In this episode, explore the fascinating duality of market opportunities and geopolitical strategies shaping today's economic environment. Hot off high-stakes trade negotiations and strategic deals, various industries, from aerospace to tech, are redefining their roles within the global market. We'll also shine a light on Bill Gunderson's inside perspective on Buffett's recent strategic shifts and how Microsoft grapples with antitrust scrutiny. Let us guide you through the intrigues of these markets and equip you with the knowledge needed to understand these transitions and position your portfolio for potential growth.
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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. Thank you.
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And welcome to the Friday morning. It is Friday, May the 16th. The live edition of the Best Stocks Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management. And we're hanging on to just some very slight modest gains here so far today. But we've had a really good week in the market. The Dow is up. It's actually down two points right now. It is running into its 200-day moving average. I would say that about the Dow. It's at 42,320. The NASDAQ, which has had a very good week, is up 21 points. It's at 19,133, just a little under 800 points away from 20,000. And the S&P is just 80 points away from 6,000. It's up three points today. Let's not forget, just six weeks ago, the S&P was at 4,800. Now we're closing in on 6,000. What a comeback, V-shaped recovery that it has been. Meanwhile, the bond market, a little rally there going on today, driving interest rates down to 4.39, 4.44 now. On the 10-year, the two years at 3.93. Gold is down today. Gold has been going through a bit of a correction. It's down 1.4% today. And Bitcoin is up 1,400 to 102.958. So welcome to today's 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 I think, Barry, it's safe to say that we can look back on this past week and say it was an active week. And not a passive week. It almost seems like the news is coming out of a fire hose these days, trickling out of a drip system, you know? It's crazy.
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The interesting thing is, you know, this week it seemed, you know, I don't know, I guess, you know, less frantic. It seemed more, you know, almost more of a positive news week, right?
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Yes.
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Imagine that. Yeah, I mean, I kind of welcomed this week almost where no real bad news came out, and all of the news that has come out seems to be positive in a bunch of different aspects.
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And it all started, I want to say it was last Sunday when we got the announcement that they had at least a phase one trade deal with China.
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When we had a release of the last American living hostage, I believe, kind of started with that as Trump was making the fight over to... And all of the monetary deals, business deals over there in the Middle East.
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So it's been a pretty good week. You know, it seems like all of that bad sentiment junk and gunk is now behind us. Now we've got to worry about real things like valuations and PE ratios and forward PE ratios, etc., etc., etc. But keep in mind, just about six weeks ago, the S&P was at 4,800. In fact, it was on a Friday. that we were down 1,000 points on the Dow, and that's when it bottomed. That was around April the 8th. 4,800, and here we are closing in on 6,000 again. Okay, that's a 25% move now off of the bottom. In the S&P 500, not quite 25%, but definitely north of 20%. And, you know, we've had a few trade deals. Nothing is finished yet, and there's still a lot more in the works. I see Japan is... Kind of betwixt and between because they have an upcoming election and they don't want to give away the farm. But with Japan, obviously, we want to kind of put tariffs on their cars that they're shipping here. We're buying lots of their cars. And they are running tariffs on our cars going to Japan. That seems to be the biggest sticking point right now in the trade negotiations between us and Japan. And they've got an election in the way of it all. So that may hold things up. Yesterday, Trump unveiled $14.5 billion agreement with Boeing GE Aerospace. and Etihad Airways, which is the big airway in the United Arab Emirates. Have you watched any of that? Can you believe the palace and how beautiful some of those places are in the United Arab Emirates, the UAE, and also in Qatar and also in Saudi Arabia? I mean, it's pretty opulent, to say the least.
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I mean, concentrations of wealth kind of can turn into some... Some spectacular feats, right?
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It's good to be sitting on oil. But you know what? I mean, they have diversified away from oil, but, I mean, obviously that's their lifeblood. I've got to believe that this trip is going to help their tourism industry grow. You know, the United Arab Emirates has got Dubai in there and Abu Dhabi. Those are some pretty nice countries and some pretty nice places to visit, it looks like. So anyways, he's had a very successful trip. Now, yesterday I saw GE Aerospace blow up to the upside. That's just the old GE, okay, not the spinoff. It was the one that everything was spun off from. Look at the chart on GE yesterday, a breakout. So Trump should be getting some commission checks soon in the mail from GE and Boeing, right?
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Well, I mean, I was looking at, did you know, you know, I was doing the math from where we were. We ended the day last Friday. Of course, we had, you know, Besson's meeting over that weekend. And then, of course, we've had this deal-making week. And then S&P was at 56.60. At the end of the week, last week, so up 4.6% since we closed last Friday. So pretty strong week for the market.
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Yes, yes. And then look what's been added on. You know, that news for Boeing. That's the biggest order that they've ever received on their wide-body aircraft, a $96 billion order from Qatar. In Oklahoma, the Emirates Global Aluminum will invest to develop $4 billion in primary aluminum smelter project. That's in Oklahoma. which also includes some rare earth supply chain stuff there. Among other deals in his UAE, United Arab Emirates, ExxonMobil, Occidental Petroleum, that's Buffett's big holder there, and EOG Resources are partnering with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. for expanded oil and gas natural production Raytheon is collaborating with Emirates Global Aluminum and the UAE Council on a gallium project aimed at securing and stabilizing the United States critical mineral supply chain and amazon web services and the uae cyber security council have launched a sovereign cloud launch pad to accelerate public cloud services adoption in the united arab emirates and uh qualcomm is expanding its global innovation footprint through partnerships with uh the the arab emirates et cetera et cetera et cetera so it was all good they had their checkbooks open when trump arrived that's for sure and trump's not afraid to open his mouth and make some deals while he's there so you gotta say it was pretty successful trip okay and as i said japan's gonna hold out for a better u.s trade deal they've got a lot of political pressure there right now they gotta step back uh and try to work a better deal. Of course, they're lifeblood in Japan. They heavily protect their agricultural industry, very much so. They want to keep foreign competition out to protect their farmers. Protectionism, yes, a lot of other countries employ protectionism on some of their farms.
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crown jewel industries but japan the biggest deal there's with the cars right yeah well in japan's gdp fell i know you know point zero nine percent so just basically flat but still um you know so in terms of um in terms of waiting out even though there is political pressure they got waiting at a deal i don't know how long they can really wait out so
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Now, I found this to be interesting. We were talking about Kohl's doing a private offering on their bonds and wondering how much they got to pay. And would you loan Kohl's money? Well, today they're announcing the terms of their private offering, which are due in 2030, five years from now. And, of course, the trajectory of Kohl's right now is belly up. 10%, 10%, you can get a, what is that, a five-year, less than five-year note, maybe a five-year note, I guess. At 10%, would you take that deal? I mean, that's a lot of money.
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There's no way that I would. Remember back in the heart of COVID where we were seeing 10% for Carnival? That one would have worked out good. Yeah, that worked out good. Not cold.
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No, no way. All right, when we come back, it's been a really good week for NVIDIA also. I want to talk a little bit about that and some heavy investing in the chip industry in America taking place. We'll be right back. Second quarter of today's Best Docs Now show. If you're in the Cleveland area, we have a lot of listeners there on the station there in Cleveland, which we're happy to be affiliated with. We will be in town Tuesday and Wednesday with a Tuesday night workshop at 7 p.m. at the nice, beautiful Big Marriott there in Warrensville, Ohio. And, of course, during the day on Tuesday and Wednesday, we're meeting with folks that want to meet with us, talk to us about their portfolio, their plans, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. If you'd like to reserve a spot, call Edie at 855-611-BEST, 855-611-BEST. Things are packed. Yes, and then June 10th, I believe it's June 10th, is Lakewood Ranch. We're going to do a Tuesday-Wednesday thing down there. And then we're off to Bloomfield, Michigan, I think in July. I'd have to look that up, the exact dates. Okay, Kohl's, 10%, no thanks. NVIDIA Plans R&D Center in Shanghai. To keep its China foothold strong. Okay, I would think that would be good news. And I don't know if the U.S. is backed off at all. Remember, our friend Jensen Wang was in the White House last week talking personally with President Trump about chips and China and other subjects. Jensen Wang is now number 12 in the world, richest people. His company, NVIDIA, is now a $3.3 trillion company. By comparison, Microsoft has just a tiny little lead on NVIDIA right now as the biggest company. Apple is now a distant third. But Jensen Wang is definitely probably the best tech CEO in the world today, along with Elon Musk, for sure, with all of the things he's got going on. I don't know that I can say that about the guys at Google and Apple and Google+. and Microsoft right now, but he wants, you know, NVIDIA's had a heck of a week. NVIDIA was cleared down. Here's another one. If you look back on NVIDIA, it got as low as about $100 per share there. And now it's $135. So it's up 35% from its low. It continues to be our largest position overall by a pretty good margin. And demand for NVIDIA's AI chips remain high among major Chinese tech firms like ByteDance and DeepSeek and Tencent and Baidu. China accounts for 14% of NVIDIA's revenue in 2024. He's described the country as a potential $50 billion market in the coming years. So they're going to at least have an R&D center there in Shanghai. And we'll see if the restrictions are lightened up on those NVIDIA chips. Now, another one investing in the United States. Taiwan Semiconductor owns a company called Global Wafers. And it's not vanilla wafers. Is that what's in banana pudding? Vanilla wafers? Yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah. Well, you know, banana pudding's kind of a southern thing. I don't see any banana trees around here. I don't know how it became that way, but... Global Wafers is looking to boost its investment in the U.S. to 7.5. I mean, we're losing track. I'm sure somebody's keeping a spreadsheet somewhere on all this investment in the U.S. This is a Taiwan-based semiconductor silicon wafer company. They plan to more than double their investment by $4 billion from a prior commitment. And this is going on in Texas, at their facility in Texas. I believe it's in Sherman, Texas. So more money being spent in the U.S., more factories, more jobs coming to the U.S., Apple, on the other hand, he's not going to bow. I know Trump kind of twisted his arm about bringing some of that Apple iPhone fabrication to the U.S., but they're going to keep their iPhone production hubs in India and China. That's according to Wedbush. So I don't know. He may pay a price for that in the way of tariffs at some point. Right now they're carved out, I believe. iPhones are carved out. on the tariff front. Because right now, China's still at 30%, right? It's at 30% with some carve-outs. Correct. I believe that Apple iPhones fall within that carve-out. Well, you know Los Angeles. I always like to hear some of the things they're doing back there. They're going to have the highest minimum wage of any city in the world, $30 per hour. let's see thirty dollars per hour that's two hundred and fifty dollars not about eighty thousand dollars a year it will be the highest minimum wage in the u s the los angeles city council voted twelve to three to clear the plan to raise tourism workers minimum paid at thirty dollars per power Wow, not bad pay, you know, for tourism work.
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I mean, do they have the margin? I mean, is the tourism margin that big? Well, it's all I know.
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When I had my office in downtown San Diego for several years in one of the high-rise buildings, uh... wendy's was right across the street from us and i used to frequent that often for a quick lunch in between uh... stock charts uh... course the market close the one o'clock on the week west coast as soon as a san diego raise their minimum wage so i think twenty dollars per hour wendy's close down a week later and mcdonald's close down about uh... six weeks later so i don't know you know what i mean you're you crush You crush the people that have to all of a sudden, I mean, there's a lot of little 7-Eleven stores and whatnot in downtown areas. And how do you pay somebody $30 an hour to just ring up Slurpees at the counter? That's a tough deal, but it is Los Angeles. It is California, which very much leans towards a socialistic state. Baby is given the world's first personalized CRISPR therapy. Now, there's no price tag on this, but it could be a watershed moment. This is the gene therapy. It's currently approved by the FDA to treat sickle cell anemia and a few other things. But there was a baby that went in with a very rare disease. It's a big breakthrough. It's being hailed in the world of gene editing with the first custom-designed treatment using CRISPR technology. That's a publicly traded company, CRSP. And that's the name of the technology. I saw the 60 Minutes quite a few years ago. It's, I think, a Taiwan. Either he's Chinese, Taiwanese. Of course, China considers them one and the same. He was talking about the CRISPR. He's kind of the inventor where they take some of your genes out of your body, put them in a test tube, stick a computer into it, and change those genes and then put them back in your body. But anyways, that is a big breakthrough there in that industry. Okay, when we come back, here's the stock Warren Buffett is really doubling down on. We'll be right back.
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Because there's something in the air.
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And welcome back here to the second half of today's Best Stocks Now show on this Friday. A pretty good week in the markets this week. Certainly a lot different from the weeks leading up to that March 8th bottom. This is now, no, it was April the 8th bottom. This is now May the 16th. So, you know, you're five weeks away from what was some really dark days in the market. You now have got the NASDAQ almost back to $20,000. It's at $19,101. The Dow is up way over $40,000 again. It's at $42,320. And the Dow got as low as 36,600, so it's up almost 6,000 points from that low. And, of course, the S&P, which got down around 4,800, is almost at 6,000 once again. Where do we go from here? Well... You know, that's what the newsletter's all about. It comes out every week. I begin work on it. I've already started uploading screenshots from the app and whatnot. Start working on the newsletter to get it out tomorrow as quickly as I can. It'll have my macro outlook. It'll have... Pretty much the numbers for this first quarter of 2025 earnings are now in the book. But more importantly, looking ahead, what is the market expecting for the rest of this year, the last half of this year? And, of course, 2026, the market's really starting to look to 2027, believe it or not. How can it do that? Well, it does. Those earnings estimates are out there now for the next couple of years on these companies that make up the S&P 500. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway sells Citigroup. I can't blame them there. They cut their Bank of America holdings. I can't blame them there. Their Capital One stake, I can't blame them there. And they increased their holdings. In Constellation Brands, that's the stock that has all of those different Modelo or Corona. I don't know all the brands, but there's a lot of them in their portfolio, Ballast Point, etc., etc., etc., That's the one that, I don't know. Corona, Modelo. Yeah. They've got a lot.
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All the seltzers and whatnot.
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So, and the other one, let's see, the other one they're increasing their stake in.
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They've got a lot of brands.
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Yep, Verisign, Pool Corp., which is kind of weird that they'd be buying. That's a smaller stock. They held steady with their 300 million shares. He owns $66 billion worth of Apple shares. but he considers Constellation Brands, STZ, as a good value right now, and they double their stake in it. A lot of Mexican beers that Constellation has. I guess they're not worried about the tariffs.
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They're the ones that recently came out with Fresca Mixed, which I guess is Fresca. If it wasn't bad enough, throw some vodka in there.
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Okay, Microsoft in focus as Europe seeks feedback. They're going after them for antitrust violations. You know, it's constant. It's constant, constant, constant. The European Commission opening a formal antitrust investigation to look into the matter. Microsoft came under fire when Slack... now owned by Salesforce, complained in 2020 to the European Commission that Microsoft received an unfair advantage by bundling Office and Teams together. Okay, so like we say, Europe regulates. Novo Nordisk CEO to step down. That's a surprise. I mean, this is one of the great stocks of the last decade. a couple of decades really because i mean the name is synonymous with diabetes and diabetes drugs they mention a reason why i had a curiosity well kind of weird i don't know it just says he'll resign as he searches for his successor uh... he says there's recent market challenges because of competition from Lilly. Jorgensen became the company's CEO who joined Novo in 1991, the CEO in 2017, so he's been in there for eight years, and they're looking for his successor. The stock is languishing right now. If you look at that trend in it, it's just been stair-stepping downwards. It's in our value portfolio because it's trading at 14, 15 times forward earnings right now, 15 times forward earnings. And you've got pressure, don't forget, from Trump and the HHS. RFK Jr. 8 says the GLP weight loss meds, well, there's only two, will cost the same as the least expensive country. I'm surprised that Lilly, you know, that cast a pall over Lilly for sure. Lilly's actually bouncing today, maybe because of the woes of Novo Nordisk. Lilly, they're wanting to charge, Govee costs around $100 per month, and Germany, that's the lowest priced in the world, that should be the amount that U.S. consumers would pay. Well, I don't know how you figure that out because there's a lot of subsidy there. Those are socialistic countries that take in big taxes and then dole it back out to the folks. And a lot of those drug prices really aren't what they're paying. I don't know how that works. We talked about that yesterday. And I saw Appaloosa, which is David Tepper's hedge fund. He's the owner of the Carolina Panthers. His hedge fund, I don't know. I'm looking at some of the things. He increased his position in UnitedHealthcare. Ouch. That thing continues to just get pummeled. It's been one thing after another. Two bad stocks are getting together. When two bad stocks get together, does it make for one big bad stock? Usually. That's what happens.
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Usually it's a lifeline for one.
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Cox is getting together with Charter. I've heard nothing but bad about Charter. It's a cable provider.
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I remember a few years ago it was listed as one of the most hated companies in the world. And Comcast was, too, for a while. Of course, they changed their name to Xfinity just probably to throw people off the trail.
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Yeah, so, you know, you diversify by buying another company that's having the same issues you're having. But I guess the cash flow and everything, there's strength in numbers. WeRide launches their robo-taxi operations in Abu Dhabi in high-demand areas. You know, there's a lot of business going on in that little area of the world. A lot of big execs travel there. A lot of deals are made there in Abu Dhabi. And in that area, obviously, Dubai. You've got the world's tallest building over there. It really is quite something. It's pretty impressive to watch the news reporters reporting from there.
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Yeah, and when you have a centrally planned city, it's probably easier to have some, at least technology or software-wise, to have something that will robo-taxi you around. There's a lot more tighter-knit roads and everything else there.
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Yes, and it's not spread out like New York City or something like that. Applied materials... You know what? It has been really a squishy, soggy company. It was one of really the great stocks that came out of the Silicon Valley with their chip-making equipment. They're out of Santa Clara. And it's a $132 billion company. I mean, they still make a very needed product. enter a big player in the chip industry but it's a single-digit grower pretty much these days sales growth is five six seven percent somewhere in there it's kinda like cisco which was also one of the great companies that come out of the silicon valley But both of these stocks have seen better days. Applied Materials is down 6.9%. They're kind of the lower end of the semiconductor chain. They're definitely not making the high-end equipment that they're making in the Netherlands. at ASM Lithography to build those Nvidia chips, but they did come out with earnings. It'll be interesting, you know, today, all these guys that count the earnings, there's a couple of them that aggregate all the earnings that come in. And they aggregate all the consensus estimates out there on all of these companies. And they get updated basically every Friday. I look at several of them. And it will be interesting to see where we're at right now with this earnings season now almost completely in the books. We'll be right back for the final segment of this week's Best Stocks Now show.
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On a winter's day.
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And welcome back here to the final segment of today's Best Stocks Now show. A few other stocks here in the news today of note. Let's look at Kava real fast. Some people have called Kava the next Chipotle. I don't see it myself. I've been there a few times to our local kava. I think it probably does well in college towns and areas like that. But the stock is pretty dull.
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Yeah, still haven't made it over to that one. It certainly hasn't taken off like Chipotle. No. It was kind of tabbed as the next Chipotle, and it's like I don't know if we'll ever see something like Chipotle.
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Well, it's now one-tenth the size. Chipotle has 3,644 food restaurants in the U.S., and Kava has 367 restaurants. The one that's also taken off again is Wingstop. Wing has been breaking out.
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They're worldwide with Wingstop. I'm telling you, growth-wise, I mean, they have blown up. I mean, they continue to open stores. Their only kind of downfall is the fact that they're so tied to chicken prices, and at certain times it squeezes their margins. But, yeah, in terms of opening new stores, they're great. It must be easy to crank out.
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And I remember, you know, look, fads come along in the market. I was talking about this with a friend of mine, one of my neighbors yesterday. But I was talking about the new kid in town. That core weave is kind of the new kid in town in the AI sector. But I remember maybe 10 years ago, maybe 15 years ago, when wings became the thing. Buffalo Wild Wings was one of the hottest stocks in the entire market. BWLD. I mean, every day they were pricing chicken wing prices on the spot. Spot chicken wing prices. Because there were several of them getting in on it, right?
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Yeah, and as chicken wings would go up, the stocks for those would come down. It was fascinating.
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And now most of those, you know, some of them have survived. I see some buffalo wild wings around. But Wingstop seems to be the one. And then the other big fad, I remember in the early 2000s, The Blue Collar Steakhouse in that Outback had a giant market share. I had a client that owned an Outback.
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Yeah, Outback. And what was the other one?
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Lone Star Steak. And there was a bunch of them. And now they're kind of on the outs. The Lone Star seems to be the survivor because it's owned by Darden Restaurants. So they have some big money. Behind them. So, yeah, I see these fads come along.
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Don't forget your Shake Shack, which you were never truly a huge fan of.
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No, no. Okay. In terms of the product. It's a tough business, but there has been some big money made in ideas like Chipotle and Outback. And others over the years. Okay, the other one that's in the news today, they reported earnings. I don't think they even have a product yet. Nano Nuclear Energy NNE, which is headquartered in, I'm not sure where it's headquartered. Looks like New York. uh... and nano nuclear is a wannabe player in that uh... nuclear renaissance they call it we actually had a big week and that's just had a very big week and uh... they reported and gave an update we got a really important update from s m are earlier in the week but the bottom line is you're looking at twenty thirty at the earliest to have a product That's five years from now. Nano NNE is up 2.3% this morning, but they did give an update on their endeavors trying to get customers and sales and products. which they don't currently have and then the last one here that i wanted to mention which is also in the news today with some earnings of their own if i can find that uh yeah there it is okay we also have uh i talked about applied materials reporting earnings today a player in the Chip Sector, Kava we talked about. Oh, Newsmax, that was the other one. They recently went public. The stock went nuts. when it came public because of all the hype around it. I mean, this thing went to 300, 350 on day two after going public at $10 a share. You don't want to buy a stock like this on day two. It's back to 25 now, okay? From 300 down to 25 round trip in six weeks. And I remember them interviewing the CEO, the founder of Newsmax. He was a billionaire. Maybe he still is. I don't know if he owns enough stock. It's now a $3.2 billion company. But they had their first earnings report. They're headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. We used to have a show there, but Newsmax's sales, yeah, 45 million versus 40 million last year, so they're up 12% and their earnings, they lose money. They're not profitable yet. But they lost 13 cents last year. This year, last year they lost 39 cents. So they are narrowing the gap. But it's also Newsmax is in the news today with their first report. As a publicly traded company, it's up 7.1%. Okay. Newsletter goes out tomorrow. We go out Monday for the Cleveland area. A rare opportunity to see us up in that neck of the woods. 855-611-BEST to reserve a spot to the Tuesday night workshop. 7 p.m. Marriott, Warrensville. or to set up an appointment with us on Tuesday and Wednesday. I know we've got a full slate, but we always do our best to work folks in that want to meet with us while we're there. And I still offer the whole four-week whole enchilada deal, the complete combo plate where you get access to the app, you get all my daily alerts, and you get the newsletter every week for a full month. I can't promise, but you'll be a better investor. You'll be armed a lot better for the markets with that four-week trial and learning some of the terminology and the way the markets work and the impact of earnings on stocks, etc., It's all good to get that four-week trial at 855-611-BEST. And if you'd like to talk to us about an appointment, planning, your current portfolio, etc., you don't have to be in Cleveland. We're a nationwide firm that is virtual. 855-611-BEST. 855-611-BEST. Have a great day, everybody.
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Okay, you are a professor as well as a writer, and you are talking about people needing to find some motivation to get back to school, etc. I always have to find that, you know, after a vacation, per se. And then I wanted to start off, if you don't mind, with just this interesting coaching thing that I found. Sound good? Yeah. Absolutely. Okay. So we can tell our kids over and over again that when they are on the bench or when they're on a team, how important attitude is. And we've talked a lot, especially to our son, just about not telling other kids what to do, not reminding them of when they made a mistake. Because hello, everybody knows when they made a mistake. It's like, okay. Oh, did I just lose a point? Oh, thank you for showing me that. I wouldn't even have known that I made the team angry, you know. But I saw this coach, and she is a Division I coach, and she was talking about her first year arriving at a school. And what she said she likes to do is not wear any of her gear. Because, you know, when we're at these events, and you've been to sporting events, you know who the recruiters are, right? I mean, you can tell by their... Their clipboard, you know, their garb that they're wearing and how they're wandering around from court to court. Okay, she says she sneaks into a game that she knows is going to be a blowout. In other words, the D1 player that she's watching, she knows they're going to be the winning team and that means they're going to get benched for a while because they're going to let some of the other players that normally sit get some time out playing. She doesn't wear anything from her college. She just hides up in the stands. She comes before the game starts to see how she interacts with players you know, her family, her, you know, teammates, et cetera, and especially her family afterwards. And then how she, how they act on the bench, you know, because a lot of kids are real pouty, you know, then as if the coach cares, you think the coach cares you're pouting on the bench. I mean, they only cared that they're not going to put you back in again if you're pouting, but they don't really care. They couldn't care less how you feel about being benched because they just benched you, right? So anyway, she said that there was this one recruit and she said, I was new to the college and I knew when I told my team that we weren't going to go after this recruit how much criticism I'd get. But when I saw the way that she treated her parents after the game that she was approached and just heard the way that she talked to them and she said, these parents make a lot of sacrifices for these kids. And, you know, they pay a lot of money for these sports. They travel around the country. They get up early to take them practices. They pay for privates. There's all sit during hot games. If you're playing outside, you know, and she said the way that she treated her family and, you know, some interactions with teammates that she thought, you know, because when you're that good, sometimes they act a little superior and, you know, a little snotty or sometimes. So anyway, I just sent that to my kids and we reminded them of, you know, the attitude when you get put on the bench because everybody gets put on the bench, you know. And so I just thought that was interesting that a coach would let go of a really top notch player and not even go after them. because of attitude and knowing how they might interact with their team. And I feel the same way about employees. Like, you know, if you are hiring someone, I remember some guy came in and he was complaining about his current job, which would have been his former job if he was hired at my TV station. And it's like, who wants to sit there and interview, interviewing a guy that tells you how much he hates the people he currently works with? Hello.
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You know, it's funny. I hear I go to a lot of events because I sit on a board with the Suburban Illini Club. And I hear this from the coaches. It's so much easier to teach skills. It's so much easier to teach. time management attitude comes along for the ride with the personality. And that's a tough nut to crack.
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Yes. Yeah. Cause that's something that's like inherent in them that their parents have allowed or, you know, and, and I, and I do look at my son cause he's a little critical sometimes of his teammates cause he has been on a team where he is one of the better players, but he's been on a team where he's like the worst player too, you know? And so it's, I don't like him being critical of other kids or showing his emotions when he gets really angry when something's missed or whatever. And they look on his face.
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Well, let's back up for just a moment because I'm not sure that it's inappropriate to show some kind of emotion when we look at this. I think it is more important to show a control of that emotion. For example, if, you know, a kid comes and strikes out at the plate, right? You expect them to be somewhat disappointed.
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No, I'm talking about him being disappointed in his teammate and making it very obvious that his teammate messed up. That's when I get furious. And we have told him, Cheryl, no less than 100 times have we said, please make sure that you're kind to your teammates and you're not criticizing them or overreacting when they make a mistake and making it clear how disappointed you are in them. And he's a great kid, but boy.
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Did he watch? Did he watch the Olympics recently with the men's gymnastics team? Because exactly what you're talking about happened yesterday. I don't know if you've watched it.
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No, I did not see it. I haven't been watching it because I'm irritated with something about them. Go ahead. Oh, not what you're thinking. They didn't bring Caitlin Clark.
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The first time in 16 years before the men's gymnastics medaled. And you could see for a split second when they – only got the bronze, that there was a fleeting eye that just went across them and they made the choice going, no, we're not going to be disappointed. We didn't get the silver. We're going to celebrate that we got the bronze ever so slightly. You could hear the hesitation. And then they bought in and they bought in hard of how excited they were because of their teammates and every one of them made that. But you could tell for a split second that They could have chosen, because it wouldn't have changed it. They were getting the bronze, however they accepted it, right? But they chose to celebrate them and their teammates. Not a, you screwed up, but you helped us get here. Same thing, different perspective, all attitude.
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You know, when I was saying that I was irritated with the Olympics, I said I'm irritated with them. A lot of people would think it was the opening ceremonies. No, that's like artistic and something I begin to expect that happens. You know, I might not agree with how they artistically put together some kind of show involving sports in the Olympics. So it wasn't that it was that they didn't choose Caitlin Clark to be in the Olympic team. And one of the big time coaches just came out that was on the committee and she won the national championships this championship this year. She's a Christian. And Cheryl, I'll think of her last name in a minute. Anyway, she talked about Caitlin Clark and she said, well, the Caitlin Clark today versus the Caitlin Clark two months ago. Yes, I think she would have been in high consideration to go to the Olympics. You know, we're trying to pick the best team. And someone said something like. It's not like showing off all the aging stars of the WNBA. This is a national team. You know, this is supposed to represent the U.S. It's not a WNBA team. It's an Olympic team. It was, I'm sorry, Dawn Staley, who I really like. And so she was speaking out about how they chose this team and how Kaitlyn would have been considered now because she has all these rookie of the year stats that are like blowing people out of the water, in particular for passing. She's like a master passer. I know people know her for her three-pointers stats. But this chick can pass the ball like I've never seen. And in the beginning, her teammates didn't even know what was coming. So they were missing her passes because they had no idea that anyone could pass like that because they'd never worked with someone that passed like that. So they were never expecting the ball when she was running forward and she'd whip it behind her back. But anyway, to make a long story short, to me, it was a no-brainer to bring this woman who has thrown the WNBA into... such a financial stratosphere that they've never been in before, selling out stadiums. I think she sold more than she, but her jersey sold more in one day than some team in Texas sold in an entire season. And you know how big Texas is for sports. I just read that in an article. I can't even remember if it was the Mavericks or what team it was. But anyway, to make a long story short, she would have brought so many fans and so much money and so many eyeballs. To me, it's like, why on earth would you not bring her? It was such a stupid move to me. So that's why I'm not really watching the Olympics because I was just like, really? So dumb.
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Well, no, I just think it's political might be the word we're looking for.
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Yeah, because they are irritated she's getting so much attention.
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Well, and that's part of, you know, what are we looking at? Are we looking at for the love of the game, for the love of the athlete, for the love of the skills? Not the what they can do, but how they can feel inside. And that proves your point with regard to attitude and all that stuff. I'm not convinced. I mean, every four years, it's the best of what humanity has to offer. not necessarily the politics, because I hate the politics when it enters the Olympics. Somebody's boycotting something. Somebody's doing this. It's like focus on the athlete and let those types of things go because it shouldn't be the politics of the game. It should be the celebration of the humanity of the athlete.
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Yeah, and what's best for the American team. So South Carolina, that's where Dawn Staley coaches, and she's won two national championships. But I did want to say one thing I really liked about her is that she, and she didn't, she was on the committee that chose the team. She's not the coach for the Olympic team. Anyway, she, when she won, she was like sobbing and she like couldn't even speak. She like leaned over when they won and she was just talking about how good God is, how great God is and how she felt just this, you know, wonderful feeling about, um, all the blessings that, you know, she'd received in her career. And she's quite articulate in expressing herself, but at that moment she could barely speak. Yeah.
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And I think that's amazing. Didn't I was watching the Olympics and there was a Kelly Clarkson had that same moment when she was watching Celine Dion. And it wasn't just because of the transcendent of the musical experience at the time. Kelly knows how much Selene had to fight to be there with the disease that she's fighting. And the fact that Selene was like, I would have crawled on my knees to get there. And she did it for the love of the game. I mean, that choked up Kelly Clarkson more than anything. And it was just so. overcome with the emotion of the music, the emotion of the moment, and the emotion of the history, which is all about all of these athletes, right? It was emotional.
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She looked like she was going to cry. All right, so I've used up most of your time. Let's talk about motivation, how to find it. Kids going back to school, because I know my kids are bummed to go back to school. My daughter just got back from Young Life Camp, and get this. She said she didn't miss her phone at all, and now she finds her phone boring.
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I love it. I love it. And that's all it is. Motivation is the finding something better of connection. And this is the part that I think we're looking at is we loved the connection on the family vacations. We loved all the experiences that we have had. And now we're going back to a lesser excitement level, more of a routine, less of connection of experiences if we choose to let it. And therein lies the idea of motivation. The motivation is a perfect Olympic metaphor because these are the folks who didn't get up when times got tough. They didn't quit because it was boring. They didn't quit because there wasn't anything exciting maybe in their studies. If we show up differently, they show up differently. So if we can show up of going, man, I'm excited for the school year. I know it was really cool with the summer, but look at all these things I have to do. Just like we had before, it's a matter of how you're going to tell the story in perspective. You could choose to see glass half empty. Or we could choose glass half full. Or there is that third option. Fill the glass. Life is what you make it. And sometimes we forget that part.
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Okay, so the motivation to go back to school. Explain that again. Like celebrate the connections with the people.
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Yeah, celebrate all the things that you came from this summer. victim that it's over, oh no, we're starting another school year, yawn, yawn, yawn. But just like your daughter, I didn't miss my phone. I loved it because it had to have been whatever she was experiencing was way more exciting than the passive activity of her phone. Get excited about the activeness in life. To be able to recreate those. And so let it be more of what she had, not less of. And if she can just say, yeah, I don't need my phone, but I'm looking for that high, that dopamine hit, that things that aren't coming from my phone. I think that's where it is. So get a little excited and life will get a little excited back.
