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In this compelling episode of The Kim Monson Show, we explore the political landscape surrounding property rights, freedom of movement, and government policies, from the global agendas impacting local communities to the intricacies of individual freedoms. Featuring discussions on House Bill 241313 and the impact of zoning changes, Kim offers a perspective on why it's crucial for citizens to stay informed and engaged. Dive into eye-opening commentary on the role of big government, grassroots activism, and the push for more community-focused policies amid today's pressing political challenges.
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And another great show planned for you. So fasten your seatbelts. The show comes to you 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday. First hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon. Second hour, 10 to 11 at night. And then that's on all KLZ platforms. KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, the KLZ app. And then after that, you can find it at the website, my website, KimMonson.com, or on Spotify and YouTube. and iTunes. The website is Kim Monson, M O N S O N.com. Make sure you're signed up for our weekly email newsletter that goes out on Sundays, highlighting our upcoming guests, as well as our most recent essays. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson.com. And I am a little behind on email. So I do apologize for, Text line is 720-605-0647. I do love to hear from you, and thank you to all of you who support us. We are an independent voice on an independent station, 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 it's never compassionate nor altruistic to take other people's stuff, whether or not it's their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunities, childhoods, or lives via force. And force can obviously be a weapon, but it could be policy, unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, the agenda of the World Economic Forum and the globalist elites, That plays out through the United Nations. You see it at this legislature, but you also see it at local government. Jenny had sent me a text the other day that said they think globally and act locally. And we are seeing this big time in many of our municipalities today. In particular, Lakewood, with this rewrite of their zoning regulations. And then, of course, down at the state house, I think it was House Bill 241313, that changes where the state can dictate zoning instead of communities. And so it's a very interesting web that is being weaved. And ultimately, it is an assault upon property rights. So we continue to unpack and connect all of these things because it is so important. I wanted to say thank you to the Harris family. for their gold sponsorship of the show. Also, Hooters Restaurants has been a sponsor of both the Kim Monson Show and America's Veterans Stories, which America's Veterans Stories is on Sunday afternoons on KLZ 560. And I want to say, Hooters Restaurants, how I got to know them, it's an important story about freedom and free markets and capitalism. and Politicians, Bureaucrats, and Interested Parties, so it's PBIs, how that matches up. The whole story is at my website. They have three locations, and that is Loveland, Westminster, and the location on Parker Road. And they have great specials for lunch and for happy hour, Monday through Friday. And so be sure and give them some of your business. Their fish and chips is very good, as well as their nachos, which those are two of my fan favorites on that. Our word of the day, thank you to Richard, is immutable, and it is not subject or susceptible to change, not capable or susceptible to change, unchangeable and alterable, and unable to be changed without exception. And I would... I guess Richard has said something that is immutable is our gender, and he's absolutely right. I cannot believe that we are in a world now where, through public policy and through using tax dollars, that we are actually... mutilating our children, either surgically or pharmaceutically, through all this transgender stuff. And so gender is immutable, boy, girl. And you go back to, I've been reading, trying to do more Bible reading and was reading Genesis. My gosh, a lot happens in Genesis in just a few chapters. But God made man, God made woman. And so this whole transgender thing is totally antithetical to foundational principles and nature's law. So again, the word of the day is immutable. It's I-M-M-U-T-A-B-L-E. And not subject or susceptible to change. And your challenge is to use that in a sentence today. our quote from calvin coolidge and this is a great one he was born in 19 1872 died in 1933 he was our 30th president he was a republican lawyer from massachusetts and he's previously served as vice president under president warren g harding and he gained a reputation as a small government conservative with a taciturn personality and dry sense of humor that earned him the name Nickname of silent cow. And he said this little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. And that is why each day when we get up, we have to focus on the excellent focus on being our best to be, to focus on what we're passing on to the next generation and, And and I just I love that quote. Again, little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. And in a way, that seems like what we're just trying to do here in Colorado. But there's a lot of us that are working on good. And then he goes on to say, our great hope lies in developing what is good. Now, there is a lot of headlines out there. The first thing that we're doing, though, is going through the big, beautiful bill. And on the White House dot gov, they have 50 wins in the big, beautiful bill. Number 31 is it modernizes air traffic control, fulfilling President Trump's plan to completely overhaul the systems that keep Americans flying safely and efficiently. 32. It strengthens SNAP benefits. The legislation requires states to contribute a greater portion of the cost of administering benefits, thereby controlling costs, and closes the excessively broad loopholes for work requirements. Number 33, it implements critical program integrity and cost containment provisions in Medicaid to strengthen it for future generations. It says this includes removing deceased individuals from the program and limiting retroactive coverage from three months to one month prior to enrollment. Number 34, it safeguards Second Amendment rights by removing tax and registration requirements for firearm silencers and eliminating silencers from the National Firearms Act. And check out Teddy Collins with the Second Syndicate, his most recent essay at my website. He says this was a great step in the right direction, but it did not go quite far enough. But again, I love the fact that we're moving in the right direction. And then number 35 is it provides critical disaster recovery funding to farmers, producers, and ranchers. So that is from whitehouse.gov, 50 wins in the big, beautiful bill. Our next headline that I wanted to hit is from the Daily Mail. And this is pretty huge. This whole thing that Joe Biden was signing... and all of these different things with an auto pin. Now I think all presidents have used auto pins, for example, when they are responding to, well, Trump has said this, when he is responding to many of the letters that he receives from people, he wants to respond back, clearly he doesn't have time to sign all of those letters and do all that he's doing as the president as well. So there is an auto pin that is used for that. However, And apparently Joe Biden was using that auto pin to sign pardons, to sign executive orders, and he very well may not have known what he was signing. So the next question, which is a good one, is does that invalidate it? And so this is from the Daily Mail. It says President Donald Trump slammed Joe Biden's defense when it comes to using the auto pen, saying the former president, he knew nothing. The auto pen, I think, is maybe one of the biggest scandals that we've had in 50 to 100 years. This is a tremendous scandal. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, I can guarantee you he knew nothing about what he was signing. I guarantee it. So Trump was asked about Biden's interview with the New York Times, where the former president said Trump and other Republicans were liars for claiming his aides had used an auto pin to do so without his authorization. This Daily Mail piece goes on to say, but the president also admitted his own administration also uses the auto pin, although Trump clarified it is not used to sign legislation, but to add his autograph to letters to Americans. And so this is going to be very interesting. I agree with Donald Trump that this is a a it's not just a scandal. This is a I would say this is a national crisis, because if Joe Biden didn't know what he was signing, who did know what he was signing, who who was running all of that? Who was running the presidential office at that time? I think we want to know that. Next headline that we wanted to hit is a U.S. This is from USA Today. It says the Supreme Court lets Trump fire hundreds of education department workers and dismantle the agency. And of course, the teachers unions and everyone that supports the Department of Education, or I would say the Department of Uneducation, because so many of our children cannot read and write and do arithmetic at grade level. And so the way I am seeing this is that that all those that are part of the Department of Education are saying, oh, Trump can't do this because creating the department was an act of Congress. And that that component is probably true, that it was created by Congress and Congress needs to intervene. pass legislation to get rid of it. But as the executive of the executive branch to execute those laws, I think Trump can do that however he wants to. And so this is very interesting. Stay tuned on that. And then lastly, Governor of Colorado Polis was, this is from MSN, he was on MSNBC just recently. And he said that it's bad news for Americans. Blue state governor on financial fallout from Trump's tax law. Colorado Governor Jared Polis says he's trying to fight the staggering toll of Trump's new tax law. He said his state could lose $500 million in revenue each year and face another $500 million in new costs as Medicaid and food aid take a hit. Bear in mind that each state is not supposed to be living off of the federal government. The federal government, the only way it gets money is either it is taking it from us, we the people, via taxes and fees, or printing money, taking on debt that the next generations will have to pay. They don't even have a say in that. Both of those are wrong. 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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter there. And are you ready for financial freedom? Well, call our friends at Mint Financial Strategies. As an independent firm and an accredited investment fiduciary, they always put your interests first. Mint means more than money. It stands for a meaningful relationship. information sharing, a network of smart strategies, and a thoughtful advisor, Jody Henze, who puts you in control. No cookie-cutter plans. Everything is tailored to you. Call Mint Financial Strategies today at 303-285-3080. That's 303-285-3080. Mike Rolick is on the line. He is a citizen activist who is watching things both at the local and the national level. And first of all, he's been really watching these different municipalities. And there are several of them that have sued regarding this House Bill 241313, which really has the state coming in and dictating density in communities, which can be a real assault upon property rights. So Mike Rolick, welcome to the show.
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Good morning, Kim. How are you?
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Well, I am well. So what is the latest? We have seen and had Karen Gorday and Mary Jansen on talking about Lakewood and this rewrite of their zoning laws. And they may be adjusting that a little bit because now that the citizens are becoming informed, there's pushback. And so I think they're delaying some of these decisions. But still, I've seen a strategy when I was on city council that what happens many times is staff and councils can kind of kick these issues down the road, wear people out that are trying to watch it, and then quickly go ahead and do what they were trying to do. So what's your ear to the ground saying about all this?
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Well, I think Arvada is very committed to the legal action along with others. It was Greenwood Village, Aurora, Lafayette, and others. So we're encouraged. I just was at a meeting about two weeks ago where some of the folks in the local YIMBY movement were presenting a petition to say they wanted the city to withdraw. And then our group had some as well to say we're still – supportive of the city trying to preserve its home rule. One of the tenets there is if the density is correct, it's better to be at the local land use level. If the density is not correct, well then, having a top-down management scheme doesn't really work. It's a one-size-fits-all. What I did find interesting during this meeting was they were discussing how, unfortunately, 55 folks or 55 households might be losing their HUD money to stay where they were, and they were lamenting the fact that the federal government was changing its rules specifically So I think Arvada is consistent in the fact that they don't want either the Fed or the state to dictate how they're doing things. And I think it's poignant to say, okay, guys, on the YIMBY side, look what happens when you have a top-down management scheme. If something changes at the top, it is very difficult to get your particular concern heard if things are at the local level. It's a lot easier to call, see if you can get a meeting with the mayor or city council or staff. and try to work through a local issue. So I think it was an interesting situation at that particular meeting where they're actually listening and hearing about a federal situation. You know, we could discuss the merits of their end. But the idea that, again, if more money stays in the local jurisdiction for the local electeds to do what they and the people see as best, I see that as better, you know. So the YIMBY movement.
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A couple of things, Mike, because I know that you're totally in this. But if somebody's just new to hearing the term YIMBY, that's Y-I-M-B-Y. What does that stand for?
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It stands for yes in my backyard, kind of the answer to the no in my backyard. And our group is now kind of toying with the term compatibility in my backyard, right? We understand growth will happen. How do you do it where the immediate neighbors are in agreement and say, yes, this is in concert with our view? The comprehensive master plan that when we moved there, maybe it was single-family homes or duplexes, and we're not quite ready for 15 units per acre or 40 units per acre, right? So the compatibility idea is kind of a moving target. You know, we've seen compatibility be something as small as, oh, we put a privacy fence up, therefore this huge new development is compatible with single-family homes. I don't necessarily think that equals compatibility all the time. So you've got the YIMBY, you've got the NIMBY, and then you've got more of a kind of where I would look at it as a rational look and say, okay, we know development's going to happen. How do we get the best product when it comes to how the neighborhood feels as well? And there are some very responsible – developers out there you know who are actually coming to groups like ours and saying hey we're thinking about building a certain spot what do you think the neighbors are going to be looking for um and they're very open and transparent uh so it can work i just don't believe in a one-size-fits-all different cities and different towns have different cultures and i think the yimby movement um looks at it for for unfortunately again from a top down that's why there is um such a Such a commonality. When you look at one thing that's been pushed was the transient-oriented developments, right? And we're seeing that with HB 1313. We're also seeing that happening in New York City. We're seeing it talked about in Melbourne. You know, Yimby Town in Connecticut is having a transit-oriented development talk in September. So it's interesting when we think about, you know, are there universal principles that work for people or not? And I believe in individualism. There's a gentleman named Peter Kalthor and just kind of got into his work just as a kind of AD compare. And he is the progenitor of the transit-oriented development, which is a big, big principle for Yimby. And he's based in California. He's an architect, and he's the founder of the Congress to New Urbanism. And back in the 1990s, he developed the concept of that transit-oriented development. We can get into that in a little bit if you want. But I'm seeing transit-oriented development grants even coming down from the federal level. The Federal Transit Administration gave out $10.5 million last year for TODs.
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Well, and that is a real problem because you should not be using federal money or government money to push a certain agenda, which these transit-oriented developments are really focused on taking away people's freedom of mobility, wanting to put them into rental apartments along transit corridors, and really, I think, controlling their lives. So there is no reason why the federal government should be putting money into that agenda. Because if these things, if that's what people want and it can stand on its own from an economic standpoint, great. But obviously, if it's having to have a lot of additional government money, it can't. And you mentioned something about taking away HUD money. So again, under the Obama and Biden administrations, they used HUD money, again, to try to manipulate housing markets to push people into transit-orientated development. So when you said that the threat of losing HUD money, just clarify that a bit, Mike Rollick.
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At the meeting in Nevada, they were discussing 55 families were at risk of losing whatever subsidy they had to stay in their homes. My basic point there is if a local jurisdiction wants to help out certain local families that are having troubles, which is fine, everyone's running into economic trouble, it should, again, be done at the local level. I was drawing the parallel from people who are hoping that the state will force a zoning, yet they might lament when another higher government like the Fed start taking money or rules away, right? So it kind of brings that point of isn't the local governance the best in these situations? And I don't know if that irony was – really captured by certain people there. They're literally saying, we need the state to control us. But when the feds control that purse string and take the purse string away, they're very upset. Anytime a higher government can create rules, they can also take them away. And that was my main point there.
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Okay. Excellent point. And we're getting limited on time. However, we've got to talk about this other issue as well. And this is Fix Our Forest Act. And you texted this over to me. And this is law now, correct?
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I think it's still waiting to be voted on by the Senate. But two things on the forest really quick. I want to touch on what Jeffco is doing locally, and I want to talk about Fix Our Forest Act as well. So SB21258 created Coastal Operative, Colorado Strategic Wildfire Action Program. And right now they're working with Jeffco to, quote, unquote, treat forests, but we're seeing it as a clear cut. one of the major issues here is they're taking Jeffco tax money, they're taking state tax money, and then they're subsidizing private contractors who can then use the logs to sell on the open market on their own. So just for example, Beaver Ranch in Elk Meadows is $800,000 of taxpayer money, or $3,319 per acre. However, the contractors are allowed to sell logs, and I would quote the Alderford Three Sisters saying, Forest products will be removed from site to be utilized by the contractor in a manner of their own choosing. I look at that as very interesting because you're taking tax money, you're paying a private contractor to show up and then use the logs on the open market free and clear. That's a huge issue tax-wise. And second, they're not looking at how the wind patterns change when you do clear cuts You can have adiabatic compressible flow of katabatic winds. And I'm concerned with what happens when you take a forest, turn it into a meadow, and then you accelerate the winds, which we've heard from folks out there, and we actually have research on that as well. You accelerate the winds towards possibly a population center, towards possibly an evacuation route. So that creates a human hazard. So that's something on the Jeffco side I'd like to get a little bit more into with you. And as far as the Fix Our Forest Act, Section 303 goes into the tech private and public partnership. Now, this is an interesting situation because this is going to command the various secretaries to look at promulgating testing on certain technologies. And this will say specific priorities include technologies of advanced hazardous fuels reduction treatments, dispatch communications, here's the big one, remote sensing, detection, tracking, which would be a Pano AI style. Safety equipment, thermal, mid-wave, infrared, equipped low-Earth orbit satellites and common operating fixtures, operational dashboards, which is interesting because you talk about common operational dashboards. That means many different agencies will be using the same dashboard, the same backend, right? So what we can see when we talk about this kind of thing is think about the Department of Justice situation where they just had the audit of the FBI's protection on ubiquitous technical surveillance, and they found out that the cartels had had a hacker back in 2018 hacked into Mexico City's camera system and actually were using it to harass and even, in certain cases, kill witnesses. So you look at Pano AI, and you could look at common dashboards, or is that common dashboard going to be hacked? Is it going to be actually used? in an abusive way as well. So it is kind of an interesting situation that 303 is getting pushed in there. Megafire Lobby is pushing this tech, and Pano AI just happens to be a member of Megafire. And I actually have the testimony that they gave to the Senate Committee for Agriculture. It's kind of a long-winded word. I know we don't have a whole lot of time here, but it was Hold on a second. It was the Senate Committee on Agriculture. I know Senate Bennett was on there, I think, as well. So it is an interesting situation when you look at how tech is becoming really kind of infused into this kind of forest management.
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Okay, Mike Rolick, we are going to need to take some more time to unpack this because this is very, very important, and so we will get you scheduled again here. I'll reach out to you after the show because this whole data collection thing is getting way out of control, and we've got to keep our eyes on that. So Mike Rolick, thank you for the great work that you're doing on this as a citizen activist. This is the way it's supposed to happen, and we will talk with you again very soon. Thank you so much.
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Thank you. Have a great day.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is kimmonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And on the line with me is Greg Lopez. And he is former congressman. He is running for governor here in Colorado. Greg Lopez, welcome to the show.
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Hey, good morning, Kim. How are you doing today?
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Doing well. And we've got a lot to talk about. You've been traveling the state and want to talk about this whole wolves issue. But before we do that, you ended up completing Ken Buck's term in Congress when Ken Buck stepped down. And so what were some of your takeaways as you were in Washington today? uh, as, uh, you know, during the election of 2024, um, what, what would you say is your big takeaway as Congressman?
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You know, Kim, uh, pleasure to be elected, uh, by the people of the fourth congressional district, which is really all the Eastern Plains, um, you know, and the rep in Congress on our behalf, you know, it really, um, I guess the biggest takeaway for me was that Congress is sometimes gridlocked and sometimes things done about one side, you know, kind of party. But it's the best this thing can have. But you know what? It will. When we come and look. Of every individual. I think it shows that we can move the needle. Unify. We have to focus on the American people. And so the biggest takeaway I took was that, you know what, there is room for agreement. Sometimes it's difficult because of the political winds or leadership trying to, on both sides, trying to achieve what they want. All in all, you know, it was a great experience. I've never thought I would check off.
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Well, Greg, that is so interesting. We've got a little bit of a connection challenge, so I'm going to go to break early and see if you and Producer Joe can get that remedied, because I really want to hear every word that you have to say. And these are important discussions that we have. A couple of things that I wanted to mention is the two nonprofits that I feature on a regular basis on the show is the USMC Memorial Foundation which the memorial was dedicated in 1977 and is located at Colfax and 6th Avenue in Golden. It is the official Marine Memorial. And Paula Sarles, who is the president of the foundation and her team, are working diligently to raise the money for the remodel. And so a great thing to do would be to support them. It's a way of saying thank you to those that have given their lives or been willing to give their lives for our liberty. And so highly recommend that. And then another organization to totally support and visit is the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo. And one of the things that they do is they have the Portraits of Valor, which is portraits of over 160 of our Medal of Honor recipients with quotes by each of them. And I would encourage you to learn about each of these men. And it gives us inspiration. These are men that took action when a difficult situation presented itself. And we can take such great heart from their stories. And I'd highly recommend that you have the Center for American Values quote book on your shelf at home in your Freedom Library. And so the website for USMC Memorial Foundation is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And the website for the Center for American Values is americanvaluescenter.org. And we are blessed to have amazing sponsors. One of those sponsors is John Bozen and Bozen Law. And if you've been injured, you'll want to reach out to them.
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and welcome back to the kim monson show check out our website that's kim monson monson.com on the line with me is greg lopez former congressman from colorado as well as he is a candidate for governor greg lopez wanted to get a little bit better connection because i know everybody wants to hear what you have to say before we get over to what you've been learning about our farmers and ranchers and this whole wolf reintroduction On the Western Slope. Tell us a little bit about why you're running for governor and what you hope to accomplish.
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Well, you know, Kim, as we all know, Colorado is in a crisis. And this is what happens when after seven years of a single party rule, our quality of life, you know, everything that makes Colorado Colorado has been erased. And as I travel the state, I hear a lot of frustration. I hear a lot of despair from people as to, you know, what's going on with our state. Why are we not able to live that American dream? And why are we struggling so much? And so I'm running because I really think it's time to put people over politics. We need to focus on fighting for people, fighting for the poor, fighting for those young couples that are just trying to make a living and start a family. And I think that, you know, the state level, specifically the governor's office, is not paying attention to what's needed here in Colorado. And we've basically turned into California, which is not what Colorado is all about. And so I'm looking to be that voice of the people, and it's time for a Colorado comeback. I think it's time for Colorado to make a huge comeback and not be that state that is, you know, seconding crime or, you know, all those things that make Colorado a negative state as it pertains to the rest of the nation. So I'm hoping to be successful in that.
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Well, and Colorado has really lost its vibe, if you will. I was talking with a millennial recently. He said the Denver vibe is gone, and it's because of the policies of these radical activists that have taken over the Democrat Party. both at the local level as well as at the state level as well. And so we've got a lot of work to do to get Colorado turned back around. And so thank you for stepping forward, to you and your family for stepping forward, because campaigning is a real commitment. But while you're out there on the campaign trail, You and I were chatting just recently, and you've learned something regarding this whole wolf reintroduction program, if you will, that has really been, I think, a pet project, no pun intended, of Jared Polis and his partner. So tell us a little bit about what you've learned regarding our farmers and ranchers.
SPEAKER 09 :
Look, uh, you know, Kim, a lot of people may not remember, but in 2020, there was a ballot issue, uh, asking people if they thought it was a good idea to reintroduce the wall back in the Colorado. And, you know, it passed by 58,000 votes. It was less than a half a percent. And predominantly the people that voted for it was the urban corridor. And it was an emotional vote. It wasn't anything based on science. It wasn't anything based on the habitat or the environment. Colorado is the first state to ever reintroduce a wolf, not on scientific evidence, but on the emotional appeal of the voter. And what's happening now is that the families, the families of rural Colorado, specifically up in the Western Slope, are being negatively impacted. The mental health, of the farmers and ranchers is through the ceiling with anxiety. I mean, imagine for a minute if Colorado voted to introduce back into the urban corridor the snake, the rattlesnake, or mountain lions. Just think of the anxiety that people would have every single day not knowing whether any of their property was going to be destroyed and so forth. And that's the anxiety that people are suffering up in the urban corridor. And you have these wolves. There's a management plan that got put together because of the selection of the introduction of the wolf. But the wolves are now eating cattle more than what they should. There's a pack called the Copper Creek Pack that is depredation is when they are actually killing. And the depredation that they're having is they're killing livestock, which is cattle. They're not hunting elk. They're not hunting deer either. like all of the environmentalists and naturalists thought that they were going to do. And they're growing in numbers. And so we're seeing a huge negative impact, not only on families up in the Western Slope, but also the economy. There's distrust in government because they're not following the plan the way they should. It's just chaos. It's one of those experiments that has gone awry. And I think that the best thing for Colorado Parks and Wildlife to do is to take a pause on bringing in more wolves into the state of Colorado until they deal with this one pack that is chronic depredation that the leadership of Colorado Parks and Wildlife have already classified.
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Well, and unfortunately, these wolves don't know their boundaries. Now, that ballot question, which I thought was crazy, was should wolves be reintroduced west of the continental divide? So apparently these wolves can't read a map. Is that correct?
SPEAKER 09 :
That's right. You know what? And the interesting thing, you know, again, people are not very informed when they vote on these things because they're emotional. You know, we already had wolves. You know, Wyoming has wolves. New Mexico has wolves. And so they were crossing. Like you said, they don't understand state lines. They don't understand county lines. You know, these are wild animals that roam. And the wolf, the territory of a wolf can be anywhere from 20 square miles to 120 square miles. And they walk and they just go through whatever they need to do to get basically explore. And you will see on the wolf tracking map that you can find, because they do put collars on these wolves, some of them have already made it into the urban corridor. That doesn't mean that they are living in the urban corridor, but they have stepped into the urban corridor, and they've been able to be tracked because of those collars. So they're hoping to have, listen to this, they're hoping to have over 200 Wolves in the state of Colorado in the next three years.
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The question is why? Now, I am looking at the Colorado Parks and Wildlife June gray wolf activity map. This is from May 27th, 2025 to June 24th of 2025. And interestingly, I find this interesting. maybe this is justice, is there is a tremendous amount of activity of these wolves in Boulder County now. A bunch of Boulder County is covered by activity from these wolves. And again, it was Boulder County and Denver that probably were the ones that put this ballot question over the top to reintroduce these wolves. And so now that it's going to be in their backyard, it's going to be very interesting to see people's reaction to that.
SPEAKER 09 :
I totally agree with you. And look, I mean, it's one of those that, you know, some people believe it's kind of cool to hear a wolf howl at night. what they forget is that these are pack animals. They're never alone. They're always six to eight to even it's 12 can be the pack. And so when you hear one, you know that there's at least another number of wolves in the general area because they're packed animals. And so you're right. I think people are going to realize that we were not aware. And to your point, Denver and Boulder are, were not aware at how much the wolf would basically impact their lives and create anxiety. I mean, wolves will eat dogs. They'll eat cats. They'll eat whatever they want to eat. But they also train their pups on how to kill. So they don't necessarily kill to eat. Sometimes they kill just to train their pups how to survive. And so that's why I'm saying it's a very – unfortunate experiment that's gone astray. And again, the science said we should never introduce a wolf to Colorado, but because it was a vote of the people that didn't fully understand the impact of it. Now we're having to deal with it. And my hope is that, you know, parks and wildlife does the right thing by managing them. And it's going to be a very difficult thing to manage a wild animal because That's just roaming across the state of Colorado.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right. And then there was also legislation to try to constrict reaction to a wolf that might be killing livestock and to restrict our farmers and ranchers regarding that. So a couple of things. This was coming in from this is from Jenny. She said that they passed the wolves with money from the Tides Foundation. And so there was outside money that was coming in on this. And then Mary suggested, let's see here, would you camp out knowing that there are wolves out there? And then this is a good question. Are we not allowed to carry guns in parks? So we've seen different pieces of legislation to try to limit people being able to carry firearms to protect ourselves against bad actors. But yet then we're introducing these wolves. And so what's happening is they're trying to prevent people from going into... our public lands and enjoying them. I think that that's a big connection because why would you go out camping if you've got a pack of wolves out there? And also, Pitkin County, Aspen can be an area that may vote very blue as well. And there was something kind of crazy that happened regarding relocations of some wolves to Pitkin County. It was done under the radar. We've got about three minutes on that. So explain that, Greg Lopez.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. So, Kim, the management plan that, you know, stakeholders were brought in and they worked on this for three years. They had a technical group that was made of experts from all different states that have the wolves already in it. And they brought in people. Then they had a group of stakeholders. These are hunters. These are outfitters. These are wranglers that are out there in the woods all the time. They spent three years putting together a management plan, and the plan that everybody voted on and everybody agreed is that Colorado would not introduce a wolf to the state that has already been known to eat cattle, depredation of ranchers and farmers. And what did we do? We brought in a pack into Colorado that was known to do that. And so they violated the management plan in that manner. When they realized that they were actually causing a lot of damage to property, they recaptured them and they put them in a sanctuary here in Colorado. Colorado has wolf sanctuaries. I believe we have two.
SPEAKER 15 :
How do you keep a wolf in a wolf sanctuary?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, you know, I mean, it's kind of like those open, you know, ranches that have high fences. They're 10 feet long or tall. There's dual fences, so if they get over one, they can't get over the other one. But it's basically a bigger museum of hundreds of acres or 50 acres or whatever of sanctuary for a wolf. And they exist here in Colorado. And so they put them in a sanctuary and the male alpha died. They claim that it died due to a gunshot wound. But here's what's very interesting. The management plan says you are not to move a problem from one part of the state to another part of the state. And then they chose to, after the pups reached a certain level of maturity, they let them go. And they put them back. They didn't put them where they found them. They put them in Pitkin County. And now Pitkin County is dealing with the same thing that Kremlin was doing with in Grand County about the depredation of this wolf. So they're violating their own management plan. And this is really what's got people upset is that we spent years on this and we all agreed on it. And now you're not following it. And the Parks Commission, the Parks and Wildlife Commission, is taking a very safe approach on this. And they're saying, well, we as a commission, we can't tell management and leadership how to implement the plan. That's their responsibility. And I totally disagree with that. I totally disagree with that. that you can't have a commission that will dictate or direct leadership on how to handle a situation specifically when a plan has been adopted.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, it's really crazy, but I think they know exactly what they're doing. Greg Lopez, we're just about out of time. You're running for governor. How can people get more information about you?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, you know what? Go to my website, greglopez.co. Again, that's greglopez. You know, I'm going to fight for people. I'm going to put people over politics. I think it's time for Colorado to make a comeback. Bring Colorado back to the state it was eight years ago and make a state that we can all be proud of. So, yes, greglopez.co. Go to my website. Make a contribution. Doesn't matter what size. It's important that we get a different voice and a different approach to when it comes to the future of this state.
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Okay, Greg Lopez, thank you so much. And our quote for the end of the show is Calvin Coolidge. He said, unless the people through unified action arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude. to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest. My friends today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. God bless America. Stay tuned for our number two.
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And wow, I'm trying to do some research here in between the hours on this whole wolf thing. And so we're going to talk a little bit more about that. We had Greg Lopez on in the hour number one that we'll rebroadcast today in the one to two hour. And he is a candidate for governor here for Colorado and has been out talking with people, particularly our farmers and ranchers on the Western Slope and how they have been affected by these this wolf reintroduction. And it's crazy. As I've watched this, you have this wolf reintroduction, and then we've seen legislation that tries to tie people's hands on how they respond to wolves that are attacking their private property, their livestock, which connect the dot. That affects us because that starts to affect our food source. It is all in such a diabolical way. It's all connected. And so we've got to continue to shed light on this. We've got to reclaim this great state of ours. It is really in, it's in the dumpster right now. That's what's going on. And so many people, but do not lose hope. So many people are working and doing great stuff on that. And one of the things that is so important is that we have elections that are free, fair, honest, and transparent. And I know many of us are concerned about that. And instead of people saying nothing to see here, move along, and we've seen that on both sides of the aisle, we actually need to come together. And I think the big, broad middle of Coloradans, the moderate Democrats and libertarians and conservatives and unaffiliateds and conservatives, Republicans all want to make sure that we have free, fair, honest, and transparent elections. So there's a summit tonight. It's the Colorado Election Summit. It is at 630. And to get the location, you need to sign up. It's crazy that there would be those that would try to shut down voices on this. And again, one has to ask why. 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He had a taciturn personality and a very dry sense of humor that earned him the nickname of Silent Cal. But he said this little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. And I do think this is important. Many of you came in on the text line regarding this wolf issue. And this was something that I was not aware of. But apparently a woman was killed in Castilla County. This was earlier this year. And thank you, Mary, for sending this over. It says autopsy results show death of Castilla County woman was caused by domestic dogs. It says Sangre de Cristo Ranches, where the body was found in January, has a history of domestic dogs running loose. And I find that curious that they were able to determine that. I also find it curious that there was not a big media push on this as well. And I did not know that there were domestic dogs. So those of you that may live in that area, I'd love to have you text me and comment on this because I think wolves are also part of a canine species. And I just have all kinds of questions in my mind. I'll let you have those questions as well. Because, let's see, next thing. Okay, I think that's it for right now. I do want to hear from you on the text line. That number is 720-605-0647. And we have been going through 50 wins on the big, beautiful bill. And this is from the WhiteHouse.gov. And 31 through 35 today. Number 31, it says it modernizes air traffic control. Number 32, it strengthens SNAP benefits by closing, and one of the things is closing the excessively broad loopholes for work requirements. The dignity of work, to just give people stuff for free with no work, if they're able-bodied and can work, makes people, instead of human beings, we're treating them like pets. And that takes away the dignity of being human. So we've got to stop that. 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Welcome back. Be sure and check out my website. That's KimMuntz.com. Let's get right to it. Pleased to have on the line with me Sam Dorman. Sam is the Washington correspondent with the Epoch Times. He watches the courts and what's happening in Washington. Welcome, Sam Dorman.
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Hi, Kim. Good to be with you.
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A lot has been happening in your world. You've been very busy, yes? Yes.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, well, the Supreme Court just released their final decisions, and then you've had all this fallout in the lower courts with Trump. So, yeah, I've definitely been busy.
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So let's talk, first of all, you recently had published a piece at the Epoch Times, nine key Supreme Court decisions from this term. And, of course, number one, these nationwide injunctions by these lower court federal judges. What's your read on that, Sam Dorman?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, that was a pretty big one. The Supreme Court basically said that Congress hadn't given courts the authority to issue these sweeping injunctions that we've seen over the past, you know, I think it's like 10 years now since Trump's first term, they've been exploding. So Supreme Court basically said that in general, that that's not allowed. But there are certain caveats that courts can take to sort of affect sweeping injunctions across the country. So it's kind of a more limited decision, I think, than it might seem from the headlines. But overall, it's still a pretty big case because it does limit judges' authority. And this has been an issue over, like I said, over a decade with these injunctions growing. And both sides have really been calling out this issue.
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Okay, so that was number one. But we continue to see, and I think that these injunctions by these lower court federal judges, they're trying to put sand in the gear to try to stop the Trump agenda to try to get to the 2026 election if In fact, the Democrats can take either the House or the Senate. Then those that want to really stop what Trump is doing, they basically, in effect, could do that. So it seems like these injunctions are just trying to put sand in the gears. What do you think about that?
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Yeah, it's hard to say. I mean, so one of the big issues with this topic is this thing called judge shopping, which is basically where law firms will seek out particular districts that they think are favorable to their interests. And so there's actually a Harvard Law Review study that talked about how a lot of these nationwide injunctions are mostly issued by judges that were appointed by a president of the opposing party for the policy that's being challenged. So you get a lot of liberal judges or judges appointed by Democratic presidents who are blocking Trump's policies and then vice versa under Biden. Yeah, it's hard to say. I mean, you know, these judges are obviously not going to say that they're doing this for partisan purposes. And they're they're sort of laying out their their decisions and their arguments in their in their cases. But it is raising questions about that. And that's something Republicans have been trying to talk about. Like they've held hearings on this. And just generally, I think. there's this question of whether or not courts can actually, courts should have this much power, right? Like besides whether or not they're acting out of partisan or ideological purposes, there's a question of whether or not we should even be asking that. I think it's kind of like, should this even be coming up for judges, right? Because if they don't have this much power, then you wouldn't see these types of questions arise.
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Well, and really, I really would like to have judges, wherever they are, whether or not it's state court or federal court, be looking at these things through the lens of the original Constitution, but that it has become very political. But let's go ahead and go through the next one. You said the next big decision was gender procedures for minors.
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Right. Yeah, so that was about Tennessee's law, which attempted to ban minors Well, it initially banned surgical procedures, and they had things like cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers for children. And at the lower court level, they sort of narrowed the case down to just being about puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. And so by the time it reached the Supreme Court, the Biden administration had asked the Supreme Court to basically say that the law was subject to this thing called heightened scrutiny, which is basically just saying that whenever appeals courts review these laws, they have to sort of apply certain standards to them. And the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is sort of like an intermediate level of appeals, they basically said that Tennessee's law only had to pass this very low standard called rational basis review, which is just basically saying that states have to demonstrate that they have some kind of rational basis for the law that they're implementing. And that's kind of like the lowest standard of review. And so the Biden administration was attempting to say, actually, this is a form of sex discrimination that potentially violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. And because of that, it needs to undergo a higher form of review. So it's kind of a long, drawn-out saga. But the Supreme Court eventually ruled in June that that the Tennessee was, or that the Sixth Circuit was actually right to say that Tennessee only had to undergo rational basis review and that the case, that its law actually, Tennessee's law actually did pass that standard. And its reasoning was based on the idea that basically what Tennessee was doing was they weren't classifying people based on sex. They weren't engaging in some kind of sex-based discrimination. Instead, what they were doing was saying there are particular medical procedures that we don't want minors to undergo. And because of that, it's not sort of subject to the same type of scrutiny under the 14th Amendment.
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Okay. What would you say the ramifications are? For example, where I am in Colorado, it's become a, I have this in air quotes, sanctuary state for transgender operations or pharmaceuticals on minors. So what's your read on how this is going to play out across the country?
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Yeah, so it didn't set up an across-the-board rule, and basically it just allows states to states like Tennessee to continue passing these types of laws. So you could still see in certain purple or blue states, they won't pass these types of laws. And so then there'll be more leeway for parents to do these types of things for their kids. An interesting argument that could come up and something that the Supreme Court didn't consider was whether or not parents have a certain type of right or they have parents' rights includes the ability to provide these types of procedures for their children. And so that could come up again. It's kind of an interesting question of whether or not the 14th Amendment actually allows parents to do that or whether or not states can interfere with that. So that could still come up and that could still be a legal issue. But generally right now, the Supreme Court has basically given states more leeway to ban these types of procedures.
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Okay. I think that's good news, in my opinion. Okay, next, number three, deportations. What about this?
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Yeah, so I think there was a lot of cases, and that was kind of like a catch-all that I included because there was – I don't know if you remember, Trump did the... He implemented a proclamation about the Alien Enemies Act, which is basically this law that allows for expedited removal of the people if there's some kind of foreign invasion or incursion against the country. And so he basically used this to apply to members of Trende Arago, which is the Venezuelan gang that's been committing acts of violence in the United States. And the... The Supreme Court basically, they intervened a couple of times. The first time was when this district judge, James Boasberg, had blocked Trump's deportations at a national level. And the Supreme Court intervened and basically vacated those orders from Boasberg, blocking Trump's deportations. But they also kind of limited what Trump could do, because they said that he had to provide some kind of due process for these potential deportees through something called habeas, you know, habeas petitions, which is, it's like a legal mechanism, basically, for allowing people to challenge their detention. And so that ended up, that was kind of the first ruling. And then after that, you had, I don't know if people probably remember Kilmar Abrego Garcia, which is the quote-unquote Maryland man who is alleged member of MS-13. He was deported as part of this round of deportations that occurred in March after Trump signed his proclamation. And basically, the judge in that case had ordered that the United States had to effectuate or facilitate Abrego Garcia's return from El Salvador, which is where he was deported to. And The administration in all these cases, they're saying, you know, these judges are intruding on executive authority. They're interfering with our ability to conduct foreign affairs. And this is just like way, way too much happening from the third branch of government. But the Supreme Court agreed with the lower court judge in a sense. They said that, you know, she said that this judge in Maryland could allow or could require the administration to effectuate or facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia. But they said that, you know, they provided kind of a caveat saying that she had to clarify her order to sort of, to make it clear how she's not encroaching on executive authority or giving enough deference to the executive branch. So that was the second one. And then after that, so after the initial decision that I talked about with Boesberg's court and this idea that the proper way to challenge Trump's order was through habeas proceedings. What you saw was a bunch of different lawsuits emerging across the country where there was a bunch of people in different states basically trying to file these habeas petitions and trying to get relief that way. And so one of those came from the Northern District of Texas. And that case ended up reaching the Supreme Court. And at that point, the Supreme Court did something that was kind of unusual in that they granted relief or they blocked the deportations for a putative class. So I think everyone knows what class actions are and class certification where you sort of like, yeah, you say, yeah, that plaintiffs can sort of represent a broader group of people in the country. So the Supreme Court in this case, the class hadn't even been certified yet, but the Supreme Court said that we're going to grant relief for this putative class anyways. So those were kind of the three ones. I don't want to go on too much longer, but if you want me to expand on that, I can.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, no, it really is fascinating. From a common sense standpoint, Sam Dorman, it seems crazy to me that somebody that has come here illegally and allegedly is part of a gang that's committing a bunch of crimes, that we can't just deport them. And I understand habeas corpus. I understand how important that is. However, they came here illegally. It seems like they shouldn't have that habeas right.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, well, it's an interesting question because I think what's happening is that there's questions about whether or not these people actually belong to these gangs. And so the people that are detained are denying that. And then there's sort of a regular immigration process that usually occurs for people that are subject to removal. And so what they're saying is that this is basically trying to leapfrog over that normal process, and it's doing so... in a way that's denying these people their due process rights. And so I think what the Supreme Court is trying to do is they're saying, we sort of just want this to be more protracted, and we want to give these, you know, we want to have a more thorough process to make sure that we're deporting these people on the right bases, because they're going to this, in many cases, they're going to this, you know, infamous prison in El Salvador, where there's alleged human rights abuses and things like that. So Another question that's really interesting in this is whether or not Trump actually validly invoked the Alien Enemies Act. And there's been multiple judges who say that because there's no actual foreign invasion or incursion by Trende Aragua, then Trump's invocation of that law is basically null and void or it's not legitimate. There has been a judge that's agreed with the Trump administration, but there's been a lot of others that have said that he was wrong to do that. The Supreme Court hasn't actually weighed in on that question yet, so I think that's going to go back to the Supreme Court. They're going to have to look at that again. But, yeah, it's kind of complicated when you start talking about the DuPonts, right?
