for having me. Visit ForThePeople.com for an office near you.
SPEAKER 13 :
Oh, hey, everybody. We got a great show for you tonight. Senator Adam Schiff was my guest. We harmonized on Seven Bridges Road. What a voice, I cried. But before we start the show, I want to let you know something that I found out just last night. Next year will be our last season. The network will be ending The Late Show in May. And... Yeah, I share your feelings. It's not just the end of our show, but it's the end of the late show on CBS. I'm not being replaced. This is all just going away.
SPEAKER 06 :
Uh-huh. Yay! Golly. So, everyone... So, Stephen Colbert announced last night that, as you heard, he's not going to be... This next season is his last season, right? He's not going to be coming back. He's not going to be doing his Colbert show, which I've never watched. He literally took... The Dave Letterman time slot and made it a giant. Yeah, he ruined it. He trashed. He just completely destroyed it. Although Letterman, you know, NBC Letterman was better than CBS Letterman. Let's be honest. It was. Let's you know. So it wasn't. But anyway, he ruined it. He completely ruined whatever was left of it. And just by being such a bitter person. be i mean he wasn't funny he's not funny that was even not funny i have not the only time i ever saw him when he was funny was like way back when he was first getting started on the daily show with john stewart and that was before he became obsessed with being a leftist And he was funny then, and he was more lighthearted. And then that lightheartedness went away, and he became like an empty husk, an empty desiccated husk of what he was, of a person. And he was so bitter and filled with rage all the time. It looks like there's just like a river of rage that's just right underneath the surface. And he became obsessed. And he didn't just become obsessed with being leftist. He became obsessed with being nasty about it. And he mistakenly assumed that The more ignorant or the more rude one is about a political issue, the funnier it is that that makes it funny and that that somehow was a substitute for clever humor. As you know, it is not. And he now finds that out. I keep seeing that that people say that he was canceled. And he wasn't canceled. And we'll talk about that in a minute. But people aren't attracted to Audio Soundbite 8. Stuff like this. This is flashback Colbert. This is just not attractive. Listen.
SPEAKER 12 :
Sir, they're not whole countries. For one, Donald Trump isn't their president.
SPEAKER 06 :
He just insulted everyone in his audience and they clapped like seals. They clap like seals. Or this, Audio Soundbite 9. Flashback. Again, flashback Colbert. This is all his show is anymore.
SPEAKER 13 :
It would be my honor to say it to your face. Just walk a little closer to your TV screen, please. Just a little closer to your TV screen. Let me just get her up here and go, You, Donald Trump, are a horrible, horrible human being. Horrible. Horrible. This is not funny.
SPEAKER 06 :
That is not funny at all whatsoever. People are just applauding the fact that he is confirming their bias. They're not applauding him because he's clever. They're not applauding him because anything that he said is funny. They're just applauding him because he thinks like they do. That's why they're rewarding him. And the way that the left puts it, they're acting like this is that Colbert is being taken off air because he dared to criticize the president. This is actually what Brian Stelter was saying via CNN last night, Audio Sun by 10. This is what he's arguing.
SPEAKER 01 :
Right from the optics standpoint, the timing could not be worse for CBS. Colbert is such an outspoken Trump critic. He's just back from vacation. And as he showed there on Monday on his first night back from vacation, he's also a thorn in his parent company's side. So this looks to a lot of Colbert's fans like another form of capitulation by CBS to the president of the United States.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, but it wasn't. And of course, this is after, you know, the CBS and ABC Trump settlements, because the... CBS 60 Minutes. Remember, they had to pay 16 million and they were essentially helping to finance the future library and pay his legal fees. That was part of his his lawsuit settlement, because remember, going back all the way to the election, you had this Kamala Harris interview that, you know, they violated federal law. election camp federal election law that their own laws that they came up with they violated and they get in trouble with uh paramount was which owned cbs they were the ones at 16 million to settle that 60 minutes lawsuit and uh that i think that was what announced at the first of the year so the argument that the left is trying to make is that Because of that, Paramount, which owns CBS, is trying to make sure that nobody criticizes Trump. And so that's why Colbert was pulled. But it wasn't. As Fortune points out, Colbert was canceled days after he went after his bosses over the Trump settlement. And this is this was just actually this. So this is this morning's announcing that CBS is canceling the late show, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then they get into how. he had gone on publicly to criticize Paramount, to criticize their settling with Paramount, to criticize all of that. And I mean, he went after, it was described as withering criticism. He told his audience that Well, the audience that was watching him at the time, he was he was he was talking to Adam Schiff. He was criticizing him, criticizing Paramount, criticizing the settlement. And you can't do that. Can I just say that you can't in any profession go after your bosses? Right. Can you I want in your workplace, can you go and trash your boss's moves and without any penalty? If you are, you know, if you work in a design firm, can you criticize your bosses for their decisions or for company moves publicly? Can you do that anywhere else? I mean, I don't know why people are saying that this is cancellation. And the left is saying, oh my gosh, the right canceled Colbert. Even some people on the right are saying, yes, Colbert was canceled. And he wasn't canceled. I talked about this on X this morning. He wasn't canceled. You can't criticize your bosses like that. He criticized them publicly. That's insubordination. We are all, all of us, we are all eligible to meet the same penalty. If I went out and I started trashing Radio America, guess what? There's a penalty for that. Every employment agreement that I have ever had, and you can't tell me that Colbert does not have an employment agreement. Every employment agreement that I've ever had, a condition of continued employment is that you don't go and trash your bosses. You don't go and trash your company. That's boilerplate in any employment agreement. He goes out and he's trashing his bosses. Now, Paramount didn't come out and say this is explicitly why, but this comes literally days after he was doing this. Furthermore, I don't know if you've seen his ratings lately. His ratings are horrific. His show was performing so horribly and his ratings had declined so badly that there was just no way to justify the ad rates for keeping him in his day part. There wasn't. There was no there's no reason why he needed. I mean, he it's not canceling to remove poorly performing talent. That's business. And by the way, all of this information is public. You know what I was thinking about like the realm of tonight shows, whether it's, you know, like Jay Leno or Johnny Carson or whatever. I really feel like Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel particularly killed it. They killed the late night shows. They killed them. Jimmy Fallon started coming close. Remember when they started getting a little political back in like 2012 and then they pulled it back or 2013, they pulled it back. And then he kind of stayed true to it's supposed to be lighthearted. It's supposed to be fun. People are getting ready to get a bet. They don't want to have like a debate over a hateful debate over serious issues. Right. So Fallon, I think I feel like he kind of kept to that form, but I don't think Craig Ferguson did. And by and I'm not I'm sorry, I'm not interested in in a person who is not a citizen of this country who comes over to the United States and start like waxing political about our system, you know, and it's kind of hard to take. You know, he is a very thick brogue to hear him criticize different aspects of the political system in this in these United States. You know what I mean? It's like, come on. But Kimmel and Colbert were so hateful and have been so hateful. Nobody wants to tune in anymore. It's like it's like having an uncle that always complains and is on the other side of you politically, always complains, is always hateful, is always wanting to debate at the most inappropriate times. It's like that they bring that energy to this. But the right needs to stop saying that the guy was canceled. Stop it. This is accountability. Let the left whine about it. That's not what cancellation is. He wasn't canceled because he went afoul of society. He was fired because he criticized his bosses and he was doing a bad job and his show was performing poorly. That is not cancellation. That is accountability. There is a major difference. Let's not confuse the two just for the sake of using a misapplied buzzword. But I don't know who goes in that spot. I don't know if you can... I mean, is it a generational thing? Like late night television? My grandparents loved it. They loved the late night. They would watch Johnny Carson. The Tonight Show. Yeah, the Tonight Show. And then Jay Leno took over. When did he take over? In the 80s sometime? I don't know. I just... I only remembered kind of Johnny Carson. I remember Jay Leno back when his hair was mostly dark. I remember Jay Leno. But I don't think Gen X really watched... late night TV, and I definitely don't think that Gen Z does.
SPEAKER 03 :
I think Gen X may have watched it just because, you know, when I'm up late, didn't want the parents knowing. I'd watch that show, you know what I mean, as a kid. But that's been an institution for American television since like the 50s or 60s.
SPEAKER 06 :
It's like a water cooler thing.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, it's just a funny, nice little time slot for everyone to settle their lives down before they go to bed.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, and by water cooler moment, I mean, there were certain shows that Everybody, no matter where they were politically, would watch. And I had always said I think Game of Thrones was the last program that was like that, where everybody would watch it and then they would all talk about it, regardless of political affiliation, belief or whatever the next day. It was like one of the things that everybody actually could talk about, you know, nicely. A water cooler topic, like you go to the water cooler at work and, you know, that comes up and you talk, you know, it's a stereotype. It's still a stereotype for a reason. Before everybody started siloing themselves off with conservative media and progressive media and conservative networks and progressive networks and conservative newsletters and progressive networks. It's, you know, one of those things that everybody could access. Everyone did. And then they could all talk about it was a unifying thing. It was like one of the threads that still kind of kept everything together. And these guys killed it. They killed it. And they also didn't like push things for virality the way Fallon did. Fallon did like little cutie segments with different people, with different guests, and they knew how to cut those up and put them out digitally. And so his show grew, whereas these guys just thought they could sit behind their desk and bitch and moan about Trump and Republicans 24-7, and that was going to be enough to satiate the audience or to get new viewers. And it clearly wasn't. Kel-Tec, the PR57, it's one of the latest from Kel-Tec. It's the The rotary barrel pistol, the PR57 chambered in 5.7, 40% lighter than the competition and works great for concealed carry. The PR57, they were able to make it lighter and thinner in a number of different ways. The way that they did it with a rotary barrel, number one. The unique top-loading design, number two, that replaces traditional magazines with stripper clips for slimmer carry profile and 20 plus 1 capacity. And it's a really quick and easy field strip. You also have low recoil for ease of use and accuracy as well, built to perform when it matters most. And it's affordable MSRP of only $399. It's Kel-Tec, made in America, family-owned, based in Florida. Learn more at keltecweapons.com, K-E-L-T-E-C, weapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you.
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SPEAKER 11 :
I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how's it going today?
SPEAKER 10 :
It's going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do. I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said $20 billion won. $20 billion is an insane number.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think, somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on. Awesome.
SPEAKER 11 :
So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
SPEAKER 10 :
Probably the easiest way is dialing Pound Law. That's Pound 529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24-7-365. Wow.
SPEAKER 11 :
Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America's largest injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thanks for having me. Visit ForThePeople.com for an office near you.
SPEAKER 03 :
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick 5.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, there's a reason why you're not supposed to wear jewelry when you get an MRI. A man was critically injured because he wore a neck chain into an MRI machine. How did someone let him in the MRI machine with the neck chain on? And he got sucked into it. A scan was in progress, and that's what happened. They had to call 911, and it was the Nassau Open MRI. The guy was wearing a large metallic chain around his neck, and it drew him right into the machine. And the police said it resulted in a medical episode. No other details were immediately provided. He was taken to the hospital for treatment, and that's it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Imagine getting yanked around by your chain, but then it's an MRI gigantic magnet. Oh, my God.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, my gosh. This is like, that's terrifying. A solar powered aircraft flew for a 236 foot skydweller flew for 90 days without stopping. pretty impressive. Let's see. Flight cancellations are surging this summer. A number of airports have been hardest hit, in fact. Oh, goodness. Boston to Atlanta. FlightAware said that there have been a number of cancellations. There's also an 18% drop compared to summer last year, but the number of canceled flights has been higher by about 1,000 flights. So that's pretty significant. Let's see. An advocacy group CEO claims he was offered $20 million to recruit protesters for anti-Trump demonstrations. Anybody surprised by any of this? I'm not. Yeah. He admits rejecting the offer because demonstrations would make us all look bad. They had 15. Why does this guy look like an AI creation? That guy looks like an AI creation. The guy doing the interview. They said that. The Good Trouble Lives On, which is a group that talks about nonviolent protests. Apparently, they were one of the ones that are implicated in this. Sure, the media is not really going to pay attention to that, though, because they're too busy talking about this fake letter. And Asheville police arrested a woman. This is sad. She was caught stealing items from Hurricane Helene. victims. This is like, how low are you? They were church. They were local church items that were donated for hurricane healing victims. And she was apparently caught stealing. She broke into this Oteen church overnight and apparently was able, she's 42 years old. Ellen Hickman was able to steal a whole bunch of stuff. That's sad. That's incredibly sad.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's one of the things that I think a lot of times boys need is that Not just exposure to one guy. One dad. One dad, no matter how good the dad is.
SPEAKER 08 :
Dad is, he can't be everything.
SPEAKER 05 :
He can't be everything. And then that boy may need somebody to give the boy some perspective on the dad. Yeah. One of the most valuable things I learned as a guy was I had a gay professor in college. At a time when openly gay folks still weren't out who became one of my favorite professors and was a great guy and would call me out when I started saying stuff that was ignorant. You need that to show empathy and kindness. And by the way, you need that person in your friend group so that if you then have a boy who is gay or non-binary or whatever, they have somebody that they can go, okay, I'm not alone in this. So why are you gay?
SPEAKER 06 :
So Barack Obama says young boys need gay dudes in their lives. And that interview, was that his wife's podcast that he was on? I think so. Everybody's doing a podcast. Kill me. It's like everyone, I mean, the world's going to be full of podcasts and no listeners. Welcome to the show, our radio broadcast. You can watch the radio broadcast on Channel 347, DirecTV. You can also find the chat at Rumble, X, Facebook, YouTube, all that good stuff. So what did I just hear? What did I just hear? He says that, well, they need, you know, because having a dad isn't enough. I think having a mom and a dad is like enough. I mean, that's, you know, that's completely enough. You know, you don't you don't need anything else from that. It was so Michelle Obama and her. Is it her twin brother? It's like her bald. I've never seen two siblings look more alike than Michelle and Craig Robinson. Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson, her brother. I have never seen two siblings look more alike in my ever-loving life. Did you Google it? I did. And? Yep. Kane? Yeah? I have to admit.
SPEAKER 03 :
It does look like Mike. Michelle.
SPEAKER 06 :
So, her podcast is called Emo. I-M-O. In my opinion, super, super... super um original but they had an hour-long discussion about how boys need gay dudes to provide perspective and then he talked about the the gay guy that had uh influence on him when he was at occidental college i'm just saying just saying uh i don't know it was didn't he also talk about having a gay liaison when he was in college I'm just like, I just remember there was so much stuff that was happening, like so many things that were flying around at the time. This is not going anywhere well. You know what I mean? It's Friday. Stop it. All of you need Jesus. Anyway, he thinks that gay men help boys develop emotional awareness. What is emotional awareness? I hate these stupid buzzword phrases. I'm just like, it sounds like the Kylie Jenner thing. It's me and my friends. We're just like realizing things. We're just like realizing emotions. You know, we're like aware of them. What does that even mean? Our society is full of just stupid buzzword. All of it. Yeah, we need we need that. They need to develop emotional awareness and empathy in a broader perspective. That's what they need. I don't know. They just need a mom and a dad and to stop doing social experiments on them. Let them be kids. You know, you know, Malik Obama, Barack Obama's brother said that he was definitely gay in July 2023. He posted it on X. Why are you gay? He said he was absolutely definitely. I'm just saying. Mears his brother. I don't know. Maybe, instead of saying specifically a gay dude, why can't you just have like a man that understands, like a compassionate male figure? And that could be anybody, not necessarily a gay dude. You know, being gay is not synonymous with being compassionate. There are a lot of absolute blank holes out there that are gay dudes. Marxist gay dudes are the worst. Right? And then there are some that lean conservative and they're not like that. But What it's not synonymous with being gay is not synonymous with being compassionate. And I feel like for someone who, you know, brags about how educated he is, that's a nuance that he would have been aware of before he decided to talk about it mistakenly for an hour on his wife's podcast. It's just so weird. That's this whole conversation is so weird. They just need basically it all boils down to Barack Obama going, well, boys just need nice people in their lives. That's it. You need to have a male and a female. That's pretty much it. I think God had it pretty much in order when he was like, we're going to give you a mom and a dad. That's pretty much how it's covered. There you go. I don't know. A lot of people think Obama's gay. I mean, he had kids with I unless I see evidence to the contrary and I'm not really all that interested in it. He's it's not going to make him a better president if he is or isn't. It's not going to. I mean, you can't get pretty. You cannot get any worse than what he was as a president. So you're like, well, and he was gay. Like, well, he was already a horrible president. He ruined health care. They took health care, ripped the face off of it, defecated in the skull, put the face back on, and sent it out to the world. That's what they did with Obamacare. That's what Obamacare is. Did you know that? Dana, why do you speak in such terms? I guess they didn't have a gay man in my life. I don't know. I mean, you see how goofy this is? This is so goofy. It's, um... Also sounds like you need a babysitter in order to raise your child the way that the leftists want you to raise your child. It's nanny statism. And I just also have a major problem with anyone. If you have a problem with your family, I always think you find the solution within your family. You don't go outside of it. Like if you're a kid and you need parental help or you don't go and seek strange gay men for influence, that sounds like it's going to start off badly, right? It's like, oh, we've got to get this young boy some influence in his life. We need to find a nice gay man. Let's go find him a nice gay man to get him some, you know. Steve, you're not doing this to me right now. No, you're not.
SPEAKER 03 :
I recommend against it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Do you?
SPEAKER 03 :
I do recommend against it, but I just want to make that public.
SPEAKER 06 :
I'm just going to state. I'm not going to say it. No, I'm not going to talk about it. It has to do. Steve, what did you say on break? Where did this go?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, we said everybody needs a gay man in their life. And then I said, what kind of gay man? There's more than one kind.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. And Steve was throwing up twink and then bear. And I have. Different directions. Yeah. I have a very interesting story in how I learned what a bear was. That's not an animal in the woods. And it is, it's like a Burbs, like Tom Hanks and the Burbs. It's kind of like that. It's like basically in that vein. It really is. And I'm the Bruce Dern character. It was pretty much just like that. I came with the frame. I don't really want to tell the story because there's certain things you just don't know if you want to risk virality with it. You know, it's one of those situations. Are you encouraging me? Should I wait till the third hour?
SPEAKER 03 :
No, I'm saying I know it's Friday and everything. Don't get tempted.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
If you're really on that side of the fence.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, Steve brought it up and he literally said in Slack, explain your bear twink story. So there's my story. I explained it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Are you outing me? There is a story.
SPEAKER 06 :
Huh?
SPEAKER 04 :
Why are you outing me live on air?
SPEAKER 06 :
Juan and Juan just adds, I am today years old.
SPEAKER 03 :
I don't think I fully learned what it is.
SPEAKER 06 :
The bear? Yeah. That's like the gay dudes that wear plaid. And they're big.
SPEAKER 03 :
I see.
SPEAKER 06 :
They're like more of the lumberjack. Yeah. Like like if Paul Bunyan was gay.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh.
SPEAKER 06 :
That would be OK.
SPEAKER 03 :
That'd be a bear.
SPEAKER 06 :
And I think and you could you could tell me, Dana, I think that the stereotype is applicable to like the hyper masculine like gays, which I don't think like being a lumberjack is hyper masculine. It's just you're just a dude. But I do think that there's like a uniform with it. Oh, I know there's a uniform with it because there are literal patches that go with it. And I really don't want to explain how I learned that. It's one of the craziest stories ever. It beats the time that I got literally into a slap fight with a chimpanzee. And the time that I got into a fight with goats. I mean, it's all animals that I fought. I mean. Anyway, so that's it. We're just going to leave that on the table. There you go. So moving on.
SPEAKER 03 :
If I'm a listener, I'm feeling really cheated right now.
SPEAKER 06 :
Do not do this. Do not. Once the story's out there, it never goes back. I didn't do anything wrong. I was just... sometimes you're really, you're like, am I innocent or naive? You know, like, have you ever been in a position where you're like, am I just that innocent or am I just super naive? It's possible to be both.
SPEAKER 03 :
It's possible.
SPEAKER 04 :
Sounds like a Landis Morissette lyric.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh my gosh. Where she thought mistakenly that something was ironic and it was just a bad coincidence.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lash's Absurd Truth Podcast. If you haven't already, make sure to hit that subscribe button on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Prepare yourself for a rollercoaster of revelations as Dana Lash delves into the saga of Donald Trump's alleged letter to Jeffrey Epstein. With media giants like the Wall Street Journal stirring the pot, we dissect the legitimacy of such reports and ask probing questions about journalistic integrity. Join Dana for a mix of humor and hard-hitting truth-telling, as we also tackle the cultural shift in Hollywood, epitomized by Stephen Colbert's announcement to end The Late Show.
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The language was spicy.
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And J.D. Vance, J.D. Vance of all people, is saying, show us the letter, demanding to see the letter. Donald Trump did not dare to say, where is the letter in his social media post tonight, which occurred 40 minutes later. after JD Vance's social media post tonight. Donald Trump is not asking to see that letter. Donald Trump doesn't want you to see that letter. But JD Vance wants you to see that letter. If J.D. Vance creates a groundswell demand by more and more Trump supporters for the release of that letter, that could do more damage to Donald Trump than anything that has ever happened to Donald Trump in his entire political career. And it's J.D. Vance who's doing this.
SPEAKER 25 :
Well, that's pretty. That's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard in my life. Wow. Yeah. Lawrence O'Donnell. Lawrence O'Donnell. He's he's I that's one of the dumbest things I've heard. And that has to do with that story, which we're going to dive into. That's hit last night. Was it last night? Yesterday evening is when it happened. And it ended up, well, dominated the news cycle. And then, of course, we have this story, which we're going to talk about coming out of L.A. today, that explosion, which we'll touch on here in a moment. But that he's MSNBC, right? So how does Stephen Colbert get canceled and not him? I mean, how does Stephen Colbert, well, Stephen Colbert didn't get canceled. He got fired. But how does Lawrence O'Donnell stay on television? And Stephen Colbert, I mean, they're both horrible. I guess my question is, I don't understand how any of them stay on TV.
SPEAKER 18 :
I'm for equality. Let's fire them both.
SPEAKER 25 :
Yeah, it's not high quality at all. Not at all. So welcome to the show, Dana Lash with you. That was, oh gosh, I'm sorry to drop him on you like that, but there it is. So this is some of the latest in this whole saga, the whole letter saga. that we're supposed to believe is this letter from Donald Trump. First off, before I dive into it, when was this supposed to have been sent? Because it was Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday. So if you're just following along with us, if you're just joining us, let me get it set up and then we're going to dive in. So the facts of the matter are this. They're saying, and by they, I mean the Wall Street Journal, is saying that Donald Trump sent Jeffrey Epstein a letter for his 50th birthday. And it was part of this effort to that Jelaine Maxwell orchestrated where they were having all of Jeffrey Epstein's friends send him these like letters that she put into she scrapbook that she put into a giant book and presented to Epstein for his 50th birthday. So I don't know how long ago he turned 50. So I'm just trying to understand. Don't show it yet. Don't show it yet. I'm just trying to understand, you know, I don't know how long ago it was that he turned 50. So it's been some time. That's my point. It's been some time, Kane. So, like, I don't know if it was, you know, maybe the 90s or whatever. But anyway, so the letter, it wasn't like a typical letter. It was... A drawing of this is what the Wall Street Journal says. OK, bear in mind, it's what they say. It was the drawing of a naked lady and the naked lady drawing. And then it had like dialogue over it, which we'll get into. And the Wall Street Journal came out and said that this is a real thing. It's a real letter. Now, they didn't show you anything. We don't know what it looks like because the Wall Street Journal just said that they saw it. They didn't publish the letter. They didn't publish the drawing that this dialogue was over. Right. So. They were hinting around all day yesterday. And then today's Friday. So Wednesday evening, there was this all this buzz that was on social media like, oh, it looks like, oh, we hear that somebody's working on a piece about Epstein and Trump. And that's I mean, I kept hearing about that over and over again. Somebody's working on this piece about Jeffrey Epstein and Trump. And they were really drip, drip, dripping it out there. Right. And then we heard, oh, there could be a letter. And we started hearing this like yesterday after I got off air, right? And then the Wall Street Journal, they first – someone tweeted out an excerpt of the Wall Street Journal piece that wrote about this thing that Trump sent. It was said to have sent Epstein, right? And so it – They didn't, again, they didn't show it. We didn't see it. And Cain, just to confirm to the audience that that is correct, we didn't see it. We have no idea if that's what the letter says or not. It was just the Wall Street Journal said they saw it and this is what it is. Correct? Okay. I want to make sure I'm not misleading anyone here. Okay. Now, again, it wasn't a letter. It was a drawing of apparently a naked lady. And should we read it? I mean, do we read it? We read it. I feel like we do. Because I did feel like I promised everybody that we were going to have a dramatic rating of this.
SPEAKER 18 :
It does deserve some theater.
SPEAKER 25 :
It does deserve a little bit of theater. I mean, there's nothing in it that's... what would you say? There's nothing in it that's like nasty. There's nothing. I wrote about it at Substack. So if you're over at Substack, again, you're one of the subscribers who did the right thing and subscribed so you get all of this in advance.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, there's nothing nefarious, nothing dark about this.
SPEAKER 25 :
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not like, you know, when they say body, I think they're talking about the letter. So this is what it said. So again, imagine there's a drawing of a naked lady. I'm sorry. And this was what was put over it. And this is just our imagination, by the way, of what it will look like. This is what was over it. So you can imagine. Voice over. There must be more to life than having everything. This is how the note begins. Donald. Yes, there is. But I won't tell you what it is. Jeffrey. Nor will I, since I also know what it is. Donald, we have certain things in common, Jeffrey. Jeffrey, yes, we do come to think of it. Donald, enigmas never age. Have you noticed that? Jeffrey, as a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you. Donald. A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy birthday, and may every day be another wonderful secret. And that is, A Pal is a Wonderful Thing, presented by The Dana Show. A dramatic reading. So, can I be really, I don't want to make anybody mad. And we'll, you know, we'll have to revisit the letter again. I don't want to make anybody mad, but POTUS The guy who writes in caps lock. The guy who botches his own name in tweets. The guy who says things like cofefe. And says unprecedented P-R-E-S-I-D-E-N-T-E-D for unprecedented P-R-E-C-E-D-E-N-T-E-D. Yeah. And mixes up T-O and T-O-O. You're trying to tell me that he wrote that? I don't believe you. I don't believe it. And I'm not making fun of him. I do not believe that that the same guy who wrote the tweet about Barney Frank, quote, looking disgusting, nipples protruding in his blue shirt before Congress. Very disrespectful. He wrote that on December 21st of 2011. By the way, yes, Barney Frank's nipples were protruding. If you're going to wear a slim, like a loose fit T-shirt like that with a thin material and you're a man with moves, you need a brassiere. Ask your wife. I'm not dogging on Trump. I'm merely remarking about how big of a mental abortion it is to actually believe that he wrote this letter. I do not believe that he wrote this letter. You will have to... The only way that I would believe that Trump wrote this letter... is if you took me in a time machine, back in time, and you literally sat me next to Trump at the desk where he's writing this letter, actually typing it out because it was typewritten, or at least dictating it to a secretary who then typed it over the naked lady drawing. I do not believe it. He doesn't say enigma. Okay? This is so stupid. And the Wall Street Journal is like, oh my gosh, guys. They think that you're they just nobody buys this anymore. We got to have receipts. I am not going to buy. Well, so and so said that they saw a letter that Trump supposedly wrote Jeffrey Epstein. Oh, do you have the letter? Can can we read it? No. But what we'll do is reprint it for you. Wait a minute. What? Yes. And there's a naked lady drawing, too. Oh, because you're a newspaper and you're about gathering news. Are you going to show the readers this? No, we're going to write about it in a 511,100,000 per trillion capillion article and describe it in detail, but not actually show you. I mean, nothing's preventing us from showing you. We're just not going to do it. Is this the evidentiary standard now when approaching news pieces came?
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, I mean, it is our media. Think back to the Malaysian flight when the news reported that one of the crew members' names or the crew members' names were Wee Too Low.
SPEAKER 25 :
And Sum Ting Wong.
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, Sum Ting Wong.
SPEAKER 25 :
Yes, but this is the Wall Street Journal. Yeah. The Wall Street Journal is writing this. And, you know, I think in some ways this is incredibly it can be even more nefarious than like MSNBC, because with MSNBC and CNN, like we came in with Lawrence O'Donnell. Right. Who was like, well, J.D. Vance probably leaked this letter because he wants Trump out of the way. Shut up. But you expect this from MSNBC and CNN, right? It's like if you walk at night down an unlit alley in Chicago, you expect to get shanked. You know what I mean? So you just don't go down that alley. You know what I'm saying? You just don't do that. If you watch The View, you're going to feel horrible because it is... Yeah, it's I mean, the view is like an avatar for raging menopause. So you're going to feel horrible watching it. Why? You know what you're going to get. You know what I'm saying? So with MSNBC and CNN, my point is, is that you know what you're going to get when you tune into them. The Wall Street Journal still puts out some very competent pieces. So that kind of muddies the water when they then publish something like this. This is asinine. First off, that's not a letter. It's a script over a naked lady. And I need to see the naked lady. I'm sorry. I've got to see it. If Trump drew it, I need to see it to make an assessment.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay. Well, Juan, do you have it?
SPEAKER 25 :
I mean, this is what we think it is.
SPEAKER 18 :
Wait, we had to censor that?
SPEAKER 25 :
Yeah. You cannot show cartoon boobs, Cain.
SPEAKER 18 :
I thought you could.
SPEAKER 25 :
Just note, I mean, and again, this is probably what the Wall Street Journal has, the happy birthday written in an entirely different pen than his signature. But that's OK. You know, we're just imagining. And then you have the script, the script over it. And that's apparently what this is. Somebody in the newsroom greenlit this like an editor was like, this is good to run. And then another editor was like, I agree with you, Editor Bob. This is good to run. Thanks, Editor Jim. You're welcome, Editor Bob. Editor Jim, let's go ahead and take this to the copy editor. Great job, Editor Bob. And then they go and then they load it into the digital dashboard of their online edition. And they're like, this is journalism-ing. And then they try to give each other a high five, but they miss because they're stupid. And then it's like the Russian pee tape and then the Trump Tower story and then the baking story and then the New York case. Like every single time they do this, It nothing comes of it. Nothing ever comes of it. You can't just run out there and tell people you got a naked lady drawing and this script over it and then not show us. Show us you rat bastards. I'm tired of this stuff. This is how we got to start our Friday. Now, Trump said he's going to sue. We have his reaction coming up. Our partners that help bring you the program. it's always important to make sure that you're still involved in creating what people are watching. And I mean, there's a reason why our culture is breaking down and it's reflected in the offerings that are coming from Hollywood. Of course, you're seeing headlines now that Hollywood's dead. It is, it's dying. People aren't – they're not flocking to Hollywood anymore because Hollywood isn't showing Americans what they want to see. Angel Studios is though. They flipped the script and they've been breathing new life into storytelling by focusing on powerful, uplifting stories that celebrate faith, family and freedom. They're not just making movies. They're creating experiences that are bringing families together and focusing on what truly matters. And they're doing this with just tons of great titles. They have stuff for everyone, animated films for kids and families. They have dramas. They have everything. And you can actually take part in this. You can help green light what is going to be made, what isn't. You can help direct really the future of what culture is by taking part in what Angel Studios is producing. You can do this by becoming a premium member of Angel Studios' guild. You get free tickets to every theatrical release. You get ad-free streaming and so much more. You can take back the culture, one powerful story at a time. So join over a million Americans taking back control of their entertainment. Visit angel.com slash Dana and help fund the future of storytelling that reflects your values. And remember, premium members get free theater tickets, ad-free streaming, and more. Become a premium member today at angel.com slash Dana.
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SPEAKER 18 :
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
SPEAKER 25 :
Okay, so, oh, geez. This is the Daily Star. It's a British newspaper. This guy named Reuben Owen, he went to get a hair transplant in Turkey. And you're not supposed to do any rigorous physical activity, romantic or otherwise after. He did not listen. And his head swelled up like to the size of a hot air balloon, basically. It looks really bad. His whole face swelled up. He's 24 years old and he had to go get a hair transplant. 24 years old. And he had to get a hair transplant. Wow. Okay. All right. He said he thought he caught something and then he realized he didn't listen to his doctor because he's one of the dumbest people ever. A puppy was revived with Narcan after a fentanyl overdose in Washington. See, they're killing the dogs. It was a sweet little baby puppy, plus his baby puppy's heart. A puppy that had suffered fentanyl exposure was saved by the Lacey Fire Department this week. Crew members said that the puppy was discovered unresponsive in a car where fentanyl was found. And they were able, they used Narcan and administered a small dose and saved the puppy's life. The puppy's doing well. They said it's not common to use Narcan on animals, but because it's Washington State and all of their leadership sucks out loud and drug dealers are just, you know, you know, Tripping beans out in the middle of the public. You know, it's okay. They have to do stuff like this. So this is the society that the far left has created for everyone else. A lightning strike kills one injured more than a dozen others at a New Jersey archery range. Look, when I see lightning, I'm getting out of an open field. Thank you. I'm not standing in an open field when I see lightning. I don't care what I'm doing. I don't care if I'm catching money from the sky.
SPEAKER 18 :
not shooting arrows in the sky.
SPEAKER 25 :
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SPEAKER 15 :
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SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, hey, everybody. Hey.
SPEAKER 20 :
We got a great show for you tonight. Senator Adam Schiff was my guest. We harmonized on Seven Bridges Road. What a voice, I cried. But before we start the show, I want to let you know something that I found out just last night. Next year will be our last season. The network will be ending The Late Show in May. Yeah, I share your feelings. It's not just the end of our show, but it's the end of the late show on CBS. I'm not being replaced. This is all just going away.
SPEAKER 25 :
Uh-huh. Yay! Golly. So, everyone... So, Stephen Colbert announced last night that, as you heard, he's not going to be... This next season is his last season, right? He's not going to be coming back. He's not going to be doing his Colbert show, which I've never watched. He literally took... the Dave Letterman time slot, and made it a giant... Ruined it. Yeah, he ruined it. He trashed it. He just completely destroyed it. Although Letterman, you know, NBC Letterman was better than CBS Letterman, let's be honest. It was. So it wasn't... But anyway, he ruined it. He completely ruined whatever was left of it. And just by being such a bitter... be i mean he wasn't funny he's not funny that was even not funny i have not the only time i ever saw him when he was funny was like way back when he was first getting started on the daily show with john stewart and that was before he became obsessed with being a leftist And he was funny then, and he was more lighthearted. And then that lightheartedness went away, and he became like an empty husk, an empty desiccated husk of what he was, of a person. And he was so bitter and filled with rage all the time. It looks like there's just like a river of rage that's just right underneath the surface. And he became obsessed. And he didn't just become obsessed with being leftist. He became obsessed with being nasty about it. And he mistakenly assumed that... The more ignorant or the more rude one is about a political issue, the funnier it is that that makes it funny and that that somehow was a substitute for clever humor. As you know, it is not. And he now finds that out. I keep seeing that that people say that he was canceled. And he wasn't canceled. And we'll talk about that in a minute. But people aren't attracted to Audio Soundbite 8. Stuff like this. This is flashback Colbert. This is just not attractive. Listen.
SPEAKER 19 :
Sir, they're not whole countries. For one, Donald Trump isn't their president.
SPEAKER 25 :
He just insulted everyone in his audience and they clapped like seals. They clap like seals. Or this, Audio Soundbite 9. Flashback. Again, flashback Colbert. This is all his show is anymore.
SPEAKER 19 :
It would be my honor to say it to your face.
SPEAKER 20 :
Just walk a little closer to your TV screen, please. Just a little closer to your TV screen. Let me just get her up here and go, You, Donald Trump, are a horrible, horrible human being. Horrible. Horrible.
SPEAKER 25 :
This is not funny. That is not funny at all whatsoever. People are just applauding the fact that he is confirming their bias. They're not applauding him because he's clever. They're not applauding him because anything that he said is funny. They're just applauding him because he thinks like they do. That's why they're rewarding him. And the way that the left puts it, they're acting like this is that Colbert is being taken off air because he dared to criticize the president. This is actually what Brian Stelter was saying via CNN last night, Audio Sun by 10. This is what he's arguing.
SPEAKER 01 :
Right from the optics standpoint, the timing could not be worse for CBS. Colbert is such an outspoken Trump critic. He's just back from vacation. And as he showed there on Monday on his first night back from vacation, he's also a thorn in his parent company's side. So this looks to a lot of Colbert's fans like another form of capitulation by CBS to the president of the United States.
SPEAKER 25 :
Yeah, but it wasn't. And of course, this is after, you know, the CBS and ABC Trump settlements, because the CBS 60 Minutes, remember, they had to pay 16 million and they were essentially helping to finance the future library and pay its legal fees. That was part of his lawsuit settlement, because remember, going back all the way to the election, you had this Kamala Harris interview that you know they violated federal election camp federal election law that their own laws that they came up with they violated and they get in trouble with uh paramount was which owns cbs they were the ones at 16 million to settle that uh 60 minutes lawsuit and uh that i think that was what announced at the first of the year so the argument that the left is trying to make is that Because of that, Paramount, which owns CBS, is trying to make sure that nobody criticizes Trump. And so that's why Colbert was pulled. But it wasn't. As Fortune points out, Colbert was canceled days after he went after his bosses over the Trump settlement. And this is this was just actually this. So this is this morning's announcing that CBS is canceling the late show, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then they get into how. he had gone on publicly to criticize Paramount, to criticize their settling with Paramount, to criticize all of that. And I mean, he went after, it was described as withering criticism. He told his audience that Well, the audience that was watching him at the time, he was he was criticized. He was talking to Adam Schiff. He was criticizing him, criticizing Paramount, criticizing the settlement. And you can't do that. Can I just say that you can't in any profession go after your bosses? Right. Can you I want in your workplace, can you go and trash your boss's moves and Without any penalty? If you are, you know, if you work in a design firm, can you criticize your bosses for their decisions or for company moves publicly? Can you do that anywhere else? I mean, I don't know why people are saying that this is cancellation. And the left is saying, oh my gosh, the right canceled Colbert. Even some people on the right are saying, yes, Colbert was canceled publicly. And he wasn't canceled. I talked about this on X this morning. He wasn't canceled. You can't criticize your bosses like that. He criticized them publicly. That's insubordination. We are all, all of us, we are all eligible to meet the same penalty. If I went out and I started trashing Radio America, guess what? There's a penalty for that. Every employment agreement that I have ever had, and you can't tell me that Colbert does not have an employment agreement. Every employment agreement that I've ever had, a condition of continued employment is that you don't go and trash your bosses. You don't go and trash your company. That's boilerplate in any employment agreement. He goes out and he's trashing his bosses. Now, Paramount didn't come out and say this is explicitly why, but this comes literally days after he was doing this. Furthermore, I don't know if you've seen his ratings lately. His ratings are horrific. His show was performing so horribly and his ratings had declined so badly that there was just no way to justify the ad rates for keeping him in his day part. There wasn't. There was no there's no reason why he needed. I mean, he it's not canceling to remove poorly performing talent. That's business. And by the way, all of this information is public. You know what I was thinking about like the realm of tonight shows, whether it's, you know, like Jay Leno or Johnny Carson or whatever. I really feel like Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel particularly killed it. They killed the late night shows. They killed them. Jimmy Fallon started coming close. Remember when they started getting a little political back in like 2012 and then they pulled it back or 2013, they pulled it back. And then he kind of stayed true to it's supposed to be lighthearted. It's supposed to be fun. People are getting ready to get a bet. They don't want to have like a debate over a hateful debate over serious issues. Right. So Fallon, I think I feel like he kind of kept to that form, but I don't think Craig Ferguson did. And by and I'm not I'm sorry, I'm not interested in in a person who is not a citizen of this country who comes over to the United States and start like waxing political about our system, you know, and it's kind of hard to take. You know, he is a very thick brogue to hear him criticize different aspects of the political system in this in these United States. You know what I mean? It's like, come on. But Kimmel and Colbert were so hateful and have been so hateful. Nobody wants to tune in anymore. It's like it's like having an uncle that always complains and is on the other side of you politically, always complains, is always hateful, is always wanting to debate at the most inappropriate times. It's like that they bring that energy to this. But the right needs to stop saying that the guy was canceled. Stop it. This is accountability. Let the left whine about it. That's not what cancellation is. He wasn't canceled because he went afoul of society. He was fired because he criticized his bosses and he was doing a bad job and his show was performing poorly. That is not cancellation. That is accountability. There is a major difference. Let's not confuse the two just for the sake of using a misapplied buzzword. But I don't know who goes in that spot. I don't know if you can... I mean, is it a generational thing? Like late night television. My grandparents loved it. They loved the late night. They would watch Johnny Carson. The Tonight Show. Yeah, the Tonight Show. And then Jay Leno took over. Wouldn't he take over in the 80s sometime? I don't know. I just... I only remembered kind of Johnny Carson. I remember Jay Leno back when his hair was mostly dark. I remember Jay Leno. But I don't think Gen X really watched... late night TV, and I definitely don't think that Gen Z does.
SPEAKER 18 :
I think Gen X may have watched it just because, you know, when I'm up late, didn't want the parents knowing. I'd watch that show, you know what I mean, as a kid. But that's been an institution for American television since like the 50s or 60s.
SPEAKER 23 :
It's like a water cooler thing.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, it's just a funny, nice little time slot for everyone to settle their lives down before they go to bed.