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Yeah, I like that idea. That's kind of a Jim Stovall way of thinking. You know, Jim and I talk all the time and I feel so blessed because, you know, he probably gets like a hundred grand for his speaking events. Like, it's just unbelievable the auditoriums he fills and the fact that I get to keep with you speak with him so often. But he reminds me of some of the greats, you know, that we've heard in history, like Lou Holtz and Coach Wooden. Um, uh, out of California. And, um, I'm thinking of, oh, I told him yesterday, Will Rogers, like people, um, or, um, remember, uh, Paul Harvey, you know, he'd do that little, so these are all like, even I was young when some of them went away or not even born when you think about some, you know, Will Rogers, um, But anyway, to make a long story short, I love that wisdom and the way he looks on the bright side of life. And he always says, today's the day. Today's the day. And the next decision you make, what would you do if you were great? If you were really great or you were just really fabulous, what's the next thing you would do? Well, I would give your website. Give your website, Cheryl.
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DrCherylLentz.com Awesome.
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I appreciate you, friend.
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Absolutely. Take good care of me.
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Hey there, friend. Angie Austin here with the good news. I just love to share kind of quirky good news stories with you, and I came across this one. I thought it was so cool. Do you stay in Airbnbs or, you know, VRBOs, rental houses, apartments, whatever? You know, I find that oftentimes when I'm traveling, which I do a fair amount, especially for these tournaments, that sometimes we're better off with a home because you get a kitchen and then you don't have to eat all your meals out because so many of the hotels now, especially like the hotels that think they're high-end. They don't even give you a microwave because, of course, they want you to spend so much money downstairs in all their overpriced restaurants and their $15 coffees. I remember once there was a s'mores packet at one of the hotels we stayed in, and it was $15 for two marshmallows, graham crackers, and then a piece of chocolate. And then hot cocoa was like $20. Are you kidding me? So if you can get a VRBO or an Airbnb with a kitchen. It's kind of cool. But one thing I've noticed like a trend is like quirky rentals, right? You know, a chance for you to stay in like a yurt or an RV on a farm or some, you know, really unique structure on a really big piece of property. Well, here's one that I thought was completely unique and what a great moneymaker. So This dad took a 1970s private jet and he turned it into an Airbnb complete with the original cockpit and the decorating. And so kind of like fixing up an RV to some degree. Right. I'm sure they have to somehow, you know. change the restroom facilities to some degree. But kind of cool whether you're an aviation enthusiast or not. So the original cockpit is maintained from the days it flew oil executives to and from different countries for meetings. So it was an oil executive private jet. It has two bedrooms, sleeps two adults and two kids, so I guess four people. It has a fully functioning kitchen, a bathroom and a shower, and an outdoor seating area. And so I'm sure they had to really redo it. But I've seen some of the most cool, unique homes, and it's just neat. I know that they get rented a lot just because people want to have that unique experience. I remember there was one, it was like – a potato and it was like in idaho it was like a home shaped like a potato and if you look up like unique airbnbs they're like crazy and you know the reason that they're sold out obviously is because people want this unique experience of like staying in a jet a couple of times um i've looked into like houseboats um we did get one once where you actually were on a houseboat that worked and that you went out on the lake in kentucky but i have to tell you that was out outrageously expensive i thought especially because you know they don't smell the best as you can imagine a houseboat but um there's some that are like spaceships if you look up like unique airbnbs there's one like the old woman that lived in a shoe right there's a yellow submarine there's a spaceship and the yellow submarine is uh in a new zealand redwood forest The UFO is in the UK and then they've got tree houses as well. If you've ever seen that show about the tree house guy and he builds tree houses, there's also and I saw this when we went to go see a decommissioned Titan missile facility. Someone took one of these Titan missile facilities and And I think it's Roswell. And he turned it into an Airbnb. And you really do go down the like, you know, 300 steps or whatever down into the ground to get into the facility. But I don't know. I think that's kind of cool historically as well. All right. A silo. That one looks like that one's in Texas. uh i just think these are so cool like just do like a search of you know like unique homes uh there's like hot next to um a pool with a waterfall like little tiki huts i don't know if you each get a hut or what and then there's one that reminds me of star wars you know in star wars where they're like out in the sand dunes and this one's in phoenix it's an earthen home i don't know it Yeah, anyway, I'm kind of curious to check out, too, some of the tiny homes because I just think those are cool anyway. So many of those, what do you call them, the ADU units, those units in California, they're becoming really big now because they don't have much real estate in some of the older homes. Even in Boulder, I think ADUs are getting more popular because they don't have as much property and land anymore. And so people can just add on. In fact, that happened to my sister-in-law in Los Angeles. They actually put a giant a view in the backyard. So the parents moved into that and it blocked like her complete view. I mean, it was really, it was a whole house really in the backyard and she had a pool. So like their windows were like overlooking her pool. And it was so big next to her fence that it was just like a skyscraper next to a fence next to her fence. I mean, obviously it wasn't a skyscraper, but yeah, It was like three stories high. So it was like this monstrosity next to her bed. So anyway, she sold soon after that because she didn't really want all of these windows like right, like exactly looking over her pool. I mean, that's kind of a bummer when that happens. All right. So anyway, I just thought that these are kind of cool, unique homes to look up like unique Airbnbs and see some of the cool little hideaways and tiny homes that you can get. There's a field of tiny homes in Hawaii. That's pretty cool, too. All right. So changing gears now, if you're just joining us, this is Angie Austin with the good news. Did you know that one in every 110 babies in the U.S. is born with heart disease? Well, I had no idea the numbers were that high. And there are now innovations in cardiac care that can save lives and improve the lives of children with heart disease worldwide. And joining us is an expert in this area, Dr. Matthew Elias, an attending pediatric cardiologist in the Cardiac Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Welcome, Dr. Matthew Elias.
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Oh, thank you so much for having me. It's great to be here today.
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Well, I do know that you guys are like cutting edge, top of the top, like the mothership of pediatric care. I've interviewed Dr. Adzik on numerous occasions and the work you do there is truly amazing.
SPEAKER 01 :
Oh, well, thank you. Dr. Adzik is fantastic and everything he does. It's very fortunate to work with some of the world experts in pediatric care and specifically pediatric cardiology.
SPEAKER 05 :
you know i've interviewed i've done tv news all around the country for and radio for like 30 years and i'll never forget like there's some things you never forget he told me once that after operating on all these babies before they're born in the womb and then to go to these anniversary parties they have every year and to see these 20 year old kids like tossing the football and having fun at the parties that you guys have in the summer for them he said it's like That is the most moving moment for him. And I'm like, I can't even imagine knowing that you operated like a baby's heart, like in utero. And then like they're there.
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I just thought that was so cool.
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Oh, yeah. I mean, whenever I hear hear those stories from him and others see see videos of those reunions and those events. I mean, I certainly have to. dab my eyes and some of those tears away. It's just so fantastic.
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Right. Because some of the work you guys do is so difficult. And then to see the success stories must be amazing. So let's talk about this. Kids born with congenital heart disease. I didn't know the numbers were so high. Do we know why this is the case?
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Well, you're not alone. Most are not aware that congenital heart disease is so common. As you mentioned, it occurs in one in 110 babies in the United States. It's about 40,000 babies per year. And it's actually the most common birth defect in the United States. As far as why, we know some answers, but there's so much more room to expand our knowledge base. We know that some forms of congenital heart disease are associated with genetic conditions. But many, most are sporadic, random, and they don't necessarily have a clear identifiable risk factor in those situations.
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Now, should we be looking at other symptoms that could be signs of a heart problem in a child? And so how are they diagnosed and then treated? Do we see anything?
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Yes. So many forms of congenital heart disease are now diagnosed before birth. And that's so helpful to have adequate planning for the families and for their care team. So quite often, congenital heart disease is picked up during that routine anatomy ultrasound around 20 weeks during pregnancy. When families are anxiously awaiting often to find out the gender, we're looking at everything else as well. And for those children who are born and do not yet know that there is congenital heart disease, all babies in the United States should be having newborn screening for critical congenital heart disease, which is a very quick non-invasive test where we're looking at the oxygen level to make sure that these numbers are normal. And if not, that could be a sign of congenital heart disease. There's also different symptoms and other abnormalities on examination that could present later on in childhood. Perhaps that's an abnormal murmur when listening. The extreme example would be a young baby who's looking bluer and harder time breathing. But there could be more subtle things, such as the teenager who's having some chest pain or palpitations or perhaps fainted. And those situations would require further evaluation to determine if there's a potential heart issue.
SPEAKER 05 :
Now, in terms of kids in general, what can kids do to improve their heart health? Any tips there?
SPEAKER 01 :
Definitely. There are several ways with children, regardless if they have a heart condition or not, but can really improve their heart health in the short term and really the long term. I always emphasize for my patients and everyone to have a heart healthy diet, sure they have a healthy weight, adequate sleep, which is sometimes quite hard to do. And for our children to make sure that they're decreasing their screen time, getting outside, playing. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends children over six years old have at least 60 minutes, one hour, of exercise or activity every day. And our children should always have their routine medical care, seeing their primary care provider, having all their routine testing done, including routine cholesterol checks between nine and 11 years old. And, of course, it's always important to make sure children are staying away from drugs and alcohol and tobacco, but also to be wary of energy drinks, which are not recommended in pediatric patients and can lead to heart issues.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, that's a good point. Yes, so many people are oblivious to the unhealthy nature of those drinks and dangers as well. And those are a lot of the things you tell us to do as adults too. So let's talk a little bit, talk about the future of cardiac treatment and interventions. Where do you see this going in your field next?
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I think the future is still bright in pediatric cardiology and with children with congenital heart disease. It wasn't that long ago that many of these conditions were sadly universally fatal and there was no treatment option and that is so different now. We have so many different treatment options. We anticipate that more than 97% of children born with congenital heart disease are going to reach adulthood and there are more adults with congenital heart disease than there are now with children with congenital heart disease. We have minimally invasive procedures such as cardiac catheterization that can sometimes replace open heart surgery in certain situations. There's advancements in fetal diagnoses and interventions before birth in certain situations. And I think it's really fascinating that there's really specific advanced imaging techniques using 3D modeling that can help understand each child's individual anatomy and each individual condition. And lastly, I think when used appropriately and with adequate research, there's probably going to be a role for artificial intelligence in medicine, including pediatric cardiology. And I'm very optimistic. I think we're only going to continue to expand our our understanding and our knowledge to improve the lives of our children.
SPEAKER 06 :
Cool. Oh, I love, I just love talking to you guys. You have big brains and it's fun to learn what's going on in the medical world. Where do we go to get more information?
SPEAKER 01 :
Well, listeners can always learn more at our website, chopchop.edu slash heart. That's chop.edu slash heart.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, thanks for all you do for others. And, you know, I know your work is difficult, but I know you've got a lot of success stories in there as well. So thanks for joining us today.
SPEAKER 01 :
Well, thank you so much for having me, and it's been my pleasure.
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Thank you for listening to The Good News with Angie Austin on AM670 KLTT.
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The World Economic Forum agenda played out through the globalist elites in the United Nations. This Colorado state legislature is being run by extremists, and the Colorado governor is right in there with them. But it could be land use codes, zoning regulations, forced fees, conservation easements, national monument designations, transmission lines, easements. CO2 pipeline easements, the list goes on and on. Imminent domain, I need to make sure that we talk about that as well. If something's a good idea, you should not have to use force to implement it. And on the show, we focus on the issues. We'll talk about the people pushing those issues, but we're working diligently to stay out of the whole personality fighting. Our word of the day. Thank you, Richard. Appreciate it is panoply. And it could be. Let me get over here to this. This is from Merriam Webster Dictionary. It could be a full suit of armor or ceremonial attire. It could be something forming a protective covering. It could be a magnificent or impressive array. And it could be a display, it says, of appropriate. This is going to have to be another word that I'm going to have to probably use for word of the day is appurtenances. And so that example is no need for the panoply of power. I think that I'm grateful that I think that there is a panoply of from the good Lord protecting Donald Trump because Eric sent this over this morning. And I don't know if you saw this headline, but James Comey, who was the former FBI director, apparently put a post up, I think yesterday, which could be seen as a potential threat to Trump's life. This is from NBC News. And it says that several Trump allies are accused Comey of calling for the president's assassination in a now-deleted Instagram post. He denied it was meant as a threat. And it goes on to say the Department of Homeland Security and Secret Service are investigating this post. And what it was, it's now deleted, it was on Instagram, but Comey shared a photo of what he described as a shell formation on a beach that formed the numbers 8647. And I think 86 is a term for taking somebody out. And this NBC piece says the piece, the post was swiftly condemned by administration officials, Republican lawmakers and Trump allies who said it blatantly targeted Trump, the 47th president of the United States. It goes on to say, according to Merriam Webster Dictionary, 86 can informally mean to get rid of. Disgraced former FBI Director James Coney just called for the assassination of a POTUS, Noam wrote on X. DHS and Secret Service are investigating this threat and will respond appropriately. And then Eric, who is super informed on all kinds of things, sent this text over this morning. and said that Governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer was on Meet the Press interview. This would have been a while back. And on her right side of her, I think she had a knickknack on a little desk with a potted plant on it, and the knickknack said 8645. This is rather curious. And so it does appear calling for violence. And you wonder how that might affect some of these unstable people out there. And so let's stay tuned on that. This is Friday. And so on Fridays, we go to the Medal of Honor quote book that has been put together by the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo. And I really would recommend that you put it on your bucket list with the kids this summer to make sure that you get to the Center for American Values. It is located on the beautiful Riverwalk there in Pueblo. It's very, very special. And they do several things. They honor our Medal of Honor recipients. and then they focus on these foundational principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism through their educational materials as well as their on values presentations. So I've taken this, this is from J.R. Vargas, United States Marine Corps, Medal of Honor recipient, born in 1938, actions taken April 30 to May 2 in 1968, and this is the citation. he says this for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as commanding officer company g in action against enemy forces from thirty april to two may nineteen sixty eight on may one nineteen sixty eight though suffering from wounds he had incurred while relocating his unit under heavy enemy fire the preceding day major vargas combined company g with two other companies and led his men in an attack on the fortified village of de do Exercising expert leadership, he maneuvered his Marines across 700 meters of open rice paddy while under intense enemy mortar, rocket, and artillery fire and obtained a foothold and two hedgerows on the enemy perimeter, only to have elements of his company become pinned down by the intense enemy fire. Leading his reserve platoon to the aid of his beleaguered men, Major Vargas inspired his men to renew their relentless advance while destroying a number of enemy bunkers, again wounded by grenade fragments. He refused aid as he moved about the hazardous area, reorganizing his unit into a strong defensive perimeter at the edge of the village. Shortly after the objective was secured and the enemy commenced a series of counterattacks and probes, which lasted throughout the night but were unsuccessful as the gallant defenders of Company G stood firm in their hard-won enclave. Reinforced the following morning, the Marines launched a renewed assault through Daidou on the village of Dentou, to which the enemy retaliated with a massive counterattack resulting in hand-to-hand combat. Major Vargas remained in the open, encouraging and rendering assistance to his Marines when he was hit for a third time in the three-day battle. Observing his battalion commander sustain a serious wound, he disregarded his excruciating pain, crossed the fire-swept area, and carried his commander to a covered position, then resumed supervising and encouraging his men while simultaneously assisting in organizing the battalion's perimeter defense. His gallant actions uphold the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the U.S. Naval Service. And this is what he said. He said, believe in yourself, set reasonable goals, and love God and your parents. If you fall or fail, get up and never give up. Again, that's J.R. Vargas. This is the quote from the Medal of Honor quote book from the Center for American Values. And be sure and check out their website, which is AmericanValueCenter.org. That's AmericanValueCenter.org. And I did want to say thank you to the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. They've been longtime sponsors of the show. We are an independent voice. on an independent station, and we search for truth and clarity. The show does come to you 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday. First hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon. Second hour, 10 to 11 at night, and that is on all KLZ 560 platforms, which is KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, the KLZ app, and you can say, Alexa, play KLZ, and apparently we come in loud and clear there. Also, once we get through the shows, you can find them at Spotify and iTunes as well. Another headline that I wanted to, and we're going to have to, there's so many things to unpack, but this is from CBS Colorado. It says, And the public entity, the Stanley Partnership for Art, Culture and Education, LLC, purchased the hotel through a public-private partnership. Now, those are words that make me very, very concerned because many times, What happens in public-private partnerships is the public takes the risk. That means having to be on the hook for the debt. And many times the private may get the perks. And so I've not really unpacked this deal. But this goes on to say that partnership is among the Colorado Educational and Cultural Facilities Authority, private bond investors, former owner John W. Cullen IV, and new manager Sage Hospitality Group. Cullen, who is the former owner, is at the helm of, and this is called SPACE, as chair and CEO. So you wonder if he will be getting a healthy salary in order to manage that. He said, I've owned the Stanley for almost 30 years and can't imagine a better way to both preserve and grow it for generations to come, said Colin in a statement. So I think that that's super interesting. And then. Let's see. The next headline is this is from CBS Colorado. It says a new analysis shows how Medicaid work requirements would impact Coloradans. And as I'm driving around Denver, I went down to the Independence Institute. last night for a great event and they gave an update on the I think they called it wine wine wine like w-h-i-n-e and wine and great great event and honoring Brandon Wark for his work at Free State Colorado and as I drove down into Denver I used to just love to go to Denver and And I just love the city. And I was driving down these streets and I'm thinking this city feels like it's in decline. And people that are receiving benefits, perhaps what we do is we start to have these people do some work. to clean up our city. It is just totally trashed. And so just begin with picking up trash. So anyway, this says approximately 100,000 Coloradans would lose their health care under a bill that cleared its first hurdle in Congress. That's according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which says Medicaid spending would continue to grow under the bill, but it would grow by about 700 billion less over the next decade than it's projected to grow now. Well, and this article goes on to say the House Committee on Energy and Commerce passed that bill, which is a key part of the Republican budget. After a tense 26 and a half hour hearing, says protesters in wheelchairs gathered outside the committee room and beg lawmakers to spare Medicaid. And it honestly breaks my heart. The fear mongering that's occurring in this place, said Colorado Congressman Gabe Evans, who sits on the committee and voted for the bill. He says studies show Medicaid spending is unsustainable, and the bill will protect the safety net program for those who need it most by purging the roles for those who aren't eligible. And I think it's important to realize that all of this government spending at the local, the county, the special departments, public-private partnerships, all of this federal spending is unsustainable. And so if we don't do something about it, nobody's going to have Medicaid. Nobody's going to have the positive things that we've had as our blessings. So it is important that these representatives roll up their sleeves and do the right thing. So congratulations to Gabe Evans for his vote on that particular issue. Bill. I also wanted to mention Hooters restaurants. They have five locations, Loveland, Aurora, Lone Tree, Westminster and Colorado Springs. And a great place to get together with friends to watch sporting events. And they have these great specials for lunch and happy hour Monday through Friday. How I got to know them is a very important story about proper role of government. 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It is Friday. Welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is kimmunson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter that goes out on Sundays. You can do that at the website. And thank you to all of you who are joining us. I'm really excited to have this next guest. on the show. His name is Jason Bailey, and I've met him at a couple of different really great events. I saw him last night at the Independence Institute. Jason Bailey, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, thank you very much. It was good to see you yesterday. Thank you for having me. Jason Bailey here, Denver, Colorado. So we have an organization called Citizens for No New Debt, We are pushing back on government debt. We're focused on the state and local level right now. Kim, thank you for having us here today.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, it's great to have you. Maybe you're the doge for Colorado.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, thank you very much. I do see that as a compliment. Thank you.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. So, Jason, tell me just a little bit about yourself and why you're in this fight.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, you know, I've had my own business for 40 years, and I love to work. I work six, seven days a week. I love to work. And, you know, especially over the past 10, 15 years, I see the city of Denver just taking on more debt. The mayor of the city and the Denver City Council will generally vote unanimously to put more debt onto the ballot. And so, you know, when I'm working and they're taking our money and they're giving it to the banking system, And they're spending twice as much money as they need to spend to buy anything because debt always costs twice as much money to get it repaid. You know, they're always talking about no new taxes, but it's impossible to repay debt without, on average, twice as much taxpayer money. And I'm working hard and I'm seeing they're taking all this money and I'm taking money out of paychecks and occupational privilege tax and sales tax and property tax and this fee and that fee. And they're giving it to the banks. Well, that's just that's not fair. You know, once they use debt, they're spending twice as much money. And so, you know, we had a restaurant and we lost our building. We were just leasing, which was a good deal for 14 years. But the owner sold the building. It was in that Golden Triangle neighborhood. And so we had to be out by the end of 2022. And it was a blessing for me. I was, you know, I was really working too much with the restaurant and had the city of Denver on my back for 14 years. We were just a few blocks from the city and county buildings. And so I decided, you know, to focus on government debt. And I was at a fundraiser for Danielle Jurinsky. And she said, you know, I didn't choose politics. Politics chose me. And that resonated with me 100%.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and you, 14 years in the restaurant business, and the restaurant business is not a 40-hour-a-week owning a restaurant. It is work. And so then you get into COVID, and, of course, Denver was not friendly to small business during COVID.
SPEAKER 05 :
You know, I had so much in common with Danielle Jurinsky. She has several restaurants, and she was talking the same thing I went through. You know, so many of these restaurants had to be closed, and then you'd go to Home Depot, and it was shoulder to shoulder. And, you know, the marijuana businesses are open. They're an essential business. and uh you know the reason for that is in february of 2020 a restaurant i think it was in california maybe washington state was one of the first big national cases about seven people got the virus so the restaurants became kind of an escape go from the very beginning but it was just unfair and uh you know um we made it through covid no problem and uh you know uh we we we we we uh You know, we lost the building in 2022. But, yeah, you know, we saw the health department in the city of Denver and, you know, all the rules, and they had everything figured out. And one thing, if you remember, all the health departments, they were all worried about things being touched and everybody was sanitizing their Amazon packages. Well, I read a report that they have not found one single case. of somebody getting the virus from touch because it doesn't live on the surface. So the health department's had that completely wrong. I mean, I could go on, but that was a big chapter, that COVID chapter.
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So I'm changing the subject just a little bit, Jason Bailey, is that, yeah, COVID and the health department had people, like you say, spraying their packages when they came to the door. But now we have this Colorado legislature that there's been this, you know, attack on plastic grocery bags. And you have to pay for a bag. And so I would really, I'd like to, I've got to think about this. I'd like to put this out to have some kids do a competition on just what kind of germs people are bringing back into our food stores, our grocery stores, with these reusable bags. Because I've seen some people pull some of these bags out of their cars that I'm thinking, hmm. I bet it's not very clean, but I digress on that. Let's get over here. You and I also agree on no new debt. And I ended up in a debate. This was kind of funny, actually. I'm the president of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. And ended up, there was a group that was going to have a forum on the tax issues for Denver last September, I think. and they'd reached out to II and Independence Institute, and they were having their big fundraiser, and they said, well, why don't you call Kim Munson over at CUT? And I said, sure. So they called, and they wanted to talk about one issue, and I don't know which one it was. It might have been Johnston's housing issue, that sales taxing. It was a property tax. It wasn't a property tax. It was property tax, wasn't it?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, in November, yeah, Mayor Mike Johnson wanted more sales tax for more government housing. They call it affordable housing. I call it government housing. We've tried government housing for 60 years. It never works very well. But, yeah, he wanted another half point on sales tax, and he lost that bid last November. And some people say that we can't win this in November. He has another issue on the ballot. He's looking for another $800 million in debt this November. And some people say we can't win, but I say we can. He lost that in November. And I call it the cult of Denver, the people who will generally just say yes to anything Denver City Council wants or the mayor wants. They voted him down. So I think that if we get our message out there, we can convince the cult of Denver that this debt is counterproductive.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, I totally agree. And and so I ended up debating him face to face on this event. And it was the League of Women Voters and I think in North Cherry Creek neighborhood. And anyway, they called and they said, do you want to would you would you do you know, and I didn't realize it was going to be a debate. I thought it was just a forum. I didn't think there would be that many people there. There was a lot of people there. And so I said yes. And they said, well, do you know anybody on these other two issues as well? And there was the school bond issue and there was the Denver Health issue. And I said, you know, I could probably do that, not realizing that I was then going to be debating Donna Lynn, who I know, head of Denver Health, and then Albus Brooks regarding the school bond. And so anyway, it was an interesting experience. And I'm I'm all in this with you, Jason Bailey, to fight this 800 million dollars in this this question that's going to be on the ballot. So tell us tell us a little bit more. And I think that what we'll do is we'll have you on regularly for updates on this.
SPEAKER 05 :
OK, I would I would love that. And if anybody listening, if if. If you know anybody who wants to debate this issue, I'll debate at any time. You know, the math is on our side. The more we talk about this issue, the more our message gets out there, the more their message will fall apart because their message doesn't make sense. If you have $10 of budget money and you get $5 to the bank, you only have $5 left. That's the math. The math is on our side. The problem with a lot of government debt, probably most government debt, is all the gaslighting from the politicians for so long that there's this dogma of debt. And real smart people will say things like, well, we need to cut back rather than bring on more debt. The thing is it's very counterintuitive because all the nonsense that we've been hearing for so many years, debt costs more money. We'll have to cut back more if we have more debts. If you give half your revenue to the bank, you have less money. You know, the Denver Public Schools took $975 million last November, and they got that. I did an amortization schedule on the payback. It's $2.2 billion on the payback. You know, debt always costs more money. And, you know, so we're pushing that.
SPEAKER 15 :
And they closed schools. And they closed schools then. They announced two days after that was approved by the voters closures of schools, which I think is a little disingenuous.
SPEAKER 05 :
The schools are the purpose and the teacher and the students, that's the purpose. And then they have hundreds of administrators, which is overhead at the local level. And then they have thousands of administrators at the state level. And so I'm glad. that the federal government's trying to get out of some of that overhead. I just don't think we need three layers of overhead for the teacher and the student in the classroom, which is the purpose of the entire organization, right?
SPEAKER 15 :
Right, right. Okay. Hey, Jason Bailey, we're going to continue this discussion on a regular basis. And just one quick question. The $800 million that's going to be on the ballot this November, have you done the amortization on the payback on that yet?
SPEAKER 05 :
You know, I haven't. They're talking a shorter time frame. But by the time they get all their fees and costs done, I'm quoting $500 million. We'll say the taxpayers, if we can win this in November on $800 million, they're going to quote artificially low interest rates. They pay a lot of fees and other costs to the bankers and all the financial sharks of the system to buy that rate down so they can quote an artificial rate. But we'll say the tax rate is about $500 million today. And citizens for no new debt, if you get a minute, please take a look at our website and sign up for our newsletter. And I look forward to being very involved with you, Kim, on this process for the next five months.
SPEAKER 15 :
Most definitely. Again, that's citizensfornonewdebt.org. This is Jason Bailey. We'll get you scheduled here after the show for the next appearance. And thank you for stepping forward and caring about the people of Denver. So, again, that's Jason Bailey. And these this is really important. There's so much going on in Colorado's at the tip of the spear. And I'm so pleased to have the Second Amendment, excuse me, the second syndicate who protects the Second Amendment as a new sponsor.
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It is Friday. Welcome back to the Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. I am so pleased to have Lauren Fix, Car Coach Reports, with us. You can find her at carcoachreports.substack.com. Lauren Fix, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, thanks for having me back. Lots going on in the automotive world, surprisingly.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, there is. Do you want to give a quick overview? I want to talk with you about Congress fighting this California, those regulations. And then also I saw this headline regarding Tesla. Maybe a quick overview on what's going on.
SPEAKER 18 :
I just want to hit that article that you found. It was kind of skewed in its writing because basically what it said was that Tesla gets a credit from the tariffs and other brands don't. There's a lot of Tesla haters out there right now, and I wouldn't personally not buy the car. It's up to you. I mean, if you want the car and it meets your needs, I'm not an electric car person, but if it meets your needs and you want one, Tesla is one of the great choices out there. People that have them love them. However, the ones that used to be the fans that are auto writers are now the enemies. So there's a lot of hit pieces going out there. And one of the ones that you sent me was interesting because it said that only Tesla gets this tariff break, when in reality, it's any vehicle that is 85% of the product. In other words, the assembly has to be done in the U.S., And 85% of the components have to be what they call USMCA, either US, Canada, or Mexico. There's no tariffs. And there's only one brand that meets that standard, and that's Tesla. That doesn't mean other brands aren't going to make it. Ford and GM are working on it. Stellantis is a whole other conversation. But you have to remember, where are the cars built? So the number one U.S.-made vehicle, and we go through this every year. I get a report from either IC Cars or a couple of the other outlets saying the number one U.S.-made car for the last 10 years has been Tesla. The Model 3, the Model Y, the Model X are all made in North America. They're made in California. They're made in Texas. So whether you like Elon Musk or you hate Elon Musk, it is what it is. Where other brands, such as Ford, has been building a lot of their cars in Mexico. I do love Little Maverick and the Bronco Sport. They're both made in Mexico, so they lose points on their percentages. And a lot of the components, because under the Obama administration, there was incentives to offshore wiring harnesses and engines and transmissions and all the components, a lot of those manufacturers took advantage of it. And then you've got brands like Mercedes-Benz. Yes, they're building in Alabama. Yes, they're doing an expansion. But the drivelines come from Germany, and the driveline is the big part because we're only using about 19% of our driveline capacity. That's it. Less than 20% of the engines and transmissions that used to all be built here. You used to call one of the engines from Florida, Cleveland engine, because it was actually built in Cleveland, isn't being built here anymore anymore. It's now being built in Korea, Vietnam, China, and other places. And although I love the Lincoln Nautilus, it is 100% assembled in China. So brands had offshored under the Biden administration, under Obama, but now President Trump is bringing it back. So in the meantime, Tesla may be the only one that qualifies, but I think Honda won't be too far behind. They're bringing some components and production back from Mexico, which is good because they They've been building cars there, and they said they're going to build them in Indiana. It's a great concept considering it's a huge facility in Marysville, Ohio. So you're going to start seeing more production coming back here. It doesn't happen overnight. Small components will come back first. Final assemblies, we're only using about 60% of the total capacity that can be used here in North America. So you're going to see that coming back. That's a huge story. Make sure to read beyond the first paragraph on the headline on any article, whether it's cars or politics or anything, because sometimes as you read further down, the facts start to come out. So I just want to give you that. One of the things you want to discuss.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, and I wanted to just connect a dot for everybody on this, Lauren Fix. And that is, so this was from The Cooldown, and this is the article I sent over to her as I was going through things in preparation for the show. It says, As Tesla becomes sole beneficiary of massive exemption, here's what's happening. This is – and you said in your text it's a bit of a political hit piece. And so what they're trying to say is that Tesla's getting a break because of cronyism, I would say, implying that – And that's one of the things that we really need to, as we're looking at these headlines, as you said, we need to drill down on them. We also need to realize that this is something that people that are out there that are not focused on things like we focus here on the show to really try to drill down, they see that and these headlines are trying to force foment distrust of the Trump administration. We have to hold the Trump administration certainly to the standard of our Constitution, all those things. But we also have to realize that these are little ways that they're trying to come in and undercut the administration, Lauren.
