From Florida Man's notorious escapades to a heated debate on U.S. immigration policy, this episode of Dana Lash's 'Absurd Truth' podcast covers it all. We also delve into the significance (or lack thereof) of Cinco de Mayo and challenge common stereotypes perpetuated by mainstream media. Tune in for a lively conversation filled with humor, insight, and unfiltered opinions.
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A Florida man was sentenced for assaulting a DFW gate agent. 53-year-old Florida man was sentenced to four months in federal prison for assaulting the DFW gate agent in October of last year. He pled guilty to interference with security screening personnel. He faced 10 years for the crime. He was at the gate. Security footage showed him repeatedly punching the gate agent in the head. Now, there have all been times when we felt like doing that. But you don't do it because assault's illegal. And he admitted that he did it. And I mean, obviously, because he's on camera doing it. But they removed him from the jeopardy. And you can't do stuff like that. Some people are special than you. You can't do that kind of stuff. I'm just saying, you know, find a different way to resolve. Am I supposed to feel super sad? We've all been in a bad situation. We all have bad stories, but you can't do that with them because they're particularly protected. Let's see. Florida man smeared feces in jail cell after his DUIRS at Santa Rosa Beach. That's kind of gross. I'm not doing the one where the guy had three wives in three different counties because for the fourth day it keeps appearing in these headlines. So this guy, he was in jail, Santa Rosa Beach. He was taken in Walton County. He was driving under the influence. There was all these disruptive incidents. And they arrested 47-year-old Jason Buchanan. And he was harassing people, confrontational. When they got him, he... Went to the bathroom in his cell and made a giant mess. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here at the bottom of this first hour. We're in a Brit pop, Brit rock, like late 90s, early aughts mood because of the rain and the storm here in Texas. It's not helping the mood. We're really more cynical and gothy than we are normally. So it's good to be with you. Channel 347 is the stream over at Direct TV. You can also catch us, X, Rumble, where the chat is. I'm not responsible for what those people do. Facebook, YouTube, all that good stuff. Blah, blah, blah. So I want to just change because I could sit here and we could just talk forever all three hours about Tara. There's other stuff happening. So we're going to circle back. One of the things that I do, it's like a guilty pleasure. Well, I love people watching, right? I read the Daily Mail, which is a garbage paper because I like to people watch, right? Just like if you go out and you have a glass of wine, it's nice enough. You're sitting outside talking with your friends, your spouse, whatever, and you're just people watching outside, right? So the Met Gala, which I normally don't pay attention to and haven't for like ever. because it's usually a bunch of stuffy people that wear overpriced stuff, and they try to be very extravagant, and it's all for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Anna Wintour, who helms Vogue, she organizes it, and she's notoriously steely about whoever gets in and what the theme is. So the theme last night, and I thought it was kind of odd, because it seemed like... It was very – well, it seemed like it was very racially charged. So there's a style. It's called dandyism, right? And dandyism was black or white. It was all manner of everything. And it was basically – How do I put it? Like you're dressed into the nines. Like when you step out with accessories on point, like you've got the hat, you've got the fascinator. If you're a lady, you've got, you know, everything is like perfectly tailored. You look sharp. It's pressed. You look like you just hopped out of a band box. It, you look nice. Now it's always, and I love it. Tailoring and proper dress because they think it's a sign of a healthy society. I am super old school and I go into rabbit holes with this stuff. What they did yesterday is they wanted to focus specifically on black dandyism. With an emphasis on structure with clothing. Now you might be like, what does that mean? Really? I don't know. It's up for interpretation. If you look at some of the people who arrived at the Met Gala. Now the Met Gala is this big fundraiser thing that they do for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They're one big thing a year. Everybody goes to it. Well, not everybody. It's a very like Anna Wintour specifically selects each guest. So they wanted to explore black dandyism. specifically, which I thought, okay, it's Anna Wintour. She's super far left. Of course, it's going to be racially charged, whatever. So it just basically means you're going to dress to the nines. You could pay homage to, I guess, black iconic members of art or whatever. And then your outfits are supposed to be a little structured. Usually this is where people get weird with their stuff. They get experimental. Experimental, I guess, makes sense in some sense. I am one of those people that believes that form follows function. But I also think you don't have to rob it of flair. So some of them, like the dude who had a fake piano strapped to his back yesterday, I just didn't get it. And, you know, I was looking at this and my first thought when I watched all these people first, I first thought the guest list was kind of a downgrade. There apparently there was like an only fans person that got invited. How does that even happen? Now, wait, don't show up. We'll get to the Pam Anderson thing in a minute because that's a whole other topic. So the first thing I thought was, I guess they're just inviting anybody and everybody here. Kamala Harris attended last night and she was in a Cruella de Vil gown that was half black and half white. And the way British, I think it was British folk, they said, oh, she looks stunning. That is an overused word. Like I see people all the time go, that's gorgeous or that's stunning. I'm like, no, it's not. That's like mid. Stop. She's not stunning. It looked like a jersey dress from, you know, like a wrap dress from the 90s. Juan's getting ready to show you what she... Okay, so this is her outfit. First off, if you're going to wear a neck scarf, you don't need dangly earrings because there's too much happening there in the neck area, particularly with the pleats going around the shoulder. I get very weird about this stuff. Also, I don't understand what's happening with the sleeves. Like one of the sleeves is blousey and the other one's more structured. There's no structure in this dress. And if it's satin, it's such an unflattering material and it just drapes across her pitifully highlighting all of her worst areas. Why would you wear this? I don't like asymmetrical necklines with neck scarves like this and then completely out of place dangly like quasi chandelier earrings. Stop it. I am my grandmother. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. That just hit me. I'm 90. So you see what I mean? I just don't like it. When you wear a dress like that, you shouldn't have two humps, the bust and the belly, okay? You can't. You got to pick one over the other. You can't have something that drapes like that. I know guys don't care about this, but guys, I'm giving you an insight into the female psyche, so just bank it, okay? So I was looking at this. I'm like, well, damn, they just invited anybody and everybody. I was waiting to see, like, what's his face? Billy Ray Cyrus show up, although he's dating Elizabeth Hurley right now, so that's a whole... Dude, Google that. Google it. Don't have a heart attack. Billy Ray Cyrus is dating Elizabeth Hurley, who was the punk queen in her day before she got with Hugh Grant. Google that. I was highly, I was like waiting to see him step on the red carpet. And then I can't remember who this guy was with the piano on his back, but okay. I don't know what's the red bean. Okay. You know, I don't know. He looks like he just got, you know, like a, an achievement in dark tide and he's wearing it on his back. I don't understand what's happening, but okay. It's accurate. So here's my thing. You have all these people, they have the structure dress. Some, some, some look nice. 98% look like trash. I thought Zendaya looked really good. I thought her outfit was nice. I loved her headwear. Make headwear great again. Hats on women need to become a thing again. But can we talk about Pam Anderson for a moment? Because there are a lot of people that were questioning her. Now, if you don't follow Pam Anderson, I mean, clearly she was married to Tommy Lee. Everybody knows that she was the Baywatch babe. She was like the 90s icon. So she shows up. She got her haircut. And she's been in a thing where she doesn't wear makeup. And she did it for health reasons. If you follow her, she explained why she doesn't wear makeup. She wants to be healthy. She cooks organically. She even has a cooking show that Meghan Markle totally ripped off poorly because Pam Anderson actually cooks. She makes all her own food. She grows her own vegetables. I mean, she's super healthy and fit. That takes a lot of effort. So she's been going to these events with no makeup on. So she showed up at the Met Gala last night. And a lot of people were going, can you believe how dowdy and frumpy she looks? I need a full stop with these people because most of the people that I see criticizing her looks would not be given a second glance from a one or two out of 10 at the bar. Okay. The people who are criticizing her, they're like ones and twos. I need them to take a million seats right now because ugly people don't get to comment on Pam Anderson's outfit. Okay. So first off, let's start with us. She's 57 years old. Her skin is flawless. She puts a lot of effort into taking care of herself. For the people who think that effort is only manifest by wearing a butt ton of makeup on your face, right? I hate makeup. I don't even have eye makeup on right now. I have mascara and that's it because I can't stand makeup and it's humid here. So she has amazing skin, 57 years old. She has not had plastic surgery. She is naturally fit. She is wearing a completely appropriate, perfectly tailored, structured dress befitting the theme. Her haircut is on point. The bangs may not be my taste, but they're well executed. She's 57. I know 20 year olds who could not go on the red carpet bare faced because their skin looks like asphalt. Right. They look like it's like pockmarked. I know 30 year olds who do not have this woman's figure. So she shows up naturally looking better than 95% of the people there. That's a win. She looks amazing. And there is no shame. Newsflash. Women don't have to be boobs out with caked on makeup, spider leg lashes, hair extensions out the ass, you know, with a full everything, acrylic everything. They don't have to look like a wrung out, try hard, only fans want to be sex pot. They can also look like this and have some natural beauty. So mega props to Pam Anderson for flying the one finger salute in the face of society and restating what true feminine beauty looks like. Mega props to her. And for all the ones and twos and mids that are criticizing her, let's wait until you're 57 years old and let's parade you on the red carpet with your natural skin and your figure and let's see if you can even remotely compare. So I thought she was one of the winners of this. And I told Kane on break, I look at things like this, like events like this, as a... kind of like a temperature check on society, right? And I was looking at the people that were on the red carpet and it just looked like it was nothing. It just looked like it fell off. It looked like a symptom of a sick, sad, broken society, right? Broken fashion, just people who tried too hard, right? Oh, Juan's getting Zendaya. I thought her outfit was perfect. Perfectly tailored suit. Perfect hat. She was a winner. This is what, you know, feminine beauty. You don't have to be like OnlyFans. You don't have to, you know, with the Jasmine Crockett eyelashes and the extensions, you know, out to there. You don't have to have all that. But otherwise, I thought it looked like just a sick, sad society. I did. And I love that Pam Anderson, her face was so shining. I mean, she just like was light. She just, I loved it. And I'm not like a big, I'm not like a major fan. Like I haven't followed her all her life. I just saw, you know, some of the things that she said. her good on her right isn't that what we want or no we want fake stuff right we want fake engagement we want fake everything we want fake news we want fake lives we want curated carousels that only show off our best moments fake fake fake i mean that's literally part of the digital sickness And we expect it to translate to real life events like this. And when it doesn't, we're like, oh my gosh, that's so unlike what I'm used to seeing on Instagram where everybody looks like they're made of marzipan. They're all flawless. Everyone you know uses a filter. I don't even post pictures of myself when I'm in bad light. Admittedly, I totally don't. Everybody uses something just so you know. But no one wants to be honest about it because everybody's supposed to be perfect. That is a digital sickness. And it's something that we, who are all about conserving individual power, and I think being who you are is part of that individual power, should be pushing back against. So good on Pam Anderson. Good on all these people for looking nice and all this stuff. Otherwise, oh my gosh, there were some absolute misses. Men do not need to be in skirts. I don't care unless you're Scottish. Don't do it. And it's not a skirt. It's a kilt. But don't do it. You know, don't do it. I don't want to see it. I don't like some of the men look like fruitcakes. They just did. I'm like, some of y'all look a little bit light in them loafers and not in a fashionable way. I have to say. So that's, you can't even pay any attention to any of this. That's the biggest dose of estrogen some of them have been listening to will get for this year. It's just that right there. But I do think it's like a sign of a sick society. It is, isn't it not? Like you look at some of this stuff and you're like, oh my gosh, this is supposed to be the best. Steve DJ Fonicle said that Sabrina Carpenter looked like an M&M. I barely know who she is. But she has way too many extensions. Like, you should not look like Aslan. Like, Kristi Noem needs to stop with the extensions. It looked like she skinned Aslan and put it on her head. Quit. Stop it. Your natural hair is pretty. Stop doing that stuff. Stop it. I just and and also platform shoes. It makes you look like Clydesdales. Oh, if you think I'm even remotely done, I'm not because we have the New Yorker magazine spread that looked at all of these dirty hippies and leftists. If you get my newsletter at Substack. So that's Sabrina Carpenter. Those are Clydesdale hooves. Those aren't feet. Those aren't heels. Those are Clydesdale hooves. Every time I see them, I think clop, clop, clop. that's all I hear that's all I hear ladies you're supposed to be like elegant and and not like and most women can't even walk in heels anyway it's like watching toddler stomps to stop anyway so if you think I'm even remotely done stick around I feel like you know somebody's got to be Joan Rivers God love that woman. Rest her soul. GoldCo is making it easy to take that first step toward protecting your savings. Just fill out a quick form. No commitment. Just free information. And then they'll ship you your free 2025 gold and silver kit straight to your door. No shipping fees. No strings. Just a free info kit to help you understand how gold and silver can fit into your financial plan. I'm a big believer in doing your research and this kit is a great place to start. 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All righty. So a Georgia camper kills a rabid bobcat with his bare hands. He said it was either him or me. Georgia man was left fighting for his life. A rabid bobcat attacked him while he was out camping. OK, can I just say this is another reason like why? I mean, I'm all for going out in nature, but I ain't going to sleep out in it because we invented the house as a people, you know. As humans, we invented the house. But this feller, Midway, Georgia, Hunter Hudson, he's out camping, and a bobcat struck without warning. And he says, it was me or him. It was me or him. And I got two little boys, 12 and 5, and daddy's coming home. He said he was enjoying a quiet campfire when a sound in the dark just shattered the night. I heard a crazy noise. You know, I never heard it before, he said. And then that bobcat came out of nowhere. His friend apparently got the video without even helping him. I'm like, help him. His friend's recording the video like, ah. He says, I walked out of my camper and got attacked by a bobcat. He goes, I wasn't looking for the bobcat. The bobcat found me and jumped on my shoulder. He said his gun was out of reach. So he had to rely on pure instinct. He said he grabbed him, pulled him as hard as he could, took his thumbs and put him in his nose, hurt his nose so he couldn't breathe. He had blood running at the end of his fingertips. He said, I had to call the ambulance. And then the bobcat tested positive for rabies. So he had 40 shots. And they're about a half an inch to an inch needles. They're real painful shots. I mean, modern medicine had not improved on them. They are real painful. You got to get that medicine deep in there. But his friend had the footage of it. And I'm like, did he stop to hand you the gun at any point? Or, you know, where you could at least shot it in the head, something. I don't know. In Massachusetts, if you smell cucumbers in your home, get out. Now, wait a minute. This is not right. I grew up with copperheads. I don't think they smell like cucumbers, but they say that it mimics the scent of cucumbers. It has a musk, but I don't think it's like cucumbers. Cain, you grew up around copperheads too.
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Yeah.
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I mean, how we'd be out in the woods all the time.
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I don't remember this cucumber smell, but they say whenever they get bothered or threatened that that's the scent they give off.
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There is a musk that you can smell.
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Yeah.
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Can we also discuss how CNN thinks that Mexicans are too afraid to celebrate Cinco de Mayo with Audio Soundbite 5? Because I'm... We got to talk about some media malpractice. Go ahead and hit us with this one.
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Today is May 5th, and that means Cinco de Mayo Wolf, a holiday that celebrates Mexico's victory over France. But some in the Battle of Puebla, I should say, but some communities have canceled or scaled back cultural events because of President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration and the fear among many Latinos that they could be arrested.
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Why, thank you, white blonde woman. And the man whose name is Wolf. Thank you. So one of my friends, and so I'm going to ask why did Jason Kane and Juan here. So even though it's like a Mexican thing, one of my friends who is Mexican says that no real Mexican actually celebrates Cinco de Mayo. Is that true?
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It's actually true. I mean, we may have some Mexican food that day, but what is there to celebrate, honestly? What is there to do to celebrate?
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My friend, she goes, look, the only people who celebrate this, she goes, are the suburban people who go out to like, you know, TGI Fridays and they have some margaritas. Those are the only people who celebrate it.
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Is it true? Well, and the businesses that sell those things.
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Well, yeah, but it's not like a giant Hispanic celebration is what she was saying.
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No, it is not.
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Because I was like, wait, you've never celebrated? She was like, no. Nope. Interesting.
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There's nothing like every year, you know, we do the 4th of July. We have like the barbecue and the fireworks and there's a whole ba-ba-ba.
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You got a cookout.
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Yeah. For Cinco de Mayo, it's not. It's like, wow, let's get an avocado on that taco today.
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It's not really an extra line in the mark.
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It's not a big deal.
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Yeah, she I was just dying laughing at it because I thought it was hysterical. But leave it to the I mean, you know, she is the lady on CNN, the blonde white savior there. Oh, my goodness. How racist is that? Oh, there's security even celebrates and go to Maya. Well, it's it's the white people that they're serving. that are celebrating Cinco de Mayo. And they're not celebrating Cinco de Mayo for the same reason that they all pretend to be Irish on St. Paddy's Day. They're not celebrating St. Paddy. They're drinking.
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That's what it is.
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It's a drinking day. It's a day where you can drink. And it's like, oh, you're drunk and it's 2 o'clock. Well, it is St. Paddy's Day. Oh, you're drunk and it's 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Oh, well, it is Cinco de Mayo. That's acceptable.
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Same thing.
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Maybe I'm being too, so in my, I was raised, it's not a written, formally written rule, but it's like you don't get drunk when the sun's up is the rule, unless it's 4th of July. Right. Maybe St. Paddy's. But, you know, then that's acceptable. You're at a cookout, yeah, yeah, yeah. But, you know, otherwise, nah, not for a minor thing. You don't do that stuff.
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But Cinco de Mayo is like the St. Paddy's Day.
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It is. It's the Mexican St. Paddy's Day.
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It's like America's excuse to day drink.
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Yeah, it is. That's right. It's it's the they're they're like Halloween is the chance to walk around and slutty stuff like a lot of women. Exactly. This is. Yeah, exactly. I just I was laughing hysterically over that because, you know, then you then it looks even more ridiculous when you see that CNN soundbite when you hear it. Oh my gosh, Wolf, me, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed white woman. All the Mexicans are so scared to celebrate Cinco de Mayo because they're going to get totes arrested. I can't believe this is an actual CNN thing. And he sat there like, you know, again, this is my favorite thing to say right now. A cigar store ending and just blinking, you know. So they're canceling this. They're afraid of being deported by ICE. I don't think... Could you be any more racist there? Could you be more racist? I don't even know who that was. They just rotate these people to sit in by wolf.
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By the way, they can self-deport. They don't have to be at the mercy of ICE.
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Okay, can we talk about that coming up? Because I don't want to pay anybody to self-deport. GTFO. What? I'm not paying you $1,000. I do. You can self-deport, or I will drag you out by your ankles. I disagree with you 100%. And I will yeet you the hell over the Rio.
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I completely disagree with you 100%.
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Where's the money coming from, Kane?
SPEAKER 09 :
What do you mean? It's coming from the savings.
SPEAKER 01 :
Why is the carpet wet, Todd?
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Did you see the per person rate? Did you see the per person of the cost it does per person to deport using ICE? And then what it costs, the suggested cost for self-deporting.
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No, no.
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You can do this with your hands all you want to when you talk. More than $10,000 per person savings by doing the self-deportation.
SPEAKER 01 :
king thinks that if he makes if he emphasizes doing the chef kiss hand that i have to put it more accurate i do it doesn't so sometimes talk with my hands no no why why is it that's first off that's a that's a false argument and here's why it's why do we have to give them any money you can deport or you can get yeeted the hell over the rio okay i'm sure daddy holman's got some arm strength do you think it's free to get yeeted over by your ankle do you think it's free to get yeeted
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Is that what you think?
SPEAKER 01 :
I would eat someone over for free.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, of course. You and I would totally do that for free.
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No, hear me out. Hear me out. Hear me out. My dream, I want to make a trebuchet. I don't know why. It's a fascinating medieval weaponry in the balance of which, you know, I think it's amazing.
SPEAKER 09 :
I'm still with you. We could just put a bunch of them in there and just... I am 100% for that idea. It's still not free. The trebuchet costs money.
SPEAKER 01 :
I would pay for its construction.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, but it still costs money.
SPEAKER 01 :
You would have a bowl big enough to fit 20 illegal immigrants in and then just... Right over.
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Great idea.
SPEAKER 01 :
The cartels can lay some pillows down on the other side.
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Crapping on the idea. There's a money savings here.
SPEAKER 01 :
The money savings is to yeet them over. And there are a lot of people who would do it, like myself, who would love nothing more than weekend warrior.
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It turns out that self-yeeting is cheaper.
SPEAKER 01 :
That's not self-eating if you're paying them.
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It's self-eating.
SPEAKER 01 :
You're incentivizing illegal crossing. Yes, yes. And then they're going to come back because then you're leaving the door for them to come back.
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To a tune that's much cheaper.
SPEAKER 01 :
Oh, my gosh. Oh, no, no. I am not going for less money. I'm going for no money spent.
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India and the UK come to a trade agreement and Dana is jealous we aren’t able to get anything done. Dana recaps Monday’s Met Gala including the theme of “Black Dandyism”, how White people were supposed to adhere to that, plus all the best and worst moments Trump meets with Canadian PM Mark Carney in the Oval Office. ProPublica wins a Pulitzer Prize for propaganda claiming Georgia mother Amber Thurman died because of pro-life laws rather than the dangerous abortion pills she took which ended her life. Antifa rioters start a takeover at the University of Washington. CNN is claiming that Mexican communities are cancelling Cinco de Mayo celebrations because they're afraid of getting deported by ICE. Lefty Ana Navarro complains that a Canadian couple she knows doesn’t want to get married in Florida because of the trade tensions with the US. Loudoun County Public Schools has opened a Title IX investigation into three high school boys who said they were uncomfortable with a female student using the boys’ locker room. New York Magazine runs a photo spread where wealthy celebrity elites posed in their posh apartments dressed like their furniture.
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Liberty Nation with Mark Angelides.
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From draining the swamp to challenges through the courts, Donald Trump has his work cut out. But does he have the motivation to finish the job? You'll find out on Liberty Nation Radio.
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United States government will never default that we will raise the debt ceiling and Treasury will not use the any gimmicks. We will make sure that the debt ceiling is raised.
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I don't want to raise debt ceiling. I don't want any of that stuff. That stuff's bad news bear, man. I don't want any of it. That's just the way I'm looking at it. Welcome to the show. Dana Lash with you. And we are at the top of this first hour. We got a lot of stuff to hit. And in that, in some of it. We're going to talk about some of these trade agreements. We're going to get into some of the latest with the media. I've got a bunch of media stuff for you. That's just absolutely garbage. And we're going to get into some of the culture stuff. And, uh, I'm going to have all of that here for you. It's if you can hear it, I don't know if people can hear it or not. Just FYI, it is storming like torrential rain. Uh, crazy here in Dallas, Texas. Steve, can you hear it actually through the microphone? I'm curious. Yeah, well, it's because our dog is having an ecstasy. He's having nom flashbacks. Wick is having nom flashbacks right now. It's crazy. So we're going to get into all of that here. Well, we're going to try to hopefully get into stuff without the power going out. It flickered early this morning, and I've been a little nervous about it because, you know. You don't want the power to go off when you're on air. So if it does, if it does go off, just so you know, we're going to... We'll make sure that... Well, it's going to be goth talk. It'll be a dark hour. We're going to... We'll still be rolling. But it's going to be... It's going to be... We'll be in the dark. We're all ready for it, Cain. We've got our candles. We've got our incense. We've got everything. We're ready to goth it up. So this... So just FYI, because I mean, it's loud. I don't know how you all can't hear it. Anyway. All right. So let's get to everything. So we've got this. I read this headline this morning and I got real excited. Then I reread it. It says India, UK free trade agreement concluded. Wait, wait a minute. Wait, wait, wait a second. Why did why did they get one? Why did they make theirs first? What's the holdup with us? Why do we not have this? Because we need to have all of these different, what was it, 77? 72, 77 different nations that we have to have these agreements with. And I'm just, I would like to see these agreements be made. We gotta have them. I talk about this every damn day to the point where I am just done talking about it. Every damn day, it's the same thing. Well, we're almost there. I'm not gonna, look, I'm gonna tell you guys something. I'm not making excuses for the administration when something's not done because it's, I mean, we gotta call balls and strikes. And I realize that a lot of this too has to do with Congress. So I don't I don't want to seem like I'm being mean. But at the same time, this has to get done or you're not going to have a second half of Trump's term. They're going to drag him into impeachment palooza. Everything that everybody voted for is gone. It's gone. It's done. Everyone else is so afraid that they're going to jeopardize their stupid little cottage industry of clickbait whoredom that they're going to lose when POTUS turns out. They're going to lose all of that influence and nobody's going to care about these people. But they're not being honest with you about this stuff. It is so dangerous what we're doing, what we're playing with right now. And by having these people drag their feet in Congress. So I saw this India-UK free trade agreement. Why is theirs done first, Cain? Am I being completely irrational? I'm mad.
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I know that we're in a 90-day pause right now with the tariffs, the reciprocal nature of the tariffs. And so these countries now are scrambling to make deals. So I'm less concerned about two different countries making a deal with themselves because we will have a deal.
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I don't like Keir Starmer.
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No, nobody does.
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I want to mean girl him away from the table.
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Nobody likes him. I want to bully him. Yeah. It does feel right to do it.
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Why doesn't I mean, I look at this and I'm like, wait a minute. He's a jack wagon. Why is this done first? So, oh, and they're all like, Modi was like, I'm delighted to speak with my friend Keir Starmer. We've successfully concluded an ambitious, mutually beneficial free trade agreement. Is this also something that you think that they orchestrated to try to put pressure on the U.S.? That's how I'm reading this. Yes. And it makes me angrier.
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Yeah, for show, so that there's enough for the media to parse out to the public. That's what this is about. We're still in that 90-day pause. These countries will want to make a deal before we get to the end of those 90 days. This all will happen. What these countries do, I'm less concerned about, because we'll have our own independent thing going on with India and our own independent thing going on with the UK. So I'm not too concerned about this at all.
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Yeah, well, you know, it's not that I'm concerned. I'm just like, you know, I'm mad because I wanted to get it done first. I'm very competitive. I'm even competitive with, like, prime ministers. I shouldn't be because I'm a citizen of this. You know, it's like, why? I just don't like Keir Starmer doing anything successful. I love the Brits. They're our allies. They're great, dear friends of ours. But at the same time, not him, but at the same time, I don't want him to do better. Is that mean to say I just don't want him to do better?
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No, that's fair. I mean, we're Americans, right?
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And I want this to be our announcement. I want our, you know, that's what I would like.
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Well, you know who's visiting the president today, right?
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Yeah, Mark Carney.
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So he's been talking tough ever since he quote unquote won an election.
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Well, he's there right now meeting. I mean, I think he just pulled up like 15 minutes ago to the White House. POTUS greeted him. He's a lot shorter than I thought he was. He's 5'3 with an attitude. You know how they did the TikTok thing? 5'3 and an attitude. 5'3. He's a wee dude. I think he is. POTUS is actually ginormous. So he's meeting the Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney. That's going to be interesting. It looks like it was like a very cordial meeting. I always watch that first meeting when they shake hands like, hmm, let's see here. And it was very cordial. I mean, Trump was very nice about it. He's, you know, so I I he's meeting with him and we've got me pulled this up for you. And on top of all that, I got a couple of other things. So Paul Tudor Jones, he's this guy who's considered to be this financial whiz. So here's why I'm putting some emphasis on what he says, because it's not unlike what our friend Carol Roth has said prior. He has said stocks are bound to hit new lows, even if we tone down the tariff battle with China. And he said, you know, the Fed's locked in on not cutting rates. POTUS is locked in on tariffs. It's not great for the stock market. He said, we're probably going to go down to new lows, even if and when POTUS dials everything with China back to 50%. Now, that's not unexpected. It isn't unexpected to see something like this. But I... I think a lot of that is going to be mitigated by codifying some of the deregulation and the controlling of spending. Gosh, that thunder. God didn't like that headline. I'm just going to say, did not like the headline. Now, on top of this, we have Mattel. who says, remember the soundbite from POTUS where he said, well, maybe you just need two dolls. I don't really think that's the best messaging. And this is where I'm going to tell you, you can like POTUS and like this administration and think they're awesome, et cetera, et cetera. I'm always going to call balls and strikes. I'm not in a cult. I don't like anybody enough to where I will not disagree with them. Nobody. There's no such thing as blind allegiance. And it's unpatriotic. I mean, for crying out loud, you're supposed to question your government, not be best friends with them. It just goes against our very American DNA. That said, I think that messaging wasn't the best, like maybe $2 instead of $30. I saw people saying $2 Don and all this other stuff. Oh, my gosh. Maybe not the best. But the reason I say this is because now you have Mattel. who has this headline, it's the CEO of Mattel, and they said that they're not going to onshore jobs, but they are going to have price hikes. So that's the Mattel CEO told NBC he does not foresee toy manufacturing coming to America. They said by the end of the year, less than 40% of Mattel's product will be sourced from China. The goal that they have is to reduce that to below 25% within the next two years. But the idea of bringing all that back to the U.S., he said, that's not going to happen. He's like, a significant part of toy creation happens here, but putting it all together... He's like, that's going to but they are going to reduce it to 25 percent. So that's a step forward. I mean, look, you're not going to be able to accomplish with tariffs, complete onshoring of U.S. jobs without deregulation and making it a more hospitable financial environment for business. You're just not going to do it. I mean, our cap gains are corporate taxes rather. The fact that we have corporate tax rate higher than that of communist China is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. And all of the people out there bitching and moaning about onshoring jobs, I haven't seen a single one of these stuffed suits say anything about that statistic. And people who don't talk about it don't understand its relation to fomenting a hospitable business environment. You're not going to be able to get everything that you want just by controlling it executively. Because you're putting a Band-Aid on the problem. All of these are symptoms of the bigger problem. The bigger problem being a government that spends too much, that has too much regulation, that doesn't prioritize production first, manufacturing first. So until we have all of this other stuff in gear, you can pass whatever EO you want to. It's only going to put a Band-Aid on the problem, and that Band-Aid's not one of those tough strips. So, I mean, all of this other stuff has to come into play here. All of it does. Now, Ford is warning. I don't think Ford should. How much of a what bailout did Ford get? Do you remember came off the top of your head? They got a significant bailout back in the day. Remember that?
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I feel like they were one of the few that refused.
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Oh, wait. No, you're right. I'm thinking of GM. Ford was the only one that refused. Yeah, you're correct. Ford was the only one that refused their warning of a two and a half billion dollar hit. as it pertains to tariffs they suspended their annual earnings forecast this coming in from a couple of different places including reuters and new york post they suspended their annual guidance because of uncertainty around the tariffs saying the levies are going to cost about one and a half billion in adjusted earnings before interest in taxes oh maybe we should control the taxes don't you think wow wow let's just full stop right there huh before interest and taxes Full stop. That's what we have Tudor Jones talking about and what this article is alluding to, just to tie it all together, is that the bigger problem isn't tariffs. And this is what the left doesn't get either. The right doesn't get it and the left doesn't get it. The bigger problem isn't tariffs. The bigger problem is another T, and it's called taxes. And it's another consonant, an R, and it's called regulations. Deregulate and cut taxes. I know I sound like a broken record, but there are literally people that are supposed to be smart. But again, clickbait whores that are on the right that don't realize this. They think, oh, we'll just pass a tariff and everything's going to get fixed with the tariffs. Not kidding. You super smart people that go on TV and they say this stuff. That's not accurate. The left is like, no, tariffs are all the problem. We need more taxes and regulation. No, that's that's the problem. That's created all of this mess. So this is all time. This all together. This is the issue. Now, coming up, ProPublica was awarded a Pulitzer. They wrote this stupid story about women dying because they couldn't go out and get their abortions. But what they failed to actually properly attribute was that the issue isn't the inability to get an abortion. These people rushed to get a hastily concocted, rushed experimental abortifacient that actually caused the deaths of these women. So ProPublica, they lied and they got a Pulitzer for it. We're going to discuss that. I also have some other media for you. In addition, in Loudoun County, I know Virginia, check this headline out. A girl was in the boys locker room videotaping boys undressing. They're the ones who seemingly look like they get in trouble, and she doesn't. What in the world? We're going to talk about this here coming up. We have a lot to hit. It is a very busy, stormy, stormy day in Texas as we roll towards headlines. Our partners that help bring you the program, our friends over at All Family Pharmacy, they've got you covered, whatever it is that you need. Is it any of the medications or therapeutics that the system tried to keep from you during lockdown? You know, things like... and hydroxychloroquine, which are so completely safe to take. I mean, they even allow pregnant women. They sometimes will suggest hydroxychloroquine for them. You know, because you can't rush through experimental injections and hand Pfizer multi-billion dollar paydays if you don't ban therapeutics. This is the thing. Like, they just not, well, they didn't just dismiss alternatives. They outright destroyed them. They wanted you to rely on the government and just listen to whatever they were ordering you to do. Well, things have changed, and there's All Family Pharmacy. All Family Pharmacy has your daily maintenance medications. They also have the ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, antibiotics, everything. Simple, fast, and affordable. No insurance, no problem. They've got straightforward pricing, online ordering, shipping in just two to four days, or overnight in a pinch if you need it. Everything is made in the USA. All of their medications are manufactured right here in the USA, ensuring high standards of quality and safety. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana for 10% off using promo code Dana10. Don't wait. Be prepared. Protect yourself and your family today. That's allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana. Use coupon code Dana10 to save 10%.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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So China is hit by worker protests over unpaid wages and factory shutdowns. They're not protesting the communism. They're just protesting the sweatshop labor that they basically have. They're disrupting Chinese factories, sparking worker protests over unpaid wages. That's according to the Financial Times. They've been because factories have been shutting down and furloughing workers. Some of this has to do with the trade war, by the way, just saying with that 145 percent duties placed on these products. So. People are mad because the CCP has been shutting down their factories. Collections are coming for millions of student loan borrowers. The education department is going to threaten to confiscate tax refunds. Good. Absolutely. That's what it is to be a big kid in today's world. You take out a loan. You bet your ass you're going to pay your loan. It's not my responsibility to pay for all these trust fund welfare suckling at the teat of the taxpayer grifters. Pay your own way or be more responsible. Get better grades and get a scholarship. Or maybe go to trade school. Or do something else. Get a skill set. But expecting everyone to pay for your college education, you are the scum of the earth grifter if that's something that you subscribe to. So good. Go after them. Because some of us are tired of dealing with high taxes to pay for this mess. White House says no financial decisions have been made on movie tariffs. They're still exploring all options. We've got a lot more on the way. Stick with us. Our partners that help bring you the program, our friends over at Super Beats. You guys are familiar with the Super Beats folks, the Super Beats hard shoes. Well, now they have the Super Boreen and it's available at the Sam's Club and your metabolism affects everything. You can support it with Super Boreen. It's $5 off at Sam's Club through April 29th. It's just $24. It's plant-based, doctor-formulated. It has a unique form of berberine and Italian olive fruit extracts. You get additional antioxidant and cardiovascular support. It's a unique berberine. They clinically studied it, and it delivers nearly 10 times higher absorption than standard berberine. So that means you only have to take one capsule a day. It's highly concentrated, easy to swallow. And if you're worried about GI distress, it includes grapeseed extract for greater tolerability. Visit Sam's Club to restock your heart health support with Super Beats Heart Shoes and expand your routine with the new Super Barine for healthy metabolism and blood sugar support. And don't forget, Super Barine is $5 off at Sam's Club through April 29th. Snag this offer at Sam's Club while it lasts. Start today and get on the road to better cardiovascular health support.