SPEAKER 25 :
Yeah, and by water cooler moment, I mean, there were certain shows that Everybody, no matter where they were politically, would watch. And I had always said I think Game of Thrones was the last program that was like that, where everybody would watch it and then they would all talk about it, regardless of political affiliation, belief or whatever the next day. It was like one of the things that everybody actually could talk about, you know, nicely. A water cooler topic, like you go to the water cooler at work and, you know, that comes up and you talk, you know, it's a stereotype. It's still a stereotype for a reason. Before everybody started siloing themselves off with conservative media and progressive media and conservative networks and progressive networks and conservative newsletters and progressive networks. It's, you know, one of those things that everybody could access. Everyone did. And then they could all talk about it was a unifying thing. It was like one of the threads that still kind of kept everything together. And these guys killed it. They killed it. And they also didn't like push things for virality the way Fallon did. Fallon did like little cutie segments with different people, with different guests. And they knew how to cut those up and put them out digitally. And so his show grew, whereas these guys just thought they could sit behind their desk and bitch and moan about Trump and Republicans 24-7. And that was going to be enough to satiate the audience or to get new viewers. And it clearly wasn't. Now, coming up, Trump has lost it. He lost his temper. He had every right to. He wrote, he told the Wall Street Journal, quote, I never wrote a picture of my life. I don't draw pictures of women. It's not my language. It's not my words. I'm going to sue the Wall Street Journal just like I sued everyone else. And now he's also saying he's going to go after the Murdochs. So we're going to discuss all of this coming up. There's a lot to hit as we move our partners that will bring you the program. It's always good to have options and diversify your weapons array. I have no problem with defending myself. or my loved ones by carrying a firearm, I have no problems using lethal force. I also recognize that there are times when you are restricted from carrying by local or municipal areas, and therefore you want to be able to have some options for your self-defense. And when you consider that regular stun guns only offer one or two rounds, the burner gun is a good way to incorporate some continued protection in your weapons array. And there's two options now. The CL is their newest. The SD, the Berna SD, which is their pistol, was their most popular round. And these things, by the way, shoot chemical irritant projectiles that can disable threats from up to 50 feet away. And you have legal flexibility because they don't care about gun-free zone signs. This is great for college students who aren't old enough to carry a firearm, but yet they have to live by themselves in a different city far from their family. You want to make sure they're still protected. And there's no permits, nothing. It's accessible to everybody. The CL is their newest. CL stands for compact launcher. It is about 30% smaller and lighter than the SD. They have rifles in that as well. But for this purpose, I would recommend you look at the SD or the CL. And super affordable. And like I said, you can get them shipped right to your front door. So check out either the SD or, especially ladies, the CL, the compact launcher, which is smaller, at Burna.com slash Dana. B-Y-R-N-A dot com slash Dana. Burna, ready when you are.
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SPEAKER 16 :
I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how's it going today? It's going good, man.
SPEAKER 15 :
Tell us who you are and what you do. I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
SPEAKER 16 :
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said $20 billion won. $20 billion is an insane number.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think, somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on.
SPEAKER 16 :
Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
SPEAKER 15 :
Probably the easiest way is dialing Pound Law. That's Pound 529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24-7-365. Wow.
SPEAKER 16 :
Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America's largest injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
SPEAKER 15 :
Thanks for having me. Visit ForThePeople.com for an office near you.
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SPEAKER 17 :
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.
SPEAKER 25 :
This is hysterical. So, they're playing Trump's recorded voice outside of this detention center. And he has like several, it's like, it's not his voice. What is it? It was like a voice actor, was it? I don't think it was AI generated.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, I think it was AI. Oh, was it? Yeah.
SPEAKER 25 :
I was like, is it Shane Gillis that was out there? I don't know. But it was funny. And they were outside of this detention center playing this. And they were they it was federal police officers versus the anti-ice agitators that were near a detention center because the anti-ice people. wouldn't leave, they were disrupting, they were causing problems, etc. And so these federal officers, I thought that was hysterical, they were playing that recording. And it made them so mad. It is amazing how quickly you can trigger someone on the left. Just know that the more emotional a person is, and this doesn't mean you have to be robotic, but if you are emotional and you emotionally react, you are easy to manipulate. It is an absolute weakness. And these people are so easy to manipulate. And just keep that in mind. Whenever you're in a situation, especially if you're debating somebody, do not be emotional because you immediately lose the second you are. The second you are. I mean, I know a little bit of something about this. So, you know. You can't be emotional about it. I mean, sure, you want to be. But I always think winning is more important than flexing emotions. So the goal is to win, correct? Not to show everyone how mad you are. People obviously know that you're mad. But you don't need to make a theatrical performance of it. Save the theater for the left. Let them do that. By the way, can I just ask, where do they get all their little helmets? Notice how they all have the theme. It's like they were all at camp. Like loser camp.
SPEAKER 18 :
got our little black backpacks and we're all in our little black outfits and we all have a little black helmet just mystery delivery vans that show up at locations yeah and that's what it is i've seen it on video and they all hop out like like a clown car it's like equipment is in those in these uh trucks and they're handing out the equipment to these people what equipment do they need they need helmets trash can lids they have all kinds of things that they hand out to these people
SPEAKER 25 :
I just never understood that. And did you see all of them? Like they couldn't crush a grape in a fruit fight. Bless their hearts. All right, so coming up. Trump says not only is he going to he's looking to see the Wall Street Journal, but now he's talking about going after the Murdoch's. He's mad over the saying that he never wrote this letter, et cetera. But then the left is going, well, then why did you not want to release this? I don't think Trump ever said that he didn't want to release it. Now, I disagreed with him when he was telling people to get over it. I thought that was wrong. And I'm going to call balls and strikes continually and people can get mad. You know, just remember, don't idolize any kind of politician because that's you know, if you when you idolize a politician, that's the same as believing the stripper likes you. Stop it. So this idea that, you know, he went out and said that he was never going to release and he never said that he was never going to not release anything. Where did that come from? Like that started being that started becoming a talking point from the left yesterday. No, now he's saying, yeah, we're going to unseal the grand jury documents. What? Stick with us, our partners for this portion of our program. It's our friends over at Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service that is out there. Patriot Mobile not only wants to save you money. But they also want to make sure that your money is not working against you at the ballot box, and that's incredibly important. They want to support the causes that matter to you, and they're like-minded, so it all works out. It's nationwide coverage you can trust. They have exceptional nationwide service on all three major networks, so you're connected wherever it is that you go. And they're dedicated to making your switch easy. They have a 100% US-based customer service team. You can keep your number, keep your phone, upgrade. It's never been easier to switch. And they also have cutting-edge technology. You don't have to go to the store. No hassle, no store visit. Again, keep your phone, upgrade, keep your number, change it. It does not matter. Their team will activate you in minutes. So take advantage of their offer of a free month of service by using promo code DANA. Visit patriotmobile.com slash Dana or call 972-PATRIOT. Make the switch today. And don't forget to use code Dana to get that free month of service. patriotmobile.com slash Dana 972-PATRIOT.
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SPEAKER 16 :
I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how's it going today? It's going good, man.
SPEAKER 15 :
Tell us who you are and what you do. I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
SPEAKER 16 :
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said $20 billion won. $20 billion is an insane number.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think, somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on. Awesome.
SPEAKER 16 :
So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
SPEAKER 15 :
Probably the easiest way is dialing Pound Law. That's Pound 529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24-7-365. Wow.
SPEAKER 16 :
Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America's large injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
SPEAKER 15 :
Thanks for having me. Visit ForThePeople.com for an office near you.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's one of the things that I think a lot of times boys need is not just exposure to one guy. One dad. One dad, no matter how good the dad is.
SPEAKER 28 :
Dad is, he can't be everything.
SPEAKER 06 :
He can't be everything. And then that boy may need somebody to give the boy some perspective on the dad, right? Yeah. One of the most valuable things I learned as a guy was I had a gay professor in college at a time when openly gay folks still weren't online. who became one of my favorite professors and was a great guy and would call me out when I started saying stuff that was ignorant. You need that to show empathy and kindness. And by the way, you need that person in your friend group so that if you then have a boy who is gay or non-binary or whatever, they have somebody that they can go, okay, I'm not alone in this. So why are you gay?
SPEAKER 25 :
So Barack Obama says young boys need a gay dudes in their lives. And that interview, was that his wife's podcast that he was on? I think so. Everybody's doing a podcast. Kill me. It's like everyone. I mean, the world's going to be full of podcasts and no listeners. Welcome to the show. Our radio broadcast. You can watch the radio broadcast on Channel 347, DirecTV. You can also find the chat at Rumble, X, Facebook, YouTube, all that good stuff. So what did I just hear? What did I just hear? He says that, well, they need, you know, because having a dad isn't enough. I think having a mom and a dad is like enough. I mean, that's, you know, that's completely enough. You know, you don't you don't need anything else from that. It was so Michelle Obama and her. Is it her twin brother? It's like her bald. I've never seen two siblings look more alike than Michelle and Craig Robinson. Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson, her brother. I have never seen two siblings look more alike in my ever-loving life. Did you Google it? I did. And? Yep. Kane? Yeah? I have to admit.
SPEAKER 18 :
It does look like Mike. Michelle.
SPEAKER 25 :
So, her podcast is called Emo. I-M-O. In my opinion, super, super... super um original but they had an hour-long discussion about how boys need gay dudes to provide perspective and then he talked about the the gay guy that had uh influence on him when he was at occidental college i'm just saying just saying uh i don't know it was didn't he also talk about having a gay liaison when he was in college I just remember there was so much stuff that was happening, like so many things that were flying around at the time. This is not going anywhere well. You know what I mean? It's Friday. Stop it. All of you need Jesus. Save that audio. Anyway, he thinks that gay men help boys develop emotional awareness. What is emotional awareness? I hate these stupid buzzword-y phrases. I'm just like it sounds like like the Kylie Jenner thing. It's me and my friends. We're just like realizing things. We're just like realizing emotions. You know, we're like aware of them. What does that even mean? Our society is full of just stupid buzzword. All of it. Yeah, we need we need that. They need to develop emotional awareness and empathy in a broader perspective. That's what they need. I don't know. They just need a mom and a dad and to stop doing social experiments on them. Let them be kids. You know, you know, Malik Obama, Barack Obama's brother said that he was definitely gay in July 2023. He posted it on X. Why are you gay? He said he was absolutely definitely. I'm just saying. I mean, it was his brother. I don't know. Maybe, instead of saying specifically a gay dude, why can't you just have like a man that understands, like a compassionate male figure? And that could be anybody, not necessarily a gay dude. You know, being gay is not synonymous with being compassionate. There are a lot of absolute blank holes out there that are gay dudes. Marxist gay dudes are the worst. Right? And then there are some that lean conservative and they're not like that. But What it's not synonymous with being gay is not synonymous with being compassionate. And I feel like for someone who, you know, brags about how educated he is, that's a nuance that he would have been aware of before he decided to talk about it mistakenly for an hour on his wife's podcast. It's just so weird. That's this whole conversation is so weird. They just need basically it all boils down to Barack Obama going, well, boys just need nice people in their lives. That's it. You need to have a male and a female. That's pretty much it. I think God had it pretty much in order when he was like, we're going to give you a mom and a dad. That's pretty much how it's covered. There you go. I don't know. A lot of people think Obama's gay. I mean, he had kids with, unless I see evidence to the contrary, and I'm not really all that interested in it, it's not going to make him a better president if he is or isn't. It's not going to make, I mean, you can't get pretty, you cannot get any worse than what he was as a president. So you're like, well, and he was gay. Like, well, he was already a horrible president. He ruined health care. They took health care, ripped the face off of it, defecated in the skull, put the face back on, and sent it out to the world. That's what they did with Obamacare. That's what Obamacare is. Did you know that? Dana, why do you speak in such terms? I guess they didn't have a gay man in my life. I don't know. I mean, you see how goofy this is? This is so goofy. It's, um... Also sounds like you need a babysitter in order to raise your child the way that the leftists want you to raise your child. It's nanny statism. And I just also have a major problem with anyone. If you have a problem with your family, I always think you find the solution within your family. You don't go outside of it. Like if you're a kid and you need parental help or you don't go and seek strange gay men for influence, that sounds like it's going to start off badly, right? It's like, oh, we've got to get this young boy some influence in his life. We need to find a nice gay man. Let's go find him a nice gay man to get him some, you know. Steve, you're not doing this to me right now. No, you're not. I recommend against it. Do you?
SPEAKER 18 :
I do recommend against it, but I just want to make that public.
SPEAKER 25 :
I'm just going to state. I'm not going to say it. No, I'm not going to talk about it. It has to do. Steve, what did you say on break? Where did this go?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, we said everybody needs a gay man in their life. And then I said, what kind of gay man? There's more than one kind.
SPEAKER 25 :
Yeah. And Steve was throwing up twink and then bear. And I have... Different directions. Yeah. I have a very interesting story in how I learned what a bear was that's not an animal in the woods. And it is, it's like a Burbs, like Tom Hanks and the Burbs. It's kind of like that. It's like basically in that vein. It really is. And I'm the Bruce Dern character. It was pretty much just like that. It came with the frame. I don't really want to tell the story because there's certain things you just don't know if you want to risk virality with it. You know, it's one of those situations where, Are you encouraging me? Should I wait till the third hour?
SPEAKER 18 :
No, I'm saying I know it's Friday and everything. Don't get tempted.
SPEAKER 25 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 18 :
If you're really on that side of the fence.
SPEAKER 25 :
Well, Steve brought it up and he literally said in Slack, explain your bear twink story. So there's my story. I explained it.
SPEAKER 11 :
Are you outing me?
SPEAKER 25 :
There is a story. Huh?
SPEAKER 11 :
Why are you outing me live on air?
SPEAKER 25 :
Juan and Juan just adds, I am today years old.
SPEAKER 18 :
I don't think I fully learned what it is.
SPEAKER 25 :
The bear?
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 25 :
That's like the gay dudes that wear plaid. Oh. And they're big.
SPEAKER 18 :
I see.
SPEAKER 25 :
They're like more of the... Lumberjack-y? Yeah. Like if Paul Bunyan was gay.
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh.
SPEAKER 25 :
That would be... Okay.
SPEAKER 18 :
That'd be a bear.
SPEAKER 25 :
And I think... And you could tell me, Dana, I think that the stereotype is applicable to... like the hyper masculine like gays which i don't think like being a lumberjack is hyper masculine it's just you're just a dude but i do think that there's like a uniform with it oh i know there's a uniform with it because there are literal patches that go with it and i really don't want to explain how i learned that it's one of the craziest stories ever it beats the time that i got literally into a slap fight with a chimpanzee and uh the time that i got into a fight with goats I mean, it's all animals that I fought. Anyway, so that's it. We're just going to leave that on the table. There you go. So moving on.
SPEAKER 18 :
If I'm a listener, I'm feeling really cheated right now.
SPEAKER 25 :
Do not do this. Do not. Once the story's out there, it never goes back. I didn't do anything wrong. I was just... sometimes you're like, am I innocent or naive? Have you ever been in a position where you're like, am I just that innocent or am I just super naive?
SPEAKER 18 :
It's possible to be both.
SPEAKER 11 :
It's possible. Sounds like a Landis Morissette lyric.
SPEAKER 25 :
Oh, my gosh. Where she thought mistakenly that something was ironic and it was just a bad coincidence. OK, so we got it. We got to move on here because I can't. We can't do this. Oh, my gosh. All right. So where do we go from here? Oh, my gosh. Audio. Somebody audio. So, oh, I'm not playing the game of 14 questions with them. I still can't believe that she is. How many times does she do this podcast? Michelle Obama. She like bitched and moaned about having to do stuff in the White House. And now she's still doing stuff that's like kind of White House related because she's still talking about politics. I thought she hated this. Right. Good night. All right. So, OK, a couple of other things that we need to because we got to move on here. Audio. Let's see. Audio soundbite for this is Kevin McCarthy. Right. Kevin McCarthy. talking about these, because we've got to talk about the Epstein stuff, these Epstein files. He said Democrats never asked about them when he was House leader. Listen.
SPEAKER 22 :
Was this something the Democrats were clamoring for when you were Speaker?
SPEAKER 03 :
Never once. They never asked about it. They tried to hide from it. You know, they've got nothing going at shows in the poll. They have no leader. They have no message. They have no policy. So they're lashing at this.
SPEAKER 25 :
But what I love, even watching CNN. They didn't ask about it because they didn't want it to be asked about. Let me tell you something. Here's some of the fun stuff. If you want to learn something about the latest with Epstein, this Epstein letter. So the Wall Street Journal reporter that was behind it, per Intelligencer, also was behind this Stormy Daniels, the fake reporting about Stormy Daniels also. And Real Clear Politics broke the story just earlier about how this same reporter who wrote this story with the letter in the Wall Street Journal, this guy, his only prior reporting experience was with an entity called Maine Justice. Maine Justice. is owned by Mary Jacoby, who's married to Glenn Simpson. How do we know Glenn Simpson? Because Glenn Simpson founded and runs Fusion GPS. Fusion GPS is the entity that Hillary Clinton and the DNC, their law firm, Perkins Coie, hired to basically launder oppo through the press so that they could get a wiretap. They produced the Steele dossier that was central to the Russian collusion hoax. And Simpson and his wife also both worked for the Wall Street Journal before he launched Fusion GPS and she launched Maine Justice. So you tell me that's not shady as all get out. We got a lot more on the way. We got headlines coming up. Like-minded folks who make great products. You guys know these have been a longtime sponsor of the show, Super Beats, these folks. They have a new product called Super Boreen. It's all about healthy metabolism and healthy blood sugar support. And you can get it at Sam's Club now for like less than a dollar a day when you go in. I mean, it's that affordable. And you're going to see the difference. It's such a great product. And they have really, really done everything possible to deliver really good concentration without any GI distress with this. They use a unique berberine. It's been clinically studied. It delivers nearly 10 times higher the absorption rate than standard berberine. And it's one easy to swallow capsule a day. You get all of the benefits in one concentrated capsule a day. and they include grapeseed extract for greater tolerability so there's no GI distress. Find both the new Superbrewing and the number one best-selling Superbeats heart chews at Sam's Club. Restock your heart health support with the Superbeats and expand your routine with Superbrewing. Start today and get on the road to better cardiovascular health support.
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SPEAKER 16 :
I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how's it going today? It's going good, man.
SPEAKER 15 :
Tell us who you are and what you do. I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
SPEAKER 16 :
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said $20 billion won. $20 billion is an insane number.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think, somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on.
SPEAKER 16 :
Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
SPEAKER 15 :
Probably the easiest way is dialing Pound Law. That's Pound 529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24-7-365. Wow.
SPEAKER 16 :
Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America's largest injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
SPEAKER 15 :
Thanks for having me. Visit ForThePeople.com for an office near you.
SPEAKER 18 :
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick 5.
SPEAKER 25 :
All right. All right. All right. So I messed up. So I got to go back to my 11 o'clock headlines here. Puerto Rico law is now criminalizing hormone therapy and gender affirming surgery for transgender for people who are pretending to be transgender under age of 21. This is huge because their bodies aren't even developing. It's so incredibly important that we're not doing this hormonal abuse to people whose bodies are still developing. The governor of Puerto Rico signed a bill that prohibits his hormone therapy and gender-affirming surgeries. The governor is getting a lot of criticism. Jennifer Gonzalez approved the law late Wednesday. A lot of similar legislation is passed across the United States. So it applies to people younger than 21, calls for 15 years in prison for any violators, as well as a $50,000 penalty and the revocation of all licenses and permits of medical staff. Perfect. So congrats to the governor of Puerto Rico. That is huge. Also, the number of first-time homebuyers is plummeting. This is bad, bad news, and it's bad for the U.S. economy. Data shows that the number of first-time homebuyers has dropped. Younger people are feeling locked out, but they're also not embracing it like older generations did. So it's a one-two punch. It's not just that they're being locked out. They're also not pursuing homeownership in the same way that previous generations have done so. The consequences of having fewer first-time homebuyers will obviously have a major negative impact on the economy. And people who make up the largest price to store during the pandemic, they came back down. But still, it hasn't corrected that. Gen Z, though, over millennials, Gen Z at first, three out of four Gen Zers were viewing renting a home as a smarter move than buying one because apparently they don't understand equity. So hopefully that'll change if we have a little bit more financial literacy out there. uh coca-cola is not quite sure that they're giving up fructose for cane sugar but they did say that they appreciated potus's enthusiasm for their product you put sugar in it i may not drink code zero steve miller canceled all their band uh their tour dates because of weather disasters which is code for our tickets aren't selling yeah we got a lot more on the way stick with us as we move our partners that help bring you the program uh caltech the pr57 it's one of the latest from caltech it's the The rotary barrel pistol, the PR57 chambered in 5.7, 40% lighter than the competition and works great for concealed carry. The PR57, they were able to make it lighter and thinner in a number of different ways. The way that they did it with a rotary barrel, number one. The unique top-loading design, number two, that replaces traditional magazines with stripper clips for slimmer carry profile and 20 plus 1 capacity. And it's a really quick and easy field strip. You also have low recoil for ease of use and accuracy as well, built to perform when it matters most. And it's affordable MSRP of only $399. It's Kel-Tec, made in America, family-owned, based in Florida. Learn more at keltecweapons.com, K-E-L-T-E-C, weapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you.
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SPEAKER 16 :
I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how's it going today? It's going good, man.
SPEAKER 15 :
Tell us who you are and what you do. I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
SPEAKER 16 :
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said $20 billion won. $20 billion is an insane number.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think, somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on. Awesome.
SPEAKER 16 :
So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
SPEAKER 15 :
Probably the easiest way is dialing Pound Law. That's Pound 529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24-7-365. Wow.
SPEAKER 16 :
Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America's large injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
SPEAKER 15 :
Thanks for having me. Visit ForThePeople.com for an office near you.
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SPEAKER 09 :
Once you unleash this idea that it's okay to use political violence and threats of violence, it doesn't end up discriminating just against one party. Judges are getting threatened. City councilmen are getting threatened. Election workers are getting threatened. This is all part of this quite deliberate campaign to frighten people into submission. And the only way to push back on that is to say, piss off, piss off.
SPEAKER 25 :
So I don't even know why. What gets me about all of this stuff is that, of course, they're saying this. And it's Adam Schiff who was on Colbert's, you know, now canceled show because he got fired. But only Democrats could say this about a guy who a leftist tried to kill not once but twice. Who they're saying this about a guy leftist after a leftist tried killing a judge after another leftist tried killing a senator, beating him up, trying to beat him to death. Broke ribs. I mean, after we've had leftists burn down cities, attack ICE agents. I could go on and on. What in the world? Maybe it's your rhetoric, Adam Schiff. Maybe that's part of the problem here. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. I was talking about this before we went to a break before headlines. So the reporter that's behind this Wall Street Journal letter, right? Why do we keep calling it a letter? What would you call it, Cain? It's not a letter. It was like they said it was a drawing of a naked lady and then there was typed over it a script.
SPEAKER 18 :
I call it a fake birthday card.
SPEAKER 25 :
Yeah, whatever. Anyway, the guy behind the story on it, Wall Street Journal wrote the story and they're like, yeah, we've seen it, but we're not going to show it to you. He's the guy who also is behind the ridiculous Stormy Daniels reporting that was all BS too. his name is Joe Palazzolo. Joe Palazzolo is his name. Joe Palazzolo has only worked for one other entity before he started at the Wall Street Journal. It's kind of weird because Wall Street Journal, you know, I think it can be more dangerous than MSNBC or CNN because they publish some legitimate things, but then they also publish garbage like this. This Joe... How do I say his... What was his name again? Joe Palazzolo. So this Joe Palazzolo guy, the only other place that he worked before the Wall Street Journal, and this is very unusual, is a place called Maine Justice. At least on his online biography, that is the only other thing that he put on there before Wall Street Journal. Now, Maine Justice... was an entity that was founded by Mary Jacoby. Mary Jacoby also used to work for the Wall Street Journal. Then she left and created Maine Justice. Oh, okay. Who's Mary Jacoby married to? Her husband is named Glenn Simpson. His name will sound familiar to you. He also, by the way, used to work at And then started Fusion GPS. Fusion GPS. Yes. Fusion GPS, the exact same entity that was hired by Hillary Clinton and the DNC through their law firm, Perkins Coie. And they got in major trouble because they violated federal election law with us. They had hired through Perkins Coie Fusion GPS to launder oppo to have it come out like real stories in the press. And then they took those stories as evidence, even though it was all their own opposition that they fed to reporters and then reporters would cleanse it by repurposing the information, rewriting the information and slapping their byline on it. And then Fusion GPS, that's what they were orchestrated in doing. They threw their connections at the DOJ because you had Nellie Ower, who works at Fusion GPS. Her husband, Bruce Ower, is high ranking at DOJ. Nellie gave this stuff to Bruce, who gave it, then took it to the FBI, and then they went to the FISA court and were able to bypass all of the safeguards for American citizens against being wrongly surveilled and wiretapped. They bypassed all of that and were able to get a surveillance warrant on political enemies. So that's why you've heard of Fusion GPS. Fusion GPS also, they should be arrested for not being FARA agents, for not properly filing under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. And I say that because they represented the interests of a number of Russian oligarchs, like actual Russian oligarchs. Back some time ago, a guy named Magnitsky had uncovered that these oligarchs were... embezzling, laundering money, all kinds of stuff, and he blew the whistle on it. Sanctions then were applied by the U.S. government against these oligarchs, and for that, they killed this Magnitsky guy. So then you had the Magnitsky Act, and that's the law of the sanctions against these oligarchs. Fusion GPS was hired by these oligarchs to lobby lawmakers to get that act repealed. And In fact, the head lobbyist for that operation, Natalia Levitskaya, was also deployed to try to entrap Donald Trump Jr. in that case where they were supposed to be talking about adoption at the Trump Tower. And Trump Jr. actually never met with her. But she fabricated this thing that they did. And that was another fake story that they came out with. And for whatever reason, you can have people, although Paul Manafort has other things that he's guilty of. One of his convictions was for not registering as a foreign agent. And they said he violated FARA. Well, Fusion GPS is doing the exact same thing. But see, it's D different. So that's why Fusion GPS sounds familiar to you. So... Back to Joe Palazzolo. He worked with Maine Justice, created by Mary Jacoby, whose husband's Glenn Simpson, who founded Fusion GPS after he also left Wall Street Journal. So Joe Palazzolo leaves Maine Justice, goes to Wall Street Journal, and writes the story about the Epstein birthday letter. So Joe Palazzolo won a Pulitzer Prize for his bunk reporting. Because they reward each other for doing good operative work. He's not a journalist. He's a political operative. Don't ever mistake those. Like Stephanopoulos is a political operative. There are certain people that never stop being political operatives. And you can sit here and say, yeah, they can read the copy as good as anybody else sitting behind the news desk. But they're still political operatives. It doesn't matter that this guy is a byline from Wall Street Journal. This is a political operative. How did he get this birthday letter? You know, that's the big question. Nobody's asking where this stuff came from. Nobody ever asks this. Now, keep in mind, this is the same entity that didn't want to say anything about Ashley Biden's diary. As Kane was pointing out to me on break. Remember the Ashley Biden diary? Ashley Biden. And I know people who know the people that she was staying with. After she got out of rehab, she went into a flop house where there were other recovering addicts staying there. And she was messing around with some dude who owned the property. This is according to public reporting. And her diary, she like kept in the bed, like apparently in the mattress. Well, when she left, she forgot to take her diary. But she didn't just forget to take her diary. She left it there for like years. And then when someone else found it and they realized what it was and another entity got a hold of it, then she started saying that someone stole it from her. But then simultaneously, they were saying that it was not real. Remember that? It's a fake story. And The Wall Street Journal was one of them. This is a fake story. It isn't real. Well, if it wasn't real, why was the FBI raiding journalists' homes over it? And they did. There were stories of that that abound. And they ended up taking it, although there are copies of it that are already been made. But they they confiscated it. They took it back. Well, why would they do that if it was a fake thing like the Wall Street Journal had said previously? Why would they do that if that was a fake if it was a fake non entity? So you had the federal government using the police state to go and clean up after its drug addicted first daughter. That's literally what happened. unbelievable but that was supposed to be a fake story and then notice how none of these people ever went and did other follow-ups to it if it was now think about it you're a journalistic entity and you're told by democrats you're told by the democrat administration that this is a fake story wouldn't you at least be like well then why if it's a fake story why are they now raiding journalists homes and pressing charges against people that they think were in possession of it and they did they took the lady that found the diary they took her to court they charged her with offense they charged her with an offense they were accusing her of theft she never stole anything she found it and then they were saying well you never gave this diary that may not be ashley biden's you never gave it back to her so that's theft and they convicted her So nobody in the press was going, wait a minute, why is that? If it's not a true story, then why is this person convicted? Why did you actually take a person to court over something that was not a true story if it was not a true story? They never had enough journalistic curiosity to follow up on that. Oh, but please believe this fake letter from a guy who literally came from Fusion GPS. The same entity that was pushing the Russian collusion stuff. It is so dumb. I just. No, I do not believe that it is. I just don't believe it. And I don't believe it because Trump is pretty forthright about stuff. He's like, yeah, I said, I mean, he admitted that Epstein used to when Trump would throw society events, whether it was in New York or wherever, that Epstein would show up to them. And for a while he tolerated it. And then he banned him from all of his properties. And he was he never denied that he was ever there. He just he talked about it. And then he's like, yeah. And then he realized and then he kind of saw what a pervert he was and heard about a lot of this, saw things apparently or heard things that he was doing or saw his behavior at these events and then banned him. So I know I don't think that this is a real letter. I just don't. Not with all of these factors. That's a lot to get over. That is a lot to get over. And the other thing, too, that makes it even more complicated, and I noted this in our first hour, why did they just publish what they said was the letter? All they did is describe the drawing and then relay the conversation that was typed up and placed over the drawing. They never actually showed you anything. They just told you that they had seen it. So again, the same reporter that was behind the fake Stormy Daniels stuff, the same reporter who has only ever worked for the people that were pushing the Russian collusion story, wants you to believe that this letter that they can't produce and no one else has apparently seen exists. Do you buy that? Because I sure as hell don't. It's the folks over at Relief Factor. A lot of people use Relief Factor to help manage daily aches and pains. And it's not unusual. I mean, gosh, this stuff can start in your 30s depending on how active you were. If you were in sports, like my husband had knee surgery when he was a teenager still, and he has a lot of sports injuries. So when he goes to the gym, he's constantly, you know, he deals with the ache in his knee and all of that. And Relief Factor is something that he takes to help manage that. And it's designed to manage it naturally, right? 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SPEAKER 13 :
Ben Carson joins Pastor Alan Jackson on culture and Christianity, protecting faith and family.
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There were some failures in our culture from expressions of racism. I mean, those widely documented. But there's abundant evidence that as glaring as some of those weaknesses were, they didn't prevent opportunities. I'm concerned for the younger people today. I think they face challenges that could be even more debilitating.
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SPEAKER 24 :
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SPEAKER 18 :
It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
SPEAKER 25 :
Well, we have a story here from the villages. Always sounds like we're talking about Minecraft when I'm like, it's a villager. A villager was arrested with a stolen motorcycle and meth hidden in his anal cavity. Oh, yes. Villages News says a man with a stolen motorcycle was found to have methamphetamine concealed. In. Give me another word for it, Kane. In. His anal bum cover. Kai Cameron Huff. Now, how is he 36 in the villages? He began driving straight towards the deputy's patrol car, heading in the opposite direction. The deputy was forced to take evasive actions and then, of course, then pursued. Oh, my gosh, this guy's mugshot. He is high as a kite. During the traffic stop, the deputy pursued and pulled him over. He noticed a burnt piece of aluminum foil and a small silver spoon, obviously indicative of drug usage. And then he noticed the smell of, you know, some drugs coming from... you know this uh he found uh you know he found four grams of marijuana and he found a bunch of dime-sized baggies and then he found a bunch of other aluminum foil and a cut plastic straw and then something that had residue of fentanyl in it and then um when the guy was taken in to jail i'm trying to really take it into sumter county detention center you know they had to do a search yeah That's when they discovered a bunch of meth that was concealed. First off, wouldn't you be afraid that, oh man, look at him, he's high as a kite.
SPEAKER 18 :
Wouldn't you be afraid? If you're a normal, not druggy person, yes, you would definitely be afraid.
SPEAKER 25 :
Like, what if something happened and you absorbed that? You would die. That would be an overdose of an amount from which you could never come back.
SPEAKER 18 :
You're using sanity to explain insanity. Yeah.
SPEAKER 25 :
Apparently, I don't know. Oh, my gosh. So, yeah, he's totally in jail. I got to share this story with you. A woman attacked a driver that hit and killed a chicken that was crossing a road. Oh, she didn't know. No, no, no. It's really good. So this lady stops to let the chicken cross the road. And another Florida woman tried to speed around her and apparently ran it over. And so this Florida woman got bear spray and attacked her. I really don't understand what the crime is here, Cain. A woman stopped at an intersection. It's Key West, local channel 12, WKRC. And according to the arrest report, 38-year-old Cynthia Sosa stopped at the intersection to let a chicken cross the road. A driver behind her began honking and then sped around her and ran over the chicken. She pursued the driver. caught the driver, blocked the road in front of the victim's vehicle, got out, tried to open the door, and then pulled out her bear mace and sprayed the lady directly in the face. Then she fled the scene, but she was taken into custody later. She's got two counts of aggravated battery and one count of burglar with a solder battery. What does this other broad get? Can I just be honest? This is why I couldn't be a police officer. I'd be like, I don't see a crime here.
SPEAKER 18 :
What? I think it is a crime to mace somebody.
SPEAKER 25 :
She ran over that chicken. That woman could have, what if she would have hit, what if that woman was stopping because she was letting a woman in a wheelchair cross the road?
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, that's different.
SPEAKER 25 :
No, it's not. This lady had no, the lady behind her had no idea. She was just gunning around her because she was being a doucher. Ran over the chicken.
SPEAKER 18 :
Slight difference between an old lady in a wheelchair and a chicken.
SPEAKER 25 :
How would she know? She was behind the lady's car. She couldn't see.
SPEAKER 18 :
I agree. She was reckless.
SPEAKER 25 :
I think if you're reckless and stupid, you might get hit with bear spray.
SPEAKER 18 :
But then were they going to ticket the chicken for jaywalking? No.
SPEAKER 25 :
I mean, it's dead because she ran it over.
SPEAKER 18 :
I need more common sense.
SPEAKER 25 :
If I was a police officer called to this, I'd be like, I don't see a crime. Don't make false calls to the police. And I'd leave.
SPEAKER 18 :
I'd be for that. I'd be for that.
SPEAKER 25 :
I know that we have police officers listening who are going, Dana.
SPEAKER 18 :
That bear mace, though. My God.
SPEAKER 25 :
What else would you want?
SPEAKER 18 :
That's harsh for a human being.
SPEAKER 25 :
It's harsh for bears. Well, that's all she had. It's harsh for bears. Bears don't care. All right. I know. I have a couple more, but I'm fascinated with that story. That's literally how I would feel like I don't see a crime here. Third hour coming up, and we've got a lot of stuff to hit, including got to talk a new CFO in Florida. And boy, Florida lucked out because they almost had a bad one. Stick with us.
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SPEAKER 16 :
I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how's it going today? It's going good, man.
SPEAKER 15 :
Tell us who you are and what you do. I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
SPEAKER 16 :
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said $20 billion won. $20 billion is an insane number.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think, somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on.
SPEAKER 16 :
Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
SPEAKER 15 :
Probably the easiest way is dialing Pound Law. That's Pound 529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24-7-365. Wow.
SPEAKER 16 :
Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America's largest injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
SPEAKER 15 :
Thanks for having me. Visit ForThePeople.com for an office near you.
SPEAKER 28 :
The president and I talked about that ridiculous allegation this morning. He said it's patently absurd. He's never drawn such a picture. He's never thought of drawing such a picture. And he said, did you see the language of this bogus supposed communication or card or something I supposedly sent to Epstein? He said, I don't talk like that. I don't think like that. They're literally making things up. He's so frustrated by it. And he's going to wind up, I think, suing some of the media outlets that had put all this out there because they informed them that it was totally contrived.
SPEAKER 25 :
Well, yeah. I mean, it was. We were talking about the... Meaning, like this, what all is behind this letter and the meaning of the person, the significance of the person who wrote the story and how it's all Fusion GPS related. He's right. No. And if you want more analysis on that, last hour we had it. Mike Johnson's correct, though. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. It's the media is doing the media stuff. By the way, Wall Street Journal confirmed that they don't actually have the letter. What? Oh yeah, we're going to run this big story and make these shocking claims. We've seen it and this is what it looks like, but we don't have it to show you. What? Would you buy something from someone? Like a significant thing without looking at it first? No. Same Zs. Same Zs. Same Zs here. But this is the media, just like it's the media with the story. Ken and I were talking about on break. Listen to this. It's the is this who is this MSN? There's like several of these. Actually, I think it was on memorandum, too. They're taking issue with Trump saying that he decimated Iran's nuke sites. They said that I'm dying, Kane. However much you loathe the legacy press, it's not enough. They're taking issue with him because they said that he didn't really decimate it. What did they say? That it was like he only took out a third.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, so they're trying to claim now that of the existing Iranian nuclear sites, that Trump only took out a third of those sites. So therefore, he chickened out and truly did not decimate Iran's nuke sites. I am... He took... I mean, he took out... Let's just say he took out a third. Let's just give them that. Why?
SPEAKER 25 :
That's not right, though.
SPEAKER 18 :
Right, but they're still wrong with the idea of decimation. Deci, of course, we all know means 10. So if you're decimating something, you're reducing it by 10%.
SPEAKER 25 :
Well, in combat, it means like when they're talking about like decimating an army, they mean one out of every 10.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 25 :
So, oh my gosh.
SPEAKER 18 :
That's our media. That is our media.
SPEAKER 25 :
It's in the Daily Beast. It's in NBC. Several. They're trying to say, oh, well, the strikes weren't that bad. It sounds like decimation to me. I mean, he just used, they're trying to take issue with us so badly. These people. Well, it depends on what is is. What is means. That's a deep cut. Goodness. This media. This is one of the reasons why I'm telling people, I want, like, what were the Epstein stuff? I don't want Trump fighting with voters because they all need to be fighting legacy. They need to be fighting the propagandist legacy.
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100%.
SPEAKER 25 :
Pravda. Instead of fighting with voters, like turn thy fire outward, please. It'd be great. Oh my word. There's so many other places to focus that energy. Not internally is one of them. But the, um, gosh, that report media is just constantly just whether it's this, whether it's this letter doesn't matter. Uh, or like this thing that came out, I saw, I think a couple of people it's over a DNI. They released. or they didn't release, they declassified records that looked at the 2016 collusion narrative. And I mean, this is obvious, we all know this, but it pretty much, you know, officially put to rest any questions about the credibility of the reporting, which there wasn't any. It was manufactured to fit a political narrative is what the declassified, newly declassified records from the DNI have shown. And they had one which was highly classified now declassified, which was a daily national security analysis for the president that assessed that, quote, Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent U.S. election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure. And then the FBI, led by James Comey, were pushing back against that. And then the presidential daily brief for the PDB was then spiked, quote, based on new guidance. Is that not something else? And they had a new intelligent assessment commissioned upon a White House principals meeting and the media leaks that followed. And that kind of reinforced that narrative. So, yeah, literally they said the PDB said that, yes, Russia did not impact the U.S. election results. James Comey threw a fit. And then the FBI, based on James Comey's pushing, withdrew support. And then they killed the PDB, the Presidential Daily Brief, saying based on new guidance. And then it was in December of 2016, Obama gathered cabinet officials, Clapper, Brennan, Rice, McCabe and others, and they commissioned a new intelligence assessment to say that Russia interfered to help Trump. So it was all concocted. We all knew this. It's just nice to see it in black and white. There's more evidence to support all of this than there ever was even remotely about this stupid letter. But which one is the media running with? Which one are they running with? Don't you think it's a huge story that you had your intelligence agencies colluding with elected officials to change the information in a presidential daily brief to benefit their narrative so that they could cast doubt on a free and fair election? Don't you think that's a huge story? That you have declassified documents. That detail precisely who led the push, who wanted to change it and who wanted to invert the narrative so they could lie to the public. That seems like that's a huge story. The head of the FBI on a mission of political vengeance. decides to kill the presidential daily briefing, ignore all of the intel assessments, and then himself direct that, yes, Russia did affect the election, even though all of the other assessment prior to that said otherwise. That sounds like a huge story. But oh no, Wall Street Journal wants you to believe that this letter that they don't have and no one has seen exists. Well, they saw it. And they want you to trust that they saw it, says the guy who used to work for Fusion GPS. Wow. This is the press. You do not hate these people enough. Just absolutely asinine. And I don't know. I mean, so this has all been. And by the way, these PDFs are all online. All of them are online. They actually have photos of them. The presidential daily briefs that were killed and the rewrites and all of that. It's all online. There are photos of the documents online, Cain. Wow. It's actual news gathering. Not like the Fusion GPS reporter for the Wall Street Journal who was like, well, I saw the letter. This is what it said. Can you show us the letter? Well, I don't really have it. What? That's our press. That's the press. And I'm just I'm curious. I bet it's still trending. Of course it is. Oh, my gosh. It's still trending. It's still the number one story right now. Oh, my gosh. Oh, listen to this. Now, here's some of the headlines. Trump's approval hits a new low as Epstein pressure mounts. What? Rolling Stone. Team Trump was on the blinking warpath to kill story about salacious letter to Epstein. Oh, it's all over. It's all over the place. This is what they're going through. This is what they're focusing on. Again, just to put it out there, it was a highly classified report, declassified, showing without any doubt James Comey led the charge. to push, despite other independent, numerous intel analysis saying that Russia absolutely had no part in the 2016 election. James Comey demanded otherwise. They trashed that briefing and they did their own with Susan Rice and Annie McCabe and, uh, Those other operatives in the Obama administration, they all went to the White House and they cooked up this narrative and then that's what they put out as the substitute. That seems like a major story. All these operatives colluding together with intel agencies, with one intel agency head to undermine a free and fair election. But the story that's circling the globe right now is the latter. It's the letter. Did McCabe talk on this, Steve? Is that what you're talking about with the McCabe audio? Yes, here it is. Audio Summit 6. Listen to this.