SPEAKER 15 :
Absolutely. But you can ask the people that were in the apartment buildings out here in Aurora that Trin and DeRosa, however you say it, had taken over. And I would say that, yes, that is a foreign invasion. And so this is maybe a different kind of foreign invasion situation. But it is. It has been a foreign invasion. We're going to continue this discussion with Sam Dorman. He is the Washington correspondent covering courts and politics for the Epoch Times. You can follow him on X at Epoch of Dorman. That's D-O-R-M-A-N. These discussions are we need to have them and we get to have them because of our sponsors. I'm very pleased that the Second Amendment or excuse me, the Second Syndicate is bringing groups together here to protect our Second Amendment.
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SPEAKER 03 :
Sure. Yeah, that was an interesting case. That was kind of done on an expedited basis. People might remember it around the time that Trump was about to be inaugurated. TikTok had shut down because of this law known as the Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. This was actually a bipartisan law from Congress, and Biden signed it into law. And it set up a deadline for January 19th, so a day before Trump was to take office, basically saying that ByteDance, which is TikTok's parent company, had to either divest from its U.S. business or shut down the U.S. business of TikTok. because they were worried about things like data sharing between ByteDance and the Chinese government. And the Chinese government has this requirement that basically private entities have to cooperate with national security and intelligence gathering. So what happened was TikTok sued, and it went to the D.C. Court of Appeals, and the D.C. Circuit upheld Congress's law, basically saying that the – the law passed something. Again, we were talking before about sort of these standards of review within the courts about like how much scrutiny they apply to particular laws. And in this case, the D.C. Circuit said that, you know, the highest level of review applied to this under the First Amendment. So the government had to do a lot of different things to prove that its law was valid under the First Amendment. And so that even with that higher standard, the government was able to pass the And so that law was valid. When it reached the Supreme Court, it similarly got a lot of approval. It was a unanimous decision, basically upholding Congress's law and saying that it had to pass a lower standard known as intermediate scrutiny. But regardless, it did pass that as well.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. Let's go to number five, the Mexico gun lawsuit. I find this a little crazy that another country could sue us or sue gun manufacturers. So unpack this for us.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, this is really interesting. And there are a couple of different international lawsuits that are pretty interesting in this term. But this one in particular, you know, basically Mexico was trying to sue, alleging that gun companies were liable for violence committed by cartels because cartels were using guns trafficked from these manufacturers within the United States. And so there's a particular law that sort of exempts or gives immunity to gun companies. And Congress passed this because, you know, for obvious reasons, people could use these weapons for purposes outside of what the manufacturers intend. But there is sort of a caveat that allows gun companies be sued if they don't sort of do enough to, or if they're being negligent and they don't really do enough to, you know, prevent knowing transmission or flow of guns to criminals or for adverse purposes. And so that was basically what Mexico was alleging in this case. And the First Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with Mexico. It allowed the case to go forward rather than being outright dismissed. And the Supreme Court unanimously rejected that decision and said that basically Mexico hadn't done enough to prove the sort of liability that was or to sort of allege the necessary type of liability under this law that would allow them to be sued in court. So, yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
So let's just let's just I want to connect this dot. So you have Mexican cartels that are committing crimes and they're the ones that are having to pull the trigger on whatever firearm they have. So you have Mexican cartels that they're pulling the trigger, but they wanted to sue American gun companies for the actions of their cartels. Would you say that's accurate?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I think it's more just like that they're saying that the gun companies are liable, you know, because they're not doing enough to control the flow of guns.
SPEAKER 15 :
Goodness gracious. Okay. For just a regular person, I find that curious. I'll just say that. Okay, let's go to number six. Straight woman wins discrimination case. This is super interesting. Sure.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, yeah. This was another one that was a unanimous decision. It's kind of interesting. It kind of plays on identity politics. But I think Justice Jackson was the one who wrote the majority opinion in this case. So she's considered to be a pretty liberal justice. And basically, it was just that a heterosexual woman had claimed that she was being discriminated against and that someone who didn't identify as heterosexual was basically being that they had gotten a job they were unqualified for. And so she sued. And this was, again, kind of one of those questions about the standard of review that appeals courts apply. And so an appeals court had said that she had to do sort of like go above and beyond and showing that there were background circumstances supporting her claim that she was facing reverse discrimination. And the Supreme Court said that's not the case, that she could basically bring the suit without having to do that extra work.
SPEAKER 15 :
And again, we really need to get to a point where we're looking for jobs promotions on meritocracy. It doesn't matter what the descriptor is. It's who's working hard, trying to improve, being the very best that they can be. This next one, number seven, opting out of LGBT storybooks. This also is crazy to me that we have, and I don't believe in banning books. I think it's so important to have freedom. However, there is a responsibility, and that is we don't put pornographic material in school libraries, which seems like common sense to me. So this is a big case. Talk to us about this, Sam Dorman.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, this one was pretty interesting. I think it was one of the more anticipated cases of the term, and It really touches on the sort of the cultural wars that have been going on in the past few years of how education and how teachers are actually influencing students with some of these new ideas surrounding sexuality and race. And basically what happened was that there was a bunch of parents in Montgomery County, Maryland, who sued because there were these controversial books, things like promoting quote-unquote gender transitions and homosexuality. And so there were parents from different religions basically saying that this was violating their First Amendment rights because they have a right to direct the religious upbringing of their children under the First Amendment, and that basically the school district was infringing on that. And the school district, they initially had an opt-out policy, but they changed this, I think, because of administrative burdens. And Justice Alito, who wrote the majority opinion in this, said basically that because of these parents' rights to direct the upbringing of their children, they are entitled to some kind of relief from court. So, like, you know, blocking these actions from the school district. And so, yeah, I think this was – it's kind of in a more preliminary posture. This was about a preliminary injunction. And so Justice Alito was basically saying at this point they deserve this preliminary relief. But his reasoning was basically indicating, you know, that they – I think parents across the country are going to have a pretty substantial basis for fighting back against these decisions at the school districts.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and there are people here in Colorado that have really been shedding light on this issue. In fact, Cain, who's the founder of Task Force Freedom Northern Colorado, has been going in his organization, been going to school boards. And so I've seen some of the images and these books that are in these school libraries, and they truly are pornographic. And... There's only a certain amount of hours in the day and certainly in a school day. And I really think that we should be teaching kids how to read and write and do arithmetic and think about big ideas versus carnal desires. And so I really think that there is no place for these books in school libraries. However, I think one of the remedies that people recommend is that these books would be put on a shelf that parents would have to give permission for their kids to check out those books. Liberty can be so messy sometimes. And I do feel that those with this agenda on these books are using our liberty against us. So we have to protect liberty, but we also have to be responsible adults regarding what our children are viewing. Sam Dorman.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, it's kind of complicated because, you know, when you deal with public schools, you're talking about this sort of an area that's supposed to be a neutral zone, but everyone is involved with it and they come to it with different backgrounds and One of the things the Senate said when they were trying to say that the majority was basically trying to deny that these types of people exist and that we need to have more awareness about this population of people. And the – I mean, it's kind of – it is kind of a – an issue of what exactly those books are saying. And I think Justice Alito was saying, they're not just sort of like neutral content. It's clearly designed to indoctrinate or teach kids certain values. And because of that, parents have to have a right to step in.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. That's a very important decision. Let's quickly do the next one, number eight, before we go to break, and that's the porn age verification laws.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. Sure, yeah. There's a lot of laws like this across the United States, and I think you've seen Pornhub and other companies complaining about this. But basically, the Free Speech Coalition, which is an industry group for pornography, brought a lawsuit saying that Texas had violated the First Amendment by imposing age verification requirements on porn sites. And so when they reached the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, that Court of Appeals said that basically that, again, like the lower standard should apply to rational basis. Texas just had to prove that they had some kind of rational basis for their for their decision. They ended up appealing that, that the Free Speech Coalition did, and they said at the Supreme Court that a higher standard known as strict scrutiny should apply. And then the Supreme Court eventually, they ruled on this and said that Texas had to pass something known as intermediate scrutiny. So they kind of gave Texas more They said Texas had a higher bar to pass, but Texas passed it anyway. So I think that this is going to have a big impact on this idea that there's a public health crisis with pornography addiction, especially among younger kids and how it impacts their brains in developing. So I think this will give states a lot more power to sort of prevent what they see as harms from that.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay, very, very interesting. And again, I'm talking with Sam Dorman. He's the Washington correspondent covering courts and politics for the Epoch Times, and you can follow him on X at Epoch of Dorman. And then this next one that we want to talk about is regarding Planned Parenthood, so you'll want to stay tuned for that. These discussions happen because of our sponsors. For everything mortgages, Lauren Levy can help you in 49 of the 50 states, just not New York.
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SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, so this case was kind of interesting because there's already a federal law that prevents federal funds from flowing to abortions. This one was more about South Carolina with certain – With certain providers, if they provide abortions, then they're not technically qualified to provide health care services in other ways. And so South Carolina was trying to exclude Planned Parenthood from its Medicaid plan on that basis. And Planned Parenthood sued in a response saying that there's a provision of the law that sets up Medicaid basically saying that recipients can choose who they want their providers to be. so they can choose qualified providers, basically. And one of their patients also joined the lawsuit. And so the claim was that by denying the payments for this particular person's chosen qualified provider, what they were doing was they were violating her rights and that the Medicaid Act had set up a particular type of right that she could sue over. And so this kind of involves two different laws. So it's not just the Medicaid, excuse me, not just the initial Medicaid Act, but it's also this older act, which is, I think, passed around the time of the 14th Amendment. And it basically says that people can sue over violations of constitutional rights, but also over violations of rights that are sort of set up by statute. And so the question in this case, And the way that the Supreme Court addressed it was whether or not this particular, whether or not this person could sue, other people could sue as well, and whether or not the Medicaid Act actually created that type of right that could be sued over. And so they ended up deciding that it was not this sort of special type of right that could be enforced through litigation from a recipient of Medicaid rights. So this is making it a lot easier for states to defund Planned Parenthood, but it doesn't necessarily eliminate the possibility that they or it doesn't necessarily give them a right to defund Planned Parenthood in the future because a lot of this is controlled by HHS. Medicaid is a state and federal program. So a new administration could technically come in. And I think one of the concurrences talks about this. There's some discretion that like a Democratic administration could have over approving the Medicaid plan of a state like South Carolina that defunds Planned Parenthood.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. Super interesting. And then lastly, and I said, you really called this because you had published a piece regarding the Supreme Court ruling on the birthright citizenship. And you'd published a piece about that, but you said that there was this potential caveat regarding a class action lawsuit. And that lawsuit has been filed. Yes.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. So there was in one of the original cases about birthright citizenship in Maryland, there was there's a nationwide injunction, but quickly after the Supreme Court's decision, the plaintiffs in that case tried to file a request for a class action. Basically, you know, basically people affected by Trump's executive order. So, and Justice Alito talked about this. He's saying, you know, that, and Justice Kavanaugh, they're both saying that class actions could basically be used in the place of nationwide injunctions. There was a case also filed recently by the ACLU in New Hampshire. And in that case, a judge actually did issue a block for a provisional class that included people affected by Trump's executive order. So, yes, I think this is what I'm saying about I think that the nationwide injunction decision is actually fairly limited beyond what the headlines might reveal because of the sort of caveats that allow people to still pursue nationwide relief.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. Now, Sam Dorman, we have covered so much, and I greatly appreciate it. Your recent pieces at the Epoch Times, people can find those. And I think this one that you just recently published, we have about three minutes left, is that heroes emerge from the Texas floods and that also senators react to Musk's American Party. I guess that wasn't you. That was somebody else as I'm looking at that. That came up under you. So let's...
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. So that was our we have a podcast that we release on a weekly basis. And so that was we kind of have a bunch of different reporters come in. And we had our Texas reporter, Darlene Sanchez. She had a lot of really good reporting from the flood. So she talked about that.
SPEAKER 15 :
And then also, what's kind of the last thing that you'd like to leave with our listeners? Because you are doing really amazing work, I think, in this piece regarding these these nine decisions, I think, is so important. Your final thought you'd like to leave with our listeners.
SPEAKER 03 :
share uh... yeah they think thank you for that uh... but i think you know it's just it'd be two issues are really complicated i think that's the main thing i did when i'm trying to buy the and that this litigation is still ongoing particularly with the nation wide junctions mean we'll see how lower court handle it but uh... i think trump has sort of in all these legal battles has gotten a lot of abuse from the supreme court but they're still have a long road ahead in terms of defending his policies
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and again, I think that there is a strategy, and I'm going to ask you a question. Feel free not to. You don't have to answer this. But it seems that Justice Jackson is a little out there, I would say. Is that any kind of a thing that you could comment on?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, it's interesting because in the Nationwide Injunctions case, you saw a lot of clash between Justice Barrett and Justice Jackson where Justice Jackson was sort of writing this more, and she specifically said, you know, she wanted to write a dissent that was more conceptual. And so she wrote this dissent that was talking about how the, you know, basically the Supreme Court and the nationwide injunction decision was giving the executive branch too much power. And both she and Sotomayor used pretty strong language. And in response, Barrett had strong language also. She's saying, you know, that basically that Justice Jackson's opinion had no basis in precedent. I think she said something like two centuries worth of precedent, nor the Constitution. And so, yeah, it was interesting. You saw a lot of clash. And I think Justice Jackson in particular said, It's like with among the three liberal justices, Kagan tends to join the majority more than Sotomayor and Jackson. And then Jackson, I would say, probably dissents and differs more than than all the other three. So, yeah, she's definitely I think she's more of an outlier compared to the other justices.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. Well, Sam Dorman, you're doing a great work. People can find you on X at Epoch of Dorman. And I would highly recommend that people check that out. And thank you for really breaking all this down. This is so important and so informative. So keep up the great work.
SPEAKER 03 :
All right. Thank you, Kim.
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Hey there, friend. Angie Austin here with The Good News. Beatrice Bruno, the Drill Sergeant of Life, and Michelle A. Rahn. Beatrice getting ready to take off on a new adventure soon, which I hope we'll have time to talk about.
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Ditto, ditto. All right, let's start with your word of the week. What's your tale this week?
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Okay, the word is prismatic, prismatic. And the meaning of the word is reflecting light the way a prism does. I googled the word prismatic, and several synonyms came up, including bright, flashy light. Vivid, vibrant. And so just to share a little bit, several, several years ago when I went out for the Quinny thing of Miss Senior America, you had to write a philosophy of life and then you had to speak the philosophy of life. It took me seven months to write it and they only give you 35 seconds to say it. So you can imagine. that it was quite a journey for me to do. But part of my philosophy of life was the following. It says, we all are aware of the power of a single candle in a dark room. So it is with us, for we can be prismatic women. Just as a prism uses its light to disperse light, We can try to live in ways knowing that our reflected light can affect the actions and attitudes of others. And I wrote this nearly 20 years ago, and I feel like today we truly need to realize what every small deed we can do will make a difference in the life of one. My prayer in the mornings before my feet hit the ground is that Jesus, please use me today for your will, which, if I'm honest, means I have to make myself open to what he has in mind. And the people in whom I come in contact are literally sent by him. He's given me free will, which means that I have a choice how I greet these people, what I do with the situation and so forth. So my prayer for all of us this morning is Heavenly Father, May we see our world through the prism of the cross, tinged with bloodstained mercy and bathed in your grace light. Amen. So there we go.
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What do you think, B? Oh, my goodness. On Sunday, I was on my way to visit a church and. I had stopped at a stoplight on 6th Avenue here in the Aurora area. And you know how when you stop at a stoplight, when somebody else pulls up beside you, you look over and see who it is. You know, you just glance. And I looked over and the little guy raised his hand to say hello. Well, my window was up and I raised my hand to say hello. And then the Lord said to me, he said, go ahead and speak to him. And so I rolled the window down. It was the man and his wife, I guess, in the front seat and then his son in the back seat. And I looked over and said, hey, dude, God bless you today. And he looked at me and he got this big smile on his face. Okay. And he said, God bless you too. You have a good day. I said, you have a good day too. By that time, the light changed and I went on, you know, but it felt good just to shine that light. Okay. Be that prism of light to somebody. I didn't know these folks and we'll probably never see them again on this side of heaven. Okay. Okay. but God put in my heart, just say, God bless you. God bless y'all today. And did, and he just smiled, you know, and if we're at that prism of light, if we can just show that light, you know, I have to go back to, um, several years ago in St. Louis, the young man that went in there and shot up the, um, the professional, the, um, musical art school. It was a high school for people in the arts industries. And, um, He shot them up. And when they he shot, I guess he shot himself or the cops. I don't know which one it was, but he ended up dead as well. And they found a note from him that said, I don't have any family. I don't have any friends. I've never had a girlfriend. I didn't just didn't want to live anymore. And what if somebody had shined a light on this young man?
SPEAKER 07 :
Mm hmm.
SPEAKER 04 :
He would not have committed those atrocities to though he killed a 15 year old student and a teacher. He would not have committed those atrocities if a light had been shined on him. Because, see, if we were the light of the world. And if we go and let that light so shine in the world, then people appointed to God, to Jesus, you know, and that's going to it's not going to solve everything because it's a lot of mess going on in our world today. But if we would allow ourselves to be that be prismatic and be that prism of light shining in the world, how much better would this world be able to operate? That's what I got, Angie. And thank you, Mimi, for that word today. That was awesome.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I love how you interpreted and you went on with it. That was fantastic. Thank you. Well, you know I'm a preacher.
SPEAKER 04 :
Preachers preach.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, we know it. And you're so open to listening to, you know, the Lord's, you know, speaking into you. Promptings. Yes, promptings, yes. So besides the stoplight roll down the window prompting, I understand something else has been prompted before.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, I am being prompted to move to Macon, Georgia. I will be working with a nonprofit and for-profit organization down there. I have been asked to be the general manager, and this happened. I met the chick that started the organization back in 2015 when she and a friend of mine were appointed as ambassadors to the UN. And I met her and we just we just liked each other and we stayed in contact. And she contacted me early last year sometime. I think it might have been the end of the year before that and asked me, would I come on board to write for the organization? And so I said, sure. And then just over the past, I don't know, maybe four or five months, they have looked at me and said, hey, would you like to be the general manager? You know, and I was like, OK, Lord, is this my next assignment? Sure enough, this is my next assignment. You know, I don't know what God is going to use me to do in Georgia. I haven't been in the southern atmosphere yet. To live for quite some time. And it's totally different than the Western atmosphere than here in the Rocky Mountains atmosphere and other places I've lived and stuff. And it's going to be quite interesting. But, you know, I trust God. And when God tells me to do something, he knows nine times out of ten, I'm going to fuss with him a little bit. I'm like, well, why do you want me to do that? I just don't understand. Are you sure, God? You know, but at the end of the day, I'm going to go ahead and do what he says to do because it's not about me. It's about him. And who knows? I may. And I know I am. I'll be going down there to be a very prismatic person and shine the light of God in that area. Yeah. You will.
SPEAKER 08 :
It's exciting. You know, I think about since, you know, your husband passed several years back, just that, you know, you moved down to Texas and then you moved to the Pacific Northwest and then you moved to Virginia and now you're headed down to Georgia. I guess the Northeast and the Midwest will be the last two, you know, edges of the United States you'll be going to. But and then when you go like. Do you have an end date? Do you just move and look for a place to live and then just keep talking to the Lord and see where it takes you?
SPEAKER 04 :
You know what? And this is strange the way God does this, Angie, I'll be honest with you. Because when I went to Virginia, God had brought me back here to Colorado from Washington State. And I came for November because my daughter was having surgery. And then I was supposed to go to Arizona to visit friends for Thanksgiving. Well, COVID started rising back up. And God said, no, I want you to stay here. He said, stay here and rest in me. And so I was here. And then around March, April, I said, well, God, you know, it's getting ready to get hot. I need to go and get my summer clothes from my RV because my RV was still out in Washington state. And he said, go out there. And he said, I want you to sell it. I sold the doggone thing in one day. When I got back, he started dealing with me. He said, you're going to the East Coast. I said, Lord, I don't like that. That's when I start fussing with God. Lord, I don't like the East Coast is human. I don't want to go to the East Coast. He said, you're going to the East Coast. And so he said, choose a place in Virginia. And I said, okay. I said, as long as I'm close to the beach. He said, okay. And so Hampton, Virginia, here I come. And I was out there for 13 months. And at the end of that assignment, he's and I heard him just as clear as me talking to y'all right now. He said, you're done. The assignment is over because I went out there with the express intention, which I didn't know at the time. He wanted me to talk to my dad about coming to live with me. And my dad refused. And he said, I've been in New York almost all my life. I'm not leaving New York. OK. And at that point right there, God said to me, he said, your assignment is over.
SPEAKER 05 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. Yeah. And I stayed out there for 13 months.
SPEAKER 08 :
And I remember you did get quite a bit of time with your dad while you were out there.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. Yeah. I went up every several weeks to New York. I took Amtrak going from Virginia to New York to go up and see him in the nursing home and stuff, checking on him. And yeah, that was it. And since I've been back out here, I haven't been able to do that. But I don't know what God is planning, because when I go to Georgia, I'll be closer to our old homestead in Aiken, South Carolina. My uncle is still there. I have an aunt in Columbia, South Carolina. My oldest sister is in North Augusta, South Carolina. I don't know if God will give my dad another chance and say, OK, I'm telling you, you need to live with one of your daughters. You know, and I don't know what God's plan is, but he knows that I'm willing to be made willing.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes. Wow. That's a lot of family in one spot. And up in New York, your dad's kind of on his own. There's not a lot of family up there.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, he has his his two sisters are there and their families. But and my my oldest aunt, she lives closest to him. She goes to see him, you know, every week and what have you. And his youngest sister, she lives in Brooklyn. And they're all my dad is 92. He just turned 92. And his the closest sister to him is 78. Let me see. I'm 64, 74, 68. She's 68, I believe, 78, getting ready to turn 79. And so, you know, they're all much older and but she's the closest one to him and she takes care of all his stuff, his financial stuff and what have you. So he's got he's got his sisters there. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right. So in the last, you know, you know, couple of months, I know you've each had your own with this, you know, this going on. And Michelle, I know you've had some struggles in the last few months. What, you know, gets you through, Michelle, on like a day when you're like, oh, today's not going that great.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, it's just, you know, I think a lot of times, you know, It's the Heavenly Father just saying, you've been on the go all your life. It's time for you to just kind of slow down a little bit. So that's kind of where I'm at. And it's hard because I like being on the go. But he's got something in mind, and I intend to listen in the best of my ability, period.
SPEAKER 08 :
I wonder how, because you do so many of these kid, grandkid things, are there times when you're still able to do everything you want to do?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, sure. It's just slower. It's very much slower, for sure. And that's okay. You know, it just has to be okay. So I'm grateful that I can still be doing that. I went over to the Western Slope this weekend to see our one granddaughter and see where she's in college. And I just move slower, period. But they're great to let me do that. And God is good to have me move. You know, there's always something we can be grateful for. You know, sometimes look for it, but we can look for it.
SPEAKER 08 :
When my mom got her new knees, I thought she'd just be like walking around like me. But, you know, that when you're in your 80s, that wasn't necessarily the case. She's not really any faster. She just got rid of all the pain. So right there, the pain is gone. All right. Michelle A. Ron dot com, a drill sergeant of life dot com. Love you both. Such a blessing to have you on the good news. Thank you, ladies. Love you all.
SPEAKER 09 :
God bless you. Thank you. Bye-bye.
SPEAKER 1 :
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Hey there, friend. Angie Austin here with the good news. So pleased to have Mrs. Jackie Calloway on the show again. She is going to be one of our regulars. So excited about that. She is a regular listener and she was introduced to me by another friend on the program, Monique Davis. And last week we talked about her book. She divorced her husband, and then they got back together, and then they started a ministry counseling other couples. So, Jackie, give us just the synopsis of that. Just go back a teeny bit in time and tell us about how you ended your marriage and then were led back to restart your marriage. Welcome.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes. Thank you, Angie. Ronnie and I were married for 28 years, and because of infidelity, we divorced, and we were divorced for seven years. And after seven years of divorce, God miraculously reconciled us, first to himself and then to one another. And after that, we were married for a glorious marriage. 24 more years.
SPEAKER 08 :
28 glorious years. So all of that time, like, I can't believe that you were married that long, divorced that long, and remarried that long. So what's the total in all the years?
SPEAKER 1 :
52.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, my goodness. 52 years.
SPEAKER 08 :
Now, when the Lord really called on you to get back to your husband, you're very honest in the book that you... I was furious.
SPEAKER 06 :
I was absolutely furious. He didn't tell me to marry him. He said, I want you to listen to Ronnie Calloway. But see, the Lord set me up, first of all, because a month before that time, the Lord had asked me to meditate on on Proverbs 3, 5 through 8. Okay. And he told me, don't read anything else. Just meditate on that scripture. And that is, trust the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding. Well, when the Lord spoke to me and said, I want you to listen to Ronnie Calloway, I said, no! I won't listen to him. You know he's a liar. You know I can't trust him. He said, I'm not asking you to trust him right now. I'm asking you to trust me with all your heart and lean on to your own understanding. That scripture that I had ingested and memorized and And so that's all he asked me to do was just listen to him. So Ronnie had already told me that. He had prayed and asked the Lord to give him his family back.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, the three girls. You've got three girls. Three daughters. Yeah, to step back one second. I'm almost done reading Love That Would Not Let Me Go, Jackie Calloway's book. And you'd mentioned last week that when you got ready to start Love That Would Not Let Me Go, Your husband said, you can say everything I did, all the cheating, you know, the whatever, drugs or everything. He said, you're allowed to say all the horrible things I did.
SPEAKER 06 :
He told me, I know that you will tell the truth, so I have no restrictions. I said, okay, I'm going to tell the truth. And I told the truth.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. I mean, you laid it on like I'm reading and you're at the part where you're supposed to forgive him, you know, and here you end up helping all these other people with their marriages after the two of you got together. But when the Lord told you to forgive him, like I'm not ready to forgive him.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. I was just the Lord had to work on me. And it is. It's so good, though, the way the Lord will do things in your life if you're obedient. And people ask me all the time, how could you forgive him of all of that? Because, like I said, it wasn't just one woman. Ronnie was a serial adulterer.
SPEAKER 08 :
He said he always had a woman on his side. He said he thought that he deserved one.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's what he said. That's what he said.
SPEAKER 08 :
Wowza.
SPEAKER 06 :
But I tell you, so it was a lot to forgive.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 06 :
But at the same time, the way that I did forgive was I looked at myself. And God had forgiven me of a debt that I could never pay. Could never pay. And who was I not to forgive Him?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
And I had to go past the feelings and just do the right thing. Wow. And that's what I did. By the grace of God, only by the grace of God could I have forgiven him. But I'm so glad that I did.
SPEAKER 08 :
Wow. So he was like a whole new marriage, a whole new person the last 20 some odd years with him.
SPEAKER 06 :
A whole new person. Wow. There was not a hint of the old Ronnie in this. He told me, he said, I want to make up for all that has happened. And I want to prove to you that I am God's man and that I'll be the husband that you've always wanted. And he was more than that. Wow.
SPEAKER 08 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 06 :
This man loved me. He loved me. He was so affectionate. When we'd go out to dinner, he always wanted to sit beside me so that he could rub my thighs under the table. Every morning when I got up and he would do this loud whistle. and he would say come here with your fine self give me some sugar he was such if only god could have done this and made this change and before we married the lord told me he said i will restore to you the years that the locusts have eaten the canker worm the caterpillar That great army that I sent among you. And the restoration is not like, when we think of restoration, we think of restoring something to its original state.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
When God says restoration, it is above and beyond what we could have ever asked or thought of. He is plenty too much.
SPEAKER 08 :
That's powerful. Okay, so you and I, you know, in conversing, you know, in our free time, we're discussing losing him a few years ago. And as you know, one of my very good friends on the show, Beatrice Bruno, she also lost her husband a little bit before you lost yours. Yours has been gone just over two, and Beatrice's now four. And so I've really tried to just... be at her side during the grief process. And, uh, it's, you know, she was so in love with that man. I mean, in crazy about that guy, every hair on his head, she was crazy about. And you said that God helped deliver you from the grief. Would you mind talking a little bit about that? And, and, and, you know, when you lost him and, you know, obviously, you know, having those, that remarriage, the new marriage was so good. It must've been really a tough hit. Yeah.
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It was, because we talked about it, though, and he passed December 7, 2020, on D-Day. I'll always remember that part. But he had cancer, and it was really a blow for both of us. when he started to get sick. The day that I took him to the hospital was the day that they closed the hospitals and they told me you can stay until 12 o'clock tonight and then you can't come back because of COVID.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh my goodness.
SPEAKER 06 :
And so he was in the hospital for one week And that was a week of hell for him because he had never been sick. He'd never been in the hospital. That was the first time he'd ever been in the hospital. Oh, my goodness. He would call me at night and say, Jack, pray for me. Pray. They had to give him, they gave him seven blood transfusions in a week. It was just. And I couldn't get to him. So they told him he needed surgery. And he refused the surgery. And they told him if he didn't do the surgery, he was going to die. And he said, well, if I'm going to die, I'm going to die with my baby. And he said, push me into the parking lot. And she will pick me up. And so one day I am coming out of Sprouts and I get this call that Ronnie has checked himself out of the hospital and you need to go pick him up. I was like, what?
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh my goodness.
SPEAKER 06 :
I went to pick him up and he was in a wheelchair. He was so glad to see me and we hugged and i was taking him home but i didn't know to what and i got him home i had this friend who is a nurse and she told me i will help you and uh long story short i know ronnie used to say it's too late this is already a long story but he came home we got him situated he was bleeding and really, really sick. He had sepsis. And we prayed and the nurse came in and helped me and showed me what to do. And he was sick for, I tell you, God healed him. First of all, God healed him. And he was able to actually get up But it was our love that we had for one another. It was the grace of God that walked us through that time. And then later on, he got sick again. And during that time, though, he was only bedridden for two months. And we had to put him in hospice. But during that time, we had time to talk. And we talked about everything. We reminisced. We talked about when we first got married. We talked about the kids and all the things we had been through and how good God had been to us.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 06 :
And we made love. without having sex during that time.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, that connection that the two of you had. I cannot believe that we're out of time because this story I could listen to for an hour. But fortunately, you're back next week. And if people want to reach out and find Jackie and get the book we're talking about, Love That Would Not Let Me Go, Jackie Calloway, we'll talk to you next week. God bless you, friend. Okay.
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God bless you. Thank you for listening to The Good News with Angie Austin on AM670 KLTT.
Join Rick Hughes on The Flatline as he unpacks the elements that constitute a prosperous spiritual life. By dissecting significant biblical passages, Rick explains how God's long-suffering, as described through the term 'makrothumia', illustrates divine patience and love for humanity. Dive into the realms of spiritual wisdom and understanding, tools essential for Christians to properly respond to God's call. The episode further encourages believers to engage in reflective practice by emphasizing the importance of bearing fruit and spreading the gospel. Rick Hughes fulfills his seasoned role as a guide, steering listeners towards a fulfilling life as faithful citizens of heaven, firmly rooted in scripture and a commitment to God's will.
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Welcome to the Flatline with your host, Rick Hughes. For the next 30 minutes, you'll be inspired, motivated, educated, but never manipulated. Now, your host, Rick Hughes.