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And the other thing is, when you look at the cooldown, which I have never heard of, and I've been doing this over 40 years, and you go and you look who they are, they're America's first mainstream climate brand, empowering people from all walks of life to help themselves while helping the planet. So this is a green agenda. So everything, every article that they have, and I've never heard of them, by the way, they only have a few articles that... most of them are about like green energy and they did a couple car reviews. They're very biased. So just be careful who the source is because a lot of times, especially if you go to MSN start page, somebody started a start page for me and I didn't start it. So they're, they're accumulating information from literally every resource, whether they're small or gigantic, like it could be AP, it could be, some little teeny guy who just has a Facebook page. I don't know who this guy is. Just because he has a YouTube channel doesn't mean anything. So I just want you to be aware there's a lot of content out there, and you should truly think about the resource as well as what you just said, the headline.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and interesting that you would bring that up because this is from MSN.com. And so when I open up my computer, I have all these headlines that go through. And so I clicked on that. But see, that's what's important is it's maybe a small group or, you know, very small entity. But if that headline is out there. They are working diligently to undercut the administration. And in anticipation of, I think, the 2026 election, if in fact the extremists can take either the House or the Senate, then all of this good work to try to reclaim America is is uh is they're going to just put you know they're going to try to prevent everything that trump is trying to do so important point so lots more going on though and this was at your sub stack car coach reports is titled gas cars saved house fights california ban senate decides this is huge isn't it it's gargantuan and i know when this passes and better pasts
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I'm going to be a really busy person because I've been calling this out since day one. You cannot have one state tell the other 49 states what to do. It would be like California saying you can only have green juice. You can't have orange juice. Well, you'd be like, but I don't want green juice. I want orange juice, but that's exactly what California is doing through the California air resources board. And I go through some of the history and that as well. And some of my sub stacks that you can go to car coach reports on YouTube, on rumble, on, Of course, I'm MSN Start, but I'm literally everywhere. They're interestingly loading up my content on MSN. I don't know why. But in the interim, you can always go to my website, which is Car Coach Reports. I'll have car reviews live on Car Smarts. So here's what's going on. The House got from Lee Vilden like literally a week after he got into office. They put in a bill to remove the mandate by 2035 for electric vehicles, of which 17 states did follow. Just the other day, Vermont and Delaware said we're out. We can't ask – and this is really smart from a governor – we cannot tell our people, you have to buy these vehicles when we have snow, we don't have charging infrastructure, consumers aren't buying it, and there's only about 8% of total sales are electric vehicles. So that's a huge problem. So through all this, bipartisan – I want to note, bipartisan – They passed a vote in the House to remove the mandate, take away the $7,500 tax credit, take away all the limitations on large trucks going to ports to get things out of there so that you can get things to you cheaper and quicker. They want to use all electric trucks. That doesn't work. The only time it could potentially work is with hydrogen, but there's so few hydrogen tractor trailers. But then they go to a warehouse and either go by rail, which is powered by diesel, or they go by truck, which is powered by diesel. I mean, you can't – if you use electric, the cost of everything is going to get excessively expensive. So when you look at the bipartisan bill, they immediately, the day they got it, They passed it. So it's called a CRA, a Congressional Review Act. And this is one of the things that we've discussed this before. But what it really means, a Congressional Review Act, and this is the most important part, is once it's passed, it would take an act of Congress, such as a big law, in order to revert back. They can't even put something up on the floor that's close. So that's done. So the House has already pulled it. It's done. But then it went over to the House, and it went over to the Senate on May 5th. And I've been monitoring it literally daily. I will go over and hit reload now because I'm waiting for a date. They're supposed to vote on it next week. Right now it's listed as held on desk. So the moment that that joint resolution came across, the parliamentarian, who's the person who reads all the laws and makes things even more complicated because we're still working on – original rules and laws, which is great. That's why we have a constitution. And they made it difficult intentionally so that people can't keep passing a million different things. They said, you can't pass it as a CRA, a congressional review. It has to be done as a rule. So literally the day it hit the Senate floor, they voted on it becoming a rule. Done. I'm like, let's vote on this. And so what they did is they parceled it. They let a few of the land – there was a couple of land areas. One happened to be in Colorado where you couldn't use off-road vehicles no matter what the propulsion, whether it be electric or gas or whatever. That got approved and cleared, boom, done, super quick. But what has not been passed – and I think they're going to try and slide it into this big, beautiful bill – is the removal of the Clean Air Act, California's power. And I know there's a lot of pressure coming from Doug Burgum, who continues to stand with the administration, saying that, you know, you can't be telling people what to do. This is a huge issue. Lee Zeldin, Sean Duffy, I mean, all the players that we know are trying to get this across the Senate line. Just so you know, I do have the numbers. The House vote was 246 Republicans to 164 Democrats, and not one Republican voted with the negative. So that's good. That means a lot of Democratic House representatives realize this affects my ability to get reelected. Oh, I bet it does. You're going to tell your constituents, by the way, this is all you can drive. That is, I don't care where you live. That does not fly, even in California. So right now, as of May 5th. We're waiting for it to vote. Lee Zeldin did state they're going to vote it next week, so I'll be watching it like a hawk. And they've already put this together. It's already got CBO estimates and savings for consumers, all that stuff's all done. So it just needs a vote, and I monitor it. So if you wish to monitor it, it is Senate Vote SJ Resolution 31. That's the joint resolution to nullify the EPA rule and remove the electric vehicle mandate and the $7,500 tax credit, which is going away anyhow. So they're not going to just cut it and say, they're going to say we're going to taper it off to the end of the year. Wow, this is awesome. We've got a few states that are not going to give up. I'm just going to tell you, although it's good. California says, we don't care. We're going to mandate it anyhow. Well, that's a problem because consumers there aren't happy. New York State, where I live, same thing. Colorado, where you are, is another state. So Connecticut, Massachusetts, you know, the usual suspects. There's still like five or six. They're still going to try and push this mandate through. Here in New York, we have a crazy governor like you do. And she wants to make that electric vehicle mandate go through. Even though the tax credit goes away, she's trying to offer a $2,000 incentive. Listen, you're talking about a $66,000 car. $2,000 doesn't do anything.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right. Okay, Lauren Fix, we need to go to break and come back. There's so much more information. I'm talking with Lauren Fix. You can find her at Car Coach Reports and everything cars. There's so much going on because freedom of mobility, to be able to go where you want to, when you want to, has been something that's inherently American. And so we'll continue this discussion. And all of this happens because of our sponsors. For anything regarding mortgages, reach out to Lauren Levy.
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And welcome back to the Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. i did want to say congratulations to paula sarles president of the usmc memorial foundation and the board for their very successful golf tournament yesterday teresa and i were out there for lunch and it was just a beautiful day and i want to say thank you to their hard work as they're raising money to for the remodel of the marine memorial and you can get more information by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org that is usmcmemorialfoundation.org Lauren Fix, you mentioned this is going to be huge, gargantuan.
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Hello?
SPEAKER 18 :
Hello? Oh, I lost you there.
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SPEAKER 15 :
Welcome back to the Kim Munson Show. We had a little technical difficulty. We've got Lauren Fix on the line. Lauren Fix, Car Coach Reports, and that's carcoachreports.com, isn't it?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes. Carcoachreports.com. Okay.
SPEAKER 15 :
Great. Okay. A little technical difficulties. Apologize on that. Lauren, this vote, this is going to be a vote on a rule. If this rule is put in place, is it as difficult to change as what you mentioned, the Review Act. So explain that to us just a little bit. And this is regarding the California standards for vehicles.
SPEAKER 18 :
Right. So now that it's passed the House, it has to pass the Senate. Once that vote is done, to undo it, to put it back into play, let's say President Trump is out of office, some crazy leftist comes in and they want to put it back into place, it would be extremely difficult. It would require three quarters of the Senate and the House in order to get it passed again. So that makes it really, really difficult. So remember, local elections do matter. Representatives and Senate votes do matter.
SPEAKER 15 :
So it'll be interesting to see how the Colorado two senators, Hickenlooper and Bennett, vote on this. This is something that I think we're going to want to watch very closely. And Hickenlooper is going to be up for reelection in 2026. So this is going to be huge. So Colorado, though – so what's happened is California has these – had this carve-out, if you will, that they could make some different rules, and then other states could choose the California standards versus the other standards. And so it will be interesting to see what happens in Colorado.
SPEAKER 18 :
Right. So what's happened since, since we already know it's passed the House and it looks like it's likely, according to literally every outlet, that it's going to pass the Senate, which I hope it does, that's good for consumers. You buy what you want. You want an electric car? You should be able to buy one. You want a Tesla? Go get it. You want a Ford, GM, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Kia, Genesis? Go get it. And many of them are already well aware. As a matter of fact, Subaru said yesterday that they're re-evaluating their electric vehicles and if they're going to produce them. Stellantis said, you know, we're going to postpone the electric pickup truck. Yeah, because they're not selling. whether it be a Cybertruck or the F-series Lightning truck, which is a Ford. And you start looking at the sales. Yes, they're off. And they never were going to make 100 percent, which is what Obama and Biden were trying to do. But what happened since this is 17 states, which is now focusing more on five states, are planning to sue their district attorneys for their states, which includes Colorado, California, Colorado, Washington State, and New York, are planning on suing the federal government and the Trump administration, saying that you cannot remove this. We want to stop the states from They took away the funding already. The funding's gone. They just need to pass it as a law. And so the funding is what they want back. They want the funding because they claim they're putting in infrastructure for charging. Okay, you had $8 billion under the Obama administration since 2021 in an infrastructure act, and they produced three charging stations, and none of them are in Colorado. None of them. So how does that help Colorado when they take $8 billion of your tax dollars and do nothing with it? And they want the money. We still want the money. Sounds like a movie.
SPEAKER 15 :
Show me the money. Yeah, that's what the green is in the Green New Deal, Lauren Fix. It's the money that's going into these PBI's pockets. You've got that right.
SPEAKER 1 :
100%.
SPEAKER 15 :
We've got a minute left, Lauren Fix. Quickly, any update on the kill switch in vehicles? Yes.
SPEAKER 18 :
No, and I'm still waiting on that. I'm trying to get a hold of Lee Zeldin. I have a friend who's actually his neighbor, so we're trying to get a sit-down with him, but he's busy with bigger picture stuff. But I will tell you, Lee Zeldin did something wonderful this week. Major kudos to him. If you see him online, post this. The EPA is dumping this annoying start-stop technology. and if any brand has a brain, they'll do those automatic software updates, and you can take it off permanently because everybody hates it. I don't know one person who goes, that's wonderful. I saved a tablespoon of fuel. I'll be covering that in my Car Coach Reports video that will be going out at 6.15 Eastern, so it will be a little earlier for you, but it will also be posting all weekend long. So EPA is dumping the start-stop technology on all new cars, Believe me, it's saving the manufacturers money, and it's making consumers very happy.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, Lauren Fix, I love it when you have this kind of news. We have been on a journey as you are a regular guest on the show. Thank you so much. Again, that's carcoachreports.com. We'll talk with you next month.
SPEAKER 19 :
Thank you.
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And it's not fair just because you're a big business that you get a break on this and the little guy doesn't.
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SPEAKER 11 :
I'm hoping so, too.
SPEAKER 15 :
And so I appreciate all of you listening, though. And we've got great information that great information with Lauren Fix in the first hour. And that will be rebroadcast today in the one to two hour. We're going to be talking with General Joe Arbuckle in this hour about the military. And that will rebroadcast tonight at 10 to 11 at night. This happens on all of the KLZ platforms, KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, the KLZ app. You can say, Alexa, play KLZ, and then after the shows are posted, you can find them on Spotify and iTunes now. as well the website we have our recaps of our shows our most recent articles and you can find that at kimmunson.com while you're there make sure you're signed up for our weekly email newsletter that goes out on sundays that will tell you who the guests are going to be and we'll include our most recent essays you can email me at kim at kimmunson.com. And the text line I do want to hear from you is 720-605-0647. And wanted to say thank you to the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. I really appreciate that because, yes, we are an independent voice and we are searching for truth and clarity. We're focusing on the issues. We'll mention the people pushing those issues, but trying to stay out of the personality fighting that can happen just because we're human beings. Our word of the day, thank you, Richard, is panoply. And it could be a full suit of armor or a ceremonial attire. It could be something forming a protective covering. And I continue to pray the good Lord will have a panoply over Trump and all of these people that are trying to reclaim our constitutional America. Number three, it could be a magnificent or impressive array. And number four, and this is going to be a word we're going to have to add in, is a display of all appropriate appurtenance. I can't even say it. So I'm going to learn that, Richard. I know you probably just about ran off the road on that one. But it says, so I'll work on that. That's going to be a word of the day sometime next week. I'm going to have to do some homework on that. But your challenge is to use panoply in a sentence today. And our quote of the day, since it's Friday, I go to the Center for American Values Medal of Honor quote book. And it's a wonderful gift. And you can actually order it by going to their website. That's AmericanValueCenter.org, AmericanValueCenter.org. But this is a quote from J.R. Vargas. United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient, born 1938, actions taken April 30 to May 2, 1968. I did read his complete citation for his Medal of Honor in the first hour. You can catch that in the one to two hour. And he said this. He said, believe in yourself, set reasonable goals, and love God and your parents. If you fall or fail, get up and never give up. And he certainly did that as he was taking action to help save lives. And that's what the Medal of Honor is really about is taking action to save lives for those around you. And now we're in a battle of ideas now. And so we can take heart from these Medal of Honor recipients and their quotes and realize that we need to equip ourselves. We need to train. That's one of the things that I've learned in all of these different interviews for America's Veterans Stories is it's the training that really puts people in a situation for success. And so in this battle of ideas, you've got to do the training. You've got to know what's going on out there. And there's all kinds of assaults coming at this. One of this is just the massive amount of information that is out there and how to dissect what is true, what isn't. And that's why we do the show is to help you with that, to try to get through all that chaos and confusion together. in this battle of ideas so that then you can engage with your friends and your family and your colleagues about what's going on in our country so that we can reclaim this constitutional republic, which what happens with that is, well, America happens where everyday people have the liberty, the responsible exercise of freedom to go after their hopes and dreams. The founding fathers knew that, well, the Constitution was passed. We have the Declaration, the vision. Again, all men are created equal with these rights from God of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. And then the Articles of Confederation, because the founders were very concerned about too much federal power. But yet it wasn't. We needed to have some something for the country. And so they came up with the Constitution in 1787. And I find this amazing that some of the states said, we're not going to ratify this until we have a Bill of Rights. And James Madison said, if you ratify, we will get a Bill of Rights. under the Constitution. And they did. He kept his word. And the Second Amendment is, as Teddy Collins and Alicia Garcia say, the Second Amendment is there to protect the first. I'm pleased to have the Second Syndicate as a sponsor of the show. And I have Teddy Collins on the line. Teddy, welcome.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thank you for having me.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and I love the fact at the Second Syndicate, you're trying to bring all these voices together so that we can protect the Second Amendment, because it seems like there's been different voices that have been not working together. I guess we would say that, Teddy. So what you're doing at the Second Syndicate is so important. And I love the fact that you're looking into the future. With all of these bills that have been passed over the years to really to take is little, little ways to take away our right to protect ourselves and our family against bad actors. So looking at the future, we've got a lot of work to do, right?
SPEAKER 06 :
We do. I mean, 2026 is around the corner. We have one more legislative session that we have to make it through here in Colorado before our next election, before we have the chance to make some change in the legislator or to put some safeguards on the legislator. So we have a lot of work to do, and we have to be prepared for the legislative session now that's coming up next year.
SPEAKER 15 :
Absolutely. And the Second Amendment is so important. We need to make sure that we have candidates that understand our Constitution and the proper rule of government and to protect our constitutional rights, such as the Second Amendment. Do you know of any process out there right now to be working on getting good candidates running for office?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, we do have our primaries coming up here very soon. At the end of this year, that's going to determine who will be running not only for governor, but for the legislative seats that are coming up for renewal in 2026. It's very important that if we can, that we either retake a chamber of the legislator, whether it be the Senate or the House, more likely to potentially retake the Senate. and or the governorship. The governorship would at least give us the power of veto to kind of put some checks and balances on these radical ideas that they're passing out at the statehouse every single year, like we saw this year with SB 003 and the other slew of anti-gun laws that they passed.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and I was at the Independence Institute last night for their great event. And again, congratulations to Brandon Wark for his award, which is their Vern Bickel Award for Grassroots Leadership. And I have not sent this over to you yet, Teddy, but one of our board members on the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, Corey Onizorg, had worked with others. And I need to get all the names to give them credit. on a poster regarding a long history of Colorado gun bills beginning in 2000, House Bill 1242, no private sales at gun shows. And then they go through all of these different bills, which I know you're going to want to have this. But it's been a slow, and now it's a really fast, I would say, assault upon our Second Amendment here in Colorado.
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely. I think that the – and I'll just use the Democratic Party. It's not them as a whole, but it's the large majority of the Democrats that are for these elections. These gun control laws, we've seen it expedite in the last few years and then continuing to double and triple down. I mean, we've had three years where they tried to do a quote-on-quote, and I use quotations, air quotations, assault weapons ban, and it failed every year. So this year they tried something different with SB 25003. They did basically a semi-automatic ban, and they changed the language that they were using. They changed the process that they were doing to ram it through. And I have a feeling this upcoming legislative session, they're going to try to make that even worse because they were going to put that into effect September 1st of this year, and they decided to amend that to go into effect September 1st of next year. And I think that's because we have a legislative session before September 1st of next year so that they can choose to amend that and make it even more restrictive than it currently is. So we should definitely be preparing now for 2026. making sure that we're funding our 2A organizations and or supporting them so that we can be ready for the fight ahead.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay, and so people can support you, join you by going to thesecondsyndicate.com. So it's the and then the number two, ndsyndicate.com. And I love that you are trying to get everybody united on this because that's one of the things that those that are trying to take away our Second Amendment rights, they love it. when those that are trying to protect it don't get along. So I love your creativity on the secondsyndicate.com. And so I really appreciate it, Teddy Collins. And also you're with Spartan Defense as well. Your final thought.
SPEAKER 06 :
Final thoughts is that we've got some governorship. We've got the governorship next year. We have Polis not running again because he's term-limited it out. This is our chance to, again, put some safeguards on the legislator to get that power of veto back. We really need to make sure that we show up, that we vote, that we're registered, that we register our neighbors, that we inform them, and that we turn out because the – The amount of votes it would take to flip Colorado to red, to take back this state, is very minor. If you show up and vote, there's a damn good chance that it could happen.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. Well, we're going to keep working on that, Teddy Collins, with the Second Syndicate. Again, that website is thesecondsyndicate.com, and second is 2ND. I think that we'll talk again very soon. I think maybe not next week, but I think then we'll talk again after that. So, Teddy Collins, thanks for the great work that you're doing, and it's great to have you as a sponsor of the show.
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely. Thank you for having me. Y'all have a great day.
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It's Friday. It is Friday. Welcome back to the Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter and you can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. I am so pleased to have on the line with me General Joe Arbuckle, retired Army, and he is one of the founders of Stars.us. Welcome to the show, General Arbuckle.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, thanks, Kim. It's always a pleasure and honor to be with you. And once again, thanks for all your great patriotism.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, thank you for my liberty that we can do this. And you and I both have been very, very concerned about where our country was headed. And there's been some great news with what's happening in our military. Give us an overview of that.
SPEAKER 17 :
Sure. Well, let's back up to President Trump on the campaign trail where he pledged to rebuild our military, refocus it back on lethality. and get rid of DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion, and also provide some remedies for those service members who are harmed by the unlawful COVID vaccination. And he's done exactly that. On the first day in office on the 20th of January, he issued an executive order, which basically called for ending DEI throughout the federal government, not just the military, but also the federal government. And he's issued a total, Kim, of five executive orders that directly impact our Department of Defense. And as I said, one of them affects the entire federal government, and so does another one, and that is where he declared that DEI is unlawful, and he wants to return the entire federal workforce to focus upon equal opportunity for everybody, no matter what their skin color or sex might be, and also base personnel decisions on meritocracy and not some identity characteristic, which has been going on in the past. So he's done that. He's backed up his pledges. And in addition, Pete Hagseth, the Secretary of Defense, has issued six memorandums, which are addressed to the senior leaders in the Department of Defense. And now Pete's memorandums augment and support and really amplify what President Trump has said with his executive orders, all focused on getting rid of DEI, improving our wartime readiness focus, and that's Pete's agenda there, get back on a total focus on wartime readiness, along with meritocracy, accountability. And so we've got a lot of details in these. memorandums and EOs, which are being implemented right now. All that's good news. Now, here's a personal assessment.
SPEAKER 15 :
Just a quick question. A question on that before you get to personal assessment. This is all constitutional, what they're doing, isn't it?
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, absolutely. It certainly is. It's based upon the roles of the Secretary of Defense and the President in his role as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. So, yes, it's all grounded constitutionally. And so is the idea of treating people equally. That's one of the fundamental things that we find in our Constitution, and not discriminate against anyone based upon factors such as skin color or sex or any other identity factor.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay, so your personal assessment on all of this, General Arbuckle?
SPEAKER 17 :
Yes. In the military and probably in private institutions, this exists also. There is a difference between issuing orders, like President Trump has done with his executive orders, and the memorandums that Pete Hague set the dunes, which are in fact orders. There's a difference between issuing orders and ensuring they're complied with. Now, that's where the rub comes in. There's a lot of institutional resistance, as you might imagine, to any major changes within the Department of Defense, and that can be reflected in different ways. Now, my assessment is As these orders have gone out to get rid of DEI and return to meritocracy and warfighting readiness, we could divide the reaction among leaders and service members into three categories. One is those that will be very, very happy to comply. They'll just be delighted to get rid of this DEI stuff. I would say that's about 30% of the Department of Defense. Then there's probably about 50% that will just salute and march off and comply and and agree with it. And then there's the rest, maybe around 20% or so that are going to resist and are going to drag their feet because they believe in this DEI stuff and they don't like seeing it go. And how do they do that? Well, again, basically just by slow rolling change. And there's been something that's popped up that we've been calling malicious compliance to the orders to get rid of DEI, such as, people taking down pictures, this did happen, of the Tuskegee Airmen, the Black Airmen from World War II, from being displayed prominently to basically embarrass the chain of command because that was obviously an overreaction and not intended at all by those pushing to get rid of DEI. The first female fighter pilot in the Air Force's picture was removed. Again, that's just malicious compliance. all designed as a kickback against the policy to get rid of DEI. So the bottom line is we're headed definitely in the right direction. I'm very encouraged about these orders and then those that have come out. But it's going to take some time to ensure that they're properly implemented across the Department of Defense. And, in fact, some people are just going to have to be flushed out through retirement or whatever because there are some that are true believers in this.
SPEAKER 15 :
So that was my next question. Do we have this 20% over here that sounds like they're more focused on this ideology than the wartime readiness? And that's wartime readiness is we don't want war, but one of the best deterrents for war is for the enemies to realize that if they would take us on, that it would be a real problem for them. And if they think we're not ready, well, then that emboldens them. But it seems like this 20% that would be more focused on this ideology, how can they be moved out of the military? You mentioned retirement. Any other actions or what can be done?
SPEAKER 17 :
Yes. I think the majority is probably through attrition. They'll either get disgusted and leave or they'll come up on retirement and retire. But there have been some senior leaders replaced in key positions already who have supported DEI. And I'm talking about, for example, the number one four-star in the Navy was asked to retire and was replaced in a commandant of the Coast Guard, also a four-star who was the deputy chief of staff of the Air Force is another. And so there are some specifics. people that are being identified and asked to leave in very, very senior positions. And this isn't related to DEI. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and that's constitutional as well, right? They can ask those, you know, at the top, they can ask them to retire. Sure.
SPEAKER 17 :
They serve at the pleasure of the president in those senior positions, absolutely.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. Okay.
SPEAKER 17 :
Now, not related to the DEI directly, but also a new action, which has just been released, I think, about three or four days ago, is an overall reduction of very senior generals and admirals across the Department of Defense because there are too many, and the intent is to reduce the total number by about 20%. Now, again, I want to reemphasize the point. That's not based on DEI. It's just based upon the large number of generals and admirals that have grown over the decades, basically, that we currently have. And Secretary of Defense Hegg says, please, we can reduce that amount.
SPEAKER 15 :
So then let's talk about the actual military force. It sounds like it's been top-heavy. And we've even had stories here in Fort Carson that the food's terrible, not taking good care of our soldiers. So what's your thoughts on that, General Arbuckle?
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, yeah, I've read those reports also, Kim, and I actually checked into it, and the report I got back was that what was being put in the press was not totally accurate, and although there are problems with, I believe, contractors who run a lot of these food operations within the military now and all the services being properly supervised, but that's being turned around right now because One of the things that's being emphasized by the Secretary of Defense is accountability. And leaders are held accountable for the health, morale, and welfare of their soldiers, their troops, and their families. And so I'm confident that what you're talking about there is being turned around and is improving for sure.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, that is really good news.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah. Yeah, it is. So the bottom line is we're headed in the right direction on President's actions, the Secretary of Defense's actions, it's going to take some time to make sure those are properly instituted within the Department of Defense. And another thing that just came out from the might of interest from Secretary Hegseth is that he's requiring the leaders of all the services, those that run our service academies like the Air Force Academy in West Point and Annapolis, to certify in writing within 30 days that they are basing all the selections for to be selected for the academies based on merit. That's extremely important because in the past, over a long period of time, there have been special considerations given to applicants to the academies based upon their skin color and sex.
SPEAKER 15 :
That is huge. And again, America was founded on meritocracy and that people being accountable to themselves and the liberty, again, to go after your hopes and dreams. And liberty is the responsible exercise of freedom, as my friend Ben Martin says. We're going to continue this discussion with General Joe Arbuckle about our military. It is so, so important. And all of these discussions happen because of our sponsors. And for everything residential real estate, you want Karen Levine on your side of the table.
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SPEAKER 15 :
And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter and email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And I want to say congratulations to the USMC Memorial Foundation for their very successful second annual golf tournament yesterday to raise money for the remodel of the Marine Memorial. And actually, I met Paula Sarles and General Arbuckle both at Cooper's Troopers. And so everybody's kind of connected in all of this, General Arbuckle.
SPEAKER 17 :
Absolutely. And You help connect us along those lines, Kim. I really appreciate that. And Cooper's Troopers is a great organization, as you know. Grady Birdsong and that group just do a wonderful job.
SPEAKER 15 :
And it is a group of Marines that started with combat veterans. And this is a little off subject, but in all of the interviews that I've done for our America's Veterans Stories, which is broadcast on Sundays 3 to 4 p.m. here at KLZ, is I've realized that civilian people, we cannot understand combat. Only combat veterans can understand combat. And so Cooper's Troopers was founded by Ed Cooper and... And it has a great history. I saw Al Jennings out at the, and Jim Blaine, both out at the golf tournament yesterday. And they're both World War II Iwo Jima veterans. But what eventually really got my brain around is no way to understand what a combat's like unless you've gone through it. And that's why Cooper's Troopers was founded to bring people, these guys together so that they could talk about these experiences. And so I think it's important that we civilians understand that it's so important for combat veterans to have each other to talk to.
SPEAKER 17 :
Absolutely true, Kim. And that's what the Band of Brothers was all about, if you recall that great TV series called The Band of Brothers. It's a phenomenon. It's always existed. Combat veterans seldom talk about their experiences unless they're among themselves and can relate. And it's so important to be able to do that also. Even with our families, oftentimes, and I've experienced that too, just don't talk about what happened. Because I guess it's recognizing that civilians really can't understand that. Not that it's a criticism. They just haven't been there, as you know.
SPEAKER 15 :
Exactly, exactly. So again, congratulations to the USMC Memorial Foundation and all the work they're doing. And we're coming up on Memorial Day, and Memorial Day is a time to remember and reflect. And they're going to have something out at the Marine Memorial on Memorial Day. But also, I'd recommend support them. In honor of all of our military, make a donation to the USMC Memorial Foundation, and that's .org. This came in on the text line, General Arbuckle, and says, ask if Lohmeyer, Overbaugh, and Zimmerman have been confirmed. And you know Matt Lohmeyer very well because he was the executive director of STARS, at least for a little bit, right?
SPEAKER 17 :
Yes. Well, in fact, he still is and will remain in that position until he's officially voted into that position as the assistant, the correction, the undersecretary of the Air Force. And that has not yet happened. Answering that question, Matt's confirmation was just passed out of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He was voted to be moved on into the entire Senate. And we do not know when the entire Senate is going to give their final approval on that. It could be a month or two yet, unfortunately. But Matt is moving along. He's passed the Senate Armed Services Committee in a very, very difficult hearing.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay, and then Overbaugh and Zimmerman, I'm not as familiar with that. So they're undersecretaries as well?
SPEAKER 17 :
Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with them either, Kim.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. I have to do some research on that. Okay, sounds great. Now, as we were preparing for you being on the show, I found a piece that had been published online, put on the website at stars.us. And this was actually before the election. And it talks about the Marxist march through America's military. And we've been fighting Marxism. We fought wars about that. And then yet it's been able to infiltrate our military. And I guess it's through this DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion, NCRT, critical race theory, that those are based in Marxism. But this doesn't happen overnight. How did this happen?
SPEAKER 17 :
Yes, well, thanks for bringing that up. It's called the Long March to the Institutions. And this is near and dear to my heart because any of us who fought in Korea or Vietnam, we were fighting communist Marxists and 37,000 were killed in Korea by communists and over 58,000 in Vietnam by communists. So that's over 95,000 of our loyal troops have been killed by the exact same ideology that is represented by DEI. Now, that's a real punch in the gut for a lot of us. But here's how it happened. It was a deliberate strategy from the Marxists who came to the United States in the 1930s. And then this was accelerated by a guy named Gramsci, an Italian Marxist, who came up with this idea of a long march of the institution. And the idea was to infiltrate our education system, our legal system, our media, Hollywood, et cetera, and get control of those big institutions within the United States over a period of decades. And the military was the last to basically fall to this, in my opinion. And yes, DEI is a spinoff of critical race theory. which comes from critical theory and critical legal theory, and it's all based upon the philosophy of dividing people into groups and pitting them against each other. You've got a group of oppressors versus those that are oppressed. In modern-day Marxism, cultural Marxism, the oppressors are seen as the whites, as oppressing the blacks and other minorities. And then that sets up, Kim, a victimhood mentality for the oppressors, and that then justifies special treatment under personnel actions, which is DEI. In other words, lower standards, as I've already talked about, for example, in admission to the academies, lower standards for promotion boards sometimes for minorities. That's the basis of DEI, and that's the roots in Marxism in a nutshell. I went through that really fast, but that's really basically what it is. And so by Trump and Hegseth, saying no more DEI in the federal workforce or the Department of Defense. It's basically saying we're going to get rid of that Marxist mentality where somebody is oppressing another group and therefore justifying special treatment for those other groups.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and you mentioned the Tuskegee Airmen, and I have interviewed Colonel Harvey, and he was one of the Tuskegee Airmen. And one of the things that I learned from him is that The Tuskegee Airmen, instead of looking at themselves as victims, and they were Black pilots that flew in World War II, they just decided, he just decided he was going to be the very best that he could be. And all of them decided that. And it was even to a point where our bombers in World War II, it wasn't until they'd gotten into the war where they actually would have fighters that could give them cover. I cannot believe that we would send these bombers in to bomb different targets and they would be like sitting ducks in the air, which is amazing to me. But it got to a point once we got this all figured out and we had fighter cover and that the Tuskegee Airmen were so good that pilots would request them to be their cover. And to say that you have to lower standards because of the color of someone's skin is just, I think it's racist. I don't expect you to comment on that. But... I think the idea that the people strive for excellence and just look what they did. And then you mentioned the malicious compliance that taking down their pictures somewhere. So just speak a little bit to that, General Arbuckle.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yes, I'm familiar with the Tuskegee Airmen. They were real heroes, as you pointed out. But to your point about racism, by its very nature, DEI is designed to be discriminatory. That's the purpose. It discriminates, it's reverse discrimination, basically, because it, again, provides opportunities for those in the victimhood class, based on race and sex primarily, to be advanced faster than others, whites in particular, and it's not based on merit. In many ways, Well, actually, it is. It's an insult to most blacks, I think, and females also, because, you know, when they're advanced into promotion, for example, they're wondering, well, did I really earn that? Or was I given a special break? And we don't want that happening. And blacks have told us that, and we've heard it from females also and stars. And it's not good for them. It's not good for the entire institution. Everything needs to be based upon merit. Treat people equally. It doesn't matter what their skin color is or their gender or whatever else. Treat everybody fairly and equally. And advance people in personnel actions based upon their performance. That's the way it used to be before this DEI came along, primarily pushed by Obama, in my opinion, around 2008. And so the good news is, as I talked about earlier, we're turning this around and getting back to where we need to be. And I've used the sports analogy also on your show before on this DEI stuff, Kim. You know, coaches put the best players in because they want to win games. Well, that's the way it should be. It doesn't matter what skin color. That model should be applied to our military. We put the best people into leadership positions that are available, the best pilots, the best docs, and so forth, based upon their merit. No other characteristics should enter into that decision process.
SPEAKER 15 :
And this is important. It is exciting. Any new recruitment numbers? Because recruitment had gotten down to pretty dismal numbers. Has that changed under the Trump administration yet?
SPEAKER 17 :
Yes, it sure has. And that's what you might call one of the Trump effects. As soon as he announced and was in the saddle and issuing these EOs to get rid of DBI, enlistment, particularly in the Army and across all services also, increased pretty radically. And I know the Army has met its enlistment goals so far for the year, and I believe the other services are also. And so That just projects the desire for people who are considering to enter the military to want it to be based upon warfighting readiness, tough standards, meritocracy, and accountability. People don't want to join the military to have low standards. That's not what it's all about. We have to train in peacetime to be prepared for war, and the training has to be tough. Those standards, by the way, are being increased by Secretary Hegseth because they have been lowered in the past based upon DEI criteria. So all of that's being turned around. Yes, enlistment is up and also retention. And that applies to people that are in the military who might consider leaving based upon some factor like DEI. Well, that is also being turned around. So we're on a positive trend.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and yes, we're in a positive trend. It is a dangerous world out there. And so having military readiness is certainly really important. So be sure and check out stars.us. General Arbuckle, what's your final thought you'd like to leave with our listeners today?
SPEAKER 17 :
What I just sort of said, Kim, positive. Everything is going in the right direction. It's just a matter right now of implementing the orders coming from the president and secretary of defense. Also, thank you for mentioning STARS, S-T-A-R-R-S dot U-S. People can get a really good flavor for what's happening if they check out our website. And also, Memorial Day, as you said earlier, is later this month. As you're having your barbecues out there, please take time to remember what the purpose of Memorial Day is all about, and that is those who have given the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms and died in our military, wearing the uniform of our country and our flag.
SPEAKER 15 :
Absolutely. General Arbuckle, thank you so much. We'll talk again very soon. And thank you for all that you do for our country and for our liberty. We take it for granted, I think, way too much. And so thank you. Really appreciate it.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, thank you, Kim. And once again, thanks for your great patriotism and everything you do to support us and military and our citizens and Constitution.