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And let's start with the first premise, which is that there isn't actually any public right to be able to see into sensitive FBI files, right? You can file a FOIA request, but there are something like nine different exceptions to FOIA. And some of them are, you know, sensitive material, investigative material needed in a prosecution, things like that.
SPEAKER 25 :
You don't have the right to see it, he says. I have a major problem with that. There's no public right to see this. If you're undermining our election, that's not just a right that we have. That's an act of war against the public. If you are undermining legitimate intelligence analysis in favor of political vengeance because you lost an election, not only does the public have a right to know that, but there needs to be an assessment of criminal charges. This is asinine. There's no public right to be able to see it. He forgets how this republic works. That's taxation without representation to push us out of these matters of our day to day government operations. We went to war for less than that.
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SPEAKER 16 :
I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how's it going today? It's going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do.
SPEAKER 15 :
I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
SPEAKER 16 :
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said $20 billion won. $20 billion is an insane number.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think, somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on.
SPEAKER 16 :
Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
SPEAKER 15 :
Probably the easiest way is dialing Pound Law. That's Pound 529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24-7-365. Wow.
SPEAKER 16 :
Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America's largest injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
SPEAKER 15 :
Thanks for having me. Visit ForThePeople.com for an office near you.
SPEAKER 18 :
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick 5.
SPEAKER 25 :
Gosh. Okay, there's a reason why you're not supposed to wear jewelry when you get an MRI. A man was critically injured because he wore a neck chain into an MRI machine. How did someone let him in the MRI machine with the neck chain on? And he got sucked into it. A scan was in progress, and that's what happened. They had to call 911, and it was the Nassau Open MRI. The guy was wearing a large metallic chain around his neck, and it drew him right into the machine. And the police said it resulted in a medical episode. No other details were immediately provided. He was taken to the hospital for treatment, and that's it.
SPEAKER 18 :
Imagine getting yanked around by your chain, but then it's an MRI gigantic magnet.
SPEAKER 25 :
Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. This is like... that's terrifying a solar-powered aircraft flew for a mine 236 foot sky dweller flew for 90 days without stopping pretty impressive uh let's see flight cancellations are surging this summer a number of airports have been hardest hit in fact oh goodness uh boston to atlanta uh FlightAware said that there have been a number of cancellations. There's also an 18% drop compared to summer last year, but the number of canceled flights has been higher by about 1,000 flights. So that's pretty significant. Let's see. An advocacy group CEO claims he was offered $20 million to recruit protesters for anti-Trump demonstrations. Anybody surprised by any of this? I'm not. Yeah. He admits rejecting the offer because demonstrations would make us all look bad. They had 15. Why does this guy look like an AI creation? That guy looks like an AI creation. The guy doing the interview. They said that. The Good Trouble Lives On, which is a group that talks about nonviolent protests. Apparently, they were one of the ones that are implicated in this. Sure, the media is not really going to pay attention to that, though, because they're too busy talking about this fake letter. And Asheville police arrested a woman. This is sad. She was caught stealing items from Hurricane Helene. victims this is like how low are you they were church they were local church items that were donated for hurricane helene victims and she was apparently caught stealing she broke into this o-teen church uh overnight and uh apparently was able she's 42 years old ellen hickman was able to steal a whole bunch of stuff that's sad it's incredibly sad all right so coming up uh Got a little Florida's making some moves. Do you realize one of the things I noticed, too, they had a fight over redistricting in Florida and we almost lost the House majority. Had it not been for Governor Ron DeSantis and also our next guest, who was just named as the new CFO of Florida. You know, they're leading the way with Alligator Alcatraz and all this other stuff. We are going to talk to the new CFO, Blaise Ngoglia, coming up. Stick with us.
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SPEAKER 16 :
I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how's it going today? It's going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do.
SPEAKER 15 :
I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
SPEAKER 16 :
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said $20 billion won. $20 billion is an insane number.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think, somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on.
SPEAKER 16 :
Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
SPEAKER 15 :
Probably the easiest way is dialing Pound Law. That's Pound 529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24-7-365. Wow.
SPEAKER 16 :
Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America's large injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
SPEAKER 15 :
Thanks for having me. Visit ForThePeople.com for an office near you.
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SPEAKER 25 :
Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. And we are at the bottom of this third hour this Friday. Don't forget, you can join the chat at Rumble. You can watch the simulcast of the radio program, Channel 347, DirecTV, if you're not listening across the country. We've got a lot of listeners in Florida as well. And they had some really good news. Florida's been making a lot of really good moves. They had Alligator Alcatraz. They're working on eliminating... property taxes, which if that's another thing, they beat Texas and I'm going to pull my hair out. Although I like it because, you know, I always joke about Florida being my backup state. Like, you know, Florida and Texas, I mean, you can't go wrong. And they also just got a new CFO, which is huge. And this is, you know, a position that a lot of people wanted this position, but there's only one person right for the position. And we're talking to him now. It's Florida Senator Blaise Angolia, past chairman of the Florida GOP, and he is now the new CFO of Florida. First off, congratulations.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you, Dana. It's an honor to be even considered by our great governor. And it's an honor to be named the next CFO of the great state of Florida.
SPEAKER 25 :
So tell me what your biggest assignment is, because, you know, Florida's been like I just was saying, Florida's been making a lot of moves. So you're not going to you know, it's not like you're going to have any shortage of responsibilities. What's going to be like the most important thing that you've got to tackle, like right when getting into the office?
SPEAKER 04 :
So I think there's going to be a couple of things that we have at the top of the list. The first and foremost is we can continue advocating for property tax relief and property tax abolition on homesteaded properties. That is one of the governor's big things. That's what I want to do. The rise in property taxes here in the state of Florida is sort of like skyrocket over the last five years. There's not really much relief. And it goes to the homeownership affordability issue here in the state of Florida. So that is going to be a big issue. Another one is the CFO's office has the ability to audit local governments. Local governments are where you get the property tax revenue, the sales tax revenue from. They have a spending problem. It is not a revenue problem. So we are going to have our office send them letters and reminding them of the audit authority and letting them know that we're going to call BS on some of the spending. Those are probably two of the biggest things that you're going to see out of our office.
SPEAKER 25 :
That's huge. Absolutely huge. And you I mean, you basically have already assumed the role. I know it was just kind of announced. You've already started.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, I was announced Wednesday and I actually get sworn in Monday morning and Monday afternoon at noon.
SPEAKER 25 :
Nice, nice. So this is huge news, because I know a lot of people were looking at who is going to be in this position, because it's a very important position. I mean, to be able to direct all of this, especially when you know, you were talking about alligator aquatries and property tax. And you've also been talking about insurance, which I know is another huge topic. Yes, not to, I think in Texas, especially when you get towards the Gulf, Florida, it's a huge issue. Talk a little bit about that. Because I also heard you say that you're not going to allow people to get you're not going to allow these companies to game the system.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, well, the first thing that you have to know about the insurance industry here in the state of Florida is insurance is going to be generally more expensive here. Well, yeah. Because we're a peninsula, right? We get hit by hurricanes. So we did some tort reform a couple of years ago that have stabilized the market. We're seeing insurance companies right in the state of Florida. We're seeing a better market. In fact, last year, 49 states had double digit rate increases. The state of Florida had less than 1%. we are expecting rate decreases coming up in the next year but having said all that there are some insurance companies out there trying to game the system um and i am going to be very vocal if i find an insurance company that is not doing their uh contracted uh obligation to the policy holder and we're gonna hold them accountable we're gonna call them out so we can have two things at once We could be tough on insurance companies making sure they do what they're supposed to be doing and at the same time create the market where they enter the market and write policies and then create more competition bringing rates down.
SPEAKER 25 :
You know I have to tell you when you mention alligator aqua tries earlier I was reading And I have a couple of others pulled up. People are mad. Obviously, people being folks from the left over, you know, how alligator Alcatraz is being run. And I'm just waiting for you to be peppered with some questions about this by the leftist press, because one of the headlines I saw was detainees are upset over cold sandwiches. What are you going to do as CFO about that, Senator? I mean, that's an insane headline. This is insane. You're talking about people who enter the country illegally.
SPEAKER 04 :
Danny, here's the facts. There's nothing I can do because you can't fix stupid. And those are just stupid comments. The person who said that, Debbie Wasserman, I think Debbie Wasserman Schultz brought that up. I was literally standing two feet away from her on that walkthrough of the detention facility. They expect this to be the Four Seasons. They expect it to be the Ritz-Carlton. It is a detainment facility that is meant as the last stop for people who have already had deportation orders to get them out of the country. they one of their it's amazing dana one of their biggest arguments on the tour was that the detainees did not have an all-you-can-eat buffer buffet they couldn't go back for seconds for food i'm not kidding it's it's ridiculous they're just blatantly lying about the issue they're doing it for political reasons to either raise money or gain data off of those people it's an absolute grift i can tell you firsthand that they have exceeded jail standards. It is well lit. The food smelled amazing as we were walking through. It's air conditioned. Weird as it sounds. It's air conditioned. They just do not like the fact that their open borders days gig is up.
SPEAKER 25 :
Yeah, that's a good point. I mean, you're right. I guess they were used to the treatment that they got in New York, right? Being put up at these nice five star hotels. Florida doesn't run things the way that New York runs things, Senator.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, and you brought up a very good point. A lot of these leftists on the other side of the aisle are complaining about the spending on alligator Alcatraz, but they never once opened up their mouth when they spent $2 billion on hotel rooms for illegal immigrants in New York City. But to your point, fiscally, yeah, there is a big difference between New York and Florida. We have New York has 19 million people. We have 23 million people. New York's budget is more than twice than what we have in the state of Florida. New York's budget is fiscal insanity. We're sane when it comes to our money.
SPEAKER 25 :
Yeah, absolutely. And it shows that's why so many people are moving to Florida. I hope that the people that are moving to Florida are voting like Floridians have been voting in order to turn what was a swing state red, because I think people forget about Florida's history. I mean, you all have done such hard work in the past several years to make it to I mean, to expand Florida. you know, the GOP representation to expand your majority, you know, to expand all of these good policies. Because I remember in 2012, I watched that state go to Barack Obama. I was there. I was a token for CNN. And I remember watching the election swing the other way and thinking, oh, my gosh, Florida. Florida is not like that anymore. I mean, you've got a supermajority, if I understand it correctly, in the Florida legislature.
SPEAKER 04 :
We do. We have a supermajority in the legislature. Now, I would wish we would wield the power of a supermajority a little bit more. But look, you do not get that many people wanting to move to Florida if you don't put up wins. We've been showing people that conservative governance is the best type of governance. What I'm really concerned about now, Dana, and I'm just going to be honest, is what's going on in New York City with the mayor election. My fear is that we may get even more people fleeing New York City, moving to Florida, which is fine. I just want them to leave the ideology at the door. They kept on voting for leftists in New York City, and now they're on verge of electing a communist. So if you're going to come to Florida, don't New York our Florida. Leave your leftist ideology at the border.
SPEAKER 25 :
Right. Exactly. We're talking with the new CFO of Florida, Senator Blaise Angolia, who is also the past chairman of the Florida GOP. A lot of wins for the state. And this is such a this is such a good appointment for the state. And I want to focus on that. But I got to ask you about this thing. I just noticed it. I remarked on it on X earlier because you were talking to all the people that have moved to Florida. And of course, you had the big redistricting fight, which Republicans were very successful about. But I've got to just just for the purpose of giving you credit, because you really stood firm in that fight. When knives were out for the conservatives in the state of Florida, they wanted to go along with Democrat gerrymandering. I know the governor was standing against it. You were standing against it. And had it not been really for your vote as well, we would have been denied a House majority federally. President Trump would not have had. His majority, because basically, from what I understand, the way it worked is, you know, you helped swing like I think it was like a plus seven seat gain in that state and got rid of Democrats attempt to gerrymander themselves into greater power. So that's that's huge. And you're owed a lot of credit for that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I appreciate that, but honestly, it's Governor Ron DeSantis. He was the one that led on the issue. He said from the get-go that the map that they wanted to pass, which gave the Democrats a lot more seat, was unconstitutional. Me and friends in the legislature, like now, now secretary of state cord bird and manny diaz who was the education commissioner we all looked at that map and we was like the governor is 100 right this is a very poorly drawn map we think it's unconstitutional we had you know so-called scholars um telling us no it's fine like no we're not voting for it so it wound up passing but the governor to his credit realized that vetoed it and forced everyone to draw the map in the way that we have right now And court after court has ruled that the governor's map, the map that we eventually passed, was constitutionally sound. But without that, you are 100 percent correct, Dana, there would not be a majority in Congress for the Republicans right now.
SPEAKER 25 :
That is insane. That is insane to me. And I've got to say that one of the people who wanted the CFO position the most was the individual that was actually going to vote with Democrats in order to kill the majority for a president that oddly also endorsed him, endorsed against his own interests. But I've got to tell you, I think Florida is so lucky to have you as CFO because you guys have been making such common sense, like fiscally responsible choices that seem completely – It's I look at what we're doing in Texas and the fights that we're having in Austin. And I'm just like, why can't we do what Florida is doing? We need more people like Blaise and Golia in our legislature in order to make this stuff happen. So congratulations on the on the appointment. I look forward to having you back and like talking about all these other wins you're going to be posting up because I know it's going to happen. But this is this is great news indeed. So this is a great appointment. Congrats. And we'll look forward to your swearing in on Monday. Thank you, Senator.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you, my friend. Of course.
SPEAKER 24 :
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SPEAKER 16 :
I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how's it going today? It's going good, man.
SPEAKER 15 :
Tell us who you are and what you do. I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
SPEAKER 16 :
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said $20 billion won. $20 billion is an insane number.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think, somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on.
SPEAKER 16 :
Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
SPEAKER 15 :
Probably the easiest way is dialing Pound Law. That's Pound 529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24-7-365. Wow.
SPEAKER 16 :
Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America's large injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
SPEAKER 15 :
Thanks for having me. Visit ForThePeople.com for an office near you.
SPEAKER 21 :
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SPEAKER 25 :
Welcome back. I had to ask Senator Blazingolia from who's now this new CFO of Florida. I had to ask him about this story. My friend, you know, Horowitz said because the vote's all public and all that went back and look because they had this big redistricting fight. And Joe Gruters, he's kind of like the. You know. schlubby rhino that fought with DeSantis on everything. He went to war with DeSantis. Joe Grutter's dead because he did not want he did not support the Republican fight against the gerrymandering. And they ended up they cost Democrats what three seats. are no more than that. They ended up taking several seats out when they created this, when they won on this redistricting fight. And Blaise N'Golia stood strong. Grutter's like attacked N'Golia. They were trying to smear him. And Joe Grutter's antics literally almost cost the nation our Republican majority. I don't know how this guy got Trump's endorsement when he ran again. I have no idea how Joe Gruters got a Trump endorsement. Did somebody tell Trump that Joe Gruters was like surreptitiously working to fight him behind the scenes? Like he was he if Gruters would have won, Democrats would be running the House right now. If Joe Gruters got his way, Joe Gruters would have had Democrats running the House. So why in the hell is Trump? Why did he endorse him? And Joe Gruters wanted the CFO job. In fact, I heard from a lot of people in Florida and they were saying that he basically was demanding to be coronated. He expected to be CFO. And when DeSantis wasn't going to give him CFO because Gruters votes for gun control, he was a red flag supporter. He likes universal background checks. He supports all this stuff. And and and that's not just me. I mean, if anyone wants to take issue with it, they can just go to his voting record, which is public and hidden on a thing called the Internet. And obviously, DeSantis didn't want somebody like that as CFO of Florida. So he got mad and stomped his feet and demanded it. And then look what happened. Look at this. He he we would have had Democrats running the House had Gruters gotten his way. So that's just that is the problem with these squishes that are in Florida and these squishes. We have we have them here in Texas. They're everywhere. I don't know. I go back and forth because I'm like, do they just are they moderates or are they like corrupted by Democrats? Or this is what I think. I think you can't tell me Joe Gritters is not a Democrat plant. You could not do it any better if you were a Democrat plant. Then if you were Joe Gruters, they pretend to be a Republican. All he does is kiss Trump's ass. That's the only reason Trump gave him an endorsement, because he goes to Mar-a-Lago and he's like lips to butt. I mean, that's what he does. And in reality, he almost cost POTUS the House. We would be having Trump impeachment 2.0 if Joe Gruters would have gotten his way about redistricting in Florida. That is how close the nation came to losing everything. Is that not unbelievable? So don't forget that name. I sure as hell won't. And I'm sure going to be excited to bring it up every single time I see his name come up in the headlines. All right. So there's a new piece over at Substack. Lorraine just pubbed it. It's all about the bunk reporting behind that Trump supposed Trump to Epstein letter. So if you want to read all about the reporter who did it, the one behind the Stormy Daniels stuff, the guy who literally worked with Fusion GPS. He worked for Glenn Simpson's wife, Mary Jacoby, at Maine Justice, and he had no other reporting background at all whatsoever. Go read it because all the receipts are up there at Substack brand new just now. All right. Today in stupidity.
SPEAKER 18 :
All right, Juan, this is cut 13. Representative Jayapal accidentally admits that illegal immigrants in her district receive SNAP benefits. I don't think she meant to do this, but go ahead and play this one.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yesterday, I was at a food bank in my district talking about the snap cuts, the horrible snap cuts and Medicaid cuts. And they told me that people are not even showing up to Head Start where they get their food. They're not showing up to the food banks because they're afraid. And it's not just undocumented immigrants. It is people of all legal statuses. It's undocumented immigrants who have been here for 20 years.
SPEAKER 18 :
So that's who's doing the SNAP benefits stuff. I think they did a great job with Medicaid, cleaning it up, bolstering it so that illegals are off and deadbeats are off and the people that actually need it get it.
SPEAKER 25 :
Yeah, yeah, exactly. And that does it for us this week, folks. Go and find us over at Substack, Chapter & Verse, YouTube, Facebook, like and subscribe. Have a wonderful weekend. I will be back with you on Monday.
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In this heartfelt episode, Angie Austin revisits the compelling story of Rachel Kerr Schneider, who shares her journey through unimaginable loss and the quest for understanding. Learn how Rachel's dedication to her late husband and their mutual faith led to her inspiring book that aims to provide hope to others facing similar adversities. Rachel talks candidly about the 17 years spent navigating ALS's harsh realities and the grace discovered within confines of suffering. Witness her powerful testimony of perseverance, the struggles of raising two sons, and the kindness of a community that lifts you in your darkest hours.
SPEAKER 02 :
Welcome to The Good News with Angie Austin. Now, with The Good News, here's Angie.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hey there, friend. Angie Austin here with The Good News. Really excited to have back Rachel Kerr Schneider. She is here to talk about her book, The Widow Shows Red, My Journey with Jesus, John, and ALS. Thanks so much for joining us again, Rachel.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, Angie, thank you for having me.
SPEAKER 04 :
Now, I know we had something exciting happen right after we spoke last week, that Patty Aubrey, who is the New York Times bestselling author of Chicken Soup for the Christian Soul, came to a big book party you were having. So tell me how all this went, the launch and having Patty there, et cetera. How was the last week?
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, Angie, thank you so much for asking. Actually, it was a week ago today that we held the launch party here outside of Dallas, Texas. And, yes, Patty did. She was kind enough to work me into her busy, busy schedule. And we had a wonderful crowd attend, a lot of people who have known John and then, of course, a lot of people who know me and did not know John. But the wonderful thing about it is that Patty was able to lend her support. We've known each other for over 13 years. I had met her on a retreat once. And, of course, she works with Jack Canfield. And they developed the Chicken Soup for the Soul series along with Mark Victor Hansen, which was a very, very popular series of books, inspirational books. And so I had met Patty at a retreat, a workshop with Jack. And interestingly enough, Angie, I still have my workbook from that retreat, which was 13 years ago, and a diagram, Jack's took me through an exercise on how to write a book and diagrammed the whole thing out. And I have that framed with a picture of Jack holding the diagram, which is, you know, it's so interesting how when God puts a calling or a dream in our heart, how it will stay there. And we may think that it's not going to happen or it may not happen on the timeline that we have. have prepared for ourselves, but I'm a testimony to the fact that when God does give us a story and when he does give us a calling and he does put something in our heart, he will make a way for it to happen. So here I am, you know, 13 years later, I would have never imagined that Patty would write the foreword, that Patty would be here in person. Just some, you know, he just goes above and beyond our expectations in such an amazing way. And so, yes, and I also had a representative from the Live Like Lou Foundation because proceeds from the book are going to benefit this foundation, which was started by a man who was diagnosed with ALS, an attorney. And he was determined to leave ALS better than he found it. So this foundation operates in three platforms. It provides scholarships to young children who lose a parent to ALS. It also partners with the fraternity that Lou Gehrig was a part of, which is Phi Delta Theta. And these young men go and do service projects for families who have ALS. And then, of course, it provides money for the research, which is so important. Because what they believe is that if they can figure out what will unlock the secrets of this mysterious and deadly disease, it will also help with other neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Huntington's and Alzheimer's.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, my goodness. Yes. Okay, so that was exciting to have all these friends that you live near from the Dallas area and that you've been friends with for many, many years. Exciting to have them there. And then, like you mentioned, John's friends as well. And we're going to recap your story of The Widow Chose Red, My Journey with Jesus, John and ALS. If you're just hearing Rachel for the first time, she lost her husband to ALS and she had cancer. two boys when he was diagnosed who were 10 and 14, and she had to raise them after he passed. So how long were you considering this book? How long ago was he diagnosed?
SPEAKER 03 :
So John was diagnosed 17 years ago, and he was a straight line decline, and it was three years. He was diagnosed in September of 2008, and he passed in September of 2011. So it was pretty much right at three years. The timeline for most patients is two to five. That hasn't changed. And since his diagnosis 17 years ago, they are still no closer. They don't have anything to help treat this. It's basically a death sentence, and you just manage the progression and the decline of your body.
SPEAKER 04 :
Unbelievable that after 17 years we're no closer to a cure or even better treatment. And I was going to tell you yesterday I did an interview about – the devotion called Beyond Imagination. My girlfriend's written 14 books, and she wrote this devotional called Fresh Hope for Today, Devotions for Joy on the Journey, Grace Fox. And I just thought it was kind of coincidental when you were talking about your prayers coming true in 13 years ago, wanting to write this book, feeling called to write this book. And Here, 13 years later, after you took the photo with Jack Canfield, you're also with Patty Aubrey, who was the author of Chicken Soup for the Christian Soul. Okay, so my point is, what we talked about yesterday is her devotion called Beyond Imagination. And then her prayer says, God, please answer my prayers in a way beyond imagination and bringing glory to your name. And her story was very different from yours. They were in Heathrow Airport. There had been a lot of fog. She had to find some of the people who were working for her. her admissions nonprofit, and they were going to a conference in Slovakia. So she had to find her niece and her cousin's kid or whatever, and she's like, I'm never going to find him in here. You know, we're in Heathrow. It's overwhelmed with the fog, and how is this going to work? And I've got to help these younger people. And she said somebody turned in line in front of her in a giant, like, Disney World line when you're trying to get through customs, and it was her niece. And she was like, you know, I prayed and God answered my prayers beyond my imagination. She says there were hundreds of thousands of people that day. She goes, I don't know if you've been to Heathrow, but it's enormous. And so anyway, I just love the idea of praying for things that are beyond your imagination that the Lord can answer. And that's what you were saying about your book.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes. And I love the title of her book because. You're absolutely right. God answers in ways that are absolutely beyond our imagination and beyond our comprehension. And even when we are suffering and we don't see a way out and we don't even know what to pray for anymore, that's when that Holy Spirit that lives inside of us, that's when we can activate this supernatural superpower that we all have. to say, okay, Lord, I don't understand this. I don't know what even to pray for. I'm so overwhelmed with what's going on in my life. So Holy Spirit, please intercede for me and make my heart, make my requests known to my Heavenly Father. And He does. And so I love that analogy. And thank you for sharing that, Angie, because beyond imagination, that's what our Heavenly Father is all about. He will take care of us beyond our wildest expectations.
SPEAKER 04 :
Now, Rachel, for the people who didn't hear you last week, let's give a recap of your story, having the two boys and your husband was traveling all over the country for his work. And how many times did you move and how many years before he was diagnosed?
SPEAKER 03 :
We were together. John and I met and got married in Dallas. We were together for 24 years. We had two sons who, as you mentioned earlier, they were 10 and 14 when their dad died and I was known as the trailing spouse. John was climbing the corporate ladder, which I'm sure a lot of your listeners can relate to. And we relocated. Actually, it was seven times in 15 years. So I was less than two years at most places that we were at. We started in Dallas, went to Philadelphia, then to Seattle, then to San Francisco, then back to Dallas, then up to Chicago, then back to Dallas, and then to Minnesota. Wow. And, you know, each time... You know, as the mom, as the wife, you're creating that home, and it's a lot of work, and it can be a little isolating, too, because you're in these new areas. You're trying to find a new community. You're trying to find a new church. Oh, you're trying to find somebody to do your hair. I mean, it's just, you know. Yes, a doctor.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, doctors and hair and nails and churches. Yeah. And just a friend, maybe, you know. At our age, it's more difficult to make friends. I mean, you're from the South, and it's easier, I think, for Southerners to make friends, to be honest with you. But at our age, it is more difficult to make friends. A lot of my good friends are from my 20s. Yes.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes, and I am thankful because my boys, I will tell you this, because it would have been very easy for me to just curl up in a fetal position after going through three years of this illness with my husband and watching him literally wither away. But I had these two young boys that I needed to be present for every single day, and their grief expressed itself in different ways as well. My oldest son, John, went down a path of drugs. And we then entered a journey in rehab, which is what my second book will be about. My youngest son, Jake, coped very differently. He threw himself into sports. If it had a ball, he was there. Baseball, softball, football, you name it, lacrosse, he just sank himself right into that. And that was how he coped. And so You know, these boys growing up without that father figure, you know, we're not designed, Angie. I wasn't designed to step into that role. I'm a mom. I was created to be the mom, right? So it was a difficult journey. I'm pleased and so grateful because today they are young men who are, you know, working, taking care of themselves. One of them, John, even has two little ones. So it's just a testimony to how our God works and how he sees us through. But I will tell you that the whole addiction thing was something I had no experience with. And once again, I was finding myself in a place after having taken care of my husband and been told there's nothing we can do, absolutely nothing. And then, you know, my son, who as a mother we're called to nurture, protect, and care for – I was trying everything on the other end of the spectrum, you name it, whether it was outward-bound intervention, in-house counseling, outpatient counseling, relocation, you name it. I sent him to Australia to be with my parents and my brother, thinking that even a male influence might be helpful. But those adolescent years are difficult for both girls and boys, and there's a lot going on there. Sometimes, you know, we can figure out, and then a lot of times we can't, and they can be challenging for all of us.
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Now, in terms of – I have so many questions I want to ask you, so I'm going to keep you around for another segment so we can take the whole show. In terms of the book coming to fruition, The Widow Chose Red, how long – you had to raise your boys. You had to get through the grief. You had to, you know – you deal with the changing relationship with your husband and then him passing away and like restarting without him because you'd trailed him all those years. So when did you start working on the book?
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Well, I had notes and entry from my journals that go back. Yes, I was, I don't even know Angie, how I was doing that. But I was, I was keeping a journal that I, you know, I would, it was haphazard at best. I'd go for weeks and not write, and then I'd come back and go, okay, let me catch you up with this is what's going on, and so on and so forth. So that was helpful. I also kept a lot of notes from when the caretakers who, when we had home care for John, and I would be exchanging notes with them about, you know, how John was doing and what care he was getting. And, you know, it was just, I just, and I had taken some writing courses and I had been to some seminars. I've been keeping up with the story in my mind.
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And I do remember, we have to take a break, but I do remember you saying that you took a lot of notes. So obviously that helped you. We're going to be right back with Rachel Kirschneider, The Widow Chose Red, My Journey with Jesus, John, and ALS. We'll be right back.
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Welcome back to The Good News with Angie Austin, joined by Rachel Kirschneider. We're talking about her book, The Widow Chose Red, My Journey with Jesus, John, and ALS. Talking about her husband being diagnosed with ALS 17 years ago. Her boys were 10 and 14 then. He passed away three years later. And she'd gone to a really neat Jack Canfield chicken soup for the soul. And she met also the author of... of Chicken Soup for the Christian Soul, Patty Aubrey, 13 years ago, and here she is 13 years later having her, you know, book launch, and Patty came out, and you had the picture with Jack Canfield because you were taught how to write a book way back when, and so now it's out 17 years after your husband was diagnosed and 14 years right after he passed away. Yes, yes. And the boys are raised, and you're going to have the next book on how your older son dealt with the grief and how he went down the addiction path, and your younger son went down the sports path, just staying busy with the teammates, et cetera. So we were talking about how you took all these notes while your husband was sick, and that ended up turning into the book. How long did it take you to write the book?
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Well, once I got serious about it, Angie, it took me about eight months. No, it's not. And, and here's the important thing. If anyone out there is thinking about writing their story or wanting to do that, we now have so much technology available to us that allows this process to go much easier. You know, you can, you can speak it into a transcription, you can record it, have it transcribed for you. There's so much that's available now. It's that makes it so much easier to deal with. Um, And so for me, I know that doing the second book, which is going to be The Boys, The Bible, and The Battles, I know that that will probably be easier, although the topic is still going to be very difficult to go back to those days. And I think that was probably one of the things I wasn't really ready for as I wrote this book, even though John's been gone for 14 years, ALS is still just as brutal as it ever was. So putting myself back in that place and also partnering again with another foundation and being aware of what's been going on and people that are still to this day and seeing young people who are diagnosed at the ages of 23 and 27 and watching them. Social media makes it makes it so that we can connect with others in the community. And I think that's why I felt so moved to get this book out, because I know that there are so many out there who feel alone, who feel isolated, who are still grieving, and who are still trying to process the trauma of this brutal disease. And so that was the way that I felt that I could that I could share and support and inspire, whether it's ALS or any other kind of diagnosis or challenge that you might have in your life. I wanted to be able to lend some support and some confidence and remind you of that special supernatural power that you hold inside of you with the Holy Spirit.
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Now, we talked before about how you were living in Minnesota at the time, and you were thinking about moving back to Dallas because you had such a community there. But you stayed in Minnesota, and it ended up being really wonderful, the support that your boys received, et cetera. During that time, how did all of the relationships and the family change? And I know that you were already a woman of faith, a strong faith. How did your relationship with your husband, but how did all the relationships in the family change during that three-year journey as you were saying that your husband took that straight line deterioration with the ALS?
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Well, it did change very much so in that I think it's difficult when you're watching someone with an illness. Of course, everyone wants to weigh in on what they think is the best way to handle a situation. And a lot of times you can get run over with the wrong kind of help. And it's so important to really determine what kind of help you need and how to get it. It's also important to realize, too, that you need to be able to accept help, but accepting the right kind of help is important too. I found that John and I really had to be in agreement more so than ever on how he wanted to make this journey. And those were conversations that the two of us had to have and keep having. And I found that a lot of times I just really had to help the family honor his wishes and That is what was so important. And, you know, as I said earlier, when you're a mom or a dad, you feel like I don't care how old your child gets to be, you really want to go in and protect them and tell them what they should do or how they should do it. And yet I think all of us at some point reached this point where we said, okay, John, we have to honor what John wants and how he wants to do this because ending well for all of us needs to be something that we get to choose. And how we choose to end it can give us a great sense of peace and allow us to exit this world in a way that that leave the legacy and how we want to be remembered. So that was really important. John wanted to be at home. We did access hospice six months before he died because we knew. that they would provide services that would help me in giving care. And I think that's one of the things, too, Angie, that I want people to recognize is hospice doesn't have to be bad. Those individuals are trained and there to help and support the whole family in a lot of different ways. And a lot of times I think we make the mistake of waiting way too long to utilize what hospice can provide.
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Now, an interesting twist of fate, I understand, is that your husband, John, who had ALS, that his brother also died of a terminal illness, and that was ahead of John's passing. And so were there any lessons learned there? Did it help prepare you? I mean, it seems like it could just be even more sorrow just heaped onto your husband's family and your family with losing his brother of a terminal illness as well.
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Yes, and Ronald had died at the age of 40, just shy of his 40th birthday. And, you know, my mother-in-law, Elaine, is just a study in resilience. Wow. You know, and Ronald was a real go-getter as well, both John and Ronald, although very different. were very successful in their respective careers. Ronald was in real estate, both a broker and a realtor. We actually were at SMU at the same time together, although we didn't know each other. Oh, wow.
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Oh, you were at SMU. Oh, my best friend's daughter is just leaving a few months ago there. Just a little sidebar there, yes.
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Okay, so you were... Yes, I still love it. She will absolutely love it. But yes, I think Ronald... What we learned from Ronald's passing, once again, I was in charge of doing the celebration of life services for Ronald and then for John, and I thought that both of these guys would have left some set of instructions because they were so much in control of so many other things in their work life and so forth, and yet I was operating – Ronald, more so than John, because, of course, I've been married to John and been with him. But Ronald's service was kind of like, okay, how do you figure this out for somebody who's not necessarily attending church? You know, all of those things that a lot of people are probably finding themselves dealing with, too, because we're in such a mobile society and a lot of people don't have the church communities, you know, that we used to 20 or 30 years ago because we're all over the place. But Losing Ronald, I never dreamed that we'd suffer another loss with his brother. It never entered my mind. I'm sure it didn't. No, no. But the similarities in how they handled their illnesses and how they reached out to try experimental programs, it's really a testimony to both of them and their courage.
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I am. I have a girlfriend. She's a pastor. And I met her because she was on my show when I first started it. So probably like 13 years ago. And Dawn Wanzer, she came in with her sons who were severely handicapped. They've been fine till about the age of five and a really rare progression where they ended up unable to speak. still mentally there, but unable to speak, unable to feed themselves, unable to go to the bathroom. They lost their ability to walk, so they were both in wheelchairs. And when the older one passed away, maybe early 20s, then the little one, he was so – Jake was so sad. And he couldn't say anything about how sad he was. He just – He just withered away after he lost his brother. So I'm like, oh, my goodness. I cannot believe that Kevin and Dawn have lost both their boys within a short time of each other. And I interviewed her on the show a few years ago about what happened after that, because I have never in my life see someone that the Lord made more friends. perfectly to be a caregiver. It was mind blowing to me. I mean, I just could not even, I've never seen anything like the way she'd look in their eyes and she'd put them on the ground and they lift them out and she'd gaze into their eyes and like tickle their little noses and Jake's eyes would just sparkle. And so that was her life caring for them. Okay. Yes. I'm going to start to cry. Yeah, I know. I realized that Dawn was sick. And I thought, well, she can't possibly die. Kevin and Dawn have been together for 34 years, and their relationship did not suffer. They're soulmates. Like, they're so in love with each other, it's crazy. And he came over to do some electrical work for me, and she came to the door with him. And I'm like, oh, my gosh, extra bonus. Like, I got you, too. And she goes, well, not everybody gets me, too, when it comes to do electrical jobs. And we sat in the living room. We talked for three hours about the boys and the whole journey. And shortly after that, I found out she was sick. Well, she died about a month ago, and I could not wrap my head around how he could lose his entire family, both of his boys, like approximately like teenager and early 20s, the boys, and then his wife, who was like mid-50s maybe. And I just and I, you know, I've been in touch with him and just the sorrow and all of his posts. And I just don't even know how you survive any of these things without the Lord. Like, how do you get through it? And that's really what your book is about, isn't it? That you knew the Lord was real because you felt him alongside you during this journey.
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Yes. And and he became more more real to me than ever than ever before. And I do believe, Angie, and you've got me in tears. because I do believe that it's through our suffering, and we don't know why, right? There's no rational explanation that we could give to Kevin, that we could give to my boys. And that's the hardest thing, right? Why? Why? And yet, you know, we know, Angie, look how Jesus suffered on our behalf. So who are we to think that we would get through this life unscathed? You know, there is always a reason, although we may not be able to figure it out. But, you know, Kevin is still here. Your friend Kevin is still here. There's a reason that he's still here. And his life is still a testimony to all that God has brought him through. And we have no idea what's still in store for him, right? Just like I had no idea what was still in store for me, but it is. And you are right. It is only through having that belief. I don't know how people do it if they don't know Jesus, if they don't know the power of the Trinity, you know, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. So thank you for sharing that because all of us, all of us have our crosses to bear. And all of us will experience some pain and suffering. You're just not going to get through life without it.
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And what I appreciate, we're almost out of time, is that you were able to step through your pain again to help others in writing The Widow Chose Red, My Journey with Jesus, John, and ALS. Rachel Kirschneider, give us your website before we run out of time.
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Yes, it's spiritedprosperity.com.
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Spiritedprosperity.com. Thank you, friends. I already feel like we're friends. Thanks so much for joining me on The Good News.
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Angie, thank you. Godspeed. Thank you for listening to The Good News with Angie Austin on AM670 KLTT.
On this episode of Washington Watch, Jody Heiss takes us on a comprehensive journey through the intricate world of U.S. politics and international relations. Join us as we delve into the groundbreaking rescissions package passed by the House, a significant step in showing fiscal responsibility by clawing back $9 billion in federal funding. House Speaker Mike Johnson celebrates this feat with us, a victory that signifies a turning point in decades-long fiscal management. Understanding the intricate dynamics of political maneuvering, Congressman Ron Estes joins to share his insights into additional areas ripe for financial reform and the looming challenges. Dive deep into these discussions and understand the religious and familial ties that underpin international relations, as we explore Israel's intervention in Syria, with insights from Dr. A.J. Nolte. Furthermore, the controversial discussions on abortion drugs take center stage, with experts like Dr. Chris Gasek explaining the ongoing efforts to repeal harmful policies introduced during the Biden era. Lastly, understand the fascinating interplay between free speech and religious freedom in today's society, with real-world examples including the challenging decisions faced by public figures and the ripple effects on policy-making.
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from the heart of our nation's capital in Washington, D.C., bringing compelling interviews, insightful analysis, taking you beyond the headlines and soundbites into conversations with our nation's leaders and newsmakers, all from a biblical worldview. Sitting in for Tony is today's host, Jody Heiss.
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Well, good afternoon. Welcome to this July 18th edition of Washington Watch. I am Jody Heiss, a senior fellow here at the Family Research Council, and your Friday host. So glad to have you on board with us. Coming up on today's program of Washington Watch, well, it was a deadline met and promises kept.
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The Republican Party and President Trump and everybody that works on our side has promised fiscal responsibility and fiscal discipline, and we're delivering on those promises again tonight. I just signed our HR-4, which is our rescissions package, the first of what we believe will be multiple rescissions packages. That's our plan. I'm delighted to send that over to the president's desk for signature, and he'll sign that quickly.
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That was House Speaker Mike Johnson taking a victory lap, a well-deserved one, I might add, after the House passed the president's first rescissions package. By a pretty narrow vote, it was 216 to 213. It took place a little after midnight last night, this morning. And we'll break down what it took to get that package to the president's desk when I'm joined here in just a moment. by Kansas Congressman Ron Estes. He's a member of the House Budget Committee, and he'll break all that down for us. And there's been a lot going on in Syria, where clashes between two tribes have now drawn Israel into the mix. In fact, Israel actually launched a wave of strikes this week.
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We are actively engaging all constituencies in Syria to navigate towards calm and continued discussions on integration and a stable, more prosperous future for all Syrians. To that end, we are calling on the Syrian government to lead in determining the path forward.
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That was U.S. State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce yesterday, and I'll be joined just a little bit later in the program by Dr. A.J. Nolte of Regent University to help unpack for us what is actually unfolding now in Syria. And if you've been tuning in to Washington Watch this week, which I certainly hope you have, but you'll notice that Tony's been highlighting the need for the Trump administration to stop, to put an end to the Biden era policies that have allowed dangerous abortion drugs to literally be trafficked across state lines. And by the way, and I'll talk a little bit more about this later, but we have a petition for that, which we encourage you to sign. You can get more info and actually sign on simply by texting the word LIFE to 67742. Again, I'll talk a little bit more about that later. But while we're trying to reverse these horrible policies, the pro-abortion side is working to keep them. In fact, they're actually trying to make them even worse than what things are right now. I'll be joined a little bit later in the program by FRC's Dr. Chris Gasek to discuss those efforts by pro-abortionists and what you and I can do to help stop them. And then to close out the program today, I'll be joined by David Claussen for our weekly Biblical Worldview segment to discuss some of the headlines that may have been overlooked this week But nonetheless, they are issues worth considering through the lens of Scripture. So we've got a lot coming your way today. You don't want to miss any part of it. But if you do... You can certainly go to our website, TonyPerkins.com, and stay up to speed. Okay, it was shortly after midnight last night, midnight this morning, in fact, the wee hours of this morning, that the House of Representatives passed the first rescissions package requested by President Trump. The legislation claws back some $9 billion, with a B, $9 billion of already-approved federal funding. This includes things like public broadcasting and foreign aid. It was a narrow vote, as I mentioned just a moment ago, 216 to 213, but it did meet the deadline, which was today. Friends, this is... $9 billion is a lot of money, but it's not a lot in the big picture. But this is the first time in decades that a president has successfully been able to get a rescissions package through Congress. And so will we see more coming? You just heard the Speaker say that we will. So what other areas of the federal government are ripe for pruning? Here now to discuss this and more is Congressman Ron Estes. He's a member of the House Ways and Means Committee as well as the Budget Committee and the Joint Economic Committee. He is all over this issue. He represents the 4th Congressional District of the great state of Kansas. Congressman Estes, welcome back to Washington Watch. Always a pleasure to have you.