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Good morning and welcome to the Flatline. I'm your host, Rick Hughes, and for the next few minutes, please stay with me. It won't be long, just about 30 minutes of motivation, some inspiration, and a whole lot of education. And as we always say, no manipulation. Because we're not trying to sell you something. We're not trying to con you. We're not going to ask you to join up, fess it up, give it up, nothing like that. But we will ask you to listen. Listen as I try to verify and identify God's plan for your life. by taking a deep dive into the scriptures. If we can do this, then you have the freedom to orient and adjust to the plan. It's always up to you. So thank you for listening. I have a couple of things to say before we get started. First of all, we have a new book about to come out called The Spiritual Life of the Christian. The Christian Spiritual Life. It's a wonderful new book we've worked on for quite a while now. I think you'll enjoy it. You'll be able to order it as soon as you want to. We should have it printed by the end of the summer. and hope you'll take advantage of it and get it, The Christian Spiritual Life. It deals with, you know, if I ask you, how's your physical life going, you might say, well, I got a toothache, or I broke my toe, or my arm hurts. But if I say, how's your spiritual life going, a lot of people don't know how to respond to that. What do you mean, my spiritual life? I'm talking about the life you live as a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, the part nobody else can see, the spiritual life, not the physical life. So the new book deals with your spiritual life and what it consists of and how it functions and operates. And one other thing I want to say, I haven't said it in a long time, but there is another website that confuses people when you try to contact us. There's a gentleman in Georgia who has a website called richardhughesministries.org. That is not me. I am not richardhughesministries.org. I'm very close to that. I'm rickhughesministries.org. I don't know how this happened or where it came from, but that's been getting people confused lately. I had somebody try to say, make an online donation to your ministry. Is this you? We don't have online donations. We don't accept online donations. I'm not to say we don't accept contributions if you want to make them, but we don't request them. We don't ask for them, and we don't have an online donation site. So our website is simply rickhughesministries.org, not Richard Hughes Ministries. That's another individual. Okay? No said. Now you might remember last week that we were talking about knowing God's will for your life. We went into that quite a bit, talked about it quite a bit, so please allow me to expand on that subject this morning. And by the way, we have started now on our 21st year of broadcasting The Flatline on radio shows across America. Currently we're broadcasting on 126 radio stations across this great nation and even in Alaska and the Philippine Islands. Okay, now let's go. Does God have a specific plan for your life? Does he? Yes. I'm going to read you a passage of scripture that you should be familiar with. A lot of people know it. And then I'll try to explain it to you. This is Jeremiah 29, 11. Jeremiah 29 11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. This statement by God through the prophet Jeremiah was made to those who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem. The northern kingdom, called Israel, had already been conquered by the Assyrian Empire in 722 BC. And the 10 tribes that made up that northern kingdom had been lost into history and disappeared. But the other two tribes known as Judah, the southern tribes, were conquered in 580 BC by the Babylonian kingdom under the rule of who's known as Nebuchadnezzar. At that time, around 5,000 inhabitants of Judah, the southern kingdom, were carried into captivity. And it was Jeremiah and Ezekiel who exposed the sin Judah had committed that caused this to happen. And this is way too much history to teach here and for us to understand in our short time. So let's focus on that one passage, Jeremiah 29, 11. God's word to those in exile from Judah was to prepare for a long stay in Babylon. It wasn't going to be one year. It wasn't going to be two years. It was going to be 70-year exile designated to discipline them. And once they recovered from their sin and turned back to God, he would eventually return them to their promised land. This verse that I just read to you, Jeremiah 29, 11, however, is not about God guaranteeing personal prosperity. However, there is a fundamental truth found in this verse, and that truth is this. Listen carefully. God is not mad at you. He's not mad at you. In fact, God loves you, and he only desires the best for you. And the scriptures plainly declare God's will for your life starting with 2 Peter 3, verse nine. I'll read it to you. It says, the Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some people count slackness, but is longsuffering, that key word, longsuffering towards us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. So there is a plan for your life. He doesn't want you to perish in the lake of fire. He wants you to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and receive him as your savior. And to prove that, he is long-suffering. This Greek word, long-suffering, is pronounced makrothumia, the way it's pronounced in the Greek, makrothumia. And it's a word for divine patience. If you have never trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ and received him as your Savior, then every day you are alive is God demonstrating his patience for you, his love for you, by giving you time to change your mind about the person of Christ and to trust only him for your forgiveness and eternal salvation. Remember, excuse me, Time does not shout, it just runs out much sooner than you think. So never doubt God's love for you. He's patient with you, he's long-suffering towards you, he's waiting on you so you won't perish in the lake of fire. He demonstrated this love by sending his son to pay the penalty for our sin. In 2 Corinthians 5, 21, the Bible clearly says the one who knew no sin was in fact made sin for us so that we could be made the righteousness of God through him. That's the wonderful way that God demonstrated his divine patience towards you and his love for you and allowing his son, our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, to pay the penalty for our sin. Yep, God has a plan, a plan to give us a future. As it states in Jeremiah 29 11, I know the plans I have for you. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you and to give you hope and a future. His plan for you offers prosperity, safety, and security for your life i mean who else besides god would give you whatever you need to sustain your life free matthew 6 31 through 33 listen to this lord jesus christ said don't worry about what you're going to eat don't worry about what you're going to drink or what you're going to wear for all these things the gentiles seek after that's the lost people the unbelievers For your heavenly Father knows that you need these things, but you seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all those things will be added to you. There's another guarantee rooted in his love for you. He will make sure you have food, shelter, and clothing. The only thing God asks of you is that you become a member of his kingdom. I'm confident God intends for us to be productive citizens of heaven, aren't you? Even though we're still here on planet Earth, His desire is for us to be productive citizens of heaven. That's his will for your life. Philippians 3.20, for our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Once you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you have an identity identified as a citizen of heaven. and there is a plan for you. God intends for you to be productive citizen of heaven even though you're still here. So the question I'm asking this morning is what does God require from you? If you're going to be a productive citizen of heaven, what does he want you to do? in order to understand that let's look at paul's challenge to the colossians in colossians chapter 1 verses 9 through 10 we read these words it's for this reason that we also since the day we heard about it do not cease to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will and all wisdom and spiritual understanding and that you may walk worthy of the lord fully pleasing him being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of god now i'm sure this can apply to us as well so let's look at the specifics of this prayer that paul prayed for the people in colossi he said first of all he's praying that they would what be filled with the knowledge of his will That translates into knowing God's will for your life. Where does he want me to be, what does he want me to think, and what does he want me to say? And this is accomplished by acquiring two things, he said. I'll read it to you again, listen carefully. We pray for you and ask that you be filled with the knowledge of his will, here comes the two things now, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. By acquiring wisdom and spiritual understanding. If these conditions are fulfilled, then the believer, the Christian, he goes on to say that you will walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God. I could stop right here and teach many, many hours on each one of these intentions of Paul for the believers in Colossae, but let's start with what? Filled with the knowledge of his will. The key to understanding what Paul is suggesting is the word knowledge. Normally, this Greek word would be pronounced gnosis, G-N-O-S-I-S. However, it is not the word used here. In this instance, he uses another word called epinosis, E-P-I-G-N-O-S-I-S. These are two different words. Epinosis, epi means full, not partial. Information heard and understood. The word epinosis, information heard and understood and applied, you have to apply it. In other words, a Christian can go to church, listen to the sermon, listen to the flatline, listen to some preacher on the radio, but unless the information is believed and applied, then it's of no advantage to the listener. It's just gnosis. It's just knowledge. And I've run into a lot of people that can quote scripture. They know scripture. They can quote verses. They don't apply what they know. To understand God's will for your life and my life, we need something called wisdom. That's what this verse says. Should I read it again? Fill with the knowledge of his will by acquiring wisdom and spiritual understanding. Wisdom is contained in the scriptures. That's where it comes from. Why are the scriptures wisdom? Because they are the mind of Christ. Here, listen to 1 Corinthians 2.16. For who has known the mind of the Lord, so that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. There it is, right there. The scriptures are the mind of Christ. What's written in the Bible is the thinking of the Lord Jesus Christ. So Paul equates the wisdom of the scriptures to what he calls spiritual understanding. Spiritual understanding is a reference to being filled with the Holy Spirit. Spiritual is the Greek word pneumatikos, pneumatikos, and it's a descriptive adjective referring to the insight that comes through the ministry of God the Holy Spirit. This is an amazing thing that Jesus promised about this. Listen to what he said concerning the insights and the wisdom that will come from the Holy Spirit. In John 14, 26, but the helper, that is the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance, excuse me, he will bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. This is referring to spiritual understanding. He will teach you and bring to your remembrance everything I said to you. In Proverbs 2, 10 and 11, listen for the word wisdom here. When wisdom enters your heart, that's when you respond to what you heard and you book it and you live it. and knowledge becomes pleasant to your soul, that's the quest for understanding God's will, then discretion will preserve you, you'll be careful, and understanding will keep you. We call that the Fantastic Four. Wisdom, knowledge, discretion, and understanding. In this particular passage in Proverbs 2, it's clear that understanding which comes from the Holy Spirit will keep you from self-destruction. Without gnosis becoming epinosis, through the filling of the Holy Spirit, you and I would have no chance to be a productive citizen of heaven as long as we're on this earth. So this is what God's will is for your life. Now let's finish that verse in Colossians 1, verse 10. That you may walk, this is what he's praying for, that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. This is God's will for your life right here in print. That you would walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing him, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God. So let's start with the word walk, that you would walk. What does that mean? The Greek word for walk is pronounced peripateo, peripateo. It's a verb, and it refers to their lifestyle that they live, the lifestyle that they enjoy. In this case, in the Greek New Testament, this verb is in the imperative mood, which technically is a command from God through the Apostle Paul. The demand is to live a lifestyle worthy. The Greek word axios, A-X-I-O-S, worthy, means to live a life worthy of the calling that they received. What does that mean? It means showing qualities that merit recognition from God. We'll find out about that at the judgment seat of Christ, whether we're awarded for the way we lived or not. And that's not about being awarded for not sinning. Will you be rewarded for living the spiritual life? Did you produce divine good or did you produce human good? Remember, you can do a right thing in a wrong way, and I've given you the illustration hundreds of times, for example, prayer. You think God's impressed just because you pray? Remember the Bible says, if I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. So if you have unconfessed sin in your life and you try to pray, what you've done is you've quenched and grieved the Holy Spirit. He cannot fulfill his ministry for you according to Romans, and so that prayer is unproductive. So you have to remember that. And that would mean that all those wonderful, sweet, eloquent prayers you prayed in the public, in front of the church, in front of the Sunday school class, they never got heard and they never got answered because you prayed it while you were out of fellowship. You were doing a right thing, but you did it in the wrong way. By that I mean you did it in the energy of the flesh, not under the filling of the Holy Spirit. The flesh can do good things. The flesh can be very moral, very nice, very godly type, acting type person. Praise the Lord, brother. Hallelujah, God. Oh, I love Jesus. And the whole time, the sin nature can be controlling your life because of unconfessed sin in your life. So that word walk and Greek word worthy means to live a life worthy of the calling that God gave them. We're citizens of heaven. While we're here, we need to be worthy of the calling that he gave us. We need to show the qualities that merit recognition. Paul gave the exact same challenge to the church at Ephesus in Ephesians 4, verse 1. He said, therefore, I, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to do what? To walk worthy of the calling with which you were called. It's Paul's desire that all believers, you, me, and everyone who reads this New Testament, live a lifestyle worthy of recognition and honor from God. And as I said, that will be determined at the judgment seat of Christ. And that's found in 1 Corinthians 3, 11 through 15. If you haven't read it before, write that verse down. 1 Corinthians 3, 11 through 15, it talks about the judgment seat of Christ. These are not unbelievers, these are believers, and they're being evaluated based on production. Some of what they did is called wood, hay, and stubble, unproductive, burned up as rubble. The other is gold, silver, and precious stones, very productive and rewarded. Whenever you do something for God in the filling of the Holy Spirit, then that is gold, silver, and precious stone. If you do it in the energy of the flesh, it's wood, hay, and stubble. So let's say you decide to give some money to your church, and you give it out of fellowship. You have hatred in your heart for your neighbor. You've cheated on your income tax. You've lied to your spouse, but yet you gave some money to the church and you think that notched credit with God. It did not. It's called wood, hay, and stubble. Anything you did while you were out of fellowship, anything you did for God claiming that it was going to glorify God is not worthy of any reward or recognition. It's just going to be burned up at the judgment seat of Christ. Two characteristics of that particular lifestyle are found in Colossians 3.23. Listen carefully. Here's the worthy lifestyle. I'll give you two characteristics of it. One of them's in Colossians. Well, both of them are in Colossians, really. Here's the first one, Colossians 3.23. Whatever you do, do it heartily as to the Lord and not to men. So that's your motivation. Why do you do what you do? Do it to the Lord and not to men. You're not here to impress men, you're here to impress God and to walk worthy of his calling as a noble citizen of heaven. The only way you can do these things is according to Colossians 4 verse 5, walk in wisdom towards those who are outside, the ones that are unbelievers, redeeming the time. Walking in wisdom towards the unbelievers is a very interesting thing because as a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, you're being observed 24-7. And if you are a Christian and you're doing things that are unchristian-like, and an unbeliever sees you, then he tries to justify his life by saying, well, I'm as good as they are. I know what they do. They claim to be a Christian. They go to church. They're a big member down there, and I know what they do. I'm just as good as they are. And see, he justifies why he doesn't have to believe in Christ, because he looked at you and saw that you are not living worthy of what God called you to do. So this verse says, walk in wisdom towards those that are outside, unbelievers. Be very careful around them. And then he says, redeeming the time. And again, I told you that time doesn't shout. It just runs out sooner than you think. And so God expects you to be redeeming the time, not wasting the time. There's nothing wrong with having a hobby. I used to love to bass fish when I was able to do it. Loved to get in my boat and fish at night and night tournaments, things like that. And I wasn't wasting time, I enjoyed it. But wasting time is something, you get into something that's not necessary, something that's non-profitable for God. And you can waste a lot of time. You need to redeem the time, time is short. Redeeming the time, you could be using that time to study the scripture, you could use that time to pray, You could use that time to evangelize, whatever you want to do. But be very careful to redeem the time and don't waste it. Don't go bebopping uptown thinking, oh, I'm going to go to the grocery store and miss an opportunity that God puts right in front of you. Because there may be someone there that day looking for salvation and you could be the person that could give it to them. In our passage in Colossians 1.10, Paul then challenged them to be fruitful or to bear fruit, and that meant to be productive, to reproduce. The Bible clearly says a fruit tree that does not reproduce is not worthy of any recognition. In Matthew 3.10, and even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. as well as Matthew 7, 16. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles? No. So obviously, God wants you to bear fruit. Yeah, part of being found worthy is your willingness to spread the gospel And by doing so, to reproduce the Lord Jesus Christ in your life and hopefully to bring others to him, to lift him up. He promised, he said, if you'll lift me up, I'll draw people to myself. And that's our job. You can do that just by having a public prayer. And when you're out with your family, do you bow your head and say the blessing? Part of being found worthy is your willingness to spread the gospel. Finally, the challenge is then once again to increase in the knowledge of God. That was the last part of verse 10 of Colossians 1. So how can you serve God you don't understand? Not only does God want you to know him, but he wants you to understand him. Jeremiah 9, 24 tells you that. So you could start by learning the essence of God, which is the study of his being and his attributes. For example, he is sovereign, he's righteous, he's justice, he's love, he's eternal life, he's omniscience, he's omnipotent, he's omnipresent, he's immutable, he's veracity. Now I could teach, oh man, hours on each one of those characteristics of God. But this is something you need to understand because this is part of the faith rest drill. You can't claim what you don't know and don't understand. So I encourage you to start by learning the essence of God. If you need to know what it is, write to me through the website and we'll get it back to you, outline it for you so you'll understand the essence of God. So finally, we have the word knowledge. That's the last word there. Knowledge, again, it's the same word, epinosis. Full or complete knowledge. And that means that which is believed and that which is acted upon. So, that means do you believe and do you obey? Consider what you've heard this morning. I pray you'll put it to practice in your life. There's more to living the Christian life than just hearing somebody preach about it. It's applying what you've learned into your life. It's a wonderful opportunity that God's given me to be with you. I'm so grateful for the 20 plus years. I pray God will give me more time to give you what's in my heart and that you'll listen. You'll find that well-qualified pastor and you'll get under his authority and you'll start to grow and reproduce the Lord Jesus Christ in your own personal life. If you'd like to get that book on the Christian spiritual life, get in touch with us, let us know, and we'll be sure you get a copy of it. Okay? And there is another word, another book that we talked about last week, and I'll give you a little insight on that too. Get in touch with me if you'd like to know what it means to have divine guidance. I can refer you to where you can get that book. Okay, until next week, this is Rick Hughes saying thank you for listening to The Flatline.
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Join Mike Gallagher as he sits down with New York City's own Curtis Sliwa, the legendary founder of the Guardian Angels and a republican stalwart in the upcoming mayoral race. Curtis shares his unique insights into the pressing challenges facing the city, from crime and law enforcement to the very heart of New Yorkers' affordability struggles. Amidst a political landscape thick with opposition, Curtis reveals his strategy to unite various demographics around his vision for a safe and prosperous New York.
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He's the happy conservative warrior. Mike Gallagher. Broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide. And seen on your trusted conservative TV network. Salem News Channel. Here's Mike.
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There are a lot of pressing issues that face this great country of ours. Of course, we've got... The Epstein scandal, which a lot of people don't want to go away. We've got a huge scandal involving the auto pen. We've got the scandal of Democrats assaulting law enforcement and their very integrity. But we also have a mayor's race coming up in New York City, a city that I have... you know, always idolized. As a young guy growing up in Ohio, you dream, a broadcaster, you dream of getting a job to work and live in New York. And I've had a love affair with New York since I was a little kid. And one person that introduced me to New York in a way that very few people get the benefit of seeing the city is Our next guest, he you know, I want to welcome a kind of a legendary broadcaster, but also a legendary crime fighter. He, of course, is the founder and chief executive officer of the Guardian Angels, and he is the Republican candidate for mayor. in New York City, my friend, Curtis Sliwa. Curtis, you know, I know there's a lot of hype about Superman, but I always think of you as New York's Batman. I always think when there's trouble, you put up the big light and put up a red beret. Forget the bat signal. We need Curtis Sliwa to the rescue. Right now, you are the only Republican in this race, and to try to stop This Zoran Mamdani, Batman, you're our only hope. How are you feeling about the way things are going headed into November?
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I'm feeling the same way I felt when I took you on that underbelly tour, Mike, when you were good enough to come down at afternoon drive time at WABC. And it was the very night we're in Harlem. We're making the tour and we hear that TWA Flight 800 has gone down in the Mauritius in Long Island. And, boy, you jumped into action. You proved that you were the great broadcaster that you were then and you have continued to be. You were all over that story. You wanted to learn every nuance of it. And I said, boy, this is a true broadcaster. You have it running through your veins and arteries. And likewise, I am the only Republican candidate. And most importantly, what a lot of people don't realize is, sure, Zoran Dami is a threat. But the other two Democrats, Cuomo and Eric Adams, have paved the way for Zoran Mandami. They want migrants to vote, all three of them. I don't. Therefore, the asylum city status that we have, I'm opposed to that. There are a number of other issues that they're in favor of that you would be surprised because you would say, wait a second. I thought that Cuomo and Eric Adams were the opposite of Zoran Mandami. In many ways, they are not. So if the only way we're going to get this city back on track is not to follow the path of destruction, which Cuomo helped us on as governor and Eric Adams has continued as mayor, but go back to the golden years when we had the best mayor in my lifetime, Rudy Giuliani, for eight years. We had Michael Bloomberg with... Raymond Kelly, the longest-serving police commissioner for 12 years. And overseeing all that, we had Governor George Pataki, who served three terms in Albany and beat the iconic Mario Cuomo. And let me say, I knew Mario, and I know Andrew, and Andrew Cuomo is no Mario Cuomo, that's for sure.
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Curtis Lewa, you are a guy that, frankly, in a perfect world, if anybody wanted Giuliani, the Giuliani era, you'd have that on steroids with Curtis Lewa. You, of course, would be the perfect mayor for New York City. No one knows New York like you do. You're pro-police. Your opponent, they're anti-police. You are pro-border security. You're everything that needs to happen. However, let's face some realities. It's a Democrat city. It's a blue, blue, blue city. As you know. One of your opponents, the aforementioned Andrew Cuomo, said the other day, let's take a look at the polling in September, and whoever is in the lead of the three of us, meaning Eric Adams, Cuomo, or Curtis Sliwa, let's coalesce behind the leading candidate in that polling to try to stop Mamdani. What do you make of his proposal? Is there merit to that, Curtis?
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No, because we're in an era now where you pay for your own polls. In fact, embarrassingly, Eric Adams put out a poll. I don't know why he did, but he did. And it showed that he was dead last. I was ahead of him, followed by Cuomo and then Zoran Mandami. So I don't think this is going to be determined by polls or Mike Gallagher, whose billionaires have surfaced. We now see George Soros firmly behind Zoran Mandami. Cuomo has his billionaires, Michael Bloomberg. and then obviously Eric Adams has his billionaires assembled by Ackman. I'm not. I'm not supported by any billionaires. The voters are blue-collar working class, and many of them are millennials and Gen Zers, and that's part of my group. You've been with me and the Guardian Angels. I'm all over the world with Guardian Angels now. If I had to depend on people our age, Mike, They'll be taking Bengay baths at night after a long patrol, and you might not see them for a few days. You have to depend on younger people. I trust them to make good decisions, but you have to give them a pathway to success. And unfortunately, I hear too much from our side, baby boomers, where we demean them. They're lazy, they're naive, they bury their heads in their iPhones, smartphones. No, they were the frontline troopers for Zoran Mandami and the Democratic Socialists of America. I have a lot of them. They can be engaged. We can win them over. That's what President Trump and the RNC did magnificently in this recent presidential election. Not so successful with the millennial women, but very successful with the millennial men, young men and the Gen Zers. So take the same path. That's where the battle is going to be won, not in the suites, but out in the streets. And I've got the firepower to take Zorhan Mandami and his followers on.
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And make no mistake, I've walked down the streets of Manhattan with you. You are beloved. You're iconic. You're a guy that New Yorkers trust to get all of this right. The question becomes, do you have a path? Obviously, you're confident that you do. I'm worried and I'm very, very alarmed by the narrative, Curtis, that has emerged that Mamdani's supporters don't really even agree with his lunatic, radical ideology, but they like his energy. They like that he wants to tackle the inaffordability of New York. New Yorkers can't afford to pay rent. They can't afford to pay the grocery bill. And they don't even care that he is a... bona fide socialist and likely Marxist, they want a change of any kind. I mean, I don't think people are even recognizing that we're on the precipice of a potential disaster if this guy gets elected mayor.
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Well, we'll go the route of Chicago with their socialist mayor, Johnson, who's at an all-time low in terms of favorability. I mean, he came on with the African-American support that put him into office, and now they're having voters regret. Let's talk to that first idea. What is my pathway? There are four candidates that everybody knows. Nobody knew Zorhan Mandami back in February other than his neighbors and his constituents. Now the whole world knows why, because we had a failed mayor, Eric Adams. If he would have been a traditional mayor, even like de Blasio, a failed mayor, he would have been the Democratic incumbent, and it would have been courtesy with a Republican challenging him round two. It would have been your traditional mayoral election. But because he could not get Democrats and he had a chance to run in a Republican primary against me, but chose not. He's on an independent line. Cuomo should have taken out Zoran and he mailed it in and he's on an independent line. So when you look at the math, I start with 28 percent. Four candidates. I also have the first ever protect animals independent line, no kill shelters. And we're going to put those who violate animals in jail because, you know, we live in a city. Mike, no matter what your politics, we lock up toothpaste, but we don't lock up criminals. That's what New York City is all for. Lock up your toothpaste, but not criminals. We're going to go after those animal violators. That transcends politics. It's the only time I've ever seen Trumpers and Biden-Harris people have a civil conversation is about their love of animals. So you start combining that. And because I am the people's choice, because I am in the streets, I am in the subways, which is the great equalizer. As you know, Mike, you haven't been in the subways often. Boy, once those doors close, it doesn't matter if you're a millionaire, poor and impoverished, homeless, emotionally disturbed, blue-collar working class. You're all the same. And it's a focus group for me to see exactly what's on the minds of the voters. And yes, affordability is number one. Cost of living, number two. People are living paycheck to paycheck, even a lot of Republicans. And then, of course, my sweet spot, crime and quality of life. And that's why I have the ability to defeat Zoran Mandami, not only because of Republican support, but independents, moderate Democrats and animal lovers.
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I have tremendous faith in you, and look, it's a long shot. There's no question about it. I want everybody to go to sliwa4nyc.com because Curtis has articulated every one of these issues in his policy positions and what he would do as mayor of New York City, and it would be a glorious day. if Curtis Lewa becomes the next mayor of Gotham. I'm praying for you, Curtis. I appreciate it. I know how crazy things are for you on the schedule. We've been trying to get you for a week or two. And please come back and visit with us again because I want to do everything we can to get you over the finish line. Keep fighting the good fight, my friend, and I appreciate you joining us here on the Mike Gallagher Show.
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Well, as you know, talk radio is my passion, but you epitomize what talk radio is in this nation. And Mike, that was a pleasure for me to give you your first underbelly tour here in the city of New York. And I hope to do it now as mayor.
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That would be amazing. I'm going to tell that story after the break. I want to tell everybody about the Curtis Lewa underbelly tour because that's a night that I will never forget. And you're right for the reasons you mentioned, not only introducing me to another side of New York, but that horrible, horrible catastrophe of TWA Flight 800. So, again, you've got a very special place in my heart. Curtis, I'm pulling for you. We're praying for you. And let's have you back again before you get elected mayor of New York. Thanks, Curtis. Off to the subways. You got it. Safe travels, my friend. Curtis Sliwa joining us. Sliwa4NYC.com. Go to Sliwa4NYC.com. And what an amazing story. This guy has got a life story. This guy is a novel. Curtis Lewa is a story unto of itself. This guy was nearly killed by the mob. When I started at WABC, he was still suffering from the effects of his near-fatal assassination attempt. What a story. What a guy. And again, I don't know. I mean... In a normal world, he gets elected. The Republican, surely New Yorkers remember the Giuliani era. You want that? You'll want Curtis Lewa. So more on that in just a moment. And I got to tell you about the underbelly tour because it was a night that I'll never forget. And I think you'll get a kick out of it because it was Curtis sort of taking me under his wing and a night that I won't ever forget. Ph.D. weight loss has changed my life, and I've got a little secret for you. You know Big Pharma and semaglutide and the shots in the belly. You've seen the story recently about the study that shows that a lot of people that are getting this are going blind. You don't want to do this. You want a program to lose weight that's centered around science and nutrition, a proven roadmap that has helped over 8,000 clients lose weight and keep it off, like me. I lost 53 pounds a few years ago, and I've kept it off. I know what to eat and when. I know how to quiet any of the cravings I might get and finally release that unhealthy belly fat that I carried along for so long. Make the phone call that can change your life in the way it changed mine. It's called PhD Weight Loss. PhD Weight Loss, Dr. Ashley Lucas' program is brilliant. And how do I know? Well, 53 pounds later, here I am. 864-644-1900 is their number. Call and schedule your consultation. You can do this program from anywhere in America. Call 864-644-1900, 864-644-1900, or visit MyPhDWeightLoss.com.
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I know people are lining up and you're ready to call to weigh in on the Epstein scandal. Scott Adams posted a video that is so smart He says, look, Trump telling us to move on, that there's nothing here, wink, wink. If you're missing the wink, wink, you're missing it all. Scott says, this is a commander-in-chief decision, and Scott is saying, trust Trump. He goes, I'm moving on from Epstein because Trump is telling us to move on from Epstein. And he goes through, it's a 30-minute process. very persuasive narrative that suggests that even though this conclusion that we're facing right now isn't satisfying, we should accept it and move on. And incidentally, we will. P.S., we will. The Epstein thing has maybe a couple more days of shelf life. Do you realize what's going on around us? Do you know what's happening with the auto pen and the Biden administration and how there's a pretty good possibility that Fauci and members of the January 6th select committee like Kinzinger didn't get properly pardoned and they might become voided out? They might be null and void? Are you aware that the mayor of Los Angeles wants to give cash cards to illegal immigrants? You think there are things that are crucial that are going to set the course for the next 100 years of this country, if not forever? Look, Trump is right. And one of the things that you better be aware of are people, are Democrats jumping on the bandwagon. AOC all of a sudden, oh, there's a crisis in MAGA world. Look, us fighting with each other about the Epstein files is music to the Democrats' ears. Like AOC. And check out what Chris Cuomo, of all people, said on Newsmax about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suddenly getting all upset about the Epstein files.
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AOC has had nothing to say about the attacks on the ICE agents. Can you believe that? But the Epstein fiasco gets her attention. You see what she posted today? Wow, who would have thought that electing a rapist would have complicated the release of the Epstein files? Hope it goes viral, because that's all you're about. What have you ever done to fight for the release of the Epstein files? Huh? You sent out a few tweets over the years that you try to what? Ride the wave? Where are your resolutions? Where are your speeches on the floor? Where are your demands? Nothing. Just like the rest of your propaganda and your false promises. It's great for you for developing a following, but it's not much in terms of being a leader when you get nothing done and you just play the game of advantage. You are no better than the people you think you oppose on the right.
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I'm liking this guy more and more. Chris Cuomo makes a lot of sense. And he's right. The people that are making the loudest noise about Epstein are people who want influence, are people who want to be noticed, are people who want to get clicks and follows. And I'm not saying that the Epstein scandal isn't real. You're going to have to, however... except the disappointment of not having this thing wrapped up in a tidy red bow. Do you really think that there is one person who's not going to go to the polls during the midterms because of Epstein? Do you honestly believe that people are going to stay home because of Epstein next year? If that would drive your decision... there's probably no hope for you. Again, I know you're frustrated. I know a lot of people are frustrated. And I don't want to shut down debate or dissent. I'm fine. I'm all about it. But trust Trump. Scott Adams is right. Trust the president. Because, again, when he says move on, there's a wink-wink with that. Trump knows way more than any of us do And if you honestly believe that people like Donald Trump or Dan Bongino or Kash Patel or even Pam Bondi are going to look the other way to protect Bill Clinton or Bill Gates, you've got to give me a break. Of course that's not what's going on here. Of course that's not what's going on here. Again, I'm not saying that this is not a significant controversy. And I hate the idea of people getting away with it just as much as you do. But either you believe in this guy or you don't. Either you trust the guy or you don't. And I would submit to you that most of the people who are burning their MAGA hats online and claiming that Trump is a sellout and claiming that all this stuff, I'll bet they weren't Trump supporters from day one. like millions of Americans have been. Portions of our show brought to you by MyPillow and Big Deal. Two sales in one. First, they're having a closeout sale on the percale bedsheets. Any size, any color, $25. You can get Queens, Kings, Split Kings, California Kings, any size, any color, $25. It's a crazy sale from MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher Special Square. The second sale, Mike Lindell has introduced a brand new energy drink called Rev7. It's a premium energy drink that's good for you. It tastes great, gives you energy all day. I sampled it yesterday for the first time. It is delicious. No sugar, no caffeine. Rev7 is so special because it's powered with a premium nootropic that helps fuel your mind. MyPillow is so confident you're going to love Rev7 that for a limited time you can try their introductory three-pack absolutely free. Now, these offers aren't going to last long. So go to MyPillow.com. Use the promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. Or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. Sing along with me.
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I walked into the studio today and I got a text from Angie in Chicago. And Angie said that back on December 4th, 2024, she wrote Scott Jennings at CNN. And this is what she said she wrote to Scott back on December 4th, of 2024. Scott, you are terrific. You deserve your own show with top pay. You're an all-American patriot who loves our country. You're smart, funny, and adorable. So much fun to watch you. You would have been a great pick for press secretary. Best of luck. Now she sends me today a note saying, I texted this message to Scott back in December. Looks like my wish for Scott Jennings came true. Today is the day that Scott makes his debut. on hundreds of stations around the country, hosting his very own Scott Jennings Show with the Salem Media Group. Scott joins us now so that we can, well, kind of officially tell him to break a leg, because today's the big day, Mr. Jennings. You ready?
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I'm ready, and thank you. You've been a mentor to me through this whole process, and so as I get ready to launch the show, you're on my mind today, and it's gratitude that I have for Mike Gallagher, because not only are you a legend and an inspiration to those of us who are in this business. You've personally been helpful to me as I've been putting this together. So thank you for what you've done. And I hope everybody sticks around for the Scott Cheney show today. We've got an amazing show. I've got the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson's going to come on. And also because of the breaking news with the Biden pardon auto pin scandal, the news in the New York Times, I've got the Oversight Committee Chairman Jamie Comer coming on to tell us what happens next now that they have this new information.
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Well, it's a lot of it. There's tons of stuff to digest, and you've picked a perfect time to start. And first of all, I'm grateful for your kind words, but we're all so excited about you joining the Salem family here. So you're going to knock it out of the park. You're like the lone voice of reason on CNN, it seems. And so we're pulling for you, and we know you're going to knock it out of the park. You and I got to go to the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit over the weekend, Isn't that a remarkable experience to see thousands of young people, thanks to a movement that Charlie Kirk, frankly, created years ago? And you know the whole history. I mean, he came up with Turning Point, you know, out of his parents' garage in Chicagoland many years ago. And now look at what all that has become.
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Yeah, it was remarkable. I was energized being in that arena this weekend, meeting all these people. kids from around the country who were so optimistic about the future of the country, they were energized. I think that's one thing that separates the conservative movement from the left right now. Optimism. We have optimism for America because we believe in America. We believe in the promise of America. And I think the left is a little sour. They don't really believe in our country right now. And I think the American people sense this. But in that younger generation, the optimism and energy in that room, I think America is going to be all right because those kids believe in the promise of this country. And so it was really fun to be there with them and say a few words to the crowd. And I'm sincerely appreciative to Charlie for the invitation.
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I know that you and I both know that the Epstein controversy has got a lot of people frustrated, a lot of people upset. I got a text today from a guy in Los Angeles who said, Mike, there isn't a single Trump supporter in America who's going to turn against President Trump over this Epstein mess. It's a headache. It's kind of a mess. But there's a big pushback right now from a lot of people saying, look, we've got to trust Trump on this thing. Move on. What's the Scott Jennings take on the whole Epstein controversy and how it affects President Trump and this administration?
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Well, I tend to agree. I don't think people are going to turn away from President Trump over this. A headache, I think, is a good way to put it. But I think we need to look at the bigger picture here. When I was reviewing my social media this morning, some of the nastiest, most partisan Democrats in Washington, all they can tweet about is Epstein. Because they believe that the way back for them is to try to sow division. in the ranks of the Trump administration and among his supporters. Their only chance is that if we divide against ourselves. So even when you have things that are frustrating, you have to keep that in mind, that the left is so lost, the only way back is if we let them back, is if we divide. Trump's had a successful administration because of unity. Politics is a team sport. His team has been unified. They're listening to the head coach. And we've had the most amazing six months that we could have possibly had. So I voted for Trump because I trust his judgment, and I like the people he put at DOJ because I trust their judgment. So I think at some juncture, if you voted for that, you've got to let them do their job. There may be things they can or cannot say that we don't know. They have access to information that we don't know about. So for right now, I'm also frustrated because I'm like everybody else in America. I'd love to have as much transparency and as many answers as possible. But I also don't want this to distract from the progress and from the work ahead that Trump's going to do over the next three and a half years.
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And Scott, there are a couple of massive scandals that I think is as frustrated as we are about the Epstein mess. If you really consider what role James Brennan. And Comey likely played with the Russian collusion hoax over the weekend. The New York Times did a huge expose about the auto pen. You've got Biden evidently having was clueless about who he was pardoning. I mean, we've got some big, big time scandals that the Trump administration has to face. And so I know two things can be true at once and we can walk and chew gum at the same time. But let's let's not take our eye off the ball. and realize that the Democrats have done a lot of damage to this country.
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Well, how many times did we hear the phrase constitutional crisis thrown around in the campaign and since President Trump has taken office? We hear it every day. That's right. Comes to find out the real constitutional crisis was what we had going on in the Biden White House. If you read this New York Times story, the use of the auto pen for all these thousands of pardons, the president did not personally review each one. He looked at broad categories. You had staff communicating to other staff, yes, put this man's signature on a document. I'm not sure that's constitutional, Mike. I'm not sure this is legal, what happened. And so I think the constitutional crisis was You had a president that wasn't fully in control of his own faculties and apparently not fully in control of his own White House. This is where we have to have our focus, accountability on the previous administration. Think about all they did to President Trump, the hearings, the impeachments, all of it, trying to drag him down. And now they want a memory hole the last four years? Absolutely not, is my opinion. So that's why I'm having on Congressman Comer today, because I think a lot of Trump supporters, while we're all talking about Epstein, are also wondering – How do you hold Biden accountable? He's out of office. What do you do next? And that's what I'm going to ask Congressman Comer today. Where do we go from here for real accountability?
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It's a pretty perfect time to launch a new talk show. And this guy is the perfect host for it. The Scott Jennings show launching today, 2 p.m. Eastern on many stations around the country. Of course, you can. follow scott on x uh at scott jennings ky because this guy is a kentuckian through and through scott congratulations we're so proud of you and happy for you like i said break a leg and keep fighting the good fight i know you're going to do great and welcome to the family my friend thank you your encouragement means the world to me your inspiration and example means
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A lot to me professionally and personally. I'm going to do my best today to bring common sense to the American people. That's the tagline for the show. That's what we do at CNN, or at least I do. And that's what we're going to do on the radio. So we'll have great hot takes. We'll break some news. We'll do it every single day from 2 to 3 Eastern on the Salem Radio Network. Thank you for everything, Mike.
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I call you the common sense crusader. I'm telling you, you ought to coin that phrase. You ought to trademark it before somebody snatches it up. Common sense crusader. The one and only Scott Jennings. Break a leg, my friend. Thanks, Scott. Scott Jennings joining us and again launching today and fighting the good fight every night on CNN. So we're real happy. And I'm so... I'm in the spirit of gratitude. Scott's in a grateful mood. I'm in a grateful mood because Friday we kind of scrambled Thursday, Friday with this horrible flooding in Texas. We said, look, you could step up and do something. Fifty dollars will rush an emergency relief kit to a family. You understand right now in entire communities. are being impacted by flooded out homes, closed businesses, people who are displaced desperately. President Trump went there over the weekend with the first lady, Melania. And here's what President Trump had to say after visiting Kerr County, Texas. They lost their child or two children.
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It's just Trump sucks. That's the underlying thought of everything the Democrats do. Trump sucks. Trump says, you know, the sky is blue. Trump sucks. You can't. That's not the way to win. It's just not because it's not about Trump. It's about the people of the United States of America and what's good for them.
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You know, it's so fascinating to me to see people who say that they support Trump who are deciding not to support him over Epstein. And that, to me, is peculiar. For example, here's a text I just got from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Trust Obama? Trust Hillary? I think not. Justice has not been served. No one's asking you to trust Obama. You're being asked to trust Trump. That's why so many people, incidentally, are ordering the trust Trump swag we have posted at MikeOnline.com. We've got shirts and baseball caps and coffee mugs. I want to see if we can get some computer mouse pads added to the store that say trust Trump. No one's asking you to trust those guys, but to me it comes down to do you trust him or not? Do you trust Trump or don't you? And, you know, and Scott Adams makes a very compelling case. This is a commander-in-chief decision, and our commander-in-chief is saying, for now, we've got to move on. And we will. You know, there are people that are very, very upset about the Epstein story, understandably so, who don't want to let it go. And I hate to tell you, you're going to be disappointed, especially in the news cycles that we live through. Everything moves over. Everything blows over. Nothing lingers. The media might try to keep the Epstein thing alive because the media likes the dissent among our ranks. Well, I don't know that it's going to work. We'll find out here. 800-655-MIKE. We're going to go off and running to your phone calls here in just a moment. First of all, let me remind you about Americans for a Balanced Budget. I'm so thrilled to welcome them back to the show. Congress secured a huge win for President Trump and the American people by passing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. But now that victory is at risk. There's a massive health care tax hike that could happen if Congress doesn't act. Americans for a balanced budget is sounding the alarm. Key health care tax credits are set to expire at the end of this year. If that happens... 24 million Americans could face skyrocketing health care costs. Millions could lose their coverage. Rural communities could be hit especially hard with job losses, fewer providers, reduced access to care. Congress must act now to protect these vital tax credits for Americans who buy their own health insurance. President Trump's own pollster found that 77 percent of voters including over 70% of Trump supporters, are more likely to vote for candidates who preserve these credits. Americans for a Balanced Budget is calling on Congress to protect the full promise of the one big, beautiful bill by preventing a devastating health care tax hike. Your voice counts. Visit StopHealthCostHikes.com. Tell Congress, protect tax credits, stop rising costs, and act before it's too late. I always, always, always want your voice to be heard. Here's a great way to have it happen. Visit StopHealthCostHikes.com. Right now, just go to StopHealthCostHikes.com. Let your voice be heard, and let's make sure we stay covered. Go to visit StopHealthCostHikes.com. And thanks to Americans for a Balanced Budget. Charles is in San Antonio, Texas. We'll start there at 22 before the hour. Hi, Charles. How are you, sir? Good.
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Hey, Mike. Great, sir. Thank you so much. A little warm. I agree with you 100%. And I have to tell you, I thank God that President Trump was elected, and I do trust him. However, I thought in the beginning of this Epstein revelation thing, he was implicated as being either one, a friend, or maybe even been on his island before. That may be media garbage, but my concern is having the appearance of evil. If he has any association with Epstein, I'm afraid that the appearance of evil will be
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Well, I can straighten that out. There was an affiliate. He did know Epstein. Everybody knew Epstein. Everybody. Republicans knew him. Democrats knew him. He was a very prominent, influential guy. You're going down the list from Oprah to Bill Gates to Trump, I mean, to Clinton. You go down the list. Everybody knew this guy. So what do we do? So what do we do with that? I mean, what are we supposed to do with that, Charles?
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Well, to me, I guess if he comes out, well, if we know that he knew him and it wasn't one of his guesses, doing some crazy things. My main concern is... He wasn't.
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He didn't do anything wrong. I mean, knowing somebody who turns out to be a scum like Jeffrey Epstein, guilt by association doesn't apply here. So again, where do we go with this? Are people going to turn against Trump because of the Epstein controversy? Not if you're a Trump supporter.
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No, not at all. I mean, even if that was the worst-case scenario... I wouldn't stop trusting him because of what he's done for this country.
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Amen. And let's not lose sight of that. I mean, let's not forget where we've come. And all of a sudden now people are going to turn on the guy? I don't think so. There's too much at stake. Look, their only narrative is Trump sucks. That's to quote Mark Cuban. Now, Cuban is no fan of Donald Trump, but he posted something that a lot of people responded to. Here's what Mark Cuban, the controversial, bombastic Dallas Mavericks owner and, of course, billionaire entrepreneur,
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It's just Trump sucks. That's the underlying thought of everything the Democrats do. Trump sucks. Trump says, you know, the sky is blue. Trump sucks. You can't, that's not the way to win. It's just not because it's not about Trump. It's about the people of the United States of America and what's good for them. And how do you get them to a place where they're in a better position and it's less stressful for them.
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But that's all they've got. Trump sucks. He's the devil. Trump, orange man, bad. We joked about orange man, bad first term. They're doing it again. So what? Let them do it. Let them do it. Um, None of that's going to change. Joe's in Grapevine, Texas. Hello, Joe. Hello. Hi, Joe.
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Mike, I appreciate you having me. Thank you and what you do, my friend. I completely trust Trump. I said this on Larry Elder's show Friday, and I did not know, and I said this, you can't tell me that President Trump doesn't know about this. He knew about it, and he made a decision. There are so many other issues. I agree with all of you. This is important. But you tell me. If we don't have national security, if we don't know where these terrorists are in this country, if we don't have international security, we're dealing with China. We're dealing with Russia. We're dealing with all these countries. North Korea. Who is to say? Yes, exactly. And when I look at all this, where does Epstein's file come on this? I agree it's important, audience. But my goodness. It is low, low, low down on that list of issues because the Epstein files do not run this country, do not give us border security, do not give us.
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prosperity in this country. All right. Thank you, Joe. I love it. Making the rounds. Glad you joined Larry and glad you were able to join me as well. You know, I've used the phrase, there are bigger fish to fry. And I kind of cringe when I say that. I shouldn't use that expression because we're talking about a lot of victims here and a lot of bad guys. I don't mean to put it that way. I don't want to minimize the importance of this. But let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater here and look at the very countries at stake.
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Hey there, Angie Austin and Jim Stovall here with the good news. We're talking about Jim's winner's wisdom column. This week is windshield and rearview mirrors. Winner's wisdom, windshields and rearview mirrors. I got it, Jim. Welcome.
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Hey, I just thought I would do that to kind of trip you up and see what I could get a tongue twister in there. But no, this week, you know, I use my automobile analogy because I don't get to use it as a blind guy. I... a motorist will be happy to know that I don't drive a car except in the movies. I've done it in five movies now and, uh, No one's been seriously injured in any of that.
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No, wait. As a blind person, in your movies, you're a chauffeur, but you don't actually drive?
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Yeah, I'm a limo driver in the movies, but I don't drive other than that. That's hilarious. And no one's been permanently injured in any of those. It was interesting, though, in getting ready for those parts. You know, I asked people, I said, okay, you drive every day. Take me through the process, and what do you do? And they said, well, you get in the car, and you back out, and then you put it in drive and drive. And I said, no, I mean, you've got to get in, and you put the key in, and then you do the seat. I mean, give me the whole deal, you know. And it's so automatic for people. They don't even realize what all they do, which I think is amazing. But I think what we learn is that, you know – The windshield is big. It's out there in front of us, and we should be looking ahead. And the rearview mirror is a little tiny thing. It's good to check periodically, but if you drive looking at your rearview mirror, you're going to get in trouble. And the windshield allows you to look way in front. And if you look too far ahead, just as in life, you're going to miss the moment. You're going to miss where we are right now. And I think one of the things we... miss in Western culture is we miss the moment. We're not in the moment. We don't take advantage of that very special thing that's going on right here and now. And we can get all guilty about what happened in the past. And the past is only good for learning a lesson. If you learn a lesson from it, great. Otherwise, leave it in the past. The future is great for setting goals and where do you want to be and projecting. But what really matters is what are we doing right now today. And, you know, we should be enjoying every minute of that and spending it wisely and, you know, avoid the past and the future as much as you can and focus on today. Because in the final analysis, that's all that matters. And I've written well over 1,000 of these columns for 25 years. And no matter what the message is or the lesson we're learning today, The end is always the same. It ends with the phrase, today's the day. Because it doesn't matter what you learn or know or thought about or anything else. If you don't do something with it today, it's pretty useless.