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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here at the bottom of this first hour. We're in a Brit pop, Brit rock, like late 90s, early aughts mood because of the rain and the storm here in Texas. It's not helping the mood. We're really more cynical and gothy than we are normally. So it's good to be with you. Channel 347 is the stream over at Direct TV. You can also catch us, X, Rumble, where the chat is. I'm not responsible for what those people do. Facebook, YouTube, all that good stuff. Blah, blah, blah. So I want to just change because I could sit here and we could just talk forever all three hours about Tarith. There's other stuff happening. So we're going to circle back. One of the things that I do, it's like a guilty pleasure. Well, I love people watching, right? I read the Daily Mail, which is a garbage paper because I like to people watch, right? Just like if you go out and you have a glass of wine, it's nice enough, you're sitting outside talking with your friends, your spouse, whatever, and you're just people watching outside, right? So the Met Gala, which I normally don't pay attention to and haven't for like ever, because it's usually a bunch of stuffy people that wear overpriced stuff, and they try to be very extravagant, and it's all for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Anna Wintour, who helms Vogue, she organizes it, and she's notoriously steely about whoever gets in and what the theme is. So the theme last night, and I thought it was kind of odd, because it seemed like... It was very – well, it seemed like it was very racially charged. So there's a style. It's called dandyism, right? And dandyism was black or white. It was all manner of everything. And it was basically – How do I put it? Like you're dressed into the nines. Like when you step out with accessories on point, like you've got the hat, you've got the fascinator. If you're a lady, you've got, you know, everything is like perfectly tailored. You look sharp. It's pressed. You look like you just hopped out of a band box. It, you look nice. Now it's always, and I love it. Tailoring and proper dress because they think it's a sign of a healthy society. I am super old school and I go into rabbit holes with this stuff. What they did yesterday is they wanted to focus specifically on black dandyism. With an emphasis on structure with clothing. Now you might be like, what does that mean? Really? I don't know. It's up for interpretation. If you look at some of the people who arrived at the Met Gala. Now the Met Gala is this big fundraiser thing that they do for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They're one big thing a year. Everybody goes to it. Well, not everybody. It's a very like Anna Wintour specifically selects each guest. So they wanted to explore black dandyism. Specifically, which I thought, OK, it's Anna Wintour. She's super far left. Of course, it's going to be racially charged, whatever. So it just basically means you're going to dress to the nines. You could pay homage to like, you know, I guess like black women. iconic members of art or whatever, and then your outfits are supposed to be a little structured. Usually this is where people get weird with their stuff. They get experimental. Experimental, I guess, makes sense in some sense. I am one of those people that believes that form follows function, but I also think you don't have to rob it of flair. So some of them, like the dude who had a fake piano strapped to his back yesterday, I just didn't get it. And I was looking at this, and my first thought was, When I watched all these people, I first thought the guest list was kind of a downgrade. Apparently there was like an OnlyFans person that got invited. How does that even happen? Now, wait, don't show up. We'll get to the Pam Anderson thing in a minute because that's a whole other topic. So I first thing I thought was, I guess they're just inviting anybody and everybody here. Kamala Harris attended last night and she was in a Cruella de Vil gown that was half black and half white. And the way British I think it was British folk. They said, oh, she looks stunning. That is an overused word. Like I see people all the time. But that's gorgeous or that's stunning. I'm like, no, it's not. That's like mid. Stop. She's not stunning. It looked like a jersey dress from, you know, like a wrap dress from the 90s. Juan's getting ready to show you what she... Okay, so this is her outfit. First off, if you're going to wear a neck scarf, you don't need dangly earrings because there's too much happening there in the neck area, particularly with the pleats going around the shoulder. I get very weird about this stuff. Also, I don't understand what's happening with the sleeves. Like one of the sleeves is blousey and the other one's more structured. There's no structure in this dress. And if it's satin, it's such an unflattering material and it just drapes across her pitifully highlighting all of her worst areas. Why would you wear this? I don't like asymmetrical necklines with neck scarves like this and then completely out of place dangly like quasi chandelier earrings. Stop it. I am my grandmother. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. That just hit me. I'm 90. So you see what I mean? I just don't like it. When you wear a dress like that, you shouldn't have two humps, the bust and the belly, okay? You can't. You got to pick one over the other. You can't have something that drapes like that. I know guys don't care about this, but guys, I'm giving you an insight into the female psyche, so just bank it, okay? So I was looking at this. I'm like, well, damn, they just invited anybody and everybody. I was waiting to see, like, what's his face? Billy Ray Cyrus show up, although he's dating Elizabeth Hurley right now, so that's a whole... Dude, Google that. Google it. Don't have a heart attack. Billy Ray Cyrus is dating Elizabeth Hurley, who was the punk queen in her day before she got with Hugh Grant. Google that. I was highly, I was like waiting to see him step on the red carpet. And then I can't remember who this guy was with the piano on his back, but okay. I don't know what's the red bean. Okay. You know, I don't know. He looks like he just got, you know, like a, an achievement in dark tide and he's wearing it on his back. I don't understand what's happening, but okay. It's accurate. So here's my thing. You have all these people, they have the structure dress. Some, some, some look nice. 98% look like trash. I thought Zendaya looked really good. I thought her outfit was nice. I loved her headwear. Make headwear great again. Hats on women need to become a thing again. But can we talk about Pam Anderson for a moment? Because there are a lot of people that were questioning her. Now, if you don't follow Pam Anderson, I mean, clearly she was married to Tommy Lee. Everybody knows that she was the Baywatch babe. She was like the 90s icon. So she shows up. She got her hair cut. And she's been in a thing where she doesn't wear makeup. And she did it for health reasons. If you follow her, she explained why she doesn't wear makeup. She wants to be healthy. She cooks organically. She even has a cooking show that Meghan Markle totally ripped off poorly because Pam Anderson actually cooks. She makes all her own food. She grows her own vegetables. I mean, she's super healthy and fit. That takes a lot of effort. So she's been going to these events with no makeup on. So she showed up at the Met Gala last night. And a lot of people were going, can you believe how dowdy and frumpy she looks? I need a full stop with these people because most of the people that I see criticizing her looks would not be given a second glance from a one or two out of 10 at the bar. Okay. The people who are criticizing her, they're like ones and twos. I need them to take a million seats right now because ugly people don't get to comment on Pam Anderson's outfit. So first off, let's start with us. She's 57 years old. Her skin is flawless. She puts a lot of effort into taking care of herself. For the people who think that effort is only manifest by wearing a butt ton of makeup on your face, right? I hate makeup. I don't even have eye makeup on right now. I have mascara and that's it because I can't stand makeup and it's humid here. So she has amazing skin, 57 years old. She has not had plastic surgery. She is naturally fit. She is wearing a completely appropriate, perfectly tailored, structured dress befitting the theme. Her haircut is on point. The bangs may not be my taste, but they're well executed. She's 57. I know 20 year olds who could not go on the red carpet bare faced because their skin looks like asphalt. Right. They look like it's like pockmarked. I know 30 year olds who do not have this woman's figure. So she shows up naturally looking better than 95% of the people there. That's a win. She looks amazing. And there is no shame. Newsflash. Women don't have to be boobs out with caked on makeup, spider leg lashes, hair extensions out the ass, you know, with full everything, acrylic everything. They don't have to look like a wrung out, try hard, only fans want to be sex pot. They can also look like this and have some natural beauty. So mega props to Pam Anderson for flying the one finger salute in the face of society and restating what true feminine beauty looks like. Mega props to her. And for all the ones and twos and mids that are criticizing her, let's wait until you're 57 years old and let's parade you on the red carpet with your natural skin and your figure and let's see if you can even remotely compare. So I thought she was one of the winners of this. And I told Kane on break, I look at things like this, like events like this, as a... kind of like a temperature check on society, right? And I was looking at the people that were on the red carpet and it just looked like it was nothing. It just looked like it fell off. It looked like a symptom of a sick, sad, broken society, right? Broken fashion, just people who tried too hard. Oh, Juan's getting Zendaya. I thought her outfit was perfect. Perfectly tailored suit. Perfect hat. She was a winner. This is what, you know, feminine beauty. You don't have to be like OnlyFans. You don't have to, you know, with the Jasmine Crockett eyelashes and the extensions, you know, out to there. You don't have to have all that. But otherwise, I thought it looked like just a sick, sad society. I did. And I love that Pam Anderson, her face was so shining. I mean, she just like was light. She just, I loved it. And I'm not like a big, I'm not like a major fan. Like I haven't followed her all her life. I just saw, you know, some of the things that she said. her good on her right isn't that what we want or no we want fake stuff right we want fake engagement we want fake everything we want fake news we want fake lives we want curated carousels that only show off our best moments fake fake fake i mean that's literally part of the digital sickness And we expect it to translate to real life events like this. And when it doesn't, we're like, oh my gosh, that's so unlike what I'm used to seeing on Instagram where everybody looks like they're made of marzipan. They're all flawless. Everyone you know uses a filter. I don't even post pictures of myself when I'm in bad light. Admittedly, I totally don't. Everybody uses something just so you know. But no one wants to be honest about it because everybody's supposed to be perfect. That is a digital sickness. And it's something that we, who are all about conserving individual power, and I think being who you are is part of that individual power, should be pushing back against. So good on Pam Anderson. Good on all these people for looking nice and all this stuff. Otherwise, oh my gosh, there were some absolute misses. Men do not need to be in skirts. I don't care unless you're Scottish. Don't do it. And it's not a skirt. It's a kilt. But don't do it. You know, don't do it. I don't want to see it. I don't like some of the men look like fruitcakes. They just did. I'm like, some of y'all look a little bit light in them loafers and not in a fashionable way. I have to say. So, that's, you can't even pay any attention to any of this. That's the biggest dose of estrogen some of them have been listening to will get for this year. It's just that right there. But I do think it's like a sign of a sick society. It is, isn't it not? Like, you look at some of this stuff and you're like, oh my gosh, this is supposed to be the best. Steve DJ Fonicle said that Sabrina Carpenter looked like an M&M. I barely know who she is. But she has way too many extensions. Like, you should not look like Aslan. Like, Kristi Noem needs to stop with the extensions. It looked like she skinned Aslan and put it on her head. Quit. Stop it. Your natural hair is pretty. Stop doing that stuff. Stop it. I just and and also platform shoes. It makes you look like Clydesdales. Oh, if you think I'm even remotely done, I'm not because we have the New Yorker magazine spread that looked at all of these dirty hippies and leftists. If you get my newsletter at Substack. So that's Sabrina Carpenter. Those are Clydesdale hooves. Those aren't feet. Those aren't heels. Those are Clydesdale hooves. Every time I see them, I think clop, clop, clop, clop. clop, clop. That's all I hear. That's all I hear. Ladies, you're supposed to be like elegant and, and not like, and most women can't even walk in heels anyway. It's like watching toddler stomps to stop. Anyway. So if you think I'm even remotely done, stick around. I feel like, you know, somebody has got to be Joan Rivers. God love that woman. Rest her soul. But the New Yorker magazine spread. So New Yorker, they did this. We're going to talk about this coming up. Don't show anything yet. They did this magazine spread where they looked at like all leftists. They are all super far leftists. And I'm thinking that the dirty hippies that were in it that I didn't know were probably like all leftists, too. People don't understand that the people who run the New Yorker magazine, they don't understand that people don't find living in New York attractive. Like I've turned down jobs because they wanted me to move to New York. And when I was apartment hunting in Manhattan, like for my family, I'm like, I cannot raise my kids where they look out the window and see skyscrapers. I can't do this. I've turned down like jobs because of that. People don't realize that normal people who are not in New York don't really want to live in New York. And we don't find anything attractive about it. So they did this whole magazine spread where they were glorifying far left people like Gloria Steinem and all that and showing you their homes. which was such a betrayal of who they really are as people. It's hysterical. And they also had George Soros' Nepo Baby in it. We're going to talk about all of that coming up. We're also going to get into some of the latest with the media, two major media malpractice stories that we're going to get into, and this Loudoun County Public School, the situation with the girl in the boys' room, recording the boys. We got all that and more on the way. 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Can you tell us a bit more about the deal that you've reached with the Houthis?
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No, it's not a deal. They've said, please don't bomb us anymore and we're not going to attack your ships.
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And where did you hear about that?
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It doesn't matter where I hear it. The very good source, I could tell you. Very, very good source. Would you say Marco? I would say pretty good, right, JD? A very good source.
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Not that they're the source and everything, right, Marco? I mean, the source was great. Isn't that right, Marco, who's not the source? He's just here, but not being the source. But he would know, right, because, again, he's not the source. He would know. He's the Secretary of State. Secretary of State. Not the great, I know, what do you mean I know? I got a great source, right, Marco? Wink, wink, nudge, but it's not Marco. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We're at the top of the second hour. We are in a mood. It's rainy and stormy and just perfectly goth and cynical outside. And we're here in Dallas, Texas. Again, top of the second hour. He's like the hoot. He said, please stop bombing us. That's what you want to hear, right? You want to bully the baddies so bad that they're like, please stop. Stop killing us. Stop bombing us. You want the baddies to cry and beg because, you know, complete and total annihilation. That's not really like a victory. Getting them to question everything that they are and everything that they've ever done and everything that they're ever going to be their purpose in life to look into that black abyss and question everything and then come back to you and say, please stop. That's victory. A complete and total emotional breakdown of your opponent. That's victory. Just a little thing. You know, it's the little things that make us smile and warm the cockles of our hearts. That's all. So he met with the Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, whose last name is not lost upon me. The Carney. And he's visiting the White House. He said that India has already agreed to eliminate all tariffs on U.S. goods. What is it, like tariff for tariff now? So they've already agreed to eliminate all this.
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He said they'll drop it to nothing. I guess it's just a matter of getting it on paper.
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We should be friends with India because they have more people there than China does. And they'll throw the CCP off cliffs. I mean, that literally has happened. So they've been up there in the Hindu Kush tossing off CCP folks just off the cliffs. They run out of ammo and they go to fisticuffs. I'm just saying, they'll whip out those gherkins and beat you to death. So, it's true. Not the vegetable, either, the sword. But, yeah, so we've got some progress. Now I just want to see all the rest of them. I just want to see a little bit of the... A little bit of the rest of it. That's all. We got a number of things. We got Senator Rand Paul is going to be on later on in the program. Two things. First off, we're going to make fun of Antifa because apparently there's still a thing. I got to talk to you about this idiotic ProPublica award. So when Georgia had their battle over abortifacients, you know, because now the abortion clinics in the mailbox, as you know, and that's what, you know, the morning after pill, more and more abortions are, you know, are because of this are coming from the morning after pill. So ProPublica, their reporter, Kavitha Sarana, she had this garbage piece of propaganda that where she claimed that Amber Thurman, a Georgian mother, and by the way, Lorraine wrote about all of this over at Substack and has sent this out before. So this is going to sound familiar to you if you're a subscriber. So Amber Thurman, she's one of the women who's named in this propaganda campaign. She took abortion pills because she wanted to get an abortion. She was in Georgia and she wasn't able or whatever. She ended up actually she wanted an abortion pill. She didn't want to go in, you know, do it how they normally did. She wanted an abortion pill. And ProPublica wrote a huge thing on this. And the reporter falsely claimed that the, quote, complications from abortion pills are extremely rare, which is so ridiculously false. I don't understand how that is not just reckless endangerment. That's super false. That is... There's a lot of complications from it and have been a lot of complications from this. And so... She took an abortifacient, apparently didn't seek medical care for I don't know how long, and ended up having serious complications that caused her death as a result. And ProPublica did this piece, and I'm pulling this up, where they acted like the reason that she lost her life was because she couldn't get an abortion, right? That was how they ran this piece. Quote, abortion bans have delayed emergency medical care. In Georgia, experts say this mother's death was preventable. The problem is that she took the abortion pill and then she didn't go get medical care. By the time she got to the hospital, it was too late. And they were trying to act like they didn't give her care for it. She was already having a miscarriage at that point due to the abortifacient, but she allowed it to go septic within her. I mean, you know, abortion in a mailbox. Abortion clinics in a mailbox. It is it was it's stunning to me that this was even, I mean, reported in this way, because I've seen some propaganda before. But this is actually one of the worst. And here's like, for instance, they did. There was a study that was done by the Ethics and Public Policy Center. based in D.C., and they looked at these prescribed chemical abortions to see how actually dangerous they are. The Federalist ran a piece where they specifically examined how more than one in 10 women who take the abortifacient, they suffered serious adverse health events. And it's actually 22 times higher than the FDA approved drug label says. That's insane. The abortion pills are killing women. It's not the laws. It's the pills. And the article also says that, you know, they also repeat the lie that even for ectopic pregnancies that, oh, well, they don't even give them care for that. That's an absolute lie because it's not a viable pregnancy and the viability is that's a sticking point. Ectopic pregnancies are not viable. They're not viable. There is no technology in our modern world that can make them viable. It is not there. It is not something that can be done. And it's treated as a miscarriage. It's treated as such. So ProPublica didn't even get that right. And I have to tell you, I have a certain level of disdain for females who either – there's only one of two ways to look at it. They're either stupid about biology and the way that their own physiology and anatomy operates. And thus they write about women's issues without a scientific working fact based knowledge of what the hell they're writing about. That's number one or two. They think that you by nature of being a woman are so damn stupid that you're not going to know this stuff. And so they try to pull the wool over your eyes with this propaganda. There is no middle ground here. It is either one or the other. And in both cases, there is an insidious element of maliciousness that is an undercurrent of both. Because to be that stupid in this era requires a religious devotion. And they want a Pulitzer for this. They want a Pulitzer for this. I mean... I just it's stunning to me. They that's what it was. I mean, it's and they reported falsely how she passed away. They ignored all of this other stuff. She legally acquired abortion pills. She legally acquired them. And she was pregnant with twins. She sought abortion as a form of birth control. And so Thurman drove to North Carolina because Georgia has a six-week limitation, unless you're talking about the life of the mother, etc. So they have a six-week limitation. She was using it as birth control as the majority. And by majority, I mean 98%. Actually, it's over 98%. It's 99%. It's less than, according to Planned Parenthood's own statistics, less than 1% have to do with rape or incest, and it's incredibly rare. But they want to lie to you and act like that's the typical. So Amber Thurman, she legally acquired an abortion pill. She was pregnant with twins, and she wanted abortion as a form of birth control. She went to North Carolina. She took one abortion pill in North Carolina and then she got back in Georgia and she took the other abortion pill. She didn't even follow the instructions for it. And most women, in fact, you know, I just read to you the statistics. I mean, you're looking at over a quarter of the women that do this. They end up they end up having to be hospitalized because of the serious complications that are caused by this drug. And she soon discovered that she developed sepsis. And she was vomiting blood. Even after she went septic and was vomiting blood, she still waited days, days before she went to the hospital. And for whatever reason, and I think it was because of her physical stability at the time, they were waiting to perform a DNC. Now, you can have medical negligence due to an emergency caused by taking abortion pills. The left falsely claimed that she could not get a DNC upon admitting herself to the hospital because the state laws admit them. That's another lie. Georgia law, and I've written about this as well, and it's Georgia law. I mean, I can read you the statute. It explicitly allows DNCs as a treatment following a miscarriage, which she absolutely has. It's the 2024 Code of Georgia, Title 16. Subsection 1611, 161710 goes into Chapter 12. It gets in the restrictions and performances of abortion, availability of records, civil cause of action, affirmative defenses. And it gets into the rhyme and reason, the down to the letter of yes, it allows these DNCs following a miscarriage. But she was actually already miscarried. She was already septic. So she waited until she was in sepsis and she was vomiting vast amounts of blood before she even got to the hospital and the hospital. And I'm not going to I don't know their reasoning, but I would think that if you're already septic and you're vomiting tons of blood and you've got a crazy high fever that they're probably before they do a procedure are going to want to make sure that you and your heart rate, et cetera, are stabilized first. She did not follow doctor's orders for this. That is not because she couldn't obtain an abortion. It's because she's an idiot who killed herself because she wanted to use abortion as birth control when it would have been a hell of a lot easier to keep her knees kissing in the first place. Let's be honest about it, ladies. I mean, do you not have the the responsibility to be responsible as a grown ass woman? Forgive the Portuguese. I'm not Dora the Explorer here to screen time babysit your kids. I'm asking hard questions. I mean, I hear all this talk about empowered women, but apparently women aren't empowered enough to even follow basic instructions. Taking an abortion is birth control pill. Seriously, how is that the law's fault? She illegally obtained what she got and killed herself because she didn't take it right. And then she waited until she was septic and purging blood. I mean, are we now going to say that women are not only empowered or unempowered, but now we're going to say that they're all stupid, too, and they can't follow basic medical instructions? 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Are you ready for Googlewood? Don't, actually. They're heading to Hollywood to upgrade its star power. Google's launched a film and TV production initiative called 100 Zeros. Everything is going to be cringe because I just feel like Google half-asses everything. Let's be real. It's just going to be cringe and stupid. They're going to sell projects to the studios and not put them on YouTube. They want to promote their products and a positive image to tech. Do no evil except you are an evil, evil entity. Blank Google. Blank them all to blank. You know, I mean, I can't stand them. They're a useless garbage browser or garbage search engine. Garbage. Low income now means six figures in Bay Area counties. You better be leaving San Francisco. You got to pay. I mean, if you got to pay like a million dollars to live in a box, buy some feces and needles. That's how much top French chefs are warming to AI in the kitchen. Okay, I don't know how I feel about this. They had all the Michelin Guide Awards. They had all their little Michelin chefs get together, and they were talking about using AI to help them with recipes and ideas. They said a lot of people are using it, but there are so many egos in the business, they're not going to actually admit it. You know, we're going to start seeing it for everything. Recipes, war strategy, business, everything. A man obsessed with firefighters set fire to his own home just so his idols would come and put it out. That's an actual thing. It happened in Britain. And, I mean, he ended up, 26-year-old James Brown from Northumberland was arrested. He was fascinated with firefighters to the point where he literally lit his house on fire so he could see them. Stick with us. Look, your house is your absolute biggest asset. Why in the world you wouldn't have it locked down? I don't know. I mean, you lock your car up and you make sure that, you know, your car is protected. You make sure that, you know, if you own a business, your business is protected. I mean, your money in a bank is protected. But what about your home? The problem in today's AI driven cyber world is that it's easier and more prevalent than ever to just swindle somebody out of a home title, steal it outright. Your equity is the target. They can forge your signature on a document. It's easy to get a fake notary stamp. They pay a little fee with your county and then your home title has been transferred out of your name. It's as easy as that. One forged signature is all it takes. The sad thing is that most people don't even know that it's happened. They don't know that it's happened until they start getting foreclosure notices because they're using your equity, the scammers to take out massive loans. Some of them, there are even stories of people who've had their property sold out from underneath them outright. And you are left to deal with the very expensive aftermath. Most people can't afford to litigate it. They can't. After it's done, most people can't afford to protect themselves. It's that bad. This is why you need Home Title Lock. Home Title Lock can protect you. Use hometitlelock.com. You can get a free title history report and a 14-day trial of their million-dollar triple lock protection. So that's 24-7 monitoring of your title, urgent alerts to any changes. And if fraud should happen... they'll spend up to a million dollars to fix it. So visit hometitlelock.com today and use promo code Dana.
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I can't believe they're still around. Antifa people, they're at the University of Washington being a bunch of losers.
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They're in Seattle and they had 25 protesters that were arrested. They were covering their faces and stacking furniture and they were taking over the building. They were taking over the University of Washington building and covering their faces. 25, tens of people came, whole tens of people came out. They're still out there doing this stuff.
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Well, when you get paid to do it.
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losers they all went to hot topic and got all their black attire and then they went to like military surplus and uh it's the only time that they ever would go into one and they uh the group is called super ew oh sorry uw it's super ew do you guys want to hear about super l ew Bunch of lizards. I am so ignorant today. It's the weather and just me normally. They identify themselves as pro-Hamas. They say Palestinian, but we know that Palestine doesn't exist. It's a made-up name, and Palestinian isn't an actual ethnicity. They're Jordanians. And they issued all these demands. They wanted to take Boeing out of IEB and a whole bunch of other stupid stuff. They want the building to be renamed. They don't want the building to be named after Boeing. I mean, you know, we're we've never audited the Fed and we have all these other things going on. But yeah, sure. Get mad over the building name. You guys are losers, losers, losers. They don't accomplish anything. Good night. They are so upset over the name of this building. That's what they're mad about, Cain. They're not mad about, you know, the deluge that caused everything at the border. They're not mad about the billions upon billions upon billions of dollars, tax dollars that were wasted through USAID and everything else. No, they're not mad about any of that. They're not mad about the nation building of the previous two, the previous Democrat administrations. They're not mad about any of that stuff. No, they're mad about the name of the building because leave it to these brain dead dilly bar trust fund socialists to only care about miles wide, inches deep BS. So they can pretend that they're like activists and stuff like that. I can't stand these people. Golly, I would not survive. I got in trouble once at a college protest because I got into a fight with some kind of activist. I could not survive on a college campus today. I would be arrested. There's no way because I'm not going to throw stuff at you. I'm going to swing you around like Tarzan by your hair. I just I can't with these people. They show up. They're mad over the building named Cain. Dear heavens.
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I think they're always mad about the names of things like fort, forts, schools, gulfs.
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Gulfs.
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They hate the name changes of those.
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They were told that trespassers have to go. If you don't leave, then you're trespassing, blah, blah, blah. But yeah, they're basically all over the page for stuff. And they got really upset. And they... I mean, they're Antifa rioters. That's what they are. They're rioters. And I'm just... And they're in, like, bike helmets. One of them was beating a trash can. And they all have their stupid little backpacks. Do you know how easy it would be to just waylay these fools? I mean... I mean, one of them has a backpack on bigger than them. I mean, you need to get proportion right. You just tip that sucker over, man, and he's down on the ground. I'm just saying. I'm looking out. Just saying. This is so lame. Their protests are always lame. And they're always these skinny little dudes. I don't know. And the cops, here's the thing. The cops walked away. Did they not get permission to arrest them for being losers? They retreated. They retreat. That's what they did. I don't know. And of course, you know, I'm looking at him and I know this is important to the left. Guess what? They're all white communists. Oh, shocker. I mean, this one dude in front of the cop looks like he's five feet tall, five foot with an attitude. He's got a sled that he's hitting. They cut trash cans in half. And I love how they think, look at us. We're being so proactive. They dumped over. They tipped over dumpsters. And they're beating their little trash cans. And they're yelling at the cops. This one cop, though, I got to say, he's standing there like, I don't know. My hands are tied. I'm not paid enough to care about you morons. I mean, there's 20. If the school really wanted to deal with them, they would deal with them. It's not hard. It takes a second. You just deal with them. This is so dumb. Why would anybody go and stay in Seattle? We were in Seattle. Now, look, I love our affiliates up there. Everyone assures me that outside of the city, it's real proper. Can't remember when we... So Kane and I went up there for a market visit once.
SPEAKER 07 :
That was a fun time, actually.
SPEAKER 02 :
Dude, we were the only people who did not look like we were going to mountain climb. Can I just... An aside here. Our hotel... I need our fam that's in Seattle right now listening. I need y'all to be explaining something to me. So... Is it a requirement that you must at all times be prepared to hike? Because without fail, I'm not even kidding you. I was in a, cause they got coffee shops everywhere and I was getting a breakfast coffee and there was a dude in his suit and he had on an outdoor jacket over his suit and he had on hiking boots with a suit. That's the first I've ever seen. Like in case he wanted to leave the board meeting and then like hike up into the mountains and go see some Sasquatch. I don't know. It was fascinating to me. Everybody was all kitted out at all times to go hike outside, even if they were just like walking their dog outside. I've never seen anything like that. Now, I have to be honest. I don't think all of them hike, but they wore it. Anyway, one of these fellers here, it has hiking boots on. Silly reason. I just happened to sketch the, I just happened to peep the feet. And I could see, I could see some hikers on. Just saying. But yeah, why are the cops falling back? Stand your ground. What are they going to do? Run up against you with their little trash cans? Come on. These people thrive on the indulgence of non-action. That's what it is. Be like, get off property or I'm going to knock you back on your backside. That's what's going to happen. You're going to get off the property and you're going to go. I mean, Antifa is just, they're actual fascists and they try to co-opt the name is what it is. But yeah, they didn't push them down a hill. Can I just stop also with the breathless hyperbole that's used to describe this?
SPEAKER 07 :
They're sort of advancing on the cops.
SPEAKER 02 :
They're walking. They're strolling. The cop is like, I don't care. The cop is reacting like he would to two toddlers fighting, and he's done with it. But they're like, Antifa pushes Seattle PD down a hill, fully repelling them. Oh, my gosh. Stop. It's a bunch of dweebs in Hot Topic hoodies that they just got. And they're just being loud and annoying. Again, if they wanted to get rid of Antifa, they could. I don't think you should tolerate stuff like this. I am the spare the rod, destroy the child kind of thing. Stop tolerating this stupid nonsense. You're not protesting when you're occupying a building. You're trespassing. And you're being a hoodlum. Stop it. Just quit. The idea that they're mad about the building name? Wah. Get over it. You know, then have mommy or daddy buy the naming rights. I mean, you guys are trust fund communists. Go ahead and have mommy and daddy buy the naming rights. You know, the same people that make sure that your credit card is paid that you used to pay for all your essentials in life? Good night. These people, I don't know why they're not arrested. It just looks dumb. I would have knocked them all in their ass and arrested them. That's what I would have done. But that's why I'm not, I couldn't cut it in Seattle. I wouldn't be able to stand it. Can we also discuss how CNN thinks that Mexicans are too afraid to celebrate Cinco de Mayo with Audio Sunbite 5? Because I'm, we got to talk about some media malpractice. Go ahead and hit us with this one.
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Today is May 5th, and that means Cinco de Mayo, Wolf, a holiday that celebrates Mexico's victory over France. But some in the Battle of Puebla, I should say, but some communities have canceled or scaled back cultural events because of President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration and the fear among many Latinos that they could be arrested.
SPEAKER 02 :
Why, thank you, white blonde woman and the man whose name is Wolf. Thank you. So one of my friends, and so I'm going to ask why did Jason Kane and Juan here. So even though it's like a Mexican thing, one of my friends who is Mexican says that no real Mexican actually celebrates Cinco de Mayo. Is that true?
SPEAKER 07 :
It's actually true. I mean, we may have some Mexican food that day, but what is there to celebrate, honestly? What is there to do to celebrate?
SPEAKER 02 :
My friend, she goes, look, the only people who celebrate this, she goes, are the suburban people who go out to like, you know, TGI Fridays and they have some margaritas. Those are the only people who celebrate it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Is it true? Well, and the businesses that sell those things.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, yeah, but it's not like a giant Hispanic celebration is what she was saying.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, it is not.
SPEAKER 02 :
Because I was like, wait, you've never celebrated? She was like, no.
SPEAKER 07 :
Nope.
SPEAKER 02 :
Interesting.
SPEAKER 07 :
There's nothing like every year, you know, we do the 4th of July. We have like the barbecue and the fireworks and there's a whole ba-ba-ba.
SPEAKER 02 :
You got a cookout.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. For Cinco de Mayo, it's not. It's like, wow, let's get an avocado on that taco.
SPEAKER 02 :
It's not really an extra line in the mark.
SPEAKER 07 :
It's not a big deal.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah. She, I was just dying laughing at it because I thought it was hysterical, but leave it to the, I mean, you know, she is the lady on CNN, the blonde white savior there. Oh my goodness. How racist is that? Oh, there's security even celebrates and go to Maya. Well, it's the, it's the white people that they're serving. that are celebrating Cinco de Mayo. And they're not celebrating Cinco de Mayo for the same reason that they all pretend to be Irish on St. Paddy's Day. They're not celebrating St. Paddy. They're drinking.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's what it is.
SPEAKER 02 :
It's a drinking day. It's a day where you can drink. And it's like, oh, you're drunk and it's 2 o'clock. Well, it is St. Paddy's Day. Oh, you're drunk and it's 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Oh, well, it is Cinco de Mayo. That's acceptable.
SPEAKER 07 :
Same thing.
SPEAKER 02 :
Maybe I'm being too, so in my, I was raised, it's not a written, formally written rule, but it's like you don't get drunk when the sun's up is the rule, unless it's 4th of July. Right. Maybe St. Paddy's. But, you know, then that's acceptable. You're at a cookout, yeah, yeah, yeah. But, you know, otherwise, nah, not for a minor thing. You don't do that stuff.
SPEAKER 07 :
But Cinco de Mayo is like the St. Paddy's Day.
SPEAKER 02 :
It is. It's the Mexican St. Paddy's Day.
SPEAKER 07 :
It's like America's excuse to day drink.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, it is. That's right. It's it's the they're they're like Halloween is the chance to walk around and slutty stuff like a lot of women.
SPEAKER 05 :
Exactly.
SPEAKER 02 :
This is. Yeah, exactly. I just I was laughing hysterically over that because, you know, then you then it looks even more ridiculous when you see that CNN soundbite when you hear it. Oh my gosh, Wolf, me, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed white woman. All the Mexicans are so scared to celebrate Cinco de Mayo because they're going to get totes arrested. I can't believe this is an actual CNN thing. And he sat there like, you know, again, this is my favorite thing to say right now, a cigar store Indian just blinking, you know. So they're canceling this. They're afraid of being deported by ICE. I don't think... Could you be any more racist there? Could you be more racist? I don't even know who that was. They just rotate these people to sit in by wolf.
SPEAKER 07 :
By the way, they can self-deport. They don't have to be at the mercy of ICE.
SPEAKER 02 :
Okay, can we talk about that coming up? Because I don't want to pay anybody to self-deport. GTFO. What? I'm not paying you $1,000. I do. You can self-deport, or I will drag you out by your ankles. I disagree with you 100%. And I will yeet you the hell over the Rio.
SPEAKER 07 :
I completely disagree with you 100%.
SPEAKER 02 :
Where's the money coming from, Kane?
SPEAKER 07 :
What do you mean? It's coming from the savings.
SPEAKER 02 :
Why is the carpet wet, Todd?
SPEAKER 07 :
Did you see the per person? Did you see the per person of the cost it does per person to deport using ICE? And then what it costs, the suggested cost for self-deporting.
SPEAKER 02 :
No, no. You can do this with your hands all you want to when you talk.
SPEAKER 07 :
More than $10,000 per person savings by doing the self-deportation.
SPEAKER 02 :
King thinks that if he makes, if he emphasizes doing the chef kiss hand, that it makes it more accurate.
SPEAKER 07 :
I do.
SPEAKER 02 :
It doesn't.
SPEAKER 07 :
Sometimes top with my hands.
SPEAKER 02 :
No, no. Why is it? That's first off, that's a false argument. And here's why. It's not. Why do we have to give them any money? You can deport or you can get yeeted the hell over the Rio. I'm sure Daddy Holman's got some arm strength that he can just lob you over by your ankle.
SPEAKER 07 :
Do you think it's free to get yeeted? Is that what you think?
SPEAKER 02 :
I would eat someone over for free.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, of course. You and I would totally do that for free.
SPEAKER 02 :
No, hear me out. Hear me out. Hear me out. My dream, I want to make a trebuchet. I don't know why. It's a fascinating medieval weaponry in the balance of which, you know, I think it's amazing.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'm still with you. We could just put a bunch of them in there and just... I am 100% for that idea. It's still not free. The trebuchet costs money.
SPEAKER 02 :
I would pay for its construction.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, but it still costs money.
SPEAKER 02 :
You would have a bowl big enough to fit 20 illegal immigrants in and then just... Right over. Right over.
SPEAKER 07 :
Great idea.
SPEAKER 02 :
The cartels can lay some pillows down on the other side.
SPEAKER 07 :
Crapping on the idea. There's a money savings here.
SPEAKER 02 :
The money savings is to yeet them over. And there are a lot of people who would do it, like myself, who would love nothing more than weekend warrior.
SPEAKER 07 :
It turns out that self-yeeting is cheaper.
SPEAKER 02 :
That's not self-eating if you're paying them.
SPEAKER 07 :
It's self-eating.
SPEAKER 02 :
You're incentivizing illegal crossing. Yes. And then they're going to come back because then you're leaving the door for them to come back.
SPEAKER 07 :
To a tune that's much cheaper.
SPEAKER 02 :
Oh, my gosh. Oh, no, no. I am not going for less money. I'm going for no money spent.
SPEAKER 05 :
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A Florida man was sentenced for assaulting a DFW gate agent. 53-year-old Florida man was sentenced to four months in federal prison for assaulting the DFW gate agent in October of last year. He pled guilty to interference with security screening personnel. He faced 10 years for the crime. He was at the gate. Security footage showed him repeatedly punching the gate agent in the head. Now, there have all been times when we felt like doing that. But you don't do it because assault is illegal. And he admitted that he did it. And I mean, obviously, because he's on camera doing it. But they removed him from the jet bridge. And you can't do stuff like that. Some people are special than you. You can't do that kind of stuff. I'm just saying, you know, find a different way to resolve. Am I supposed to feel super sad? We've all been in a bad situation. We all have bad stories, but you can't do that with them because they're particularly protected. Let's see. Florida man speared feces in jail cell after his DUIRS at Santa Rosa Beach. That's kind of gross. I'm not doing the one where the guy had three wives in three different counties because for the fourth day it keeps appearing in these headlines. So this guy, he was in jail, Santa Rosa Beach. He was taken in Walton County. He was driving under the influence. There was all these disruptive incidents. And they arrested 47-year-old Jason Buchanan. And he was harassing people, confrontational. When they got him, he... Went to the bathroom in his cell and made a giant mess. He's got a long criminal history, though, unfortunately. Stick with us. Third hour on the way. I'm always going to tell people to carry. I'm always going to tell you to carry lead. And I have zero issues at all whatsoever using lethal force to smack down a threat to me or my family. But I understand also that not everyone wants you to be safe. The people who pass these gun free zones. and gun control. They don't care if you're a statistic. They don't care about your family. They don't care if you live or die. They just want a virtue signal about this stuff. So this is where Burna Gun comes in because they understand certain places are disarming you legit. And, you know, we're big kids. I would love to be able to pick and choose exactly where I go all the time, but I can't. So as a result, you know, a lot of my friends have gone out and gotten the burning gun, right? You always, it's good to have a diversified weapons array. You have blades, you have different calibers. With something like this, when you are disarmed and you're not able to carry in certain spaces, this comes in clutch. It shoots chemical irritant projectiles that can deter threats from up to 50 feet away. And instead of like one or two rounds, like a traditional taser or something, this is five rounds. They have several different models, the CL, which we'll be talking about soon. But the SD, I have a lot of friends that have gone out and gotten the SD. They have rifles in that. But I think, you know, for this purpose, this is, you know, the SD is what you need to get. And that's what I would recommend. There's no recoil at all whatsoever. And there's no background check. This thing doesn't care about stupid gun-free zone signs. It's illegal in all 50 states. No background checks. No permits. No waiting period. Shipped right to your door so it's accessible for everybody. Visit Byrna.com slash Dana to get 10% off. Byrna.com slash Dana for 10% off your purchase.
SPEAKER 01 :
We can't have this, you know, impasse, this fight going on with Canada. It is ridiculous. And let me just tell you a little story. Last week, I ran into a couple I know. She's French-Canadian, he's French. They were planning a big wedding in Florida. They're no longer getting married in Florida because their relatives and friends don't want to travel to Florida. So that's money lost for the florist and the caterer and the venue and the parkers and the airlines and the airport workers and the drivers. All in Florida. And it's happening in me. It's happening in so many states.