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Well, great, Jody. Thank you for having me on.
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Okay, listen, for those that perhaps have not been closely tracking all the events of this week on Capitol Hill, catch us up on what actually took place the last couple of days relating to the rescissions package and getting it to the president's desk.
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Yeah, as you highlighted, obviously there's a lot of work we need to do. One out of five dollars that the federal government spent is borrowed. So we've got a lot of things we need to look at. As you said, the rescission package here was the first time in decades that a president has requested that discretionary spending be pulled back. That, hey, we don't need to spend everything that was appropriated a year or longer ago and focused on some specific areas. you know, if you look through what's in that rescission package, the things that we were particularly pulling out, things like funding for NPR, you know, they wanted to fund drag queen programs for children and programs talking about animals need to have their own pronouns. And, you know, PBS had programs talking about white privilege. And we all heard earlier this year, all of the the horror stories coming out of the USAID in terms of the money that was being wasted around the world. Things like $3 million for electric vehicles in Vietnam and $70,000 for a diversity, equity, and inclusion musical in Ireland. I mean, I don't know why Ireland would want to have a DEI musical, but if they do, the Irish taxpayers ought to pay for it and not American taxpayers. And so it was great to do this rescission package. I'm glad to hear Speaker Johnson reiterate today that we need to be doing more of this as we look at all of the discretionary spending that comes out of the federal government and what do we do going forward. We've got a lot of work to do, not just on the discretionary side with rescissions, but obviously some of those automatic spending programs as well.
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Yeah, and speaking of, and I agree with you, it's great to see the Speaker talk about more yet to come. And in fact, the White House Budget Chief Russ Vogt has said the same thing, that more rescissions are likely on the horizon. What other areas of federal government, in your opinion, may be ripe for rescissions?
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Well, when we look at across the discretionary course, the spending has grown so great since before COVID. If you look at going back to 2000, I believe 2019, our tax revenue has gone up. It's gone up 46% or so. So we've got a lot more tax revenue coming in after we passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017. But what we've seen is spending's gone up 70%. Some of that was some temporary spending or should have been temporary spending in COVID, but now it's gotten baked in and continued on grant programs and other areas across multiple programs. We've got so many programs at the federal level that are redundant. You may have four or five different programs in two or three different agencies that are designed to target the same issue. So we've got lots of areas to look at that. Doge Group did a great effort earlier this year in identifying some of those areas, but we need to have a constant look at that in terms of where do we spend money, where should we be spending money, and does it make sense to spend dollars in this point, particularly when we're borrowing one out of five dollars that's being spent.
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Yeah, good point. I think Doge really did set the ball on the tee in a lot of ways. At least that's a great starting point. Switching gears somewhat, I'm sure you probably saw the new poll that Democrats have literally hit rock bottom, all-time low. for favorability among voters, and yet they're doubling down. They're blasting this one big, beautiful bill and think somehow they're going to use that as an instrument to gain voters. What do you make of their tone? Are they tone deaf to what the American people want?
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They really are. I mean, they don't have a positive message. They don't have something that they want America to be for. I mean, basically the Democrat Party has become a party of socialists that they're looking at. How can they make government spend and dictate what people do? You know, you look at, for example, we look at the One Big Beautiful Bill, and I could talk about so many great provisions there in that, but their message out of the One Big Beautiful Bill that they opposed was because they wanted to make sure illegal immigrants got Medicaid, and they wanted to make sure that people didn't have to work at all for the Medicaid dollars that were being given to them to provide for their health care, even as little as 20 hours a week working in a job or working or getting an education or even in a volunteer role. And so as they get more strident, trying to talk against common sense things, the American public's turning against them. When you look at the polling data that's out there right now, of all Americans, 72% opposition to the Democrats and the positions they're taking in Congress. And even among Democrats, there's a majority, 52% of Democrats are not happy that the Democrats in Congress are actually doing what should be done for America.
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Yeah, it's really, it's amazing that they keep doubling down on the very things that are getting them in trouble. Hey, but more power to them. Alyssa, you wrote an op-ed this week that I thought was great regarding the one big beautiful bill. Tell us a little bit about that.
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Yeah, we've talked a lot about the one big beautiful bill. There's just so much positive things in there. A lot of it was centered around the tax provisions that we needed to extend after 2017 that were going to expire this year. And there was also provisions around border security and defense. But if you really peel some of the layers back and look at some of the details, there was a whole lot of pro-family, pro-life provisions in there. And what we were wanting to really do was make sure that, for example, Medicaid funding was used not by Planned Parenthood to provide abortions. I mean, we should have Medicaid to actually help people preserve and protect life and not end it. We wanted to make sure that families could raise their children. And so we focused on increasing the child tax credit for families and indexing it for inflation. We increased a tax credit for adoption, for people to adopt families. And that's so important now when we see the birth rate dropping down to 11.7% per 1,000. And so, you know, we need to have a continuous growth of population to make sure that America continues to grow. You look at provisions like employer-funded or child care provisions. We wanted to make sure that those were available in permanent family and medical leave to help people who maybe have a temporary illness or an issue with their family. And so we want to make sure that after these disastrous years of Biden inflation, that people were able to raise their families and have the income to provide for their family.
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Well, it really is remarkable. It's a first time in decades. I've just got to underscore that. First time in decades that Congress has actually been able to pass a bill of getting rid of wasteful spending. And so hats off to you and your colleagues. We're very proud of you and grateful, and this is just the beginning of more to come. Thank you, Congressman Ron Estes of... Kansas, we appreciate you so much.
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All right. Thank you, Jody.
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All right. Have a great weekend. All right, friends, we've got much more coming your way. Following the break, Dr. A.J. Nolte will join me to discuss a lot going on in Syria right now. And Israel's been dragged into it. So you want to catch what's happening there. And we'll cover it right after the break. Stay tuned.
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Family Research Council began over 40 years ago, like all great movements of God, with prayer. Today, rooted in the heart of the nation's capital, FRC continues to champion faith, family, and freedom in public policy and the culture from a biblical worldview. FRC is one of those bright lights that helps us focus on true north.
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And I shudder to think, had they not been here, that it could have been worse, worse, worse.
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The Family Research Council is key. It's one of a handful of groups that I think will determine whether our children live in a country that enjoyed all of the freedom and all the opportunity that we enjoyed in this great land.
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It's just a wonderful parachurch organization that doesn't seek to take the place of the church, but it seeks to assist the family and the church as we try to move forward successfully, not in a defensive mode, but in an offensive mode as we seek to live our lives according to the Holy Scriptures.
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FRC is not going to be whooped. You know, we're going to fight. We're going to take a stand. And again, we don't retreat.
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Welcome back to Washington Watch. Great to have you with us today. I am your Friday host, Jody Heiss. Okay, yesterday the U.S. State Department spokesperson, Tammy Bruce, confirmed that the Trump administration did not support the Israeli strikes on Syria that took place the day before. And in fact, they made very clear their displeasure with Israel. Well, the Minister for Public Diplomacy at the Israeli embassy, Swelson Netor Hassan, who himself is Druze, by the way, he had a different view. And in fact, he wrote in Newsweek, quote, as the only democracy in the Middle East that actively protects minority rights, Israel has not stood idly by. Israel is committed to preventing continued harm from being inflicted on the Druze in Syria, end quote. So what are the competing dynamics that are at play here? There's quite a bit. And joining me now to break all of this down is Dr. A.J. Nolte. Dr. Nolte is Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for Israel Studies at Regent University. Dr. Nolte, welcome back to Washington Watch. It's always a pleasure to have you.
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Thanks, Jody. It's a pleasure to be here.
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All right. So let's begin. First of all, we probably have some viewers and listeners who are not familiar with the Drews. So why don't we begin by explaining who this group of people, who they are.
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The Druze are probably one of the more unique communities in the Middle East. They broke off from Shia Islam sometime around the 11th century, and they've always been, in terms of theology, a little bit secretive about their beliefs. Their beliefs are very tied in with different types of mysticism, and they brought in some elements that are probably more outside the Islamic norm or mainstream in terms of their theology, possibly from other preexisting religious traditions. We're not exactly entirely sure. But certainly the Druze would be distinct both religiously and ethnically because they the Druze tend to keep and have tended to keep to themselves and live in often mountainous areas in the Middle East. Another thing that's a unique hallmark of the Druze in terms of religious communities is the Druze have never sought a state for themselves. There have been a couple of times in history when the Druze have had powerful leaders in Lebanon and parts of Syria, But on the whole, the Druze tend to be very loyal to whatever state they live in. And so the Druze within Israel participate in Israeli society actively. There are members of Knesset in Likud and other parties that are Druze. And the Druze have one of the highest IDF participation rates of any of the communities inside of Israel for those who are citizens.
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Okay, well, break that down for us. What is the motivation, Israel's motivation, to act on behalf of the Druze to the extent of being willing to take military action here?
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Well, there are a couple of dynamics, and some of them are, I would say, emotional in terms of actually domestic politics and policy, and some of them are strategic. Let me start with the domestic angle. The Druze populations in the Galilee have been citizens of Israel for a long time. They are active in the IDF. They serve in the IDF. There are also Druze communities in the Golan Heights, which, of course, Israel annexed in 1967. Those communities in the Golan have been divided from their family members, literal family members, across the fence. And in the Druze communities, it's called the shouting fence because they would often shout messages across the fence about births or deaths in the family. And they've been divided since 1967. And so for those Druze in the Golan who have been fairly loyal to Israel, they haven't necessarily taken citizenship because they didn't want to fight their cousins, but they have been generally loyal. And in recent years, many more of them have joined. And so these Druze were, let's just say, very much agitating for Israel to defend their cousins. And many of them were, in fact, going across the border to see family. And also some youth were maybe going to potentially fight alongside the Druze in southern Syria. And so there's a family reason. There's a loyalty reason because the Druze have been loyal to the state and Israel wants to reciprocate that. There's also a practical element, which is that the Golan Heights are part of Israeli sovereign territory. And so having a little bit of a buffer and having some Druze communities on the Syrian side of the border that would have positive feelings toward Israel provides defense and depth on that northern flank. Obviously, there's hope, I think. that one day there can be normalization with Syria. But from the Israeli perspective, hope is not a strategy. And the Druze are a known quantity. Their loyalty is known. And I think if it's for them, if it's a strategic choice between the Druze and the unknown but possible, we don't know what we're going to get when we open the box relationship with Ahmed al-Shara, Israel is going to pick the folks that it knows and the folks that have shown loyalty to Israel throughout its history.
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Interesting. So let's break this down then in terms of the relationship between Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump here. They have seemingly been right in sync with one another for quite some time as the war was taking place and so forth. But now that seems to have developed into a disagreement here. What do you make of this apparent policy disagreement between the two?
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I think we should always keep in mind with President Trump that he has a lot of irons in the fire in the Middle East. He's trying to work a lot of different relationships. And there is that Ahmed Alshara piece. And so part of the dynamic with Alshara is there's some tension within the Sunni Arab community in the Middle East between sort of what I would call the pro-Saudi bloc And another bloc that's more comfortable with the Muslim Brotherhood and other sort of Islamist and fundamentalist groups, and that would be led more by Turkey and Qatar. Al-Shara was backed heavily in the past by the Turks and the Qataris, but now there's been an opening with the Saudis. And I think President Trump— wants to encourage al-Shara to join that Saudi bloc and also join the Abraham Accord. So he's concerned about that longer term strategy. And also by criticizing Israel's strikes on Damascus, he allows himself to be positioned as sort of an honest broker between Syria and Israel, because if he comes out in support of what Netanyahu just did, and let's be clear, some of Netanyahu's strikes were in Damascus on Syrian military targets. If Trump comes out in favor of that, it becomes much more difficult for him to then try to negotiate between Israel and Syria as an honest broker. So I think there's a lot of careful diplomacy that is going into the distance that appears to be publicly created. As we know from the run-up to the situation with Iran, sometimes when there appears to be daylight between Trump and Netanyahu, we find out that there's actually more going on. And so I wouldn't necessarily be too concerned about this causing a permanent rupture between the two men. I think Trump is playing Middle Eastern politics and is probably playing the hand he's been dealt about as well as he can.
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extremely interesting thank you so much dr aj nolte director of the institute for israel studies at regent university always you bring insightful analysis and we thank you all right friends on the other side of the break frc's chris gasek is going to be joining me to talk about three different citizen petitions on the abortion drug myth for pristin stay tuned
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Thank you so much for joining us today on Washington Watch. I'm Jody Heiss, your Friday host, and so glad to have you with us. All right, as you've heard on this program, no doubt, many, many times in the past, Family Research Council has been actively engaged in concerted efforts to try to raise awareness about the harm of the abortion drug Mifepristone. In fact, members of the FRC team continue to strategically engage this for the purpose of trying to reveal the truth about what these drugs actually do. And obviously, that involves abortions that these drugs cause. But also there's the other side of it, of trying to save women from the dangerous side effects of these abortion drugs. And part of the effort that we're all engaged in has been calling on the Trump administration to take immediate and decisive action to end the Biden era policies that have allowed these dangerous drugs to be trafficked across state lines. Well, pro-lifers, you need to know this, pro-lifers are not the only ones who are calling for policy change. The other side is too. In fact, right now, there are three pro-abortion citizen petitions that have gone to the FDA that we need to and will be speaking out against. And Dr. Chris Gasek, who's a senior fellow for regulatory affairs here at the Family Research Council, now joins me to discuss this. Chris, welcome back to Washington Watch. Great to have you.
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It's good to be with you. You know, the sort of chemical abortion, Mifepristone area is where sort of all the action is. That's not completely true, but it's where the action is in sort of the abortion battle, because it's now about 60, 70 percent of abortions are done with Mifepristone. But you're absolutely right. So, there are different levels of this, so I'm going to try and walk through this as best I can and quickly just try to give a general explanation for how all this is working. So remember that the FDA approves drugs for marketing and for sale in the United States. In other words, the drugs have to be safe and effective. They have a label. They can go into commerce under certain conditions. But that's all it is. It's just an approval of a drug, right? And so... At the federal level, there is a lot of action going on right now with three pro-abortion, three pro-mythopristone petitions coming in, one just astonishingly from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, what's called ACOG. It's the professional organization of know, the sort of supposedly legitimate, you know, medical profession, and they are just totally pro-abortion and are trying, along with GenBioPro, which is the generic maker of mifepristone, and along with the Massachusetts attorney general, who is working in common with like Tish James of New York and other blue states. They've filed a separate petition and all of these together are about, you know, like a hundred pages long. I mean, they're quite substantial documents and they're really making an effort. But the general thrust of these documents and these petitions is to get FDA to relax the conditions or the safety restrictions to eliminate safety conditions even further so that you have such de minimis control over the ability of the federal government to have anything to say about the safety of the drug that it's almost I mean, you still would need a prescription, but it's telemedicine, it's all these sorts of things, so little oversight. Their mantra is that mifepristone is safer than Tylenol. I mean, this is how demented these people are. And by the way, there's recently a paper that's been published, I think it's pre-published, talking about the fallacy of this whole comparison, right? But I just sort of mentioned that. So Jodiak, let me let you respond.
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Yeah, I mean, it's unbelievable that these petitions are out there trying to make this more accessible when already there's virtually no control and it's going back and forth across state lines, even with states that prohibit such things. We actually, speaking of this, had Erin Hawley on earlier this week, and she was talking about one of these states, a legal win in West Virginia. Can you tell us a little bit, Chris, about the dynamics between state law and federal law?
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I'm sorry to interrupt. This is what's sort of interesting about the dynamics here, because you have a federal-state set of relationships, right? Right. So, Holly, Erin Holly was on, and she gave a great interview about a great opinion out of the Fourth Circuit. Here's essentially what's going on. Remember, we're in this post-Roe v. Wade era. world set up by the Dobbs opinion from the Supreme Court, which basically said that in certain areas of health and safety, the states have the jurisdiction to pass laws in this area, basically the way it was before Roe v. Wade. And so, the state of West Virginia had passed a law, I mean, I don't know the full contours of the law, but basically restricting abortion very severely. And so GenBioPro, this company that is essentially taking up the mantle of the industry of the producers of mifepristone, because the Danko, the company that was originally allowed, is just a sort of a cutout and a kind of a, it doesn't really amount to much. So GenBioPro went into West Virginia and they essentially said that You know, and lawyers understand this, but they said that the federal approval kind of essentially preempts the ability of the states to regulate Mifepristone. And so the Fourth Circuit came back this week. And remember, the federal government, when it has a law that conflicts with a state law on the same subject, It trumps the state law, right? So there's a supremacy clause in the Constitution.
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We've got about 30 seconds, Chris.
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Sure. So the opinion basically said, no, the states have the right to regulate on the matter of abortion, and the federal government only has to do with commercial products and the sort of the condition of sale of drugs. So basically what we have here is a standoff, and we need to have our folks just be aware that, you know, go to your legislatures, make sure that your legislators make sure that they're passing pro-life state laws and that asking them to sort of, you know, help your congressmen to help on the federal level in dealing with federal restrictions and getting involved in that. Sorry.
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There you go. Chris Gacy, thank you so much for breaking this down for us. We appreciate it. All right, friends, don't go anywhere. Other side of the break, our biblical worldview segment with David Clawson. We'll be right back in a moment.
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welcome back to washington watch i am your friday host jody heiss and so glad to have you on board with us listen before we get to our next guest i want to just throw out some action items for you our last guest dr chris gasek was talking about three petitions that are now before the fda to relax the standards for mifepristone going across state lines and make it more accessible And the ultimate question then comes down to what can we do about it? Well, listen, there are some practical things. I don't know if you were catching right when he was going off. But listen, you can contact your federal representatives and urge them to reach out to the president and ask them to stand for life on this issue and to represent the states. And you can also work with your own state representatives to strengthen state laws. wherever it is that you may live. This is going to be a state issue, as you well know by now, and that's going to continue to accelerate. And then obviously contact your federal representatives. They need to hear from you. But there's one more action item that you can take As I mentioned a little while ago, we're asking we need the Trump administration to take immediate action. We need them to take decisive action. We need them to end the policies from the Biden administration that have allowed these dangerous drugs to go across state lines, literally to be trafficked across state lines. So I'm encouraging you. to sign a petition that we have that does just that. The petition is calling on the Trump administration to restore and strengthen FDA safety standards for Mifepristone, and we're asking him, his administration, to direct the Department of Justice to enforce federal law. We need that to happen. And your voice can be heard. I want to urge you to simply text the word LIFE, L-I-F-E, to 67742. Let your voice be heard on this very important issue. All right, now we come to our biblical worldview segment. And as you well know, there's been a lot dominating the news headlines this week. But in that process, there quite frankly have been some stories that have been eclipsed. by some of those bigger ones that have been out there, but some of these issues are still worthy of our attention. And so whether it's big or not so big, we always like to conclude the show and conclude the week for that matter with a biblical worldview discussion on some of those new items, news items. And, uh, Joining me as always is David Claussen. He's the director of the Center for Biblical Worldview here at FRC. He's also the author of the recently released book, Life After Roe, Equipping Christians in the Fight for Life Today. And so I urge you, if you haven't already, get that book. It takes a look at the abortion issue from every angle, theological, political, as well as historical perspective. Great, great book. David, welcome back to Washington Watch. Always an honor to have you.
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Happy Friday. Great to be with you, Jody.
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Well, thank you and happy Friday to you as well. Let me start with this, David, because I frankly have not seen a whole lot about this, but particularly within the Christian community, as we all know, in recent months, it seems as though there have been some very high profile evangelical leaders who have made some very high profile mistakes. In fact, some of them are actually no longer in ministry because of that. But this past week, one individual has been around for a long time. On the other side of the pendulum from those who have been falling away, John MacArthur passed away. and is now in the presence of the Lord. And unlike others, he ended so well. And I just wanted to kind of toss that out to you, how you might summarize the life and ministry of this great leader, John MacArthur, on evangelicalism, biblical authority. I mean, there's a host of things to say, but what would you have to say about John MacArthur?
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Yeah, Jody, well, his faith is now sight. And you think about the decades of faithful ministry, you know, for literally 50 years plus, he has stood as a pillar of conviction, of courage, of clarity. it's incredible when you think about the really worldwide impact that Pastor John MacArthur has had over decades. A phrase that we use at FRC a lot is watchman on the wall. And I think that's a perfect term to describe MacArthur. He really has been a watchman on the wall for decades, whether it was the battle for inerrancy fought decades ago, whether it was issues related to the prosperity gospel or the excesses of the charismatic movement or egalitarianism, or even in more recent years, civil disobedience and the fact that the church is essential. We saw him take a stand during the COVID-19 pandemic during the tyrannical reign of Gavin Newsom when everything was getting shut down. But I think Jody, his legacy is expositional preaching. You know, it's amazing. You can go listen to a John MacArthur sermon from 1979, and it sounds like it could have been preached just last week because he didn't get up there to tell funny stories or just talk about the headlines. He preached God's word verse by verse. You know, just very briefly, you know, personally, my own father, shortly after he came to faith in the 1970s, began listening to those cassette tapes that John MacArthur's ministry would send out. My dad told me the other night he probably listened to over 2,000 sermons from John MacArthur. And one of the neatest gifts he gave me, my father gave me when I was in seminary, was the MacArthur New Testament commentary set. So I know the tremendous impact Pastor John's had on my ministry. And I bet we could tell stories all over the country of the hundreds and thousands of pastors and young men who've been shaped by that ministry. So again, I just would have loved to hear that, you know, well done, my good and faithful servant when he entered into heaven just a couple of days ago.
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Yeah, absolutely. And what a priceless gift that your father gave you. Much more valuable than 2,000 cassette tapes, which you probably would have no clue what to do with. But likewise, I've got tons of MacArthur's books, and what an impact. He has had on my life as well and an honor to meet him along the way. But incredible, man. What would you say, David, as we wrap up before we go to another topic? There are so many. We have a new generation of Christian leaders. What do you think they are? many of them have learned. But what can be learned from the life and ministry of John MacArthur or MacArthur for this new generation of Christian leaders in ministry?
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Yeah, very simply put, Jody, I think it's the centrality of the Bible, the centrality of the Bible, whether that's in preaching, whether that's in teaching. I think John MacArthur knew that fundamentally God's people need God's word. And he was utterly convinced that of the sufficiency and authority of Scripture. And his courage that we saw demonstrated time and time again flowed from those convictions. And so I think we need to, again, recapture in our own day that the most important principle you can kind of land on is that God's people need God's Word. Explain to them one verse at a time.
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Yep, and I don't know of anyone who did it any better than Dr. MacArthur. Staying within the context of evangelical culture, if we will, but a different topic that pretty much has gone under the radar has been the decision of Christian TV stars Chip and Joanna Gaines. and their decision to include a same-sex couple on their show. And, of course, they've received a lot of pushback over that. But surprisingly, Chip has doubled down on all of this. Give me some of your thoughts on what's going on here.
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Yeah, this is a pretty big story. So Chip and Joanna Gaines are known for their television program called Fixer Upper. My mother-in-law, Diana, and wife, Abby, tell me that this is a show that just a lot of people watch. A lot of people follow what they're doing, and they present themselves as – uh... christians and that they have a kind of traditional family value uh... kind of persona about them and you like you said for the first time in their programming now they included a same-sex couple and uh... understandably there was push back and rather than kind of received that feedback Chip Gaines really has doubled down. He put a tweet out where he said something to the effect that, you know, people are quick to judge him rather than understand. And I think my response to that, Jody, is and I'm sure there have been some people who maybe been mean spirited or harsh in their critique of what the Gaines's are doing. But I think the majority of Christians kind of pushing back or simply saying, hey, There is an incongruency between authentic Christianity on one hand and then affirming lifestyles and behaviors that are antithetical to Christianity. And so, of course, as Christians, we're called to speak the truth and love, but we never silence the truth. We never normalize something that the Bible calls sinful. And in the case of homosexuality, 1 Corinthians 6, 9 says this is a sin that if unrepented of leads you to being unable to inherit the kingdom of heaven. And so I think, you know, as Christians kind of watching this story, I always often go to Ephesians 4.15. We speak the truth in love, but we need to be holding on to the truth. And it appears in this case, at least, that the importance of truth and standing for biblical morality is kind of being seen as maybe secondary when I think it's certainly not.
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Yeah, I mean, he made the comment something along the lines that he is a modern Christian, which implies that the biblical teaching is now updated and there's a new set of standards. And so I think all of this is certainly possible. presenting a what appears to be a belief that scripture is old and outdated and we have new beliefs. And he's a modern Christian this season. So so let me ask you this. How should Christians respond when someone like this, be it someone in the public eye or a friend or a neighbor, a family member who is moving away from biblical faith? the foundation of biblical truth. How is a Christian to respond to this with kindness, with openness, with truthfulness, but with effectiveness?
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Yeah, Jody, true kindness is never at odds with the truth. I think that we really need to understand that. You know, Ephesians 4, 15, truth and love, that's got to be our model. Yes, we should be compassionate kind of in our tone and our posture, but we can't redefine kindness to mean silence or, at worst, approval of what God calls sin. And so, again, I think we just need to be really clear, going back to John MacArthur, we need courage, we need conviction, and we should be winsome, but you can't be so winsome that you actually water down basic biblical truth, which appears to kind of what is taking place in this situation.
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Great point. And another illustration, so let me just throw this one out to you as well to reply, because we have the other side of Chip Gaines is an individual, Pastor Luke Ash, who Tony had on the program with him earlier this week, a bivocational pastor who was fired from a Louisiana public library because he refused to use preferred pronouns. So here you have an individual who is standing on truth, suffering the consequences for doing so. But how should Christians approach these type of workplace conflicts that arise? In this case, a pastor is involved, but in other instances, people working at hospitals or schools or a variety of other places face these type of conflicts. How is a Christian to respond to this?
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Yeah, Jodi, and this is a situation we've seen unfold around the country in various workplace environments, specifically with kind of the transgender revolution. And I think what's neat about Pastor Ash is with this situation, it's very clear he was not being inflammatory. He knew that there was this policy in place where you had to use the pronouns of those who identify as transgender, even if they're in conflict with the biological sex of that person. The pastor said he couldn't do that and was fired. Again, we've seen this. And it seems, you know, there seems to be a shift. You and I have talked about since the election, a lot of people seem to think the transgender movement has overreached But this is an example where this has not gone away in particularly places of kind of education and places like libraries. And so, again, I think I commend Pastor Ash as an example of conviction under fire, really. No one wants to lose their job. But again, as Christians, we cannot go along with affirming something that leads people to hell. We cannot affirm an anthropology that is at direct odds with what we understand Genesis 1 and 2 to teach about our creation in God's image, male and female. You cannot change your sex. We cannot go along with the lie that you can. And so again, I know this issue is not going to go away, Jody, but I think we need to resolve now to make sure we are the people who will only ever speak the truth. Again, similar to what I said earlier, we ought to be winsome in our posture and our demeanor, but we cannot compromise what God has revealed in his word.
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Absolutely. And speaking of all of this, David, and we've only got about a minute or so left, we're seeing more and more states, Tennessee, for example, just recently passed a law protecting teachers and students from being forced to use pronouns like what we're talking about here. But more and more laws like this are becoming necessary. Wouldn't you agree?
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Yeah, absolutely. And one point I'll make on that, Jody, is language is not neutral. Language reveals a worldview, where you'll even hear the left use language like sex assigned at birth. That's just dystopian language. And so the fact that Tennessee and other states are passing laws to protect people from coerced speech, I welcome this. Even earlier today, Loudoun County came out and said they're not going to enforce a policy that forced teachers to use specific language to refer to transgender-identifying students. So this is all about free speech. This is about religious freedom. And it's about the truth. And so, again, these are issues we need to continue to pay attention to. But praise God, some of them do seem to be moving in the right direction.
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Absolutely. And these laws obviously are helpful to everyone, but especially helpful for Christians who are working in public institutions and places where their faith is being challenged like this. Thank you, David Claussen, Director of the Center for Biblical Worldview here at the Family Research Council. Always love having you on Friday and getting your insights. Have a great weekend. Thank you, Jody. All right, friends, that wraps it up. Hope you also have a fantastic weekend. Be sure to go to church and we'll see you again next week right here on Washington Watch.
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Good morning, and welcome to The Kim Monson Show. I am Yvonne Paez, and I am guest hosting the show today for Kim. Let's have a conversation. Thank you for listening. Each of you are valued and treasured. And today, strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, soul, mind, and body. You were made for this moment. Thank you, Producer Joe, for your good work. And the website for Kim Monson is kimmonson.com. Sign up for Kim's weekly email newsletter, and you'll get first look at all her upcoming guests as well as the most recent essays. Email kim at kimmonson.com. And thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show. It is reliable, efficient, affordable and abundant energy from oil, natural gas and coal that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams and empowers us to change our own personal climate. And thank you to Hooters Restaurants for their sponsorship. 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For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty, First Lieutenant Howard, then Sergeant First Class, distinguished himself while serving as platoon sergeant of an American-Vietnamese platoon, which was on a mission to rescue a missing American soldier in enemy-controlled territory in the Republic of Vietnam. The platoon had left its helicopter landing zone and was moving out on its mission when it was attacked by an estimated two company force. During the initial engagement, First Lieutenant Howard was wounded and his weapon destroyed by a grenade explosion. First Lieutenant Howard saw his platoon leader had been wounded seriously and was exposed to fire. Although unable to walk and weaponless, First Lieutenant Howard unhesitatingly crawled through a hail of fire to retrieve his wounded leader. As First Lieutenant Howard was administering first aid and removing the officer's equipment, an enemy bullet struck one of the ammunition pouches on the lieutenant's belt, detonating several magazines of ammunition. First Lieutenant Howard momentarily sought cover and then, realizing that he must rejoin the platoon, which had been disorganized by the enemy attack, he again began dragging the seriously wounded officer toward the platoon area. Through his outstanding example of indomitable courage and bravery, First Lieutenant Howard was able to rally the platoon into an organized defense force. With complete disregard for his safety, First Lieutenant Howard crawled from a position to another position, administering first aid to the wounded, giving encouragement to the defenders, and directing their fire on the encircling enemy. For three and a half hours, First Lieutenant Howard's small force and supporting aircraft successfully repulsed enemy attacks and finally were in sufficient control to permit the landing of rescue helicopters. First Lieutenant Howard personally supervised the loading of his men and did not leave the bullet-swept landing zone until all were aboard safely. First Lieutenant Howard's gallantry in action, his complete devotion to the welfare of his men at the risk of his life, were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit on himself, his unit, and the U.S. Army. So the quote of the day then would be from him, and it is the following. It is a great privilege to be an American. The greatest privilege of all is the right to choose. Robert L. Howard, United States Army Medal of Honor recipient says, And I'd like to let you know that I have had the chance to visit the Center for American Values down in Pueblo, right on the Riverwalk. And it is absolutely amazing, with all their portraits of valor. If you have time, if you're looking for something to do, this is it. This summer with your children, it is a great place to take them so that they can realize what people have done for this country and the courage and valor it took to take some of those actions. So a great place to take your children in Pueblo on the Riverwalk. So I believe we might have a guest here shortly. But in the meantime, I will start talking to you a little bit about some of the headlines. But instead of the headlines, because it does pertain to that, what Kim was working on were the 50 wins in the one big, beautiful bill from the White House. And she was on the numbers 45 through 50 today. So we will start with 45. And number 45 authorizes the sale of expanded spectrum MHZ to strengthen rural broadband and secure America's technological dominance in AI and other emerging technologies. which is a big win. And number 46 states it's created permanent fees that illegal immigrants must pay for their applications so American taxpayers aren't saddled with covering these costs. These fees will bring in over $77 billion to cover adjudication costs and fund immigration processes and enforcement actions. $47 Okay. Sue, and we will break on the rest of these for later. And we have on the line Richard Holthorff, who is running for state GOP vice chair. So welcome, Richard Holthorff.
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Well, thank you very much, Yvonne, for letting me be on your program.
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Oh, it's a pleasure. Pleasure to have you.
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Well, thank you. Most people don't know that on Monday, July 21st, The state central committee for the Colorado Republican Party will meet to elect a new vice chair because the previous vice chair stepped down and fill that vacancy. And I believe I am the most qualified candidate and ask for the vote of those central committee members to elect me.
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That's excellent. And thanks for coming on to let us know when this is happening and that you are indeed running for that position.
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Yes, ma'am. I think it's a time for the Colorado Republican Party, who's trying to rebuild and rebrand, to better serve Colorado and better serve the Colorado electorate, to get new leadership. My platform is built under unity. Building bridges, not burning bridges. Mending fences, not cutting fences. And if you know me, I'm currently the Washington County chair for the GOP in my home county out in eastern Colorado. And we need common sense and common sense leadership. And I want to help the current chairwoman, and I want to help the executive team with my leadership and my strategic vision so we can better serve Colorado. And with an election coming up and the votes for me, I think that puts Colorado Republicans on a pathway for more victories in their Republican elections statewide.
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Excellent. Well, we need to have a lot of unity here because we've got a hard row ahead of us and a lot of things to pull.
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Oh, yes, ma'am. And there's a candidate running against me who has a little different vision. And... You know, if you attack for fellow Republicans and you, you know, try to burn them down or burn them to the ground or tear them down, you know, it's a very negative factor, negative influence. And I want to bring positive.
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Positive is what we need. Positive and forward moving.
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Yes, ma'am.
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Well, thank you for being on with us today. And we wish you the best of luck. And our final comment from you would be?
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Well, I would ask everybody that's a state central committee member to please consider a vote for unity, a vote for rebuilding, and a vote for positive leadership and positive strategic leadership. Because we can build back better We can be a better party and we can be a big tent. Perfect. We need to embrace every part of the Republican Party and work together to bring real solutions to a lot of problems we have in Colorado. Because we've lost Colorado, the progressive left, the radical left, the woke left, the communist and socialist left are slowly taking over our state and taking in a direction that I don't believe is the right direction.
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Well, thank you for your leadership. And again, can you tell us how people can find you and information about you?
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Yes, ma'am. And thank you for asking me that question. Go to my Facebook at Holtorf Fort Colorado, Holtorf F-O-R Colorado. You can also reach me by email at Holtorf Fort Colorado at gmail.com. Holtorf F-O-R Colorado at gmail.com. Or you can call me on this number, 970-520- Zero zero one zero. I'd be more than happy to talk to anybody, visit with anybody. In fact, I'm going down to the Douglas County conservative breakfast down in Castle Rock right now.
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Excellent. Well, good luck. Good luck with all of that and safe driving. And I guess we'll all find out what's going on on Monday. Thank you so much. And the show comes to you because of really great sponsors like the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance team.
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It is Friday. Welcome back. I'm Yvonne Pius filling in for Kim today. And Kim's website is KimMonson.com. Sign up for Kim's weekly email newsletter and you'll get first look at all her upcoming guests as well as the most recent essays. And remember her email is Kim at KimMonson.com. Thank you for contributing to support Kim's independent voice and the exercise of our right to freedom of speech. And through all of Kim's work with veterans, she is honored to highlight the USMC Memorial Foundation and all they are doing to raise the money to remodel the official USMC Memorial, which is located right here in Golden, Colorado at 6th and Colfax. Paula Sarles is the president of the foundation, and she is a Marine veteran and a Gold Star wife. Paula and her team are working diligently to make the remodel a reality, and you can help by donating at usmcmemorialfoundation.org. That's usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And I would like to welcome our guest, Erin Lee, Concerned Mother and founder of Protect Kids Colorado. Please tell us what prompted you to start PKC and what is going on in Colorado. Welcome, Erin. Hi, Yvonne. Thanks for having me. Well, thank you for being here this morning. There is so much of importance that you have to share today, this morning with Coloradans who are listening. There's a lot going on. Well, would you just briefly tell us what was on your heart? What happened that prompted you to need to protect your child and start this Protect Kids Colorado?
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Yeah, I actually shared our story for the first time on Kim's show in, I believe it was March of 2022. It was the very first time I spoke it out loud to an audience. So 2021, our little girl was recruited into a secret gender and sexuality club and convinced that she was actually a boy who had been born in the wrong body and they invited in outside presenters who taught her really inappropriate concepts like polyamory and puberty blockers and how to access them how to see an affirming therapist without telling her parents and repeatedly emphasized don't tell your parents about this so so wait so they we saved her from that wow so they so they invited her to an art club class and then did they tell her this was what they were going to be teaching her no nope she was deceived just as we were that she was walking into an art club and you know it was 2021 we had just moved here from Florida she was incredibly vulnerable she's a shy introverted kid and it was really just longing for connection with kids her age. And that's exactly what happened. They did what I call glitter bombing. They celebrated her for proclaiming that she's not comfortable in her body and therefore she's transgender. And she doesn't know who she's sexually attracted to and she's therefore queer. And so she was instantly given this community of people that celebrated her for adopting these LGBTQ identities. And we're, you know, the reason we're public about it now is because she's one of the lucky few that we pulled her out of that, really a cult, this transgender cult. And it took about a year and it was a dark, scary year for our family and, you know, really opened our eyes to what's happening in our public schools, what's happening in our communities, what's happening at the state house, and why it's so important that we speak up about what's happening because this is such a pervasive issue. When we went public, it kind of blew up. Within a week of telling our story out loud, I was on top of Carlson, and I was suddenly telling my story to the world. And what I learned is that this has happened to so many families across the country, thousands and thousands of families. But it's especially happening here in the state of Colorado.
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Wow. Wow. Oh, my gosh. So this must have just been incredibly hard for your family. And so what did you do about it?
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We I kind of took a multi pronged approach. We, you know, of course, pulled our children out of the public school and they have been so much better off. But we as a family have been better off. As a result of that, again, we started to speak up to educate others because we learned that this was happening so frequently, that so many kids were being affected, not even just by being convinced they were transgender themselves, but being indoctrinated with this kind of ideology right under parents' noses. And most parents have no idea that it's happening. You know, it's this pronoun conversation and math problems that talk about transgenderism and reading assignments, and parents just have no idea. So I went out on an education campaign. We also filed a federal lawsuit. Sam Bondi actually took our case against the school district. And that's ongoing. We, this week, actually, will be filing our cert petition to SCOTUS in the hope that the Supreme Court of the United States will take up our case and set this precedent once and for all that parents have a right not to be lied to, that our children should not be transitioned to the opposite sex behind our backs, and us be intentionally lied to about it, which again is a very common issue. There's a lot of losses like mine. One of them will eventually be taken up by the Supreme Court. We're hopeful it's ours, and then our school district will be held ultimately accountable. So that's ongoing. Lawfare has been one of our mechanisms of fighting back. But then also, as you mentioned, I co-founded with a group of wonderful people, Protect Kids Colorado, I know Kevin Lundberg is our chairman. He's been on this show a lot. Patty McKernan was on this week. She's also on the board. And so a lot of us came together and just said, look, we're in trouble in Colorado. They are passing laws one after another. We can't get amendments through on them. We can't stop the bad bills. We can't pass good bills. And gender ideology is taking over. They have passed bill after bill that forces this agenda forward. Not just on our kids' throats, but on all of us. For example, 1312. And so we said, let's give the people a way to fight back. And in Colorado, we have the Citizens Valid Initiative process. Right there in Article 5, Section 1, it says we the people reserve the right to pass law by this process. And so it really is a we the people movement that gives everyone in Colorado who goes, man, I know it's bad, but I don't know what to do about it. a way to fight back, a very easy way by just taking a petition and talking to those people in their sphere of influence. And if we all just do a little bit, we will make the ballot and we will win on these issues.
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It is amazing and difficult and wonderful that the people do have a recourse to find back. Because if we are not down in the Capitol where the laws are being made and we're not in that position... then it is nice to be able, if you disagree with something that's going on down there, to then be able to petition to get something on the ballot for vote. So it is a tool, and I'm so glad it is, so that you and the people and all of us who want to help children can do that, too. What else do you have on there? And then we'll go to break in a second. Your last thought here?
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Well, yeah, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the movie that Senator Lundberg and I made called Art Club about our families. And that really, we put that together as a tool to educate people about the problem so they understand what these ballot measures stand for. So I encourage people to go to artclubmovie.com. It's a free film. We'll keep it free. And that's really the story of what happened to our family, but the broader issue of gender ideology in schools as well.
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Well, thank you. And so we will continue this conversation on the other side of our commercial break. But we want to thank sponsors like the Second Syndicate. Sponsorship.