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Now, when we talk about looking back, you said look back if we can learn a lesson from it. And I also like looking back just for the good feelings of the memories like that I created with my family. And they pop up. like almost daily trips we've taken, things we've done together. And it's like pictures where you used to flip through a picture book, but now they just pop up on my phone. And so every day I can kind of reminisce a little. And those kind of make me happy, because usually when you take pictures on a trip or whatever, they're happy moments. So those kind of make me happy and grateful for all the experiences they've had. Now, I find people dwell on the past for too long. big reasons um one is kind of to brag you know like well back when i was in high school and i was the quarterback i never would have done something like that you know where we won state you know two years in a row or whatever and you know he's in a lazy boy and he weighs 320 pounds and He hasn't hit the gym since he left high school, since he left the football team. So there's that, you know, looking back. And I had a friend that did that about he didn't have work anymore, but he used to work for Disney and was very successful. So he talked a lot about that, I think, because he was so insecure about really not living in an RV now and not really being able to find steady work. And then the other reason is. I find people look back and I know I talk about my mom a fair amount, but I brought up something to her the other day that Mark and I had helped her with. It was kind of a big chore for Mark and like a big favor to her. And she didn't remember it. And I said, that's so odd that you can't remember that. Like it was a big deal. Mark and I remember it very well because it took a whole weekend to do this task for her. And she didn't remember it at all. But she can remember things from when she was six that are horrible. All kinds of horrible things from her childhood, from her marriage, from living with her sister, to the way her mom treated her. All of these are vivid memories like they happened yesterday. But not... Not the good stuff, per se. It's just weird to me to look back and then just be able to dwell on the bad things. And I've really tried to analyze it over the years because it's such a habit of hers. And I've asked her why she does it. Because she's not like a bad person or a mean person. She'll do anything for you. And she giggles a lot, you know, but then you get in a conversation and boy, it wraps right around to some horrible story. You know, about my dad or whatever. And it's just like, oh, I don't I don't like complaining and I don't like negativity. And I'll just say, OK, I'll listen to your complaints for like a minute or two. But, you know, that's it. Then let's move on. And she doesn't know why she does it. But I think it's become her identity that she's become like a professional victim. And I'm not trying to be mean because I do love my mom. And to be honest with you, she's been back with us for six months and she's been so much better. And I've even said like, wow, you're so much better than you used to be. You don't complain as much. I mean, you hardly complain at all. It's so great. You know what I mean? That's how blunt we are with each other. But yeah, I think it just kind of became her identity, like who she was. And same thing with the football player looking back on and bragging about the past, that they're trying to look back for some identity that they don't feel now or that they're not satisfied with themselves like right now. I don't know. I'm not a psychologist, but it's perplexing to me.
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Yeah, I think, you know, Angie, my late great father for many, many years ran a retirement community. And I ask him, what kind of people live longest? And he said, well, the people with the best attitudes live the longest. But, you know, one of the things he said that I thought was amazing, the people that are healthiest, the people that do the best, still assume there are good things ahead of them. They still are looking forward to something. Even if they're 97 years old, they're looking forward to something. And do you have something in the future? And the other people, the people that are unhappy mentally, they're not healthy. You know, everything was in their past. Everything good is already over and nothing, you know, and I think that's why we have to keep the best things ahead of us. We have to assume there's something in the future, you know, cause you and I've talked about it, Angie, to be happy, you got to have something to do, someone to love and something to look forward to. And if you've got those things, you can, you can be happy, but, uh, you know, you've got to have something you look forward to. And, uh, but you can't just have, you know, someday I'll do this and someday I'll do that and everything will be great when I get in that super relationship or I get that great job or whatever. No, you still got to enjoy today. Today's all we have. And so I think it's important, you know, and as you pointed out, you know, if you're going to dredge stuff up from the past, it needs to either be a lesson attached to it or what I call my scrapbook where, you know, when I've had success in the past, I revisit it sometimes because, you know, sometimes I think, okay, a guy that can do that can do other things. My coach left me with that. The last time we competed as Olympic weightlifter, he said, wow, he said, I don't know what you're going to do the rest of your life, but remember, a guy that can do that can do anything. And I stole his line and put it in the ultimate gift when this young boy builds a fence, has to do manual labor, and then Brian Denny, the old ranchers dropping him off at the airport. And he said, don't ever forget, a guy that can build a good fence can do anything. And it's just nice to know and, you know, to remind your kids and your family around you, yeah, I know you're feeling a little insecure now or you're having doubts now, but remember when you did that thing. And, wow, you can go back and revisit that and say, yeah, you know, I can do stuff. I am good. I can do these things.
SPEAKER 04 :
I was going to ask you about that. Will you repeat again about the things that you need to be happy?
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You have to have something to do, you have to have someone to love, and you have to have something to look forward to. People that have nothing to do is a tragedy, unless you're on vacation. But vacations and weekends, those are to recreate, to rebuild, to get ready for the next week. But you've got to have something to do. You've got to have someone to love in your life. And you've got to have something to look forward to. If you've got those three things, you can be happy.
SPEAKER 04 :
I like that. I like that a lot. All right, so let's talk a little bit about your dad. You mentioned him, and we were talking a little bit about kids and sports and quitting, and we're pretty tough on our kids, I think, in this day and age, per se. I don't know that we'd be tough on our kids for a 50s and 60s era, but comparatively speaking to the rules other kids have. But we were talking about quitting, and what did your dad say about anything that you wanted to try?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, we had a rule. I mean, if you want to try a sport or a musical instrument or join a club or scouts or whatever, you can join, but you have to stay the whole year. You have to be there throughout the process. You don't get to quit early. You don't get to leave. And it was just part of the thing because, you know, things we do become habits. And, boy, the last habit you want to form is when things get tougher, I'm not happy about it, I quit. And I think that's one of the ways I think they're ruining sports right now, college sports, is that kids can just get mad one day, jump in the portal, and switch schools. And, you know, I don't mind them having a choice, but they ought to have to wait until the end of the season and then go somewhere else. Because, you know, just when you get in that habit of quitting... When things get tough or uncomfortable, wow, it just gets so much easier the next time, the next time, the next time. People that have been through multiple divorces are much more likely to have multiple divorces in the future because it's just a habit. It's just, oh, when it gets to this point, you just get out.
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Mm-hmm. Yeah, I can't even tell you. I think, let's see, one, two, three, four. Four girls quit the team. And I always wonder at the beginning of the season why a volleyball team has 12 players. Because, really, they only need 10. And, you know, it's a lot of sitting on the sideline. And so parents are irritated at the beginning of the season. But I think we ended up with seven, was it six, eight girls. By the time we were leaving, one was injured. My daughter was a replacement. They moved her up from a younger age group and moved her up to the ones team on the 17 age group. Yeah, I couldn't believe how many kids quit early in the season. I can see later in the season. I think it's a, I mean, you know, like if you just like went, you know, I took on too much, but even then, you know, like we, our kids have never quit a sport during the midst of a sport. My son was a really good swimmer and he might've quit swimming eventually, but yeah. he never quit like a team or missed like a big game. That's another thing, missing practices or missing games. I remember one mom, she would let her son get out of practice and get out of the pool if it was too cold.
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Yeah, you know, Angie, I think if you're a teacher, you're a coach, you're a manager, if you lead people, there are going to be days where your people don't like you and want to quit. I think part of the... the generation where everybody gets a participation ribbon, is a lot of leaders who are afraid to deal with it. They're afraid that, well, somebody may not like me or whatever. You know, the reality is that people are going to go through those feelings. It's natural, it's normal, and you've just got to persevere and push on. And, you know, that's not a bad feeling. It's a feeling that you have to deal with. And discomfort, you know, anguish, you know, those kind of things are things we all have to deal with. And life's not about do you get in that place. Life's about what do you do when you get there.
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Thank you, Andrea.
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Sedalia is listening to KLTT, the mighty 670. Hello there, friend. Angie Austin and Grace Fox here on The Good News with Angie Austin talking about her book, Fresh Hope for Today, Devotions for Joy on the Journey. I like how that rolls off your tongue. So welcome to you, Grace Fox.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thanks for having me again, Angie.
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All right, I picked this week's because it just stood out to me. And there really isn't a bad page in this book, but it is use your gifts. Because I think so many of us wait for our calling and want God to, you know, text us or knock on the door, come down the chimney with our calling as we sit in our lazy boy of life and just like, well, I've been waiting for God to give me my calling. But I think we all kind of know we have gifts, and there are easy tests, aptitude tests you can take, or to find out what your gifts are, like as a Christian, you can take these things, you can find them online. I think many of us kind of know that we have certain gifts, right? Did you know what your gifts were when you were raising your kids or when you were growing up?
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I remember taking a test like you're talking about. When I was a mom already, I had three small kids. And I took a test like that in an adult Sunday school class that we had at our church, and that was quite enlightening because I wasn't sure what those gifts really were. So it was good. It was good to find out from Scripture what the spiritual gifts are and what they look like, you know, the pros and the negatives that come with these gifts.
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And what were some of your gifts, and did it surprise you, any of them?
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It didn't really surprise me. One of them is the gift of exhortation, and that means the gift of encouraging other people. You want them to flourish. You want them to do well. And so that's worked its way out in my writing and in my teaching. So I see that very clearly that God has given me that gift. Another one is a gift of prophecy, and I always thought that was, oh, you don't tell in the future like the prophets in the Old Testament did, and that kind of sounded a little wonky to me, but I... But I discovered that that's not what that means in the spiritual sense, the biblical sense. What it means if you have the gift of prophecy is that you declare the truth. You're not afraid to back down, right? So it's either, here's the thing. If you have the gift of prophecy, you see things in black and white. There's no gray. And so that can be positive, but that can be negative because, you know, life's not always like that. Not that you want to compromise. But what I'm saying is you can be so stubborn in your thinking that there's no give. That would be a negative side of having that gift of prophecy. And so I have to temper that with compassion as well.
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I think about one of our managers at the station, Rachel, and she definitely has to give to prophecy. I always admired her when we were in the TV news business. And she just very plainly, not blunt, not harsh, she'll just state the truth about something that a lot of people don't have the courage to say. And she just says it like, well, it's the truth. Like, what's the big deal, you know? And so... I love that about her. And I think I might have exhortation as well. I've always really liked encouraging people and hearing their stories. And I saw administration and I knew that wasn't mine. And I love hospitality, my friends that have that. One of my best friends is my neighbor, and any get-together we have is at her house. I mean, she does have a pool and the big living room with the giant TV and the big L couch that you can all flop on with. I bring my dog. She's got her three dogs. We've got six dogs, and everybody's on top of each other, and we're watching a Nuggets game or whatever. But it's never at our house. And I think to myself... My husband and I, we're not entertainers. It's funny, too, because I'll bring all the food to her house, but we are not comfortable in our own skin having people over, and we have never really made our house conducive to entertaining, per se. There's no TV in the living room if we did want to watch a game, you know. And, you know, we don't have the couches that you would all plop on. You know, they're like velvet or something, you know. I don't know. I just, we've never been good at entertaining family. That's different when you have like grandma and grandpa come and stuff like that. But it is interesting. And people can look up the list of spiritual gifts. I just Googled it to see what some of them are. I'm hoping service will be one that I can do a little more of as I get past the raising of the kids. I think I told you I have five trips this month. I already did Orlando, but I'm traveling all over doing college visits. And so I think I'll be in, oh gosh, maybe six states or seven states in this month. And summer flights, one's a long drive to see five schools in Portland, Orlando, Cincinnati. You know, it's all over the place. So when I'm done with all that, I would love to be a lot more involved. Maybe what we do right now is service, Grace, because you help with your kids, your grandkids, and I help with my kids.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, it is. Exactly. And so, you know, a lot of people will have not just one gift, but they'll have maybe one that's very strong or even two that are strong. And then they lean towards others as well. And I think that when we are raising our children, definitely we are exercising that gift of service because getting up in the middle of the night to tend to a crying baby, that's service, you know, like fixing meals, packing lunches, doing all this stuff is serving. And some people might just do it joyfully. Other people might not do it as joyfully, but you know, it's still a gift and we can ask the Lord to help us develop that well. And You know, you mentioned hospitality. I think that probably falls under the gift of service because your friend is opening your home. That's service. But you're bringing food. That's service. And so you're all practicing that. I've heard studies done that say that the most common spiritual gift among believers is compassion. And they say that, yeah, I thought that was interesting. And they say the reason perhaps that's the case is because we live in a very hurting world. There are so many hurting people, and God knows that, and so he reaches out to people through his children, and so he gifts them with compassion to reach out and help those who are hurting. Isn't that interesting?
SPEAKER 04 :
That is interesting. So we're talking to Grace Fox about her book, Fresh Hope, for today, and right now we're talking about the devotion, Use Your Gifts. So tell us about this as we've discussed gifts here. It's interesting.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, the devotion in regards to that would be... how God has created every one of us with a gift. And we can tend to compare ourselves to other people and say, oh, I wish I had her gift. I wish I could be as organized as she is and do an administration as well as she does. And then we can get ourselves right into a little bit of a pit in that type of thinking. But to be able to appreciate the way God has woven each of us together in a unique way, to identify those gifts through, like you mentioned, taking some of these tests we can take online about developing our spiritual gifts. So discover them and develop them. The more we explore by being involved in life around us, that helps us figure out our gifts as well and hone them too. And so we don't want to isolate ourselves and not use our gifts because that means something's missing. God has made each of us, it's like a, think of a 2,000-piece puzzle. And if one of us doesn't use our gifts, one of those pieces is missing. The picture isn't complete. It's important for us to use those gifts.
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Yeah, and as I've said before on the show, I think it was Michael Jr., a comedian, talking about doing comedy at homeless shelters and other places where comedians wouldn't normally go, and just the amazing experiences he had doing that. And he said, it's not a gift unless you give it away. Like, what's the use of the gift of comedy if you're home, you know, cracking yourself up or making posts, you know, on social media, but you're not out there really like making the crowds laugh or using your gift for some great, you know, good cause. And so I think so many of us have these gifts and either don't know about them or like you mentioned, don't develop them. And it takes effort to use our gifts, but I think that there's an obligation for us to use them if God's blessed us with them.
SPEAKER 05 :
I think so, too. There's a quote that I put in here by David Jeremiah, and it said, You have inside you the capacity to invest your mental, emotional, and spiritual gifts in a way that glorifies God, impacts the world, and satisfies your own soul. I believe that, and I want you to believe it, too. Because when we're using our gifts, there is joy, right? There is joy that we experience as well when we get out there and we start serving in the way that God designed us to operate.
SPEAKER 04 :
I love that. Yeah, I think that there's also fear, though, that so many of us come across that some of these gifts, you know, ask us to step out of our comfort zone or maybe using them makes us uncomfortable. If it's a gift where, you know, maybe we're good at giving advice or wisdom or encouragement, but we're called maybe to speak in front of others or whatever it may be, but that we're uncomfortable using the gift, even though we know that we have it.
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I think you're right. Fear is a big deal. And it would be that fear of appearing inadequate or the fear of failure, the fear of, oh, no, if I just sort of maintain myself, be that little wallflower, nobody's going to know if I have flaws because those flaws aren't going to show. But the minute I put myself out there, I'm going to make a mistake and I'm going to appear imperfect. And what will people think of me? And so fear is a big deal. But to trust. that God is the one who's woven us together, and every part of his body, the body of Christ, is important, just like every part of our physical body makes a difference in our overall health. So the body of Christ is, if we're going to be functioning in a healthy way, every part needs to do its part.
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And I think too, at least I see this with young people, with teenagers, you know, not wanting people to think they're full of themselves or like diminishing like their looks or their talents or their abilities or making jokes about how bad they are at school or that they're a bad driver or that my kids went line dancing last night and they're, you know, they have two left feet or whatever. Like, I feel like they feel like they have to diminish themselves to not seem like they're bragging about themselves. And I think that sometimes using your gifts, you think that you might seem kind of arrogant. Like, well, you know, I have the gift of administration and I really need to take on more responsibility at the church. Or I have the gift of exhortation and I really need to be given more opportunities to get up and lead and speak at church and teach or whatever. And so I think sometimes that... There is that fear by some of us, maybe more so women and as I'm seeing teenagers, fearing that we're going to look like, well, we think we're so great, you know.
SPEAKER 05 :
I hear what you're saying. And there is that sense of or that there could be that sense of pride or arrogance or. you know, a little bit of haughtiness of, yeah, I've got this gift and I developed it and I'm just a notch higher than you. But that's not what humility is all about, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
Right, right.
SPEAKER 05 :
And so at the same time as we use our gifts, we're to practice humility. It's like looking at the Bible as the whole big picture, not just one little piece at a time, but the whole picture. So use the gifts, but be humble about it. And encourage, here's one way to be humble about it, is to cheer other people on when they use their gifts. And maybe they've got the same gift as you and they have an opportunity that you wish you had, but it came their way instead. And that's where we like to just, you know, we fall into the comparison trap or maybe we just don't want to give them the pat on the back because it doesn't make us feel good. So, you know, it's like get over yourself and encourage other people to use their gifts and commend them, bless them. You know, if they need help, come alongside and give them that help. All of those things will help us with practicing humility when we use our gifts.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I think that humility doesn't have to mean diminishing yourself or cutting yourself down. Humility. I see Caitlin Clark, the WNBA player that's getting so much attention. She just got the first, she was the first rookie, like earliest to get a triple-double. And she just put it all on her team, you know, very humble. She doesn't try to make it of herself. She's almost embarrassed that she's getting, you know, so much attention. And so humility doesn't mean diminishing yourself. It can mean building up others as well, like you mentioned. GraceFox.com. The book is Fresh Hope for today. Thank you, Grace. You bet. Have a great day.
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You too. Thank you for listening to The Good News with Angie Austin on AM670 KLTT.
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There is a big dust up right now with the games. Chip and Joanna Gaines. I don't know if you've ever been to Waco, but Waco is basically Magnolia territory. Like right when you get into the town of Waco, everything is about Magnolia. Here are the silos. Silo there. Good to see you. I mean, it's Waco, Magnolia. Really, it's just Magnolia. They're probably going to rename it. Who knows? They it's I mean, they own the town like they control everything in the town. Basically, it's you know, it's a cute cutie little town, but they've gotten very, very famous. They had their HGTV show and they've gone on to go leave HGTV and create their own media entity, which I think has been very successful. And there are a lot of people that are big fans of them. And I've been down. I've taken my mom down there before. And they're very faithful people. They're Christians. They've talked about their faith. And now they're kind of in some hot water. And it's not hot water the way you think it would be, right? Because they've previously been in trouble because they've been Christians, right? Now they're accused of going woke because they feature a same-sex couple in their new series. It's a series called Back to the Frontier on that new network they created, Magnolia Network series. It premiered on July 10th. And they, I guess, select the people that are going to be on the show and And they, I haven't seen it, the show, but they go to the frontier. That sounds like camping. That's too close to camping to me. And you guys know how I feel about that sidebar. If you're unfamiliar with it, we invented the house as a people. I don't like appropriating my ancestors way of living because we have all of these new innovations and, you know, I mean, I hate modernity, but I love electricity and hot water. So, you know, there we go. So anyway, they have a Texas couple that appear on the show with their two sons and their, their two men. And they're one of the three couples, they live like 1800s homesteaders. Sidebar, sidebar again, sorry. There's no social media in the 1800s, so that probably, that's a big selling point for me. Would you like to get away from influencers selling you the exact same stuff that you can find at HomeGoods? Yes, you do. Want to get rid of, okay, you want to get away from all the white, okay, let's go be homesteaders in the 1800s. So they... They're getting a lot of heat because they featured the same-sex couple in their show as one of these three couples, right? They're getting a lot of heat for it. And to the point where you have the American Family Association that has, Babylon Bee has said something about it, American Family Association. There are people that are concerned because they expected the gains to continue to upholding biblical values and make that part of what their work is. And the AFA said, quote, it's sad and disappointing because they've been very influential in the evangelical community. They've stood firm on the sanctity of marriage, etc. Said they're not sure why they've reversed course. And the comments have been very interesting. They've gotten a lot of heat in the past. I don't know for not having gay couples on their shows. Like when they were doing their house flip, the show where they flip the houses. Apparently they had never had like a gay couple on their show and they were getting heat for that. I don't know if this is to maybe satiate some of those criticisms. But I do think that it poses a problem for them. And here's why. I think it poses a problem for them because, first off, I think that they need to handle it better on social media. Social media is a poor place to mitigate things. Number one, especially of this nature, because everybody's immediately defensive because social media by entering it is a defensive place. That's why everybody's miserable. Everybody only wants to show you the pretty curated side of things because everybody's so judgmental. Social media is where people go, especially Instagram. And they they they want to either jealously lurk or they want to flex. It's like one of the two. So that's why I hate social media. It's why I'm not as active on Instagram as I used to be because I just can't. It's just that I can't. I don't know. But they have been getting a lot of criticism from a lot of pretty influential people on the right. I think the problem that they have is when they started building their new business, when they started in this industry, they really came out very strongly as a Christian family and a Christian couple, and that's how they promoted themselves. They talked about faith. They talked about family, family values, and their work as kind of like a mission, basically, like an extension of their ministry, so to speak. And they really leaned into that. And that's great. The problem is there are certain demographics that when you lean into, you can't compromise it after you lean into it. If you're going to go the evangelical route, if you're going to go the Christian route, you cannot temper it by including a same-sex couple. Because A, that's not your base. And it's not your base. And B, it looks inconsistent. And authenticity... If there's anything that we've learned with the advent of social media and oversharing is that authenticity is king. People like authenticity. They are gravitating away from the highly stylized curated stuff and they just want the real thing. They want authenticity. This looks highly inauthentic. It does kind of seem like they're doing it. And as a way to maybe insulate themselves against some of the criticisms they have received and I'm just speculating for on my part here because I don't know why they would do it I mean there's certain things you can be as loving as you want to and it has nothing to do with being mean or loving you know a lot of Christian people. They think, well, you know, there's multiple different kinds of sin. And one of the reasons that people, you know, try to speak about it is because they love people and they want people to be able to join them in heaven. And that's, you know, I remember Penn and Teller. I think it was Penn who had said, because he's an atheist, and he had said that he actually, of all of his friends, he loves his Christian friends. And he was saying that someone asked him if he was ever annoyed that they were trying to, like, witness to him. And he said, no, I would be mad at them and think they were inauthentic if they didn't. Because... They if they really believe this and they really believe in this kind of life after death. And why wouldn't you want someone that you care for to take part in that? And so they're reaching out to me so that I can experience that. And he and he had said that that was, you know, it it really he he kind of uses that as a basis to determine someone's validity and their belief set. And I think that makes a lot of sense. And I apply that to this situation as well. And I think that Christians, especially those who have followed the Gaineses this entire time, they have every reason and justification to question, why are you doing this now? It would be one thing if they started and they came out as, what am I thinking? Not agnostic in terms of belief, but agnostic in terms of their content, what they talked about their content and the perspective through which they wanted to show you their content. Yeah. And they didn't take that route. And that's why it feels like a 180 to so many of their base. Because now it kind of seems like, regardless of where you're at, it kind of seems like they're doing it. It would be like, you know, it would be like a gay couple all of a sudden, you know... Going back on and going the other way. It just it's inconsistent. It doesn't make sense, especially if you've built your career on this. Right. It would be like that show Queer Eye for the straight guy just having like all straight stylists or something. You know what I mean? It's just different. Why would you why would you flip like that with your base? And I think that this is what a lot of people are asking questions on. And I've never met Chip and Joanna Gaines. I know his sister. And they're the sweetest family. And I don't think that anybody's doing this or having this position or expressing defense of their position out of meanness or cruelty. But I do think that he's coming across as a little bit too defensive on social media. And you've got to be careful with that because social media does not allow for a lot of nuance. And when you seem overly defensive, you seem hostile. And you really want to avoid that, especially as it concerns this topic. And what I get from them is they're saying that, you know – This is it's about showing love and it's about, you know, showing, you know, including people showing love or whatever. And this is the defense that he has given in a couple of different tweets. I understand the Christian criticism of it, that you don't show love by mainstreaming what the Bible has declared to be a sin. And you don't show love and acceptance by making someone easy in a behavior that goes against the scripture you claim to uphold. And I understand the criticisms that these individuals have. And that's not the media misrepresenting it. And it's not these people misrepresenting their intentions. You cannot create an entire industry based on faith and as an extension of your faith and then be seen as compromising it to the people who help build your business. That's the real problem here. And it does seem like whenever people get to a certain point in success that that tends to happen. It is very, very hard to stand your ground. And there's all different types of ways that people try to use to justify it. But it is a very unpopular thing to say that the Bible says what it says. And that's what the Bible says. If people have a problem with it, they can take it up with God, not the people who are reading the Bible and just simply repeating what it says. It has nothing to do with a feeling of hatred or anything else. Again, you either believe or you don't. You don't get to pick and choose what parts of Scripture you want to believe and what parts of Scripture you don't. And everybody falls short, by the way, of perfection. There's no such thing. I mean, that's why, you know, churches are oftentimes viewed as a spiritual hospital, so to speak. But... I don't know what their motivation for doing this is, but it doesn't look good. And I think they need to find a different way to address it than what they're doing now, because this is going to really hurt them, especially now with younger generations being more conservative and demanding more authenticity and consistency.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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All right. First up, Man, this one headline totally distracted me, and I apologize. Well, I'm going to just go ahead and say it. It's a story from the New York Post that says, Did a landfill write this? Did an actual physical landfill write this? But yeah, what in the world? I don't know. I don't even know. But they said that, yes, you know, you don't have to take it. They were the experts, whoever these experts are. We're trying to say, oh, you don't have to take them every day. You know, you don't. It's not really necessary. You know, maybe, you know, a few times a week. Instead, you can. Some say that you could actually spray yourself with good bacteria that neutralizes your smell making chemicals. That sounds disgusting. No, no. No. I haven't heard of this. A hippie who lives in a landfill wrote that. That's, I mean, that's truth.
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Being clean, guys, is not what it's cracked up to be.
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A gym, I think this is a gym in Britain. Of course it is. It's a UK gym. They banned women from the age of 24 from working out during peak times. Like they banned it. A 36 year old woman reported it. They her gym banned women over the age of 24 from working out during peak hours. So the gym from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday is reserved exclusively for females aged 12 to 24. I have no idea why. Also, just because you go to a gym doesn't mean every guy wants to hit on you. Get TF over yourselves. Not everybody wants to hit on you. And also, if you're doing influencer stuff in the gym and hogging machinery, I would be absolutely one of the people who would bully you about it. Stop it. I don't know why people are so ridiculous. So she's leaving that gym, by the way. I didn't even know. That's horrible. Let's see. Superman opened to 123 million. Also, a flight from London to Cancun landed in the U.S. after a fight broke out on board. We're all real excited about that. I'm telling you. Sure. We got to tell you what Elmo did over the weekend. Stick with us. Did you guys hear what Elmo did over the weekend? Yeah, Elmo. First off, I got to say, I never thought being able to do the Elmo voice would ever come in handy. It's like one of those weird skill sets that you just don't ever need unless Elmo decides to do what Elmo did. I can't even read the tweets that Elmo sent. He has almost, well, I mean, over half a million followers. Over the weekend, he began posting some provocative and offensive material. So he said, quote, This is really what he tweeted. And then he said, And then he just kept saying this over and over again. He clearly was hacked. Are you okay, Cain? Release the fires! But that's what he did. I mean, he literally tweeted, quote, kill all Jews. Almost says some all Jews when I say it. So clearly was I can't even read. He accused Trump of being a pedophile, basically. And I can't even read some of this. He and he replied to a number of people using that. Same language. So all of the posts and replies later were deleted. A Sesame Workshop spokesperson confirmed, quote, Elmo's ex-account was compromised today by an unknown hacker who posted the disgusting messages, including anti-Semitic and racist posts. We're working to restore full control of the account. Today's anti-Semitism brought to you by the letter B for bigot. Wow. So when is, I'm just curious, when is Elmo going on Tucker? Sorry. Did I say that out loud? Let me rephrase that. Let me rephrase that. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to. When is Elmo going to do a podcast with the Taint Brothers? Shoot. Let me try this again. Got to keep. When is Elmo going to run for mayor of New York City? There it is. Yes, I know. See, that's where it's I mean, I'm I'm sure me and I wouldn't be surprised if that guy liked some of it. But yeah, his account gets hacked. I can't even like some of this stuff. Some of it was like really in the weeds. I don't even know. Like that's a level of anti-Semitism that goes into the weeds that I don't even know.
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I find it hard to believe that the Elmo account doesn't have two-step authentication or any sort of protected.
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You didn't know that a puppet didn't have two-step authentication?
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Right, the puppet calling the president a puppet. Yeah, you would think he would have some security measures in place on that account like everyone else does.
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Yeah, you'd think. You'd think. So, I don't know. It looked bad. I mean, when you have Elmo out there talking about, thank you, J-O-O-O-O-S. Yeah, it's kind of bad. You know, I mean, I don't know. Maybe Elmo will be invited to go and debate my friend Josh Hammer at the next symposium. Oh, my gosh. Just keeps going. Just keeps going because it can. I don't know. I'm really actually not surprised. I was just waiting for Sesame Street to go full on, you know. From the river to the sea. You know, do all. Globalize the infantile. Do all that stuff. Just was waiting for it. Yes.
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I have a hard time believing it was hacked and it wasn't some just emotionally and mentally ill leftist that's, you know, near this account or that works directly with the folks tied to this account. I don't think this is just a hack.
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I mean, it's Sesame Street. It's weird over there. It's definitely weird. It started getting weird like 20 years ago, and now it's just like it arrived. It arrived at the train station of... Where are we at? That's where we are. It's going to run for mayor of New York, though, for sure. I mean, he's going to almost going to be the new mayor of New York. Like all the people who are supporting. It's ma'am, Danny. They're they're going to be like, wait a minute. He's more like Hitler than you. We're going to go for him.
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In today's episode, we dive into the intricacies of international weapon deals as nations negotiate strategic partnerships under the NATO umbrella. Discover how wealthy nations are stepping up to fund their defense through high-quality weaponry manufactured by the United States. We also dissect the political and economic implications of these arrangements in a complex geopolitical landscape.
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We've made a deal today, and I'm going to have Mark speak about it, but we've made a deal today where we are going to be sending them weapons and they're going to be paying for them. The United States will not be having any payment made. We are not buying it, but we will manufacture it and they're going to be paying for it. Our last meeting of a month ago was very successful in that they agreed to 5%, which is more than a trillion dollars a year, so they have a lot of money. And these are wealthy nations. They have a lot of money and they want to do it. They feel very strongly about it and we feel strongly about it too. But we're in for a lot of money and we just, we don't want to do anymore. And we can. But we make the best and we're going to be sending the best to NATO and in some cases to maybe at Mark's suggestion if we go to Germany where they're going to send early on missiles and they'll be replaced and NATO's going to take care of it. It's going to be coordinated by NATO and they're going to work very much with Matt Whitaker who's right here. He's a great ambassador and Matt's going to be coordinating. You better do a good job, Matt. I will. But Matt's going to coordinate. He's a very talented guy. He's going to coordinate everything.
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So I'm glad that we had that clarification as to how that exchange is taking place, the weaponry to Ukraine. And this is one of the things I had asked last week, because it wasn't offered up as a. It wasn't any information that was divulged to the press at the time, like whether or not that's something that they would be paying for or if it was going to be more of like what we saw under Biden. And it's just simply they are going to be just – it's like welfare. It's like weapons warfare if we're just going to be handing stuff over without any kind of exchange, like monetary exchange taking place. So if we're selling it, then – Really, there's not a lot that Russia can say because Russia has repeatedly funded and sent weaponry to a number of, you know, I would say people who don't have the United States best interest at heart. And because they weren't directly supplying it, you know, it was considered, oh, it's not it's not an act of war. It's not escalating anything. It's not violating anything. So therefore, it's not it's not a major issue. It can be done. Because remember, under Biden, now we talked about this quite a bit. with Steven Yates. Under Biden, we were really, I mean, we didn't, they were even blocking the sale of munitions to Taiwan and to Israel and they were really dragging their feet in a number of places and it was incredibly frustrating. And so now at least we're having, we have this. So welcome to the program. Dana Lash with you. We're at the top of this first hour And we're going to break down, you know, some of the things that you may have missed over the weekend and get into that. We have a few things to touch on. Just, you know, just the latest that we heard from the president. He was sitting there with NATO having that conversation. We're going to get into the latest on that. We're also going to talk about this auto pin issue. Woo. Is there some new developments with the auto pin issue? It's pretty unbelievable. We got that. We're going to get also the latest Trump on Epstein. And he waded into this and saved Pam Bondi. We're going to discuss this. There are a lot of people infuriated over this. Have you seen like our comments on anything lately, Kane? No.
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Don't don't look because people are people is mad with a capital maya. Yeah, they're they're quite angry over this. I get it. And I think it I understand that it has to do with a two tier system of justice. And I think that's ultimately and obviously, you know, people are worried about who is exploited. But it really does seem like, you know, they're very upset over this. the appearance of a two-tier system of justice that's kind of you know that's what it seems like them people are angry the most about so And then, of course, we'd had a year ago. It was a year ago yesterday, the assassination. And a lot of questions remain about that. So we're going to bring all of this up to speed. We got a couple of things from the New York Times to get into today, which is so weird. Oh, my gosh. And Elmo got hacked. I don't even know. And then we got the whole Chip and Joanna Gaines thing as well that I noticed over the weekend. Where do we start, Kane? Let's just roll the... First off, let me let's just do this. Let's just do this. Let's get into it was a year ago. Recap this real quick. The assassination attempt of POTUS and we were in we were coming back from like a very remote area. Because, you know, I have to try to get the furthest away from human civilization as possible. So we were literally out in what they call the out islands. We were way out. And you have to take some very interesting machinery to get back to mainland. I say machinery because is it a plane? I don't know. I felt like I was in Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers. I felt like I was, you know, Baloo was piloting the plane. Anyway, so... We are coming back and we had a layover in Nassau. That kind of was disastrous, but that's a whole other story. We had a layover in Nassau. And right as we land, like my phone is going crazy because I didn't, you know, obviously you got to keep it on airplane mode while you're on the plane. And then the Bahamian airport is, Nassau's airport is like a black hole. Like you can't, even Patriot Mobile had like two bars in there. And that is, if Patriot Mobile only has two bars, good luck world. Like you have Starlink and then you have Patriot Mobile. Anyway. So I go outside because we ended up having our flight canceled. It was crazy. And I mean, I can't get a video to load because I think everybody in the airport was doing the same thing I was. So everybody was trying to figure out what happened. So I called Kane and we're like, oh my gosh, POTUS was shot. Well, POTUS was shot. And we were trying desperately to figure out like, what, is he okay? Is he, you know, what happened? I mean, you're the president of the United States is shot for crying out loud. So I had texted because I've known him for a long time. I texted Don Jr., And how do you ask somebody that they're, you know, how's your dad doing? I heard he was shot. You know, he's. You know, it's POTUS. He's running for president of the United States. He's, you know, probably going to be the next POTUS. What a weird question. Have you ever thought how weird of a question that is to ask somebody? So I heard your dad was shot. Is he all right? You know, like, oh. So I texted him like, oh my gosh, I, you know, just landed and I read the news. Is everything okay? Oh my word. And he was like, you know, thank you so much for checking in. He was like, dad is fine. He's fine. He was grazed. He's like, you know, it was a real scare. I mean, yeah, obviously. But I cannot... I've never experienced... I don't... I never really get unnerved. And I don't because I always think preparation, preparation, preparation is key, right? To prevent, you know, you from being in a bad situation or prevent any kind of, you know, weirdness or whatever. And I got to tell you, I've never felt weirder in my entire life than... being out of the country and you hear that the, you know, he was going, you know, he was going to be at that point, the president of the United States said he was shot. And it's just, and I think the feeling is because you, the United States, you view yourself as an American and your country as being really untouchable and people are going to respect the thoughts, you know, they're going to risk and that someone did that and that they were able to get that close is unreal. And I think that's the big, I think that was the thing that really kind of contributed why it was such a weird feeling. Because it was something like, well, you know, we're the United States. How dare you do this? How dare this happen here? You know, we're the most advanced, you know, wealthiest nation in the world. How dare you do this to our eventual president? You know, how dare you? So it was weird in a number of different ways. And we still, we have the fewest answers. I think if this would bend, and I hate saying this, but I really do feel as though if this was a, had been a Democrat president, you would have known absolutely everything. You know, you would have known absolutely everything. You would know everything about this guy, everything about his family. We know so little still today. It's wild. We know so little today. And doesn't it seem as though they took the longest time possible getting to the point of, oh, well, these agents are suspended. I mean, it's been a year. I had that headline last week. It's been a year. It's weird. It's incredibly weird. And it's just I've got a lot of questions about it. Selena Zito, her Washington examiner, had a whole thing because she was right there. She was like a year later. You know, there's there's so many things we don't know. And again, it comes down to. If it is that incompetent that it leaves that type of negligence just open and hanging in the wind, it's so bad, you almost think it's purposeful. We're going to come back to it. We got more on it. We also have this, the latest with Epstein. So, you know, a lot of people have been very upset over Pam Bondi. And this now, I don't want to say like, I guess reveal, reveal that there was no, there's no client list is what she's saying. And POTUS, well, he was asked about it. He's asked about it a couple of times and he was angry. Then he had a post out where he basically told everybody to get over it. And that he's a dead guy and that this guy continues to live. And there are a lot of people that are very upset over this. He, for the first time ever, because he posted this on his Truth Social account, he got ratioed. Trump got ratioed on Truth Social. That's what I'm asking you. Have you seen, whenever we talk about Epstein, whenever I post anything about Epstein online, the rage is real. People are genuinely upset about it. And it really is. I think the again, the main reason I think people are so upset over it is because it very much is like this two tiers of justice kind of thing. So he posted this on True Social. He had a post and he was saying that we're on one team, MAGA, and I don't like what's happening. Let's not waste time and energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about. I'm not going to read the whole thing because there's I mean, it was like several graphs and it was a very lengthy post. And it had over 36,000 replies. And this was just yesterday. And 11,000 reposts. And people were livid in the comments. I know. I'm not going to read it. Juan's showing you right now. It is a big, giant post that he had. It is a huge, big, giant post. Is it still? Because when I looked at it and I got these numbers, this was last night.
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Yeah, I'm looking at it right now. It's showing 46,000 comments, 41.2 thousand likes. Yep.
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He said that he goes, one year ago, our country was dead. Now it's the hottest country anywhere in the world. Let's keep it that way and not waste time and energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about. Thank you for your attention to this matter. And he had asked, he said, now my so-called friends are playing right into their hands talking about he was trying to say that it was has to do with the left. He said for years, it's Epstein over and over again. Why are we giving publicity to files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan and the losers and criminals of the administration? He said they created the Epstein files just like they created the fake dossier. Wait a minute. They didn't create that to go after him. Trump was never on like the air, the flight logs or anything like that. The most that anyone can ever say is that he was at some events that Epstein was at. And people run around and they take these society photos. It happens at every one of these events. And he was there and they took a photo. And that's kind of how it went. This, if anything, it impugns Democrats more than it ever would Republicans. And I don't under I think that his approach on this is wrong. I disagree with him. I don't think that this has anything to do with. I don't think that this was something that they're trying to cobble together to go after him. I think that there are people on the left and maybe some on the right. I don't know. But there are people, period, that are clearly compromised by this dude, by this Epstein guy. The only reason that everybody's talking about it so much is because Trump did. And so many Republicans did help. I can't tell you how many fundraisers I went to, which I'm not going to anymore now because I'm mad at the Republican Party for botching, you know, the NFA stuff with a big, beautiful bastard bill and all this thing, all this. I'm mad at them. But anyway, I can't tell you how many fundraisers I went to where every single person gave this and included this in their speech. There was not an exception. I can't tell you how many big events, whether it was Turning Point or whatever. They all everybody mentioned this. So you can't go from like from oversaturating, oversaturated discussion of it to get over it. And I think that yes, I agree that if they had any information on him at all whatsoever, they would have already come out with it, which is why I don't think that they I think this is more about the left. I think he's playing into their hands at this point. We got a lot more on this before we before we get deep into it. And we got to get moving as well because we have headlines coming up as we do all family pharmacy. It's just a great website. And if you have not used them yet, you need to because they have all of the medications that you need. They have buy one, get one free right now. And ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, all kinds of stuff, doctor's prescription included. You get fast, direct shipping right to your door. And you can take back control of your health. You can visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana for this buy one, get one free offer. And again, your everyday medications. You also have antibiotics. Everything that you need from 100% domestically sourced materials for all of your medications. So you're getting the best quality and safety standards. These are things you can trust. The sale runs till July 13th. So don't wait. No coupon required. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana for the buy one, get one sale. And protect yourself and your family today. That's allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana.