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SPEAKER 15 :
Yes, it is Friday, and welcome back to the Kim Munson Show and great conversations this week. I wanted to mention the Center for American Values located in Pueblo, both the USMC Memorial Foundation and the Center for American Values, two nonprofits that I just totally support on the show. And the Center for American Values will have an event, an On Values presentation on May 28th. for Memorial Day. And again, as General Arbuckle said, that Memorial Day is a time to stop and reflect about those that have given the ultimate sacrifice. And of course, not just them, but their families, those that love them, sons and husbands and fathers. And the fact that we have 95,000 people that gave their lives between Korea and Vietnam, to fight Marxism and then to have Marxism in our military, which was really pushed. And it was a long march through this Marxism of America. As he said, this march through the institutions. And in fact, the Marxists of the 60s, basically what they decided to do was cut their hair, put on a tie and start this march through our institutions. And that was our education systems, media, our churches and then ultimately our military institutions. And so we have to reclaim that. And this Marxism was underlying all of this. We saw it's political correctness. It's had all kinds of different names and political correctness was a way to get us to just because of good manners to not engage in the battle of ideas. And I remember this experience. Again, I was struggling as I was in my gut. I was feeling these things that were happening. But I was not good at communicating about them. And my frustration, I've told many of you, I went through an angry period because I couldn't figure out what was going on. We now know what is going on. And I actually had some former friends, I would say, that... encouraged self censorship. And I realized that we've got to have ideas that we can debate, that we can kick the tires on these ideas. The founders did that. And I think that we've all assumed that at our city councils, our county commissioners, our state legislature, that they are debating these ideas. What I learned when I was on city council is that many times much of these decisions were made via these boards and commissions working through the work study sessions. And by the time they got to the city council meeting, or it could be on the floor of the state legislature, a lot of those decisions had already happened. been made, and that's not the way it's supposed to be. We are supposed to have representative government, and we have a responsibility, we the people, to pay attention to what's going on, because if we don't, we're going to get the government that we deserve, and what we have here in Colorado right now is a state legislature that is run by extremists. I can't believe that most reasonable, blue-dog, moderate Democrats like what's going on in Colorado. And as I mentioned, I was down at the Independence Institute, which is at 16th and Clarkson. And yesterday and I used to just love to go to Denver just I just love the feel of Denver and I don't like it so much anymore. It's dirty. It's dangerous and it's in decline. We've got Wyatt on the line. Wyatt, what's on your radar?
SPEAKER 19 :
Good morning, Kim. I just wanted to kind of foot stomp the general's comments about removing senior leadership. If you'll recall, during the Benghazi incident, Obama got rid of nearly a thousand senior military officers because they were spooled up and ready to go into Benghazi, and they were directed to stand down. And they voiced their displeasure at that, and Obama fired him. So just the precedent is there that the generals serve at the pleasure of the president.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay, I appreciate you making that clarification, Wyatt, because I've thought a lot about the discussion that I had with Trent Luce on Wednesday. And Trent is not a fan of Trump, and he brought up some good points on maybe some concerns about some of the connections of some of the – cabinet members. But I talked to somebody about the conversation afterwards, and she said, Kim, you have to remember that there's also redemption. And I was thinking about it, Wyatt. If I was held to all the decisions that I made in the past, it would totally freeze me. I'm so grateful for redemption. So I think we have to watch the what's going on. And General Arbuckle brought out so many successes. And then I think we have to watch. We have to be truthful. But we also have to realize that there are those that are just starting to pay attention to what's going on. And we don't want to so undercut the narrative when we're talking about the Trump administration. I know that's a lot to throw out there. And we've got about a minute. What's your thoughts on that, Wyatt?
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, I think you're seeing the similar things here with the Republican Party in Colorado. Instead of banding together and forgiving some past transgression, we stand around in a circle and shoot at each other. It's pretty stupid. But anything – what I wanted to also say is Matthew Lohmeyer, the lieutenant colonel that was fired – for writing a book about the Marxism in the military. He wrote his personal opinions. The first page in the book says, this has no way of the Air Force or the Space Force. These are my opinions. And yet they fired him for it. He's up for verification for, I think, undersecretary of the Air Force. So Maybe it'd be worth a call to our esteemed representatives to say that, hey, this guy needs to get in there.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. I think that's good advice. Wyatt, thank you so much. I always learn something when you call in. So thank you so much.
SPEAKER 19 :
Have a great weekend, Kim.
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Join us this week on the Mike Gallagher Show as we delve into the geopolitical and domestic transformations driven by President Trump's recent actions. From brokering landmark agreements in the Middle East to initiating economic sanctions relief with China, Trump showcases his commitment to shaping a new era of United States prominence. Our discussion touches upon controversies like the acceptance of Qatar’s Boeing 747 and how these global negotiations are being perceived at home.
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Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. It's Friday, May 16, 2025. This week, President Trump visits the Middle East while signing an executive order to lower prescription drug prices, brokering peace between India and Pakistan, and announcing a trade deal with China. Let's start with the president's Mother's Day weekend. After all he accomplished, what will the Democrats complain about next? I mean, it is absolutely stunning. It started out very negatively with a bunch of Democrats storming an ICE facility in New Jersey. And my gosh, arrests ought to be forthcoming, right? No one's above the law, right? You don't mind about those January Sixers rotting in jail? And a lot of them did a lot less. than some of these prominent Democrats. But let me just get you caught up. If you're just tuning in, maybe you were sleeping all weekend, took the kids to the movies, put your feet up. Let me go through the list for you, shall I? Let's see. Trump announced a trade deal with China, brokered an in-person meeting between Ukraine and Russia, helped stop a potential war between Pakistan and India, announced an end to big pharma U.S. profiteering with an executive order that's going to dramatically slash prescription drug prices. Oh, and just for good measure, got the final American hostage released by Hamas. What are they going to bitch about now? What are they going to complain about now? You mad about lower drug prices, Democrats? That's terrible. Wait a minute. What about the plane? What about the plane? The plane. Cutter's giving the government a plane. A 747. What about that plane? Bunch of boneheaded so-called conservatives with their panties in a wad over Qatar giving us one aircraft, a 747. That's corruption. Eric Erickson and Jonah Goldberg are in a snit. They can't believe it. This is corrupt. There's a plane from Qatar. Meanwhile... Don't look now. But we've got, like, world peace coming. We've got an end to the war in the Middle East, perhaps. We've got seniors getting dramatic relief from prescription drug prices. Trump releasing the stranglehold that big pharma has on millions of Americans. What about the plane? The plane's too expensive. This is terrible. We can't trust Qatar. I always thought it was Qatar, but I think the proper pronunciation is Qatar. Isn't this glorious to watch? 90-day pause with China. Tariffs are being slashed by 115%. You want to know why the United States is reaching a trade agreement with China, which is why the stock market, incidentally, oh my gosh, just Dow futures soaring. It's going to be a wild day on the market. All for the good. All to the good, right? But you want to know why we're getting a trade deal done now? Well, it's because it couldn't get done with Biden. And Scott Besson, the Treasury Secretary, explains why. This is, I mean, it's incredible. You want to see the difference between night and day? Look at the difference between the Trump administration and the Biden administration, as Scott Besson explained moments ago.
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What has to happen is it has to be fair for the American people. But in January 2020, President Trump produced a template. We had an excellent trade agreement with China and the Biden administration chose not to enforce it. The Chinese delegation basically told us that once President Biden came into office. They just ignored their obligations. So we all already have a large framework. The other thing to remember here, Jonathan, is that this is a pause down to 10 percent. The April 2nd level for China is 34 percent. So we will be working to see where their final reciprocal number ends up. And the negotiations are a combination of tariffs, non-tariff trade barriers, currency manipulation and subsidies of labor and capital.
SPEAKER 05 :
Let that sink in. The Chinese Communist Party knew that Joe Biden was weak and feeble and frail and incapable, and they didn't care. They didn't care, but they care about this guy. They care about the new sheriff in town. It is an absolute golden era. And I am at a point right now where I'm inclined to just completely ignore the noise from his critics. They've got, what are they going to, again, what do they complain about? The government of Qatar offered to give the American government a Boeing 747 that may eventually serve as Air Force One. The media melted down. The DNC chair, Ken Martin, issued a terse statement to Newsweek. ahead of the banner to be displayed today. Donald Trump is using the presidency to personally enrich himself while he bankrupts working families. His corruption is a slap in the face to millions of Americans who are struggling to get by. Well, put food on the table, might want to go to the grocery store, Ken. Check out the price of groceries, poultry, eggs. According to supermarket... News.com that tracks these things. Grocery prices have experienced the biggest drop in almost five years. Five of the six major grocery store groups, their indexes dropped, led by a 12.7% increase. But wait a minute. Wait a minute. The DNC is highlighting what foreign autocracies around the world already know. Trump has no loyalty to the American people. So what they're going to do? They're going to fly a plane. They're going to fly a plane over Mar-a-Lago with a sign that says Qatar Alago. Qatar Alago. Oh, my gosh. It flows off the tongue, doesn't it? They got us. They got us. We're done. Stick a fork in us. It's over. It's over for Trump. It's over for America. That banner is going to do it. You know what's hysterical about the Newsweek article? The Democrats are very serious about all this, about this banner. Can you imagine them all sat around and they said, let's fly a banner over Mar-a-Lago. That'll do it. That'll really tick them off. Now, he's in the Middle East. He ain't even there. So the housekeepers and the Secret Service agents, I guess, that are going to guard the building while he's gone, they're going to look up and see the plane and they're going to say, what a bunch of idiots. What a bunch of morons. You're flying a banner around Mar-a-Lago and you think you're making a difference? And some of the useful idiots on our side who are whining about the plane, my gosh, there's something about Trump derangement syndrome like my friend Mark Davis always says, it makes smart people dumb. It makes nice people mean. Even Senator Rick Scott, a Republican and staunch Trump ally, questioned the plane's safety. Said, I'm not flying on a Qatari plane. They support Hamas. I don't know how you make it safe. Oh, right, Senator Scott, because we don't have the means to make sure a plane is safe. They're going to sneak a bomb under seat 13B. And when Trump is going to fly on it, they're going to blow the plane up. Smart people are made dumb. I wonder who's paying for the banner. Think the taxpayers are paying for the banner to fly around? The banner. Democrats in New Jersey were busy this week. The mayor of Newark and other prominent Jersey politicians found themselves in handcuffs after they tried to force their way into an ICE facility. What are the Democrats doing? They're storming the ICE facility in New Jersey. This New Jersey mayor was arrested for trespassing. You got members of Congress. That one woman, the Democrat congresswoman wearing the red, oh, she laid hands on law enforcement. There are people that did a lot less than that on January 6th who spent a lot of time in jail. So what's going to happen to these Democrat degenerates? who decided to stage a photo op and assault law enforcement. It's a big deal. Look, they kept saying, no one's above the law, Donald Trump. No one's above the, okay, no one's above the law. Looks like there's going to be some more arrests coming. Here's the DHS spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin, cut number four, talking about what's going to happen as a result of the evidence that shows Democrats were committing crimes against law enforcement at this ICE facility in New Jersey.
SPEAKER 02 :
We should let viewers know there will likely be more arrests coming. We actually have body camera footage of some of these members of Congress assaulting our ICE enforcement officers, including body slamming a female ICE officer. So we will be showing that to viewers very shortly.
SPEAKER 01 :
You say a video of members of Congress body slamming ICE officials?
SPEAKER 02 :
That's correct, sir. It's disgusting.
SPEAKER 01 :
Okay, and so if you have that video, are you suggesting that members of Congress will be arrested who were there yesterday?
SPEAKER 02 :
This is an ongoing investigation, and that is definitely on the table.
SPEAKER 01 :
Who has the video?
SPEAKER 02 :
ICE does, and we will be releasing that very shortly.
SPEAKER 01 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
Look, did you hear the CNN anchor? That was a guy on CNN, shocked. Body slamming? Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh. Now, honest question. I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat. If Democrats assaulted law enforcement at the ICE facility, should they be arrested? Even if they're a member of Congress? You think if you're a member of Congress, you get to assault law enforcement? Check out Congressman McCaul from Texas and what he had to say about the prospect of arresting members of Congress who happen to be on the Democrat side of the aisle.
SPEAKER 01 :
Should ICE be arresting or even threatening to arrest members of Congress?
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I mean, that's obviously a very drastic move. I would only do that if they were complicit with a crime. I don't know all the facts behind this. If they were just visiting a detention center, I've done that many times. If they're disrupting law enforcement, that's another question. So, you know, we can peacefully protest in this country. But you cannot be complicit with gang violence against our law enforcement. And I think perhaps that's what it comes down to.
SPEAKER 05 :
I'm glad I saw that clip in total here on Salem News Channel. Because the headline was making Mike McCaul out to be pushing back against the prospect. Oh, Republican congressman says that's a drastic move. Yeah, but he's not condemning it. He's saying if members of Congress... broke the law, they have to be held accountable. President Trump signed an executive order this week to ensure fair pricing for prescription drugs in America. Everyone says they want a common sense measure like this until the president comes along and actually does it. This is an interesting text from Pennsylvania. And this is the point that makes me think a little bit about this conversation. If you agree 100% with anybody... You have become a cult. And that, of course, is what Trump critics say about MAGA. That's what Trump critics say about Trump supporters, that we're all in a cult. And it's because we're unwilling to pile on and criticize Trump that people like this Pennsylvania texter say such a thing. And don't get me wrong, I get it. I understand the criticism. Because I completely admit, I'm very transparent here. I am very reluctant to criticize this administration. Because they've got plenty of criticism going on. The entire world is amped up against Trump to try to make him fail. They're rooting against the country. They're cheering for America's downfall. They don't even want lower drug prices for seniors. I'm not kidding you. They're already screeching to the mountaintops about his executive order, which would lower prescription drug prices. Don't believe me? Check out this little ditty, this montage we found on X.
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Liberals are now fighting against low drug prices for Americans.
SPEAKER 02 :
Trump has just announced that he will be signing an executive order tomorrow that could upend the pharmaceutical industry in the United States as we know it.
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He's instituting the preferred nation policy, which simply says that you can't charge Americans more money for American pharmaceuticals than any other country. It really is that simple. Because the pharmaceutical companies right now make their drugs in America. They use subsidies from the American people. And then after they make the drugs, they sell it overseas for pennies on the dollar, but sell it to Americans for massive profits. And this policy simply says that whatever your lowest global price is for whatever medicine you made, that is the only price you get to sell it for in the United States. That's reasonable. We are helping pay for the development of these medicines, the development of these drugs. Yet we are being charged sometimes 170, sometimes 1,000 times what they're paying for it in other countries. And all Donald Trump is saying, if you're going to produce your drugs here, if you're going to get subsidies from the government, you do not get to rip off Americans. And liberals are fighting against that. This is further proof that no matter what Trump does, no matter how much it benefits Americans, no matter how many Americans it benefits, they are going to be against it.
SPEAKER 05 :
I don't know who that guy is. I'd like to get his name. That's a social media influencer, though, with some common sense points and pointing out the absurdity of the left and the Trump haters. Whatever he does, they're going to find fault with. And we have to remember that. So it has nothing to do with being in a cult. It has to do with being unified. You know, the way the Democrats are. Now, all of a sudden, they're confirming Joe Biden's infirmities. Now there's books coming out and stories and, oh, he was going to be in a wheelchair and he was everything. We all knew he was falling apart. They didn't do that when he was president, did they? You know why? Because they stay unified. Period. End of sentence. We've got to be unified. Brought to you by my friend Mike Lindell at MyPillow. And look, these sheets are going, they are flying off the shelves like hotcakes. I've been bragging about the Giza Dream Sheets for years. They're made from the finest cotton on earth. 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Sometimes, though, even a critic sees just how revolutionary Donald Trump really is. This is Arnaud Bertrand. I rarely praise Trump, but his speech in the Middle East... is a genuinely incredible one. I've been arguing for close to a decade that the single biggest reason for the growing divide between the West and the rest was the West's inability to accept diversity, the genuine kind, not the fake, the kind sold to you by liberalism. Diversity of cultures, traditions, civilizations, governance systems, etc. Incredible And kind of disturbing, he says, that Trump is the first Western leader who seems to understand this and to criticize the West's missionary zeal to remake others in its image. Do you have that accompanying clip, Christian? Because I don't have the number with me. Okay, good. Let me play this for you. Thanks, Christian. Let me play this clip that Arnaud Bertrand is referring to. Because, again, he's not a Trump fanboy. He rarely praises Trump. But Trump is the first Western leader who seems to understand genuine diversity of cultures, traditions, civilizations, governance systems. Look, let me just put this out there before I play this clip from Trump's speech yesterday. You know what's difficult about Gaza? We all can appreciate Gaza. and grieve the suffering of all the men, women, and children in Gaza. Well, you know what makes it problematic? And I'm going to say something that is a very difficult thing to hear. Of course you hate to see many, many, many thousands of people killed in Gaza. But those people all want us dead. Do you understand that? That's what makes this so complicated. Humanity is difficult. It is so hard to process the reality that the Palestinian people, the people in Gaza, the Gazans, the people who report to Hamas and who overwhelmingly support Hamas, they support terrorism and bloodshed, they want death to the Jews, they want death to the Americans, they hate us. And I hate that. I do. But this is what's so hard about that part of the world. And this is what Trump has to tackle. Understanding the sheer humanity, for lack of a better word, of the loss of life and the devastation as a result of Hamas. Children killed, blown apart, families torn apart, horrible things happening in Gaza. And yet the problem is, or something we have to tackle and at least recognize, we just have to acknowledge, they all hate us. Now, does that make us, does that make them our enemy? Not necessarily. And that's what Trump is addressing with this Saudi U.S. Investment Forum and his speech yesterday that this Arnaud Bertrand is referring to.
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Transformations have been unbelievably remarkable before our eyes. A new generation of leaders is transcending the ancient conflicts of tired divisions of the past and forging a future where the Middle East is defined by commerce, not chaos. where it exports technology, not terrorism, and where people of different nations, religions, and creeds are building cities together, not bombing each other out of existence. We don't want that. And it's crucial for the wider world to note this great transformation has not come from Western interventionists or flying people in beautiful planes giving you lectures on how to live and how to govern your own affairs. No, the gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called nation builders, neocons, or liberal non-profits like those who spent trillions and trillions of dollars failing to develop Kabul, Baghdad, so many other cities. Instead, the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought by the people of the region themselves, the people that are right here, the people that have lived here all their lives, developing your own sovereign countries. Pursuing your own unique visions and charting your own destinies in your own way. It's really incredible what you've done. In the end, the so-called nation builders wrecked far more nations than they built. And the interventionists were intervening in complex societies. that they did not even understand themselves. They told you how to do it, but they had no idea how to do it themselves. Peace, prosperity, and progress ultimately came not from a radical rejection of your heritage, but rather from embracing your national traditions and embracing that same heritage that you love so dearly.
SPEAKER 05 :
Now, again, let me go back to this guy's post. The biggest reason for the growing divide between the West and the rest was the West's inability to accept the genuine kind of diversity that Trump is talking about. Diversity of cultures, traditions, civilizations, governance systems. This guy writes, incredible and kind of disturbing that Donald Trump is the first Western leader who seems to understand this and is willing to criticize the West's missionary zeal to remake others in its image. While President Trump goes where no leader has dared, Democrats remain as predictable as the tides in the ocean. The DNC has voided the election of David Hogg as their vice chair. Did you see that? They kicked him out. That's the kid from Parkland. And he's been thrown out with the garbage. And what they don't like about him is he wants to go after establishment Democrats. So there's finally a break in the unified front of the Democrats. Because they can't figure this out. They cannot figure this out. They don't know what to make of the plummeting inflation and the lower gas prices and the prices lowering at the grocery stores. I mean, they're left with just lying about it. They're pretending that what's actually happening isn't happening. And here they are. Here's the old hippie Democrats outside the ICE facility in New Jersey. Now, let me apologize in advance because this is painful to listen to. But it's true. A bunch of 60- and 70-year-old white hippies singing.
SPEAKER 08 :
Now, you've got to see that video.
SPEAKER 05 :
If you're watching today on Salem News Channel, they've got gray hair. They're all white. Where are the black people protesting Donald Trump? Where are the Hispanics protesting Donald Trump? These are just old white hippies. Let me play it again, Christian. I may put this on a loop because this is the opposition, okay? So just let it soak in. Trump cutting deals with Saudi Arabia, taking the big plane from Qatar, doing a trade reset with China, slashing tariffs with China, getting a trade agreement with the UK. Our stock market is soaring. Our 401ks are rising. The economy is already booming under the Trump leadership. And what's the opposition sound like? I mean, they've literally got the big straw hats and the tie-dye. They literally have tie-dyed shirts on. Some of them do in that crowd. Jill just sent me a text on the MyPillow text line from Walhalla, South Carolina, home of that wonderful Walhalla Performing Arts Center. Jill said, you are so right, Mike. I said the same thing to my husband when we drove by the Seneca, South Carolina City Hall on May 1st during the anti-Trump rally. They were all 100% aging hippies. I just think that's incredible. And I don't know what's behind that. With all the successes everywhere you look, how is a leftist supposed to deal with it all day to day? Well, lucky you. One call to Dr. Mike will fix you right up. Chris in Minneapolis, 18 before the hour. I know you've called before. You and I usually argue with each other, don't we?
SPEAKER 06 :
I don't know if we argue. We sometimes disagree on inconsistency. How about that?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice spin. Nice spin. I remember you. My memory's bad, but it ain't that bad. No, we've only talked once, so that's pretty good.
SPEAKER 06 :
And that was about cops and J-6ers, remember?
SPEAKER 05 :
I remember you. No, I remember you. You're a Trump hater from Minneapolis, but that's okay. Go ahead. Dive in.
SPEAKER 06 :
I've voted for him three times. I'm not a Trump hater. I know.
SPEAKER 05 :
You voted for him. You're a Trump supporter. You're MAGA, right? You got a red MAGA hat, right? No, I do not. I do not. I got you. I got you one. Want me to get you one? No, it's okay. I'll send you one.
SPEAKER 06 :
Send me one. I'll take it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. Will you wear it?
SPEAKER 06 :
Probably not, but not wearing a hat doesn't mean I don't support the president.
SPEAKER 05 :
I think that's proof positive. I think you're a complete sellout. You need to wear the hat in Minneapolis for one day. The problem is, if you wear it in Minneapolis, it may not turn out well for you, right?
SPEAKER 06 :
No, it's not that bad. Probably not that bad.
SPEAKER 05 :
So go ahead and tell me why taking the plane is a bad idea, Chris, for Minneapolis.
SPEAKER 06 :
So, no, I'm saying I don't know if it's a bad idea or not. My concern is that when you were talking about it, there was a guy who texted that said MAGA's got to support 100%. Right. And what you just did is you talked about, because that's what the Democrats and the mainstream media did, and now they're coming out and admitting they lied. We don't want to be that. Wait a minute. Who admitted they lied? You just said that the mainstream media and everybody was saying Trump's or Biden's all right, which we could all see he was not all right from the beginning, are now coming out with books and saying, no, it's not true. Right, right. Right, but so they lie. We don't want to be that. And what you want to do, let me finish one thing.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, no, no, but listen, don't get defensive because I understand your point completely. It's actually, I mean, it's a good point. I get it. I totally get it. And it feels inconsistent, I'm sure, to you or to others who say, well, wait a minute, if they should have spilled the beans about Biden. But don't you agree, and again, I'm giving you a lot of credit, Chris, and don't worry, I'm not going to cut you short, so take your time. I'm giving you a lot of credit on the point, but what I'm saying is, don't you think it makes sense to borrow a page from the Democrat playbook and stay unified behind Trump, considering all the headwinds that he faces with the mainstream media and everybody else going up against him?
SPEAKER 06 :
I do, unless it makes me break principle. Because that's all you really have, Mike, is your principle. Now, what you can do is you can remain silent on it and not talk about it. Or you can say, you know what, I'm not sure what the best thing is on this one. Because if Biden had been offered a plane by China and then said you can keep it when you're done, we would have all been all over it. All of us. Because
SPEAKER 05 :
It just wouldn't have made sense, right? Well, but there's a degree of tribalism that goes on there, of course, as you know, and I get that. But look, your point is, let me give you a quick example, and you said something that really rings true with me, and let me tell you why it resonates. Because let me be very blunt here. I'm not bothered by the plane at all. I mean, are you bothered by the plane?
SPEAKER 06 :
I think what I wasn't when I first heard it is I started reading other people talking about, first of all, nobody gives anybody anything without wanting something. I'm not saying Trump's going to give them anything. I don't think he will.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right. I mean, he's sitting right now with the crown prince in Saudi Arabia. You worried you bothered by that? Sitting with them? No.
SPEAKER 06 :
We should sit with anyone and have a conversation and try to lead them to truth and righteousness.
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely. We have uncomfortable alliances with some dicey places. Let's start with China. I mean, you want to be a purist. We shouldn't be dealing with anybody. We shouldn't be dealing with China. We shouldn't be negotiating with Saudi Arabia. And we shouldn't be taking a plane from Qatar. So to your very strong point, and it's a good point, of course we shouldn't sacrifice our principles. We should not compromise. Absolutely right. And again, on the merits... In my view, there's absolutely zero wrong with accepting a $400 million gift from Qatar. But let me also applaud the point you made about just being silent. If you just don't want to pile on, just don't talk, just don't bring it up. That applies in my world in a big way. Years ago, and I'm not mentioning anybody's name, you might be able to guess who it is. There was a talk show host, a radio talk show host, who hated Trump. voted for Hillary, now this was a so-called conservative and a Republican, and was just blowing up his audience. And the company he worked for said, knock it off. You've got to stop attacking Trump. You are a conservative talk show host with a national platform. Stop it. And he wouldn't stop it. And of course... Chris, you could probably imagine how it turned out for him. He lost his job. You can't turn on your audience. You can't blow up your... But their argument to him was... Just talk about other stuff. Talk about the economy. Talk about crime. Talk about inflation. Just stop attacking him. If you don't like him, just don't talk about it. Keep it to yourself. That's, I think, what you're saying about all of us, that no matter what platform you might be on or whatever role you play, just don't bring it up and let other people do that. I think you make a good point, Chris.
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And I would say that on the minor things, and I would call this a minor thing. If there are ethical and moral things, Mike, you can't remain quiet. It doesn't matter who it is. Totally. And here's the reason is, if we don't hold people accountable, if we are, in a sense, with the guy that wrote up, MAGA's got to support MAGA 100%, that's, I don't know if that's cult, but that's in sycophant territory. We can't be that. We have to look at things and say, okay, and you know what, on a small thing, just, you don't have to pile on. If something really If something immoral is done, I don't think you can say this is immoral. Then you have to say, that's it. I've got to speak up.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, yeah. I'd largely disagree with you that you're a sycophant if you believe in unity and unifying behind Trump. Again, I suspect you're not all that enamored with him. Look, I like you more than I thought I did, so I don't want to pick on you. But I will tell you that there are lots of people who sound like you who really aren't fans. And you say, oh, you know, you've got to stand. But again, you make a really series of good points. And I totally get it. And I appreciate you expressing them for us here on the Mike Gallagher Show. There is a difference between being a cult. and being unified. And I am tired of watching Republicans, we're seeing it right now in the House, in the Senate, they go rogue and they say, oh, I'm going to stand up and push back against the Trump, and all you're doing is hurting the agenda. You either believe in the Trump agenda or you don't. So the bottom line is, let's be unified. Appreciate the call, Chris, very much. There are many reasons to appreciate all that the President is doing right now, not the least among them, he's very entertaining. It's a joyful, I just talked to somebody in the White House the other day. They said, you can't believe what a great mood he's in all the time. He feels so driven and satisfied and fulfilled because he's fighting. The guy doesn't sleep. Morning, noon, and night, he's fighting for the American people. And it's just, I'm a little sad for some of these people, for many of them. Here's an example of the fun that is Donald Trump. He's talking about the weight loss shot. You know, that's been the latest craze to get a shot in the belly. And, of course, every day I get to tell you about the alternative to that, Ph.D. weight loss and nutrition. Because if you want to rely on a shot in your stomach for the rest of your life, going to cost a fortune and give you Lord knows what side effects, you knock yourself out. You want a science and data-driven program where you're not hungry? If I can lose over 50 pounds without ever being hungry, anybody can do this. And that's what the PhD story is all about. Look, the longer you wait, the harder it is because your body is working against you. And look, Dr. Ashley Lucas has come up with a brilliant way to have your body burn fat without all the hunger pangs. So it's called PhD Weight Loss and Nutrition. In fact, before I give you the number, let me play for you What Trump said about the semaglutide ozempic shot in the stomach, in his own inimitable way, he calls it the fat shot. And he's got a buddy who's a wealthy businessman who's obese and gets the shot. President Trump, being the good friend he is, had to point out, hey, buddy, the shot ain't working.
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I mean, I'll tell you a story. A friend of mine who's a businessman, very, very, very top guy, most of you would have heard of him, highly neurotic, brilliant businessman, seriously overweight, and he takes the fat shot drug. And he called me up, and he said, President, he used to call me Donald, now he calls me President, so that's nice respect, but he's a rough guy, smart guy. Very successful, very rich. I wouldn't even know how we would know this, because he's got comments. President, could I ask you a question? I'm in London, and I just paid for this damn fat drug I take. I said, it's not working. He said, I just paid $88, and in New York I paid $1,300. What the hell is going on?
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Discover the profound impact of understanding God's love and the divine resources available to each of us. Rick discusses the biblical perspective on salvation and eternal life, exploring the significance of righteousness through faith in Jesus Christ. With practical advice on how to live a spirit-filled life, this episode encourages listeners to make wise decisions and embrace the transformative power of divine wisdom in daily living.
SPEAKER 01 :
Welcome to the Flatline with your host, Rick Hughes. For the next 30 minutes, you'll be inspired, motivated, educated, but never manipulated. Now your host, Rick Hughes.