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Thank God it's Friday and welcome back. I'm Yvonne Pius filling in for Kim Monson and Kim's website is KimMonson.com. Sign up for Kim's weekly email newsletter and you'll get first look at all her upcoming guests as well as the most recent essays. Her email is Kim at KimMonson.com. Thank you for contributing to support our independent voice and exercising of our right to freedom of speech. And Mint Financial Services, if you want more freedom and confidence for your money, Mint Financial Strategies can help. They're an independent firm with over 25 years of experience. And as an accredited investment fiduciary, they put your best interests first and always. With a strategy-first approach, they'll help you build a plan that fits your life. Call Mint Financial Strategies today at 303-285-3080. And now I would like to welcome back Erin Lee, Concerned Mother and founder of Protect Kids Colorado. So she had some interesting points in the segment just before us right now. But I would like you to tell us, continue telling us, about the Colorado laws that have been enacted in the last few years that put children at risk and weaken parental rights.
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Yeah. So I actually moved my family here in 2018 from Florida. And I realize now, having looked into the laws that contributed to what happened to our daughter, that have pushed the issue of gender ideology and stripping parental rights, so many have been passed since 2019, since Jared Polis took office. And it's just one after another again. So starting in 2019, we were personally affected by a law, 1120, that lowered the age of health care consent to 12. And my daughter was actually taught about this law in her art club. She was taught that she could go see an affirming therapist, a transgender affirming therapist, without parent knowledge or consent because this law had been passed to give her that right. I didn't understand that this law existed. So 11, 20, now 12-year-olds are the steward of their own health care. 1129 was also passed in 2019. That put a ban on what they call conversion therapy. And it has explicit language within the bill that requires that all licensed therapists must affirm gender confused kids. They cannot question a child who comes in and says, I think I've been born in the wrong body. I think I'm the opposite sex. And again, I learned about that law the hard way. When I sought therapy for my gender confused daughter, my little girl, And therapy was making her worse. And we didn't understand why we were going to someone for help. And she was becoming more depressed, more confused. Really, this law harms my family. And this law is now being challenged, actually, at the Supreme Court. It will be heard in their next session in the fall in a case called Childs v. Salazar. Haley Childs is a counselor out of Colorado Springs who has said, no, it's against my faith, it's against my conscience. to force these kids down a path of self-hatred and body dysmorphia, which I'm trained to help them overcome because they can't do my job as a result of this law. And so we're really hopeful that that law will be overturned. I've written two amicus briefs in that case to the Supreme Court. So everyone pray and cross your fingers that 1129 is overturned. But also in 2019, they passed the Comprehensive Sexuality Education Law which mandates that gender ideology, that mindset that children can be born in the wrong body, that they can be non-binary and choose their gender, that's now mandated in fifth grade curriculum in the state of Colorado. So it's inescapable that kids at the age of nine and ten will be exposed to this idea that you can be born wrong. And that's just 2019.
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Wow, 2019. What was that last one? So it was 11-20 first, then 11-29. Then what was the other bill?
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And then 10-32. 1-0-3-2 is the comprehensive sex ed bill.
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10-32. Now, before we proceed with the other ones, all of this happened to your family. So you said you moved from Florida and you moved to Colorado. Where did you move to Colorado and what school district did this?
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So we're in the Fort Collins area, a Pooter school district. And so our federal lawsuit that is being appealed to the Supreme Court is Lee versus Pooter. Wow. But it's happening everywhere. And Pooter and Jeffco, in my opinion, are the two worst school districts in potentially the country. You know, they cannot stay out of the news for horrific things happening to kids, sexual offenders, child abuse. these kinds of secret school transitions. But I have to caution people that it's absolutely happening everywhere. We've got some great districts, D11, D20, Woodland Park, Elizabeth. But for the most part, no school district in this state is immune from this ideology being pushed on our kids.
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Wow, wow. Well, let's continue. So after those bills, is there more?
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Oh, there's more. I know, unfortunately. In 2023, they actually passed the law 1003-1003. And it's really under the radar. Our friend, Lori Gimmelstein at CPAN, was really outspoken against it and led a rally at the Capitol, which we actually feature in our art club movie. But most parents don't realize this passed. So in 2023, they passed 1003. It now mandates mental health screening for all 6th through 12th graders. And it then refers them to the state's mental health program called I Matter. It also cemented I Matter as a continual program. It was just a temporary program until this law. So this means that all 6th through 12th graders, that's 11 through 18 year olds, are screened for their mental health according to the state's mental health screening. And if they're deemed high risk, then they're sent to the state's mental health counseling program. And I actually took the time to do this mental health assessment. I was deemed high risk. And I answered it honestly. I don't believe I'm at a high risk for mental health issues. And when I was referred to their counselors and I looked at my options, they were all LGBTQ affirming and sex work positive. So this tells me they are inaccurately deeming children high risk for mental health issues. And then so that they can refer them to the state's program of incredibly inappropriate and unqualified mental health counselors, And because of that law 1120, they can do it without parents' knowledge or consent. And the child can override a parent's desire to withdraw their kid from the assessment. And the counselors are required, again, to affirm the mental health confusion.
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So that one's scary. So in a time that, because it's my understanding that we are approaching like a 50% of kids who can't even write or read at grade level. So in a time when we really need to be pushing our education better, more efficiently and harder, they're adding all these little things, these extras, these extracurriculars and tests and craziness to our curriculum for children instead of teaching them reading and writing and arithmetic? Yeah.
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Yeah, and it's actually closer to 70% of kids nationwide and in the state who cannot read or write or do math at grade level. And in my district, they have touted a statistic that 47% of kids are LGBTQ. 30% are trans or non-binary. And they've touted these statistics at city council meetings and at school board meetings in recent years. So they're not even shy in our schools about the fact that Almost a majority of kids are identifying this way. That is not natural. That is not a coincidence. That is definitely by design. And all of these laws feed into that.
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it's sounding to me like these little programs in this new curricular is suggesting things to people so that because it doesn't like like I'm thinking these these percentages don't seem that natural to me either so so I'm guessing there's just suggestibility absolutely and I actually missed the law that was passed in 2019 it didn't go into effect until last year but in 2019 they also passed 1192
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And this mandated the teaching of minorities, which sounded good. I don't think anyone wants our kids not to learn about minorities and diversity, but they included LGBTQ explicitly. And then the State Board of Education required that that standard be met starting in first grade, so six years old. And I actually looked into the State Department of Education. The DOE put out some resource guides. so that teachers could meet these new standards. So it's required. You have to teach kids about LGBTQ starting in first grade, social studies, history, and civics. And they put out these resource guides to help teachers attain that. And within these guides, just in the first grade lesson alone, there was lessons about Jared Polis' sexuality, the San Francisco Pride Parade, why you must display pride flags in your classroom. And they even have a lesson about the importance of sex work. about Sylvia and Marsha P. Johnson, who started the Stonewall riots, who ran a homeless shelter for children where they prostituted children. And they even went into the importance of allowing these kids to perform sex work. This was a first-grade lesson on the Colorado DOE website.
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Okay, this is sick. I'm sorry, you know, some of this, you sit there and listen and go, where are they going with this? Where you've gotten to is actually sick. But anyway, continue.
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Well, it's almost like they're, you know, a lot of people say that it seems like they're trying to normalize pedophilia, and I believe that they are. That transgenderism is just a rung on the ladder of the ways in which they're trying to destroy our children, their minds, the nuclear family. This is just a part of the grand plan, and they're not even shy about it. I mean, they're openly putting out these lessons for the public to see. I think their hope is that we won't pay attention, but we are, and we're waking up. And again, that's why I'm so vocal about what's happening. So let's keep going. In 2024, they passed 1039. That's the non-legal name change bill. And this forces all teachers to socially transition kids. So Johnny says he's Sally, five-year-old Johnny. And the parents say, no, Johnny, we're not going to call him Sally. You're going to call him Johnny. The teacher is now required by law to call him Sally against the parents' wishes, even if it's a five-year-old. And that is from the words of Janice Marchman, the senator who sponsored this bill. She said, yes, even if it's a five-year-old, the parents, they don't do it. The teacher is required to not disrespect and discriminate against that five-year-old child. So that has now gone into law. In 2024, they passed 1170, the Foster Bill of Rights, which mandates that all foster families must transition a child. The child does the opposite sex, you must go along with it. It also limits their ability to search their belongings, to even look in their backpack, to choose where they go to school. It really forces all foster kids to be pushed down this path. And then they passed 1071, known as Tierra's Law. This allows transgender felons to legally change their name. So Tierra, that it was named after, our legislators named it after a person who runs a child drag ring out of Colorado Springs. A man who does drag is a woman who then pimps out minor children to dance on stages at nightclubs for tips from adults. to do drag for adults. And we named a law after him. And now any transgender felon in the state of Colorado can completely erase their criminal past. And in Tiara's case, that included lewd behavior with children.
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Wow. Wow. Can it get any worse? Oh, my gosh. Please tell me it can't. Oh, no, it gets worse. It definitely gets worse. That's just 2024.
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We also have Senate bills 188 through 190. Those passed in 2023. And that made Colorado a trans and abortion sanctuary state, meaning if you can get here, it is legal to perform abortion up until birth, and it is legal to transition a child, to medically transition them with puberty blockers and surgeries and counseling, even if it's against a custody order. any other state law, federal law. It basically made us an impenetrable port for these Mengele-like butcher doctors to perform procedures on people with absolutely no consequence and no recourse for the people who are being harmed by it.
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Oh, my God. So wait, I'm going to comment on a couple of things you said. So we've got the respecting the five-year-old. Okay, I'm a little confused here. I remember when children had to respect their elders. Who's in charge here, first of all? What? I mean, this is what's coming up as you're talking about this. And the next thing would be when you start getting into these surgeries and all this other stuff with children who... I mean, I remember wanting to be a nurse for like six months. And then I wanted to be, I don't know, some other thing. If people... Did things to me or my body or whatever every time I changed my mind about what I wanted to grow up to be. I'm going to use myself as an example here because this is really scary. I was a tomboy. So I'm your, you know, regular standard issue woman kind of thing. And I was very athletic. And at some point... I mean, I did. I did want to be a boy. I grew up in a society where the girls were handmaids to the boys because I wasn't necessarily in this country. And the boys could stay out late and they didn't have to do all the dishes and they didn't do anything. Their idea of helping was lifting their feet up while we had to vacuum. And And so I thought that was pretty cool. I'm like, why can't I be one of those? Why can't I stay out and play after dark like the boys do? They were out there at night under the streetlights playing kick the can and I wanted to be there. I was extremely athletic. And I did eventually proceed to being a soldier and a police officer as professional choices, which would be more like the male kind of thing. I shudder to think What they would have done to me because I said, you know, I want the good life. The boys are living here and and I'm athletic and I want a seriously challenging, cool job that's physically challenging and everything. What would they have done to me? Oh, my God.
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Yeah, you're spot on. So many tomboys and effeminate males are being lied to. They're being harassed. physically transitioned under the guise of something is wrong with them. They're actually the opposite sex, which we know is impossible. You can't change your sex. And that's terrible.
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And welcome back. I'm Yvonne Pius filling in for Kim today. And I'd like to remind all listeners that Kim's website is KimMonson.com. Sign up for Kim's weekly email newsletter and you'll get first look at all her upcoming guests as well as the most recent essays. Her email is Kim at KimMonson.com. Thank you for contributing to support our independent voice and exercise of our right to freedom of speech. Sue, we will continue then with what is actually a really scary conversation with what is happening in Colorado in schools and to our children. Please, Erin, continue.
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Yeah, well, let's move on to 2025. So this is a horrible year for legislation. I'm sure everyone is familiar with 1312. A law that I call the trans your child or the state will take them and call that man a woman or the state will come after you, Bill. That's exactly what happened. Jared Polis tried to pull a smoke screen and deceive the state into thinking that we had made significant changes and the bill was somehow improved. It was not. It still makes it illegal for you to misgender someone or to use the wrong name and pronouns. You have to refer to them however they want to be referred to. Or you can actually face, they added some penalties in, up to $55,000 every single time you misgender someone. And civil penalties. Think, you know, Jack the Cakesaker on steroids. And rest assured they will probably come after him with this bill. And so my organization, Protect Kids Colorado, along with CPAN and Do No Harm and Defending Ed, actually filed the first federal lawsuit against 1312. because it is absolutely compelled speech. It limits us from doing business as usual, from even being able to talk about these laws, for example, in the way that I want to. I haven't been able to refer to people by their accurate biological sex because it is illegal for me to do so. Wow. So we sued. There's now several other lawsuits. Born Again used books out of Colorado Springs and XXXY Athletics are both represented by ADF, Alliance Defending Freedom. And so there are now three lawsuits on the books. against 1312 people be praying and hoping that we are successful in overturning this blatantly unconstitutional law, potentially the worst law that's ever been passed in the state of Colorado. So that's just for starters. In 2025, they also passed 1309, which forces all of us to pay for transgender affirming procedures. And it made testosterone secret. It took it off of the drug use monitoring program. So Any procedure that any one doctor or therapist deems medically necessary for a transgender-identified person, insurance is now required to cover it. But they also created a public fund, a slush fund of our tax dollars to pay for these procedures. And they explicitly list within 1309, eye lift, skin tightening, hair removal, breast augmentation. I'm Adam's apple shaving. Literally anything that a transgender person wants, they get. So wait, wait, wait, aren't these...
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Yeah, aren't these elective surgeries? I mean, if any other normal person, you know, I'm not going to say it's normal or not normal. I mean, that's not what I'm saying. But if any other person, let's just go with any other person, decided they wanted, you know, a lift here and a tuck there and things like that, why? I don't get it. So I think you were about to say and compare, which I'm glad you are, that there are women out there that have been diagnosed with cancer and need to have their breast removed. How does this apply to them?
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It's not guaranteed. The coverage is not guaranteed. So to me, there's transgender affirming procedures and then there's sex affirming procedures. So a woman who's lost her breast, who needs reconstruction, who needs sex affirming procedures, that's not guaranteed to her. Her insurance is not mandated to cover that. But a man who wants breast implants, we are all required to pay for that. Insurance is required to cover it. OK, so insurance companies will flee and our rates will go up and we're all being punished by this law.
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Oh, we're paying for it. Is that right? Right. We're all paying for it. Oh, my gosh. So, ladies, just want to let you know, if you have to take care of some serious life-saving surgeries that you need, you just say that you've changed your mind and this is where you want to go and get that stuff paid for for free, okay? If you guys want nips and tucks and things like that, I guess two can play this game. This is insane.
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It's insane. And all you need is, again, one doctor to say it's medically necessary or behavioral therapist.
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Oh, my God. OK, keep going.
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So there's a few more. Senate Bill 183 mandates taxpayer funded abortion that, you know, due to the ballot measure that passed. Last year, they're adding on to that, requiring that we all pay for these abortions up until birth that are enshrined in our Constitution. But then the last one I want to cover is Senate Bill 129, which was hidden within an abortion bill. People didn't really catch it, but that just cemented our stance as a trans-sanctuary state. So it made it illegal for anyone to respond to a subpoena, that aims to investigate these doctors who are performing, quote, gender-affirming care, which is just a euphemism for mutilation, chemical and surgical mutilation. It's now illegal to even respond to a subpoena. So these doctors are virtually untouchable. It eliminates any course of action for these detransitioners who seek monetary damages for the harm that's physically been caused to them. These doctors are knowingly doing harm. They are breaking their Hippocratic oath. And we have established Colorado as a safe haven for them. And they are fleeing here. There are 27 states who have banned this gender-affirming care for children. And from all 27 states, they are fleeing to Colorado because we have passed these laws that protect them, that make it so that they can butcher people and have absolutely no consequence for what they're doing. So we are truly the most fortified transgender sanctuary state. Everyone knows it. In fact, there are organizations like the Transcontinental Pipeline, which I was notified about from a mom in Wisconsin. Her middle schooler was notified by a drag queen. But there's this Transcontinental Pipeline that will relocate children to Colorado for these medical procedures because we are so fortified.
SPEAKER 18 :
So not only fortified, but see, if we're not only doing this for Colorado children and families, if we're not only, let me state it the way it is. If we are not only knowingly causing harm to Colorado children and families, and the taxpayer dollars are paying for it. We're now inviting people from all over the United States and the world, transcontinental sounds a little global to me, to come and get that done at our expense. Correct.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes. In fact, one Colorado testified that there was a 50 percent increase in people just coming across state lines, trafficking their children across state lines in order to receive these treatments. And then again, yes, we're paying for it. And we're secret because testosterone is now a secret drug. We were paying for it for kids and we have no idea. We can't even track that it's happening to what degree.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay. I will have some more questions on the other side of this on how much the people who decided to do this to their body, who, by the way, didn't have the maturity to do that, how much they're really enjoying that transition or not and how it's affected their health. Maybe we can start there at the end when we come on the other side of this. But actually, this is probably the end here of the hour. So I thank you for that. And any last comment you want to make?
SPEAKER 04 :
No, I mean, obviously just people, there's a way to fight back and it's Protect Kids Colorado. If we all just do a little bit, we can start to reverse these laws.
SPEAKER 18 :
Wow. Thank you so much. And then I'm going to interject this because I do know that there is a doctor out there, maybe on another show you can talk about this or he can come on, who is behind a do no harm program. Because like you said, this is directly in opposition to what doctors are supposed to be doing. And now they're doing harm with immunity. This is insane. So, OK, in the next hour, we will be. Thank you, Aaron, so much for being with us today. And in the next hour, we will be speaking with our sponsors, Alicia Garcia and Teddy Collins of the Second Syndicate and with Chris Harris, who is a retired Border Patrol agent. So make sure you stay tuned. And the quote for the end of the show is the courageous man is the man who forces himself in spite of his fear to carry on. General George S. Patton Jr. 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. You are not alone. God bless you and God bless America. Stay tuned for our number two. And thank you, Erin, for that amazing interview. We will talk about it more later. So really, I don't know what you think about what you just heard, but we will have some other serious conversations in the next hour. They will be different. But please tell the people that might not have listened to this what is going on in our state, because only if we're informed can we really do something about it. Thank you.
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So Kim's website is kimmonson.com. That's K-I-M-M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. You can sign up for Kim's weekly email newsletter and you'll get first look at her upcoming guests as well as... All the most recent essays and email her at Kim at Kim Monson dot com. Thank you for contributing to support our independent voice and the exercise of our right to freedom of speech. And thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show. Reliable, efficient, affordable and abundant energy from oil and gas and oil and gas derivatives fuel our hopes, our dreams and prosperity of every American. Today's word of the day is arrogate. That's A-R-R-O-G-A-T-E. And it's a transitive verb that means to take or claim for oneself without right or to appropriate, to ascribe on behalf of another in an unwarranted manner. to assume or claim as one's own unduly, proudly, or presumptuously, to make claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions, to right of merit. And the quote of the day is from the Medal of Honor recipient Robert L. Howard, U.S. Army, whose citation was read in the first hour. And the quote goes like this. It is a great privilege to be an American. The greatest privilege of all is the right to choose. And again, that's from Robert L. Howard, U.S. Army, Medal of Honor recipient. So Kim was working on, instead of the headline, she was working on the 50 wins in the one big beautiful bill from the White House. And she was doing five per day. And today we're working on 45 through 50. So we're finishing it out for her. And I will tell you what those wins were. And number 45 would be that it authorizes the sale of Expanded Spectrum, MHZ. to strengthen the rural broadband and secure Americans' technology dominance in AI and other emerging technologies. 46, it creates permanent fees that illegal immigrants must pay for their applications so American taxpayers aren't saddled with covering these costs. And these fees will bring in over $77 billion to cover adjudication costs and fund immigration processes and enforcement actions. It protects family farmers. The bill prevents the greedy death tax from hitting 2 million family-owned farms who would otherwise see their exemptions cut in half and cuts taxes on farmers by over $10 billion. 48. It ends abusive financing practices in Medicaid by freezing existing provider taxes and prohibiting new provider taxes. This ensures that states cannot improperly increase the federal government's cost share of a state Medicaid program at the expense of the taxpayers. It reigns in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This brainchild of Senator Elizabeth Warren has long functioned as another woke weaponized arm of the bureaucracy with minimal accountability or oversight that leverages its power against certain industries and individuals disfavored by these so-called elites. So it puts a projection on that. And number 50. It rolls back harmful Biden area regulations that increase cost and administrative burdens with limited flexibility for states. These burdensome regulations, such as federal staffing mandates at nursing homes, they led to closures and they reduced access to care and increased costs, particularly in areas already overwhelmed by labor shortages." So I would say that I guess along with some of the bad, because nothing comes all good, whatever bad might have been tucked into that thing, at least we have those 50 wins that she has been talking about over the last few days and weeks. So that's what we have for that. And I am really pleased now to have Alicia Garcia and Teddy Collins of the Second Syndicate, sponsors of the show. And actually, I think it might just be Alicia today. And she will be speaking with us next. So welcome, Alicia. Good morning. It's Alicia, by the way. Oh, Alicia. Well, I can do that. Alicia. Yes. So welcome. Welcome. Thank you. So what can you tell us today about what's going on with the Second Syndicate and the protection of our Second Amendment rights?
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There is a ton going on. There are some things going on locally as well as nationally. So we have two new laws that went into effect in July. So the first one that went into effect July 1st is the new concealed carry laws for the state of Colorado. So we used to be able to have just a four-hour class that you could take. Once you take that four-hour class, you can submit your paperwork and be approved by your county to conceal carry in the state of Colorado, which, by the way, we don't believe in any type of permitting process is acceptable at the second syndicate. We believe in the right to bear arms as a free thing. We do not believe in the right to or the reason to ask permission. We don't want to do that. But it's gotten worse. As of July 1st, you now have to take an eight-hour class. You have to take a written exam. You also have to take a live fire exam. Instructors such as myself, because I do also teach concealed carry classes in the state of Colorado, I had to become a certified instructor through the state. So originally, it would just be that you would have to be certified through some sort of national educational organizations such as the NRA, the USCCA, places like that. Now, in addition to that training, I had to get approved by a county in which that I would be teaching here in the state of Colorado to be able to teach those classes, plus speak to my class about certain things that I actually don't even really agree with. So having to teach people about red flag laws and how to red flag somebody, you know, safe storage of firearms per the state rather than what the community should be expecting, and all these other little nuances that the government feels that they want to impose on the people. In addition to that, there is a new state permitting for gun shops that is required. So my business partner's Spartan Defense is a gun shop out of Colorado Springs, and we had to go through a bunch of hoops and you know requirements in order to be able to continue to conduct business for the state of colorado so the gun shops had to get permitted through the state so think about it gun shops are one of the highest regulated industries in the world right so they have tons of federal requirements that they have to meet for the atf and you know the national firearms act all these things Well, the state of Colorado says, you know what, we want to attack more than just gun owners. We want to attack gun businesses and make it even more difficult for them to conduct business in the state of Colorado. So they had to make sure that all employees are fingerprinted and background checked. By the gun shop, the shop also has to pay for that. That's about 60 bucks a person. There's over 2000 FFL federal firearms licensees in the state of Colorado that had to do this or they couldn't be able to stay in business. So we've seen a handful of gun shops close across the state because of this new permitting. In addition to, you know, other regulations like having certain types of locks and security systems in each, you know, doors in the building, have to make sure that there is shatterproof glass, all of these other things that they have to do.
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So it's been quite egregious. Wow. Sue, I would put that under infringements. I believe something in there's a right that shall not be infringed. These sound like infringements for for all of that to me. But this is important.
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They absolutely are. And here's the thing is we have gotten so used to compromising that we forgot that we don't have to. There is, you know, something very clearly stated in the Constitution that says this is The Second Amendment does not guarantee us the right to bear arms. It affirms it. We had the ability to do this before there was a Constitution, right? America was founded on rebellion. America was founded on being able to resist and say no to tyranny, right? If there was no rebellion, we would all be British. So this is an American tradition to bear arms and to be able to resist and to stand up against tyranny. a tyrannical government. And these things are all tyrannical government impositions on the rights of the people. And we really need the people of Colorado to start pushing back and saying, no, we're not going to tolerate these things any further. We need to really be focusing on making sure we have, you know, candidates not only for, you know, the race for governor that we have coming up, but all these other things that we have going on, you know, we're going to have another election before then and make sure that we're putting people in office that represent, you know, our belief systems in the right to bear arms and hold these politicians that have been pushing these unconstitutional laws upon us accountable as well.
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Right. Well, you know, this is so, so important. So please, everybody, pay attention. Pay attention to who's running and who you want to support and all of that. And I really want to thank you, Alicia Garcia, for today's update on our second amendment from the second syndicate. How do we get a hold of you or how do they find the second syndicate?
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So we are also a show. We have a show every other week on Wednesday at 6 p.m. Feel free to go follow us at The Second Syndicate on YouTube as well as Spartan Defense. We're looking forward to making that platform a lot larger. You can also follow us on X at The Second Syndicate. You can go to our website, thesecondsyndicate.com, the2ndsyndicate.com. And please sign up for our newsletter. Please donate. We are a 501c4 nonprofit that's here to mobilize people across Colorado in a grassroots for the people, by the people effort. So every effort and every support that you want to give us, we are more than welcoming to have you.
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It is Friday and welcome back. I am Yvonne Pius and I am pleased to host the show today filling in for Kim. Kim's website is kimmonson.com. Sign up for Kim's weekly email newsletter and you'll get first look at all her upcoming guests as well as the most recent essays. And her email is kim at kimmonson.com. Thank you for contributing to support our independent voice and the exercise of our right to freedom of speech. Through all of Kim's work with veterans, she is honored to highlight the USMC Memorial Foundation and all the work that they are doing to raise money to remodel the official USMC Memorial, which is located right here in Golden, Colorado, At 6th and Colfax, Paula Sarles is the president of the foundation. She is a Marine veteran and a Gold Star wife. And Paula and her team are working diligently to make the remodel a reality. You can help by donating at usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And I would like to welcome this hour, Chris Harris, retired Border Patrol agent. Please update us on what is going on at the border. Welcome.
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Welcome. Thank you for having me on, Yvonne. It's always a pleasure to be on with you. Good morning. Good morning. Very early here. A little earlier than I'm used to, but since being retired. But thank you. A couple of things I want to touch on right off the bat, just so to set some some not ground rules, but just set the groundwork for this, is that I'm going to use the term illegal alien. And I know that bothers some people, but I want to give some context for why I use it. One, it's in the law. It's in various rules and regulations and codes of the United States government. It does not mean that we think some person is illegal, meaning that their personhood as a human being, nobody's illegal. We understand that. What the law states is if you're not a U.S. citizen, you're here, there's various categories of what they call aliens. Obviously not from another country or another planet. So if you're here illegally or remain illegally, you are by definition an illegal alien. So I'm not going to twist myself around coming with undocumented immigrant or migrant. I'm not going to do that. There's no clarity in that. The reason you're here illegally, specifically for most people, is that they cross the border at other than a port of entry at an appropriate time. So the law basically states that if you don't cross at an appropriate time and place and subject yourself to inspection, then you have crossed illegally under 8 United States Code 1325, which is a federal misdemeanor, punishable by up to six months in jail. If you're removed and do it again, it is then potentially a felony. So if somebody says to you that it's only an administrative thing, If you've crossed that border, you jumped the fence, you swam across the river, anywhere else other than a port of entry, a designated port of entry, you've entered illegally, and you're a criminal because you broke the law. So even if you claim asylum after that, you can still have the asylum claim But you still broke the law. You're supposed to wait your turn and go to a court eventually. So I just wanted to make that very clear, Yvonne, because I know you and I have talked about this before. Thank you. And a lot of people seem to be unclear about that.
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Yeah, thank you, because when you try to talk about it, the first thing they come back with is, oh, crossing the border illegally is not a crime. So thank you for putting that out and explaining that.
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So just to give them a little more clarity, there is a civil part of it that we can use. So we can use... Either. Either civil or criminal. But the fact remains, it is a crime. So if somebody is telling you that, they're either woefully misinformed or they're being very disingenuous. In other words, they know, but they don't want to admit it. The only one that's not a crime is if you came here on a visa and you overstayed. That is a civil offense. Howsoever, a lot of us since 2000, after 9-11, have believed that should be made a criminal offense. Most of those hijackers on that fateful day were visa overstays. So there is, if you came on a visa as a visitor for whatever reason and then didn't leave, that then is a civil offense. You still could be removed, you could still be detained, but it's a civil offense. But coming across that border without being, you know, presenting yourself for inspection, that's a crime. So I'm glad that we all now understand that.
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I'm really glad you made that clear because people don't know how to answer that when, I mean, we know that that can't be right because, you know, then what would be the disincentive of doing anything illegally if everything's not a crime, you know? So it doesn't make any sense, but we don't really have the answer to it, but you just gave it to us. So for those of you that want to know how to answer that question, this second hour we'll replay at 10 o'clock tonight, but keep going. So, well, that's at the border and how that goes. So tell me about what is the number of illegal crossings going on now or what, since I believe you're over still near the border?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes, yes, in San Diego, where I had most of my career in the San Diego sector. I've done details in Arizona and other places, but my career, basically my station of record was here in San Diego, right on the border, and I live close to the border. So the numbers are staggeringly good. So I want to have some positive in this hour that we're together. The numbers have plummeted. They're probably the best we've ever seen since we started keeping records. You know, the previous administration, and I try to be nonpartisan because that's how you get support. And I believe in border security. It's what I did for 20-some years. I believe in it because border security is national security and community security. But the numbers, the previous administration stated that they couldn't do anything unless Congress did something. Now, there is some truth that Congress does need to do this. They do need to change some laws. They need to streamline the immigration system. But as far as securing the border, when the previous president said, I can't do that without Congress doing it, that was not true. Simply not true. President Trump, and I've got to say this, and I say this to like him, I don't like the guy personally. I don't know if I want him dating my daughter. But... I pull up my big boy pants and use my critical thinking skills. And in this one arena, which is my arena, is border security. He's done a fantastic job. And I have to judge him on that. And the border is the best and most secure it's been since I've ever worked and probably since we started keeping numbers. The numbers... dropped so dramatically it's hard to describe you were going from like over a hundred thousand hundred fifty thousand a month that we were we're encountering to now it's just a few thousand so so we when he first went when uh when the previous administration first came to office uh i was doing some media interviews and i said we're going to hit million apprehensions this year and they all kind of laughed at me so that's not going to happen well they were right we did two million wow you know possibly two million apprehensions or more a year to, I think we're going to do, we're on par to do under 100,000 this year. I mean, that's an amazing, staggering drop. And it's for the good. So the border's secure. And now the agents are able to pay attention to what we call gotaways. These people are always going to get away. And the number rose dramatically in the last administration. And you have to wonder, who were these people that didn't want to just cross the border and stand there and wait for us to pick them up and claim asylum? They didn't want their fingerprints taken. So who are these people that are willing to go the hard route when there was a much easier route for them to go through? So we are now able to go after much more thoroughly, much more fully the gotaways, the ones that we really, really want to know. Who are these people that are sneaking into our country? And so those numbers are going to go down because the agents no longer have to be basically glorified babysitters. And that's going to let me segue into something else. The morale in the Border Patrol was so bad, people were leaving left and right, resigning, not waiting to retire, resigning. Wow.
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Wow. So let's talk about that as we go into the next segment. Let's pick up right where you left off there with what was happening with the morale with the Border Patrol. So hang on, everybody. And the show comes to us through great sponsors like Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team. Or actually, it's Karen Levine, I believe, is coming on next. Thank you.
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SPEAKER 18 :
Boy, don't we have Friday on our mind. Welcome back. I am Yvonne Pius. Kim is taking the day off. And her website is kimmonson.com. And you can sign up there for your weekly email newsletter. And that way you'll get first look at all her upcoming guests as well as the most recent essays. And you can email her at... Kim at Kim Monson dot com. And we thank you for contributing to support our independent voice and the exercise of our right to freedom of speech. And something that should always be on your bucket list to visit is the Center for American Values located on the beautiful Riverwalk in Pueblo. The Center for American Values was co-founded by Medal of Honor recipient Drew Dix and Emmy Award winning documentary maker Brad Padula. And the Center is focused on honoring our Medal of Honor recipients and teaching and upholding the principles of America, which are honor, integrity and patriotism. For more information, check out their website, AmericanValuesCenter.org. And we are speaking with Chris Harris, retired Border Patrol agent, and he is bringing us great information. So please welcome back and continue. I would love to hear more.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, what we were talking about, Yvonne, was the morale of the men and women of the United States Border Patrol. Right. They really believe in a constitution. They really believe in service to nation. I've worked in five law enforcement agencies over 36 years. They're all wonderful law enforcement agencies, but the men and women of the U.S. Border Patrol really, really invoke the love of country that you would hope that they would have and the love of their constitution. And so when, specifically under the last administration, things were so bad. they not only thought that they felt like they were being glorified babysitters, but that they were part of the smuggling chain, that actually they were working almost like the cartels, because traditionally the way it works is the cartels have to have load vehicle drivers that pick people up near the border, drive them to a load house, keep them there, and then move them on. We were doing that for them, because the asylum system, and I'm going to get into that, was being so abused by millions of people. That all they were doing, I mean, I remember out here I brought a film team down to the border, and between the fences there was 2,000 people waiting. They were on U.S. soil, and they just kept bringing vans in, vans in, U.S. Border Patrol vans, picking them up, taking them to the station. So they're being the load vehicle drivers now. They were then feeding them, clothing them, showering them, processing them, releasing them, and then driving them to either train stations or trolley stations or bus stations or turning them over to certain non-governmental organizations, NGOs, who would then bring them to the airports and fly them around the country. And you try that, flying without an ID someday and see how that works for you.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, really.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 18 :
Now, interesting you mention that. I wanted to ask you, you know, all these people and stuff, what about the children? What can you tell me about the children that supposedly came through and that are missing?
SPEAKER 08 :
So just to finish my point with that, the morale is so much better now, so much better now. It's increased dramatically. We've hit our hiring goals. It's just a lot better.
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, wow.
SPEAKER 08 :
Going to the children... And I'm glad you brought that up because this is something that a lot of people don't want to talk about. I have family members who are very liberal, and God bless. They say we have to go after these human smugglers, these young kids. And I try to tell them it's like it's not some boutique organization, some niche organization like, hey, if you want a 13-year-old girl, that's us. It's just the smugglers in general. If you want to stop the human exploitation, the sexual exploitation of kids, be it for sexual slavery or labor slavery, you have to go after the smugglers in general, which we're doing that. But under the last administration, it's known that at least 330,000 kids were given to people that probably were not their family members. So we don't know who got them. And I want to give an example of a person in my life, I won't say who it is, very, very close to me, volunteered for one of these NGOs out here in San Diego to see what was happening. They wanted to try to help out. It was Jewish Family Services. They get a lot of their money from Catholic charities, which was getting a lot of this money from the U.S. government. So she was working there as an induction person, basically. When somebody was brought to them by the Border Patrol, they would sign them in and get their information. So two things happened to her. Now, the funniest thing is I don't say who this is because she had to sign – An NDA, a non-disclosure agreement. Why would a charity need you to sign an NDA? But anyway, so the first one that bothered her was she would ask these, and it was all women and young girls, why they left their country and came here. And they would say various things like for a job or for benefits, you know, for money. Two ACLU lawyers came down from L.A. and told them to not put that down anymore on the intake forms to put down gang violence, which was not what they were telling them. The second one that was more horrific for her and made her decide to quit, basically, was a young man in his young 20s came in and said, this girl here, that's my daughter. I want her. And he didn't know her name. And they still released this girl to her.
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, my gosh.
SPEAKER 08 :
What do you think happened to her? So this is not this guy. You know, she's like 13. He's like 21. He's not her dad. And so this is what was allowed to happen under the last administration policy. Over 330,000 children, juveniles, were given to people that we don't know who they are. So they're missing from the system now. And in the past, we had pushed it. I was a union official at the time, and we pushed very hard. And they did it. They did a testing program where we were going to take DNA swabs from their cheeks. And this was not for any law enforcement purpose. We would not keep records of it. It was just to show, is this person related to this person? And the left voted tooth and nail, and I don't understand why. And under the last administration, it was stopped. But why would you not want to know, is this really this person's relative or not?
SPEAKER 18 :
You're getting a paycheck.
SPEAKER 08 :
Why else?
SPEAKER 18 :
Somehow you're in the chain and you're getting a paycheck.
SPEAKER 08 :
So we had to stop that program. And so, again, under the last administration, 330,000 children are where we don't know where they are. We don't know who has them. And they are trying to, HSI, which is a part of ICE, Homeland Security Investigations, is trying to locate some of these kids. And they have found some, and they have rescued some. But the thing with the children is, I don't get this. There was this big raid here in California 10 days ago on a grow farm, a marijuana grow farm. This is 14, I think it was 14 kids that were working at a marijuana factory, basically. They're all underage. I think the youngest was 14. So if you're going to protest that, I have to ask you point blank to your face, why? Why? When we're catching people that are dangerous criminals, that are misusing children, abusing children, why would that bother you? And that's I have a hard time wrapping my head around that. I think some people, the people I know are good people. They're left leaning, they're liberals, they're Democrats. It's fine. But I think they're misinformed because they only get their news from specific sources that are deliberately misinforming them. But the fact is, there are a lot of children at risk in this country because of open borders.
SPEAKER 18 :
Bingo. So you see, if people do not get informed or they are misinformed and sometimes people seek the places where they know they're going to get misinformed, but that's what they want to know. Because really, how hard is it to either turn to channel, listen to two different programs or to go to podcasts and listen to other things like that? And I want to make this is very, very important that you're saying all of this because this is real, honest and true information about what's happening to people. So the inhumanity of allowing this to happen to people and to children. It's horrific. And I dare say that the people, the people who want to do all that good are complicit in this by being either not seeking out information, by being uninformed or misinformed. They are complicit in this.
SPEAKER 08 :
I agree with you 100 percent. I'd like to give you one example of. So I've worked with a lot of media. I mean, I've been on CNN, Fox News. I've been on BBC or international news organizations, TV, all that. I've worked with the New York Times and specifically a couple of people there on articles. So I had a debate with a woman one time and I was telling her what was really happening in the border. And she says, I don't believe you. And I said, but this is what I do for a living. She says, I don't care. I said, well, who do you believe? She goes, New York Times. I said, well, let me explain to you. I've worked with the New York Times on articles. They never sit foot out here. They call me from Manhattan. And we talk on the phone and I give them information. I said, so they've never even been out on the border. I live on the border. I work on the border. My wife is from Mexico. I know what's going on in the border. And she says, I don't care. I'm not going to believe you. So that's someone who just deliberately did not want to know what was really happening because she has she won the conformational bias. She had her beliefs and she didn't want them to to to to disagree with her inherent set of beliefs.
SPEAKER 18 :
You know, I want to add in right there where I come from. We say, no hay peor ciego que el que no quiere ver. There is no worse blind person than he who doesn't want to see. And that's a perfect example.
SPEAKER 08 :
And that's perfectly true. And I've seen that a lot. It's just somebody who says, this is what I do for a living. I live it. And you don't want to hear that. That's problematic. I will tell you this. I got a call from HBO one time. It was actually their vice section. And they asked if I would work with one of their filmmakers who was going to do a project. And part of it was going to be three things. It was called Outside the Bubble. And it was going to be about religion in the U.S. It was going to be about guns in the U.S. It was going to be about the border. So they wanted to know if I would help out with the border part of it. And I said, sure. So they had me talk to the woman who was doing, you know, the filmmaker. And she said, you know, I'm from New York City. I think she was from Soho or something like that. I said, oh, Greenwichville. And I said, yeah, I know Greenwichville. My mom was born in Manhattan. I'm from New York. And we were talking about food, and we got along great. So I said, and she told me what her premise was, that she believed that people were getting this stuff only inside a bubble. And she said, look, I'm a liberal from New York City, and I get my news from the New York Times and da-da-da, and I'd like to do a documentary that maybe goes outside that. I said, great. So she came out and we did my part of it, the border part, and it went really well. I got along with her. You know who that was? It was Nancy Pelosi's daughter.
SPEAKER 18 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 08 :
The youngest daughter, not the oldest daughter. So at least she got the idea that she understood that a lot of people, especially on the liberal side, are living in a bubble and only getting their information from inside that bubble. So I will give her credit. I will give her credit. She understood that this was happening.
SPEAKER 18 :
She was trying.
SPEAKER 08 :
She was trying. But most people don't. Yeah. So I give her credit for that.
SPEAKER 18 :
You know, I do want to ask you one other thing is, you know, now we got these issues that, you know, ICE is trying to do their job. And we were both law enforcement officers and we were doing our job. So why all this harassment to ICE for doing their job? And then talk to me a little bit about this interference, this judicial interference, too. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
So that's two good points, and thank you for bringing them up, Ilan. I don't get it either. So people are like, oh, my God, you're tearing these people's family apart. We, as police officers, you know, as we did it all the time. You know, you're a criminal putting you in jail. I'm taking you away from your family. Nobody bats an eye. Nobody bats an eye. We have women's prisons. My wife was – my first wife – She was a New York State correctional officer. She worked at Bedford Hills Female Prison. Yes, they took women who were married, who had kids, whatever, and put them in prison. And nobody really batted an eye about it. But now, oh, my gosh, ISIS carried families apart. Well, you broke the law. There are consequences. I don't know what to tell you and why in this one, only one particular area, so many people seem offended by it. And then ICE is doing their job. And it's not just ICE, U.S. Border Patrol, because we have the border so well secured. We're sending our agents, our men and women, up to L.A. and other places to assist ICE. And the interference, the violence that seems to be okay, that politicians are almost calling for. Mayor Bass basically saying she's going to dox ICE agents. It's insane. And people of goodwill should just take a step back, a deep breath, and say, you know what, I don't like it. Maybe, but I get it. These are law enforcement people. They're doing their job. Now, understand this, Yvonne. These are laws that were passed by Congress, enacted by the president, that go back decades, that the Supreme Court has found constitutional, and now we're enforcing them, and people are losing their heads over it. And I truly have a tough time wrapping my mind around that.