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I mean, you're talking about the auto pen. Look, the auto pen, I think, is maybe one of the biggest scandals that we've had in 50 to 100 years. This is a tremendous scandal. And I know the people on the other side of the... See that desk, that Resolute desk? Unfortunately, he used it before me. You know, we have our choice of seven desks. They're all beautiful, but I chose the Resolute, and so did he, unfortunately. But the people on the other side of the Resolute desk, I know them. Lisa, the whole group, and they're no good. They're sick people. And I guarantee he knew nothing about what he was signing. I guarantee it.
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I mean, POTUS was remarking on this Autopen story, which is pretty amazing. I don't know if you've seen some of the latest on it. Welcome back. First off, Dana Lash with you. We're at the bottom of this first hour. Channel 347 is where you can see the simulcast of the radio show and also the chats at Rumble. This New York Times piece said, quote, Biden did not individually approve each name for the categorical pardons rather than ask Biden to keep signing revised versions. His staff waited and then ran the final version through the auto pen, which they saw as routine. This New York Times piece said that even after he made the decision, the Bureau of Prisons kept providing additional information about specific inmates resulting in small changes, etc. He I mean, he really didn't have any idea. at all he he was saying well i made every decision but there are there's a lot of legal questions brought up in this um i mean he did not he did not individually approve each name there it seems like they're trying i feel doesn't it read like the new york times is trying to do damage control to this with this story they're stepping in like oh we're gonna fix it for biden They said. So here's from this piece. It says in an interview with The New York Times, Biden said that he had orally granted all the pardons and commutations issued at the end of his term, calling President Trump and other Republicans liars for claiming that his aides had used an auto pin to do so without his authorization. So he's he's mad because how dare you question him? And you're questioning, you questioned his competency, which that shouldn't, I mean, that should be open for, I mean, really resolution. Everybody's seen it. And he's mad because people are asking questions about it. And somehow you're a liar. Because he was competent and he knew what he was doing. This is so stupid. People saw when you see how bad he was in public and how quickly he declined. Like he was he I mean, and he still is. You can't watch him when he was vice president under Barack Obama. Even watch him through through the debates in 2020 before the election and then see him, you know, in his final months in office. Before he left the White House and not notice that there is a remarkable visual audible decline. We can see it. We're not stupid. It's so insulting and I'm done pretending that this is something to be objected to. It's not. So the article says that all these documents there, you know, they they they turn them over to the New York Times. They reviewed all these dozens of emails, et cetera. You know, they said we have not seen the New York Times admitted they haven't seen the full extent of the emails. But the ones that they they saw show that the White House had a process to establish that Biden had he orally made the decisions in meetings before the staff secretary, Stephanie Feldman. And she, Stephanie Feldman, was the one who managed the use of the auto pen. See, so he told her in a room where you couldn't have record of it. And that should be enough for you unwashed masses. Not kidding. That's the way this sounds. They said that he had his staff use an auto pin for these warrants. He had granted clemency to so many people. It was used on 25 pardon and clemency warrants. Some of them included large batches of names because they just all fell into the same broad category. Wow. So he was one of his defenses was that he was pardoning so many people because he thought that they might face politically motivated criminal investigations, which is one of the most ironic things that I think I've heard this administration say the previous administration. But this. I just don't know. Only the president. When you have a federal pardon. Only the office of the executive can issue a federal pardon. No one else can do this. Not Ms. Feldman, not her. Nobody else can do this. No one else can issue that. And I think it really poses a question of legality to all of this. There should be hearings. There should be hearings for this. And the idea that he would just that Biden would just say, oh, yeah, well, we can like, you know, go and sign this person. We can go ahead and grant them clemency or a pardon or etc. For him to say that verbally and there be like really no record of him authorizing the people and then having this woman. who manages the auto pen do it? I think that's the question, because if you can prove that he actually issued, while he's competent, these pardons as president, I mean, nobody can mess with that. But that's the question. Did he actually do it himself? Did he actually issue these pardons himself? That's the big question. And like I said, going into this Times piece, and it's really weird, Because I just don't know how that stands up where you can be Stephanie Feldman, who's his staff secretary again, and she manages the use of the auto pen. I mean, it literally says that, oh, the process they had established was that he would orally make this decision in a meeting before the staff secretary. And then she would be the one who would manage the auto pen because he reduced the sentences of 4000 convicts. And he preemptively pardoned a ton of different people. There's a lot of questions about this. I mean, the president has to consent in order for the auto pin to be legally valid. The president has to consent to his signature being placed on the document. And so then if the consent isn't given, constitutional law then establishes that there wasn't a pardon that has been issued. So. You can't say that the left is trying to say that Trump is trying to revoke pardons. That's the wrong way of saying it, because if Biden didn't even know that his signature was being used, then technically no pardon was issued. According to existing case law, so or existing law, there's no pardon was issued. And. Having this, you know, email, they were trying to say, oh, well, the president makes the final decision. It sounds to me like these people had emails to back and forth to each other to establish some weak paper trail. But in the emails where they're saying, oh, well, Biden makes the final decision on this, et cetera, et cetera. They understood that you it's like they they knew that you couldn't have this pardon issued without Biden's, you know, full knowledge, without his approval for his signature being used. So is it really? So it's like consent. It comes down to whether awareness and consent. It almost seems like they just said, well, what about this category? What about this category? Because do you think that Biden really sat in a room? Let me ask you this. There were 4000 people that had sentences reduced and pardons and clemency and all this. Do you think that Biden sat in a room? 4000 names. and was giving this oral approval to his secretary who managed the auto pen. Do you think that he did that? Do you think that he was aware of all of the offenses of every single one of these individuals? Nope.
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I don't think he was aware of a lot of things, even less complicated than that.
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This is pretty wild. And I it again, it comes down to this is a common thing that I'm seeing. I think this is why so many people are mad with the Epstein stuff, because what it seems to come down to is a two tiered system of not just justice, but of law. Like you have one system of laws for some people and another system of laws for everybody else. It just doesn't, this doesn't make sense. I think people are absolutely right to ask questions about this. So the other thing, I had a friend that was writing a piece on the legal ramifications of these pardons for future behavior. And a friend was writing that a president can only pardon a person for past conduct. Trump cannot issue a pardon, for instance, to Elon Musk, pardoning for any crimes that he might commit between now and January 19th, 2029, when Trump's term will end. But Biden already did that. Didn't he do that with a ton of his family members? He already did these pardons for future offenses for his family members. What, Cain? Just tell me. Okay.
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The one for Hunter seemed to have the right actual.
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But his brother?
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Yeah. Everything else was out of pen.
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And then everybody else? Yeah. Like, how do you do that? It really feels like they are stretching the allowances of the law with us. It really does. And as Steve noted, he claimed he wasn't going to pardon Hunter Biden, and then he did it. And then he did it anyway, which we all knew that he would. So there's a lot of questions that are here that I think that you're going to have to have legal eagles get involved in because it just doesn't – that doesn't make sense to have these preemptive pardons. Well, just in case you commit any crimes in the future, here's a preemptive pardon. The law is less supportive of that. And all of these individuals that have been received clemency or have been pardoned. Wow. They had one of the emails at the time saw. And again, it feels like they're trying to trot out this paper trail that to me, when I read this piece, it seemed like his staff were they were trying to establish a paper trail for future avoidance of accusation. For instance, they had Ed Siskel, who was part of Biden's White House counsel, who notified senior staff to expect a flood of lobbying for clemency grants at the administration's end and laid out a process for orderly review. And then he was the one who wrote, well, you know, the president makes the final decision on the final pardon and or commutation slate. Yeah, but it doesn't look like he did. Because no part, I mean, if consent is withheld, then if there's no consent, there's no pardon. Doesn't matter if you have an auto pin or not. And the Times also apparently can't tell the difference between a pardon and clemency. A full pardon, that's like you're not guilty. Clemency is you have a reduction in sentences, in your sentence. Both of these, you can have the president pardon or issue. grant or issue. But man, the idea that Biden knew everybody who was on this final list of people pardoned. I mean, he had pardoned Fauci. He pardoned Milley. He all of these people. It makes me really question some of the people that, you know, that they Democrats insist. Oh, no, they did nothing wrong. Well, then why in the hell are you getting a preemptive pardon? Oh, we don't want any kind of politically motivated criminal investigation. That's a that doesn't make any sense. That's what you guys do. But B, I think that that's testing or exceeding rather the limits of the law. But we're just going to go ahead and preemptively pardon you for anything that you may have done or might do or might do. What? Yeah, we have a lot more still as we roll into days of these United States. Our friends over at Relief Factor, if you are an individual that deals with aches and pains, you're just tired of dealing with it, whether it's like your joints or whether it's, you know, you have bad knee, whatever it is, you need to check out the good folks at Relief Factor because they have a drug-free supplement that's designed to help manage aches and pains naturally. And my husband's used it. He's had sports injuries. It helps with inflammation, helps him lift weights without worry. It combines a number of powerful ingredients like turmeric, omega-3 fatty acids, resveratrol, and more to target inflammation and support joint health. 100% drug-free and developed to support your body's natural healing process. So don't stay stuck living with pain. Try Relief Factor's three-week quick start for just $19.95. It's less than a dollar a day. And you can support a veteran-owned company in the process and see the difference for yourself. That's relieffactor.com or call 1-800-4-RELIEF. That's 1-800-4-RELIEF.
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So they essentially drink, they get their drinking water and they brush their teeth where they poop in the same unit. They bragged that they went above standards supposedly and gave them a three foot privacy wall that stretches the length inside the 32 detainee cage. A three foot privacy wall. That stretches the length of the.
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Oh, my gosh. It's so bad that they were not given accommodations at the Ritz or the breakers or any kind of Waldorf Astoria property. Oh, my gosh. That's so bad because they were so used to this bougie kept treatment in New York. And so tough. Get T.F. over it. That's it. That's all I have to say. Because this is what happens when you enter illegally. You get a posh tour of our prisons and then you get deported. It's a fun trip. It's like a secondhand vacation. Deported is what it's called. I don't know if you're, you know, you can stay in one of our amazing Airbnbs. Deported.
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Deported.
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Deported. That's correct.
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Got it.
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And it's a fancy term for returning the hell home for you. And that's, you know, maybe we should just maybe we should advertise it that way. This is glamping. What are you talking about? This is glamping.
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Did you hear how she put it, though? Like, they're brushing their teeth where they poop.
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I still don't care. I don't care if they were using an actual turd to brush their teeth. I don't care. Don't enter illegally and you don't have that problem. It's a mystery how this can be prevented, apparently.
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Because there's a sink next to my toilet. I wash my hands where I poop. So, is that supposed to be a bad thing? Like...
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I mean, isn't that how most prisons, having never been to prison? I don't know. But isn't that, I mean, at least on television, don't they have just like a toilet in the center of the gen pop little thingy, the little holding cell?
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The show is asking the tough questions.
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We are. You know, we really are. We're diving down. It's what we do. Diving down deep. But, you know, I'm curious. Like, I mean, isn't that, that's every single... crime show that I've ever seen. There's like a sink and a toilet. Like you got to do your business like out in front of everybody. Doesn't matter if you're a dude or a lady. Don't matter.
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And those photos I saw, those accommodations look great.
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Yeah, they have air conditioning, for crying out loud. I mean, when I covered one of the presidential debates for CNN as a token, and I was in Florida, like in September, I didn't have AC, and I was dead. I was dead to death. It was horrible.
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I had summer camps that were horrible.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. They had AC here. Oh, my God. You have a toilet. Ooh, wow. You have a toilet. Be happy. Right. That you're not having to like, you know, go into a hole in the ground and bury it. But this idea that you're owed anything more, you're not owed a damn thing except a boot in the backside that serves as momentum to eject you back to your place of origin. That's it. Or as we like to fondly say, deported. Deported. It's a very fancy, it's the hottest new vacation. I don't know. Maybe advertise it that way. Would you like to be deported? Yeah. It is a free, all-inclusive trip. Deported. It's like the villas at Kenny's house, but South Lake. Or South Park. That's what it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, I mean, you're not owed anything. You come into the country illegally. I mean, you have to pay for all of that stuff. My gosh. So maybe, I know it's really, really difficult to think about prevention, but if you want to prevent that from happening, from having to, like, brush your teeth by the commode, then maybe don't come in illegally. Don't enter illegally. We got a lot more on the way. Second hour coming up. Stick with us. Our partners that help bring you the program, folks over at Angel Studios. We always talk about the stuff that's coming out of Hollywood and how so much of it's garbage. Well, what if you had the opportunity? To actually decide what projects got greenlit. That's what you do with Angel Studios. You can join over a million Americans taking back control of entertainment and join the Angel Studios Guild. And when you're a member, you get to watch, stream all their fan curated shows and movies. You get two free tickets to every theatrical release. Their latest, The King of Kings, based on Charles Dickens' book, The Life of Our Lord, features an all-star cast. Oscar winners comprise this cast. You got Kenneth Brogna, you got Oscar Isaac, Uma Thurman, Ben Kingsley, all kinds of awesome folks. A-plus rating cinema score, 98% audience rating as well. It's a record-breaking animated faith-based film. Absolutely magical. It's great. They have all kinds of stuff on offer. that you can go and watch right now. If you're looking for something to watch, and if you want to be a part of determining what is released and what has helped shaping popular opinion through culture, which later becomes policy, then you need to visit angel.com slash Dana. Become a premium Angel Studios Guild member and watch The King of Kings. Stream all fan-curated shows and movies and get two free tickets to every Angel Studios theatrical release. That's angel.com slash Dana.
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Rosie O'Donnell, she went on Chris Cuomo so recently. She blamed you for the fact that she's overweight, depressed, and drunk. What do you say to that? Do you think CBS is going to ever be a BS in five, nine years?
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I don't know about Rosie. I watch Rosie. Rosie's a mess. She's a mess. But she left our country, which is a good thing, not a bad thing.
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She made her really mad when he said that. I don't want her to come back. Don't talk about her. Maybe she won't come back. welcome back to the what yeah if you say if you say her name if you go into your bathroom you close your door and you stand in front of the mirror and you say her name three times rosie she'll appear behind you and complain until you die what happens it's very real forget bloody mary it's rosie Okay, can't say it again. Got to wait until the quota runs out. You got to wait for like an hour. I never understood that, by the way. Sidebar. Welcome back to the show. Blah, blah, blah. All that good stuff. I have a pressing issue that's very important. How does the Beetlejuice rule work? Like, you know, can you only ever say it three times or does it expire? That's a good question. Right?
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Because if you said it twice, how long do you have before it resets?
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Exactly.
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That was never answered. I don't know. I have no clue.
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Huh. Huh. Well, I know someone that could find out, but how weird is that for me to just go, by the way, out of nowhere, is there a Beetlejuice rule? So anyway, all right, all right, back to the professional politics radio. Good to be with you. We're at the top of the second hour on Monday. We've, yeah, no, that was POTUS on. He's just trolling her and I think it's fine. She's easy to be trolled. She's so emotional. Super emotional people are easy to manipulate. It's so easy to manipulate emotional people. Because, you know, their currency right off the bat, right off the bat. You know what it is. And so she's kind of one of those. Right. She's one of those individuals. The POTUS was speaking with the NATO head from the White House earlier. And we're going to cover more of that later on with Stephen Yates. Here's a big question for you. We're going to completely flip the table here because I know we've got other issues, but I also think that cultural issues are important as well. There is a big dust up right now. With the Gaines. Chip and Joanna Gaines. I don't know if you've ever been to Waco, but Waco is basically Magnolia territory. Like right when you get into the town of Waco, everything is about Magnolia. Here are the silos. Silo there. Good to see you. I mean, it's Waco, Magnolia. Really, it's just Magnolia. They're probably going to rename it. Who knows? They it's I mean, they own the town like they control everything in the town. Basically, it's you know, it's a cute cutie little town, but they've gotten very, very famous. They had their HGTV show and they've gone on to go leave HGTV and create their own media entity, which I think has been very successful. And there are a lot of people that are big fans of them. And I've been down. I've taken my mom down there before. And they're very faithful people. They're Christians. They've talked about their faith. And now they're kind of in some hot water. And it's not hot water the way you think it would be, right? Because they've previously been in trouble because they've been Christians, right? Now they're accused of going woke because they feature a same-sex couple in their new series. It's a series called Back to the Frontier on that new network they created, Magnolia Network series. It premiered on July 10th. And they, I guess, select the people that are going to be on the show and And they I haven't seen it, the show, but they go to the frontier. That sounds like camping. That's too close to camping to me. And you guys know how I feel about that. Sidebar, if you're unfamiliar with it, we invented the house as a people. I don't like appropriating my ancestors way of living because we have all of these new innovations. And, you know, I mean, I hate modernity, but I love electricity and hot water. So, you know, there we go. So anyway, they have a Texas couple that appear on the show with their two sons and their their two men. And they're one of the three couples, they live like 1800s homesteaders. Sidebar, sidebar again, sorry. There's no social media in the 1800s, so that probably, that's a big selling point for me. Would you like to get away from influencers selling you the exact same stuff that you can find at HomeGoods? Yes, you do. You want to get rid of, okay, you want to get away from all the white, okay, let's go be homesteaders in the 1800s. So, they... they're getting a lot of heat because they featured the same-sex couple in their show as one of these three couples, right? They're getting a lot of heat for it. And to the point where you have the American Family Association that has, Babylon Bee has said something about it, American Family Association. There are people that are concerned because they expected the gains to continue to upholding biblical values and make that part of what their work is. And the AFA said, quote, it's sad and disappointing because they've been very influential in the evangelical community. They've stood firm on the sanctity of marriage, etc. Said they're not sure why they've reversed course. And the comments have been very interesting. They've gotten a lot of heat in the past. I don't know for not having gay couples on their shows. Like when they were doing their house flip, the show where they flip the houses. Apparently they had never had like a gay couple on their show and they were getting heat for that. I don't know if this is to maybe satiate some of those criticisms. But I do think that it poses a problem for them. And here's why. I think it poses a problem for them because, first off, I think that they need to handle it better on social media. Social media is a poor place to mitigate things. Number one, especially of this nature, because everybody's immediately defensive because social media by entering it is a defensive place. That's why everybody's miserable. Everybody only wants to show you the pretty curated side of things because everybody's so judgmental. Social media is where people go, especially Instagram. And they they they want to either jealously lurk or they want to flex. It's like one of the two. So that's why I hate social media. It's why I'm not as active on Instagram as I used to be because I just can't. It's just that I can't. I don't know. But they have been getting a lot of criticism from a lot of pretty influential people on the right. I think the problem that they have is when they started building their new business, when they started in this industry, they really came out very strongly as a Christian family and a Christian couple, and that's how they promoted themselves. They talked about faith, they talked about family, family values, and their work as kind of like a mission, basically, like an extension of their ministry, so to speak. And they really leaned into that. And that's great. The problem is, is there are certain demographics that when you lean into, you can't compromise it after you lean into it. If you're going to go the evangelical route, if you're going to go the Christian route, you cannot temper it by including like a same-sex couple. Because A, that's not your base. And it's not your base. And B, it looks inconsistent. And authenticity... If there's anything that we've learned with the advent of social media and oversharing is that authenticity is king. People like authenticity. They are gravitating away from the highly stylized curated stuff and they just want the real thing. They want authenticity. This looks highly inauthentic. It does kind of seem like they're doing it. And as a way to maybe insulate themselves against some of the criticisms they have received. And I'm just speculating for on my part here because I don't know why they would do it. I mean, there's certain things you can be as loving as you want to. And it has nothing to do with being mean or loving. You know, a lot of Christian people. They think, well, you know, there's multiple different kinds of sin. And one of the reasons that people, you know, try to speak about it is because they love people and they want people to be able to join them in heaven. And that's, you know, I remember Penn and Teller, I think it was Penn who had said, because he's an atheist, and he had said that he actually, of all of his friends, he loves his Christian friends. And he was saying that someone asked him if he was ever annoyed that they were trying to like witness to him. And he said, no, I would be mad at them and think they were inauthentic if they didn't. Because... If they really believe this and they really believe in this kind of life after death, then why wouldn't you want someone that you care for to take part in that? And so they're reaching out to me so that I can experience that. And he had said that that was, you know, it really, he kind of uses that as a basis to determine someone's validity and their belief set. And I think that makes a lot of sense. And I apply that to this situation as well. And I think that Christians, especially those who have followed the Gaineses this entire time, they have every reason and justification to question, why are you doing this now? It would be one thing if they started and they came out as, what am I thinking? Not agnostic in terms of belief, but agnostic in terms of their content, what they talked about their content and the perspective through which they wanted to show you their content. And they didn't take that route. And that's why it feels like a 180 to so many of their base, because now it kind of seems like regardless of where you're at, it kind of seems like they're doing it. It would be like, you know, it would be like a gay couple all of a sudden, you know. Going back on and going the other way. It just it's inconsistent. It doesn't make sense, especially if you've built your career on this. Right. It would be like that show Queer Eye for the straight guy just having like all straight stylists or something. You know what I mean? It's just different. Why would you why would you flip like that with your base? And I think that this is what a lot of people are asking questions on. And I've never met Chip and Joanna Gaines. I know his sister. And they're the sweetest family. And I don't think that anybody's doing this or having this position or expressing defense of their position out of meanness or cruelty. But I do think that he's coming across as a little bit too defensive on social media. And you got to be careful with that because social media does not allow for a lot of nuance. And when you seem overly defensive, you seem hostile and you really want to avoid that, especially as it concerns this topic. Um, and the, what I get from them is they're saying that, you know, uh, This is it's about showing love and it's about, you know, showing, you know, including people showing love or whatever. And this is the defense that he has given in a couple of different tweets. I understand the Christian criticism of it, that you don't show love by mainstreaming what the Bible has declared to be a sin. And you don't show love and acceptance by making someone easy in a behavior that goes against the scripture you claim to uphold. And I understand the criticisms that these individuals have. And that's not the media misrepresenting it. And it's not these people misrepresenting their intentions. You cannot create an entire industry based on faith and as an extension of your faith and then be seen as compromising it to the people who help build your business. That's the real problem here. And it does seem like whenever people get to a certain point in success that that tends to happen. It is very, very hard to stand your ground. And there's all different types of ways that people try to use to justify it. But it is a very unpopular thing to say that the Bible says what it says. And that's what the Bible says. If people have a problem with it, they can take it up with God, not the people who are reading the Bible and just simply repeating what it says. It has nothing to do with a feeling of hatred or anything else. Again, you either believe or you don't. You don't get to pick and choose what parts of Scripture you want to believe and what parts of Scripture you don't. And everybody falls short, by the way, of perfection. There's no such thing. I mean, that's why, you know, churches are oftentimes viewed as a spiritual hospital, so to speak. But... I don't know what their motivation for doing this is, but it doesn't look good. And I think they need to find a different way to address it than what they're doing now, because this is going to really hurt them, especially now with younger generations being more conservative and demanding more authenticity and consistency. This is a really bad sign. We got more on the way as we roll towards headlines and our partner, the folks over at Alio Capital. This is such a brilliant way to use AI. And if you're one of those individuals, whether it doesn't matter if you're hands-on or you don't want to be hands-on, Alio... can make this happen for you. I mean, it's so easy. Allio Capital makes it so easy. It's really the next generation of investing. And it is macro. It's macro strategy that's put right into your hands. And it's flexible wealth growth. So you can manage your own investments. You can let AI handle it. They give you the tools for smart, confident, macro driven investing. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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All right. First up, man, this one headline totally distracted me and I apologize. Well, I'm just going to say it's it's a story from New York Post. This is daily showers are purely performative and have no real health benefit. Did a landfill write this? Did an actual physical landfill write this? But yeah, what in the world? I don't know. I don't even know. But they said that, yes, you know, you don't have to take it. They were the experts, whoever these experts are. We're trying to say, oh, you don't have to take them every day. You know, you don't. It's not really necessary. You know, maybe, you know, a few times a week. Instead, you can. Some say that you could actually spray yourself with good bacteria that neutralizes your smell making chemicals. That sounds disgusting. No, no. No. I haven't heard of this. A hippie who lives in a landfill wrote that. That's, I mean, that's truth.
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A gym, I think this is a gym in Britain. Of course it is. It's a UK gym. They banned women from the age of 24 from working out during peak times. Like they banned. It's a 36 year old woman reported it. They her gym banned women over the age of 24 from working out during peak hours. So the gym from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday is reserved exclusively for females aged 12 to 24. I have no idea why. Also, just because you go to a gym doesn't mean every guy wants to hit on you. Get TF over yourselves. Not everybody wants to hit on you. And also, if you're doing influencer stuff in the gym and hogging machinery, I would be absolutely one of the people who would bully you about it. Stop it. I don't know why people are so ridiculous. So she's leaving that gym, by the way. I didn't even know. That's horrible. Let's see. Superman opened to 123 million. Also, a flight from London to Cancun landed in the U.S. after a fight broke out on board. We're all real excited about that. I'm telling you. Sure. We got to tell you what Elmo did over the weekend. Stick with us. Yeah. The folks over at Kel-Tec, the Generation 3 Sub 2K is one of the latest from Kel-Tec. And it folds fast, optics stay in place, deploys fast, zeroed, and ready. It's innovation with a twist, now available in 10mm. It's the third generation. It's their folding carbine, and you can get it in a variety of calibers, now available, as I said, in 10mm chambering. And it has a single twist and fold motion of its rotating forend that folds it quickly in half, optics and all, so you don't have to detach anything anymore. And it deploys optics and all zeroed and ready to go. Folds down to 16 and a half inches for storing and storage and transport. Super easy. Takes Glock mags. You got a lot of capacity for whatever your shooting needs are. Blowback design for ease of maintenance. Consistent performance. Internal buffer for softer recoil as well. And you got rails for accessories. Integrated M-LOK. You need to check it out. Kel-Tec Weapons. K-E-L-T-E-C Weapons dot com. Learn more there. It's the third generation sub 2K. Tell them Dana sent you.
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Did you guys hear what Elmo did over the weekend? Yeah, Elmo. First off, I got to say, I never thought being able to do the Elmo voice would ever come in handy. It's like one of those weird skill sets that you just don't ever need unless Elmo decides to do what Elmo did. I can't even read the tweets that Elmo sent. He has almost, well, I mean, over half a million followers. Over the weekend, he began posting some provocative and offensive material So he said, quote, This is really what he tweeted. And then he said, And then he just kept saying this over and over again. He clearly was hacked. Are you okay, Cain?
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Release the fires!
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But that's what he did. I mean, he literally tweeted, quote, kill all Jews. Almost says some all Jews when I say it. So he clearly was, I can't even read. He accused Trump of being a pedophile, basically. And I can't even read some of this. And he replied to a number of people using that phrase. Same language. So all of the posts and replies later were deleted. A Sesame Workshop spokesperson confirmed, quote, Elmo's ex-account was compromised today by an unknown hacker who posted the disgusting messages, including anti-Semitic and racist posts. We're working to restore full control of the account. Today's anti-Semitism brought to you by the letter B for bigot. Wow. So when is, I'm just curious, when is Elmo going on Tucker? Sorry. Did I say that out loud? Let me rephrase that. Let me rephrase that. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to. When is Elmo going to do a podcast with the Taint Brothers? Shoot. Let me try this again. Got to keep. When is Elmo going to run for mayor of New York City? There it is. Yes. I know. See, that's where it's. I mean, I'm I'm sure me and I wouldn't be surprised if I liked some of it. But yeah, his account gets hacked. I can't even like some of this stuff. Some of it was like really in the weeds. I don't even know. Like that's a level of anti-Semitism that goes into the weeds that I don't even know.
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I find it hard to believe that the Elmo account doesn't have two-step authentication or any sort of protected.
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You didn't know that a puppet didn't have two-step authentication?
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Right, the puppet calling the president a puppet. Yeah, you would think he would have some security measures in place on that account like everyone else does.
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Yeah, you'd think. You'd think. So, I don't know. It looked bad. It looked... I mean, when you have Elmo out there talking about, thank you, J-O-O-O-O-S. Yeah, it's kind of bad. You know, I mean, I don't know. Maybe Elmo will be invited to go and debate my friend Josh Hammer at the next symposium. Oh, my gosh. Just keeps going. Just keeps going because it can. I don't know. I'm really actually not surprised. I was just waiting for Sesame Street to go full on, you know. From the river to the sea. You know, do all. Globalize the infantile. Do all that stuff. Just was waiting for it. Yes.
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I have a hard time believing it was hacked and it wasn't some just emotionally and mentally ill leftist that's, you know, near this account or that works directly with the folks tied to this account. I don't think this is just a hack.
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I mean, it's Sesame Street. It's weird over there. It's definitely weird. It started getting weird like 20 years ago, and now it's just like it arrived. It arrived at the train station of... Where are we at? That's where we are. It's going to run for mayor of New York, though, for sure. I mean, he's going to almost going to be the new mayor of New York. Like all the people who are supporting. It's ma'am, Danny. They're they're going to be like, wait a minute. He's more like Hitler than you. We're going to go for him. I'm just saying makes makes all this. And speaking of that, I saw this this guy, Omar. How do you say his last name? F.A.T.E.H. Fata. Sounds like Cartman trying to say fatty. He's running for Minneapolis mayor to raise the minimum wage by over four dollars over a few years, freeze rent and what he describes as Trump proof the city. Now, I've seen a lot of people who say that he looks just like the guy who was on that ship movie with Tom Cruise. And he was like, I'm the captain now. Where are these like hardcore commies coming from? That's the mill. Like they're coming out of the woodwork right now and they all want to run for mayor. Everybody wants to run for mayor of some city now. Audio sound by 22. He is a second generation Somalian, Omar Feta. He's a socialist. Here he is announcing his run. Listen.
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Well, he was announcing his run. With a second full-time job and a kid on the way, everyone keeps asking me, Omar, why aren't you doing more videos? As a state senator with a second full-time job and a kid on the way, I just haven't been able to find the time. I've also been fighting for you, passing things like tuition-free college for working-class families, rideshare protections for our Uber and Lyft drivers, and the legalization of fentanyl testing strips. But this summer, you're going to be seeing a lot more of me because we deserve nice things in Minneapolis too. To make an affordable Minneapolis that works for everyone, we need a mayor that works as hard as usual. I'm ready to work hard too. One, build a Minneapolis that working people can afford to call home. Two, protect our city from a hostile White House. And three, diversify our city's public safety.
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What does that mean? Wait, okay, pause it, pause it, pause it, pause it. wait what did he say decreasing or increasing diversity of their emergency rescue response what does that mean thank you for calling 9-1-1 are you press the press the button to whatever emergency corresponds with your current situation one if you're in a fire two if you're in a flood three if you're in a tornado four if you're being attacked mugged raped etc you press a button And then it asks you, please select the color of your first responder. Black, white, Asian, just like goes through every ethnicity you can think of. Is that what they're talking about? Because I don't know what that means. I really don't know what that means. When they say we have to diversify our city's public safety response, what the hell does that even mean? Kane?
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I mean, with more safety things?
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Yeah, you would think it means we're going to have a number of different safety responses. That is a smart way of thinking. I think you're probably not right.
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That's a shame. Just saying. I don't know. It's weird, right? I don't get it.
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They throw that word in there, diversity, as though it is a valuable word in all cases.
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Yeah. But he's like, we need, what did he say? Free college tuition for working families. So the teachers are going to work for free? Right. Does anyone stop and think what that means? So the teachers are going to work for free, right? What are you going to be when you grow up? I'm just going to be a slave of the state. I'm going to work for free so I can provide free college tuition. Because otherwise you're demanding that other people pay for your college education. And that's welfare. And that's not American. So... These people have no idea how... an economy works. Also, I just, I just, it's making me really reconsider citizenship requirements for elected office, like all of them. You know what I mean? When you come to the United States of America, again, the one thing that the commonality is that that shared desire for freedom is And that's what makes someone American. When you come to the United States and you want to be free, it's that shared desire, that animating spirit of liberty, as our founders discussed. It's not a skin color or ethnicity or religion or anything else. It is the desire to be free. And when people come here and they have a desire to not be free and, in fact, enslave people so that they can have a quasi-kooky economic Marxist scheme orchestrated in whatever city they want to run for office, then that's un-American. That's not part of that animating spirit of liberty. That's blatantly un-American. That's all I hear from this guy. But, you know, he'll probably win. It's Minneapolis, for crying out loud. I mean, he probably will win. Speaking of lefty places, did you guys hear how Gavin Newsom, remember the strawberry farmer that he was talking about? He kept saying that all these are strawberries. The strawberry farm that was raided. I didn't know you could smoke strawberries and get high cane. Wait, is it like a special type of like marijuana where it's like a strawberry marijuana? I don't think so. I don't know. But he was complaining that they're being investigated. He said, you know, kids running from tear gas, etc. It's just nothing. But these are these are strawberry farmers. Well, did you know that one of the strawberry farmers that was apprehended? He was sentenced for seven years for kidnapping and attempted rape. And he has been previously convicted for child molestation. He was literally at a pot farm. with 10 kids. I think the oldest one was 14. 10 kids, the oldest being 14. Wow. That's who he's protecting? That's who he's protecting. Like actual, literal rape, convicted child molesters and rapists, like convicted rapists. Wow. The juveniles, the kids that they found They not a single one of them had family or parents there. They were all what they called unaccompanied, meaning they had nobody that, you know, came with them. They that's part of the trafficking thing. This is, by the way, under Obama, Biden, when they were bringing all these people were coming across the border, they were the ones who instituted the different holding areas for kids and adults. In lieu of stopping the open border, they decided to do this to somehow at least assuage whether or not these kids were with family members or if they were just like being trafficked over by cartels. And what they discovered was when they would get the kids and they would hold them and find out if the adults that they came with were their parents or not, they weren't, by and large. Terrifying. That's why you had so many kids that went missing during the Biden-Harris era. But that's where all that came from, the kids in cages. All of that came from that era because they had so many people coming across the border. And some of the kids, they were seen repeatedly. And this was something when we were down there that was something that – it actually shocked me that was brought up. They said, yeah, some of these kids come across like four and five times. I'm like, wait, what? Yeah, and then they go back over the border. They're sold. These kids were used as a way to expedite entry and expedite processing because, oh, you have a minor with you. And then they would be basically abandoned after they would get through and they were released. So that's what they found here. Not a single one of these kids had a family member or a parent with them. Can you imagine being like an actual kid? And I'm not talking like a 19-year-old where they were trying to say, oh, a 19-year-old kid coming through the United States. No, like actual child. You're in a foreign country. You can't even speak the language. You're brought over against your will. You're used to – and now you're being used for free labor if you're not being paid a bond. That's – wow. That all happened under the previous administration and they were working and it was happening right under the nose of Gavin Newsom in California. Maybe he was too busy podcasting. to pay attention to what was happening, you know, with one of his donors' farms. Oh, what? What? We got a lot more on the way as we move. So you guys know these have been a longtime sponsor of the show, Super Beats, these folks. They have a new product called Super Boreen. It's all about healthy metabolism and healthy blood sugar support. And you can get it at Sam's Club now for like less than a dollar a day when you go in. I mean, it's that affordable. And you're going to see the difference. It's such a great product. And they have really, really done everything possible to deliver really good concentration without any GI distress with this. They use a unique berberine. It's been clinically studied. It delivers nearly 10 times higher the absorption rate than standard berberine. 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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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All right. So this I don't know why this guy would do this. A Florida man faced three point six million in fines for allegedly posing as his dead father to perform seven hundred and twenty four building inspections. That's, wow. Miami-Dade and Broward, they said hundreds of inspections may have been performed by somebody that didn't have the credentials. Enrique Fernandez Jr. was accused of using his late father's credentials to submit as many as 724 inspection reports, project affidavits, and other building reports. And, wow, he denies it. But I don't know how you can deny that. He's facing $3.6 million in civil fines. But so far, they haven't filed any criminal charges yet. But it was discovered after... there were several pretty sizable building projects that underwent plumbing and electrical and mechanical inspections and he signed his name and somebody noticed it and that's how it all kind of kicked off just like why would you why why it's not something you can just oh well my dad did it this is not it's like a family business that you can pick up you got to go and good heavens good heavens uh florida man robbed his store dressed as spider-man That makes sense. I mean, he wasn't content with just wearing the mask. I mean, he had to go for the whole thing. He showed up to a Winn-Dixie Wine and Spirits store, and he stole $150 in liquor, $420 in Newport cigarettes. That seems like a lot, but aren't cigarettes expensive? They are. So that's probably like, what, one carton or something? I don't know. Newport? Yeah. That is something I've not heard of in a long time.
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How do you steal more in cigarettes than liquor? Anyway, he's a repeat offender. I just find it interesting. You dress up as Spider-Man. You steal Newports and liquor. More Newports than liquor. Okay. All right. There you go. Yeah. All right. A Florida man. If I can pull this up. He was arrested in an Atlantic Beach drug house raid. And he insists that he didn't do anything wrong, you guys. The Atlantic Beach Police Department obtained a search warrant for a house. They received complaints from the entire community. And guess what they found when they went in? All kinds of meth and other drug paraphernalia. Tons of meth, though. William O'Farrell was arrested along with his roommate, Conley Kirkland. Are they from Ireland? He says, I'm not doing nothing. I'm just trying to survive, he said. So I didn't even know that this was an actual charge. He's charged with maintaining a drug dwelling. And the other guy is charged with possession of all the meth. And he goes, he was asked if he considered that his house was a drug house. And he said, quote, no, I just rent rooms. I need the money for rent. That's all. What people do is not my business. Well, yeah, it kind of is your business because you're in trouble for it because it's your business. That's sort of how all of that works. We have more in store. We also have Stephen Yates. He's going to be joining us later on, coming up in our third hour. Stick with us.
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These are State Department people that all got fired.
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And to those that have been rifted, to those that have been fired today, I just want to say I'm sorry.
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And you have deserved better than this.
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I think every single person, when you leave this building, you walk through those doors for the final time, you should do it with honor and dignity. You should not do it out of humiliation and out of this type of weaponization of politics.
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Oh my gosh, stop it. I can't with these people anymore. I'm so done with it. Welcome back to the program. First off, Dana Lash with you. Top of this third hour Friday. Or sorry, Monday. Third hour, Monday. Sorry, did I trick you? The State Department, they started... They were terminating... I think it was like over 1,300 positions. They were trying to trim the size of the federal workforce, right? And this was the reaction. All of these people... Do they, Cain?
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Yeah.
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Who pays those people?
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Oh, you and me.
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Because it's taxpayer dollars.
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They do not contribute. They may say they pay taxes, but guess what? They pay taxes on money that were originally our taxes. Correct.