SPEAKER 02 :
So it's your stupid friends and their family, their responsibility, not anybody else. It would be great if the sellout could advocate for the United States as much as she tries to advocate and clout chase everywhere else. I think I'm done playing her audio soundbites for a while, but that's just the stupidest reasoning ever. So what's your face from the view? Welcome back to the program. We are at the top of this third hour. Dana Lash with you. Channel 347 is where you can find the streaming, the video component of the radio program. And of course, the chats at Rumble. You can also find us at X YouTube, all that. We're going to have Senator Rand Paul on, but he's had to reschedule. So we'll have information about that later. So the a few other things to touch on, including this crazy story coming out of Loudoun County, Virginia. They have been in the news nonstop for some of this stuff. Listen to this. So there this was in a school locker room. Right. Loudoun County Public Schools, they've opened a Title IX investigation into three high school boys who said they were uncomfortable with the female student using the boys' locker room. And their policy allows students to use school bathrooms, locker rooms, according to how they identify that day rather than their actual biological sex. And the father... In fact, a Virginia father was the one who reached out and was making the news, Channel 7 News aware. They said that there's an investigation into his son. They're investigating the boys and trying to figure out whether or not the boys committed sexual harassment after they and their friends were discussing how uncomfortable they felt with the fact that there was a girl in their locker room. And it was a girl who decided that she was going to pretend to be a boy. And so they're 15 years old. And they said that the boys were very uncomfortable with the girl in the locker room. And they're being accused of sexual harassment for expressing their concerns. The female student started using the boys locker room. And after gym class one day, she used her phone to record his son and his friends in the locker room. And he said, I also have a daughter. The dad said, I also have a daughter in that school. And if there was a male in there videotaping her in the locker room, I would also have issues. He said, even if it was someone of the same sex, that is an invasion of their privacy. Yeah, and you're a pervert if you're recording people in the locker room. And according to the school's own policy, video and audio recordings are prohibited in school locker rooms. But the student who recorded the video apparently is not receiving any consequence. All of the penalties are falling on the boys because they spoke out and the boys are being accused of sexually harassing a girl. Now you tell me how that's possible. If this TARC wants to identify as a boy and use the boy's locker room, and they're going to pretend that she's a boy using the boy's locker room, how is it sexual harassment if she is perceived to be a boy and the boys are speaking out against someone who's pretending to be a boy videotaping them in the locker room? You're pretending that they're all boys, so you can't have it both ways. You can't say, oh, that's sexual harassment, but also she's a boy. You can't have it both ways. And He's like, you know, these are these are kids that have great school records. They have no disciplinary issues. They clearly were uncomfortable. And the girl was being a B. It's what it is. And now they're being targeted. And the boys are being punished. I'm just shocked at this. She's not being punished for violating the rule against recording in the bathrooms or the locker rooms. They're the ones being targeted because they spoke up. And they're going to have that on their record. Sexual harassment is going to be on their record. So in the future, you know, if they go out for scholarships or anything else, when someone sits down and they're looking at this, they're not going to see, they're just going to see the thing that says sexual harassment on the record. There's not going to be any nuance and the worst is going to be assumed. The student, the girl is not facing any consequences apparently because of that recording. The boys are in trouble because they objected to it and they felt uncomfortable that a girl was recording them changing in the locker room. Where's the parent of this girl? I'd file charges against the parent of the girl for harassment, for intimidation. I think this is extortion also. I'd find some way to finagle that in there. There needs to be a penalty for these people, the people who do this stuff. I had cousins, this was in Hillsborough, Missouri. I had cousins at that school, young girls in high school, athletes, and there was an 18-year-old boy that wanted to pretend to be a girl and wanted to change in their bathrooms, in their locker rooms. The girls were terrified. They were all, like, taking turns changing in the bathroom in the hallway. So he had used the whole locker room by himself, despite the fact that he was a crap athlete and, you know, really didn't contribute anything. They accommodated him over literal entire sports teams of girls at that school. This was a few years ago. There's got to be strict penalties. I would explore every avenue of lawfare that I could. Personally, I would literally take out a loan and I would threaten to financially ruin that family unless they got their kid in check because that's the only way these people are going to pay attention and listen. There has to be clear penalties for this stuff. Oh, you don't want to you don't want to have an issue with your with your kid and having to go to court and dealing with harassment and bullying and extortion. And because that's what this is. This is extortion. Go along with it or we're going to do this to you. That's extortion. They're extorting children to accommodate perversion. And the boys can't even raise issues. Yeah, you're damn right this dad's mad. Absolutely. There were a lot of parents who've been speaking up. This school has had problem after problem. If you ask, is this the same school district where a girl was raped in the bathroom? Yes, it is. Guys, remember that? The girl who was sexually, brutally assaulted in the bathroom by a boy, a bigger boy. I think he was 18 years old. who wanted to identify as a girl and they hid it from her dad. And then they secretly transferred him to a different school where he did it again to another girl in another bathroom. They protect perversion. This is like one of, I mean, I've got all kinds of, this has been going on for years at this school. It was the Stonebridge High School where the boy assaulted the girl. That was in 2021. And then, excuse me, the next year, there was a boy who changed in the girl's locker room at the Loudoun Valley High School. And the daughter was uncomfortable because she said he was leering at her. She got in trouble for even voicing concern. There was another one, same district. At the Woodgrove High School, where they had student protests. And by the way, you've got Christian families, atheist families, Muslim families, Hindu families, every like creed, background, and even political persuasion are all united in this because they realize how dangerous this is. And you remember in February of last year when they had a big school board meeting about it, they shut the cameras off for public comment so that no one could see what the parents were telling the school board. So that parents couldn't voice their concerns. They did that after that dad blew up that story about his daughter being raped in the bathroom. That was all on video. That was live streamed. So after that happened, oh boy, they don't want to have to deal with this again. We better shut these cameras off. This is the stuff this school's doing. This was one of the things that they were trying to make happen in our school district. And we had a knock down, drag out, multi-million dollar fight to take over the school board over this. Man, they brought in NBC. They had Lester Holt here. They had the NBC cameras driving around our subdivisions. They had news producers that crashed a woman's house. They were having a meeting with parents. It was a bunch of grassroots parents. In fact, the family that led it are Cuban. It is a Cuban immigrant. He came over here as a kid. And he was leading it, but they wouldn't talk to him because he wouldn't white. That's true. That's actually true. The NBC producers ignored him because he was brown. He was a brown father who came from Cuba as a child. And they didn't all can't have that. They need to make it look like it's a bunch of white Anglo-Saxon Protestant Christian Trump and Trumpians that are objecting to this stuff. There was a Vietnamese family that helped the Cuban family lead the charge. There were Muslims in our community that were speaking out against this. NBC ignored all of them. The unwritten rule at NBC was if they're brown, don't take it down. That was their unwritten rule. They weren't going to talk to any of these parents and feature any of their concerns about what was happening with the trans stuff in the CRTN schools. And Loudoun County, Virginia, this is like the worst of the worst. I can't even imagine. Can you imagine? I'd lose my mind. Now, John Fetterman is under attack. I've seen two hit pieces alone this morning about him. And they're saying, oh, there's a divide driving a wedge between him and his wife. Oh, there's a devastating decline being exposed. Oh, man. All these people like Politico writing pieces, Daily Wire, or not Daily Wire, Daily Mail, which will just take oppo from people and run it. It's so dumb. They're really trying to act. They're really trying to drive this. It's controversial because he has been very critical of Hamas. Now, he's a Democrat. He's got Democrat fiscal policies. He's got a lot of Democrat policies that I don't like. He just doesn't like Hamas. And they're going after him over this. And it's like that now all the knives are out for Fetterman. Now, remember when they were trying to say you can't question his ability to serve because of a stroke? Well, now what do you think they're doing? They're literally questioning his ability to serve because of a stroke. I actually think that he's even better than he ever was. Now, he's more coherent. He's clearly more clear minded. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick 5.
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All righty. So a Georgia camper kills a rabid bobcat with his bare hands. He said it was either him or me. Georgia man was left fighting for his life. A rabid bobcat attacked him while he was out camping. OK, can I just say this is another reason like why? I mean, I'm all for going out in nature, but I ain't going to sleep out in it because we invented the house as a people, you know. As humans, we invented the house. But this feller, Midway, Georgia, Hunter Hudson, he's out camping, and a bobcat struck without warning. And he says, it was me or him. It was me or him. And I got two little boys, 12 and 5, and Daddy's coming home. He said he was enjoying a quiet campfire when a sound in the dark just shattered the night. I heard a crazy noise. You know, I never heard it before, he said. And then that bobcat came out of nowhere. His friend apparently got the video without even helping him. I'm like, help him. His friend's recording the video like, ah. He says, I walked out of my camper and got attacked by a bobcat. He goes, I wasn't looking for the bobcat. The bobcat found me and jumped on my shoulder. He said his gun was out of reach, so he had to rely on pure instinct. He said he grabbed him, pulled him as hard as he could, took his thumbs and put him in his nose, hurt his nose so he couldn't breathe. He had blood running at the end of his fingertips. He said, I had to call the ambulance. And then the bobcat tested positive for rabies. So he had 40 shots. And they're about a half an inch to an inch needles. They're real painful shots. I mean, modern medicine had not improved on them. They are real painful. You got to get that medicine deep in there. But his friend had the footage of it. And I'm like, did he stop to hand you the gun at any point? Or, you know, where you could at least shot it in the head, something. I don't know. In Massachusetts, if you smell cucumbers in your home, get out. Now, wait a minute. This is not right. I grew up with copperheads. I don't think they smell like cucumbers, but they say that it mimics the scent of cucumbers. It has a musk, but I don't think it's like cucumbers. Cain, you grew up around copperheads too.
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Yeah.
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I mean, how we'd be out in the woods all the time.
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I don't remember this cucumber smell, but they say whenever they get bothered or threatened that that's the scent they give off.
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There is a musk that you can smell.
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Yeah.
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But cucumbers? I almost stepped on one one time. I had a dog that attacked by it. We got in a nest of them. How you say cucumber? If you wanted to be Hillary, what's her face? Baldwin. How you say you get the hair away from the copperhead snake? How you say cucumber? That woman. I've never heard of that before. Cucumber. Men are shaving off their eyelashes because they said that it makes them look feminine. Stop it. Stop doing that, men. A famous gorilla hurls a rock into a crowded zoo and hit a man on the head. I feel like doing that some days. Some days I feel just like that Harambe wannabe right there. I do. We got a lot more on the way. Stick with us. Bottom of the third hour.
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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We're at the bottom of this third hour. And we're actually, we're talking about some films. And I saw this great image of Rooftop Koreans. It's an AI thing. And I'm like, that Quentin Tarantino needs to do a film on that. I know he's like done with all of it, but still. Speaking of film and arts, I want to switch it up because can we talk about the entitlement that's so often celebrated by... the media I got media malpractice like we've got there's a stupid New York Times piece we had the ProPublica stuff this you know NPR obviously CNN that interviewed a Sinaloa terrorist what are your feelings about POTUS because they're all about terrorists you had Brian Stelter real quick who had tweeted that right now newsrooms need to do a better job of incorporating Constitution 101 to their news coverage and while we're at it maybe Schoolhouse Rock needs to make a comeback Like, oh, you're interested in this now, but you weren't interested in it back when you had a presidential candidate and a party that tried to undermine a free and fair election by merging discredited oppo through a literal firm that was lobbying for Russian oligarchs. Fusion GPS and they got slammed. They violated the FEC laws. They had to pay a hefty fine for it. And then they bypassed the procedures that are in place to protect citizenry and protect our due process when they when they used favor to expedite. the request to get a surveillance warrant on a private citizen due to politics. So middle finger to you because you guys, Brian Stelter and everybody at CNN and MSNBC have not cared about this for forever. Don't you guys try to delegitimize the courts. You have defended abuse of power under every Democrat administration. Do not start complaining now. Do not start complaining now. It's asinine. These now they want to try to rest the mantle of ombudsman away. All right. Speaking of media, the New Yorker. I don't read the New Yorker. I don't read the New Yorker because I just I don't care. I don't live in here. But this was too funny to not. I have a piece up at Substack called Never Dress Like Your Furniture Unless You're Rich. So they have this like super swanky photo spread in the New Yorker of all of these like big leftists and dirty hipsters. I will make an excuse. I exclude Martin Scorsese from this. I like Martin Scorsese. Scorsese. Sorry, I like Martin Scorsese. First off, they took a pictures of all these people in their living rooms and Martin Scorsese's house is amazing. And I'm not going to know it's a goth dream and he no criticism for him. Also, I appreciate the fact that after Alec Baldwin murdered a woman on set that Hollywood was calling to get rid of guns on all films and Scorsese went crazy on everybody saying hell no. So good for him. And he's not woke. Martin Scorsese is absolutely like the opposite of woke. He's a gem. He's a rare gem in Hollywood. So I exclude him. He's in this. But they were looking at like these New York artists and hipsters and all this stuff and taking photos of them in their living rooms. And can I ask a question? I'm not trying to sound like purposefully obtuse. Are shelves like not a thing anymore? Is it the reason I ask, do we just like put our stuff on the floor now? That's Martin Scorsese's house. Okay. That's him and his daughter, Francesca. Beautiful home. Perfectly. I mean, you got the lead glass. You got the cool. I mean, it's perfect. He's excluded. The other people, though, no. The other people in the spread, they don't have his taste. I mean, that's a goth dream. Come on. That's a goth dream. So they did this big spread. And the first thing I saw was nubby worn carpets, books on the floor, because apparently it's really cool to pretend to be poor for shelves. I don't even know who some of these people are. It was very important to make sure that no one in the spread have shoes or socks on. I know that they were trying to evoke this relaxing at home feel, but it was gross. Some feet don't need to be seen. Put them away. It's gross. I just don't like them. They're nasty. They are unfortunate things that we have to deal with as humans. It feels forced and awkward. It just feels like... robotic and cringe like there's this one living room it's the first photo that I have but it was this woman she's barefoot and she's standing on this nubby green super saturated 70s avocado theme her husband's organized like he's arranging flowers and the whole room like the carpet looks very thread warm the chairs look dilapidated That's so that's in Greenwich Village. I can. That looks like it smells like steel cigarettes, feet and gym. Right. Like, what is the point of like what? Look at the nubby carpet. You're supposed to have like a feel envy for this. Like they they're like showcasing like this is the cream, the creme de la creme. One of my favorite. I mean, it's like literally probably literally from the 70s when I was a kid. This is going to make sense in a moment. My grandmother had a garden shed. They did lots of stuff in the garden shed, moonshine in the bathtub, all kinds of stuff. But my grandmother and I once found a nest of like buttons and doll heads and coins and like a sock. And it was in a garden shed that this little wood rat like probably spent its whole little life running around collecting stuff and that she she trashed it in like minutes. And I thought about this when I saw Gloria Steinem's dresser top. She's in front of this yellow ochre wall. And I was looking on top of her dresser. And my first thought was, who dusts all this garbage? She's got like a pack rat collection on top of her dresser. It's a rat's nest. It's weird. And she looks skeletal. She's the feminist sellout. Then you have Al Sharpton. And I don't know if you've ever I've seen pictures of Al Sharpton's house before. He's got like this like two two story penthouse and he's in front of a portrait of himself predictably. And then he's got this spotless bougie as all get out pet enclosure. Is that his actual bed? The pet enclosure has like an acrylic water bowl in it. People who have no idea what animals do apparently decided to make that. Maybe that's his little enclosure in his house. I don't know. The big thing, though, the piece de la resistance was the George Soros Nepo baby and Anthony Weiner's ex-wife, a.k.a. Hillary Clinton's right-hand woman. This is what kicked it all off. They are literally dressed like they're chairs. Again, with the 70s avocado green. Because you can't be truly rich unless you can dress like your furniture. So here he's doing his best to convince you that he's a heterosexual male and that he likes this woman. And I just need to stop full stop right here. They're glowering at the camera as rich people do. They're not only in sync with each other, they're in sync with their literal actual furniture because they're better and richer than you. He's a nepo baby. I mean, can you afford to dress like your furniture? I don't think so. His little platform sneaks. They just like they just give me total Clydesdale hoof vibes. And he's wearing man pre's. You guys know what man pre's are, right? Capri's for men. And he's got just enough of that pale sausage cankle peeking through. Throw that photo back up, Juan. The one where you got the Nepo babies in green. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look at that. Look at the pale sausage cankle peeking through. And he's got his Clydesdale platform sneaks on, right? Her trousers are like meticulously unhemmed. They're rebelling against tailoring. And it has a laissez-faire attitude to puzzles and feces and grime walking the streets of Manhattan. Because let's be real. They don't walk the streets of Manhattan. They ride on the backs of fat cherubs. They flip them about to and fro. And the cherubs' wings are made of dollars. That's what this is. So I don't know. The other one that I really, really love. By the way, did they look like normal people? That's like that's like Scott Evil, Dr. Evil's son, Scott, and his girlfriend and their nepo baby house that this dude would never be able to afford if his daddy wasn't George Soros. But the other one that I thought was hysterical is the woman who's partially responsible for the scourge of modern art. I hate modern art. I hate modernity. I hate all of it. She, her name's Agnes Gund, and she is sitting in her, apparently she only has one chair, in her giant east side expanse. And I joked, I was like her and her dog take turns sitting in the one chair in their penthouse. And she's got this like all this modern art everywhere. Like one of the pieces that she has is, I kid you not, a literal black canvas with one red stripe painted across. You know that's worth more than like your city that you live in. That one painting is probably worth.
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$11,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
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You know that. And she's just like sitting there in this chair. This like restoration hardware looking chair. And. I mean, I don't even understand. I just hate the art. In addition to the Scorsese thing, there was one thing in here where it was just a framed thing of garbage pail kids, garbage pail kid cards. Now that I literally would punch out a kid on a playground to get a garbage pail kid card. Kane, that was like Jolly Rangers and garbage pail kids were the currency for Gen X back in the day.
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Oh, no doubt.
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You know, like in prison, they got like cigarettes. Okay. Well, in the playgrounds, it was Jolly Ranchers and Garbage Pail Kid cards.
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Even like Pokemon cards today, you couldn't even really. I mean, it's kind of that comparison.
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Yeah.
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You didn't have really any games or, you know, got to catch them all.
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Oh, but parents. Oh, my gosh. Parents like Pokemon cards. Back then, they thought Garbage Pail Kid cards. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Like, that's of the devil. I don't even know who this lady is, but she is... I mean, I don't really like anything else in her apartment, but the professionally framed Garbage Pail Kid collection that she's got on her wall. It is chef's kiss. It's amazing. I do like that. That's the only thing that's, like, worth it. Oh, my gosh. So... They did. And I get it that they were just like showcasing different people. You can't tell me that there aren't any conservatives. They had AOC there. She was I was looking at what she was crocheting and it looks like garbage. Like I can just tell that her gauge is all jacked up and she's that look. What is she trying to do? Like it's all misshapen. I mean, even in its early stage, there's still some kind of form. Girl, you can't crochet probably as well as you cannot make a drink. And how did her dog, who is not supposed to jump, because French bulldogs, jumping is bad for their back, get up on the sofa. Did she lift him up there? I don't know, but whatever. I just think it's just hysterical that they decided, like, let's look at these insufferably, except for Scorsese, these insufferably liberal people in their houses. And they're all trash. Like, they have no taste. There was no taste in any of it, except for Scorsese's. I mean, it looked dirty, Cain. For those who don't understand... Will you please explain the whole avocado green thing that was like in the 70s and then people who didn't remodel their houses, it went all the way up into the 90s?
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I don't even understand it.
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Like appliances were that color.
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No, everything was that color. Toasters, your hand mixers. I mean, things, everything was that color. I'm not kidding. Everything. Tabletops, like actual tables. Yeah. The floor.
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Oh, my gosh.
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Doorknobs.
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Everything was that color. Do you remember the stoves and the refrigerators? Yeah. Were all that green, weird green color. Avocado green. They're trying to make a comeback. And it looks dirty and shabby. I don't like it.
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Well, yeah, it looks like how we grew up.
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Yeah.
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And we grew up kind of poor.
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Yeah, we grew up poor.
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So it's kind of like derelict chic is what they're trying to pull off right now.
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It's like grimy, stinky chic. I don't even know how. Like stinky chic.
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I don't even know how to. There is no positive psychological response to that color.
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Why did they do the spread? Was it to make us not like these people? Because I dislike them more now.
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Nobody likes that color, though. Has anyone ever told you they prefer avocado green for anything?
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And can we talk about the people that have the giant modern art pieces? I hate modern art so bad because it's just so unimaginative, honestly. Oh, this is my interpretation. Oh, shut up. You can't paint. And so you just did this. Shut up. But they have like nothing in there. Look at my big, completely obscene, totally doesn't work with the architecture or anything else. Modern art piece. I'm so enlightened and so bleh. I... Gag me. I just, no. No thanks. No thanks. That's why Scorsese's is so perfect because it's all like, it just works. Every bit of it works. But this is the stuff that they run. They run this stuff thinking that this is going to appeal to you. This will appeal to you, right? No. Oh, Lorraine notes, in the 80s, do you remember? Okay, so you had, I know we're going long, but hold up. Avocado green in the 70s. In the 80s, it was cornflower blue. I had a rich friend who had cornflower blue carpet. You guys remember that? Who puts blue carpet in their house? It doesn't go with anything. But cornflower, that was the big thing. And mauve. Is that right? Mauve? It's like a...
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The purpley pink color.
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I don't know. I don't do. I'm like, that's pink. I don't know. It's like soft pink. I don't know. But everything like as she knows, like the toilets, the showers, the sinks, it's all that color. The appliances in your kitchen. I want all my I want my toilet to match my stove. I don't know. But that's what these they think that this appeals to you because it's rich people in New York and that everybody in flyover or who is not in New York wants to be like this.
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All right.
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I went a little long that last segment, but it was worth it. Tomorrow, the left is stepping up their attacks on John Fetterman because he's not a Hamas-loving, goat-shagging anti-Semite.
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So would you think I would tweet it and not say it, Cain? I mean, Steve and you both said do it. Oh, man. So make sure you're going to want to tune in tomorrow. In the meantime, find us on YouTube, Facebook, like and subscribe. We're also at Substack, chapter and verse. Lots of good stuff that comes out there regularly. I will be back behind the mic with you tomorrow.
The discussion becomes riveting as we delve into iconic photos that shaped the media landscape, particularly a photograph of Trump, and the controversy surrounding its recognition. From here, the conversation transitions to the debate over Real ID laws and privacy concerns, reflecting on government overreach and the public's mixed reactions. To wrap it all up, political landscapes are examined with a cheeky overview of interviews and media representation, providing critical insights and a touch of humor.
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The great Bob Seger, who is 80 today.
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Wow. That is a fine act. You ever catch Seeger in the Silver Bullet Men there? Yeah, good stuff. Good stuff, not bad. And it's funny, because with a career that really started to crest in the late 70s, you think, how in the world is Seeger almost as old as the Beatles? He had like seven or eight albums before Night Moves, which is when everybody went, ooh, who's this guy? Kind of like Debbie Harry of Blondie, who was, I mean, she was like, not everybody gets instant fame when they're 22. But anyway, so happy birthday to Bob Seeger. We'll be doing a lot of things with his today.
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I've got I've got a housekeeping announcement to make. Did you know that we do the Eminem experience every day live on X? Did you follow that?
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I know you post.
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Does that involve you posting it or does it just happen by magic? I mean, were people right to Gallagher show? you guys at gallagher show right now we're live the and we do it every single time at 7 35 central 8 35 look at that and you could watch and and you should you guys should be doing the same thing at mark davis bad boy right now so thank you with gold and i'll go do that well the gold is if you follow me i might follow you back and i'm gonna whine and beg for you to follow me because i need more followers how many followers do you have on x you got a lot you got 15 like Well, I want to get – I mean, Charlie Kirk has two trillion. How did that happen?
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He's more popular than we are. I mean, I totally get it. I don't know. Here we go. Boom. Reposted. Can't retweet it anymore.
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Not tweet. Repost. Repost on – twitter i just do i know weird i miss a letter i kind of miss twitter all kinds of syllables twitter formerly x i don't know i went kind of crazy i went kind of crazy on x this morning yeah because i and i retweeted charlie because he pointed out that the Associated Press photographer Evan Vucci took a photograph of Trump after last summer's assassination attempt in Butler. You tell me if there's a more iconic photograph you've ever seen in your life. The blood down his face, the American, the bright blue sky. Well, because it made Trump look good. The Pulitzer Prize Committee refused to give it the award for best breaking news photograph of 2024. We do know that. Who stepped forward to say because of that, we denied him the prize? Oh, no. What do you think is more iconic than that picture? I totally know. What do you think would be a better picture? Come on. Absolutely. What did win? Do we know what did win? Well, as somebody posted, they would have given a Pulitzer to a blurry iPhone picture of Greta Thunberg sipping oatmeal. before they would honor the most iconic image of the decade. Trump didn't just break the media, he made them irrelevant. Here's another good comment. That photo captured raw history. Trump bleeding, defiant, unbroken. And winning the election that day. That did at that moment. When he survived it, I remember thinking to myself, he won. There's just no way. And if that had happened to Joe Biden, if that were Joe Biden in that picture, it would right now be on every classroom wall in America. That because it elevates Trump's strength and reminds America who the real fighter is, the Pulitzer crowd snubbed it. This wasn't about journalism, Noah Christopher wrote. It was about narrative control. The media cannot stand it. And I love this line. The media cannot stand it when truth favors our side. Go ahead.
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And there are various institutions, the Nobel Peace Prize, even the whole Nobel organization, you know, will help you in a hundred different ways. Right. Various that are supposed to be merit based. I don't lie awake and I worry about the Nobel Prize. But gone are the days when those are based on merit. They're often a political. All right.
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Let's let's get into the real ideas, because tomorrow's the day, you know, tomorrow's D-Day. Nearly half nearly half the country. Yeah, well, I don't know. Every three days, you better have a real ID. In fact, I'm supposed to go back again to New York this weekend. I just got back from there, and I don't want to go back. And it's like I'm supposed to see it's an obligation. But, yeah, I mean, I've always had that little gold star, as far as I know, on my driver's license. And I don't remember doing anything special for it. Do you? Well, I think...
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I guess it happened automatically. I think my last driver's license renewal was two, three years ago, and it just happened. There's my little white star in the gold circle or the other way around or something like that.
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Well, you could opt into it, though, right? You opted into it.
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I didn't have to do anything.
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I think they ask you when you renew it. You may not have remembered. Maybe not. Who wouldn't do it? Okay, here we go. You want to open up your phone lines? You want to open up your text line? Hey, Mike, Mark, what are you, government spying on us? The government, why would you give them that? People go nuts on this issue.
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I don't know.
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Do you think they don't fly very often? Well, the people who are against it?
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No, I think it is like a lot of other things. Take a base coat of healthy cynicism about government, a long track record of government doing all kinds of things that are intrusive and unnecessary, and then project that forward and create an atmosphere of cynicism and suspicion around everything. And there you have the real ID protesters. I agree. Listen, if there's anybody who's going to look for government overreach or government impropriety, it's you and it's me. I can't find doodly squat that's a problem with a real ID driver's license.
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And I almost had to look for it because I never want to not reflect what a big segment of my audience believes. But on the other hand, look, if you really – good luck. Go live off the grid. Go live in a cabin somewhere on the mountains, on a mountain. But other than that, they know everything. What don't they know already? You've got a social security number.
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We do. Isn't that a de facto national ID? Do you remember, was there ever a time, it seems like it's about 20 years ago, maybe more, because we've done this a long time, where we could have filled the lines with, well, I'll tell you what, Mark, we're going to work on getting this national ID number. I remember thinking, so? And then I got some pretty good answers as to why, because you don't want to be that trackable or something like that. And as far as privacy and the information we give, here's something that is charming in its... Retroactive stupidity. Grocery stores, you know how you can have like a little discount or something or other? I'm at Tom Thommer Kroger, and it's like 1997, and they said, hey, if you give us your phone number or your email address, what was it you had to give them in order to get special discounts on stuff? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't do it, and I told the audience, we must rise up. We must stand up. You cannot have our personal information in order to get a 30-cent biscuit on a gallon of milk. I lost that argument in a millisecond. People were just wanting to save money at the grocery store. And so, whatever.
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By the way, we're getting a bunch of texts from Texas on the MyPillow text line, 800-655-MIKE. Look at all the ways we let you connect with us. The text line...
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your text line and now X look at what we're up to 293 viewers come on we can do better than that go to go to Gallagher at Gallagher show and watch you get credit for a viewer that watches because they watched on my mark famous probably I don't think I do I think you get the credit I don't know how any of this crap works I hate it all go to mine go to mine good it's like go to either one of us at mark davis how many yeah how many do you have let's see how many viewers you've got are you are you're doing it now are you did you repost it so it's the same oh so i don't think it'll go i don't think you'll get the credit i think i get the credit exactly so three how many do we have i'm looking at 376 right now oh mine says 293 see none of it works it's a it's a giant conspiracy the whole thing doesn't work But here's what Texas is saying. Texas went to the real ID in 2016. They just give it to us. We don't have a choice. That's kind of interesting. Well, I know, but shouldn't you at least have the option? No. Well, some people might care.
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There's a lot of things that I want an option for. You know, is my kid going to get a radical sex education in fifth grade or they're going to, you know, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I wonder if I get the real ID, the driver's license. I don't care. And I don't know why anybody would.
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No, I don't really get it either. What I do care about is watching the meltdown over, oh, I don't know, Alcatraz, $1,000 to self-deport.
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We talked about this yesterday.
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I have.
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You've been to Alcatraz. Isn't it one of the coolest tours you can take? I mean, it just instantly takes you back to Al Capone's time. You can imagine being incarcerated and then trying to get out.
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And I instinctively knew what he meant. The media is mocking him because he's saying, look, Alcatraz is a scary, terrible, beautiful, iconic symbol. And, oh, look how incoherent he is. How could it be terrible and scary and wonder beautiful at the same time? Yeah, well, it is. I mean, but it's also what he's saying is it's a it's a symbol of, you know, a fortress of of what happens when you do bad things. I get it. I got it. And of course, right away, they're mocking him. And they're and they're shooting that down, too. Now they're shooting down the idea of a thousand dollars to self-deport. Is there anything? Of course it does. But you know what the scheme is. There is a scheme going on. The due process thing is a total scheme. And the scheme is this. It's real simple. They know we can't have 50 million trials. They know that, and that's what they want. They want to gum it up, and they want to keep these people in America indefinitely, and they know that if they screech... They didn't care about due process when the border was wide open. This is such a joke, and everybody's... There was some Democrat on the border saying, well, yeah, border's closed, and he's not getting any credit for that whatsoever. What they're freaking out about, though, is every other thing that he's doing, everything that he's accomplishing... Let's go into a territory that's going to get me in a whole bunch of trouble. Did you see what Mike Pence said about President Trump yesterday on CNN?
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The reason that answer is no is because there is great wisdom in knowing whom to ignore. As soon as I saw that Mike Pence was going to be on CNN, I made other plans.
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If you can tell me, I can only imagine. And let me tell you why it affects me personally a little bit. I want to like this guy a lot. Every time I've met him, he is this warm, gracious. And every time I've met him, he... That's what I love. You know, he knows the business. He was a talk show host from Indiana. So he asks me about last time I interviewed him, you know, how the ratings, how are your numbers, how are your revenues? He knows the business. And so I and so I've I've got a soft spot for this guy. Why? So he goes and gets an award, some profile and courage. You know what that was? I mean, that's for what?
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for refusing to do what there was an absolute foundation for doing, getting a pause button on the tabulation of a flawed electoral result.
SPEAKER 02 :
Correct. And so he gets an award from the Liz Cheneys of the world who are just slobbering all over him. But he doesn't mention Trump by name during the ceremony. He's got his little tux on and doesn't. So then they took him to task for not mentioning. So he runs to CNN the next day and he attacks Trump. And he attacks Trump for pardoning people who were violent against police. And you know what? We could have that debate. I get it. That's all right, I guess. But of all people, why doesn't he just sit this one out?
SPEAKER 03 :
Why do people... No, two things I can help you with. Number one, it's perfectly fine for you to harbor your fondness for Mike Pence. I have it too. He was a really great vice president in many ways. He helped Trump win. I will always have fondness for that.
SPEAKER 01 :
Me too.
SPEAKER 03 :
He is a snake, and he is attempting to carve out for himself a lane. These people, the Nikki Haley's, the GOP establishment denizens, they believe that there's going to be this. At some point, we're all going to get sick of Trump. At some point, the bloom is going to come off the rose, and we're going to come lunging toward a Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, Mike Pence-style person. They're just waiting for that moment.
SPEAKER 02 :
Guys, that moment will not be happening. It's not going to happen. It's just not going to happen. Don't hold your breath. Look at this, 527. You think we can crack 1,000 before the segment is over? At Gallagher's show, incidentally. There's no way I'd say no. But I got 6. How many do you have?
SPEAKER 1 :
666.
SPEAKER 02 :
Oh, no. No, quick. Somebody follow me quick. Get off that number. You know, that's like 9-11. You know how many times I see 9-11 on my watch? It's so much faster. Get behind these, Zayton. It's just a weird thing about numbers.
SPEAKER 03 :
The most unfortunately named car in the history of cars, the Porsche 911. Who in the world?
SPEAKER 02 :
That's true.
SPEAKER 03 :
Only the Dodge Pearl Harbor ranked as high as a really unfortunate car.
SPEAKER 02 :
Final text on the MyPillow text line. Mark had a terrific interview on Real Texans. I've heard about this. Did they do it? Did they profile you or what was this about?
SPEAKER 03 :
Ben Sullivan, who runs all kinds of conservative operations in the state, brought his film crew in here. It's the Real Texans podcast. Wow. You can see a half hour of me talking about all kinds of stuff here.
SPEAKER 02 :
Wow. Did you mention me? Did you mention that I'm the reason for your success? Look at the time. Time to go. It's time for the... Here's Don McLean in American Pie, everyone. I love you. Happy Tuesday.
SPEAKER 03 :
Happy Tuesday. Mike Gallagher, ready to go as soon as we're done at 10 on 660 AM.
In this engaging episode, Mike and Mark share their thoughts on the crowded scene at Charlotte Airport and contrast it with the revamped LaGuardia. They reminisce about political skepticism from past publications and defend trusted figures like Glenn Beck. Ending on a lighter note, they tease a discussion about Savannah's rich history for the next episode.
SPEAKER 03 :
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SPEAKER 04 :
Governor Youngkin, who's a great man. I'm telling you what, keep an eye on him. I think he's got a future. Keep an eye on him.
SPEAKER 05 :
You know something, Mike? Look how many people we have who have a future. I know. Look at Glenn Youngkin. I know. That guy named DeSantis who is still around. Marco Rubio. Byron Donalds. Marco Rubio. Aren't there seven or eight or nine people who would just be golden candidates if we were to have a really busy primary in 2028 when Trump will be done? Thank you, Mr. President, for clearing that up. So do we tell all those people, eh? Not your time, because we just need to. The etiquette is we simply hand it to J.D. Vance if the Trump-Vance administration is as successful as we'd like it to be.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, as successful as we hope it will be. But if you pick up the New York Times or turn on 60 Minutes. You would think we are right now in a five-alarm fire. I was in the airport yesterday. I'm here in New York for a day. We have some meetings and, incidentally, nice little headline in New York that greeted me when I got off the plane at LaGuardia. A man charged with raping a corpse on the subway. Now, first of all, let that sink in. A man raped a dead body on the subway. I'm not kidding you. A man died. On the subway. 30-something-year-old husband, father. He apparently dies. A man rifles through his pockets and then decides, well, that's not enough to steal from him. I'm looking for a little extra. Now I'm going to rape him. Great. So he raped him. He was an illegal who crossed the border at least five times. Shocker. He was on an ICE. Yeah, real shocker. He was on an ICE watch list, apparently. The depraved deviant, Felix Rojas. unlawfully crossed the U.S.-Mexico border on several occasions. Five, to be exact. Anyway, so I get to New York. When I'm in the airport, I go through the Charlotte Airport. By the way, As airports go, whew, I don't know what's going on with Charlotte. That's like getting on a train in India.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, it's funny. This is weird. I don't know how often we all go through Charlotte. I was heading out to – I was in Charlotte Airport a year or two years ago. Big remodeling was underway.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, it's still underway. And they haven't remodeled much. And it is. It's like, have you ever seen the videos of people getting on a train in India? I mean, it's – That's what it felt like. I mean, the terminals are just packed elbow to elbow. You can't walk. You can't move. There's cement everywhere. The walls are coming down. It's a goof.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, Charlotte's a big, I mean, it's not Atlanta, but Charlotte is a big hub for some airlines. A lot of, you know, Charlotte and Philadelphia are big East Coast places.
SPEAKER 04 :
I mean, yeah. And then you get off the plane at LaGuardia, and I've got to hand it to New York because we always complain about it. You and I have talked about it. LaGuardia is awesome. LaGuardia is like the Wizard of Oz. It's the coolest airport. I mean, it's just like in the blink of an eye. All of a sudden, they fixed LaGuardia. Before we get you, go ahead and finish. Okay, so I pick up in New York Times.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 04 :
In Charlotte, as I get ready to board the train in India, knocking over women and children to jump onto the caboose. And Mark, do you remember the National Review Never Trump edition before the first election? I will never let them forget it. Well, and you know, a lot of people on our side wrote columns. Do you know one of the columnists?
SPEAKER 05 :
Are they on our side? Have they gotten better?
SPEAKER 04 :
They've gotten way better. Glenn Beck. I love Glenn. Remember, Glenn was one of those who wrote the anti-Trump column. And I love him. But, you know, in a way, you say this. This is the Mark Davis rule. Give a lot of grace to people who started out hating Trump and then gave him a chance and came around. Now, of course, the fear is always... Did they come around? How real was it? That's right. Was it real then and now?
SPEAKER 05 :
I think Rubio is for real. I think Ted Cruz is for real. Lindsey Graham is probably for real. Rick Perry, not so much. Perry is a total establishment, softy creature now. And God love him. He's my friend forever.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep, yep. Well, and I love Glenn.
SPEAKER 02 :
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SPEAKER 04 :
Give Glenn a lot of credit, but he was, well anyway, this was the New York Times version of that. Mark, I'm sure it's been a long time since you picked up the New York Times. It is, proudly so. You should see this edition.
SPEAKER 05 :
What's the thing?
SPEAKER 04 :
They trotted out, well I'll tell you what, they trotted out all their star columnists, every one of them it seems, all of them to take a shot at Trump.
SPEAKER 05 :
Write a column that talks about... But that's the New York Times, for National Review to do it, that's a conservative magazine. I know where their conservatism was mortgaged on the altar of Trump hatred for the New York Times to engage in a festival of Trump hatred is called another day ending. And why?
SPEAKER 04 :
But it's not just a festival of Trump hatred. It is Armageddon epic end of the world. Democracy has been shattered. It's the crazy. And if you read that, if you just said, you know what, I'm going to pick up a New York Times article. You'd think, my gosh, our country is in big trouble. 60 Minutes, same thing. They're flipping out because evidently the lady who runs CBS Paramount, she's telling them to back off a little bit. They're losing their minds. Meanwhile, they're flipping out about PBS and NPR being defunded. And David Brooks, did you see this guy? I mean, we're straight down the middle. Come on. Now, he works for them.
SPEAKER 05 :
I know. David Brooks has not been a reliable conservative for years.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, he's a complete fraud. Chris, did you have the clip, the David Brooks clip we can play for Mark? Here he was this weekend whining about defunding NPR and how that's the end of the world and democracy is now in shatters because you're not going to get to hear the history of the tsetse fly, a taxpayer expense on NPR, okay? I mean, look, only a small fraction of their fund comes from the taxpayers so you know what step up sell some more tote bags exactly they'll flourish but here's an example of david brooks's hypocrisy this isn't the trump hating conservative and he was one of the ones that wrote in the new york times about trump is shattering all the norms and he's a king and he's blah blah blah wants to be pope we'll get to that in just a moment yep you saw that meme But listen to this. The first clip is him defending PBS NPR. Then the second clip, this is back to back. This is what he actually said just a few weeks ago on PBS.
SPEAKER 01 :
If you think PBS is biased compared to who? Name one news organization in America. And I shouldn't be defending us. I get paid by PBS, but I'm going to do it. Who's more straight down the line? Then we are. There are a lot of people who are appalled by what the administration is doing. And there will be times for civil disobedience. And to me, if she let's say she did escort this guy out the door. If a federal enforcement agencies come to your courtroom and you help a guy escape. That is two things. One, it strikes me as maybe something illegal, but it also strikes me as something heroic. And so you can both think that she shouldn't have legally done this and that morally protecting somebody against, maybe not even in this case, but in other cases, frankly, a predatory enforcement agency.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, there you go. Straight down the middle.
SPEAKER 01 :
Straight down the middle, man. Even handed. Even handed.
SPEAKER 04 :
There's no bias there whatsoever. This is how. So what were you going to say? Because I was so astounded by reading this New York Times edition thinking this is like shades of. They're going to do everything to throw everything they can at the guy.
SPEAKER 05 :
Let's do two things. First of all, let's do the Trump-Pope meme, which might be all we have time for. Tomorrow, I want to talk about something from your trip to Savannah. A little bit of history. You chose just la-la-la. Let's package. You did a little history. Savannah, great town for restaurants.
SPEAKER 04 :
Beautiful city. Oh, I love it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Art, history. We've got a little history thing tomorrow.
SPEAKER 04 :
We've still got slave quarters.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, yes. Enslaved persons' quarters. Which is a clue on where we're going. But, okay, so... So the White House did not do the Trump in the Pope garb meme. Somebody else did, and the White House, I guess, reposted it, right? So far, so good? I'm not sure. Or not. They didn't do it. They reposted it. Should they have? There's, I guess, Gretchen Whitmer out of Michigan is Catholic. Oh, mightily offended. Oh, really?
SPEAKER 04 :
You mean the governor that mocked the Eucharist? Remember the thing she did handing out the Holy Eucharist to somebody? I didn't even remember what it was about.
SPEAKER 03 :
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Delve deeper into the intersection of faith and politics as Tony Perkins converses with Pastor Gary Hamrick of Cornerstone Chapel. They explore the profound biblical significance of Judea and Samaria, challenging prevalent cultural and media narratives. Additionally, this episode discusses Alabama's successful legal defense of its Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, as Attorney General Steve Marshall reveals the challenges faced and the broader implications for similar legislation nationwide. Amidst these discussions, Perkins also highlights recent U.S. policy changes under President Trump, focusing on the prohibition of federal funding for certain controversial scientific research abroad, underscoring the administration's stance on public health and safety.