SPEAKER 02 :
Good morning and welcome to the Flatline. I'm Rick Hughes, your host, and thanking you for tuning in again once more today. Remember, we simply have 30 minutes of motivation, some inspiration, some education, and we do that without any manipulation because we don't try to con people. We're not soliciting money from you. We're not asking you to join anything. We simply have some information. Information that may help you verify as well as identify God's plan for your life. And if you're willing to act on that information, if you can orient and adjust, then you'll be a lot better off for it, I promise you. Remember, God gave us two ends, one to sit with and one to think with, and success in life depends on which one you use. Heads, you'll win. Tails, you'll lose. So let's keep that in mind as we dive into what we want to cover today. Simply put, we want to talk about the divine advantages that we have available to us, the divine advantages. that we have available to us. I just got back from a Texas Wounded Warrior Foundation meeting in New Brunswick, Texas last week, and this is the same material that I presented to those wounded warriors that attended that event. It's an event we do twice a year for this particular group, and it's a great opportunity to talk to the men and women who serve in our country. So, you know, America has had an all-volunteer army, military, for a while now. We're not doing the draft anymore. And men and women such as those that I met freely chose to serve their country. And non-serving Americans may not even notice or care about their sacrifice or what they're doing until they need them. But the bottom line is that without a strong military, we could not survive as a free nation. those men and women that i spoke to made a choice and the benefits and rewards of their choice could be great and the cost and the sacrifice could be even greater as it was in some cases but in the end they can say with pride i did my duty to the best of my ability well like them there are many choices in life that we have to make And God equips each one of us with a brain and the ability to choose. We have volition. The free will he gave us, volition. He did not make us into little bitty automatons that run around doing his bidding. He gave us free will. And we have choices to make, and we use logic sometimes. Sometimes we use reason. Sometimes we use faith and make those choices. But in the end, every one of us, myself included, we are responsible for our decisions that we make. And three things you need to remember about those decisions. One, bad decisions limit all future options. And two, stupid decisions get people hurt. And then three, trusting your instinct or your impulse in a major decision is a sure way for you to mess up. Again, God gave you two ends, one to sit with, one to think with, and you must learn to use the head part. Heads you win, tails you lose. So on this radio show, I might ask you to make another choice today, not one that would require you to join up, fess up, give up, but one that might require you to act on faith and consider the opportunity and the consequences. You see, not all Americans are willing to serve their country in military service, and not all humans are willing to serve their gods. Each one of us must make a personal choice. And that's where our volition comes into play. You know, you and I have met people born with a silver spoon in their mouth. It gives them an advantage and a social standing. And having an advantage in life is one way unqualified people get ahead. Yes, they do. But I can tell you on this show how to have a divine advantage. A divine advantage in life that will give you discernment and understanding in all of your endeavors. Because that's what life requires. It requires wisdom. And wisdom is none other than discernment and insight. And if we don't have discernment, if we don't have insight, we get taken advantage of by forces greater than our own capabilities to discern. So wisdom is a critical component in your life if you're going to take advantage of the divine advantage God gives you. But here is the catcher. Wisdom is not inherited from your parents. It must be acquired in your own soul. And it can be divine wisdom, which comes from the word of God. It could be relative wisdom, which comes from what some joker thinks should be or should not be the truth. But without some type of resource, none of us would even make it through the week, much less through life. And this is where God offers us his divine resources. He offers his divine resources to each one of us. And if you want to know why his motivation to do this is pretty simple, he loves you. Maybe you've never heard anybody say that to you, but God loves you. I know I've been a jerk and someone said God loved me. It was shocking. I mean, how could God love me? I'm an idiot. Look at the stupid things I've done. But he loves you. I promise you. As the Bible says, God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. That's love personified. When he sent his son, our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, to pay the ultimate penalty for our sin so we wouldn't have to pay it. That's true love. What greater love does a man have than this, that he lay down his life for his friends, the Bible says, and the Lord Jesus Christ loves you. That's why he went to the cross, to pay for your sin. What a wonderful divine advantage that we have there. He loves us. You know, the Bible says in Ecclesiastes 10.2, a wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish man's heart directs him to the left. Now, this is not a political statement, as you know about lefters and writers and all that sort of stuff, but This is talking about your choice. Sometimes you go to the left and sometimes you go to the right. And to the left would be the my way highway, the relative wisdom way, not using God's divine wisdom and going thy way highway. So you can make some pretty dumb decisions like I've done in your life. You can't afford to do that. You only got a little bit of time. You can't buy more time. And you don't want to come to the end of your life and look back like a vapor trail across the sky, seeing it disappear from history. Because I can assure you, nobody's going to stand around and worry about where you went when the Lord brings you home. But you don't want to go home with regret, and you don't want to go home ashamed. You want to go home having done a good job. Your choice. It's up to you. so these divine resources that i'm speaking of to you they start with first of all the free gift of salvation and that's a win-win situation it doesn't cost you anything but it does require you wanting to know the truth you want to know his love and his forgiveness and it requires that you have the faith to trust him If you want to take advantage of the divine resource of forgiveness of sin, you must have a desire to know his love and forgiveness and the faith to trust him, as I said. He offered this forgiveness freely since we are his creation. And there are no strings attached because the Bible clearly says, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. It's a legitimate question to be saved from what? I mean, sure. Ecclesiastes 1.4 said, a generation goes and a generation comes. But the earth remains forever. When I'm saying that you're gonna pass away someday, I'm gonna pass away someday. But the earth will continue until God says that's it. So we all have our niche, our time in history. And saved from what? What are we saved from if we said we're gonna believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shall be saved? We are saved from the lake of fire. Hebrews 9, 27, and it is appointed unto men once to die, but after that death, the judgment. The judgment is described in Revelation 20, verse 11 through 15, and this is not an illusion. This is literal. Where John wrote, then I saw a great white throne and him that sat upon it from whose presence earth and heaven fled away and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, the great and the small standing before the throne of God and the books were opened. And then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books according to their deeds. The sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them. And they were judged, every one of them, according to their deeds. And then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death. the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. Now listen carefully as I explain this to you. When you're born, your name is put in the Lamb's book of life. If you die without accepting Jesus Christ as your Savior, your name is blotted out and you have died the first death. If you believe in Jesus Christ, you're never said to be dead. You're asleep in Christ. So you have to be born twice or you're gonna die twice. This is the way it goes. This is the way God made it. So here we have people that did not believe in Jesus Christ. They're unbelievers. And so since their name is not in the book of life, they're going to be given an opportunity by the justice of God to present their case of why they should be allowed to come into heaven because of their deeds, their good deeds. They were good. But remember the Bible says there are none that are good, no, not even one. All of our righteousnesses are like a filthy rag before God. Remember that. So here they are standing up and saying, well, what about this? And what about that? Look what I did. I gave to the church and I tithed and I sang in the choir. I helped little old ladies across the street. I bought Girl Scout cookies. Didn't work. That's not salvation. For by grace are you saved through faith. And that not of yourselves is the gift of God. He that believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, John says. And so when their name is not in the book of life, then the various books of their good deeds are opened and they are judged from that and they are found lacking. They cannot equal the righteousness of God. The only way you can have eternity with God is to be equally righteous. Now listen to what the Bible says. He who knew no sin was made sin for us, so we may be made the righteousness of God through him. Through Christ and receiving him as our savior, his righteousness is imputed to us and we have equal righteousness with God because we are in Christ Jesus. He took our sin and gave us his righteousness. Thus, God can bless you and welcome you into the royal family by faith. And so, if their name was not found written in the Lamb's book of life, they are thrown into the lake of fire. Again, verse 15, Revelation 20. If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, that's the ones who rejected Christ, they're thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death. I don't know if you got this, but those in Hades were brought out of Hades and judged. Those in hell were brought out of hell and judged and then thrown into the lake of fire. Think about that. You die apart from Jesus Christ. You go to hell and you await this final judgment. And then you're brought up before the great white throne and your name's not in the Lamb's book of life. and your production doesn't equal God's righteousness, so then you're thrown into the lake of fire where Satan and the fallen angels will already be. It doesn't sound very inviting, does it? So when I say saved from what, you're saved from this. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved or delivered from this judgment. You won't be there. And that's a marvelous thing. That's a divine advantage. This judgment is not because anyone was bad or anybody misbehaved, because what it's about is they were born with Adam's original sin imputed to them. Romans 5.12 just says, Through one man sin entered into the world, and then death by sin. And now death spreads to all because all have sinned. And so the first divine advantage is to have our sins forgiven. Romans 5, 8, but God demonstrated his love towards us and that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Problem is solved. A free gift from God. In Luke 18, verses 9 through 14, we find in the temple a Pharisee praying, and he's not really praying. He's braying, B-R-A-Y, like a jackass would bray. He's patting himself on the back and telling God what a great guy he is. how he fasts and how he does this and how he does that and hoping that he's impressing God with all of his good deeds. And then it talks about the publican who came in and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner. And Jesus said, that's the man that went to heaven right there, the one who asked for forgiveness. Problem solved, a free gift from God. How do I know it's a free gift? Romans 6.23, for the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. What a divine advantage that is. Divine advantage number one, salvation. I am delivered from my sin and the penalty of my sin. I am set free from the slave market of sin. I'm no longer under control of my sin nature. Now, God the Holy Spirit lives in me and I can make a choice. I can choose to live in fellowship with God, or I can choose to let my sin nature dominate me and control me, and even as a Christian, live in sin. That won't get you very far because the Bible says in Hebrews 12, 6, that God chastens those that he loves and judges and disciplines those that he loves. So when you or I, when we get into sin, we don't use problem-solving device number one, the rebound technique. If we confess our sin, he's faithful and just to forgive us, purify us from all of our wrongdoing. If we don't do that, then we set ourself up for divine discipline because God loves us. Why does he discipline you? He doesn't want you to self-destruct. You have the ability to destroy your life with an acquired flaw. You can acquire flaws that'll destroy you and you will make constantly bad decisions until eventually you box yourself in and you get frustrated and you deliberately choose to maybe end it all because you have no hope and no life. God doesn't want that for you. God wants you to have a wonderful, profitable, wonderful life in Christ. And the divine advantage of knowing Jesus Christ as Savior is wonderful. But there's a second advantage too. You see, the Bible says anyone who receives Christ as Savior, they soon learn, like I learned, that that we still possess the ability to sin. We still fail from time to time, sometimes too much. And we have to learn this. The Bible says God recognizes this and makes a provision for our failure. Now, let's answer this question. What exactly is sin? Well, it comes in three ways that I'm aware of. Something you think. You can commit a sin in your brain. You can sin seated in the pulpit at church or seated in the pew at church. If you have mental attitude sin of anger and bitterness, resentfulness, implacability, hostility, that's a sin. It's a mental attitude sin. Lust is a mental attitude sin. Jealousy, hatred is a mental attitude sin. Well, there are also sins of the tongue. Gossip and slander, maligning, criticizing, backbiting. These are sins of the tongue. And then there are the overt sins like drunkenness and fornicating and stealing and murder. These are sins as well. Can a Christian commit murder? You better believe he can. Look at David in 2 Samuel 16. He had Uriah the Hittite murdered. And he committed adultery with Uriah's wife Bathsheba. Sure, Christians can do some pretty goofy, stupid things when we get out of fellowship with God. If we're sinning, if we're committing personal sin, we are breaking fellowship with God, we are quenching the Holy Spirit, we are grieving the Holy Spirit, and we set ourself up for divine discipline. But if we will recognize the sin, and rebound the sin, then we can be restored to fellowship, put back in fellowship. First John 1.9 says, if we confess our sin, then he is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. This is the secret to the Christian life, and nobody ever told me that. Here I was, a new Christian, a year and a half into my Christian life, not knowing what to do, reading the Bible, going to different Bible studies, going to different churches, going around in a circle. I had the gospel right. I understood what it meant to be saved. But I did not understand the mechanics to the Christian life. You must come to realize there are mechanics. And by that, I mean a right thing has to be done in a right way, or it is wrong. A right thing done in the wrong way, wrong. A wrong thing done in the wrong way, wrong. A right thing done in the right way, well, that's right. There are mechanics, and if you intend to serve God, you must do it through the filling of the Holy Spirit. That's why Ephesians 5.18 gives you the mandate, be filled with the Spirit. You cannot be Spirit-filled with sin in your life. Sin quenches the Holy Spirit. Sin grieves the Holy Spirit, and you must admit the sin. confess the sin, and then God the Father is faithful and just to forgive you. This doesn't mean that you're going to stay filled with the Spirit 24 hours a day because you may sin at 8 o'clock, you may confess that sin at 8.05, and you may sin again at 9 o'clock. You'll have to confess the sin again. On a particularly bad day, you may have to confess your sin eight or 10 or 12 times. But whatever you do, don't wait until you go to bed at night to do it. Don't look back during the day and say, oh Lord, this morning I sinned at 8.02 and now it's 10 p.m. at night. Listen, if you sin at 8.02 a.m. in the morning, you quenched the Holy Spirit at 8.02 a.m. in the morning. And thus, you're going to go through your life all day long without the filling of the Holy Spirit, without the power of God in your life. And then you're going to go to bed at night and ask him to cleanse you and fill you so you can sleep good. You need to keep up with your sin. When you're aware of it, name it immediately. Immediately. And then he's faithful and he's just to forgive us. You know, some people think that when they sin, God will disown them. And that's not true. the bible is very clear in luke 15 about the prodigal son and how the prodigal son wandered away from home wasted his money on riotous living and got under divine discipline and finally came to his senses and went home and confessed his sin to his father and his father took him back freely the father loved him and killed the fatted calf and put a ring on his finger he was still his son still his son The father didn't go chase him down because the father knew he's going to have to learn it the hard way. And that's the way some people are. I'm probably that way. And you can learn the easy way or you can learn the hard way. Are you one of those people that has to learn the hard way? Even though you know you shouldn't do something, you're going to do it anyhow just to see if you can get away with it. You're not going to get away with it, I promise you. so the divine advantage of the filling of the holy spirit guarantees you the power of god in your life it guarantees you the rewards of god in eternity it guarantees you the ability to replicate the life of christ it guarantees you complete happiness in time and in eternity but only through the filling of the holy spirit What does the Holy Spirit use? He uses Bible doctrine. He uses the Word of God. So as you learn the Word of God in your local church under your pastor, and you apply to your life the principles and the precepts that he teaches and you learn, then you begin to replicate the life of Christ. And this brings God much glory. That's the objective of the Christian life. So, the divine advantage of number three. Number one, salvation. Number two, the filling of the Holy Spirit. Now, number three, the secret to keep from becoming a battlefield casualty in the spiritual life is to refit when you fail and rearm when you need it. And that's the local church where you study and grow under a real qualified pastor. People ask me, they write to me and say, do you know if there's a local church in my area? And a lot of times I may know or I may not know, but I know where you can get information. I know where you can get DVDs and MP3s and study just like I do every morning. You can sit down with a Bible and a notebook and a cup of coffee and away you go. Turn it on and study, take notes, learn, apply into your life. That's the way I've kept up with my pastor for years since I don't live in the same town. But I get the information and I study it and I write it down and I review it and I apply it into my life. I refit every morning, rearm my life every morning. And that's the job of the pastor, to rearm you for your daily battles in life And he does that by teaching you God's amazing problem-solving devices. What that does is change the way you think. The Bible says you have to change the way you think. Romans 12, three, stop thinking of self in terms of arrogance beyond what you should, but think in terms of sanity as God has assigned to every one of us a different way of thinking from his word. That's an attitude adjustment. An attitude adjustment is renovating my thinking, are simply learning to think like Christ thought. Philippians 2.5 says it. Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. And the key to understanding that is that the Lord Jesus Christ acted from the motivation of humility. He humbled himself, made himself of no reputation, the Bible says. He never reacted to bitterness. He never reacted to unfair circumstances. Our Lord Jesus Christ never lost his temper, never did anything foolish. And you can live the same way if you will renovate your thinking by learning the word of God, learning divine viewpoint. beginning to operate on divine viewpoint will give you the resiliency in your life with this new mindset to keep pressing on, to keep using the divine advantage of wisdom, insight, discernment, and knowledge from the Word of God. Because the Bible clearly says in Luke 11, 27, and 28, happiness belongs to those people who hear my Father's voice and who keep it. Our God is looking for a few good men and women. The question is, will you be one of them? Will you take these divine advantages, salvation, the filling of the Holy Spirit, and the ability to renovate your thinking and think in a new way? Will you take advantage of this? And will you glorify Jesus Christ to the maximum in your life in a daily basis? That's my prayer. I hope you'll continue listening, and I hope you'll come back next week. Same time, same place. Until then, I'm your host, Rick Hughes, saying thank you for being with us today.
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Thank you for listening to The Floodline with your host, Rick Hughes. If you'd like to contact Rick, please write to him at P.O. Box 100, Cropwell, Alabama, 35054, or online at www.rickhughesministries.org.
Embark on a cinematic journey with John Rush and his team as they explore the intriguing world of deals and trades in movies. From classic comedies like 'Tommy Boy' to the gripping choices in 'Schindler's List', each film delivers a unique perspective on decision-making. Interlaced with witty banter and insightful commentary, this episode also touches on the humor found in everyday life situations, such as coping with unpredictable Colorado winds. Additionally, don't miss the chance to hear about current sponsors and services that make life just a bit easier.
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It's finally Friday on Rush to Reason with your host, John Rush. So I tell him I'm a pro jack. And who do you think they give me? The Dolly Lama. So we finish 18, and he's going to sniff me. And I say, hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know? And he says, oh, it won't be any money. But when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness. So I got that coming. And movie reviews with Andy Payne.
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I think that you got the wrong impression about me. I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do.
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What I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.
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What do you want to do tonight?
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The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world.
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Stick a fork in me, Jerry. I'm done.
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Now, here is your host of Rush to Reason, John Rush.
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And happy Friday, everybody. Myself, Andy Pate, Charlie Grimes. How are you? Me? I'm doing well. Doing well?
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Yeah, it's a beautiful day out there. How about you?
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I can get rid of the wind.
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Yeah.
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I don't like the wind.
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It's about done, isn't it?
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Well, I would hope so. It's about moved through? I hope so.
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I really don't like... What do you hate more, wind or cold?
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Wind.
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Yeah, me too.
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Period. Because the cold... The cold's the cold, and you can pretty much handle that. When the wind starts blowing, and it's even... Like today, it's 69 degrees, but the wind blowing makes it feel like it's in the low 60s. It's like, get rid of this stuff. We don't have, like, an island breeze here.
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Okay, three things. Heat over 90... Cold, under 20. Okay. Or wind over 30 miles an hour.
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Heat over 90.
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That's when you hate the most?
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No, I take it easiest. You'll take it? I take it all day long.
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Well, you like being on an island.
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The wind I hate the most. Okay. I can take the heat or the cold more than the wind.
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Yeah, high winds I really hate. You know one thing I hate about them is people who aren't careful at the store and their door will nail you.
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Or the car flies or whatever the case. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I'm with you on that one. Absolutely, because you know how I keep my cars. Yes, I know how you keep your cars. All right, today we're switching things up a little bit. Normally we would be rolling right into reviews for movies that Andy does. We do movie reviews, as you all know. We're going to change it up a little bit today. Richard had some things going on a little earlier this afternoon than normal, so we're changing things up. So Andy and I will do movie reviews in the second hour. So we're going to do the movie rental hour, which Andy is.
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Oh, sorry, I wasn't ready. Art of the deal. Art of the deal. Yeah, trades and deals in movies. Art of the deal. Why are we doing this? Obviously, because of our president, who is making deals everywhere we turn.
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So any limitations to this as folks get, we'll do a break, we'll come back, get rolling, but is there any limitations to this at all?
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No, not at all. It can be any kind of a trade or any kind of a deal that somebody makes in a movie. The big thing I've really noticed is when looking at our president, and can I say this for just a second?
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Sure.
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A little political, then we'll go to break.
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Go ahead. No, you're fine. Take your time.
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For decades, and I know I've said this before, but for decades, America had all this leverage with the American consumer that the entire world wanted access to, and no president used it. Now we finally have a president using the very leverage that we've neglected for decades. In a lot of these movie clips, you will hear people using leverage.
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Okay. All right. We'll get into that. Let's do this before we go to break. John and Cheyenne, go ahead, sir.
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Really? You Colorado sissies are whining about the wind?
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Yeah, I know. Yeah, we are sissies when it comes to wind. Yes, you are correct.
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I'll tell you what. Some of the most intense wind I have ever seen is up there in Wyoming. I mean, like trucks just being blown right off the rover. Yeah. It was incredible.
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Well, that's why they closed the interstate to high-profile vehicles under, I think this morning it was under 40,000 pounds.
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Is it true that they outlawed tall people? No, no. Oh, okay. Because John's tall. I know you're tall, so maybe they... I didn't know if they made you stay at home. That's hilarious. Just a thought.
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No. I just was laughing when you guys were talking about that. But if you think about it, the wind, we need it because we need to send all the crap to... The East Coast. How are you going to do that without the wind?
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I know, yeah, but it brings the West Coast here, man. You've got to think it all through. True.
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Yeah. So I didn't know you guys were going to break before movies.
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Yeah, fine. Go ahead.
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Take your time. How about Last of the Mohicans, the deal at the end to the daughters?
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Oh, okay. I did not think of that one. That's a good one, yeah.
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Put it down here.
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It totally works. I just didn't think of it.
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Yeah. All right. You guys have a good rest of the weekend.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. All right, art of the deal, movies about trades and deals and so on. Andy and Richard, are you with us now? That I am. Okay. Andy, fire us off.
SPEAKER 23 :
Okay, this first one's a little long, but I like it. And one of my favorite deals always is sales. Because that's really what you're doing when you make a sale is you're making a deal. Correct. And here we go, Tommy Boy. Chicken wings. Chicken wings.
SPEAKER 20 :
Let's think about this for a sec, Ted. Why would somebody put a guarantee on a box? Hmm, very interesting. Go on, I'm listening. Here's the way I see it, Ted. Guy puts a fancy guarantee on a box because he wants you to feel all warm and toasty inside. Yeah, makes a man feel good. Of course it does. Why shouldn't it? You figure you put that little box under your pillow at night, the guarantee fairy might come by and leave a quarter. Am I right, Ted?
SPEAKER 19 :
What's your point?
SPEAKER 20 :
The point is, how do you know the fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer? Build a model airplane, says the little fairy. Well, we're not buying it. He sneaks into your house once, that's all it takes. Next thing you know, there's money missing out the dresser and your daughter's knocked up. I've seen it a hundred times. But why do they put a guarantee on the box then? Because they know all they sold you was a guaranteed piece of... that's all it is isn't it hey if you want me to take a dump in a box and mark it guaranteed i will i got spare time but for now for your customer's sake for your daughter's sake you might want to think about buying a quality product from me okay i'll buy from you oh that's what that's funny it worked that was on my list by the way so good one yeah i really love that one what do you think richard
SPEAKER 27 :
Oh, yes. Always a good excuse, Andy, to put a Tommy Boy reference in there. And the whole movie was about making deals.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah, it totally was. And I think, Richard, whenever I imagine you doing sales, that's exactly how I imagine you doing it.
SPEAKER 27 :
You know, as long as it makes a sale, Andy, I guess it doesn't matter what's in between, right? Exactly.
SPEAKER 23 :
As long as it works. You're up, sir.
SPEAKER 27 :
All right, I'm going to go with one that my wife thought of, which there's deal-making trades involved. And that's one of my, I guess, it's kind of an underrated movie. I feel like it flies under the radar, which is Molly's Game about Molly Bloom.
SPEAKER 21 :
Absolutely. Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah, it's definitely deals.
SPEAKER 23 :
I gave that a pretty good review. Yeah, that's a good movie.
SPEAKER 21 :
I enjoyed that movie. I've watched that one more than once. It's a good movie.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, I know I like it. That's a good one. I didn't, that was not on my list. It's a good one, Richard.
SPEAKER 27 :
It's a great job. Andy, do you know that from the Bloom family who are Colorado people, right?
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, I do. Jeremy's sister.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah, by the way, if I may, this is such a weird topic. First of all, it's a bit of a brain teaser.
SPEAKER 21 :
It is.
SPEAKER 23 :
Right? You know, it's a little tougher than most of ours. You've got to do a little more searching and thinking about it. But because of that, I suspect we're going to get a lot of different answers today.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, yeah, I would agree. All right, John, you're up. Oh, gosh, there's so many. And mainly probably because I'm a car guy. Let's just start off with used cars.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 21 :
Because they're making deals all the time in that movie.
SPEAKER 23 :
They are. They are.
SPEAKER 21 :
And that's what it's all about.
SPEAKER 23 :
That's on my list. Well, it isn't now.
SPEAKER 21 :
It's not now. You took it off my list. Sorry about that.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah, it's okay. All right, let's go see what Bob's got. Bob, go ahead. Bob, are you going to take one off my list?
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, I don't know, but I think the movie that, I got two of them, but the first one that was all shady deals was The Sting.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, good one. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, that's a good one. Robert Redford, they pulled off some deals, and at the end of the movie, the biggest, biggest deal.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah, good point. And yes, by the way, you took one off my list.
SPEAKER 21 :
That's a good one. That wasn't on my list, so that's a good one.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, that's a good one. Probably got one of the other ones off your list, and this one starred Danny DeVito, and it was called Tin Men, and they were siding salesmen.
SPEAKER 23 :
Oh, I didn't have that on my list.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, that's on my list, so you took one off mine now. Yes, that was on my list. Good one. Good one. No, good job, Bob. Appreciate it very much. All right, Andy, you're next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 23 :
Okay. All right, I got to do this for Richard. Richard, since you want movies that I always do, Richard, what would we do for the girl? And here we are.
SPEAKER 34 :
There's no chance we can ever be together?
SPEAKER 31 :
Only if you could promise me you'll never die.
SPEAKER 34 :
You know I can't promise that.
SPEAKER 31 :
If you did that, I would make love to you right now.
SPEAKER 03 :
I promise I will never die.
SPEAKER 21 :
And the name of the movie, of course, is Team America. I would not have pictured that one as being a deal-making movie. But I guess they make a deal. They try to make a deal with terrorists and so on. So I guess in a way there's plenty of deal-making going on. Yeah, there's deal-making.
SPEAKER 23 :
Let's face it, there's deal-making in most movies. There's deal-making in the movie. But I just thought that that was the best deal. And by the way, the most realistic.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 23 :
What do you think, Richard?
SPEAKER 27 :
I mean, Andy, it wouldn't be a movie segment if we didn't do Team America. It would not.
SPEAKER 23 :
It just wouldn't be right.
SPEAKER 21 :
Actually, it's been a few weeks.
SPEAKER 23 :
I know, and I felt lost. Everywhere I drive around, I don't know where I'm going. It's been a while. Yeah, yeah. Richard, you're up.
SPEAKER 27 :
Andy's always searching for an excuse to play Team America. I am. Rightly or wrongly. Exactly. We'll do it when we have romances. Well, Andy, you usually find something. I mean, about the only thing is maybe if it's a movie about Jesus, but in Korea, maybe they think that Kim Jong-un is Jesus. I don't know. You'll probably find a way. I could stretch it.
SPEAKER 23 :
I could do it, man. You probably could. Look, I'm a talented guy. I could do this.
SPEAKER 27 :
You are up, sir. Talented or devious, something like that, Andy. All right. I'm going to go with one that I actually watched on vacation last week, and you don't think of it as deal-making, but there's a deal to be made. And you're kind of in a different kind of way, which is John Q with old Denzel.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, yeah, that's a good one.
SPEAKER 23 :
And by the way, he's making deals. Since I always need an excuse for Team America, Richard always needs an excuse to do a Denzel movie. Which, by the way, I totally respect. He's one of the best, Andy. Oh, he is. I'm just saying, he's one of the best. I love... Denzel is one of the five or six actors who I watch him and I just say, can I be him? So, yeah, I'm totally cool with that.
SPEAKER 27 :
You know, Andy, it's... My wife, I don't think she had ever seen that movie. It was kind of on... as we were just sitting there, and she's like, oh, this is pretty good, and she didn't understand what was happening, and then the fact that he never had any bullets in the gun. I mean, it's a really well-done movie. I know insurance is bad, but we can all agree that to some extent, right? Yep.
SPEAKER 23 :
Good job.
SPEAKER 21 :
Go ahead, John. Only mentioning this one, and this is in all seriousness because it's a very serious movie, but it literally is about making deals all the way through the entire movie on a very serious note because it involves people's lives, Schindler's List.
SPEAKER 23 :
This is true.
SPEAKER 21 :
He gets to the very end. He's standing there, and he's grabbing things off of himself, saying, here's another life. Here's another life. In other words, I could have dealt for another life. I could have dealt for another life. That's probably the most touching part of the entire movie, is he's literally thinking to himself, I had all of this other stuff still even on me. That would have been another life. There's another life, and so on.
SPEAKER 23 :
No one else thinks about Schindler's List as much as you do.
SPEAKER 21 :
It's a very touching movie.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yes, it is.
SPEAKER 21 :
Let's just say that.
SPEAKER 23 :
And, by the way, that's actually a great example. Okay, I've got to go to one that's pretty easy, and that's Trading Places. Here we go at the end.
SPEAKER 12 :
Happy New Year!
SPEAKER 28 :
Winter. Valentine.
SPEAKER 18 :
Hey, how'd you make out today?
SPEAKER 28 :
How could you do this to us after everything we've done for you? Oh, see, I made Lewis a bet here. Lewis bet me that we couldn't both get rich and put y'all in the poorhouse at the same time. He didn't think we could do it. I won. I lost.
SPEAKER 21 :
Eddie Murphy.
SPEAKER 20 :
One dollar. Thank you, Lewis. After you. Certainly.
SPEAKER 21 :
Unbelievable. His laugh. Eddie Murphy's laugh.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah, and Aykroyd was great in that, too.
SPEAKER 21 :
He was. No, you're right.
SPEAKER 23 :
I mean, I never really thought of those two being in a movie together, and they were terrific.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, they were hilarious together.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah, they were.
SPEAKER 21 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 23 :
It was really good. So Trading Places, obviously, was all about trades and stocks and bonds, and there you go. Richard, you were up.
SPEAKER 27 :
All right, speaking of trades and bonds, on the less funny note, although one of the most informative movies that wasn't a documentary, but it kind of was, but really actually was well done and explained it, was The Big Short.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yep. I watched it the other day, actually. Totally. That's one of those movies that is... worth watching at different times just to have a reminder of what happened during that time and let's not do that again.
SPEAKER 27 :
Honestly, it should be one of those movies that should actually be required viewing for people. You should have to watch that as high schoolers.
SPEAKER 21 :
You should.
SPEAKER 27 :
It's one of those things that actually probably does a better job of explaining what happened than a textbook does, because it really actually walks through it.
SPEAKER 21 :
Can't argue that. No, you are right, Richard, absolutely. Okay, John. Okay, I have one that you won't think of as being a deal-making movie, but it is, and I doubt if Andy has a clip, but maybe you do. Billy Madison.
SPEAKER 23 :
I don't.
SPEAKER 21 :
Because he's literally the entire movie. It's a deal, correct? Right.
SPEAKER 23 :
It is. It's a good example.
SPEAKER 21 :
And it's hilarious to boot.
SPEAKER 23 :
It is pretty funny. It's not Happy Gilmore.
SPEAKER 21 :
No, not quite. It was building up to that.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah, but it's pretty funny.
SPEAKER 21 :
It is funny, though.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah, I enjoyed it. Good job.
SPEAKER 21 :
Back to school. Back to school. Okay, hang on. Let's take, before we go any further, let's take Soren. Soren, go ahead.
SPEAKER 26 :
Okay, I don't know. This is just one of my bonus rounds here. But does Fiddler on the Roof count?
SPEAKER 21 :
I don't know. They're making deals in it. Isn't that a musical, Soren? It is. Soren, hang on. Soren, we need a lesson here. Real men don't watch musicals.
SPEAKER 26 :
Wrong. Yeah, well, I know that, but the problem is that I have sisters, and sometimes you get forced into it.
SPEAKER 23 :
Soren, when you're alone, do you spend a lot of time dancing to show tunes? No. Okay, just checking. Now, I love Fiddler on the Roof. Are you kidding? It's one of the greatest classics of all time. I've never seen it. Oh.
SPEAKER 21 :
If I were a rich man. I've been forced over the years to watch a couple of plays of Fiddler on the Roof, and that was enough for me.
SPEAKER 26 :
I don't think I ever want to watch Fiddler on the Roof again.
SPEAKER 23 :
Tevye negotiating with God. That's deal-making. Trust me. Well, yeah. Okay. True.
SPEAKER 26 :
I love Fiddler on the Roof. Good job. My actual movies, though, are The Hunt for Red October and then Secondhand Lions because in Secondhand Lions, those uncles are just making deals left and right. This is true.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, okay, I'll give you that.
SPEAKER 26 :
That's very true. Good job, sir. And they're very good at it. Either you tell us why we need this or we'll shoot you.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, good point. Yeah. Good point. Yeah, that works.
SPEAKER 26 :
That's a good negotiating tactic. John is going to be in his old age. He's just going to sit on his porch there.
SPEAKER 21 :
That'll be me someday. It already is, actually.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah, that's John now. John has actually constructed the entire studio here to look like a porch.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yes. We can just sit here.
SPEAKER 23 :
Make him comfortable.
SPEAKER 21 :
With shotguns. Yeah. Soren, thanks.
SPEAKER 23 :
All right, man.
SPEAKER 21 :
Appreciate you very much. All right, let's squeeze another round in before break. Go ahead, Andy.
SPEAKER 23 :
Okay, this is one of the classic negotiating scenes. Kim Darby in True Grit. And I wish I had time to go through all of it, but it's five minutes. So this is just one point where she is using her lawyer Daggett for leverage.
SPEAKER 04 :
I'll take it up with my attorney.
SPEAKER 31 :
And I will take it up with my lawyer Daggett. And he will make money, and I will make money, and your lawyer will make money. And you, Mr. Likeson's auctioneer, you will fit the bill.
SPEAKER 04 :
You are a damn nuisance. Lawyer Daggett, Lawyer Daggett. Who is this famous pleader whose name I was happily ignorant of ten minutes ago?
SPEAKER 31 :
Have you ever heard of the Great Arkansas River, Vicksburg, and Gulf and Steamship Company?
SPEAKER 04 :
I have done business with the G-A-V-N-G, yes.
SPEAKER 31 :
Well, he was the one that forced them into receivership.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh.
SPEAKER 31 :
They tried to mess with him.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right, come inside.
SPEAKER 23 :
And once again, there was so much Donald Trump in her. And I'm not kidding. She knew every pressure point. She knew every bit of leverage. And she did it several ways. And she got a ton of money out of this guy for nothing. It was unbelievable. One of the greatest negotiating scenes I've ever seen.
SPEAKER 21 :
I watched a clip of that the other night. So yeah, absolutely. Just brilliant.
SPEAKER 23 :
Richard, you're up.
SPEAKER 27 :
And this is from my wife, which is, The Oceans films.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 27 :
All of them. And I'm just going to look them all together. Obviously, one big deal-making, because even though they're stealing, they're making deals because they've got to get people to do things for them.
SPEAKER 23 :
I just had Oceans 11 done.
SPEAKER 21 :
Absolutely, yeah, because all of them have that same theme. No, she's right. Absolutely. Okay, I have one that is not a stretch. You might think of it being a stretch to begin with, but it's not, because especially... The main killer in this movie has several different scenes where he is literally negotiating, i.e. flipping the coin as to whether somebody is going to live or die, and that would be no country for old men.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 21 :
Correct?
SPEAKER 23 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 21 :
And there's other negotiations outside of that, but he negotiates several times just for their lives.
SPEAKER 23 :
You know, that's kind of your Team America.
SPEAKER 21 :
True.
SPEAKER 23 :
I love that show. You go to No Country for Old Men even more than Schindler's List.
SPEAKER 21 :
I do. It's a great movie as well. Llewellyn. What a name for a guy.
SPEAKER 23 :
What if Schindler's List was made into a musical? Would you see it?
SPEAKER 21 :
No, no, I would not.
SPEAKER 23 :
Everything you want and everything you don't want.
SPEAKER 21 :
I would not, no, I would not.
SPEAKER 23 :
Okay, just ask.
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SPEAKER 21 :
You're listening to Rush to Reason. All right, movie rental. It is that hour. We switched things up this week back and forth, so we'll have movie reviews next hour. Art of the Deal, trades and deals in movies. Andy, you're up.
SPEAKER 23 :
Okay, you know, John, you look pretty happy. Are you a happy guy?
SPEAKER 21 :
Most of the time.
SPEAKER 23 :
Let me fix that. I'm going to do some music.
SPEAKER 21 :
Here we go.
SPEAKER 23 :
Thanks. All right, here's the negotiating scene in The Greatest Showman.
SPEAKER 20 :
Sir, looks like you have yourself a junior partner.
SPEAKER 03 :
What I have is an overcompensated apprentice.
SPEAKER 23 :
Do you do this every time you cinch a deal? I mean, do you dance with the person and you'll sing, get up on top of bars?
SPEAKER 21 :
No.