SPEAKER 18 :
I just think they're not thinking. People are thinking for them, and they're just repeating things.
SPEAKER 08 :
I get that. I see something. She'll see something pop up on the news and then everybody's parroting it. They just arrested a woman and they're going to arrest more of her family, a Hispanic woman. And she claimed ICE abducted her and da, da, da, da, da. And they started a GoFundMe page. I mean, she just got arrested with a hoax. But meanwhile, the press and the media ran with it. Oh, my God, you know, these guys in plainclothes came up in plain, unmarked vehicles and grabbed her. It was all a lie. They found video of her walking away from where she said she was abducted. The whole thing was a lie. It was a hoax. Oh, my gosh. But that's another thing. It's like, I hate people going crazy all of a sudden. Oh, my God, they're in unmarked vehicles. They're not in uniforms. I was a plainclothes officer for a long time. I was a detective. You can't always wear a uniform. And that's nothing new. It's not like... This is something new that ICE came up with. It's evil. Cops have done it forever. It's a plainclothes assignment.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, and I'm going to tell you right here that when we're arresting the really, really bad guys who come back and try and hurt you or your family and stuff, there is no way we need to be showing our faces. Absolutely not. Period. End of story.
SPEAKER 08 :
No. And their name tags. They were getting doxxed. Literally, they were putting out their names. People were saying, go after their kids, harass their kids. It's insane. So hand in hand with that, though, is what you brought up with the judicial activism. To my best recollection, I believe there's 94 federal districts in the United States. So 94 are basically federal district judges. There's magistrates and all that, but they're district judges.
SPEAKER 18 :
And you know what? Let's leave that one as a cliffhanger. So we'll come back with that judicial part of it. And right now we're going to break, and we want to thank our sponsor, Boson Law. Can you then hang on and just come on the other side of this, please? Okay? Thank you.
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SPEAKER 08 :
Welcome. Sure. So one of the things is that a district judge and I'm not going to give a long lecture on this, but a district judge is in charge of their district. Above them is the appellate court system. You have the Second Circuit, the Fifth Circuit, and I live under the Ninth Circuit. The odd thing is, all of a sudden, these activist judges have arisen and they're doing these nationwide injunctions. And a lot of people are questioning how that is possible because an appellate court cannot do a nationwide injunction. It can only do an injunction for its area, that appellate division. But yet the people that are underneath them, district judges, somehow seem to have the power to do a nationwide injunction. We've got a judge out here. I don't think she did it nationwide. She did it for her area. But she just did an injunction against the Border Patrol from arresting people without warrants. That's insane. And I think blatantly unconstitutional because police officers, we arrest people all the time without warrants. I pull you over and I see you doing something. I arrest you. I don't need to say stand here and don't go anywhere. Let me go get a judge and get a warrant. So it's kind of ludicrous. Some of these there's more activist things now. Judges have the more injunctions than the last couple of presidencies combined. And it's really amazing that so many of them, like, you can't deport this person. You can't arrest these people. You can't do this. You can't do that. Well, the law has been there forever. They've been adjudicated by the Supreme Court as constitutional. But now some of these judges are saying, yeah, you just can't do it. Again, literally to tell Border Patrol you can't arrest people without a warrant, that's insane.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, you can't do your job. And for those that are not law enforcement, I think just clarifying. So when we stop somebody and we find out they're doing something wrong and then we can arrest them and charge them, that is called probable cause. And it's a real thing. So don't think we're out there just arresting people without a warrant.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right. And so, I mean, everybody that goes to any type of law enforcement academy, and I've been to several, you're taught this. You're taught the Constitution, particularly, you know, the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. And you understand how it works. You have to have building blocks, you have reasonable suspicion, then you have probable cause, and you can make an arrest. You can get a warrant. If it's something you've been working on a case, you might go to a judge and get an arrest warrant. And it gives you a little bit more power, like going into their house and so on and so forth. But you don't need, generally, most police work is done without a warrant. So, again, it's just really weird and bothersome that some of these activist judges are all of a sudden rising up and saying, hey, Border Patrol or ICE, you can't do this. You can't enforce the laws as they are written. And that's troubling.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah. And it's got to stop. It has got to stop. They have a job to do. They are not the Gestapo or whatever they want to call them. There are people doing a job. So kindly to all the listeners, spread that, please, and let people do their job unless you want to live amongst a bunch of criminals that are going to be doing all sorts of ugly things to you and your family. Because while you're sleeping at night, Chris and I knew what was going on in our radio, and you don't want to be any part of that, right?
SPEAKER 08 :
Right. And I guess one further thing. You have to decide, do you want to be in a country that's a nation of law or that's mob rule? And what I say by mob rule is like all of a sudden it's OK for groups of people to protest or violently protest riot to prevent you from enforcing duly constituted laws. So which which nation do you want to live in? You're talking about you're afraid of democracy going away. Well, mob rule is democracy going away. You don't, and first of all, we don't live in a pure democracy. I mean, true democracies are horrible. That's 100 people living together and 51 deciding the other 49 should die. That's pure democracy. But those that are saying we're worried about democracy going away under this administration, mob rule is exactly what you should be afraid of. Exactly, exactly.
SPEAKER 18 :
And we do have a question from a caller and it's, they want to know about the wall. Is it being built and how many miles have been built? What do you know about that?
SPEAKER 08 :
So it's a misnomer to call it a wall. Originally, Trump wanted an actual concrete barrier wall. The union talked to him and he listened to us, the National Border Patrol Council, and said, we need defense. We need to be able to see through. We need to see our adversaries because they ambush us. I mean, I got hit in the head with a rock by a smuggler and was out of work. three years for traumatic brain injury. You know, they throw multiple cocktails at us to shoot us. So anyway, we've got a fence. The fence is being built as we speak. More and more is going up. I don't know actually how much, but I even know in my area of operations that I used to work in down in Imperial Beach that they're putting up more fences. And so the physical barriers are going up. They're not the end-all and be-all. But when people make fun of them and say, oh, they're stupid, what did they do after January 6th? They put fences up everywhere in D.C., What do you have around prisons? Fences. What do you have around rich people's houses? Fences or walls. So part of a unified effort with agents on the ground and technology is that infrastructure. And it is being built and it does help us and it keeps us safer and it keeps America safe.
SPEAKER 18 :
Good. Thank you. Good answer. And we do have another question from Michael J. that says, what happens to you if you illegally cross into Mexico? As an American, as an American.
SPEAKER 08 :
you're probably going to get thumped on and you're going to go to jail you're going to go to a mexican job i mean my wife knows this you know this you know my wife's from mexico you you down there um yeah you're if you don't have your government id on you down there and you have to have your mexican issued government id you're going to get i mean my wife would tell me about her her brother who lives down there getting you know his ass kicked basically excuse my language by the policia, because he didn't have his gubernatorial on him. So, yeah, you don't dare go to Mexico illegally and just stay there. Bad things are going to happen to you.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah. And I was a guest in that country for 14 years and I had my FM2 and, you know, things needed to be done right. And my dad was always saying we have to do everything just right because you as a young lady do not want to end up in a Mexican jail. Enough said there. So do we have any other questions or callers at this time? We don't. So, yeah, please go on then with your if your last points, if you wanted to make any other points before we close today.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I think we've covered a lot of the points that we wanted to cover, Yvonne. I just want to make sure people understand that the men and women in the United States Border Patrol, they're decent people. They're good people. They really, truly believe in the Constitution. I've got stories about people refusing to do certain things because they felt it was in violation of the Constitution. They really want to do what's right for America. They want to serve. They want to protect America. And, you know, when I was a union official, I would meet with various congressmen and senators, either locally or back in D.C. when I was back in D.C. for the union. And I would tell them, I have one of the easiest union jobs in the world. I'm not here asking for, like, a lot more money. I mean, everybody wants more money, but that's not it. You know, this, that. We do need better technology. But I would tell them, here's what the men and women of Waterfordville want. They want you to allow them to do their job.
SPEAKER 18 :
I was going to guess that. Let me guess. We just want to be able to do our job. And our job is noble. And it protects Americans all over this country and our communities. Just let us do our job. You're so right. I do want you to one more time, very quickly, explain very quickly why this. So coming into the country illegally is indeed a crime. So people can have something to say.
SPEAKER 08 :
The main one you're violating is 8 U.S.C., 8 United States Code. Title 8 is immigration laws. 8 U.S.C.
SPEAKER 1 :
1325.
SPEAKER 08 :
And that's basically entry without inspection. There's another one. I didn't want to get into the weeds. It's, you know, 8 U.S.C. 1182, inadmissible alien. But they're all crimes. They're all legitimate crimes. Thank you. You can jail time for. So it's not like even an offense like a parking ticket or something like that. It is a crime. It is a criminal activity. And the first offense for 8 U.S.C. 1325 is a misdemeanor. Second offense could be a felony.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah. And well, unfortunately, we are out of time, Chris. I go so fast when I'm talking to you. But thank you so, so much for being with us today. And the quote for the end of the show is that the courageous man. Oh, like our ICE people and our law enforcement people. The courageous man is the man who forces himself in spite of his fear to carry on General George S. Patton. 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. You are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
SPEAKER 02 :
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Join us for an engaging discussion on the intersection between entertainment and politics, ignited by the recent cancellation of The Late Show. We also provide updates on ongoing legal battles, including the implications of the Planned Parenthood case. Participate in the debate and share your thoughts on whether financial decisions are overshadowing public interest in media.
SPEAKER 10 :
Today on Seculo, we're going to break down what CBS isn't saying about the canceling of Stephen Colbert.
SPEAKER 06 :
Keeping you informed and engaged, now more than ever, this is Seculo. We want to hear from you. Share and post your comments or call 1-800-684-3110. And now your host, Logan Sekulow.
SPEAKER 10 :
Welcome to Sekulow. Phone lines are open for you today at 1-800-684-3110. It is a Friday. Jordan's in studio with us as well. Will Haynes, of course. And we got a really interesting show today because it comes off of the heels last night with the announcement that CBS has decided to end The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. This is a moment not only... uh, because of, uh, ratings or because of the financial reasons. Cause look, Colbert is number one in late night. If you don't include Gutfeld, I include Gutfeld. Some people don't cause he's not a network, uh, but he has dominated. He has been number one. Now there's a lot going on that people don't know about. Don't know about this space. Don't know how much money this costs, what it looks like, the changing landscape of media. And of course the political ramifications. Now CBS themselves are going out there and saying, look, uh, This has nothing to do with any sort of politics. This happens to do only with a financial decision because it's not just Stephen Colbert is being replaced like they did with Jay Leno to Conan, Conan to Jimmy Fallon, all of those that have happened over the years or went from David Letterman to Stephen Colbert. They have decided to just end their late night programming. And this also includes the ending of what was the Late Late Show and now is At Midnight. Both of those are going away as well. CBS has just decided to walk away from the daily late night format. The times, they are changing, folks. I really feel like there are many different reasons for this. Of course, it doesn't help that Stephen Colbert, just about a week ago, went on a pretty notorious rant that we'll play calling the situation the settlement of between president trump and uh cbs paramount via com whatever you call it um he called it a bribe and he was very upset with his own network a network he'd been working for for many years even before this working um for comedy central which is a part of that family the mtv network of family Like I worked there for a little bit of time, so I have a little bit of insight here. Also worked in the late night space for quite some time as well. So I can give you some insights of what I was hearing, some of my sources that I can't necessarily reveal what was going on there because you don't go out and do a monologue attacking your network without some sort of assumption that either the writing was already on the wall and this show was coming to an end. Cause you don't all of a sudden just get a call saying, Hey, sorry, uh, the show's over. I mean, sometimes that does happen, but not when you've had a 10 year contract, when you've been running and you're number one in ratings, that doesn't happen that way. Uh, so I'm sure the rumors had started circulating. He's trying to save himself. And I think there are a lot of places where Stephen Colbert is going to land. Um, look it doesn't help that he had a show which has just been notoriously so divisive someone who has come out there and look I'm a fan of him in terms of I think he's a really creative mind I think he's got actually a pretty good faith backbone but when it comes to his politics he could never really keep it together and make a show that could be for everyone even with his own biases
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, in Logan last night, when he made this announcement, one of his guests was the senator from California, Adam Schiff. And Adam Schiff also tweeted this or posted on X after that announcement was made. Obviously, he knew earlier in the day because those shows are pre-taped. But he put this out, just finished taping with Stephen Colbert, who announced that his show was canceled. If Paramount and CBS ended the late show for political reasons, the public deserves to know and deserves better. The irony there coming from Adam Schiff about saying if something was done for political reasons cannot be lost, but in reality.
SPEAKER 10 :
The public needs to know why this late night comedy talk show is coming to an end. I'm pretty sure they said it's a financial reason. So when you hear about some of the budgets, by the way, of these shows, I'm going to talk about that coming up. You realize that, yeah, we live in a very different time where this, by the way, also Stephen Colbert, also new host of New Generation Media. This is why you create your own thing, because no one can tell you that you're done. But there is so much more to unpack here, and we're going to do that. I want to hear from you as well. 1-800-684-3110. Of course, with the ratings being dominated by Greg Gutfeld, It's no shock that late night landscape is going to change. Hey, whoa. Hey, guys, what's happening here? What's going on? I'm sorry. You just heard. I'm lip syncing, clearly. All right. We'll be back in just a moment. Phone lines are open. It is our 35 years of Justice Drive right now. Double your donation today. We'll be right back. just playing a clip and it said you know one of the staunchest critics of president trump will be leaving late night that was never the intention of that format that was never the intention of what it was supposed to be what you went to sleep with it was something funny maybe lightly political but we live in a world that's so political now how about giving us a little bit of break have some fun what's going on in the news but don't be so politically disturbing and then on top of that we're done. I'm sorry. I was in that world. I hosted a late night talk show for many years. The six minute interview that's pre-planned, that's been pretty much pre-recorded, all but pre-recorded because they've gone through all of this prep and they've gone through all of these screenings. We all see through it, we don't want it anymore. But of course this does come on the heels of this settlement that happened between CBS's parent company and President Trump. Now I want you to understand this, they're saying it's a financial decision. I don't know the exact number of budget, I'm sure it's out there probably, but just for an example, The show that came on before, we're talking about the Late Late Show with James Corden, when I know that ended a few years ago, it was costing them $65 million to make that show. It only was making about $40 million. That was a show after him. I would assume, now move that to New York, move that to a much bigger theater, a studio you don't own, the Ed Sullivan Theater. You're talking about 200 union workers, at least, that are working on that show each and every day. The absurdity of that budget, I would assume it's well over $100 million a year to fund that show. I'm sorry the times are changing when you can have a studio setup and do, we were watching an episode of a random YouTube series interview show that was doing double, triple the ratings. There were numbers, and by the way, they're transparent numbers. They're not fake numbers being held behind a Nielsen box.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and Logan, this, as you said, the company is saying it's a financial decision, but they're going to try to spend this. We already saw what Adam Schiff is saying, that America deserves better. But I want you to think, if you're watching this at home, if you went into your job and used then a very large platform, right? and you said this about your bosses about the company yeah we're gonna play bite four and this is referring to this is colbert on his show talking about his company uh and this settlement that they did with president trump over uh election editing of the kamala harris interview on 60 minutes here's what he said what they are paying him to say about his own company bite four
SPEAKER 03 :
Now, I believe this kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles. It's Big Fat Bribe, because this all comes as Paramount's owners are trying to get the Trump administration to approve the sale of our network to a new owner, Skydance.
SPEAKER 07 :
I mean, these are publicly traded companies doing large financial transactions. And that, by the way, is a very small portion.
SPEAKER 10 :
He pushes it very hard. Says that they should have gone further. They could have won. But let's hear about this.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, first of all, you're selling your company. Right. So they could have. These are corporate decisions. They are not political decisions. So they were just thinking, you know what? We've got existing lawsuits. Which ones can we wrap up? that will not affect, that will make it easier for us to sell and finalize a deal. So they were already on the way out. So this idea that they're all, that these companies are there to protect, you know, all of your, his right to get, you know, what, millions of dollars an episode so he could have his eight minutes that is forced broadcast into your home, like you were talking about with these ratings, instead of having people choose. Listen, with as big of a platform as he is, no one's crying tears for Stephen Colbert. Out of those budgets, too, when you're talking about $40 or $60 million a year, a lot of that budget is their salary. Yeah, a lot of it's going to him. I bet Stephen Colbert had to be making over $20 million a year. I would assume so. With all the different... Or somewhere around there. And so if the show itself is only... Well, they're all running in the red. They're all self-promotional shows. I think that what we got back to is these people get put up on a pedestal. It's made for Comedy Central kind of television. If that still exists. Either way, it's kind of meant for me. I just don't think television is... If you want to let Stephen Colbert do what Stephen Colbert is good at, which is kind of being a smart aleck liberal, put it online. There should be an audience for it. There should be a big audience. There will be. There's millions of people who do watch his show. I don't know that I need to watch him interviewing Jack Black about a movie for kids.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right. And I think that's where we've lost it in the format side of it. Not that there's anything wrong with either of them or that they can't do their job. I think there's a very good chance you see him stay with the company. If you look at his announcement yesterday, when he actually did finally make his announcements, all of a sudden CBS is his best friend. They've been a wonderful partner. I'm very sad, but they've been wonderful. Why? Because I have a feeling, if I was a prognosticator, that you would say there's a good chance he still is within the company of CBS. They're going to cause enough uproar. And where does he land? Back at Comedy Central, back at The Daily Show when Jon Stewart decides he's done. That's just my theory. That's just, I think, where we're headed. But I do think these budgets got out of control. And I think also when you are so, even if you're number one, and look, we've seen this with Tucker on Fox News. Even if you're number one, if they can't sell ads...
SPEAKER 07 :
the show's over yeah well and logan to that point as well uh let's let's say uh it wasn't financial what adam schiff and and elizabeth warren i think is now jumping on this bandwagon trying to say we need answers we deserve better because it was the one place they could go Right, but let's say, first of all, the fact that U.S. senators were going on late night tells you everything you need to know about that show at that point because that's supposed to be entertaining and Adam Schiff's not entertaining.
SPEAKER 08 :
How often, I mean, I would say during presidential elections, maybe you would see a lot more, you'd see a lot more politics. Of course, they always talked about current events. I don't think it was so much politics, but current events. to put a lighthearted look on things that were usually tough moments. But if you look back at history, I wonder how many times senators and congresspeople who happen to be the most controversial on the left, that's who they're putting on as guests. It's very bizarre. Who wants to see... I'm also thinking of both sides. At 11 o'clock at night is the last thing you want to see before going to bed. Adam Schiff telling you that Donald Trump is a Russian agent still and that he needs to be in prison. Not only is it not that entertaining, you can get that 24-7 all day. You can get as much Adam Schiff as you want. You can create a news network tomorrow and Adam Schiff will likely come talk to your microphone.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and let's go down that rabbit trail a little bit further. Let's say it was for the political reasons, not for the financial reasons, which you've laid out so well. Because they were the number one in the space in this format that is going away. But they're number one in the space. You wouldn't think they'd be the first to just completely cancel their entire format when they're at least winning that at this point. Here's what's crazy to me is that what Stephen Colbert just did to all those employees that you mentioned, that there's 200 union workers on this, there's jobs and people's livelihoods at stake because he decided to go out there and say his company was taking a bribe. He also said, I know you said after the fact, he was more speaking highly of them, but on his show, he said, I don't think there's anything CBS could do to restore my trust. And then made a joke, well, maybe $16 million as if he wasn't making enough money. But that's on him. They can say you're a hero in that he's exercising his free speech. He can say things. But when he's using the show he's being paid for to then bash his own company. You'd be all fired. They're going to cancel the show.
SPEAKER 10 :
I want you to understand this too, though, because I have sources in late night because I've worked in that space many times and I don't want to reveal anybody. but i was told stephen colbert was trying to get out of this deal he did not want to be doing the show anymore he'd be doing it for a decade and there's probably some kind of auto renew clause because they want those same hosts forever uh this was also don't put it past him that this is all marketing to make him like you said a hero force their hand to cancel the show i do think he thought they would replace him I don't think he thought they were just going to say, you know what, we're closing up shop. But look, that happened here. And look, I'll be honest here. That happened here with TBN. They had the Mike Huckabee show. It was one of their biggest shows. You know what they decided? They decided that based on the current events and the way network television is running right now, that a late night style talk show is not where they should be investing their money. So they didn't replace him. The same thing now has happened with Stephen Colbert. Is it sad? Sure. As someone that loves television history, it's a bummer. That format is what it is. Hopefully the Tonight Show sticks around just purely because I care about the history of it. But that is not the case here. I think this was all planned. I think he wanted out and figured out the only way I can do that is to make myself essentially a martyr to the left. And by doing that, tick off a lot of people higher up. Because again, if any of you went and did that about your boss on any sort of public stage, much less their own show, That they're funding. That they're funding, you're gone. And of course, that doesn't help when the show's losing money and bleeding money. And they have to have the Ed Sullivan Theater, which is a hundreds-year-old theater at this point. So you've got to keep that up. You've got to have hundreds of people that come in each and every day. But look, it's also a brutal grind for the host and the guests. So do I, am I shocked that he, probably in his, what, mid-60s now? Early 60s? I think he's probably early 60s. is saying you know what i'm exhausted because we're doing five shows a week including two shows on thursdays yeah i can imagine it is a it's a brutal grind to do a show that is kind of irrelevant right uh okay well that is that that's sort of our take on that whole situation involving steven colbert look i think we're going to see how it unfolds it's a long time between now and may of next year let's see where this goes i don't think this story is over I think CBS is going to swerve you. I think Stephen Colbert is going to swerve everybody. because this is the first time any of us have talked about his show in how long? It's like Shane Gillis at the ESPYs. When's the last time you cared about the ESPYs? Or even knew that show existed. That even happened, okay? So they're like, oh, it's controversy. No, it's views, okay? We live in a world of clicks and views here, so don't always fall for it. Support the work of the ACLJ while you're at it, though, because we're fully independent, which is what I love. Guess who can't throw us off the air? CBS. Guess who can't throw us off the air? Anyone. So stick with us, ACLJ.org. Support this independent media broadcast right now. Welcome back to Secula. We do have some big news in the world of the ACLJ because we've been talking about... We're going to move off of Stephen Colbert. I think we've said what we can say. But we also have some news with that Planned Parenthood case because this is an interesting kind of caveat that's happening not only in Massachusetts but now in Maine.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's right. So for everyone watching, today is that hearing on the preliminary injunction in the defunding of Planned Parenthood case out of Massachusetts. And remember, that judge put in a temporary restraining order that blocked the implementation of the Big Beautiful Bill provision, which would defund Planned Parenthood for Planned Parenthood and all its members nationwide. But it doesn't cover abortion clinics that receive Medicaid funds. that meet that revenue threshold of reimbursements that aren't a Planned Parenthood clinic because they can't issue nationwide injunctions anymore. So now the Maine Family Planning Center in Maine has filed as well with the district court in Maine, a similar type lawsuit against the government trying to block that provision of the Big Beautiful Bill, which defunds not just Planned Parenthood, but any abortion provider. that meets that certain threshold and receives Medicaid dollars. So this just happened on Wednesday. This suit was filed. We will be engaging it at the ACLJ through an amicus, much like we did in Massachusetts. Our brief was accepted by the court, and so we are in that case. A part of the record, the briefing, when they read over the briefs, the ACLJ is standing for you, making your voice heard in federal district court in Massachusetts saying uh one Planned Parenthood isn't entitled to this you this is a duly passed piece of legislation signed by the president and Planned Parenthood is make trying to make it seem like it's their constitutional right to receive your taxpayer dollars and that's what we're fighting back against not just in Massachusetts which hopefully we'll have some news about on Monday after this preliminary injunction hearing
SPEAKER 10 :
For people that don't understand and they say, okay, what's today? What does that mean? Preliminary injunction. Jordan, maybe you can help in this as well. So the preliminary injunction, they're having a hearing today. What's the timeline?
SPEAKER 08 :
Injunctions are the bigger issue here. So a temporary restraining order, the TRO that was issued, those were only two weeks. That was just two weeks ago. And so this would be a much, this is what has been appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court so often by the Trump administration. We talk about those nationwide injunctions or universal injunctions. The idea that, again, a district court can enjoin, can prevent something from moving forward. So they say, listen, we're not coming to a final decision. But we're already making the – we're already making one decision. We believe that the party who's brought the lawsuit, so in this case Planned Parenthood or the abortion providers, that they've got the resources, that they have the likelihood of success. So you are kind of giving a tip. You're not saying I believe 100%. We haven't satisfied all the legal standards. But I do believe that there's more likelihood than not that they're going to win. So I'm going to prevent you from actually being able to go in place. Then you can appeal that. And that is ultimately mostly what we've seen at the U.S. Supreme Court has been on these have been on these preliminary injunctions. And so I imagine this one ends up there.
SPEAKER 07 :
And that's what I actually the hearing on that preliminary injunction, because, as you mentioned, the TRO is temporary and they have briefs on issuing this preliminary injunction. The injunction has to have an order attached and a rationale. TRO is temporary restraining orders don't. They can just put them in place. So when we see what comes out of this hearing, whether or not the judge puts a preliminary injunction on, which would last a lot longer, that's what is being argued in a hearing today. But that's what we filed a brief on trying to say, no, this does not need a preliminary injunction. This case does not need to go forward. This is a piece of legislation and Congress can do this. The president signed it. But we have a second venue for this fight now. It's the same appeals district, the same circuit. So an appeal would go to the same court because it's in the Northeast. But this is a new district level court. This is out of Maine. And this is not Planned Parenthood bringing the suit. So now this clinic, which would not be covered even by that preliminary injunction, even if the judge rules that Planned Parenthood receives this nationwide injunction for their business. Clinics like this one in Maine that aren't a part of the Planned Parenthood family, they would be not covered and would still be defunded. So it's going to be a multifaceted fight. And we're going to have to keep fighting. And that's why we need ACLJ members to stand with us now. That's right.
SPEAKER 10 :
Because Planned Parenthood may be like the big dog. They may be the one where you look at and go, okay, this is the one that's going to be difficult. And that's the vast majority of the funding. But it's not all of them. There are plenty of what you'd say, quote unquote, women's health clinics that you see around certain areas of town that are not Planned Parenthoods. But you know exactly what they're doing. Usually you can see some protesters out front, so you'll know exactly what they actually are. And so it becomes a bit more nuanced. And the ACLJ supporters and champions need to get involved during these kind of months. Because summer months, it's easy to get distracted. But we're in court today. Today. Today. So be a part of it. Join with us right now because you can have your gift doubled through the end of this month during this 35 years of justice. And that's talking about not just these current 35 years, but what it looks like in the future.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I think, again, don't be distracted by summer to that extent that these battles aren't ongoing and the issues aren't ongoing. And I think that it could sometimes, listen, we all understand. I've got three kids at home right now. It's a busy time the moment you walk in the door because it's a different kind of day. It's a different kind of busy. My kids are here at the studio running around, so you know what? I feel bad for all the crew out there, but deal with it. I get that it's a different time. It can almost feel not as, you're not in your same kind of schedule. Routine, yeah. Yes. But it's a great, you have to remember the groups like the ACLJ, we don't stop. And so we're always working and our teams are always working, our attorneys, our legal teams, our government affairs teams, and they're able to continue to do that work that they love to do. And they're thankful to you that they get to do because of your financial support to the ACLJ. And so I never want you to forget that is that all these people here have decided, this is what I want to do with my life. This is where I want to put my, use my brain power, use my time during the day to not only work, but to work towards these goals. And that is all because of you that we're able to do that work. And so I appreciate every one of those donations. But also remember that it's not just us or this show, that it's entire teams of people working really around the clock to fight for these issues that take these issues on big or small. And treat them all the same way. Treat them all with that same level of respect and that legal expertise.
SPEAKER 07 :
And you want to know, really, I mean, we know that Massachusetts, we said, was going to be the big battleground for this. But what's another reason why they're picking both Massachusetts and Maine? It's because those district courts are in the First Circuit Court of Appeals. When you look at the makeup of the judges on the First Circuit Court of Appeals... it is four Biden appointees, one Obama appointee, two Clinton appointees, and I'm sorry, another two Obama appointees. There's only two judges that were appointed by Republican presidents on this court. One, a senior judge that was appointed by George W. Bush, and one senior judge that was appointed by Richard Nixon. So the odds of you getting a draw of judges on a panel... Senior judge. He was born in 1927. Inactive, but still on the court. Oh, inactive. Okay. But you see that. He's 99. You see that, though, that is still technically a senior judge on this court. Very senior. You're probably not getting the Nixon appointee, but you are getting most likely a Democrat appointee. So they are seeing this as a way to continue this fight. And remember, it's only for a year of defunding.
SPEAKER 10 :
Big, big update, I'm sure, next week, so you want to join us for that. We've got a second half hour coming up. Don't go anywhere. We are going to take some phone calls, and you can also support the work of the ACLJ. As Will said, I could go through this script they have for me today, but you know what? You know what to do. You get your gifts doubled during this 35 years of Justice Drive. I'm going to ask you to do it right now. We've got a one-minute break. It is a perfect time. You can scan the QR code, use the app, go to ACLJ.org. Do it today. We really could use your support.
SPEAKER 06 :
Keeping you informed and engaged now more than ever. This is Sekulow. And now your host, Logan Sekulow.
SPEAKER 10 :
Welcome back to Sekulow. We were just talking about the Planned Parenthood defunding and Stephen Colbert show coming to an end as the late show goes away. Of course, there's a lot of debate whether that's for politics, whether that's for money. I think it's probably somewhere in between some disgruntled people involved. Adam Schiff going on saying the American people need to know. That their late night talk show that 100,000 people within the demo were watching every night, they need to know. It's their constitutional right to know why that's going away. Give me a break. All right. Listen, just hours ago, we've been in court. We've been in court right now with all these situations with our pro-life battles. And I want you to know that during these big drive months, I know it can become monotonous. You've heard me say it over and over again. But you have no idea how important these months are to us. Not just for the media side, which of course we've been talking about all week. And the media side just as important as the legal side. You got to make sure we're covering both bases here. You know why? Look what happened to Stephen Colbert. If you don't have independent media, if everything's controlled by big corporate, look what happens. They take their number one show. Let's take away all the politics out of it. They take their number one show in late night. And quickly boot you off the air and say, we're done here. Too much money. And we don't really want this on there anymore. Thankfully, not only are we available for free, not with no paywalls because people like you support the work and support this show and support our legal work, but we're also being able to put on all the different kinds of platforms. So sure, we're on YouTube. Could YouTube one day decide we don't want to deal with this? Sure. But then we got Rumble. Then we got ACLJ.org, our own platform. Then you got the ACLJ app. And then we're on a few television networks here and there. And of course, we're on thousands of terrestrial radio stations still. And of course, we're on SiriusXM and the Salem News Channel. We are wherever we can be at no cost for you. Because it's important to have fully independent media, even in Salem. I want to make sure that's clear. Salem's our good friend, our partner. We're not a Salem broadcasting show. We own this show. When you see us, that's coming from the world of the ACLJ. That's coming from Seculo's. It's coming from Will Haines. It's not coming from any big corporate overlord. And that is great that we exist. But we can't do it without you. So I encourage you, this is the second half hour of the show. It is a Friday. And we have had an incredible... week on this show record-breaking for july and i you know that that's shocking usually july it's tough like jordan said you're out of your routine you're you're into your summer it's 100 degrees outside maybe you don't want to go listen to a half hour or an hour of politics every day but you know what we found out is that a lot of you do a lot of you want to stay updated and man we are just so happy that you have joined us We are so happy that you've become ACLJ supporters and ACLJ champions. And, Will, coming up in this next half hour, we are going to go back in time a little bit over the last couple days because we had some amazing guests.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's right. I want you to see some of these on-course segments that we had earlier in the week because it was, like you said, it was a wonderful week. Some of you may have missed it because you're out of your routine. So we've got John Solomon. We had him on earlier in the week. talking about this story that they broke at Just the News about this grand conspiracy investigation going on at the FBI. Had them on early in the week. I think it was Tuesday. So you're going to get to hear that segment if you missed it earlier in the week, as well as then more discussion from Logan, myself, and Jordan that we had earlier in the week about some of these issues that are going on, about corruption at the DOJ, about the deep state, about all these things that you care about. If you missed it earlier in the week, it's coming up. So stay tuned.
SPEAKER 10 :
All right, listen, Jordan, we got a minute. I want to let you take it to break.
SPEAKER 08 :
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SPEAKER 10 :
Welcome back to Secular. Like I said, we've got a jam-packed show and we're going to jump straight to John Solomon from Just the News. John, yesterday we were reporting on your report because you had an exclusive breakdown of what was going on with this potential investigation coming from the FBI that could really kind of blow the doors down, it feels like, according to your sources, for a lot longer. of issues that could all be tied together in this sort of grand conspiracy as being said and of course even more has come out today uh from your site including uh this maybe lot box or this uh safe that was found that may even have more incriminating documents uh john i'll let you take it from here and let us know what's going on
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, look, I think this is a really big deal. The FBI opened up about three months ago what they call a grand conspiracy case, which looks at the last 10 years of weaponization as one ongoing criminal conspiracy. And it's sort of a wash, rinse and repeat cycle. Democrat has a criminal or political problem. Hillary Clinton with emails, Hunter Biden with corruption emails. Joe Biden with classified documents. They get magically cleared, even though there's evidence suggesting they shouldn't be cleared. And then they project a similar problem on the Republican candidate, Donald Trump, for Russia collusion, which never existed. Donald Trump for Ukraine and interfering in Ukraine relations when there was a good reason to ask for an investigation. Donald Trump for documents at Mar-a-Lago after Joe Biden had this problem. You weaponize the judicial intelligence system against one party and you use it to protect the other party. That would be an ongoing criminal conspiracy. It allows prosecutors to go back and charge crimes that occurred in 16, 17 and 18. And more significantly, you wouldn't have to necessarily bring this case in Washington, D.C., where a 90 percent Democratic candidate. jury poll doesn't seem to have any interest in holding Democrats accountable. You could put it in a place like Florida, where Donald Trump's home was raided by Jack Smith, who, as the court ultimately ruled, was improperly appointed. He wasn't even a legitimate special counsel. And you can make that one of the overt acts, put the grand jury in Florida, where you have a much more centrist audience and perhaps get a fair hearing of this evidence. So that's the excitement. I think the FBI has done its part. It opened the predicated case. It's now up to Pam Bonney to assign a prosecutor and also to decide whether it would be better to do a special counsel since they would be investigating matters that their boss, Donald Trump, was a victim for. It would give a sense of credibility to maybe do special prosecutor and get that ball rolling.
SPEAKER 07 :
When you look at also this new revelation related to potentially the FBI having almost their own compartmentalized department for things related to things like Russiagate that wasn't even really accessible to the FBI writ large that Kash Patel has talked about as well as Dan Bongino has talked about this. You look at this and it seems to, at least in the public narrative, paint this picture that could seem like there was a conspiracy within the DOJ and the FBI to pull this off and also that they didn't want this information readily available to those that conduct oversight. What are you hearing out of Congress as these revelations come forward for those that are supposed to be doing oversight of these agencies that were being hidden things that they have the right to?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, that's a great point. I had Senator Ron Johnson on. He and Senator Grousey were one of the early investigators of the Russia collusion caper. As it turned out to be a completely bogus investigation, they got us the early text messages between Pete Strzok and Lisa Page, the lovebirds. He said yesterday, listen, I always thought there was a criminal effort to keep us in the dark, and I think we're beginning to see proof of it. And I think this discovery of this documents room where super sensitive stuff was, according to Kash Patel, kept away from Congress, kept from the American public, stored in a room. And when Kash Patel finds those documents, it's right around the same time he opens up the conspiracy case. What does that tell you? What he read in that room made him think that this wasn't just incompetence. It wasn't just political meddling in election, that there was some criminal conspiracy. So he opens up the broader case. And now Attorney General Pam Bondi has an opportunity to do something, I think, quite historic.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and this is something that we've had you on this broadcast for years about these issues. As your reporting has followed things within the Russia collusion scandal and the hoax that followed from that and other issues, you've been on top of this. You've had great sources at Just the News throughout the years on this. But this... i think there's some concern in the uh conservative base at this point when these cases we start to finally get a taste of accountability for those that it's not like it was a secret to all of us that have followed it and you that have reported that this this whole scheme existed They clearly were moving in this way and all the public evidence seemed to point towards that. But there seems to be almost fatigue within the political base when it comes to announcing these big things or doing this big work if you can't get it across the finish line. What are your thoughts and what are you hearing about if it is something that is able to be turned over to a grand jury, if that's something they believe that they can take this case across the finish line?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, listen, I think you've identified a problem. Even the most fervent supporters of President Trump, the fervent supporters of returning to law and order, ending weaponization, they've been tired by the process because they got John Durham. John Durham brought some prosecutions and a D.C. jury vindicated people who probably engaged in wrongdoing. So the frustration from that experience, the frustration that occurred in the sort of mishandling of the rollout of the Jeffrey Epstein documents, it creates some distrust in the base. Everybody who heard about this story on Monday got excited about it, even grizzled old Russiagate investigators saying, hey, this is a good idea. And I think the difference here is that you're not going to have to face a D.C. jury where your pool is 90 percent tainted in one direction, leaning in one direction for Democrats. That was John Durham's problem and Bill Barr's problem and maybe impaneling that grand jury in that city. and making that the venue. In this case, with Jack Smith's activities in Florida, you can move it to a more centrist state, a state where you have common sense people outside the beltway looking at this, not looking for political excuses not to do something, but just looking at the evidence fairly. You probably can get it. You also rewind the statute of limitations, one of the biggest concerns of the base. We let all these crimes expire, and that's true, except when you do a conspiracy case. So there's a lot there. There are two pieces of evidence That Donald Trump would have to declassify. They're not FBI or DOJ antiquities. They belong to the CIA, the NSA and other sensitive agencies. But I want to tell you what they are because they're the ignition point for that wash rinse repeat cycle that I just laid out before. The first is a classified annex to the Justice Department Inspector General's review of the FBI's mishandling of the Hillary Clinton email case. That was the first scandal that started this. James Comey walks out and clears her and he has no legal authority to clear, but he does it. But what we now know from a description of that classified annex from Senator Chuck Grassley is that that annex includes proof that the FBI, just before it cleared Hillary Clinton, had gotten brand new secret intelligence suggesting there was criminality involved. And the FBI chose not to investigate. They turned a blind eye and just waved a magic wand and exonerated her. Getting that declassified, whatever that is, an intercept from the NSA or a human from CIA, going to be very important so that it can be presented to a grand jury. If it remains classified, you can't give it to the grand jury. The second piece is around the same time, about a month or two later. So that intelligence comes in in May, and then Hillary Clinton on July 5th, 2016, is exonerated. Then that same day, July 5th, 2016, Christopher Steele walks his dossier into the FBI and In mid-July, the intelligence committee intercepted something else. Intelligence showing that Hillary Clinton had personally approved a plan to concoct a Russia collusion scandal against Trump. Not a real one, a fake one, and put it into the system. After getting that intelligence, after John Brennan even briefed the president, FBI opens up on that very allegation and that very evidence almost jaw-droppingly. The president would have to declassify that intelligence as well. Those two things being declassified would give a running start to a grand jury. It could be done in about a year. I think they could wrap up all the work in a year.
SPEAKER 10 :
John, we only got about a minute left. I just want to give you an opportunity. There's a lot of people watching right now. There's a lot of great comments coming in saying, I need to be following just the news. I need to be following what you're doing. What's the best way for people to do that? And of course, I'm sure as you have been uncovering a lot of this and your team has been, that this story is not going anywhere from your team.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, it's not. We've got a whole team on it. My Jerry Dunleavy, Steve Richards, myself, just the news.com. My social media is Jay Solomon reports on all platforms. And I have the just the news, no noise television show on real America's voice every night at six o'clock. Those are our best points of contact.