SPEAKER 02 :
from the heart of our nation's capital in Washington, D.C., bringing compelling interviews, insightful analysis, taking you beyond the headlines and soundbites into conversations with our nation's leaders and newsmakers, all from a biblical worldview. Washington Watch with Tony Perkins starts now.
SPEAKER 14 :
The Houthis have announced that they are not, or they've announced to us at least, that they don't want to fight anymore. They just don't want to fight, and we will honor that. I will accept their word, and we are going to stop the bombing of the Houthis, effective immediately.
SPEAKER 15 :
That was President Donald Trump earlier today. Welcome to this May 6th edition of Washington Watch. Thanks for joining us. We begin with developments in the Middle East. President Trump announced an agreement with the Houthis that reportedly covers only their attacks on U.S. ships, not their attacks on Israel. We'll talk with Texas Congressman Keith Self, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Meanwhile, as the U.S. and Iran prepare for a fourth round of talks related to Iran's nuclear program, the regime in Tehran announced an upgrade to its ballistic missiles capable, they claim, of penetrating air defense systems. Iran has warned that if war breaks out with the U.S. or Israel, they will target American military installations across the Middle East. The question is, is the region cooling down or heating up? We'll break it down later here on Washington Watch. President Trump on Monday signed an executive order banning federal funding for gain-of-function research conducted in foreign countries. This type of research, which enhances the transmission or potency of viruses, has been widely reported as a possible factor in the COVID-19 outbreak linked to the lab in Wuhan, China. We'll talk with Congressman Nathaniel Moran, a member of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, about the implications of the order, as well as ongoing concerns about activities related to the Chinese Communist Party here in the United States. In Alabama, Attorney General Steve Marshall scored a major win for the state's law that protects minors from the so-called gender-affirming experimental drugs and irreversible surgeries. He'll join us later with the details of that victory. And while I was in Israel last week, I sat down with Pastor Gary Hamrick of Cornerstone Chapel to talk about the biblical and historical significance of Judea and Samaria.
SPEAKER 03 :
They're uncovering things all the time that prove this is the ancient place of the Jewish people. But unfortunately, in the media today, and the common narrative is they want to try to erase the history of the land so that other people can lay claim to it. And that's just ideologically, philosophically, and biblically wrong.
SPEAKER 15 :
I'll share more of that conversation later in the program. And don't forget, Session 12 of our God and Government series is now available, How to Make a Godly Appeal to Leaders. In the session, I walk you through biblical principles about how to make a respectful and effective appeal to those in authority. It's available exclusively on the StandFirm app. If you don't yet have the app, but you want access to the God and Government course, well, text COURSE, to 67742. That's course to 67742. And I'll send you a link. Well, as I mentioned earlier today, President Trump announced that the U.S. would stop its strikes against the Houthis in Yemen. According to the president, the terror group capitulated and announced their intention to stop attacking ships in the Red Sea. President Trump said the U.S. would honor that statement by halting attacks. But how does this impact the greater war between Israel and the surrounding terror groups? How might this impact U.S. negotiations with Iran? Well, here to discuss this and much more, Congressman Keith Self, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He represents the 3rd Congressional District of Texas. Congressman Self, welcome back to Washington Watch. Always good to see you. Good to see you, Tony.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 15 :
Let's start with this announcement by the Houthis. They're ceasing their attacks on U.S. shipping. As a result, the president says we will not bomb them any further. What do you make of that?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, it's good news certainly for commercial shipping, and I hope that it's all U.S. commercial shipping so they don't have to go around Africa. But you've laid it out here. It's good news for us. We can stop the attacks. I do hope that they are good to their word. President Trump will always pursue peace, and if they are willing to transact business with President Trump, he's willing to stop the bombing. Of course, Israel, they recently just fired at the Tel Aviv airport. So Israel turned around and attacked the biggest port. in Yemen. So that does not solve the Israeli-Houthis conflict. And I suspect that will continue, because the Houthis are a proxy of Iran. Iran is starting to kind of distance themselves from the Houthis. But I suspect their conflict with Israel will continue.
SPEAKER 15 :
According to comments from Secretary of State Marco Rubio today, that our emphasis there in Yemen was about shipping. Was our activity totally unrelated to Israel, or were we kind of working in tandem with Israel?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, it's two different things. The Houthis were basically, they've stopped shipping, and all the ships have to go around Africa. That's one thing. The Houthis-Israel conflict is entirely Iran-dominated, and they are attacking as a proxy of Iran. So they're two different things, and that's why I think that the Israeli-Houthi conflict will continue. Now, if the Houthis have capitulated and they mean to stop fighting because Israel is hurting them, they certainly hurt the port last night, if they truly have capitulated, we'll find out in the coming days. I tend to believe that they have capitulated to the U.S. attacks because we were hurting them, make no doubt about it.
SPEAKER 15 :
Were our strikes be more lethal than those that Israel was carrying out on Yemen?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, we were attacking their military capability. Israel just attacked their port. So two different avenues of approach there. And I believe that they probably, they're suffering, their military capability is suffering because of the U.S. attacks. So I think that's probably why they have this pause, this ceasefire. Now, if they truly capitulated, it's one thing. But if they're simply getting a pause from the U.S. so that they can rearm, refit Israel, That's a different matter.
SPEAKER 15 :
All right. Let's talk about Iran. The Houthis, as you pointed out, they're a proxy for Iran. The United States going into its fourth round of discussions over Iran's nuclear capabilities, but at the same time, Iran announcing that they have upgraded their ballistic missiles in that they're able to evade air defense systems. And they've said that if Israel or the United States attack, they will target U.S. installations in the Middle East.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. They're in the fourth rounds of talk. And President Trump, again, will try for peace with Iran. But one of the tenets of Islam is they are allowed to lie. They are allowed to be deceptive to the West. That is a tenet of Islam. So I believe that we need to trust if we want to go to a fourth round in Oman this weekend. We need to verify. We need to make sure that we continue to monitor what Iran is doing. Actions speak louder than words when it comes to Iran. I just encourage the United States and all of our allies to be very careful dealing with Iran, because the Middle East is a dynamic situation right now. Lots going on in the Middle East. Let's trust for another round, but let's verify. And remember, Tony, President Trump has said he will only accept the total dismantlement of the Iran nuclear program.
SPEAKER 15 :
I was in Israel last week, Congressman, and speaking with a number of Israeli leaders, and there's concern even about the fact that there's negotiations. As you just pointed out, they know that neighborhood quite well. You served over in Israel. You worked alongside the IDF. You know the Middle East, and as you just pointed out, it is a tenet of Islam to be able to deceive. What might the Trump administration, I mean, how long can they go along with these conversations before the clock runs out and Iran has the capabilities of moving forward?
SPEAKER 04 :
I personally think the clock will run out because when you look at the Iranian priorities, first is regime survival. Second is the nuclear program. And third priority to Iran is their support for terrorism. I've already said they're distancing themselves from the Houthis, but they will not give up their nuclear program. I do not think they can give up their nuclear program. The Israelis are so concerned because they've got a certain amount of uranium that is refined to 60 percent. When you go from 60 percent to 90 percent, which is nuclear weapons grade uranium, it's a very short step. That's why the Israelis are so concerned, because they could be there in a week or two weeks. It's a very short step. It sounds like 30 percent, but it's very easily and quickly done.
SPEAKER 15 :
Do the Iranians have the capability of delivering that nuclear material?
SPEAKER 04 :
That's a great question, because any missile has three parts. It has the nuclear warhead, its material. It's got the warhead mated to the missile, and then it's got the missile itself. You've got the guidance system. So all of that plays together. So they have not tested that. We know they have not tested a complete missile setup. And so would they then test something? Or would they go cold turkey, putting together a nuclear missile with a nuclear warhead guidance system and missile and fire it with no testing? That's a great question that we don't know. Would they go without testing a complete missile setup?
SPEAKER 15 :
All right, Congressman Kieself, as you just pointed out, I'm with you. I do not think that they're going to give up their nuclear program. I don't think they're... religious ideology allows them to do that and I think also the regime has to hold on to it to maintain power over the Iranian people So what then are the alternatives?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well President Trump one more time will always go for peace But I think that he is serious when he says I will only accept Dismantlement of the Iranian nuclear program. What does that mean? I don't know. I know the Israelis would want to attack the Iranian nuclear facilities before they reach the bomb stage, but they also need U.S. support in order to do that. So that is another part of the matrix that we simply don't know how it's going to work out. But I take President Trump at his word as well. He will only accept the dismantlement.
SPEAKER 15 :
So Israel, in the meantime, is expanding its military operations in Gaza, making it very clear that Hamas has to go. It looks like they are on a course to resolve the issue in Gaza and bring this war to a close.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I think Netanyahu has decided that they cannot continue to wait out Hamas' return of the hostages. They have to take a stand. So he's given them until the 15th, I understand, to resolve the hostage situation. This is an easy fix. Hamas should release the hostages, both alive and dead, the bodies. And this is an easy fix, except the ceasefire for the people of Gaza. I don't believe they will, because I believe that, just as we said about Iran, if they ever give up the hostages, they know that they are done. Israel will finish them off, clean out Gaza. And so this is another standoff that we see in the Middle East, very common in the Middle East. I don't know how it will be resolved, but I don't believe Hamas will yield to the Israeli demand on the 15th.
SPEAKER 15 :
Congressman Keith Self, we just have a little over a minute left, and I greatly appreciate your insights on foreign policy. That's why I have you on the program to talk about these issues. Given your perch on the House Foreign Affairs Committee looking across the landscape globally, are we right to be looking at the Middle East as the most volatile right now, or are there other things we should be watching?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, Tony, you and I agree on the world view. The world's attention might be diverted for short periods of time to China, to Russia, to Ukraine, wherever. But world attention will never leave the Middle East totally. It is the center of what's happening around the world. You and I believe that, and I believe that to be true. No, it will always be volatile. It's been going on for millennia now. It will continue to go on. We cannot make the Middle East to look like America. It is the Middle East. It's been the Middle East since the beginning of time. It will continue to be, yes, volatile.
SPEAKER 15 :
And all the more reason to be praying. Congressman Keith Self, always great to see you. Thanks so much again for joining us today. Thank you, Tony. And folks, I would encourage you to be praying. Pray for the Trump administration to make sure they're making the right policy decisions as it pertains to Israel and the Middle East. Don't go away.
SPEAKER 11 :
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SPEAKER 15 :
Welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks for joining us on this Tuesday. President Trump yesterday signed an executive order banning federal funding of gain of research, gain of function research in foreign countries. Now, gain of function research is the primary source behind the lab leak theory regarding the origins of COVID-19. The Wuhan Institute of Virology had received gain of function research funding from the U.S. in the past. Here to discuss this and more is Congressman Nathaniel Morin, who serves on the House Select Committee on the CCP, the Ethics Committee, and the Committee on the Ways and Means. He represents the 1st Congressional District of Texas. Congressman, welcome back to Washington Watch. Good to see you.
SPEAKER 10 :
Hi, Tony. Great to be with you tonight.
SPEAKER 15 :
Before we get into the Chinese Communist Party and this gain of function research, we understand the Ways and Means Committee met this morning to discuss the one big, beautiful bill. What's the latest on that?
SPEAKER 10 :
Tony, we've been meeting for months now as a committee to go through provision by provision those things that we need to consider to meet the goals of President Trump as he promised in the 2024 campaign, also to extend the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and to find additional ways to begin to renew and restore our economy and get more growth going, reduce taxation in our families and our farmers to bring liberty back to Americans across the board, from the top to the bottom. We want to make sure that taxation remains low and growth remains high.
SPEAKER 15 :
So are we making progress? Are we getting closer?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, we're making progress. I think we're talking about days, not weeks, before we're able to come forward with a bill that we can then have a markup on and then combine with the bills that came out of the other committees of jurisdiction pursuant to the budget resolution that was passed several weeks ago that then we can package up and send over to the Senate.
SPEAKER 15 :
All right, Congressman Moran, let's talk about China and the Chinese Communist Party. But let's talk about the gain-of-function research, the prohibition, the executive order that President Trump signed yesterday. How significant is this?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, it's critical for us to do this because we don't want to repeat the mistakes of the past. It's abhorrent to think about the fact that our money here, American taxpayer money, actually found its way to the Wuhan lab and helped to support some of the research that then ultimately led to what we dealt with with the coronavirus pandemic. This gain of function research is is some serious stuff. We need to have transparency and accountability, and we need to know where our dollars are going. And frankly, we need to make sure that our adversaries and those that are not taking care of the research the way they should are not getting American taxpayer dollars.
SPEAKER 15 :
Why in the first place would we be giving money to the Chinese Communist Party to do this type of research, which we know could be weaponized?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, that's the critical question. Why indeed did that happen in the first place? It should have never happened, and we should never let it happen again, and that's why we appreciate President Trump taking such a strong stance on this. We've got to follow up legislatively and make sure that we put this kind of thing into statute so that it's not just an executive order that can be undone in four years with an administration that might be more friendly to our adversaries. We don't want to see that happen. We want to make sure that we get it codified so that it's permanent.
SPEAKER 15 :
Is this one of those items because it is a budgetary item that could be handled in reconciliation knowing that it's unlikely to get 60 votes in the Senate?
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, there sure is. We want to make sure that we are treading lightly when it comes to policy. We're not involved in policymaking when it comes to reconciliation. Reconciliation is a matter of dollars and cents and reconciling our revenues with our expenditure. And so the Committee of Jurisdiction will have to take up whether or not they think this fits within that. But we also certainly have to be keenly aware of what the parliamentarian and the Senate might do as well under the Byrd rule. So I'm certain that the committees of jurisdiction are looking at this particular executive order to determine whether or not it should or could actually make it in reconciliation. Time will tell in the next couple weeks.
SPEAKER 15 :
You serve on the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. Constantly we're seeing information coming out of their activities to infiltrate American society institutions. Last week, the Washington Free Beacon unveiled records of the CCP-linked donations to UC Berkeley. What... Are they backing off at all under the Trump administration or do we still see them with their tentacles in American institutions trying to influence policy and the culture?
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, they're certainly trying to do that. When you look at UC Berkeley and well over half a million dollars just in 2022 and 23 that we see from that report. But frankly, if you go back to 1981 until now, about $57 billion to educational institutions flowing in from adversarial countries around the world into our research institutions. Well, that's concerning because when China and other adversaries have their money in our universities, particularly in our research institutions, what happens is they have access to those systems, to those data. They get the intellectual property resulting from a lot of that research. They get their people over here to be part of that research. And so we see the hands and the tentacles of the Chinese Communist Party all over the place. And unfortunately, colleges and universities that are looking for funding sources sometimes turn a blind eye to the reality of what's happening in their own campuses as a result of the desire to chase the money. Isn't that a national security issue? It absolutely is a national security issue. That's why the Congress passed the Deterrent Act earlier this year to strengthen Section 117 of the Higher Education Act, which is the requirement for INSTITUTIONS TO REPORT DONATIONS OVER $250,000 OR INVESTMENTS OVER $250,000, BUT THE DETERRENT ACT GOES FURTHER. IT SAYS, HEY, WE'RE GOING TO MOVE THAT TO $50,000 FOR ANY FOREIGN investment into our higher education system and we're going to move it to zero dollars if you get anything above zero dollars from a foreign entity of concern you have to report that and oh by the way there's not any good teeth in section 117 right now currently as it exists the deterrent act adds those teeth and says if you don't follow the reporting requirements if you're not transparent Then there's going to be fines and potentially loss of Title IV funding for those colleges and universities that do not report those things in a timely manner and in a full manner, which has been happening.
SPEAKER 15 :
We just got about 30 seconds left, but the president announcing he's going to extend the TikTok deadline again. Should we be concerned about TikTok?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, we really should be concerned about TikTok. We need to see a total divestment from the Chinese Communist Party ownership. That's really the only solution. That's what the statute calls for, and that's what I expect to see happen.
SPEAKER 15 :
All right. Congressman, always great to see you. Appreciate you joining us today.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thanks, Tony.
SPEAKER 15 :
Congressman Nathaniel Moran from Texas. All right, don't go away. We're going to talk to the Attorney General of Alabama next about a victory in that state regarding the protection of minors. Don't go away.
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Welcome back to Washington Watch. Good to have you with us. Late last week, the state of Alabama emerged victorious in its legal battle to protect children from harmful so-called sex change procedures. The state's Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act was challenged three years ago by left-wing groups that wanted these dangerous procedures to be lawful for minors. But now the case is officially dropped, and Alabama's law is safe. So why did the opponents retreat? Well, here to discuss this, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, who was defending the law against the opponents. Attorney General Marshall, welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks for joining us.
SPEAKER 05 :
Tony, always good to be with you. Thank you.
SPEAKER 15 :
All right. So we have a little over half the states in the nation have a law similar to this now in place. Some of them still fighting legal challenges. What was at the heart of the challenge to this law protecting minors from these experimental drugs and surgeries?
SPEAKER 05 :
Tony, what we saw, and it's not just in Alabama, but across the country, this argument that parents had the right to be able to make a decision of this gender affirming care, which we now know is a complete fraud for their kids, used the Equal Protection Clause as a basis for arguing that states had exceeded their authority. And, in fact, we all are now awaiting the Supreme Court's decision in the Tennessee case to be able to see what the court weighs in and says what's the appropriate standard of review. The great thing for Alabama, and I think it's good news across the country and the world, is we've seen the plaintiffs abandon their challenge in our state and recognize that not only were we making sure that we were protecting kids, but there's no legal basis for which these plaintiffs can prevail in cases like this.
SPEAKER 15 :
I want to get to that in a moment, but I want to go back to one of the things that came up repeatedly in other states, like in Missouri with the attorney general there, Andrew Bailey, discussing with us that these medical so-called professionals would tell parents, look, you can have a live son or a dead daughter and pressure them. So there really wasn't a choice that parents were making as it pertains to these surgeries and treatments.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, absolutely. And in fact, Tony, one of the cornerstones of our medical system is this idea of informed consent. And one of the things that we were able to uncover as a result of the discovery that we obtained in our case is that even at the international level, this organization called WPATH, which establishes these so-called standards of care, that their doctors and internal documentation and chats acknowledge we can't explain this to parents. We don't have sufficient evidence to be able to show them studies of how what we're doing is right. And if we can't engage parents with informed consents about medicines and surgeries on kids, then we've completely lost what medicine is truly about.
SPEAKER 15 :
Seven years ago, General, this was a freight train just barreling down the track, and anyone who dared try to get in front of it was just run over. But we've seen the tide turn. Education. the fact that we've had state attorneys general like yourself that have challenged the attacks against state laws, Arkansas being the first one, we worked there to get a law through. What is your sense in the reason that this case was, this challenge was dropped? And as you made reference to, is this indicative of a broader impact that the resistance to this ideology?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, Tony, it's clear that it wasn't because they lacked the resources, because as you well know, many of the left-leaning transgender pushing groups across the country have funded this litigation. Look, even in Alabama, we had the entire weight of the federal government against us during the Biden administration. But They didn't give up because they didn't have the resources to pursue the claim. What we had the opportunity to be able to do in Alabama is to uncover the truth. We exposed the scandal and we showed the world what was taking place with our kids. And that's the reason why I believe these plaintiffs have raised the flag of surrender and have gone about their own business. You know, I think this is an exciting time. And look, I commend you as well for being able to take the time to highlight what Europe has known for quite some time. And what our country is now realizing is the harm that we were doing to kids.
SPEAKER 15 :
General, the way I interpret this with them backing off and basically, as you said, waving the white flag is this is not bode well for them, I think, in the Supreme Court. I think they see this trending away from them because if they thought they could kind of use this as, you know, kind of we were at a tipping point, they would have continued to pursue their legal challenge.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, absolutely. In fact, one of the surprising things, frankly, of the timing was they didn't at least wait to see what the Supreme Court would rule, because the Tennessee case is not going to be definitive. It's not going to rule conclusively that states have the opportunity to do it. It would just be, what's that standard of review for the courts when they examine these laws? I think the fact that they have dismissed their case in Alabama, where we have the most robust record in which we have put out in the public domain to be able to show the absolute medical and legal fraud that was occurring here, should demonstrate the fallacy of the arguments of the plaintiffs thus far and how much states are doing to be able to protect kids, particularly in the 26 states that have already weighed in with laws like Alabama's.
SPEAKER 15 :
You know, General Marshall, what my takeaway from this is, is when the emperor has no clothes, go ahead and say you got a naked emperor because people were afraid to say anything. This was this was, you know, kind of running running in tandem with the cancel culture. So people were fearful of the just speaking truth.
SPEAKER 05 :
Now, and look, we were losing these cases to begin with, and it was part of the strategy of the left is that when we don't allow for judges, even conservative judges, to understand the truth behind how these so-called standards of care were developed, when the judges don't have an understanding that you have Rachel Levine reaching out from the Biden administration, telling medical communities to be able to remove the age restrictions on surgeries for kids because you're hurting our political transgender agenda. Right. Now that that's revealed, now that we know the truth, it's clear why we're going to ultimately win these cases.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, General Marshall, I want to commend you for fighting that good fight and taking that stand on behalf of the children there in Alabama and, by extension, around the country. So thanks for joining us today.
SPEAKER 05 :
It's been a privilege. Thank you.
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All right, General Marshall, Attorney General Marshall from Alabama. All right, don't go away. We're going to be back with more Washington Watch right after this.
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Welcome back to Washington Watch. Well, our word for today comes from Daniel 7, where Daniel receives a vision of four earthly kingdoms that will rise and fall before being replaced by the everlasting reign of the Messiah. Quote, I saw in the night visions and behold, with the clouds of heaven, there came one like a son of man. And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom that all peoples, nations and languages should serve him. Daniel 7, 13 and 14. Though the vision initially troubled Daniel, its message is one of hope and certainty. He went on in verses 17, "...these four great beasts are four kings who shall arise out of the earth, but the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever and ever." The rise and fall of empires may shake the earth, but they do not shake the throne of God. In the end, it's not the kings of this world who prevail, but the people of God who will reign with him forever. Don't lose sight of what's coming. God's kingdom is not temporary. It's eternal. For more on our journey through the Bible, text Bible to 67742. Well, during my visit to Israel last week, I led a delegation of Christian leaders, pastors and other leaders, and we are looking in Judea and Samaria. And among the leaders who joined me was Pastor Gary Hamrick of Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg, Virginia. I sat down and had a conversation with him, and I want to share it with you now. Pastor Gary, thanks so much for sitting down with me as we kind of wrap up this week in Israel. Well, thanks for inviting me on the trip. It's been a wonderful trip. Thank you, Tony. So we talk about Judea and Samaria. That's what the media and others for the last 60 plus years have described as the West Bank. Yeah. But it's the heart of the Bible land.
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Right. Why should we care about that? but we should care about it because it has to do with national identity. This is a war of ideology and it's a war of religion too. It's really interesting when you think about how this is a battle for control, but what we know from the Bible is that the title deed to this land has been given to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to the Jewish people, and yet you have Muslims who were also fighting for control of the same land claiming that they had it first. But what's interesting to me is in the most sacred book to the Muslims, the Quran, Jerusalem is not mentioned one time, not a single time. In the Bible, Jerusalem is mentioned by name more than 800 times. That's not even different words that describe Jerusalem like Mount Zion. or the city of Salem. More than 800 times Jerusalem is mentioned. So God makes it clear in his word, this is his land. He's deeded it to the Jewish people. And when our culture uses terminology like the West Bank to describe just the western part of the Jordan River, they're trying to rob us of the truth of the narrative, which is this is God's land and it belongs to God's people.
SPEAKER 15 :
And I want to go into that in a moment because that ties into some of the sites that we saw. I want to go back, Pastor Gary Hamrick, Cornerstone Chapel, Leesburg, Virginia, Calvary Chapel Church. You've been to Israel many, many times. But you went to some places this time you've not been before. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, before the Intifada of 2000, I came to Shiloh one time, and I have never been to the patriarchs and matriarchs, the tombs of the patriarchs and matriarchs in Hebron. We just went down through an excavation tunnel of an archaeological dig that still is not open to the public that leads to the Pool of Siloam. So much here that, I mean, you could spend years here and rediscover the land of the Bible. It feels like...
SPEAKER 15 :
You know, we packed a lot into five days. But I wanna go back to the, you talk about the title deed. Abraham came to this land from Ur of Chaldees. He was called by God to come. He said, I'll show you where to go. We went to that first spot. We stood there where God made a promise to him. He built an altar and the Lord said, you know, I will bless you, make you a blessing to the nations. Those who bless you will be blessed. Those who curse you will be cursed. That was a promise by God. that promise is still in effect.
SPEAKER 03 :
It sure is. And it's a pretty simple promise. You know, he who touches Israel touches the apple of God's eye. And he who watches over Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps. So God's heart is here. His imprint is here. Everything points to the Lord. And so, yeah, it's critical that we maintain and recognize the sovereignty of Israel over this land. Some people say, well, that's a great Bible story. But, you know, so what? So God made that promise. Is there any evidence that that's true? Oh, there's evidence all around us. I love it when archaeology catches up to the Bible. They're uncovering things all the time that prove this is the ancient place of the Jewish people. But unfortunately in the media today and the common narrative is they want to try to erase the history of the land so that other people can lay claim to it. And that's just ideologically, philosophically, and biblically wrong.
SPEAKER 15 :
We went to, there's really three places we went to that are significant. We went to the ancient, oversaw the ancient city of Shechem. We couldn't go in because that is an Arab city, a Palestinian city. It also is the place where the tomb of Joseph is. A place that actually Jacob purchased the land. It's recorded in scripture. We went to Hebron. That is where the cave of Machpelah was. That's where Abraham bought that. That was actually the first parcel bought to bury Sarah. Then we went to the Temple Mount. Now most people don't realize this, but the Temple Mount is in what is called the West Bank. I mean, that's beyond the green line. I know this is getting a little technical going back to the partition. But what, I mean, this Jerusalem? I mean, that doesn't belong to the Jewish people? Yeah, it's Yerushalayim. By the way, let me go back and just mention the reason we went there is that David bought the threshing floor and I think you spoke to that.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's right, yeah, 2 Samuel 24 where it speaks about how David, filled with some pride in the moment, wanted to count the fighting men of his army and in that way that dishonored God because God wants to always be the power and strength behind Israel's army, behind any army for that matter. And when David counted the fighting men, he sinned against the Lord and so he was given three choices. He was given the choice of seven years of famine, three months of being chased by his enemies with a sword, three days of plague. He chose the least amount of days and 70,000 died from plague. But what stopped it is that he then purchased the threshing floor of Aranao, which is the Temple Mount today. And he purchased it to sacrifice, to atone for his sin in that place. And here we are now since David, about 3,000 years later. And this is still that place where David purchased this land. And Aaron now was willing to give it to him in the scriptures and saw him as the king. My Lord, I'll give it to you. And he said, no, I will not give unto the Lord that which costs me nothing. So he purchased this land. It's purchased property.
SPEAKER 15 :
And that's recorded in Scripture specifically. Now talk for a moment about the Temple Mount, Mount Moriah. There's a thread of redemption that runs along that mountain range.
SPEAKER 03 :
What's beautiful is this whole mountain range of Moriah is where Abraham was asked to sacrifice Isaac. which then the Lord intervened and he didn't have to sacrifice his son. It was a test of his obedience and it was accredited to him as righteousness. Then you have in the same thread of Mount Moriah the temple that was purchased, the ground of Arenal, the threshing floor, where the temple of God stood. for hundreds of years until the Romans destroyed it. You go up a little bit further outside of the city on that same stretch of Mount Moriah is the place of the skull, Calvary, where Jesus was crucified. It's a story of redemption all around us.
SPEAKER 15 :
You can't make it up.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
I mean, you see that, this location, which Scripture, as we read the Bible now, as Americans, we kind of think America is the center of the world. Right. But this is the center of God's story. This is where it all began, in this region of the world, and this is where the future is. That's right. So let's talk a little bit, Pastor Gary Hamrick, about Today, people say, okay, all right, well, I get the biblical thing. But this is modern-day Israel. This is not the same Jewish state that we are, the Jewish people we saw before. This is modern Israel. So it has nothing to do with the promises of the past.
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Well, you know, it is true that today in Israel there are a lot of secular Jews. I mean, they have in many ways drifted from their biblical roots in the same way that America is a very secular culture. So there's a lot of secularism here in Israel. But what happens in the culture never changes or invalidates what God has promised. And God promised this land to the Jewish people. In his discipline of them, they have been dispersed at different times in human history. But he's brought them back into the land, 1948. In fact, we're right now recording this on Independence Day. 77 years ago. 77 years ago. And God fulfilled Ezekiel's prophecy about dry bones becoming life again. And so his hand is still on this land. Irrespective of how secular the culture might become, the people of God are going to return to the Lord. It's going to be a glorious day. And in the meantime, we're praying for the peace of Jerusalem because we know the Lord's going to come again. And we want as many to be saved and trust Jesus as Savior.
SPEAKER 15 :
Correct me if I'm wrong. That's kind of a dangerous thing to say to a pastor. But this is how I see it. I don't know God's timeline. In fact, Jesus told his disciples when they asked him, when's this all going to happen? We were just over there the other day where he had that discourse with his disciples. He said, look, he didn't even really... answer that question. He said, just don't worry about that. Don't be deceived. And here are the signs. And so we're looking for the seasons. So I don't know the timeline. I don't know when it's going to happen. But I do know that God's ultimate plan is for this land will be occupied. The Jewish people will be drawn back. We read that.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 15 :
Ezekiel, Jeremiah, they're coming back to this land. We see that unfolding since before, but in intensity since 1948. And actually since October 7th, there's been an uptick. Amazingly, even though they're at war, we have more people coming over. So we don't know God's timeline, but we know where God is ultimately going, right? Yeah. Should we not be moving in the same direction God's moving?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, what's there to correct in what you just said? I have no correction to that. Of course, yeah, we should be moving in the way that God moves. And God has promised that Jesus is going to return to this land. He's not done with the Jewish people either. Romans 11, Paul talks about... how there is this window right now that God has not rejected the Jewish people, but for such a time as until the full number of Gentiles come in. So this is a window for Gentiles to get saved. But then he adds in Romans 11, and so all Israel will be saved. Now that doesn't mean that every Israeli is going to believe in Jesus. But it does mean that there's going to be a great revival. I don't want to get too much into the weeds, but there's going to be a tribulation period. Two-thirds of the Jews are going to suffer during the tribulation period. But the third that comes through the fire, all Israel will be saved. So great salvation is still going to happen in this land. Jesus is coming again, and God's not done with Israel.
SPEAKER 15 :
What about those who say, and this is a prominent theological holding that's gaining some ground in the evangelical world. You know, the church has replaced Israel. These promises to Israel are now to new Israel, the church. The promises to those Jewish people now flow to the church.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, well, you used a word that qualifies this. It's called replacement theology, and it's just completely erroneous because you'd have to cut out all of Romans 11. You have to cut out a lot of prophecy of the Old Testament, too, to say that the church has replaced Israel. The church has not replaced Israel. The promises of God are extended to the Gentiles, but he's not done with Israel. And so we continue to pray for them. The church has not replaced Israel.
SPEAKER 15 :
We're grafted in, as Paul said. We're the beneficiaries of the promises made to the Jewish people. Pastor Gary, how should evangelical Christians, Bible-believing Christians, I'm going to qualify it, Bible-believing Christians approach Israel? Because I think some people think that we give them a pass on everything. And I've sat across from the Prime Minister and said, we don't agree with everything you do. I mean, I don't agree with my own government. But I support you and your right to be in this land.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. Yeah, I mean the bottom line for evangelical Bible believing Christians is he who blesses Israel is blessed, he who curses Israel is cursed. I mean that's just the bottom line and I totally agree with you. We don't agree with every policy of Israel, we don't agree with every policy of America. But we have to honor God's ultimate design and plan and love for the Jewish people So we pray for them, we love them, we support Israel because we know that God's not done here and his plans are still intact.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay, I'm going to get a little more out on the edge. We've just got a couple minutes left. So I'm going to throw this out there and you tell me if I'm wrong on this. Many people say that Israel, they need America. I believe America needs Israel because when you look at what we've done as a nation, going back to 60 years ago, we kicked God out of our schools, which is really the core of our public square, remove God, the Bible, and we've increasingly done so. My view, Pastor Gary, is that America has remained a blessed nation because we've stood with Israel.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I totally agree with you. And I think on the flip side, too, I think a danger for the Israelis is to think they need America. I mean, I'm happy that we right now have an administration that's very supportive of Israel.
SPEAKER 15 :
It's almost idolatry. It can be.
SPEAKER 03 :
It could be if they lean too heavily on America. It can be. And I don't want them to forget that, in fact, we were meeting with... Ambassador now Minister Dermer the other day and you added a fourth thing to why he believes Israel has survived and you put in the equation of you got to say God has been the one to help you as a nation. And he came back and he said, well, I'm saying that's foundational. That was just a given. Yeah, it was a given. We should state it. It is so true, though. They can't become as dependent on America. They have to be really fully dependent on the Lord.
SPEAKER 15 :
All right, I'm gonna give you the final 30 seconds here, Pastor Gary. How should evangelicals in America be praying for Israel?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I mean it straight out of Scripture, pray for the peace of Jerusalem. I think that that's always a good practice. We know that ultimate peace will not come until the Prince of Peace comes, until Jesus comes. But I pray for the peace in terms of conflict and I pray for peace in terms of peace of heart because I want the Jewish people to know the Jewish Messiah, to know Jesus HaMashiach, to know Jesus the Messiah. So when I pray for the peace of Jerusalem, it's not just peace from conflict. It's internal peace that comes through knowing Jesus, and I think that's a good way to pray. Pastor Gary Hamrick. Thanks, Tony. Thanks for being with us. Appreciate it.
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And, folks, thank you for being with us as well. And with that, I leave you once again with the encouraging words of the Apostle Paul, found in Ephesians 6, where he says, You've done everything you can do when you've prayed, prepared, and taken your stand. By all means, keep standing.
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But we do have some breaking news we want to talk about. There's a lot going on right now, specifically what's going on also in Israel. We're going to get to that a little bit later. My dad, Jay Sekulow, is going to join us to discuss the legal implications of Israel's new plan. Of course, they are saying that they plan to occupy all of Gaza. and essentially just put it back under full israeli control which may include as well as displacing people putting them in a humanitarian area or uh self-deportation similar to what's going on right now in america we're going to talk about that with him a little bit later in the broadcast you're not going to want to miss that again my dad jay secula is going to be joining us also mike pompeo will be on in a few segments but will what we wanted to talk about was during that cabinet meeting it was exposed that the state department Is that right, the State Department? That's right. The State Department, now run by Marco Rubio, has unearthed files that are being kept, including what he said to some of you that are in this room, essentially surveilling people and Americans based on what they would call disinformation. Disinformation.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's right. So this was a program under the Global Engagement Center, which was a working group within the State Department, which has now been shuttered by Marco Rubio as Secretary of State. And the purpose of this center was supposed to be fighting propaganda, foreign disinformation. It's the State Department. Its entire focus is foreign policy. However... What they were doing was building dossiers, the Democrats' favorite thing in the world, a good old dossier, on American citizens, people they were accusing as serving as, quote, vectors of disinformation. Now, that's a terrifying phrase to read, a vector of disinformation. That feels like... One step away of calling American citizens enemies of the state by using free speech, by talking on social media platforms. This is another censorship move. And we're going to get into more on one, what this means in the next segment, but also what the ACLJ is doing about it to find out more information and stop something like this from ever happening again. We're really glad that Marco Rubio exposed this.
SPEAKER 09 :
and talked about it in that cabinet meeting is being transparent because that is something we didn't have under the previous administration but it's really chilling logan when you hear this i am happy that we have an administration willing to tell this to the american people willing to not only say hey this is happening within our own country and they can deal with it internally but also say hey you need to be aware you need to keep yourself aware of what's happening right now currently phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110 whether you're watching online whether you're listening on the radio make sure you join us right now this conversation is going to keep rolling we're going to keep talking specifically about this topic which showed there's a lot of people who were under surveillance by This State Department, and Marco Rubio says no more, but he wanted to make sure the American people knew about it. Of course, this is happening under the Biden administration. And he said, including people that were in this room. And of course, people in that room include Tulsi Gabbard, who we know was put on the essentially the quiet skies list and all the things that she had to deal with. So it could be her, could be Elon Musk, could be anyone. in that cabinet that they thought, oh, could be some sort of threat. Hey, I do want to tell you again, if you're watching right now, I know I have been beating this and it feels like I'm beating the dead horse now. YouTube is causing a glitch every day right now. We don't know the issues. We are trying our best to resolve it. So if you can hear me right now and you can see me, I encourage you to hit that thumbs up and hit that subscribe button because right now we need people to do it. We need people to get back into the feed and that's only going to happen if you help us out. So I encourage you if you're doing that right now on YouTube to do it. Those who are watching on Rumble, thank you. Those that are watching on Facebook on ACLJ.org, thank you. And we're going to be back in just a minute. Again, we're going to keep this discussion going. Later on, we'll be joined by Jay Sekulow, my dad, and we'll also be joined by Mike Pompeo. So stick around for that. I also want to encourage you to sign our new petition right now at aclj.org slash sign. That's right, aclj.org slash sign. Help snuff out the deep state. Be a part of it. aclj.org right now or scan the QR code you see on the screen. We'll be right back with more on Sekulow. Welcome back to Secular. Again, phone lines are open for you. We're kind of rebuilding our audience due to that glitch. And when I said hit the thumbs up, I appreciate those who put in the chat. But also, there's a little thumbs up next to the subscribe button. You'll see it there, like a like. Go ahead and do that. That would really help us out, too, as well. Phone lines, like I said, are open for you at 1-800-684-3110. But for Will, for those who are just joining us, let's go ahead and reset what we were talking about. And that is that Marco Rubio, in a cabinet meeting, said, hey, guess what we found out? We found out that our State Department was creating dossiers, files, social media post files on American citizens and not just American citizens. on some of the ones that were even sitting in that very room that are now either a part of the cabinet or a part of the team. It's like, I don't want to name names, but it's happening. Of course, that room was filled with a lot of heavy hitters. Tulsi Gabbard, which we know was put on the Quiet Skies program. We helped her out there. We know people like Elon Musk who are typically in that room. A lot of heavy hitters, as I said, And to know that this wasn't just a, hey, we are monitoring what's going on outside of our country. You know, we're making sure things are safe. We're going after people within our own border, not only that, high-level people.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's right. And the State Department is supposed to be the executive branch that carries out the foreign policy of the United States. And what we're learning is that that State Department... was monitoring and building dossiers on Americans. And they were accusing them of serving as, quote, vectors of disinformation. This isn't the State Department watching the Russians. This is them watching you. And when you think about the absurdity of our State Department having this global engagement center that wasn't global at all, it was looks like it was targeting on domestic engagement center as they are building files. It sounds like J. Edgar Hoover, something that Americans have long had a disdain for what the FBI director was doing, the way he was keeping enemies list and building dossiers on his political enemies. I mean, there's even been people saying that we should change the name of the J. Edgar Hoover building because of the egregious encroachment on people's civil liberties and First Amendment rights under his reign as the FBI director. But it turns out that the Biden administration was doing the very same type thing. And the ACLJ is going to get to the bottom of it. We've already tasked our FOIA team to getting a FOIA prepared to get out to the State Department. We're also looking at potentially sending it to the CIA because we know that many times the State Department is doing activity that is related to the Central Intelligence Agency. You learned a lot about that in the JFK files, how the State Department embassy in France was more than half CIA operatives during that time period. So we know that they work closely. And when this all comes down to it, if there is State Department surveillance, CIA surveillance potentially on American citizens, that is way outside the bounds of law. But you also have to wonder about this push to eliminate the First Amendment that we saw so heavily in the Biden administration.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, absolutely. Look, I think there's a lot of people who feel that way, who see that. And look, we're going to have a really great conversation coming up with former Secretary of State and obviously a member of the ACLJ broadcast team, Mike Pompeo. And look, I know we talked about it last week, got a lot of comments, and it's always important to hear from these voices, even voices you may agree or disagree with. And that's what we're going to have in the next segment. We're also going to talk about what's going on in Israel. My dad's going to be joining us. What are the implications of Israel's new plan? Their new plan now is to kind of aggressively retake Gaza as a part of Israel. What does that look like from a legal standpoint? What does that look like from a long-term plan? And then, of course, we're going to continue this conversation as well about, as you said, Will, people feeling like they're targeted. And we actually have a bite from Marco Rubio. I think we should hear from him. Because when you hear from him and you actually hear what's going on inside these cabinet meetings, it's refreshing. Again, though what has been exposed is terrible. It's something that we all should be concerned about when it comes to our privacy. We also should be relieved that we have people in power right now who are willing to at least tell us what's going on. Marco Rubio is actually talking right now live with the Canadian prime minister as President Trump is meeting. with him the brand new canadian prime minister at the white house these meetings are occurring things are happening like this again at least you have an administration that will sit down with people to try to get things handled that isn't immediately jumping into wars isn't immediately jumping in to um to these fights now of course there's been the tariffs there's been other things that have been controversial for sure but at least things seem to be progressing and moving forward but i think we should hear from secretary rubio this is just a couple days ago
SPEAKER 01 :
We had an office in the Department of State whose job it was to censor Americans, to monitor the social media posts and commentary of American citizens, to identify them as vectors of disinformation. There's at least one person at this table today who had a dossier in that building of social media posts to identify them as purveyors of disinformation. We are going to turn over these dossiers to the individuals. We know that the best way to combat disinformation is freedom of speech and transparency.