SPEAKER 23 :
You're nothing like I expected.
SPEAKER 21 :
No, that, yeah. Nothing there intrigues me to say, I got to go home and watch that movie.
SPEAKER 27 :
Richard, is he wrong? He is very wrong, and it's okay. He's wrong frequently, folks. I understand that some of you don't think so, but he is.
SPEAKER 21 :
What about that makes you want to go watch that movie?
SPEAKER 23 :
It's entertaining. John, many years ago, God brought to you a son for the purpose of correcting you.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, gotcha. And he's here now. He is here now. Yes, he is.
SPEAKER 23 :
Good job, Richard.
SPEAKER 21 :
You're welcome, Andy.
SPEAKER 23 :
Just so you don't forget it.
SPEAKER 21 :
The greatest showman, okay.
SPEAKER 23 :
Richard, you're up.
SPEAKER 21 :
You're up.
SPEAKER 23 :
Oh, Richard.
SPEAKER 27 :
Yeah. Richard. All right. Andy, it would not be a movie rental segment if I didn't mention a TV show, just so you know. Cheater! But when you combine them, Andy, it's like multiple movies. And this is from my wife again, which is Kiki Blinders.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, I've only started watching a little bit of that. Yeah, that kind of is, isn't it?
SPEAKER 27 :
It's not bad.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 27 :
I mean, there's some slow parts to it, but there's lots of deal-making, and for folks that don't know, it's essentially like the Irish, right? Are there Irish in this?
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 27 :
Irish mafia.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, it is. That's exactly what it is.
SPEAKER 27 :
In Ireland and London, and then they come to America. Right. It's good. It's good.
SPEAKER 21 :
Pretty true to what happened back then.
SPEAKER 23 :
By the way, John, do you know that your son every week breaks the deal? Yes. By using a TV show?
SPEAKER 21 :
Yes, he does.
SPEAKER 23 :
I just thought I'd mention that.
SPEAKER 21 :
He does. You're up, sir. Let's see here. How about... The Founder, which I watched the other night.
SPEAKER 23 :
I have not seen it.
SPEAKER 21 :
About Roy Kroc, or Ray Kroc, I should say. Oh, Ray Kroc, there you go. McDonald's, and he actually ended up taking, literally through negotiations and so on, took McDonald's to where it is today. Well, not today because he's passed, but he put it on its path, and the original McDonald's brothers never would have had more than a single restaurant. It's a really good movie, but it also shows that Ray was very ruthless.
SPEAKER 23 :
Right.
SPEAKER 21 :
And understood the art of the deal.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yes, he did. He understood leverage. Okay. Here's one, a scene where the cop and the informant are just handing money back and forth, bribing each other in the naked gun.
SPEAKER 17 :
You familiar with that face? I don't know. My memory ain't so great. Oh, yeah? Maybe this will refresh your memory.
SPEAKER 19 :
I don't know. It's still kind of hazy.
SPEAKER 17 :
How about this?
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, I remember him. I used to see him around. Why do you want to know?
SPEAKER 17 :
I can't tell you that.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, maybe this will help.
SPEAKER 17 :
I really don't think I should.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, you still don't think so.
SPEAKER 17 :
All right, his name is Nordberg, the cop. He was no cop. He was dealing H. What?
SPEAKER 18 :
I'm telling you, he was dirty. Oh, you snuffling scum. I ought to run you in right now. All right, all right. He worked at Ludwig Shipping. He tried to push something on one of my boys, I swear it. So what are you going to do about it, copper?
SPEAKER 17 :
Why should I tell you? Maybe this will help. I still don't think I should tell you.
SPEAKER 19 :
Can you spot me at 20?
SPEAKER 17 :
How about now? All right, I'm going down to Ludwig's office. I'll find out if you're telling the truth.
SPEAKER 23 :
Aren't they remaking this? Yeah, they're remaking it with... With who? With Liam Neeson.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah. I know, but... It won't be the same. I'm sorry. It can't be.
SPEAKER 23 :
Oh, it won't be. No. So he hands him the dollar. No, he hands him the 20 and says, maybe this will do it. He says, it's like to be enough. Well, can you spot me 20? He gives him the 20 back. Then he hands it back to him.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, my gosh. Who is it with again, Charlie? Pamela Anderson, Liam Neeson.
SPEAKER 23 :
There you go.
SPEAKER 21 :
I don't picture it being the same.
SPEAKER 23 :
No.
SPEAKER 21 :
I don't care how well they do, and nothing against those two, but it won't be the same. I'm sure they'll have some moments, but it'll be so hard. It won't be the same. I'm sorry.
SPEAKER 27 :
Richard, you're up. Oh, Andy, you are correct. I mean, it may be the same. It'll be semi-funny, right?
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah, it will be. We'll see. It all depends if they actually take their time to write it, but go ahead.
SPEAKER 27 :
All right, Andy, this is going to be one that maybe people don't think of when they think of trades. but I feel like this is a really good one, and you and I enjoy it. Maybe, well, let me say this. It's cheesy. It's not entirely accurate, but it's entertaining, and a lot of times that's what we're looking for in movies, Andy, and that is Draft Day with Kevin Costner.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, yeah. Totally. Totally. That's on my list. Good one. No, no, that is about, like, that is negotiating all the way through. And that is typical for NFL teams, period. Right, guys? You guys know that better than I do.
SPEAKER 27 :
Well, I mean, yeah, they're always, I mean, the actual deals that they make, like where he trades, you know. He trades three first-rounders. That actually would make sense, Andy, to move up, although he traded a little bit too much. Sounds like the Broncos. Well, he trades his second-rounders, and he gets all of his – it's not realistic. But the always trading, always negotiating is definitely part of the draft experience.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay, wait a minute. Time out. You say that's not really realistic. What did the Broncos do to get Russell Wilson back in the day?
SPEAKER 23 :
Well, you know, the interesting thing – They traded two. Richard – When your children are finally grown up and have college degrees, the Broncos will finish paying off that deal.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, there you go. Exactly. Andy, Andy, Andy, Andy. Such a bad deal.
SPEAKER 27 :
Andy, we're not all so lucky to draft. you know, to go from Brett Favre to Aaron Rodgers to Jordan Love, all right? You know, some of us have Tim Tebow's and Paxton Lynch's in between our great quarterbacks.
SPEAKER 23 :
You finally got one.
SPEAKER 21 :
We have a good one now.
SPEAKER 23 :
You got a good one now.
SPEAKER 21 :
We do.
SPEAKER 23 :
We do.
SPEAKER 21 :
It's been a long wait.
SPEAKER 23 :
We do.
SPEAKER 21 :
We do.
SPEAKER 22 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 21 :
All right. Is it my turn? Yeah. Okay. It has to be in here, and I know it's not a movie you'd want your kids to watch, but it is literally deal-making the entire movie, Wolf of Wall Street.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah. And no, that's not for the kiddies.
SPEAKER 21 :
From the get-go until the end, it's a deal-making movie.
SPEAKER 23 :
You have to be roughly 90 to be old enough to watch that movie and not be totally jaded by the movie. Okay. Well, how is that any different than Team America?
SPEAKER 1 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 23 :
It isn't. Okay. It isn't. Okay. Okay, here's an obvious one. Sometimes there are deals that you make that, well, you're not actually making a deal. They have no choice. Here we go.
SPEAKER 30 :
You look terrible. I should eat. I want you to rest well, and a month from now, this Hollywood big shot's going to give you what you want. Too late. They start shooting in a week. I'm going to make them an offer they can't refuse.
SPEAKER 21 :
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
SPEAKER 23 :
Godfather, of course.
SPEAKER 21 :
That's all negotiating.
SPEAKER 23 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 21 :
Good point.
SPEAKER 23 :
At the end of a gun. Okay, Richard, you're up.
SPEAKER 27 :
You know, Andy, there's, I actually think, I saw something or heard something about this, that he actually went to, like, a special, or he wore a special prosthetic.
SPEAKER 21 :
In his mouth.
SPEAKER 27 :
On his mouth to make, yeah, to make his jaw, and it also made him sound like that.
SPEAKER 21 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 27 :
So they did multiple things to help him.
SPEAKER 21 :
And he could only wear it for so long before it bothered him and he had to take it out, and yes, that's very true.
SPEAKER 27 :
Yeah, it started irritating him.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yes, you are correct. It was very cool. Yeah.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 27 :
Richard, you're on. All right, Andy, I'm going to go down the sports path saying, obviously, this is an easy one to go with, but that's Moneyball.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 23 :
I was already about to line it off as you were teeing it up.
SPEAKER 21 :
It's another great movie, by the way.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah, good movie. Fantastic. If he's a good hitter, how come he doesn't hit good?
SPEAKER 21 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 23 :
I love it.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, let's see here. Okay. Gosh, there's so many. War Dogs. War Dogs.
SPEAKER 23 :
Oh, okay. Yeah, I had not seen different lists. Okay. Okay. I'm suddenly spacing the name. What's the movie about? Here it is. Two weeks notice. And this is Sandra Bullock.
SPEAKER 08 :
Do we have a deal?
SPEAKER 23 :
No.
SPEAKER 15 :
I want something else from you.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, no. I am fully aware of your reputation and there's no way you're getting that.
SPEAKER 15 :
Getting what?
SPEAKER 08 :
You know. Sex. That's not going to happen.
SPEAKER 15 :
No, that would be nice. But what I really need is a new chief counsel.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I think I'd prefer the sex.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay, if you take the job, I promise to save your community center. On top of which, you can direct all our pro bono efforts. That's millions of dollars at your charitable disposal.
SPEAKER 08 :
But you couldn't possibly want me. I've spent my entire life working against people like you.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, maybe if you work for me, you'll win occasionally. I need an answer, I'm afraid, pretty much immediately. So here is my direct number at the Grand Hotel.
SPEAKER 08 :
You live at a hotel?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, I own a hotel and I live there. My life is very much like Monopoly. And I know you wouldn't care, but I'll start you at $250,000.
SPEAKER 23 :
How can you say no? I know. And I think Trump was in that. Oh, really?
SPEAKER 21 :
Like a cameo or something?
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah, I think he was.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, that's hilarious.
SPEAKER 23 :
There you go. Richard, you're up.
SPEAKER 27 :
Oh, let's see here. Andy. Oh, that's a good one. I guess I didn't think about that one in that sense. It was a funny movie, by the way.
SPEAKER 23 :
Very good movie.
SPEAKER 27 :
It was. Very good. All right, Andy, you said it. Well, Dad, I should say you said we're from Wall Street. So I'm going to go with the old Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen here, which is just Wall Street.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah. And the first one was still the best. Even though it was old, still the best.
SPEAKER 23 :
I agree. Yeah.
SPEAKER 21 :
So fresh. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Because Andy mentioned... I mentioned Sandra Bullock, and I watched a clip of this the other night. And I've not really forgotten the movie, but it's one of those that when it's on, I'll watch it. I won't go watch it on purpose, but the proposal. Because it is a deal where he gets a big promotion, can actually be an editor, and do all sorts of things in the company if he agrees to pretend he's going to marry her. But then actually does end up falling in love and all that. And it's actually a really funny movie, by the way.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah, I think that's a really good example.
SPEAKER 21 :
All the way through, it's hilarious.
SPEAKER 23 :
Okay, well, you know what? Sometimes deals are threats. Okay. Here we go.
SPEAKER 12 :
Mr. President, after I destroy Washington, D.C., I will destroy another major city every hour on the hour. That is, unless, of course, you pay me $100 billion. $100 billion.
SPEAKER 20 :
Dr. Evil is 1969. That amount of money doesn't even exist. That's like saying, I want a kajillion bajillion dollars.
SPEAKER 12 :
Mr. President, allow me to demonstrate the awesome lethality of the Alan Parsons project.
SPEAKER 1 :
Fire the laser! Fire the laser!
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh my word.
SPEAKER 22 :
It shows just a scene of blowing up the Capitol in Independence Day. It's so funny.
SPEAKER 21 :
Richard, you're up. So stupid.
SPEAKER 27 :
All right, Andy, I've got to go with another silly, silly movie. And there's deals being made in here. It's just different times. Galaxy Quest, Andy. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Miners, not miners. That's so funny.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay. I love that movie. Let's see here. Okay, here's one where he makes, in an odd way... deal after deal after deal after deal because he continually is, how should I say this? He is disguising things and making deals at the same time. Catch me if you can.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah, I think that works. Yeah, I totally think that works. Okay, how about some poor negotiating skills? And that would be Ellis in Die Hard.
SPEAKER 34 :
Personally, I couldn't care less about your politics. Maybe you're pissed off at the camel jockeys, maybe it's the heaves, Northern Ireland. It's none of my business. I figure you're here to negotiate. Am I right?
SPEAKER 17 :
You're amazing. You figured this all out already.
SPEAKER 34 :
Hey, business is business. You use a gun, I use a fountain pen. What's the difference? Let's put it in my terms. You're here in a hostile takeover. You grab us for some green mail, but you didn't expect some poison pill was gonna be running around in the building. Am I right? Hans... Boobie, I'm your white knight.
SPEAKER 23 :
Boobie. Boobie. I mean, did anyone ever set himself up more to die?
SPEAKER 21 :
No.
SPEAKER 23 :
Than Ellis, a diehard. You're like, gosh, it was unbelievable. He might as well have just thrown himself into a wood chipper.
SPEAKER 21 :
Good point.
SPEAKER 23 :
It was funny. Okay, Richard, you're up.
SPEAKER 27 :
The Company Men.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, yeah, I just was looking at that one.
SPEAKER 23 :
I did not think of that.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, that one works. Good job. Absolutely, that one works.
SPEAKER 23 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 21 :
How about The Family Man? Oh. It's not only a Christmas movie, but it's a negotiating movie as well.
SPEAKER 23 :
Little Nick Cage. All right. We're going to go back to little Adam Sandler and just go with it. He's talking to kids here, trying to get them to do something. All right.
SPEAKER 05 :
What do you want? $600 for the day, plus overtime if we go over eight hours. I'll do my own hair and makeup, and I want you to pay for the six-week intensive acting camp that my mom can't afford. Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
$50 for the day and a two-week acting class at the YMCA nearest you.
SPEAKER 05 :
$500 and a four-week acting class.
SPEAKER 06 :
$300 and a three-week class.
SPEAKER 05 :
Done.
SPEAKER 06 :
I would have done it for $500.
SPEAKER 05 :
I would have done it for the experience.
SPEAKER 21 :
That's a good movie, by the way.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, it's cute.
SPEAKER 21 :
And there's lots of negotiation, not just that one, but a lot.
SPEAKER 23 :
Oh, yes, quite a bit.
SPEAKER 21 :
Over and over again. But it's good. Oh, that's a hilarious movie. One of my favorites. Richard, you're up.
SPEAKER 27 :
All right, Dad, this would also not be a movie segment if we didn't annoy you. And my wife gets mad at me for doing some of the same movies. But partly why we do some of the same movies is because it annoys certain people on the show, Andy. And that would be a movie I finally got to watch, Andy, on the plane ride, which is Mad Max Furiosa.
SPEAKER 21 :
It's not even a movie.
SPEAKER 27 :
Yes, Furiosa. That was pretty good.
SPEAKER 21 :
I enjoyed that. How did they negotiate in that? It's boring.
SPEAKER 27 :
It was pretty good, Andy. I mean, see, they're all kind of funny, and I guess I... sort of put two and two together. I didn't realize, obviously, it was the one before Fury Road, Andy. It's like, you know, the sequel to the prequel in a lot of ways. But I thought it was good. I thought they did a good job. Yes, it's Mad Max. It was good. You know, the kind of weird cinematography, all the other things.
SPEAKER 21 :
Boring.
SPEAKER 27 :
But it was a good... No, it's not boring.
SPEAKER 23 :
You're totally wrong, John.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, it's awful. It's awful.
SPEAKER 23 :
John, many years ago, God brought you a son.
SPEAKER 21 :
All they need to do in that movie, all they need to do in that movie to make it even worse is start singing. If they sung, it would even be worse than it is.
SPEAKER 23 :
I want to see Furiosa on ice.
SPEAKER 21 :
So bad.
SPEAKER 27 :
But the only thing that would make that movie bad is having them sing. Because it's not meant for singing. Which you should like it, because there's not an... I know.
SPEAKER 23 :
an ounce of actual stinging that should happen in that movie so you should love it the only thing i didn't like is um what's his name chris hemsworth who i by the way thought did a great job they dragged out some of his scenes too much and it's just kind of like okay pick it up pick it up but overall very good very good i'm with you i i didn't really love him in the movie like i get why he had to be there and they it was it was kind of like a little bit of
SPEAKER 27 :
Some of the other Avengers movies and stuff, Andy, where they kind of tried a little bit too hard with some of his stuff. Agreed. But overall, it was a good movie.
SPEAKER 23 :
All right, John.
SPEAKER 21 :
I'm surprised you guys haven't mentioned this one yet. A true story, The Social Network.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah, just hadn't gotten to it.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay, all right.
SPEAKER 23 :
All right, shall I do another?
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, let's do it. We've got a couple minutes. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 23 :
Okay, here we go. Hades negotiating with Hercules.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hello? Let her go! Here's the trade-off. You give up your strength for about 24 hours, okay? Say the next 24 hours, and Meg here is free as a bird and safe from harm. We dance, we kiss, we schmooze, we carry on, we go home happy. What do you say? Come on.
SPEAKER 34 :
People are gonna get hurt, aren't they?
SPEAKER 07 :
Nah, I mean, it's, you know, it's a possibility. It happens, you know, it's war, but what can I tell you? Anyway, what do you owe these people, huh? Isn't Meg, isn't she more important than David? Stop it! Isn't she? You've got to swear she'll be safe from any harm. Fine, okay. I'll give you that one. Make her safe. Otherwise, you get your strength right back at her. You had a fine print boilerplate bubble, okay? What do you say we shake on it? I really don't have, like, time to bat this around. I'm kind of on a schedule here. I've got plans for August, okay? I need an answer right now. Going once, going twice.
SPEAKER 22 :
All right. Yes, we're there, fam!
SPEAKER 23 :
Now, the beauty of this is Hades is played by James Woods, who is also a huge supporter of who? Trump. Donald Trump. Making deals. Yep. All right. Richard, you up?
SPEAKER 27 :
Andy, in honor of that, and in honor of my kids, and mainly my daughter, because she will appreciate this one, it is mainly built on a deal. And that is The Little Mermaid.
SPEAKER 23 :
Oh, totally. Poor, unfortunate souls. Yeah, Ursula and Ariel making deals. Excellent, excellent.
SPEAKER 21 :
All right.
SPEAKER 23 :
Don't have time for the clip, but go.
SPEAKER 21 :
Older movie, but good door-to-door.
SPEAKER 23 :
Oh, good. Okay, how about this one? How about paying some people to be your family? We're the Millers.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, that's a good one, too.
SPEAKER 23 :
Richard, you're up.
SPEAKER 27 :
Oh, yeah. That was hilarious. That was a good one. Jerry Maguire.
SPEAKER 23 :
Oh, yes. Show me the money.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 23 :
Show me the money. Yep, totally. Go ahead, John.
SPEAKER 21 :
Matchstick Man. Yes.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yes. Okay, do we have time? No more clips, right?
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, just let's roll through a couple rounds.
SPEAKER 23 :
Okay, Green Book.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh. It was a deal the entire way that he was going to be there for him.
SPEAKER 23 :
I won't do the clip. Go, Richard.
SPEAKER 27 :
Ghost Rider.
SPEAKER 23 :
Oh, yeah. I've got that clip, too. I won't do it. Go ahead, John. Ghost Rider. White Gold. White Gold. Nicely done. How about Air?
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, good one, Andy. The entire thing was about inking a deal. Yeah, good one, Andy. Great job.
SPEAKER 23 :
Okay, go ahead, Richard.
SPEAKER 27 :
Oh, let's see here, Andy. Oh, 21. Oh.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 27 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah. All right. This will be our last one before I let you go, Richard. Car dogs. Another used car movie.
SPEAKER 27 :
That's so you. Used cars. That's so you.
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, that's always deals when you're buying used cars. All right, Richard. I will let you go. Have a great rest of your day and weekend.
SPEAKER 27 :
Yeah, see you guys.
SPEAKER 21 :
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SPEAKER 21 :
Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560. And we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. All right, Andy, we've got about 45 seconds or so. You've got a few more you want to rattle off. I do.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah, how about Indecent Proposal, Shrek, Save the Princess. You get your swamp back. Down Periscope, right? You've got to win the games, and you get your own ship. Snatch, and October Sky. Go.
SPEAKER 21 :
I've got Cadillac Man, Blow, Joy. Glenn Gary, Glenn Rose, Jobs, story about Steve Jobs. Right. The Goods, Live Hard, Sell Hard.
SPEAKER 23 :
Okay, Pretty Woman, definitely. Deal with the Devil, Devil's Advocate. A lot of deals. Nobody makes deals with angels, if you notice.
SPEAKER 21 :
That's a good point.
SPEAKER 23 :
Except Bruce Almighty, Deal with God, and Baby Boom. Okay.
SPEAKER 21 :
Arbitrage, Billions, the TV show, yes. The Pursuit of Happiness, Working Girl, and American Psycho.
SPEAKER 23 :
Shawshank Redemption actually had some in there. Ghostbusters, I don't have time to go into it. Ever After, Star Trek III, Red, and Nightcrawler.
SPEAKER 21 :
All right, when we come back, we're switching it up so we've still got movie reviews coming up here in a moment. Final Destination, Bloodlines, and Hurry Up Tomorrow. Andy will do both of those here when we come back. So don't go anywhere. Hour 2 is next. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Thank you.
SPEAKER 20 :
I'm a rich guy.
HR2 Movie Reviews: Hunter Cub Creek, Final Destination: Bloodlines, Hurry Up Tomorrow 5-16-25 by John Rush
SPEAKER 19 :
This is Rush to Reason.
SPEAKER 16 :
You are going to shut your damn yapper and listen for a change because I got you pegged, sweetheart. You want to take the easy way out because you're scared. And you're scared because if you try and fail, there's only you to blame. Let me break this down for you. Life is scary. Get used to it. There are no magical fixes. With your host, John Rush.
SPEAKER 14 :
My advice to you is to do what your parents did.
SPEAKER 18 :
Get a job, Turk. You haven't made everybody equal. You've made them the same and there's a big difference.
SPEAKER 10 :
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there. It is this feeling that has brought you to me.
SPEAKER 18 :
Are you crazy? Am I? Or am I so sane that you just blew your mind?
SPEAKER 19 :
It's Rush to Reason with your host, John Rush, presented by Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning.
SPEAKER 06 :
And we are back. Hour number two, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Myself, Andy Pate, Charlie Grimes, of course, our engineer, Hunter from Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning. How are you? Doing well, John. How are you? I'm good. Are you staying afloat with everybody now turning on their A.C.? ?
SPEAKER 04 :
I think so. I might need to get a bigger bucket here soon, but I think we're doing all right.
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, I can imagine how busy you are. People get things cranked up and everything, you know, anything that you can imagine happens. In some cases, they go to turn it on. It doesn't turn on. I mean, you've seen it all, I'm sure, here in the past couple of weeks. What kind of pointers can you give folks if, you know, they go to turn it on, nothing happens, what do they do besides call you?
SPEAKER 04 :
The first thing to always check is check your breakers and your disconnect at the unit. Make sure those are good. Sometimes, for whatever reason, they get flipped off. That's one of those things. You cleaned the AC before the fall, you blew it off and stuff, and you shut the power off, and you figured, oh, I'll do it in the spring, and then it's not coming on. The other thing is always check batteries in your thermostat. stuff and make sure that those are good to go. And really that's about as big as the best things you can do to kind of check before giving us a call. Obviously always make sure the filter's clean and stuff like that if you're experiencing any kind of warm air or lukewarm air when the AC is on. Always start with that filter and that should give you a good spot to start.
SPEAKER 06 :
This time of the year, if people are, you know, they've got the ability with a thermometer to check the vents and so on. This time of year, and again, it can vary, I know, from day to day, but kind of guessing the temperatures we have now, 70 to 80 degrees or so, what should the vent be blowing right now?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, it really is how we kind of determine how the temperature should read is more off the inside air. So if you take a thermometer and you check the air coming out of the unit to the air going into the unit, so supply and return, typically we want to see when the air conditioner is running, we want to see 15 to 25 degrees temperature. uh temperature difference between the air coming to the unit and the air going out of the unit and that would be your indoor air handler the furnace okay um or something like that so if there's a bigger you know less of a variation in other words we're not getting very good efficiencies that's another reason to call you right absolutely and that's that's one of those things you know if if you're getting lukewarm air or you feel like there's not very much air coming out of the vents Definitely check that filter. You can run the fan on fan only for overnight and not run the air conditioner overnight because sometimes what will happen is your coil will freeze up and it'll prevent airflow and things like that. So you can run that fan overnight and then try it again with a fresh filter the next day, and a lot of times that'll take care of your issue if you are frozen up. And the reason it does freeze up with the dirty filter is it just can't get enough air.
SPEAKER 05 :
Would you say that filters – really quick here. Sorry to interject.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, you're fine. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 05 :
Would you say filters are more of a problem in the summer? And the reason I ask, it's just dustier.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, well, I would say they're more of a problem in the summer because it is dustier and things like that. We get the pollen flowing and stuff like that. But the other thing is, is when you are in AC, when your AC is running, that is the fastest that blower motor will go. That's the highest RPMs. That's the highest output that that blower motor will run on that system. So a lot of times what happens is during the heating season and stuff like that, while it's super important that way, that airflow is a little lesser. So we'll get dust bunnies and stuff. So especially right off the bat and the first time of the spring, when that blower motor kicks into high speed for the first couple times a lot of times we dislodge dust and different things like that um and it clogs those filters quicker and typically in the summer months with that being said with that high you have all the pollen everything else your blower motors running on high speed and everything else like that then you have that filter does tend to get dirtier quicker. So the general recommendation for filters is always check them or change them every three months is the max. I would say in my typical recommendations, if you have a walkout basement, anything like that, spot check it. When you go down to the basement, you walk past the furnishes, pull that filter out. If it looks dirty, change it. I would say like 80% of our service calls stem from stem from a dirty filter. Now, that's not always the only issue, but it's typically almost always one of the issues.
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If it's an emergency, we can get to you right away, but we are typically about a week out.
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Of course, we appreciate you.
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You're very welcome, Hunter. You guys have a great weekend. You too. All right, man. Talk to you later. And up next, Flesh Law coming up. If you need any help, or sorry, no, Paul Lundberger is next. My bad. Paul Lundberger is next. And speaking of car insurance and home insurance and all those different things, whatever you need when it comes to insurance, Paul will help you save money. He is my agent, 303-662-0789.
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SPEAKER 05 :
And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, John Rush, together with Andy Pate and John! Are you ready for a movie?
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right, John, for yet another horror movie. Another horror movie. For yet another horror movie, we get a sequel in Final Destination Bloodlines.
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Grandma, what's happening to us? Years ago, I had a premonition that started it all. I saw what death was about to do. I saved a lot of lives that night. Everyone needs to get off the dance floor! Lives that were never meant to be saved. But death doesn't like it when you mess with his plans.
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This book, it will show you everything you need to know to keep our family safe. It all started with Grandma. Death is coming for us because we were never supposed to exist. Watch out!
SPEAKER 08 :
Only by embracing death
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Maybe deaths aren't actually coming for our family. Because that would be crazy.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, that'd be crazy, John. You've never seen any of these, have you?
SPEAKER 06 :
I've never seen one single one of these.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. Well, John, first of all, for those who don't know the Final Destination movies, these don't star some classic killer with a knife or chainsaw. The killer is death itself.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right?
SPEAKER 06 :
So there's no, like, Freddy Krueger running around.
SPEAKER 05 :
There is not. Okay. You see, if you are supposed to die, here's how it goes. But you cheat death, probably due to a premonition or whatever, then death will keep coming for you. After all, that's your final destination.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's the whole point.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, in so doing, death in these movies always makes you die in the most bizarre ways, sometimes from the most mundane objects. We're talking shower curtains, airplane tray tables, lumber trucks, etc. Everything that's just you wouldn't think about, that's what they kill you with. So do you kind of get the feel for this?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep, I get it.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. Well, the latest psychically gifted premonition girl is Stephanie. She's played by Caitlin Santa Juana. And Steph can't stop the night visions, and it's wrecking her college grades. So her roommate says, go home, get some answers, get some sleep. At least get out of here so I can sleep. She's waking up in the middle of the night screaming. Not good for a roommate. Well, Steph has a recurring nightmare about the 1960s. And don't we all? I mean, seriously, I think we all do. This nightmare has a terrifying collapse of the Skyview Hotel. Now, in it, a woman named Iris dies along with over 100 people. This scene, by the way, it was brilliantly staged, and it opens the movie with lots and lots of gore. And it turns out, though, that Iris is Steph's grandmother, and she's still alive. Now Steph seeks her out for a resolution. Well, Iris is living in a rural compound, and you see why, because she's hiding out, right? And when she talks to Steph, she soon realizes her own psychic gift has been passed down to her granddaughter. Well, naturally, Iris survived that terrible accident due to her gift, but this doesn't just mean she escaped death. It also means, John, that all her descendants, including Steph, escaped death as well. So none of them should be alive. They should all be dead. But death sees Iris, so family members are at risk. Accident time! Fans love watching these movies, and they watch them for the crazy deaths in the hopeless struggle against our rightful destiny. But Iris escaped before, so can Steph escape now? Can death be cheated, John? Good luck. What do you think? That's Final Destination Bloodlines. Doesn't sound bad. Yeah. Well, what works in Final Destination Bloodlines? Well, first of all, the pace is solid. It really is. Building a storyline and developing characters surprisingly well for a movie like this. I was very surprised by that. Naturally, the kills are like watching a bloody game of dominoes. This happens, then this, then this, then this. Ding, ding, ding, ding. Dead.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
And some really gory, terrible death happens to a person. Now, there's a decent amount of humor and good writing for a sixth film in a franchise. Number six. Yeah, number six in a franchise usually is written horribly, right? I mean, just horribly. This is actually quite well written. It's surreal, John, listening to talk of philosophy and destiny while prepping for the next bizarre death scene. Very weird. None of this works without pacing and direction. You have to have really good pacing and direction throughout it or this thing would be interminable. But no, both are good. It's well directed. There's good pacing. And once again, I just got to say the opening scene is so well done. at that hotel. It is so effective just sewing the dream sequence. And it was one of the most effective I'm going to say horror movie scenes I've ever seen. Now, of course, death won't be cheated and neither will the audience. But a ceiling fan, a backyard barbecue. I mean, John, you may leave the theater fearing everything in your home. So, ultimately, the most impressive thing about this film isn't just the incredibly creative kills, but also the character development throughout it. Viewers actually care about several death targets. Pretty interesting. Now, what doesn't work in Final Destination Bloodlines? Well, the kooky, over-the-top staging of kills also kills realism to a point. It does. You see it coming, right? Gore is exaggerated for thrills. Yeah, it's entertaining. But the bizarre setups and bizarre gore, it reminds you that you're just watching a movie. It doesn't feel real. And you know what it's like, John. You've seen scary movies that felt real and scary movies that were just slash, slash, slash. What was scarier? The ones that felt real.
SPEAKER 06 :
The ones that feel real. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. They're the ones that hit you.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
If you are really worried about the person, you're terrified for them, right? Yeah, and they do as good a job as they can in this, but still, I mean, it just doesn't feel real.
SPEAKER 06 :
For me, if it gets so gory, it's almost like, yeah, that's never happening. Right. So there's even less shock factor when something really is scary. Am I right? Yeah, it's true. Because you're just expecting more gore anyway. So, okay, more gore, more gore, more gore.
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You're expecting it, so there you go. I mean, when people plummet from hundreds of feet in the eye, guess what? They are meatbags when they hit the ground. It's true. And the one thing I'm going to give it to them in this movie is... The way people died was bizarre, but the kills looked very real. So I'm going to give it to them for that. Now, here's another part. An hour 50 is a bit long for something that really is predictable and campy when you think about it. I mean, you know what's coming. Everybody's coming for one thing, right? Everybody wants to see these clockwork, ding, ding, this, then this, then this, then this. Have you ever seen those perpetual motion machines, you know, or those machines where the ball goes on the chute and then it hits this and then a lever goes over? That's what you're doing and seeing how people tie. Okay. And the thing is, since you're going to see that, you know it's going to be there. But once again, it is very well done. Okay, Rotten Tomatoes gave Final Destination Bloodlines 92%. That's pretty high. You know what? I think they're basically right. It's a little rich for me. I'm not going to go quite that high, but I am going to go four stars for quality. Okay. I'm going to give it four out of five. John, this is a good movie. It's a well-made movie. And once again, the opening dream sequence scene is one of the best I've ever seen in a horror film. Incredibly gory, but extremely well-made. And they also have a really good feel for the 60s and the clothing people were wearing and all of it. It was just really well done. Political three, moral religious three, doesn't say a thing.
SPEAKER 06 :
Good?
SPEAKER 05 :
Right. It's not in your face about anything. It's just doing the movie. Do I recommend going to Final Destination Bloodlines? Obviously, for people who can handle horror, right? The answer is yes. Actually, it's one of the best horror films I've seen in the past year. It's one of the top four or five. It's worth seeing. Final Destination Bloodlines is a good movie.