SPEAKER 10 :
Awesome. Thank you, Joe. John, it's always great to have you on. Again, it's always good to have people in the news who you can trust, have good sources. And John's always one of those. When we're looking at what we're going to cover for the day, Just the News is one of the first places we go to to make sure that if something's breaking, he's got some really interesting content. I mean, this was broken by his team. It always does great stuff. And we have a packed show coming up. So I want to make sure you stay tuned. Because like I said, today, I really want to encourage you, if you like this show, and there's so many of you watching right now, if you've never seen us before, which I know about half of you maybe haven't, Hit that subscribe button if you're watching on YouTube or you're watching on Rumble. Join us each and every day, Monday through Friday, 12 to 1 p.m. Eastern Time. We'll catch us later on. You can watch the re-air. Most people do watch it, not live. But I encourage you to be part of the conversation live. You get to get chat. You can call in. Do that. Join us each and every day. If you've never done that before, hit that subscribe button. If you have been a longtime viewer and supporter, know that this show... And the ACLJ in general is not funded by major sponsors or even by major donors. It's individual people like you that can give at one time or can give on a monthly basis. And during these special months like today, during our 35 years of Justice Drive, all donations are doubled. So if you give $10, it becomes effectively $20 because it unlocks another $10 pledge. I'm going to ask you to do that today in honor of this show, in honor of the media we provide to you each and every day. Let's have a big day, a big day to support what we're doing here. Of course, tax deductible. We'll be right back. the room we have heard from my brother jordan seculo very loud music jordan seculo we've had will haynes we've heard from jeff balabot we've heard from some of you and now we're going to turn our attention to our phone callers and so many of you calling in some about the epstein situation some about uh israel and new york and a lot of others we're going to get to all of them anthony in florida and by the way you still got a couple minutes to get on hold 1-800-684-3110 anthony in florida you've been a hold for 45 minutes know that i appreciate that uh but go ahead
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah, you know, I support you guys because you counter the anti-Constitution leftist union. So all kudos to you guys. My question is, a prominent attorney who defended Trump, who's not a Republican, but he said that he saw the list. He saw the names on the list, but he can't say who they are. My question to you guys is, It wasn't a mystery what was happening on that island. Some people were, I would exclude some people from not being ignorant, but come on, guys. I mean, really, was that so much of a mystery, what this pervert was holding on that island? It's bewildering.
SPEAKER 07 :
So fill me in, guys. I appreciate it. Thank you. actually do want to correct you on one thing anthony dershowitz actually said you're talking about alan dershowitz he actually said epstein never created a client list so there is one thing where he has said he knows a lot more information he defended jeffrey epstein actually uh it was one of the attorneys but um but i do want to clarify that is that he actually told many people that epstein never created a client list he was referring and they could put together a Right. Now, that's the other issue is that sometimes when the news that there's become shorthand or these things like there is a list of clients. One is that that is just shorthand for if he was doing this as almost a business or a blackmail operation or these things that there would be that information somewhere. Right. But once again, there's still a lot of unknown. And if once again, the FBI was only investigating Jeffrey Epstein and not other people, then their evidence would be limited to what they were investigating in theory, as well as If this isn't something they had evidence of or they didn't want there to be evidence of, it's not surprising that it would not be in the DOJ. And that goes back to the poor PR rollout by the attorney general and everyone getting out there and saying, we're going to release this info and even doing that binder facade and saying, here's what we've got. But then it being kind of a nothing burger, because maybe it is a nothing burger as far as the evidence of the DOJ goes. then that's what you're here with. And that is why people are upset. And I understand that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Evidence is only criminal conduct that they can prosecute. When they don't feel like there's any more lane to go down on actually prosecuting an act, there's nothing else for them to do. So they are there just to uncover mysteries. Now, could you order that they do a deeper dive into their investigation or into the evidence that came about? Sure, but that's really not their job if there's no more criminal prosecution.
SPEAKER 10 :
We got another call related to this. I'd like to jump to Debbie in South Carolina who is watching on our website on ACLJ.org, which is a great place if you're like stumbling around trying to figure out where they broadcast. You can always go to ACLJ.org or the ACLJ app. The show's there live and later on. Debbie, go ahead.
SPEAKER 02 :
Thank you. Okay, so I was listening to the dialogue on the Epstein case, and someone said, oh, well, this is just a political issue. No, it is not just a political issue. It's not even just a legal issue. This is a moral issue. I have thousands of mega friends that I am on a podcast with, and the two things that we are most upset about is, number one, no one has been brought to justice yet. And number two, the victims, what about them? Don't trivialize the victims.
SPEAKER 07 :
I will cut you off there because Jeffrey Epstein is dead and Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison. And the assumption is lost on people that Jeffrey Epstein was participating in this behavior. That's why a lot of the evidence cannot be released is because it's images and photos of him engaging in the behavior that he was about to go to trial for. And he's dead. So I think there is some justice there because even the victims that came forward, they were abused by Jeffrey Epstein. So that also can't be lost when people say, well, why was he on trial? Why is Ghislaine in prison? Because they were criminals and they were doing abhorrent, immoral things and should serve justice for that. And so I think that that shouldn't be lost either, is that he's no longer on this earth, and I think he has a lot worse punishment going on than an earthly prison would give him for his immoral behavior. And she is currently in jail.
SPEAKER 08 :
I think this is where it becomes a problem, though, when you call it a hoax. Because when we talked about the Russia investigation, we were talking about the entire thing was a hoax from the start. The entire hypothesis, the whole thesis of that was Donald Trump is a Russian agent. So you start from zero.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I think President Trump just throws out that hoax word and he thinks it means something to people that it maybe doesn't.
SPEAKER 08 :
I take it more extreme. because when we were talking about things that were hoaxes, we were talking about from the start there was nothing there. And this is different because from the start there was criminal conduct.
SPEAKER 01 :
Definitely stuff there, yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
And so you had a guy facing basically life in prison. She's got a 20-year sentence. And of course, can they testify to others?
SPEAKER 10 :
I mean, he's not here anymore. Let's try to get to these two last calls. Alex is calling line one. You're on the air.
SPEAKER 09 :
Hi guys. Thanks for being there. I want to make my, make two points and make them very quickly. Okay. Um, in reference to, um, if you guys were president, if you guys were advisors to the president, how would you tell the president to quickly put this to death? And yes, the moral point is important, but, I'd really like to see us just get beyond this, and that's not disrespect to the victims, okay? Those people need to be respected. They need justice.
SPEAKER 10 :
I'm only cutting you off because we're running out of time. I think Jordan's advice of saying, hey, it's not over. There's still investigations going on, would have probably been the easiest way to really not be the focus. It's when you came out and said, it's on my desk. It doesn't exist. It was a PR blunder that kept going. And honestly, even with President Trump this morning, it still seems to be going. I want to take one more call, and then we'll wrap it up for the day. This one is from Warren, who is talking about the New York elections and everything. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thanks for the call, guys. Real quick, most people don't realize, and I'm not saying they all believe in global intifada, but with Mamdami, there's so many small cities In the United States, they have Muslim mayors, and they've even posted, not them, but all over social media how they want to take over America and bring that here, and people need to wake up and realize what's happening.
SPEAKER 10 :
Warren, thank you for calling. We appreciate your thoughts on that. I think with Mondami, you have a very interesting moment because you have a young, charismatic guy who's going on and even getting a pushback from the Democrats, but winning pretty decisively. So we'll see what happens going on. But I mean, it's looking in his favor, but we'll see. With that being said, we got 45 seconds left. This is the time. to support the work of the ACLJ. Jordan, I'll let you do this pitch here as well because it's 35 years we've been celebrating and we got to keep going.
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Join us as we dissect the aftermath of CBS's recent move concerning Stephen Colbert's late night show. We walk through the heated debate over political bias and profitability that surfaces when a show pushes a political agenda. Our discussion highlights the shift from classic humor-driven programming to segments intensely focused on political commentary, posing questions about how this affects viewer loyalty and market performance. With comparisons to past television giants, we reflect on how CBS's decision might signal broader industry trends. We also examine responses from key figures like Adam Schiff and Elizabeth Warren, who have publicly speculated on the motivations behind these corporate decisions. This episode offers a panoramic view of how late night shows like Colbert's are influencing popular discourse and shaping public perception. An intriguing look at how entertainment and politics entwine, the episode encourages listeners to think critically about the media they consume, the personalities involved, and the boundaries of entertainment in a politically charged era.
SPEAKER 04 :
It's the Stephen Colbert theme. Don't gloat. Don't gloat. I actually... This is very tongue-in-cheek because as I said on Twitter last night, and as I will tell you now, even when someone is a poisonous, poisonous political bigot as Colbert is, I don't ever root for people to lose shows, cheer when people lose gigs. I mean, the Marketplace is what it is, but here's what's weird. I don't know what Marketplace got rid of him because of the Colbert, Kimmel... Fallon trash heap of late night talk shows that used to be so beautifully done by people like Johnny Carson and Dick Cavett. His ratings are pretty good.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, wait a minute. Wait a minute. No, no, no, they're not.
SPEAKER 04 :
Not compared to the universe versus each other versus the competition.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, perhaps that's the lowest. That's the lowest hanging fruit. Those are that's a that's a that's a competition of little people. So he's the tallest little person because there are nights when Gutfeld beats all of them. And Gutfeld's on cable news. And here was with Brian Stelter. Here was the giveaway. Brian... I don't mean to laugh because I'm like you. I don't like seeing the misfortune of others. But on the other hand, if anybody deserves it, it's this guy because he's rotten. He is such a nasty. And, you know, he started out kind of funny. He played a Bill O'Reilly kind of blowhard. Yep. It was a feature on The Daily Show on Comedy Central, wasn't it? Right. And he was a character. I mean, his name is Colbert, you know, but he turned into Stephen Colbert and did this Bill O'Reilly. Back when Bill was real big, it was kind of a spoof on him. Then he got The Late Show. He inherited it from David Letterman. They gave him the Ed Sullivan Theater in Midtown Manhattan. And he started out doing a variety show. Well, he's not funny enough or good enough to do that on his own. So then he went full-blown radical activist Democrat. Now, here's the giveaway, what you just said about profitability. Brian Stelter, the media guy over at CNN, said, well, you know, I have to admit that technically the show isn't profitable for CBS, right? Oh, technically, that's why you're there. If the Mark Davis show isn't profitable for 660 AM The Answer, wonder how long you'll be around. If the Mike Gallagher show isn't profitable for Salem Media Group, wonder how long I'll be around. But this is how crazy they've become. They're like the profitability of a massive show like that is sort of incidental. That's just a technicality. We've got to get him every night to blast Trump and attack conservatives and rip into the Republican Party because that's real entertainment. Here's the headline for the ages. And look, I know we've got like 19 things to cover today. We've got time. We're good. Okay, good. Here's the headline of the ages. It's been reported that the Democrat Party is now at the absolute rock bottom lowest level of improvement they've ever had since polling began. OK, there's no there's no entity any less popular than today's Democrat Party. Here's a here's here's example. One thousand nine hundred and seventy five of why headline Fox News dot com. Prominent Democrats Adam Schiff and Elizabeth Warren demand to know if CBS is ending Stephen Colbert's late show for political reasons. That's what they're worried about.
SPEAKER 04 :
What might that even be? The network continues to hate him. They particularly hate him now. And the reason and I listen, I got to go back and read. I watched a little bit of it. I'll play it later on Colbert on the occasion of CBS settling with Trump for 16 million because they had to. They had to. CBS totally interfered with the election by doctoring the Kamala interview to make her look coherent for five minutes. And so Trump was going to absolutely own them in that trial, a trial that would have involved a discovery process that would have made clear and made public all kinds of internal memos, internal voicemails, internal hatred, internal TDS. It would have been destructive to what's left of CBS's reputation. So CBS very smartly said, let's let's write a check and make this go away. Colbert torched them. on the air, on their own network.
SPEAKER 03 :
His employer.
SPEAKER 04 :
His employer. Meanwhile, some former CBS News guy said, oh, we all have, we have like PTSD. We have PTSD because we can't believe that the network settled with Trump. Unbelievable, the arrogance and the denial of these people.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, the narcissism and what's fascinating is, like Eric just said to me when I walked into the studio this morning, who gets a year's notice when you're going to cancel a show? This will be a dirge for a year now, all these insufferable leftist dimwits. Because speaking of Adam Schiff, he was the headliner last night. Yeah. Imagine in the spirit of, think about Johnny Carson or Jay Leno or any of the greats, that the headliner on the Stephen Colbert CBS Late Show is that guy, Adam Schiff.
SPEAKER 04 :
If Carson were to invite big-time political people, which he sometimes did. It was to have fun with them. It was to lampoon them in a good-natured way. It was to talk about things that were uniting rather than divisive. You know, Carson was never going to have Abby Hoffman on to torch Nixon. But that's what these shows have turned into.
SPEAKER 03 :
And Kimmel, I hope maybe Kimmel will be next because Kimmel does the same thing. He's taking it very well. His reaction was, F you, CBS. F you. How dare you? How dare you? They're all melting down.
SPEAKER 04 :
Now, if you're Kimmel, though, doesn't this give you a larger slice of the talk show pie? Because right after I tweeted, listen, dance, if you will, at the Colbert departure, but his successor is not going to be any better than other people. Yeah, there's no successor. CBS said they're not going to replace it. As in with what? With another talk show in that vein? I guess I understand. Well, what are they going to replace it with?
SPEAKER 03 :
They're not replacing it at all.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, no, what do you mean? There's no such thing as a test pattern anymore. Well, they'll do something.
SPEAKER 03 :
They're going to do programming, but they're not going to do the late show anymore. They're not going to do a talk show, evidently. According to Colbert in his tearful announcement last night, he's not being replaced at all. They're going to get rid of the whole franchise, which, you know, our buddy Chris DeGaulle.
SPEAKER 01 :
It seems weird.
SPEAKER 03 :
Our buddy Chris DeGaulle this morning did a monologue that I may play it on my show today. I didn't know this until Chris said it on air. He once interned for David Letterman. So Chris said, this late night talk show stuff is in my wheelhouse. He said, I study it. I've watched it. And it is pretty fascinating. The story about Leno secretly calling all the station owners because there was a battle for who was going to inherit the Johnny Carson show. It's all fascinating to me. And look, back in the day when I was a kid, I used to watch all those shows at night. I wouldn't watch these shows now at gunpoint. What am I going to do, sit there and watch a political monologue? Rachel Maddow on steroids by Stephen Colbert. But here's what Chris pointed out, and I think this was – Stephen Colbert took a franchise that was decades and decades long Letterman just did such a great job. Whatever you think of Letterman and his politics, and he's a lefty too, but it was a really compelling movie.
SPEAKER 04 :
He didn't wear it on his sleeve. Being funny and being entertaining was always way more important to him.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's right. And he's a funny guy and talented guy. Colbert took a little bit of time. and ran it into the ground. He ran it into the ground, Mark, and Chris said it's just sad and kind of tragic that because the left, and this is what was so brilliant about Chris's monologue this morning, everything the left, they...
SPEAKER 02 :
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SPEAKER 03 :
touch they have to politicize they're they're doing it to movies it's their life it is they they they are it's their obsession they politicize talk shows they politicize movies they politicize sports they politicize everything they touch they think they're going to shove their ideology down everybody's throat why don't you want the most people possible to watch and enjoy your talk show i know How welcome do you feel?
SPEAKER 04 :
Why do a show that repels half of America? Correct.
SPEAKER 03 :
Why even do that? Why would you set it? Because the ideology is more important than the business model. And in broadcasting, look, it gets back to the defunding of PBS and NPR. Why in the world should one penny of taxpayer money go? Do you know how many affiliates they have at NPR? I mean, there's thousands and thousands. And they need taxpayer billions? No, they don't.
SPEAKER 02 :
No excuse.
SPEAKER 03 :
No excuse whatsoever. And once again, for decades, the Republicans have promised to defund public broadcasting. And it finally happened. Trump got it done.
SPEAKER 04 :
Now, speaking of laws— On the 30 final seconds of the late night world, because we're sitting here talking about these liberal shows that repel half of America. I can hear people in my earphone ear and your earphone ear saying, Well, wouldn't a conservative show do the same? I guess if Ted Nugent had a show, it would be the flip side of the coin. Half of America would be pretty freaked out by that as well. But you use the perfect example of Gutfeld. Gutfeld's a conservative-flavored show, but it's fun and funny and humorous and lighthearted and satirical first. It is entertaining first. Rush Limbaugh was not huge because he was conservative. He was huge because he was a radio guy first. an entertainer, a communicator, and the message happened to be conservative. Gutfeld is a master entertainer, a satirist. He's funny. He's likable. And so the politics and the policy stuff isn't the locomotive dragging the train at Gutfeld for these leftist goons.
SPEAKER 03 :
I won't push back. You could argue that point, because I was going to say the Gutfeld show arguably is a political show, but you're right, it's done with humor. It is, but they're having fun first.
SPEAKER 04 :
What makes it palatable, I bet there are people who watch Gutfeld who are not that conservative, and they're not repelled by it.
SPEAKER 03 :
But you're missing the point, because to the left, they think Colbert is funny, too. They think he's entertaining, and they're funny.
SPEAKER 04 :
But they're the only people who think he's funny.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, but you can't make the argument just because it's our side and we think we're right. No, I'm not.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's why I used the Nugent example in Ted's A Friend of Mine for a quarter century.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, that's a better example.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's a better example. A Ted Nugent show, I would love it, but half of America would go, ah, Gutfeld is the one.
SPEAKER 03 :
But they hate Gutfeld the way we hate Colbert. You're not being fair on this. You're being very one-sided.
SPEAKER 04 :
You're being tribalist, and that's okay. Stop it. Gutfeld has more viewers that disagree with him than Colbert has viewers that disagree with him.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, I don't know if that's true or not, but I'll take your word for it. Speaking of lawsuits, the Wall Street Journal is getting sued.
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What is this, Mike? What is that stupid story? Is there any universe in which people say, I know what I'm going to do. We're going to have typewritten language. It's going to be like a saucy conversation between me and Jeffrey.
SPEAKER 03 :
What? Well, here's what I don't understand. We don't have any idea if it's accurate or not. Nobody has a clue. I always love the conclusion people. There's no way he doesn't talk that way. Look, I'm not defending the Wall Street Journal here. Let Trump sue the pants off him. There'll be all kinds of discovery. We're going to find out. But here's a couple of things worth noting. The letter was supposedly written three years before Jeffrey Epstein faced any charges whatsoever. It was written four years before Trump himself banned Jeffrey Epstein from Mar-a-Lago because he's a degenerate. I mean, so what? There is nothing to this story. I'll tell you what it is. They can't stand all the victories that Trump is having.
SPEAKER 04 :
It's a smear attempt because the Wall Street Journal is not much happier than the New York Times.
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean, it's such a stupid—what, the picture with the woman with the breasts? I mean, a stick figure with breasts, and it's typewritten, and it's like, what? This is the Wall Street Journal bombshell?
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, the mighty have fallen.
SPEAKER 03 :
Gosh, it's kind of pathetic. I mean, but look, Trump says, I'm going to sue the pants off him. Every other legal action he's taken against media entities that have wronged him— He's won.
SPEAKER 04 :
CBS, as we just mentioned, ABC and Stephanopoulos. You bet.
SPEAKER 03 :
Absolutely. I mean, so Rupert Murdoch, they better have their ducks in a row. But again, we'll find out. But again, who cares? So in, what was it, 2003? Before anything even, okay, all right, it's unpleasant. What's going to happen? Oh, what's going to, is Trump going to get fired over it? Is this the impeachment material? Is he not going to run now? I mean, what, so...
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give me a break i hate to i hate to be in there i hate to be i hate to be edgy here but compared to the excess hollywood tape this is a walk in the park that is that is correct the guy's a body the guy's a body new yorker so i have no also and somebody pointed out to me this this was this was 2003 was trump in sort of billionaire playboy mode so it's not like he was a choir boy and I totally understand that. But stylistically, it's not him. He would never do something this high school goofy. Final 60 seconds. Health check. How are your lower extremities? Anything pooling down there? Everything good?
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Not yet. But don't you love the conspiracy theories? Oh, they knew about this forever.
SPEAKER 04 :
Chronic venous insufficiency.
SPEAKER 03 :
the venous insufficiency that takes a while to... I mean, Scott Jennings, who's our now colleague here at Salem, on CNN last night, he sat next to a butler denier. Do you know there's a whole... What?
SPEAKER 04 :
That Trump wasn't really shot?
SPEAKER 03 :
It was totally staged. And there's a video. Have you not seen the video circulating? Oh, by the way, 30 seconds. Butler, real quick. There's a video circulating that says the American flag was lowered by people and it was staged. And look, there were actors. Oh, yeah, I'm not kidding you, Mark. That's how nuts these people are. Speaking of video, tell me you saw the guy caught on the kiss cam. I did. Oh, the CEO with the girlfriend.
SPEAKER 04 :
Called out by Chris Martin of Coldplay himself. They're either having an affair or they're very camera shy. Well, it was A.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, gosh. But the guy is doubling down. Did you see? He went to social media and he mocked the whole thing.
SPEAKER 04 :
Mike, I think it's fake. Oh, that wasn't him? There were some fake, because within hours, supposedly from the, what's the company name? Astronomer?
SPEAKER 03 :
Astronomer, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
The CEO said, I apologize to my family. I have to come clean. I am indeed a Coldplay fan. Right, that was earlier work. No, no, dude, that's not him. Oh, I think it is. No, no, no, no, no.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, okay. Well, maybe.
SPEAKER 04 :
It's a meme.
SPEAKER 03 :
I thought it was him just saying, trying to minimize it and downplay it. The wife evidently has already taken her legal married name off of her Facebook page.
SPEAKER 04 :
There is a meme about it that I did respect. It said, you know what? Coldplay hasn't had a single in years. Last night they made two.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. You know, and I saw one guy post, though, all kidding us. Oh, and I got to close with this. You told me that Joyce in North Carolina, there's a listener named Joyce who's going to be 100 years old on November 26th. She wrote me. She said, Mike, it's Joyce from North Carolina. Plans are underway for my 100th birthday party, which will be on November 22nd. Please tell Mark Davis. And because she's so honored. Well, you know why? Because you said we should do something for her birthday. Well, let's do something. Well, let's go. I want to go to North Carolina. Go. Wow. Look at the time. Come on, Mark. Let's you and me go. An M&M experience in Joyce's living room.
SPEAKER 04 :
I think I had a nice card in mind.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, let's go. Let's do the show. But it's pretty exciting. And you know what she said? Here's this sweet lady. urgently have to go. Go ahead. Okay, goodbye. See you Monday. No, no, no. Don't tease me. 30 seconds. Go, go ahead. She just said, I was so privileged to support your campaigns. I bought pillows from Mike Lindell. I've done all the financial aid I've been able to do in my lifetime. I love Joyce.
SPEAKER 04 :
God bless you, Joyce.
SPEAKER 03 :
Joyce, Mark and I are coming. I want the king-size bed. I want the guest room. I'll sleep on the couch.
SPEAKER 04 :
Mike Gallagher, everybody. He's here all week.
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Reggie Rocko brings fire and truth to the airwaves in this powerful episode of I’m a Uniter. Joined by Scott and Major Ed, Reggie dives deep into patriotism, policy, and the personal struggles that fuel their fight for America. From exposing the rot in the entertainment industry to celebrating the fifth annual Stars and Stripes Golf Tournament for first responders and veterans, the conversation covers real-life battles—from losing limbs to losing faith in fake leaders. Plus, Reggie shares hard-hitting reflections on race, responsibility, and the future of conservatism in America. Whether you agree or disagree, one thing is clear: Reggie won’t stop fighting to unite the nation.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah. What's up? What's up? What's up? You tuned in to 560 KLZ. KLZ. I'm a uniter. I'm a uniter. I'm your host, Reggie Rocco. Yeah. Yeah. KLZ. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So right about now, we want everybody, I mean everybody, stand up. Stand up. Hold your hands up high. Lock arms. This is about America, baby. Yeah. We bringing people together. I'm a United.
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To the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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Woo!
SPEAKER 03 :
We live! This is Reggie Rocco, 560 KLZ. I'm in United. What's up, Joe? Joe's in for it. You know, these are the two super producers of the station. And Luke's out with his family. And I told him, I said, hey, man, didn't I tell you to invite me to that next? He goes, no, this is not the thing with the brothers. But he's with his family, so he's going to be gone for like this week and next week. But we got Super Joe, Mighty Joe in this mug. How you doing, buddy? I'm doing fantastic, Reggie. How are you? Good, good, man. Good. So, man, we got a lot of stuff to get to, a lot of stuff to get to. We have I have somebody in here. You guys know the stories that I've told about the music industry, how China sold my intellectual properties. And we don't have to go on and on and on. I've been saying it for four years. But it's all been coming to light. Was I not right, Joe? You were exactly right, Reggie. Man, it is crazy. So now I guess Puffy got acquitted of like four charges. But I always told you, I said, hey, man. Puffy is a horrible person. He's a monster, but not for the reasons they're trying to portray on TV. He's a horrible monster because he steals people's intellectual property and publishing and production and all that stuff. As far as all those freak-off parties and everything, every party that I've been to, Grammys, Billboard Awards, all that, NABOP, everywhere, it's always that type of environment. That is nothing new. Now, Puffy goes overboard, but trust me, all those women there are there willingly it's not any sex trafficking or or rape going on at these parties no these women either have deals or want to have deals and that's how why they're at these parties and establishments they're trying to come up and that's definitely what it is so you guys understand that and you know i've been with uh promoting Trump. I'm a Trumpster. You know, I've been on four national television shows, all of that stuff. We try to get minorities together to wake up, to understand what's going on in the world, understand that the source of their information, if they're getting any at all, is not true. It's not right. And you have to change. And, you know, I've been through a lot, lost a lot of money, you know, friends, family. It's a lot of fake information. Republicans out here that that are just in it for it. But the most part, do we're we're winning. We're winning. And so the the situations I've been in personally, financially, friends like, you know, you got people bring the smoke. I want all the smoke that people can bring because I'm not going to shut up. I'm not going to stop trying to help people. our party and our people. Our people have a disease though. They want to try to tear each other down and it won't work. I've been through too much to have it done. So if it's ever anything, anybody ever hears anything negative, you can better believe it's way more to the story. I will continue to fight. My record speaks for itself. All my life, all my life, I've been, since a little kid, helping Colorado, helping my people. And it's documented. You can look up on newspapers. You can look at Daddy Bruce. You can look at Open Door Youth Gang Alternatives. You can look at my mission, 36,000 people a year feeding. You can see me in the snow, in the ice. You can see me traveling back and forth behind the scenes. I'm always doing something. And I tell you, I'm single. So I'm not perfect. You know, I'm trying to know they're trying to get me there. But now I'm not. I'm going to the club tonight. You know, that's how it is, baby. I'm not. But I'm, you know, he who is without sin cast the first stone. Go ahead. I dare you. I dare you. I dare you. Because I always say, oh, no, I'm a sinner. I'm a sinner. But what I am is a good person. And I'm a fighter. And that's what it is. Hey, we got somebody on the phone already. Scott. Scott, what's up, buddy? Good morning, Rich. How are you, man? Good morning, buddy. How are you? Good money. Good money. Yeah. I'm looking at this guy here in the studio. I'm saying, hey, he must be about money. What's up? How you been, man?
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I've been good. I've been busy, as you know, setting this tournament up you're coming out to and the book we got going. And Major Ed should be calling here real soon. Oh, Major Ed's coming on the line?
SPEAKER 03 :
He should be calling any minute now. So I told him give him 905 and start in. Wow. That's going to be y'all going to be in for a treat. So this golf tournament that's going on, man, this is like the fourth or the fifth one, right?
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, it's the fifth annual Stars and Stripes Golf Tournament. We don't advertise. It's a 100% charity event we put on up in Windsor, Colorado that benefits all of our local first responders, our police, our fire. They get to all play. So we've got about 200 of them playing golf for free. Sponsors pick up all their whole day. So the sheriffs, the police, the fire, EMS, veterans, active duty military. We pay for them all to play, and we play and have a great time and raise money for about 10 or 15 local charities besides our master charity.
SPEAKER 03 :
Man, that's incredible, man. You do great, great work. And, you know, you've always been that person in politics that I respect. And you're a powerful guy. And I appreciate, you know, hey, I'm going to have the 10th hole, people. So we're going to be raising money for Black Lives MAGA, the 10th hole. Can you believe that? I'm going to be on the 10th hole with a tent and the whole nine at this luxurious, like this so beautiful is out there. Is that also owned by? Mr. Lynn? Yes.
SPEAKER 18 :
So that's Rain Dance National was made to actually capture like a U.S. Open. Eventually, it's a really second longest golf course in North America. So if they play it from the tips, it's absolutely stunning.
SPEAKER 03 :
Wow. Yeah, man, I can't I cannot wait to do that. I cannot wait. So, Scott, I was just talking to Joe about, you know, the journey. It's already been eight years, Doug, eight years. And it's been, you know, I've had every horror story and so many triumphant stories as well. But the thing, you know, from the beginning, I kept it clear. My mission was what Trump told me to do. And he's in a room of 100 people, black. You know, the first kickoff for Black Voices for Trump. And thousands of people outside in Atlanta. I'm VIP. I'm in there. I'm right on the front. And he just said, hey, I need everybody in this room to go back to their communities, go back to their family, to their neighborhood. I don't need you over here. I always say E-470. I don't need you there. I need you in your neighborhood and to your family and let them know, wake up. Here's what's really happening. This is what's going on. I'm going to make America great for American Americans. And that's what I've been doing, man. I've been doing that religiously. Wow.
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Well, anybody who, anybody who has an America first agenda, we're automatically like put in some weird category and that that's not how it used to be. But if we don't put on our own Austrian mask first, We can't do anything. And we've got to take America first from our schools, like you're doing through your community. I do through my community. But we bridge, too. We go to each other's communities and talk, right? Yes, we do. You're the best uniter I've ever seen, and that's why I guess you're called the uniter, bringing in all kinds of factions, all kinds of races, all kinds of different ideologies back into one. I appreciate that.
SPEAKER 03 :
I definitely appreciate that, man. And for the major to be coming through, that's a man. I can't I can't wait for that. Let me ask you a question, though, Scott. So here's my question when it comes to what's happening now. I explain to a matter of fact, this this guy's name is Mark. Say hello, Mark. How are you guys doing this morning? How's it going, Mark? Pretty good. So he's a he's a he's a family. He's a family member. that has always known me. We've been close since we were little kids. And our family on both sides was born black Democrat. I never was like that. He's one person that can tell you all the greats and he can tell you the stuff that piss him off about me. He don't know how to lie. He don't know how to sugarcoat a lie because that's just how he is. But I've always been that go-getter, have I not? That's right. And I've helped so many people, but I've had help too, man. That's what's so great. But I didn't want to get into politics. I just knew that the Democrat thing was not for me. I'm looking at him and saying, are you guys serious? Would you rather have somebody give you a fish? And then when he decides not to give it to you, you're stuck. Or would you rather have that person teach you how to fish? And now you can fish all the time. You can start a business and you can do all kinds of stuff. That's just common sense. When I wanted to get into the music industry here, I did so much here. I hate giving away my age, but people have an idea. My mom's not here anymore, God bless her soul, but she taught me everything I know. God give it, she nurtured it. Ever since I was a little kid, man, I've always been doing this. Daddy Bruce, Bruce Randolph. Look up the documentary. It's Obama's on it, everything. And your boy, me. When they come up and they show this song and they show this music and they show this record, it says music written by Reggie Carr. So that's just to show you how not just talented, but how far we go back, how far I go back with this. And I'm so happy, man, to see, you know, everything grow. I'm so happy that Trump's alive. They tried to get him. And the only reason they're trying to kill this man is because he is for you and me. That's it. There is no other reason.
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Think about it, Reggie. So I relate it like this, okay? So I grew up a Raider fan. I vote for the Raiders because it's a team. It's a Raider. I'm a Raider guy. But that has zero, absolutely zero to do with reality. That's just some sort of stupid fan thing. When we're talking about our country, just because you were on a team, the Republican team or the Democrat team, you got to wake up and look at what's actually happening, right?
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Yes, sir. Yes, sir. You got it. You have to wake up. You have to wake up. And I am so glad I'm down this path. I still have I'm still struggling. You know, Mark says right now, man, what you got to do every time somebody brings you down or or gets gets you have any troubles or anything in life. It's always coming from your people. I tell people on this station all the time, it's not police killing blacks, it's blacks killing blacks. I tell them all the time. In Hollywood, at the Grammys, walking down, I go get my hair braided, they're telling me, yo, the barber is telling me, hey, man, do you know where you're at? I'm like, yeah. I'm in California, right? I know you're somebody because the Grammys are here and all this, but you're on the wrong side of town to be wearing this color. He said, that color is across the street.
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I'm like, what?
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I'm like, what? It's real. And that wasn't from the police. That was from my own people, our own stupid narrative. You know, I tell everybody all the time about the N-word. I'm like, if that's such a horrible word, which it was, it stood for a lot of horrible stuff, then why do you go and promote it? Why do you turn it into a situation to where... It's now a term of endearment. Like how you say it. If you say er at the end, you know, I got to kill you. You know, if you say uh, you say, oh, yo, that's my boy. That's my boy. Come on, man. That's stupid. But then you put it in songs degrading it and then degrading women and everything. And then you get mad at the little white kid that's in his car and he's playing the rap music and he's reciting the lyrics and he says that word and you're ready to kill him. Come on, man. It's idiot. Is it not smart? Can you get any more dumb?
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Well, you know, Chappelle played that one all the way out, right?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, yeah, he did. He sure did. Hey, hey, man, we got Major Ed. Ed, Ed, Major Ed.
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Hey, what a great day to be an American, my friends. Hoorah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Hoorah. What's up? We got Scott on the line, too.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, man, that is good.
SPEAKER 07 :
Scotty's doing a good job, man, making things happen.
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He always do.
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Major, this is my best friend Reggie. Reggie, meet Major. You guys, go for it. And Mark, too. Okay. Sounds good.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, man. You guys brought the infantry and the artillery here, man. It's all good.
SPEAKER 03 :
Mr. Major Ed, that's how I got to give you that respect. I know a little bit about your story, but it's nothing like hearing it from the horse's mouth, per se. I want to hear what you've done, what you've been through, and what you're doing now, because I'm looking at this, and this is incredible. I'm really honored to have you call in on the show.
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Well, thank you so much for having me, and I appreciate all that you do and what you're standing for, specifically being a great American man and I have to tell you, man, you know what? Sometimes we're going to take hits. And before I tell you a little bit about my story, we're going to take hits.
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Before you tell me, Major Ed, before you tell me that music's playing, that means we're going to go to break. We're going to come back and start out with you. So hang on the phone. This is 560-KLZ. I'm United.
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SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, yeah, man. I love listening to the music. And of course, you know, we have to always our sponsors and commercials to do that. But Scott, Major Ed, you guys there?
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Yeah, coming in hot.
SPEAKER 03 :
Absolutely. OK, so Major Ed, let's go, man. You what, buddy? Tell my audience, tell the world who you are, what you've done, what you've experienced, because it's incredible.
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Well, you know, my story begins on August 17th of 2004 when I hit a 250-pound roadside bomb that changed my life forever. And as I always tell the American people, freedom is not free. The sacrifices that our men and women who fight for our freedom, what they do each and every day needs to be noticed and needs to be supported, and they need to get paid and taken care of and not left behind on the field of battle. And so for me, As I struggled to breathe and my life was tested, I will tell you that I remember what my father once told me. He told me that when you take the oath of office to defend the greatest nation in the world, it was always about God, love for country, and love for family. And he said it in that order because if you know anything about the military, you're kind of government property, man, of the country. But you know what? That's why I took that oath. I died three times on the battlefield. And it was a young man, a combat medic, who saved my life and gave me a second chance along with the good Lord. And that's why today I advocate for strong defense, a strong country, and none of this crappy chaos that's going on all over the place. To me, you know what, as a minority citizen, Hispanic culture and my father being Colombian and coming here and doing things the right way and teaching us about the principles of life and being a Vietnam veteran and, you know, silver stars, purple hearts, bronze stars, you know, telling you, man, that's where I got my roots. And that's why I do what I do every day to help our veterans and their families and our first responders. And that's why Scott and I joined forces and we're making a difference.
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So are you going to be at the golf tournament?
SPEAKER 08 :
You bet. I always come in hot, you know, to these events and, My strategy here is to just let people know about the empowering effect that we have to support our men and women who fight for this freedom and to support the Department of Defense and the VA and support our first responders and local communities and not the chaos that's going on in Los Angeles and other places that just don't really... meet the standards of excellence for who we are as a country. And I don't know why even people, not to get political on that, but why people even advocate and support crap like that. And it makes our Hispanic citizens look bad. It makes our minority community look bad. And that's not what we're all about. And I'm just glad that, you know, you're being empowered to do, to be a difference maker, to step out of your comfort zone and to say, you know what, I'm not going to align with forces of, of, of evil or not good, I'm going to align myself with people that are going to take me to another level that will empower me and support me. And that's how I live my life. And I don't have an apology for
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So I have a question to ask you. And Scott, you can also chime in. How does it make you feel, man, fighting for the country, been through everything you've done and, you know, almost losing your life all those times? And then you come here in America and you have these liberals and Democrats and their policies. And you got all these homeless vets. I mean, I think that is one of the things that gets under my skin so much because I know me. I don't have the courage. I have the courage to do this type of stuff, which is dangerous. But it's not nothing compared to going into the field of battle and battling for your country and then being maimed or disfigured or killed. But you come back here to your country. I believe that every vet should automatically have a house, a car paid for. a place to live and as well some type of pension and money. That should be first and foremost. What do you feel about that? What do you think about that?
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Well, I'm glad you brought that up because that's a very important element of my life. Look, I lost my left leg, came back with a traumatic brain injury, hit a 250-pound bomb and died three times. And my thing about it is that, you know, it does – make me disillusioned a little bit, knowing that what my dad and others went through, our Vietnam veterans who weren't taken care of and were kind of just thrown to the side, that we can't make those same mistakes again. And we are making some of those same mistakes. You know, with the immigration issue, you're putting a lot of money into these immigration things, and all of a sudden, you know, you have an influx of people. You can't even take care of the people that really have sacrificed so much for the freedom that we have. And that, to me, is exactly... The point you make is that, you know what, we're empowered to raise awareness about that. Our veterans are not being paid good right now. And I will tell you that that living wage that the government gets us for the sacrifices that we made, it's unacceptable. The health care needs improvements. And I'm not saying it's all bad, but you know what, we can do better. And what we do is we put out all of these resources together. and take care of everybody that has come into this country. And all of a sudden now we don't have the resources to even provide the support that these veterans need. And that to me is an important element. Housing, I do a lot in housing with my work here at First American Title, educating people about utilizing their VA benefits, making sure that they maximize everything. But at the end of the day, It's unacceptable to have a veteran sleeping out on the streets and not giving them a place of shelter. You know what? I'm going to do everything in my power, and so is Scott and you and others, to educate the American people on what the standards of excellence need to look like and why we should invest in making sure that veterans are taken.
SPEAKER 03 :
And now let me give you being black. I have to address this as well, because although I am a Republican and I'm a Trump to heart is other things because it makes me it makes me feel less than because, you know, I know my people were enslaved for 400 years. I know we were murdered, you know, tortured our intellectual properties, copyright, trademark. We had a lot of stuff done to us. And, you know, there's there's the thing we're supposed to we're supposed to get four acres and a mule, all these things that took place and whatever through history. But the thing that bothers me the most is like so some people say, OK, yeah, let's do reparation. Some people say not. But my energy, I like to keep the same energy for everything. That's just what I am. I'm an energy person. If you give, I give. If you try to hurt me, I'm going to hurt you. You know, that's just the bottom line. But the the situation that I look at, big dog, is that we could have solved everything with the blacks, with the with the vets, with the homeless. We've given so much money to Ukraine. so much money to these illegals that don't even like America. They're here to rob, rape, and pillage America. That's what they're here for. And then we have the top 1% that's over, and they're liberals and Democrats. That's just what it is. And they wanna keep their transgender gay ideology. They wanna keep power. They let all these people in here because they wanted to have votes to take control and push their agenda. But we have spent so much money on all these things that are unnecessary that we could have solved all these problems. Everybody's problem could have been solved for Americans. I want all Americans and everything that has been done wrong to be just. And I want everything, and I believe Trump is the person that do it. A lot of people say, and in my people, they say, oh, Trump, he's racist. No, he's not. No, he's not. And everybody's waking up on that. He's done more for black people than you can ever imagine. And he doesn't care about your race, color, creed. He's just God and country. And if you meet him, if you study him, if you see, if you wake up, if you look, you understand how much this man does. I've never seen a racist put $8 billion plus into black colleges. Racists don't do that. Really? Like, I mean, wake up. He had two African presidents in his office. He stopped the war. He made them shake hands, sign a treaty. He stopped Pakistan and India from almost a nuclear thing. These aren't white people. These are minorities. These are people of color. And he comes in there and he has so much respect and so much respect. admiration from the rest of the world. And so these people in America that push that fake ideology, they have no idea. This man in six months has stopped three wars. And then he, not only does he stop them, he says, okay, now let's sit at the table and let's break bread. Let's do deals together. You know what I'm saying? Like, let's do trade. I mean, that dude is ultimate to me. He's ultimate. What's your opinion on that?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I agree with you, and I think that what we're finding is that his policies are game-changing policies. And I'll give you an example of how the media, and you know this, twist everything. We're under Biden's budget still, and Biden's the one that's made the decisions to do the things that he did regarding his budget and what happened down in Texas and for people to be blaming the president. currently for those kind of ill wills. And then you've got the fact that he's empowering people to really, you know, get off the couch and say, hey, man, you know what? Even though you may not be able to, you know, maybe you're on Social Security or on disability or whatever it may be, that you're going to get up every day and at least do something. And to me, that's a worthwhile thing to kind of be that cheerleader, to be that empowering individual and show our minority communities what's possible and to do things the right way and to abide by the law. And, you know, it makes me sad, yeah, that there's collateral damage, you know, from this immigration thing that's going on right now. But you know what? That's just part of it. At the end of the day, all of that changed for me years ago when my friend Bob Berry Jr., who was the number one sportscaster in Oklahoma, was killed by an illegal immigrant who was here Three different times he'd been deported and he came back and he came back and finally he killed somebody. No insurance, no nothing. And to me, you know, what Trump is trying to do, not just on that issue, but on an empowerment side of the issue, is he's making sure that every American has the tools, the resources and the support that they need. And you know what? He's not perfect. But one of the things that I've learned about him, too, like you have, too, he came from that cloth of what the Democrats used to be.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 08 :
And he knows how that playbook is all about.