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Correct. Yeah, we pay them. They don't add to the tax base. The tax base is supporting them. They said the layoffs are going to affect 1,107 civil servant positions, 246 foreign service officers with assignments in the U.S. Employees begin receiving termination notices, informing them that their positions were being abolished. And that's when you saw, that's what this video was. They were tearfully leaving, crying, met by a crowd of clapping supporters. Some of the people bawling. I mean, it sucks when you lose your job. I'm sure it's sad. But, you know, you're in the government. We got a guy who's in the White House who was like, I want to shrink the size of the government as much as I can. A lot of people want to shrink the size of government. It's too large. What did you think was going to happen? Like nobody read the room. I guess they're like, I'm just going to stay here forever. Maybe if I'm quiet, no one will see me. It's not really how it works. It's not how it works. Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, said that the cuts are going to make the diplomatic department more efficient and more focused. He said that, you know, it's a consequence of trying to get rid of people. If you close a bureau, you don't need those positions. He was saying that they needed. And I do agree. There's just too many damn people that work for the government. It's ridiculous. You do not need you do not need all of these people. This is so stupid. It's part of this reorganization plan for the department that they provided Congress. It's an 18 percent reduction in U.S. based staff. So they're getting all of this, by the way. It's like. I was looking at some of the details of the positions. These are just... It's all administrative stuff. It's all administrative. Some of them were tasked with oversight from Afghanistan, from Biden-Harris. That worked real well with all those people there, didn't it? I mean, couldn't you tell the difference that there were 11 million people in that department overseeing the drawdown and the... Very eventful withdrawal from that. Right. Just made a lot of it was real helpful. Right. Came to have all those people there. Yeah. I mean, you could definitely tell the difference in service for sure. They said that the. The group was upset. They said the layoffs are targeting people from where they happen to have been assigned. And that's not reform yet actually is. I just I am I supposed to feel sad that my government is shrinking because my tax dollars support it? I don't feel bad. And I've had people send me pretty hateful emails saying that you're callous and cold hearted for not. It's not my that's not my problem. If you're upset because you have a government position and you didn't read the room and your position is being terminated, you are not going to bully me, the taxpayer, into feeling otherwise. You're just going to piss me off more and make me even more entrenched. That's exactly what happens. I've had email from people like I listen to your show, but after your callous remarks over government jobs, I just can't. It turns out they were they literally one of them literally sent it from a government email. I'm like, what the hell are you doing at work that you're not working and you're firing off emails to me because you don't like what I'm saying about the size of government? Tough beams. Tough. There's, you know, it's not our responsibility to keep you happy in life. You know, my gosh, I just really get aggravated at this idea that a government worker is somehow like a protected class all on its own and that they are owed from us something. It's like me being losing a government job and then like haranguing Cain over it. Like, how dare you want to save your tax dollars? People are taxed to blanking death here, guys. And beyond. And beyond. Oh, yes, it's an issue that I am forever enraged about. This and guns literally are the two issues that will send me into the stratosphere. So, yeah, I'm not going to... And to be lectured, this is what a reduction in government sees. Be a part of the solution, not the problem. It's pretty simple. So this... I mean, I don't know. It's just very difficult to feel bad about any of this. We were talking, too, about the... A couple of other things here. The auto pin, the use of the auto pin. We talked about that in our first hour. But if you haven't, and I'll make sure you get it in the prep, this New York Times piece, where it felt like they were trying to do damage control for potatoes, but it didn't... It ended up making him look worse. I don't know that you can make what he did look better. He was saying that, oh, yes, he made these decisions that were recorded with the auto pen. But then at the same time, they illustrate that he granted his staff the use of his auto pen because he had, quote, granted clemency to so many people, end quote. Okay, so reconcile that with the headline. Reconcile the text of the story with the headline. You can't. Literally, they had in this, let me pull this up. He said he had to use the auto pin because there were so many pardons he granted. And they actually, it's like they were, he was saying that we're, quote, we're talking about a whole lot of people. It sounds like he doesn't know all of them, Cain. I mean, there was quite a bit. The only one that he signed with his own hand from December to January was for Hunter. And then apparently, I guess, the auto-pin went to Milley and Fauci. They all had the auto-pin. And he had said that when he was talking about why he did it, he was mentioning Trump in this, but he said, quote, everybody knows how vindictive he is, so we know what they do. So we knew that they do what they're doing now. And so he wanted to shield his family from large legal bills fighting potential cases. You mean like trying to impeach somebody without literally any evidence and no criminal charges? That sounds good. I mean, you when you impeach a president, there's I mean, it's a process that you bring a criminal charge. There was no criminal charges that were brought against Trump. They just impeached him. They tried to use impeachment as a censure is what they tried to do, which was very dangerous that they did that. But this, I don't know. The auto pin, I do not believe that he knew. I don't think that he knew every single one. I don't think that he consented to have every single one of these pardons granted. Or any of the clemency issued. I don't believe it at all. I mean, they really have no proof of it. I told you that they were sharing emails with each other. the emails were worded in a way that to me, it kind of signaled that they were trying to establish some sort of a, a paper trail defense in case anyone ever wanted to come back and question the validity of the pardons that he was issuing because they would all say, Oh, you know, like, um, uh, the president, you know, he, he has final say, you know, for all of this stuff, you know, he's got five for the emperor. Yeah. You know, he's got all the thrown a dark tide reference. But yeah, there was they have some of the emails like they had one of his chief, one of his counsel, Mr. Siskel. They would say that Biden would give consent like oral consent in these meetings and that his secretary who manages the auto pen was there and she would hear the consent. And then that's how they did. That's on super official and legit game. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And legal. So that's and that which brings the question of, well, if he didn't consent, how is it a legitimate pardon? I mean, you can't just say, yes, use the auto pen. You have to consent to either the clemency. pardon whatever of this of a particular individual you can't just oh yes well i just consent like you know generally go ahead now you have to you know there's a there's a federal process even potus has to follow and i just don't know how indicating verbally in a meeting with no record that yes i i want to yes we'll pardon this person so however many thousands it was that that's us bro But then it raises the question, do you honestly feel that Republicans are going to dive in and look at every single one of these? Because already, you know, the whole Epstein thing, you were told one thing and now something else is entirely happening that's different. Right. Is this going to be another one of those situations? Are you going to be told to get over it? By the way, telling people to get over it, no matter how much they love you, you can't do that. I don't care if Trump just proved that that's the one thing you can't do. is tell people to get over an issue that they feel very strongly about, like the Epstein thing. That's why so many people are livid on the right. I don't think that like Kash Patel and some of these others, I think that they just kind of walked into this and there was an established expectation of how this was going to be done. And I think that they don't necessarily agree with it. I also don't think that you should take you know, certain positions as career building moves. But, you know, at the same time, all of this does come back to Bondi. But Trump has stepped out and said that he doesn't think that Bondi has done anything wrong and everybody needs to move on. And people don't want to move on because it's a two tier system of justice. And that's the trend with this, with the auto pin, with, you know, the immigration story. That's the commonality. It is a two tier system of law and order. And we would never be able to get away with any of this. In fact, these people shouldn't be getting away with any of this, but they're being allowed to because of the positions that they're in. And that's why people feel so strongly about this. It's not as simple as just we'll get over it. The guy's dead. No, people want to know whether or not there are individuals that have engaged in egregious lawbreaking and whether or not they're being protected by the system, the same system that expects them to follow all of these other laws. I mean, you don't want to get these people starting to pick and choose which laws they want to follow, too.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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All right, so first up, this is crazy. An Arizona man is killed inside of a hyperbaric chamber that caught fire. It was a resort community, Lake Havasu. They said it was, oh man, I don't want to give details of this. He was in a, oh, he was in a hyperbaric chamber, 43 years old. And apparently they had a reported emergency. They said he was in a chamber when the burns occurred. There was smoke throughout the building. Apparently they had a flash fire in the chamber with a patient inside. And the patient was pronounced deceased upon. Oh my gosh. That sounds horrific. Oh, my gosh. They're still investigating how this could have happened. Also makes me never want to go into one of those now. Why did you know that could happen? They're investigating exactly what happened, the circumstances surrounding this incident. But, oh, my gosh. Also, this two girls, ages 13 to 14, charged in a swarming attack at a pizza restaurant. What is a 13 and a 14-year-old doing this? Why is anybody doing this? It was a swarming attack at this pizza restaurant. Police said that, well, they announced the arrest on Friday. They identified another suspect, an 11-year-old boy, but they're not charging him because of his age, and they're still looking for some of the other suspects. It was on July 2nd, and it occurred at a pizza restaurant, and they were called to the restaurant for assault, and apparently all these kids, like, started creating a disturbance, and one of them jumped over the counter to try to take an item, and it all went sideways. These kids need to be beaten. That's what it was. High bacteria levels have closed more than 30 Massachusetts beaches ahead of the weekend. Oh, why? They said that it's high bacteria levels. Thirty five beaches are going to be closed. This they said that they have an interactive beach quality beach water quality dashboard. You need that. I just feel like I don't want to go there regularly if you need that. They update this thing routinely. Just seems, you know. And a bite-ravaged backpacker was found alive after two weeks wandering in the remote bushland. We're running out of time now, but I'll save that one for you tomorrow. Stephen Yates up next.
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We've made a deal today and I'm going to have Mark speak about it. But we've made a deal today where we are going to be sending them weapons and they're going to be paying for them. We the United States will not be having any payment made. We're not buying it, but we will manufacture it, and they're going to be paying for it. Our last meeting of a month ago was very successful in that they agreed to 5 percent, which is more than a trillion dollars a year, so they have a lot of money. And these are wealthy nations. They have a lot of money, and they want to do it. They feel very strongly about it. And we feel strongly about it, too. But we're in for a lot of money and we just, we don't want to do anymore. And we can. But we make the best and we're going to be sending the best to NATO and in some cases to maybe, at Mark's suggestion, if we go to Germany where they're going to send early on missiles. and they'll be replaced and nato is going to take care of it it's going to be coordinated by nato and they're going to work very much with matt whitaker who's right here he's a great ambassador and matt's going to be coordinate you better do a good job matt i will but matt's going to coordinate he's a very talented guy he's going to coordinate everything
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Like he said, well, you better do a good job, Matt. I will. What else are you going to say? Welcome back to the program. Dana Lasher with you. We're at the bottom of this third hour. POTUS said he's made this deal with NATO, too, where we're going to be sending weapons to Ukraine through NATO. Is Ukraine paying for those weapons or is NATO paying for those weapons? Because the U.S. is the dominant force in NATO. And we fund two-third of their entirety of their defense spending. So I've got questions on this. I've got questions on like a million things. And we are so lucky in that we have a very generous person who joins us every Monday, our very good friend Stephen Yates. You've got to follow him on X if you don't already, at YatesComms. I follow him, and he has all kinds of great insight. He is a foreign policy expert, senior research fellow with the Heritage Foundation. His particular jam is China. But, you know, he covers absolutely everything. And he served in not one but two previous presidential administrations. I'm going to have to find a way to just like have like a wrestling announcer intro for you, Stephen. I think that's what we're going to do. It's good to see you, my friend. I wanted to kind of get your thoughts on this because, you know, I know under Biden and Harris, we talked about how. Our elected officials were kind of dragging their feet at selling anything to Taiwan, for instance, selling to them like they would be giving their own money to purchase things that we made. This seems a little different from that. I wonder, is that an accurate take? Like, is this is NATO purchasing these things because we that means we are purchasing things that we made?
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Yeah, well, I mean, it's a legit question. And you're right that the U.S. is a member of NATO and contributes a lot of money to NATO. My hunch is that what the president means and his European counterparts would correctly understand is he wants Europe to take care of Europe. And if that's by way of NATO, it means the wealthy European nations are the ones that put up the money. They whether they want to give the money to Ukraine and Ukraine makes the purchase or and then NATO is the conveyor of this or. But I think this is really just President Trump's way of working with what sounds for the moment to be a willing party. year in the leadership of NATO to finally have Europe take care of Europe on this. And you're right also that this would be selling, not giving, which is what we did several years of in the European theater with Ukraine. And it would be, I think, a significant shift into the right direction. We've done that in the Middle East, by and large, and we've done it in Asia. And now it's time for Europe to do the same.
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A 50 day kind of extension, I guess it's an extension, a 50 day extension for Russia to finally, I guess, come to a real genuine point in negotiations. Is that possible, though? I mean, they've been dragging it out for however many years. I just it just seems like it's the same conversation cyclically and nothing ever comes of it.
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Well, there's good reason to have that impression. I would say that I just live by an ethos that anything is possible. You just never know on any given day. Look at what happened in the first six months of this administration, things that have never happened before. And even just on any given month, things that had never happened before actually became reality. So I won't put it as an impossibility. But Vladimir Putin so far has proven deeply resistant to seeking peace. And President Trump has made clear I want to stop the killing and I want to pursue peace. And I don't know whether Putin's on board for either one of those. But I support the president trying. The alternative is kind of the slow road to nowhere that we were on before. And at least in this one, whether we've made progress on the ground with regard to Russia and Ukraine, we do have more of a burden shift to Europe. So there's been net progress, if not a solution so far. And at least in that, I would give the administration real credit.
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Do you believe for those tuning in, we're talking to our friend Stephen Yates. Do you believe some of these hyperbolic headlines that say kind of switching gears here somewhat that the reduction in international spending from POTUS is leaving the door wide open for China to come in and build influence? Are they even capable of actually doing that? Because. I would think at this point, everyone's sort of seen that the results of their Belt and Road Initiative and their shoddy craftsmanship, as a lack of a better way to put it. I don't I mean, does anybody really going to take China up on any kind of as a substitute for that?
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Well, for the most part, it's sort of a dash of truth and a mountain of hooey to go along with it. Our private sector vastly dwarfs what the government can and should do. And our private sector is everywhere around the world. There is nothing stopping any bleeding heart giver of all kinds of benefits through nonprofits to be genuine nonprofits rather than money laundering operations like those that hooked up to USAID in the past and actually deliver good help. to those in need in other parts of the world, or actually be pro-capitalist and pro-development and giving people a leg up into competitive international markets. So there's a huge part of this that I consider to be kind of the crybaby society that really works just at the welfare trough in Washington. But there is something to the notion, if you pull back a lot of assistance, at least in the short term, there's going to be projects that shut down and services that aren't going to be rendered. But this is a necessary change, so I'm not going to worry too much about it.
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Yeah, that's kind of what I was wondering, because I saw this. There was a headline similar to this on the Hill where it said, oh, China is going to be seizing the global advantage and they could become the leader and the main influencer because Trump is it's a I mean, I get it. It's a scare tactic to shame the administration out of making these reductions. It is.
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There's also an international resistance to seeing the president as being pro-human dignity and pro-worker. And I think both of those are deeply at the foundation of what he's trying to do, whether it's trying to get the American AI stack, the dominant one, which actually represents privacy and free speech and human dignity, whereas the Chinese stack never will. Yeah. And the same goes in other realms. And so a lot of international giving and the philanthropy and think tankery, they just aren't willing to see the president, what they're trying to do in this regard. And that's just missing, I think, the point of the movement that put him in place.
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Right. One of the things you noticed, speaking of China, is and I was pulling this up because you tweeted about it. The massive amount of fentanyl related. I mean, that basically originated from China. DPSC, 735 million lethal doses of Chinese made fentanyl under Operation Lone Star. I mean, I think the numbers were it's enough to kill every American twice. This is unbelievable. I love the way I and I hadn't thought of it. And I mean, I think of it as asymmetrical warfare, but asymmetrical warfare in the way that Kyle Bass said it's CCP waging chemical warfare on the United States. That I mean, that's that is a really straight no chaser way of putting it. And it's really true when you think of it in those terms. Seven hundred and thirty five million lethal deaths. doses. That is in the state we're in right now. That's insane.
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That's right. That's right. That's just one state, albeit a sizable one, as anyone from Texas will tell you. It's big, but it's still I mean, it's an astronomical development. I agree with Kyle Bass about it being a chemical weapon assault. That's one of the reasons why I support designating illicit fentanyl precursors as a weapon of mass destruction opens up a series of tools for the president to choose from to use against perpetrators. It doesn't go after people on the street. It goes after those bringing this crap into our country. And so I think that Kyle is right. It has been painful to just watch this basically angel of death just cruising through American families and communities with impunity for so long. And I think the people who are most affected are so isolated that there isn't a sense of just how many Americans are being lost. But if you just look at Four plus years of this, over 400,000 fatalities, countless others affected by it, either as patients or families and loved ones of those who were lost. I mean, this is an immense wound on the American fabric. And we know who's doing it.
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Why hasn't the administration classified it as such? It seems like that would be one of the easiest things that they could do. Are they worried about some sort of like international repercussion or what?
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yet there are a lot of things when you go in the government where there are lawyers at every level and policy deliberations at different levels that talk about the what ifs and the secondary consequences of things i think that's very manageable in this particular instance uh... well i think we had the bad example of some things being too broadly defined in applied post nine eleven in a panic it took a lot of years to fix some of that uh... and people want to avoid repeating giving too much of a broad brush on this. But to me, I think the slowness on it is partly because the president is trying to negotiate directly with the leader of China on a range of things. He's made clear that fentanyl is a priority in that at the very least. And then there's sort of the how do you implement this question? And are there resources to implement it if we make it policy? So I think is what the normal government sort of wonkery is that is slow rolling this. But I'd like to believe that if the president gets whiff of our conversation and others, they'd say, wait a minute, this is exactly what Kyle Bass and that crazy Yates guy have been saying. This is chemical warfare on us and it should be designated like this and we should put the tools in place.
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Yeah, absolutely. I mean, it seems like that would be the easiest thing to do, especially because it's so dangerous. And I just think, you know, And I know that there's some action. I think it's in the House right now about, you know, CCP farming, which we talked about last week. But I think of this and then I just go back to how easy it would be for them to have, you know, smuggled a bunch of stuff into the United States. I mean, anything's possible under the previous administration to have done. I mean, they already had the balloons going through the United States, I guess, as a way to test what our reaction would be. You know, they have drone capability. You know, you could you could. I guess, an aerosol form, fentanyl. I mean, I don't want to give anybody any ideas, but honestly, like there's a lot to be concerned about with this. And I just feel like it's not taken seriously enough.
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I don't either. I do know that people at the top are very motivated. When I talk to them, they're sort of like, oh, tell me more because this sounds very important and it sounds like something I'd want to support. Tell me more. And I think, well, you know, that's what the staffs are there for. And hopefully they're giving you the... They added info. You're not waiting for some guy on the street to come in and tell you what you need to know on this. So I hope that they do move on it. And I try to impose a degree of pressure on it. If you wait until after something catastrophic happens, then you have the tsunami of people saying, what do you wish you would have done now? uh that now you're having to catch up on and i think that designating this as a weapon of mass destruction is something that would be very easy and it will you face harsh criticism if you wait until something terrible happens to take that step completely agree our good friend stephen yates at yates comes on x go and find him always appreciate your insight my friend so good to see you thank you so much have a great rest of your week thanks so much dana take good care you too
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So out of all of the companies that do things wrong and all of the things that they do wrong every now and then you get one that does it right. Apparently, Ford has come out with a new like an actual positive America themed ad campaign. This is interesting. Ford Motor Company. They said that they had a new ad campaign and a new incentive program and that they have a pro-America campaign. This was their response to tariffs that outsold Toyota. Interesting. And that's per USA Today. They said that it was a moment in time. They said we were thinking, what would it take for Ford Motor Company to shine during this uneasiness in the market for both consumers and automotive companies? They're like, well, it's an American company. We make American things with American labor and our market's primary America. And so let's just so now they've outsold the number one retailer, Toyota, in the second quarter of this year. That's pretty significant. So they ditched all of their previous ad campaign plans and they spent their entire weekend before they launched it with honing their messaging. And it's Ford Motor Company from America for America. And I mean, that's pretty smart, pretty smart thing. So they figured out how to take advantage of this. And I just, you know, that's a way to do it. You know, when you go full America like that and you double down on it, I mean, that's like very appealing to people. It's very appealing. Imagine if we were able to do that with food. And the way that like Italy does with food, right? Like no chemicals, no pesticides. You're not, you know, and you're able to come out with all of this like really good produce and good beef and chicken and things like that. What if we started doing that with our wines out in California instead of adding all these sulfites and all these preservatives to it? Because that's normally when they have a reaction to wine, people are having a reaction to that. And like make American food healthy. And drink a great again like why can we why can't we do that? Like I mean you see it It works so well with this other stuff We need to be able to do that here I know that there's more things that go along with it than just doing it once you say it But can you imagine how amazing that would be? Can you imagine if we were able to get like flour here? American flour that doesn't have any other garbage in it because I have to get on I actually like a buy my my flour is from Italy and Because I have a reaction to all the stuff that they add to it to the point where my doctor was like, I think you're gluten sensitive because your inflammation, your inflammatory markers are out of control. It's like, no, it's all the chemicals that's in it. Why can't we do this too? All right. Before I take up all your time today in stupidity.
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All right, so it is Senator Padilla. I think he's from Texas.
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Would you say his name was?
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If anybody that speaks Spanish knows that Padilla means a shallow pan or a shallow indention in the ground. Either way, he's very shallow. This is him politically speaking because whenever he opens his mouth, that's what he does. Listen to this.
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What if I was outside of Home Depot? Because I like to do some work around the house, not dressed in a suit. Would I be a target of ICE enforcement under Tom Holman? Probably. And it's just wrong. It's not just due process rights that have become the concern, but racial.
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He's not the hottest pepper on the plant.
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No, he's not. No one's going to be like, oh, look at that guy. He sounds like a racist.
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They need you to be emotional about it is the thing.
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In this compelling episode of Rush to Reason, host John Rush dives deep into the discrepancies between expertise and reality. Joined by J.T. Young from the American Spectator, the discussion centers around the continuous misjudgments made by so-called experts on pressing global issues from inflation to international politics. With a critical lens, this episode exposes how media, establishment influence, and political agendas consistently overshadow genuine analysis.
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And we are back. Hour number three, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. J.T. Young joining us now, American Spectator. J.T., welcome. How are you?
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I am fine. It's a pleasure to be with you tonight, John.
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Always a joy. Welcome back. We appreciate it. The experts have a worse track record than broken clocks. And they do, by the way. Let's talk about it.
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Well, I think, as we all know, a broken clock is right twice a day.
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Correct.
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And the blind squirrel occasionally finds a nut. So far, the experts are running behind both the blind squirrel and the broken clock.
SPEAKER 06 :
It's funny you say that because – I mean, it's not funny because it's very true, but we talk about it on this program quite a bit, and it just – it cracks me up. It's like, okay, is it just because, JT, that experts don't look at things the same way that folks like you and I do? Because I live on Main Street, not any other place, by the way, but – and I don't consider myself to be any kind of a – I mean, I don't have a crystal ball. I don't see things any differently than I feel anybody else would see them, but – Why do these guys get it wrong so often?
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Well, I think we're starting to realize that, at least with the establishment media, that the biggest credential for becoming an expert, and put the quotation marks around that, is that you're going to blame Donald Trump for whatever crisis is that you're supposedly an expert about. And so as long as you do that, You're continued to be labeled as an expert, and they keep coming back to you, even though over and over and over again, from Iran to immigration, that you are wrong.
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I mean, they're wrong on that. They're wrong on the economy. They're wrong on tariffs. I mean, JT, I just keep going down the list. I mean, we've got a Fed even right now that's not going to do anything interest rate wise because they're waiting for the day that tariffs have something to do with inflation, when in fact they've literally done nothing along those lines. Inflation is definitely in check. If anything, we're seeing in some areas prices come down. And yet we've got, quote unquote, the experts just waiting for something bad to happen.
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Right, and John, to your point, remember who got us into the inflation concern in the first place? Yeah, they did. Yeah, thank you. It was the Fed. Yeah, thank you. For four consecutive years, and I don't fault the Fed for rushing in during the pandemic, but they didn't take their foot off the gas. They kept pumping money into the economy, liquidity into the economy, at the same time that the Biden administration was spending at crisis levels.
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That's right.
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And again, They did it for four straight years. And inflation peaked at a 40-year high early in that period of time. That's right. So the Fed was right there. Everybody saw it. Everybody remembers it. And they couldn't back off then. And yet now... they make a mistake on the other direction. So again, you go back to the broken clock.
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No, you are spot on. You're literally echoing the things that I've talked about here for the past couple of years. I mean... And not to just get off on the Fed. I mean, we could talk about everything from that to Iran to what was going to happen with oil prices if we did such and such with Iran. I watched so many even on social media, JT, experts claiming we're going to see $100 and $110 a barrel oil. It never reached any higher than $78. And that was only for a very, very short few hour period of time. And then it dropped right back down into the 60s. Again, the experts were wrong.
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And, you know, taking the Iran example, remember, oh, if Israel does this, if Israel lifts a finger to defend itself against Iran, which has been a global sponsor of terrorism, that, oh, Russia is going to come rushing in, you're going to have World War III, China will join with Iran, and China is so dependent on oil from Iran. None of that happened. And then... Remember, oh, it's the U.S., but if the U.S. comes in, it'll be a different story. No, same story. Nothing happened.
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And the way I look at that, JT, again, I'm not an educated man. I never went to college, never did anything along those lines. I mean, I am so far less educated than the quote-unquote experts are, but you use common sense in some of these situations and say, okay, let's talk about China for a moment, even in regards to tariffs. We're the world's biggest consumer, the world's biggest customer of all goods, as you know, JT, across the board. We buy more than any other country does, in most cases outside of China, tenfold over. I mean, the reality is we are the biggest customer. The reality is, you know, countries like China, Russia even, they need us. Without us, the rest of the world means nothing, economically speaking, JT. And let's face it, JT, money talks.
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Money does talk, and it speaks with a loud voice, and that's what you're hearing again and again, that the experts were wrong. You've already mentioned inflation, and it was attributed to how many different things? Oh, just as you were saying, it will be attributed to a strike on Iran. That will be terrible. Nope, it didn't happen. Oh, the Trump tariffs, that was going to trigger it. No, the president is approaching... His six-month anniversary and inflation is the lowest it's been in the last four years. So, yeah, money is talking.
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And really quick, JT, if you could get the Fed to even move – and I get it. The Fed moves short-term rates. I know that doesn't have an exact correlation with mortgage rates, but as time goes by – It does. We all know that. And the reality, JT, is if we had even a little bit of a downtick on the mortgage side, Trump's numbers would even look way better because you'd see a big, huge bump in housing. It's almost like and maybe I'm wrong in saying this. The Fed is supposed to be, you know, nonpolitical, although I think they're very political because the reality is it seems to me that they're trying to do everything possible to make sure Trump doesn't have bump in numbers.
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Well, it does look embarrassingly like that, and I would think the Fed should start to think that it doesn't want to appear like that, because that really does blemish what their reputation is supposed to be, which is you're supposed to be the umpire of the economy.
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That's right.
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But if you keep hitting – if they keep throwing strikes on the economy – At some point, you need to call one of these a strike and move on.
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And I'm glad you brought that analogy in because I'm going to throw something else at you because here in Denver, we're not the biggest fans of the Kansas City Chiefs. And you know this last year, the refs were called out numerous times when it came to either non or bad calls on the Kansas City Chiefs. And here's my point. Whether or not... they had any effect on the outcome of the game. It's the simple fact that people were talking in that way and blaming the officials for the outcome of certain games. And that's what I'm talking about in regards to the Fed. When it starts to look like, whether you are or not, but when it starts to look like that and people start chattering, you better fix it.
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Right. Your reputation follows. I mean, do you know the... It used to be the worst thing in pro sports, and it goes all the way back to the Black Sox scandal in baseball, which was the idea that the fix is in. And that's the death of your reputation.
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That's right.
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And I think the Fed should be very concerned about it.
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Well, as you know, on Friday, there were some rumors rolling around that, you know, the Fed chair, Jerome Powell, may be thinking about resigning. And I think J.T., he's got to do. Tell me if I'm wrong, but he's got to do one or two things. Either he needs to resign or he needs to do something with interest rates here this month in July, or he's going to go down with what you just said a moment ago. It's going to go down dramatically. as he being very political, and that's not a good mark on his reputation. He'll live with that for the rest of his life.
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Or the feds, and he should be concerned about the institution first and foremost. And I think it is time that he took a real look. And, of course, now he has painted himself into a corner because he's going to look like he's caved to political pressure, which was the last thing he wanted to do. I think we have seen he waited too long. to raise rates when inflation was rampant under Biden, and now he's waited too long to cut them under Trump. And it just gives the appearance that you're not playing by the numbers.
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You're right. Your recent book, Unprecedented Assault, talk about that for a moment as well and how folks can get a hold of it.
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I appreciate you bringing it up. It's called Unprecedented Assault. How Big Government Unleashed America's Socialist Left. You can get it off of Amazon, and I have a website for the book, jt-young.com, and I'll give you all the reviews on the book, which have been very favorable, and I'm blessed to be able to say that. And the whole idea behind the book was to take a look and explain what is unique in American history, which is America has long been known among Western democracies for not having a socialist party, and now clearly we do, and it is gaining strength. And so the book is really meant not as a series of examples, but an explanation for the first time as to why we're seeing this when we've never seen this before in a meaningful way in America's history.
SPEAKER 06 :
JT, as always, I appreciate it. It's always a joy talking to you. And I guess one last thing I want to ask you before we close out. Given the experts are always wrong, how do we get people to quit listening to them?
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Well, I think the first thing is you need to quit listening to the establishment media mouthpieces that are broadcasting them. Because as you already said, and so correctly so, money talks. And people, when they start losing the viewership, when people start turning away, they'll stop going back to the same tired voices that are saying the same tired things.
SPEAKER 06 :
Great point. Great point. JT, I'll leave it at that. Thank you very much. You're welcome anytime, sir.
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I appreciate it, John. You have a great night.
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You do the same. Have a great evening. J.T. Young, again, he writes a lot for the American Spectator and his website. One more time to get the book. It's JT-Young, JT-Young.com. Golden Eagle Financial is next. Al did a great interview of late. We'll be back right after that. Again, Golden Eagle Financial.
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TJ here with KLZ Radio, and I've got Al Smith from Golden Eagle Financial. How are you, Al? Oh, I'm doing great, TJ. How are you? I'm doing well. I was talking to my wife recently about IRAs, and it came to mind. I wanted to ask you, is that something you deal in? And if so, what's it all about?
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Well, I would say probably 80%, 90% of the people who come into my office and we sit down and have a conversation about their resources and so forth, I would say a very high percentage of them either have an IRA or they may be in the process of maybe moving their 401k to an IRA because they're severing their employment. So IRAs come up a lot.
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What kind of questions do you get around IRAs typically?
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Well, sometimes people ask me when do I have to start taking money out of my IRA, which are the required minimum distributions. Sometimes they ask questions about how much they can put into their IRA, which this year is $7,000 unless they're over 50. then they can put in $8,000. I usually end up recommending a Roth IRA because if people are younger, then that can grow tax-free and ultimately pay tax-free income. And Roth IRAs, they don't have required minimum distribution, so you can take the money out of a Roth IRA on your schedule rather than the Treasury Department's schedule.
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And Al, where do people normally go wrong with their IRAs before getting your help?
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By not starting one. As soon as you have earned income, you can be working at Starbucks at a very young age. And if you want to, you can be putting money into an IRA.
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Don't do the shoulda, coulda, woulda. Al, it's been a pleasure. Thank you for coming in today. Go to klzradio.com slash advertisers to find Golden Eagle Financial.