SPEAKER 06 :
All right. Golden Eagle Financial. Al has done some great interviews of late. Stay tuned. He is up next.
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Al Smith from Golden Eagle Financial and the show you love, Retirement Unpacked, is here with me. How are you today, Al? I'm doing great. How are you, TJ? I'm doing great as well. I have a couple questions for you.
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As a financial advisor, do you also do taxes? No, I don't prepare my clients' taxes. I do, however, spend a lot of time talking to them about taxes. To use a sports analogy, tax preparation is like doing a recap of the game. What I do is more like creating a game plan and then following up over time to see how it's working.
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And how much are taxes a part of that game plan that you create?
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Well, with so many different taxes we're faced with, it becomes an important thing to take into consideration. It's not how much income you have, but how much you get to keep. In addition to federal and state income taxes, there's property taxes, state and local sales tax, and fees. And they all play a part in shrinking our income.
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What about people who already have really healthy balances in 401ks, IRAs? Won't they be facing significant taxes as they draw income from those accounts?
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Well, it depends. Everybody's situation's a little bit different. There's no one size that fits all when it comes to tax planning. But often when I work with people, we'll create a strategy where we will convert traditional IRAs to Roth over time. And that not only reduces taxes in the future, but it will also lower the tax they'll be paying on their Social Security.
SPEAKER 03 :
Is that kind of strategy really only for the wealthy?
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Not at all. Many of my clients who have modest IRAs have chosen to convert to Roth over time. They enjoy the freedom of having a tax-free nest egg that they can access on their own timeline rather than an RMD schedule.
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Well, that is excellent. And how can people reach you if they want to learn about their own taxation in retirement?
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You can reach me through KLZ or contact my office at 303-744-1128. And when you call, I'll provide you with a summary of all the tax changes for 2025.
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Investment advisory services offered through Brookstone Capital Management, LLC. A registered investment advisor. Live and local, back to Rush to Reason.
SPEAKER 05 :
Welcome back to Rush to Reason. Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, John Rush, together with Andy Pate and John. Are you ready for another movie?
SPEAKER 06 :
Is this another horror movie?
SPEAKER 05 :
No.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, okay, good. Well, um... Because actually, the last one, I actually would... I might actually see the last one. I actually now might want to watch the whole... The bizarre... The series, because I'm not a big horror guy, but you got me intrigued in the series of those.
SPEAKER 05 :
The bizarre butchery of people.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I might actually... I might actually watch that.
SPEAKER 05 :
I'm going to say this, the Final Destination movies, and there are some duds.
SPEAKER 06 :
Sure, when there's six of them, right?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and here's a really interesting thing. They made the first five in a grouping, and then it had been a decade-ish since they made the last one, I think more than a decade, and then they just came out with the sixth.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay.
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So we may see more. Okay. Well, John, a pop star takes us inside the mythical life of a pop star in Hurry Up Tomorrow.
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Death is nothing at all.
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It does not count. Everything remains exactly how it was.
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Whatever we were to each other.
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I know this is all really intense. But I'm not trying to hurt you. I'm really sorry about this. I really am. And...
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All right, John, what do you think? Still sounds like a horror movie to me. There's lots of screaming. Well, there's a horror aspect to it. Okay. There is. Okay. All right. Movies about self-destructive pop stars, they always face the greatest villain of all, John, predictability. Okay. I mean, seriously, it's the same thing every time. Depression, drugs, the downward spiral, watching them go down, down, down. And when you do these kinds of movies, they each time got to find some way to pep it up, some way to make it interesting, some way to bring life into something where everybody knows what they're going to get. Does that sound fair? All right. Well, in Hurry Up Tomorrow, real life pop star Abel Tesfaye. He's also known as The Weeknd. He stars as a pop star in Deep Depression. Shocker, right? It starts with a phone message from his girlfriend leaving him saying he wronged her in many ways. Abel is very depressed. I mean, he's very depressed. So Johnny plunges into drugs and partying, don't they all? Meanwhile, a girl named Anima... And she's played by Jenna Ortega, who is quite a star these days, a big star. And she has just burned down a house and is on the run. All right, back to Abel. In a disastrous performance, his voice goes out. Now, he has already seen a doctor who told him his vocal nodes were really, really needing rest. And he was just too stressed. And he basically needed to take time off from performing. But his manager, who's also his best friend, keeps pushing him. And the guy's not a bad guy. It's like, look, a lot of people are depending on this, the whole, you know, the show must go on kind of thing. But he keeps pushing them, and it just, it's an implosion. Well, after the implosion, Abel meets Anima. Remember, we just mentioned her. And she's also an intense fan. Well, they connect. So they run off to Santa Monica Pier, enjoying a night of Abel not having to be a star. They could just have fun. Well, the two really connect and they spend a night at a hotel, John. The next morning, Abel feels renewed and ready to resume his tour. But he hears Anima on the phone with her mom and he decides he doesn't want her coming along. She's cray-cray. Okay, she's a little scary. So he decides, no, I can't have you coming along. So now his biggest fan is upset. John, did you ever see Misery?
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
You get the idea.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, yeah.
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Well, soon Abel wakes up, tied and gagged in bed.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, jeez.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, where Anima demands he change or she'll do something very bad. And she does bad things. She also plays his songs and dances while he must watch while being gagged and tied. Well, John, what will Abel do? Can he get free? Can he learn and grow up? Is there a tomorrow for Abel? That is the story of Hurry Up Tomorrow. What do you think?
SPEAKER 06 :
So that means it is kind of a horror movie, but it's not because he's kind of kidnapped. Yeah, it's kind of a music horror movie.
SPEAKER 05 :
We'll get to it in a moment.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, gotcha. Okay, now I'm following.
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What works in Hurry Up Tomorrow? Well, Tesfaye, he plays depressed well since that's him. He comes off as very depressed. Good job. Jenna Ortega is a real young star, and she's always very, very talented, and she plays this role very well. She does everything that's required of the role. Okay, now what else works in this movie? O-M-G. Yeah, this is hard. Here we go. What doesn't work in Hurry Up Tomorrow? John, the pace is glacial. It is glacial. I mean, seriously, I could run around the room with a picture of a still life photo. And just having it run around the room would be more action than you see in this movie. Also, Tesfaye, he cries constantly in the tub. He cries backstage in his hotel room. Anima cries, too. So did I. We all cried, John.
SPEAKER 06 :
Because the movie's so bad.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, we were all crying. The film blames the breakup for Abel's depression and drugs. Okay, so he has this breakup. This girl breaks up with him because of how he treated her and whatever. And, you know, how about learning from mistakes and moving on? No, the trauma of breaking up is everything. So you better cry some more. It's just really ridiculous. This guy basically becoming so self-important that when he goes through a breakup, he can blow up his entire life, unlike all of his fans who have to live theirs. I have no idea. Okay, the writing is boring. Oh, my gosh, it's so boring. Two depressed people crying about depression.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, that would drive me crazy.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. Don't get me wrong. I mean, obviously, when she's got Imprisoner, that adds a whole new element. And she's a fine actress. And so now there's danger.
SPEAKER 06 :
But even in Misery, neither one of them were that way.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right. And by the way, those are two great actors in Misery.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right.
SPEAKER 05 :
Here you had one good actor. Hmm. He's not a good actor. I mean, all he can do is act depressed.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, you're right about that. That one, I get you there. He needs to go back to his music. Yeah. Just saying. Not arguing that one at all with you, Andy.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. Worse yet, Abel and Anima, they don't even meet until about halfway through the movie. Now, you see her and them, and they kind of go back and forth, back and forth. I don't know why, but you don't actually see her meeting him until about halfway through the movie when the movie's about her and him. Right? Going through this. John, in a fit of artsiness, there's constant strobing of lights and spinning of rooms. Okay, so he's getting drugged out and he's partying. And this time he's in a car and another time he's in a party and whatever. But each time the room is spinning and he's on drugs and there's strobing lights and whatever. Yeah. You know, let me out, okay? I'm just like, first of all, this is unbelievably boring. You're doing all this because there's nothing interesting happening. This is not an interesting person. I know he is to his fans, and that's who's going to go to this movie because of his fans. But, John, this is not an interesting person, the character in the movie. He's incredibly uninteresting. I mean, you ever known anybody with a pet turtle?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, did it do tricks?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, no.
SPEAKER 05 :
I'm telling you, he was that boring in this movie. Yeah, you see him up out on stage doing his music routine at times, and that's fairly entertaining because he's talented. But so what? I just don't care. Okay, John, bottom line, this is a vanity project all the way, with a pop star wanting you to applaud his personal torment. But I was too busy surviving my own personal torment.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, your own torment.
SPEAKER 05 :
I know. I think the audience wanted the writers and director tied down and gagged to a bed and made to watch her dance to this guy's music. I have no idea. I honestly can't understand why this tedious mess was made. I can't. I've seen home movies with more pep. Wow. I really have. I could watch group therapy session with more interest. I started thinking about all my greatest sins, wondering which one provoked God into allowing this movie. I mean, I must have made him really, really mad, John. I don't know what I did, but I'm sorry. I just want you to know I'm sorry. And yes, I didn't make it to the very end. I couldn't. I walked out. It was just too painful.
SPEAKER 06 :
It was that bad.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. You know how many movies I walk out in a year? Less than an average of one. I mean, I stay... Yeah, you don't.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, you're right. You usually suffer through... I stay the distance.
SPEAKER 05 :
You are correct. I couldn't. I just could not.
SPEAKER 06 :
It was that bad.
SPEAKER 05 :
It was awful. This movie... Remember last year, the worst movie was Y2K.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right.
SPEAKER 05 :
And Y2K had cheap set designs, just terrible costumes and everything, unbelievably bad writing, acting where you didn't care about anybody. It was just horrible, horrible, and I gave it zero stars. Well, this one got 15% from Rotten Tomatoes. I believe that's from Tesfay fans. It had star power because of him and Jenna Ortega. So you're actually going to have some people go to this. Quality, zero. Is that bad? So this is in a dead heat. And I didn't think, in back-to-back years, because that movie, Y2K, was the worst movie I'd seen in about five years.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, it was so breathtakingly awful that I didn't, I mean, I was just like looking up at the heavens and saying, please, is there some way you could get some lightning in here and take me out now? I can't take anymore. This is so bad. Political 3, more religious 1 in this movie. So 0, 3, 1. But this movie is as bad as Y2K. It is just a miserable, miserable... You know what? I'm going to say this is worse than Y2K, and here's why. At least Y2K, I could chuckle a little at the ridiculously bad costumes and clunkiness of it. This was a spinning nightmare.
SPEAKER 06 :
Why was this movie made, Andy?
SPEAKER 05 :
This movie was made for him. The actor, he is, you know, obviously a pop star who wants to get more and more into acting. And by the way, he had a small role in Uncut Gems. You know, one of the only movies of Adam Sandler's we despised, right? Where Adam was incredible, by the way, but the movie was so depressing. He made a movie that was just about as depressing as Uncut Gems. All right. Wow. Yeah. And this was, like I said, it's a vanity project. This is a movie for him. And I get a feeling, I get a very strong feeling, because he was a co-producer on this, that he called the shots and that there were probably... Writers, directors, people who actually know how to do movies who were like, maybe we shouldn't. And he was just like, no. No, baby, I feel it. We're going to do this. I have a feeling this movie was done exactly how this guy wanted it done. And he knows nothing about how to make a movie. Folks, for Hurry Up Tomorrow, hurry up and don't go to Hurry Up Tomorrow. If you do, you're going to be hurrying up to get out of the auditorium. Don't do it.
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Wow.
SPEAKER 05 :
What a disaster. Wow. Oh. It hurt. Okay, really quick. This caused physical pain.
SPEAKER 06 :
We've got time. I'll do it really quick.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, go ahead.
SPEAKER 06 :
This is another one of those movies where, because I've seen the previews for this, they do a really, really, really good job on the previews.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, yeah. The preview makes it look like. Am I right? I'll say this. The preview doesn't make it look like a great movie, but it makes it look okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, thank you. It's not like Mission Impossible, which you're going to do this next week.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right, right, right.
SPEAKER 06 :
It's not that.
SPEAKER 05 :
I get that.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, but I mean— But it's not like a total—you don't look at the preview and think, oh, that's going to be a loser.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, understand, the people who put together the preview, and we've told people this many times— It's the marketing team. That's the marketing team. They didn't make the movie.
SPEAKER 06 :
They're trying to sell this— They're taking clips out to make a really good preview.
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They're trying to sell this piece of garbage. any way they can by the way good job guys whoever you are right so they emphasize jenna ortega right you know burning a house down looking cool doing it you know right because she's a fine actress and they and then her having him tied down basically they're emphasizing a lot more jenna ortega while the movie is much more him okay and i'm telling you what Oh, my gosh. This, it won't be a career killer for Ortega because she's okay. But remember, Y2K starred the same girl who was in Snow White.
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True.
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And her career after Y2K and Snow White, whoa, it's at the bottom of the sea somewhere. Jenna will bounce back, but this was not good. If Jenna Ortega puts out another really bad movie, her career is going to go down fast.
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That's a good question. We've got a couple minutes here.
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This is a career killer if you do two or three of them.
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How many bad movies does an actor, actress have to make before they're, like, done?
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Well, it depends. That's a great question, and here it is. It depends on how big the actor was beforehand. Okay. Okay, Jenna Ortega is a pretty big star right now, and she's done some really big stuff.
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Okay.
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Okay. But she just did Beetlejuice, where she did her usual goth routine, and it wasn't very good. The sequel was not very good at all. Now she's done this, which is awful. It's horrifying. And, you know... You're getting to a point where if she does one more, I think she's in real bad shape. Harrison Ford, he made some bad movies, but he had so many really great ones.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, he had so many that outweighed it. I mean, Adam Sandler, we were talking earlier. He's had a few bad ones. He's had some duds. But how many good ones has he had?
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Exactly. So people with that kind of stature, you know, Tom Cruise has made some bad movies.
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Some, yeah. He has. Not too many, but some.
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No, not too many. But he has made some. You can get away with it when you're them because you're that good. Tom Hanks has made some movies you couldn't stand.
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Some of you say, which ones did Tom make that weren't too good? Wise-eyed shut.
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Eyes Wide Shut.
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Right?
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Yeah, Eyes Wide Shut.
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Eyes Wide Shut is not a good movie.
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Right. And Tom Hanks, he has made a couple movies semi-recently. He made that one, that one that was out in the desert. Yeah, what was that? It was horrible. And it got all these great reviews. I said, this is a bomb. It's awful and a bomb. The other one that I can't stand.
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It came out, did one decent week and fell apart. The other one I can't stand. Maybe you like it, but Tom Hanks and Lady Killers. Awful movie. Awful movie.
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Well, I don't think it was a great movie, but I liked it more than you. That was terrible. I loved the performances, but no, it wasn't a very good movie.
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No, not a good movie at all. For him, awful movie. You despised it. Oh, I hate that movie. It's absolutely awful.
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When I was watching it, though, I could see how some people could easily despise it. I mean, there are movies where I'll look at this and I'll watch and I'll think, you know, John would find this tolerable. I hate it. But John wouldn't love it.
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No.
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And that's kind of the reverse of how I felt with, say, Lady Killers.
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My problem with Tom Hanks in that movie was you're so used to him being in Cast Away and things along those lines where Apollo 13 and others where it's just like, okay, you can do better than this.
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And he did put in a fine performance, but who cares? It's just an awful movie. It's just not a good movie. Yeah, it would take an awful lot.
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So in her case, where she's not the big star like they are, she can't afford too many missteps, correct?
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Right. She's a pretty big star. Not that big. Because, of course, she had a big TV show. What is it from the Addams Family? I forget the teenage girl.
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Wednesday.
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And Wednesday, which was ultra woke, unfortunately, but she was fantastic in it. Because of that, she can ride through a couple of these. I think one more she's done. But let's say if she was a nobody and did this film, that would be it.
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Okay, so here's a question for you. Yeah, go ahead. These folks all have agents that are telling her to do this, that, or the other. Granted, she gets kind of the final say as to what to do. But wouldn't you blame some of this, given the fact you've got two losers now on your agent? Yes. hey, pal, you've got to get me something better than these last two or my career is about done. In fact, I would be thinking, if it were me, Andy, I need a new agent.
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Yeah. That's what I would be thinking. Because, look, you're not coaching me well here. You're not guiding me well.
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You're not presenting very good things to me.
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Because Beetlejuice obviously was going to have a huge big first week, and it did.
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Just because of what it was.
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Then word of mouth started getting around Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, and people were like, this is not very good at all.
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Right.
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And... And it plummeted. She still, it wasn't, though, bad enough to really hurt her career, per se.
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Okay. But now she's got this one.
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Now she's got this one. And, you know, she hasn't been on a real role. She needs to get on a role again.
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No, and she's young enough to where you ought to be on a role, right?
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She's young. She's a beautiful young lady. She's talented. She needs to get some real movies. She needs to get, and you know what? It needs to be funny. She needs to do some comedy because she can. But she better pick it up quick, John, because I'm telling you what, it's not going well. Wednesday is kind of fading from people's memory.
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And that's something I never even, I know nothing about.
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She had one incredible scene in Wednesday where she goes and dances at a party and does a dance Wednesday Adams, you know, grown up. She's a teenager. Right. And does this dance in a party. And this has become a YouTube video that has circulated millions and millions and millions of times. And she was just incredible in it. And. After that, she hasn't done anything that's really – you know what? You know how you've got to hit singles, doubles, home runs. Not every movie is a home run, but that's okay. She's been lucky to hit singles. So, yeah. Do I think she's got to turn around after this? Yes, she does. And I'm looking at some of these other actors. There are actors who are starting to really – Jim Carrey, he did it. He got to the point where he was so huge, and then he did several bad movies in a row, and that was it. and nobody wanted to see him anymore. They didn't trust him anymore. M. Night Shyamalan, the great director, was thought to be great, and then he did several bad ones in a row. Now nobody wants to go to his movies. They can run out.
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We don't yell at you. We inform you. Now, back to Rush to Reason.
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All right. The question of the day from yesterday, what was the first branded car company in the United States? It's D-U-R-Y-E-A. I've never heard of the company in my entire life. Not something I've ever followed.
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I'm not sure how you... My gosh, that almost sounds like diarrhea.
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It almost sounds like diarrhea. That's why I didn't pronounce it. Must not have made it very well.
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Well, I'm not as classy as you.
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Not a big car name today, let's just say that. Today, impossible question. What device, infamous during revolutionary France, became a symbol of the reign of terror?
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The guillotine?
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Yeah, there you go, Andy. Good job.
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Oh, really?
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Yeah, you got it.
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I just took a shot at that.
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You got it.
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All right.
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Cut your head off. It's like another horror movie.
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You know, the guillotine is probably the only thing you'd never see used to kill people in Final Destinations.
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Oh, good to know.
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Yeah, they used common things. Maybe a microphone.
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Okay, so not to get off, you know, way track here, but if you had to have, like, capital punishment, you're in that era, you had your choice between being hung, the guillotine, you know, somebody chopping your head off with a sword and so on, what would you pick?
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What would I pick?
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Or burning at the stake.
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Oh, not that one. I would say probably guillotine.
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Yeah, because it's like instant, right?
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Yeah, it's quick.
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Just like, there it goes. You're done.
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Yep.
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It's pretty painless, actually, right?
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You twitch a little. Of course, I twitched a lot in the hurry up tomorrow.
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Would you even feel the guillotine?
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I don't think you would. Not long enough to matter, no.
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I don't think you'd even know, would you?
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Yeah, you'd be gone so quick. You're just done, right? Right.
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What are we talking about? I don't know. Well, it's question of the day. That's why.
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Okay, yeah. I mean, what can I say?
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Yeah. There's something about the head rolling off that just, you know.
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It's awful.
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Yeah. Man, they were, you know, back in time, they were like ruthless.
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I can think of one of the worst ways to die because you got a movie coming up here where this guy is basically he kidnaps people and then has them killed by sharks.
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Right. Yeah, that would be an awful way to go.
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Exactly. He hangs them down into the water, you know, puts blood on them, whatever.
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The other way to go that I would never.
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Being eaten by sharks sounds pretty horrifying.
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Now, they say that this is not much different than a guillotine, but, you know, falling to death, I just can't think of it. You know, you're falling that whole time knowing you're going to hit the ground at some point. And I know it's not the fall that kills you. It's that sudden stop at the bottom that does.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right. But the buildup to it, I mean, we've all seen Cliffhanger. Yeah. Right? Where he finally drops her.
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I can't imagine, Andy, because you're thinking all the way down.
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You know, I thought Stallone should have dropped her right away. Just get it out of the way because, you know, dragging it out only made it worse. What do you think?
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No, those are like people's worst nightmares.
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I know.
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Right?
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Oh, yeah, falling?
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I mean, falling to death.
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Oh, my goodness. Terrible. And then you wake up.
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Drowning, they say. I mean, how would you know? Because nobody knows. But drowning, you just start breathing underwater, and then you're done.
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Yeah, that's pretty horrifying.
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I can't imagine. Yeah, that would not.
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Yeah. Did you see The Abyss?
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Yes.
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All right. Right? Right? There are movies that do these deaths very well.
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Yeah.
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By the way, The Abyss, for those who have not seen the original The Abyss. That's a good movie. Very good movie. Oh, yeah. Is that Ed Harris?
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Oh, I don't remember now. Charlie would know. Ed Harris in The Abyss, is that who that was? Yeah, Charlie thinks so.
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I love Ed Harris.
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Yeah, there's ways to die to Andy where it's like, you know, freezing to death actually doesn't seem so bad because you just kind of fall asleep and you're done. Right. Even though it sounds really bad, actually it's not, probably. Yes, he was, Charlie said.
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Okay, so I was right, Ed Harris.
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So anyways, I don't know how we got off on, you know, isn't there movies like that, you know, 101 Ways to Die or something?
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Yeah. You know, but the reason we're talking about this is because we have done so many horror movies now over the last two, three years, three years, ever since COVID, because it's cheaper and these studios are broke. Yeah.
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Right. OK. And why are they broke? Because they make crappy movies or what?
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Well, yeah. Well, two reasons, obviously, because COVID drove everybody out of the theaters for for an extended period of time. And even when they came back, the conservatives came rushing back. But the liberals came drifting back slowly because they were the fear. Oh, they're terrified of their own shadow. Right. And so it took a while, but that was an immense amount of money. But also it affected the production. COVID really affected the production of movies. It was a super huge setback to the entire movie industry.
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And yet they were all for it.
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Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, but there again, that's just like California in general, right? So many of the things that they do to themselves are so stupid and self-inflicted.
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Yeah.
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Like, you know, shutting down their offshore drilling, which is incredible.
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Be careful what you wish for.
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They've lost. So, yeah. Hollywood took COVID and made it much worse. Put on steroids. Right. And wrecked itself. Right. And now we see horror movies everywhere.
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Because they're cheap. Because of that.
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Yeah.
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Because of the simple cost and all the ramifications of and so on.
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Yeah. I mean, the only kind of movie that would be cheaper to make would be something like Wayne's World.
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We've got two minutes left, roughly. AI. How is that going to affect movies? Because the actors and a lot of the unions and so on are 100% against AI, but I've got to believe it's going to have an impact.
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It will. And I think it'll have a good impact. Yeah, I think obviously the CGI. Now, the people who I think are going to be the most worried are not as much the actors. They talk about that, right? Yeah, well, the writers, but also the people who do the CGI, where it used to take 10 people to do this scene, right? Yeah, not anymore, Andy. Or a series of scenes. Now one or two can do it with CGI.
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Exactly.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, you've got to have somebody over it. Yeah, but that's about it.
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No, you are. You literally said that correctly, going all the way down to one to two people.
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That, the people in the production crew, are the people who could really be seeing their jobs cut off. Now, that can be huge.
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I watched a guy in a clip last night really quick of there's now, because I got Charlie watching these now, there's these AI-generated videos now of babies that look and act and sound, and they're really dubbing in, like Judge Judy, for example. They do it with babies. Trump. Oh, Trump. And it's absolutely hilarious. If you guys haven't seen these, it's hilarious. And it's all done. I watched last night a guy literally take Jerome Powell, and put a baby's face and baby's body and everything on Jerome Powell giving his last speech to the Fed.
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Right.
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And the guy, and I'm not joking, the guy using AI, literally, you walk through it, he literally made that of Jerome Powell in a matter of about 20 seconds. So to your point, Andy, you're going to now take what people would spend hours upon hours doing and condense that down to little to no time at I think the product is actually going to get better. I agree with you on that. But I think the number of jobs is going to go down. I agree with you on that one as well.
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Nobody ever thought creative jobs could be threatened.
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Oh, they're going to be. Big time, Andy.
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Well, people in creative jobs never cared about all the other people whose jobs are threatened. Elsewhere in the economy. Until now.
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And now it's hitting them. Until now. Interesting. We might talk about that more on Tuesday. You guys have a great weekend. Don't forget, first thing in the morning, Fix It Radio followed up by Drive Radio. If you've got a car problem or anything around the house, be sure to tune in then. Otherwise, have a fabulous weekend. Enjoy the sunshine. This is Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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Ordinary average guy.
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Ordinary average guy.
Join host Angie Austin as she welcomes Wally Long, who opens up about his own path through incredible personal tragedies, including the murder of his brother and the near loss of his niece and nephew. Wally shares insights from his book 'Why Me, Lord?' and offers a heartfelt discussion on the power of faith to navigate life's most difficult trials. This episode offers hope, resilience, and the reminder that grace and peace can be found amidst the storms of life.
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Welcome to The Good News with Angie Austin. Now, with The Good News, here's Angie.
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Hey there, friend. Angie Austin here with The Good News, speaking with Rachel Kerr Schneider. The widow chose Red, My Journey with Jesus, John, and ALS. Her sons were 10 and 14 when her husband, John, husband of 21 years, was diagnosed with ALS. He was in his late 40s, and her faith really got her through this. and there's something really interesting in your book that I thought you should share in addition to your faith. I know you didn't tell your boys right away about the diagnosis that your husband had this fatal illness, and at 10 and 14, I can understand that. How long did you wait, and why did you wait?
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We chose to wait about a year, Angie, because John was not, to the naked eye, John was not that symptomatic. You had to look really closely to see that. His foot was dropped and his gait was off. So the boys, you know, they didn't really see anything. About a year later, and we needed time to fortify ourselves. There's so much shock there. Imagine if you were given the diagnosis you've got two to five years to live. What would you do? How does that even compute? You have a disease of which there is no cure. There's no option. There's no treatment. There's nothing. You just really manage the progression and wait to die. We needed, John and I needed some time to figure out how to process this and kind of get our heads around it. We only told our immediate family, which, you know, lived, mine was in Australia, his was in California. So because we knew, too, Angie, you know, good news travels fast, bad news travels faster. And we knew the minute that we told those boys, you know, they'd be telling their friends, my dad's been diagnosed with this thing, ALS. And we knew that the tsunami would start, so we had to make sure that we could fortify ourselves. And so it was interesting. About a year later, John was getting more symptomatic. They could tell something was wrong with Dad. And we sat them down, and there were three questions that my youngest son, Jake, asked. And the first one was, Dad, are you going to be in a wheelchair? And he answered yes. And then, Dad, are you going to get out of the wheelchair? And John said, probably not. And then Jake asked, are you going to get better? And it was at that moment that my husband just fell apart. And I said, you know what? You know what, boys? We serve a great God, and he can make Daddy better. And we are going to pray every night that he does. But in the meantime, our job is to take care of Daddy well. as best as we can. And that was all we said. Angie, we did not, you know, daddy's going to die and dah, dah, dah, dah. No, we didn't lie to them, but we didn't throw up on them either with all of this other information. Now also remember too, at this time, the internet didn't exist. Social media didn't exist like it does now. So the boys, they didn't have access to all of that, which was a blessing, an absolute blessing. But sure enough, within 15 minutes, I got a text Rachel, Sam says, John told him, John's got, are you sure about this? And I said, yes. And I got, you know, the OMG back. And then, you know, and then it was like wildfire, right? Right. So we found ourselves actually trying to comfort some of our friends because, you know, because it is a shock. We'd had a little more time, but it was still a difficult thing to do, no doubt.
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Now, so you had moved 15 times in seven years with your husband of 21 years. You were in Minnesota at the time, and obviously you hadn't lived in places very long if you moved that many times for his job. You're with all these wonderful Minnesota nice people, and you end up staying there even though you hadn't been that entrenched in the community, and they just completely embraced you. Yeah. you know, in terms of your relationship with your sons and their faith, talk a little bit about how they handled this diagnosis. And then I really want to get into, you know, the title of the book to the widow chose red. So let's start with the boys, their faith and their journey, because I'm sure that was extremely painful for you.
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It was it was difficult. And and I think the hardest thing for us as parents, right, is when we don't have the answers. they're asking questions. Why does this happen? Why is Daddy sick? Did God make Daddy sick? You know, these are the kinds of things that you just kind of go, okay, let's sit down and talk about that. And also framing it in a way, when you're 10 and 14, there are different places in what they can comprehend as well. And so, you know, but we were a very faith-based family. You know, the boy's went through confirmation. We had been in church all of their lives. But it's also about bringing home a concept that may be somewhat abstract and making it real, right? And so I think they were able to watch their dad and I have our own conversations in prayer time with Jesus and pour out our hearts And, you know, we model that for our kids. They see what we do. They pick up on every little thing. And, you know, even now, you know, even now my boys are like, Mom, you are like completely sold out for Jesus. Do you think you want to be an influencer? I said, yes, I want to influence people for Jesus. That's what I want to do. And, you know, but they have both gone through their own struggles as they've grown up, and they've dealt with their grief very differently now. And even today, though, I can see in their struggles and how they've handled it, their own reliance on their belief and knowing that he never leaves us. He never leaves us. We may feel alone. We may feel isolated. We may have questions, but he is always there with us no matter what. And even though we may not get the outcome that we want, when we want it. You know, I remember a pastor telling me, Rachel, you have to be prepared. John may not get healed on this side. It may happen on the other side. And, you know, I very clearly said, well, you know, miracles still happen every day, and I'm trusting that. And I did for a very, very long time, Andy. But I've never once, you know, I've never once been mad at God. Like, why did you do this to me? My question, why not? You know, I mean, why not? So obviously, I've waited a while to share this story because I had to go and raise my boys after John died. And being a single mom with two young boys, that's a whole nother, that'll be the second book. But this, I chose to wear red because red is the color of love. It's the color of passion. And it is also the color of fire. which is represented in the flame of the Holy Spirit. And one of my goals is to remind each and every one of us about the supernatural power that has been gifted inside of each one of us, which is the power of the Holy Spirit, which I believe so many of us forget that we have and that we can call upon when we are in those moments of crisis and have no idea what to pray for, what to ask for, how to do it. That's when we can say, okay, Holy Spirit, you take over. Please intercede for me.
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You know, a lot of it I can't even wrap my head around, so I can see why you waited to write it, but I can see why you wrote The Widow Chose Red, My Journey with Jesus, John and ALS, because you told me that the Lord was so real to you and such. I don't even know how people get through things like this without their faith.
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Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. I wonder the same thing myself. And here's the thing too, Angie, because even as believers, we struggle. We struggle. We do. And God never promised us an easy time of it. I mean, all I have to do is remember what Jesus went through on that cross for our behalf. Who are we to think that we're going to get through this world unscathed? Really? You know, but it's all about how do we then, what do we do? What do we do with this? And how do we embrace it, which sounds really weird, but it's true. Because, you know, I don't believe that God made John sick, but I do believe that he allows us to be tested. Look at Job. Look how Job was tested. Look what was taken and done to him. And yet he remained faithful. He remained faithful to his God and still managed to give him all the glory. So I really want to encourage and inspire anyone who is finding themselves in a hard place. And we may not just get one. We may have to do this a couple of times. But what I know is that when you are faced with something this difficult and when you get to the end of the rope and think, I can't hang on anymore, that's when you cling to him and say, okay. I am surrendering it to you completely and totally. I have nowhere else to go. I don't know how to do this. You are going to have to step in and be with me and show me how.
SPEAKER 08 :
You know, on the cover of the book, you're wearing red and you're with your sons in their suits. Is that actually the day of the funeral? Is that the photo that you took that day?
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely. Absolutely. My sister took that photo on the spur of the moment. We were walking outside of the front door. I've had people ask me if that's been photoshopped. No. Did I drop the two boys in? No. And both of the boys are actually wearing one of their father's ties. So they may look a little large, but yes, that was the actual photo right before we were headed to the church that day.
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And you're smiling. The boys aren't smiling, but you're smiling and you're wearing red. What did that celebration of life look like to you rather than like a traditional funeral and you wearing red for love and red for the Holy Spirit?