SPEAKER 09 :
I mean, again, sort of a refreshing statement to wrap that up on an unfortunate truth.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's right. And once again, it's shocking that they were keeping dossiers. But in some level, it's not as shocking as it should be. Because you remember the Disinformation Governance Board. We even talked about Nina Jankowicz going over to Europe and saying, you've got to push back against this authoritarian state. You remember that fact-checkers were funded by the government to fact-check post-online The pressure campaigns that we saw on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, all of that is a part of the same architecture. This is surveillance state masquerading as national security. They are so afraid of First Amendment rights of the American people, of their political enemies. They're the one making enemies lists. They're the one making dossiers to take down people. This should not be happening in the United States of America. This wasn't law enforcement. Analyzing a threat to someone that's posting things online that are threatening or I may go do something or self-harm, any of that. This is people analyzing political speech in the State Department, the foreign policy branch, and creating files on them. This isn't law enforcement trying to stop a crime. And you know what? Maybe if you look at how widespread this was between the State Department, Department of Homeland Security, and all of these agencies that were working against your First Amendment right, You have to wonder if the State Department was more focused under the Biden administration on stopping Russian aggression and stopping Hamas and stopping Iran, maybe we wouldn't be in such a bad place in the Middle East and in Europe that we are today because they weren't watching the Russians. They were watching you. And maybe if the Department of Homeland Security was more involved in securing the border and stopping migrant crime in U.S. cities. maybe we wouldn't have the situation that had to be stopped by President Trump. And maybe that would have even served their political interest a little bit better. But their political insecurity that is masquerading as national security is what got us here in the first place. So if the Democrats are trying to learn a lesson, maybe don't do what Biden did and try to trample on the constitutional rights of American citizens.
SPEAKER 09 :
want to talk to our team here and say hey let's just monitor what's going on president trump again meeting with the canadian prime minister just see if there's anything worth uh showcasing or pulling even just so people know that we're live and it's actually happening right now again you have president trump the new canadian prime minister whose name is carney carney prime minister carney took me a second too i'll be able to remember that from now on like a carney runs a carnival right you know are you saying canada is a carnival
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, because he's the prime minister of Canada. And so therefore, if he is running a carnival, that's what I heard you say. I haven't spent a lot of time in Canada. I'm sorry to our Canadian friends.
SPEAKER 09 :
I think I would probably enjoy it. I don't know. But I haven't spent a whole lot of time there. But I do want to make sure we're following this to make sure we're... Like Trump just said, we're going to be friends with Canada. It is kind of a weird thing because it's like... Is that breaking news? We were friends with Canada for about the last forever. And in the last few months, things took a little bit of a turn with our neighbor to the north. But, you know, maybe things are going to get back on track. Canada had a referendum, if you will, on their own. They didn't necessarily vote in a conservative. Maybe they went a little more hardcore from what I've heard.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. Well, in that some degree, it does have to do with the way the tariff situation rolled out, because the party that Mark Carney, the new prime minister, represents was actually had historically awful approval ratings. But then the entire election kind of turned into how will we push back against tariffs? And he was able to prevail with a different message than the conservative party there.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, President Trump currently is talking and complimenting the great one, Wayne Gretzky, is what I've been told according to the chat right now, which again, would be kind of like if you put me and said, talk about Canada. I'd be like, there's Wayne Gretzky. There's Tim Hortons. I've heard.
SPEAKER 06 :
Good coffee.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, people say that. There's Bob and Doug McKenzie. And, you know, some great music and some great comedy. Martin Short. What do you think about this, President Trump? Wayne Gretzky, the greatest of the Los Angeles Kings. Bill's not even laughing.
SPEAKER 06 :
He's trying not to laugh. I am.
SPEAKER 09 :
I'm trying not to laugh. It's good. 1-800-684-3110. 1-800-684-3110. Mike Pompeo is going to be joining us in the next segment. So I'm sure you've got a lot of thoughts and questions or comments on that. Why don't you go ahead and give us a call? Or hit us up in the comments. We'd love to hear from you. You can also sign our petition to help root out things like Secretary. You have Secretary of State Marco Rubio currently doing this really deep dive and helping us see what actually was going on the last four years and i think that's important and help root out the deep state and be a part of that you can sign our petition at aclj.org slash sign and then again my dad jay secular will be joining us a little bit later in the broadcast and we'll be taking your calls Welcome back to Secular. We will be taking your calls coming up. 1-800-684-3110. Mike Pompeo, Senior Counsel for Global Affairs, is joining us right now. And there is a lot going on in the Middle East, going around around the world. I want to get your feedback. I think it's always important to hear from you and people that have been there, people that have experienced it. We're now in the fourth round of talks that are going to take place in Oman between Iran and the United States. Do you think we'll see some kind of breakthrough soon that will signal whether a deal is even possible, if that's even what you think is best?
SPEAKER 08 :
Great to be with you again today. I don't think we'll see a big breakthrough, not because the American team won't go there willing to make an arrangement that works for everyone, but frankly, because the leadership in Iran, the Islamic Republic of Iran's Ayatollah and its terror forces can't do that. They're not going to allow us to do what needs to be done to protect Israel, to protect the Gulf Arab States and to protect the United States. and what they'd like is sanctions lifted and what we would like them is just to become a normal nation and they have no intention of doing that they uh they've built their model on a kleptocracy on a theocracy and they have no intention of leaving that and i think they believe deeply that continuing to threaten the capacity to build out nuclear weapons is an important part of their own model for deterrence
SPEAKER 06 :
Mr. Secretary, the president has said that he will only accept a total dismantlement of Iran's nuclear capabilities. And when we hear what you've said on this broadcast and what the president is saying, it does seem that the goal of the U.S. is the correct one, is that there is no real other option other than a total dismantlement. Now, obviously, they are giving it the old college try of trying to go first to the negotiating table and not resorting to military action right off the bat. But with that in mind and with the context of knowing the Iranians and having dealt with the Iranians internally, Is there another way to get to that goal of total dismantlement other than some sort of military or maybe even cyber sabotage type action by either the U.S. or allied nations?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes, there's another solution, and you're right. I've been working on this problem for an awfully long time. The other solution is for the Iranian people to demand that their leaders do what's in their best interest, that is, put Iran first. And if they... They'll do that if they'll put Iran first. Iran would walk away from a nuclear weapons program. It does them no good. There's no utility. They would do what our other partners in the region have done. If they want if they want nuclear power for civil and energy, that's totally fine. You simply can't enrich inside of your country. That's the deal we've struck with other nations around the world. They've honored that. And then you allow us to do enough verification so everybody can get comfortable that they're really honoring that. So there is a solution. The maximum pressure campaign that President Trump and the team put on in the first administration was aimed at giving the Iranian people that very opportunity. I hope they'll get that chance and I hope they'll take it. They have the power to change the nature of their regime. And I hope they'll do that. I hope they'll pick a set of leaders that don't believe that nuclear weapons are in their best interest.
SPEAKER 09 :
Secretary Pompeo, you wrote a brand new article also on ACLJ.org. I encourage everyone to go back on our website and read all the great content. None of it's behind a paywall. You can go see it for absolutely free. Share it, read it, find out more information. There's also just great archives of content there. But it's a new article called The Continuing Threat of Radical Islamic Terrorism. We make a great point about how Russia, Iran, and China tend to get the headlines, but it's in the ideology. of radical Islam that's still the major threat to America. It's not necessarily always on the front page. Even what's going on in Israel right now and all the news that broke last night, even that sometimes doesn't make our news here. But I wanted to have you elaborate a little bit on that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I wrote about this because while it is the case that the significant new threat is a great power of the Chinese Communist Party working alongside the Russians, we should not forget what happened on 9-11 here in our country and what happened on October 7th in Israel. Radical Islamists driven in part by Iran, but You know, they host Al-Qaeda as well. These are names that, you know, the young people just don't know. They haven't experienced this. A lot of good work has been done to make that true. But we shouldn't forget that they have not changed their ways. The nature of radical Islamic terrorism is fundamentally rooted in evil. And these terrorist organizations around the world, Al-Shabaab in Africa, Al-Qaeda in multiple places are still out there. They're still working all across the world and they present real risk. We can't let our guard down or we'll have a bad outcome like we had back in September of 2001 and as the Israelis had just a couple of years ago. Vigilance is required and recalling why it is we spent so much time and treasure pushing back against this radical Islamic terrorism can never be forgotten.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and even though those other real-world threats are in existence, the United States has great capacity to walk and chew gum at the same time and to be able to still keep our eye on the ball on the threat from radical Islamic terror. But you even see that even under the previous administration, there were attacks that were inspired by these groups in the United States. The New Orleans attack that happened right before the national championship. And then you also, you think about the minority populations in countries in Africa where like the Democratic Republic of Congo or Nigeria or any of these places where this ideology may not be a direct homeland threat yet, but they are still preying on the defenseless and the minority populations of Christians and Christians committing atrocities around the world that isn't making the headlines.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, that's absolutely true. Christians are under threat from radical Islamic terrorism in many countries around the world. We see this in Europe where there are still assassination campaigns carried out. And you're right. We've seen some of this in the United States. I saw countless plots disrupted by good law enforcement work here in the United States, the CIA and the FBI working together. So this threat remains incredibly real. They are incredibly determined and it matters an awful lot to us to make sure and get this right. And your point is very well taken. We've got to confront the Chinese Communist Party. We've got to make sure that we push back against Russia and Iran. But we can't forget that this terrorist can change our lives in fundamental ways as well if we take our eye off the ball.
SPEAKER 09 :
Secretary Pompeo, thank you so much for your time today. We always appreciate your insight. I like seeing all the comments, all the people talking about it, because it really is important to have people like you join us and have these conversations. Now, I do want to say, as we head into the second half hour, President Trump, I said, if you said anything important, I would let you know. As he's meeting with the Canadian prime minister, I think we need to go straight to President Trump. Take a listen to this.
SPEAKER 02 :
We're going to UAE and Qatar. And that'll be, I guess, Monday night. Some of you are coming with us. I think before then, we're going to have a very, very big announcement to make. Like, as big as it gets. And I won't tell you on what. But it's going to, and it's very positive. I'd also, I'd tell you if it was negative or positive. I can't keep that up. It is really, really positive. And that announcement will be made either Thursday or Friday or Monday before we leave. But it'll be one of the most important announcements that have been made in many years about a certain subject, very important subject. So you'll all be here.
SPEAKER 09 :
All right. So you heard that one of the most important announcements that has been made in many years about a certain subject, a very important subject, says it'll be positive. What do you think it is? As we head into the second half hour, I'd love to hear from you. What do you hope it is? Doesn't have to be what you think it is, because, you know, we don't know where President Trump is going. But what do you think? Or what do you hope it may be? 1-800-684-3110. And this, of course, is before he heads to the UAE in Qatar. That will be very interesting to see if it has something to do with that. Maybe it does. Maybe it doesn't. We have a second half hour coming up. If you aren't joining us on your live radio station, you can find us on ACLJ.org. YouTube, if they're not glitching. Rumble. All those options are available right now. If you are watching on YouTube or Rumble or any of these right now, throw a thumbs up, a like. That really helps us out. And put in the chat where you're watching from. We only got about a minute break here coming up. If you do want to support the work of the ACLJ, a great way to do it, not only make a donation, but you can sign our petition right now at ACLJ.org slash sign. I'd appreciate it. Again, nothing behind a paywall. All of it available at ACLJ.org. We'll be right back. keeping you informed and engaged now more than ever this is seculo and now your host logan secular welcome back to seculo second half hour coming up president trump right now meeting with the canadian prime minister my dad jay seculo is going to be joining us in the next segment we talk about that we also talk about the new plans for israel and gaza what the legal implications look like And they have said we are taken back over Gaza. It was going to be part of Israel. What that looks like for the people that are there, what it looks like from a legal standpoint on a global stage. We're going to talk to my dad about that. I'd love to hear from you at 1-800-684-3110. I told you if President Trump said anything that I thought was worth breaking in for, I would. And this happened as we were heading into the last segment. And I want to make sure for those just joining us right now that you heard this as well. So let's go back and play President Trump making an important announcement about an announcement. That's coming soon.
SPEAKER 02 :
We're going to UAE and Qatar. And that'll be, I guess, Monday night. Some of you are coming with us. I think before then, we're going to have a very, very big announcement to make. Like, as big as it gets. And I won't tell you on what. But it's going to, and it's very positive. I'd also, I'd tell you if it was negative or positive. I can't keep that up. It is really, really positive. And that announcement will be made either Thursday or Friday or Monday before we leave. But it'll be one of the most important announcements that have been made in many years about a certain subject. Very important subject. So you'll all be here. So what do you think it is?
SPEAKER 09 :
Phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110. As we do head into the next segment to talk about what's going on in Israel with my dad. You can't help but your mind jump to that as well. What's going on in Israel? What's going on in the Middle East? And of course, if you're already planning on going, the president's planning on going to the UAE, then there may be a deal struck before he gets on that flight.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. And I do love how the president knows how to tease something. I also love that it's like maybe Thursday, maybe Friday, maybe Monday. Going to keep everybody waiting. We would love to hear from you what you think this is going to be. 1-800-684-3110. We'll take all these calls. There are no stupid answers. No, no. I mean, I'm seeing a lot of great people out there on YouTube, on Rumble, giving some thoughts on it. One person said maybe it's who assassinated JFK. There have been some out there. out there thoughts. And then there's also some that maybe has to do with the taxes bill, the spending bill. That's obviously on a lot of people's minds as Congress comes back and they have that window where they're trying to get reconciliation done. But I mean, there's a lot out there and I'd love to hear it Call us at 1-800-684-3110, and we will take your call in the final segment of the broadcast as we go and talk with your dad, Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel, in the next segment. But I love that tease. I love when it's the biggest announcement you've ever heard on a subject people really care about.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I mean, a lot of people are saying they think it's going to be some sort of peace deal. Maybe it's something to do with Ukraine and Russia. Maybe it has to do with Israel and Hamas. We will see. You know, I hope it pays off. That's what you help for. You don't want that old big tease and then it comes back and you're like, ah, this wasn't what I wanted.
SPEAKER 06 :
When you tease it out that far in advance too, there's a lot of time for the media to find a leaker and then kind of, you know, make it not as exciting because they slow roll it out and all that. Now we want the big surprise.
SPEAKER 09 :
They did ask President Trump, the Prime Minister of Canada said, Canada is not for sale. We will not be the 51st state. And he said, never say never. In the next segment, we're going to be joined, like you said, by my dad, Jay Sekula. We'd love to get you guys on the phone right now for questions, even for him. But questions heading in to the final segment where we take as many comments and questions as we can. What do you think this big tease is for President Trump? He said, we're going to have a big, a big announcement. A very positive announcement. I think your mind can wander. You can go to different places. Like you said, he's a showman. Sometimes he does this. And now we'll find out what it is coming up in just a few days. And of course, this happens while he's currently meeting with his cabinet and the Canadian prime minister, as we did expose what happened, if you're just joining us right now, where Marco Rubio said, hey, guess what was happening in the State Department? They were keeping files on some of you that are even in this room right now. social media posts to show that you were creating you know massive disinformation that you were someone who was an asset to someone else that all was happening during the biden administration so you know what at least at a minimum at least those are being exposed phone lines are open for you you can also join us on aclj.org and sign the petition while you're there aclj.org sign do it right now we'll be right back with more on secular my dad jay secular To Sekulow, my dad, Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the ACLJ is joining us right now as we do have some breaking news that is coming out of the Middle East, of course, with the ongoing conflict with Israel and Hamas. And there was some big movements that happened as Israel plans to wrap up and hopefully wrap up. this conflict saying essentially we are going to take back control if there is no deal made take back control of gaza and i wanted to get dad your opinion as a lot of there's a lot of people who are are curious how this could actually happen what happens to the people where do they go and of course the legalities with all of this
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, the first thing you have to start with, Logan, is the Israeli cabinet met yesterday and decided to take over Gaza and occupy what people are trying to call an occupation. The reality is this. Under the international law of armed conflict, when you have a war, especially one that was started by another party, and it was Hamas, and then there's conquest militarily under international law, that is your property. Now, you can negotiate that away, but it is yours. Same thing happened to Israel in 1967. If you remember, Jerusalem was not the intended target of... getting control back for the Israelis. They were just defending themselves, and they were not planning at that point on taking Jerusalem. But a miracle happened in that situation, and what happened was, when they went and looked at Jerusalem, the Jordanian troops have exited East Jerusalem. The Israelis went in and took that territory back. That's all this is. This is Israeli territory. It was under interim agreement with the Palestinian Authority. They were supposed to govern it, which they did not. And then, of course, the war took place. So under international law, Israel is totally within its rights to maintain control of that territory.
SPEAKER 06 :
And when you look at even what took place within the Gaza Strip, where, as you mentioned, the Palestinian Authority was supposed to maintain control. They had an election there and Hamas won the election. So the terrorist group ended up taking control and Israel was not occupying the Gaza Strip. And I think it's just important to reiterate to people that may have not followed this as closely as you have and studied the history behind this, that the terrorist organization that took over and then used that as their staging ground to launch decades of attacks, but most recently the horrific massacre of October 7th, That, if anything, the war has gone on too long because of Israel following all the rules under the international agreements and the law of war that Hamas does not follow along.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, of course, you know, that's subject to an issue right now at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, which we're involved in. on the legality of the armed conflict in Gaza, which Israel did not violate international law of armed conflict, number one. But number two, you've got to understand, as you said, the history here, and Gaza was part of Israel. There wasn't a pullout until, I think it was 2002. And then Hamas came in, in the vacuum. That was a political mistake. The Israelis should have never gotten out of Gaza in the first place. And now, of course, it is the staging ground for Hamas. So the only solution here is to take the land back to its rightful owner, and its rightful owner is the state of Israel. The complication is, what do you do with the people? The initial plan is to relocate these individuals to the southern portion of Gaza, which is less of a military significance, it's easier for Israel to control, and reside there. Will other countries take these people in? That's to be determined. But I think Israel was well within its rights to do what they did. You still hope that you can get hostages out, but that's looking very difficult as time has gone on here. And you can't forget that international law controls and Israel's on the right side of international law, regardless of these out of control, you know, international tribunals.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, and beyond that, too, there's also the media war. And I think that's going to be one of the most important ones. When you hear these kind of headlines, of course, it's going to be spun as a negative towards Israel. And we're going to have to be able to combat that from a PR standpoint. Israel is going to have to combat that because when the headlines come out, it's going to be Israel to take over palestine israel to take over gaza to displace people to move people into areas refugee areas that's a concern because we've seen and we were talking about this last night even on the right a turn against israel over the last number of months so how do you combat that from a media standpoint and i think when i'm looking at it it goes it's very difficult it's very difficult for israel they've never been great at winning the media war and now it's gotten even worse
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Well, one thing we did a number of years ago, I wrote a book called Jerusalem, and it sets forth the whole history. And you can get that anywhere you get your books. And that book sets out the definitive legal, archaeological, political situation and lays it out clear. And clear, it's Israel territory, number one. Two, you're right about the public relations war, Logan. Israel has never been good on that. And that, unfortunately, has played into its enemies who have a better control over their narrative in the media. i think what has to happen here is the israeli public relations which is their media has to start putting out clear messaging points as this activity increases and then our job is going to be able to make sure people in the united states understand exactly what's going on here and that's why it's so critical to support the work of the aclj because you support both the legal efforts on our behalf but on their behalf on the israeli's behalf but also the media efforts on the state of Israel's behalf.
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It's very, very important. And unlike I feel like previous times where there has been conflict between Israel and Hamas, we've seen over this last two years how aggressive the anti-Semitism has risen up in this country. When you look at the college campuses, when you look at even that report that Harvard finally put out and the president had to issue apologies, even though he was already fighting with the administration saying, We're doing everything we can. We're doing it all right. You don't need to come in here and oversee our combating of anti-Semitism. And you read the reports, the individual attacks on Jewish students and the way that this has manifested in this country. And not only do we fight it in the media. or fight it in international tribunals. But we also have a long history of helping professors at colleges that have felt discrimination or have been discriminated against because of anti-Semitism or students that aren't able to get the education or that are targeted for being Jewish on college campuses. That is also a key component of what we do here.
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It is, and by the way, that situation is not getting any easier, and you've got to fight it within the church, too. There is this kind of an anti—I know, Logan, you all have talked about this— this not understanding clearly that there is no moral equivalency between the democratic Jewish state of Israel and Hamas and Hezbollah. That sounds like you would have to explain that, but you do. But part of this is the educational process we're engaged in, and also aggressively defending Jewish students and professors— when they're being harassed. And we're doing that.
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All right. Thank you so much for joining us. We have a really important way for you to get involved. We have ACLJ Jerusalem. And Dad, if you're still there, maybe that is something we need. Is he still there? Can we just check the connection? He dropped. All right. The ACLJ Jerusalem, which you've heard Jeff Balaban on our show every week, pretty much giving these updates. The reason why we have that is it goes both ways here. It's for us to be able to share with our Israeli brothers and sisters that we support them, that we're there for them, It's beyond politics. But it's also, so real information that's happening actually in Israel can get back to us, can be shared. Because you know what's happening? I saw one of my friends said, look at this. And they showed me a video of people protesting against Netanyahu and the current government Israelis in Israel. And I said, yeah, they're a free and liberal area. I'd be a lowercase L liberal. They are able to protest. have sanctioned protests right just like here in america permitted protests because they have at least some form of freedom of speech now you go all the countries around them not quite sure there has been some little pockets of uprising against hamas but you hear about them on a massive scale no because why your life is threatened your life is not threatened if you're in israel and you're protesting against your government Because that is, again, what that country is like. It is as close to American values, if you will, in the entire Middle East.
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And I think it is important, as you brought up, talking about the ACLJ Jerusalem. And actually, Jeff Balaban is in Jerusalem right now. That's who leads that office at an event honoring the new ambassador to Israel. Mike Huckabee, Ambassador Huckabee. And he may join us in this next segment. He's trying to get to a place that is a little bit quiet. It's an event. But it looks like we're good to go. And this wasn't even planned. He was watching the broadcast. He's at the event. He follows what we do daily, even when he's there working, because we have this synergy here at the ACLJ. And said, you know what? Since we've pivoted kind of this topic, maybe I should join today. And so we're going to have him on in the next segment to talk about even that important work, because it is a very dark time when it comes to how the world in college campuses and even allies of ours. are reacting towards the state of Israel and just Jewish people in general, Jewish Americans.
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And we're seeing... Breakout in Washington, University of Washington. A lot of this is happening. Maybe we're going to hear from Jeff. Yes. All right. It's confirmed. Jeff Balaban, ACLJ Jerusalem, live from Jerusalem. We'll be on the broadcast in the next segment. You still have time also if you want to get on the air. It's a good time. 1-800-684-3110. That's 1-800-684-3110. We've got a couple of lines open for you right now. And sign that petition at ACLJ.org and find out all the information you need while you're there. Or download the new ACLJ app. I like that ad you do well about. We'll be right back. Welcome back to Secula. We are going to take your phone calls at 1-800-684-3110. Still time to call in. Jeff Balaban's joining us, not only as the head of ACLJ Jerusalem, but live from Jerusalem. You've heard this conversation that we've been having right now, and of course you were there for a very special event. I see a lot of our friends are there as well. Why don't you tell us what's going on?
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I'm sorry that I have to use my phone, a little background blur going on here, but it's a very America-Israel event going on here at the Friends of Zion Museum in the heart of Jerusalem. And they're embracing and really celebrating the arrival of Ambassador Huckabee and his wife. And they're just having a series of videos from America, leaders from Washington. There's also local notables. Friends of Zion is really non-Jewish, gentile Friends of Zion, primarily Christians. And it celebrates sort of the whole history of Jews in the land and Zionism. And it's a place where many such events are held. Huge sign honoring Israel's greatest president, meaning President Trump outside and inside. A whole array of superstars here welcoming Mike Huckabee to be the ambassador here. It's very exciting.
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You know, it is an exciting time and it's nice to hear like positivity coming out of Israel. And there are a lot of my friends who are starting to plan their trips back, who are starting to look at tourist options as it starts to get, though it's still certainly heated and it's getting crazier as we know what happened last night, the announcements that were made. But are you seeing that? You feel safe. You're in these events. Like you said, there's big signs, big public. People essentially know where you are. I think we have a bit of a misunderstanding of maybe how things are going for the 24-7 regular everyday people there in Israel.
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Look, it's a mixture, right? The same way Israel is strong and one of the happiest nations on earth, also going through trauma. And the fact is they're calling up the soldiers again because we know they're going to be offensive again. You know, I flew in today, actually, from the work we're doing in terms of anti-Semitism on university campuses. in America, flew in today and on the way from the airport, saw the site of the Houthi missile, which landed, saw a lot of burnt territory from the arson. And so it's an ongoing, and we are expecting probably sirens over the next few nights in Jerusalem because of some kind of response. And yet, and yet it is a happy and proud nation, sure of itself, knowing we belong here, knowing our future here, the Jewish people's future here is, you know, is eternal.
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Jeff, uh, one, it is great to have you on, uh, at a positive event because, uh, many times the issues are so heavy that we're talking about, whether it be the antisemitism on campus and the work you do inherently has a very heavy nature to it. So one, it's, it's fun to see you in Jerusalem smiling at an event that is very positive and celebration. So I, I wanted to mark that for people as well, that, uh, Jeff's work is very heavy and takes a toll. And many of the long conversations you and I have, Jeff, are not about positive subjects, but is how we can affect positive change on these dark, heavy subjects. But I did want to play this for you because you've been at an event. You probably haven't heard this. You did mention that... You saw where that missile from the Houthis landed. But President Trump just said this during a meeting he was having with the new Canadian prime minister about the Houthis. So I wanted to get your reaction. Let's go ahead and play bite six.
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We had some very good news last night. The Houthis have announced that they are not, or they've announced to us at least, that they don't want to fight anymore. They just don't want to fight. And we will honor that. And we will stop the bombings. And they have capitulated, but more importantly, we will take their word. They say they will not be blowing up ships anymore. And that's what the purpose of what we were doing. So that's just news. We just found out about that. So I think that's very, very positive.
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So, Jeff, I wanted to get your reaction to that. Obviously, there has been a massive campaign against the Houthis. They obviously tried a very daring strike on Israel. But if this holds, which obviously it's a take their word for it, trust but verify kind of situation, I don't think we're pulling assets from Houthis. the region anytime soon this could be a very positive development on one of the Iranian proxies that is in Yemen well the last attack was a joint attack America Israel
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massive attack on the Houthis. What was unclear to me was, are they saying they're not going to attack American assets anymore or they're not going to attack also Israel? Either way, if they're not going to attack Israel, it means less likely that we're going to get woken up three times a night over the next few nights to go to the shelters here in Jerusalem. But that is obviously wonderful news. And again, you know, President Trump said just a few months ago, or, well, no, it was actually during the elections. It was more than that. He said that the United States and Israel represent the pinnacle of Western civilization. That's what these people hate. That's what they're trying to destroy. President Trump has always understood that the United States and the state of Israel do share unique ideas of good versus evil and stand for ideas and ideals that other nations really do not. And so hopefully, the same way our enemies call the United States the great Satan and Israel the little Satan, hopefully we will have a change now with this president and they will learn to curb their worst impulses and maybe learn how to get along with us.
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Jeff, I want to also not only thank you for joining us, I know you just jumped outside to do this, but also I want our listeners and supporters to be praying for you, praying for everyone that's there, because though it's a celebratory event, we know the escalation is on the rise. We know what's happening right now. We are hearing the reports and look including from Netanyahu himself saying you know what it's time for us to take over Gaza that this is happening so of course I encourage everyone to pray for you but also please keep us updated as you did today by just reaching out if you want to share anything with our listeners with our viewers as our social media team please make sure you're sending in what's going on because I know I'm seeing the comments people are they're glad that you're there but there is some concern obviously as you're heading towards what hopefully could result in the end of the conflict
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Well, God bless really everyone who supports the ACLJ because of all the work the ACLJ does and also right here, right now, because of all the work it does to support the Jewish people in the Holy Land.
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Thank you, Jeff, so much for joining us. I do want to go ahead and take one quick call before we wrap up the show. Let's go to Charles, who's calling in Georgia. Charles, you're on the air.
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Yes, I was wondering, you know, Trump has made a public statement about, you know, we're not going to settle for anything less or he's not in total dismantlement of their system. What is wrong with him just setting a deadline? They either agree to it or he takes out one of their nuclear sites immediately after that and then see what they do. And then another thing, how do we know that China or Russia hasn't already given them some nuclear warheads and the way to deliver it behind the scenes? How do we know that they don't already have one?
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Well, Charles, to some degree, I mean, U.S. intelligence, I think, would be able to track to some degree if there was an actual transmission of a warhead. We know that they have a very robust ballistic missile program that was not sanctioned by the Obama administration under the JCPOA. So they can continue that research and continued testing. for a very long time so I think their deliverable is probably in a good spot for them a bad spot for the world but also we also know that their enrichment has gotten further along so I wouldn't doubt that they may be very close or already have a nuclear weapon even if china and russia didn't assist them but the other thing on a deadline i think they're probably happy with where the negotiations are right now so they may not want to go that far but i wouldn't count anything out
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I want to encourage you also to sign the petition, be a part of the ACLJ team right now. It's a great way to do it. Absolutely free. You do that by going to ACLJ.org. Of course, that really is related to the topic we started with, with the Department of State saying they had an office set up to monitor social media posts and commentary on American citizens, including those that were involved, those that were there in the room with the cabinet. So who those were, we don't quite know, but we all have some pretty good guesses, of course. And a big announcement coming from President Trump later in the week. We'll keep you updated on that. and everything that's happening in Israel, go to aclj.org slash sign. Sign that petition right now. Talk to you tomorrow.
In this heartfelt episode of The Crawford Stand, Don Crawford delves into the pivotal role mothers play as the cornerstone of families, which are indeed the foundation of America. Through a powerful narrative, he explores the divine origin and eternal essence of motherhood, emphasizing the irreplaceable bond between a mother and her child. Crawford articulates the profound impact of a mother's love, describing it as both the ultimate human expression and the ultimate formative force in a child's life. Listeners are invited to reflect on the spiritual and practical dimensions of motherhood — from the nurturing of a child's early development to the long-lasting influence of a mother's teachings. This episode is a tribute to mothers who, with relentless love and dedication, train up children in paths of kindness, faith, and integrity. As Crawford poignantly acknowledges, the love of a real mother is tough, untiring, and most importantly, eternal. In reminiscing about his personal experiences and beliefs, Crawford underscores the incomparable joy and miracles encountered on the journey of parenthood. This episode not only venerates mothers but also calls on listeners to express their love and gratitude, ensuring that appreciation is not just reserved for Mother's Day but extends throughout the year.
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The Crawford Stand. This weekend we celebrate our family heroes who work so hard to raise families, the very foundation of America. This week, Don Crawford, president of Crawford Media Group, talks about the cornerstone of any family. That would be mother.
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In our world, love rules. Love rules. Love is the highest attribute. It is the most important and fundamental characteristic of all humankind. And perhaps the finest expression of love is mother love. The definition of mother, a real mother, is simply put, love. A mother's love is the ultimate human love. It is said that the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. Perhaps so, because so much of a child is formed in the early years by mother. One is in life so much of what a mother was. A real mother is part of the life of a child forever. What we learn at mother's knee is so often what we are. Her values become ours. We are her. The egg of a woman is the source of all life, the fundamental stuff of the universe, and when fertilized by the sperm of the male, life, life, the most precious thing of all happens. The egg and the sperm unite and become one, but it is God, it is God who gives life. And at that very moment of conception, the life of a human being begins at that very moment. That life is not a mere collection of cells, as one biologist so flippantly said. But in reality, the first moments of the life of a human being, a child on the grow in the womb, that fertilized egg is a baby. A baby. So much for abortion which is nothing more than murder of that baby at any stage in the womb. Any stage. And so the mother begins mothering and the baby grows. The enriched womb of the mother nourishes and cherishes the baby, sensitive to every need. The morning sickness is a small price to pay for the life within. Moods and diets may change as the womb grows large and beautiful. It is really wondrous to behold the change of mother in the making with that womb at work. What a marvelous miracle. And it is marvelous indeed to touch the nine-month home of that child. The ear presses down, hoping to hear any sound from the baby. Touching, hearing, kissing, sensing life at work are really more important than any ultrasound. And the baby knows. The baby knows. It is God at work through Mother Nature creating life in a most wondrous and miraculous way. It's just unbelievable. Some today are actually privileged to see the baby born. Out of the womb comes a bundle of joy, of life, and yet another miracle happens. The pain of childbirth is so well worth the end result. Thank you, Mother. And perhaps it is the most loving moment, the ultimate loving moment, when brand new baby lays firm on mother's breasts. What a moment that must be! Having seen that myself, how, I wonder, could any potential mother abort? How could she kill her very own child? To do so is to abort a miracle. Early on it is the still small voice of the mother which is perhaps the greatest teacher in life. We, the once infants, hear that voice and remember what the voice of our mother sounds like and what she says for a lifetime. We do so consciously and perhaps even more importantly, subconsciously. That loving voice in many ways is angelic, the early words of love. They come with touch, and they are spiritual, psychological, character-forming, and building. The love of a mother is every bit as important as food itself. So, in a sense, these early words we hear from her are eternal, for they train up the child. They train us up in the way in which the mother wishes us to go. And to grow and mature, as we must, is not to depart from the right ways of the mother. The words of a mother to her child are melodic, soothing, comforting. They support and encourage, and they make a child feel safe. A mother touches, hugs, strokes, talks, and sings to her baby. Episodes never to be forgotten. When all else fails, and all others as well, a truly loving mother never does, never. She is forever, mother is. She is eternal. A loving mother is kind. In a world rough and confrontational, the kindness of the mother is a most necessary characteristic. A loving mother is never jealous, never envious, always willing to put the child first in love. A real loving mother is proud of her child, no matter what the child becomes. Motherly love is always positive, not negative. It looks for the best, the good, and the right. But the mother renders discipline when things are wrong. The love of a real mother is tough love. That love has standards, clear, straight, and simple, and lovingly communicated. Real love is without compromise. A loving mother never bargains with a child. A mother explains and answers perhaps better than any teacher, helping a child to understand. A mother stretches but never pushes, knowing that her child must be challenged in order to grow. There is always demand and discipline from the right mother, both easy to implement when the child knows he or she is loved. A loving, godly mother makes certain her child understands her standards and values, and those of God as well. A loving, godly mother teaches the child the things of her Lord. Train up that child in the ways of faith, of Christian faith, the faith of the mother. And when that child is old, that child will not depart therefrom. There is no better witness for the child than a loving Christian mother, living life by these standards and the child along with her. That is faith with works, the best kind. A real loving mother gives time, quality time, to the child. There is for mother and child that quality time to talk, and much more importantly, and especially for mother, to listen. That is so difficult today, to listen. In an age of cell phones and babysitters and fast foods and carpools and demanding social life, all of that and everything else should never, ever interfere with quality time spent by mother with child. Truly listening and touching and hugging and encouraging, respecting the child produces some of life's finest lessons for that child. Those bonding moments are, as one psychologist has so well said, they are peak moments, peak moments in the development of the child, never to be forgotten by either mother or child. Patient, kind, and understanding is mother. Truly interested in the life of a child, not superficially so. Perhaps that is why so many mothers wished more than ever, so we are told, to stay home. To stay home. To build that home for husband and child and all children. And to spend full time training up that child in the way in which he should go. That is what mothers are for. and no other job can ever come close to that incredible responsibility and opportunity. No matter how much love given, child rearing is work and hard work. It demands the time of the mother at all times. The real needs of a young child are great, and they demand full time, mother always on the ready. How beautiful it is for father and husband to watch the baby breastfeed. How beautiful to see mother and child so intimately and sensitively connected. There is special nourishment from the milk of the breast, but there is also the psychological nourishment, the nourishment of love and bonding, one with each other, the young and often subconscious memories lasting for a lifetime. A mother's touch, her feel, and her taste are vitally important to the growth of the child. Some mothers homeschool. They want to train up that child in the right ways themselves. Others work to send the child to special schools, private schools, or schools of faith. Loving mothers are more than willing to sacrifice to accomplish the right objectives for the child they love. And all the while, a mother encourages the love of a father for child and the child for the father. There is respect as important as love between mother and father, husband and wife. There is a sense of equality as both parents love their child in different ways. Perhaps the love of a father for a child is different, but as the child grows and matures, the love, the real love of a real father becomes as important to the child as that of a mother. Without both loves, something fundamental is missing. so that when a child is ready for the world and independence and a life for him or herself, both loving parents have formed the young adult and are ready proudly to watch a brand new life unfold. They have earned, these loving parents have, the right to be proud parents. Small wonder that loving children love to give back. There comes a time when the priorities are reversed, and the child becomes the support, the loving support of the parents. Loving children love to give back to loving parents. That love which began in the womb is eternal. It never fails. It recycles. It continues. It outlasts faith and hope and all the wisdom and riches of the world. a mother's love endures forever even as the love of christ does and so it is with the deepest admiration and respect and love that we all of us at crawford broadcasting company salute all real loving mothers on mother's day and in fact all year long If you are a loving mother, you are special. There is one day set aside to honor loving mothers, which in reality should be done every day of the year. We are admonished, commanded, commanded to honor our father and mother. It is a commandment that we honor real loving parents with our love and respect, not one day, but every day. Give back the love you owe to your mother. Give it back with tears, with laughter, and with joy, and with gratitude and thanksgiving for all that she has done for you. Let her know how much you love and appreciate her, knowing as you do that you can never, ever repay the loving debt you owe to her. No child can ever give back all that he or she has gotten, never. If your mother is here with you, make sure she gets what she deserves. There are so many mothers like mine not here. My mother is with her Lord as she has been for more than a quarter century. How much I would love one more opportunity to give her one more hug. Do that for your mother while you can. We salute you and thank you, Mother. There is really nothing, nothing like you in this world. Nothing.