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Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Had a really nice text message, by the way, from one of you talking about the segments I do with my son Richard and how well he does and what AI tool do I use to clone my son. There is no AI tool, and I will just say this about all three of my boys, and I mean this sincerely. They are far better husbands, fathers. uh men in general than i could ever think of being and i mean that sincerely very proud of my boys so thank you by the way i i that means the world to me when you guys say things like that because as a dad um nothing speaks more volume than for you all to say the things that you do about them and i mean that sincerely so thank you thank you makes me cry but which i don't do very often by the way so Thank you. I mean that from the bottom of my heart. I really do. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. EV vehicles. I want to jump back to that. My son and I were talking about that, and we didn't have a ton of time to get into some depth on EV electric vehicles. For those of you that we hear that term a lot and. And I'm a car guy. Charlie was telling me earlier that I use a lot of terms in the car world that maybe only I and car people understand. So I will do a better job of making sure that I don't speak like a car nut, which I am. But EV vehicles, electric vehicles. And as I was talking during the last segment or the last hour of that last segment with my son, those credits federally. Now, what happens on the state level? You know what? It's anybody's guess. Now, here's my prediction when it comes to state credits and rebates. I think some states like Colorado, they're still going to want to push their mandate. So they're still going to offer some state credits for buying an EV. Now, how? How that all works, I don't know, because the one thing that I have yet to research is how many of our state credits, and Charlie, maybe you know this answer, but how many of our state credits have been tied to federal money? And I don't know that answer. I'm guessing there's probably more than we think, meaning if the Fed money runs out, the state money probably will as well. Now, there'll be some states that'll just flat say, OK, the Fed money is going away. We're going to do away with it as well. So you're just you know, you live in whatever state. You're not going to get anything, period. You want to go buy an EV, go buy an EV. And by the way, that's in my opinion, that's how it ought to be from the get go. If you want to buy an EV, great. Go buy one. I, as a taxpayer, should not be subsidizing that purchase, period. And especially with EVs, because it isn't even like a company and depreciation and that. No, it's literally, it's just straight money back to the person or money off right now. The way it works is you go to the dealership, and if you make under a certain amount of money, you walk into the dealership, and they just take that money right off the top. So if the car is $50,000 and in Colorado there's an $11,500 credit, that comes right off the top of the $50,000. And you pay the difference. That's it. The dealership is getting its money back through the various – entities that are out there making those credits happen and you just pay the difference and off you go you're not you're not having to apply for anything do anything on your taxes it's strictly a credit right on the purchase contract itself and away you go that's how it works right now that's ending september 30th of this year not next year this year so As Richard and I were talking, I do believe, and if these companies aren't working on it right now, they're behind. I would venture to guess they probably are, and now that the big, beautiful bill has passed and they know exactly what's in it, I guarantee you all of the marketing companies that work for the big auto manufacturers where they have got a substantial stake in EVs and want to keep selling them because they've made an investment in the technology, the building of the plants, and so on, If they're not currently right now working on how to market those particular vehicles, they're behind. And they will be behind. What I mean by that is, as we get further down the road, and you get to the end of September, by the way, there's going to be a big push, I think. You might even see some ads between now and then on, hey, if you want to buy an EV and get your credit, you better get in and do it now. You're going to see some dealerships and some manufacturers, I think, push that. It'll be interesting, though, to see what happens after that, because as Richard and I were talking, these manufacturers are now going to have to start selling EVs for what an EV is. Not because you're, quote-unquote, saving the earth and getting a big credit. No, you're going to have to now sell that EV on what does it give the customer that they may not get in their ICE, the internal combustion engine counterpart. And they're going to have to really work because they're going to work through that. Because I'll be honest, up to this point, they haven't done that. They haven't told you, you know, why should you buy an electric vehicle over a regular gas vehicle? And for a lot of folks that are out there, a lot of folks that are in the middle, that are even on the conservative side, that don't believe in electric vehicles because of the way they were pushed on everybody and the fact that we as taxpayers subsidize them, a lot of people are anti-electric vehicle because of that. And by the way, wrongfully, I don't think there's – it's not the vehicle's fault, by the way. You guys have heard me talk for 25 years on Drive Radio. I'm a car advocate. I always look at the car itself, not the politics around it. And I did that all the way back when Priuses first came out, and they got a bad rap from the conservative side, mainly because of how they were touted and so on. And what I would say is you should look at every car with an open mind. Every vehicle with an open mind. And we get so, I think at times, especially as a car person, people get into their, even their brand affiliation. You know, I'm only ever going to buy a Ford. I'm only ever going to buy a Chevy or a GMC or a Dodge or a whatever. I mean, they get so brand oriented that I won't even look at anything else. By the way, that's a really bad thing in today's world to do because so much great, so many great vehicles, I should say, that are produced So much of them, as I was going to say a moment ago, so much of them really having all very similar parts at the end of the day. I talk about this a lot on Drive Radio, whereby a lot of these manufacturers, and you see it when there's big recalls, like the Takata airbags, that affected almost every vehicle on the road, including BMW, Mercedes, Toyota, Kia, and everything in between. Because a lot of vehicles that are made today, there are only X amount of manufacturers that even make those components. So you talk alternators or starters or wiring harnesses or fuel injectors or seats or bumpers and all of that. The reality is there's only so many manufacturers to make those components that a lot of vehicles share similar components made from the very same manufacturer, whether you're buying a Toyota or a Chevy or you're buying a Nissan or a Kia. So any of you that are so brand-oriented, I'm sorry to say you're wrong. You're wrong. Because your brand, quite honestly, isn't any better than anybody else's brand. Every one of them. I get a report every Monday. I read through this today. NTHSA, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. They put out a bulletin that I get every Monday morning. on all of the recalls on vehicles that week. And as I read through that every single week, I mean, it may not be every week every manufacturer is on there, but if I roll through that four to six weeks, almost every single manufacturer of everything you can think of that those recalls cover from motorcycles to trailers to buses to motor coaches to regular cars and trucks and so on, everybody makes that list. There's rarely anybody not on that list, meaning every single manufacturer is going to have some sort of a problem because of what I said a few minutes ago about where all the parts come from. So there is no perfect vehicle made. I don't care how long you have been a Ford owner or a GM owner or a Toyota owner or a whatever owner. They all have problems. Now, I also am one, and I talk about this a lot on Drive Radio, the better you take care of your vehicle, no matter who makes it, the better it's going to take care of you. And that's pretty true across the board as well. That's a whole other conversation. I get into that on Drive Radio on Saturdays continually. But going back to the whole electric vehicle end of things, there has been substantial, because of government push, yes, there has been substantial investment made in the production of EV vehicles. If these manufacturers are smart and they want to continue to sell them, which if they want to recoup their investment, which in most cases they have lost a lot of money on EV vehicles, if they're going to continue to try to recoup that investment by selling more and more of them, they're going to have to do a better job of marketing those to the different people that are out there looking to buy new vehicles. And to Richard's point as well, something that right now none of them have done well that I've seen. None of them have done well. They have to train their people at dealerships on how to sell them. In most cases, and I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say this, you might find a few exceptions with some of the high volume EV, you know, electric vehicle type manufacturers or dealerships. You may actually find some folks at that dealer level that even understand, you know, that do understand electric vehicles and their pros and cons and so on. But I will tell you straight up, the majority of dealers that I have ever dealt with minus one or two have no clue the difference between an electric vehicle and a regular gas engine vehicle. Other than this one is here and that one is there and this one has this price and that one has that price. Other than that, I'll be straight up honest. Most of the salespeople have no idea the features and benefits and what you get out of owning an electric vehicle over a gas engine vehicle and vice versa. So that's something, by the way, that I think every manufacturer is going to have to do a better job, or at least the majority of manufacturers are going to have to do a better job of teaching their people how to actually sell an electric vehicle. Otherwise, my prediction, and I don't have a crystal ball, but if the manufacturers don't do what I'm saying, they'll fail. As soon as these credits run out in September, the $7,500 federal credit, as soon as that runs out, they'll fail. Because they're priced higher already than what gas engine vehicles are. You know, their gas engine counterpart, they're priced higher. And so when that credit goes away, those vehicles will be way higher in price than their gas engine counterpart, and they won't sell because there won't be any advantage to buying one at that point. So the manufacturers and the dealers are going to have to do a better job of teaching people these are the features and benefits and why you should buy this car over that car if, in fact, they want to keep selling them. So time will tell. We'll see if the manufacturers actually jump on board and actually make this happen. Or my prediction is you're going to see electric vehicle sales take a huge nosedive once we get into October, November, December, which normally keep this in mind as well. That is normally the high time of dealerships and manufacturers selling cars. Because the year-end, the closeouts and what they try to get done and what they try to get pushed, and companies are buying year-end stuff to help with taxes and so on and so forth. And so typically speaking, and that's when new models come out, by the way. So 2026s will start rolling out end of August, early September. So that's when the new models will start hitting showroom floors and so on, dealer lots. So the reality is typically... That time of the year is a high time for vehicle sales. So if EV sales don't tick up, it's over. They're going to just keep going down and down and down. So we'll see as we get into the last quarter of this year exactly what happens. My prediction is these manufacturers are not looking at it like I'm saying. They don't have somebody like me there telling them, guys, if we don't get on the stick and tell people why they should be buying electric vehicles, because they've really relied heavily upon these rebates, upon the incentives that have been coming from you and I as taxpayers. Once those incentives are gone, and I don't think those manufacturers are looking at it the way I am right now, we'll see who's smart and who's not as we get into October, November, December of this year, and we'll see what the marketing is like. But my prediction is EV sales will take a nosedive the last quarter of this year. We'll see what happens. Speaking of cars, Geno's Auto Service, a great member of my radio group on Saturdays as well as here daily. But Geno's Auto Service, if you want somebody to take care of your vehicle, do it in the right fashion, tell you what's going on, be honest with you, and offer you a nice warranty as well. That's Geno's Auto Service. 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All right, Rush to Reason, Debra's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Thank you again for all of the text messages that you guys have been sending in today. I enjoy each and every one of them. And one of you giving me lots of details on just government workers and the percentage of and so on. And, yeah, that is a topic in and of itself of far too many, in my opinion. We could cut workforce locally. nationally, statewide, on and on we go. Yeah, we could do that very easily. Okay, before our next break, because I went a little bit long on that last segment, Mother Jones. Most of you probably know who Mother Jones is, but that's a publication or a website, I guess I should say. Nobody does publications anymore like they once did, I guess, There are still some physical papers, I guess, Charlie, right? You can still get the New York Times or Denver Post or whatever. But by and large, most things are being run electronically. And really quick, speaking of the Denver Post, it is a website that I will never go to. And here is why. They rarely allow you to see anything they put on that website, even though it's full of ads. Because unless you have a subscription, you can't view it. So I just won't go there. So if somebody sends me something on Denver Post, you better send me the whole article because I'm not reading it. I won't go through all of their subscriptions and all the paywall nonsense and so on. I just won't do it. I have an utter disdain for the Denver Post, and I won't go there. I feel like if they can't make money... off of all of the ads and what they're doing on the site itself, then I don't need to subscribe. So any of those types of sites I won't go to. There's only one site that I subscribe to. That's the Wall Street Journal because I feel like there's enough information that comes out on a daily basis, and they've always had sort of a subscriber – Model, I guess you could say, to even their paper when they did it, that that's one that I will subscribe to because I pull enough information out of it on a monthly basis that I feel it's worthwhile. I would never subscribe to the Denver Post, though. So those of you that send me Denver Post articles periodically just know I can't read those because I won't pay. Purposely, I will not pay the Denver Post. So Mother Jones. It's editor, so maybe some of you have seen this, maybe you haven't, but J.D. Vance just took a little vacation, which he gets the right to take vacations just like anybody else does, and he went to, was it Disneyland or Disney World, Charlie? I don't remember. Yeah, I think it was California Disneyland. I don't think it was World. So he took some time off, went to Disneyland. Oh, it was Disneyland because him and Newsom got into a battle on social media about that. Newsom said something, I don't have it directly in front of me, but Newsom said something to J.D. Vance on public social media on X. It said something to the effect of, I hope you enjoy Disneyland when you're stripping away the rights of so many others to enjoy the same thing. I'm paraphrasing, but that's basically what Newsom said. J.D. Vance's response back was, thank you, they're having a great time. Just sort of this one liner of, you know, thank you. They're having a great time. But Mother Jones, that editor of Mother Jones, I said, I should say, says that J.D. Vance's kids, while out doing these things, should be booed. So this is the left. Again, this is the tolerant left. Remember, this is the party of tolerance and inclusion, and we want everybody to feel safe, and we're going to wrap our arms around everybody. Yeah, no, not so much. No, we only do that if we like you. This is not really a tolerant left. This is an intolerant left, because if they don't like you, it's a totally different world. All bets are off. In fact, in this case, we can even boo. And the point of this particular editor was, you know, we should be booing the kids so they understand who their dad is, so they don't grow up to be like him. Have you ever heard of any utter nonsense, you know, anything else that's utter nonsense like this? I haven't. Absolute utter nonsense. The children should be booed. This is a quote. They should be booed so they know what their father is about. That's a direct quote from the editor, Clara Jeffrey. She's the editor at Mother Jones. And it is Disneyland. Once again, this is the all-inclusive left, which those of you that are listening on the left, I know you listen because I get text messages and things from you. You're not tolerant, folks. You're not. You prove it on an ongoing basis. Because if you were tolerant, what you would be saying is, I hope J.D. Vance and his kids have a great time at Disneyland. While we may not agree with you and your politics, we agree with you being a great dad and a mom and taking your kids to Disneyland. Have a great time. That's what they should have said. But it's the intolerant left, and because they hate anything that stands in their way of their Marxist agenda, which J.D. Vance does, of course. So anything that stands in the way of their Marxist agenda, they're going to come out, you know, fighting. Gloves are off. They have no scruples whatsoever. So, again, those of you that are on the left, I don't know how you justify these sorts of things, but you do. And you'll somehow give a nod of approval for this by saying something to the effect of, you know, in this particular quote, by the way, you know, creeping Christian nationalist alert. These are the sorts of things that your side puts out. By the way, this was an alert against a flight attendant that said, we wish you have a blessed night. So this person is now being being touted as a creeping Christian nationalist because they said blessed. This is the left, folks. This is the left. This is what we're up against. I keep talking about all the time. It's good versus evil. You guys on the left, you keep proving my point. I don't even have to say anything to prove my point. You do it for me. You guys are the party of evil, period. It shows every single day, minute by minute by minute, you keep proving my point. I don't have to do anything. You do it yourself. These types of posts, these sorts of things show what you really stand for. Now, by the way, blessed, that doesn't necessarily mean somebody is a Christian when they say blessed. Now, it typically does, but not always. Not always. A lot of people use that term. So, again, you guys on the left, you are so uptight about anything at all that would say anything along those lines. By the way, that same post was put out by Clara Jeffrey. She's the one that put out that post about the flight attendant. Wow, Clara, you get triggered very easily. That's all I'm going to say. Mother Jones, where did the name Mother Jones, Charlie, for that publication even come from? Do you know the history of that at all? There actually was a Mother Jones at one point. Oh, okay. I get it. That's where the name came from. Got it. Okay. At any rate, this particular editor, she continues to keep outing herself as to how far left she actually is. Not that any of us have any doubt. It is Mother Jones, of course, which is about as... I don't think, Charlie, we even have a publication on the right that is as far right as the left is for, or as the Mother Jones is, that publication is on the left, that website is on the left. 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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Charlie sent me this article earlier today. I thought I'd finish things up today on this, given the fact that I think Donald Trump takes a lot of heat for a lot of different things. There's a ton of stuff going on right now regarding the whole Pam Bondi and Bongino and Patel and what's going on with the FBI and the DOJ in regards to Epstein and all of that. But in light of all of that, Or in spite of all of that, maybe is a better way to say that. Trump gathers CEOs for an unprecedented faith and economy meeting to renew U.S. spirituality and financial, or and financially is what it says. This is a Fox headline. And Donald Trump is hosting more than 60 business leaders and CEOs at the White House who donate to faith-based charities. Now, I can tell you that is a headline you would have not read Under either Obama or Biden. Just wouldn't have happened. So for those of you that are out there, especially those of you that are on the hardcore MAGA sides of things, which you guys all know where I lie with all of that. You guys right now are very quick to pounce on Donald Trump because you don't feel like he's delivering enough to you in regards to what's going on with the whole Epstein end of things. I talked about that at three o'clock. I'm not going to rehash that right now, but I made myself pretty clear, I think, in the three o'clock mark, as well as a lot of you that were texting in who, by the way, were on my side. So. And yeah, that'll repeat here in just a few minutes. So you'll hear that again at six o'clock. And a lot of you that texted in and on my side, thank you, by the way. I appreciate that because I'm not the only one in that camp. I think a lot of folks out there think that, you know, I'm the crazy one and that, you know, we need to keep hammering, hammering, hammering the whole Epstein thing so we can bring justice. And I'll say it again. I said it in three o'clock. To whom? To whom? I get it. We're trying to bring justice to the victims. But again, who are they? Do we even do we know their names? Do we? And I know they exist. I know they're out there. And yes, I want justice for anybody that is, you know, any kid that is that's in that it's ever put in that kind of a position that's ever, you know, that's ever abused is what I'm trying to say. Use the right words here. Although, as I said, in the 3 o'clock hour, it's happening whether Epstein's around or not. And I'm not giving anybody a pass, but we've got to fix that. Tom Holman, by the way, I said this again at 3, Tom Holman's doing a great job of that. You hear him talk about it constantly, talking about the sex trafficking, closing the border, keeping things under, punishing those people that do those sorts of things and so on, finding them, seeking them out and so on. But Donald Trump, in this particular case, is recognizing CEOs and business leaders who donate their time to faith-based charity works and encourage them to continue investing with the White House Faith Office during a luncheon at the White House. That was today, by the way. And again, this is something that you're not going to see out of the Biden administration, or you did not see out of the Biden administration. In fact, quite the opposite. Founder of Hobby Lobby, we all know about him. Chairman and CEO of Jockey International, Deborah Waller, Quest Events founder, Lee Dunlap, Atheon Energy founder, Albert Huddleston, Shoppa's material handling founder, Jimmy Shoppa, and others are expected to attend. He will be joined by cabinet secretaries for the event, where he is expected to deliver remarks to thank the business leaders and encourage a continued partnership with the White House faith office. In other words, like me, Donald Trump believes enough in faith-based organizations and knows that they can do a lot more to meet the needs of individuals than any government organization ever will. In fact, I've said this over and over and over again, and I'll keep saying it. The only reason why we have as much government involvement in those ends of things is because the church failed during the Depression. Probably before the Depression, but really during the Depression. And I know a lot of churches stepped up and did things during the Depression to help those individuals out, although over the weekend— I was listening to a lot of the old Paul Harvey clips. I love Paul Harvey. I think that was one of the few individuals in that realm, in my realm, I guess I should say, as somebody that was on radio that could say as much as he said in as little as time as he said it in and have as great an impact. I don't think anybody will ever do what he did or will ever do it since he passed. No one ever did it as well as him and will ever do it as well as he did. That's my opinion of Paul Harvey. One of the greatest radio voices and probably radio people of all time. Charlie, I don't think there's anybody that's ever done what he's done in that way, and no one will ever do it. So I listen to a lot of his old clips. If there's anybody I listen to in radio, because you guys all know me, I don't listen to people on radio, but he, yes, I listen to. Just because some of his stories are so great. So there was a story I listened to over the weekend. It was about a three or four minute clip I listened to. It was the rest of the story. And he talked about the Depression. And he talked about this particular individual who had done very well and had very diverse businesses and had made enough money and felt, and by the way, was diversified enough that the stock market crash did nothing to him. He was still very wealthy even after that. And the whole story goes that, you know, he had it in his heart that he wanted to help people. And so he did. And so he started a soup kitchen. And at one point in time, he was serving 3,000 people per day in this soup kitchen. It just grew and grew and grew. I think one Thanksgiving, don't quote me on this, but I think they did over, it was either 5,000 or 7,000 turkeys one Thanksgiving. And he goes through how he does his rest of the story, and he just gives the whole spiel about how this thing grew and how it went and how many people he served and how well it became known around Chicago at this point in time is where this one was located, this particular soup kitchen. And he just kept talking about how many people he served and on and on he went. And he gets to the end. And the gentleman that was so benevolent and thought so much of the people of Chicago at the time that he did this soup kitchen was none other than Al Capone. That was the rest of the story. So my point is this. Al Capone was doing that. Where was the church? That's where I was going with that story. We all know Al Capone, and we all know what he did, and you've all seen the movie The Untouchables, and everybody knows about Al Capone and what he was involved in and how he made his money and so on, but yet did that with the community. And again, the question I ask is, where was the church? And I'm not saying any one particular church, but the church in general, where was it during that time? Because my feeling is, and I'll stand by this, We have far more government involvement in the whole social end of things today because the church failed during that time. Missed a grand opportunity to really seize the moment and really take hold and become that necessity that really it even is today, but really become the necessity to help those that are in need. The church missed its calling at that time. And again, I know the church did a lot of things during that time, but believe me, it didn't do enough because if it had, We wouldn't have government involvement in welfare like we have today. The church would be doing it. So I appreciate what Donald Trump is doing in this particular area because I feel like the church and faith-based organizations can do far more to help people out on their level than any government agency ever has done or ever will do in the future. Veteran Windows and Doors is up next. One person, by the way, that I think would believe everything I just said and give me a hooray would be Dave from Veteran Windows and Doors. He feels the same way that I do when it comes to these things. And if you want somebody to really help you out with your home and your windows, look no further than Veteran Windows and Doors. Find him today at klzradio.com.
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All right, that's it for this fine Monday. Hope you guys all have a fabulous week. Stay safe, and again, watch for the storms and things that are going on still this time of the year in the afternoons and evenings. Otherwise, we'll be back tomorrow, same time, same place. Andy will be with me tomorrow. Enjoy your night. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
In this episode of Rush to Reason, host John Rush dives into practical aspects of maintaining cool and comfortable indoor environments as temperatures rise. With valuable tips from Hunter at Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning, listeners learn how to efficiently handle their air conditioning units to prevent common issues and enhance efficiency. The episode also provides straightforward advice on maximizing the function of smart thermostats and the strategic use of home fans, ensuring you keep your household comfortably cool without breaking the bank.
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All right. Happy Monday, everybody. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Speaking of Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning, Hunter joining us now. Hunter, welcome. Hey, John. How are you? I'm good. Are you keeping up with the hot weather? Trying to. It has been. It doesn't look super hot outside right now when you look at the clouds and such, but 92 degrees, people are running their air conditioning. So give us some tips on, you know, I know if folks are having problems, best thing to do is call you guys, but give us some tips on some things they can do preventatively to maybe not have problems. For example, do we leave the temperature at one particular setting? Do we vary that up and down? How should we be doing some of those things?
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Well, let's start with the biggest thing. We are starting to hit about that three-month stretch of running our AC. If you turned it on here in May, June, July, we're looking at about three months. So I would always start with that filter. It's probably about time to change that filter, especially if you changed it a little earlier in the season, around April. We are starting to see a lot of calls stemming from dirty filters, just people not forgetting about it, not replacing them. um you know with it being the middle of the summer and that's one thing to remember too is that that ac runs um the fan on the ac is going to run at full speed um as fast as it can go so it does tend to kick up more dust and pollen and different things like that in that that's been sitting in that ductwork so those filters do tend to get a little dirtier a little quicker um so i would definitely make sure that you check check the filter make sure that that's um good if by chance you are seeing anything um you know if the filter is dirty if you notice you have lack of airflow in your coming out of your registers and there's a puddle of water underneath that furnace or ac more than likely that filter was dirty and you're starting to ice up um the best thing you can do for that and even if you have us come check out why it's icing up um what we need to happen before we can even diagnose anything as far as that goes is Turn that fan on on that thermostat. Turn the AC off the fan only on on your thermostat and run that thermostat. You got to get that coil defrosted if you do that for about 24 hours. Change the filter and start over. More times than not, that AC is going to kick right back on. and start blowing cold air again. That's been a very common problem we've been dealing with here recently. As far as efficiency goes, obviously, just like Grandpa said, don't cool the neighborhood.
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No, great point. I mean, keep things closed up. In fact, even some of you, most of this is, you know, again, common sense, Hunter, and most people I would think are probably already doing this. But just in case, you know, here in Colorado, you know, watch where your sun comes in on the different windows. West, late at night, that's the hotter of the sun, of course. It's even hotter than it is early morning. The heat is built up, so you have west-facing windows. Try your best to... Whether you've got shades or blinds or whatever, close those things up. Let's try to keep some of that heat out. I mean, anything you can do along those lines helps, right?
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Exactly. I mean, that's what you're battling, ultimately, is you're trying to keep the heat out. And the more heat you can keep out of that house, the less your AC has to work to kind of maintain that temperature. So, yeah, that being said, during the middle of the day, keeping blinds and shades closed, you know, not letting that sunlight warm up the spaces and stuff like that can be a huge help. You know, and then me personally what we try to do is we try to close those shades and blinds during the day especially when we're not home and then get the ceiling fans running and stuff and anytime you can kind of if you have a smart thermostat a good idea is always to put that smart thermostat in circulate or run your fan just your fan only in between cycles on the furnace that can kind of it doesn't necessarily cool the house but it gives you a more average temperature where you know your basement is always going to be you know five degrees cooler right sometimes 10 degrees cooler than the rest of your house so use that to your advantage if you run that fan in circulation mode you're you're actually mixing all of that air um where you may have 75 degree air upstairs your basement is 70 so you might average out and get some 72 degree air great point rolling throughout the house So that's a huge thing and it really doesn't affect the energy efficiency. You're not going to see that you run in your furnace fan like that on the bill. And like I said, most smart thermostats, Nest and Ecobee and the Honeywells, they all offer some sort of setting like that that's a circulation and most of them are like 15 to 30 minutes on an hour. that they'll run outside of your system running. So those are some big deals. The other thing too is just don't try to change, make big drastic temperature changes with your unit. Set it and forget it. Set that temperature to where you kind of like it, where you're the most comfortable. Unless you're going on vacation or something, Set that temperature, you know, if you like it at 72 degrees, just set it at 72 and leave it. You're going to be way more efficient maintaining a temperature in that house than you are going to be trying to change that temperature.
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Makes total sense. If folks do have questions or problems and they do need you to come out and look at things, what are we looking at as far as the ETA goes right now?
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Yeah, we're looking right now, we're about four or five days out. It's starting to loosen up a little bit, starting to slow down a little bit. We're starting to get ahead of the curve a little bit, but it is still hot and stuff still is breaking.
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Okay. Awesome. As always, Hunter, Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning. Just go to klzradio.com, folks, to find them. That's the easiest way to do it. Some of you that might be a little bit more, I know I should say this more often, some of you that I had somebody this morning where just don't have Internet access. It's not super easy. You can always call direct 303-656-5467. You can also text me directly. I can give you their number. You guys all know the text line. You can text me directly. I can give you Hunter's info as well that way if needed. But, Hunter, as always, man, I appreciate it very much. I know you're super busy. I'll let you get back at it, and we'll talk again here soon.
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Yeah, everybody stay cool out there.
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We'll do it. Thanks, Hunter. Appreciate it very much. We'll take a quick break. Actually, I'll get Bob in really quick before the break. Go ahead, Bob.
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Hey, John, this is what I do, and I've been doing it for all the time that I've lived here, 52 years. In the summertime, I don't put a filter in the furnace. In the winter, I'll put a furnace filter in. No filter in the summertime, much better airflow. At nighttime, I turn the air conditioning off and I turn the fan on and let it run all night like that. Then in the morning, I turn the air conditioning back on. And I don't try and run it at 72. I try it about 76. Yeah. And I've never had an ice-up problem doing that.
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Good job. Good job. Bob, I appreciate that. Add that in to what we were just talking about with Hunter. And, again, if you guys need anything at Cub Creek, again, just go to klzradio.com. Thanks for that as well, Bob. Roof Savers of Colorado coming up next. When it comes to your roof and staying ahead of even these storms and that that we have had, I think there's a lot of folks out there that need something done, and you're waiting for storm season to be over. Well, sorry to say, folks in Colorado, that just doesn't happen. You want to get your roof fixed as needed. Don't wait for things to, you know, slow down, quote, unquote, when it comes to storm season. If you've had damage done and you need to get that taken care of, do it now, because what's going to happen is as everybody waits to get things done, after they think storm season is over. Then there's a big, mad rush to get everything done. Everything's behind. You're behind the eight ball now, so are the roofers. Instead, get that fixed now. Call Dave Hart, Roof Savers of Colorado. Don't call your insurance company, by the way. Call Dave instead, and he can extend the life of your roof as well with the RoofMax product. Ask how that works. Also, 303-710-6916.
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All right, real quick question of the day from Friday. Name the lake in Australia that has pink water. That would be Lake Hillier. Lake Hillier. It is nearly as salty as the Dead Sea. So that's the answer to Friday's question of the day. Today, which U.S. president dedicated the Vietnam Memorial? Which U.S. president dedicated the Vietnam Memorial? Answer that on our social media Facebook page. And up next, Marty, welcome, sir.
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Well, so good to be with you, John. And as advertised, as expected, the Epstein files or the attention around it, it's there. It's not going away. So it's not that this can be brushed under the rug, John. Now that it's sort of made more headline news, of course, with Bongino and the feuds going on and Trump saying, please stop talking about this and all these things. I'm wondering if you're maybe starting to have a change. Was this more important to the average American than we maybe gave it credit for?
SPEAKER 11 :
No.
SPEAKER 05 :
It's not.
SPEAKER 11 :
No. The only reason it's alive is because of some hardcore folk on the right and the left, to be honest with you, Marty. The left is the ones now that I believe are continuing to bring this story up because they feel like they can keep dragging this thing on out. And there's folks on the hardcore right that believe this is a big deal as well. And so they're going to keep this thing in the news also. But to me personally, again, we have got bigger and better things to focus on than this.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's where I would say we need to break down, though, the benefit of resolving this to our satisfaction, because when you get into the people that this is connected to and then the decisions that we're making, the choices that are going on. And sort of the implementation of a lot of pretty, I mean, we've got leaders right now that if we were to strip them naked and see their background, there's no way we would allow them to serve us. And if we're in this sort of rebuild and make America great, it just seems odd that you would want to rebuild and sustain America with this filth. still a part of the system. And so I think that's the bigger things.
SPEAKER 11 :
I guess, Marty, the way I would look at that is, and I'm not justifying anything any of these guys have ever done, and by the way, I have no idea who these people are, who is or isn't on this list, who is a part of these things, who wasn't. There's a lot of speculation around individuals that May have been involved there. You know, again, there's been lots of things that have been, quote unquote, leaked out over the past. Oh, I don't know, five, six years since this stuff really broke open. Marty, reality is getting and I agree with Trump on this, getting down to the actual facts of who was actually there, what actually took place, the amount of manpower necessary. to even delve into all of that right now given everything else we have going on and i guess i would add one more thing to this marty is yeah i guess i'm kind of looking at this the way christ did he without the first sin cast the first stone i mean you're talking about people that have done all sorts of decrepit things which by the way i and you have as well in the Lord's eyes. So the reality is, I mean, we are a judger of people and of sin and so on. The Lord himself is not. And again, I'm not justifying anything these guys have done. Anybody that would be involved in this have done. On the same token, I can't justify the sin of my own life. So the reality, Marty, is there's bigger and better things to break down, in my opinion, than this.
SPEAKER 05 :
And I would just say that is missing the mark, because protecting the children of this country... I'm not arguing that, Marty.
SPEAKER 11 :
And keep in mind, in a lot of cases, it's not even... Really quick, Marty, a lot of the folk that were involved in this, to my knowledge, a lot of the kids, by the way, that were involved in this, to my knowledge, probably are not from this country. Not that that makes it any different or any better, but the reality is we now get into all sorts of law... And I've had arguments with folks on my text line and other people that have emailed, and I've gone back and forth on this. The reality is there's a lot of unknowns here. There's a lot of speculation. There's a lot of people that think they know the answers and what should happen. The reality, Marty, is we don't even know what crimes or where and when they took place and on whose soil they took place on.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, I think there's so much meat on these bones, John. It's not going to narrow it down to three.
SPEAKER 11 :
I would disagree. And Marty, by the way, I agree with you that there's a lot of I'm not going to say meat on the bones. There's a lot of people out there that are involved in a lot of things that they shouldn't be. And by the way, always have been long before Epstein rolled around. This kind of stuff has been happening literally since the beginning of time, not only in this nation, but many others before and will be after this nation until the Lord comes. So the reality, Marty, is, yeah, I'm not giving anybody a pass, but the real brass tacks here is, how do you find and prove all of this and get down to what really happened? And by the way, because there's a lot of folks, as I think even Trump has mentioned, there's been a lot of... How should I say? Make sure I use the right words. There's been a lot of meddling in these things from day one. How do you know truth from fiction at this point?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I think this is the way you start it. It's pretty simple. If you were photographed in the circle of Jeffrey Epstein and a participant on the flight log... Okay, really, let me break these down one at a time, though, Marty.
SPEAKER 11 :
Let's start with the photographs. Who is to say in today's age, with AI and all of what we have regarding Photoshop and so on, how do you know that's a real photograph?
SPEAKER 05 :
We're actually trying to hope and beg that the FBI and all these institutions had some integrity that these photos are a dozen years old and they are genuine. I guess that's a whole different world, John. Can you believe anything with your own eyes anymore? It's hard to. I think we have to proceed. I agree. I agree. And it only gets more deceptive. But I think in this case, because we go back to the era, late 90s, early 2000s, didn't have it. We know those exist somewhere. We know that they have been under wraps. Now, even under national security type.
SPEAKER 11 :
So and OK, and so let me let me throw this in. So now we're going to go back and try to prosecute people that did things 25 years ago. I mean, I realize that that can be done. They did it with Bill Cosby and others. They've they made examples out of individuals like them. And I'm not saying they shouldn't have, by the way. But what I'm saying is these things are now if we go back to 2000, that's 25 years ago.
SPEAKER 05 :
beautiful this is actually where my heart's at on this issue i'm not i'm not going to be upset if they go through these investigations and they say ah son of a gun statute of limitations we couldn't get them i'm not even asking the federal government to then deploy all of its resources for the prosecution so okay so again i'm going to break these down one at a time good questions by the way or good comments i want to break these down you know one at a time so then how many resources do we dedicate Well, the FBI right now, of all the things that they're involved with, I can't think of one thing more critical to the United States than the protection of children and the warding out of this trafficking. Wherever it's coming from, wherever it's going on, that isn't ridiculous to talk about us in the first world category, but yet we have the most children go missing every year. Those things don't align.
SPEAKER 11 :
Which, by the way, I do believe that Noam and Holman both are working on that simultaneously with the FBI as we speak right now. So I would say on that one, Marty, I believe that we already are working on at least stopping what has been going on in the past along those lines. Not directly related to Epstein, of course, but in general, yes, stopping the decrepitness of that end of things from happening. And again, Marty, will we ever stop that from happening completely? No. And I'm sorry to say the answer is no, because where it's like saying we want fair and honest elections. Good luck. Men are sinful. They're always going to cheat, deceive, lie and do whatever they can to get by with whatever they can again until Christ comes. This is no different. Now, can we stop the majority of and like elections, make it as clean as we possibly can? Yes, that should be the absolute goal.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and you reestablish the standard that this is the most heinous crime and we don't care. We're going to make sure that to the extent of our laws allow, we're going to inflict that upon you. And that becomes the messaging, you know. I can't. Yeah, and I can't.
SPEAKER 11 :
And by the way, I think Tom Holman has done a good job so far of announcing exactly what you just said. He has come out and said that over and over again, even to those on the left who would basically say, you know, Tom, you're barking up the wrong tree. Yeah, no, Tom has come right back at them, Marty, with the message that you're wanting to be sent. He has said that loud and clear.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, and I think that is getting established in America that we're not playing these games anymore. Here's the problem, though, is that the culture of that behavior, and I'm just telling you, and I know you don't have to go all the way, but... There's people that have just been so influential in America that are going to show up in the pictures on the flight log and at the property. And we're not saying you did molest the child, but we want to know what went on there, because there's a national interest in making sure that this isn't allowed, no matter the price, no matter your net worth, no matter your position in society. I'm sorry if you misunderstood us. You're not allowed to touch children like that in our presence. So we need to know. And you know how scary the FBI can be when they come after the Catholic school mom who is praying outside of abortion. I want to see that same level of aggression turn to our elites that we know have been manipulated, used the law to to benefit themselves. And in fact, this case now, if it's up to Trump and John, John, COVID situation. Donald Trump got the COVID shot dead wrong. He got the feel of the room on Epstein dead wrong. And so we're moving into now, well, hold on a second. He didn't apologize. And you know, on this show, this show has been fantastic about highlighting the risks, the dangers, all of these things. And he has never repented for that, John. And now he's got another opportunity to come through for America. And he's choosing to say, let's make a good business decision in this case. And so that's where I just think, That's going to gnaw at people. That is not honorable work. That is not blind following worthy in my case, John.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, and as you heard me say many, many times, do I agree with Donald Trump on every single thing that he does? And there are times where I'm critical of things that he has or has not done. Absolutely, Marty. I am one of those that is a supporter of. I am by no means a blind follower. In fact, I have been criticized by others out there, by the way, for not being that. Because you know me. I'm not. I'm an independent thinker. I do whatever I think is best. And do I always... Do I always follow everything that he does? No, there's many things he does that I disagree with. There's things he says at times I disagree with. In this particular case, though, Marty, and I'm not giving him a pass by any means, and I guess where I'm coming from with all of this is I haven't seen everything that they have seen. Now, maybe if I had, I would have a difference of opinion. I guess where I'm coming from on this is if we want to take a little bit of resources and let the FBI work on some of these things and try to do some of the things that you're mentioning, I'm not opposed to that, but I am opposed to having an all-out war on that level and forgetting about some of the other things that we need to get done as well. Yeah, I'm not in that camp. I'm not one to say we should drop everything. and go after these individuals that may or may not be on said list. By the way, I've said this openly, and I'll keep saying it. I don't think there's a list anyways, personally. I think there might be evidence of who went to and from the island, but I don't think there's a list.
SPEAKER 05 :
And, John, last thought. Here's why we just say go a little farther with this. You talk about the problems in America, and let's just take for this argument's purposes that we do have well-connected, high-level people, government, business, in the bureaucrat state that are guilty of these crimes. Let's just say there's a handful in there. That culture, a person that would do that with a child, there's no way they have America's best interest in mind, John. There's just no way they could. Those conflict. And so you stomp out so many issues by getting to the head of this nasty, filthy, gigantic snake. And it starts right there because now all of a sudden other things start to dissipate. Marty, I wouldn't argue that.
SPEAKER 11 :
By the way, I think there's other topics we could throw in that would mimic exactly what you're talking about with probably same said individuals. But I guess I'm also a realist and I understand and realize that while that would be great and I can't disagree with anything you're saying, it's not going to happen.
SPEAKER 05 :
I agree, and we remain in the fantasy and the hopeful side, and that's why we have a great Lord and Savior, because he's laughing at us, having this conversation. But something about us, though, John, and I think you like to see justice done. Absolutely. And for me, I want to see it done. I mean, Marty, nothing.
SPEAKER 11 :
Nothing would thrill me more than to see some people that have been involved in these things. And by the way, and I want to make sure I'm very clear on this for everybody listening. It's not just Epstein where folks like this would be involved. People that do these sorts of things, Marty, as you know, it's not just one occurrence. If they get involved in this sort of thing. And Epstein's probably just the tip of the iceberg. These are the kind of individuals that will do this stuff over and over and over again. And by the way, probably still are. And by the way, maybe this is and I don't know what Donald Trump's ultimate goal here is. I don't know what he knows. I don't have I'm not privy. To that, I do know this. I do have enough faith and trust in him to where he typically has a plan and has the ability to get done what needs done at the end of the day. It may not be exactly the way that you or I would go about doing it. But typically speaking, if he knows there's a way to actually get these people, you know, if you know, expose these people, I guess is what I should say. Pardon the pun here, Marty, but if there's a way to actually do that, I do believe Donald Trump will do that. That I do have confidence in because, again, it's not just this particular episode. These people will do this over and over again, as you know. In other words, if they did it once with Epstein, it's not done. They're still doing it, as you know.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, no, that's a lifestyle, and it's filthy. Absolutely. I think you're right. Trump will make a great business deal, and it will have some compromise. What we don't get is what we're looking for. We don't get as much as we want, but he gave us something to kind of chew on.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, and I want to say one other thing, too, about Donald Trump, and this is something that I will stand on this. I think I've seen enough and I've known enough people around Donald Trump personally, and I've seen the way that he treats kids, not only his own family, but others. Marty, I would be hard pressed to believe that he personally had anything to do with anything along these lines whatsoever. There are pictures with him and Epstein and so on. And by the way, billionaires all run in the same circles. And of course, there's going to be pictures floating around along those lines. But do I believe that Donald Trump himself is involved in anything along these lines? I do not, Marty. He does not. He doesn't give off any sort of of appearance the way that again, the way he treats, you know, kids and others and not again, not only in his own family, but outside of it. It's let me just say this. It is it is black and white difference from Joe Biden.
SPEAKER 05 :
I would agree with you 100%. There's never been an indication in my heart that he did this, and that's why it's not there. But he knows so many. He knows the destruction that this could cause, and he knows good business. And he also knows that we can get past this probably with not – epic damage from the public.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, and here's one other question I've been thinking about through the past week or so in regards to Trump, just Trump specifically. Not all the rest of the nonsense going on between Bondi and Bongino and all of that. And by the way, Bongino just needs to pull his pants up and get to work, and these things happen. You don't always get what you want, Dan. And while I Well, I like Bongino a lot. This is one of the things I think he and I would would different. You still have to get done at the end of the day what you want done. And by the way, quitting and being mad never solves anything at the end of the day. But the question I guess I've been thinking about and pondering over the weekend, even on this, Marty, is, you know, if in fact what you just said is true and Donald Trump does know some of these individuals that are involved, can he will he use that against them? On a one on one basis, I mean.
SPEAKER 05 :
Possibly, you know, and if they're in a position to keep Democrats off his back and potentially leverage that into his favor, you know, I think it's more, oh, my goodness, how deep does this run? And it's going to affect so many sectors in the economy, in the government, the global relationship.
SPEAKER 11 :
And that's where, you know, you really have to start asking, Marty, if in fact all that's the case and what you're saying is true, which, by the way, I wouldn't disagree with you on any of that. Then you have to start asking, OK. Is it in even our country's best interest to do what Trump is doing and do this a piece at a time rather than just laying it all out at once?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I think most people are going to say, you know what, let's do it the easy way, the soft way. Let's not just. But that's not the spirit of drain the swamp. That's not the spirit of make America. You know, so it's going to be conflictual because this is such a tough moment. Or is it more?
SPEAKER 11 :
You know, think about it this way, though. Sometimes when you go attack cancer, for example. Yes, we do radiation. Yes, we do chemo. But there's also times where you get the scalpel out and you take out wherever that tumor actually is and you do it very strategically, very wisely. And is that what Trump's doing here? And I don't know, Marty.
SPEAKER 05 :
I don't know if he's going to be able to control the fans at bay. Can he push them aside? That's the question. That's the question. That's what I'm saying. We have to stay on this topic if it's sensitive to your heart. Because what they're telling you from Washington, D.C., this is not a priority to them. This is not important to them. Only we, the people, make this an issue for them. And that's what I'm encouraging people to do. This is bigger than we've given it credit for. It is happening live right now. John, you do a great show. God bless you. You're live radio right now in what I would consider the greatest government conspiracy cover-up of all time. And with that, I'll say God bless you, John. Appreciate it, Marty.