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, first of all, because they were the ages that they were, we had 600 people there and a lot of kids, a lot of kids. The boys, Jake's football team, they were all in their jerseys. John's lacrosse team, they were all in it. There was such solidarity with the community and all of these kids. So it was kid-friendly. I had parents go, is there going to be a body lane? I said no. John was cremated, photos, flowers. And the boys actually were part of the service. They recited a beautiful poem called The Dash. We had wristbands made with John's name on it that said, live your dash. So everyone was able to wear those. And then the boys wanted to have the reception. We had one right after the service. They wanted to serve pizza. So we had pizza because that's what the boys wanted. And then later that evening, we had a more formal, well, a celebration of life party for John. That was more like what their dad would want it. But, But it was a beautiful, and I will tell you there are QR codes in the book where you can actually log into and watch the boys recite that poem. You can actually, I had the presence of mind enough, Angie, to hire a videographer to be there to record it so that, because I knew I wouldn't remember it right, and I wanted these boys to be able to hear the stories about their father, not only at the Celebration of Life service, but also at the party afterwards, so they can hear people to this day talk about their father. Yes. Yes, and so we also had Pastor Greg, who baptized both of the boys. He was able to fly in from Chicago and be a part of this service as well. He's a big part of our story. I think your readers will find it interesting how we met him as a young married couple. We reconnected with him. We started out in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. We reconnected in Chicago. And then he actually, you know, was part of a service for John's younger brother who had passed 10 years earlier and then came back and did John's service as well.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I want to have you back on the show because there's so much more to your story. The Widow Chose Red, My Journey with Jesus, John and ALS, Rachel Kerr Schneider. Do you have a website that you can give us?
SPEAKER 07 :
I do. It is spiritedprosperity.com. You can also go to thewidowchoseread.com and order the book directly there. It is on Amazon, too, and proceeds from the sale of the book will benefit the Live Like Blue Foundation.
SPEAKER 08 :
Thank you, Rachel. We'll talk to you hopefully next week.
SPEAKER 07 :
Thank you, Angie. Take care. Godspeed.
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Hey there, Angie Austin with the good news along with Wally Long. He is the author of Why Me, Lord? Biblical and Practical Answers for Suffering in Our Lives. He joined us last week and about 12 years ago, he was the first guest on my show. And we are going to kind of work our way through his book, Why Me, Lord? Welcome back, Wally.
SPEAKER 06 :
Hey, thank you for having me on, Angie. It's a pleasure to be back with you.
SPEAKER 08 :
And for people who haven't heard your approximately, I'd say, four visits on my show, I met you when you flew out to the eastern plains of Colorado due to a family tragedy. People may have heard out in the Burlington area, your brother and your sister-in-law were killed and your niece and nephew, Sarah and Ethan, Sarah five at the time and Ethan nine died. They didn't know if they'd make it. And then within a short period of time, they found out it was your 12-year-old nephew who had killed his parents. And, you know, great homeschooling family. You ended up, I think, in the end after you adopted Sarah and Ethan with, did I get that right, 13 kids? Well, with the kids that are your brothers that you didn't adopt. Yeah. Yes, essentially. Yes, essentially. You ended up with 13 kids total. Oh, my goodness. That is so crazy. Six of your own. Your brother had seven. And your wife homeschooled all. But just recently, Sarah, she's graduating. She's an honor student. The kids are doing all so well. And Wally left... working in the prison system, and then he did some work as a pastor. He's written this book. And I thought, you know, let's have Wally just continue to come back and kind of work our way through his book. Does that sound good to you, Wally?
SPEAKER 06 :
Sounds very good. Thank you.
SPEAKER 08 :
I love it. So, you know, just give everybody just kind of a little snippet of why you wrote the book, and then let's get into chapter one.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, I wrote the book because after that, the murder of my brother and his wife, the It left me with a lot of questions as we struggled just to survive and make the next day. I had a lot of questions in my heart, and part of one of those questions, a big one, was why me? Why is all this happening to me? And as I began to search the Scriptures for answers, I believe God gave me a sermon that I started to preach in a couple of places, had a lot of very good feedback from that sermon, and it blessed me just preparing the sermon and studying for it. And the answers that God gave me for that sermon became the foundation of this book. And I felt like I believe that it's a message that a lot of people in our society today need to hear. It's a message that a lot of people have that same question. Why is all of this happening to me? And I wanted to help encourage people by giving them the answers that I believe the Lord gave me.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, I love that. I absolutely love that. All right, so tell us about Chapter 1, Wally Long's book, Why Me, Lord?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, Chapter 1, I deal with basic general thoughts about suffering from the Scriptures. Essentially, I think the most important thing we need to understand is that suffering is not God's plan for humanity. God created a perfect world, and it wasn't until sin came into the world that suffering came along with it. So once suffering came into the world through Adam and Eve's sin, then suffering became a normal part of our lives. Now it's so normal that we all go through tragedy. We all go through difficult times. We all suffer in our lives. And it's because of the sin that came into the world. So I discussed the basics of suffering in our lives, that it's normal for us now. that not all difficulties or trials or tribulations are equal. Some people go through very tragic circumstances. Some people, the trials they face are small. But over time, the buildup of those small trials becomes almost unbearable. It's one thing after another, after another, after another. And we've all been there where things seem to pile up on us. None of them in themselves are huge, but when they pile up on you, it becomes a very difficult time in your life. So I discussed basics of suffering in our lives, our responses to the suffering. I also, one of the big things I talk about in chapter one is that I believe all of the trials that we go through are bearable. We can make it through every one of them. I believe God gives us, or God allows trials to come into our lives. Things happen in our lives for a variety of reasons, but God always makes a way for us to get through, not to escape by jumping out of the trials. Trials don't work that way. Suffering doesn't work that way. We don't just escape it, but we can get through it. We can bear under the pressure that we find ourselves in. I believe God makes a way for us to bear those things.
SPEAKER 08 :
You know, I want to just pop in there. One thing I forgot to mention at the top, not only were you dealing with this tragedy of your 12-year-old nephew, I mean, it's hard to even say, murdering your brother and your sister-in-law and almost killing Sarah and Ethan at five and nine, but your son had lost his leg in a motorcycle accident shortly before that, and one of your siblings, your 40-year-old sister, had committed suicide. I mean, that is a time, I think, after all three of those family tragedies that you say, Oh, my. Really? Like, how much more can I bear? Are you kidding me?
SPEAKER 06 :
Exactly. Exactly. That's where that's where I found myself. I was just literally in survival mode. I we just our motto became just take the next step, just do the next thing, because we had no mental or emotional capacity to think past the moment to think about tomorrow other than to schedule appointments for the kids or counseling sessions and It was just a day-to-day survival for us, just making it through.
SPEAKER 08 :
And I have to say your wife, Sylvia, is amazing, and you as well. But, I mean, your marriage not only survived this but thrived. You've been married 40-some-odd years now?
SPEAKER 06 :
Almost 44 years. In July, it would be 44 years.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, my goodness. So you almost need to write how your marriage survived tragedy.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, yeah. That would be a good topic.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, so get back into the lesson. So you can survive these trials, you're saying. I mean, obviously you're an example of that, but continue on.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, the very last thing I discussed in Chapter 1, and it's something that for a lot of people it may not be a novel lesson to learn, but for me it was. I had been taught throughout my Christian childhood or growing up as a Christian in early years as a Christian that the one question you don't ask God is why. It's almost like, you know, if you ask why, then you don't have enough faith, and you don't trust God, or you don't believe God. And I felt that way for a long time, and as I was going through this struggle, I felt like, what's wrong with me as a Christian now? Here I am asking God why, wondering why do I not have enough faith? And as in my studies and in my search for answers, I came across a number of Psalms where David asks God, why not? There are several Psalms where David says, why are you, why have you abandoned me? Why have you turned your face? He actually, he once saw me actually says, God, why are you sleeping awake? Save me. Why are you sleeping on the job? He felt abandoned in his trial and, And so I think it's not wrong to ask God why. I think we should ask God why. We should look for answers. We should pray because asking God why is praying. We are praying as we converse with God saying, why is this happening to me? And God wants us to pray. And I believe if we submit ourselves to his will, then he begins to calm our hearts and give us maybe the answers that we search for.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right, so what do you want people to put into action when they hear these? What are some things that might help us tackle these? Because I just think some people give up.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, yes. I think a couple things is remember that what you're going through, as difficult as it may be, is not uncommon to mankind. It's not uncommon. You're not alone there. Other people have faced things just as difficult and many times more difficult. But still, the suffering you face for you seems like the worst thing in the world. And for you, it very well could be. Everybody has different intensity of trial and suffering. But for each individual, what you're going through is not unique, although it is still your trial. and you have to face it. The other thing to keep in mind, I think, is that there are people that can walk through those with you. Because it's not common to other people, because it's not uncommon to other people and to the rest of humanity, there are people that have faced difficult times, and if you will just take the moment to reach out and talk to others about what you're going through, it may help you find answers. I know for me it did. I found myself in the aftermath of our series of trials in those early years after my brother's death, I found myself talking to complete strangers about what had happened to us. It was weird because I never did that kind of thing before, but I'd be on an airplane flying somewhere, and when you're talking to a seatmate on an airplane, you talk about your family and how many kids you have and And I'd say eight children. Wow, that's a lot of kids. And I said, well, but the two of them are adopted. Oh, did you international adoption? And then the story would just come out. I would just tell, no, they were my niece and nephew. My brother and his wife were murdered. And as I began to share that story, I found both a salve of relief by getting it out of my heart, by not keeping it bottled up. And then there were people that were kind enough to say, oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't don't know exactly how you feel, but I've gone through some things too. And they, just that conversation with somebody else understanding, or at least extending some sympathy to me, I found to be healing. So I think the important, rather than bottling up our grief and our discomfort, our anxieties in the middle of our trials, instead of bottling them up, talk to people, talk to someone. And certainly we can find someone that maybe has some experience in life that might be able to just sit and listen to you. If not even talk to you, just sit and listen. The process of listening, I think, helps. The process of speaking to someone who will listen helps us to heal. So I would say, yes, you're not alone. You can get through it. It doesn't seem like it right now, but keep taking the next step. Talk to people. and allow God to work what he's trying to do then through your trial, through your tragedy.
SPEAKER 08 :
You know, I think that, you know, you speaking to so many people, which you hadn't done before, obviously helping them as well, saying, well, if Wally can deal with that, then I can certainly deal with my situation. You know, and I think that so many of us get bottled or caught in our own little, you know, first world problems of a flat tire and our kid got a D and, you know, grandma's, you know, crabby who's living with us or whatever. And. So over the course of this decade plus now at 13 years, I can't even imagine the people that you've touched and how God has used you, especially getting into the ministry as you've done since this all happened. And now writing the book, how many more people you can help through their trials as well. I mean, it's really pretty amazing how much sharing your testimony can help others. And I know you've done that a lot as well. We've got about a minute left. What's the feedback been as you've shared your story?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, I've had a lot of feedback from people. You can see a lot of it on Amazon. Some of the reviews have been amazing, very sobering and humbling to me. But one gentleman who's older and doesn't do Amazon, doesn't do online things, purchased a copy of my book. He's a friend of my church member. He read the book and he wrote me a letter and he said, this book, from now on and the rest of my life, second only to my Bible. He said, I will read it on a regular basis and Because what I've received out of this book that God allowed you to write has been such a blessing to me. I will read it regularly for the answers that God needs to give me.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, it's wonderful.
SPEAKER 06 :
Because this man has been walking with God for years. He's an elderly Christian gentleman that just – and what he wrote to me was – Very, very humbling.
SPEAKER 08 :
Wow. Wally will be back, and we'll work on Chapter 2. Again, why me, Lord? Wally Long, wallylong.com. Thank you, friend. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you for listening to The Good News with Angie Austin on AM670 KLTT.
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Join us as we expose the absurdities in our society, from a Florida man's regrettable actions against an innocent calf to Starbucks baristas demanding changes in their dress code, questioning the essence of the 'Starbucks experience.' We also explore the intrigue of armageddon preparedness inspired by an Argentinian sci-fi series. Tune in for these tales wrapped in humor and sharp wit.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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I am really mad at this dude. A Florida man was arrested Tuesday because he shot his neighbor's cow multiple times because he was angry that it had jumped over his fence. It was a two year old calf that had at least five gunshot wounds. She had been shot in the chest, the abdomen or the guts, the rear leg, everything. The animal was lying on the ground, struggling to move in a lot of pain as the deputies approached and it had to be euthanized. And the cow's owner said his neighbor, Hung Trinh, T-R-I-N-H, 54, was angry. Oh, man. And he used a .22. Like an absolute pansy. Hung Trin, major Florida man pansy, used a .22 to go and shoot this calf. So he's charged with animal cruelty. I personally think he ought to be dragged behind a truck, but that's me. Grand theft of a commercial farm animal, according to the sheriff's office. And I'm glad that the sheriff, Carmine Marceno, went hard on it and was like, we're not going to tolerate this because it's a farming community, number one. I mean, there's a lot of cattle ranchers in this area. And they, I like the way police handled it, but this infuriates me. That's so ignorant. That is so ignorant. It jumped your fence. Oh, use your little, use your little sissy boy 22 to go out and handle the cow. Golly. Let's see. Oh, man bites dog, dog bites man. Coyote attacks Florida man in a shocking junkyard incident. I'm, uh, It's a... I can't get this to open, of course. Of course it would. Yeah, I know. We're going to probably have to... I don't think we're going to be able to get this one. Yeah, well, I can't get that either. Because, yay, yay, Safari. What? I know. Anyway, but I'm mad about the guy that... So the coyote, he attacked a Florida man. Shocking junkyard incident. It was on Tuesday, and the guy was going about his usual routine, and he saw this disoriented, rough-looking coyote, and it wandered into his lot, and then it just lunged at him. He said it didn't just bite and run, that it held onto his arm. And they had to call Florida Wildlife, etc. But that, I mean... That sounds rabid in those instances. They didn't follow up on that, but I'm sure that they checked it out. They're mad because they have a... That's Starbucks baristas who are picketing because of a dress code. I'm trying to understand why they're upset. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. And that's... Right? What are the... What's wrong with the uniform?
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Nothing.
SPEAKER 12 :
Like, what are they... I don't understand. They said that they're protesting the dress code per AP. Blah. Because it requires them to wear a solid black shirt and khaki black or blue denim bottoms. And then under the previous dress code, they could wear a broader range of darker colors. They said they want their green aprons to stand out. And a Starbucks workers united said the dress code should be subject to collective bargaining. Starbucks, they said, has lost its way. Instead of listening to baristas who make, oh my gosh, are you? Instead of making, listening to baristas who make the Starbucks experience what it is. Wait, what is the Starbucks experience? Hold up. What is the Starbucks experience? My favorite is the names purposefully not being right, which I think is a gimmick. Did you ever see the thing where the guy was like, my name is Mark with a C and they put Cark on the cup? Yeah. And like what else? Like when you wait for forever for your over roasted beans. Right. Is that what it is? Or I mean, I'm just curious. Like it's I don't know. I don't get it. You're it's you're you're serving coffee. You're a barista. When I was a waitress throughout college, I had to wear like darker slacks. I got a uniform shirt, but I had to wear dark colored slacks and dark tennis shoes. I could not wear bright colors. And I went with it because that was the rule. Businesses have the right to go. We want to make sure our branding stands out. And if you don't like it, dear sweet heavens, go get another job because it's amazing. There's so many coffee places in the United States, Cain. There's so many coffee places in the United States.
SPEAKER 11 :
It's not like a heritage thing. I have to work at Starbucks because my grandmother worked at Starbucks and her grandmother worked at Starbucks. You make coffee.
SPEAKER 12 :
It's very simple. Somebody goes, customers don't care what color our clothes are. I don't care about hearing someone bitch about having to wear a certain attire to make coffee. I just... They said that they're being criticized because they sell styles of Starbucks branded clothing that employees can't wear. And Starbucks said it would give two free black T-shirts to each employee when it announced the dress code. That's what I got when I worked at Houlihan's. Oh, I did. I was slinging that Tatey soup. I worked at Houlihan's. I had to wear dark. I'd wear black tennis shoes and they were not the attractive kind. They were like nursing home tennis shoes and black trousers. And I like a maroon shirt and it had to be long sleeve. I can't even wear short sleeve. My stuff had to be long sleeve and it had to be a button down shirt. That's what I had to wear. It was really unfortunate in August. So the apparently fewer than less than one percent of Starbucks workers are even participating in the strikes. I'm just I'm sorry. This is such a first world entitled brat problem. Can you, is it, is it possible to, I don't want to protest. I just want to make fun of people in a picket line style. Can you, if someone's like doing that for this, can you just make fun of them while they're doing it? Like, oh, I'm so sad. I don't get to wear what I want to wear at work. Man, how do you think doctors and nurses feel when they got to wear scrubs to operate on brains and stuff? Wow. You're making coffee. Now, if you don't like it, you can go work at Dunkin'. Or I don't even know what their uniform requirements are. Or a million of these other little coffee places. Do you think it's like a bragging point? And the reason I am asking this, is it because do they view being a barista at Starbucks as like snooty? Like, oh, you work at Dunkin'? I'm a barista at Starbucks. Steve, you're a millennial. Is that a thing? Do you know anybody who's a barista? Does that literally look like that? I mean, it's a fancy word for a coffeehouse employee who literally pulls espresso.
SPEAKER 07 :
You know what's funny is that the only people I know that are still working that type of job look exactly like that.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, is there... I would be more... I don't know. Like, I just...
SPEAKER 16 :
I'm wondering what the specific complaint about the dress code is because they haven't stated it. They said we're against a dress code, but they haven't stated what about that dress code is unpleasant or whatever it is they're standing against.
SPEAKER 02 :
It's not what we want, Kane.
SPEAKER 16 :
Right. That's literally all they're saying. Yeah, I don't get it. I they don't like long sleeves like they don't like black shirts. They haven't said anything about what the dress code is and what their actual objections are. They're just objecting to the idea of a company having a dress code. This is a waste of time.
SPEAKER 12 :
So barista is based on it originated in Italy. It's like, you know, it's a it's a person that makes the coffee. Right. And it's it's an Italian term. And I'm sorry, but I've been to Italian coffee shops in Italy and I've been to Starbucks. What you're doing is not the same.
SPEAKER 1 :
It's not.
SPEAKER 12 :
It is not. Don't sit here and try to sell me the stale ass lemon pound cake and your over roasted beans and be like, no, I'm a barista. You're pulling coffee. It's not the same. It is not the same experience. I mean, I would like to think that some of the actual baristas that are in Italy, like when they're pulling espresso, if they think it smells bad or burnt or stale, they're, I'm not serving this. You don't even give us an affogato. Stop it. So mad. I have to wear these clothes to serve coffee. So less than 1% are protesting. You cannot make fun of this stuff enough. Good night. And they're mad about it. And I'm... I don't know. Clearly, I'm missing something. Apparently, I don't know. We all are. I just think that there's maybe, I don't know. They said that it should have been collective bargaining. What? Shut up. Go work somewhere else then. I can't. Man. Okay, so sidebar. Because this really puts me in the frame of mind. I've been watching this sci-fi show basically about an alien invasion. I don't really like watching a lot of TV, but it has to be engaging. And if your first 60 seconds isn't good, I'm not watching. Like if I take a bite of food and it tastes bad, I will spit it out on my plate and I will not eat it. I'm like, you know, life's too short. You know what I'm saying? Like if I had bad coffee, I'll be like, this tastes like Satan made it. And I'll slide it back over. Anyway. So I've been watching this show. It's called The Eaternaut. And it's... Is it on Netflix? I can't remember. Yeah, it's on Netflix. It's an Argentinian show based in Argentina. So there's subtitles. Never do a dub, ever. Dubs suck. They're horrible. But the show is called The Eaternaut. And it's non-woke at all. There's no woke. But it is so good. It's very brilliantly done. And my kids... one of my kids in particular, because I was talking about like, man, if this was happening, I would already be like a warlord and I would have all this like shut down and I'd have a gate and I'd have blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Right? Through all the asteroids, SMOD, everything else. Let's just get right to it, right? But this kind of stuff. It puts me right there. I'm like, this stuff wouldn't fly. If it's not enough for you to be concerned about during Armageddon, then maybe don't get upset about it right now. Right? I feel like that's a pretty good measure. Use the Armageddon yardstick. Are you going to be mad about this if you're dealing with an alien invasion and a pole reversal? Because if not, shut up.
SPEAKER 06 :
Armageddon Yardstick is a dope band name.
SPEAKER 12 :
Dude, right? That is actually a pretty good band name. Now that I think about it. But the Eater Knot is fabulous. It's so good. It's such a good... Oh, it's so good. But anyway, I'm like, I could swing that. I mean, sure, I'll fight aliens and whatever. I could hang with that. But at least I won't have, you know, people complaining that they have to wear a certain kind of shirt while they're pulling coffee at the Starbucks. Would you want somebody like that making your food?
SPEAKER 16 :
I don't care about the attire of the person who's making my food.
SPEAKER 12 :
I don't either. I don't care what a company's little dispute they have with their people.
SPEAKER 16 :
I just want it in the time I'm supposed to get it.
SPEAKER 12 :
I just, why is it $13 for like a regular, you know, I don't get coffee at Starbucks because, you know.
SPEAKER 16 :
It took me like two visits to figure out the difference between Venti and Grande because Grande is supposed to be large. That's what Grande means. And then Venti is only 20 and it's like, that's not very large.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, you're not supposed to have that much coffee.
SPEAKER 16 :
But Venti's the largest.
SPEAKER 12 :
Like nobody drinks, like that's, Starbucks made giant, you know, garbage sizes like normal. It's not supposed to be like that. Like your coffee should not be cold by the time you get to the end of it. That's bad. I agree with that. That means you've been given too much and that's stupid.
SPEAKER 15 :
But I always like more coffee.
SPEAKER 12 :
Then you can have several different shots of it. I like espresso or just like an Americano. I want it black and bitter like my heart. Save your stupid sugar and your milk that just reduces the intensity. Nay. So anyway, I could not get over that story. I was fascinated by that, and I absolutely had to share that with you. Our partners that help bring you the program, it's our friends over at Caltech, the Gen 3 Sub 2K, a fold-in half gun. It's very cool. And it's in 10 millimeter now, which a lot of people have been, like myself included, have been waiting for. Kel-Tec, a great American company, and American parts, American labor, more companies should be like Kel-Tec. And they've raised the bar with this new third generation sub-2K, folds fast, optics stay in place, deploys just as fast. Innovative, the rotating... Four in, twist it, fold it down 16 and a half inches for super easy storage and transport. It also takes Glock mags. You got a 15 round standard, 15 round Glock 20 mag, got a lot of capacity for whatever you need. They even have a drum available, 50 round drum, you know, for fewer reloads, more, more patriotism. And internal buffer for softer recoil, lightened 5-pound trigger pull. It got rails up top for accessories, M-LOK integrated. Really cool. Great for anything, home defense, camping, church security, backpacking, whatever you want. It's perfect for it. And 10-millimeter. Learn more at Kel-TechWeapons.com. Innovation, performance, Kel-Tech. K-E-L-T-E-C-Weapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you.
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SPEAKER 12 :
So apparently bald dudes are bringing back the toupee. Well, women get extensions. Man, let me tell you something. You don't let a broad make fun of you for wearing a toupee because these girls out here getting like five foot long extensions put up on their head. If they're not getting extensions put up on their eyelashes. So you know what? You don't get no heat for that. Take that to the bank. But they are bringing it back. I would imagine, too, that they are much nicer than they were like when I was a kid. Because when I was a kid, it was very obvious that somebody had a toupee. So they said that... This is a New York Post piece. And they said that men are bringing them back. I also thought dudes were doing the hair plugs or whatever. Maybe not. But yeah, toupees are coming back. They're coming back again. An ancient reptile footprint has upended theories about when animals evolved to live on land. There was a little short that Monty Python had one time where they took this bone of something and... fabricated it into a completely made up animal and put it in a museum. It was one of their little cartoon breaks that they had for Monty Python. And it makes me, these kind of stories make me think of this every time. It's a 350 million year old fossil. And they said it shows characteristics similar to that of monitor lizards. And it's been in Australia 350 million years ago, they suggest, is when it emerged. But they think that animals developed the ability to live on land faster than previously assumed. I actually don't really care about any of that. I mean, I think it's interesting, but does it matter? Oh, is it a billion years earlier or not? Does it change where we are right now? I don't know. Oh, this is really gross. Chimpanzees actually use leaves. It's gross, but not. They clean themselves. Like, that's nature's tissue for them. The leaves. It's nature's tissue. They've been studying them. The horrible left-wing rag that is called the Guardian said that they did this study on all of these chimpanzees. Have they always done that, or is that new?
SPEAKER 16 :
I mean, leaves have been around forever.
SPEAKER 12 :
Bad ape. What?
SPEAKER 16 :
The leaves have been around forever, so I imagine they've been doing it forever.
SPEAKER 12 :
But, like, them using them to actually groom themselves with a leaf, it's kind of... I don't know. It's interesting. Air traffic control hotline between Pentagon and Reagan Washington National Airport. That's been broken since 2022. I think that might be needed. They said that it's supposed to be for coordinating aircraft and it hasn't worked since March of 2022. They were not aware that the direct line was broken until a May 1st incident when a helicopter circled the Pentagon and caused two flights to abort landings. I feel like they need to get that hotline fixed. So wait a minute. Poot Booty Juice, when he was secretary of transportation, he didn't know that.
SPEAKER 16 :
He didn't do anything about it.
SPEAKER 12 :
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I believe that we will win!
SPEAKER 12 :
They're mad because they have a... That's Starbucks baristas who are picketing because of a dress code. I'm trying to understand why they're upset. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. And that's... Right? What are the... What's wrong with the uniform?
SPEAKER 13 :
Nothing.
SPEAKER 12 :
Like, what are they... I don't understand. They said that they're protesting the dress code per AP. Ugh. Because it requires them to wear a solid black shirt and khaki black or blue denim bottoms. And then they under the previous dress code, they could wear a broader range of darker colors. They said they want their green aprons to stand out. And a Starbucks workers united said the dress code should be subject to collective bargaining. Starbucks, they said, has lost its way. Instead of listening to baristas who make, oh my gosh, are you, instead of making, listening to baristas who make the Starbucks experience what it is, wait, what is the Starbucks experience? Hold up. What is the Starbucks experience? My favorite is the names purposefully not being right, which I think is a gimmick. Did you ever see the thing where the guy was like, my name is Mark with a C, and they put Cark on the cup? Yeah. And like what else? Like when you wait for forever for your over roasted beans. Right. Is that what it is? Or I mean, I'm just curious. Like it's I don't know. I don't get it. You're it's you're you're serving coffee. You're a barista. When I was a waitress throughout college, I had to wear like darker slacks. I got a uniform shirt, but I had to wear dark colored slacks and dark tennis shoes. I could not wear bright colors. And I went with it because that was the rule. Businesses have the right to go. We want to make sure our branding stands out. And if you don't like it, dear sweet heavens, go get another job because it's amazing. There are so many coffee places in the United States, Cain. There's so many coffee places in the United States.
SPEAKER 11 :
It's not like a heritage thing. I have to work at Starbucks because my grandmother worked at Starbucks and her grandmother worked at Starbucks. You make coffee.
SPEAKER 12 :
It's very simple. Somebody goes, customers don't care what color our clothes are. I don't care about hearing someone bitch about having to wear a certain attire to make coffee. I just... They said that they're being criticized because they sell styles of Starbucks branded clothing that employees can't wear. And Starbucks said it would give two free black T-shirts to each employee when it announced the dress code. That's what I got when I worked at Houlihan's. Oh, I did. I was slinging that Tatey soup. I worked at Houlihan's. I had to wear dark. I'd wear black tennis shoes and they were not the attractive kind. They were like nursing home tennis shoes and black trousers. And I had like a maroon shirt and it had to be long sleeve. I can't even wear short sleeve. My stuff had to be long sleeve and it had to be a button down shirt. That's what I had to wear. It was really unfortunate in August. So the apparently fewer than less than one percent of Starbucks workers are even participating in the strikes. I'm just I'm sorry. This is such a first world entitled brat problem. Can you, is it, is it possible to, I don't want to protest. I just want to make fun of people in a picket line style. Can you, if someone's like doing that for this, can you just make fun of them while they're doing it? Like, oh, I'm so sad. I don't get to wear what I want to wear at work. Man, how do you think doctors and nurses feel when they gotta wear scrubs to operate on brains and stuff? Wow! You're making coffee! Now, if you don't like it, you can go work at Dunkin'. Or, I don't even know what their uniform requirements are. Or a million of these other little coffee places. Do you think it's like a bragging point? Wait, here's a question I have. This ought to be, honestly, like a Christopher Guest documentary called Barista. I just came up with it right now in my head. Where it's like a best in show that made fun of dog shows and Parker Posey was in it and it's hysterical. But it's like for baristas. So... Is it and the reason I am asking this, is it because do they view being a barista at Starbucks as like snooty? Like, oh, you're you work at Dunkin. I'm a barista at Starbucks. Is that Steve? You're a millennial. Is that a thing? Do you know anybody who's a barista? Does that literally look like that? I mean, it's a fancy word for a coffeehouse employee who literally pulls espresso.
SPEAKER 07 :
You know what's funny is that the only people I know that are still working that type of job look exactly like that.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, is there... I would be more... I don't know. Like, I just...
SPEAKER 16 :
I'm wondering what the specific complaint about the dress code is because they haven't stated it. They said we're against a dress code, but they haven't stated what about that dress code is unpleasant or whatever it is they're standing against.
SPEAKER 02 :
It's not what we want, Kane.
SPEAKER 16 :
Right. That's literally all they're saying. I don't get it. They don't like long sleeves. They don't like black shirts. They haven't said anything about what the dress code is and what their actual objections are. They're just objecting to the idea of a company having a dress code. This is a waste of time.
SPEAKER 12 :
So barista is based on, it originated in Italy. It's like, you know, it's a person that makes the coffee, right? And it's an Italian term. And I'm sorry, but I've been to Italian coffee shops in Italy and I've been to Starbucks. What you're doing is not the same.
SPEAKER 1 :
It's not.
SPEAKER 12 :
It is not. Don't sit here and try to sell me the stale ass lemon pound cake and your over roasted beans and be like, no, I'm a barista. You're pulling coffee. It's not the same. It is not the same experience. I mean, I would like to think that some of the actual baristas that are in Italy, like when they're pulling espresso, if they think it smells bad or burnt or stale, they're, I'm not serving this. You don't even give us an affogato. Stop it. So mad. I have to wear these clothes to serve coffee. So less than 1% are protesting. You cannot make fun of this stuff enough. Good night. And they're mad about it. And I'm I don't know. Clearly I'm missing something. Apparently. I don't know. We all are. I just think that there's maybe, I don't know. They said that it should have been collective bargaining. Shut up. Go work somewhere else then. I can't. Man. Okay, so sidebar. Because this really puts me in the frame of mind. I've been watching this sci-fi show basically about an alien invasion. I don't really like watching a lot of TV, but it has to be engaging. And if your first 60 seconds isn't good, I'm not watching. Like if I take a bite of food and it tastes bad, I will spit it out on my plate and I will not eat it. I'm like, you know, life's too short. You know what I'm saying? Like if I had bad coffee, I'll be like, this tastes like Satan made it. And I'll slide it back over. Anyway. So I've been watching this show. It's called The Eaternaut. And it's... Is it on Netflix? I can't remember. Yeah, it's on Netflix. It's an Argentinian show based in Argentina. So there's subtitles. Never do a dub, ever. Dubs suck. They're horrible. But the show is called The Eaternaut. And it's non-woke at all. There's no woke. But it is so good. It's very brilliantly done. And my kids... one of my kids in particular, because I was talking about like, man, if this was happening, I would already be like a warlord and I would have all this like shut down and I'd have a gate and I'd have blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Right? Through all the asteroids, SMOD, everything else. Let's just get right to it, right? But this kind of stuff. It puts me right there. I'm like, this stuff wouldn't fly. If it's not enough for you to be concerned about during Armageddon, then maybe don't get upset about it right now. Right? I feel like that's a pretty good measure. Use the Armageddon yardstick. Are you going to be mad about this if you're dealing with an alien invasion and a pole reversal? Because if not, shut up.
SPEAKER 06 :
Armageddon Yardstick's a dope band name.
SPEAKER 12 :
Dude, right? That is actually a pretty good band name. Now that I think about it. But the Eaternaut is fabulous. It's so good. It's such a good... Oh, it's so good. But anyway, I'm like, I could swing that. I mean, sure, I'll fight aliens and whatever. I could hang with that. But at least I won't have, you know, people complaining that they have to wear a certain kind of shirt while they're pulling coffee at the Starbucks. Would you want somebody like that making your food?
SPEAKER 16 :
I don't care about the attire of the person who's making my food.
SPEAKER 12 :
I don't either. I don't care what a company's little dispute they have with their people.
SPEAKER 16 :
I just want it in the time I'm supposed to get it.
SPEAKER 12 :
I just, why is it $13 for like a regular, you know, I don't get coffee at Starbucks because, you know.
SPEAKER 16 :
It took me like two visits to figure out the difference between Venti and Grande because Grande is supposed to be large. That's what Grande means. And then Venti is only 20 and it's like, that's not very large.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, you're not supposed to have that much coffee.
SPEAKER 16 :
But Venti's the largest.
SPEAKER 12 :
Like, nobody drinks, like, that's, Starbucks made giant, you know, garbage sizes, like, normal. It's not supposed to be like that. Like, your coffee should not be cold by the time you get to the end of it. That's bad. I agree with that. That means you've been given too much, and that's stupid.
SPEAKER 15 :
But I always like more coffee.
SPEAKER 12 :
Then you can have several different shots of it. I like espresso or just like an Americano. I want it black and bitter like my heart. Save your stupid sugar and your milk that just reduces the intensity. Nay. So anyway, I could not get over that story. I was fascinated by that. And I absolutely had to share that with you.
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