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Mr. Crawford would love to hear from you this week and know what you think about what you heard about Mom. Do you have a special story you could tell him? Do so in your email to stand at CrawfordMediaGroup.net. When you do, be sure to tell Mr. Crawford on what station you hear the stand. The address again is stand at CrawfordMediaGroup.net. When you want to review what you hear, go to our website, CrawfordMediaGroup.net. The Crawford Stand is a public affairs presentation of Crawford Media Group and this station. Serving God and country, I'm Bill McCormick.
Bill Gunderson brings you the latest in market updates as the financial world waits for cues from the Federal Reserve. Amidst discussions on Palantir's fluctuating stock value, Gunderson offers a deep dive into the potential impacts of upcoming trade negotiations between China and the U.S. Additionally, explore the unexpected rise in energy stocks and Gunderson's outlook on the future of AI and tech investments. This episode is a must-listen for investors keen on understanding the interplay between global events and market responses.
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He's been seen on CNBC, the Fox News Channel, and the Fox Business Channel. His articles can be found on MarketWatch, Seeking Alpha, TheStreet.com, and many other places. He's the author of the weekly Best Stocks Now newsletter and the inventor of the Best Stocks Now app. He's president of Gundersen Capital Management. Here is professional money manager Bill Gundersen.
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And welcome to the Tuesday. It is the Tuesday, May 6th edition of the Best Stocks Now show. And we've got a down start to the market here. So far as the Fed meeting begins today behind closed doors. I don't think they'll let President Trump in for sure, Barry. They'll keep that door locked. The NASDAQ is down 210 points today. At $17,632, I'm going to blame Palantir mostly, which I was a little bit worried about their earnings report last night because the stock is so expensive and has come so far in a short period of time. The Dow is down $332,000. Ford warned on their tariff effects it's down $332,000 to $40,886,000. The S&P is down 51 points today. Kind of a bad start to the week so far. Let's get that quarter point rate cut. I don't think it'll happen, but we can hope spring's eternal. Meanwhile, we have gold having a good day after another good day yesterday. Gold is up today 2.35%, 3,400, and I want to say that's a new all-time high on gold. Gold has been a good hedge this year so far. Crude oil is up 3.8%. It's definitely a two-week high. Absolutely. 59.31% on crude oil, and the bond market's up a few points right now to 4.34%. So welcome to today's Best Stocks Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management. And I'm here with Barry Kite, our chartered financial analyst. And kind of a rough start here to the market. Yesterday we were down a little bit. I would say lack of progress, I'm going to guess, with China is probably one of the leading factors in the market right now. And then, of course, these earnings that are coming in on a daily basis. And yesterday it was Palantir that had a good report. But the stock's down 12% last time I looked. It doesn't surprise me, to be honest. I warned yesterday about how expensive Palantir is in relation to other stocks, which makes it very vulnerable to any kind of shortfall whatsoever. They didn't have a shortfall. They beat Palantir. But I guess the beat was not good enough. So we have our second day in a row after a long win streak here of a down market. The NASDAQ was down 130 yesterday. The Dow down 100. And it's tacking on a little bit more here today. Gold is the bright spot once again. It had a good day yesterday and another good day today. We're happy with our holdings in gold. I added to them yesterday. And I sent out a message to all of our subscribers that I think the pullback in gold is a good opportunity to establish a position, a good entry point. And the gold is having a good day here so far today. Now, they're meeting behind... And it's really the only thing that's consistently worked. That's about it, yeah. And it has sold off. During the big win streak in the market last week, it did sell off. It corrected. And then I think when it doesn't see much progress, it seems to be the hedge against the tariffs. That's what it seems to be the hedge against. And there has not been much progress. I know they're talking about... China wants to open talks with some kind of deal on fentanyl. Some kind of deal on fentanyl. What will it take to get these talks open? I haven't heard where the progress has been since then. We're going to get some more earnings here today. AMD is going to report. AMD has been looking pretty good in the charts. I don't have a lot of faith in AMD right now. Disney's going to report tomorrow. I definitely don't have much faith in Disney right now. Barrick Gold's going to report tomorrow. That's probably an interesting one to keep an eye on. One of the blue chip gold stocks. Uber's going to report tomorrow. tomorrow and i saw uber made a couple of uh autonomous vehicle uh deals today shopify yeah with pony and i think they made one with the other uh we ride which are the two chinese companies Let's see what else we got. Yeah, that's about it there on the earnings reports. Now, China's economy. We got to mention that. China's service growth, okay, this isn't manufacturing, it's service growth, hits a seven-month low as trade disruptions weigh on new business orders. i'm going to guess that we're going to see some uh progress being made in the talks between us and china because really now i mean basically all trade has come to a halt and china cannot sustain that their factories are shutting down their service growth is slowing down And that's on top.
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Somewhere where their numbers, where they actually reduced, started reducing the amount of information that they're providing, which tells you that they're having some issues.
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Yeah, that means the numbers are bad and they don't want you to know what the numbers are. And, you know, it's got to be rough internally there in China with the folks, the people that manufacture. I mean, it's a manufacturing economy. You know, Russia is an oil economy. You know, other countries have their things that they specialize in, and China is a manufacturing economy. And they must sell what they manufacture, and there's no way that they're going to sell all of that stuff domestically. They need the American market, the number one market in the world. So something has to give. We've got each other's backs to the wall right now. It's pretty much come to a halt. There's no new ships coming in. They're not unloading the ships. I would think you're going to start seeing some progress. I'm sure there's progress being made behind closed doors. It's not being talked about. But I don't see China giving us the middle finger, so-called, and just saying, hey, forget it. We're not going to make a deal with you. I don't see that happening. unless I've miscalculated she, that he'd take the country right on down with his pride, I guess you could say. EU, there's no deal there either, and they're keeping all options on the table as UF tariffs expand. They got, what, a 90-day pause? That's what kind of kicked this whole rally into gear not too long ago when Trump came along. That was the 2000 day, or 3000 day, I can't even remember now, when he paused everything for 90 days. He had 12% on the NASDAQ. Since that time now that pause is coming to an end, though, and I don't see much progress being made in the talks. I'm sure they are behind closed doors. But, you know, the EU suspended its retaliatory 25 percent tariffs on U.S. goods for 90 days after Trump did his. And meanwhile, they're bracing and they don't look like they're going to give in. They don't look like they're going to be a pushover here in those trade talks. So the EU, nothing's really been accomplished. I mean, there's nothing with Mexico. There's nothing with Canada. There's nothing with the EU, and there's nothing with China at this point in time. So that's where it's at, okay? But I would expect this week to see some progress being made in China. All right. The current state of the bond market, I saw a couple companies, I always look at the bond offerings just to see. Apple prices $4.5 billion worth of bonds, its first bond offering in two years, and I was looking at the rates. 4%, okay, you're going to get 4%. What's a treasury pay? You get more in a treasury. A treasury is 4.34. Apple's offering a 4% note due 2028, so I guess that's a three-year treasury. Their five-year treasury is 4.2%. You still can get a better deal on a U.S. treasury. I'm sure Apple is going to be around five years from now, but that's kind of the state of the bond market. Now, General Motors, on the other hand, I was thinking about this. Would I lend money to General Motors right now? I'd have a hard time doing that. I'd have a hard time. Let's not forget, they're one of the biggest companies ever to default on their bonds. and left a lot of people high and dry, you're only getting 5.35%. So that's a lot more than Apple. If you want to take the risk to earn 5.35% for the next five years, per year, and then get your principal back at the end, okay, be my guest.
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5.35%.
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We had that Boeing bond.
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We had that Boeing bond, remember, that looked, from a yields perspective, looked attractive, but it was hard to pull the trigger on that.
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Yeah, hard to pull the trigger when a company's having issues. Okay, when we come back, boy, there is a lot of individual stocks in the news today. That's what we're going to be talking about mostly is a lot of individual companies. We'll be right back. And welcome back here to the second quarter of today's Best Docs Now show. I had an email from a listener who reported on a safe ride on a Waymo. Okay. The car, I want to say it was in the Bay Area. uh waiting for the car here it comes no driver to get out load your luggage right okay there's no driver you know i don't know and they got in and uh safe trip no problems took them to their destination they said thank you i don't know who you say thank you to who do you tip i don't know i guess
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You do get around the tip. I want to know how it goes. Like, can you turn it to aggressive mode? Like, how does this thing – I'm just interested in terms of is it just the most cautious driver ever? Is it a bit opportunistic, which you're going to kind of need around certain cities?
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Yeah, I don't think it's like a New York taxi cab in and out, ducking in and out. I'm sure it stays in the same lane. Yeah. Obeys all the speed laws it stops before the limit line, you know, it doesn't scrape the curb things like that But they reported but the reason I bring that up is robo taxi firm Pony AI This has been one of the hottest stocks and one of the coldest stocks I've owned only one of the most volatile stocks for sure and And that's why we've got it in the emerging growth portfolio. I mean, this is down there, kind of out there on the frontier. They are signing a partnership here today. RoboTaxi firm Pony, simple pony, my little pony, is partnering with Uber Technologies to launch in a key market in the Middle East. later this year with the goal of scaling deployments to additional international markets in the future. Once the service becomes available, riders requesting eligible trips through the Uber app may be offered the option to be picked up by a pony. I'd rather ride a pony down the street to the hotel than a car. Or an autonomous vehicle. You can take your pick. It seems to me like the autonomous vehicle would be cheaper if you're a cheapskate. During the initial pilot phase, these vehicles will include a safety operator on board. Okay, this is the initial phase. There will be somebody in there making sure it all works right. to monitor the operations until the company's fully autonomous commercial launch. Pony was up 12% in the pre-market. Now it's up 5%. In a separate but related move, Uber on Monday announced a significant expansion of its strategic partnership with WeRide, WRD, which is also a Chinese company. These announcements are part of a larger trend. Uber has secured more than 15 partnerships with a diverse range of autonomous vehicle technology companies. Companies over the past two years, in just two months, they've revealed new collaborations with May Mobility, Volkswagen, and Chinese driving company Momenta. Okay, well, I don't see any of ours in there like Waymo or Tesla. Ford signals a $1.5 billion tariff headwind. And guidance suspension among cost-cutting efforts. You know, this couldn't come at a worse time, really. I think that Trump needs to carve out, you know, these issues for our U.S. automakers. Jim Farley highlighted he's the CEO these days of Ford. Strong underlying business performance. They had their best first quarter U.S. pickup sales in over 20 years. Maybe that was front running. I don't know. I've got to believe there's foreign parts in those Ford F-150s. He emphasized successful global product launches and progress in cost and quality targets. However, the company has suspended its full-year guidance to tariff-related uncertainties, estimating a $2.5 billion gross and a $1.5 billion net impact on EBITDA for 2025. So definitely something needs to give there. They haven't been hit by the tariffs yet, but that's what they're projecting at the current rate. And I think something will be carved out there. It also makes me anxious and looking forward to going to Bloomfield Hills fairly soon. It's on the calendar. I don't have my calendar with me, but I want to say sometime in July or August. I really enjoyed my trip back there to Bloomfield Hills last time. Look forward to going again to visit Motown and the surrounding areas. Okay. We had a great time last time around. Yeah.
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You know, hey.
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I was reading about the history of Lionel trains. I don't know why. I thought it was interesting. I know that Neil Young owned 20% of it at one time. I've always been a big Neil Young fan until lately. He's kind of gone goofy and off the rails a little bit up there in Canada. But anyways, the CEO, remember that mansion we went to downtown? I don't remember the name of it. We had dinner there.
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Yeah, I do. I'll remember it in a minute.
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Well, the CEO of Lionel for about 10 or 15 years was Bloomfield Hills. He was a very successful businessman that took on Lionel as kind of a, you know, just for the fun of it. This guy was a major collector. I can't think of his name right now, of classic cars. I mean, beautiful, 57 cars in 1940, beautiful cars. The Ford Museum I've been to, and talk about the classic cars. You guys should all spend a day at that Ford Museum there in Detroit. And this guy here, he's the one that restored that mansion that we went to. uh downtown it was right around the corner from motown it wasn't very far from hitsville remember we had a good dinner there and they were talking about how the place was haunted remember that uh interesting place but anyways that was part of our yeah you can go all the way up the stairs remember going all the way up the stairwell and yeah that uh you get third or fourth floor and the painting was watching me the guy in the painting his eyes were moving Anyways, that's Bloomfield Hills, and we're looking forward to going back there. It seems like most, like, I don't know, more than half the people we met with were involved in the auto industry in one way or another, and it was really interesting to hear everybody's story. It'll be interesting to hear everybody's story in Cleveland that we meet with. I'm looking forward to that trip. It gets me out of the office looking at stock charts to talk to some folks for a while, which is always a lot of fun. Okay, Palantir is firing on all cylinders, say Wall Street analysts, especially at Wedbush. They raised their target price to $140 from $120. But here's the problem. We talked about it yesterday. We do own Palantir. It's been a good performer for us, a very good performer. Now it's down 13.7%. It went into yesterday's, if you go listen to our podcast from yesterday, it went into the earnings report with extremely high P.E. ratio. The P.E. ratio actually goes up after the earnings report here. How can that happen? We'll be right back.
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Because there's something in the air.
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And welcome back here to the second half of today's Best Stocks Now show. Let's get a little update here. About the same. Nothing has really moved. The Fed is meeting. Unfortunately, I don't expect a rate cut tomorrow. I think it's 97% probability that they'll do nothing. He probably won't say much.
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My guess is he's probably not going to say a bunch at the press conference either. I think at this point it's really kind of a wait-and-see mode in terms of what happens from a trade standpoint. You know, they've still got those arrows, I guess, in their quiver, right, to cut.
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Well, there's a 97% chance that they won't say anything. There's about a 100% chance that Trump will say something. Hopefully, the last time he said something, the market went down 1,000 points. So hopefully he learned his lesson on that one, calling, you know, Powell Mr. Behind the Curve or whatever it was and, you know, whatever. What did he call him? He called him an idiot, a moron. I think he said he's always late. I think he said he's always late sometimes. All right. Well, anyways, we'll see what happens tomorrow. The market would explode to the upside if you got a quarter point rate cut tomorrow. Okay, back to Palantir. which let me just look at their quarter. All right, their sales were up 39% year over year, which is very good. Their earnings were up 63% year over year, but they're still only making, they're going to make 57 cents a share this year. 57 cents, not $5.70, 57 cents, and the stock's trading at 107. So it's trading at just under 200 times this year's earnings. Next year they're expected to make 72 cents per share, which is 25% growth. So this is not a triple digit growth company. This is not a 100% growth company, yet it's trading at multiples. This is a very popular crowded stock at the current time. I watched it go clear down to the 66 area from 125 and then rebound to its old high. And that stock was also hitting resistance yesterday at its old high before the earnings report. I didn't have a lot of faith going into the earnings report, but I could also see no reason of selling the stock before the earnings report. You could have sold half of it, maybe. I did give that some heavy consideration and decided at the last minute not to.
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It's expectations. We talked about it yesterday where you can have a greater earnings report, which is exactly what we said. I mean, it's a fantastic earnings report going forward, right? I mean, they're talking about essentially being the operating system for AI. So think of Windows for AI, I guess, if you want to put it that way.
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And they said that AI demand is off the charts right now.
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Right. And they're just going to continue. I mean, they're going to continue this growth path. But the problem is expectations. We're talking about 14. I think 14 analysts had raised guidance right over the last 90 days. And so, you know, that's just continually raising that bar. And I guess, you know, didn't quite hit it high enough, I guess.
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Morgan Stanley says they're hitting on all cylinders. Wedbush. We see Palantir as a generational tech name that we see as a trillion-dollar market cap over the next three years. Palantir is a core name in the AI revolution theme. Now, that comes from Wedbush, who is always pretty hyperbole. Yeah, I mean, Tesla is their favorite, and Apple is one of their favorites, and they just love Palantir. And Morgan Stanley called it a blowout Q4. We see Q1 equally as impressive. Palantir continues to prove that as one of the clear AI winners in software, which is translated to accelerating top line growth of 30% plus. But I just think the stock is out ahead of itself from a valuation point of view. Not enough to sell it, but certainly not enough to put new money. Now with this pullback today, that's an interesting proposition. I would definitely be more inclined to put money in it after this sell-off today than I was yesterday. Okay, the other one in the news here today, and it's having a pretty good day, is Constellation Energy. There's another one. I mean, Constellation lost half of its value during the tariff talk. It went from 352 clear down to 164. It's been a boring company all its life until the nuclear renaissance began. And the nuclear renaissance and AI go hand in hand. You know, out goes the wind, out the back door and solar, and in comes nuclear, big time, and liquid natural gas to power these data farms. And Constellation Energy made big news by providing a big 20-year deal with Microsoft. And that they do one with the U.S. government, too, to make sure that the government never. So, you know, when everybody else is sitting and reading by a candle and we don't have Internet, we can't heat our microwave dinners, the government and Microsoft will be cranking right ahead with all of that nuclear energy that they bought from Constellation. Constellation's having a monster day. It's up 8.5%. Now, we got out of it at 215, around in there. But I bought it back in the value, in the relative value portfolio. within the last two or three weeks, that thing's off to a really good start. I really like that portfolio. I mean, if you're one that likes to buy these stocks that I talked about, but not when they're hitting new highs and breaking out, but rather after really severe pullbacks. And, you know, some people just prefer that methodology. It's been working out so far. Of course, we've been in a period of time here where there have been a lot of steep pullbacks. And it's allowed me. There weren't many stocks to find two months ago for all of this. They were all hitting new highs for the most part. So if you would rather wait and see going in at hopefully the low and hoping that it doesn't go any lower, I try to be really careful where I buy these stocks in that value portfolio. I just have to say that's my favorite portfolio to manage right now. Because I think that's where some of the most lucrative opportunities still remain. And Constellation is in that portfolio.
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And you've been putting together that idea for a while. And, you know, just the market kind of came to the idea. And so it worked out well.
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I penciled it out about three months ago in my mind, and then I put it on a spreadsheet amongst all the other models that I have in those spreadsheets. And I started populating it with ideas as I looked through charts every day. And I said, you know, if the market ever pulled back, this stock would really be a good buy, you know, at a lower level. And eventually the market did pull back. We went through a very stiff. We were having thousand point days to the downside. It got pretty bleak. And I was adding stocks along the way, and I probably have that thing 15 to 20 stocks. I'm also taking smaller positions in that portfolio, so it's going to be less volatile, 2.5% positions rather than 4% to 6% positions. And I'm very happy with it so far. Okay, the next stock I'm going to mention, we're going to leave Constellation Energy, which is up in Baltimore. That's Three Mile Island, by the way. Very controversial area, but they're firing all of that back up. We're going to go down to Brazil to Embraer, which is a jet maker. Mostly your smaller commuter planes, the Embraers. I believe that was an Embraer that went down in Washington, D.C. It wasn't their fault. The helicopter was in their path. Embraers down 2% today, but I think they had a very good earnings report. This is a growth. This isn't... I mean, this is a much better, to me, a much better stock than Boeing. They haven't had all the issues that Boeing has had. They have a faster growth rate. Their sales were up 17% year over year, and their earnings were up 123%. I mean, Boeing does not... put out numbers like this. The only difference is Boeing is a massive mega cap company and Embraer is a small cap at $8.5 billion, but probably one of the best small cap stocks out there in the market today. And we do own Embraer also in that value fund. We'll be right back.
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You got to go where you want to go.
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Do what you want to do. Do whatever you want to do.
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You got to go where you want to go. Do what you want to do.
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And welcome back here to the final segment of today's Best Stocks Now show. We'll be in Cleveland two weeks from today. And those appointments, Tuesday and Wednesday, if you want to snag one, you better hurry. They always are filled up. And we're at the Marriott in Warrensville, Tuesday, Wednesday, May 20th and May 21st. Call us at 855-611-BEST. That's 855-611-BEST. Talk to Edie, and she'll figure out a time for you that you just tell her what works, and we'll work it in there. And then, of course, Tuesday night I'm going to teach a class. just for the heck of it, there at that Warrensville Marriott. And we'll talk a little bit about who knows what. You know, it depends on what the situation is like in the market at that time. But we should have some fun. And the workshop will be from 7 o'clock to 8.30. p.m yeah two weeks from today so that'd be two weeks today so uh so there's a lot that can happen yes a lot that can happen there could be a lot that can happen by friday now global foundries most people don't realize we have some foundries here in the u.s that make chips but you know the foundry business other than taiwan semiconductor because they're so dominant has not been very good uh... global foundry says not been a very good stock at all i mean it's been as high as eighty years thirty five is just flat uh... it's in malta new york they beat earnings estimates uh... but you know they have growth very little growth and uh... so i'm not a fan of owning the foundry stocks now another one that i picked up in the value portfolio and uh... is doing rather well since we bought it. Peabody Energy. Bill, you would invest in coal. Well, if you haven't been watching the news, you know, Trump has gone easy on a lot of the coal plants, existing coal plants, until we transition over to whatever is going to dominate the energy picture, probably nuclear and LNG at some point.
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Just the demand for energy, and you've got to be met now, and coal can meet it faster, at least at this point, than nuclear can.
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Yes, so I picked up BTU here recently in the value. That's the other thing about the value.
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Great symbol, by the way. Yeah, BTU.
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I can go anywhere I want for those 40 stocks that will eventually populate. I can go to Brazil. I can go to small caps. I can go to mid caps. It just depends on where I find the ones that fit my criteria. BTU was a pure value play. It has a PE ratio of 5. Okay, you don't find that in today's world. But, of course, the war on coal... has been intense. There was a horse in the Kentucky Derby called Coal Battle. I watched him on TV. I think he ran in the Arkansas Derby or something like that. But there has been a coal battle. Peabody's headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. They pay a dividend yield of 2.1%. It too is a small cap stock, very small, $1.7 billion, even smaller than Embraer. But Peabody's been a very good pickup for us so far. We have a nice profit in it and it's up today 5.6% after a very good report, after a very good earnings report. Okay, now another one here that has reported today, and it's down 7.1%. We own DoorDash in our Ultra Growth portfolio. I don't think the problem was the earnings that they reported. Their sales were up 21%, and their earnings, they reported record earnings, 44 cents a share. They've never had such good earnings. Their earnings were up 833%, but they made a couple of acquisitions. And when you do that, your stock usually sells off. They bought Deliveroo, which is over in Europe, and they bought Seven Rooms, a New York City-based software company and global leader in hospitality technology. I don't know what's up with that, but they did spend some money on new acquisitions. You just hope that those acquisitions will be accretive and add earnings to the bottom line. I don't think they would have made the deal. I mean, you've got all the financial guys that model this stuff. If we bought this company, would it help our earnings? If it's not going to help the earnings, they're not going to do the deal. But the stock sells off usually anyways. I do like DoorDash. I think that's another one of today. It's today. It represents today. I think a lot of restaurants are hurting these days, you know, from the traffic coming into the place. Because, you know, people are using DoorDash. That's another sign of the times that came from COVID for the most part.
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It would be interesting to see how their earnings hold up. You know, say you do end up in a recession, right? It just ends up just, you know. Just interesting to see how DoorDash would hold up because I was thinking about this. The underlying restaurant obviously is going to have to increase deals to attract customers in a recessionary environment. In that case, does DoorDash, I wonder if they have, from a pricing power standpoint, maybe that fee stays the same.
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It is kind of a luxury, though. There's a pretty big price tag. Unless you get a deal of the day, no charge on the delivery. But anyways, the growth is good, so we like it. It's in our ultra-growth portfolio. Marriott reported today they're up 2.4%. That's good to see. I've also noticed booking has been on a roll recently. That's one of the top travel stocks. Booking is kind of what DoorDash did to the restaurant industry. Booking kind of did to the hotel and motel industry. And let's see. We're out of time. Vestas Energy, that's the Danish wind company, not doing that great. And also we had Celsius miss their Q1 sales expectations. Okay, well, a lot happened, and then tomorrow will be Fed Day. We'll get the announcement around 2.30, and then the Fed comments at 3, and then Trump's reaction at 3.01 and one second. I'm sure he's not going to be happy with the outcome. And in the meantime, we look for values. We look for growth. It's that daily search that makes us such an interesting business to be involved in. If you'd like to talk to us, make an appointment either in person there in Cleveland or over the phone by Zoom, 855-611-BEST, 855-611-BEST, or get that free four-week trial to the newsletter, the app, and the daily alerts at GundersenCapital.com. Have a great day, everybody.
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We are an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And it's not compassionate, and it's not altruistic to take other people's stuff, whether or not it's their rights, their property, their freedom, livelihoods, opportunities, childhoods, or lives via force. And force could be a weapon, but it could also be policy, unpredictable, and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, the agenda by the World Economic Forum. And the globalist elites that are playing that out in the United Nations right here at this Colorado State Legislature with this Colorado governor. And it could be land use codes and zoning regulations and forest fees, conservation easements, national monument designations, transmission lines easements, CO2 pipeline easements. All these things are taking property. And the right to property, the fruit of your labor, and tangible property, intangible property is inherent in the American idea. And that's why we see those that want to take property take centralized control. That's the opposite of this whole American idea. And remember, if something is a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. An idea should be able to stand on its own two feet in this battle of ideas. And so that's why we do the show, is to help you get your brain around these issues so that you can engage in this battle of ideas that is out there. And so I do appreciate each and every one of you. On the show, we focus on the issues, and we'll mention the people that are pushing these issues, but we're really working diligently to stay out of any of the personality fighting that can occur in life and particularly in politics. Our word of the day is, and thank you to Jenny for this, is insidious. And it's spelled I-N-S-I-D-I-O-U-S. It's an adjective. It could be working or spreading harmfully in a subtle or stealthy manner. It could be intended to entrap or treacherous, beguiling but harmful or alluring. And some of these bills down at the State House are really insidious. And we've got so much work to do to reclaim our state. And we are working on that. Today is the last day of the 2025 Colorado legislative session. And I know in a way we are breathing a sigh of relief. However, what has really happened is is that there's all these boards and commissions and bureaucrats that have been given power. They're not elected, and they have been given power to basically make decisions and push an agenda. And so we are obviously not out of the woods on this. We've got to engage in this battle of ideas with our neighbors and our friends and our family. So our quote of the day, and I went to Clarence Thomas because in the second hour, we'll be talking with Scott Powell, who is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, regarding all of this judicial lawfare. And so I thought Clarence Thomas would be a great quote. And Clarence Thomas was born in 1948. in Pinpoint, Georgia. And he's an associate justice of the Supreme Court since 1991. He's the second black American to serve on the court. He was appointed to replace Thurgood Marshall, who died in 1993. And Thurgood Marshall was the court's first black American member. Thomas was the second of three children born to Leola Anderson, subsequently Williams, and M.C. Thomas. Clarence Thomas' parents wed as teenagers at the insistence of Leola's father, and after Leola became pregnant with Thomas' elder sister, Emma. The couple divorced in 1950, having separated in 1949. and MC Thomas was not involved in his children's lives. And so for a time, Clarence Thomas, his mother, and his siblings lived in Pinpoint near Savannah, Georgia, in a house owned by Annie, their mother's aunt. After the house was destroyed in a fire in 1954, his mother moved with Thomas and his brother to Savannah, while his sister remained with Annie. In the summer of 1955, Thomas and his younger brother, Myers, were sent to live with their maternal grandfather and his wife, Christine Anderson. Their grandfather within Savannah's segregated black community, a comparatively wealthy entrepreneur, demanded that Thomas and his brother work hard and excel in school. Thomas's autobiography, titled My Grandfather's Son, a Memoir, attributes his own discipline and work ethic to the lessons imparted to him by Anderson. So here's this little kid that was born in Pinpoint, Georgia. who is a justice on the United States Supreme Court. And he is, I would say he's a constitutionalist. And he said this, he said, government cannot make us equal. It can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. One more time. Government cannot make us equal. It can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. And that is a quote from Clarence Thomas. uh this headline i've been watching this whole harvard story and i find it super interesting and we're going to have amber from open the books on on friday because i wanted to talk about this but this headline is from, let me see, it is from Fox News. It says, Linda McMahon blasts Harvard in a scathing letter telling the elite university it will no longer get federal grants. Now, you look at this, and Harvard has a huge endowment, And it's expensive to go there. And I had no idea that they were receiving this kind of money. And I don't think they should. So anyway, this story goes on to say Secretary of Education Linda McMahon sent this letter to Harvard University President Alan Garber on Monday, not only blasting the Massachusetts Ivy League school handling of anti-Semitism on campus, but also advising school officials to refrain from applying for future federal grants because they will not be provided. And in her no holds barred letter, McMahon told Garber that the federal government has a sacred responsibility to be an important steward of American taxpayer funds, adding that the school has amassed a largely tax-free $53.2 billion endowment and receives billions of dollars in taxpayer funds each year. She said receiving such taxpayer funds is a privilege, not a right. Yet instead of using these funds to advance the education of the students, Harvard is engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law. And I find this refreshing, I would say. Joe, any comments on this?
SPEAKER 20 :
Absolutely, and I looked a little bit into this little section as well. I find it interesting when they were commented on the failure to handle the anti-Semitism. They said they're a free speech campus, yet they were denying the free speech of some of the Jewish people there.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, and I really don't think that these universities should be getting state funds whatsoever or federal funds whatsoever. But let's jump over here. Today is Election Day. For many of our special districts, our parks and recreation district, fire department, and on the line with me is Tyler Lineber, and he is running for South Suburban. parks and recreation director tyler welcome to the show hi hi kim how are you doing i am doing well and uh when i saw your name on the ballot i thought let's let's talk with him about this because these elections fly under the radar and i did research on the last time that there was an election for directors for south suburban parks and rec and the percentage of people that voted was very very low tyler
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, unfortunately, not many people know the elections happened because they happened in an odd time of the year in May and in off years.
SPEAKER 17 :
And it's important that people actually pay attention to these because South Suburban has a significant budget. And so people really should be paying attention to it because it's our taxes that are going to this.
SPEAKER 09 :
Exactly. It's over $100 million and it exceeds City of Centennial's budget, which is pretty surprising.
SPEAKER 17 :
That is surprising. So tell us a little bit about you, Tyler.
SPEAKER 09 :
So I'm an accountant by trade and a CPA, and I grew up here in Colorado, grew up in Littleton, not too far outside the district near Columbine, and I love the outdoors. I grew up as a Boy Scout hiking and camping every month and really enjoy protecting our outdoors and having our recreation, but also bringing, you know, financial accountability to the district and a little bit more fiscal conservatism that the district's doing pretty well already, but want to keep it that way. And kind of bring in, make sure we keep those principles of limited government and, you know, fiscal accountability.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. And so what's some, what would be one of the first things that you would want to accomplish when elected to the South Suburban Parks and Recreation Board?
SPEAKER 09 :
What I would like to do is they've been doing a lot of new construction, which makes sense because they have a lot of new development over in the Glowntree and the eastern part of the district. But wanting to try to slow down their issuing new debt to build all that new stuff and also to try to focus on the older infrastructure further west. A lot of residents have complained about facilities getting older and needing repair. So I want to prioritize trying to upgrade those older facilities and try to do so with less debt.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. Now, Tyler, I received my ballot in the mail, but not everybody did receive their ballot in the mail. So today is the day to vote. So how can people do that?
SPEAKER 09 :
So if you, you can't, you can't unfortunately request a ballot, but if you have one, you can drop it off either at Near me, it's at the Goodson Center or the sports complex off of County Line in Quebec. Or you can go vote in person at the sports center, which is off County Line in Quebec. It's that brand new big facility with ice rinks. And you can do that up until 7 p.m. tonight. And, yeah, it's pretty simple.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. So when people – people can vote for three people, and there is quite a few people that are running for the board. So, again, what is – spell your name so people can remember that as they're filling out their ballot.
SPEAKER 09 :
So there are a lot of names on there. So if you see my name, it's towards the middle, and it's spelled T-Y-L-E-R, Tyler. And the last name is Lineberr. l-i-n-n-e-b-u-r and there are a couple candidates in there that have been um that have dropped out so make sure you check their website the south suburban website and they'll mark which ones have withdrawn so you don't accidentally pick two others that have withdrawn and you only pick the ones that are um still running and then um yeah just look up the other candidates see you
SPEAKER 17 :
which other two you like, and then pick myself and those two. Okay, well, Tyler, thank you so much. And thank you for stepping forward and running for office. These are very important races. And they are under the radar, but they're very important. And fiscal responsibility is something that we really need to make sure that we have in all of these different special districts. And so thank you for stepping forward to run for for office.
SPEAKER 09 :
Of course. I appreciate it, Kim. Hope you guys have a great week.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. You too, and good luck.
SPEAKER 09 :
Thank you. Bye-bye.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And did want to say thank you to the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. They have been sponsors for many, many years. and great friends and great sponsors so do appreciate them on the line with me is former state senator kevin lundberg he is also the author of the lundberg report which you can find at kevinlundberg.com kevin welcome to the show
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, thank you, Kim. It's great being with you. And as we cover the legislative session, we're just about done.
SPEAKER 17 :
We are. And it's really, there's some really bad stuff that came out of this. But let's talk about the Lundberg report. You have the good and the bad and really the ugly on there.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, yeah, I added a couple of little categories of dumb and dangerous and woke.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
Because some of them just defied, it just needed that extra clarification. But yeah, you know what I do is with every session, and I've done this for several years, and it turns into quite a task at the end because there are just so many bills. But as the bills are introduced, I check them out, and try to you know identify those that i think are extraordinarily good or extraordinarily bad and i leave a lot on the table because they go through hundreds and hundreds of bills and you just can't track everything all at once but i ended up with about 110 bills that i'd identified somewhere there are 65 bad bills and and i think it was like 45 or so 43 good bills um And followed those every week for the report so that you know where it's at in the process. And I try to give a little bit of a snapshot to people as to here's where you can start if you're interested in. following this because by no means do I give a complete analysis of anything. Occasionally a big bill comes out that requires a bit more description, but I try to be very concise so it's not much more than a paragraph if that. And I found it to be a pretty useful tool. I actually started it just because I needed it for myself as a legislator. to identify what are the really big issues that we're dealing with here. When you're down there, especially, boy, the guys right now, they're probably going late into the night, And a lot of shenanigans can be pulled at the end of the session because everybody's kind of exhausted and overwhelmed with all of the different data. And that's on a good year. I call this a really bad year where they've really been throwing a ton of stuff at you. And so I found for myself that I needed to write it down and I needed to track it. And then after getting out of the legislature, I realized this is a good tool that a lot of people could use. So if I can just keep this going, it will help all of us stay a little bit more abreast as to what's happening. And that's the Lundberg Report's biggest job during session. Now, I'll tell you, for the other eight months, I'll be publishing articles. follow ups on it as well as other things that develop. But the real task is what we've been doing down for the last four months now, which is to follow what the legislature is trying to get accomplished.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, and this is, I agree, I think the Lumberg Report is an excellent tool for people to be informed. And then also, I would recommend adding in Colorado Union of Taxpayers cut.
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely. Absolutely. I don't want to diminish that at all, because you guys really focus in on kind of the financial aspects of the legislation, which is really the job we've got down there, is make laws and then spend the money to implement the laws. And you... Cut just really digs deep. And you've got a whole team. You know, I've got me.
SPEAKER 17 :
We do. And they're all volunteers. And we used this great system called Bill Track 50. And so there were 733 pieces of legislation or resolutions that were introduced this session. We don't need any new laws, I don't think. We need to start repealing them. But CUT took positions on 261 of these bills. And I do want to say thank you to this team, Kevin, and really... When you see these people out there, say thank you because they have spent their weekends also doing this through this session. But when you see them, say thank you. Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Ramey Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onazorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. And say thank you to them. And then Sue Moore and her team over at Liberty Scorecard, they also do a good job. I think between the three of us, I think that we cut through a lot of the stuff there and can get to the real heart of the matter on these issues. And so these three things, I think, are very good trusted tools. And that's Kevin Lumberg, the Lumberg Report, the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. We'd love to have you join us. It's only $25 a year. And Liberty Scorecard. So let's jump into this. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, let me just add a little footnote to that, that Colorado is a bit unique in that respect. I mean, there are a lot of people digging deep into what's happening in their state, but I really, and I do have occasion from time to time to find out what's happening in other states because of a lot of responsibilities I have. And so it's just that I've not found another state that has as much in-depth information grassroots digging around the laws. And part of that is because our legislature does have a website that does keep a lot of good information up there. So, you know, I complain about what they do a lot, but I will compliment them, their IP side that is working hard to make the information available and friendly. And then we can take and run with it and really dig deep. And so, yeah, of all the complaining we do, at least we've got some transparency at that level, both from the inside of the legislature providing the information and then those of us on the outside who are really digging down and saying, yeah, this is what's there.
SPEAKER 17 :
I agree on that. However, with that transparency, they don't really listen right now. This Colorado State Legislature and this governor's office is being controlled by radical extremists. Oh, yeah. While they have this transparency, it's really more that they're just letting us know what they're going to be doing.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, yeah, and let me say that that's – I am very displeased with how the legislative leadership, the actual elected leaders, are handling a lot of the process. But the system that was developed that's really truly their nonpartisan side of their staff has been doing a good job of making it available. And a lot of it is just the Internet platform that they developed for this. And they're just plugging in the details. And, my, oh, my, I could go down a long time on complaining on how some of the summaries or the fiscal notes are kind of bent this way or that way. But as far as just finding out where are the bills, what are they saying, what are the amendments, they are pretty good down there. So, anyway.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay, and let's talk about the good bills. That's going to be pretty easy because what you have in good bills, there's maybe only a couple that did not get killed in committee. So anything you want to highlight on good bills?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, as I say, there are 40-some of those good bills, and these are bills primarily introduced by the Republicans. and summarily killed in the first committee. And there are a few exceptions to that. Occasionally, there's an actual Democrat bill that is hitting on a good idea, and those usually go through, and there's a handful of them, five or six. But You know, and then here's one. This one, the first one that I identified, House Bill 1040, adding nuclear energy as a clean energy resource. And this was, I don't recall who the sponsors were. I think it was a Republican sponsor. No, it was a joint one. Yeah, that's outcome there. But it actually did something that back when I was on the Energy Committee Committee, In the Senate, I actually brought it up to the guy running the energy office at that time, Tom Plant, because he was talking about all the renewal energy things that they were promoting. And I said, what about nuclear? And he kind of stopped and sputtered and kind of like, well, I don't know. We don't want to talk about nuclear because that's bad, isn't it?