SPEAKER 03 :
He does.
SPEAKER 08 :
You know, I remember the days in Atlantic City when I was watching boxing in the 80s and President Trump was there with, you know, the mic. Later in that time frame, you know, Don King and And Tyson, nobody ever ragged him out. Oprah Winfrey, all these people had him on their show. Now, all of a sudden, he's the biggest racist in the world. Give me him.
SPEAKER 03 :
Nah, nah. Hey, you guys hang on. I hear that music. And so we're going to have to go to break. This is 560 KLZ. I'm in. This is KLZ 560, your home station.
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SPEAKER 07 :
One, two, three.
SPEAKER 03 :
Woo! Five, six to KLZ. Of course, this is Reggie Rocco. I'm a Uniter show. You know, I watch a lot of stuff on TikTok and they make, you know, I'm a Scott. I said, Scott, some cinematic, just next level stuff that I'm doing with CGI, AI. all that stuff every every bit of technology you can imagine and i put these together i write the scripts i do the music i do the sound design everything and put this together and it's designed to hit the internet all the social media sites so we can promote what we're doing and to try to get the the party more up to date in technology but it was pretty hot wasn't this guy
SPEAKER 18 :
I don't even know what to say. It's like watching a video game while you're in the video game, but it's like real people. I don't even know how to describe it. It's next level.
SPEAKER 03 :
I love it, man. I love it. A lot of people come, hey man, how can you do this? Now, the only thing is you hear Trump talking about AI, AI building facilities and robotics and all that. That is where I want everybody to understand where we have to go as a party. We have to learn this stuff. We have to do this stuff because the Democrats are doing it big time. So that is how far we're behind. We have to come up to technology to stay ahead. We got the right president in. We got the right situation. We can't lose it. We have to do what we're doing at the speed of light. We have to catch up and we have to get younger. All of us are gonna be, we only live so long. you know, but we have to have that next generation sharp, smart, and ready to go. And I, that's why it's a good time to be alive in reference to being a Republican conservative. I mean, it's a great, great time. And, uh, Oh, Scott, uh, and major ed are major. Are you in that? Are you in the book that Scott got coming out?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. You know what I, Scott, uh, called me to action. And I don't know if you know, I'm an author. I wrote a book called Warrior for Freedom. And so I was able to take some of that information and bring it in to purpose. We are with Scott and do something of a book project. And it's going to be exciting just to kind of gain insight and storytelling on different things that have been going on in our lives for people to kind of find purpose. You know, there's a lot of people that are hurting in America today, and one of the things that I always talk about is like, you know what, you may hurt, but with God on our side, we can do so many great things, and that to me is what wakes me up every day, and empowers me to be the best that I can be, you know, it's not easy running around with one leg, but you know what, at the end of the day, I make it happen, and I know that I've got to contribute, and you know what, I have a lot of power to do that, and I just feel blessed to be able to tell my story of challenge, triumph, and change, but also talk a little bit about the philanthropic work that I'm doing and what I'm doing here at First American Title and in real estate. That's bread and butter, and that's what America's all about.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. And, you know, like this show, this platform, and Scott just said, you know, I'm the greatest United he's ever met. Well, that's that's a that is a definite compliment. I appreciate that. But let me tell you, we've had gay people on the show. We've had Democrats on the show. We've had liberals on this show. We even interviewed and reached out to the other side, the devil worshiper side, because we want to sit down and say, hey, man, what the hell is wrong with you? What would make you do this or say this or go this way? And I get that from Trump because Trump sits down with the enemies. He sits down with everybody. And that's how you have to do to solve to get things done. You can't. run away from the tough stuff or stuff you don't agree with. You got to sit down with these people and try to get their head straight. Straighten them out and understand. And at the end of the day, you know, you don't have to end up, you know, being these people's friends because one, they're going to find out the hard way anyway. But this is why I respect Trump so much. He sits down with his enemies. I mean, he'll insult you, you know, Rocket Man and call you all that. Then the next thing I know, he's over in North Korea stepping across the line. Like no presidents, everybody, every other president, they're hiding in the bunkers, they're hiding and they're not coming over there. Trump goes right out there to the person who was his enemy, come out there, talk to him and shook his hand. I mean, can you get more manly? Can you get more being of a leader or example than that? You can't. Am I wrong?
SPEAKER 08 :
No, you're not wrong. And the thing is, that's the example we have to set. You know, at the end of the day, You can take and take and take, but what are you giving back? What are you doing that's purposeful and game-changing? And what you're doing on the radio waves is exactly what we're all about and what we should be all about is being our individual citizens but empowering others to know and understand that sometimes you have to do it alone, man. You're probably, everything's on your shoulders. And the thing about it is that there's support and all of that, but that support only goes so far. You have to be the one that wakes up. You have to be the one that takes on the baton. And like in the real estate world, if you're not out there hustling, man, things are going to go up to the wayside, and that's not going to get done. And so that, to me, is what businesses do in America. That's how they thrive. That's how individuals thrive. And at the end of the day, collectively, we can all come together and say, hey, We can have purpose and we can have what I call a winning strategy for loving this country and contributing to it.
SPEAKER 03 :
I agree. Some of the things that Trump, I guess he's releasing now or any day, are these additional tariffs and he's putting these numbers on them. All the countries, everybody's scrambling. Some are trying to buck back, but it don't work. They come running with their tail between their legs eventually. And it's just incredible how much that the United States of America has been taken advantage of. And I know because I have Arabic friends. I have Cuban friends. I have multi, I'm out here in these, how they say it, Mark, in these streets, in these streets. And so I get the real information from the inside out and the outside in. And, you know, we've had big politicians on here. Roger Stone's interviewed on here. It's crazy to me how common sense doesn't exist anymore and how people go by their agenda regardless of if it, kills their pockets, their narrative, makes them look stupid. They stick to it. So I call that a syndrome. I call that mental illness because I never want to be in that situation. If somebody shows me something where I'm wrong, I'm the first person that's going to stand up and say, you know what? My bad. I'm wrong. I didn't know it. And I got you. It don't take me, you know. lifetime to change. You only live once. So you got to make do and make the best out of life you can. And America is the model, is the model of the whole planet that is the best country in the world to live in. And you can't say that if you haven't been out the country. Try going out the country and see how many rights you have. Try going out the country and see if you can burn somebody else's flag. Try going out the country and see if you can even argue with them at the airport what you're going to do and what you're not going to do. Just go ahead and try it. They'll come get you right there and then you'll be stuck. Then you'll be begging for America to try to get you out of jail and to help you. They don't have to do that. You're here. So we have to make sure that people come here, that they're here to accept our laws, to... We need our laws. We need them explained 100 percent to everybody here. If you do not love this country, you're not going to come here and take advantage of it. You're not going to take advantage of the people and citizens where that is. That is over. And if I'm not mistaken, Scott, I heard something and correct me if I'm wrong, that Trump is making it to where illegal aliens can't even send money back to their country. Is that true?
SPEAKER 18 :
So remember this, the attempts for everything to get done are, it's a charge in the right direction. To get some things done would require acts of Congress. So you just really honestly have to be like, just like Trump going to open up Alcatraz Federal Prison. Could it be done? Yeah, not in Trump's time. It's going to take a lot of infrastructure. But what I love about that is misdirection because now he's doing all kinds of things over on the right side. Everybody's all freaking out about a federal prison in California, and we're getting our agenda done. And truthfully, it's not up to Trump anyway. Give it to you and give it to me, Major Ed. Mark, you get in there. And before you guys go, I want you to both highlight your – your foundations, your charity. So both you and Ed exchanged that foundation on the air because that's how we get donations to our foundations, right? So what is that all about, both of you?
SPEAKER 03 :
Go ahead, Ed, you go first.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, you know, we have the Empower the Veterans Foundation. Go to majoredempowertheveterans.org to learn more about what we do. We're about creating entrepreneurs, man, making sure that people have jobs, housing, and all of the other supports that are needed for veterans to thrive and be successful. So when they get to us, you know, we've already addressed the mental and the physical and the benefits counseling and all of that. So again, go to majoredempowertheveterans.org. You can give there. We have a platform, a giving platform that people can make a donation. And then, you know, we're raising money through the events that we do, like Scott is doing there with the Stars and Stripes and He's part of our family. He's part of our vision and mission, and leave no one behind, and that's what we're all about.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes, yes, and I support that 100%. The main thing that I'm doing right now, Scott, is, of course, this fabulous radio show, I'm a Uniter, and the second thing simultaneously, just as important, is the website is WeAreBlackLivesMAGA, and that whole movement there is what it is. It's directed at the minorities, right? Black, Hispanic, whatever. But you go there and it's a platform just set up to get the word out to social media to be able to produce high end movie cinematic videos with knowledge about what our party's doing, how to reach into the audience. crevices where a lot of minorities be they're not getting the information so they can see and have a visual as well as understand what's what's going on and that that costs a lot of money it takes a lot of money to do that And yet and still, we're pushing it and we're getting it done. So you can donate at WeAreBlackLivesMAGA.com. And ReggieRocko.com. You can go there. Anything me, you can go there and just check that out. But that's what's going on, man. And so I appreciate you guys calling in, man. And I appreciate your time. Scott, the book is going to be fabulous. I can't wait for that. And, of course, we're getting down Wednesday. Wednesday, 10th hole for me. So that's going to be great.
SPEAKER 17 :
That's Friday. It'd be great, Reggie. I appreciate you having me on and Major Ed too.
SPEAKER 03 :
What a show. Thank you, man. You guys have a good one. We'll talk soon.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, sir. Hoorah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Hoorah. So, Mark, it's time to – it's time to – Let's get a little personal. Did Scott hang up? I think Scott's still on the line. But the bottom line is this. You know, growing up, we've been to different parties, different situations and all that. And truthfully, we got to go to break. They saved you. The break saved us. You listen to the 560 KLZ. I'm a uniter.
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SPEAKER 03 :
Woo! 560 KLZ, I'm your nighter. I'm your host, Reggie Rocco. Yeah, so we're just about to get into something a little personal. So, you've been knowing me for years. Yep, yep. Now... We've been to a lot of different parties. Let's get closer to the mic. There you go. But our fear was never the police, was it? Nope. What was our fear? Just the people around us. It was never the cops back then. It was our own people, gangs, all that stuff, right? Right. Have you ever been harassed by a cop, ever? Nope. Neither have I. What color are you?
SPEAKER 10 :
Black man.
SPEAKER 03 :
You're a black man. Whew. Me too.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 03 :
Wow. I wonder where all that bull crap is coming from or where the cops are jumping in and killing and murdering blacks. No.
SPEAKER 10 :
I'm curious to that too. I mean, I've never seen the world like it is now. I don't know what happened.
SPEAKER 03 :
Dude, I can tell you, man, we were raised a certain way, right? So that's one thing. The second thing is if you are raised the right way, you have God in your life and you have good parents that teach you, hey, right and wrong. It don't mean that we didn't do things wrong. But as far as that next level craziness and all that, it don't happen. And not doing drugs. Not being arrested and all these other things also played a part in this. Now, people said now you say all the time. Everybody that's tried to either set you up or do something wrong to you or to me has always been our same color. Right. Isn't that amazing?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes, it is.
SPEAKER 03 :
Through years and years and years. It hasn't changed now. You get on me all the time. Rich, you heard this money. Matter of fact, let Mark tell you about my mansion. Go ahead, Mark.
SPEAKER 10 :
It was beautiful, man. I was very proud of him. And, you know, he gave me an inspiration. I thought that this was impossible. But now that I see, he made me feel like I can do anything in life. Man. You know, and he woke my eyes up. And I'm a different person for that to this very day.
SPEAKER 03 :
Man, it was so, so, so great. And still, things evolve. There's things that I'm working on now. There's things that you're working on and all that. But I just wanted our audience to know that out there, I don't care what nationality you are, but the truth of the matter is, is that everything personally in my life, every situation that's come with any type of chaos, any type of situation has come from my own people, my color of the skin. Now, me, you know, I know sometimes Mark is real quiet, but, you know, sometimes he, I be like, Mark, what are you doing? What are you doing? But I can tell you this. He's a good brother. He's a good brother. And there's nothing you can say. So I'm glad that he's, you know, waking up to the other side, to the truth of the world and what's going on. But it took a lot of suffering for you to really realize that.
SPEAKER 10 :
It did.
SPEAKER 03 :
It took some suffering, right?
SPEAKER 10 :
Right. Exactly.
SPEAKER 03 :
So you're figuring out the top 1%, how they own everything. You're figuring out how all these illegal immigrants. Now, when you go to Walmart, you see black and white people with buggies, right? They have two or three things in their grocery cart, right? But what are the immigrants and Hispanics got?
SPEAKER 10 :
It's full.
SPEAKER 03 :
Full.
SPEAKER 10 :
The cart's full, yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
To the brim.
SPEAKER 10 :
That's true, yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
They can't even push the cart.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right.
SPEAKER 03 :
This lady could not even push the cart in Walmart. It was so stacked up to the brim. This other lady, two women, had two carts full to the brim. And I said, Mark, do you know where they're getting all that money? He's like, no. Where are they getting this money? From you. From you. So why we're suffering.
SPEAKER 10 :
Americans.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes. Us. Americans. We are paying for all of this. So, yeah, it's crazy, right? And it's like it's not fair and we have to fix it. So, you know, they wouldn't be here, dude, if it wasn't for the powers to be. up at the top. They're the ones that flooded the borders. This is their plan to come in here. And a lot of people in Chicago and Baltimore, Philadelphia, they're all realizing that they're replacing people that look like me and you with them. And they counting on that vote, that was the plan, to keep power so they can keep their money and keep robbing and stealing money from you and keep going in their lifestyle. I remember one time I was riding with Mark, and we was at this rich, rich, rich neighborhood. And he's like, man, what are they doing? What are they doing? How are they getting this money? They don't teach it in school. What is it? Well, I told him straight out, some of it's passed from generation to generation to generation. We were slaves. The other part is they're stealing your money. So that's the bottom line. They're stealing your money. And so I tell you, they'll give you a car loan for 50,000. They'll give you a house loan for 300, 400,000. They'll give you a student loan for 200,000, but they won't give you a business loan. Because business loans represent freedom. You understand?
SPEAKER 10 :
This country is supposed to be built on freedom.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes, it's supposed to be built on freedom. But you have to corrupt. That's why I'm so into being a Republican and a conservative over there, because they're truly I've never, truly ever experienced any racism there. All I hear is God and country. All I hear is help. All I hear is grassroots, you know, not a handout, a hand up. And you know, Mark, I don't bite my tongue. I would tell you if it was anything else. I have not experienced it, not one time. Now, you're going to run into people that are horrible and bad people, bad seeds on both sides. That's not what I'm saying. But what I'm saying, when it comes to the minority community in reference to black, it's been black on black crime, black on black jealousy, black on black destruction. That's it. And people wake up. Wake up, black people, because I know you're listening. You have to understand that the whole world is starting not to like you. They are starting to put you to the side like you don't matter anymore. You are being replaced. Wake up. Get your act together. Unite. Do what's right. You got to leave the Democratic Party and all that. It starts there because you are being manipulated and used beyond belief. Beyond belief. It's a tragedy. But come together. You know, we should be having our own businesses, our own neighborhoods. Now, Mark, when you go to any of these so-called black areas and all that, when you go to Popeyes, you see Mexican workers, right? When you go to AutoZone, same thing, right? Walmart, same thing, right? You go to all these different places that you would never imagine, and it's all Hispanic, right?
SPEAKER 10 :
And another thing I noticed that we don't have a lot of, in our communities, we don't have a lot of Safeways and Walmarts. We have to go 50 miles to go to Walmart. How can we have one in our communities? That's one thing I never understood.
SPEAKER 03 :
I'll tell you why. The reason why we have to go out there is because when they had them here, it was all crime and looting and violence.
SPEAKER 16 :
That's bad on us.
SPEAKER 03 :
And so, yeah, right. We messed it up. We messed it up. So now they're putting a situation to where everything that's in the black community is either owned by Chinese or Hispanics and all of that. You don't see black people owning this stuff or even working in positions of power. I like to gamble. Yep, yep, yep, yep. I like to gamble. But you go up there to Blackhawk. You see a lot of people handing the money now is Asian. Just like in Las Vegas. You come out there, I haven't seen a black manager in power that heads the cash or any of that stuff on there, no. You're just a black person in there giving up your money. But far as like running the show and all that stuff, you can have black people work there, but the positions of power, It's Asian. And it's crazy, dude. It's crazy. But the truth of the matter is we as black people have to come together. Stop the nonsense. Even if you fight or bicker or whatever, man, get that stupid stuff out of your head. Because one, dealing with me. I'm always gonna speak the truth and I'm always gonna come with it no matter what. I don't care where I'm at, have I always been that way or not? So my thing is, come together, let's do what we do, wake up, come over to our party, come over to the Republican Party, learn how to fish not to be given a fish and then you know get this i'm one black person that believe in reparations though because i'm that same energy if you murdered my people if you stole money if you stole our inventions and all of that stuff but then now today you can give free money to ukraine all these illegal immigrants getting 8 000 10 000 free housing free this nah that's that's messed up they don't even care or have done nothing for this country so i expect somebody like trump He's one person I would sit down and say, well, what are you going to do and how do we need to do it? And I would go with his decision on what to do or how to do without question. But he's probably the only one for me. But anyway, we love this party. We love this party. We love people. Black people love people. We love different cultures. We do this. It's only these few idiots. And they're trying to promote black men now as being gay. Like, are you crazy?
SPEAKER 10 :
I never saw that before. Back in the 70s, we were men.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, we were men.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes, we were.
SPEAKER 03 :
But they are promoting us like, hey, yeah, these guys are gay. And in the industry, in entertainment, NFL, NBA, all that, they make you do certain things so you can keep the check coming in. And I'm telling you, that's not true. So we have to stand up and block all this. We have to block all this. Hey, Joe, how much time we got? 45 seconds. So, Mark, you know what? You've never been on the show. You've never been up here. You did pretty good, man. You did pretty good.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thank you.
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Dive into the latest edition of the Best Stocks Now show with Bill Gundersen, where today's economic insights and trends take center stage. From the complexities of an inverted yield curve to Talon Energy's market-rattling acquisitions, explore how these dynamics reshape investment landscapes. This episode also critiques CoreWeave's aggressive stance in AI, alongside Waymo's strategic expansions amid Tesla's competitive drive in the burgeoning RoboTaxi industry. Engage with this intricate weave of economics, technology, and strategic foresight.
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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, July the 18th edition of Best Stocks Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management. I'm here with Barry Kite, our chartered financial analyst and certified financial planner. And as usual, there's some stunning stories in the market here today. There seemed to be more recently. Trump always seems to bring around a lot of stunning stories. Some of them are related to him, but they're definitely market-related. The Dow is down 133. We've got a mixed open, 44,351. The NASDAQ's hitting a new all-time high once again today. It's up 23. It's at 20,909. That's another new high, and we're closing in on 21,000 there for the NASDAQ. The S&P is hitting a new all-time high. It's hit most people's target price already. We've still got a little under six months to go. The S&P is up seven. That's an all-time high at 6,305. Interest rates are down a few basis points here this morning. And we also have gold is up about a half a percent, a little bit of lift there. And oil is up 1.2%. And Bitcoin is about flat here so far today on this Friday, July the 18th. So welcome to the Best Stocks Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management. I'm here with Barry Kite, our chartered financial analyst. And we did get news today that we'll be coming to Atlanta soon. I think in a week we're going to be at the 3 o'clock time slot there in Atlanta, which is about a five-hour drive here from us. A very large hub in the southeast, a very busy city. We were in Atlanta for several years, and the station got repurposed for something. I don't know what it is, Latin Disco or something like that. But anyways, we'll be coming back to Atlanta on the Big Talker there, 1160, I think it is, in Atlanta, which is the answer. To all your questions, it's the Salem Station, the news talker. And we'll be in that 3 o'clock slot. So you'll still be hearing this morning news, but that's okay. I mean, hopefully it stays fresh throughout the day. We had a mixed day yesterday. Tech had a good day yesterday. The NASDAQ hit a new all-time high yesterday. The S&P 500 hit an all-time high yesterday. And that's how we ended, and that's where we begin today. And there's some stunning stories, really, in the market here today. First, we go to the U.K., where I have some roots in North Umberton, England, the very north of England, and also from Renfrew, Glasgow, Scotland. That's my mother's side of the aisle. The UK is moving closer to lowering the voting age to 16. You know, I just don't know about that, Barry. Do kids have their wits about me? I didn't when I was 16. I still barely have my wits about me, and I'm way over 16 now. But they're looking at lowering that voting age to 16 years old. 16 is pretty wild.
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I don't know about that one.
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Coming to America, I'm sure, in the near future.
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What's the impetus for that, I wonder?
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Well, you know, I think kids in that age tend to be much more liberal-minded. And this is being pushed by the Labour Party over there in the UK. So I think it would help. The liberal cause having the 16-year-olds voting. We had the building permits, housing starts rise more than expected in June, even though interest rates are pushing 7%. They're not at 7%. They're under 7%. And I think we said several weeks ago that, you know, people are just kind of accepting these high interest rates. thanks to Jerome Powell, 10 rate cuts by the European ECB and none by our banks, our central bank, and we're up around 7% on a 30-year mortgage, which takes a lot of people out of the market too high. Building permits nonetheless and housing starts rise more than expected in June. It would seem that all of the economic reports we've had, Barry, over the last couple of weeks have all been, On the positive side, in exceeding estimates, whether it be the unemployment claims, whether it be the PPI, whether it be the CPI, which was showing no inflation, well, we seem to be getting a lot of good reports on the economy. Well, the earnings and economy.
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And the economy just made resilient. I mean, when you look at interest rates, I mean, the three-month is at 4.34 U.S. three-month rate, and the U.S. 10-year is at 4.43, which means we've pretty much been in a flat to inverted yield curve for a while now. And as you mentioned, there's only one way to kind of un-invert that, and that's, of course, lowering that short-term rate. And the economy remains resilient and earnings continue to grow.
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No, he's worried about inflation. He can't sleep at night worried about inflation. You know, here's your stunning story. Stunning story number one. This is one we own in our area. Ultra Growth Portfolio, which is having a heck of a year, by the way. Don't take it from me. Get the newsletter and find out how it's doing so far in 2025. But it has been on a tear. And one of those stocks we own in there is Talon Energy. Talon Energy has an interesting past. They went through a bankruptcy. They were in the energy business, and now they're a key player in the nuclear business, which is a very hot sector. in the market, if you haven't noticed. And Talon, T-A-L-O-N, is the symbol there, which is headquartered in Houston, Texas. But a lot of their projects, infrastructure, are located in the mid-Atlantic, in the Pennsylvania-Baltimore area, which is becoming a very important corridor for AI. And Talon announced today that they're buying a power plant in Pennsylvania and another one in Ohio for $3.5 billion. I can't remember the last time we saw all this M&A taking place in the power markets. But, you know, I think Talon probably has nuclear ambitions in those two states. And this stock on that news, now Barry, explain this. Normally when a company buys another company, the stock goes down. But they're obviously getting some good assets here and they may be able to expand their nuclear footprint. Talon is up 20% today. T-L-N. And, of course, we are heard in Houston every day. You've got a big winner down there. Talon is not your run-of-the-mill standard utility that runs electrical lines and supplies the lights to downtown Houston, et cetera. They're more of a nationwide, more along the lines of Vistra. More along the lines of Constellation Energy. And the biggest winner in the market today, as far as I can tell, up on 13 times normal volume.
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In an integrated play. And as you mentioned, like Vistra, I mean, these two plants are gas-fired plants. The neat thing about... You know, gas versus – you know, nuclear is the fact that you can bring new power online faster. That's why GEV has blown up because they make those turbines that you can literally just stack onto the – to the current, uh, you know, power plant, uh, their, you know, gas, uh, fired turbines. And so, um, and, and particularly this one appears to be a pretty, uh, you know, two of the most efficient natural gas power plants that were, uh, that were in that portfolio. And, And Talon was able to get them, and that builds off the good news from last week where they inked that deal with Amazon.
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Man, there's a lot of stuff happening in Pennsylvania this week. No doubt. And, of course, Ohio is becoming a major hub also. Now, when a stock goes up like this after an acquisition, that has to mean it's an accretive acquisition, right? It's good to buy companies that will be accretive and add to your earnings and not subtract to your earnings. That's the goal of M&A is to buy a company that will drop to the bottom line and add value to your company. And obviously the street loves this deal. I've never seen a power company buying out a couple others and up 20% on the news. That is very, very unusual. But you know what? This is a red-hot sector, this need for power. Red-hot. We'll be right back. And welcome back here to the second quarter of today's Best Stocks Now show. I just want to go back to that Talon Energy, which is as simple as TLN on the New York Stock Exchange. There is just a little bit more color that I got out of that story as to why it's up 20%. Here's what one of the analysts, or no, here's what the company is saying, the addition. of the facilities to Talon's portfolio enhances Talon's ability to offer reliable scalable that's an important word scalable that means they can really expand it grid supported and regionally diverse well yeah you're in Ohio and you're in Pennsylvania so you've got the diversity there Low carbon capacity to hyperscale data centers. There's a key sentence, phrase right there. You mentioned data center. Boy, are data centers taking over America or what? And large commercial offtakers. So, you know, those are all the buzzwords right now coming from Talon. And that's why the stock is up 20% today. And it is one, you know, we only own in that ultra-growth portfolio. Those are ultra... You know, refined, we have a refining system, refining out the garbage and getting down to the real crux of the matter, the best stocks now in that area of the market. We currently own just 18 stocks in that portfolio, and one of those stocks is Talon. which has been very good to us. And this portfolio, it's done pretty well since its inception. You look it up yourself, okay? Look at the return since January 1st, 2019, when I started this portfolio for Seeking Alpha and standardized it and where it is today, and then compare that with the S&P 500. That's the ultra-growth portfolio.
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And it's a story about short duration versus long duration. I mean, there's really only one way to expand power quickly, right, in terms of bringing new power online, and that's with turbines and natural gas, nuclear being the longer duration play there. And so, you know, what they're doing is they're getting some assets if they can, you know, scale up the, scale up the natural gas piece, right, a fired portion of their power business, and then they'll have, obviously, could be a bridge to some of those longer-term assets that will eventually come out.
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Yeah, and, I mean, they obviously didn't pay too much. I mean, that's the whole key there. If you pay too much for those assets, then you wouldn't have a stock that's up 20%. But they obviously got a deal that made sense. Got to be some synergy there, right? BlackRock was the seller, and I'm sure BlackRock was happy, right? I mean, they probably made a nice little profit, too, off the whole deal. Okay, the next stunning story to me, but we were right on this one. Back on May the 5th, a company, well, earlier this year, let me see when it went public. Let's see, CRWV went public on late March at $40 per share. and i started reading and i looked at the sales growth and i said wow this is a big deal here this is a good one and we normally don't buy a stock that doesn't have earnings yet but that sales growth was stunning and on may the 5th we stepped up to the plate it's one thing to pull the trigger to buy it's another thing to pull the trigger and sell But we did buy CoreWeave in this ultra-growth portfolio. That's helped the performance this year in CoreWeave. We sold half of it 18 days later after we bought it on May 23rd for a 94% profit. You know, when I bought it, I said to myself, this is the new kid in town, and AI is the one they all want to take to the senior prom. And now they've got a new one, and they were all gushing over it. But I kept the other half. I said, you know, when you make 93% in 18 days, that's a gift. That's a gift from God. You know, you better take it before it disappears. Well, it continued to go north after I sold it, but that's okay because I kept the other half, which was the gravy part of the holding. And I sold it on June the 26th, so I held it for about seven weeks. Sorry about the short-term gains there, clients. You're going to have to pay some tax to Uncle Sam if you've got a non-sheltered account there on those gains in CoreWeave. I sold the rest of it at $158. At that level, we bought it at $52. It more than tripled in seven weeks. I said, thank you, goodbye.
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Me and a client were discussing this trade yesterday, actually, Bill. What? I said a client and me and a client were discussing this trade yesterday for those reasons.
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Yeah, okay, do you see this news on it today? Yeah. CoreWeave gets a reduced rating due to its over-reliance on Microsoft NVIDIA. This comes from HSBC Bank, which is a huge U.K. bank with tons of exposure to Asia. You see the price target that they put on CoreWeave? Did you see this? $32 price target. It was trading at $187 not too long ago. That was the all-time high. We sold it at $158, and I'm happy, you know, and now it's at $126. So it's down $32 from where we sold it. But if HSBC is right, now I don't know what valuation methodology they're using. but they're giving all kinds of reasons they uh they say they're over reliant on microsoft as a customer and nvidia as a supplier as nvidia is the only supplier for coreweave gpus So they have limited bargaining power at CoreWeave. And we believe that CoreWeave has weak bargaining power with Microsoft, which accounted for more than 70% of its 1Q, Q1 25 revenue. And that's called, you know, people do look at your income statement and they want to know, do you have one client that's 70% of your business? Because it's a good thing on the one hand if it's Microsoft. But if Microsoft decides to go shopping, it's a bad thing, obviously, to have too much exposure to just one client. But when I saw that $32 price target, I thought, wow. That's a gutsy call there by HSBC. I'm just glad to be out of the stock and to have taken my profit on it. It's nice to watch it from afar. Yeah, we'll watch this. This is now a tug-of-war between the momentum folks in Silicon Valley that think Corweave's going to the moon and a bank headquartered in the United Kingdom with global exposure whose analyst says, you know what, it's worth $32. Good luck with it. It's at $125. That's just quite a bit of downside risk there. Well, when we come back, stunning story number three. Guess where they're finding rare earth now? We've got a new hotspot for rare earth, and it's not too far from Las Vegas. I'll give you a hint, and I've been there. 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. Now, back to the second half of the show.
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And welcome back here to the second half of today's Best Docs Now show.
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Well, you know, the stories this week, Barry, I mean, if you were to just pick a few phrases, Pennsylvania, definitely, you know... I don't know that the GOP will ever lose Pennsylvania again with what Trump's done for them. I'm sure that he's got a little bit of an agenda there, bringing all that business to Pennsylvania. It seems to be the key swing state. The other story has been Rare Earth. We've been to Las Vegas looking for rare earth. We've been to Greenland looking for rare earth. And I've got another location here I'm going to talk about and another company that's involved here. We've talked a lot about energy and power. data center, fueling all of this, driving all of this, this need for energy. So it's been a wild week. There's been a lot of good stories. We've had a good week here in the market. But now we're going to go to Utah. All right, that's where my ancestors, those Scottish and English ancestors, crossed the Big Pond, the pond, Back in the mid-1800s and made their way to Tooele, Utah, where they were early settlers there in the state of Utah. My mother graduated from Tooele High School. The day she graduated, Barry, she moved to California. She was anxious to get out of Toledo. She's gone. Yes, but I still have a lot of ancestors and relatives up that way. But that's where now the next rare earth. Now, unfortunately, the Tooele area gets the spent nuclear fuel, okay?
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That's what they get.
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They get the waste, the nuclear waste. Over on the other side of the state, and, you know, I've been to Lake Powell many times with my father and mother, and we used to haul our little fishing boat there and go up the river and find a little nice place to camp out and picnic and fish and water ski and all that kind of good stuff. But There's a little town called Page, which is on the Arizona side. And let's see, there's the White Hill Mountains, which is right on the edge of the Navajo Indian Reservation. So those of you that know that area probably know where I'm talking about, the White Mesa Mill in Utah. It's right in the corner, not too far from Colorado, too. Four states come together right in that area.
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That's a spot where you can stand in one spot and touch four states, right?
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Yes. Now, the name of the company, of course, now they've been around for a long time, Energy Fuels. This is an easy symbol to remember, U-U-U-U. Sounds like a Linda Ronstadt's flong, but it's not. U, U, U, U is the symbol because it's the first letter in uranium. And, of course, those states, I think they call it four corners, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, actually five, Wyoming and New Mexico, right there. And if you draw a line, it's not that far from the Las Vegas Mountain Pass area. UUUU surges to a three-year high as it begins heavy rare earth production. That's a buzz term right there, rare earth. The stock has had a big week. It began producing heavy rare earth element oxides on a pilot scale at its White Mesa mill in Utah. The company said it could be in position to produce separated heavy rare earth oxides on a commercial scale as early as Q4 2026. So look at that. I mean, that's more than a year out from existing seed sources. And if a production decision is made in 2025 from its permitted Donald project, coincidentally named Donald, by the end of 2027, Energy Fuel says it's now in the process of producing diprosium oxide. I think I've seen a little bit of that in my backyard. I'm going to get my shovel out this weekend. At a minimum purity of 99.5%. and potentially exceeding 99.9% purity. Now, you can type that in, Barry. Ask a co-pilot. Ask a chat GTP, what is diprosium oxide used for? Diprosium oxide. And it expects its first kilogram of diprosium oxide within the next 30 days. uh so anyways you have another player energy uh fuels operates the only u.s licensed uranium mill okay that means they process the uranium It's used in rods.
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Yeah, used in rods because it has the ability to absorb neurons or neutrons. Yeah, not neurons.
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I knew that. I was thinking neutrons. From which it also produces critical materials such as vanadium. And I've got a vanadium story for you here in a bit. and rare earth element oxide. So you, you, you, you. Now, last year, when I was more active in my trading account, I've been too busy with everybody else's account. You know, mine always gets neglected, my little portfolio. My father, you know, I... He was a well-known artist, and we didn't have any paintings in our home. And my dad used to say, well, you know, I paint all day, and the last thing I want to do is come home and paint. He says, that's like a mailman coming home and saying, I think I'll go for a nice walk. That's back in the days when they used to walk with their little stroller bags full of mail and everything. But anyways, one of the stocks I bought in that portfolio, and I still own it because it hasn't done much. What? Look at this today. That's beautiful. There's a critical mineral material called vanadium. And back when I was doing my research on nuclear plants, vanadium is needed in the shell to protect that from radiation getting out. And I bought some of this Largo, which is LGO. Now it's headquartered in Toronto, Canada, but they are engaged in the mining of vanadium deposits in Brazil. Okay. And Largo had a huge move yesterday, and it's up 15% today. Maybe I'm finally going to get back to what I paid for it, Barry. I think I paid $2.50. It's back to $1.77. I haven't looked at it here today until just now. But remember that word vanadium, which UUUU is mentioning today. And the other play on vanadium is Largo, L-G-O, which is a Canadian company engaged in the mining of vanadium. And so anyways, lots of crazy things happening. All of a sudden, Rare Earth has become... When I was growing up, Rare Earth was a band that played a bunch of Motown songs. They ripped off, you know, and did their own little version of them. Speaking of which, we're headed there. Edie reports to me that we're booked. So we're going to add another day to the concert tour on Thursday. Yes, you filled it up. I'll stay around. I'll stick around if it's got to be me. I don't mind doing it. I love meeting with the folks.
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I don't think I'm heading out until Thursday either.
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Yeah, those one-hour spots on Tuesday and Wednesday, I told you, I warned you, are all gone. But we're going to add Thursday. So get on the phone right now. In the next 10 minutes, the first caller gets a vial of vanadium. No, I'm just kidding. Anyways, we'll be there on Thursday now, and Tuesday's the workshop. So it looks like Detroit. Man, I was going to go to a Tiger game while I was there. They're playing Minnesota. Yeah, they are. Maybe we'll make it. Maybe we'll make it, slip in a Tiger game. Okay, now my next big story. Goes back to Pennsylvania. Now, Jeffries, which is a big firm, bigger than us, they're Goliath. I'm David with my little sling. And they say the biggest winner coming out of Pennsylvania this week is PPL. Now write that one down. That's a traditional, that's the traditional electricity generator utility in that area of Pennsylvania. I mean, they are headquartered right there in Allentown. Billy Joel had a little song about that. They also produce power for Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, and the U.K., Let's keep our eye on PPL. I've added that to my watch list. Maybe they'll become a big player in nuclear in the hottest state in America right now. No, it's not Arizona. They're the hottest by temperature. But for stocks, it's Pennsylvania this week. Congratulations. When we come back, I've got a big robo-taxi story.
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Go where you want to go Do what you want to do And win whoever wins
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And welcome back here to the final segment of today's Best Docs Now show. And I have a RoboTaxi update for you. You know, it's pretty hard to argue that Google doesn't have the big lead here as far as I'm concerned. You know, I saw him running all over the Bay Area, obviously, when I was out there. And we'll be out there in probably late August, early September. I can't wait to get back there. But Waymo doubles their footprint in Austin as the robo-taxi battle heats up. And they take a dig at Elon Musk. They're going to double their service area in Austin in a strategic push to stay ahead of Tesla. Waymo's robo-taxi coverage in Austin now spans 90 square miles, more than double its previous footprint, as it aims to cement its lead with what it calls the city's only fully autonomous 24-7 ride-hailing service, which is a veiled dig at Tesla, which only offers invite-only supervised rides, Barry, You know, you can vote as a 16-year-old, but you've got to have a supervised right. Between 6 a.m. and 12 a.m. Don't we call that a learner's permit? Isn't that a learner's permit? So they're way ahead in my book of Tesla. Now, you never count Elon Musk out. But, you know, I mean, Waymo also has that exclusive partnership with Uber, which is pretty darn valuable. Yeah. They now offer autonomous rides in new neighborhoods that include Crestview, Windsor Park, Franklin Park, Sunset Valley, The Domain, and McKinney Falls State Park. So there's your update on Robotaxi. And don't count Google out. You can't count them out in AI. You can't count them out in digital advertising. You can't count them out in Robotaxi. They are a major platform to be reckoned with. But we'll see. You know, you've got Tesla there breathing down their neck, but Tesla seems to be well behind. Waymo Waymo seems to be the leader the de facto leader right now in robo taxi Okay, I see Microsoft gets a target price raise. By the way, Microsoft's been hitting new highs, all-time highs, which reminds me, let's catch up here. Have they hit $4 trillion yet? Not yet. $3.8 trillion. And NVIDIA has been hitting new highs all week long. They're at $4.2 trillion. Jensen Wang has opened up a $400 billion lead on Bill Gates' Microsoft. Don't count Microsoft out, though. They're a major player. And let's not count Meta out. They not only stole Apple's boss, head honcho in the AI space, But they took his team, two of the prominent members of his team. So, you know, he's opening up his checkbook is Zuckerberg, Zuckerbucks. And we do own Meta. And Meta is really rating top talent in AI.
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And the 27, I mean, to me, look at the 27.28, essentially a 27 forward PE ratio for Meta. I mean, and their earnings are 25 bucks a share.
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Look at Google's forward PE, too. It's not that bad. What is Google right now? G-O-O-G-L is the one I trade in.
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Yeah, that's 19.
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There you go. I mean, that's very reasonable prices. Okay, the one that is disappointing us today, I list my winners and my losers, and I thought it was a fantastic report from Netflix. They beat by 12 cents, and they raised their 25 guidance. Barry, you'll have to dig into that and tell me why it's down 5.3%. We'd be way up today if it wasn't for Netflix. We're having a good day.
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Yeah, the report was a beaten raise. They raised revenue guidance, raised earning guidance, beat the estimate.
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What in the heck? What do they got to do?
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I don't know.
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Find rare earth minerals, invest in a uranium mine like Apple did. I mean, what does Netflix have to do?
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Buy some power companies like Talon, I guess.
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Buy some nuclear power, something like that. But anyways, I thought it was fantastic. I'm not too worried about it. But the stock is selling off. They're looking to make $32 per share this year. They've been growing their earnings by 25% per year over the last five years. And this quarter they reported their sales were up 16% year over year. Now that's hard to believe.
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I've been watching their Cold War documentary ever since Iran, ever since we sent those bunker busters in there. I've been watching a documentary on the Cold War. I think it's called Turning Point or something on Netflix, and about four episodes in, and it'll blow your mind.
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Well, I've got a 12-year-old granddaughter who's trying to big-time her mother to watch the Squid Games. Is that a Netflix property? Oh, yeah, that's a little – I don't know. mom said no mom should probably say no 12 year old slammed her door moped the rest of the day mom looked it up and said the F word 27 times
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It's a little blood and definitely some violence in there, too.
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And even you say no. Well, I'm going to tell her that because I was on the no side of the fence, too. That's not good for a 12-year-old at all. But I guess it's a big hit. But keep it away. You know, maybe they'll move the vote to 12 at some point in time. But you can't watch squid games, not on my watch. Anyways. Okay, well, you know, we're out of time. We never got to 3M like anybody cares. Well, you know, it's Minnesota Manifest. American Express. Schwab reported earnings. All these soggy stocks. Truist Financial and Schlumberger rounds out. The lineup. Okay, I'm working on the newsletter the rest of the day, doing a little trading. Maybe we'll find something. You're going to see some new stocks in this week's newsletter. I was pretty busy this past week. Very busy, in fact. We're going to look into Thursday. Actually, we have to check if they have that space available for us. They should. Book an appointment. We'll get you in there. We'll do the... interviews in the parking lot if we have to on thursday all right gundersoncapital.com to set an appointment with us or to reserve a spot to that workshop or talk to us anywhere from america 855-611-BEST have a great weekend
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