SPEAKER 11 :
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SPEAKER 11 :
And we are back. Several of you texting in, by the way, some bad weather to the southeast of us here. We broadcast from Aurora, right on the Denver-Aurora line. And some of you have been sending in some video footage and pictures out towards the Franktown area. Driving around, be very careful. Be watching for bad weather. There's been some tornado spouts, things along those lines, and even I think some authorities have responded to some things and so on. So be very careful if you're out and about. I look to the west and can't see those things out to the southeast of us, but today's been kind of a weird weather day as far as that goes, so be very careful. Speaking of being careful, I'll do this before we go to our break. I try to bring you guys different – scams and things like that that are out there to try to keep everybody safe. Some of this stuff is near and dear to me because people can be very adversely affected by things along these lines. And what I mean by that is different scams out there where they can end up with your credit card info or in some cases people turn over money in different scams and so on. But there's a quishing scam. I've never heard of the term quishing. But quishing, I guess, is different than phishing in the fact that it uses QR codes. So it's different than phishing because they're actually using something physical that you're scanning that you then go in and put in information in and so on. And this is in the Cherry Creek area for parking. So these are actual QR codes that are being used. And. They're not put there by the city or anything like that. In fact, right now, that particular city, Cherry Creek, they don't use any QR type code systems at all for parking. They're looking into that maybe for something down the road. But as of right now, they are not doing anything along those lines. That is not legit. And somebody was in that area. This ended up on the Nextdoor app, and it was talked about there, and it was picked up by some of the local news agencies. But the reality is it takes you to an illegitimate website. Now, the website looks legitimate until you really look careful and then soon realize that, yeah, that's not the case. In this particular case, the lady that alerted others to this was about to be charged $50 for parking. And by the way, what these folks will do is they'll try to do a low charge on your credit card, see if it will run. And then they'll do it again for a larger amount. So luckily, the credit card company said, wait a minute, you've got a charge coming through for 50 bucks or so. Is this really legit? So luckily, that fraud alert came up and this particular person said, no, that doesn't make any sense. So then went back in and did a little bit of investigation and found out that, yeah, these QR code. stickers that are on the parking signs. So they've actually gone out, stuck QR codes onto the parking signs. Now, I guess the city is probably doing their best to retrieve those, you know, get those off of there. But keep in mind, somebody could run around in the middle of the night, pin those back up, and the next day they're up in the defense of the city. they may not be able to catch that as quickly as people would go to the QR code, which takes you to a website, plug that information in, you plug your credit card in, and voila, a thief now has your credit card. So how do you avoid this? Typically speaking, when you go to park in any of the cities and areas where you're required to pay to park, even when it takes you to a QR code, what I would tell you to do is make sure that that matches the whatever website or company the city is using to handle their payments. And it'll tell you on the sign. It'll typically tell you, you know, blah, blah, blah.com. It'll be right on the sign. And if you go to a QR code and it's different from that, that would be your first indicator that that's not a legitimate QR code. Other rule of thumb, just don't use the QR codes. If it's got a way, you know, if the city's printed up the signs and it says, you know, pay by going to blah, blah, blah dot com, you know, pay whatever dot com. I would just type that in. I would not go to the QR code. And that way you know everything's matching up, and A, you're not going to get a ticket for parking illegally, and B, you're not giving your credit card information over to a bunch of scammers. So this is happening in Cherry Creek, but I will tell you that this could legitimately happen in a lot of other places. In fact, it got me thinking that even some of the places that already use a QR code for their parking, because some folks do, Cherry Creek's looking at doing this, It doesn't take much for them to put a new sticker on with a new QR code taking you somewhere else. In fact, to me, that's the downside to having a QR code on your sign as a city. Those could easily be changed out. Not changed out, but lay a new sticker on top of. It would be really – I didn't even think about this until I read the story because there are places around where you can already see a QR code on the sign. That could ease – all somebody has to do is, again, middle of the night, nobody's looking. They've got a packet full of stickers they've already printed up to take you to the scamming site. All they have to do is run around and neatly place those right on top of the QR code. Most people aren't going to notice it. Because people are in a hurry. That's the other thing that they've got on their advantage. People have parked. They're in a hurry. They want to pay. They don't want a parking ticket. They've heard all of those stories, so they want to make sure they're legit. So they just get their phone out. It scans the QR code. They go right to the website, fill in their stuff, and off they go, not even looking at the website itself that they're entering info into. So what I would say to do, and I will start doing this myself because I've done some of the QR things in the past, I would just start typing in the website. They'll typically have it there as to where you can do it. It makes it real simple and easy. So I would start going to the website. And that would avoid all of the QR code and even anybody changing anything from that QR code, even on an existing QR code sign. Because, again, this got me thinking those could be changed. Somebody could put a new sticker up pretty easily. Nobody would be the wiser. So once again, be careful. Always be alert to the scams and things that are out there. And the other thing that I would say, this happened to me this past week, always, always, always, I would say, and I look at mine at least daily, if not every other day, look at your credit card charges that are coming up. Whatever credit cards you use, look at those at least on a daily, if not every other day basis. And is there any charges coming through that don't look real? I had one the other day that was coming from Microsoft.com. You know, whatever, whatever. Microsoft – I think it was Microsoft Q. That was what it said right on my credit card. And I'm like, wait a minute. I'm not a Microsoft guy. I'm an Apple guy. I don't do anything Microsoft-related at all. And I'm like, that just doesn't look right. And it was for the same amount twice, you know, almost a day or two apart. I'm like, yeah, that's not – legit so i kept watching it and sure enough a third one came through i should have called with the first one but i didn't so i watched a couple of them come through and then the third one came through like okay i gotta make a phone call so i did and of course this was through my credit card company they stop all charges issue me a new card blah blah blah and yes it's a pain in the neck It's a big hassle because in some cases you may do automatic payments and things with that credit card that you now have to go back in and change. But it is what it is. And the reality is watch your statements as well, because sometimes, again, what they'll do is they'll try to run in some small charges and then they'll pop a large one in. So that's what a lot of these scammers will do. Or I think what also will happen is if they can put that small charge through. and you never notice it, and they can do $30, $40 a month, and it'll run through for six months, eight months, whatever. Think about how long they'll go, because eventually what happens is you can't dispute it if it goes on too long. But think about if you can do that hundreds of thousands of times over, how much money those scammers are making. Even though it's not a large amount, it's a small enough amount, nobody disputes it, and it just keeps rolling. And that's how some of these guys make a lot of money as well. So point being, be alert, be watching. And even on some of the signage itself, if it looks like there's something that's been placed on the sign, sticker, anything like that, that doesn't look like it was printed on the sign originally. And by the way, most of these signs aren't that tall. You could probably feel, is this a sticker or is this actually embossed into the sign itself? 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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
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All right, and some of you are sending pictures in of what happened out in that Franktown area. So it looks like there has been some sort of a land spout, they're calling it, so like a mini tornado. And, yes, it has done some damage in that particular area. So, yeah, if you're out in that southeastern area here in town, be very careful along those lines. And, by the way, thank you for the pictures that are coming in. I also got a – text message that came in along the lines of what Marty and I were talking about, which. This is a great text message, by the way, and I really feel like this sort of sums things up, at least for me personally. My belief, scope of origin warrant was so narrow that lists, books, tapes probably don't exist. As an independent conservative, I feel more good can be done to improve this nation by more wins in 26 and 28. So MAGA people, keep this up and the middle will sit out the next election. I agree with that. I think that is a solid statement. In other words, I'm with this person. I think – and thank you for the text message, by the way, because I feel very much the same way. And I responded. It's not that I want to give anybody a pass, just like I told Marty. I also want to – utilize resources in the best way possible, knowing that they are not unlimited. Even though a lot of people think government resources are unlimited, they are not. There's a lot of things that are going on, and there's a lot of things that the Justice Department and the FBI and others have on their plate right now. And it's not that I want to try to give any high-level individuals a pass. A thing that I've always been concerned about when it comes to things like the whole Epstein saga is, A, how much of it is provable, B, even if it's provable, where did it happen? And depending upon where it happened, what can you actually do to bring people to justice? And unless you can actually, you know, bring them to some sort of justice, what other ways, this I think is probably what Trump is looking at, what other ways are there to quote unquote skin a cat? In other words, what else can be done to harm these individuals, whether it be socially, whether it be financially, politically? What else do you do to be able to get to the end goal? Because I am one that believes that it's going to be very, very, very difficult, if not impossible, to have the results that I think some in the MAGA camp want. That's my take. I just don't see it happening. I'm sorry. I just don't. It doesn't mean I'm giving anybody a pass. You guys all know my feelings on that. There is no pass, but you also have to look at what capabilities are there in actually bringing said individuals to quote-unquote justice. Does that even exist? In other words, is there enough evidence to even do that? And I'm one where I'm very skeptical that there is. Very skeptical. And I'm more of in Trump's camp when it comes to even if there is, how many fingers have been in it? In other words, you know, you look at all of these things that happen when you go to court, the chain of command, who had the actual evidence, how many other hands has it been in? Can you prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that this actually is, in fact, the evidence? On and on and on we go. And then I'll go one step further, and I talked about this with Marty. How many dollars, how much money do you spend going after that? And as I said with Marty, it's not that this stuff isn't still going on, so I'm one where it's like the border. Let's try to stop as much of it as we can from happening right now as we speak. And then the icing on the cake would be, can we bring any others to justice that have already been doing these things, you know, that have done these things in the past? That would be the icing on the cake. But let's stop it, you know, best we can, which is what Tom Holman, Kristi Noem, and others are trying to do right now. Sealing the border, by the way, had a lot to do with what we're talking about. But on top of that, you've got to go to all of the sex traffickers that are already out there. And we already know that the cartels and others are really big in sex trafficking because it's a product that doesn't have to be refilled like drugs do. In other words, that product, until it ages out, sorry to call it that, but that's how it works. Until the product ages out, it's still product. In other words, it's a it's a continual inventory, if you would, versus drugs that have to be sold, refilled, sold, refilled. When you're dealing in the sex trafficking end of things, that's not how it works. That product will continue to, you know, be refilled if you would. Now, do I agree with any of that? No, it's just I can't believe I'm talking about this. I shouldn't be. It shouldn't even be a subject that's talked about, period. But it is. And I think if we ignore it and we just hope it'll go away, well, that's not going to happen. And for those of you, by the way, that would criticize me, which some of you did last week because you thought I was minimizing some of what's going on inside of the Epstein end of things, I have been talking about sex trafficking on this program for a decade, long before the Epstein thing even came out. I have done interviews with people that have either been inside of the sex trade and gotten out of it. I've talked to girls that have been in it that have gotten out of it. I have talked to different individuals that will recommend to parents what they should be watching out for and trying to keep as many young kids out of this as possible. Folks, I have been working on that side of the aisle longer than probably any other talk show host in this town has. Period. Long before anything Epstein related came along. So anybody that would be out there criticizing me for downplaying and or minimizing something in regards to Epstein hasn't listened to this program very long. For example, I have told parents over the years that when you're not home and your kids might be, your teenagers might be, 315, 330 in the afternoon until about 530 or 6, that is the highest time of sex trafficking, by the way, when it comes to what I would consider to be middle to upper class kids. And you may not even know your kids involved in this. Because that's when the predators are out the most because they know that's when mom and dad aren't around. So believe me, folks, I have done more to try to prevent things along those lines than probably anybody else on air in this town has with the amount of times I've interviewed and have things that I've gone through on this program throughout the years. So I find it very offensive. And there was a couple of you last week that texted me things along the lines that I basically don't care about. That's really offensive because nobody cares more than I, and nobody has done more on air than I have in that particular area. I've covered topics in that particular arena that a lot of other stations wouldn't even allow their host to carry, most likely. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that. I have done things in that area that there's a lot of other stations in this town where their management would probably say, ah, that's too touchy for us to get into. Let's not go there. I have. So anybody that would accuse me of just sort of sidestepping this whole topic doesn't know me very well and hasn't listened to me very long. I'm simply stating on a national level, when it comes to national resources with all of what's involved with Epstein and only Epstein, I am one to say what this texter said. There is bigger fish to fry and other ways to cure what's going on with some of these individuals than the Epstein case itself. That's my whole point with this. Do I want to see it go away? I don't know that I ever want to see anything go away, but do I want to see it handled properly where we get the best bang for the buck when it's all said and done? Yes, that's what I want. And, again, like this texter said, I think there's bigger fish to fry and bigger things that we can do going down the road, 26 and 28, that are far more important than what might, key word, what might come out of this Epstein situation. That's my whole take on it. I know we'll talk more with Andy probably tomorrow on this, but that's my side of all of that. Paul Lundberger coming up next, my insurance agent who would love to help you with all of your insurance needs as well. And Paul's a broker now. 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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Appreciate you all listening to us, by the way. I mean that sincerely. Text line 307-200-8222. Again, 307-200-8222. We've got another full two hours coming your way. Appreciate this first hour, all the text messages and phone calls. As well, and at the top of the next hour, we have got Ty Lassiter, CEO of Lassiter Capital, joining us. He is going to talk about the Federal Reserve and the fact that we need some serious reform there. Otherwise, we are liable to get very behind, which I believe we already are, financially speaking. We'll talk about that here in a moment. Don't go anywhere. Hour two is next. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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Rich guys.
On this compelling episode of Rush to Reason, John Rush dives headfirst into two of the most hot-button issues of the modern era: artificial intelligence and electric vehicles. With guest Paul Steidler of the Lexington Institute, the conversation explores whether conservatives should embrace AI for its transformational potential—or fear it for its unknowns. From traffic flow to national defense, AI is already changing our world—and John argues the U.S. must lead the way before China does.
In a powerful side conversation, John and his callers unpack the moral outrage surrounding sex trafficking and the deep emotional toll such crimes take on communities. Steve calls in to share a heartbreaking personal connection, while John emphasizes the unique evil of crimes against children and the crucial work of places like Sarah’s House.
Then the conversation shifts gears as John and his son Richard review the latest Volvo plug-in hybrid, using it as a springboard to unpack the coming expiration of the $7,500 EV tax credit. Will Americans keep buying EVs once the subsidies disappear? Can manufacturers convince skeptical conservatives? And are EVs actually better—or just politically propped up?
Plus: a scathing real-world look at how broken our DMV systems are, why local offices are often great despite the state’s failures, and how AI could either be the cure—or just another layer of red tape.
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SPEAKER 12 :
All right, welcome back. Hour number two, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Appreciate y'all listening today, by the way. Once again, weather-wise, watch. I did look out towards the southeast, and yes, it is very, let's just say, black and dark and ominous looking, so be very careful if you're out and about. on that southeast end of town. A lot of you texting in, by the way, not only the weather, but pictures and so on. So yes, be very careful. I cannot stress that enough. So just be extremely, extremely careful. Okay, might have a little bit of change of plan here for our second hour with our guests. Either way, I did talk about this on Friday. as far as the Fed chair and all of that. And our guest was going to talk about that today. And bottom line, yeah, you guys heard me talk about that on Friday. And reality is we'll see what happens in regards to Jerome Powell. It was interesting talking to Jordan Goodman last Tuesday about that because I would not be surprised to see that have a change. Let's just say I don't know when. I don't know exactly when. timeline, what that will look like, but you guys all know my feelings on that, and we will see how that goes. But anyways, we'll figure that out. At any rate, let's do this. I was going to talk about, in last hour, I didn't quite get a chance to. Do I need to go ahead and take this, Charlie? Is that... Oh, okay. I will... That's fine. I will do that. Paul, well... Paul, welcome. How are you today, sir? Paul Steidler.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, yes. It's great to be with you again, John. Hope you're well.
SPEAKER 12 :
Always great to have you as well. I appreciate you very much, Paul. And I'm sorry, I got my guest list backwards today some way, somehow, but let's keep going anyways. I'll still talk to you as I always do, and I love talking to you, so let's do it.
SPEAKER 04 :
That sounds terrific. Appreciate your flexibility.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, no. So where do you want to start? Let's get with it. Let's get going here, Paul.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. So I think it's very important for conservatives to recognize and for all Americans for that purpose. To recognize the importance of artificial intelligence and the true opportunities we have for massive change, massive improvements in life going forward here. There are a lot of areas of the country... The deep south and places like Texas and Ohio, where there are tremendous investments being made in AI. In the state of Mississippi, for example, there's $16 billion that's coming in for two data centers that Amazon is building, which eclipses the next biggest investment in by almost 100%. In fact, by more than 100%. At the same time, there is this tension within President Trump's coalition between those who are more business-oriented side of folks who want to promote AI, want to promote this economic development, and those who are more on what are typically called the populist right, who are concerned about technology and the development there. This is a tension that the Vice President addressed at a major speech back in March. What is concerning is that there has been a lot of conflict between these two sectors that has been coming out. The Senate, as part of the big, beautiful bill, had a proposal to put a moratorium on new state AI regulations, and there's a ton of these being considered in New York and California. and some on the populist right push back on that. So I would just encourage people to take a look at these issues, to recognize that AI development is something that is going to be very positive. It's something the president has championed repeatedly since coming into office early. And we really want policies that are going to promote the development quickly, as the president has continually stressed. that are going to enable us to defeat China because they are not stopping at anything with their AI development.
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No, they are not.
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And the more that we can do on this, the quicker the better. And I would just urge folks to take a look at that. and to realize we should follow the policies of the administration, which are to promote this change and not turn over regulation of this sector to New York and California, which appears much more likely at this point in time.
SPEAKER 12 :
Really quick, Paul, what do you feel is the reason— And I know it's always hard to ask why you think somebody else is doing what they're doing or having the thoughts that they have. Why do you feel like there's some on that side that don't like AI? Are they scared of it? Are they afraid of what it would do economically? What are your thoughts there?
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Well, I think it's all of those reasons. I mean, historically, there's always been fear of technology. There was tremendous fear of the automobile as something that was going to kill everybody. There was fear of farm machinery coming into play as something that would displace everybody from agriculture. Even Socrates, when writing was discovered back in his day, was very weary of it. He thought it was going to end human conversation because there was now this thing called writing that people could communicate from. So some of the changes are well-founded. Change, you know, especially something that is seismic like AI, very transformational, can be a very scary thing. But we have to look beyond that. The world is going to change with AI, whether the United States beats in that regard or China does. That's right. The world will be a lot better if the U.S. is driving that process than the Chinese are.
SPEAKER 12 :
You know what? Well said. And I agree with you. In fact, it's something that I guess I look at AI personally, Paul, maybe a little differently than even some on Twitter. on the right do i look at and by the way some even i think on the left i look at as a tool just i'm a car guy from you know so you're talking about the car uh coincides very well with me because i'm a car guy you know grew up in that whole world and still do a lot with it and i look at ai as as you would anything else it's a tool just like the car just like the internet just like an airplane just like literally anything that's out there And it can be used for good. It can be used for bad. The reality is it's how it's used. And I also believe, Paul, that as a nation, if we can be the ones on the forefront of this and be driving it, then, of course, I feel like we can have it be used for a lot more good than the alternative. That's my fear with having China be a leader in this area is no offense. I just don't have a lot of trust to them in the first place. So I want us to be the leader, not them.
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Right. No, I strongly agree with that assessment. And as you say, AI is a tool. Tools can be used for good and bad things. And what we are seeing AI used for here are some very good things. AI is what enables you to get directions on your phone to get to a place quicker and with less traffic than you would have before AI was out. That's one of the first developments on it. AI is being used to advance medical research far quicker and far more effectively and at lower cost than used to be the case. AI is being used to improve the efficiency of the electric grid. no matter what type of power you want to have generated, so that things, you know, power generation is much more efficient and systematic. Right now, a lot of energy that gets generated literally goes into the ground because of bottlenecks on the transmission system.
SPEAKER 12 :
It's funny, you talked about traffic. I don't think folks really think through this very well, Paul, but you look at even just traffic and signals and the flow of traffic and what can happen. We do metering on ramps, off ramps, things like that. Reality, Paul, is AI could come into a lot of our gridlock that happens across the country And I don't know how this is going to work as far as cities and counties go, because I hate to say this, Paul, in some cases, they're some of the biggest bottleneck because it will eliminate, you know, jobs and things that are in some of those areas, which, by the way, I'm fine with because we can take those people, shift them into other areas. But the traffic grid alone. AI could substantially help. I can't tell you how many times I sit at a stoplight and think, wait a minute, there's no traffic coming the other way. Why am I sitting here eating up gas, quote unquote, you know, creating pollution, doing the things that we do on a routine basis? And I think to myself, there's got to be a better way to do this. And there is. I realize it's going to be slow to roll some of these things out, but I think we need to get it done sooner than later.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, we absolutely do, and that's a quite interesting example. I mean, think of all the concerns that are going to arise when you start to implement that system, when you don't have set amounts for a red-white or other regulations that come into play. Right. The benefits of it in terms of fuel savings, time savings, and frankly, making things safer because you don't have to worry about people running red lights and killing people because they're afraid they're going to have to wait for three to four minutes can be a very good, a very positive thing. Again, this is something that we need to embrace. It's something that we need to champion. AI is also very stringently regulated technology. You can't do something bad just because it's with AI. You can't defraud somebody with AI and say, well, I defrauded them with AI. No, it's still fraud. It's still a crime. That's right. You can't slander someone. That's right. You can't humiliate someone using AI. I mean, there's all types of... measures that come into play here. So before we adopt the 1,000-plus proposed new laws, principally driven by New York and California that states have put forward since the beginning of this year, we ought to take a deep breath and realize we need freedom of development. There are times when new laws are going to be necessary. In fact, back in May, President Trump signed the Take It Down Act. This is a measure that outlaws revenge porn and AI-simulated pornography of ex-boyfriends and girlfriends. Right, right, right. I mean, that was a gap in the law. Absolutely. And that's the approach that we should take. Absolutely. Something really is wrong and clearly needs a legal fix. Even the U.S. Congress can move quickly and get it done. Absolutely. So there's a lot of reason for optimism here.
SPEAKER 12 :
Lexington Institute, how do folks find you, Paul?
SPEAKER 04 :
We are at lexingtoninstitute.org, lexingtoninstitute.org. I'd also encourage folks to check us out on Twitter. The handle is Lex, L-E-X. Next, D-C. Think of us as being next to D.C., outside the swamp in Arlington, Virginia.
SPEAKER 12 :
Awesome. Paul, I appreciate it very much. Thank you for your time today, sir.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. You're very welcome.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Steve, what's going on? Good afternoon, sir. John, how are you? I'm great. How are you, sir?
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Good. Hope you're having a marvelous Monday. Absolutely. I just got a chance to give you a call on a previous topic on sex trafficking. Right. And we don't even know because of loosey-goosey standards at the border whether we got 200,000, 400,000, or whatever sex trafficking. Nope, we do not. But good news, bad news. I feel like maybe it's a personal failure of mine, but I had two former friends one of which was a senior sex crimes detective with our Springs PD, and the other one was a former president of our Pikes Peak Association of Realtors. And they both managed to sexually assault young girls. So wrong. Maybe it's personal failure of mine, but I cannot reach deep down enough as a Christian to offer redemption, grace, and forgiveness to Not my department. I just think it's wrong.
SPEAKER 12 :
Steve, you and I on that particular topic, I am not any different than you on that level. There are a lot of things that I will give a redemptive pass to folks that get caught doing bad things. They cheated on their books. They cheated on their taxes. They embezzled. They did things along those lines. I mean, Steve, there's all sorts of things that Folks can come back and say, you know, what I did was wrong. I've paid restitution, this, that, and the other. This particular crime, like you, I probably struggle with more than anything else because it's just so abhorrent. That one I have a hard time giving a pass on ever.
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And there's so many who just destroyed lives. But on a brighter note, we have an organization.
SPEAKER 12 :
Really quick, Steve, you know, and I think for me personally, I just want to add to this for all of you listening. Here's my take as to why. And, Steve, I'm sure you're the same way. You know what? You and I, we can defend ourselves. We can fight things off. Women, even to a large extent, they can as well, although lesser than us. So I even have... you know, less sympathy for folks that abuse women because of that. But when it comes to kids, especially Steve, I just, they are, they are, they cannot defend themselves. There is no, there's just no ability for me to give folks a pass in the area because of that.
SPEAKER 08 :
On a quick, brighter note, there's an organization here in Colorado Springs, which may be the only one in the state. It's called Sarah's house. There are five, a one three C their state license and their only purpose is is to try and give some therapy, hope, and future to sex traffic girls. To my understanding, in talking to and interviewing with the director, they don't want to stay. We need a ton more of them because they're doing some great work, and they can only do, I don't know, 20, 30 kids at a time. We probably need one of those or many of those in every city in the country.
SPEAKER 12 :
I agree. I agree. Steve, great stuff. I appreciate that very much. Thank you for your heart, too, as well. I appreciate that. Paul, you're up next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 09 :
Hey, well, here's the update on the saga for my father-in-law and the DMV.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, let's hear it.
SPEAKER 09 :
So I had already made an appointment at the DMV a month ago. That was just a standing appointment just as a holding thing in case the DMV wasn't going to cooperate and I had to drag him in there to get his renewed license, etc. So that stood. As you may and some of your callers who have heard the prior call know, I already contacted Polis, the governor's office for assistance. They ultimately ended up being useless, as I expected in many areas that we already know about. And the only offer that I got from the DMV was to expedite the appointment. Well, I didn't care. I had plenty of time to get him in there before his license expired, so that wasn't an issue. My emails to the director asking her, well, what is... When we go, if we went in there, what are they going to ask in terms of documentation that you already don't have? What information are they going to ask of him that you don't already have? What are we going to be doing there? And I never got a reply.
SPEAKER 12 :
So they never said anything?
SPEAKER 09 :
No. We show up there for the appointment. It was a specific office. And everybody was really nice. All the staff was great. got him to be able to sit down early cause he can't stand for a long time with those lines and, uh, got him expedited without really even having to ask. They just brought him right, right up to brought me up to the counter. Um, without knowing the story, they just knew, you know, he's a senior, he's 90 years old, let him sit down and get in and out. And, uh, so I did that. Uh, the woman asked, well, I gave her the form. Um, well, he has to take an eye test. And I said, no, we already got a waiver on that. I've got an email on that from the director. I could show you, or you can just give her a call. And she said, well, I would have to call her because her system had no notes on there about it, despite a dozen emails going back and forth, no notes in the system. It just said that my online application for his license renewal was rejected. That's all she knew. So anyway, she gets the approval. She gets the manager for the office over. Again, everyone was very, very helpful in the office. Very, very nice. And she had spoken to the director. The manager there pushed through the system because the system was still not really allowing it to go through easily. She just said to the staff person, send me the stuff. I'll initial it. and it will be approved that that will be that. Then we get moved over to the other window because he has to take a new photograph, which wouldn't have been required if everything was done online. So he does the photograph, and I have to recertify all the information about him, which I already did online, but they have to go through the process again, et cetera. And then as I'm checking to make sure all the data is correct, I say, well, what's this code letter? And it says, well, the C is for corrective lenses. I said, this whole thing is about getting a renewal license without corrective lenses because he went through the surgery. He no longer needs glasses, et cetera. And she says, oh. And she gets some assistance from the staff person next door, and they straighten that out. And that was it. We were in and out. pretty as quickly as could be expected and i was fine but it's what struck me is it's amazing that despite how nice people are despite how willing and truly wanting to help you they can't because the way the system is designed and they and and we've allowed you know it's uh what is it uh What was that movie where the machines take over? I guess there are a lot of movies like that. There are several, yes. It's something like that, where the computer systems that we design has no ability to override. They can't think.
SPEAKER 12 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. We just had a guest on talking about AI. You still have to have some ability for a manager to say, this is ridiculous. I'm authorizing it. End of story. and let's just get it done.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, the problem, as you know, on the state level, that it doesn't – it's not the private sector, Paul. They don't have that ability, unfortunately. Very seldom do they have that ability, and they need empowered to be able to do that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, yeah. You know, think about the benefit and the corollary is the U.S. military. The U.S. military, besides the technology advantages – The way it's designed is to enable and empower at the lowest level possible for enormous flexibility and creativity in the battlefield. And that's what I consistently hear from the professionals, which I am not, that makes us stand apart from every other country in the world, that you have very young people They're being trained incredibly well and then being able to do their jobs and make significant decisions as needed based on the field conditions. You have your plan, but if you need to punt, you're allowed to do that. And that just doesn't happen with the bureaucracy of the state. No, it does not. Or cities, for that matter.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, it does not. You're 100% correct. Paul, thank you. So anyway, you got him all dialed in. He's got a license now.
SPEAKER 09 :
He's got a life. All right. And I just emailed her and said, hopefully by next year, and hopefully he's still alive, by next year when we do this, it could all be done online.
SPEAKER 12 :
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SPEAKER 12 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. My son Richard joining us now. Richard, we were going to talk today with the big, beautiful bill and a lot of the changes that have come out of, or a lot of the changes that came out of that bill, I should say, in regards to EVs and some of the rebates and credits and so on. And states will most likely still decide to do something about on their own, but as of, I believe it is, don't quote me, it's either the beginning or end of September, but in September, I believe the $7,500 federal credit goes away, and my prediction is, and we were talking about this a little bit earlier today, but my prediction is that's going to have a huge impact on EV sales in general.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I think that you're correct in that I think that it will, well, it's definitely going to maybe mitigate some of the How do you say, I guess, the rush that some people have had to do it, right, because the incentives have been so good and maybe even the putting on par with some of these engines, right, the engines that are still out or obviously that are out there more prevalent. I am with you. I think that it's something that people probably aren't talking about enough, Dad, because it's. It's a big thing. I don't think... Obviously, everyone made a big deal about Musk, and even Trump made a big deal about Musk losing it. Although, I think it hurts Tesla less than it hurts everyone else because... His cars have already been essentially out of... They've made too much of that $7,500 credit on the federal side of stuff. And so his vehicles will be impacted a lot less than other manufacturers. However, like you said, I think that... Well, this kind of puts all the vehicles back on a level playing field. Now, granted, like you say, there are going to be some stuff that some states, I think, are going to do that will maybe incentivize. And maybe they do a little bit more incentives, right? Because technically the higher sales tax amounts that the states get, I don't know. I'm sure the states, they can always come up with creative ways of doing stuff. But, again, it's sort of been for the longest time, you know, everyone's argument on the EV side of stuff is, well, we need to incentivize people. And your and my answer has always been, well, why? Why not just have them stand alone, right? You know, whether it be for performance or luxury or, you know, some of the features that they can do. Because EVs are really cool. They are a cool thing, but they're not quite up to par as far as, Well, just the value, right? You and I kind of did a little bit of math today, and we won't go into the nitty-gritty with that, and maybe we can talk a little bit about that. For the most part, though, Dad, most EVs are still more expensive than their... ICE counterparts, correct?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, they are. And for those of you on the tax end of it, I did look it up while Richard was talking. September 30th is when that tax credit will end. And I'm not sure exactly where – that's something where I always stress, please, don't rely on anybody, including your local dealer, to tell you what you can and can't qualify for. There's a lot of stipulations, IRS code-wise. I shouldn't say restipulations. There's a lot of IRS code surrounding that. So before you do anything, always double check to make sure that, you know, if you've got an accountant, check with them. If you're doing this on your own, go read all of the regulations and that on that before you do anything. Some of you will qualify for things differently than what somebody sitting in the cubicle next to you might qualify for. So I always make sure that I stress that that's where it gets a little dicey, Richard, on regulations. because they're not the same for everybody, and that's on the federal and state level as well. But I do know this. The federal credit is going away on September 30th, so if it's something you've thought of doing, you probably ought to get after it sooner than later. I do think, though, Richard, back to what you were saying, that while they're cool, While I do think that there's a place for them, the reality is a lot of them have been sold strictly off of the fact that you can get $11,500 here in Colorado, by the way. Depending upon what state you live in, that could be higher or lower. But here in Colorado, it's been about $11,500 off the price of the car. And the reality is that makes the EV come in some cases cheaper than what its gas counterpart is. We did a little math today on a vehicle that you're driving that we'll talk about here and do a review on right after the break. But in general, if you did away with all of the tax credits, you're going to pay more for an EV than you will its ICE counterpart, its internal combustion engine counterpart. Now, in some cases, there is no counterpart. That vehicle stands alone, and that EV, there's really nothing else like it. And by the way, Richard, I think that's something that manufacturers are going to have to do more of. In other words, what competes with this particular EV? Well, if the answer is nothing, well, now it has something that it's – that its marketability-wise is different than anything else, and it might actually keep that model selling. If, on the same token, that EV has a direct ICE competitor, I'm sorry to say, when the $7,500 goes away, and depending upon what certain states do, that EV vehicle is going to lose traction to its ICE counterpart.
SPEAKER 07 :
Correct. And, well, I guess I'll kind of take a step back and say this for folks, because maybe some of you are saying, well, then what's the point of an EV? Well, performance-wise, Dad, they are hard to beat.
SPEAKER 12 :
They are.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely. It doesn't matter if you have a lower-end EV or a Tesla. You know, they're high-powered, be a ludicrous mode, all that sort of stuff, right? The electric power... Yeah, really quick for those listening.
SPEAKER 12 :
When you get used to driving an EV with its instant-on power, I'll just say it straight up, Richard. When you get used to that and you hop in anything else that doesn't quite... Well, won't do that the same way because gas engines won't unless you've got a really high performance car. They will not act the same. I'll tell you, Richard, it's different. It's really a complete driving experience that if you've never driven an EV, you don't understand because going from one to the other is it's polar opposites from one another.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, it's a polar opposite to that. I mean, you go even into the one-pedal driving, right, where you can – essentially, you never really have to use the brake pedal. And for folks that don't know, basically, it uses the electric motors, their resistance – That's right, the regenerative braking. Yeah, to stop the vehicle, you get more. That's right. The vehicle I'm driving now, you can adjust the sensitivity of that, which we'll talk about in a second. But ultimately, it's a nice experience because it's actually a more relaxing, it's a less stressful, less strenuous driving experience.
SPEAKER 12 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 07 :
However, there is a cost with that, and honestly, that manufacturers to this point have not had to – well, really, they haven't had to do much marketing of the EVs to set them apart, right? They haven't had to tell people, oh, this is why you should buy all of this.
SPEAKER 12 :
All they've done it off of is you're saving the planet, and that's been their main – I'm glad you brought that up because you're right. Their main goal with an EV is, oh, you're saving the planet by this. They haven't had to really market what makes an EV different or better than its ICE counterpart. They've strictly done it off of you're saving the planet. That's not enough, by the way. It's not going to be enough.
SPEAKER 1 :
Sure.
SPEAKER 07 :
Correct. And in some cases, Dad, like you said, let's say it's a comparable vehicle, but the EV is about $5,000 more expensive. Well, some people may be willing to pay that for some of the features you and I just talked about. Right. There's also some other features that they can put in because they can hide the batteries differently, and so you actually have more storage, and you have some different technology features that they can put in. Mm-hmm. as far as even cooling the car down and certain things that you can do, but they have not done a good job at differentiating, you know, I talk about that all the time on the business side, of saying, this is why you should do this. And then you also have some manufacturers who have tried to, and a lot of them have walked it back, of putting all of their eggs in one basket, right? They've really tried to push the EV. Well, this is the future. And it's like, you and I have said this from the beginning, which is, no, I think EVs have a place, right? They have that performance piece that's a really great piece.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, and really quick, for those of you listening, let me just throw a few of the advantages of the EV side, the electric vehicle. Somebody said, what's EV? Electric vehicle, that's what EV stands for. So there are advantages on the EV side, and both Richard and I know this. I, because I've owned one now since 2020, so five years now, probably, Richard, longer than anybody else in media that speaks on this particular topic i think i'm i think i'm fair to say that i've probably owned one longer than anybody else out there in that space you know in this space has so i can speak directly to it there are advantages and disadvantages we all pretty much know what the disadvantages are you don't have the ability to go coast to coast as easily as you would you can do it but it's not done as easily as it would be in an ice engine okay All that set aside, most people never travel outside of their regular area, probably more than 50 to 75 miles anyway. So let's just throw that part of it out. We all know that's the disadvantage. But, Richard, the advantages to an EV are convenience. Number one, you're never going to the gas station. You don't have to stop and charge. If you've got a charging station at home, which most people with EVs do, You literally get in the car. It's always charged, always ready to go. In most cases, 230 to 250 miles plus on a single charge. Away you go. You get home. You charge you back up at night. You're charging in the middle of the night, by the way, which is less money to do than what you would be during the day. But the reality is that's one convenience. The power side of it, which you just said a moment ago, that's the other convenience. The comfortability of an EV, the technology side of it, they have done extremely well. And EVs are packed full of technology that make the car a blast to drive. The convenience factor is great. The downside, again, one of the negative, I should say, Richard, is, of course, tire wear is very, very high on an EV. But your maintenance costs on an EV, far less than it would be on a regular gas engine. So, again, those are the selling sides or the pluses on an EV that unless you've ever driven one and or owned one, Most people don't know. Probably the number one biggest reason, Richard, on an EV is just the convenience factor alone. You're just not monkeying around with as much maintenance and fuel as you would with an ICE engine.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, I totally agree. And it'll be interesting, Dad, to see which manufacturers, to your point, after September, the latter half of this year, will be really curious.
SPEAKER 12 :
Which they better be working on now. All these marketing companies that are working for these guys better be working on as we speak, Richard, because that day is coming soon.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and that's my point. You'll be seeing who actually paid attention and who's going to be able to educate their dealerships and their salesmen to say, this is why you should do it. Yeah, it may be a little bit more expensive than a comparable car or whatever it may be, but these are the benefits that you get from it. Up to this point, they've been able to rely on the low-hanging fruit, which is, yep, it's just cheaper. This is your credit. You get all those things. So all of that to say that, and we'll get into a little bit more in our next segment, you and I do think that there is a place in the market for electric vehicles. Is it to the tune of where they are potentially 10%, 20% more expensive than their counterparts? That part remains to be seen, and that's, I think, kind of what we're waiting for.
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All right, we are back. We'll do a review here in just one moment. Before we do that, though, I wanted to make sure, too, Charlie, make sure that I said, you know, ICE vehicles, ICE means internal combustion engine vehicles. That can be diesel or gas. No, it's not what we pick up illegals in. That's a totally different ICE vehicle. So ICE means internal combustion engine, so gasoline-powered, diesel-powered. That's an ICE vehicle. And Richard, really quick, it's going to be interesting to see what the manufacturers actually do to say here are the positives of owning an electric vehicle over an internal combustion engine vehicle. Because, and by the way, they better be really thinking because there's an entire market segment, mostly conservatives, that have been anti-EV up to this point. And it'll be really interesting to see how do they tackle that segment of the market or do EVs just die off? I don't think they will, but I think they're going to slow way up.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I agree. I think it will force some of these manufacturers to shift their strategies, right, which is to say where it should have been all along. Right. That's right. Which is EV server purpose. And one thing I was going to say before is the other thing too, Dad, right, is everyone markets these ranges, right? You've got 300 miles. Well, that's on a full charge. If you want to not be swapping your battery out after every six, seven years, maybe if you want to get it to the 10-, 11-, 12-year mark, they don't recommend you go that, right? They want it between 10% and 80%. They want you to very rarely go to 100%, and a lot of people don't know that.
SPEAKER 12 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 07 :
And so there is a learning curve, I think, that's going to kind of come into play here. But like you said, I think it will be interesting because it's going to force them to actually have to sell these rather than sell themselves.
SPEAKER 12 :
That's right, through tax credits.
SPEAKER 07 :
To a whole new market of people.
SPEAKER 12 :
That's exactly right. Exactly. All right, so it is that time where we do a review on a weekly basis. So, Richard, what have you driven lately?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, so I drove kind of an electric vehicle side of things, a 2025 Volvo XC90, Dad. This was the plug-in hybrid version, so it gives you about 40 miles worth of range on a single charge, which for a lot of people is sufficient, especially if there's even charging at your office or you've got the capabilities to – do whatever you need to do. Again, you can go 40 miles on electric only, and then it switches seamlessly to its hybrid powertrain, even charges the battery a little bit as you're going. It's got a lot of flexibility. This is a luxury SUV, Dad, right? This is Volvo's three-row SUV, but it is a luxury car. I don't want people to mistake that and think that this is a great value. This car, as we tested it was about eighty nine thousand dollars i think just a hair underneath that but again you get that swedish luxury right you get really nice apportionments on the inside heated and ventilated seats you've got captain's chairs i think that are heat that are heated in the in the second row you've got a third row granted when you put that up you don't have a ton of room in the you know very back for um cargo or whatever it might be but you've got the third row if you need it And you get the styling, right, Dad? This is a really pretty car. It's a fun car to drive. Its lines look great. And this car, Dad, is something that Volvo's, well, they've been doing for a while now. And I think, let me pull up my facts here. It was introduced in 2016. They've got some new trim level names for 2025. But for the most part, Dad, they've kind of just done some subtle redesigns to this car. And that's because it's done really well for them. And it really attracts fans. the right type of buyer, which is, again, you need to carry around four people, maybe five, and still have some cargo room because you can split that third row. And, Dad, the benefit of these plug-in hybrids over the all-electric vehicles that are out there is you have the capability of just charging from a normal 110-volt outlet, right? Just plug this car in. And overnight, in most cases, I think it'll probably charge straight from your outlet, right? As long as you give it about 10, 12 hours to charge. I don't have the exact figures in front of me. Now, if you do have a level 2 charger... I think this thing will go from basically zero miles to about 40 miles all within, I don't know, maybe two, three hours, Dad, right? These plug-in hybrids, because these are just such a much smaller battery pack, right, than compared to their full EV counterparts. And so, folks, while this used to qualify for some different rebates and things like that, but the benefit of this is, like a lot of the cars in this segment and even other segments, is if you want that flexibility to say, hey, I'm not going very far today, or maybe my commute's 20 miles one way, even with picking up the kids, dropping them off, or maybe it's about 50 each day. Well, you're only using 10 miles of gas only. You can probably go maybe even two, three weeks on just charging this car, Dad, right, not having to put fuel in it. and I think there's a benefit there. And you've driven these Volvos in the past. The luxury really is nice on these Swedish-made vehicles.
SPEAKER 12 :
Luxury, safety, of course, Volvo, well-known for their safety and how they actually build the vehicle. It's one of the safest vehicles on the road. I mean, I would not hesitate to buy one of their vehicles. I do like the plug-in hybrid version probably more than I do, even though I'm a standard EV car owner. I like the plug-in hybrid because you kind of get the best of both worlds, meaning if you want to take a trip across the country... knock your socks off go for it there's some places to plug in along the way so be it if not you can still go coast to coast very easy just like you could in a regular internal combustion engine vehicle because it has one of those on it it is a true hybrid but yet it's plug-in meaning that you get that benefit of that 40 mile range or so around town where for like you said richard a lot of people would never even have the regular gas engine come on in most cases because if they charge nightly, that normal charge daily would be sufficient for them to go to and from work, school, whatever it is. And by the way, do it in complete luxury and style and safety at the same time.
SPEAKER 07 :
Nope, absolutely. And the last thing I'll say is, like you say, again, folks, price point, about $88,000, $89,000. It is a luxury SUV. Don't get it confused. However, it's a car that the warranty kind of proves that, Dad, with what they've done. And like you say, the safety is sort of second to none. That's kind of what they became known on. And they just put a lot of nice creature comfort. They actually redesigned the infotainment display, Dad. It made it easier to use. And for those of you that have listened to our past reviews on Volvo, that's maybe the only biggest complaint we've had. It's an easier-to-use interface. Really cool how they've integrated CarPlay and Android Auto into there, all that. So if you want to learn more about this, folks, Catch your local Volvo dealer. Test drive this vehicle. Get your family in it. Ask questions about the EV side of it, those sorts of things. And when you do that, let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
SPEAKER 12 :
All right, before I let you go, one texter asked, what do you think of the key on that car? Is the Volvo key okay or is it junk?
SPEAKER 07 :
Um, it's a little bit funky, but once you get used to it, it gets, it gets a lot better. Right. And then for folks that don't know, there's no buttons on the flat parts of it, but all the buttons are on the side.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. And so it takes a little bit getting used to it. But once you do that, it's, It's just like anything else.
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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560. And that's it for hour two. Another full hour coming your way. Don't go anywhere. J.T. Young will be joining us. We're going to talk about from Iran to immigration. The experts are wrong again. We'll be back in a moment. Don't go anywhere. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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