SPEAKER 15 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 05 :
Finally, finally, this bill was run this year, mostly by the Democrats. But there were a couple of Republicans on there. And it became law. The governor signed it. And so now they're finally saying, yes, and nuclear is a good source of energy for our electric grid as well. So that was a good one that actually got through.
SPEAKER 17 :
OK, well, they're not very many, but it's I recommend that you go to Kevin Lumberg dot com and click on the Lumberg report and you'll have all that information there. We're going to go to break. When we come back, we'll continue the discussion. All this happens because of our great sponsors. And if you're looking at buying a home, selling a home or at a new build, you want to make sure that you have Karen Levine on your side of the table.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And join me on Thursday, May 15th. I'm going to be out at the USMC Memorial Golf Tournament for lunch. I'm not a golfer, but fear not. Even if you're not a golfer, you can go for lunch. And we'd love to have you join us. Teresa Irby, our partnership liaison, will be joining me as well. And, of course, if you're a golfer, make sure that you sign up for a great round of golf, meet some great people, and support the foundation. And that is Thursday, May 15th. You can get more information by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. That is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Kevin Lundberg, changing gears just a little bit. This came in from Eric on the text line, and he said that President Trump said free Tina Peters now. I'd not seen that come across the wire, but boy, that would be great if that happened.
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely. Absolutely. There actually has been an appeal to the governor to pardon Tina Peters. And actually, I sent in a letter myself on behalf of Tina urging the governor to, you might say, settle this travesty of justice that has occurred here in Colorado. We could go on and on on all this, but I'm encouraged that the president is showing some public attention to the whole thing. I know that It has been a troubling issue to many of us in a big, big way. There was actually an online – and I wasn't aware of it until after the fact. I'm going to throw this in the newsletter for this week. There was an online rally on behalf of Tina a few days ago, and I suspect this may have come out of that as far as – just whipping up a little more attention to the whole thing. Governor Polis does have an opportunity to actually make a little bit of peace in this system if he'll simply take that action that he has every bit of authority to do and pardon Tina. Don't just free her, but pardon her. Because there was also an appeal that she be released on bond because she's appealing her conviction. But really, the governor could could just step up and say, OK, I know we just agree on a lot of the stuff. But but but this former county clerk should not be. put in prison for nearly 10 years because she was trying to follow the law as she saw best. Now, I know they characterize it so differently, but this is the bottom line, is Tina had the responsibility to maintain the election records for a little more than two years by state and federal law. And she was doing her level best to do that, and the system just came down on her like a ton of bricks because they wanted to say no and they wanted to silence all clerks. And I'm not asking the governor to change his mind on anything except Tina's case is beyond belief and in this country we shouldn't be doing this to anybody and particularly Tina who has really held fast to the principles of what she has stood for, even in the face of her incarceration.
SPEAKER 17 :
She is, it's a, as you say, it is a travesty on what happened there. And a lot of the evidence that I think should have been allowed to be introduced into her case, the judge did not allow that to be introduced into the courtroom. And so then she is convicted. She is appealing it but yet they did not let her get out on bond and uh in fact um put her in in the in prison at this particular point in time and for nine years and uh so uh and again um I'll try to find this. And, again, Susan confirmed also what Eric said, that Trump is calling for her release. Having this conversation, having Trump get his eyes on this and having this conversation, I think is a very good thing, Kevin Lundberg.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and also it should be noted that, what, maybe a month, six weeks ago, Attorney General Pam Bondi made the – directed i don't recall if she if she put her name on it or if it was through the office but i know it came from the top down that they are looking into this case very carefully because there was a miscarriage of justice that occurred and you're right the judge was um you know kind of like a hanging judge a don't bother me with the facts. We're going to convict this person. And so he, yes, refused to allow a lot of very pertinent information on the whole thing to be given to the jury. It's top to bottoms, you know, start to finish. The Tina Peters case is completely And I was privy to a lot of inside information on how this was occurring as it developed. And I can tell you that the games that were played to persecute her were immense.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yes, they were. And thank you to Eric and thank you, Susan, for the confirmation. And yes, this is on national news. And President Trump 10 hours ago said free Tina Peters now. So that is that that's a big developing story. And we will we will stay on that. So elections matter. I think that's the bottom line. Elections matter. And the fact that, for example, out in Jefferson County, my friend Ramey Johnson ran for House District 30. and worked diligently, had a great team, and it ended up that Rebecca Stewart was elected to that position. Rebecca Stewart is an extremist Democrat, so much so that she was one of the sponsors of this House Bill 25-13-12. which, as it was introduced, would allow child protection services to take your child out of your home if they were having gender confusion, which that's being fomented in schools. I would say in many of our educational systems, after-school programs. In fact, you told the story of Aaron and John Lee and their daughter Chloe in a very important film, artclubmovie.com. So elections really do matter because, and Rami Johnson had sent something out. She said there is no way she would have had her name on that bill. So elections matter. So this whole thing with Tina Peters, all these things are connected.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. Yeah, very much so. Very much so. And actually, I served with Ramey in the House way back in 2003 when we were both elected initially. And then for her to throw her hat back into the competitive ring years later is a real testament of how she is. Ramey is really working hard still to try to change things.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yes, she is.
SPEAKER 05 :
And she's one of your volunteers, too.
SPEAKER 17 :
She is. That she is. Question. I don't remember the guy's name, but it came in on the text line. Who is the judge on that Tina Peters case? Do you happen to remember his name?
SPEAKER 05 :
I do not. I do not. Yeah. We'll have to check that out. Yeah, we'll just have to look it up. But I've learned enough about it to be completely disgusted with WITH HOW IT WAS CONDUCTED THERE. OKAY. AND CAN I ADD SOMETHING? WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE GOOD BILLS, THERE WAS ONE GOOD BILL THAT PASSED THAT I THINK IS A VERY SIGNIFICANT ONE. AND IT BECAME THE GOVERNOR SIGNED IT. AND WHAT IT DOES IS IT ELIMINATES THE MENTAL HEALTH SCREENING OF ALL PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS IN COLORADO. And I think they did it just out of the reality that they can't afford it because it was the Joint Budget Committee who actually proposed this good bill. But I think that's a big deal because just far too much mischief can happen when all of the, quote, mental health experts get in there and start analyzing every public school student. I'm sorry, I don't have much confidence in how that system is going to work out. And this was set up. I don't know, a few years ago where they're trying to literally get in and, you know, psychologically analyze the mental health of every child in the public school system. And they pulled the plug on it. And I think that was a very good bill that passed that repealed that whole thing.
SPEAKER 17 :
So is that totally gone then? Because I remember that bill as well. And I like you. I thought danger, danger on that. So did they totally repeal that bill?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, here's what they did in Section 12-245-217. It did say screeners conducting screenings pursuant to the 6th grade through 12th grade mental health screening program created in Section blah, blah, blah. They just pulled it out entirely of screening. OF THE LAW. SO IT'S REPEALING, YOU KNOW, THE TITLE, REPEAL OF THE 6TH THROUGH 12TH GRADE MENTAL HEALTH SCREENING ACT AND IN CONDUCTION THERE WITH REDUCING IN APPROPRIATION. AND IT'S THAT REDUCING THE APPROPRIATION THAT THEY WERE GOING AFTER. THERE ARE SOME GOOD THINGS WHEN THE BUDGET GETS REALLY TIGHT NOW IN THE CAPITOL. IT'S VERY RARE BECAUSE THEY DO EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO NOT REPEAL SOMETHING. Finally, one good thing did sneak through this session. But you mentioned 1312, which is that transgender bill that is, it was heard in second reading in the Senate yesterday. Four amendments were passed. Multiple amendments were offered. And those that passed, frankly, it's a little too complicated for me to have sorted out this morning as to exactly what they were doing. But... I'm sure, because a lot of those amendments were from the sponsor of the bill, that it's still a really, really bad bill that will be voted on by the Senate today, most certainly passed. Then it will be sent back to the House, and they'll go back and forth as to how they finish it up. But this is a bad bill that it appears is headed towards the governor's desk.
SPEAKER 17 :
So on that, Cut Engaged, we invested in something at Cut. It's called Cut Engaged, where you can make your voice heard quickly. And go to the website. It's coloradotaxpayer.org. On the top, click on Cut Engaged. And we started this in the middle of the year. And we selected different bills. 1312 is one of those. And you can make your voice heard within probably 30 seconds. Just go and find 1312 and click on that. And, of course, you can look at the other bills if you want to make your voices heard. But it will send the cut synopsis on the bill, what we said about it. If you want to add something else in, you can. And that will go then to the prime sponsors. if you want to add in your own state senator and representative we offer a tool if you don't know who they are to put that in and actually you only have to do it once and then it will populate when you click on it on if you're weighing in on other bills as well but we are really proud of that Kevin Lundberg. And I'm seeing a lot of listeners are using it. But just think, for 30 seconds, you can make your voice heard today before that is heard again in the Senate. And it's a really neat tool that we created.
SPEAKER 05 :
Excellent. I'm glad to hear that you've got that. Now, it's always more effective if you give a phone call to their office or you'll write a letter and handwrite it. But email and electronic systems like this do help really send the message that not only, you know, that you think yes or no on a particular bill, but that you're watching them. And they need to know that. You know, for 1312, there was a petition that about a little bit over 33,000 people signed saying this is a bad bill, kill it. And, no, they didn't pay much attention to it in one sense. But in another sense, you know, two things happened. One, the legislature got a better picture as to what those folks were thinking. And number two, those folks knew that their voice was now being sent there to the legislature. And you become invested in the process when you start doing that. And I think that's a great idea.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, and so check that out, cut engaged, and very quickly before you head out for the day, you can make your voice heard on that. I did look this up, and the judge on the Tina Pierce case was Judge Matthew Barrett. And so that is the judge. Yeah, that's over in Mesa County. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Okay, we're going to continue the discussion, but be sure and reach out to John Bozen with Bozen Law if you've been injured.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. 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 do check out the Center for American Values. The kids are going to be out of school soon. And I would really recommend that you put it on your bucket list to take the kids down to the center. They do several different things. One of those is their Portraits of Valor, honoring over 160 Medal of Honor recipients with a quote from each of these men. And it really is inspirational. It's a great conversation starter. And you can get more information about the center by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. The center is located in Pueblo on the beautiful Riverwalk. So be sure and check that out. On the line with me is former State Senator Kevin Lundberg. And he is the author of the Lundberg Report. And he also has a weekly call, which I know is very beneficial. It does happen to end up in just the end part of my show, but it is a very good call as well, Kevin Lumberg.
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Well, thank you. Appreciate you acknowledging that with about the competition, you might say, but not so much. I mean, you you have a very broad audience on a on a powerful radio station and you reach the entire front range. And we have a Zoom call from 730 to 830 every Monday morning. It's called the Larimer County Republican Breakfast Club because that's how it was started about three decades ago by then Congressman Bob Schaefer. But with COVID, we went over to the Zoom format, and I've been the one running it for a while. And we have, you know, 60, 70, 80 people on there usually, and we discuss the issues of the day as very open-ended. We just start, we let elected officials introduce whatever they're doing for a few minutes, and then we go to some announcements of events, and then we just start talking about the issues. And we always run out of time. You know, kind of like this radio spot we've got here, too. Yeah, and that's available through KevinLundberg.com.
SPEAKER 17 :
Very good, KevinLundberg.com. And what do you want people to know regarding this legislative session, kind of the big takeaways on this?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and actually this is a very key day. This is Tuesday, the day before the session ends tomorrow. And I understand the way – Bills are created. It takes each body a minimum of two days to get through the process for them. And so if you add that all up, they can't push a bill through any quicker than three days. So we're on the second to the last day. Finally, no bills can be introduced today. There will be no more surprises of that sort. Plenty of amendments and plenty of other things. They've got dozens of bills still on the table. I don't know what the number is. It's such a fast-moving target at this point. But Be aware that in the last three days of the session, and actually they can play a game on extending that a little bit, but a lot of the requirements for how a bill moves through the process are streamlined or eliminated so that they can call a committee meeting immediately. They don't have to give 24-hour notice, but they still are held to... It takes two days, one for second reading and the second one for third reading for a bill to pass through either body, the House or the Senate. And so what they've got on the table right now is all they're going to have. Now, they could pass a resolution at the very last, but that won't have the force of law. That will be just a recommendation, you might say. This has been a terrible year with. extreme, extreme radical policies just being thrown by, you know, the gun control bills, the bills that are dealing with our schools and with the whole transgender world are just so far over the top. It's been a year where they've had to try to tighten their budget, but unfortunately, they've just kind of perpetuated it by By stealing from funds and extending it next year is going to be real interesting because they're going to run out of money. And especially if they stick with their sanctuary policies and the transgender stuff, I fully expect federal dollars will will slow down considerably. And so that'll be interesting as we move along into the next legislative year. But for this year, these last two days are the big push. And for the good legislators, you need to kind of encourage them afterwards, too, because they are just paying an awful price on their late nights and their families. This is a real rugged time on their families, at least in Colorado. The regular session can go no longer than 120 days, and that's why tomorrow is sine die, the final day. That's the term they give to it, a Latin term that means something like the last day, I guess. But I'm looking forward to assessing this after it's all done and try to figure out, okay, just, you know, what did pass. How did 1312 end up? What about 1309 that requires medical treatment to be paid for by insurance companies and state government for all the transgender mutilation of children? I mean, this stuff is just unbelievable. And abortion, by the way. I better mention that, too, that they pushed through some really bad bills in that area. They are just full force going hard left. Let me leave you with the silver lining.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
They've gone so far over that I know that the average Colorado citizen will shake their head in disbelief if they really figure out what's been happening this year. So I'm looking forward to the 2026 election, too, because I think we've got some real opportunities to make some real differences. And stay tuned. It's... I think better times are ahead in Colorado, but you sure wouldn't know it if you looked at the results of this year's legislative session.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, and Kevin, let's do this again. You've been on almost every Tuesday during this legislative session, and I really appreciate that. So let's do a wrap-up again next Tuesday on this. Oh, good. Yeah, and then I think we really do need to hear from you for sure monthly because of all the work that you're doing with Protect Kids Colorado, and so we'll change the schedule up just a little bit, but we'll have you on again next Tuesday for that wrap-up, and then we'll get focused on all the things that you're doing regarding our children, and I really do appreciate that. So, Kevin Lumberg, thank you.
SPEAKER 05 :
I look forward to it.
SPEAKER 17 :
okay and again kevin lundberg is doing such a amazing work and he's he's just such a great voice for colorado and he's just uh the demeanor is so reasonable because he is so well informed and so that's why we do this show that's why he does what he does is so you can be well informed because once you know what's going on then you don't have to be into the yelling kind of stuff you can actually speak reasonably to people And so, again, check out KevinLumberg.com for all of that great information. And our quote for the end of the show is from Clarence Thomas and a Supreme Court justice and really a constitutionalist, I would say, at the original Constitution. And he said this. He said, to define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity. So my friends today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. God bless America. Stay tuned for hour number two.
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We'll talk with Scott Powell as our featured guest in this particular hour. And I did want to mention Hooters Restaurants, great sponsors of both the Kim Munson Show and America's Veterans Stories. How I got to know them, it's a really important story about PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties, and government control over private enterprise. And so that whole story is at my website at kimmunson.com. But they have Five locations, Loveland, Aurora, Lone Tree, Westminster, and Colorado Springs. And a great place to get together with friends to watch all the games as well. So again, thank you to Hooters Restaurants for their sponsorship of the show. Our word of the day, thank you to Ginny, is insidious. It's I-N-S-I-D-I-O-U-S, an adjective. And it could be working or spreading harmfully in a subtle or stealthy manner. Number two, intended to entrap, treacherous. Or number three, beguiling and harmful or alluring. And there has been some insidious pieces of legislation that have been introduced and very possibly passed down at the statehouse. And we'll give a wrap-up on the whole legislative session next Tuesday with Kevin Lundberg. Our quote of the day, I went to Clarence Thomas because he is a Supreme Court justice, and we'll be talking with Scott Powell about judicial lawfare. And Thomas was born in 1948, an amazing story. He was born into poverty, and here he is. a justice on the Supreme Court. I really need to read this. His autobiography is My Grandfather's Son, a memoir. He ended up living with his maternal grandfather and his grandfather's wife as a child. His grandfather taught them discipline and work ethic. Those two things Together, it's pretty difficult to not succeed if you have those two things. But he said this. He said, government cannot make us equal. It can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. And then a couple of headlines. And thank you. Sandra and Yvonne also had texted, and I missed that text last night, regarding Tina Peters that President Trump has asked that she be pardoned by Congress. Jared Polis and so this is a developing story very very important and thank you to Eric also for alerting me on that and Susan I really appreciate all these texts that come in on the text line 720-605-0647 so that is a very important story and then the other story that I mentioned was was, let's see here, Linda McMahon, who is the head of the Department of Education, had sent a letter to Harvard University President Alan Garber on Monday, blasting the Massachusetts Ivy League school's handling of anti-Semitism on campus, but also advising school officials to refrain from applying for future federal grants because they will not be provided. And this is not the proper role of government to be awarding these different grants, to be taking money from the taxpayer and then doling it out to all kinds of different grants. As Jenny has said, that this government, federal government, grant money is like crack cocaine to a drug addict. And it's the same with these different governments, whether or not it's the local, the county, or the state level, or the federal level. We, that is not the proper role of government. And during break, Producer Joe said that he really hopes that President Trump will get this government back into its proper roles. And he's working diligently on trying to make that happen. And we are we're an independent voice on this independent station and we're independent because of my great sponsors. And one of those sponsors is John Bozen with Bozen Law. And he's on the line. John, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 08 :
Good morning, Kim. So much to talk about. So many things to enlighten us with.
SPEAKER 17 :
So many things. So a question. It's interesting. I was in the break room yesterday getting a cup of coffee. And I noticed this on the wall, and it basically was a notification to all employees. It said that if you've been injured, that you need to let the employer know within four days. And it looked like it was maybe a state statute. And so I know that you can help people if they've been injured on the job. So explain this to me.
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Yes, it is. And it's one of those things that catches a lot of folks. You know, people don't want to in general get hurt and they don't want to get hurt on the job and they don't want to be that person and that mentality needs to be thrown out because if something does happen while while a person's working while they're doing their job it is so important that they report what happened as soon as possible and and what what happens kim is um again somebody let's say they slip in the break room they injure their back they hope believe in their mind that I'll give it a little bit of time I don't want to report this I don't want to you know be that person and a week goes by and it hasn't got better and then ten days and it hasn't got better and then finally they come to the realization I better report this this isn't going away and then there's there's going to be problems there's going to be an employer Why didn't you report it when you were required to? Or worse, and often it's not the employer, it's the insurance carrier for the employer, the work comp insurance carrier, that will then challenge whether or not it ever actually happened. And that's where a lot of folks get in trouble. And so it's, again, it's one of those things I advise folks, call me right away. We'll have a discussion. I'm going to tell that person, hey, send an email. call your HR department, meet with your boss, let them know what happened, let them know very specifically what happened, and get in, get seen by a doctor because time is of the essence in those situations, not just for the reporting purposes and making sure it's recognized as a worker's compensation claim, but so the person can get evaluated by a doctor and find out if it's something that requires care and treatment, and obviously, or maybe not so obviously to most folks, the sooner you start to care for an injury, the sooner you can get recovered from that injury.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, and so if someone has been injured and on the job, you help with workers' compensation claims, what's that number that people can reach you at, John Bozen?
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I've got three attorneys that are dedicated to him on work-related injuries or workers' compensation claims, and folks can talk to one of those attorneys by calling 303-999-9999. And that's Bozen Law, 303-999-9999. And you're in the business of helping people when something challenging has occurred, John Bozen. That's a good way to put it. Those life challenges, yes. And again, time is of the essence, folks. And whether it's you, a loved one, a neighbor, a coworker, a family member, urge them to call me as soon as possible. That advice on the front end does really make a huge difference.
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It really does. And again, that number is 303-999-9999. John Bozen, we'll talk with you next week.
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Kim, have a great rest of your show.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And very pleased to have on the line with me Scott Powell. He is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, as well as the author of Rediscovering America, how our national holidays tell an amazing story about who we are. I'm doing that from memory, Scott Powell. Was I close on that title?
SPEAKER 10 :
You're great, Kim.
SPEAKER 17 :
Thank you. Well, let's talk a little bit and welcome. You have a very important piece that was published at Newsmax regarding this judicial lawfare that we are seeing. And you said Trump places nation security above judicial activism. And you begin the piece by saying that who would have thought that our constitutional crisis and breakdown in America would come from people in robes? This is pretty serious.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, it certainly is. I mean, the first, the foundational understanding that all Americans should have is that we have enemies, foreign and domestic. In other words, we have enemies within our country. And some of them actually work in our government. They are working to subvert our system. And this is not conspiracy theory. I think we've all kind of woken up that the medical industrial complex, the military-industrial complex, the high-tech media complex. They're inhabited with people that have close relations with the government, and they have misled the American people on very fundamental things that affect their lives. So judges, of course, we've all heard that George Soros has funded a lot of radical... district attorneys and judges. And for what reason? We can see it in what has happened. These judges are all liberal, allowing criminals to be sprung from jail, not even to go to jail, no bail, release criminals to the public streets to commit more crime. This is to bring on anarchy and decline of our country. And it's focused on cities. They know they really can't influence the heartland, but they sure can transform cities. And when cities become ungovernable, the nation becomes partially ungovernable. And this has been going on for years. And so now we have judges emboldened to stand up to the executive branch, which has the sole authority for maintaining justice. national security for being able to make decisive decisions timely decisive decisions with no uh... you know with with no with no necessary uh... in support from congress for a while and certainly not the judiciary the judiciary has no no say in national security and look illegal immigrants that have poured into our country many of whom are are are not just criminals and gangsters, but we have Chinese of military age in here. We have Hezbollah agents within our borders. We have cells of people who want to destroy critical infrastructure. I mean, we are facing an environment that may make 9-11 look like a cakewalk. We have that number of elements in our country that could carry out those things. We need to remove these people immediately.
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And that's what Trump is trying to do. And it is remarkable, and I don't mean that in a good way, that we have Democrat representatives. They're supposed to be representatives of the American people. For example, there was a number, I think several of them, went down to El Salvador and to talk with the guy from El Salvador that was deported back to El Salvador because he was a gang member. And we had Democrats that went down to El Salvador to try to get him to come back. And we had a judge that said that we needed to bring this gang member, this criminal, back to America. I think most people look at this and go, common sense has left the room with many of these activist judges.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, absolutely it has. It's absolutely true. So anyway, I think the article that I wrote, you know, drew on the founders' vision. You know, the founders of our Constitution saw the judiciary to be the weakest branch of government. These are not equal branches, the three branches. The legislative and the executive are clearly to be stronger branches of the government than the judiciary. The judiciary's role is limited to judicial review, to interpreting the law, the existing law, which would start with constitutional law. And the constitutional law gives sole authority to the executive branch on issues of national security. Because you need some—you need— You need someone who can act decisively when your nation is threatened. You can't. There's no time for committee discussions here. So one can argue that our country is under attack and that President Trump has the full authority to protect our country. And the American people want that. They voted for that. And the polls that have been made since he was elected, since he was inaugurated, have only gone up. in support for removing all illegal immigrants. Sixty-six percent of the American people support the deportation of illegal immigrants. That's like a supermajority of American people.
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Well, I have to wonder why not everybody would support that. But going to your piece that was published at Newsmax, you said to put it in a context of the last 15 years, judges issued 12 injunctions against Obama during the eight years of his two terms. Biden was issued injunctions 28 times. And in Trump's first four-year term, combined with the first three-plus months of his second term, judges nationwide have issued injunctions against him 84 times. And they're clearly outside the realm of their responsibility from a constitutional standpoint. But I think what they're trying to do is they're trying to slow things down. They're trying to get sand in the gears because they are looking – and when I say they, it's this big movement. It could be Soros-inspired. They are looking at the 2026 election because their hopes are that they will – The radical extremists that have taken over the Democrat Party hope that they will take the Senate and the House, or at least one of those houses, so that they can stop what Trump is attempting to do, and that is to really reclaim America, I would say, Scott Powell.
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I fully agree with you, but I think the American people are waking up faster now than ever before. So I think that that is a fool's errand, frankly. I think that the likelihood of the Democrats being able to gain power, pick up seats in either the House or the Senate is really minimal, unless there is massive vote fraud. And of course, there's a major effort to bring honesty back to our electoral system nationwide. And that's a big challenge. because the tradition from the founding of the country was that the rules of elections would be determined by the states. You know, the founders gave a lot of power to the states. The states actually had, in their mind, the states should have more power than the federal government. There was great fear about abuse of power at the time of the founding of America, and so they didn't want to give too much power to the federal government. And so what we have today is such an aberration from the vision of the founders. We really live in an administrative state. Much of our country is run by agencies that are accountable to whom? Well, you'd like to think they're accountable to Congress, but Congress doesn't really have much to say. I mean, they've given them authority to create regulations that are really much like laws that govern everything from the environment to really everything almost. So we're in a wake-up period and a corrective period, and it really can't come fast enough, frankly.
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Well, I really think that we're in the third founding of our country.
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I agree.
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Lots was happening 250 years ago at this time, 1775. Things were getting really hot regarding us declaring our independence. And what is remarkable, I think, Scott Powell, is that for the first time in history, This United States of America was created on a vision, this idea that all men are created equal with these rights from God of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. And ultimately with the Constitution is that they said instead of picking up arms against each other, that we would settle our differences with this representative government with free, fair, honest, and transparent elections. And that is the North Star vision. that we need to get back to, Scott Powell?
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, absolutely. And boy, your folks in Colorado know that better than almost anyone else, at least the people that are paying attention. Tina Peters serving a nine-year prison sentence for basically doing her job, which was to investigate if there had been electronic vote fraud.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, and Scott, you live in Florida, so you may not have seen this, but a number of my listeners reached out. And I guess yesterday evening or yesterday sometime, President Trump has basically demanded for her release and pardon. So this is huge.
SPEAKER 10 :
Wow. I did not pick that up. So that is wonderful news. That is great news. Great news for the nation. Great news for Colorado.
SPEAKER 17 :
And Colorado is... She's really a hero.
SPEAKER 10 :
She's not a villain. She's a hero.
SPEAKER 17 :
I know. And we are at the tip of the spear. This city, Denver, a city that I loved, it used to be called Queen City of the Plains. It is in such decline, it's almost unrecognizable now. And our state, and it's because of these radical extremist policies that are being pushed. And so your piece is so important that is at Newsmax. And kind of your final thought before we go to break, and then I know we're going to have just a few more minutes with you, because you've got a, you're in high demand, Scott Powell, because you've got an immediate media hit right after us. So your final thought before we go to break.
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Well, I think people need to keep their spirits high. You know, we're in a trial period, but oftentimes, you know, certainly the great figures of biblical history all went through great trials and crises before they really could be the leaders that God intended them to be. And we, the people, we're empowered in ways that no other people of any other nation was empowered in. And I think that the most important thing for American people to recognize is that that we have a system that is grounded in truth, grounded in principles that work, that mitigate fallen nature, and really maximize the opportunity of the individual. And when individuals are free to be creative and productive, look what we did. We became the world economic superpower in 120 years from the ratification of the Constitution to The number one world power, it was only about 120 years. That's like a stock car going from zero to 60 in two seconds when you look at it from an historical perspective. So America is a great country, but we are being challenged. But I believe that we're in an awakening, and I think that there's going to be a great revival.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it. And join me for lunch if you're not a golfer. If you are a golfer, you'll want to take part in the USMCA. Memorial Foundation Golf Tournament. But if you're not a golfer, we can also go out for lunch to the tournament. And so that is next Thursday, the 15th. You can get more information by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org and it is a great way to support the foundation, meet some great people, and of course have a great round of golf as well. So again, that's usmcmemorialfoundation.org. I'm talking with Scott Powell. He is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute and he is the author of a really important book that I think everyone should have. And grandparents, have this so that you can talk with your grandchildren about each of these holidays. And his book is Rediscovering America, How the National Holidays Tell an Amazing Story About Who We Are. And I would highly recommend that you all have that. at your home in your Freedom Library. So Scott Powell, we have limited time here. This came in on the text line, and you said the administrative state has taken over. So what exactly does Congress do right now? I don't see a whole lot of action. How would you respond to that? Repeat that question again. Okay. The administrative state has so much power, and Congress has abdicated their power to many of these regulatory agencies, these bureaucrats. So what's Congress do? What are these congressmen and senators doing?
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Well, they're certainly not doing very much. They've ceded authority, and they can't find their way to taking it back. But I think that... I think we need continuous turnover of Congress until we can return enough Congress people that really understand, appreciate, and want to see the Constitution upheld. So it's going to be a long process, I think, but it's just what we have to go through. There's no shortcuts sometimes. And I think that people just need to continue to write their congresspeople and put the heat on them, pick some particular issues where there's administrative overreach in the state of Colorado, and certainly you have quite a few issues there. We have issues. Yes, we do. So write your congressmen and write with courage and succinctness. Don't write long letters. Make them short. But, you know, I think the Gettysburg Address rule, which is a rule that the Wall Street Journal applies to its letters to the editor, no letter to the editor should be longer than a Gettysburg Address. And I think that's basically 230. I don't even know if it's 200 words. But anyway, keep it short and direct and make it repeated. You know, don't give up.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, I think that that's really great advice. And again, I'd recommend that people get your book, Rediscovering America, How the National Holidays Tell an Amazing Story About Who We Are. And your final thought before we let you go.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, I mean, I think that there's certainly precedent for President Trump to exercise independence of the executive branch and override the authority of the judiciary. And that traces back to the, to the founding of the country and the constitution, the debates in the constitution and the, and the, uh, you know, the, um, Federalist papers, um, number 78, which is written by Hamilton talks about the weakness of the judiciary and the importance of both the executive and the legislature to answer to the people that is the people that rule America. So we just have to hold onto that and, uh, and exercise that authority that we rightfully have.
SPEAKER 17 :
So we have a responsibility, and it's up to us to step up here and reclaim our state and our country.
SPEAKER 10 :
There are really no rights. We always focus on our rights, but with rights come responsibility. And I think American people have become fat and happy, and of course, Modern life is very crowded, so we're also very busy that we really marginalize one of the duties that we have as citizens. But we need to make a little bit of time to exercise that authority.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, absolutely. So, Scott Powell, as always, I greatly appreciate all that you do. And again, Scott Powell, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, and the book is Rediscovering America, How the National Holidays Tell an Amazing Story About Who We Are. You have a great day.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thank you, Kim. Thank you.
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Okay, and just a couple of things that I wanted to go through on the text line, and I love hearing from you, 720-605-0647. First thing was, from the last hour, a big thank you and shout out to the Republican Legislature. for all of their hard work, and to Kevin Lundberg. And yes, I think we all need to reach out to our Republican legislators and say thank you. When I was down at the State House last Wednesday for the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on this House Bill 1312, which is... And it has been apparently amended. And when Kevin said that they're complicated amendments, my friends, we can't be putting into law things that we can't understand. And Madison said that the law should not be so voluminous that we can't understand what they are. But we'll do a wrap-up on that. But anyway, when I was down there, and I went down, Teresa and I went down about 10.30 for the rally. And then the committee convened at 1.30, and they had some other bills that they heard before at 13.12. So now we get to 3.30, and over 700 people had signed up to testify either online or in person. And not nearly as many had signed up for the other side. And Senator Julie Gonzalez, who was running the hearing, said that she was going to give equal time to both of the issues, even though many, many Coloradans had said that they wanted to make their voices heard. So she shut down a lot of those voices. And so she said that we'd have four hours from each side. To her credit, though, I've seen this occur, where they would pack first and hear first all the people that were in favor of the radical extreme bill. And then everybody else would have to wait. To her credit, she did go back and forth, support everybody. and non-support so I do laud her on that so it starts about 3 30 so that means that the committee hearing was going to go until 11 30 at night do want to give a shout out to Senator Lisa Frizzell and Senator John Carson the Republicans who did vote against that bill as well all the Democrats voted for it but I they they couldn't leave I looked at Teresa at about eight and I said you know Gosh, I can't stay here until 1130 and then have that 6 a.m. hit with the show. So we left around 8-ish or so. But we were able to put our comments in written testimony on that. So we did do that. But I want to say thank you to all of the Republican legislators for just all that they've done. Now, we are also holding the Republicans accountable, and particularly if you take a look at what we're doing from the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, that we are always – we're very nonpartisan on how we look at these issues, and we do hold these legislators accountable. And so but again, thank you to just just being there because they could not leave at eight o'clock. They had to stay there until the end of the committee hearing. And I do greatly appreciate them for doing that. Now, next question that came in. One of our listeners said this says, Hey, Kim, I just used cut engaged for the first time. for House Bill 1312 and opted for just using the default message. Is there any way for me to read the text in that email? And yes, you can go to Cut Engaged and you will see at the very top our commentary. It's in the yellow box to the right. And so that is our commentary on that. And so you can find it right there. This also is coming in on the text line. It says, Polis is trying to do the same thing in Colorado and grow the administrative state, letting others do his dirty work. And that's from Jenny. And this, she's actually really nailing it, is that this ideology that is being pushed forward It's not something that the people really – I don't think that they really are wanting elected representatives to do. But elected representatives, what they do is they then create these boards and commissions that and then appoint people to these boards and commissions and have them make those decisions. I saw this with the planning commission is then the planning commission would make decisions and the electeds many times would have influence over the planning commission, but then they would hide behind, the electeds would hide behind saying the planning commission made this decision. And so they could kind of slough off their responsibility. So we've seen that not only at the local, but at the county, the state, and the federal level. That's why we need to reclaim representative government where the representatives are accountable to we, the people. And so that's really important. Let's see here. There's... I think that that's primarily all of those things. And so we're going to go to break. When we come back, we'll hear from another candidate for South Suburban Parks and Recreation District. And also, I want to hear your comments regarding all the different things that we've talked about. But the show comes to you because we have amazing sponsors. And for everything mortgages, be sure and reach out to Lauren Levy.
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And welcome back to the Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter and you'll get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. And as you know, we search for truth and clarity on the show 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 school's just about out. It's hard to believe. And I'd really recommend that you make sure that you have visiting the Center for American Values located in Pueblo on your radar to take the kids down there. Their Portraits of Valor of over 160 of our Medal of Honor recipients with their quotes is truly inspiring. And then they also do some great educational programs for K through 12 students. and focus on these foundational principles of honor integrity and patriotism so be sure and check out their website that is americanvaluecenter.org americanvaluecenter.org it is election day and a lot of people don't realize it because it's may and it's an off year but it is a pretty important election and it kind of flies under the the radar and uh South Suburban Parks and Recreation is having an election today and have another candidate. We talked with Tyler Lineber in the first hour, and Dan Murphy is on the line, and he's running for position on the board as well. Dan, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 07 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 17 :
And so tell us a little bit about yourself, Dan.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, well, I first got involved in recreation in Lone Tree somewhere around 2010. 22 or 23 years ago when the mayor, Jack O'Boyle, was involved, was the mayor. And we had a pool that wasn't working very well. We had tennis courts with weeds in them and no ball fields. So I decided to dive in in our own community. And South Suburban didn't have the money at the time and neither did Lone Tree. So we passed a bond and the city ended up building all three of those things. And I was an integral part of that. And learned quite a bit along the way. Learned working with South Suburban, learned working with your city, learning how do you pass a bond in a very conservative county. And, you know, I'm proud of the work that we got done here in our city. And that was kind of my background of how I enjoyed recreation.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, and South Suburban has quite a bit of money. These are really important elections. And I remember doing some research the last election for board directors, and the turnout was extremely low. But yet people are paying a lot of taxes to South Suburban.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, they really don't have a good system there. That's, I think, one of the first things almost every candidate would agree on is this thing where you have to get people to fill out a form, including their birth date. So some people are like, why are you asking me to fill this form out? I'm already registered to vote, but you have to fill it out in order to get a ballot from South Suburban. Then they send you a ballot back out. Then you've got to mail that back in. And if you do go vote, there's only one place to vote in the entire district. The district's pretty large, you know, going all the way from Beaumont all over to Lone Tree. So that's not really a great, easy location for people to vote. So it's almost like they are making it difficult to vote. And when you make it difficult to vote, you're going to end up with 1 percent turnout. And that's about what they have.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, but again, we're paying a lot in taxes. So today is election day. So if people are just realizing that there is an election today for the directors of South Suburban Parks and Rec, where can they go to vote?
SPEAKER 07 :
They go to the South Suburban Sports Complex. It's 4810 South County Line Road. Most people are familiar with Big Bills or Los Dos. It's kind of across the street from those places.
SPEAKER 17 :
OK, and and we have a responsibility, Dan Murphy, to vote. And I think people take it seriously. But again, it sounds like it is a little complicated. I I did get my ballot in the mail. And so I was finally I'd opened it up as I was realizing I want to get my ballot in. And I saw your name on there and I thought, well, I'd really like to hear from you. because I know that you've been very involved in caring a lot about parks and recreation for the people in South Suburban. So when elected as a board director, what's one of the first things that you want to accomplish?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, philosophically, I just think recreating keeps America healthy. We have this big national health problem, and I think it really starts at a local level, getting people out recreating. Right. So I generally out in the field, I guess campaigning, I think generally people think South Suburban does a pretty good job, but there's always room for improvement. So I guess one of the one of the reasons for me running is that there is a new big park going out in Lone Tree that's 80 acres. Right. And and so I think the board needs some representation from people who are out in this side of the district. Because I think if there was a big park going on in Littleton, I think a Littleton representative would know a little bit more about it than somebody else. So I'm kind of passionate about making sure that park goes very well and stays funded. Right now that park is only 25% funded. So the board's going to have to make some tough decisions. Are they going to continue to fund that park? And I think the second thing that I would want to take a look at is there seems to be a fair amount of complaints about long lines at tea times ice times pools like in our own pool here in lone tree there's a loan there's a line to get in but yet there's a lot of people from out of district that are in there when when the lone tree people and the south suburban people are paying or residents i should say are paying their taxes for that amenity but other people then unincorporated something or some place that's not part of south suburban are filling up the pools the tennis courts the ice arenas the golf courses and I think that needs an overall look to see how we maybe balance that a little bit more to the South Suburban residents.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, I think that sounds like a good idea. So Dan Murphy, the election is today. People need to go to the facility, which is on County Line Road. And again, how do you spell your last name when people are looking at their ballot?
SPEAKER 07 :
M-U-R-P-H-Y. You got to go way down the ballot because I drew the ball at the very end as to where I am on the ballot.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. People can vote for up to three candidates, but that doesn't mean you have to vote for three candidates. And so again, Dan Murphy, thank you so much for stepping forward. These elections are very, very important.
SPEAKER 07 :
Thanks for having me on and have a great day.
SPEAKER 17 :
You have a great day as well. And so I do want to hear from all of you as 720-605-0647. And lots been coming in on on the text line. And this is really a remarkable development regarding Tina Peters, that Trump is asking for Jared Polis to resign. Pardon her. So it'll be interesting to see what happens with that. This is also this came in from Axios and says Colorado lawmakers want to expand immigrant protections despite sanctuary lawsuit. And this was another bill that cut engaged is one that you can weigh in on. And Axios goes on to say it says why this matters. It says Colorado is expanding safeguards for people living in the country illegally and what amounts to a poke in the eye for the Trump administration. And it says, the new protections will limit the federal authority's ability to deport people living in the country unlawfully and likely reinforce the administration's view that Colorado is a sanctuary state. And as Kevin Lundberg mentioned in the first hour, that means that probably, even though we're having budgetary challenges here in Colorado, that probably that means that we'll see a reduction in grants, federal grants to the state. But it says that goes on to say the Democrat led General Assembly sent Colorado Governor Jared Polis a bill Monday to further shield immigrants from being detained just days after the Department of Justice sued Colorado and Denver for their immigration policies. And it says the legislation prohibits local authorities and other officials from collecting and sharing data about a person's immigration status, allowing cooperation only in criminal matters. It also says that it blocks arrests in courthouses, jails and prisons and prevents local officials from detaining a person on behalf of federal immigration authorities. Now, just think about this. that this is a place a courthouse a jail or a prison very possibly someone who hears illegally and is near these particular facilities this would be a good place to actually have ICE detain them instead of getting them out into our communities and so again It's pretty amazing. And number three, Axios says this, other language eliminates affidavits regarding citizenship previously needed to obtain a driver's license and in-state tuition and allows immigrants to challenge low-level criminal charges if they could make them eligible for deportation. And state Senator Julie Gonzalez, who I had mentioned earlier, was the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. She said this, and she's a Democrat senator from Denver, said the protections are crucial now. She said we are in time where due process is no longer a guarantee, depending on the color of your skin or where you might have been born. I don't know that the color of the skin is really relevant to that. And in fact, we have a great quote from Clarence Thomas here for the very end. And so this particular bill, and I think that we had this on Cut Engaged. is Senate Bill 276, Protect Civil Rights Immigration Status. I think that you can make your voices heard by going to coloradotaxpayer.org and clicking on Cut Engaged. And I think that that was one of the bills that we selected on that as well. So Denver is in decline. Colorado is in decline. We have moved from being, I think, in the top five for... economic growth to 41st in the nation. We have got to reclaim our state. And one other thing I should mention on that Axios report, if you have a Colorado driver's license, you are immediately registered to vote. And so that's a real problem, as you can see, that that could have a lot to do with our elections. So stay tuned on that. We're working hard on some new projects on that. So stay tuned. Our quote for the end of the show, I'd gone to Clarence Thomas because we had talked with Scott Powell about all of this judicial activism that's been occurring in our country. And so I thought, let's go to Justice Clarence Thomas for our quote. And he said this, and he is the second president. black Supreme Court Justice, and he is a constitutionalist, believes in limited government and adhering to our Constitution as the founders meant it to be. And he said this, to define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity. So, my friends, today be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate endlessly well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
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In this enlightening episode, John Rush and Alan Hibbert offer an in-depth analysis of gold's performance as an investment and its comparison with emerging technologies like cryptocurrency. They explore the challenges posed by US government debt and the difficult fiscal decisions that lie ahead. From discussing savvy investment tactics to offering cautionary advice on financial planning, this episode ensures listeners stay informed in turbulent times.
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All right, we are back. Hour number two, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Myself, Andy Pate, Charlie Grimes, Alan Hibbert joining us now. Alan, welcome back. How are you? Hey, John. Thanks for having me. I'm great. Money specialist, goldsilver.com, and gold is higher than the last time you and I talked.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, it is. It keeps going up and up and up, so can't complain about that.
SPEAKER 14 :
Is there an end in sight?
SPEAKER 07 :
I don't think anytime soon. I mean, I'm expecting the bull market to continue another couple of years, certainly in nominal terms. And if you measure the value of gold against other assets like stocks, you know, the bull market is definitely going to continue a few more years, I would say, at a minimum.
SPEAKER 14 :
Do you see anything – I mean, to your point, we've got runaway spending. Government continues to print money even as much as it tries to get slowed down. Even under a Donald Trump administration, they're doing their best, although it's a huge mammoth task to try to get things slowed down as we're finding even all the things Doge is finding and so on. There's just so much to try to pull back. Congress has to be involved in a certain amount of it, which you and I both know they don't like to pull the purse strings back because that affects their ability to get reelected and so on. And reality is we're 36 and a half trillion in debt now.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, something like that. And to your point, I mean, so many of these issues are structural, and they're really bigger than any one person or any one administration or any one term in Congress, for example. So there's a lot of work to do to clean up the financial house of the United States, and by extension, the rest of the world. And I think that that's going to be beneficial for sound money, like gold and silver, and it's probably going to hurt all fiat currencies, like the dollar and every other currency in the world. So... There's really no simple solution. You've got to rein in spending. You've got to break promises that you've made to people, whether it's Social Security or any of these other programs. Basically, people aren't going to get what they were promised, at least not in total. So the question is, do you inflate the value of the obligations away, or do you outright default? And based on a whole suite of obligations, there may be a combination of the two. But it really boils down to broken promises. And one thing that won't let you down is gold. No one's in charge of it. No one can print more of it. You know, it's a hard asset. It's tough to find more. So that's a reliable store of value for sure.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, and to your point, we're right. I did look. We're $36.8 trillion right now. If you look at the U.S. debt clock, for those of you that want to, you can do this on your own, usdebtclock.org. They've got a time machine where you can jump ahead to this time, same interest rate. So unless some things change drastically there, which I know they can, but if everything stays the same in this time, 2029, so four years from now, it's $46 trillion. $46.5 trillion, actually.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and things may get worse. So I believe we're in a rising interest rate environment. And so that's going to hurt the United States, you know, and all the debt obligations. People may disagree with that, but they're probably used to the last couple of decades where we've been in a falling interest rate environment. And we've had record low interest rates, you know, at zero basically for a long time. But if you zoom out, you see that interest rates sort of follow this mirror pattern where they go down for a certain number of years and then they go up for approximately the same number of years. And that's just sort of a phenomenon of markets, even though we have interest rate policy set by committee. So it's almost like their hands are tied by economic forces that are larger than them. So I believe we're in a rising interest rate environment that's going to make it even worse for the federal government. And I would actually expect the total national debt to be even higher than the number you just quoted, you know, four years from now.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, well, if what you say happens, it... It absolutely will, and if the opposite happens, it may come down some. If we cut spending, it could come down some, although I hate to say this, and I really wish spending would slow down and we wouldn't do as much as we're doing. The problem is, Alan, we've gotten, in some cases, people are so used to getting what they have, you start pulling that away, politicians don't get reelected, therefore it's this vicious cycle that just continues.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, exactly. There's this There's this amazing psychology of taking something away from someone once they already have it, which is sometimes even worse than giving it to them in the first place. So as much as I'm not a fan of all these entitlements and handouts and so forth, especially at the federal level, my goodness, we really shouldn't have anything like that at the federal level. But the reality is we have a whole bunch of things that are federal programs. And it's very, very tough to take that away from people once they've become used to it. So I'm not sure what the solution is. I certainly don't envy anyone who has to make any of these decisions. So I'm just kind of minding my own business, buying gold and silver and holding as few dollars as I possibly can.
SPEAKER 14 :
So when you talk about that, what's the best way for folks to actually hold gold and silver? I mean, I've heard we've had different folks that we've interviewed over the years. Some say hold physical. Sometimes that's hard for certain people to do. Although if you don't have physical, what do you actually have? Explain that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, it's a great question. So you can just go online either to our website or any reputable gold dealer and you can order gold online and have it shipped to your house just like you're buying something from Amazon, right? And an ounce of gold will fit in the palm of your hand. Five ounces of gold is going to be smaller and lighter than your cell phone. And that's going to be $15,000 or even more at today's prices. So you can hold a lot of value in a really small area. You can have it. You can store it in your sock drawer. You don't need to create a basement with some vault in order to hold this stuff.
SPEAKER 12 :
If you've got that much, you're doing pretty well.
SPEAKER 07 :
Exactly, exactly. So it's pretty easy to hold this stuff in your existing setup. You already presumably have valuables that you're keeping safe in your house, so you just kind of add it in with that. It's not until you get to really large quantities that you have to worry about third-party storage or some other extra solution. But I do think physical is the way to go. And all these other types of investments, paper gold, we say, or digital gold, like ETFs and so forth, Those don't really give you the benefit that physical gold gives you. Right. The main benefit of physical gold is that nobody can screw it up. There's no central party. There's no obligation or anything like that. But if you get an ETF, all of a sudden there's a company, there's a brokerage account, there's an Internet service provider, there's a stock exchange. There's all these different parties that have to honor their obligations. And sometimes they might not.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, that's a good point. Again, you can watch the market. You can look at what prices are doing. Although there's not much of a dip, occasionally things may dip down. Is that something people really need to watch? Or is gold one of those things to where the price is what it is, go buy it. Even if it dips a little bit in a few days, it's going to come back up.
SPEAKER 07 :
Another great question. And if you're like me, once you decide that gold is right for you, you kind of just You kind of just go and buy it today. The thinking process, the learning process, that takes a lot of time, but once you make up your mind, just buy it. That's what I do, because in the time you wait for a pullback, the price could run away from you, and then you have to pay an extra 5%, 10% more, because you were hoping to get it on sale, and that just didn't play out. If the thesis makes sense to you and you are trying to protect your value, then you should just move into that as soon as possible, as soon as you're comfortable doing it. If you still have more education, more learning to do, and if you have doubts, that's a different issue. But, yeah, that's basically my strategy.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. GoldSilver.com is the website, and I think it's pretty safe, Alan, on your end to say that, yeah, I really mean unless something really dramatic were to happen, I don't see gold really falling any lower than where it is. right now. I mean, yeah, you may see some upticks and downticks and so on, but the reality is going to be pretty stable. And the one thing about gold, too, the way you're talking about and holding it like that, if something were to happen and all of a sudden things have gone awry and even a dollar doesn't work much anymore, gold always will.
SPEAKER 07 :
Exactly. I agree completely. Gold has stored its value for thousands of years. And If you go into the far future, 100 years from now, the dollar might not even exist. The euro might not exist. Obviously, gold will still exist, and we'll still be able to afford plenty of stuff. So I think it's great, and I'm really proud to be representing the asset.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, before we move on, something that we talked gold, but silver is also a component. It's a little less money to get into for some people, silver coins and so on. Is it a good investment or not?
SPEAKER 07 :
It really depends on your risk tolerance and your time horizon. So if you're thinking about multi-generational long-term wealth, I do think it makes sense as long as you can stomach the volatility and as long as you can be extremely patient. Because silver takes a long time to catch up to gold, but when it does, it's spectacular and it actually outperforms.
SPEAKER 10 :
Why is it more volatile, if I may ask? Good question.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, it's more volatile because it's an industrial metal primarily. So most of the silver that's mined is actually used in industry. And so based on supply and demand and are we in a recession or not or are there tariffs on this product and all these different things in the economy that move, that affects demand basically and all those suppliers and users of silver. Whereas gold... doesn't have that problem. Most of the gold that's used is monetary gold. And some of the biggest buyers, for example, are central banks. And they just have this massive tailwind of consistently buying for more than a decade. And so that just kind of stabilizes the price, you might say, and it's just less volatile as a result.
SPEAKER 14 :
One last question, then I'll let you go, and I appreciate all your time, Alan. As crypto becomes, in some cases, more popular, I'm still not a huge fan. I know a lot of folks out there are. I'm not that guy. I have my own reasons I won't get into right now, but I'm just not that guy. But is there a chance that as crypto or if crypto gains more traction, does that have any ill effect upon gold and silver?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I think that, yes, Bitcoin, I would say, is digital gold. And I would segregate Bitcoin from everything else. And this took me years to figure out. I won't go into all the details.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, I agree with you. And, yeah, you don't need to because I agree with you on that one.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, yeah. So Bitcoin's decentralized like gold. No one's in charge. And I think that, yeah, a lot of the people who buy Bitcoin, including myself, right, with that portion of my portfolio, if Bitcoin didn't exist, that would all be in gold. So, you know, if you could imagine the market cap of Bitcoin and just add it to the market cap of gold, and that's probably where the price of gold should be. But, you know, some of those buyers have gone into Bitcoin. Of course, there's plenty of people who buy Bitcoin and they're just wildly speculating. They're trying to get rich. They don't really know what they're buying. But that's not everybody. There's a certain cohort of Bitcoiners that really believe in a sound money thesis. And that's kind of the batch that I put myself in. So I don't know if that's going to be hurtful to gold necessarily. I have both in my portfolio. I love both assets. I'll probably have both in my portfolio for the rest of my life. I think they're pretty great, and I think a lot of Bitcoiners should open their minds to gold, and I think a lot of gold bugs should open their mind to Bitcoin. I think it makes sense to have both.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, makes sense. Alan, I appreciate it. Again, Alan Hibbert, it's goldsilver.com. I appreciate it, Alan, very much. Thank you.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hey, thanks, John. Thanks, Andy.
SPEAKER 14 :
You're very welcome. Have a great night. And good insight, by the way. That was very elementarily explained, I guess, is the best way to say that. Yeah, I kept it basic. Yeah, because it can get really – I will say this, and I think Alan would agree with me. You just heard him a moment ago. I'm not a guy that believes in owning gold certificates or anything along those lines where you have actually no physical gold. You have bought literally at that point a piece of paper that may or may not actually be backed up at the end of the day. I'm like him. If you want to own X amount of gold and it doesn't take much to store that anymore, you've got any kind of a safe or you can do a safe deposit box, which we'll talk about how that can be stored as well. Many ways you can take care of that and do it on your own, and I would not do it on paper. Agreed. Or electronically. So I agree with him on that. All right, veteran windows coming up. And again, as I talked last hour, with all of the rain and moisture and things that we have right now, if you notice something where, man, I've got a leak coming around a window or something along those lines, give veterans a call today. Get with Dave. Find him at klzradio.com.
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SPEAKER 13 :
Putting reason into your afternoon drive, this is John Rush.
SPEAKER 14 :
All right, before we continue on, Andy wanted me to talk about this in the first hour. And frankly, we got busy and we were laughing and joking and I didn't get around to it. But a PSA, and I mentioned this last night before going off air, with all the rain we're having, more potentially to come. Those of you that are out driving around, A, be really careful of hydroplaning. If you don't have really good tires, even sometimes with good tires, depending upon the depth of the water and your tire itself and your vehicle and so on, you can hydroplane. So be really careful. And then, as I said last night before I went off air, never drive through something you don't know how deep it is. Period. Don't be that first guy to go through a big pond, if you would, underpass, something along those lines, just because you think, oh, I can make it. Yeah, maybe, maybe not. You don't want to be that guy stuck halfway through. Right. Because the engine damage and things that can happen are not worth it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, that's what I was going to ask you really quick here. We've got a caller, but really quick. You're a car guy. What happens to a car when you go through and you flood it in that way? What happens?
SPEAKER 14 :
If you drive through a puddle like that, that deep, and it starts to get high enough up to where water comes into the air filter area and it sucks into the engine, and then it causes what we call hydrolock, meaning the water gets sucked in. The engine's a big vacuum pump.
SPEAKER 10 :
Think of that. And this is true of new engines?
SPEAKER 14 :
old engines doesn't matter doesn't make any difference okay and the reality is if you suck enough water into what we call hydro lock the engine meaning it's locked up because there's so much water in the cylinders that the engine will not turn over any longer because everything is literally locked up with water because your engine's always drawing in air it's an air it's a big vacuum pump exactly it's always sucking in right very much so so if you lock up the engine because of driving through too much water the engine is destroyed you're done you need a new one
SPEAKER 10 :
You need a new engine.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yes. It will be destroyed.
SPEAKER 10 :
You can't just get the water out.
SPEAKER 14 :
Nope. It will be destroyed. The amount of stress that it puts on all of the internal components, pistons, rods, crankshaft, and so on, that engine will never be good from that point forward. It's done.
SPEAKER 10 :
I didn't know that. I've never done that.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, I've seen engines where it literally will even take a rod and throw it out the side of the engine. Okay. In those circumstances. So, yeah, do not do that. You do not want to be that person driving through that puddle and then having the engine die because it sucks in so much water. Okay. And, by the way, gone are the days. Used to be back in the day, if it got a little bit wet because of distributors and so on, it would just shut off because things get wet, electrically speaking. No, the new engines will, if you could, with a snorkel, and that's why you see some of these, you know, Jeeps and Toyotas and so on will have that snorkel coming up on the fender. Okay. An engine will run underwater as long as you can keep everything dry and keep the water out of the engine. That's what those snorkels are doing. They're keeping the intake. That's why they're called a snorkel, just like when we're snorkeling, where you're actually sucking air out of your mouth above the water line. That's exactly what those are doing for the engine because the modern engines will run underwater, no problem. The problem is if they suck in water, they're doomed. So that's what those snorkel assemblies on those four-wheel drives are doing, is keeping that fresh air coming in with no water coming down into the engine itself. Ben, go ahead. Yeah, how you guys doing? Good, sir. How are you?
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. Say, on this gold thing you guys were talking about?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 05 :
You know, my concern is I checked on, like, broker's fees for gold, and not that they should do it for free. But, for example, if you buy gold at, let's just go back a couple of years, at $1,000, it's $50 to buy it, or at least the place I checked, and it was $50 for a broker's fee to get out of it. So it's got to go up, in that case, 10%, just to break even. So I'm guessing broker's fees have only gone up. And then the other concern is, If you have, say, an ounce of gold, $3,000 in today's market, well then, yeah, you could cash it in and get cash, but otherwise you've got to trade or barter. I'm not opposed to that, but if you have an ounce coin and you just need, say, whatever, a tank of gas and a box of ammo, That's kind of a steep price.
SPEAKER 14 :
That's where personally, this is more of a ready radio conversation on Friday, Ben, but personally, the way I would do that, if things get really bad, crap hits the fan, dollar's no good, no more digital, you can't use a credit card, and you're literally back to using gold and silver, here's how I would do it. You better have a file or something that will allow you to scrape gold off of a coin or a bar, because when you go to start bartering and buying something, yeah, I'm not handing over my gold coin for a bottle of water, but I'll sure scrape off a few flakes for that person.
SPEAKER 05 :
I've never thought about that. And, by the way, I've never thought about that hydrolock thing either. I always thought what ruined engines in, like, a flood was... Of course, I'm sure that could happen, too, is sand and mud getting in everything and ruining it.
SPEAKER 14 :
It can, although just believe it or not, just even crystal clear water, no debris, no dirt in it will hydrolock the engine. Like I just said a moment ago, in most cases, Ben, literally destroying the engine.
SPEAKER 05 :
Huh.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 05 :
Never even crossed my mind.
SPEAKER 14 :
Because if you think about it, and this is really quick, and it's kind of a drive radio topic, but it applies here because it's a PSA, and anybody listening, this could apply to. So if you think about it, Ben, that piston inside of the engine, to Andy's point a moment ago, it's always sucking in air. It's a big vacuum pump, so it's got valves. It's a four-stroke engine, so it's drawing in air. It's compressing. It's then pushing that air back out in the exhaust stroke. Think about this, though, Ben. If the cylinder itself on the compression stroke is full of nothing but water, it didn't draw air and fuel in, but instead it drew water in, and now the valves are closed, and that piston is trying to go up against all of that water that's inside. Water doesn't compress. Thank you, Andy. So it has no choice but to break something.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, hydraulics, it's an interesting topic in itself.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, yeah, as anybody knows, Ben, you especially, you know, water is a, it can be, it's one of those tools, I guess you could say, one of those chemicals. that can be very useful to us. You know, we drink it, we survive, our body's made up of a certain amount of water, we need it to sustain life. On the same time, too much of it kills us. On the same token, when it comes to mechanical things, you can cut steel with water, you can cut rock with water. On the same token, you can float things across the ocean and deliver product. I mean, if you think about water in and of itself and how God created that, I mean, at the end of the day, Ben, what a miraculous thing all in and of itself.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and along that topic, there's a guy up in Washington State named George Pollack, and he took, or one of his students took just regular fresh water, put it in a jar, put it in the sun, and they analyzed it later, and it actually creates kind of, it changes the pH and makes it so your cells can absorb it better.
SPEAKER 14 :
Interesting. If you don't
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and also, as a PSA, according to this guy, your body, when you drink water, it has to run it up to room temperature or actually body temperature to correctly or even absorb it in your cells. And your cells, the opening in your cells to absorb it is really not big enough. So I wonder, using that as an analogy, how many people are running around, even though they drink a lot of water, they're somewhat dehydrated.
SPEAKER 14 :
Dr. Kelly, on Thursdays, Ben talks about the amount of people that, during COVID especially, were lack of vitamin D and dehydrated both. To your point, there's a ton that are dehydrated. A lot of Americans are dehydrated.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and then the other side of that coin is, I think if I drink too much, it's not good for my system. I think it pulls a lot of minerals out. It does.
SPEAKER 14 :
You can have, is it called hypoxia, where if you get too much water, you can somewhat drown and you don't know you're drowning. In other words, you drink so much water, you actually drown yourself even though you're not underwater. Is that what it's called? Charlie, is that what it's called, hypoxia? Am I thinking correctly along those lines?
SPEAKER 05 :
Hypoxia is when you don't get enough air.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, and I think because— But I understand what you're saying. Yeah, you understand what I'm saying. I mean, you actually can literally in some cases, and there's been some, you know, athletes and so on where this happens, they end up, you know, getting all, you know, hot and dehydrated to a point, but then drink so much water it goes the other direction.
SPEAKER 10 :
See, Ben, that's why you just stick with beer. It's for your own safety. Oh, there you go, Ben. I'm liking that.
SPEAKER 11 :
There you go.
SPEAKER 05 :
Five o'clock somewhere. You know, you guys— As a PSA, I want all y'all listening out there to take care of that hydration thing.
SPEAKER 14 :
There you go.
SPEAKER 05 :
Great questions, Ben. Thank you.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, thank you. I appreciate that very much. And, yeah, that was a great explanation or great question when it comes to engines and how they work and so on. And that's why I always just look at people as they're starting to drive through things at times, Andy, and I'm just like, Why are you doing this? Somebody else texted in, too, and said, you know, by the way, keep in mind there are vents and things on other components of your vehicle, differentials, transmissions, things like that, where when you get into that much water, those things can actually even take on water. And now that becomes a problem in those other areas of the vehicle.
SPEAKER 10 :
All of those things expect to have air going through them or being compressed. Compression, that's where you get compression. Water doesn't compress.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, your car is not meant to be underwater. It's not a boat. Let's just say that. Now, the other thing, too, that can happen, let me add this in really quick as well. I talk about this on Drive Radio a lot. And given that the majority of vehicles on the road, minus some SUVs and trucks, are unibody construction, meaning that even a lot of these smaller and midsize SUVs, very few of them are a body-on-frame. In fact, most body-on-frames are either like a Toyota 4Runner. That's an SUV that's body-on-frame, one of the few that size that is. Suburbans, Tahos, those are body-on-frame. F-150s, Expeditions, things like that. But most everything else that you're driving. from the smaller SUVs and so on, are all unibody construction. And what I mean by that is they are made in such a way that even the way the doors seal up and so on, they are literally like a bathtub on water, meaning that if you get enough water underneath them, and you've seen images of this where floodwaters come in and the car literally starts floating down the street or the river. The reason for that is because of what I'm saying. They're literally on a unibody construction with all the doors and everything shut, very much like a... It seals out a lot of the water. It seals out. Yeah, it's airtight in a way, not completely, but pretty darn good to the point that they start to float on top of the water. Now, what people don't realize, because they're not thinking in these times, if they really wanted to be more safe – and I know this is going to sound really odd – If you had the ability, and it's going to be very difficult in some cases because the doors won't want to open because of pressure, but if you could get the doors to even open slightly and allow water into the car so the water now becomes less flotation-y, if you would. That's not the right word, I know, but, you know, can't float. Right. If you could somehow let the water into the car, the car will sink to the bottom. The tires now make contact with the road. The car would not then go down the street in the flood. Most people don't think about that, though, Andy, because they don't want that water coming in the car anyways. But the reality is, in some cases, you would be better off doing that and not having the car float down to wherever it's going to go.
SPEAKER 10 :
It's taking you to danger.
SPEAKER 14 :
That's right. Whereas if you could get that car to just stay planted down on the ground and even climb on the roof, you'd be better off doing that than you would be floating down. But most people don't think about that because they don't understand how the car even operates. It's a little PSA.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay.
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SPEAKER 14 :
All right. And this is kind of along the lines of cars, although it's related to some other things. And... I may even talk about this on the roundtable tomorrow morning, but there's currently a video of the new Canadian prime minister, and he's talking about the banning of old cars in Canada, cars that are older than 2,000. He's talking about window tint and the fact that if you've got that, it has to be scraped off, and that if your vehicle is modified in any way, shape, or form, lifted, things along those lines, it has to be put back to stock. And I tell you what. He is such a commie. Well, here's what's really going on here. He's not saying those things. Well, he is a commie. I'm not arguing that, Andy. I'm just doing a general statement. He definitely is a commie, but somebody has used AI in such a way that this video looks extremely real. In fact, it looks real.
SPEAKER 10 :
I haven't seen it.
SPEAKER 14 :
If I hadn't gone and done a little bit of research on it, the tonality, the facial expressions, the lips... The whole nine yards, you wouldn't know that it wasn't him speaking, but it's not. It's all a fake, and no, he didn't say any of those things. He is a commie, no doubt about it, Andy. I'm not arguing that. And here's, I think, what happens is, because he is... And none of that would surprise most people. That's why people believe. The majority of people start believing that, circulating that around. It starts spreading. And my point, and Andy knows where I'm going with this, my point is, as conservatives especially, We just look so dumb.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, got to be slow to believe these things.
SPEAKER 14 :
When we start sending those things on and we start propagating that stuff, the reality is we just look like a bunch of morons, Andy.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, so many of these things that are passed around on Facebook, I am one of the last to buy into them. You and I both. I just...
SPEAKER 14 :
I am very slow. I go, look, and in this case, I'm like, okay, I saw this video like three or four times. I think I saved it. I could play it, but I'm not going to play it because, again, I don't want to further this along. I don't want anybody to think that, oh, did you hear what John played the other day and what the guy in Canada said? I don't want any of that, so I'm not going to play it. I've got it, but I'm not going to play it for that reason.
SPEAKER 10 :
And we don't have to anyway because this guy is going to do enough nutso things on his own. He is a big-time global warming fruitcake.
SPEAKER 14 :
Good way of saying it.
SPEAKER 10 :
He's going to wreck a lot of their economy. Correct.
SPEAKER 14 :
He'll do it on his own without these sorts of things. But again, I think where I wanted to go with this was, number one, be really careful, as Andy and I talk about all the time, before you send something on or even before you like something, even before you click that like button. Yeah. Be really careful that it's something that's genuine and is real. And for those of you that are listening, by the way, Me figuring out that was generated by AI, I didn't spend 10 seconds looking. It was literally typing into Google, did the Prime Minister of Canada say blah, blah, blah? Right. It was that quick of a search. And I got back several different sites talking about, no, that's deep. It's a deep fake. It's AI. On and on we go. And my point is, with the amount of AI now that's being used, and it can be used in a good way, it can be used in a bad way. There are now videos and I watched a few of these last night to where I watched. It was actually hilarious. They have gone as far as to take episodes of Judge Judy. And they replace all of the characters, including Judge Judy herself, and they use babies. So Judge Judy is a baby. And the two individuals that are suing one another are one suing the other. And you know how that works. You know, everybody in the courtroom. Bailiff included. They're all babies. And they have dubbed the actual words that Judge Judy would have been saying in the defendant and the prosecution side. I mean, everybody in the courtroom, it's all still the same voices. But AI makes it look like it is so genuine that, and we know babies can't talk that way, but if you did... No, but it's fun. If you had just arrived here on this planet from somewhere else, Andy, and watched that video, you'd think, oh, man, these babies can talk. It's that real, and I'm not exaggerating. It's that good. Cool. So you have to be really, really careful is my point. Joe, go ahead. How do we know this is actually Joe? How do we know this is Joe? How do we know this is Joe?
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, I'm just wondering. Hey, you want your legs broken?
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, now we know that's Joe. Okay, go ahead.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, yeah, we're good.
SPEAKER 06 :
What you're talking about has a name, and the name is called confirmation bias. And we all have it, but it's important to know that you have it and to wait a minute because, like, yeah, that sounds just like him. Now, if somebody sent me a clip of Gavin Newsom or Obama or Biden saying something absurd— You know, I would say, well, you know, that sounds a lot like something he would do. But before I like it, post it, share it, I'm going to validate it. And because of the jerseyjoe.com, I have people send me stuff every day. Likewise.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yep. Likewise.
SPEAKER 06 :
And I'm going to say half of it is nonsense. It's stuff. They want to believe. This is not true. It's not true, though. You know, I mean.
SPEAKER 14 :
And by the way, at times I wish it were because it might get us to a conclusion faster with certain politicians and so on. It might actually wake people up. But the reality is it's not true.
SPEAKER 06 :
It's not true. And so, again, we all it's called confirmation bias. We all have it. The important thing is recognize that you have a confirmation bias. It's the tendency to want to believe things that that that reaffirm truth. You know, preconceived beliefs you have, like, you know, Gavin Newsom's a jerk or, you know, Biden's a demented old fool, whatever.
SPEAKER 14 :
Michelle Obama's a man.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. I mean, there's all those.
SPEAKER 14 :
I mean, all those sorts of things are running around. That's why they call her Big Mike. I mean, Joe, as you know, there's all these things going around that, again, I think as conservatives, we have to be really, really careful in what we're sharing and saying because it diminishes our credibility. Right.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, we have a real problem, and Joe, I'd like you to comment on this. I believe that the conservative movement and the MAGA movement has become much more open and, shall we say, vulnerable to conspiracies than most people.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, the tinfoil hat. And I try to do my own part by politely telling people, you know, I checked this out, and you may want to take it down because, you know, here's the facts.
SPEAKER 11 :
Here's why. Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, here's why. And I try to do it professionally and politely because I don't want to antagonize anybody. And I say, you know, you might want to take this down or stop sharing this. And on rare occasions, I have sent something out that has turned out to be not 100% correct. And when I've done that, which might happen three or four times a year.
SPEAKER 12 :
Got to make a retraction.
SPEAKER 06 :
I'm sorry?
SPEAKER 12 :
You got to make a retraction.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. Gentlemen, I've got you on a mailing list. And if you get something from me, You're probably one of 15 people I have on a mailing list. If it turns out to be not 100% accurate, and I find that out a few hours later or the next day, John, you're getting an email from saying, hey, that thing I sent you yesterday or yesterday noon, it's not correct. Here's the rest of the story, or here's why it's not accurate. You'll get a retraction.
SPEAKER 10 :
I thought the picture of you in a dress was just a life change.
SPEAKER 06 :
Hey, by the way, global warming, here's the story. This didn't make the news. It'll never make the news. And satellite photos just came out showing from 2021 to 2023 that the Antarctic ice cap has added 108 gigatons of ice per year. It grew. Every year for three years running. Did you see that on the evening news in any station you watched?
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, of course not. No. We talked about it yesterday, but you're not going to see that.
SPEAKER 06 :
It was on Fox. That's the only place I've seen it.
SPEAKER 14 :
You won't see it anywhere else.
SPEAKER 06 :
You won't see it anywhere else. So that's how the media...
SPEAKER 14 :
Which they also, Joe, I mean, I'm not just accusing us on our side of having confirmation bias. Their side has it as well. They do the same thing.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, it's terrible. And the other – last week when we had a story about ICE raiding this home of this poor woman, you know, and they only – and it turned out that the house she was in was still owned by this wanted human trafficker. And it was a woman, Hispanic woman, was the owner of the house. Right. ICE had no way of knowing that the Hispanic woman who was in the house was not the listed owner of the house, who was, in fact, had a warrant out for her arrest. But they only published the first part, which was only reported initially by a local TV station, never fact-checked. It made it all the way up to Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. Not a single one of the news outlets, including MSNBC, fact-checked the story. Then the next day, the rest of the story came out. Not a single one of them retracted.
SPEAKER 14 :
So going back to our side, Joe, because we've got a few minutes here before we go to our last break. And I know, you know, Andy and I, you, we talk about things on my program. You do it on your podcast. We talk a lot about the factual end of things and making sure that people, as they repeat things or send things on or forward things or even click that like button, that they're factually, you know, correct. How do we get that message out more, though, so people stop sending and or believing things that just frankly aren't true?
SPEAKER 06 :
I think it comes down to feedback, John. That's why when somebody sends me something, and if they send me, and if they do it more than twice in a short period of time, I'll send it back a personal, you know, say, hey, Bob, I said, look, you know, this is the second time in three weeks you've sent me something that turned out to be completely bogus. It doesn't make you look good. You might want to seriously reconsider. So it's like trying to coach a small child. Yeah. So I think it's just feedback, you know, polite, constructive feedback.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
I'm open to suggestion, but that's...
SPEAKER 14 :
Even though it sounds real, and it wouldn't surprise me if it weren't, I'm like, you know, it's a little out there even for a communist dictator like he is up there. Let me look a little further, and all I did was one little search, and voila, there we are.
SPEAKER 10 :
I always go by the too good to be true or too crazy to be true rule of thumb. If it is, at least check it out.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep, yeah, check it out. By the way, if you notice, Andy, you're on my same list as John. Whenever I send you a story or a claim or even a meme, I always try to include a link to a credible source, whether it be U.S. Treasury or CNN or Associated Press.
SPEAKER 14 :
just don't send you a meme with you know with no support and i'll be you know nothing against you know babylon b they're funny it's satire and so on although i will tell you that while we on our side i think understand that's the case i'm not sure how many on the other side really understand so i am one where i'm even hesitant to share much babylon b stuff publicly like i'll do it internally among you know the you you two and things like that but Publicly, Joe, I don't share much from them because there's a lot of folks out there that on the other side of the aisle... They'll think you're serious. Yeah, they don't understand how that works.
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, how many people don't know that the Babylon Bee, like the onion, are satire sites?
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, I guess what I would ask you is how many on our site don't know that the onion is? There are some, believe it or not.
SPEAKER 06 :
That don't know that the onion is a satire site?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, again, and John, I've gotten people afforded me things from the onion... And I have to tell them, hey, the onion is a satire site.
SPEAKER 14 :
You're proving my point.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right.
SPEAKER 14 :
And there are those on the other side with the Babylon Bee that are exactly the same way.
SPEAKER 06 :
Exactly.
SPEAKER 14 :
So just something to think about for those of you out there listening. Joe, I've got to run. Appreciate you very much. Thanks for that great conversation. And let's do this, Charlie. We'll just combine things here. So Golden Eagle Financial coming up next. And with that, you'll hear from Al here a nice little interview that he did with one of our folks here at the station.
SPEAKER 08 :
Al Smith from Golden Eagle Financial and the show you love, Retirement Unpacked, is here with me. How are you today, Al? I'm doing great. How are you, TJ? I'm doing great as well. I have a couple questions for you. As a financial advisor, do you also do taxes?
SPEAKER 17 :
No, I don't prepare my clients' taxes. I do, however, spend a lot of time talking to them about taxes. To use a sports analogy, tax preparation is like doing a recap of the game. What I do is more like creating a game plan and then following up over time to see how it's working.
SPEAKER 08 :
And how much are taxes a part of that game plan that you create?
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, with so many different taxes we're faced with, it becomes an important thing to take into consideration. It's not how much income you have, but how much you get to keep. In addition to federal and state income taxes, there's property taxes, state and local sales tax, and fees. And they all play a part in shrinking our income.
SPEAKER 08 :
What about people who already have really healthy balances in 401ks, IRAs? Won't they be facing significant taxes as they draw income from those accounts? Well, it depends.
SPEAKER 17 :
Everybody's situation's a little bit different. There's no one size that fits all when it comes to tax planning. But often when I work with people, we'll create a strategy where we will convert traditional IRAs to Roth over time. And that not only reduces taxes in the future, but it will also lower the tax they'll be paying on their Social Security.
SPEAKER 08 :
Is that kind of strategy really only for the wealthy?
SPEAKER 17 :
Not at all. Many of my clients who have modest IRAs have chosen to convert to Roth over time. They enjoy the freedom of having a tax-free nest egg that they can access on their own timeline rather than an RMD schedule.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, that is excellent. And how can people reach you if they want to learn about their own taxation in retirement?
SPEAKER 17 :
You can reach me through KLZ or contact my office at 303-744-1128. And when you call, I'll provide you with a summary of all the tax changes for 2025.
SPEAKER 08 :
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SPEAKER 03 :
This isn't rage radio. This is real, relatable radio. Back to Rush to Reason.
SPEAKER 14 :
All right, now this is an article where I did a little reading this morning, and turns out that, and I'm going to do more investigative work on this, but this was on Outkick.com, and it was on a few other places besides. And that is Representative Burgess Owens actually... revealing that Nike has allegedly, and they're still working through trying to determine actually exactly what happened. And Nike's pretty silent on this, which would almost make it sound like they probably were involved in this. And they did some funding of some trans studies that some would say were borderline, if not full bore, child abuse. Really? And Nike funded that. Now that's something that is not just hearsay. This is not conspiracy theory stuff. This is things that a real representative is accusing Nike of. And at this point in time, Nike has gone completely dead silent with no response whatsoever.
SPEAKER 10 :
What do you mean child abuse?
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, so it's been published that a youth transgender athletic study allegedly funded by sports apparel giant Nike, since then the company has gone completely silent about this. Despite contacting Nike over a dozen times after the initial report, OutKick has only received one comment from Nike, who refused to go on record. The executive told us that the study was never initialized or was not moving forward. But basically it was a... Funded experiment on young children to justify putting boys in girls sports. And we basically they're doing more investigative work on this to determine exactly what was going on. What was this study? What were the answers? Who actually funded it and so on?
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, that wouldn't surprise me. It's an incredibly liberal company.
SPEAKER 14 :
Wouldn't shock me either.
SPEAKER 10 :
The swoosh.
SPEAKER 14 :
Now, this is one of those, again, where I looked at this at first and I thought, is this another one of these? Is this real? Is this not real? And as I started reading through it, it's like, oh, yeah. In fact, this was a study on puberty blockers, injecting hormones, sterilization, shunting growth, things along those lines that Nike actually helped fund.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, Nike is the athletic shoe equivalent of Ben and Jerry's.
SPEAKER 14 :
I think you're exactly right, Andy. So, all right. With that, another full hour coming your way. Myself, Andy Pate, Charlie Grimes, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 18 :
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